4. Law of National Life (VIII Commandment): On its Negative or Passive Side (III Beatitude) (38-42). On its Positive or Active Side (VII Beatitude) (43-48). III. The Practice required by Christ of His Disciples contrasted with the Practice of the Scribes and Pharisees. First Defect of Pharisaical Righteousness, Ostentation, or Hypocrisy. God must be regarded in all our _Acts_ (chap. vi. 1). α. In the Duties owed to our Neighbours (2-4). β. In the Duties owed to God (5-15). γ. In the Duties owed to Ourselves (16-18). Second Defect of Pharisaical Righteousness, Worldliness. God must be regarded in all our _Affections_ (19-34). Third Defect of Pharisaical Righteousness, Spiritual Pride. God must be regarded in all our _Judgments_ (chap. vii. 1, 2). We must acquire Discernment to judge, _a._ How to give (3-5). _b._ To whom to give (6). _c._ What to give (7-12). _Conclusion._ The conclusion sums up, in three practical exhortations, the whole sermon. Such being the spirit of the Law and the Prophets, and the strictness of the righteousness required, I. Beware of Supineness (13, 14). II. Beware of false Teachers (15-20). III. Beware of empty Professions (21-27). The other sermons given in Holy Scripture are those of St. Peter, St. Stephen, and St. Paul; in all of which arrangement is discernible. But passing from the apostolic age to those succeeding it, we find that preaching consisted chiefly in scriptural exposition, the only order observed being that of the sacred text. Such was the nature of the sermons of St. Pantænus (A.D. 180), the Sicilian Bee, so named from the way in which he gathered honey from the flowers of prophetic and apostolic fields. He is said to have travelled preaching the Gospel as far as India, whence he brought back a Hebrew copy of St. Matthew’s Gospel, left by St. Bartholomew. St. Clement of Alexandria and Origen succeeded him; adding polish and refinement to the matter. These great men, so well versed in the history of the Old and New Testaments, were also probably masters of the art of preaching, though but few of their genuine homilies are extant by which we might judge.