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Hezekiah with their clothes rent, | And came even before the king's ani told him the words of Rab-gate: for none might enter into the shakel.

Matth. xxvi. 65. Then the high | priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy, what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

Acts xiv, 14. Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out.

Acts xvi, 22. And the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them

NOT ONLY WERE CLOTHES

RENT, BUT SACKCLOTH WAS ALSO WORN, AND CLOTHES WERE COVERED WITH DUST.

king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
And in every province, whitherso
ever the king's commandment and
his decree came, there was great
mourning among the Jews, and
fasting, and weeping, and wailing.
and many lay in sackcloth and
ashes. So Esther's maids and her
chamberlains came and told it her.
Then was the queen exceedingly
grieved: and she sent raiment to
clothe Mordecai, and to take away
his sackcloth from him: but he re-
ceived it not.

Job xvi, 15. I have sewed
cloth upon my skin, and defiled
my horn in the dust.

Ps. XXXV, 13. But as for me,
when they were sick. my clothing
was sackcloth: I humbled my soul
with fasting, and my prayer re-
turned into mine own bosom.

and be clean, and change your garments.

Gen. xli, 14. Then Pharaoh sent an i called Joseph, an they dungeon: and he shaved himself, brought him hastily out of the and he changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

Gen. xlv, 22. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

2 Kings ▼, 5, 22. 23. And the sack-king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment. And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men them, I pray thee, a talent of silof the sons of the prophets: give take two talents. And he urged Ver, and two changes of garments. And Naaman said, Be content, of garments, and laid them upon him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes them before him. two of his servants; and they bare

Isa. xxxvii, 1,2. And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard Gen. xxxvii, 34. And Jacob rent it, that he rent his clothes, and on his loins, and mourned for his his clothes, and put sackcloth up-covered himself with sackcloth, son many days.

2 Sam, xv, 32. And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent and earth upon his head.

1 Kings xxl, 27. And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

2 Kings vi, 30. And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

2 Kings xix, 1, 2. And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered

himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of

Amoz.

Neh ix, 1. Now, in the twenty and fourth day of this month, the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

Esther iv, 1-4. When Mordecal perceived all that was done, Mordecal rent his clothes, and put on Sackeloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

and went into the house of the
LORD. And he sent Eliakim, who
na the scribe, and the elders of the
was over the household, and Sheb-
priests, covered with sackcloth.
unto Isaiah the prophet, the son
of Amoz.

Jer. iv, 8. For this gird you
with sackcloth, lament and howl:
for the fierce anger of the LORD is
not turned back from us.

Jer. xlix, 3. Howl, O Heshbon, for Al is spoiled: cry, ye daughters Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges.

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Lam. i, 10. The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Ezek. xxvii, 30. And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes.

Micah 1, 10. Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

CHANGES OF RAIMENT
OFTEN REFERRED TO, AND
ALSO SENT AS A FREQUENT
PRESENT.

Gen. xxxv, 2. Then Jacob said
unto his household, and to all that
were with him, Put away the
strange gods that are among you,

Ps. cii, 26. They shall perish but thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment: as a and they shall be changed. vesture shalt thou change them,

Zech. iii, 4. And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the fithy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

OF NECESSITY OFTEN
WASHED.

said unto Moses, Go unto the peo-
ple, and sanctify them to-day and
to-morrow, and let them wash
their clothes. And Moses went
down from the mount unto the
people, and sanctified the people;
and they washed their clothes.

Exod. xix, 10, 14. And the LORD

Lev. xiii, 6. And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab; and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

Lev. xv, 5,8,11, 22. And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the

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even. And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue, and hath not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

Lev. xvi, 26, 28. And he that let go the goat for the scape-goat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp. And he that burneth them shall wash his

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Job xxx, 15, 16, 19. Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind; and my welfare passeth away as a cloud, And now my soul is poured out upon me; the day's of affliction have taken hold upon me. Ile hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Eccles. v, 17. All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Isa. xxxviii, 9-11. The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Rev. xvi, 10. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they guawed their tongues for pain.

BUT SENT BY GOD.

Gen. xxxi, 42. Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

2 Sam. vii, 14. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

DEATH.

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Job x, 17. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me: changes and war are against me.

Job xvi, 14. He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runnoth upon me like a giant.

Job xxx, 11, 26. Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. When I looked for good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

P3. lxvi, 10. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Ps. Ixxxix, 30-33. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; their trangression with the rod, Then will I visit and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

that thy judgments are right, and Ps. cxix, 75. I know, O LORD, that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

Eccles. vii, 14. In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Isa. xxi, 4. My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Isa. xxvii, 7, 8. Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate

with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Jer. viii, 15. We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble.

Jer. xv, 11. The LORD said,

Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil, and in the time of affliction.

Jer. xlviii, 16. The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

you, all ye that pass by? behold, and

Lam. i, 12-14. Is it nothing to

see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet; he hath turned me back; he hath made me deso

late and faint all the day. The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall; the

LORD hath delivered me into their

hands, from whom I am not able

to rise up.

Lam. iii, 1, 2, 31-33. I am the man of his wrath. He hath led me, that hath seen affliction by the rod and brought me into darkness but not into light. For the LORD

will not cast off for ever: But

have compassion according to the though he cause grief, yet will he multitude of his mercies. For he grieve the children of men. doth not afflict willingly, nor

COMFORT AND HOPE UNDER

AFFLICTION.

