appointed his bounds that he cannot pass: If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Eccles. iii, 2. A time to be born, and a time to die: a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted. Isa. xxxviii, 5. Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: Behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years. NONE TO BE EXEMPTED. Num. xxiv, 23. And he took up his parable, and said, Alas! who shall live when God doeth this? Josh. xxiii, 14. And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts, and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof. Judges ii, 10. And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. 1 Kings il, 2. I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man. Job vii, 9, 10. As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall more to his house, neither shall his place know him return no any more. Job ix, 22. This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. Job xiv, 10, 12, 19, 20. But man dieth, and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. Job xxi, 23, 25, 26, 32, 33. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. Job xxiv, 24. They are ex alted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn. Job xxxiv, 14, 15. If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto All flesh shall perish together, and himself his spirit and his breath; man shall turn again unto dust. Eccles, 1, 4. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. Eccles. 11, 16. For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is, in the days to come shall all be forgotten: and how dieth the wise munt as the fool. Eccles. iv, 15. I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. Eccles. vi, 6. Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place? Eccles. vili, 8. There is no man that hath power over the spirit, to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. Eccles. xii, 5. Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way and the almond-tree shall flourish. Zech. i, 5. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? Heb. vii, 23. And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death. PREPARATION FOR DEATH OF VARIOUS KINDS. I-SECULAR. 2 Kings xx, 1. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death: and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live. Isa. xxxvili, 1. In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. Heb. ix, 16, 17. For where a testament is there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: other wise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. II-SOLICITUDE FOR Deut. xxxi, 14, 28, 29. And the LORD said unto Moses. Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation. Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them. For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands. 1 Kings ii, 1, 2. Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man. endeavour that ye may be able 2 Peter i, 15. Moreover, I will after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. III. CHARGE IN REGARD TO BODY WHEN DEAD. Gen. xlvii, 29, 30. And the time drew nigh that Israel must die, and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: But I will lie with my fathers; and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said: Gen. xlix, 29-33. And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that ts in the field of Ephron the Hittite; In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is therein, was from the children of Heth. And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people Gen. 1, 4-6, 25.... Joseph said, Speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father. and I will come again. And Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. ber our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Ps. lxxxviii, 10-12. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. Shall thy loving-kindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? Ps. cxv, 17. The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. Eccles. ix, 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. Isa. xxxviii, 18, 19. For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth. Amos iv, 12. Therefore thus will against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD. Behold, therefore. I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again. Job xvii, 16. They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust. Ps. xxxi, 5. Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth. Ps. xxxvii, 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. Ps. lxxiii, 24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Ps. cxvi, 15. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. The righteous is Prov. xi, 8. of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 2 Sam. xix, 37. Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. . . . . 1 Kings xiii, 31. And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones. Matth. x, 28. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. John ix, 4. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. Heb. xiii, 14. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. 1 Peter i, 17. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect Prov. xiv, 32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. Eccles. vii, 1. A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. Isa. Ivii, 1. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the right eous is taken away from the evil to come. Luke xvi, 22, 25. And it came to Feb. xi, 22. By faith Joseph. of persons judgeth according to pass, that the beggar died, and when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. IV-SPIRITUAL PREPARATION, WHICH MUST ALWAYS BE MADE BEFORE DEATH. Deut. xxxii, 29. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! Ps. vi, 5. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? PS. xxx. 9. What profit is there in any blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? Ps. xxxix, 4. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Ps. xc, 12. So teach us to num every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in tear. 2 Peter i, 10, 11. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. HAPPY DEATH OF THE Num. xxiii, 10. . . Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! 1 Kings ii, 10. So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. 2 Kings xxii, 19, 20. Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. Luke xxiii, 43. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. John xi, 11-13. These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Rom. xiv, 8. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. 1 Cor. iii, 22, 23. Whether Paul or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. Phil. i, 21, 23. For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and be with Christ; which is far better. Rev. xiv, 13. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit,that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Cor. xv, 55-57. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. v, 8. We are confident, 1 say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 2 Tim. iv, 7, 8. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not THE HOPE OF CHRISTIANS. to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. Gen. xlix, 18. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD! Job vii, 16. I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone: for my days are vanity. Job xiii, 15. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. Job xix, 25-27. For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. Ps. xlviii, 14. For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death. Fs. lv, 8. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. Ps. lxxiii, 25, 26. Whom have I in heaven but theef and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Luke ii, 29, 30. Lor! now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation. John xiv, 2, 3. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. DEATH A GREAT CHANGE. I-PHYSICAL CHANGE PRODUCED BY DEATH. Gen. xxiii, 3, 4. And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. Job xxi, 26. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them Job xxiv, 19. Drought and heat consume the snow-waters; so doth the grave those which have sinned. Ps. xlix, 14. Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. Ps. lxxx, 16. It is burnt with fire; it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. Ps. cxli, 7. Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. Isa. xiv, 11. Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. John xi, 39. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. Rom. viii, 38, 39. For I am per- he had served his own generation Acts xiii, 36. For David, after suaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, by the will of God, fell on sleep, nor powers, nor things present, and was laid unto his fathers, and nor things to come, Nor height, saw corruption. nor depth, nor any other creature, (8ce under Body, BONES.) IL-THE DEAD FORGOTTEN. Job vili, 18, 19. If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. Job xviii, 17. His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. Job xx, 8. He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. P8. xxxi, 12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. Ps. lxxxviii, 4, 5. I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength. Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Eccles. 11, 16. For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever. Eccles. iv, 16. There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit. Eccles. viii, 10. And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This is also vanity. III. TOTALLY AND FOR EVER CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD. 2 Chron. xxxiv, 28. Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy, grave in peace, neither shall thine" eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again. Job iii, 17-19. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. Job x, 21. Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death. Job xiv, 11,13-15,21. As the waters decayeth and drieth up. Oh that fail from the sea, and the flood thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past; that thou wouldest appoint Lam. ii, 6. He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. Ezek. xvi, 20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living. BODY PREPARED AND ANOINTED FOR BURIAL. Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons Lev. x, 4, 5. And Moses called of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp. So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said. 2 Chron. xvi, 14. Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light. Ps. lxxviii, 39. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. Prov. xi, 7. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; and the hope of unjust men per isheth. Eecles. v, 16. And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind. THE DARK REALM OF Job x, 22. A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. Job xviii, 18. He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. Job xxxviii, 17. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Eccles. xi, 8. But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours, and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art; and they made a very great burning for him. Jer. xxxiv, 4, 5. Yet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword; But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD. Matt. xxvi, 12. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. John xi, 44. 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 xix, 40. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it the manner of the Jews is to bury in linen clothes with the spices, as Acts ix, 36, 37. Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which, by interpretation, is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did. And it came to pass in those days, that she was SCENES OF MOURNING. Gen. xxiii, 2. And Saralı died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abra ham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Gen. 1, 10, 11. And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous fore the name of it was called mourning to the Egyptians: whereAbel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan. Deut. xxxiv, 8. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. 2 Sam. 1, 12. And they mourned and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword. 2 Sam. lil, 31-34. And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king And they buried Abner in HeDavid himself followed the bier. voice, and, wept at the grave of bron: and the king lifted up his Abner, and all the people wept. And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters; as a wicked men, so fellest thou. And man falleth before Isa. xiv, 9, 10. Hell from be. sick, and died: whom when they all the people wept again over neath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us? had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. SOMETIMES EMBALMED. Gen. 1, 1-3, 26. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm | him. 2 Sam. xiv, 2. And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead. 2 Sam xxl, 10. And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. 1 Kings xiii, 29. And the pro phet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city to mourn, and to bury him. Eccles. xii, 5. Because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Jer. xxxi, 15. Thus saith the LORD, A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. Hosea ix, 4. They shall not offer wine-ferings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eatest thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. Matt. ii. 18. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachael weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. Jon xi, 33. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her he groaned in the spirit and was troubled. Acts viii. 2. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. DEAD SOMETIMES UN LAMENTED. Jer. xvi, 3-5,7. For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be neat for the fowls of heaven, an 1 for the beasts of the earth. For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even loving-kindns an mcies.. Neither snall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their Jer. xxii, 10-12. Weep ye not for Shallum the son of Josiah king of Ezek. xxiv, 21, 23. Speak unto COMFORTERS. the children of Ammon said unto 1 Chron. xix, 2, 3. And David Job xxix, 25. I chose out their Jews came to Martha and Mary ning women, that they may come. For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. Amos v, 16. 17. Therefore the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! . . . . . And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the LORD. Matt. ix, 23. And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise. CERTAIN MARKS AND FORMS OF MOURNING FORBIDDEN. Lev. xix, 28. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. Deut. xxvi, 14. I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given have hearkened to the voice of ought thereof for the dead; but I the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. Deut. xiv, 1. Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. NECROMANCY. 1 Sam. xxviii, 7, 8. Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and said to him, Behold, there is a enquire of her. And his servants woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor. And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night; and he said, I pray thee, spirit, and bring me him up whom divine unto me by the familiar I shall name unto thee. CERTAIN PERSONS FORBID- |