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sure. And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling-places under the rows round about. Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

IV.

SYNAGOGUES.

PLACES OF SABBATH WORSHIP. P3. lxxiv, 8. They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burnt up all the synagogues of God in the land.

the Jews: for the Jews had agreed
already, that if any man did con-,
fess that he was Christ, he should
be put out of the synagogue.

John xii, 42. Nevertheless
among the chief rulers also many
believed on him; but because of
the Pharisees they did not confess
him, lest they should be put out
of the synagogue.

John xvi, 2. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he

doeth God service.

V.

will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctifled by my glory. And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office. And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

to pass, as Moses entered into the Exod. xxxili. 9, 10. And it came tabernacle, the cloudy pillar de

scended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD talked with Moses. And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle-door: and all the

Matth, iv, 23. And Jesus went PURPOSE OF TABERNACLE people rose up and worshipped.

about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the

people.

And when thou

Matth. vi, 5. prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Luke vii, 4. 5. And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this: For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.

Luke x1, 43. Woe unto you, Pharisees: for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

Acta vi. 9. Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with phen.

AND TEMPLE.

AS THE SCENE OF GOD'S PRESENCE.

Gen. xxviii, 16, 17. And Jacob
said, Surely the LORD is in this
awaked out of his sleep, and he
place, and I knew it not. And he
was afraid, and said, Iow dread-
ful is this place! this is none other
but the house of God, and this is
the gate of heaven.

Exod. iii, 5. And he said, Draw
not nigh hither: put off thy shoes
from off thy feet, for the place
ground.
whereon thou standest is holy

And

thou shalt set bounds unto the
Exod. xix, 12, 13, 23--25.
heed to yourselves, that ye go not
people round about, saying, Take
up into the mount, or touch the
border of it: whosoever toucheth
the mount shall be surely put to
death. There shall not an hand
touch it, but he shall surely be
it be beast or man, it shall not live:
stoned, or shot through; whether
when the trumpet soundeth long,
they shall come up to the mount.
And Moses said unto the LORD,
the people cannot come up to
Ste-mount Sinai: for thou chargedst
mount, and sanctify it.
us, saying, Set bounds about the
thee down, and thou shalt come
LORD said unto him, Away, get
And the
up, thou, and Anion with thee:
people break through to come up
but let not the press and the
unto the LORD, lest he break forth
upon them. So Moses went down
unto the people, and spake unto
them.

Acts xil, 14. But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

Acts xv, 21. For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

PRESIDED OVER BY ELDERS-ONE
OF WHOM IS CALLED THE CHIEF
RULER.

Mark v, 22. And, behold, there Cometh one of the rulers of the Bynagogne, Jairus by name; and wher he saw him, he fell at his feet.

EXCOMMUNICATION.

John is, 22. These words spake his parents, because they feared

Exod. xxiv, 1, 2. And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and of Israel: and worship ye afar off. Abian, and seventy of the elders the LORD; but they shall not come And Moses alone shall come near nigh, neither shall the people go up with him.

every man in his tent-door.

And no

Exod. xxxiv, 2, 3. And be ready the morning unto mount Sinai, in the morning, and come up in and present thyself there to me in neither let any man the top of the mount. throughout all the mount; neither man shall come up with thee, let the flocks and herds feed bebe seen

fore that mount.

Aaron went into the tabernacle of Lev. ix, 23. And Moses and the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the people.

brother, that he come not at all
unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy
Lev. xvi, 2. And the LORD said
times into the holy place within
the vail before the mercy-seat,
not: for I will appear in the cloud
which is upon the ark, that he die
upon the mercy-seat.

sabbaths, and reverence my sanc-
tuary: I am the LORD.
Lev. xix, 30. Ye shall keep my

my tabernacle among you; and my
soul shall not ablor you. And I
Lev. xxvi, 11, 12. And I will set
will walk among you, and will be
people.
your God, and ye shall be my

down and talk with thee there: Num. xi, 17. And I will come is upon thee, and will put it upon and I will take of the spirit which them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

David the king said unto all the
1 Chron. xxix, 1. Furthermore,
congregation, Solomon my son,
whom alone God hath chosen, is
work is great: for the palace is
yet young and tender, and the
God.
not for man, but for the LORD

2 Chron. viii, 11. And Solomon
Exod. xxv, 8. And let them raoh out of the city of David unto
brought up the danghter of Pha-
make me a sanctuary, that I may the house that he had built for
dwell among them.
Exod. xxix, 43-45. And there I dwell in the house of David king
her: for he said, My wife shall not

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of Israel, because the places are
holy, whereunto the ark of the
LORD hath come.
Ps. xciii, 5. Thy testimonies are
holiness becometh
very sure:
thine house, O LORD, for ever.

Jonah ii, 4. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

Acts vii, 33. Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

Heb. xil, 20, 21. (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake.)

Rev. xxi, 3. And I heard a great Voice out of heaven, saying. Be. hold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

Num. xvi, 37--40. Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed. The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers, wherewith they that were burnt had offered, and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar. To be a memoriai unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD, that he be not as Korah, and as his company; as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.

TO BE KEPT Sacred.

2 Chron. xxiii, 6. But let none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.

2 Chron. xxix, 6-9. For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs. Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burnt incense,

nor offered burnt-offerings in the
holy place unto the God of Israel.
Wherefore the wrath of the LORD
was upon Judah and Jerusalem,
and lie hath delivered them to
trouble, to astonishment, and to
hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
For, lo, our fathers have fallen by
the sword; and our sons, and our
daughters, and our wives, are in
captivity for this.

