A Contrast BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED, AS DESCRIBED IN THE WORD OF GOD. BY A BIBLE STUDENT, Author of "Our Eternal Homes." "Come, ye blessed of my Father."-Matt. xxv. 34. NOTE TO THE READER. This book is printed in such a manner as to afford, as far as possible, on opposite pages, a contrast between the passages describing "the righteous" and those describing “the wicked:" consequently the passages relating to "the righteous" will be found on pages 6, 8, 10, &c., and those relating to "the wicked" on pages 7, 9, 11, &c. INTRODUCTION. IN presenting the following little work to the public, the compiler begs to offer a few words of explanation. It is true that books of a somewhat similar character abound, and their intrinsic excellence deserves even a larger circulation than they have obtained. All believers in the Word of God must be glad to see copies of the Sacred Scriptures multiplied; and it is especially desirable that those portions of the Divine Word which in the most direct manner tend to make men "wise unto salvation," should be multiplied by the press in the form of manuals like the present. In this way may we write the Divine counsels upon our door-posts, bind them for a sign upon our hand, and make them. frontlets between our eyes (Deut. vi. 6-9). Whatever value this little work possesses is to be attributed to the solemn beauty and impressiveness of those passages of the Sacred Oracles which are collected in its pages. The method of its arrangement may perhaps help |