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halt feek the Lord thy God, thou fhalt find him, if thou feek him with all thy heart, and with all thy foul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and fhalt be obedient unto his voice, (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God,) he will not forfake thee, neither deftroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he fware unto them. For afk now of the days that are paft, which were be fore thee fince the day that God created man upon the earth, and afk from the one fide of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any fuch thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? Did ever people hear the voice of God fpeaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? Or hath God affayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by figns, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a ftretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? Unto thee it was fhewed, that thou mighteft know that the Lord he is God; there is none else befides him. Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might inftruct thee; and upon earth he fhewed thee his great fire, and thou heardeft his words out of the midft of the fire. And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chofe their feed after them, and brought thee out in his fight with his mighty power out of Egypt; To drive out nations from before thee, greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. Know therefore this day, and confider it in thine heart,

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that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none elfe. Thou shalt keep therefore his ftatutes and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayeft prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.

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DEUT. vi. I-25.

Now thefe are the commandments, the ftatutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to poffefs it: That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee; thou, and thy fon, and thy fon's fon, all the days of thy life, and that thy days may be prolonged.

Hear, therefore, O Ifrael, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. Hear, O Ifrael; the Lord our God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, fhall be in thine heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and fhalt talk of them when thou fitteft in thine houfe, and when thou walkeft by the way, and when thou lieft down, and when thou rifeft up. And thou shalt bind them for a fign upon thine hand, nd they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And hou shalt write them upon the pofts of thy house, and

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on thy gates. And it fhall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he fware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Ifaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities which thou buildest not, And houses full of all good things which thou filledft not, and wells digged which thou diggedft not, vineyards and olive-trees which thou plantedt not; when thou fhalt have eaten and be full; Then beware left thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Thou fhalt fear the Lord thy God, and ferve him, and fhalt fwear by his name. Ye fhall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; (For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you;) left the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and deftroy thee from off the face of the earth.

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Maffah. Ye fhall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his teftimonies, and his ftatutes, which he hath commanded thee. And thou fhalt do that which is right and good in the fight of the Lord; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayeft go in and poffefs the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers; To caft out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath fpoken. And when thy fon asketh thee in time to come, faying, What mean the teftimonies, and the ftatutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you? Then thou fhalt fay unto thy fon, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. And the Lord fhewed figns and wonders,

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great and fore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his houfhold, before our eyes: And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he fware unto our fathers. And the Lord commanded us to do all these ftatutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it fhall be our righteousness, if we obferve to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

DEUT. vii. 1-26.

When the Lord thy God fhall bring thee into the land whither thou goeft to poffefs it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebufites, feven nations greater and mightier than thou; And when the Lord thy God fhall deliver them before thee, thou fhalt fmite them, and utterly destroy them; thou fhalt make no covenant with them, nor fhew mercy unto them; Neither fhalt thou make marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his fon, nor his daughter fhalt thou take unto thy fon. For they will turn away thy fon from following me, that they may serve other gods: fo will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and deftroy thee fuddenly. But thus fhall ye deal with them; ye fhall deftroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chofen thee to be a fpecial people unto him felf, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

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The Lord did not fet his love upon you, nor choose youy because ye were more in number than any people; (for ye were the feweft of all people ;) But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had fworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know, therefore, that the Lord thy God he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him, and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations; And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them he will not be flack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face. Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the ftatutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Wherefore it fhall come to pafs, if ye hearken to thefe judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord thy God fhall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he fware unto thy fathers. And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will alfo blefs the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy fheep, in the land which he fware unto thy fathers to give thee. Thou shalt be bleffed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. And the Lord will take away from thee all ficknefs, and will put none of the evil difeafes of Egypt, which thou knoweft, upon thee; but will lay them all them that hate thee. And thou fhalt confume all the people which the Lord thy God fhall deliver thee;

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