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tion shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall

cease.

xxiv. 9. The scorner is an abomination to

men.

xxix. 8. Scornful men bring a city into a

snare.

Isa. xxviii. 14. Hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this people. Ver. 15, 16.

Hos. vii. 5. The king stretched out his hand with scorners.

LVI. Threats against kings and nations, for their pride, haughtiness, &c. Pharaoh, Exod. ix. 17. Ch. x. 11. 14. 27. Neh. ix. 10, 11. Ezek. xxix. 15. Isa. xix. 11. Assyria, 2 Kings xix. 22 to 36. Compare Isa. xxxvii. 23.-x. 5 to 17.-xiv. 4 to 24. Jer. 1. 29. 31. Ezek. xxxi. 3 to 18. iv. 30, 31, 32.—v. 20. Hab. ii. 4 to 12. Zech. x. 11.

Dan.

LVIII. Divorce was permitted by the law of Moses. Deut. xxiv. 1 to 4.

LIX. Divorce was disapproved. Mal. ii. 15.

LX. Divorce is expressly forbidden in the New Testament. Matt. xix. 4-6. Jesus said, He which made them at the beginning, made them male and female: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. (Gen. ii. 24. 1 Cor. vi. 16. Eph. v. 31.) What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Ver. 8, 9. Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so. I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery. And whoso marrieth her that is put away, doth commit adultery. Ch. v. 32. Whosoever shall Israel, Neh. ix. 16, 17. 27. 29. Isa. ix. 8 to put away his wife, saving for the cause of for10. Hos. v. 5. 14.-vi. 7. Judah, Jer. xiii. 9 to 27. Tyre, Isa. xxiii. 8, 9. Zech. ix. 3, 4.

Ezek. xxviii. 2 to 18.

Moab, Isa. xvi. 6 to 14. Jer. xlviii. 26 to 42. Zeph. ii. 8 to 15.

Ammon, Jer. xlix. 16.

nication, causeth her to commit adultery.

Rom. vii. 2, 3. The woman which hath a husband, is bound by the law to her husband, so long as he liveth. If while her husband liveth she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband be dead, she is no adulteress, though she

Edom, Ezek. xxxv. 13-15. Obad. 4. 12. 15. be married to another man.

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thren of the Lord, and Cephas?

1 Cor. vii. 10, 11. Let not the wife depart from her husband: or if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to her husband: And let not the husband put away his wife. Ver. 34.

LXI. Of marriage with unbelievers. 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?-Ver. 17. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord.

LXII. The Jews were forbidden to make marriages with the heathen inhabitants of Canaan, lest they should be thereby enticed to idolatry. Exod. xxxiv. 16. Take heed, and their daughters make thy sons go a-whorlest thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, ing after their gods.

Deut. vii. 3, 4. Thy daughter thou shalt not

ix. 5. Have we not power to lead about a wife as well as other apostles, and as the bre-give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away Josh. xxiii. 12, thy son from following me. 13. See instances of such unhappy marriages, Judg. iii. 5 to 8. 1 Kings xi. 1 to 12. Ezra ix. 2. 12.

1 Tim. iv. 1. In the latter times some shall depart from the faith.-Ver. 3. Forbidding to marry.

v. 14. I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, &c.

Heb. xiii. 4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled; but whoremongers, and adulterers, God will judge.

This sin reformed. Neh. xiii. 23 to 27. Ezra x. 2, 3. 11.

LXIII. The embracing of Christianity did not dissolve marriage already contracted with

unbelievers. 1 Cor. vii. 12, 13. If any bro- | ther hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. The woman that hath a husband that believeth not, if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him. See to ver. 17.

LXIV. The husband, his duties. Prov. v.

18, 19. Rejoice with the wife of thy youth. (Eccl. ix. 9.) Be thou ravished always with

her love, Ch. xix. 14.-xviii. 22.

1 Cor. vii. 3-5. Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence; likewise also

the wife to the husband. The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband; likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife. Defraud not one another.

Eph. v. 23. The husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. -Ver. 25. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church.

Ver. 28. So ought men to love their wives, even as their own bodies.-Ver. 33. Let every one of you love his wife, even as himself.

Col. ii. 19. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

1 Pet. iii. 7. Husbands, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife as the weaker vessel, and being hers together of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered. Ver. 9.

man to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

v. 14. I will that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

the young women to be sober, to love their Tit. ii. 4, 5. That the aged women teach husbands, to love their children; to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands; that the word of God be not blasphemed.

