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† Eph. iv. 11. And he gave fome, apoftles and fome, prophets and fome, evangelifts: and fome, paftors and teachers; v. 12. For the perfecting of the faints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. 1 Tim. v. 17. Let the elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. v. 18. For the fcripture faith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn: and, The labourer is worthy of his reward. 1 Cor. ix. 7.-15. Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock,and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

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Joel ii. 12. Therefore also now, faith the Lord, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. v. 13. And rent your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful.-1 Cor. vii. 5. Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with confent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to faiting and prayer ;

w Deut. vi. 13. Thou fhalt fear the Lord thy God, and ferve him, and fhalt fwear by his name.

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x If. xix. 21. And the Lord shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians fhall know the Lord in that day, and fhall do facrifice and oblation, yea, they fhall vow a vow unto the Lord, and perform it. Pfal. xxvi. 11. Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God; let all that be round about him bring prefents unto him that ought to be feared.

y Acts xvii. 16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his fpirit was stirred in him, when he faw the city wholly given to idolatry, v. 17. Therefore difputed he in the fynagogue with the Jews, and with the devout perfons, and in the market daily with them that met with him. Pfal. xvi. 4. Their forrows fhall be multiplied, that hasten after another god their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

z Deut. vii. 5. But thus fhall ye deal with them,ye fhall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. If. xxx. 22. Ye fhall defile alfo the covering of thy graven images of filver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: it not salt them away as a king, that w thou fhalt fay hence.

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109. a Numb, xv. 39. And it fhall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them and that ye feek not after your own heart, and your own eyes, after which ye ufe to go a-whoring,

b Deut. xiii. 6. If thy brother,the fon of thy mother, or thy fon, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bofom, or thy friend, which is as thine own foul, entice thee fecretly, faying, Let us go and serve other gods, (which thou haft not known, thou, nor thy fathers; v.7. Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth) v. 8. Thou shalt not confent unto him,nor hearken unto him; neither fhall thine eye pity him, neither fhalt thou fpare, neither fhalt thou conceal him."

c Hof. v. 11. Ephraim is oppreffed, and broken in judgment,becaufe he willingly walked after the commandment. Mic. vi. 16. For the ftatutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counfels, that I fhould make thee a defolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hiffing: there fore ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

d 1 Kings xi. 33. Because that they have forfaken me, and have worshipped Afhtoreth the goddess of thehtinefs, and Chemofh the god of thoraft and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my flatutes and my judgments,

as did David his father. I Kings xii. 33. So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel, the fifteenth day of the eighth month,even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and ordained a feaft unto the children of Ifrael, and he offered upon the altar, and burat incenfe.

e Deut. xii. 30. Take heed to thyfelf that thou be not fnared by following them, after that they be deftroyed from before thee, and that thou enquire not after their gods, faying, How did thefe nations lerve their gods? even fo will I do likewife. v. 31. Thou shalt not do fa unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord which he hateth, have they done unto their gods: for even their fons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. v. 32. What thing foever I command you, obferve to do it: thou fhalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

f Deut. xiii. from verse 6. to 12. (See letter b). Zech. xii. 2. And it fhall come to pafs in that day, faith the Lord of hofts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they fhall no more be remembered: and alfo I will caufe the prophets and the unclean 1pirit to pais out of the land. v. 3. And it shall come to pafs, that when any fhall yet prophely, then his father and his mother, that begat him,fhall fay unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou fpeakeft lies in the name of the Lord and his father and his mother, that begat him, fhall thrust him through when he prophefieth. Rev. ii. 2. I know thy works, and

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thy labour and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil and thou haft tried them which fay they are apostles, and are not; and haft found them liars. 14. But I have a few things against thee, because thou haft there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to caft a ftumblingblock before the children of Ifrael, to eat things facrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. V. 15. So haft thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. v. 20. Notwithstanding, I have a few things against thee, because thou fuffereft that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetefs, to teach and to feduce my fervants to commit fornication, and to eat things facrificed unto idols. Rev. xvii. 12. And the ten horns which thou fawest, are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. v. 16. And the ten horns which thou fawest upon the beaft, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her defolate, and naked, and fhalleat her flesh, and burn her with fire. v. 17. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree,and give their kingdom unto the beaft, until the words of God fhall be fulfilled.

