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Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have; for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee: so that we may boldly say, the Lord is my helper, &c.— Heb. xiii. 5, 6.

Godliness with contentment is great the treasures in Egypt.-Heb. xi. gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out: having food and raiment, let us be therewith content: but they that will be rich, fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition: for the love of money is the root of Let the brother of low degree reall evil; which, while some coveted joice in that he is exalted; but the after, they have erred from the faith, rich, in that he is made low; because and pierced themselves through with as the flower of the grass he shall many sorrows. But thou, O man of pass away. For the sun is no sooner God, flee these things, &c. Charge risen with a burning heat, but it them that are rich in this world, that withereth the grass, and the flower they be not high minded, nor trust thereof falleth, and the grace of the in uncertain riches, but in the living fashion of it perisheth; so also shall God, who giveth us richly all things the rich man fade away in his ways. to enjoy; that they do good, that James i. 9—11. they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come.-1 Tim. vi. 6-11.17-19.

Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.—2 Tim. ii. 3, 4.

In the last day, &c. men shall be lovers of their ownselves, &c. lovers of pleasures, more than lovers of God. -2 Tim. iii. 4.

Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, &c.-2 Tim. iv. 10.

The earth, which, &c. bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God.-Heb. vi. 7.

Ye, &c. took joyfully the spoiling of your goods; knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and enduring substance.-Heb.x. 34.

By faith, Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than

Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them that love him? but ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seat? Do not they blaspheme that worthy name? &c.James ii. 5—7.

Know ye not, that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God, &c. Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain; whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow: for, what is your life? it is even a vapour, &c. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that: but now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.-James iv. 4. 13-16. Acts xviii. 21. 1 Cor. xvi. 7.

Go to now, ye rich men; weep and howl, for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten; your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire: ye have

2 Pet. iii. 7. 10, 11.

CHAP. XXXVIII.

heaped treasure together for the last 1 Pet. iv. 7.
days. Behold, the hire of the labour- 1 John ii. 17.
ers which have reaped down your
fields, which is of you kept back by
fraud, crieth, &c. Ye have lived in
pleasure on the earth, and have been
wanton; ye have nourished your
hearts, as in a day of slaughter; ye
have condemned and killed the just.
-James v. 1—6.

All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass: the grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.-1 Pet. i. 24.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, &c. casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you.-1 Pet. v. 6, 7.

OF IDOLATRY, SETTING UP GRAVEN
IMAGES, AND WORSHIPPING
STRANGE GODS.

IDOLS are called dunghill gods.-
1 Kings xxi. 26. 2 Kings xxi. 21.
Ezek. vi. 6.9. 13.

Laban said to Jacob, Wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?-Gen. xxxi. 30.

Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, &c. And they gave unto Jacob all Love not the world, neither the the strange gods which were in their things that are in the world: if any hand, and all their earrings which man love the world, the love of the were in their ears; and Jacob hid Father is not in him. For all that them under the oak which was by is in the world, the lust of the flesh, Shechem.-Gen. xxxv. 2. 4. and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world; and the world passeth away, and the lust thereof.-1 John i. 15-17.

I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in Greater is he that is in you, than the earth beneath, or that is in the he that is in the world: they are of water under the earth: thou shalt the world, therefore speak they of not bow down thyself to them, nor the world, and the world heareth serve them; for I the Lord thy God them.-1 John iv. 4, 5. am a jealous God, &c. Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. -Exod. xx. 2-5. 23. Deut. iv. 15-18. Ps. lxxxi. 9, 10. Hosea xiii. 4.

Whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world; and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? -1 John v. 4, 5.

He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.-Exod. xxii. 20. Deut. xxx. 17, 18. xxxi. 16—18.

The kings of the earth, and the great men and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, Make no mention of the names of and every bondman, and every free- other gods: neither let it be heard man, hid themselves in the dens, and out of thy mouth, &c. Thou shalt not in the rocks of the mountains; and bow down to their gods, nor serve said to the mountains and rocks, Fall them, nor do after their works; but on us, and hide us from the face of thou shalt utterly overthrow them, him that sitteth on the throne, &c.

-Rev. vi. 15-17.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: all these things shall end.-Matt. xxiv. 35. Ps. cii. 25, 26. Isa. li. 6.

and quite break down their images, &c. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods, &c. If thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.-Exod. xxiii.

13. 24. 32, 33, Ps. cvi. 36. Judges ple did eat, and bowed down to their ii. 3. gods; and Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel.-Numb. xxv. 2, 3. Ps. cvi. 28.

Upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments.-Numb. xxxiii. 4. Take heed unto yourselves: for ye saw no manner of similitude, &c. lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure.-Deut. iv. 15-18. 23. 25.

The people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for, as for this Moses, &c. we wot not what is become of him. And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, &c. and bring them unto me, &c. And he received them at their hands, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. And they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: and when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it, &c. And they rose up early on the mor- Neither shalt thou make marriages row, and offered burnt-offerings, &c. with them, &c. for they will turn And the Lord said unto Moses, &c. away thy son from following me, that Let me alone, that my wrath may they may serve other gods; so will wax hot against them, &c. Moses the anger of the Lord be kindled caused the calf to be broken into powder, and scattered, &c.-Exod. xxxii. 1—6. 9, 10.20. Ps. cvi. 19,20. Acts vii. 38, &c.

Ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves; for thou shalt worship no other god for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, &c. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.-Exod. xxxiv. 12. 17. Numb. xxxiii. 51, 52.

And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring, &c.-Levit.

xvii. 7.

Turn you not unto idols, nor make yourselves molten gods: for I am the Lord your God.-Levit. xix. 4.

Ye shall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image (or pillar); neither shall ye set up any image (or figure) of stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the Lord your God. -Levit. xxvi. 1.

