AUGUST 9

MORNING

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot

HE whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.--We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.--I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.

      Ye are washed, . . . ye are sanctified, . . . ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.--The king's daughter is all glorious within.--Perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

      Let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us.

      These are they which . . . have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.--A glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but . . . holy and without blemish.--Ye are complete in him.

EVENING

VE . . . bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

      Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven. The LORD scattered them.--Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; it was well watered every where, . . . even as the garden of the LORD. . . . But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

      I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.--I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards. I gathered me also silver and gold. Then I looked on all, . . . and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit.

      If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.--He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

      Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.