hands against such as be at peace with him; he hath broken his covenant. Ps. lxxviii, 10, 11, 37. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. Ps. ciil, 18. To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them. Prov. 11, 17. Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. Isa. xxxiii, 8. The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth; he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man. Isa. Ivi, 4-7. For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; Even unto them will I give in mine house, and within my walls, a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. Jer. xl, 3. And say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant. Jer. xxii, 9. Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. Jer. xxxi, 32. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand, to bring them out of the land of Egypt: (which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD.) Jer. xxxiv, 18. And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not | performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof. Ezek. xvii, 15, 16, 19. But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people: shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such thingst or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head. he return into his land with great Dan. xi, 28, 30, 32. Then shall riches: and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall do exploits, and return to his own land. For the ships of Chittim shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant. And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. Rom. 1, 31. Without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful. MAN MAKING COVENANT WITH GOD. Josh. xxiv, 25. So Joshua madi a covenant with the people th day, and set them a statute and a ordinance in Shechem. 2 Kings xi, 17. And Jehoiad made a covenant between th LORD and the king and the peop that they should be the Lo people; between the king also en the people. 2 Kings xxiii, 3. And the hi stood by a pillar, and made covenant before the LORD, to wa after the LORD, and to keep commandments and his testim ies and his statutes with all the heart and all their soul, to perf the words of this covenant th were written in this book. A all the people stood to the cov nant. 2 Chron. xv, 12. And they tered into a covenant to seek LORD God of their fathers with their heart and with all the soul. made a covenant between bi and between all the people, s 2 Chron. xxiii, 16. And Jehola between the should be the LORD's people. king, that th 2 Chron. xxix, 10. Now # in mine heart to make a cover with the LORD God of Israel, U his fierce wrath may turn s from us. 2 Chron. xxxiv, 31, 32. And i king stood in his place, and m a covenant before the Lor walk after the LORD, and to ke his commandments, and his te monies, and his statutes, with his heart, and with all his son, perform the words of the covens which are written in this boo And he caused all that were a sent in Jerusalem and Benjam to stand to it. And the ita tants of Jerusalem did accord to the covenant of God, the G of their fathers. this we make a sure covenant, Neh. ix, 38. And because of and priests, seal unto it. write it; and our princes, Levia THE NEW COVENANT. Isa. lix, 21. As for me, this LORD; My Spirit that is up put in thy mouth, shall but dep thee, and my words which I s out of thy mouth, nor out of mouth of thy seed's seed, s mouth of thy seed, nor out of the LORD, from henceforth and a ever. day all of you before the LORD Deut. xxix, 10-15. Ye stand this your God; your captains of your officers, with all the men of Israel, tribes, your elders, and your Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water; That thou shouldest enter into cove-my covenant with them, saith nant with the LORD thy God, and God maketh with thee this day: into his oath, which the LORD thy That he may establish thee to-day he may be unto thee a God, as he for a people unto himself, and that bath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Neither with you only do I make Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. this covenant and this oath; But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day. days come, saith the LORD, that Jer. xxxi, 31-33. Behold, th will make a new covenant wi the house of Israel, and with house of Judah; Not accur to the covenant that I made wi their fathers in the day that I to the hand to bring them te land of Egypt; shall be the covenant that make with the house of After those days, saith the will put my law in their parts, and write it in their and will be their God, shall be my people. rxii, 40. And I will make rlasting covenant with at I will not turn away n, to do them good; but I my fear in their hearts, shall not depart from 8. Now, when I pass, and looked upon thee, thy time was the time of I spread my skirt over covered thy nakedness: are unto thee, and entera covenant with thee, Lord GOD, and thou be 1,17,18. And this I say, Covenant, that was confore of God in Christ, the i was four hundred and irs after, cannot disannul, call make the promise of For if the inheriof the law, it is no more but God gave it to by promise. , 25. Which things ry: for these are the at the one from the Bal, which gendereth to which is Agar. For this neunt Sinal in Arabia, reth to Jerusalem which dis in bondage with her 6-10, 13. But now hath ed a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first corenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For, finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. Heb. x, 15, 16. Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them. WONDERFUL COVENANTS. Job v, 23. For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. Hosea ii, 18. And in that day will I make a covenant for them 141 with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with of the the creeping things ground. ... RUINOUS COVENANTS. Isa. xxviii, 15, 18, 19. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are flowing scourge shall pass through, we at agreement; when the overit shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing ye shall be trodden down by it. Scourge shall pass through, then From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night; and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. JEWS FORBIDDEN TO MAKE COVENANTS WITH HEATHEN NATIONS. Exod. xxiii, 32. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. Deut. vii, 2. And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them. Hosea xii, 1. Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. HUNGER. Gen. xxv, 30. And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 1 Sam. xiv, 30. How much more, if haply the people: had eaten freely to-day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? 1 Sam. xxx, 11, 12. And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water; And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights. DIET AND DRESS. days with the disciples which were at Damascus. Acts, xxvil, 33, 34. And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried, and continued fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I pray you to take some meat; for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you. (See under Body, APPETITE.) VOLUNTARY ABSTINENCE FROM FOOD. Gen. xxiv, 33. And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on. 1 Sam. 1, 7. And as he did so king said unto the man of G 1 Kings xiii, 7-9, 15-17. And Come home with me, and refr thyself, and I will give thee a ward. And the man of God i unto the king, If thou wilt | me half thine house, I will not in with thee, neither will I bread nor drink water in place: For so was it charged by the word of the LORD, Say Eat no bread, nor drink water, turn again by the same way Matt. iv, 3, 4. And when the year by year, when she went up thou camest. Then he said t Ithou be the Son of God, com- provoked her: therefore she wept, bread. And he said, I may tempter came to him, he said, If to the house of the LORD, So she and did not eat. mand that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Mark viil, 1-4. In those days, the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat. Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat; And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far. And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness? Luke iv, 2-4. Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God. Acts, ix, 19. And when he had received meat, he was strengthened, Then was Saul certain 1 Sam. xxviii, 20-23. Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel; and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night. And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me: Now therefore, I pray thee, hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength when thou goest on thy way. But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice: so he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed. him, Come home with me, and return with thee, nor go in thee; neither will I eat bread drink water with thee in this pl For it was said to me by the of the LORD, Thou shalt ei bread nor drink water there, turn again to go by the way thou camest. FASTING IN CONNECTI WITH RELIGION. THE RIGHT SPIRIT T FAST IN. Isa. Ivill, 3-8. Wherefore b we fasted, say they, and thou® not? wherefore have we af our soul, and thou takest no kt ledge? Behold, in the day of fast ye find pleasure, and exac your labours. Behold, ye fast strife and debate, and to st with the fist of wickednes shall not fast as ye do this đờ make your voice to be hear high. Is it such a fast that I chosen? a day for a man to s his soul? is it to bow down head as a bulrush, and to st sackcloth and ashes under! wilt thou call this a fast, and acceptable day to the Lon it this the fast that I have chosen? | land into the house of the LORD fer. iv, 12. When they fast, I 1st bear their cry; and when yder burnt-offering and an , I will not accept them: I will consume them by the and by the famine, and by Pestilence. , vil, 5. Speak unto all the of the land, and to the saying, When ye fasted mecred in the fifth and bab month, even those seventy Ed ye at all fast unto me, ril, 19. Thus saith the of bosts, The fast of the , and the fast of the d the fast of the seventh, Set of the tenth, shall be base of Judah joy and and cheerful feasts; above the truth and peace. 7,16-18. Moreover, when not as the hypocrites, dcutintenance: for they distheir faces, that they may tato men to fast. Verily to you, They have their 4 But thon, when thou Lanoint thine head, and Jonah ill, 5-8. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast,and put on sackcloth, Joel ii, 12, 15, 16. Therefore also from the greatest of them even to now, saith the LORD, Turn ye even the least of them. For word came to me with all your heart, and unto the king of Nineveh; and he with fasting, and with weeping, arose from his throne, and he laid and with mourning. Blow the his robe from him, and covered trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, him with sackcloth, and sat in call a solemn assembly: Gather ashes. And he caused it to be the people, sanctify the congrega-proclaimed and published through tion, assemble the elders, gather Nineveh by the decree of the the children, and those that suck king and his nobles, saying, Let the breasts: let the bridegroom go neither man nor beast, herd nor forth of his chamber, and the bride flock, taste any thing: let them not out of her closet. feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God; yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. OTHER FASTS, PRIVATE ed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 2 Chron. xx, 3. And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. Ezra viii, 21,23. Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance. So we fasted, and besought our God for this; and he was entreated of us. Ezra, x, 6. Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib; and when he Neh. 1, 4. And it came to pass, bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. Dan. x, 3. I ate no pleasant EXTRAORDINARY FASTS. Deut. ix, 9,18. When I was gone up into the mount, to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I neither did eat bread nor drink water. And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread nor drink water, because of all your sins which yo sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. of the LORD came again the second 1 Kings xix, 7, 8. And the angel time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the jour ay face, That thou appear sat down and wept, and mourned ney is too great for thee. And he men to fast, but unto thy which is in secret: and thy which seeth in secret, ward thee openly. 18-20. And the disciples and of the Pharisees used and they come and say Why do the disciples of of the Pharisees fast, 7 disciples fast not? And Bad unto them, Can the a of the bride-chamber fast The bridegroom is with as long as they have the em with them, they canBut the days will come, the bridegroom shall be way from them, and then bey fast in those days. STS BY DIVINE certain days, and fasted, and Esther iv, 15-17. Then Esther Jer. xxxvi, 9. And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehofakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem. went in the strength of that meat arose, and did eat and drink, and forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. had fasted forty days and forty Matth. iv, 2. And when [Jesus] nights, he was afterward an hungered. FOOD, THE GIFT OF GOD. her daughters-in-law, that she Ruth. i, 6. Then she arose with might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people, in giving them bread. Job. xxviii, 5. As for the earth it is turned up as it were fire. out of it cometh bread; and under Ps. civ, 14, 15, 27. He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart. These wait all upon thee, that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. P3. cvil, 9. For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness. Ps. cxxxil, 15. I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. Ps. cxxxvi, 25. Who giveth food to all flesh; for his mercy endureth for ever. Ps. cxlv, 15, 16. The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. Ps. cxlvil, 14. He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat. Jer. xxxi, 12. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd; and their soul shall be as a watered garden: and they shall not sorrow any more at 2 Kings xxv, 30. And his allowance was a continual allow ance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life. Prov. xii, 11. He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding. Prov. xx, 13. Love not sleep lest thou come to poverty: open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfled with bread. Prov. xxxi, 27. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Jer. lil, 34. And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion, until the day of his death, all the days of his life. Dan. i, 5. And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king. Matth. xiv, 15, 16. And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves victuals. But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat. THANKS TO BE GIVEN, AND PRAYER OFFERED THAT IT MAY BE BLEST. Exod. xxiii, 25. And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water. Num. xi, 4, 18-20. And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: LORD, saying, Who shall give us (for ye have wept in the ears of the flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt:) therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat. Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days: But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt? 1 Kings iv, 22. And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty Job xx, 23. When he is about to measures of fine flour, and three-fill his belly, God shall cast the score measures of meal. fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while be eating. eat, and were well filled: f Ps. lxxviii, 29-31. So they gave them their own destre: Ti were not estranged from th lust. But while their meat yet in their mouths, The * of God came upon them, and s the fattest of them, and a down the chosen men of Israel Ps. evi, 14, 15. But lusted ceedingly in the wilderness, tempted God in the desert. he gave them their request sent leanness into their soul Prov. xiii, 25. The right eateth to the satisfying of h But the belly of the wickeds want. Prov. xv, 17. Better is a di of herbs where love is, the stalled ox and hatred therewi Prov. xvii, 1. Better is $ morsel, and quietness there than an house full of sac with strife. Micah vi, 14. Thou shalt not be satisfied. Matth. vi, 11. Give us our daily bread. John vi, 11. And Jesus to loaves; and when he bad. thanks, he distributed to t ciples, and the disciples to that were set down; and of the fishes as much would. Rom. xiv, 6. eateth, eateth to the Lord, giveth God thanks; and eateth not, to the Lord he not, and giveth God thanks 1 Cor. x, 30, 31. For if Ibg be a partaker, why am spoken of for that which thanks? Whether theref eat, or drink, or whatsoever do all to the glory of God. 1 Tim. iv, 4, 5. For every ture of God is good, and to be refused, if it be r sanctified by the word of Ga with thanksgiving: For prayer. VEGETABLE DIET. Gen. 1, 29. And God sal hold, I have given you every bearing seed, which is up face of all the earth, and tree, in the which is the fre tree yielding seed; to you it be for meat. Dan. 1, 12, 16. Prove vants, I beseech thee, te and let them give us puls and water to drink. Thus took away the portion of meat, and the wine that should drink; and a pulse. |