1 Pet. iii. 1. Wives, be in subjection to your ed Abraham, calling him lord. own husbands.-Ver. 6. Even as Sarah obey.

Concerning woman's apparel. See 1 Tim. ii. 9. 1 Pet. iii. 3, 4.

DUTIES TOWARDS CHILDREN.

LXVI. To provide for their support. Gen. xxx. 30. Jacob said, And now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

Prov. xiii. 22. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children. 1 Chron. xxviii. 8.

2 Cor. xii. 14. The parents ought to lay up for their children.

1 Tim. v. 8. If a man provide not for his own, specially for those of his own house, he

LXV. The wife, her duties. Prov. xi. 16. hath denied the faith, and is worse than an inA gracious woman retaineth honour.

xii. 4. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as

rottenness in his bones.

xiv. 1. Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

xix. 14. A prudent wife is from the Lord. xxxi. 10-12. Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her. She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. See to the end of this chapter.

1 Cor. vii. 34. She that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Eph. v. 22-24. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (Col. iii. 18.) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. As the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be unto their own husbands in every thing.

fidel.

Fight for your sons and your daughters, your LXVII. To defend them. Neh. iv. 14. wives and your houses. See Numb. xi. 12.

LXVIII. To pray for them. Instances. Gen. xvii. 18. Abraham prays for Ishmael. Ver. 20.

2 Sam. xii. 16. David for his child. Ver. 21. Job i. 5. Job for his sons.

LXIX. To instruct them. Gen. xviii. 19. I know Abraham, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

Exod. x. 2. Tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, that ye may know how that I am the Lord.

Deut. vi. 6, 7. These words which I command thee this day shall be in thy heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy

Ver. 33. Let the wife see that she reverence children, and talk of them when thou sittest her husband. in thy house, and when thou walkest by the 1 Tim. ii. 11—13. Let the woman learn in way, and when thou liest down, and when silence with all subjection. I suffer not a wo-thou risest up. Ver. 8. 20, 21. Ch. xi. 18, 19.

xxxii. 46. Ye shall command your children to do all the words of this law.

Prov. xxii. 6. Train up a child in the way he should go, &c.

Isa. xxxviii. 19. The father to the children shall make known thy truth. Ps. lxxviii. 4, 7. Joel i. 2, 3. Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

the God of heaven and earth, that thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, &c. Ver. 4. 38.

See also, Ch. xxvii. 46.-xxviii. 1. 6.— xxxviii. 6. Transgressed by Esau, Gen. xxvi. 34, 35.-xxviii. 8, 9.

Marriage with the heathen inhabitants of Canaan forbidden, for the ill consequences of such marriages: Ex. xxxiv. 16. Deut. vii. 3. Josh. xxiii. 12, 13. Judg. iii. 5, 6, 7. 1 Kings Eph. vi. 4. Fathers, provoke not your child-xi. 1 to 12. Ezra ix. 2. 12. Neh. xiii. 23 ren, but bring them up in the nurture and ad- to 27. monition of the Lord. Col. iii. 21. See also Deut. iv. 9, 10.-xxxi. 12, 13.

LXXIV. Portions given to children by parents. Gen. xxv. 5, 6. Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. But unto the sons of the concubines which Abraham had, Abraham

LXX. Particular heads of instruction. Exod. xii. 26, 27. When your children shall ask, What mean ye by this service? Ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's pass-gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac. over, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians.

xiii. 8. Thou shalt shew thy son, saying,

This is done because of that which the Lord did to me when I came out of Egypt. Ver. 14.

Josh. iv. 20-23. Those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal; saying, When your children shall ask their fathers, What mean these stones? then ye shall let your children know, saying, The Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan before you.-Ver. 24. That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty.

LXXI. Parents careful to instruct children, were: Gen. xviii. 19. Abraham. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. Prov. iv. 3. David. Prov. xxxi. 1. Lemuel's mother. 2 Tim. i. 5. Timothy's mother and grandmother.

LXXII. Correcting children. Prov. xiii. 24. He that spareth the rod hateth his son, but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. xix. 18. Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

xxii. 15. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

xxiii. 13, 14. Withhold not correction from the child. Thou shalt beat him with a rod,

and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

xxix. 15. The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.-Ver. 17. Correct thy son and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul. See Deut. viii. 5. 1 Tim. iii. 4. This duty neglected by David, 1 Kings i. 6. By Eli, 1 Sam. ii. 22, &c.

