Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last, our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. A Memorial of St. Luke. Psalms xc-xciv. Because he hath set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him : I will set him up, because he hath known St. Luke, a Slave, being foreknown of God, is manumitted ;As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of mali-My Name. ciousness, but as the ser- He shall call upon Me, vants of God.-1 St. Peter ii. 16. and afterwards converted to Christianity:— Let every one that nameth the Name of Christ depart from iniquity.-2 Timothy ii. 19. as a Physician he learns wisdom; Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In Whose hand is the soul and I will hear him : yea, I am with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour. I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope, and my strong hold my God, in Him will I trust. Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stool of wickedness which imagineth mischief as a law?— : As soon as Thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.— Job xii. 9, 10. as a Painter he exercises self-restraint.— I made a covenant with mine eyes. Job xxxi. 1. He shares St. Paul's journeys,Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge.-Ruth i. 16. evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered. For we consume away in Thy displeasure and are afraid at Thy wrathful indignation. For when Thou art angry all our days are gone we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night: nor for the arrow that flieth by day; For the pestilence that walketh in darkness: nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noon-day. O Lord, how glorious are Thy works Thy thoughts are very deep. An unwise man doth not well consider this : and a fool doth not understand it. There shall no evil happen unto thee: neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For He shall give His angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee in their hands that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone. and perils: He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. Job v. 19. Whoso dwelleth under the defence of the most High : shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.— For He shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter: and from the noisome pestilence. He shall defend thee under His wings, and thou shalt be safe under His feathers His faithfulness and truth shall be thy shield and buckler. A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand but it shall not come nigh thee. Yea, with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the ungodly. For Thou, Lord, art my hope Thou hast set Thine house of defence very high.They gather them together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood. But the Lord is my refuge and my God is the strength of my confidence. : He shall recompense them their wickedness, and destroy them in their own malice : yea, the Lord our God shall destroy them. with him he endures the night of storm,Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.Ecclesiastes xi. 7. and is wrecked on the Island of Melita ; It came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.Acts xxvii. 44. the impotent viper.He shook off the beast into : Thou turnest man to destruction again Thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men. For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday seeing that is past as a watch in the night.— Lord, Thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made Thou art God from everlasting, and world. without end. Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder: the young the fire, and felt no harm.-lion and the dragon shalt Acts xxviii. 5. The folly of Demas :What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?-St. Luke ix. 25. meanwhile in St. Paul's bonds,Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them. -Hebrews xiii. 3. thou tread under thy feet.— But who regardeth the power of Thy wrath : for even thereafter as a feareth, so is Thy displea sure. man in his loneliness,— Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow.Ecclesiastes iv. 9, 10. St. Luke abides constant; foreseeing the end of the wicked, versity until the pit be digged up for the ungodly. For the Lord will not fail His people: neither will He forsake His inheritance; Until righteousness turn again unto judgment: all such as are true in heart shall follow it. Who will rise up with me against the wicked: or who will take my part against the evil-doers? If the Lord had not helped me it had not failed but my soul had been put to silence. But when I said, My foot hath slipt Thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart Thy comforts have refreshed my soul. When the ungodly are green as the grass, and when all the workers of wicked Wickedness shall be brokenness do flourish then shall as a tree.-Job xxiv. 20. they be destroyed for ever; but Thou, Lord, art the most Highest for evermore. For lo, Thine enemies, O Lord, lo, Thine enemies shall perish and all the workers of wickedness shall be destroyed. |