VOWS CALLED TO REMEMBRANCE.
And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell
there; and make there an altar unto God, that appeared
unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy
brother. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all
that were with him, Put away the strange Gods that are
among you, and be clean, and change your garments: and let
us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an
altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my dis-
tress, and was with me in the way which I went.-GEN.
xxxv. 1, 2, 3.
SERMON XI.
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CONCUPISCENCE PUNISHED.
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought
quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it
were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's
journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it
were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And the
people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the
next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered
least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all abroad
for themselves round about the camp. And while the flesh
was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath
of the Lord was kindled against the people? and the Lord
smote the people with a very great plague. And he called
the name of that place Kibroth-Hattaaavah: because there
they buried the people that lusted,-NUMBERS xi. 31-34
SERMON XV.
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THE PARABLE OF THE TWO SONS.
What think ye? A certain man had two Sons; and he came
to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.
He answered and said, I will not; but afterward he repen-
ted, and went. And he came to the second, and said like-
wise. And he answered, and said, I go, Sir; and went
Whether of them did the will of his father? They
say unto him, the first-MATTHEW Xxi. 28-31.
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