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NATIONAL SECULAR SOCIETY
INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE LIFE
OF ROBERT COOPER.
I first became acquainted with R bert Cooper when he was
editing the London Investigator in 1861, and the following sketch,
is compiled from an autobiographic* < statement written by Mr.
Cooper about two months before h death, and sent to me by
his son for publication in the Nation I Reformer.
Robert Cooper was born on th 29 th December, 1819, at
Barton-upon-Wevell, near Mauches r. His father was an old
Yorkshire Radical, with experience >f Peterloo. At his father’s
house young Cooper had occasio illy to read aloud to the
collected guests from “Godwin’s P itical Justice,” and heard
Lancashire men discuss theviews of Voltaire, Paine, Washington,
Cartwright, Horne Tooke, Cobbe* , Hunt, Richard Carlile,
Robert Owen, Henry Brougham, G orge Combe, Godwin, and
other advanced thinkers. When about twelve years of age
Robert Cooper became a clerk in a A lanchester house, where he
remained for nine years. When foe ■ceen he was also appointed
teacher in the Salford Co-operatr Evening Schools, where
James Rigby and Joseph Smith, w<- i known disciples of Robert
Owen, were then assistants.
Before he was fifteen Robert C< > per was elected Hon.. Sec.
to the School, and soon after delivei d his first lecture, on “ the
necessity of free schools for the wo ting classes ”. About this
time Robert Owen, then in the heych ' of his socialistic agitation,
lectured at Salford, in the first insti ition erected in England by
To use Robert Cooper’s
the promoters of English Socialise
own words, this event “ constitute! an epoch in my life”. Of
Robert Owen, he writes: “ His mil and gentle, yet impressive
and commanding bearing producer profound effect upon me.
It determined my future career. To io day of his death I revered
him as a father, and he treated me s a son. During the latter
portion of his extraordinary labor* ie spent much of his time
with my family in London. When is eyesight began to fail I
accompanied him on the platform t< > •sist in reading his lectures.
His hearing, too, grew weak, and 1 , idertook the task of recapitulating the questions and speeche from the audience close to
his ear.” In 1836, Robert Cooper tened a debate on “ Secularism”—“a term just then coi i ”—before the, debating
Shortly after, the young
society of the Manchester Athen feu
and eloquent Socialist advocate he his first public discussion
with the Rev. J. Bromley, in the C. penter’s Hall, Manchester,
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SKETCH OE THE LIFE OF ROBERT COOPER.
and now, on Sundays, lectured through, the towns and villages
of Lancashire on the “ Social System ”. When scarcely eighteen
he published a pamphlet on “ Original Sin ” ; and the present
little work, which was attacked in Parliament, was issued when
Robert Cooper was only twenty years of age. His prominence
as a Socialist led to his dismissal from his situation, and Robert
Cooper then became one of the paid Social Missionaries,
and was first stationed at Hull, whence he was sent North,
passing the greater part of 1842 and 1843 in lecturing in Scot
land. Coming South, in 1843, to Derby, he went thence to
Stockport, again to Scotland, and lastly to the West Riding of
Yorkshire, which was his final appointment as “ Social Mis
sionary”. 1846, which witnessed the dissolution of the Eng
lish Socialistic organisation, found Mr. Cooper conducting
some excellent educational classes at Huddersfield. The
break-up of the Socialistic Mission drove him to London,
where he became a familiar Freethought lecturer at the Old
John Street Institution, and, at intervals, carried on the plat
form work in the West and North of England. While editing
the London Investigator, Mr. Cooper’s health, which had been
undermined by many hardships in his early lecturing career, gave
way, and, in 1856, he was compelled to abandon some of his
work. Fainting more than once on the platform, his lecturing
was brought to a close at John Street Institution, in 1858 : his
medical advisers insisting on abstinence from the excitement
of public speaking. Fortunately, a legacy by Samuel Fletcher,
who died in 1856, came in time to furnish the means for
recruiting lost strength, and Mr. Cooper lived quietly in Man
chester until the breaking out of the Reform agitation in 1866,
when he became Honorary Secretary to the Manchester
Reform Union. The new work, and consequent excite
ment, brought on a fresh attack of the old disease, and
after lingering through 1867, he died on the 3rd May, 1868,
only forty-eight years of age. Writing just before he died,
when misfortune had swept away his resources, he penned the
following touching lines : “ I now rest for succor on the
affections of my children, strengthened by the noble devotion of
a wife who has ever been, through a marriage of twenty-nine
years, an adviser in my struggles, a partner in my successes,
and a companion in my vicissitudes ”; and he adds, “Should
my health not be restored and the couch upon which I repose
be my death-bed, I can leave the world with the assurance that
those who are dearest to me and know me best, love me most
In editing this work some of the quotations have been
abridged, some slight corrections have been made, and some
new matter inserted between brackets.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH.
�A
VINDICATION,
WRITTEN FOR THE SECOND EDITION AFTER THE WORK HAD BEEN
SPECIALLY ATTACKED BY THE BISHOP OF EXETER IN
THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
At a period like the present, when the voice of reason and free
inquiry is rousing the intellectual faculties of the people from
their dormancy and enslavement; when the luminary of true
knowledge is diffusing its ennobling and enlightening influence
among mankind, giving, at once, a vitality and intensity to
their highest and noblest aspirations ; when, indeed, men are
becoming intelligent and reflective, instead of ignorant and
credulous beings, it is not to be wondered at that the priest
hood and their abettors should feel so distressingly alarmed,
and have recourse to all kinds of expedients in order to the
maintenance of their power and influence. Knowing as they
do, that priestcraft and enlightenment cannot eventually co
exist or co-operate—they that are at irreconcilable variance—
that there is no affinity between them—that the one must
necessarily stultify and annihilate the other; and, seeing as
they do, the extraordinary developments of mind—the rapid
advances in intelligence and rationality which are every day
taking place, they are almost driven to desperation. They are
beginning to apprehend their case is hopeless, the days of
their domination and ascendancy are over; that they have
passed the meridian of their glory, and must now retire into
utter and permanent obscurity. But being valiant and per
severing men, at least when their own interests are concerned,
they are determined that they will not die without a struggle
—a fearless and desperate struggle. And, therefore, they
have organised all the means at their command, and com
menced a most furious onslaught upon all who have presumed
or will still continue to presume, to advocate views prejudicial
to their own. In this display of clerical zeal and intolerance,
I was not in the least surprised that this work, amongst the
rest, should fall in for its due quantum of abuse. Indeed, I
fully expected it. I anticipated they would make an attack
upon it, not indeed with the weapons of reason and argument
by any means, as they are altogether unaccustomed to the
use of them, but with those of anathema and denunciation.
Notwithstanding, however, that this was my decided expecta
tion, I certainly did not suppose that it would have been
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deemed requisite for so august a personage as the Lord Bishop
of Exeter to have opened the attack. Great as my presump
tion may be, impious as my audacity certainly is in their
estimation, it is yet not so great, so impious as to have
emboldened me to have presumed that so sacred and immacu**
late a being as a Bishop would have deigned to have noticed
it.
Yet so it was. Not only did he honor it with an
observation, but he even took the trouble to denounce and
anathematize it, not in a private company, not in any of the
churches of his diocese, but in the highest judicature in the
realm. The weight of his mitre, however, could not crush it.
Since that time to the present the clergy and their partisanShave endeavored to produce an unfavorable impression upon
the public mind as to its object and tendency. Th® most
malicious misrepresentations have been circulated, and in
consequence considerable misapprehension prevails upon the
subject. It is, therefore, to disabuse the public of these mis
apprehensions, and to rebut the charges which have been
brought against it, that this Vindication is written.
One of the most common, and yet, at the same time, one of
the most singular, statements which are made respecting this
work, is that it is a blasphemous publication—-vilifies the
Almighty. Now, so far from its being blasphemous, it is
just the reverse. So far from its impugning, it vindicates
the Divinity. Indeed, the work is written for the avowed
purpose of exposing the blasphemy pronounced against the
Deity by the priesthood and their abettors in saying that
such a book as the Bible originated from him—is His .re
vealed word—His only and especial organ. To attribute tothe Almighty such revolting atrocities, such shameless indecen
cies, such outrageous indignities as are recorded, and directly
ascribed to Him in the Scriptures, is, I contend, one of the
foulest and most monstrous blasphemies that could possibly be
perpetrated. And to denominate a work as blasphemous
whose only and express object is to repudiate such practices,
is a paradox which I am almost at a loss to explain. Had I
not an idea that the priesthood, being conscious of their own
blasphemy were desirous of concealing it by accusing others
of the crime, it would, to me at least, be utterly inexplicable.
To affix the stigma of blasphemy to a work having such
objects in view is precisely as absurd and inconsistent as to
apply the epithet of dishonesty to a man whose invariable
wish had been, through the whole of his career, to pursue an
honorable and straightforward course. This policy of the
priesthood, however, cannot be adopted with success much
longer. The intellect of society is awakening. The long
night of ignorance and credulity is passing away, and the
eyes of the people are opening upon that awful mass of cant
and corruption which is secreted within the strongholds of
the clergy. Let but a few short years roll over, and the
old dilapidated tower of priestcraft, which already totters
to its basement, will fall with a crash that will loudly and
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■emphatically proclaim the annihilation of superstition and
intolerance.
It is next affirmed that this is an irreligious work. This
•charge is as false as it is unjust. That it is opposed, however,
to the religion of priestcraft—to a religion that would allow
a selfish and arbitrary priesthood to lord over their fellow
creatures, to trample down their moral and intellectual capa
bilities, and divest them of all that adds purity and dignity to
■ their existence—to a religion that would allow one child of
humanity to drink of the fountain of felicity, and compel
another to perish in the wilderness of sorrow and despair—to a
religion, in short, that would make this world “ a hell to gain a
heaven ”—I freely and unhesitatingly admit; but that it is
inimical to the religion of charity and free inquiry—to the
religion that would infuse the balm of benevolence and love
into the bosom of every human creature, and allow all, of every
Sect, country and color, to express their honest and sincere
opinions without let or hindrance, I distinctly and broadly
deny. No; let it not be imagined that I am averse to an
enlarged, an enlightened religion, for as the poet felicitously
•observed:—
“ My religion is love—’tis the noblest and purest;
My temple the universe—widest and surest;
I worship my God through his works which are fair,
And the joy of my thoughts is perpetual prayer.”
