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Chapters selected from the Old Testament, suitable for
daily reading throughout the Year, either in private or
with the Family.

NOTE. The New Testament may be best read by following the
Calendar lessons.

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viii.

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NOTE. The book of Job is thought to have been written by
Moses while he sojourned in Midian, and consequently to be the
oldest book in the world. Its use is to show, first, that before
temporal rewards were promised by the Mosaic Law, prosperity
and adversity were not distributed according to men's desert: the
wicked often prospered, and the good were afflicted (as is the case
now the dispensation of the law has ceased,) in order to teach men
to look forward to a future state. Secondly, how difficult it was
before the Law, by which is the knowledge of sin, to convince up-
right men, in the main, of their deficiencies and sinfulness before
God, and to deprive them of any self-justifying claim. Job's friends
had no idea that God might afflict his best servants, for the trial
of their faith, apart from the notion of punishment.

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1 1 Sam. vii. & viii. (to 9.) 16 1 Sam. xxxi.

2

ix.

17 2 Sam.i.

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1 1 Kings i. (omit 2-4.) 16 1 Kings xii.

2 1 Chron.

§ xxviii. (to 17

10)xxix.(6.) 18

xiv.

XV.

3 1 Kings iii. & iv. (29)

19 2 Chron. xv.

4

vi.

20 1 Kings xvi.

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viii. (27.)

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10 Ecclés. i. & ii. (to 11.)

ii. (11.) & iii. 27 2 Kings i.

262 Chron. xx.

ii.

iv.

vi.

vii.

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vi.

vii.

viii.

25 Zech. iii. iv. v. (to 4.) 29 Mal.

i. & ii. (14.)

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iii. & iv.

27

xii. (9.) & xiii. 31 Prov.

i.

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Note. Isaiah is styled the Evangelical Prophet, because he pro-
phesied most minutely and distinctly of the Advent or approach,
the sufferings and exaltation of the Messiah; for which reason his
writings are considered by the Church as a suitable preparation for

the season of Christmas.

THE END.

GILBERT & RIVINGTON, Printers, St. John's Square, London.

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