They called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the peo

Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you: for the Lord thy God is a jealous God.-Deut. vi. 14, 15. xi. 16.

against you, &c. Ye shall destroy their altars, &c.-Deut. vii. 3-5. 16. 25.

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside and serve other gods, and worship them; 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.-Deut. xi. 16, 17.

Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, &c. you shall overthrow their altars, &c. Do not inquire after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? &c.-Deut. xii. 2, 3. 30, 31.

Such who should endeavour to draw others to idolatry, were to be put to death.-Deut. xiii.

Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee: neither shalt thou set thee up any image (or statue) which the Lord thy God hateth.-Deut. xvi. 21, 22.

If any hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them; either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not com

manded, he shall be stoned, &c. Deut. xvii. 3. 5.

That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods: so should ye sin against the Lord your God. Deut. xx. 18.

Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, &c. the work of the hands of the craftsman. -Deut. xxvii. 15.

Ye have seen their abominations, and their idols (or dunghill gods); wood, stone, &c.-Deut. xxix. 17, 18. 24, &c.

God said, Israel would go after strange gods; and that he would leave them, and much evil should come, &c.-Deut. xxx. 16-18.

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, &c. They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, &c.-Deut. xxxii. 17. 21. Ps. cvi. 37.

Neither make mention of the name of their gods, neither cause to swear by them; neither serve them, nor bow yourselves to them.-Josh. xxiii. 7. 16. xxiv. 14. 23.

When Joshua and that generation were dead, and there arose a new generation which knew not the Lord, they forsook the Lord, and followed strange gods.-Judges ii. 10. 12-14. 19. Deut. xxxi. 16. 29. Judges x. 6. 13. iii. 6, 7.

Will ye plead for Baal? &c. If he be a god, let him plead for himself. -Judges vi. 31.

Micah's mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord, to make a graven image, &c. And she made an image, &c. Micah_consecrated the Levite, &c. The Danites take away the idol, and the priest, &c. Then Micah cried out, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? &c. And the children of Dan set up the graven image.-Judges xvii. 3-5. 12. xvii. 16-20. 22—24. 30, 31.

The Philistines, when the god Dagon fell before the ark, would not tread on the threshold on which it fell and broke.-1 Sam. v. 2, &c.

Solomon, in his old age, was drawn away to commit idolatry.-1 Kings xi. 4-10.

Israel, in Ahab's time, worshipped Baal as a god, and called on him.— 1 Kings xviii. 26.

So

Jeroboam (lest Israel, by going up to Jerusalem to worship, should revolt to Rehoboam) made two calves of gold, and set one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan; and said, Behold thy gods, O Israel! Israel went, and worshipped. And he made an house of high places: and made priests of the lowest of the people, &c. ordained a feast, &c. which he had devised, &c.-1 Kings xii. 26-34. xiv. 9, 10. 2 Chron. xi. 15.

They built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.— 1 Kings xiv. 23. 2 Kings xvii. 9— 12. 16.

Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah; and all Israel went thither a whoring Asa, king of Judah, removed all after it which thing became a snare the idols, &c. but the high places unto Gideon, and his house. And were not removed. 1 Kings xv. when Gideon was dead, the children 11-15. of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.-Judges viii. 27. 33. x. 6, 7. 13, 14.

The Philistines praise, and offer sacrifice to Dagon their god, for delivering Samson to them.-Judges xvi. 23, 24.

Elijah mocked the worshippers of Baal; and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god: either he is talking, pursuing, or in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, &c.-1 Kings xviii. 27.

All the kings of Israel, after Jeroboam, did continue in the same idolatry, till Ahab: and Ahaziah, son

of Ahab, served Baal, and worshipped him.-1 Kings xvi. xxii. 51-53.

Hezekiah destroyed idolatry, removed the high places, brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it, and he called it Nehushtan, &c. So did Josiah the king.-2 Kings xviii. 4. xxiii. 4. &c. Manasseh's idolatry; setting up all his father had pulled down.2 Kings xxi. 3-—7.

King Ahaz's idolatry.-2 Chron. xxviii. 23. 25.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god, shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.-Ps. xliv. 20, 21.

All the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord (or Jehovah) made the heavens.-Ps. xcvi. 5.

Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols. Worship him, all ye gods.Ps. xcvii. 7.

Our God is in the heavens; he hath done whatsoever he pleased. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands: they have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: they have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not, &c. They that make them, are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.-Ps. cxv. 3-9. cxxxv. 15, &c. Deut. iv. 28. Hab. ii. 18, 19.

Their land is also full of idols: they worship the work of their own hands: that which their own fingers have made; and the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself, &c. The idols he shall utterly abolish; and they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, &c. In that day, a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles,

and to the bats.-Isa. ii. 8, 9. 18-20. xxxi. 7.

At that day shall a man look to his Maker, &c. and he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands; neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.-Isa. xvii. 7,8. Hosea xiv. 8.

To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? The workman melteth a graven image, &c.-Isa. xl. 18-20. 25.

The carpenter encouraged the goldsmith (or founder), &c. Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, &c. Behold, ye are of nothing (or worse than nothing), and your work of nought an abomination, &c. Their molten images are wind, and confusion.-Isa. xli. 7. 23, 24. 29.

I am the Lord: that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images, &c. They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images; that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.-Isa. xlii. 8. 17.

They that make a graven image, are all of them vanity, &c. they see not, nor know, that they may be ashamed. Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image, that is profitable for nothing? Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, &c. they shall be ashamed together, &c. The carpenter, &c. heweth him down cedar, &c. he will take thereof, and warm himself: yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread: yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it: he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto : he burneth part thereof in the fire, &c. and the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image; he falleth down and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art my god, &c. None considereth in his heart; neither is

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