There is no word which has been more abused than that of
religion. It has frequently been made the pretext for the
accomplishment of the most selfish, malignant, and degrading
purposes. In the hands of the priesthood it has teen the bane
of human existence—the poison that has vitiated the virtues of
humanity—the monster that has sought to strangle its intel
lectuality. It has been religion, under the auspices of the
priesthood, which has fomented that awful storm of an
tagonism and cruelty which has from generation to generation
afflicted the human race; which has harrowed up the most
implacable asperities and antipathies of their nature, and
almost shipwrecked their moral sensibilities and aspirations.
Wherever we observe its operations, whether in ancient or
modern times, whether in our own or foreign nations, in
Ancient Chaldea, Egypt, Greece, or Rome, or modern Spain,
Italy, France, or Great Britain, its object and tendency has
been invariably the same—the subjection of human reason—the
contraction of human thought—the paralysation of the human
faculties. On looking into the pages of history we find that
the brightest, noblest, and best of men of every clime—those
who have been the master spirits of the age in which they
flourished—all, indeed, whose exertions have tended to the
enlightenment and emancipation of man, if they have not
fallen actual sacrifices at the altar of bigotry, they have been
necessitated to fly from its scourge, or succumb, more or less,
to its arbitrary domination. If this assertion needs proof,
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arise, ye departed spirits of Anaxagoras, Socrates, Pythagoras,
Aristotle, Locke, and a Lawrence, and bear witness! Oh I
when we think of the barbarities and indignities to which
these men were subjected, we cannot but exclaim of religion,
as Madame Poland did of liberty, “ O! Religion, what crimes
are committed in thy name!
No, let it not be conceived,
that this work is inimical to “pure religion, and undefiled
before God ”; it can only be destructive to the cupidity and
intolerance, superstition and delusion practised and perpetuated
under its assumed sanction.
It is next said by these “Ambassadors of God” and their
deluded votaries, that I have endeavored to bring the ‘ ‘ Holy
Scriptures” into contempt by unfair and dishonest means—
that I have entirely disregarded the immense mass of external
evidence in favor of the genuineness and authenticity of the
Bible, and contented myself by merely examining its internal
evidence; and to cap the climax of their rage and denuncia
tion, they state that a work like this ought not, for a single
moment, to be tolerated, but the strong arm of the law should
exert its supremacy and immediately stop it. Now, as to my
having endeavored “ to bring the Holy Scriptures into con
tempt by unfair and dishonest means ”, I most unhesitatingly
and fearlessly deny the charge. What are the means which I
have adopted ? They are these. In the first place I stated if
the Bible was the word of God, if he either wrote, or inspired,
men to write it, it could not by any possibility contain
anything absurd, contradictory, or demoralising, but every
chapter, every verse, every sentence, every line would be
perfectly true, consistent, and ennobling. To suppose that
such would not be the case, is to suppose that which is not
only ridiculous and inconsistent, but truly impious and blas
phemous.. Well, this position being established, I proceeded
to ascertain whether the Bible contained passages of an absurd,
contradictory, or demoralising character. On examining it I
found it did contain such passages—that it abounded in them,
that the whole of the books from Genesis to Revelation were
replete with them; and that passages of a rational, consistent
and ameliorating character were very rarely to be met with—
were, like “angels’ visits, few and far between”. Finding this
to be the case, I naturally and reasonably deduced the infer
ence that the Bible could not be the word of God, and therefore
could be nothing more than a mere imposition. Some of the
passages showing it could not be of divine origin I published in
the order in which they are arranged in these pages, and to
obviate any confusion or misunderstanding I affixed the
chapter and verse to each passage. Now, I ask, are not these
means honest, just, and straightforward ? True it is I have not
wasted my time in discussing the external evidence, in en
deavoring to inflict elaborate, erudite and labored dissertationsupon the reader, in order to invalidate the boasted testimony
of Josephus, Tacitus, Pliny, Strabo and others, as I conceive
such is not necessary or advisable when it can be clearly proved.
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from the internal evidence of the book, from his own words, as
it were, that it cannot possibly have originated, directly or
indirectly, from the alleged Cause of all things. No matter
what amount of external evidence might be adduced in favor
of its genuineness and authenticity, if its internal evidence is
invalidated and exploded, it goes for nothing. In this opinion
I do not stand alone. Dr. Conyers Middleton, a celebrated
writer and divine, says: “ Examining the external evidence is
certainly losing time and beginning at the wrong end, since it
is allowed on all hands that if any narration can be shown to
be false, any doctrine irrational and immoral, ’tis not all the
external evidence in the world that can or ought to convince
us that such a doctrine came from God.” And that I have
proved it contains narrations that “ can be shown to be false”,
and “ doctrines irrational and immoral”, I presume the follow
ing extracts fully demonstrate.
As to the statement that this work ought not to be tolerated,
and the strong arm of the law should instantly suppress it, I,
of course, was duly prepared to hear it. Invariably has it been
the modus operandi of the priesthood, whenever they have been
forced from the field of reason and argument, whenever they
have found that they were incapable of sustaining their position
on anything like reasonable grounds, to resort to calumny, foul
and virulent, and to persecution brutal and unjust. The Law !
the Law! ! has always been one of their most obliging and
Constant friends. Indeed, the old musty enactments in our
statute books are the only prop left to support the declining
fatme of priestcraft. Take these away, and the poor sickly
thing will fall upon the earth, helpless and dismembered. It
has been well observed by Fielding : “ Let a man abuse a phy
sician, he makes another physician his friend: let him rail at a
lawyer another pleads his cause gratis; if he libels this courtier,
that courtier receives him into his bosom ; but let him once
attack a hornet’s nest, or a priest, both nests are instantly sure
to be upon him ”, The history of the world, from the most
remote ages of antiquity, amply proves how dangerous it is to
attack the priesthood. There have occasionally been found a
few bold spirits who have presumed to encounter the monster,
but they have generally suffered, more or less, for their audacity;
and all who are determined to follow their steps—who are
resolved to struggle for the mental emancipation of man from
the thraldom of priestcraft—may rest assured, they will have
to experience annoyances, and submit to privation of no trivial
or transitory character. Let them remember, however, that
no great abuse has ever been remedied, no glorious object ever
been attained, without considerable sacrifices. Let them re
member, that should they fall victims to the idol of superstition
and intolerance, still posterity will be free—posterity will bless
them. When the cold hand of death shall have passed over
them, when they are quietly entombed in the bosom of their
mother earth, and the green herbage waves over their graves,
their memories will be revered with grateful and unfeigned
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esteem. Oh! one tear* of sympathy and gratitude dropped
upon the grave of a martyr to truth is infinitely more precious
than a thousand diadems placed on the head of a political
despot, or a thousand miti es grasped in the hand of a religious
bigot. Mosheim, the gr-at ecclesiastical writer, says: “It
generally happens that when danger attends the discovery and
profession of truth, the prudent are silent, the multitude believe,
and impostors triumph ”. But shall this be any longer ? Shall
the impostors triumph ? Shall the demon of bigotry and cant
any longer devour the moral and intellectual vitals of man?
Truth, justice, humanity cry, No ; and every honest and inde
pendent mind must respond to the determination. Delightful
and cheering is the thought, that the career of this nuisance is
coming to a termination. A mighty movement is commencing
in society, which will speedily stultify so foul and deleterious a
pestilence. Already has the bright star of reason and free
inquiry dawned upon humanity, and soon by its illuminating
influence will the world be converted from a slaughter-house
of intolerance, persecution, and domination, into an arena of
equity, enlightenment, and peace. To close, in the sublime
words of one of the finest ft male writers that ever graced the
field of literature and moral philosophy—
“ Long have the nations slept—hark to that sound:
The sleep is ended, and the wo Id awakes :
Man rises in his strength, and looks around,
While on his sight ti e dawn of reason breaks.
Lo ! knowledge draws the curtain from his mind,
Quells fancy’s vision, and his spirit tames
Deep in his breast, that law to seek and find,
Which kings would write in blood, and priests in flames.
Shout, Earth ! the creature man, till now the foe
Of thee, and all who tread thy parent breast,
Henceforth shall learn himself and thee to know,
And in that knowledge shall be wise and blest.”
Manchester, July, 1840.
ROBERT COOPER.
�THE HOLY SCRIPTUBES ANALYSED.
.Passages inconsistent with the Attributes generally ascribed to
the Deity by the Christian world.
I.—IMMATERIALITY.
“ God is a spirit.”—John iv., 24.
[Christians allege “that the terms employed are terms of
condescending comparison with the acts and effects of the thus
mentioned organs of the human body, to convey, especially to
unpolished men, a conception of those properties and actions
of God which, to our feeble ideas, have a resemblance, and
that they were so understood —Dr. J. Pye Smith’s “ First lines
of Christian Theology”, p. 129].
1. —“So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them.”
Gen. i., 27. [“And they heard the voice of the Lord God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day.” Gen. iii., 8.]
2. —“ The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the
•evil and the good.” Prov. xv. 3.
3. —“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my
mouth.” Isaiah lv., 11.
4. —“ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the
day.” Isaiah lxv. 5.
5. —“ His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a
•devouring fire.” Isaiah xxx., 27.
6. —“ The Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction,
and our labor, and our oppression.” Deut. xxvi, 7.
7. —“ Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear; open Lord,
thine eyes and see.” 2 Kings xix., 16.
8. —“And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my
throne, and the place of the soles of my feet where I will
■dwell.” Ezekiel xliii., 7.
9. —“And I myself will fight against you with an out
stretched hand, and with a strong arm.” Jer. xxi., 5.
10. —“The Lord hath made bare his holy arm.” Isaiah lii., 10.
11. —“ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy
fingers.” Ps. viii., 3.
12. —“And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end
■of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of
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testimony, two tables of stone, written with the finger of
God.” Exod. xxxi., 18.
13. —“ And I saw as the color of amber, as the appearance
of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins
even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even down
ward.” Ezekiel i., 27.
14. —“And it repented the Lord that he had made man on
the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” Genesis vi., 6.
15. —[“Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash
your feet .... and he took butter, and milk, and the calf
which he had dressed, and set it before them : and he stood by
them under the tree and they did eat. And they said unto him,
Where is Sarah thy wife . . . And he said, I will certainly
return unto thee according to the time of life, and lo ! Sarah
thy wife shall have a son . . . And the Lord said unto Abra
ham. wherefore did Sarah laugh ? ... Is anything too hard
for the Lord ? At the time appointed I will return unto thee.”
Gen. xviii., 4—14].
16. —“And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were
gathered together. ” Exod. xv. 2.
17. —“And it shall come to pass while my glory passeth by
that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover theewith my hand while I pass by. And I will take away mine
hand, and thou shalt see my back parts, but my face shall not
be seen.” Exod. xxxiii., 22, 23.
18. —“ Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my
mouth.” Jeremiah i., 9.
19. —“ Behold the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it can
not save ; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear.” Isaiah
lix., 1.
20. —■“ Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth,
and my right hand hath spanned the heavens.”
Isaiah
xlviii., 13.
21. —“I will also smite mine hands together, and I will
cause my fury to rest: I the Lord have said it.” Exekiel xxi. ,17.
22. —“ And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying.” Numbers
xxv., 16.
23. —“ And God spake unto Noah, saying.” Genesis viii., 15.
24. —“ And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out
Jonah upon the dry land.” Jonah ii., 10.
25. —“ And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him
saying.” Genesis xvii., 3.
26. —“And the Lord smelled a sweet savor, and the Lord
said in his heart.” Genesis viii.. 21.
27. —“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life : and
man became a living soul.” Genesis ii., 7.
28. —“ By the breath of God frost is given; and the breadth
of the waters is straitened.” Job xxxvii., 10.
29. —“ So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the
land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he
buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-
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peor; but no wan knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day,’*
Dent. xxxiv., 5, 6.
30.—“ They shall walk after the Lord; he shall roar like a
lion; when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from,
the west.” Hosea xi., 10.
Also 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 40, 45, 47, 58, 59, 60, 61, 110, 125,
126, 128.
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II.—OMNIPRESENCE.
“ One God and father of all, who is above all, and through
all, and in you all.” Ephesians iv., 6.
“Whither shall I go from thy spirit ? Or whither shall I
flee from thy presence ? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art
there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I
take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost part
of the sea ; even there shall thy hand lead me ; and thy right
hand shall hold me.” Psalms cxxxix., 7—10.
31. —“ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ
Jesus; who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to
be equal with God.” Philippians ii., 5, 6.
32. —“And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai on the
top of the Mount; and the Lord called Moses up to the top of
the Mount, and Moses went up.” Exodus xix., 20.
33. —“ And the Lord came down in a cloud and spake unto
him, and took of the spirit that was upon him.” Num. xi., 25.
34. —“ And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud,
and stood in the door of the tabernacle.” Num. xii., 5.
35. —“I will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall
Come and see my glory.” Isaiah lxvi., 18.
36. —“ And come and stand before me in this house, which is
called by my name.” Jeremiah vii., 10.
37. —“ And the Lord said unto Moses. Come up to me into
the Mount, and be there.” Exodus xxiv., 12.
38. —“And he left off talking with him, and God went up
from Abraham.” Gen. xvii., 22.
39. —“And the Lord came down to see the city and the
tower, which the children of men builded.” Gen. xi., 5.
40. —“ And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like
a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven which said,
Thou art my beloved son.” Luke iii., 22.
41. —“ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with
a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.” 1 Thess. iv., 16.
42. —“Thus saith the Lord, I am returned unto Zion, and
will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem.” Zechariah viii., 3.
43. —“ And I will return amongst the children of Israel, and
will be their God.” Exodus xxix., 45.
44. —“ And God met Balaam.” Num. xxiii., 4.
45. —“For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy
camp .... therefore shall thy camp be holy, that he see no
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unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.” Dent,
xxiii., 14.
46. —“They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they
be until the day that I visit them, saith the Lord.” Jer.
xxvii., 22.
47. —“I saw the Lord standing upon the altar.” Amos ix., 1.
48. —“ God that made the world, and all things therein,
seeing that he is the Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in
temples made with hands.” Acts xvii., 24.
49. —“ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying.”
Jer. ii., 1.
50. —“ God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount
Paran.” Habakkuk iii., 3.
Also 1, 59, 62, 65, 320.
III.—OMNIPOTENCE.
“With God all things are possible.” Matt, xix., 26.
51. —“And the Lord was with Judah, and he drave out the
inhabitants of the mountain, but could not drive out the inhabi
tants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.” Judges
i., 19.
52. —“ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and
the weakness of God is stronger than men.” 1 Cor. i., 25.
53. — “A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth, for
the Lord hath a controversy with the nations; he will plead
with all flesh.” Jeremiah xxv., 31.
54. —“ Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel, for
the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.”
Hosea iv., 1.
55. —“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them
down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and will plead with them
there for my people, and for my heritage Israel.” Joel iii., 2.
56. —“ Now, therefore, let me alone that my wrath may wax
hot against them, and that I may consume them.” Exodus
xxxii., 10.
57. —“ In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on
the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.” Exodus xxxi., 17.
58. —“For God created man to be immortal, and made him
to be an image of his own eternity. Nevertheless, through the
envy of the Devil, came death into the world; and they that do
hold of his side do find it.” Wisdom of Solomon, ii., 23, 24.
59. —“And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man
with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw
that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his
thigh ; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he
wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day
breaketh; and he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless
me. And he said unto him, What is thy name ? And he said
Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,
but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God, and with
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menj and hath prevailed.” .... “ And Jacob called the name
of the place Peniel, for I have seen God face to face, and my
life is preserved.” Genesis xxxii., 24-30.
IV.—OMNISCIENCE.
“Thou Lord which knowest the hearts of all men.” Acts i.r
24.
*• But God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit: for the
spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.”
1 Cor. ii. 10.
“ No thought escaped him, neither any word is hidden from
him ” Ecclesiasticus xlii., 20.
“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and know
ledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his
ways past finding out! ” Romans xi., 33.
60. —“ And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto
him, Where art thou ? ” Genesis iii. 9.
61. —“And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked?
Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that
thou shouldst not eat?” Genesis iii., 11.
62. —“ And God came unto Balaam, and said, What men are
these with thee ?” Numbers xxii., 9.
63. —“ And the Lord said, Who shall entice Ahab, king of
Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead ? ”
2 Chron. xviii., 19.
64. —“Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers
found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked
after vanity and are become vain ? ” Jeremiah ii., 5.
65. —“Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold I will rain
bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and
gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them
whether they will walk in my law or no.” Exodus xvi., 4.
66. —“ When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had
heard that Jesus made and baptised more disciples than John.”
John iv., 1.
67. —“ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men.”
1 Cor. i., 25.
68. —“Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to
another, and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of
remembrance was written before him for them that feared the
Lord, and that thought upon his name.” Malachi iii., 16.
69. —“ The Lord your God, which goeth before you, he shall
fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt
before your eyes.” Deuteronomy i., 30.
70. —“And the Lord came down to.see the city, and the
tower which the children of men builded.” Genesis xi., 5.
71. —“I will go down now and see whether they have done
altogether according to the cry of it. . . . and if not, I will
know.” Genesis xviii., 21.
Also 59, 117, 140, 143, 307.
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V.—MUNIFICENCE.
“He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is love.”
1 John iv., 8.
“ The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble, and
he knoweth them that trust in him.” Nahum i., 7.
‘ ‘ All the works of the Lord are good; and he will give every
needful thing in due season.” Ecclesiasticus xxxix., 33.
72. —“ For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a
jealous God.” Deuteronomy iv., 24.
73. —“God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord
revengeth and is furious: the Lord will take vengeance on
his adversaries; and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.”
Nahum i., 2.
74. —“ It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God.” Hebrews x., 31.
75. —“ For thou shalt worship no other God : for the Lord,
whose name is jealous, is a jealous God.” Exodus xxxiv., 14.
76. —“ They have moved me to jealousy with that which is
not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities;
and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a
people, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.”
Deuteronomy xxxii., 21.
77. —“I am the Lord, that is my name ; and my glory will I
not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.”
Isa. lxii., 8.
78. —“Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I
am married unto you; and I will take you one of a city,
and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.” Jeremiah
iii., 14.
79. —“The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name.”
Exodus xv., 3.
80. —“The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man; he shall
stir up jealousy like a man of war.” Isaiah xlii., 13.
81. —“ The Lord hath opened his armory, and hath brought
forth the weapons of his indignation.” Jer. 1., 25.
82. —“ Thus saith the Lord God of Israel. Put every man
his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate
throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and
every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. And
the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses ; and
there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.”
Exodus xxxii., 27, 28.
83. —“ For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto
the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase,
and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. I will heap
mischiefs upon them, I will spend mine arrows upon them.
They shall be burnt with anger, and devoured with burning
heat, and with bitter destruction. I will also send the teeth of
beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The
sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young
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man, and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of grey
Itrafs.” Deuteronomy xxxii., 22, 23, 24, 25.
84. -—** Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve
them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God ; visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me.” Exodus xx., 5.
85. —“The Lord hath made all things for himself ; yea, even
the wicked for the day of evil.” Proverbs xvi., 4.
86. —“I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace
and create evil; I the Lord do all these things.” Isaiah xlv., 7.
87. —“ And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my
signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh
shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon
Egypt, and bring forth mine armies and my people the children
of Israel out of the land of Egypt, by great judgments.” Exod.
vii., 3, 4.
88. —“ And it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote
all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of
Pharaoh, that sat on his throne, unto the first-born of the
captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of
cattle.” Exod. xii., 29.
89. —“ And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with
the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children
fatherless.” Exod. xxii., 24.
90. —-“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Vex the
Midianites, and smite them.” Numbers xxv., 16, 17.
91. —“ And the Lord’s anger was kindled the same time, and
he sware, saying: Surely none of the men that came up out of
Egypt from twenty years old and upwards, shall see the land
which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob ; be
cause they have not wholly followed me.” Num. xxxii., 10, 11.
92. —“Now go, and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all
that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and
woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.”
1 Samuel xv., 3.
93. «*“ The nations which thou hast removed and placed in
the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the
land; therefore, he hath sent lions among them, and behold,
they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God
of the land.” 2 Kings xvii., 26.
94. —“For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations,
and his fury upon all their armies; he hath utterly destroyed
them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.” Isaiah
xxxiv., 2.
95. —“Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in
the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and four score and five
thousand.” Isaiah xxxvii., 36.
96. —“Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I will bring
evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape, and
though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.”
Jeremiah xi., 11.
97. —“ The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return until he
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have done it, and until he have performed the intents of hi®
heart; in the latter days ye shall consider it.” Jer. xxx., 24.
98. —“ They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill
them with the dead bodies of men whom I have slain in mine
anger, and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid
my face from this city.” Jer. xxxiii., 5.
99. —“ And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle as if
if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his places of the
assembly; the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and Sabbaths
to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of
his anger the king and the priest.” Lam. of Jer. ii., 6.
100. —“The young and the old lie on the ground in the
streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;
thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed
and not pitied.” Lam. of Jer. ii., 21.
101. —“ Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst
of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute
judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter
into all the winds. Wherefore as I live, saith the Lord God,
surely because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy de
testable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will
I also diminish thee, neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I
have any pity.” Ezek. v., 10, 11.
102. —“So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel; and there
fell of Israel seventy thousand men.” 1 Chronicles xxi., 14.
103. —“ He that is far off shall die of the pestilence, and he
that is near shall fall by the sword, and he that remaineth and
is besieged shall die by the famine; and thus will I accomplish
my fury upon them.” Ezek. vi., 12.
104. —“ Samaria shall become desolate, for she hath rebelled
against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their infants
shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be
ripped up.” Hosea xiii., 16.
Also 53, 70, 113, 114, 117, 122, 138, 141, 186.
VI.—IMPARTIALITY.
“ God is no respecter of persons.” Acts x., 34.
“ For there is no respect of persons with God.” Rom. ii., 11.
105. —“Therefore I endure all things for the elects’ sakes,
that they may also obtain the salvation.” 2 Timothy ii., 10.
106. —“For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God;
the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto
himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”
Deuteronomy vii., 6.
107. —“And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and
will be their God.” Exodus xxix., 45.
108. —“ I will also gather all nations, and will bring them
down into the valley of Jehosophat, and will plead with
them there for my people, and for my heritage Israel, whom
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they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.”
Joel iii., 2.
109. —“Lo, I have given thee a wise and understanding
heart, so that there was none like thee before thee, neither
after thee shall any arise like unto thee.” 1 Kings iii., 12.
110. —“ I have loved you, saith the Lord ; yet ye say, Where
in hast thou loved us ? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother, saith the
Lord ; yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau, and laid his moun
tains and his heritage waste, for the dragons of the wilderness.”
Malachi i., 2, 3.
111. —“ As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I
hated.” Rom. ix., 13.
112. —“ Now God had brought Daniel into favor and tender
love with the prince of the eunuchs.” Daniel i., 9.
113. —“ For God loveth none but him that dwelleth with
wisdom.” Wisdom of Solomon vii., 28.
114. —“ The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he bringeth
low, and lifteth up.” 1 Samuel ii., 7.
115. —“The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the
maker of them all.” Proverbs xxii., 2.
116. —“ For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I
will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will
have compassion.” Homans ix., 15.
Also 87.
VII—IMMUTABILITY.
“For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of
Jacob are not consumed.” Malachi iii., 6.
“Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and
cometh down from the father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning.” James i., 17.
‘ ‘ God is not a man, that he should lie, neither the son of man
that he should repent; hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or
hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good ? ” Numbers
xxiii., 19.
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117. —“ And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have
created, from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and
the creeping thing, and tbe fowls of the air; for it repenteth
me that I have made them.” Gen. vi., 7.
118. —“ And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought
to do unto his people.” Exodus xxxii., 14.
119. —“ It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king.”
1 Samuel xv., 11.
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120. —“And when the angel stretched out his hand upon
Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and
said to the angel that destroyed the people, it is enough; stay
now thine hand.” 2 Samuel xxiv., 16.
121. -—“ If that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn
from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do
unto them.”—“ If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my
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voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would
benefit them.” Jeremiah xviii., 8, 10.
122. —“For thus saith the Lord, Like as I have brought all
this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all
the good that I have promised them.” Jeremiah xxxii., 42.
123. —“ Turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and
merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth
him of the evil.” Joel ii., 13.
124. —“ And God saw their works, that they turned from their
evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that
he would do unto them, and he did it not.” Jonah iii., 10.
125. —“ Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone
backward; therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee,
and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. ’ ’ Jeremiah xv., 6.
Also 14 and 26.
VIII.—INCOMPREHENSIBILITY.
“ Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of
every creature.” Coloss, i., 15.
“ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and know
ledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his
ways past finding out I ” Romans xi., 33.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways, saith the Lord.” Isaiah lv., 8.
126.—“And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a
man speaketh unto his friend.” Exodus xxxiii., 11.
. 127.—“Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,
and seventy of the elders of Israel. And they saw the God of
Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work
of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his
clearness.” Exodus xxiv., 9, 10.
128. —“ And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for
I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
Genesis xxxii., 30.
129. —“I sawtheLord standing upon the altar,” Amos ix., 1.
130. —“And Jesus when he was baptised went up straight
way out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto
him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove, and
lighting upon him.” Matthew iii., 16.
131. —“ And the Lord appeared unto him (Isaac), and said,
Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell
thee of.” Genesis xxvi., 2.
132. —“ And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar
of a cloud; and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of
the tabernacle.” Deuteronomy xxxi., 15.
133. —“ Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye
upon him while he is near.” Isaiah lv., 6.
134. —“And ye shall seek me and find me, when ye shall
search for me with all your heart.” Jeremiah xxix., 13.
135. —“Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God;
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'and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.”
1 John iv., 7.
136.—“This, then, is the message which we have heard of
him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no
darkness at all.” 1 John i., 5.
Also 1, 17, 34, 72, 79.
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GOD.
137. —Matthew i., 18, 19, and 20.
138. —“ And I will give this people favor in the sight of the
Egyptians; and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye
shall not go empty. But every woman shall borrow of her
neighbor, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of
silver and j ewels of gold, and raiment; and ye shall put them
upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil
the Egyptians.” Exodus iii., 21, 22.
139. —“ So Jehu slew all that remained in the house of Ahab
in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his
priests, until he left him none remaining.”—“ And the Lord
Said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that
which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of
Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, thy children
of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.”
2 Kings x., 11 and 30.
140. —“And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou
mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over
Israel ? Fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to
Jesse the Beth-lehemite : for I have provided me a king among
his sons. And Samuel said, How can I go ? If Saul hear it
he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee,
and say I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.” 1 Samuel xvi.»
1, 2.
141. —“Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good,
and judgments whereby they should not live.” Ezekiel xx., 25.
142. -—-“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in
them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth
that they might be saved. And for this cause, God shall send
them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.” 2 Thess.
ii., 10, 11.
143. —“ And the Lord said, Who shall entice Ahab king of
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Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead ? And one
spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that
manner. Then their came out a spirit and stood before the
Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him
Wherewith ? And he said, I will go out and be a lying spirit
in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou
shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail; go out, and do
even so.” 2 Chron. xviii., 19, 20, 21.
144. —“ And if the prophet be deceived when he have spoken
a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will
stretch out mine hand upon him, and will destroy him from
the midst of my people Israel.” Ezek. xiv., 9.
145. —“And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise
men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the king
whose name is the Lord of Hosts.” Jer. li., 57.
146. —“ Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the
Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Drink ye and be drunken,
and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword
which I will send apiong you.” Jer. xxv., 27.
147. —“And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever
thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or
for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth; and
thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt
rejoice, thou and thine household.” Deut. xiv., 26.
148. —“ Behold I will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon
your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts.” Mai. ii., 3.
MOSES.
149. —“ And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was
grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their
burdens; and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of
his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when
he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid
him in the sand.” Exodus ii., 11, 12.
150. —Numbers xxxi., 17, 18.
151. —“And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some
of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the
Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midiah.”—“And Moses
sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest to the war, with the
holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.”
Num. xxxi., 3, 6.
DAVID.
152. —2 Sam. xi., 2—25.
153. —“ And David laid up these words in his heart, and was
sore afraid of Achish the King of Gath. And he changed his
behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands,
and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall
down upon his beard.” 1 Samuel xxi., 12, 13.
154. —Psalms xxxviii., 5, 7, 11.
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155. —1 Samuel xviii., 27.
156. —1 Kings i., 1 to 4.
157. —“ And David gathered all the people together, and
went to Kabbah, and fought against it, and took it. And he
took their king’s crown from off his head the weight whereof
was a talent of gold, with the precious stones, and it was set on
David’s head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in
great abundance. And he brought forth the people that were
therein, and put them under saws and under harrows of
iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the
brick-kiln; and thus did he unto all the cities of the children
of Ammon.
So David and all the people returned unto
Jerusalem.” 2 Samuel xii., 29 to 31.
158. —“ And behold (says David in his dying moments to his
son Solomon), thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a
Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse,
in the day when I went to Mahanaim : but he came down to
meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the Lord, saying I will
not put thee to death by the sword. Now therefore hold him
not guiltless ; for thou art a wise man and knowest what thou
oughtest to do unto him ; but his hoar head bring thou down
to the grave with blood.” 1 Kings ii., 8, 9.
[ “Thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my
■commandments and who followed me with all his heart, to do
only that which was right in mine eyes.” 1 Kings xiv., 8.]
SOLOMON.
159. —“ And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and
three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his
heart.” 1 Kings xi., 3.
160. —Solomon’s Song vii., 1 to 4.
JOSHUA.
161. —“And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city,
both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and
ass, with the edge of the sword.” Joshua vi., 21.
162. —“And it was told Joshua saying, the five kings are
found hid in a cave at Makkedah. And Joshua said, Roll great
stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to
keep them. And stay ye not but pursue after your enemies,
and smite the hindmost of them, suffer them not to enter into
their cities: for the Lord your God hath delivered them into
your hand. Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave,
and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave. And
afterwards Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged
them on five trees and they were hanging upon the trees until
the evening.” Joshua x., 17, 18, 19, 22, 26.
.
EZEKIEL.
163. —Ezekiel iv., 12 to 15.
ABRAHAM.
164.—“ And Abraham journeyed from thence towards the
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south country, and dwelled between Kadqsh and Shur and
sojourned in Gerar. And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife,
She is my sister; and Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took
Sarah. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and
said to him, Behold thou art but a dead man for the woman
which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife. But Abime
lech had not come near her, and he said, Lord wilt thou slay also
a righteous nation ? Said he not unto me, She is my sister ?
and she, even she herself, said, He is my brother: in the
integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done
this.” Genesis xx., 1-5.
165. —“And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian,
which she had bom unto Abraham, mocking. Wherefore she
said unto Abraham, cast out this bondwoman, and her son;
for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son,
even with Isaac. And Abraham rose up early in the morning
and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar,
putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away;
and she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.”
Genesis xxi., 9, 10, 14.
ISAAC.
166. —“ And the men of the place asked him of his wife : and
he said, She is my sister, for he feared to say, She is my wife;
lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah :
because she was fair to look upon. And it came to pass when
he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the
Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac
was sporting with Rebekah his wife. And Abimelech called
Isaac, and said, Behold of a surety she is thy wife; and how
sayest thou, She is my sister ? And Isaac said unto him because
I said, Lest I die for her.” Genesis xxvi., 7, 8, 9.
NOAH.
• 167.—Genesis ix., 21, 22.
SAMSON.
