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OCTOBER 1.

66 Happy is that people whose God is the Lord." Ps. cxliv. 15.

"How happy, O Lord, is the man that hath thee for his God! He can want nothing that is good, he can be hurt by nothing that is evil; his sins are pardoned, his crosses are sanctified, his prayers are heard; all that he hath are blessings, all that he suffers are advantages; his life is holy; his death comfortable; his estate after death glorious." -HALL.

OCTOBER 2.

"Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."
2 Pet. i. 11.

"Christ executes the office of a pro

phet in our calling, of a priest in our

justification, and of a king in our sanctification. Let us, then, hear him as our prophet, rely on him as our priest, and obey him as our king. Think not the worse of him for his manger or his cross. As he ceaseth not to be man in his highest estate, so he was God in his lowest. His words were oracles, and his works miracles. His life was a pattern; his death a sacrifice; his resurrection glorious; his ascension triumphant; his intercession prevalent; and his coming again will be magnificent. All the angels in heaven adore him, and all the devils in hell fear him, and all the sons and daughters of Adam must stand before him."-MASON.

OCTOBER 3.

"Grace to help."-Heb. iv. 16.

"There is a throne of grace erected for us to come to, a Mediator of grace appointed in whose name to come, the Spirit of grace given to help our infir mities, and an answer of peace promised to every prayer of faith; and all this that we might fetch in not only sanctifying, but comforting grace, 66 in every time of

need."-HENRY.

OCTOBER 4.

"Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." Matt. vi. 12.

"God pardons our sins so fully, that they are in his account as if they had never been committed; and so must we

pardon injuries, wholly and fully, as if there had never been any done us."HOPKINS.

OCTOBER 5.

"Return unto thy rest, O my soul."-Ps. cxvi. 7. "Lord, thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless till it resteth in thee." -AUGUSTINE.

OCTOBER 6.

"One faith."-Eph. iv. 5.

"All true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are made sensible of, and experience, the same great truths. They all feel themselves lost and undone creatures; they all feel the necessity of that inward change of heart by the power of the Holy

Ghost, without which no man can see

God. They feel that their only hope is in the atoning sacrifice of the incarnate God. They utterly deny the doctrine of merit, trampling it under their feet. They long to be conformed to the image of their Lord; and this, not merely because they are aware of the essential importance of holiness, but because they are also aware of the happiness arising from it."-EVANS.

OCTOBER 7.

"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me."-Ps. lxvi. 18.

"He who prays as he ought, will endeavour to live as he prays. He who can live in sin, and abide in the ordinary duties of prayer, never prays as he ought.

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