of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.

Ps. xciil, 5. Thy testimonies are very sure; holiness becometh 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. xii, 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 exceed ingly fear and quake.)

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 he bath 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 Tobiali: And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforotime they laid the meatofferings, 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 Be-offerings of the priests. But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king. And I came to Jerusalem, 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.

Rev. xxi, 3. And I heard a great Voice out of heaven, saying, bold, 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 memorial 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

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

Lam. 1. 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, Deile 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, Ilear the word of the Lord GoD; Thus saith the Lord GOD, 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.

John ii, 13-16. And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves and the changers 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 Asli, 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 and this place: further, brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath pollu.ed this holy place. For they had seen before with him in the city 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. til, 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 fire shall try every man's work of shall be revealed by fire; and the what sort it is. work abide which he hath built If any man's 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 yo are.

THE DIVINE PROMISE OF PROTECTION AND BLESSING

Exod. xx, 21. In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

1 Kings ix, 8. And the LORD Baid 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.
And
2 Chron. vii, 12, 15. 16.
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 honse
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 cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

Isa. Ixli, 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 holi

ness.

Jer. xvii, 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

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 Che

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

Ps. xiii, 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: thee, O God, my God. yea, upon the harp will I praise

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

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

P3. 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 flesh crieth out for the living God. of the LORD; my heart and my Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; them: They go from strength to in whose heart are the ways of strength: every one of them in Zion in thy courts is better than a appeareth before God. For a day thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Ps. xcii, 13. Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

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. vil, 2. Stand in the gate of

THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN

HIS HOUSE.

evil.

P3. xxvi, 8. LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour

unto the LORD their God.

dwelleth.

Ps. xxvil, 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 of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his 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. xlii, 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

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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. ili, 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 phets, the rulers of the synagogue reading of the Law and the Prosent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say

on.

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

gogue, and reasoned with the LORD had sent him to prophesy; Jews. and he stood in the court of the LORD's house, and said to all the people.

2 Kings xix, 14. And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

Jer. xxvi, 7. So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD.

Luke ii, 37. And she was a 2 Chron, xx. 5. And Jehosha-widow of about fourscore and phat stood in the congregation of four years, which departed not Judah and Jerusalem, in the from the temple, but served God house of the LORD, before the with fastings and prayers night new court. and day.

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

gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

Jer. xix, 14. Then came Jeremial from Tophet, whither the

Acts ill, 1. Now Peter and John at the hour of prayer, being the went up together into the temple

ninth hour.

Acts xvii, 10. And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and 712

Silas by night unto Berea: 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 Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.

Neh. viii, 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 Anaiah, and tah, on his right hand; and on his Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maase

left hand, Pedalah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

1st.

VINEYARD.

AN EARLY AND COMMON POSSESSION. Gen. ix, 29. 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 after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, 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 a 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: thou, O Solomon, 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 rain no rain upon it. For the 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 behold oppression; for righteousness, of vineyard shall yield one bath, but behold a cry. Yea, ten acres and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

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

Ye have

Amos v, 11. . . . 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 hedged 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 killed another, and Again, he sent other servants more than the first: But last of all he sent unto them and they did unto them likewise,

one,

and

stoned another.

vant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and he sent a third: and they wounded sent him away empty. And again 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 was 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.

and cut down from thence a Num. xiii, 23, 24. And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two the pomegranates, and of the figs. upon a staff; and they brought of The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of 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 Therefore thus saith the Lord is among the trees of the forest?

two hundred.

Eccles. ii, 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 1t? 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 him, and sent him away empty. And again he sent another ser719

trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will

give the inhabitants of Jeru

salem.

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. xxxii, 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

up.

Isa. Ixv, 8. Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

Jer. ii, 21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right

seed; how then art thou turned

into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

Jer. xlix. 9. If grape-gatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning-grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.

Ezek. xvii, 6. 7. And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a

vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs. There was also another great eagle with and, behold, this vine did bend her great wings and many feathers: roots toward him, and shot forth

her branches toward him, that he

might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

Ezek. xix, 10. Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of

many waters.

Hosea x, 1. Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself; according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased

the altars. ....

Obad. 5. If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen til they had enough? if the grape- gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes? Matth. xxi, 34. And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

THE LAW OF PLANTING. Deut. xx, 6. And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? et him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.

Deut. xxii, 9. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thon hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

VINE DRESSERS.

2 Kings xxv, 12. But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen.

2 Chron. xxvi, 10. Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine-dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry

Mark xii, 1. And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winetat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

THE VINTAGE.

Job xxiv, 10, 11. They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; Which make oil within their walls, and tread their wine-presses, and suffer thirst.

Isa. xvi, 9, 10. Therefore I will

bewail with the weeping of Jazer

the vine of Sibmah: I will water Isa Ixi, 5. And strangers shall thee with my tears, O Hesbbon, stand and feed your flocks, and and Elealeli; for the shouting for the sons of the alien shall be your thy summer fruits, and for thy plowmen and your vine-dressers.harvest, is fallen. And gladness Joel i, 11. Be ye ashamed, O ye is taken away, and joy out of the husbandmen; howl, O ye vine- plentiful fleid; and in the vinedressers, for the wheat, and for yards there shall be no singing, the barley; because the harvest neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no of the field is perished. wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

PROTECTION OF VINE

YARDS.

Ps. lxxx, 12. Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her

Cant. 1, 6. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the mother's children were sun hath looked upon me: my of the vineyards; but mine own with me; they made me the keeper vineyard have I not kept.

angry

Heshbon languish, and the vine Isa. xvi, 8. For the fields of of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

Isn. xviii, 5, 6. For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

Isa. Ixiii, 2-5. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat? I have trodden the wine-press alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be the day of vengeance is in mine sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For and there was none to help; and I heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. And I looked, wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

Isa. xvii, 6. Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the

LORD God of Israel.

Jer. vi, 9. Thus saith the LORD of hosts. They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.

Jer. xlvili, 32, 33. O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazet: thy plants Isaiah xxiv, 7. The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheren to the sea of Jazer; the spoiler are gone over the sea, they reach eth, all the merry-hearted do is fallen upon thy summer fruits sigh. and upon thy vintage. And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to tail from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting, their shouting shall be no shouting.

Nah. ii, 2. For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vinebranches.