168. —Judges xvi., 1.
JUDAH.
169. —Genesis xxxviii., 1 to 3. I 171.—Gen. xxxviii., 13 to 30.
170. —Genesis xxxviii., 8 to 9. |
LOT.
172. —Genesis xix., 30 to 36.
RUTH.
173. —Ruth iii., 3, 4, 7, "8, 9, 10, 11.
^RACHEL.
174. —Genesis xxx., 1 to 5. | 1,75.—Genesis xxxi., 33 to 35.
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176. —Genesis xxxix., 7 to 20.
REUBEN.
177. —Genesis xxxv., 22.
| 178.—Genesis xlix., 3, 4.
AMNON.
179. —2 Sam. xiii., 10 to 14.
ABSALOM.
180. —2 Sam. xvi., 21, 22.
SHECHEM.
181. —Genesis xxxiv., 1, 2.
CHRIST.
182. —“ If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and
mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea,
and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke xiv., 26.
183. —“ I am come to send fire on the earth ; and that will I,
if it be already kindled ? Suppose ye that I am come to give
peace on earth ? I tell you, Nay; but rather division.” Luke
xii., 49, 51.
184. —“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I
came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a
man at variance against his father, and the daughter against
her mother, and the daughter-in law against her mother-inlaw.” Matthew x., 34, 35.
185. —“Then said he unto them, But now, hethat hatha
purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip; and he that hath
no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.” Luke xxii., 36.
186. —“But those mine enemies, which would not that I
should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before
me.” Luke xix., 27.
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187. —“He that believeth, and is baptised, shall be saved;
but he that believeth not shall be damned.” Mark xvi., 16.
188. —“ And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your
words, when ye depart out of that house, or city, shake off the
dust of your feet. Verily, I say unto you, it shall be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, in the day of
judgment, than for that city.” Matthew x., 14, 15.
189. —“And he said unto him, Unto you it is given to know
the mystery of the kingdom of God, but unto them that are
without, all these things are done in parables; That seeing they
may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear, and not
understand ; lest at any time they should be converted, and
their sins should be forgiven them.” Mark iv., 11, 12.
190. —“ And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage, and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sendeth forth
two of his disciples. And saith unto them, Go your way into,
the village over against you; and, as soon as ye be entered into
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it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon, never man sat; loose him,
and bring him. And if any man say unto you, Why do ye
this ? Say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straight
way he will send him hither.” Mark xi., 1 to 3.
191. —“Now there was there, nigh unto the mountain, a
great herd of swine feeding. And all the devils besought him,
saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits
went out and entered into the swine ; and the herd ran violently
down a steep place into the sea (they were about two thousand)
and were choked in the sea.” Mark v., 11, 12, 13.
192. —“And on the morrow, when they were come from
Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing a fig-tree afar off, having
leaves, he came if haply he might find anything thereon : and
when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves ; for the time
of figs was not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No
man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples
heard it. And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the
fig-tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, calling to remem
brance, saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig-tree which thou
cursedst is withered away.” Mark xi., 12, 13, 14, 20, 21.
PETER.
193. —“Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it, and
smote the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The
servant’s name was Malchus.” John xviii., 10.
194. —Peter says “ And it shall come to pass that every soul
which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among
the people.” Acts iii., 23.
195. —“ Then took they him (Christ) and led him and brought
him into the high priest’s house, and Peter followed afar off.
And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and
were set down together, Peter sat down among them. But a
certain maid beheld him, as he sat by the fire, and earnestly
feoked upon him, and said, This man was also with him. And
he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not. And after a
little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them.
And Peter said, Man, I am not.” Luke xxii., 54 to 58.
PAUL.
196. —“ I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do
you service.” 2 Corinthians xi., 8.
197. —“ For if the truth of God hath more abounded through
my lie unto his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner.”
Romans iii., 7.
198. —“ But if any man be ignorant let him be ignorant.” 1
Corinthians xiv., 38.
199. —“ Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and
vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the
world, and not after Christ.” Colossians ii., 8.
200. —“ As we said before, so say I now again, If any man
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preach any other gospel unto you, than that ye have received,
let him be accursed.” Galatians i., 9.
201. —“ If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be
Anathema Maran-atha.” 1 Corinthians xvi., 22.
202. —“ A man that is an heretic, after the first and second
admonition reject.” Titus iii., 10.
203. —“ I would they were even cut off which trouble you.”
Galatians v., 12.
204. —“ But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, be
ing crafty, I caught you with guile.” 2 Corinthians xii., 16.
205. —“ But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by inter
pretation) withstood- them, seeking to turn away the deputy
from the faith. Then Saul (who also is called Paul) filled with
the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, and said, O full of all sub
tlety and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of
all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways
of the Lord. And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon
thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.
And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and
he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.” Acts
xiii., 8 to 11.
BARNABAS AND PAUL.
206. —“ And, some days after, Paul said unto Barnabas, Let
us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have
preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do. And
Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname
was Mark. But Paul thought not good to take him with them,
who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with
them to the work. And the contention was so sharp between
them, that they departed asunder, one from the other; and so
Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus. And Paul chose
Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto
the grace of God.” Acts xv., 36 to 40.
JOHN.
•
207.—“ If there come any unto you, and bring not this
doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God
speed.” 2 John, 10.
GENERAL.
217. —Ezekiel xxiii.
208. —Isaiah xx., 4.
209. —Jeremiah iii., 9.
218. —2 Kings xviii., 27.
219. —1 Kings xiv., 10.
210. —Job xl., 17.
220. —Isaiah xvi., 11.
211. —Isaiah xlvii., 1, 2, 3.
221. —Isaiah xxvi., 18.
212. —Jeremiah xxx., 6.
222. —Judges iii., 21, 22.
213. —Isaiah xxxvi., 12.
223. —Deut. xxiii , 1.
214. —Isaiah xxxii., 11.
215. —1 Kings xiv., 24.
224. —1 Samuel xxv., 22.
216. —Ezekiel xvi., 4 to 58.
225. —Deut.-xxiii., 13.
226.—“Hethat is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he
which is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous,
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let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy
still.” Rev. xxii., 11.
227. ---Leviticus xi., 16, 17, IS, 24, 25, 32, 33.
228. —Leviticus xv., 2 to 13, 16 to 28, 32, 33.
229. —Leviticus xviii., 6 to 23.
230. —Leviticus xx., 10 to 21.
231. —Genesis xxv., 21 to 26.
232. —Deuteronomy xxviii., 57.
233. —Deuteronomy xxii., 15, 20, 21.
234. —Romans i., 26,- 27.
235. —2 Samuel xii., 11.
236. —Revelation xvii., 1 to 4.
237. —“ And there was war in heaven : Michael and his
angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon fought and
his angels.” Revelation xii., 7.
238. —“ And he was clothed in a vesture dipt in blood: and
his name is called, The Word of God. And the armies which
were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine
linen, white and clean.” Revelation xix., 13, 14.
PASSAGES ABSURD AND UNNATURAL.
239. —“ Then spake Joshua unto the Lord, in the day when
the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel,
and he said, in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon
Gibeon, and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun
stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged
themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book
of Jasher ? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and
hasted not to go down about a whole day.” Joshua x., 12, 13.
240. —“ The sun and moon stood still in their habitation ; at
the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy
glittering spear.” Habakkuk iii., 11.
241. —“ And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and
the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that
night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon
the dry ground ; and the waters were a wall unto them on their
right hand, and on their left.” Exodus xiv., 21, 22.
242. —“ And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will
not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice : for they will say,
The Lord hath not appeared unto thee. And the Lord said
unto him, What is that in thine hand ? And he said, A rod.
And he said, Cast it on the ground; and he cast it on the ground
and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it. And
the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by
the tail; and he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it be
came a rod in his hand.” Exodus iv., 1, 2, 3, 4.
243. —“And the Lord said unto Moses, say unto Aaron,
stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the land, that it may
become lice throughout all the land of Egypt. And they did
so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote
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the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man and in beast:
all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of
Egypt. And the magicians did so with their enchantments to
bring forth lice, but they could not; so there were lice upon
man and upon beast.” Exodus viii., 16—-18.
244. —“Make thee an ark of gopher-wood : rooms shalt thou
make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without, with
pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of;
the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth
of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window
shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it
above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side
thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make
it. And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the
earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from
under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die.
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt
come into the ark; thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy
sons’ wives with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh,
two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive
with thee ; they shall be male and female. Of fowls after their
kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing on
the earth after his kind; two of every sort shall come unto thee
•to keep them alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that
is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; • and it shall be for
food for thee, and for them. Thus did Noah ; according to all
that God commanded him, so did he.” Genesis vi., 14—22.
245. —“ And the flood was forty days upon the earth ; and
the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up
above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased
greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the
waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth;
and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were
covered. Fifteen cubits upwards did the waters prevail, and the
mountains were covered.” Genesis vii., 17—20.
246. —“ Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are,
and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained
not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.”
James v., 17.
247. —“ And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living soul.” Genesis ii., 7.
248. —“ And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up
the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had
taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the
man.” Genesis ii., 21, 22.
249. —“Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he over
threw those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of
the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his
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(Lot’s) wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt.” Genesis xix., 24, 25, 26.
250. —“And he (Jacob) dreamed, and behold a ladder set
upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and
• behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And
behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God
of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon
thou liest to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.” Genesis
xxviii., 12, 13.
251. —“And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked,
that behold there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire,
and parted them both asunder: and Elijah went up by a
whirlwind into heaven.” 2 Kings ii., 11.
252. —“Now the Lord had prepared a great fish [which Christ
tells us in Matthew xii., 45, was a whale] to swallow up Jonah.
And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three
nights. Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the
fish’s belly. And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited
out Jonah upon the dry land.” Jonah i., 17, and ii., 1 and 10.
253. —“And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put
forth his hand and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon
heaps, with the jawbone of an ass, have I slain a thousand
men.” Judges xv., 15,*16.
254. —“ And it came to pass, when she (Delilah) pressed him
(Samson) daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul
was vexed unto death : that he told her all his heart, and said
unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head, for I
have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother’s womb; if I
be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall
become weak, and be like any other man.” The story then
proceeds to represent Delilah as betraying Samson into the
hands of his enemies the Philistines, who shave off the hair of
his head, and afterwards put out his eyes and imprison him.
In course of time his hair begins to grow again, when his
strength returns. The Philistines then take him to their temple,
that he may make sport for them, and Samson then says unto
the lad that held him by the hand, “ Suffer me that I may feel
the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon
them. Now the house was full of men and women, and all the
lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the
roof about three thousand men and women that beheld while
Samson made sport............ And Samson took hold of the
two middle pillars, upon which the house stood, and on which
it was borne up, of the one with his right hand and the other
with his left.
