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Prov. il, 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.

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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 cove-
nant 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 re-
belled against him in sending his
ambassadors into Egypt, that they
might give him horses and much
people: shall he prosper? shall he
shall he break the covenant, and
escape that doeth such things? or
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 re-
compense 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: 80
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 understand-
ing, covenant-breakers, without
natural affection, implacable, un-
merciful.

MAN MAKING COVENANT

WITH GOD.

Josh. xxiv, 25. So Joshua mad 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 an the people.

stood by a pillar, and made after the LORD, and to keep commandments and his testim covenant before the LORD, to wa ies and his statutes with all heart and all their soul, to perfo the words of this covenant th

2 Kings xxiii, 3. And the kin

were written in this book. A all the people stood to the co

nant.

2 Chron. xv, 12. And they e tered into a covenant to seek LORD God of their fathers with their heart and with all the soul.

made a covenant between b 2 Chron. xxiii, 16. And Jehola and between all the people, a should be the LORD's people. between the king, that th

2 Chron. xxix, 10. Now in mine heart to make a cover with the LORD God of Israel, " his fierce wrath may turn 29 from us.

2 Chron. xxxiv, 31, 32. And i king stood in his place, and m a covenant before the Lop 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 coven which are written in this bo And he caused all that were sent in Jerusalem and Benjar to stand to it. And the it!! tants of Jerusalem did accor 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

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 NEW COVENANT.
the drawer of thy water; That
Isa. lix, 21. As for me, this
thou shouldest enter into cove-my covenant with them, saith
nant with the LORD thy God, and LORD; My Spirit that is up
into his oath, which the LORD thy thee, and my words which I L
God maketh with thee this day: put in thy mouth, shall not dep
That he may establish thee to-day out of thy mouth, nor out of
he may be unto thee a God, as he mouth of thy seed's seed,
for a people unto himself, and that mouth of thy seed, nor out of
hath said unto thee, and as he the LORD, from henceforth and
hath sworn unto thy fathers, to ever.
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Neither with you only do I make
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, will make a new covenant w the house of Israel, and with house of Judah; Not accord to the covenant that I made w their fathers in the day that I tool

by the hand to bring them the land of Egypt; is shall be the covenant that I make with the house of After those days, saith the I will put my law in their d parts, and write it in their & and will be their God, ley shall be my people. m40. And I will make verlasting covenant

with

that I will not turn away den, to do them good; but I my fear in their hearts, they shall not depart from

8. Now, when I pass5 thee, and looked upon thee, , thy time was the time of and I spread my skirt over and covered thy nakedness: Isware unto thee, and entermie a covenant with thee, the Lord Gop, and thou be

mine.

, 17, 18. And this I say, the covenant, that was conbefore of God in Christ, the hich was four hundred and years after, cannot disannul, beeld make the promise of effect. For if the inheriphethe law, it is no more but God gave it to baby promise.

, 25. Which things ry: for these are the as the one from the

al, which gendereth to , which is Agar. For this lemount Sinai In Arabia, ereth to Jerusalem which and is in bondage with her

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COVENANT.

ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first cove nant 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 Now that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. 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 il, 18. And in that day will I make a covenant for them

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of the creeping things with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the

ground.

RUINOUS COVENANTS. Isa. xxviii, 15, 18, 19. Because ye nant with death, and with hell are have said, We have made a covewe at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it 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 overflowing your agreement with hell shall not stand;

when the

Scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. 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.

COVENANTS WITH HEATH-
JEWS FORBIDDEN TO MAKE
EN NATIONS.

Exod. xxiii, 32. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

Deut. vii, 2. And when the LORD thee, thou shalt smite them, and thy God shall deliver them before 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.

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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.

Matt. iv, 3, 4. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command 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

DIET AND DRESS.

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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 year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her: therefore she wept, and did not eat.

1 Sam. ix, 13. As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall

find him.

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king said unto the man of G 1 Kings xiii, 7-9, 15-17. And Come home with me, and refre thyself, and I will give thee a ward. And the man of God unto the king, If thou wilt me half thine house, I will not in with thee, neither will I bread nor drink water in t place: For so was it charged by the word of the LORD, S3). Eat no bread, nor drink water, turn again by the same way t thou camest. Then he said u him, Come home with me, and bread. And he said, I may return with thee, nor go in W thee; neither will I eat bread r drink water with thee in this pl For it was said to me by the of the LORD, Thou shalt enl bread nor drink water there, turn again to go by the way ti thou camest.

1 Kings xxi, 4. [And Als laid him down upon his bed, s turned away his face, and wo eat no bread.

FASTING IN CONNECTIO

WITH RELIGION. THE RIGHT SPIRIT TO FAST IN.

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, Isa. Ivill, 3-8. Wherefore ha Behold, thine handmaid hath we fasted, say they, and thou s obeyed thy voice, and I have put not? wherefore have we affe my life in my hand, and have our soul, and thou takest no kos hearkened unto thy words which ledge? Behold, in the day of y thou spakest unto me: Now there- fast ye find pleasure, and exacta fore, I pray thee, hearken thou your labours. Behold, ye fast also unto the voice of thine hand-strife and debate, and to sm maid, and let me set a morsel of with the fist of wickedness: bread before thee; and eat, that shall not fast as ye do this day, thou mayest have strength when make your voice to be heard thou goest on thy way. But he high. Is it such a fast that I be refused, and said, I will not eat. chosen? a day for a man to a But his servants, together with the his soul? is it to bow down i woman, compelled him; and he head as a bulrush, and to spera hearkened unto their voice: so he sackcloth and ashes under lin arose from the earth, and sat upon wilt thou call this a fast, and the bed. acceptable day to the Lone!

