1 Cor. x. 1, 2. Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed though the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

1 Cor. xii, 13. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

1 Cor. xv, 29, 30. Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead? And why stand ye in jeopardy every hour?

INSTANCES.

Acts vill, 12, 13, 36-38. But when

they believed Philip, preaching the things concerning the king dom of God, and the name of

Jesus Christ, they were baptized,

Then

both men and women. Simon himself believed also: and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done. And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch

said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

Acts ix, 18. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales, and he received sight therewith, and arose and was baptized.

Acts x, 46-48. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

Acts xvi, 14, 15, 33. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. And

Acts xviii, 8. And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord, with all his house: and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

BLESSINGS.

Mark xvi, 16. He that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

tarriest thou? arise, and be bapActs xxil, 16. And now, why tized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Rom. vi, 3. 4. Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Gal. ill, 27. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

baptism, wherein also Col. ii, 12. Buried with him in risen with him through the faith ye are raised him from the dead. of the operation of God, who hath

1 Peter ill, 21. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

BAPTISM OF CHRIST. Matth. iii, 13-15. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John' forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

Mark 1, 9. And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.

DISPENSED BY CHRIST. John ill, 22. After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judea, and there he tarried with them and baptized.

Matth. iil, 5, 6. 11, 12. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and al Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing the sins. I indeed baptize you wit water unto repentance: but be that cometh after me is might than I, whose shoes I am 4 worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, sa with fire: Whose fan is in s hand, and he will throughly purp his floor, and gather his what up the chaff with unquenchable into the garner, but he will bur

fire.

Mark 1, 4, 5, 8. John did b the baptism of repentance for the tize in the wilderness, and press went out unto him all the land of remission of sins. And they Judea, and they of Jerusalera, were all baptized of him in the

river of Jordan, confessing their sins. I indeed have baptized fo with water: but he shall bepis you with the Holy Ghost.

John iii, 23. And John also mu

baptizing in Enon near to Sam

because there was much w there: and they came, and ww baptized.

tized with water: but ye shall b Acts 1, 5. For John truly ha baptized with the Holy Ghost many days hence.

Acts xviii, 25. This man instructed in the way of the Lord he spake and taught diligen and, being fervent in the s the things of the Lord, knovad only the baptism of John,

Acts xix, 2-5. He said 15% them, Have ye received the H Ghost since ye believed? 4 they said unto him, We have ne so much as heard whether the be any Holy Ghost. And bes unto them. Unto what then **** yo baptized? And they Unto John's baptism. Then Paul, John verily baptized the baptism of repentance, s unto the people, that they sh believe on him which should com after him, that is, on Christe When they heard this, they baptized in the name of the Lar

Jesus.

THE LORD'S SUPPER ITS INSTITUTION, Matth. xxvi, 26-29. And as ty were eating, Jesus took broek and blessed it, and brake it, a

ave to his disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, ed gave it to them, saying, Drink all of it: For this is my blood f the new testament, which is hed for many for the remission sins. But I say unto you, I will it drink benceforth of this fruit the vine, until that day when I ink it new with you in my ther's kingdom.

Cor. xi, 23-26. For I have rered of the Lord that which I delivered unto you, That Lord Jesus the same night in h he was betrayed took d: And when he had given aks he brake it, and said, eat; this is my body, which token for you: this do in rembrance of me. After the manner also he took the cup, he had supped, saying. This Is the new testament in my

blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come.

BENEFITS AND CAUTIONS.

blessing which we bless, is it not 1 Cor. x, 16, 17. The cup of the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being body: for we are all partakers of many are one bread, and one that one bread.

1 Cor. xi, 20-34. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. What! have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them

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that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let him eat of that bread, and let a man examine himself, and so eateth and drinketh unworthily, drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are many sleep. For if we would weak and sickly among you, and judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

REMARKS ON PARABLES. Ps. xlix, 4. I will incline mine ear to a parable; I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

Ps. lxxviii, 2. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old.

Prov. xxvi, 9. As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard; so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Ezek. xx, 49. Then said I, Ah Lord God! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?

Hosea xii, 10. I have also spoken by the prophets; and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

1. PARABLES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.

ROYAL BRAMBLE. Judges ix, 8-15. The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign thou over us. But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? And the trees said to the fl-tree, Come thou, and reign over us. But the fig-tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us. And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

EWE LAMB.

2 Sam. xii, 1-7. And the LORD sent Nathan unto David: and he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds; But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up and it

grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. there came a traveller unto the And rich man; and he spared to take of his own flock, and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him. And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the LORD liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die: And he shall restore the lamb four-fold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity. And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul.

