hard the voice of the living God eating out of the midst of the , as we have, and lived?

1 Kings xix, 12, 13. And after the thquake a fire; but the LORD not in the fire: and after the a still small voice. And it #0, when Elijah heard it, that wrapped his face in his mantle, I went out, and stood in the ring in of the cave: and, be1, there came a voice unto him, ad said, What doest thou here,

KENS OF THE DIVINE
APPEARANCE.
FIRE.

d. iv, 36. Out of heaven he thee to hear his voice,that he instruct thee: and upon he showed thee his great and thou heardest his words the midst of the fire.

tv, 24. And ye said, Behold, Lop our God hath showed us glory, and his greatness, and ve heard his voice out of the of the fire: we have seen day that God doth talk with and he liveth.

B. xxii. 13. Through the htness before him were coals

Are kindled.

13. Our God shall come, shall not keep silence: a fire devour before him, and it be very tempestuous round wet him. P. xcvii, 3. A fire goeth before , and burneth up his enemies Had about.

Fab ii, 5. Before him went the xilence, and burning coals went eth at his feet.

LIGHT.

2 Sam. xxii, 29. For thou art my lamp, O LORD; and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

Ps. 1, 2. Out of Zion, the tion of beauty, God hath shined. Ps. civ, 2. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment.

Isa. xlv, 18. For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: Í am the LORD; and there is none else.

Isa. xlviii, 13. Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Jer. x, 12. He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wis

by his understanding.

Amos ix, 6. It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.

LESSONS, ETC., FROM
CREATION.

2 Kings xix, 15. And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel which dwellest between the cherubim, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

Ps. cxxi, 2. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

Ps. cxxiv, 8. Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Ps. cxxxvi, 5, 6. To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever. To him

that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Ps. cxlvi, 5, 6. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God; Which made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is; which keepeth truth for ever.

Isa. li, 13. And forgettest the LORD thy Maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day, because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor.

Amos v, 8. Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; The LORD is his name.

Acts iv, 24. And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is.

Rom. xi, 3. Through faith we understand that the worlds wero framed by the word of God; so that things which are seen were

Rev. iv, 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and werecreated. Rev. xlv, 7. Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

CREATION OF MAN.

Gen. 1, 26, 27. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image: in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen, il, 7. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Gen. v, 1. This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the

likeness of God made he him.

Job xxxiii, 4. The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

Prov. xx, 12. The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath even made both of them.

Isa. xlii, 5. Thus saith God the LORD,... he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein.

Isa. xlv, 12. I have made the earth, and created man upon it... Isa. Ixiv, 8. But now, O LORD, thou art our Father: we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Jer. xxvii, 5. I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power, and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom

it seemed meet unto me.

Zech. xil, 1. The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

II.

PROVIDENCE.

GOD IS PRESERVER. Gen. xlvill, 15. And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which

Neh. ix, 6. Thou, even thou, art LORD alone, thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all.

Job x, 12. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

Job xii, 10. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

Job xxxiil, 18. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Ps. xxiii, 6. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Ps. lxvi, 9. Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Ps. lxxiii, 23. Nevertheless I am holden me by my right hand. continually with thee; thou hast

Ps. xc, 1. LORD, thou hast been our dwelling-place, in all genera

tions.

Ps. civ, 28-30. That thou givest thine hand, they are filled with them they gather: thou openest good. Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust, Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created; and thou renewest the face of the earth.

Ps. cxxi, 3-8. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is thy keeper; the LORD is thy shade npon thy right hand. day, nor the moon by night. The The sun shall not smite thee by LORD shall preserve thee from all evil; he shall preserve thy soul. The LORD shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in, from this time forth, and even for evermore.

2 Sam. xxil, 33. God is my strength, and power, and he ma eth my way perfect.

Ps. ix. 9. The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

Ps. xvill, 85. Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.

Ps. xivi, 5, 11. God is in the midst of her; she shall not b moved: God shall help her, and that right early. The LORD f hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Ps. Ixi, 3. For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

Ps. xci, 1-4. He that dwellett in the secret place of the most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in hi will I trust. Surely he shall de liver thee from the snare of th pestilence. He shall cover the fowler, and from the noison with his feathers, and under bi wings shalt thou trust; his trut shall be thy shield and buckler.

Ps. cxxiv, 1-8. If it had m

been the LORD who was on o side, now may Israel say; If tha not been the LORD who was c our side, when men rose against us; Then they had swal lowed us up quick, when thes wrath was kindled against us.

Prov. xviii, 10. The name of the LORD is a strong tower, the righ eous runneth into it, and is safe.

am with thee; be not dismayed Isa. xli, 10. Fear thon not; for I for I am thy God: I will strengthen will uphold thee with the rict thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, i hand of my righteousness.

Isa. xliii, 2. When thou passes through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, the shall not overflow thee: wh thou walkest through the fr thou shalt not be burnt; neits shall the flame kindle upon thes

Acts xvil, 25. Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life,and breath, and all things.

TRUST.

tuary.

F. xxxii, 7. Thou art my hidingplace thou shalt preserve me trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverDe Selah.

P. xivi, 1-3. God is our refuge strength, a very present help troable: Therefore will not we bar, though the earth be removed, ad though the mountains be arried into the midst of the sea; ugh the waters thereof roar nd be troubled, though the Stains shake with the swellthereof. Selah.

Pliv, 4. Behold, God is mine per the LORD is with them aphold my soul.

F. Ixi, 4. I will abide in thy bernacle for ever, I will trust the covert of thy wings. Selah. Pa, Ixil, 6 He only is my rock ad my salvation: he is my Ance I shall not be greatly

Mix, 18. For the LORD is defence, and the Holy One of It is our King.

