lx; lxi. 4, &c.; lxii; lxv. 18-23; lxvi. | the seed of Israel, for all that they 8-13.16; Micah iv; Zeph. iii. 14, &c. have done, saith the Lord: behold At that time they shall call Jeru- the days come, saith the Lord, that salem the throne of the Lord; and all the city shall be built to the Lord, the nations shall be gathered unto it, &c.-Jer. xxxi. 1. 3—5. 7—12. 37, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem, &c.; xxx. &c. In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north, to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers. But I said, &c.-Jer. iii. 17-19. The days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; but the Lord liveth, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. Jer. xvi. 14, 15; xxiii. 3— 9. I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people, &c. Again, I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel, &c. thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria, thy planters shall plant and shall eat, &c. for thus saith the Lord, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations, &c. behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, &c. a great company shall return thither, &c. for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born. Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel, will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd does his flock; for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he: therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, &c. If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all Behold, I will gather them out of all countries whither I have driven them in mine anger, &c. and I will bring them again unto this place; and I will cause them to dwell safely, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.-Jer. xxxii. 37, 38. Thus saith the Lord, If my covenant be not with day and night, &c. then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant; so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.-Jer. xxxiii. 25, 26; xlvi. 27, 28. And in those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping, &c.-Jer. 1. 4. 20. Thus saith the Lord God, Although I have cast them afar off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come: therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God, I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered; and I will give you the land of Israel, and they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof, &c.-Ezek. xi. 16—18. Ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I shal! bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers, and there shall ye remember your ways, &c.-Ezek. xx. 42, 43; xxviii. 24-26. Thus saith the Lord God, Behold I, even I, will both search my sheep and seek them out, &c. and deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered, &c. and will bring them to their own land, &c. and I will set up the shepherd over them, &c.-Ezek. xxxiv. Î1—13. 23, &c. Mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel, for they are at hand to come: for behold I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sowed, &c. and the city shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded, &c. I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings; and ye shall know that I am the Lord, &c. I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land, &c. and ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, &c. then shall ye remember your own evil ways, &c. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God: be it known unto you, &c. then the heathen that are left round about you, shall know, that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that which was desolate: I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. Thus saith the Lord God, I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel.-Ezek. xxxvi. 8-11. 24. 28. 31-33. 36, 37; Hosea ii. 14, 15; Amos ix. 11. 14, 15. By the dry bones is typified the Israelites' return. These bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off for our parts: therefore prophesy, &c. O my people, I will open your graves, cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel, &c. I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms, &c. and they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob.-Ezek. xxxvii. 3. 11, 12. 21, 22. 25; Hosea i. 10, 11; Joel iii. 6, 7. Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel. But I have gathered them unto their own land, &c. neither will I hide my face any more.-Ezek. xxxix. 25, &c. Jerusalem shall be inhabited, &c. Flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord. Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon, &c. for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye.-Zech ii. 4-8. 12; Joel iii; Zeph. iii. 14, &c. Thus saith the Lord, I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, &c. There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, &c. and the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof, &c. Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, &c. As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord of hosts, and I repented not; so again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah fear ye not, &c. Yea, many people, and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.-Zech. viii. 3-5. 7, 8. 14, 15. 22; xii. 7—9; xiv. 10, 11. 20, 21; Joel iii. 19, 20. In that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people, &c. They shall be cut in pieces, though the people of the earth be gathered together against it.-Zech. xii. 3, &c. I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob for this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins, &c. They are beloved for the fathers' sakes.-Rom. xi. 25-28. CHAPTER LVI. OF THE SEVENTH, OR SABBATH DAY, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND THE LAWS ABOUT IT; AND OF ITS CHANGE TO THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made: and God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work.-Gen. ii. 2, 3. To-morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which you will bake to-day, &c. for to-morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord, &c. Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none, &c. Abide ye every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people rested on the seventh day. -Exod. xvi. 23—30. : On the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thine handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed.— Exod. xxiii. 12; xxxiv. 21. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from amongst his people, and he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, &c. it is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth.-Exod. xxxi. 14-18; xxxv. 2. Six days shall work be done, &c. ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.-Exod. xxxv. 2, 3. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest: an holy convocation.-Levit. xxiii. 3. They found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day, &c. and the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall surely be put to death, all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.-Numb. xv. 32-36. And on the sabbath day two lambs, &c. this is the burnt-offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burntoffering, and his drink-offering.— Numb. xxviii. 9, 10. Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, &c. and remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt.Deut. v. 12-15. If the people of the land bring ware, or any victuals, on the sabbath day to sell, we would not buy it on the sabbath.-Neh. x. 31. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any Nehemiah contended with the nowork, thou nor thy son, &c. for in six bles of Judah, for profaning the sabdays the Lord made heaven, &c. and bath, and he caused the gates to be rested the seventh day; wherefore the shut on the sabbath, to keep out merLord blessed the sabbath day, and hal-chandises, and threatened such who lowed it.-Exod. xx. 8-11; Deut. brought them to sell on the sabbath v. 12-14. day. Neh. xiii. 15-23. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; then, &c. I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth.-Isa. lviii. 13, 14. : Bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring in by the gates of Jerusalem neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work; but hallow ye the sabbath day, &c.Jer. xvii. 21, 22. 24. 27. fore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.-Mark ii. 27, 28. Very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre, at the rising of the sun, &c.-Mark xvi. 2, &c.; Luke xxiv. 1, &c. Jesus, &c. as his custom was, went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read; and there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah.-Luke iv. 16. 31. Ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man. If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken, (or without breaking the law;) are ye angry I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, &c. at me, because I have made a man Ezek. xx. 12. 20, 21. every whit whole on the sabbath day? Hear this, O ye that swallow up-John vii. 22, 23. the needy, &c. saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat?-Amos viii. 4, 5. Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn, and his disciples were an hungered, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungered, &c. and how that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? &c. If ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day, &c. What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it shall fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out? Wherefore, it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.-Matt. xii. 1–13; Luke vi. 1, &c.; xiii. 14 -16. The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: there Then the same day, at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, came Jesus, and stood in the midst, and saith to them, Peace, &c. And after eight days again (or in eight days) his disciples were within, &c. came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.-John xx. 19. 26. Paul reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks, &c.-Acts xviii. 4. Paul, &c. abode at Troas seven days; and upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow, and continued his speech until midnight, &c. when he, &c. had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, he departed.-Acts xx. 6-8. 11. Upon the first day of the week, let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.-1 Cor. xvi. 2. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise; And God did rest the seventh day from all his works, &c. If Jesus (or Joshua) had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day; there remaineth therefore a rest (or a sabbath) to the people of God, &c.-Heb. iv. 4-9. I John, &c. was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, &c.-Rev. i. 9, 10. CHAPTER LVII. OF USURY. Ir thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.— Exod. xxii. 25. increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. -Prov. xxviii. 8. I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury, yet every one of them doth curse me.Jer. xv. 10. If a man be just, &c. and hath not oppressed any, &c. hath given his bread to the hungry, &c. hath not given forth upon usury, nor taken increase. Ezek. xviii. 5. 7, 8. 12, 13. Thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion.Ezek. xxii. 12. CHAPTER LVIII. BITTERNESS, EMULATION, DISCON- And if thy brother be waxen poor, OF ENVY, WRATH, HATRED, MALICE, and fallen into decay with thee, then thou shalt relieve him, &c. Take thou no usury of him, or increase; but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.Levit. xxv. 35-37. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother: usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury. Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury, but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury, &c.-Deut. xxiii. 19, 20. When the Jews were low, and borrowed money of each other to buy corn, and for necessary uses, and took mortgages of their lands, and sold their sons and daughters each to other for it then Nehemiah rebuked them for this usury; and further tells them, that he and his brethren might exact of them money and corn, and prays them to leave off this usury.Neh. v. Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? &c. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent.-Ps. xv. 1. 5. He that by usury and unjust gain ABRAM said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen, for we be brethren, &c. If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; if thou depart to the right, then I will go to the left.-Gen. xiii. 8, 9. When Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said unto Jacob, &c.Gen. xxx. 1, 2. When Joseph's brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him, &c. they hated him yet the more for his dreams, &c. his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying. They conspired to slay him.— Gen. xxxvii. 4. 8. 11. 18. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart, &c. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people.-Levit. xix. 17, 18. When Eldad and Medad had prophesied in the camp, Joshua desired Moses to forbid them: Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord's peo |