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he charged them that they should tell no man; but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it; and so much the more did they wonder, saying, He hath done all things well; he hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST.
EPIST. 2 Cor. iii. 4-9.- Brethren, such confidence we have through Christ towards God. Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God. Who also hath made us fit ministers of the new testament, not in the letter, but in the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth. Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance; which is made void: how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather in glory? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more the ministration of justice aboundeth in glory.
GOSP. Luke x. 23-37.- At that time, Jesus said to his disciples, Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them. And behold a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him, and saying, Master, what must I do to possess eternal life? But he said to him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? He answering, said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said to him, Thou hast answered rightly: this do, and thou shalt live. But he, willing to justify himself,