CHA P. XI.

An Exhortation to Obedience. 26 A Blaffing and Curfe is fet before them.

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Ver. THEREFORE thou fhalt LOVE the LORD thy GOD, and KEEP his Charge, and his STATUTES, and his Judgments, and his COMMANDMENTS alway.

2 And know you this Day: for I fpeak not with your. Children which have not known, and which have not SEEN the Chastisement of the LORD your God, his GREATNESS, his MIGHTY Hand, and his ftretched out Arm,

3 And his MIRACLES, and his Acts which he did in the. midst of Egypt, unto Pharaoh the King of Egypt, and unto all his Land,

4 And what he did unto the ARMY of Egypt, unto their Horfes, and to their Chariots, how he made the Water of the RED SEA to overflow them as they purfued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this Day,

5 And what he did unto you in the Wilderness, until ye came into this Place,

6 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram; how the Earth opened her Mouth and swallowed them up.

7 But your Eyes have feen all the great ACTS of the LORD which he did.

8 Therefore fhall ye KEEP all the COMMANDMENTS which I command you this Day, that ye may be strong, and go in and poffefs the Land whither you go to poffefs it:

9 And that ye may prolong your Days in the Land which the LORD fware unto your Fathers to give unto them, and to their Seed,

10 For the Land whither thou goest in to poffefs it, is not as the Land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where. thou fowedft thy Seed, and wateredit it with thy Foot, as a Garden of Herbs:

But the Land whither ye go to poffefs it, is a Land of Hills and Valleys, and drinketh Water of the Rain of Heaven:

12 A Land which the LORD thy GOD CARETH for: the Eyes of the LORD thy GOD are always upon it, from the Beginning of the Year, even unto the End of the Year. 13 And it hall come to pafs, if you fhall hearken dili

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gently unto my COMMANDMENTS which I command you this Day, to LOVE the LORD your God, and to SERVE him with all your HEART, and with all your SoUL;

14 That I will give you the RAIN of your Land in due Seafon, the first Rain, and the latter Rain, that thou mayeft gather in thy Corn, and thy Wine, and thine Oyl.

15 And I will fend Grafs in thy Fields, for thy Cattel, that thou mayeft eat and be full.

16 a Take heed to yourfelves, that your HEART be not deceived, and ye turn afide, and ferve other Gods, and worship them:

Joel ii. 21 Fear not, O Land, be glad and rejoyce: for the LORD will do great Things.

22 Be not afraid, ye Beafts of the Field; for the Paftures of the Wildernefs do fpring, for the Tree beareth her Fruit, the Fig-tree and the vine do yield their Strength.

Jer. xvii. 9 The HEART IS DECEIT FUL above all things, and DESPERATE

LY WICKED, who can know it?

10 I the LORD SEARCH the HEART,

I try the Reins, even to give every Man according to his Ways, and according to the Fruit of his Doings.

1 Kng xvii. 1 And Elijah faid unto Ahab, As the LORD GOD of Ifrael liveth, before whom I ftand, there fhall not be Dew nor RAIN these Years, but according to my WORD..

17 b And then the LORD's Wrath be kindled against you, and he fhut up the Heaven that there be no Rain, and that the Land yield not her Fruit, and left ye perish quickly from off the good Land which the LORD giveth you.

18 Therefore shall ye LAY UP thefe my WORDS in your HEART, and in your SOUL, and bind them for a Sign upon your Hand, that they may be as Frontlets between your Eyes.

19 And ус fhall TEACH them your CHILDREN; SPEAK

ING of them when thou SITTEST in thine Houfe, and when thou WALKEST by the Way, when thou LIEST down, and when thou RISEST up.

zo And thou fhalt write them upon the Door-pofts of thine Houfe, and upon thy Gates:

21 That your Days may be multiplied, and the Days of your Children, in the Land which the LORD fware unto your Fathers to give them, as the DAYS of HEAVEN UFon the Earth.

22 For if ye fhall diligently keep all these COMMANDMENTS which I command you to do them, to LOVE the LORD your God, to walk in all his Ways, and to CLEAVE unto him;

23 Then

23 Then will the LORD drive out all thefe Nations from before you, and ye fhall poffefs greater Nations, and migh tier than yourselves.

24* Every Place where on the Soles of your Feet fhall tread, fhall be yours: from the Wilderness, and Lebanon, from the River, the River Euphrates, even unto the uttermoft Sea, fhall your Coast be.