DIET AND DRESS.

at this the fact that Thave chosen? I land into the house of the LORD
to lose the bands of wickedness, your God, and cry unto the LORD.
ando the heavy burdens, and to
Geoppressed go free, and that
Break every yoke? Is it not to
althy bread to the hungry, and
at thou bring the poor that are
cut to thy house? when thou
et the naked, that thou cover
and that thou hide not thy-
from thine own flesh? Then
thy light break forth as the
ng and thine health shall
ing forth speedily; and thy
ess shall go before thee:
y of the LORD shall be thy

., 12. When they fast, I at bear their cry; and when der burnt-offering and an da, I will not accept them:

Jonah ill, 5-8. So the people of claimed a fast,and put on sackcloth, Nineveh believed God, and profrom the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered And he caused it to be him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Joel ii, 12, 15, 16. Therefore also
now, saith the LORD, Turn ye even
to me with all your heart, and
with fasting, and with weeping,
and with mourning. Blow the
trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast,
call a solemn assembly: Gather
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
But let
the breasts: let the bridegroom go neither man nor beast, herd nor
feed, nor drink water:
forth of his chamber, and the bride flock, taste any thing: let them not
man and beast be covered with
out of her closet.
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
AND PUBLIC.

1 Kings xxl, 12. They proclaimEl consume them by the ed a fast, and set Naboth on high the people. nd and by the famine, and by Apestilence.

Set, vil, 5. Speak unto all the of the land, and to the saying, When ye fasted cred in the fifth and month, even those seventy ye at all fast unto me,

19. Thus saith the bests, The fast of the math, and the fast of the

d the fast of the seventh, thest of the tenth, shall be buse of Judah joy and

and cheerful feasts;

bove the truth and peace.

16-18. Moreover, when be not as the hypocrites, ad aintenance: for they distheir faces, that they may to men to fast. Verily to you, They have their But thou, when thou anoint thine head, and y face, That thou appear men to fast, but unto thy which is in secret: and thy which seeth in secret, ward thee openly. il, 18-20. And the disciples and of the Pharisees used and they come and say , Why do the disciples of and of the Pharisees fast, By disciples fast not? And Ed unto them, Can the of the bride-chamber fast the bridegroom is with as long as they have the en with them, they canBut the days will come, the bridegroom shall be sway from them, and then they fast in those days.

ASTS BY DIVINE
AUTHORITY.

1,14. Sanctify ye a fast, call an assembly, gather the eland all the inhabitants of the

among

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 subSo we fasted, and besought our God for this; and he

stance.

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
came thither, he did eat no bread,

nor drink water: for he mourned
because of the trangression of
them that had been carried away.

Neh. 1, 4. And it came to pass,
when I heard these words, that I
sat down and wept, and mourned
certain days, and fasted, and
prayed before the God of hea-
ven.

Esther iv, 15-17. Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer; Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. So Mordecal went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

Dan. x, 3. I ate no pleasant

bread, neither came flesh nor wine

in my mouth, neither did I anoint
myself at all, till three whole
weeks were fulfilled.

EXTRAORDINARY FASTS.

Deut. ix, 9,18. When I was gone up into the mount, to receive the LORD tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the

made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights; I neither did eat bread nor fore the LORD, as at the first, forty drink water. And I fell down bedays and forty nights: I did neither eat bread nor drink water,

because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him

to anger.

1 Kings xix, 7, 8. And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, And he Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat Horeb the mount of God. forty days and forty nights unto

Matth. iv, 2. And when [Jesus] had fasted forty days and forty gered. nights, he was afterward an hun

Ruth. 1, 6. Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she 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.

FOOD, THE GIFT OF GOD.

Job. xxviii, 5. As for the earth Jer. xxxvi, 9. And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoia-out of it cometh bread; and under kim the son of Josiah king of it is turned up as it were fire. Judab, 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 143 unto Jerusalem.

Ps. civ, 14, 15, 27. He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And wine that and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

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. cxxxii, 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.

P8. 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

all.

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2 Kings XXV, 80. 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 satisfied with bread.

Prov. xxxi, 27. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Jer. lii, 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. 1, 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.

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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.

Ps. lxxviii, 29-31. So they eat, and were well filled: fr gave them their own desire: T were not estranged from th lust. But while their meat yet in their mouths, The of God came upon them, and si the fattest of them, and down the chosen men of Israel Ps. cvi, 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 hi But the belly of the wickeds want.

Prov. XV, 17. Better is a of herbs where love is, th 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 the our daily bread.

John vi, 11. And Jesus to loaves; and when he had thanks, he distributed to th 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 Iby 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 n to be refused, if it be r with thanksgiving: sanctified by the word of G prayer.

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VEGETABLE DIET. Gen. 1, 29. And God hold, I have given you even bearing seed, which is o face of all the earth, and tree, in the which is the fr tree yielding seed; to you be for meat.

Dan. 1, 12, 16. Prove Y vants, I beseech thee, tes and let them give us puls and water to drink. Thus N took away the portion of meat, and the wine that should drink; and gava pulse.

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