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 made in the original book ; which has thus heen reduced from 567 to 471 sections. It may be proper to observe, that nothing whatever has been added to the references selected by S. Antony.

8. We will give a few examples of the different ways in which the Moral Concordances might be useful in the present day. And first, of ingenious applications of texts, which might well bs used as illustrations. Separation from the world, if we would heartily serve GOD, is enforced by the example of Moses. (Ex. viii. 27.) " We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our GOD, as He shall command us ;" and, again, by the exhortation in the Canticles, iii. 11, (where the stress in this sense must be laid on the two first words,) " Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon." The attacks to which we are exposed from the threefold temptations of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, are illustrated by Job i. 17. "The Chaldeans made out three bands; by the threefold dangers of which Jeremiah speaks, (v. 6.) " Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them ; and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them; a leopard shall watch over their cities:" and by Rev. ix. 17 " Out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and H'imstone; by these three was the third part of men killed; by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone." Against being assailed by violent temptation in the hour of death; (S. Matt. xxiv. 20 ) "But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter." Against negligence in prayer: (Jer. xlviii. 10) " Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD