ps xxi, 13. .... And I Jerusalem as a man a dish, wiping it, and turnpside down. rili, 15. . . ... 12. While the King this table, my spikenard forth the smell thereof. it, 10. And it came to Aer. 17,2 Why do thy dis- Ivi 23. And he answer 1, 3, 4. For the Phari- ri, 22.... The beggar > Abraham's bosom. , containing two or as apiece. them a feast, and they did eat | spend money for that which is not and drink. were 1 Sam. ix, 22-24. And Samuel bread? and your labour for that which satisfleth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. John vi, 27. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. Jude 12. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. . . . . INVITATIONS. 2 Sam. xiii, 5, 9, 10, 25-27. And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick; and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand. And she took a pan, and poured them out before him: but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him. And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine 1 Kings viii, 65, 66. And at that Job i, 13. And there was a day Esther i, 3, 4, 9. In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes, and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him: his glorious kingdom, and the When he shewed the riches of honour of his excellent majesty, many days, even an hundred and fourscore days. Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus. Dan. v, 1. Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and Esther v, 4-8. And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet Then the king said, Cause Haman that I have prepared for him. to make haste, that he may do as and Haman came to the banquet Esther hath said. So the king that Esther had prepared. And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed. Then answered Esther, and said, My petition found favour in the sight of the and my request is; If I have king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that Isa. lv, 2. Wherefore do yel I shall prepare for them, and I 1, 2, 26. Now there was EAT FEASTS. 'ORIGIN AND NEED OF Esther vi, 14. And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hast-them both were opened, and they Gen. iii, 7, 21. And the eyes of ed to bring Haman unto the ban- knew that they were naked; and quet that Esther had prepared. they sewed fig-leaves together, Esther vii, 1, 2. So the king and and made themselves aprons. Haman came to banquet with Unto Adam also, and to his wife, Esther the queen. did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. SPIRIT IN WHICH SUCH INVITATIONS SHOULD BE OBEYED. Job 1, 5. And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burntofferings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. Job 1, 21. And said, Naked came taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. Eccles. v, 15. As he came forth Nahum iii, 5. Behold, I am Prov. xxiil, 1, 3, 6, 8. thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee. Be not desirous of his dainties; for they are deceitful meat. Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats. The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. Jer. xvi, 8. Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. WHITE ROBES MUCH OF VARIOUS COLOURS. Gen. xxxvii, 3. Now Israel lov Joseph more than all his childr because he was the son of his < age: and he made him a coat many colours. Judges v, 30. . . . . To Sisen prey of divers colours, a prey divers colours of needle-werk, divers colours of needle-work both sides, meet for the set of them that take the spoil? 2 Sam. xiii, 18. And she Asi her; for with such robes were garment of divers colours up king's daughters that were virg apparelled. Then his servi brought her out, and bolted! door after her. ING. Isa. 1, 3. I clothe the heavi Esther viii, 15. And Mordecai BLACK, TOKEN OF MOUE went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad. Eccles. ix, 8. Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. did shine as the sun, and his rai- names even in Sardis which have Luke xiv, 7-10, 12-14. And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, When thou art bidden of any man AND A SYMBOL OF GLORY. to a wedding, sit not down in the Matt. xvil, 2. And was transhighest room, lest a more honour-figured before them: and his face able man than thou be bidden of him; And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee; for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. Rev. vii, 9, 13. After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands: And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? with blackness, and I make s cloth their covering. Rev. vi, 12. And I beheld wh 10, there was a great earthq he had opened the sixth seal, and the sun became black sackcloth of hair, and the me became as blood. MATERIALS, WOOL, FLAX, AND SILK. Lev. xiii, 47, 48. The garm also that the plague of leprosy ment or a linen garment; Whet in, whether it be a woollen it be in the warp or woof, of in or of woollen; whether in a st or in any thing made of skin. Lev. xix, 19. Neither s a garment mingled of linen a horses brought out of Egypt wool, and flax, and worketh Prov. xxxi, 13, 22. She seek eth herself coverings of tapest her clothing is silk and purj Ezek. xvi, 10, 13. I clothed !! also with broidered work, a shod thee with badgers' skin, I girded thee about with linen, and I covered thes and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly Thus wast thou decked | soft raiment? Behold, they that I mother made him a little coat, gold and silver, and thy rai- wear soft clothing are in kings' fear of fine linen, and silk, and houses. ded work: thou didst eat four, and honey, and oil; and Avast exceeding beautiful, I then did prosper into a king sader Agriculture, FLAX; Under Animals, FLOCK.) FINER TEXTURE, WORN LY PERSONS IN HIGH STATIONS. trill, 5, 6. And they abgald, and blue, and purcarlet, and fine linen. shall make the ephod of hoe, and of purple, of and fine twined linen, icing work. xxv, 25. And all the woat were wise-hearted did ith their hands, and brought ach they had spun, both und of purple, and of scarAffine linen. 