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te upon nis preast, saying, God se mercuut to me a ner. I tell you, This man went down to his house ified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth self shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself I be exalted. Acts. xvii. 28. For in him we live, and e, and have our being; as certain also of your own ts have said, For we are also his offspring. Josh. w. 14. Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in erity and truth: and put away the gods which your Lers served on the other side of the flood, and in pt; and serve ye the Lord. Psal. c. 4. Enter into his es with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise : thankful unto him, and bless his name. Rom. i. 21. ause that, when they knew God, they glorified him as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their ginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Rom. 4. Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and earance, and long-suffering; not knowing that the Iness of God leadeth thee to repentance? Eccles. 2. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of , and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice Dols: for they consider not that they do evil. Be not with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to r any thing before God; For God is in heaven, and ■ upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. 1 Cor. 13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these thrce; the greatest of these is charity. Rev. iii. 19. As my as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore repent.

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sal. xcv. 6. O come, let us worship and bow down: es kneel before the Lord our Maker. Luke xxii. 41. A he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, kneeled down, and prayed. Ephes. iii. 14. For this

kneeled down, and prayed: and turning him to the body, said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. Psal. cxxiii. 1. Unto thee I lift up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. 1 Tim. ii. 8. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. Phil. ii. 10. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. 1 Cor. xiv. 40. Let all things be done decently and in order. 1 Cor. x. 31. Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

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Deut. xxvii. 15. Cursed be the man that maketh any aven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, Le work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, men. 2 Kings xvii. 16-18. And they left all the comandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten nages, even two calves, and made a grove, and worship

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fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Deut. xii. 30-32. Take heed to thyself, that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods ? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God; for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters have they burnt in the fire to their gods. What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. Col. ii. 21-23. (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using,) after the commandments and doctrines of men; Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in willworship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. Deut. iv. 2. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you. neither shall you diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. Psal. cvi. 36-38. And they served their idols; which were a snare unto them. Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons, and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. Matt. xv. 3-6.9. But he answered and said unto them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or

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in they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the comliments of men. Col. ii. 8. (See preceding chapter.) xvii. 29. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, Iver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. Rom. i. -25. Because that, when they knew God, they glorihim not as God, neither were thankful, but became in their imaginations and their foolish heart was ened: Professing themselves to be wise, they became

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And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into mage made like to corruptible man, and to birds and -footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between selves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, worshipped and served the creature more than the tor, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 1 Kings xi. 33. use they have forsaken me, and have worshipped oreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god e Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of mon; and have not walked in my ways, to do that h is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and udgments, as did David his father. Gal. iv. 8. beit, then when ye knew not God, ye did service them which by nature are no gods. Dan. iii. 18. if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will erve thy gods, nor worship thy golden image which hast set up. Exod. xxxii. 8. They have turned aside kly out of the way which I commanded them: they made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O l, which have brought thee up out of the land of ot. Deut. iv. 15-19. Take ye therefore good heed yourselves, (for ye saw no manner of similitude on lay that the Lord spake unto you in Horeb out of the t of the fire,) Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you

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