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EEK ye therefore first the kingdom of God and His justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.’ Observe: — we are to seek the Kingdom of God and His justice; not a merely moral justice, after the fashion of the heathen; but Christian justice, founded on the example of Jesus Christ, and on these rules of the Gospel that we have just considered. This is a justice that will make us live differently to those who know not God, and also to those who lived before the coming of Christ: — a justice suited to our calling, to our state, and to the graces we have received: — for these are what is meant by the Kingdom of God and His justice.

'Seek': In all the other things that He has spoken of, Our Lord has not used the word ‘seek’; for He assumes that God, in His good-