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P3. xxxix, 2. I was dumb with silence; I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

Ezek. xxiv, 27. In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt

speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

DYSENTERY.

2 Chron. xxi, 18, 19. And after all this the LORD smote him Jehoram] in his bowels with an incurable disease. And it came to pass, that, in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness; so he died of sore diseases: and his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

Acts xxviii. 8. And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever, and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.

EMERODS.

1 Sam. v, 6, 12. But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod, and the coasts thereof. And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

EPILEPSY.

Matth. xvii, 15. Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes

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LAMENESS.

Gen. xxxii, 31. And as he passed he falleth into the fire, and oft him, and he halted upon his thigh. over Penuel, the sun rose upon

into the water.

FEVER.

Deut. xxviii, 22. The LORD shall smite thee with a fever. . . . .

Job xxx, 27, 30. My bowels boiled, and rested not; the days of affliction prevented me. My skin is black upon me, and my bones

are burned with heat.

Matth. viii, 14. And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever.

John iv, 52. Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

FRACTURES.

Prov. xxv, 19. Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

2 Sam. iv, 4. And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he tell, and became lame; and his

name was Mephibosheth.

2 Sam. ix, 13. So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet.

LEPROSY.

2 Kings v. 27. The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. 2 Chron. xxvi, 21, 23. And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the

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Lev. xiii, 2, 3, 7-11, 14, 15, 24-27, 29, 30, 35, 36, 42-44. When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the

priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh; and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean. But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again. And if the priest see, that, behold, the scab spreadeth in the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a leprosy. When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought unto the him: and, behold, if the rising be priest; And the priest shall see white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising, It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean. But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean. And the

priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean; for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy. Or if there be any flesh,

in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white; Then the priest shall look upon : and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin, it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy. But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot,

and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days. And the priest shall look upon him the seventh day; and if it be spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy. If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard; Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin, and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard. But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing, Then the priest shall look on him: and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for yellow hair; he is unclean. And if there be in the bald head, or bald forehead, a white reddish sore, it is a leprosy sprung up in his bald head, or his bald forehead. Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or

in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh, He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is

in his head.

CLEAN.

Lev. xiii, 4, 5, 12, 13, 17, 31-34, 37. If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days. And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more. And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague, from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh; Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague; it is all turned white: he is clean. And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean. And it the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days. And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall

spread not, and there be in it no
yellow hair, and the scall be not
in sight deeper than the skin; He
shall be shaven, but the scall shall
he not shave: and the priest shall |
shut up him that hath the scall
seven days more. And in the
seventh day the priest shall look
on the scall: and, behold, if the
scall be not spread in the skin,
nor be in sight deeper than the
skin; then the priest shall pro-
nounce him clean: and he shall
wash his clothes, and be clean.
But if the scall be in his sight at a
stay, and that there is black hair
grown up therein, the scall is
healed, he is clean: and the priest
shall pronounce him clean.

LEPERS OBLIGED TO DWELL

IN SEPARATION.

Lev. xiii, 46. All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.

Num. v, 2-4. Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of

Israel.

hold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread, it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire: it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without. And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof. And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin, it is a spreading plague; thou shalt

burn that wherein the plague is with fire. And the garment, either warp or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them. then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean. This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it un-clean.

for all manner of plague of leprosy, Lev. xiv, 54-57. This is the law and scall, And for the leprosy of for rising, and for a scab, and for a garment, and of a house, And a bright spot; To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

Deut. xxiv, 8. Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thon observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

LEPROSY IN HOUSES. (See under ARCHITECTURE, Page 52.)

LOSS OF APPETITE. Job xxxiii, 20. So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

and withered like grass; so that I Ps. cii, 4. My heart is smitten, forget to eat my bread.

Ps. cvii, 17, 18. Fools, because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted: Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

LEPROSY IN GARMENTS. Lev. xiii, 49-59. And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest. And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days. And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin, the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean. IIe shall therefore burn that garment, whether warp or woof. in woollen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy: it shall be burnt in the fire. And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more. And the priest shall look on the plague, Dan. iv, 36. At the same time after that it is washed: and, be- my reason returned unto me; and,

LUNACY.

Deut. xxviii. 28. The LORD shall

smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart.

1 Sam. xxi, 15. Have I need of madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

for the glory of my kingdom, mine | and beast: they shall die of a great
honour and brightness returned pestilence.
unto me; and my counsellors and
my lords sought unto me; and I
was established in my kingdom,
and excellent majesty was added

unto me.

Dan. v, 21. And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet

Ps. lxxviii, 50. He made a way to his anger, he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence.

P3. xci, 6. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.

Ezek. v, 12. A third part of thee

| ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upou the earth. And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

WORMS.

Acts xii, 23. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the and gave up the ghost.

with the dew of heaven; till he shall die with the pestilence, and glory: and he was eaten of worms,

knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

Acts xxvi, 24, 25. And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself, much learning

But he

doth make thee mad. said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.

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Num. xxv 9. And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

Deut. xxviii. 21. The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou❘ goest to possess it.

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with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee.....

Amos iv, 10. I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt.

Habak. iii, 5. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

(See also under SWORD.)

SKIN DISEASES. Lev. xiii, 38, 39. If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots; Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin: he

is clean.

Deut. xxviii, 35. The LORD shall sinite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

Job vii, 5. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

SUNSTROKE.

2 Kings iv, 19, 20. And he said unto his father, My head, my head! And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

Isa. xlix, 10. They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them. .

Rev. vii, 16. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

ULCERS.

Lev. xv, 3. And this shall be his uncleanness to his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.

Luke xvi, 20. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores.

Rev. xvi, 1, 2. And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your

PHYSICIANS.

