ness before him, all the days of Therefore is my spirit overour life. COMPLAINT TO GOD AGAINST ENEMIES. Ps. iii, 1, 2. LORD, how are they Increased that trouble me? many are they that rise up against me. Many there be which say of my Boul, There is no help for him in God. Selah. Ps. xxxviii, 19. But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong; and they that hate me Wrongfully are multiplied. Ps. liv, 3. For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah. whelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate. I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands. FOR THEIR OVERTHROW. Deut. xxxiii, 11. Bles, LORD his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again. Ps. v, 10. Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own multitude of their transgressions; counsels; cast them ont in the for they have rebelled against thee. Ps. vi, 10. Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed, let them return and be ashamed suddenly. Ps. Ivi, 1-3, 6, 7. Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: he fighting daily oppresseth me. Mine enemies would daily swallowme up: forthey Ps. x. 13, 14. Wherefore doth be many that fight against me, O the wicked contemn God? he thou most High. What time 1 hath sad in his heart, Thou wilt am afraid, I will trust in thee. not require it. Thou hast seen They gather themselves together, it; for thon beholdest mi-chief they hide themselves, they mark and spite, to require it with thy my steps, when they wait for my hand: the poor committeth himBoul. Shall they escape by ini-self unto thee. thou art the helper quity? in thine anger cast down of the fatherless. the people, O God. not away. Ps. lxxxvi, 14. O God, the proud are ris n against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before them. P3. xxxviii, 17. They came round about me daily, like water: they compassed me about together. Ps. cxliii, 1--5. Ilear my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground: he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead. P8. xxxi, 17, 18. Let me not be ashamed, O Lono, for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. their lips let them even be taken in their pride; and for cursing and lying which they speak. Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be; and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah. Ps. Ixvill, 1, 2. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. founded and consumed that are Ps. lxxi, 13. Let them be conadversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt. Ps. lxxxiii, 18-18. O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire. So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. Fill their faces with shame; that they seek thy name, O LORD. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever, yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAII, art the Most ligh over all the earth. consumed out of the earth, and Ps. civ, 35. Let the sinners be let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD. Ps. cix, 28, 29. Let them curse, them be ashamed; but let thy but bless thou:when they arise, let servant rejoice. Let mine adversuries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle. be confounded and put to shame Ps. cxix, 78. Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversewith me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts. Ps. cxxix, 5-8. Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion: Let them be as the Ps. xl, 14, 15. Let them be grass upon the house-tops, which ashamed and confounded together withereth alore it groweth up; that seek after my soul to destroy Wherewith the mower filleth not it; let them be driven backward, his hand, nor he that bindeth and put to shame, that wish me sheaves his bosom. Neither do evil. Let them be desolate for a they which go by say, The blessreward of their shame that saying of the LORD be upon you: we unto me, Aha, alia! bless you, in the name of the LORD. Ps. liv, 5. ile shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth. Ps. lv, 9. Des roy, O LORD, and divide their tongues: for I have 8en violence and strite in the city. Ps. lix, 12, 13. For the sin of their mouth, and the words of Ps. cxl, 11. Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. Ps. cxli, 12. And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant. Jer. xil, 3. But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter. Jer. xvii. 18. Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction. Lam. ii, 65, 66. Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. Num. xxii, 6-12. Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed. And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak. Aud Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying, Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covereth the face of the earth: come now, curse me them: peradventure I shall be able to overcome them, and drive them out. And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed. Judges xvi, 28. And Samson | O LORD God of hosts, the God of called unto the LORD, and said, O Israel, awake to visit all the Lord GOD, remember me, I pray heathen: be not merciful to any thee, and strengthen me, I pray wicked transgressors. Selah. thee, only this once, O God, that And at evening let them return; I may be at once avenged of the and let them make a noise like a Philistines for my two eyes. dog, and go round about the city. Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be If not satisfied. 1 Sam. xxvi, 19. Now therefore, FOR PUNISHMENT TO THEM. Num. xvi. 15. And Moses was very wroth and said unto the LORD, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither bave I hurt one of them. Neh. iv, 4, 5. Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity. And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders. Ps. Ixix, 27, 28. Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous. Ps. xciv, 2-4. Lift up thyself, thou Judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? Ps. cix, 7- 20. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned; and let his prayer become sin. other take his office. Let his Let his days be few; and let anchildren be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg, let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. he hath; and let the stranger Let the extortioner catch all that spoil his labour. Let there be Neh. v, 13. Also I shook my lap, none to extend mercy unto him; and said. So God shake out every neither let there be any to favour man from his house, and from his his fatherless children. Let his labour, that performeth not this posterity be cut off, and in the promise, even thus be he shaken generation following let their out and emptied. And all the name be blotted out. Let the congregation said, Amen, and iniquity of his fathers be remempraised the LORD. And the peo-bered with the LORD; and let not ple did according to this promise. the sin of his mother be blotted out. Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth: Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, needy man, that he might even but persecuted the poor and slay the broken in heart. As he loved cursing, so let it come unto ing, so let it be far from him. him; as he delighted not in blessAs he clothed himself with cursing, like as with his garment, so Job xxvii, 7. Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. Num. xxiv, 10. And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he smote his hands together: and Balak said unto Balaam, I called thee to curse mine enemies, Ps. x, 2. The wicked in his pride and, behold, thou hast altogether be taken in the devices that they doth persecute the poor: let them blessed them these three times. Joshua xxiv. 9--11. Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the have imagined. Ps. xxviii, 4. Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. Ps. xli, 10-12. But thou.O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth And as for not triumph over me. Hittites, and the Girgashites, theme, thou upholdest me in mine Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. delivered them into your hand. Judges v. 23. Curse ye Meroz, (said the angel of the LORD,) curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty. Ps. lv, 15. Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. Ps. lix, 5, 14, 15. Thou therefore, let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul. Ps. cxix, 84. How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? Ps. cxl, 9, 10. As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them. Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits that they rise not up again. Jer. xi, 20. But, O LORD of hosts that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause. Jer. xv, 15, 16. O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy long-suffering: know that for thy sake. I have suffered rebuke. Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. Jer. xviii, 21, 22. Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid suares for my feet. Lam. i. 22. Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. Lam ill, 64. Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according Ito the work of their hands. 1 Cor. xvi, 22. If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha. Gal. 1, 9. 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. 2 Tim. iv, 14. Alexander the Coppersmith did me much evil; the Lord reward him according to his works. as thy life was much set by this Ps. ix, 20. Put them in fear, O Ps. lix, 11. Slay them not, lest Father, forgive them; for they Acts vii, 60. And he kneeled EARNEST DESIRE OF BENEDICTION. THE FORM UNDER THE OLD TESTA- Num. vi, 22-27. And the LORD upon OFFICIAL BLESSINGS AND Deut. xi, 29, 30. And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy the land whither thou goest to God hath brought thee in unto possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal. Are they not on the other side Jordan, 2 Sam. xvi, 12. It may be that by the way where the sun goeth the LORD will look on mine afflic-down, in the land of the Canaantion, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day. Ps. xxxvii, 22. For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the Ites, which dwell in the champaign Deut. xxvii, 11-13. And Moses their elders and officers and their FORMS UNDER THE NEW TESTA- Rom. xv, 13, 33. Now the God Amen. 1 Cor. 1, 3. Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. xvi, 23, 24. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. 2 Cor. i, 2. Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. peace, from God our Father, and Eph. i, 2. Grace be to you, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Eph. vi, 23, 24 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. Phil. 1, 2. Grace be unto you, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. peace, from God our Father, and Phil. iv, 23. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. 1 Thess. 1, 1. Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, God the Father, and in the Lord and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thess. v, 28. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. 2 Thess. iii, 5, 16, 18. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The earth; and they that be cursed of saying, These shall stand upon Lord be with you all. The grace him shall be cut off. Eccles. vii, 22. For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. PRAYER FOR ENEMIES. 1 Sam. xxvl, 24, 25. And, behold, mount Gerizim to bless the people, you all. Amen. 2 Tim. iv, 22. The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen. Philemon 3, 25. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. Heb. xiii, 20, 21. 25. Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead. . Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whoin be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Grace be with you all. Amen. 1 Peter v, 10. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. 2 Peter 1, 1, 2. Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us, through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. Jude 2. Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multipled. Rev. xxii, 21. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. BLASPHEMY. ITS SEVERE REPROBATION. Job xiil, 7-9. Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for hi u? Will ye accept his person? wll ye commend for Go? Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mcketh another, do ye so mock him? Job xv, 13, 25, 26. That thou turn th thy spir't against God. and lettest such words go out of thy mouth? For he stretcheth out his han against God, and streng heneth himself against the Almighty. He runneth upon him even on his neck upon the thick bosses of his bucklers. Job xxxiv. 37. For he addeth rebellion unto his son, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God. Job x1, 2. Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him he that reproveth God, let him an-wer it. Job xlii, 7. And it was so, that, after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temnite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Jub hath. Isa. xxix, 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? Isa. xlv, 9. Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands? Col. ill, 8. But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. INSTANCES. Dev. xxiv, 11. And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the And they brought him noto name of the LORD, and cursed. Moses: (and his mother's name Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.) was Shelomith, the daughter of 2 Kings xix, 4-6, 10, 11, 22. It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeb, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left. So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. And Isaith said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. Behold, thou hast heari what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? Whom hat thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, 2 Chron. xxxil, 10, 14-20. Thus Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem? Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this nanner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation, or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers; how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand? And his servants spoke yet more against the LORD God, and against uis servant Hezekiah He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying. As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand. Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech, unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them, that they might take the city. And they spik against the God of Jerus dem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man. And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the proPoet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. Ps. lxxiv, 10. 18 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheine thy name for ever? Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemod thy name. Isa. xxxvii, 4-6. It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living Go I, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is lett. So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD. Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. Ezek. xx, 27. Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them. Thus saith the Lord GOD Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against ine. Ezek. xxxv, 12. And thou shalt that I have heard all thy basknow that I am the LORD and liemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume. Rom. ii, 24. For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. VARIOUS FORMS OF IT. DENIAL OF PROVIDENCE. Job xxi, 13-15. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? Job xxii, 17. Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? Job xxxiv, 9. For he hath said, It profitesh a man nothing that he should delight himself with God. Ps. x, 13. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart,Thouwilt notrequire it. Ps. 1, 21. These things bast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Ezek ix. 9. Then said he unto mo. The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not. Zeph. i, 12. And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees; that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil. Mal. iii, 13, 14. Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD: yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? DIVINE JUSTICE Doueted. Job ix, 16, 17. If I had called, and he had answered me, yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. Job xix, 6, 7. Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment. Job xxxiv, 5, 6. For Job hath sai, I am righteous; and God hath taken away my judgment. Should lie against my right, my wound is incurable without transgression. Ezek. xviii, 25. Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel, not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? equal. When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby. But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawtul and right, he shall live thereby. Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways. THE DIVINE KNOWLEDGE. Job xxii, 12-14. Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven. Ps, x, 11. He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. Ps. lxxii. 11. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most high? Ps. xciv, 7. Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. Isa. xxix, 15. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD; and their works are in the dark! and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? Isa. xl, 27. Why sayest thon, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? held their peace, and answered, him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not. Isa. xxxvii. 10. Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria, THE DIVINE TRUTH. Isa. xxxvi, 15. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us; this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 2 Peter iii, 3, 4. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell were from the beginning of the asleep. all things continue as they creation. Jer. iv, 10. Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem,saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth uuto the soul unto me, Where is the word of Jer. xvii, 15. Behold, they say the LORD? let it come now. deceived me, and I was deceived; Jer. xx, 7. O LORD, thou hast thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. Ezek. vill, 12, 13. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou AND ALSO THE DIVINE GOODNESS seen what the ancients of the houseof Israel do in the dark,every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again,and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do, THE DIVINE POWER. Ps. lxxviii, 19, 20. Yea, they spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock, the streams overflowed; can he that the waters gushed out, and give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? Isa. xxxvi, 18, 20, 21. Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the naIstions delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? But they Ezek. xxxiii, 17-20. Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the LORD is not equal: but, as for them, their way is not 561 IMPUGNED Job vil, 19. How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? Job ix, 34, 85. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me; Then would I speak, and not fear him: but it is not so with me. Do not condemn me; shew me Job x, 2-7. I will say unto God, wherefore thou contendest with me. Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou thine hands, and shine upon the shouldest despise the work of counsel of the wicked? Hast thou eyes of flesh, or seest thou as man seeth. Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. Job xill, 25, 26. Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and will thou pursue the dry stubble? For 2 N |