And Samson said, Let me die with the
Philistines, and he bowed himself with all his might; and the
house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were
therein; so the dead which he slew at his death were more than
they which he slew in his life.” Judges xvi., 16—30.
255. —“And these three men,Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
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nego, fell down bound in the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning
fiery furnace, and spake and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth and come
hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came forth of
the midst of the fire. And princes, governors, and captains, and
the king’s counsellors being gathered together, saw these men
upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of
their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the
smell of fire had passed on them.” Daniel iii., 23, 26, 27.
256. —“ Then the king commanded and they brought Daniel,
and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and
said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he
will deliver thee. Then the king arose very early in the morn
ing, and went in haste unto the den of lions. And when he
came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel:
and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel servant of the
living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to
deliver thee from the lions ? Then said Daniel unto the king, O
king live for ever. My God hath sent his angel and hath shut
the lion’s mouths that they have not hurt me, forasmuch as
before him innocency was found in me ; and also before thee, O
king, have I done no hurt.” Daniel vi., 16, 19, 20, 21, 22.
257. —“And God saw the light that it was good; and God
divided the light from the darkness.” Genesis i., 4.
258. —“ And God made two great lights; the greater light to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the
stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven,
to give light upon the earth.” Genesis i., 16, 17.
259. —“ And there shall be upon every high mountain, and
upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters, in the day
of the great slaughter when the towers fall. Moreover, the light
Of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of
the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day
that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth
the stroke of their wound.” Isaiah xxx., 25, 26.
260. —“ Again, the Devil taketh him (Christ) up into an ex
ceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of
the world and the glory of them.” Matthew iv., 8.
261. —“ The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me
out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of
the valley which was full of bones, and caused me to pass by
them round about; and behold, there were very many in the
open valley; and lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me,
Son of Man, can these bones live ? And I answered, O Lord God
thou knowest. Again he said unto me prophesy upon these
bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the
Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, Behold, I will
cause breath to enter into you and ye shall live. And I will lay
sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover
you with skin, and put breath in you; and ye shall live, and ye
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shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I was com
manded ; and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold a
shaking and the bones came together bone to his bone. And,
when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and
the skin covered them above : but there was no breath in them.
Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son
of Man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God, Come
from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain,
that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and.
the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their
feet, an exceeding great army.” Ezekiel xxxvii., 1—10.
262. —“And it came to pass as they were burying a man, that
behold, they spied a band of men, and they cast the man into
the sepulchre of Elisha, and when the man was let down and
touched the bones of Elisha he revived, and stood up on his
feet.” 2 Kings xiii., 21.
263. —“Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in the
which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice.” John v.,
28.
264. —“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last
trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” 1 Cor. xv., 52.
265. —“ Eor the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with
a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we, which
are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in
the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be
with the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians iv., 16, 17.
266. —“And I saw the dead small and great, stand before
God; and the books were opened, and another book was
opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged
out of those things which were written in the books according to
their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it;
and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them;
and they were judged every man according to their works. And
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second
death.” Revelation xx., 12—14.
267. —“ I am he that liveth and was dead; and behold I am
alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of
death.” Revelation i., 18.
268. —“But Mary stood without at the sepulchre, weeping;
and as she wept she stood down, and looked into the sepulchre.
And seeth two angels in white, sitting the one at the head, and
the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. And
they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou ? She saith unto
them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not
where they have laid him. And when she had thus said, she
turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that
it was Jesus. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou?
whom seekest thou ? She supposing him to be the gardener,
saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me
where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. Jesus
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saith unto her, Mary; she turned herself, and saith unto him,
Rabboni, which is to say Master.” John xx., 11—16.
269. —But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was
not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore
saith unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them,
Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put
my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into
his side I will not believe. And after eight days again his dis
ciples were within, and Thomas with them; then came Jesus,
the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace
be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy
finger, and behold my hands ; and reach hither thy hand, and
thrust it into my side ; and be not faithless but believing.”
John xx., 24—27.
270. —“Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of
his disciples durst ask him, Who art thou ? knowing that it was
the Lord. Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them,
and fish likewise. This is now the third time that Jesus showed
himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.”
Johnxxi., 12, 13, 14.
271—“And when he had spoken these things, while they
beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their
sight. And while they looked steadily toward heaven, as he
went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven ? This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”
Acts i., 9, 10, 11.
272. —“ Then the Spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a
voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord
from his place. So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away,
and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand
of the Lord was strong upon me.” Ezekiel iii., 12, 14.
273. —“ And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me
by a lock of mine head; and the Spirit lifted me up between
the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God
to Jerusalem to the door of the inner gate, that looketh toward
the north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which
provoketh to jealousy.” Ezekiel viii., 3.
274. —“And Habbakuk said, Lord I never saw Babylon;
neither do I know where the den is. Then the angel of the
Lord took him by the crown, and bare him by the hair of his
head, and through the vehemency of spirit, set him in Babylon
over the den. And Habbakuk cried, saying, O Daniel, Daniel,
take the dinner which God hath sent thee.” Bel and the
Dragon, 35—37.
275. —“Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were
with him (which is the sect of the Sadduces) and were filled
with indignation. And laid their hands on the apostles, and
put them in the common prison. But the angel of the Lord by
night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said
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Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people, all the words
of this life.” Acts v., 17—20.
276. —“And behold, there was a great earthquake: for the
angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled
back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.” Matthew
xxviii., 2.
277. —“And the angel of the Lord came again the second
time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because thy
journey is too great for thee.” 1 Kings xix., 7.
278. —“Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the
staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh, and the un
leavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and
consumed the flesh, and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel
of the Lord departed out of his sight.” Judges vi., 21.
279. —“ Then Tobit called his son Tobias, and said unto him,
My son, see that the man have his wages which went with thee,
and thou must give him more. So he called the angel, and he
said unto him, Take half of all that ye have brought, and go
away in safety.” Tobit xii., 1, 5.
280. —“ Then the woman came and told her husband, saying,
A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the
countenance of an angel of God, very terrible; but I asked him
not whence he was, neither told he me his name.” Judges
xiii., 6.
281. —“ Whose throne is inestimable, whose glory may not be
comprehended, before whom the hosts of angels stand with
trembling.” 2 Esdras viii., 21.
282. —“ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Exod. xxii.,
18.
283. —“A man also, or woman that hath a familiar spirit, er
that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone
them with stones : their blood shall be upon them.” Lev. xx.,
27.
284. —“ And the woman said unto him, Behold thou knowest
what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those who have
familiar spirits, and the wizards out of the land : wherefore, then
layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die ? ” 1 Sam.
xxviii., 9.
285. —“Jesus saith unto them, Eill the water pots with water.
And they filled them up to the brim. And he saith unto them,
Draw one now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And
they bare it. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water
that was made wine, and knew not whence it was (but the
servants which drew the water knew), the governor of the feast
called the bridegroom, and saith unto him, Every man at the
beginning doth set forth good wine ; and when men have well
drunk, then that which is worse; but thou hast kept the good
wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana
of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples
believed on him.” Johnii., 7 to 11.
286. —“And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way;
and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his
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servant was healed in the selfsame hour. And when Jesus
was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid,
and sick of a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever
left her; and she arose, and ministered unto them.” Matt,
viii., 13, 14, 15.
28*7.—“And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples
followed him. And behold, there arose a great tempest in the
sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves; but
he was asleep. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him,
saying, Lord, save us, we perish. And he saith unto them,
Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith ? Then he arose, and
rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.”
Matt, viii., 23 to 26.
288. —“And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went
unto them, walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw
him walking on the sea, they were, troubled, saying, It is a
spirit; and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus
spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer! it is I; be not
afraid. And Peter answered him, and said, Lord, if it be thou,
bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And
when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the
water, to go to Jesus.” Matt, xiv., 25 to 29.
289. —“ And Jesus arose and followed him, and so did his
disciples. And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and
saw the minstrels and the people making a noise, he said unto
them, Give place, for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth; and
they laughed him to scorn. But when the people were put
forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid
arose.” Matt, ix., 19, 23, 24, 25.
290. —“ And behold, a woman, which was diseased with an
issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched
the hem of his garment. For she said within herself, if I may
but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned
him about, and when he saw her he said, Daughter, be of good
comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman
was made whole from that hour.” Matt, ix., 20, 21, 22.
291. —“ And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud,
voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth,
bound hand and foot with grave-clothes, and his face was
bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose
him and let him go.” John xi., 43, 44.
292. —“And when the day began to wear away, then came
the twelve and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that
they may go into the towns and country round about, and
lodge, and get victuals; for we are here in a desert place. But
he said unto them, give ye them to eat; and they said, we
have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should
go and buy meat for all this people. For they were about five
thousand men. And he said to his disciples, make them sit
down by fifties in a company. And they did so, and made
them all sit down. Then he took the five loaves and two fishes,
and looking up to heaven he blessed them, and brake, and
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gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. And they
did eat and were all filled, and there were taken up of frag
ments that remained to them twelve baskets.” Luke ix., 12
to 17.
293. —“And, when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly
there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind,
and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there
appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat
upon each of them. And they were filled with the Holy Ghost,
and began to speak, with other tongues, as the spirit gave
them utterance.” Acts ii., 1 to 4.
294. —“ And he (Moses) was there with the Lord forty days
and forty nights; he did neither eat bread nor drink water;
and he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the
ten commandments.” Exodus xxxiv., 28.
295. —“ And the angel of the Lord came again the second
time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat, because the
journey is too great for thee. And he arose, and did eat and
drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and
forty nights, unto Horeb the mount of God.” 1 Kings xix.,
7, 8.
296. —“Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou
findest; eat this roll (of a book), and go speak unto the house
of Israel. So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat
that roll. And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly
to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then
did I eat it, and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.”
Ezekiel iii., 1 to 3.
297. —“And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she
fell down under Balaam; and Balaam’s anger was kindled, and
he smote the ass with a staff. And the Lord opened the mouth
of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto
thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times ? ” Num,
xxii., 27, 28.
298. —“ And I beheld, and lo, the eagle rose upon her talons,
and spake to her feathers, saying, Watch not all at once:
sleep every one in his own place, and watch by course. Then
1 heard a voice, which said unto me, Look before thee, and
consider the thing that thou seest. And I beheld, and lo, as it
were a roaring lion chased out of the wood ; and I saw that he
sent out a man’s voice unto the eagle, and said, Hear thou, I
will talk with thee, and the highest shall say unto thee,” etc.
