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into fuch a City, and continue there a Year, and BUY, and SELL, and get

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14 Whereas ye know not what fhall be on the Morrow: For what is your LIFE? it is even a VAPOUR that appeareth for a little Time, and then

VANISHETH away.

15 For that ye ought to fay, If the LORD WILL, we shall LIVE, and do this or that.

CHA P. IX.

Mofes diffuadeth them from the Opinion of their own Righteousness, by rehearsing their feveral Rebellions.

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Ver. 1 LEAR, O ISRAEL: Thou art to pass over JorJan this Day, to go in to poffefs Nations greater and mightier than thyfelf, Cities great and fenced up to Heaven,

z A People great and tall, the Children of the Anakims, whom thou knoweft, and of whom thou haft heard fay, Who can ftand before the Children of Anak?

3 Understand therefore this Day, that the LORD thy Gon is he which goeth over before thee as a CONSUMING FIRE. 4 Speak not thou in thine Heart, after that the LORD thy GOD hath caft them out from before thee, faying, For my RIGHTEOUSNESS the LORD hath brought me in to poffefs this Land but for the Wickedness of these Nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

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5 Nor for thy RIGHTEOUSNESS, or for the UpRIGHTNESS of thine HEART doft thou go to poffefs their Land: but for the WICKEDNESS of thefe NATIONS the LORD thy GOD doth DRIVE them out from before thee, and that he may perform the Word which the LORD fware unto thy Fathers.

6 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy GOD giveth thee not this good Land to poffefs it, for thy RIGHTEOUSNESS; for thou art a STIFF-NECKED Peo

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Rom. ix. 30 What fhall we say then? that the Gentiles which folattained to Righteousness, even the lowed not after Righteoufnefs. have RIGHTEOUSNESS which is of FAITH.

31 But Ifrael, which followed afnot atrained to the Law of RIGHTE ter the Law of Righteoufnefs, hath OUSNESS.

it, Nor by FAITH, but as it were by the WORKS of the Law for they STUMBLED at that STUMBLING STONE.

32 Wherefore? because they souGHT

Rem. x. 1 Brethren, my Heart's Defire and Prayer to God for Ifrael, is, that they might be faved. 7 Forget

7 Forget not how thou provokedft the LORD thy

GOD to Wrath in the Wildernefs: from the Day that thou didst depart out of the Land of Egypt, until ye came unto this Place, ye have been REBELLIOUS against the LORD.

8 Alfo in Horeb ye provoked LORD to Wrath, fo that he LORD was angry with you, to have destroyed you.

I was gone up into the Mount, to receive the Table of Stone, then I abode in the Mount forty Days and forty Nights, I neither did eat Bread, nor drink Water.

10 And the LORD delivered unto me two Tables of Stone written with the Fin

ger of GOD, and on them was written according to all the WORDS which the LORD fpake with you in the MOUNT, out of the midft of FIRE.

II And it came to pafs at the End of forty Days and forty Nights, that the LORD gave me the two Tabies of Stone, even the Tables of the Covenant.

12 And the LORD faid unto me, Arife, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy People which thou haft brought forth out of Egypt, have corrupted themfelves: they are quickly turned afide out of the Way which I commanded them;

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s For MOSES defcribeth the RIGHTEOUSNESS which is of the LAW, That

the Man which doth thofe Things, fhall live by them.

6 But the RIGHTEOUSNESS which is of FAITH, fpeaketh on this wife, Say not in thine Heart, Who fhall afcend into Heaven? (that is to bring CHRIST down from above)

7 Or who fhall defcend into the Deep? that is to bring up CHRIST again from the Dead)

12 For there is no Difference between the Jew and the GREEK : for the fame LORD over all, is rich unto all that call upon him.

13 For whofoever fhall call upon the Name of the LORD, fhall be faved.

Ephef. ii. 8 By GRACE ye are faved, through FAITH; and that not of your felves: it is the GIFT of GOD:

9 NoT of WORKS, left any Man fhould boaft:

10 For we are his WORKMANSHIP, CREATED in CHRIST JESUS Unto GOOD WORKS. which GOD hath before ordained that we fhould walk in them.

Tit iii. 5 Not by WORKS of RIGHTEOUSHESS, which we have done, but according to his MERCY he SAVED US, by the washing of Regeneration, and renewing of the HOLY GHOST.

Gal. i 19 Wherefore then ferveth the Law? It was added because of Tranfgreffions, till the Seed should come, to whom the Promise was

made; and it was ORDAINED by AnGEIS in the HAND of a MEDIATOR.

20 Now a Mediator is not a Me

diator of one; but GOD is ONE.

21 Is the LAW then against the PROMISES OF GOD? Gon forbid for

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there had been a Law given which could have given LIFE, verily RIGHTE OUSNESS hould have been by the Law.

they have made them a molten Image.

13 Furthermore, the LORD fpake unto me, faying, I have feen this People, and behold, it is a ftiff-necked People.

14 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their Name from under Heaven and I will make of greater than they.

22 But the SCRIPTURE hath con cluded all under SIN, that the PROMISE by FAITH of JESUS CHRIST might be given to them that BELIEVE.

23 But before FAITH came, we were kept under the Law, fhut up unto the

FAITH which fhould afterwards be RE

VEALED.

24 Wherefore the Law was our SCHOOLMASTER to bring us unto

CHRIST, that we might be JUSTIFIED by FAITH.

thee a Nation mightier and

15 So I turned and came down from the Mount, and the Mount burned with Fire: and the two Tables of the Covenant were in my two Hands.

16 And I looked, and behold, ye had finned against the LORD your GOD, and had made you a molten Calf: ye had turned afide quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

17 And I took the two Tables, and caft them out of my two Hands, and brake them before your Eyes.

18 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty Days and forty Nights; I did neither eat Bread, nor drink Water, because of all your Sins which ye finned, in doing wickedly in the Sight of the LORD, to provoke him to Anger.

19 (For I was AFRAID of the ANGER, and hot Difplea fure wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you) But the LORD hearkned unto me at that Time also.

22 And at Taberah, and at Maffah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to Wrath.

23 Likewife when the LORD fent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and poffefs the Land which I have given you; then you REBELLED against the Commandment of the LORD your GOD, and ye BELIEVED him NOT, nor hearkned unto his Voice.

24 You have been REBELLIOUS against the LORD, from the Day that I knew you.

25 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty Days and forty Nights, as I fell down at the firft; because the LORD had faid he would deftroy you.

26 I PRAYED therefore unto the LORD, and faid, O LORD GOD, deftroy not thy People, and thine Inheritance, which thou haft redeemed through thy Greatnefs, which

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thou haft brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty Hand.

27 Remember thy Servants, Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob; look not unto the Stubbornness of this People, nor to their Wickednefs, nor to their Sin.

28 Left the Land whence thou broughteft us out, fay, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the Land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to flay them in the Wilderness.

29 Yet they are thy People, and thine Inheritance, which thou broughteft out by thy mighty Power, and by thy ftretched out Arm.

CHAP. X.

1 GOD's Mercy in reftoring the two Tables. 12 An Exhortation to Obedience.

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Ver. 1 AT that Time the LORD faid unto me, Hew thee two Tables of Stone like unto the firft, and come up unto me into the Mount, and make thee an Ark of Wood.

2 And I will write on the Tables the Words that were in the firft Tables which thou brakeft, and thou shalt put them in the Ark.

3 And I made an Ark of Shittim-wood, and hewed two Tables of Stone like unto the firft, and went up into the Mount, having the two Tables in mine Hand.

4 And he wrote on the Tables, according to the first writing, the Ten Commandments, which the LORD fpake unto you in the Mount, out of the MIDST of the FIRE, in the Day of the Affembly: and the LORD gave them unto

me,

5 And I turned myself and came down from the Mount, and put the Tables in the Ark which I had made, and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.

10 And I ftayed in the Mount, according to the first time, forty Days and forty Nights, and the LORD hearkned unto me at that time alfo, and the LORD would not destroy thee.

11 And the LORD faid unto me, Arife, take thy Journey before the People that they may go in, and poffefs the Land which I fware unto their Fathers to give unto them.

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15 Only the LORD had a Delight in thy Fathers to love them, and he chofe their Seed after them, even you above all People, as it is this Day.

* Mic. vi. 6 Wherewith fhall I come before the HIGH GOD? fhall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before him with Burnt offerings, with Calves of a Year old?

Thousands of RAMS, or with ten 7 Will the LORD be pleafed with Thousands of Rivers of Oyl? fhall I give my Firft-born for my Tranfgreffion, the Fruit of my Body for the Sin of my Soul?

8 He hath fhewed thee, O Man,

what is Good; and what doth the and to love Mercy, and to walk humLORD require of thee, but to do juftly, bly with thy God?

Y 2 Chron. vi. 18 Will GOD in very Deed DWELL with Men on the Earth? VEN of HEAVENS cannot contain behold, the HEAVEN, and the HEA him.

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Ephef. iv. 10 He that DESCENDED IS
ABOVE ALL HEAVENS, that he might
FILL ALL THINGS.

Pfal. cxv. 16 The HEAVEN, even the HEAVENS are the LORD's: but the

EARTH hath he given to the Children of Men.

16 Circumcife therefore the Foreskin of your Heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

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17 For the LORD your God is GoD of Gods, and LORD of Lords, a great God, a MIGHTY and a TERRIBLE, which regardeth not Perfons, nor taketh Reward.

18 He doth execute the Judgment of the Fatherless and Widow, and loveth the Stranger, in giving him Food and Raiment.

19 Love ye therefore the Stranger: for ye were Strangers in the Land of Egypt.

20 Thou fhalt FEAR the LORD thy GOD; him fhalt thou SERVE, and to him fhalt thou CLEAVE; and swear by his Name.

21 He is thy PRAISE, and he is thy GOD that hath done for thee thefe great and TERRIBLE Things which thine Eyes have feen.

22 Thy Fathers went down into Egypt with threefcore and ten Perfons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the Stars of Heaven for multitude.

* In this the Promije to Abraham was fulfilled.

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