The Devotions of Bishop Andrewes

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ON CHRISTIAN DUTY. What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life ? Keep the commandments. Mark x. 17. What shall we do ? Repent and be baptized every one of you. Acts ii. 37, 38. What must I do to be saved ? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts xvi. 31. -What shall we do then ? (To the multitude.) He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none. He that hath meat, let him do likewise. (to the publican..) Exact no more than is appointed you. (TosoUiers.) Do violence to no man; neither accuse any falsely; be content with your wages. Luke iii. 10-14. The knowledge and faith of [God's] justice [God's] mercy, [leads] unto fear, hope, abasement, consolation, repentance, thanksgiving, fasting, almsgiving, prayers, hymns, patience, obedience, a sacrifice. an oblation. ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, Father Unoriginate, Only-begtten Son, Life-giving Spirit, merciful, pitiful, long-suflering, full of pity, full of kind yearnings, who lovest the just and pitiest the sinful, who passest by sins and grantest petitions, God of penitents, Saviour of sinners, I have sinned before Theef 0 Lord, and thus and thus have I done. Alas, alas ! woe, woe. How was I enticed by my own lust! How I hated instruction ! Nor felt I fear nor shame at Thy incomprehensible glory, Thy awful presence, Thy fearful power, Thy exact justice, Thy winning goodness. I will call if there be any that will answer me; to which of the saints shall I turn ? 0 wretched man than I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death ? how fearful is Thy judgment, O Lord? . ' when the thrones are set and Angels stand around, and men are brought in, the books opened, the works enquired into...

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