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TRANSLATION OF THE SCHRIFTEN
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| Let them not exercise play and impertinence, |
| Let them stay at home at night, |
| Let there be heard God's word and prayer. |
| What will follow? Blessing will come. |
Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephes. vi, 4.
Make yourselves purses that do not grow old. A treasure that never diminishes in Heaven, where no thief breaks through and no moth corrupts.
| P. |
| False display in gestures, actions, words, |
| Surely are injurious everywhere; |
| Likewise defiance and insolence |
| Have deprived many a man of his possessions. |
| Therefore be in all things modest. |
| Dress according to thy rank, |
| Estimate not too high nor too low, |
| The middle road is just right. |
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. James iv, 6.
| Q. |
| Torment follows a life of lust; |
| Who then would strive for such? |
| After a joy that is short and slight |
| Follows long misery and bitter pain. |
| O how much better to avoid in the first place |
| Than afterward to suffer such great agony! |
| God let me stand by virtue, |
| And avoid base lust. |
Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. Coloss. iii, 2.
(Short Summary of the 150th Psalm.)