2 Chron. xvi, 12. . . . . . Yet in his disease he [Asa] sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

Neh. iii. 8. ... Next unto him repaired IIananiah, the son of one of the apothecaries..

Mark v, 25, 26. And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.

Col. iv, 14. Luke, the beloved physician, and Demás, greet you.

Job xiii, 4. But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

Jer. viii, 22. Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Matth. ix, 12. But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

Mark ii, 17. When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Luke iv, 23. And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

Luke v, 31. And Jesus answering, said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

MEDICINES, BALM, ETC.

Prov. xvii, 22. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drietl the bones.

Prov. xx, 30. The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil; so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

Isa. i, 6. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds,

and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

Isaiah xxxviii, 21. For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of fgs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.

Jer. xlvi, 11. Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O'virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

Jer. li, 8, 9. Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed. We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed.....

Luke x, 34. And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

OTHER MEANS EMPLOYED. | Mark vi, 13, 56. And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them. And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

Acts v, 15. Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might

overshadow some of them.

James v, 14. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil

in the name of the Lord.

DISEASE OFTEN INCUR-
ABLE.

2 Chron. xxi, 18. And after all

this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

Job xxxiv, 6. Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

Ps. xli, 8. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth, he shall rise up

no more.

Jer. xv, 18. Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

Jer. xxx, 12, 13. For thus saith the LORD, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy Wound is grievous. There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

Hosea v, 13. When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

Micah i, 9. For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah: he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Nah. iii, 19. There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee..

Matth. xvii, 16. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.

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Ps. lxviii, 20. He that is our

God is the God of salvation; and unto GoD the Lord belong the issues from death.

Ps. cvii, 19, 20. Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses. He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

P3. cxviii, 17, 18. I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD. The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.

Isa. xxxviii, 15, 16. What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. O LORD, by these things men live, and in all

these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

Phil. ii, 27, 28. For indeed he God had mercy on him; and not was sick nigh unto death: but on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorI sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

row.

DEATH,

ORIGINAL SENTENCE. Gen. iii, 19. . . . . Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Rom. v, 12. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.

SHORTNESS AND UNCER

TAINTY OF LIFE.

Gen. xxvii, 2. And he said, Behold, now, I am old, I know not the day of my death.

Gen. xlvil, 9. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

1 Sam. xx, 3. . . . . Truly, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

1 Chron. xxix, 15. For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

strength of stones? or is my flesh Job vi, 12 Is my strength the of brass?

Job ix, 25, 26. Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to her prey.

Job x, 20. Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little.

Job xiv, 1-3, 5, 6. Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an bireling, nis day.

Job xvi, 22. When a few years

are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Job xvii, 1. My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

Ps. xxxix, 4, 5, 13. LORD, make me to know mine end, and the that I may know how frail I am. measure of my days, what it is; Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no

more.

Isa. x1, 6, 7. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the fleld: The grass withereth,

the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.

Ps. xc, 10. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow: for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Ps. ciii, 15, 16. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

Ps. cxix, 109. My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.

Prov. xxvii, 1. Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Zech. i, 5. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

2 Tim. iv, 6. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

James i, 10. But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

FRAILTY OF LIFE.

Job iv, 17-21. Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: How much

less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the

dust, which are crushed before the moth? They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever, without any regarding it.

out wisdom.

wheel broken at the cistern: Then
shall the dust return to the earth
as it was; and the spirit shall re-
turn unto God who gave it.

LESSONS.

Let me

Num. xxiii, 10...
die the death of the righteous,
and let my last end be like his!

Deut. xxxii, 29. Oh that they
were wise, that they understood
this, that they would consider
their latter end!

Ps. xc, 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

1 Cor. vii, 30, 31. And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed world, as not abusing it: for the not; And they that use this fashion of this world passeth away.

2 Cor. iv, 16. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Eph. v, 15, 16. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Col. iv, 5. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

Heb. xiii, 14. For here have we

no continuing city, but we seek
one to come.

James iv, 13-15. Go to now, ye
that say, To-day, or to-morrow,
we will go into such a city, and
continue there a year, and buy
and sell, and get gain; Whereas
They die, even with-ye know not what shall be on the
morrow. For what is your life?
It is even a vapour, that appear-
eth for a little time, and then
vanisheth away. For that ye
ought to say, If the Lord will, we
shall live, and do this, or that.

Job vii, 17, 18. What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart heart upon him? And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every mo

ment?

Ps. lxxxix, 47. Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast

thou made made all men in vain?

Ps. xc, 4, 9. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

Ps. cili, 14, 19. For he knoweth our frame: he remembereth that we are dust; The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

Eccles. xii, 6, 7. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the

DEATH THE WILL OF GOD.
Job v, 18. For he maketh sore,
and bindeth up; he woundeth, and

his hands make whole.

Job x, 8. Thine hands have made me, and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Job xxx, 23. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Ps. ix, 13. Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death.

Ps. xlix, 6-9. They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him; (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever;) That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

Ps xc, 3. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Ps. clil, 4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with loving-kindness

and tender mercies.

Ps. lxviii, 20. He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.

And the

Dan. v, 23. God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.

live, and move, and have our Acts xvii, 28. For in him we being, as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Rom. xiv. 7. For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

and was dead; and, behold, I am Rev. i, 18. I am he that liveth, alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

AN APPOINTED TIME TO DIE. Num. xx, 24-26. Aaron shall be gathered unto his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah. Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor; And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.

Deut. xxxii, 50. And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people.

2 Kings viii, 10. And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: how beit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

2 Kings xx, 6. And I will add unto thy days fifteen years......

Job vii, 1, 2. Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling? servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work.

As a

Job xiv, 5, 14. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee; thou hast

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