Neh. xiii, 4-8. And before this,
Eliashib the priest, having the
oversight of the chamber of the
house of our God, was allied unto
Tobiah: And he had prepared
for him a great chamber, where
aforetime they laid the meat-
offerings, the frankincense, and
the vessels, and the tithes of the
corn, the new wine, and the oil,
(which was commanded to be
given to the Levites, and the
singers, and the porters.) and the
offerings of the priests. But in
all this time was not I at Jeru-
salem: for in the two and thirtieth
year of Artaxerxes king of Baby-
lon came I unto the king, and
after certain days obtained I leave
of the king. And I came to Jeru-
salem, and understood of the evil
that Ellashib did for Tobiah, in
preparing him a chamber in the
courts of the house of God. And
it grieved me sore; therefore I
cast forth all the household-stuff
of Tobiah out of the chamber.

Jer. vii, 11. Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord.

Jer. li, 51. We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces; for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD's house.

Lam. i, 10. The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

Ezek. ix, 7. And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

Ezek. xxv, 3, 4. And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord Gop, Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee:

they shall eat thy fruit, and they
shall drink thy milk.

Zech. xiv, 21..
And in that
day there shall be no more the
Canaanite in the house of the
LORD of hosts.

Mark xi, 17. And he taught saying unto them, Is it not written My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

And

John ii, 13-16. And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and dores and the chaugers of money sitting And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changer's money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make

not my Father's house an house of merchandise.

Acts xxi, 27--29. And when the seven days were almost en led, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further, brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place. For they had seen the city before with him in Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple

Acts xxiv, 18. Whereupon cer tain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

1 Cor. ill, 12-15, 17. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burnt, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

THE DIVINE PROMISE OF PROTECTION AND BLESSING

Exod. xx, 24. In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

1 Kings ix, S. And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

2 Chron. vii, 12, 15, 16. And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my

name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

Isa. iv, 5. And the LORD will create upon every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a clond and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Isa. Ixii, 8, 9. The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the Bons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my hollness.

Jer. xvil, 12. A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

Jer. 1, 23. The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple. Zech. ix, 8. And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth; and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

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selves in psalme, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.

Col. ill, 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonish ing one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Heb. x, 25. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

James v, 13. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

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EXPERIENCE OF THE

WORSHIPPERS.

Neh. ix, 3, 4. And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God. Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.

Ps. xxvi, 8. LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour

dwelleth.

Ps. xxvii, 4, 5. One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days the LORD, and to enquire in his of my life, to behold the beauty of temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:

in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock

Ps. xli, 3, 4. My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude; I went with

them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holy-day.

F's. xliii, 3, 4. O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto the holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.

Ps. xlviii, 9. We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

Ps. lxiii, 1, 2. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, So as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

Ps. lxxxiv, 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them: They go from strength to strength: every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

P8. xcii, 13. Those that be plantflourish in the courts of our God. ed in the house of the LORD shall

Ps. cxxii, 1, 9. I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

Jer. vii, 2. Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

Zeph. iii, 18. I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a

burden.

Luke xxiv, 53. And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

Acts xiii, 15. And after the reading of the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

Acts xviii, 19. And he came to Ephesus, and left them there: but he himself entered into the syna

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2 Chron. xxix, 20. Then Пlezekiah the king rose early, and

Acts iii, 1. Now Peter and John went up together into the temple

Siles by night unto Rerea: who, coming thither, went into the synagogue of the Jews.

1 Sam. xxi, 7. Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Deeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.

Neh. vill, 4. And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anafah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Manseleft hand, Pedaiab, and Mishael, and Malchiali, and Hasbum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

gathered the rulers of the city at the hour of prayer, being the fah, on his right band; and on his

and went up to the house of the LORD.

ninth hour.

Jer. xix. 14. Then came JereActs xvii, 10. And the brethren miah from Tophet, whither the immediately sent away Paul and 712

1st.

VINEYARD.

VINEYARD.-ORCHARD.

AN EARLY AND COMMON POSSESSION.

Gen. ix, 20. And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.

Num. xvi, 14. Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

1 Kings xxi, 1. And it came to pass alter these things that Na

both the Jezreelite had a vine

yard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

2 Kings v, 26. And he said unto him. Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants?

Cant. vii, 12. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth; there will I give thee my loves.

Cant. viii, 11. 12. Solomon had & vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers: every one for the fruit thereof

was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thon, O Solomen, must have a thousand, and

It should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they For the rain no rain upon it. vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but bebut behold a cry. Yea, ten acres hold oppression; for righteousness, of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

Jer. xxxi. 5. Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of and shall eat them as common Samaria: the planters shall plant,

things.

Amos v. 11. . . . . . Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

Matth. xxi, 33, 35--41. Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and liedged it round about, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and

stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first: But last of all he sent unto them and they did unto them likewise.

vant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty. And agin he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.

THE VINE.

Gen. xl. 9. 10. And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine cas before me; And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes.

Num. xlii, 23, 24. And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs, Eshicol, because of the cluster of The place was called the brook grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

1 Kings iv, 25. And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his figtree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

Çant. vi, 11. I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

Ezek. xv, 2, 6. Son of man

What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a banch which is among the trees of the forest? Therefore thus saith the Lord

those that keep the fruit thereof his son, saying, They will rever. GoD, As the vine-tree among the

two hundred.

Eccles. 11, 4. I made me great works; I builded me houses: I planted me vineyards.

Isa. v, 1--7, 10. Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in 11? wherefore, when I looked that

ence my son. But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

Luke xx, 10-12. And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat lim, and sent him away empty. And again he sent another ser

trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Hosea xiv, 7. They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

Gen. xlix, 11. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes.

Deut. xxxil, 32. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter.

Job xv, 33. He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and

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