QUARRELSOME BROTHERS.

king remember the LORD thy God that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy day more, lest they destroy my s there shall not one hair of And he said, As the LORD livet son fall to the earth. Then the woman said, Let thine handraad I pray thee, speak one word uts my lord the king. And be s Say on. And the woman sa Wherefore then hast thou though such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speas the thing as one which is faulty, that the king doth not fetch home again his banished. For we la needs die, and are as water on the ground, which caune gathered up again, neither God respect any person; yet dh he devise means that his barisel be not expelled from him. Now therefore that I am come to sp of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people inve made me afraid; and thy han said, I will now speak unto th 2 Sam. xiv, 3-20. Aud come to king, it may be that the king the king, and speak on this man- perform the request of his boa ner unto him. So Joab put the maid. For the king will hear. words in her mouth. And when deliver his handmaid out of f the woman of Tekoah spake to hand of the man that would the king, she fell on her face to stroy me and my son together the ground, and did obeisance, and of the inheritance of God. The said, Help, O King! And the thine handmaid said, The word king said unto her, What aileth my lord the king shall now thee? And she answered, I am comfortable: for as an angel indeed a widow woman, and mine God, so is my lord the king husband is dead. And thy hand-discern good and bad; there maid had two sons, and they the LORD thy God will be will two strove together in the field, thee. Then the king answer and there was none to part them, and said unto the woman, li but the one smote the other, and not from me, I pray thee, slew him. And, behold, the whole thing that I shall ask thee. family is risen against thine hand- the woman said, Let my maid, and they said, Deliver him the king now speak. that smote his brother, that we king said, Is not the hand cle may kill him, for the life of his with thee in all this? And brother whom he slew; and we woman answered and said will destroy the heir also: and so thy soul liveth, my lord the k they shall quench my coal which none can turn to the right is left, and shall not leave to my or to the left from ought the husband neither name nor re-lord the king hath stock mainder upon the earth. And thy servant Joab, he bade the king said unto the woman, Go he put all these words to thine house, and I will give mouth of thine handma charge concerning thee. And fetch about this form of the woman of Tekoah said unto hath thy servant Juab dast the king, My lord, O king, the thing, and my lord is wise iniquity be on me, and on my ing to the wisdom of an a father's house: and the king and God, to know all things that his throne be guiltless. And the in the earth. king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more. Then said she, I pray thee, let the

AMBITIOUS THISTLE.

2 Kings xiv, 9. And Jeba the king of Israel sent to ALLALE

Hing of Judah, saying, The thistle | toul as in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, sayng, Give thy daughter to my on to wife: and there passed by wild beast that was in Lebanon, ad trode down the thistle

FLUITLESS VINEYARD. a. v, 1-6. Now will I sing to

y well-beloved a song of my beved touching his vineyard. My -beloved hath a vineyard in a

ty fruitful hill. And he fenced and gathered out the stones reof, and planted it with the cest vine, and built a tower in (midst of it, and also made a press therein; and he looked

it should bring forth grapes, I brought forth wild grapes. tow, O inhabitants of Jeru

, and men of Judah, judge, tay you, betwixt me and my

eyard. What could have been

more to my vineyard, that I

e not done in it? wherefore,

I looked that it should bring grapes, brought it forth wild pes And now go to; I will you what I will do to my yard: I will take away the thereof, and it shall be sp, and break down the thereof, and it shall be troddown. And I will lay it it shall not be pruned nor

but there shall come up and thorns: I will also comthe clouds that they rain ain upon it.

RED WINE VINEYARD.

xxvii, 2, 3. In that day sing Bato her, A vineyard of red

I the LORD do keep it; I Water it every moment: lest hart it, I will keep it night day.

EAGLES AND VINE-TREE. xvii, 3-8. And say, Thus & the Lord GoD, A great eagle great wings, long-winged, of feathers, which had divers ars, came unto Lebanon, and the highest branch of the He cropped off the top of young twigs, and carried it aland of traffick; he set it in y of merchants. He took also Leed of the land, and planted a fruitful field; he placed it great waters, and set it as a And it grew, and

Th-tree,

ame a spreading vine of low are, whose branches turned tard him, and the roots thereof re under him: so it became a e and brought forth branches, 4 shot forth sprigs. There was another great eagle with bat wings and many feathers: 1, behold, this vine did bend Tools toward him, and shot her branches toward him,

that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation. It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

LIONESS.

Ezek. xix, 1--9. Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions. whelps: it became a young lion, And she brought up one of her and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of she had waited, and her hope was Egypt. Now when she saw that lost, then she took another of her Whelps, and made him a young lion. And be went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch he knew their desolate palaces, the prey, and devoured men. And and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit. And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

CHRIST'S PARABLES. Matth. xili, 10-13, 34, 35, 53. And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not; neither do they understand. things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.

All these

Mark iv, 2. 33, 34. And he

taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it. But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

Luke viii, 4, And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable.

Luke xv, 3. And he spake this parable unto them, saying.

these things, he added and spake Luke xix, 11. And as they heard Jerusalem, and because they a parable, because he was nigh to thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.

2.PARABLES IN THE NEW

TESTAMENT.

THE TWO FOUNDATIONS. Matth. vii, 24-27. Therefore, of mine, and doeth them, I will whosoever heareth these sayings liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock; And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that hear

eth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the saud; And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

TARES.

Matth. xiii, 24-30. Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? from whence then bath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? But he said, Nay; lest, while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest; and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.