TESTIMONIES AGAINST THE JEWS. 177 Corinthians:"We must allbe manifestedbeforethe tribunal of Christ,that every one may bear again the thingswhich belong to his own body, accordingto what he hath done, whether good or evil."1 57. That the believerisamended and reserved. In the 117th Psalm: "The Lord amending hath amended me, and hath notdeliveredme todeath."2 Also in theeighty- eighthPsalm : " I willvisittheirtransgressionswitha rod,and their sinswith scourges. But my mercy willI not scatter away from them."1 Also inMalachi:"And He shallsitmelt ing and purifying,as itwere,gold and silver; and He shall purify the sonsof Levi."4 Also in the Gospel : "Thou shalt not go out thenceuntilthou pay the uttermostfarthing."8 58. That no one should be made sad by death, since in livingis labour and peril,in dying peace and the certaintyof resurrection. In Genesis: "Then said the Lord to Adam, Because thou hast hearkened to the voiceof thy wife,and hasteaten of that tree of which alone I commanded thee that thou shouldestnot eat,cursedshallbe theground in allthy works ; in sadness and groaning shaltthou eatof it allthe days of thy life: thorns and thistlesshallit castforthto thee; and thou shalteat the herb of the fieldin the sweat of thy brow. Thou shalteat thy bread untilthou return unto the earth from which alsothou wast taken;becauseearththou art,and to earth thou shaltgo."6 Also in the same place: "And Enoch pleasedGod, and was not found afterwards; because God translatedhim."7 And in Isaiah: "All fleshisgrass, and allthe gloryof it as the flower of grass. The grass withered,and the flowerhath fallenaway ; but the word of the Lord abidethfor ever."8 In Ezekiel: "They say,Our bones are become dry,our hope hath perished: we have ex pired. Therefore prophesy,and say,Thus saiththe Lord, 1 2 Cor.v.10. 1Ps.cxviii.18. 8 Ps.lxxxix.32,38. * Mai.iii.3. 5 Matt.v.26. 6 Gen.in.17-19. T Gen.v.24. « Isa.xl.6,7. CYP.— VOL. II. M