21. When I saw among Pa goodly Babylonish nd two hundred shekels ind a wedge of gold of weight,then I coveted wok them; and, behold, in the earth, in the y tent, and the silver Iv, 21. The sons of son of Judah were Er --ter of Lecab, and Laadah of Mareshah, and the the house of them that fine linen, of the house of a. xv, 27. And David was with a robe of fine linen, e Levites that bare the the singers, and ChenaEaster of the song with are David also had upon bod of linen. vil, 15. And Mordecai from the presence of the al apparel of blue and with a great crown of with a garment of fine purple..... 24. She maketh fine selleth it; and deliver es unto the merchant. 11, 23. The glasses, and the , and the hoods, and the vi, 13, 18..... Thy raiar of fine linen, and silk, dered work..... And thy broidered garments, Tredst them: and thou 7 mine oil and mine incense xi, 8. But what went ye to see? A man clothed in Rev. xix, 8. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and whitefor the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. AND A COARSER BY POORER 2 Kings i, 8. And they answered sacrifice. Job xxx. 18. By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. Cant. v, 3. I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them. Dan. iii, 21. Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery Zech. xiii, 4. And it shall come Matth. ii, 4. And the same his loins. .... SPECIAL DRESSES. Gen. xxxviii, 19. And she arose, and went away,and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood. 2 Kings xxv, 27, 29. . . . . Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison. And changed his prison-garments.... Jer. ii, 32. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. Matth. xxii, 11, 12. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding-garment: And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless. Luke ii, 7. And she brought forth her first-born son, wrapped him in swaddling-clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. Luke xxiv, 12. Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass. Acts xii, 21. And upon a set day, Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. JEWISH CLOTHING CON- will sue thee at the law, and take Matth. v, 40. And if any man away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. Matth. x, 10. Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat. Luke iii, 11. He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. Luke vi, 29. And him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also. John xix, 23. Now the coat [of Jesus] was without seam, woven from the top throughout. John xxi, 7. Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now, when Simon Peter heard that it coat unto him, (for he was naked,) was the Lord, he girt his fisher's and did cast himself into the sea. Acts ix, 39. Then Peter arose, and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them. II. THE OUTER ROBE, OR CLOAK. Gen. xxxix, 12. And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. Exod. xxii, 26. If thou at all take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down. Num. xv, 38-40. Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments, throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of 1 Sam. il, 19. Moreover, his the borders a ribband of blue: And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the command ments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart, and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: That ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. Deut. xxii, 5, 12. The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. 1 Kings xi, 29. And it came to pass at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment: and they two were alone in the field. Job xxiv, 7. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Prov. xxv, 20. As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre; so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart. Micah 1, 8. Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. Matth. ix, 20. And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment. Matth. xxi, 8. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way. .... Matth. xxiii, 5. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments. Mark xili. 16. And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment. John xill, 4. He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel and girded himself. Acts xli, 8. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals: and so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me. 2 Tim. iv, 13. The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments. prevailed against them, so th they fled out of that house nak and wounded. Rev. xvi, 15. Behold, I come a thief. Blessed is he that wate eth, and keepeth his garme lest he walk naked, and they s his shame. REAL NAKEDNESS Gen. ix, 22. And Ham, the fat of Canaan, saw the nakedness his father, and told his two bre ren without. Exod. xx, 26. Neither shal: go up by steps unto mine ab that thy nakedness be not i covered thereon. Hab. ii, 15. Woe unto him $ puttest thy bottle to him, a giveth his neighbour drink, # makest him drunken also, thou mayest look on their nak ness! MANY MARKED ALLUSIO TO IT. Isa. xlvil, 1. Come down, and in the dust, O virgin daughte is no throne, O daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground: @ Chaldeans; for thou shalt no be called tender and delicate. shame shall be seen: I will ! Isa. xlvil, 3. Thy naked shall be uncovered, yea, vengeance, and I will not thee as a man. Jer. xiii, 26. Therefore wi discover thy skirts upon thy that thy shame may appear. Jer. xlix, 10. But I have m Esau bare, I have uncovered secret places, and he shall not able to hide himself: his see spoiled, and his brethren, and neighbours, and he is not. 2 Sam. vi, 20-22. Then David And Michal, the daughter of Saul, returned to bless his household. came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before Lam. 1, 8. 