light is joy to one eye and torture to
another. The same pillar of cloud was light to the hosts of Israel, and
darkness and dismay to the armies of Egypt. The same Gospel is 'a savour
of life unto life, or of death unto death,' by the giving forth of the
same influences killing the one and reviving the other; the same Christ
is a Stone to build upon or a Stone of stumbling; and when He cometh at
the last, Prince, King, Judge, to you and me, His coming shall be
prepared as the morning; and ye 'shall have a song as when one cometh
with a pipe to the mountain of the Lord'; or else it shall be a day of
darkness and not of light. He comes to me, to you; He comes to smite or
He comes to glorify.

Oh, brethren! do not believe that God's threatenings are wind and words;
do not let teachings that sap the very foundations of morality and eat
all the power out of the Gospel persuade you that the solemn words, 'The
soul that sinneth it shall die,' are not simple verity.

And then, my brethren, oh! then, do you turn yourselves to that dear
Lord whose grace is magnified in this most chiefly, that 'He hath borne
our sins and carried our sorrows'; and taking Him for your Saviour, your
King, your Shield, your All, when He cometh it will be life to you; and
the grace that He imparts will be heaven for ever more.

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ST. MATTHEW

_Chaps. I to VIII_

CONTENTS

MATTHEW'S GENEALOGY OF JESUS CHRIST (Matt. i. 1-16)
THE NATIVITY (Matt. i. 18-25)
THE NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME (Matt. i. 21)
THE FIRST-FRUITS OF THE GENTILES (Matt. ii. 1-12)
THE KING IN EXILE (Matt. ii. 13-23)
THE HERALD OF THE KING (Matt. iii. 1-12)
THE BAPTISM IN FIRE (Matt. iii. 11)
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS (Matt. iii. 13-17)
THE DOVE OF GOD (Matt. in. 16)
THE VICTORY OF THE KING (Matt. iv. 1-11)
THE SPRINGING OF THE GREAT LIGHT (Matt. iv. 12-16)
THE EARLY WELCOME AND THE FIRST MINISTERS OF THE KING
(Matt. iv. 17-25)
THE NEW SINAI (Matt. v. 1-16)
THE FIRST BEATITUDE (Matt. v. 3)
THE SECOND BEATITUDE (Matt. v. 4)
THE THIRD BEATITUDE (Matt. v. 5)
THE FOURTH BEATITUDE (Matt. v. 6)
THE FIFTH BEATITUDE (Matt. v. 7)
THE SIXTH BEATITUDE (Matt. v. 8)
THE SEVENTH BEATITUDE (Matt. v. 9)
THE EIGHTH BEATITUDE (Matt. v. 10)
SALT WITHOUT SAVOUR