knowledge of thy ways. That is the Almighty, that we wald serve him? and what proshould we have, if we pray bim?

7ob xxil, 17. Which said unto Depart from us: and what the Almighty do for them? Tob xxxiv, 9. For he hath said, profiteth a man nothing that should delight himself with L

x. 13. Wherefore doth the ked contemn God? he hath said isbeart,Thouwilt notrequireit. &L 21. These things hast 1 done, and I kept silence; thoughtest that I was altoer such an one as thyself: but

reprove thee, and set them der before thine eyes.

ix, 9. Then said he unto The iniquity of the house of and Judah is exceeding and the land is full of and the city full of permess: for they say, The LORD forsaken the earth, and the

seeth not.

p., 12. And it shall come to at that time, that I will Jerusalem with candles, panish the men that are on their lees; that say in heart, The LORD will not do Beither will he do evil.

il, 13, 14. Your words been stout against me, the LORD: yet ye say, What we spoken so much against Ye have said, It is vain to God; and what profit is it We have kept his ordinance, hat we have walked mournbefore the LORD of hosts? DIVINE JUSTICE DOUBTED.

ix, 16, 17. If I had called, he had answered me, yet I not believe that he had kened unto my voice. For teaketh me with a tempest, multiplieth my wounds with

ause.

xix, 6, 7. Know now that hath overthrown me, and compassed me with his net. ld, I cry out of wrong, but I not heard: I cry aloud, but 13 no judgment.

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Ps. Ixxiii, 11. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most high?

Ps. xciv, 7. Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

Isa. xxix, 15. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD; and their works are in the dark and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

Isa. xl, 27. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

Isa. xxxvii, 10. Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given

Into the hand of the king of Assyria.

THE DIVINE TRUTH. Isa. xxxvi, 15. Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the The LORD will LORD, saying,

surely deliver us; this city shall not be delivered into the band of the king of Assyria.

2 Peter lii, 3, 4. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell were from the beginning of the asleep. all things continue as they

creation.

Jer. iv, 10. Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem,saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.

Jer. xvii, 15. Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.

Jer. xx, 7. O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

seen what the ancients of the houseof Israel do in the dark,every man in the chambers of his

imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again,and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

THE DIVINE POWER.

Ps. lxxviii, 19, 20. Yea, they spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

xxxiv, 5, 6. For Job hath I am righteous; and God hath naway my judgment. Should gainst my right, my wound is rable without transgression. Isa. xxxvi, 18, 20, 21. Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, say sek. xviii, 25. Yet ye say. The ing, The LORD will deliver us. of the LORD is not equal. Hath any of the gods of the nabow, O house of Israel, Istions delivered his land out of the my way equal? are not your hand of the king of Assyria? Who 78 unequal? are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? But they

xxxii, 17-20. Yet the ren of thy people say, The y of the LORD is not equal: but, for them, their way is not

IMPUGNED.

Job vil, 19. How long wilt thou

not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Job ix, 34, 35. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me; Then would I speak, and not fear him: but it is not so with me.

Hast

Job x, 2-7, I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me. Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? thou eyes of flesh, or seest thou as man seeth. Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

Job xill, 25, 26. Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and will thou pursue the dry stubble? For

thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

Job xvi, 11, 12. God had delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set mo up for his mark.

Job xix, 21, 22. Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job xxxiii, 10, 11. Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy; He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

Job xxxvli, 20. Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up. PENALTY OF BLASPHEMY. Lev. xxiv, 15, 16, 23. And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin. And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death. And Moses spake into the children of Israel, that

they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, aad stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

2 Kings xix, 27, 28. But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

(Omitted in its Proper Place.)

EARNEST DESIRE OF BEING

HEARD.

1 Kings viii, 28. Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee to-day.

2 Chron. vi, 19. Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee.

Job xiii, 20-22. Only do not two things unto me; then will I not hide myself from thee: Withdraw thine hand far from me; and let not thy dread make me afraid: Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

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Ps. v, 1, 2. Give ear to my words, O LORD; consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

Ps. xxviii, 1. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silest to me: lest, if thou be silent te me, I become like them that ga down into the pit.

P3. liv, 2. Hear my prayer, 0 God; give ear to the words def

mouth.

Ps. lv, 1. Give ear to my praye O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

Ps. lxi, 1. Hear my cry, O God attend unto my prayer.

hosts, hear my prayer: give Ps. lxxxiv, 8. O LORD God O God of Jacob. Selah.

unto my prayer, and attend to t Ps. lxxxvi, 6. Give ear, O Load voice of my supplications.

may be delivered: save with th Ps. cvill, 6. That thy beloved right hand, and answer me.

Ps. cxix, 149. Hear my vol according unto thy loving-kind ness: O LORD, quicken me accord ing to thy judgment.

Ps. cxl, 6. I said unto the Lo

Thou art my God: hear the rele of my supplications, O LORD.

Ps. cxliil, 1. Hear my prayer, LORD, give ear to my sup tions: in thy taithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.

HAGGAI.

Haggul ii, 1, 10, 20. In the eventh month, in the one and wentieth day of the month, came e word of the LORD by the probet Haggai, saying, In the four d twentieth day of the ninth onth, in the second year of arius, came the word of the D by Haggai the prophet, Fing, And again the word of the came unto Haggai in the

and twentieth day of the mth, saying.

ZECHARIAH.

lech. 1, 7. Upon the four and rieth day of the eleventh th, which is the month Sebat, the second year of Darius, le the word of the LORD unto

bariah, (the son of Barachiah, son of Iddo,) the prophet, ing.

ech. iv, 8. Moreover, the word be LORD came unto me, say

teh. vi, 9. And the word of LORD came unto me, saying. c. vii, 1, 4, 8. And it came ass in the fourth year of king lus, that the word of the LORD @ unto Zechariah in the th day of the ninth month, in Chisleu; Then came the d of the LORD of hosts unto saying, And the word of the ▷ came unto Zechariah, say

je, vili, 1, 18. Again the word le LORD of hosts came to me, g, And the word of the D of hosts came unto me, Rg.

II.

THE QUALIFICATION. um. xi, 25-27. And the LORD e down in a cloud, and spake 9 him, and took of the spirit was upon him, and gave it the seventy elders: and it is to pass, that, when the it rested upon them, they phesied, and did not cease. there remained two of the a in the camp, the name of the 1028 Eldad, and the name of other Medad: and the spirit led upon them, (and they were them that were written, but at not out unto the taber(e) and they prophesied in the op. And there ran a young u and told Moses, and said, fad and Medad do prophesy in camp.

Sam. li, 27. And there came a a of God unto Eli, and said to him, Thus saith the LORD, d I plainly appear unto the se of thy father, when they

house.

1 Sam. ix, 10. Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was. 2 Sam. xxiv, 11. For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying.

1 Kings xiii, 14. And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.

2 Kings iii, 12, 13. And Jehoshaphat said, The word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat, and the king of And Edom, went down to him.

Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay; for the LORD hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

2 Kings iv, 9. And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God which passeth by us continually.

2 Kings vili, 7, 8. And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benbadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither. And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease.

2 Chron. xx, 14, 15. Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jefel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation; And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat; Thus afraid or dismayed by reason of saith the LORD unto you, Be not this great multitude: for the battle is not yours, but God's.

Isa. xlviii, 16...... And now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

nations. Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child. But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall mand thee thou shalt speak. Be send thee, and whatsoever I com

not afraid of their faces; for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth: and the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof,against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land. And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

Jer. xi, 18. And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

Jer. xv, 19, 21. Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth; let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the band of the terrible.

Ezek. ii, 6. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words: though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

made thy face strong against Ezek. iii, 8, 24. Behold, I have their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads. Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine

the

Amos ili, 7. Surely the Lord GoD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

Micah iii, 8. But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.