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with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

Neh. iv, 18. For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded: and he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

Ps. xlv, 3. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

Cant. iii, 8. They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. WHETTED IN ORDER TO BE

SHARP AND BRIGHT. Deut. xxxii, 41. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

Ps. vii, 12. If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

Ezek. xxi, 9-11, 28. Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished: It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make

mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree. And he

hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer. And thou, son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their reproach; even say thou, The sword, the sword is drawn: for the slaughter it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering.

Nahum ii, 3. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear. .

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WAS SOMETIMES TWO
EDGED.

Ps. cxlix, 6. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoodged sword in their hand.

Prov. v, 4. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

Heb. iv, 12. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and inents of the heart.

Rev. ii, 12. And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges.

WIELDED SO AS TO STRIKE

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WITH ITS EDGE.

Gen. xxxiv, 26. And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out.

Exod. xvii, 13. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his peoplo with the edge of the sword.

Num. xxl, 24. And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

Josh. vl, 21. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

Josh. viil, 24. And it came to pass, when Israel had made an of Ai in the field, in the wilderend of slaying all the inhabitants ness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

Judges iv, 15. And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

Ps. lxxxix, 43. Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

Jer. xxi, 7. And afterward, saith the LOR, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the had of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

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cometh out of the body; yea, the Job xx, 25. It is drawn, and glittering sword cometh out of his gall; terrors are upon him.

Prov. xil, 18. There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Isa. xiv, 19. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abomin able branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

Ezek. xvi, 40. They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with with their swords. stones, and thrust thee through

Ezek. xxi, 15. I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

Luke, ii, 35. (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

A PRINCIPAL WEAPON OF

WAR.

Exod. v, 21. And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because yo have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

Judges vii, 14, 22. And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host. And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel-meholalı, unto Tabbath.

1 Sam. xv. 33. And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, to shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces bebefore the LORD in Gilgal.

Luke xxl, 24. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles fulfilled.

Rev. 1, 16. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and cut of ais mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was Heb. xl. 84. Quenched the viol13 the sun shineth in his strength.ence of fire, escaped the edge of

1 Sam. xxi, 9. And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slowest in

the valley of Elah, behold, it is here, wrapped in a cloth behind The ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it; for there is no other save

that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it

me.

1 Sam. xxil, 10, 13. And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gav him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

2 Sam. ii, 26. Then Abner called to Joab and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people their return from following brethren?

2 Sam. iil, 29. Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fai: from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

2 Sam. xi, 25. Then David said
unto the messenger, Thus shalt
thou say unto Joab, Let not this
thing displease thee, for the sword
devoureth one as well as another:
more
make thy battle
strong
against the city, and overthrow it:
and encourage thou him.

2 Sam. xii, 10. Now therefore
the sword shall never depart from
thine house; because thou hast
despised me, and hast taken the
wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy
wife.

2 Sam. xx. 10. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand; so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai is brother pursued after Shela the son of Bichri.

1 Kings iii, 24. And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

Ezra ix, 7. Since, the days of our fathers, hare we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to coùfusion of face, as it is this day.

Esther ix, 5. Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what

they would unto those that hated them.

Matth. xxvi, 51. And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.

Luke xxii, 36. Then said he unto them, But now, he that lah a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

Matth. xxvi, 55. In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

Luke xxii. 23. And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.

Job xv, 22. Ile believeth not that he shall return out of darknes, and he is waited for of the sword.

Job xxvii, 14. If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his spring shall not be satisfied with bread.

P's. lxxvii. 62. He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

Isa. xxxi. 8. Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shal devour him: but he shall flee from the sword and his young men shall be discomfited.

Isa. lxv, 12. Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, yo did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

Jer. xv, 2, 9. And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are tor the captivity, to the captivity. She that hath seven languisheto: she borne hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed an con ounded; and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.

Jer. xlvi, 10. For this is the day of the Lord Gon of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avengo 84

sword shall devour, and it shall him of his adversaries: and the be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GoD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Jer. xlviii, 10. Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD de. ceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from

blood.

Ezek. v, 2. Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt it with a knife: and a third part take a third part, and smite about thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after

them.

Ezek. xi, S. Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.

Ezek. xxi, 12. Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the on of the sword chall be upon my princes of Israel: terrors by reas people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.

Ezek. xxx, 22. Therefore thus saith the Lord Gor: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, aims, the and will break his strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

Ezek. xxxv, 5. Because thou thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end.

Ezek. xxxix, 23. And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespa sed against me, therefore hid i my face from them, and gave into the hand of their them enemies; so fell they all by the sword.

Joel il, 8. Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

Amos ix, 10. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

Zech. xi, 17. Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm.

TER.
MEANS OF GREAT SLAUGH-

Gen. xxvii, 40. And by thy sword shalt thon live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

Exod. xxii. 21. And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Lev. xxvi, 7. And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

Num. xiv, 43. For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.

Num. xxxi, 8. And they slew the kings of Midian, eside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the

sword.

Deut. xxviii, 22. The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword. . . .

Josh. x. 11.

They were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Isracl slew with the sword.

Josh. xi, 10. And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.

2 Sam. 1, 12. And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Sal, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lond, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

1 Kings xix, 10. And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, eren I on y, am left: and they seck my life, to take it away.

2 Kings xix, 7. Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

2 Chron. xxi. 4. Now when Jehorain was risen up to the king dom of his father, he strengthened himself, and slew all his brethren with the sword, and dicers also of the princes of Israel.

