69. Then saith the Lord unto Moses, Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no. Exodus xvi. 4.

70. WHEN therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptised more disciples than John. John iv. 1.

71. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 1 Corinthians i. 25.

72. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. Malachi iii. 16.

73. And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein. But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them. Jeremiah ix. 13, 14.

74. And ye have done worse than your fathers; (for behold ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that ye may not hearken unto me.) Jeremiah xvi. 12.

75. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee, receive into thine heart, and hear with thine ears. Ezek. iii. 10.

76. They shall walk after the Lord; he shall roar like a lion when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. Hosea xi. 10.

77. The Lord your God, which goeth before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes. Deut. i. 30.

78. The great God that formed all things, both re

wardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors. Prov. xxvi. 10.

79. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, 'behold the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. Genesis xi. 5, 6, 7.

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MUNIFICENCE.

He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. 1. John iv. 8.

The Lord is good, a strong-hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. Nahum i. 7.

All the works of the Lord are good; and he will give every needful thing in due season. Eccles. xxxix. 33.

80. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. Deut. iv. 24.

81. God is jealous and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries; and he reserveth wrath for his enemies. Nahum i. 2.

82. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews x. 31.

83. The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name. Exodus xv. 3.

84. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man; he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war; he shall cry, yea roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. Isaiah

xl. 11. 13.

85. The Lord hath opened his armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts, in the land of the Chaldeans. Jeremiah 1. 25.

86. And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses ; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men. Exodus xxxii. 27, 28.

87. For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundation of the mounta ̄ns. I will heap mischiefs upon them, I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with anger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also, with the man of gray hairs. Deut. xxxii. 22 to 25.

88. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Exodus xx. 5.

89. The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Prov. xvi. 4.

90. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the Lord do all these things. Isaiah xiv. 7.

91. And I will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my

hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by great judgments. Exodus vii. 3, 4.

92. And it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first-born of the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle. Exodus xii. 29.

93. And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. Exodus xxii. 24.

94. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, “Vex the Midianites and smite them." Numb. xxv. 17.

95. And the Lord's anger was kindled the same time, and he sware saying, "Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upwards, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me." Num. xxxii. 10, 11.

96. Now go, and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. 1. Samuel xv. 3.

97. Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land; therefore he hath sent lions among them, and behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. 2nd Kings xvii. 26.

98. For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies; he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. Isaiah xxxiv. 2.

99. Then the angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and

fourscore and five thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. Isaiah xxxvii. 36,

100. Therefore, thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. Jer. xi. 11.

101. The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it. Jeremiah xxx. 24.

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102. For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword, They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city." Jer. xxxii. 4, 5.

103. And he hath violently taken away his' tabernacle as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his places of the assembly; the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. Lament of Jer. iì. 6.

104. The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied. Lam, of Jer.

ii. 21.

105. Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. "Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, surely because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy