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on the right hand, Come, ye blessed, and possess as an inheritance the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and ye gave me meat, I was thirsty and ye gave me drink, I was a stranger and ye gathered me, I was naked and ye clothed me, I was sick and ye visited me, I was in prison and ye came to me. Then shall the righteous answer, When saw we thee so? But the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of my brethren, ye have done it unto me. And the King shall speak in like manner to the goats on the left, and inasmuch as they have not done such things he shall say, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." Matt. xxv. 31 to 46. "Bring forth fruits worthy of repentance, for now is the axe laid to the root of the trees; every tree therefore, that bringeth not forth good fruit, is cut down and cast into the fire." Luke iii, 8, 9. “Jesus said, Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Every one who cometh to me, and heareth my words, and doeth them, is like unto a man who

built a house, and laid the foundation on a rock; but he that heareth and doeth not, is like unto a man building a house on the ground without a foundation." Luke vi. 46 to 49. "Jesus said, my mother and my brethren are these, who hear the Word of God and do it." Luke viii. 21. "Then shall ye begin to stand and knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; but he shall say to them, I know you not whence ye are, depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity." Luke xiii. 25 to 27. "This is the judgment, that light is come into the world, but men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil; for he who doeth evil hateth the light, lest his deeds should be reproved; but he who doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, inasmuch as they are wrought in God." John iii. 19 to 21. 66 They who have done good shall come forth to the resurrection of life.” John v. 29. "We know that God heareth not sinners, but if any one worship God, and do his will, him he heareth." John ix. 31. 66 If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them." John xiii. 17. "He that hath my commandments, and doeth them, he it is

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that loveth me, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him; and I will come to him and make my abode with him. He that loveth me not, keepeth not my words." John xiv. 15, 21 to 24. "Jesus said, I am the vine, and my Father is the vine dresser; every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away; but every branch that beareth fruit, he will prune it, that it may bear more fruit." John xv. 1, 2. "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bring forth much fruit, and be made my disciples." John xv. 8. are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you; I have chosen you, that ye may bear much fruit, and that your fruit may remain." John xv. 14, 16. "The Lord said to John, write to the angel of the church at Ephesus, I know thy works: I have against thee, that thou hast left former charity; perform repentance, and do former works; but otherwise, I will move thy candlestick out of its place." Rev. ii. 1, 2, 4, 5. "To the angel of the church at Smyrna write, I know thy works." Rev. ii. 8. "To the angel of the church in Pergamos write, I know thy works, perform repentance." Rev. ii. 13, 16. "To the angel of the church in

Thyatira write, I know thy works and charity, and thy latter works more than the first." Rev. ii. 26. To the angel of the church in Sardis write, I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, but thou art dead; I have not found thy works perfect before God, perform repentance." Rev. iii. 1, 2, 3. "To the angel of the church which is in Philadelphia write, I know thy works." Rev. iii. 7. 8. "To the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write, I know thy works, perform repentance." Rev. iii. 14, 15, 19. "I heard a voice from heaven, saying, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; the spirit saith, that they may rest from their labours, their works follow with them. Rev. xiv. 13. "A book was opened, which is of life, and the dead were judged according to those things. which were written in the book, all according to their works." Rev. xx. 12, 13, "Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me, that I may give to every one according to his works." Rev. xxii. 12. In like manner it is written in the Old Testament, "Recompense them according to their work, and according to the deed of their hands." Jer. xxv. 14. “Je

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hovah, whose eyes are open upon all the ways of men, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his works." Jer. xxxii. 19. "I will visit according to his ways, and recompense him according to his works." Hosea iv. 9. "Jehovah hath dealt with us according to our ways, and according to our works." Zech. i. 6. And in many places, where it is required, that men should do statutes, commandments, and laws, as in the following, "Ye shall observe my statutes and my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live by them.' Levit. xviii. 5. "Ye shall observe all my statutes and my judgments, to do them." Levit. xix. 37. chap. xx. 8. chap. xxii. 31. “Blessings, if they do the commandments, and curses, if they do them not." Levit. xxvi. 4 to 46. Therefore the children of Israel were commanded to make to themselves a fringe on the wings. of their garments, that they might remember all the precepts of Jehovah to do them, Deut. xxii. 12. Num. xv. 38; not to mention a thousand other passages to the same purport. That works are what constitute the man of the church, and that he is saved according thereto, the

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