2 Chron. xxix. 9. For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

2 Chron. xxxvi, 17. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their

young men with the sword in the
house of their sanctuary, and had
no compassion upon young man
or maiden, old man, or aim that
stooped for age: he gave them all
into his hand.

Ps. xliv, 3. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

P3. lxxviii, 64. Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

Isa. iii. 25. Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

Isa. xii, 15. Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

Isa. xxxvii, 7, 38. Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

Jer. xi, 22. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.

Jer. xix, 7. And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, aud for the beasts of

the earth.

Jer. xx. 4. For thus saith the Lonn, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

Jer. xxxix, 18. For I will surely deliver thee, ani thon shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the LORD.

Jer. xli. 2. Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam

the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made gover nor over the land.

Frek. v, 12. A third part of theo shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scat ter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

Ezek. vi, 12. IIe that is far off shall die of the pestilence, and he that is near shall fill by the sword; and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish my fury upon them.

Ezek. xi 10. Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezek. xvii. 21. And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds; and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.

Ezek. xxiii, 25. And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine cars; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shal be devoured by the fire.

Ezek. xxiv, 21. Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

Ezek. xxv, 13. Therefore thus saith the Lord GoD; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

Ezek. xxx, 5, 6. 17. Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by tho sword. Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD. The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

Ezek. xxxil, 27. And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their

weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

Dan. xl, 33. And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.

Hos. xili, 16. Samaria shall become desolate: for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall all by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

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P3. xxil, 20. Deliver my soul from the sword.

Job xix, 29. Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the Amos iv, 10. I have sent among punishments of the sword, that ye you the pestilence after the man-may know there is a judgment. ner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Amos vil, 9, 17. And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword. Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.

Amos ix, 1. I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword. he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be de

livered.

Micah v, 6. And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof; thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

Haggai ii, 22. . . . . I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

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Isa. xxxiv, 6. The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

Isa. Ixvi, 16. For by fire and by
his sword will the LORD plead
with all flesh; and the slain of the
LORD shall be many.

Jer. iv, 10. Then said I. Ah,
Lord GOD! surely thou hast great-
ly deceived this people and Jeru-
saying, Ye shall have
salem,
peace; whereas the sword reach-
eth unto the soul.

Jer. xil, 12. The spoilers are
come upon all high places through
the wilderness: for the sword of
the LORD shall devour from the
one end of the land even to the
other end of the land: no flesh
shall have peace.

Jer. xxv, 31. A noise shall come
even to the ends of the earth; for

the LORD hath a controversy with
the nations, he will plead with all
flesh; he will give them that
are wicked to the sword, saith the
LORD.

Jer. 1, 36, 37. A sword is upon
the liars; and they shall dote: a
sword is upon her mighty men;
and they shall be dismayed. A
sword is upon their horses, and
upon their chariots, and upon all
the mingled people that are in
the midst of her; and they shall
a sword is
become as women:
upon her treasures; and they shall
be robbed.

Ezek. v. 17. So will I send upo you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass I the LORD through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. have spoken it.

Ezek. xiv, 17, 21. Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it: For thus saith the Lord God; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the and beast? pestilence, to cut off from it man

Zech, xiii, 7. Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the Shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

Matth. x, 34. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Rev. il, 16. Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Rev. vi. 4. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

AND OF HUMAN PERSECU-
TION.

Ps. xvii, 13. Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked. which is thy sword.

P3. xxxvii, 15. Their sword shall their bows shall be broken. enter into their own heart, and

Ps. lix, 7. Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they,

doth hear?

Ps. Ixiv, 3. Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words.

Prov. xxv, 18. A man that bear eth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow,

Prov. xxx, 14. There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the er,th, and the needy from among TAAD.

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BODY.

Gen. 11, 7. And the LORD God formed men of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

Neh. ix, 37. And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

Job X. 9. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Job xiii, 12. Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Ps. xxii, 9, 10. But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

Ps. lxxi, 6. By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

Ps. cxxxix, 13-16. For thou hast thou hast possessed my reins: covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

Isa. ll, 23. But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them

that went over.

Dan. ii, 28. Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants changed the king's word, and that trusted in him, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Dan. vii, 15. I Daniel was

BODY.

grieved in my spirit, in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

Matth. x, 28. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Rom. vii, 24. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

2 Cor. v, 8. We are confident, I absent from the body, and to be say, and willing rather to be present with the Lord.

2 Cor. x, 10. For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

Heb. xiii, 3. Remember them that are in bords, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

James ii, 26. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

SYMBOL OF THE CHURCH AND ITS SYMPATHETIC

UNITY.

Rom. xii, 4, 5. For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

1 Cor. xii, 14-26. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have those members of the body, which no need of you. Nay, much more seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we be

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our uncomely parts have more
For our
abundant comeliness.
comely parts have no need: but
God hath tempered the body to-
gether, having given more abund-
ant honour to that part which
lacked; That there should be no
schism' in the body; but that the
members should have the same
And
care
for another.
one
whether one member suffer, all
the members suffer with it; or one

member be honoured, all the
members rejoice with it.

Eph. 1, 23. Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Eph. ii, 16. And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.

Eph. iii, 6. That the Gentiles same body, and partakers of his should be fellowheirs, and of the promise in Christ by the gospel,

Eph. iv, 4, 12, 16. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Eph. v, 23. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Colos. 1, 18, 24. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up

that which is behind of the afflic

tions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church.

Colos. ii, 19. And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit crease of God. together, increaseth with the in

Colos. iil, 15. And let the peaco of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

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