"fore shall I lack nothing: he ma" keth me to lie down in green paf

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tures, he leadeth me beside the still waters-My beloved is mine, and I am his, He is fairest among ten "thousand-This is my beloved, and "this is my friend, O daughter of

DISCOURSE ΧΙ.

PSALM xxxvii. VER. 37.

"MARK THE PERFECT MAN, AND BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT; FOR THE "END OF THAT MAN IS PEACE."

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UST thou art, and unto dust "thou shalt return," was the awful sentence denounced against rebellious man by his infinitely just Creator. No fooner had Adam fallen from that state of innocence, perfection, and intimate communion with God, in which his light, and life, and happiness supreme consisted, than he became 04 subject