1 78 CONTENTS. EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS Continued. PAGE HOMILY XI. Phil. iii. 7-10. Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. Yea, verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may gain Christ, and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of mine own, even that which is of the law,-but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith 234 HOMILY XII. Phil. iii. 13, 14. Brethren, I count not myself yet to have apprehended: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus 238 HOMILY XIII. Phil. iii. 18-21. For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ : whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven; from whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ : who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory, according to the working whereby He is able even to subject all things unto Himself 242 HOMILY XIV. Phil. iv. 4-7. Rejoice in the Lord alway : again I will say, Rejoice. Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and sup plication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus 246 HOMILY XV. Phil. iv. 10-14. But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity. Not that I speak in re spect of want : for I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content. I know how to be abased and I know also how to abound : in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. I can do all things in Him that strength- eneth me. Howbeit ye did well, that ye had fellowship with my affliction 249- EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS. HOMILY I. Col. i. i, 2. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colossse : grace to you, and peace, from God our Father 257 HOMILY II. Col. i. 9, 10. For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and under standing; to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God 264 HOMILY III. Col. i. 15-18. Who is the Image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation. For in Him were all things created, in the heavens, and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers : all things have been created through Him and unto Him : and He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the Church 270 HOMILY IV. Col. i. 21, 22. And you being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreprovable before Him 275 HOMILY V. Col. i. 26-28. Even the mystery which hath been hid from all ages and generations : but now hath it been manifested to His saints, to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory : whom we proclaim, admonishing every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ 279 HOMILY VI. Col. ii. 6, 7. As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him : rooted and builded up in Him, and stablished in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving 284 HOMILY VII. Col. ii. 16-19. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast- day or a new moon, or a Sabbath day : which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ s. Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increaseth with the increase of God . 288