36. Nevertheless, they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. v. 37. For their heart was not right with him, neither were they fledfast in his covenant. Jer. ii. 20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands, and thou faidst, I will not tranfgrefs: when upon every high hill, and under every green tree thou wandereft, playing the harlot. Jer. xlii. 5. Then they faid to Jeremiah, The Lord be a true and faithful witnefs between us, if we do not even according to all things for which the Lord thy God fhall fend thee to us. v. 6. Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we fend thee:-v. 20. For ye diffembled in your hearts, when ye fent me unto the Lord your God, faying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God, and according unto all that the Lord our God will fay, fo declare unto us, and we will do it. v. 21. And now I have this day declared it to you, but ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor any thing for the which he hath fent me unto you.

Eccl. v. 4. When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it: for he hath no pleasure in fools; pay that which thou haft vowed. V. 5. Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou fhouldft vow and not pay. v. 6. Suffer not thy mouth to caufe thy flesh to fin; neither fay thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore fhould God be angry at thy voice, and deftroy the work of thine hands? Prov. xx. 25. It is a fnare

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to the man who devoureth that which is holy: and after vows to make enquiry. `

d Lev. xxvi. 25. And I will bring a fword upon you, that fhall avenge the quarrel of my covenant.

e Prov. ii. 17. Which forfaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. E

zek. xvii. 18. Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant (when lo, he had given his hand) and hath done all these things, he fhall not escape. v. 19. Therefore thus faith the Lord God, As I live, furely mine oath that he hath defpifed, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recnpenfe upon his own head.

f Pfa. xxxvi. 4. He deveth mifchief upon his bed, he fetteth himfelf in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

g Jer. vi. 16. Thus faith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways and fee, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and wal therein, and ye fhall find reft for your fouls: but they faid, We will not walk therein.

Num. xv. 30. But the foul that doth ought prefumptuoufly (whether he be born in the land, or a ftranger) the fame reproacheth the Lord; and that foul fhall be cut off from among his people. Exod. xxi. 14. But if a man come prefumptuoufly upon his neighbour, to flay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

i Jer. iii. 3. Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there bath been no latter rain, and thou hadft a whores forehead, thou refufedft to be ashamed. Prov. vii.

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13. So fhe caught him and kiffed him, and with an impudent face faid unto him.

• Pfal. lii. 1. Why boafteft thou thyfelf in mifchief, O mighty man? 13 John 10. Wherefore if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doth, prating against us with malicious words:-

m Num. xiv. 22. Becaufe all thofe men who have seen my glory, and my miracles which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice.

n Zech, vii. 11. But they refufed to hearken, and pulled away the 1houlder, and ftopped their ears, that they fhould not hear. v. 12. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant ftone, left they fhould hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hofts hath fent in his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hofts.

• Prov. ii. 14. Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked.

Ifa. lvii. 17. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and fmote him; I hid me and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

9 Jer. xxxiv. 8. This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerufalem, to proclaim liberty unto them: v. 9. That every man fhould let his manfervant, and every man his maid

fervant, being an Hebrew, or an Hebrewefs, go free, that none should ferve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother. v. 10. Now when all the princes, and all the people which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his man-fervant, and every one his maid-servant go free, that none fhould ferve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go. v. 11. But afterwards they turned, and caufed the fervants and the hand-maids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into fubjection for fervants and for hand-maids. 2 Pet. ii. 20. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world thro' the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, they are again intangled therein, and overcome; the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. v. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. v. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and, The fow that was wathed, to her wallowing in the mire.

r 2 Kings v. 26. And he faid unto him, Gehazi, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive-yards, and vineyards, and fheep, and oxen, and men-fervants, and maid-fervants?

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Jer, vii. 10. And come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name, and fay, We are delivered to do all these abominations. Ifa. xxvi. 10. Let favour be fhewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjuftly, and will not behold the majefty of the Lord.

Ezek. xxiii. 37. That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery.—v. 38. Moreover, this they have done unto me: they have defiled my fanc tuary in the fame day, and have profaned my fabbaths. v. 39. For when they had flain their children to their idols, then they came the fame day into my fanctuary to profane it; and lo, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

Ifa. lviii. 3. Wherefore have we fafted, fay they, and thou feeft not? wherefore have we afflicted our foul, and thou takeft no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your faft you find pleasure, and exact all your labours. v. 4. Behold, ye faft for ftrife and debate, and to finite with the fift of wickedness, ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. v. 5. Is it fuch a faft that I have chofen? a day for a man to afflict his foul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to fpread fackcloth and afhes under him? Wilt thou call this a faft, and an acceptable day to the Lord? Numb, xxv. 6. And behold, one of the children of Ifrael came and brought unto his brethren a Midi

anitish woman, in the fight of Mofes, and in the fight of all the congregation of the children of Ifrael, who were weeping before the door, of the tabernacle of the congregati on. v. 7. And when Phineas the fon of Eleazar, the fon of Aaron the prieft, faw it, he rose up from amongst the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand.

w1 Cor. xi. 20. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lords fupper. v. 21. For in eating every one taketh before other, his own fupper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

x Jer. vii. 8. Behold, ye truft in lying words, that cannot profit. v. 9. Will ye fteal, murder, and commit adultery,and fwear falfely, and burn incenfe unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; v. io. And come and fland before me in this house, which is called by my name, and fay, We are delivered to do all thefe abominations? Prov. vii. 14. I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows. v. 15. Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to feekthy face, and I have found thee. John xiii. 27. And after the fop, Satan entered into him. Then faid Jefus unto him, that thou doft, do quickly. v. 30. He then having received the fop, went immediately out,

y Ezra. ix. 13. And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trefpafs, feeing that thou our God haft punished us less than our iniquities deferve, and haft given us fuch deliverance as this: v. 14. Should we again break

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thy commandments, and join'in af finity with the people of those abominations? would not thou be angry with us till thou hadst confumed us,-~

z 2 Sam. xvi. 22. So they spread Abfalom a tent upon the top of the house, and Abfalom went in unto his fathers concubines, in the fight of all Ifrael. 1 Sam. ii. 22. Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his fons did unto all Ifrael, and how they lay with the women that affembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. v. 23. And he faid unto them, Why do ye fuch things? for I hear of your evil dealings, by all this people. v. 24. Nay, my fons: for it is no good report that I hear; ye make the Lords people to tranfgrefs.

152. a James ii. 10. For whofoever fhall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. v. 11. For he that faid, Do not commit adultery, faid also, Do not kill.

b Exod. xx. 1. God fpake all these words, faying, v. 2. I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the houfe of bondage.

Hab. i. 13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canft not look on iniquity; wherefore lookeft thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdeft thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? Lev. x. 3. Then Mofes faid unto Aaron, This is that the Lord

and fpake, faying, I will be fanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified.--Lev. xi. 44. For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore fanctify your felves, and ye fhall be holy, for I am holy: neither fhall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. v. 45. For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; ye fhall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

di John iii, 4. Whofoever committeth fin, tranfgreffeth alfo the law; for fin is the tranfgreffion of the law. Rom. vii, 12. Wherefore the law is holy; and the commandment holy, and juft, and good.

e Eph. v. 6. Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Gal. iii. 10. For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curfe: for it is written, Curfed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

f Lam. iii. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his fins? Deut. xxviii. from ver. 15. to the end. But it fhall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to obferve to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curfes fhall come upon thee, and overtake thee. v. 16. Curfed shalt thou be in the city, and curfed fhalt

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