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CHARLES R. SUMNER, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.

STORY OF BRITAIN. THE HISTORY OF MOSCOVIA.

CCEDENCE COMMENCED GRAMMAR.

AND AN

INDEX TO THE FIVE VOLUMES.

DON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.

1881.

2186

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

A POSTHUMOUS TREATISE

ON

THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE,

COMPILED FROM THE HOLY SCRIPTURES ALONE;

IN TWO BOOKS:

BY

JOHN MILTON.

BOOK II.

OF THE WORSHIP OF GOD.

CHAP. I. OF GOOD WORKS.

THE subject of the first Book was FAITH, or THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. The second treats of THE WORSHIP or LOVE OF GOD.1

The true worship of God consists chiefly in the exercise of good works. Matt. xvi. 27. " then he shall reward every man according to his works." Rom. ii. 13. "not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." Philipp. i. 11. " being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ." iv. 8. "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things: those things which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do; and the God of peace shall

See Book I. p. 12, note.

VOL. V.

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