2 Esdras xi., 7, 8, and 36, 37, 38.
299. —“ But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth,
and cry mightily unto God; yea, let them turn every one from
his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.”
Jonah iii., 8.
300. —“ And I took it and drank; and when I had drank of it,
my heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast,
for my spirit strengthened my memory.” 2 Esdras xiv., 40.
SOI.—“ In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is
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found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of under
standing.” Proverbs x., 13.
302. —“ Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto
you, if ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this
which is done to the fig tree, but also, if ye shall say unto this
mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, it
shall be done.” Matthew xxi., 21.
303. —“And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of
mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou
plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it
should obey you.” Luke xvii., 6.
304. —“Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye
desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall
have them.” Mark xi., 24.
305. —“ Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born
•of every creature.” Colossians i., 15.
306. —“ While we look not at the things which are seen, but
at the things which are not seen; for the things which are ceen
are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
2 Corinthians iv., 18.
307. —“And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his
disciples were with, him; and he asked them, saying, Whom
•say the people that I am ? ” Luke ix., 18.
308. —“ I and my father are one.” John x., 30.
308 [2],—“For there are three that bear record in heaven,
the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three
are one.” 1 John v., 7.
309. —“And David danced before the Lord with all his might;
and David was girded with a linen ephod.” 2 Samuel vi., 14.
310. —“ And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the
heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host
shall fall down as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a
falling fig from the fig tree.” Isaiah xxxiv., 4.
311. —“ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth ; for the
first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there
was no more sea.” Revelation xxi., 1.
312. —-“Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold I will rain
bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and
gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether
they will walk in my law or no. And they gathered it every
morning, every man according to his eating; and when the
Sun waxed hot it melted.” Exodus, xvi., 4, 21.
313. —“And it came to pass as they fled from before Israel,
and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the Lord cast
down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and
they died; they were more which died with hail-stones than
they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.”
Joshua x., 11.
314. —“Then the Lord rained upon Sodom, andupon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.” Genesisxix., 24.
315. —“ And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty,
if I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and
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consume thee and thy fifty, and there came down fire from
heaven and consumed him and his fifty.” 2 Kings i., 10.
316. —“And then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you,
and he shut up the heaven that there be no rain, and that the
land yield not her fruit, and lest ye perish quickly from off the
good land which the Lord giveth you.” Deuteronomy xi., 17.
317. —“ When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because
they have sinned against thee; if they pray towards this place,
and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou
afflictest them.” 1 Kings viii., 35.
318. —“I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago
(whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the
body, I cannot tell; God knoweth) such an one caught up to
the third heaven.” 2 Corinthians xii., 2.
319. —“ And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was
silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.” Lev. viii., 1.
320. —“ After this I looked; and behold, a door was opened
in heaven ; and the first voice which I heard was as it were of
a trumpet talking with me ; which said, come up hither, and I
will show the things which must be hereafter. And immediately
I was in the spirit; and behold a throne was set in heaven, and
one sat on the throne; and he that sat was to look upon like a
jasper, and a sardine stone ; and there was a rainbow round
about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. And round
about the throne were four-and-twenty seats ; and upon the
seats I saw four-and-twenty elders sitting, clothed in white
raiment, and they had on their heads crowns of gold. And out
of the throne proceeded lightnings, and thunderings, and voices,
and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne,
which are the spirits of God. And before the throne there was
a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne,
and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before
. and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second
beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and
the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. And the four beasts
had each of them six wings about him, and they were full of
eyes within; and they rest not day and night saying, Holy,
holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to
come.” Revelation iv., 1—8.
321. —“And, when they shall have finished their testimony
the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make
war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.”
Revelation xi., 7.
Also 30.
PASSAGES CONTRADICTORY.
322.—“ And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke
strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into
ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nationshall
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not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war
any more.” Micah iv., 3.
323.—‘ ‘ Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning
-hooks into spears; let the weak say I am strong.” Joel iii., 10.
324. —“ Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tink
ling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and
understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though I have
all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity,
I am nothing.” 1 Corinthians xiii., 1, 2.
325. —“ As we said before, so say I now again, if any man
preach any other gospel unto you, than that ye have received,
let him be accursed.” Galatians i., 9.
326. —“ Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer; and ye
know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.”
1 John iii., 15.
327. —“ If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and
mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea,
and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke xiv., 26.
328. —“ Then said Jesus unto them, put up again thy sword
into its place ; for all they that take the sword shall perish with
the sword.” Matthew xxvi., 52.
329. —“ Then he said unto them, but now he that hath a purse,
let him take it, and likewise his scrip; and he that hath no sword
let him sell his garment and buy one.” Luke xxii., 36.
330. —“ But I say unto you, that ye resist not evil; but who
soever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other
also.” Matthey v., 39.
331. —“ Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood
be shed; for in the image of God made he man.” Gen. ix., 6.
332. —“But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them
that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for
them that despitefully use you, and persecute you.” Matthew
v., 44.
333. —“Then said he unto the disciples, it is impossible but
that offences will come; but woe unto him through whom they
come.” Luke xvii., 1.
334. —“ And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your
words, when ye depart out of that house, or city, shake off the
dust of your feet.” Matthew x., 14.
335. —Christ says, “ Whosoever shall say, thou fool, shall be
in danger of hell-fire.” Matthew v., 22.
336. —And yet he exclaims, “ Ye fools and blind, for whether
is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold.”
Matthew xxiii., 17.
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337. —“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Exodus
xx., 3.
338. —“ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth.” Genesis i., 26.
339. “ Thou shalt not bow down thyself to the-m, nor serve
them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me.” Exodus xx., 5.
340. “The soul that sinneth it shall die; the son shall not
bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the
iniquity of the son ; the righteousness of the righteous shall be
upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon
him.” Ezekiel xviii., 20.
341. —“ But the children of the murderers he slew not ac
cording unto that which is written in the book of the law of
Moses, wherein the Lord commanded saying, The fathers shall
not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to
death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for
his own sin.” 2 Kings xiv., 6.
342. —“ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days
shalt tnou labor, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is
the sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any
work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor
thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within
thy gate.” Exodus xx., 8, 9, 10.
343. —“ And he entered again into the synagogue; and therewas a man there which had a withered hand. And they watched
him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day: that they
might accuse him. And he saith unto the man which had the
withered hand, Stand forth. And he saith unto them, Is it law
ful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil ? to save life
or to kill ? but they held their peace. And when he had looked
round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hard
ness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine
hand. And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored
whole as the other.” Mark iii., 1—5.
344. —“ Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may
be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”
Exodus xx., 12.
345. —“ If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and
his mother, and wife, and children, and brethren and sisters,
yea, and his own life also, he- cannot be my disciple.” Luke
xiv., 26.
346.—“ Thou shalt not kill.”
Exodus xx., 13.
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347. —“ But those mine enemies, which would not that I
should reign over them, bring hither and slay them before me.”
Luke xix., 27.
348. —“ And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of
Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out
from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man
his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his
neighbor.” Exodus xxxii., 27.
349. —“ Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Exodus xx., 14.
350. —“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise;
when as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they
came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.”
Matthew i., 18.
351. —“Thou shalt not steal.” Exodus xx., 15.
352. —“And I will give this people favor in the sight of the
Egyptians; and it shall come to pass, that when ye go, ye shall
not go empty. But every woman shall borrow of her neigh
bor, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver
and jevels of gold, and raiment; and ye shall put them upon
your sons and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the
Egyptians.” Exodus iii., 21, 22.
Vide Note 137.
353. —“The Lord is good to all; and his tender mercies are
over al his works.” Psalms cxlv., 9.
354. —“ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which
Amalel did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way
when le came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek,
and uterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not;
but sla; both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and
sheep, <amel and ass.” 1 Samuel xv., 2, 3.
355. —“ The Lord is gracious and full of compassion; slow
to ange* and of great mercy.” Psalms cxlv., 8.
356. —“ And he smote the men of Beth-Shemesh, because
they hal looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the
people ifty thousand and three score and ten men: and the
people amented, because the Lord had smitten many of the
people nth a great slaughter.” 1 Samuel vi., 19.
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357. —“ Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity,
and paseth by the transgression of the remnant of his heri
tage ? h retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth
in mere}” Micah vii., 18.
358. —‘And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them be
fore the; thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them; thou
shalt maeno covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them.”
Deut. vi, 2.
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359. “The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and
will not at all acquit the wicked; the Lord hath his way in the
whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his
feet.” Nahum i., 3.
360. —“So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels
shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
and shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew xiii., 49, 50.
361. —“ And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor
and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord ; for they
shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of
them, saith the Lord : for I will forgive their iniquity, and I
will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah xxxi., 34.
362. —“ Behold, all souls are mine, as the soul of the father,
so also. the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth it
shall die.” Ezekiel xviii., 4.
363. —“And rend your heart and not your garments, and
turn unto the Lord your God ; for he is gracious and nerciful,
siow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth bin of the
evil.” Joel ii., 13.
364. —“ And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall
walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the
Lord; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their
flesh as the dung.” Zephaniah i., 17.
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365. —“ The Lord is not slack concerning his pronise (as
some men count slackness), but is long-suffering to is-ward,
not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance.” 2 Peter iii., 9.
366. —“ The Lord hath made all things for himsel ; yea,
even the wicked for the day of evil.” Proverbs xvi., 4.
367. —“ For thou lovest all the things that are, and a&horrest
nothing which thou hast made; for never wouldst thi>u have
made anything if thou hadst hated it.” Wisdom of Solomon
xi., 24.
368. —“ For God loveth none but him that dwelljth with
wisdom.” Wisdom of Solomon vii., 28.
369. —“For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God
our Savior. Who will have all men to be saved, andto come
unto the knowledge of the truth.” 1 Timothy ii., 3, 4
370. —“ And for this cause God shall send then strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie.” 2 Thessalonians
ii., 11.
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371.—“Yet saith the house of Israel, the way of tl Lord is
not equal, O house of Israel, are not my ways equal are not
your ways unequal ? ” Ezekiel xviii., 29.
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372. —“ For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God:
the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto
himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”
Deuteronomy vii., 6.
373. —“Lying lips are abominations to the Lord; but they
that deal truly are his delight.” Proverbs xii., 22.
374. —“ Now, therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying
spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the Lord hath
spoken evil concerning thee.” 1 Kings xxii., 23.
375. —“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn
the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”
John iii., 17.
376. —“ Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I
came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a
man at variance against his father, and the daughter against
her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-inlaw.” Matthew x., 34, 35.
