Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.

For acting wickedly against the laws of God doth not pass unpunished.

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

They that love him, shall be filled with his law.

Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother.

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A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong

He that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Whosoever is not just, is not of God, nor he that loveth not his brother.

He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.

Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign
Of sorrow unfeigned and humiliation meek?
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn

From his displeasure, in whose look serene,
When angry most he seemed and most severe,
What else but favour, grace, and mercy shon?"

So spake our father penitent; nor Eve

Felt less remorse.

To Heaven their prayers

Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds
Blown vagabond or frustrate: in they passed
Dimensionless through heavenly doors; then, clad
With incense, where the Golden Altar fumed,
By their great Intercessor, came in sight
Before the Father's Throne. Them the glad Son
Presenting thus to intercede began:-

"See, Father, what first-fruits on Earth are sprung
From thy implanted grace in Man-these sighs
And prayers, which in this golden censer, mixed
With incense, I, thy priest, before thee bring;
Fruits of more pleasing savour, from thy seed
Sown with contrition in his heart, than those
Which, his own hand manuring, all the trees
Of Paradise could have produced, ere fallen
From innocence. Now, therefore, bend thine ear
To supplication; hear his sighs, though mute;
Unskilful with what words to pray, let me
Interpret for him, me his Advocate

And propitiation; all his works on me,
Good or not good, ingraft; my merit those
Shall perfet, and for these my death shall pay.

Accept me, and in me from these receive

The smell of peace toward Mankind; let him live, Before thee reconciled, at least his days

Numbered, though sad, till death, his doom (which I
To mitigate thus plead, not to reverse),

To better life shall yield him, where with me
All my redeemed may dwell in joy and bliss,
Made one with me, as I with thee am one."

To whom the Father, without cloud, serene:-
"All thy request for Man, accepted Son,
Obtain; all thy request was my decree.
But longer in that Paradise to dwell
The law I gave to Nature him forbids;
Those pure immortal elements, that know
No gross, no unharmonious mixture foul,
Eject him, tainted now, and purge him off,
As a distemper, gross, to air as gross,
And mortal food, as may dispose him best

Thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and hast cast me behind thy back.

A man cannot receive any thing, unless it be given him from heaven.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. Better is the little that the righteous hath, than the great riches of many wicked.

Unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have called gods the works of the hands of men, gold and silver.

Oh, this people hath sinned a great sin, and they have made themselves gods of gold.

For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness.

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but it doth not satisfy hunger; ye drink, but it doth not appease thirst; ye clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he that earneth something earneth it for a bag with holes.

No man can serve two masters. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Seek not death in the error of your life, neither procure ye destruction by the works of your hands.

What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? He shall not be enriched, neither shall his substance continue.

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

For dissolution wrought by sin, that first
Distempered all things, and of incorrupt
Corrupted. I, at first, with two fair gifts
Created him endowed-with Happiness
And Immortality; that fondly lost,
This other served but to eternize woe,
Till I provided Death: so Death becomes
His final remedy, and, after life

Tried in sharp tribulation, and refined

By faith and faithful works, to second life,
Waked in the renovation of the just,

Resigns him up with Heaven and Earth renewed.
Like one of us Man is become

To know both Good and Evil, since his taste
Of that defended Fruit; but let him boast
His knowledge of good lost and evil got,
Happier had it sufficed him to have known
Good by itself and evil not at all.

He sorrows now, repents, and prays contrite-
My motions in him; longer than they move,
His heart I know how variable and vain,
Self-left. Lest, therefore, his now bolder hand
Reach also of the Tree of Life, and eat,
And live for ever, dream at least to live
For ever, to remove him I decree,
And send him from the Garden forth, to till
The ground whence he was taken, fitter soil.
Michael, this my behest have thou in charge:
Take to thee from among the Cherubim
Thy choice of flaming warriors, lest the Fiend,
Or in behalf of Man, or to invade
Vacant possession, some new trouble raise;
Haste thee, and from the Paradise of God
Without remorse drive out the sinful pair.
If patiently thy bidding they obey,
Dismiss them not disconsolate; reveal
To Adam what shall come in future days,

As I shall thee enlighten; intermix

My covenant in the Woman's seed renewed.
So send them forth, though sorrowing, yet in peace;
And on the east side of the Garden place,
Where entrance up from Eden easiest climbs,
Cherubic watch, and of a Sword the flame
Wide-waving, all approach far off to fright,
And guard all passage to the Tree of Life;
Lest Paradise a receptacle prove

To Spirits foul, and all my trees their prey,
With whose stolen fruit Man once more to delude."

He ended and the Archangel soon drew nigh.
Adam bowed low; he, kingly, from his state
Inclined not, but his coming thus declared:-
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"Adam, Heaven's high behest no preface needs.

He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

The eye of the covetous man is insatiable in his portion of iniquity: he will not be satisfied till he consume his own soul, drying it up.

Lo, this is the man that made not God his fortress; but trusted in the abundance of his riches.

Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold ore, nor all the highest forces of strength.

He that maketh haste to be rich will not go unpunished. Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

He that is eager for wealth is a man of an evil eye, and he knoweth not that want will come upon him.

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not?
For riches are not for ever.

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house.
He that trusteth in his riches will surely fall.

For they that will become rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold.

For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.