Deut. viii, 5. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

2 Sam. xxii, 17, 19. He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

Job v, 11, 17. To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

Job xi, 16. Because thou shalt

forget thy misery, and remember

it as waters that pass away.

Job xxxiv, 31, 32. Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: That which I see not, teach thou me; if I have done

iniquity, I will do no more.

Ps. xxxiv, 19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Ps. xcl, 15. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

Ps. cxxix, 1.2. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.

Ps. cxl, 12. I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the

poor.

Ps. cxlvi, 8. The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind; the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous.

Ps. cxlvii, 2, 3. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth

together the outcasts of Israel.

He health the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Prov. iii, 11. My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction.

Isa. xxv, 3, 4. Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

Micah vi, 9. The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

Nah. 1,9.12. What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. Thus saith the LORD Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee

no more.

Acts vil, 10. And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt. and all his house.

Phil. iv. 19. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

chasteneth not?
without chastisement, whereof all
But if ye be
are partakers,then are ye bastards,
and not sons.

AFFLICTION SOMETIMES

NOT IMPROVED.

time of his distress did he tres-
2 Chron. xxviii, 22. And in the
this is that king Ahaz.
pass yet more against the LORD:

of God small with thee? is there
Job xv, 11. Are the consolations
any secret thing with thee?

Isa. ix, 13, 14. For the people them, neither do they seek the turneth not unto him that smiteth LORD of hosts; Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and

tail, branch and rush, in one day.

your children; they received no Jer. ii, 30. In vain have I smitten devoured your prophets, like a correction: your own sword hath destroying lion.

Zeph. iii, 2. She obeyed not the she trusted not in the LORD; she voice; she received not correction; drew not near to her God.

ADVANTAGES OF AFFLIC-
TION.

he was in affliction he besought
2 Chron. xxxiii, 12, 13. And when
the LORD his God, and humbled
himself greatly before the God of
his fathers, And prayed unto him:
and he was entreated of him, and
heard his
brought him again to Jerusalem
supplication, and
into his kingdom. Then Manas-
seh knew that the LORD he was

God.

Job xxxvi. 8-10, 21. And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Ps.lv. 19. God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

P3. lxxviii, 34, 35. When he slew them, then they sought him; and for-they returned and enquired early after God: And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the high God their Redeemer.

Heb. xii, 5-8. And ye have gotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father

Ps. xciv, 12, 13 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Ps. cxix, 67, 71. Before I was

have I kept thy word. It is good afflicted I went astray: but now for me that I have been aûleted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Isa. xxvi, 8, 9, 16. Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the deand to the remembrance of thee. sire of our soul is to thy name, With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit for when thy judgments are in within me will I seek thee early: the earth, the inhabitants of the LORD, in trouble have they visited world will learn righteousness. when thy chastening was upon thee: they poured out a prayer them.

refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Isa. xlvill, 10. Behold, I have

Lam. iii, 19-21, 27, 28. Remembering mine affliction and my gall. My soul hath them still in misery, the wormwood and the me. This I recall to my mind, remembrance, and is humbled in therefore have I hope. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

turn to my place, till they acknowHosea v, 15. I will go and reledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

affliction, which is but for a mo2 Cor. iv, 17. For our light inent, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

for the present seemeth to be Heb. xil, 11. Now, no chastening joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

DISEASES GENERALLY,

SICKNESS.

Gen. xlviii, 1. And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

2 Sam. xii, 15. And Nathan departed unto his house; and the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

Isa. i, 5. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and inore. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Dan. viii, 27.

And I Daniel

fainted, and was sick certain days: afterward I rose up, and did the king's business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.

Micah vi, 13. Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

John xi, 1-4. Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

Phil. ii, 26. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he

had been sick.

2 Tim. iv, 20. Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.

LEANNESS.

2 Sam. xiii, 4. And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day?

wilt thou not tell me? And Amnou said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

Job xvi, 8. And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

Job xxx, 22. Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my

substance.

Ps. xxii, 17. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon

me.

Ps. cil, 11. My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

Ps. cix, 24. My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh

faileth of fatness.

SPECIAL FORMS OF
DISEASE MENTIONED IN
SCRIPTURE.
AGUE.

Lev. xxvi, 16. I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart; and ye shall sow your seed in vain; for your enemies shall eat it.

BOILS.

Exod. ix, 10. And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven;

and it became a boil breaking
forth with blains upon man, and
upon beast.

light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon. day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

CONSUMPTION.

Lev. xxvi, 16. I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart. . . . .

Deut. xxviii, 22. The LOPD shall

Lev. xiii, 18-23. The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil and is healed, And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest; And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.smite thee with a consumption.. But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days. And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague. But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

2 Kings xx, 7. And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he

recovered.

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Deut. xxviii, 29. And thou shalt grope at noon-day, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

Job xxix, 15. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

Isa. lix, 9, 10. Therefore is judg

ment far from us, neither doth
justice overtake us: we wait for

DEAFNESS.

unto him one that was deaf, and Mark vii, 32. And they bring and they beseech him to put his had an impediment in his speech; hand upon him.

Lev. xix, 14. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stum. blingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

Isaiah xxix, 18. And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

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