LXXIII. Parents careful to marry their children into religious families. Gen. xxiv. 2, 3. Abraham said to his servant, Swear by

xlviii. 21, 22. Israel said to Joseph, I have given thee one portion above thy brethren.

The oldest son, by the law of Moses, was

to have a double portion, Deut. xxi. 15, 16, 17.

CHILDREN AMONG THE PROMISED
BLESSINGS.

LXXV. Children are among the promised blessings of God to mankind. Gen. i. 28. God blessed Adam and Eve, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

viii. 15-17. God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou and thy wife, and thy sons and thy sons' wives with thee; and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth. Ch. ix. 1. 7.

xiii. 14. 16. The Lord said unto Abram, I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the

earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

Ch. xxii. 16, 17.

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that God hath graciously given thy servant. was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Isa. viii. 18.

LXXVI. Children promised. Gen. xlviii. 19. Jacob said, Ephraim's seed shall become a multitude of nations.

xlix. 22. Joseph is a fruitful bough.-Ver. 25. The Almighty shall bless thee, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb. Lev. xxvi. 9. I will make you fruitful, and will multiply you.

Numb. xxiv. 7. It is said of Jacob, His

seed shall be upon many waters.

Deut. vii. 13, 14. The Lord thy God will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee. Thou shalt be blessed above all people; there shall not be male nor female barren among you. Ex. xxiii. 26.

xxviii. 4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body. Ver. 11.

Josh. xxiv. 3. I took your father Abraham, and multiplied his seed.

Neh. ix. 23. Their children thou multipliedst as the stars of heaven. Job v. 25. Thine offspring shall be as the grass of the earth. Isa. xlviii. 18, 19.xlix. 20.

Ps. cxiii. 9. He maketh the barren woman to be a joyful mother of children.

xxviii. 1. 3. Isaac blessed Jacob, and said, God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee.

xxx. 13. Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed.-Ver. 20. I

have borne six sons.

xxix. 31. Rachel was barren. Ch. xxx. 1. 23. She envied her sister, and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. Rachel conceived and bare a son, and said, God hath taken away my reproach.

1 Sam. i. 2. Hannah had no children.Ver. 10. 19. She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore; and the Lord remembered her.-Ver. 20. She conceived and bare a son, and called his name

Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of and the Lord hath given me my petition. the Lord.-Ver. 27. For this child I prayed,

Luke i. 7. Elisabeth was barren.-Ver. 13.

The angel said unto Zacharias, Thy prayer is 24. Elisabeth conceived, and said, Thus hath heard, thy wife shall bear thee a son.- -Ver. the Lord dealt with me, to take away my reproach. Ver. 25.

LXXVIII. God's care of mothers. Gen.

cxv. 14. The Lord shall increase you more iii. 16. Unto the woman the Lord said, I will and more, you and your children.

cxxvii. 3. Children are a heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward. cxxviii. 3. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thy house; thy children like olive plants round about thy table.-Ver. 6. Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children.

cxliv. 12. That our sons may be as olive plants, our daughters like corner-stones.

See also, Deut. i. 10.-x. 22.—xiii. 17.— xxviii. 62, 63. Josh. xxiv. 3. Job xlii. 12, 13. Ps. cvii. 38. Prov. xiv. 28. Jer. iii.

greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children. 1 Tim. ii. 15. Nevertheless she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith and holiness, with sobriety.

xlix. 25. The Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Deut. vii. 13. He will bless the fruit of thy womb. See Exod. xxi. 22. Hurt not a woman with child.

16.—xxx. 19.—xxxiii. 22. Ezek. xvi. 7.— i. 17. The midwives saved the men-children LXXIX. God's care of children. Exod. xxxvi. 10, 11,-xxxvii. 26. alive.-Ver. 21. And God made them houses.

LXXVII. A desire of having children is natural to mankind. Instances. Prov. xxx. 16. The grave and the barren womb are not satisfied.

Gen. xi. 30. Sarah, Abram's wife, was barren. Ch. xvi. 1, 2, 3. She gave her handmaid to Abram, and said, It may be that I may obtain children by her.

xv. 2, 3. Abram said, Lord, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless! To me thou hast given no seed. Ch. xviii. 10. 12. The angel said, Sarah shall have a son. (Ch. xvii. 19.) Sarah heard it and laughed.

xxiv. 60. They blessed Rebekah, and said, Be thou the mother of thousands of millions. xxv. 21. Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord

Ps. xxii. 9, 10. Thou art he that took me out of the womb, and didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. Ps. lxxi. 6.

Jonah iv. 11. God said, Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left?

Mark x. 14. Jesus said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.-Ver. 16. And he took them in his arms, and blessed them.

LXXX. The grief of parents at parting with their children. Gen. xliii. 14. Jacob

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said, If I am bereaved of my children, I am daughters into the hand of the children of Jubereaved. Ch. xlii. 38.-xliv. 29. 31.

Job xxix. 2. 5. Job said, O that I were as in months past; when the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me.

LXXXI. Godly parents blessed in the happiness of their children. Deut. iv. 40. Thou shalt keep his statutes, that it may be well with thee, and with thy children after thee. See ch. v. 29.-xii. 25. 28.

Ps. xxv. 12, 13. He that feareth the Lord, his seed shall inherit the earth.

xxxvii. 25, 26. Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. His seed is blessed.

cii. 28. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

exlvii. 13. He hath blessed thy children with thee.

Isa. xliv. 3. I will pour my blessing upon thine offspring. See ch. Ixi. 9.-lxv. 23.

Jer. xxxii. 39. I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever; for the good of them and of their children after them.

THE WICKED PUNISHED IN THEIR CHILDREN.

LXXXII. The wicked punished in the calamities of their children. Exod. xx. 5. I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Ch. xxxiv. 7. Numb. xiv. 18. Deut. v. 9. Numb. xiv. 33. Your children shall wander in this wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms.

Job xxi. 19. God layeth up the iniquity of the wicked for his children. Isa. xiv. 21.

Jer. ii. 9. With your children's children will I plead, saith the Lord.

xxxii. 18. Thou recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children

after them. See an instance, 2 Sam. xii. 14, 15.

LXXXIII. Particular calamities threatened against the children of the wicked. Captivity. Deut. xxviii. 32. Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another people, and thine eyes shall look and fail for them all the day.

2 Chron. xxix. 6. Our fathers turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord. Ver. 9. Our sons and our daughters, and our wives, are in captivity for this.

Jer. xlviii. 46. Woe be unto thee, thy sons and thy daughters are taken captives.

dah. Ch. ii. 16. See also Jer. x. 20.xxxviii. 23.-xlvii. 3. Lam. v. 13. Ezek. xxx. 18. Mic. i. 16.

LXXXIV. To be slain by an enemy. Isa. xiii. 16. Their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Ps. cxxxvii. 9. Hos. xiii. 16.

Jer. xvi. 3, 4. Their children shall die of grievous deaths.

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xviii. 21. Deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword. Ps. cix. 10.

xliv. 7. Thus saith the Lord, Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling?

Ezek. xxiii. 47. The enemy shall slay their sons and their daughters. xxiv. 21. Your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword. Ch. xxv. Amos vii. 17.

See also Lev. xxvi. 22. 1 Sam. xv. 33. 2 Kings xxv. 7. 2 Chron. xxi. 14. Job xxvii. 13, 14. Isa. xlvii. 9.-li. 18. Jer. xiv. 16.xv. 7. Ezek. ix. 6. 1 Kings xxi. 10. 21, 22. compared with 2 Kings ix. 25, 26.

LXXXV. That they shall suffer by famine. Jer. v. 15. I will bring a nation upon you, and they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread which thy sons and thy daughters should eat. Ver. 17. Job v. 5.

xi. 22. Their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.

Hos. iv, 6. Thou hast forgotten the law of thy God; I also will forget thy children.-Ver. 10. They shall eat and not have enough. See Ps. cix. 9, 10. 12. Jer. xviii. 21. Lam. iv. 4.

LXXXVI. Other evils upon the children of the wicked. Job v. 4, 5. His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. The robber swalloweth up their substance.

xvii. 5. He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

xx. 10. His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

LXXXVII. Erroneous principles in religion have destroyed the natural affection of parents toward their children. 2 Kings xvi. 3. Ahaz made his son to pass through the fire.

2 Chron. xxviii. 3. Ahaz burnt his children xxi. 6. Jer. xxxii. 35. in the fire. See also, 2 Kings xvii. 17. 31.Ezek. xvi. 21.-xx. 26. Matt. x. 21. Forbidden, Lev. xviii. 21.— xx. 2, 3, 4. Deut. xviii. 10.

Lam. i. 5. For the multitude of her trans- LXXXVIII. Calamities upon wicked pagressions her children are gone into captivity.rents and children. Lev. xxvi. 29. Ye shall Joel iii. 8. I will sell your sons and your eat the flesh of your sons and of your daugh

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