g Deut. iv. 15. Take ye there fore good heed unto yourfelves (for ye faw no manner of fimilitude on the day that the Lord fpake unto you in Horeb, out of the midst of the fire. v. 16. Left ye corrupt yourfelves, and make you a graven

image, the fimilitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female. V. 17. The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air. v. 18. The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth : V. 19. And left thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou feest the fun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the hoft of heaven, fhouldst be driven to worfhip them, and ferve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. Acts xvii. 29. Forafmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or filver, or stone graven by art and man's device. Rom. i. 21. Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. v. 22. Profeffing themselves to be wife, they became fools: v. 23. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. v. 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and ferved the creature more than the Creator, who is bleffed for ever. Amen.

b Dan, iii. 18. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not lerve thy gods, nor worfhip the golden image which thou haft fet up. Gal, iv. 8. Howbeit,

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k Exod. xxxii. 8. They have turned afide quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have facrificed thereunto, and faid, Thefe be thy gods, O Ifrael, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings xviii. 26. And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dreffed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, faying, O Baal,

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But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leapt upon the altar which was made. v. 28. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. If. Jxv. 11. But ye are they that forfake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink-offering unto that number.

m Acts xvii. 22. Then Paul ftood in the midst of Mars-hill, and faid, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too fuperftitious. Col. ii. 21. (Touch not, tafte not, bandle not: v. 22. Which all are to perish with the ufing) after the

commandments and doctrines of men. v. 23. Which things have indeed a fhew of wifdom in will-worship and humi ity, and neglecting of the body, not in any honour to the fatisfying of the flesh.

n Mal. i. 7. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye fay, Wherein have we polluted thee? in that ye fay, The table of the Lord is contemptible. v. 8. And if ye offer the blind for facrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and fick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor, will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy perfon? faith the Lord of hosts. v. 14. But curfed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth and facrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, faith the Lord of hofts, and my name is dreadful among the Heathen.

o Deut. iv. 2. Ye fhall not add unto the word which I command you, neither fhall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

p Pfal. cvi. 39. Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a-whoring with their own inventions.

q Matth. xv. 9. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of

men.

r 1 Pet. i. 18. Forafmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as filver and gold, from your vain conver

fation received by tradition from your fathers.

Jer. xliv. 17. But we will certainly do whatfoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incenfe unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the ftreets of Jerufalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and faw no evil.

If. lxv. 3. A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face, that facrificeth in gardens, and burneth incenfe upon altars of brick: v. 4. Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat fwines flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their veffels: v. 5. Which fay, Stand by thyfelf, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou: these are a fmoke in my nofe, a fire that burneth all the day. Gal. i. 13. For ye have heard of my converfation in time paft, in the Jews religion, how that beyond measure I perfecuted the church of God, and wafted it: y. 14. And profited in the Jews religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

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v Sam. xiii. ft. And Samuel faid, What haft thou done? And Saul faid, Becaufe I faw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou cameft not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themfelves together to Michmafh: v. 12. Therefore faid I, The Philiftines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made fupplication unto the Lord: I

forced myfelf therefore, and offer.. ed a burnt-offering. I Sam. xv. 21. But the people (faid Saul) took of the fpoil, fheep and oxen, the chief of the things which fhould have been utterly destroyed, to faerifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal.

Acts viii. 18. And when Simon faw that through laying on of the apostles hands, the Holy Ghoft was given, he offered them

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x Rom. ii. 22. Thou that abhor reft idols, doft thou commit facrilege? Mal. iii. 8. Will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me: but ye fay, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

y Exod. iv. 24. And it came to pafs by the way in the inn, that the Lord met him, and fought to kill him. v. 25. Then Zipporah took a fharp ftone, and cut off the fore-skin of her fon, and caft it at his feet, and faid, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me. v. 26. So he let him go: then the faid, A bloody hufband thou art, because of the circumcifion.

z Matth. xxii. 5. But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandize. Mal. i. 7. Ye offer pols luted bread upon mine altar; and ye fay, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye fay, The table of the Lord is contemptible. v. 13. Ye faid alfo, Behold, what a wea rinefs is it, and ye have fnuffed at it, faith the Lord of hofts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the fick; thus ye brought an offering: fhould I accept this of your hands? faith the Lord.

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