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them out of all places where they have been scattered, &c. and will bring them to their own land, &c. and I will set up the shepherd over them, &c.- -Ezek. xxxiv. 11-13. 23, &c.

Mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel, for they are at hand to come: for behold I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sowed, &c. and the city shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded, &c. I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginning; and ye shall know that I am the Lord, &c. I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land, &c. and ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, &c. then shall ye remember your own evil ways, &c. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God: be it known unto you, &c. then the heathen that are left round about you, shall know, that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that which was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel. Ezek. xxxvi. 8-11. 24. 28. 31-33. 36, 37. Hosea ii. 14, 15. Amos ix. 11. 14, 15.

and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms, &c. and they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob.-Ezek. xxxvii. 3. 11, 12. 21, 22. 25. Hosea i. 10, 11. Joel iii. 6, 7.

Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel. But I have gathered them unto their own land, &c. neither will I hide my face any more.-Ezek. xxxix. 25, &c.

Jerusalem shall be inhabited, &c. Flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon, &c. for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye.-Zech. ii. 4-8. 12. Joel iii. Zeph. iii. 14, &c.

Thus saith the Lord, I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, &c. There shall yet old men, and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, &c. and the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof, &c. Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, &c. As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord of hosts, and I repented not; so again have I thought

By the dry bones is typified the Israelites' return. These bones are the whole house of Israel; behold they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off in these days to do well unto Jerusafor our parts: therefore prophesy, lem, and to the house of Judah: fear &c. O my people, I will open your ye not, &c. Yea, many people, and graves, cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the Land of Israel, &c. I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel,

strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.-Zech. viii. 3-5. 7, 8. 14, 15. 22. xii. 7—9. xiv. 10, 11. 20-23. Joel iii. 19, 20.

In that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people, &c. They shall be cut in pieces, though the people of the earth be

gathered together against it.--Zech. xii. 3, &c.

On the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thine handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed.Exod. xxiii. 12. xxxiv. 21.

I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob for this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their Wherefore the children of Israel shall sins, &c. They are beloved for the fathers' sake.-Rom. xi. 25-28.

CHAP. LVI.

OF THE SEVENTH, OR SABBATH DAY,
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND
THE LAWS ABOUT IT; AND OF ITS
CHANGE TO THE FIRST DAY OF
THE WEEK.

On the seventh day God ended his
work which he had made; and he
rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had made: and God
blessed the seventh day, and sancti-
fied it, because that in it he had rested
from all his work.-Gen. ii. 2, 3.

To-morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which you will bake to-day, &c. for to-morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord, &c. Six days

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shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none, &c. Abide ye every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day. -Exod. xvi. 23-30.

Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, 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, &c. for in six days the Lord made heaven, &c. and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.-Exod. xx. 8-11. Deut. v. 12-14.

Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from amongst his people, and he shall surely be put to death.

keep the sabbath, &c. it is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth.-Exod. xxxi. 14-18. XXXV. 2.

Six days shall work be done, &c. ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.-Exod. xxxv. 2, 3.

Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest: an holy convocation.-Levit. xxiii. 3.

They found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day, &c. and the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall surely be put to death, all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.-Numb.xv. 32-36.

And on the sabbath day two lambs, &c. this is the burnt-offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burntoffering, and his drink-offering.Numb. xxviii. 9, 10.

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, &c. and remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt.Deut. v. 12-15.

If the people of the land bring wares, or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, we should not buy it on the sabbath.-Neh. x. 31.

Nehemiah contended with the nobles of Judah, for profaning the sabbath, and he caused the gates to be shut on the sabbath, to keep out merchandises, and threatened such who brought them to sell on the sabbath day.-Neh. xiii. 15-23.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then, &c. I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth.-Isa. lviii. 13, 14.

Bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem: neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work; but hallow ye the sabbath day, &c.Jer. xvii. 21, 22. 24. 27.

I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, &c.Ezek. xx. 12. 20, 21.

Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, &c. saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat?-Amos viii. 4, 5.

Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn, and his disciples were an hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungered, &c. and how that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? &c. If ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day, &c. What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it shall fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? Wherefore, it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.-Matt. xii. 1—13. Luke vi. 1, &c. xiii. 14

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fore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.—Mark ii. 27, 28.

Very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre, at the rising of the sun, &c.-Mark xvi. 2, &c. Luke xxiv. 1, &c.

Jesus, &c. as his custom was, went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read; and there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah.—Luke iv. 16. 31.

Ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken (or without breaking the law): are ye angry with me because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? -John vii. 22, 23.

Then the same day, at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, came Jesus, and stood in the midst, and saith to them, Peace, &c. And after eight days again (or in eight days) his disciples were within, &c. came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.-John xx. 19.26.

Paul reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks, &c.—Acts xviii. 4.

Paul, &c. abode at Troas seven days: and upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight, &c. when he, &c. had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, he departed.-Acts xx. 6-8. 11.

Upon the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.1 Cor. xvi. 2.

The sabbath was made for man, For he spake in a certain place of and not man for the sabbath: there- the seventh day on this wise; And

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Ir thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. -Exod. xxii. 25.

increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. -Prov. xxviii. 8.

I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury, yet every one of them doth curse me.— Jer. xv. 10.

If a man be just, &c. and hath not oppressed any, &c. hath given his bread to the hungry, &c. hath not given forth upon usury, nor taken increase.-Ezek. xviii. 5. 7, 8. 12, 13.

Thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion.Ezek. xxii. 12.

CHAP. LVIII.

BITTERNESS, EMULATION, DISCONTENT, AND STRIFE.

And if thy brother be waxen poor, OF ENVY, WRATH, HATRED, MALICE, and fallen into decay with thee, then thou shalt relieve him, &c. Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.Levit. xxv. 35-37.

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother: usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury, but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury, &c.-Deut. xxiii. 19, 20.

When the Jews were low, and borrowed money of each other to buy corn, and for necessary uses, and took mortgages of their lands, and sold their sons and daughters each to other for it: then Nehemiah rebuked them for this usury, and further tells them, that he and his brethren might exact of them money and corn, and prays them to leave off this usury.Neh. v.

Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? &c. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent.-Ps. xv. 1, 5.

He that by usury and unjust gain

ABRAHAM said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we be brethren, &c. If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; if thou depart to the right, then I will go to the left.-Gen. xiii. 8, 9.

When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said unto Jacob, &c.— Gen. xxx. 1, 2.

When Joseph's brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him, &c. they hated him yet the more for his dreams, &c. his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying. They conspired to slay him.Gen. xxxvii. 4. 8. 11. 18.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart, &c. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people.-Levit. xix. 17, 18.

When Eldad and Medad had prophesied in the camp, Joshua desired Moses to forbid them: Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord's peo

but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.-Prov. xxiii. 17.

ple were prophets!-Numb. xi. 27 -29.

When the women in their song had ascribed to Saul his thousands, and to David his ten thousands, Saul was very wroth, and said, &c. What can he have more but the kingdom? And Prov. xxiv. 1. 19. Saul eyed David from that dayforward, &c. became his enemy continually, and would have killed him.-1 Sam.

Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked.

xviii. 6-11. xix. 1.

Ahab so sorely discontented and displeased with Naboth, that he would not eat bread, &c. and that because he could not have the vineyard.1 Kings xxi. 1-4.

Haman went forth joyful, and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai, &c. And having told his friends of his glory, &c. yet (said he) all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king's gate. Esth. v. 9-13.

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity: for they shall soon be cut down, &c. fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass, &c. Fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.-Ps. xxxvii. 1, 2. 7-9.

As for me, my feet were almost gone, &c. for I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.-Ps. lxxiii. 2—4.

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.-Ps. cvi. 16.

Strive not with a man without cause; if he hath done thee no harm: envy thou not the oppressor (or man of violence), and choose none of his ways.-Prov. iii. 30—32.

Hatred stirreth up strifes.-Prov.

x. 12.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox, and hatred therewith.-Prov. xv. 17.

Let not thine heart envy sinners,

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy (or jealousy)?—Prov. xxvii. 4.

The forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.-Prov. xxx. 33.

I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour.-Eccles. iv. 4.

Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at (or toward) thy people: yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.Isa. xxvi. 11.

Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy, which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them (or to them).Ezek. xxxv. 11.

Pilate said to the Jews, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus, which is called Christ: for he knew that for envy they had delivered him.-Matt. xxvii. 17, 18.

John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife, therefore Herodias had a quarrel (or an inward grudge) against him, and would have killed him.— Mark vi. 18, 19. 24.

The patriarchs moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt.-Acts vii. 9.

And when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.-Acts xiii. 45.

Being filled with all, &c. maliciousness, full of envy, murder, &c.—

Rom. i. 29.

If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.-Rom. xi. 14.

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