25 There fhall no Man be able to ftand before you: for the LORD your God fhall lay the Fear of you, and the Dread of you upon all the Land that ye fhall tread upon, as he hath faid unto you.

26 Behold, I fet before you this Day a BLESSING and a CURSE:

27 A BLESSING, if ye OBEY the COMMANDMENTS of the LORD your God which I command you this Day.

28 And a CURSE, if ye will NOT OBEY the COMMAND. MENTS of the LORD your GOD, but turn afide out of the Way which I command you this Day, to go after other Gods which we have not known.

29 And it fhall come to pafs,. when the LORD thy GoD hath brought thee in unto the Land whither thou goeft to poffefs it, that thou fhalt put the Bleffing upon Mount Gerizim, and the Curfe upon Mount Ebal.

CHAP. XIII.

1 Enticers to Idolatry, 6 how near foever, 9 are to be floned to Death. 12 Idolatrous Cities are not to be fpared.

This was fulfilled in the Time of Solomon.

3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the Words of that Prophet, or that Dreamer of Dreams for the LORD your GOD proveth you, to know whether you love the LORD your GOD with all your Heart, and with all your Soul.

4 Ye fhall walk after the LORD your GOD, and fear him, and keep his Commandments, and obey his Voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

5 And that Prophet, or that Dreamer of Dreams fhall be put to Death (because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the Land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the House of Bondage, to thrust thee out of the Way which the LORD thy GoD commanded thee to walk in) fo fhalt thou put the Evil away from the midst of thee.

fuch turn away.

Matth. xxiv. 24 For there fhall a rife FALSE CHRISTS, and FALSE PROPHETS, and fhall fhew great Signs and poffible) they fhall deceive the very Wonders, infomuch that (if it were ELECT.

Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all Diligence to write unto you of the common Salvation: it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you, that ye fhould earnestly CONTEND for the FAITH which was once delivered unto the Saints.

4 For there are certain Men frept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this Condemnation, un

godly Men, turning the GRACE of

our GoD into LASCIVIOUSNESS, and

denying the ONLY LORD GOD, and our

LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Zeph. iii. 4 Her PROPHETS are LIGHT, and TREACHEROUS Perfons: her PRIESTS

have POLLUTED the SANCTUARY, they

have done Violence to the Law.

6 If thy Brother the Son of thy Mother, or thy Son, or thy Daughter, or the Wife of thy Bofom, or thy Friend, which is as thine own Soul, entice thee fecretly, saying, Let us go and ferve other Gods (which thou haft not known, thou nor thy Fathers;

7 Namely, of the Gods of the People which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one End of the Earth even unto the other End of the Earth.)

8 Thou shalt not confent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither fhail thine Eye pity him, neither fhalt thou pare, neither fhalt thou conceal him.

9 But thou halt furely kill him; thine Hand fhall be

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firft upon him, to put him to Death, and afterwards the Hand of all the People.

10 And thou fhalt ftone him with Stones, that he die : because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy GoD, which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, from the House of Bondage.

11 And all Ifrael fhall hear, and fear, and fhall do no more any fuch Wickednefs as this is among you.

12 If thou fhalt hear fay in one of thy Cities which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, faying,

13 Certain Men, the Children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the Inhabitants of their City, faying, Let us go and ferve other Gods (which ye have not known)

14 Then fhalt thou enquire and make Search, and afk diligently and behold if it be Truth, and the Thing cer tain, that fuch Abomination is wrought among you:

15 Thou shalt furely fmite the Inhabitants of that City with the Edge of the Sword, deftroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the Cattle thereof, with the Edge of the Sword.

16 And thou shalt gather all the Spoil of it into the midst of the Street thereof, and fhalt burn with Fire the City and all the Spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy GOD : and it fhall be an Heap for ever, it fhall not be built again.

17 And there fhall cleave nought of the curfed Thing to thine Hand that the LORD may turn from the Fierceness of his Anger, and fhew thee Mercy and have Compaflion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath fworn unto thy

Fathers;

18 When thou shalt hearken to the Voice of the LORD thy GOD, to keep all his Commandments, which I command thee this Day, to do that which is right in the Eyes of the LORD thy. GOD.

CHA P. XVIII.

1 The LORD is the Priests and Levites Inheritance. 15 CHRIST the Prophet is to be heard. 20 The prefumptuous Prophet is to die.