AND GOVERNOR.

d. xv, 18. The LORD shall

refer ever and ever.

ron. xx, 6. And said, O

Ps. lxxiv, 12. For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Ps. xcv, 3. For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

Ps cill, 19. The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

Ps. cxlv, 11, 12. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; To make known to the sous of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

Isa. xxxiii, 17, 22. Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is very far off. For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our King, he will save us.

Isa. lxvi, 1. Thus saith the LoRD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool..

Jer. x, 10. But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King.....

1 Tim. vi, 15. He is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

FOR PURPOSE AND PECULIARITIES OF DIVINE

GOVERNMENT,

See under PROVIDENCE.

Ps. xlvil, 9. . . . . Even the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

Ps. lxxxix, 11. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world, and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

Ps. xcv, 4, 5. In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it; and his hauds formed the dry land.

Ps. cvili, 7, 8. God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and méte out the valley of Succoth. Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver.

Ps. cxv, 16. The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

Haggai 11, 8. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

1 Cor. x, 26. For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

III. REDEMPTION.

Exod. xv, 13. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed.

Deut. ix, 26. I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord

God in heaven? and rulest thon over all the kingdoms of heathen?....

P. 1, 16. The LORD is King for and ever: the heathen are rashed out of his land. xxli, 28. For the kingdom is e LORD's, and he is the governor Dong the nations.

ON PROPRIETORSHIP.

Deut. x, 14. Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, is the LORD's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

1 Chron. xxix, 11, 12, 14, 16. Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, the victory, and the majesty: for and the power, and the glory, and all that is in the heaven and in the Pixiv, 8-10. Who is this King earth is thine; thine is the kingglory? The LORD strong and dom, O LORD, and thou art exalted ty, the LORD mighty in as head above all. Both riches ate. Lift up your heads, O ye and honour come of thee, and thou even lift them up, ye ever-reignest over all; and in thine hand *ing doors; and the King of is power and might; and in thine ry shall come in. Who is this hand it is to make great, and to of glory? The LORD of ste, he is the King of glory.

P. xxix, 10. The LORD sitteth ka the flood; yea, the LORD sitKing for ever.

Pilvil, 2, 7, 8. For the LORD high is terrible; he is a great ag over all the earth. For God the King of all the earth: sing praises with understanding. d reigneth over the heathen... P. Irvill, 24. They have seen y goings, O God, even the goings

give strength unto all. But who am 1, and what is my people,

that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.

Ps. xxiv, 1, 2. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it

thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

2 Sam. vii, 23. And when one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom to himself, and to make him a God went to redeem for a people name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

P3. xxv, 22. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of

Ps. xxxi, 5. Into thine hand I

truth.

Ps. xxxiv, 22. The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants, and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

Ps. lxxviii, 35. And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the high God their Redeemer.

Isa xli, 14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the

LORD, And thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Isa. xliii, 1. But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O lsrael, fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. Isa. xlvii, 4. As for our Redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

Jer. 1, 34. Their Redeemer is strong, The LORD of hosts is his

name. ·

(See under REDEMPTION.)

THE TRINITY. Isa. xlviii, 16. Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not

spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

Matth. iii, 16, 17. And Jesus, when

both have access by one Spiri Eph. ii, 18. For through him w unto the Father.

that bear record in heaven, the 1 John v, 7. For there are thre

he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the and he saw the Spirit of God deheavens were opened unto him, scending like a dove, and lighting heaven, saying, This is my belov-Ghost: and these three are one. upon him: And lo a voice from Father, the Word, and the Holy ed Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Matth. xxviii, 19. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

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FOR DIVINITY OF CHRIST, See under JESUS CHRIST

And for PERSONALITY ANT DIVINITY OF HOLY GHOST See under REDEMPTION.

1.

EAVENS OR ATMOS-
PHERE.
WIND.

1. And God rememJah, and every living d all the cattle that was in the ark: and God made pass over the earth, and ters assuaged.

gexvill, 45. And it came to the mean while, that the was black with clouds and and there was a great rain.

HEAVEN.

Exod. x, 13. And Moses stretchAhab rode, and went to Jez-ed forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

19. And, behold, there great wind from the wildsmote the four corthe house, and it fell upon armer, and they are dead; yam escaped alone to

Exod. xiv, 21. And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Jonah iv, 8. And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

Job xv, 2. Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Job xxvii, 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he depart

8. I would hasten my es-eth; and, as a storm, he hurleth him out of his place.

the windy storm and

1. The burden of the of the sea. As whirlwinds Feth pass through; so it from the desert, from a bind.

v, 11, 12. At that time shall to this people and to A dry wind of the high

the wilderness toward ter of my people, not to to cleanse. Eren a full m those places shall come how also will I give senainst them. XIV, 82. Thus saith the hosts, Behold, evil shall om nation to nation, and whirlwind shall be raised the costs of the earth.

Job xxxvill, 24. By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth.

Ps. Ixxviii, 26. He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven; the south wind. and by his power he brought in

down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit.

Hosea xii, 1. Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind.

Hosea xiii, 15. Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

for violence; their faces shall sup Hab. i, 9. They shall come all up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

FOUR WINDS MEAN FOUR

QUARTERS OF HEAVEN. Ezek. xxxvii, 9. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord breath, and breath.e upon these GOD, Come from the four winds, O slain that they may live.

Jer. xlix, 36. And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and

will scatter them toward all those winds.

said, I saw in my vision by night, Dan. vii, 2. Daniel spake, and and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.

stand up, his kingdom shall be Dan. xi, 4. And when he shall broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others be

sides those.

Deut. iv, 11. And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.