Also 182 and 183.
377. —“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom;
and with all thy getting, get understanding.” Proverbs vi., 7.
378. —“For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that
increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” Ecclesiastes i., 18.
379. —“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of
wolves; be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as
doves.” Matthew x., 16.
380. —“For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the
wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the
prudent.” 1 Cor. i., 19.
381. —“The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he
shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.” Psalms xcii., 12.
382. —“The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to
heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering
that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.” Isaiah
lvii., 1.
383. —“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not
one.” Romans iii., 10.
384. —“ Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for
another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer
of a righteous man availeth much.” James v., 16.
385. —“ Pray without ceasing.” 1 Thessalonians v., 17.
386. —“ And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide
mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers I will
not hear; your hands are full of blood.” Isaiah i., 15.
387. —“Therefore we conclude, that a man is justified by
faith without the deeds of the law.” Romans iii., 28.
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388. —“ Ye see then how that by works a man is justified,
and not by faith only.” James ii., 24.
389. —“ For by grace are ye saved, through faith, and that
not of yourselves ; it is the gift of God.” Ephesians ii., 8.
390. —“But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without
works is dead.” James ii., 20.
391. —“ As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away; so he
that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.” Jobvii., 9.
392. —“And the graves were opened; and many bodies of
the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after
his resurrection and went into the holy city, and appeared unto
many.” Matthew xxvii., 52, 53.
Also 268, 269, 270 and 271.
393. —“In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth.” Genesis i., 1.
394. —And the earth was without form and void.” Genesis
i., 2.
395. —“ And God saw the light, that it was good; and God
divided the light from the darkness.” Genesis i., 4. (This
was on the first day.)
396. —“ And God made two great lights ; the greater light
to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made
the stars also.” Genesis i., 16. (This was on the fourth day.)
397. —“ And God saw everything that he had made, and
behold it was very good. And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day.” Genesis i., 31.
398. —“ The earth also was corrupt before God, and the
earth was filled without violence.” Genesis vi., 11.
399. —“Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the
heavens are not clean in his sight.” Job xv., 15.
400. —“ All things were made by him; and without him was
not anything made that was made.” John i., 3.
401. —“ For by him were all things created that are in heaven,
and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things
were created by him, and for him.” Colossians i., 16.
402. —“For God made not death; neither hath he pleasure
in the destruction of the living.” Wisdom of Solomon i., 13.
403. —“ For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace,
as in all churches of the saints.” 1 Corinthians xiv., 33.
404. —“ One generation passeth away, and another generation
cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.” Ecclesiasticus i., 4.
405. —“All these things live and remain for ever, for all
uses, and they are all obedient.” Ecclesiasticus xiii., 23.
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406. —“So shall it be at the end of the world; the angels
shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.”
Matthew xiii., 49.
407. —“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the
night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great
noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth
also, and the works that are therein shall be burnt up.”
2 Peter iii., 10.
Also 311.
408. —“ For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favor
is life ; weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the
morning.” Psalms xxx., 5.
409. —“ And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and
he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all
the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was
consumed.” Numbers xxxii., 13.
410. —“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted
of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth
he any man.” James i., 13.
411. —“ And it came to pass after these things, that God did
tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham, and he said,
Behold, here I am.” Genesis xxii., 1.
412. —“ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from
evil: for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for
ever. Amen.” Matthew vi., 13.
413. —“ And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that
came down from heaven, even the Son of Man which is in
heaven.” John iii., 13.
414. —“And it came to pass, as they still went on and talked,
that behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire,
and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirl
wind into heaven.” 2 Kings ii., 11.
415-—“ And I (Jesus) say unto you, my friends, be not afraid
• of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that
they can do.” Luke xii., 4.
416.—“ After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he
would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him ”
John vii., 1.
417. —“ For there are three that bear record in heaven, the
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are
one.” lJohnv.,7.
418. “ And the Lord God said, Behold the man is become
as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth
his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for
ever.” Genesis iii,, 22.
419. —“There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye are
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called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one
baptism; One God and father of all, who is above all, and
through all, and in you all.” Ephesians iv., 4—6.
420. —“For there is one God, and one mediator between God
and men, the man Christ Jesus.” 1 Timothy ii., 5.
421. —“Remember the former things of old ; for I am God,
and there is none else; I am God; and there is none like me.”
Isaiah xlvi., 9.
422. —“ I and my father are one.” John x., 30.
423. —“ But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the
works; that we may know and believe that the Father is in
me and I in him.” John x., 38.
424. —“I am the true vine, and my Father is the husband
man.” John xv., 1.
425. —-“And the father himself, which hath sent me, hath
borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any
time, nor seen his shape.” John v., 37.
426. —“ The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things
into his hand.” John iii., 35.
427. —■“ No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten
Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared
him.” Johni., 18.
428. —“Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light
which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen,
nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting.” 1 Tim.
vi., 16.
429. —“And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a
man speaketh unto his friend.” Exodus xxxiii., 11.
430. —“Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu,
and seventy of the elders of Israel: And they saw the God of
Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of
a sapphire-stone, and as it were the body of heaven in In's
clearness.” Exodus xxiv., 9, 10.
Also 17, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132.
431. —“ And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for there
shall no man see me, and live.” Exodus xxxiii., 20.
432. —“ And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel; for I
have see God face to face, and my life is preserved.” Genesis
xxxii., 30.
Also 429.
433. —“Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in the
which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall
come forth, they that have done good, unto the resurrection
of life; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of
damnation.” John v., 28, 29.
434. —“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before
God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened,
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which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of
those things which were written in the books, according to
their works.” Rev. xx., 12.
435,—“ For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth
beasts; even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so
dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man
hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go
unto one place : all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the
spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ! Where
fore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man
should rejoice in his own works, for that is his portion ; for
who shall bring him to see what shall be after him ? ” Eccles,
iii., 19—22.
Also 391.
436. —“ The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things
into his hand.” John iii., 35.
437. —“ For though he (the Son) was crucified through weak
ness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak
in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward
you.” 2 Corinthians xiii., 4.
438. —“ And he (Judas) cast down the pieces of silver in the
temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.” Mat
thew xxvii., 5.
439. —“Now this man (Judas) purchased a field with the re
ward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in
the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.” Acts i., 18.
440. —“And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have
ye ? and they said, Seven, and a few little fishes. And he took
the seven loaves and the fishes and gave thanks, and brake
them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multi
tude. And they did all eat, and were filled ; and they took up
of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full. And they
that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and
children.” Matthew xv., 34, 36, 37, 38.
441. —“But he said unto .them, Give ye them to eat. And
they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes;
except we should go and buy meat for all this people. For
they were about five thousand men. And he said to his dis
ciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company. Then he
took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to
heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples
to set before the multitude. And they did eat, and were all
filled; and there was taken up of fragments that remained to
them twelve baskets.” Luke ix., 13, 14, 16, 17.
Vide 292.
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442. —“ And set np over his head, his accusation written,
This is Jesus the King of the Jews.” Matthew xxvii., 37.
443. —“ And the superscription of his accusation was written
over, The King of the Jews.” Mark xv., 26.
444. —“And a superscription also was written over him, in
letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, This is the King of
the Jews.” Luke xxiii., 28.
445. —“And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross.
And the writing was, Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews.”
John xix., 19.
446.—“ But while he thought on these things, behold the
angel of the Lord appeared unto him (Joseph) in a dream, say
ing, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee
Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is of the
Holy Ghost.” Matthew i., 20.
In 448 the angel is represented not as appearing unto Joseph,
but unto Mary, his wife.
448.—“And the angel said unto her, fear not, Mary; for
thou hast found favor with God. And behold, thou shalt con
ceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his
name Jesus. Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this
be, seeing I know not a man. And the angel answered and
said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the
power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also
that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the
Son of God.” Luke i., 30, 31, 34, 35.
449.—“ In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn to
wards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdelene, and
the other Mary, to see the sepulchre.” Matthew xxviii., 1.
450—“ And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene,
and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet
spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early
in the morning of the first day of the week they came into the
sepulchre at the rising of the sun.” Mark xvi., 1, 2.
451.—“The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene
early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the
stone taken away from the sepulchre.” John xx., 1.
452.—“Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the
morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which
they had prepared and certain others with them. ” Luke xxiv., 1.
The individuals coming to the sepulchre are Mary Magda
lene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other
women. Verse 10.
In 450 it was Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James
and Salome that came; in 449 it was only Mary Magdalene
and the other Mary; and in 451 it was only Mary Magdalene.
453.—“And, behold, there was a great earthquake; for the
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angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled
back the stone from the door and sat upon it.” Matthew
xxviii., 2.
454.—“And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us
away the stone from the door of the sepulchre ? And when
they looked they saw that the stone was rolled away, for it was
very great. And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young
man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment;
and they were affrighted.” Mark xvi., 3, 4, 5.
In 453 the angel is represented as sitting outside the sepulchre
upon the stone which he rolled from the door, and in 454 as
sitting within the sepulchre on the right side.
455.—“ And they entered in, and found not the body of the
Lord Jesus. And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed
thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining**
ments.” Luke xxiv., 3, 4.
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In 453, 454, and 456, the angels are represented nc
standing, but as sitting.
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456.—“But Mary stood without at the sepulchre, weepl
and as she wept she stooped down, and looked into the sepull
and seeth two angels in white, sitting, the one at the ha
and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lai
John xx., 11, 12.
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while according to 453, 454, there was only one. In this Ml
merely looked into the sepulchre; while in 454 she and thl
who accompanied her went into it.
457. —“And the angel answered and said unto the womtW
Fear not ye ; for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucifkfig
He is not here ; for he is risen, as he said : Come, see the plaM
where the Lord lay.” Matthew xxviii., 5, 6.
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458. —“ And when she had thus said, she turned herself bac®
and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. JesiB
saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou ? whom seekestthouB
She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, B
thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid hinl
and I will take him away. Jesus saith unto her, Mary. Shi
turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to sal
Master. Jesus saith unto her; Touch me not; for I am not y 1
ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say un B
them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to ml
God and your God.” John xx., 14-17.
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4a9.—“ And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen
fropa the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee ;
there shall ye see him; lo, I have told you. Then the eleven
disciples went away into Gallilee, into a mountain where Jesus
had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped
him ; but some doubted.” Matthew xxviii., 7, 16, 17.
460. “And they rose up the same hour, and returned to
Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together and them
that were with them, saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath
appeared to Simon. And they told what things were done in
the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of
them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.” Luke xxiv
33-36.
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