9. Jerusalem the LORD. And I will yet be more grievously sinned; therefore s vile than thus, and will be base in removed: all that honoured mine own sight: and of the maid- despise her, because they t servants which thou hast spoken seen her nakedness; yea of, of them shall I be had in hon-sigheth, and turneth back. our. Her filthiness is in her skirts, remembereth not her last therefore she came down wond fully: she had no comforter. LORD, behold my affliction; for enemy hath magnified himse Job xxil, 6. For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. Lam. iv, 21. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup also shall pass through unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. John xxi, 7. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, for he was naked. Acts xix, 16. And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and Ezek. xvi, 22, 36, 37. And in abominations and thine whoredoms thou hast not rem bered the days of thy youth, w thou wast naked and bare, wast polluted in thy blood. saith the Lord God, Because filthiness was poured out, art nakedness discovered throug whoredoms with thy lovers, with all the idols of thy ab tions, and by the blood of children, which thou didst a hem; Behold, therefore I will all thy lovers, with whom ast taken pleasure, and all hat thou hast loved, with all hat thou hast hated; I will ather them round about thee, and will discover thy ess unto them, that they e all thy nakedness. , 9, 10, 18, 27-29. fore I have delivered her hand of her lovers, into al of the Assyrians, upon dber nakedness; they took and her daughters, and with the sword: and she mous among women; for alexecuted judgment upon the discovered her whoread discovered her nakedmy mind was alienated er, like as my mind was 4 from her sister. Thus ake thy lewdness to cease and thy whoredom from the land of Egypt: so 3 shalt not lift up thine to them, nor remember ay more. For thus saith 1 Gon, Behold, I will deinto the hand of them hatest, into the hand of whom thy mind is And they shall deal hatefully, and shall take hy labour, and shall naked and bare; and siness of thy whoredoms discovered, both thy lewdthy whoredoms. She doted. These dis 3, 10. Lest I strip her ind set her as in the day #born. And now will er her lewdness in the ber lovers, and none shall er out of mine band. 11. Pass ye away, thou it of Saphir, having thy aked: the inhabitant of came not forth in the of Beth-ezel; he shall fyou his standing. PORTIONS OF DRESS. FOR HEAD. ARMHOLES. Jer. xxxviii, 12. And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine arm-holes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. Ezek. xiii, 18. And say, Thus saith the Lord GoD, Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature, to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? SHEETS IN MARGIN. SHIRTS. Matth. iii, 4. And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins...... John xiii, 5. After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. Acts xxi, 11. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. 2 Sam. xxii, 40. For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me. Judges xiv, 12, 13. And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets, and thirty change of garments: But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty Ps. xviii, 32. It is God that girdsheets, and thirty change of gareth me with strength, and maketh ments. And they said unto him, my way perfect. Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it. GIRDLE. Exod. xxxix, 29. And a girdle of fine twined-linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses. Lev. vill, 7. And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. 1 Sam. ii, 18. But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child girded with a linen ephod. 2 Sam. xviii, 11. And Joab said unto the man that told him, And, behold, thou sawest him; and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver, and a girdle. viil, 40. And for Aaron's ashalt make coats, and make for them girdles, ets shalt thou make for glory and for beauty. il, 13. And Moses brought sons, and put coats upon d girded them with girpat bonnets upon them; 2D commanded Moses. txiii, 42. And a voice of a e being at ease was with with the men of the comEzek. xxiii, 15. Girded with t were brought Sabeans girdles upon their loins, exceeding e wilderness, which putin dyed attire upon their heads, 3 upon their hands, and all of them princes to look to, 1 crowns upon their after the manner of the Babylonfans of Chaldea, the land of their dy, HEAD and NECK.) nativity. 2 Kings i, 8. And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. Prov. xxxi, 17, 24. She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms. She maketh fine linen and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. Job xii, 18. He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle. Ps. lxv, 6. Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power. Ps. xciii, 1. The LORD reigneth; he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. Ps. cix, 19. Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. shall be the girdle of his loins, Isa. xi, 5. And righteousness and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. Isa. xxii, 21. And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. Isa. xlv, 5. I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God besides me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me. Jer. xiii, 1, 10. Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them; shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing. John xxi, 18. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou |