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face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him.

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PACTS. x. 26: Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I my

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DEUT. XXXII. 21: They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities. 1 SAM. xii. 21: Turn ye not aside for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. 1 KINGS, xvi. 13: Provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities. Ps iv. 2: 0 men,-how long will ye love vanity? do. xxxi. 6: I have hated them that regard lying vanities but I trust in the LORD. ISA. xli. 24: Behold, ye [idols] are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. JER. viii. 19: Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? do. x. 8: They are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities. xiv. 22: Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? AMOS, ii. 4: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked. JONAH, ii. 8: They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. Rom. i. 21: When they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but be came vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 1 COR. viii. 4: We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. do. x. 19: What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? EPH. iv. 17, 18: This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth

nities unto the 'living God, which 'made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein :

16 Who in times past "suffered all nations3 to walk in their own ways.

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walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

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1 THES. i. 9: Ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.

GEN. i. 1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. NEH. ix. 6: Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. Ps. xxxiii. 6: By the word of the LORD were the heavens made: and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. do. cxxiv. 8: Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth. do. cxlvi. 5, 6: Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God: which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is. ACTs, iv. 24: They lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, LORD, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is. do. xvii. 24: God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth,dwelleth not in temples made with hands. REV. xiv. 7: Worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

u Ps. lxxxi. 12: So I gave them up unto their own heart's lust: and they walked in their own counsels. do. cxlvii. 19, 20: He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Acts, xvii. 30: The times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent. Rom. i. 24: God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves. EPH. iii. 5: Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto the holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. 1 PET. iv. 3: The time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.

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Ps. xxxvi. 6: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast. do. cxlv. 9: The LORD is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works. MAT. v. 45: That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

* LEV. xxvi. 3, 4: If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. DEUT. xi. 13, 14: It shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments,-to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, that I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. do. xxviii. 12: The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand. JOB, V. 10: [God] who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields. Ps. Ixv. 9, 10: Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it. Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers, thou blessest the springing thereof. do. lxviii. 9: Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary. do. civ. 13: He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. do. cxlvii. 8: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth. JER. iii. 1, 3: Thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain. do. v. 24: Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season. do.

18 And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.

19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.

20 Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city:6 and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

21 And when they had preached the Gospel to that city, and had taught many,' they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,

22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and "exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that

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xiv. 22: Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things. Hos. vi. 3: Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning: and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. JOEL, ii. 23: Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. ZEC. x. 1: Ask of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field. BARUCH, vi. 53: Neither can they [idols] set up a king in the land, nor give rain unto men. MAT. V. 45: That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

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* MAT. xxviii. 19: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.

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b Ps. xxxiv. 19: Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all. MAT. x. 38: And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. do. xvi. 24: Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. LUKE, Xxii. 28, 29: Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me. Rom. viii. 17: If children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 1 COR. iv. 9: I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death. 2 Cor. iv. 10, 11: Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. PHIL. i. 28: In nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. 1 THES. iii. 3: That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. 2 TIM. ii. 11, 12: It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us. do. iii. 12: All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 1 PET. ii. 21: For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps. do. iv. 13: Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. REV. i. 9: I John, who also am your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ.

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d ACTS, vi. 6: Whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. do. xx. 32: And now, brethren, I commend you to God.