THE PEOPLE'S BIBLE:

DISCOURSES UPON HOLY SCRIPTURE.

BY

JOSEPH PARKER, D.D.,

Minister of the City Temple, Holborn Viaduct, London.

AUTHOR OF "ECCE DEUS,'
‚”“the paraclete,” “the pRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST,"
"SPRINGDALE abbey,” “the inner life of Christ," "AD CLERUM,"

"THE ARK OF GOD," "APOstolic life," "TYNE CHYLDE,"
"WEAVER STEPHEN,” “EVERY MORNING, THE

PEOPLE'S FAMILY PRAYER BOOK,"

ETC., ETC.

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GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK.

Chapter i. 1-8.

1. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

2. As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

3. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

4. John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

5. And there went out unto him all the land of Judæa, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

6. And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey

7. And preached, saying, There cometh one mightie than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

8. I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

THE THREEFOLD BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL.

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HE gospel may be said to have three beginnings, and yet it is perfectly correct to say that each beginning has a speciality and completeness of its own. The beginning of the gospel is, of course, to be found in the thought and love of God. We may cast our lines back as far as we can through the ages of eternity, and we shall never be able to find the point at which God's concern for the welfare of the universe that was to be first began, and yet the Lamb of God is said to have been slain from before the foundation of the world. The sacrifice of Christ was not an afterthought on the part of the Divine Being; it was, so to speak, part of himself, an element of his very Godhead and of his very existence. So that, if we are really to go

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