Covetousness, and Love of Riches.

From whence did our Lord call St. Matthew? (Matt. ix. 9.)

Did he obey the call? (Matt. ix. 9.)

To what offices was he called? (Collect.)

In the Collect, what do we pray for grace to forsake?

What is said in the Scriptures of the love of money? (1 Tim. vi. 10.)

Point out the misery and danger of an inordinate love of riches. (1 Tim. vi. 9-10.)

Shew that it is a hindrance to receiving the Gospel and profiting by it. (Mark x. 24. Matt. xiii. 22.)

Shew that the heart is not to be set upon riches. (Psalm lxii. 10.)

What is forbidden by the tenth commandment?

Shew the folly of covetousness and an inordinate love of riches. (Luke xii. 20-1.)

Prove that this state of mind will exclude us from heaven. (Eph. v. 5.)

The Ministry of Angels.

What is said to be the employment of the angels in heaven? (Collect.-Psalm ciii. 20-1.)

What do we pray that God will grant they may do for us? (Collect.)

To whom are angels said to

spirits? (Heb. i. 14.)

be ministering

What warning does our Lord give against offending one of the "little ones" who believe in him? (Matt. xviii. 10.)

Shew that angels were employed in giving the law. (Acts vii. 53. Deut. xxxiii. 2.)

Shew the deep interest they take in the Gospel. (1 Peter i. 12.)

What are said to be their feelings when a sinner repents? (Luke xv. 7.)

Give instances in which they have been sent forth as executioners of God's vengeance. (Exodus xii. 23. 2 Sam. xxiv. 16. Isaiah xxxvii. 36. Acts xii. 23.)

Give instances in which they have been sent as messengers of mercy. (Gen. xix. 1-11, and 1517. Luke ii. 8-14. Acts xii. 7-10; xxvii. 23-4.) How will they be employed at the last day? (Matt. viii. 30; xxiv. 30-1.)

The Healing Power of the Gospel.

What is St. Luke called? (Collect.)

For what do we pray in the Collect?

Shew that our Lord came as the Great Physician. (Luke iv. 16-21.)

Who did he come to heal? (Matt. ix. 12-13.)

What is the sickness in us which requires to be healed? (Prov. xx. 9.)

How does Isaiah describe the state of sinners? (Isaiah i. 5-6.)

To what is the Gospel compared in Jeremiah viii. 22 ?

What is the balm which must be applied to heal us? (Rom. iii. 25.)

Who is said to have borne our sickness? (Matt. viii. 17.)

How did he bear our sickness? (1 Peter ii. 24.)

What does he promise to do for his people? (Ezek. xxxiv. 16.)

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Apostles.

Contending for the Faith.

Upon what is the Church said to be built? (Collect.)

To what is our Lord compared? (Eph. ii. 20.) In what forms are the Articles of the Christian faith inserted in the Prayer-book?

What does St. Paul speak of as the sum of Christian doctrine? (1 Cor. ii. 2.)

How does St. Jude say we are to contend for the faith? (Jude 3.)

Shew that we should preserve a pure faith. (Titus ii. 7.)

Against whom should we contend for the faith? (Eph. iv. 14.)

How should we defend the truth? (Eph. iv. 15.)

Shew that we should not give way to angry feelings in contending for the faith.

19-20.)

(James i.

How does St. Paul say he preserved the faith in himself? (1 Cor. ix. 26-7. 2 Tim. iv. 7.)

Holy Examples.

In what do we pray that we may have grace to follow the saints? (Collect.)

What is the hope of those who thus shew their love to God? (Collect.)

What marks of Christian character are given in the Gospel for the day? (Matt. v. 1-12.)

Who is the great pattern for all saints?

xv. 5. 1 Peter ii. 21.)

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What does St. Paul chiefly point out for our imitation in the examples of the saints, recorded in Heb. xi.?

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Speaking of the saints as a cloud of witnesses, what does St. Paul urge us to do? xii. 1.)

To whom do the saints ascribe the work of their salvation? (Rev. vii. 10.)

By whose power do they serve God acceptably? (1 Cor. xv. 10.)