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round about it as fifty cubits Jong, and five and twenty cubits broad. And the arches round about were five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad: And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof; and the going up to it had eight steps. And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures. And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, were according to these measures: and there were windows therein, and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad. And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps. And he brought me to the north gate, and measured it according to these measures; The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits. And the posts thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps. And the chambers, and the entries thereof, were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burntoffering. And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering. And at the side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the north gate, were two tables; and on the other side, which was at the porch of the gate, were two tables. Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices. And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt-offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt-offering and the sacrifice. And within were hooks, an hand-broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering. And without the inner gate were the chambers of the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side of the east gate having the prospect #toward the north. And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is

for the priests, the keepers of the bers were toward the place that
charge of the house. And the was left, one door toward the
chamber, whose prospect is to- north, and another door toward
ward the north, is for the priests, the south: and the breadth of the
the keepers of the charge of the place that was left was five cubits
altar: these are the sons of Zadok, round about. Now the building
among the sons of Levi, which that was before the separate
come near to the Loup to minis- place, at the end toward the west,
ter unto him. So he measured was seventy cubits broad; and the
the court, an hundred cubits long, wall of the building was five cu-
and an hundred cubits broad, bits thick round about, and the
four-square; and the altar that length thereof ninety cubits. So
was before the house. And he he measured the house, an hun-
brought me to the porch of the dred cubits long; and the separate
house, and measured each post of place, and the building, with the
the porch, five cubits on this side. walls thereof, an hundred cubits
and five cubits on that side: and long; Also the breadth of the face.
the breadth of the gate was three of the house, and of the separate
cubits on this side, and three place toward the east, an hundred
cubits on that side. The length cubits. And he measured the
of the porch was twenty cubits, length of the building over against
and the breadth eleven cubits; and the separate place which was be-
he brought me by the steps where-hind it, and the galleries thereof
by they went up to it: and there on the one side, and on the other
were pillars by the posts, one on side, an hundred cubits, with the.
this side,and another on that side. inner temple, and the porches of
Ezek. xli, 1-7, 9--26. Afterward the court; The door-posts, and the
he brought me to the temple, and narrow windows, and the galleries
measured the posts, six cubits round abont on their three stories,
broad on the one side, and six over against the door, ceiled with
cubits broad on the other side, wood round about, and from the
which was the breadth of the ta- ground up to the windows, and
bernacle. And the breadth of the the windows were covered; To
door was ten cubits; and the sides that above the door, even unto
of the door were five cubits on the inner house and without, and
the one side, and five cubits on by all the wall round about, with
the other side: and he measured in and without, by measure. And
the length thereof, forty cubits, it was made with cherubims and
and the breadth, twenty cubits, palm-trees, so that a palm-tree
Then went he inward, and mea- was between a cherub and a che-
sured the post of the door two rub; and every cherub had two
cubits, and the door six cnbits, faces; So that the face of a man
and the breadth of the door seven was toward the palm-tree on the
cubits. So he measured the one side, and the face of a young
length thereof, twenty cubits, and lion toward the palm-tree on the
the breadth twenty cubits, before other side: it was made through
the temple; and he said unto me, all the house round about. From
This is the most holy place. After the ground unto above the door
he measured the wall of the house were cherubims and palm-trees
six cubits; and the breadth of made, and on the wall of the
every side-chamber four cubits, temple. The posts of the temple
round about the house on every were squared, and the face of the
side. And the side-chambers were sanctuary; the appearance of the
three, one over another, and thirty one as the appearance of the other.
in order, and they entered into The altar of wood was three cu-
the wall which was of the house bits high, and the length thereof
for the side-chambers roundabout, two cubits; and the corners there-
that they might have hold, but of, and the length thereof, and the
they had not hold in the wall of walls thereof, were of wood: and
the house. And there was an en- he said unto me, This is the table
larging, and a winding about still that is before the LORD. And the
upward to the side-chambers; for temple and the sanctuary had two
the winding about of the house doors. And the doors had two
went still upward round about leaves apiece, two turning leaves;
the house: therefore the breadth two leaves tor the one door, and
of the house was still upward, and two leaves for the other door.
so increased from the lowest cham- And there were made on them, on
ber to the highest by the midst. the doors of the temple, cherubims
The thickness of the wall, which and palm-trees, like as were made
was for the side-chamber without, upon the walls; and there were
was five cubits; and that which thick planks upon the face of the
was left was the place of the side- porch without. And there were
chambers that were within. And narrow windows and palm-trees
between the chambers was the on the ore side and on the other
wideness of twenty cubits round side, on the sides of the porch,
about the house on every side. and upon the side-chambers of
And the doors of the side-cham- the house, and thick planks.

reeds, with the measuring-reed
round about. He measured the
south side, five hundred reeds,
with the measuring-reed. Не
turned about to the west side,
and measured five hundred reeds,
with the measuring - reed. He
measured it by the four sides: it
had a wall round about five hun-
dred reeds long, and five hundred
broad, to make a separation be-
tween the sanctuary and the pro-
fane place.

Ezek. xlii, 1-13, 15-20. Then he brought me forth into the outer Court,thewaytoward the north;and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north. Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits. Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the outer court,cas gallery against Ezek. xlii, 1, 4, 5, 8, 9. 12-17. galleryin three stories. And before the chambers was a walk of ten cu-gate, even the gate that looketh Afterward he brought me to the bits breadth inward, a way of one cubit, and their doors toward the toward the east: And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose pro

north. Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries

rael, bath entered in by it, there fore it shall be shut. It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread before the Loss he shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate, and shall go out by the way of the same. Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD; and I fell upon my face. And thou shalt say to the rebelThus saith the Lord Gon, 0 je lious, even to the house of Israel, house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations. In that ye have brought into my sanciary strangers, uncircumcised n heart, and uncircumcised in desh,

were higher than these, than the Spect is toward the east. So the to be in my sanctuary, to polis

lower, and than the middlemost of the building. For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: there tore the building was straitened

more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground. And the wall that was without over against the chambers, to

house.

spirit took me up, and brought me
into the inner court; and, behold,
the glory of the LORD filled the
threshold by my thresholds, and
In their setting of the
their post by my posts, and their
wall between me and them, they
by their abominations that they
have even defiled my holy name

it, even my house, when ye d my bread, the fat and the blood and they have broken my oute nant, because of all your ab the charge of mine holy thingy nations. And ye have not kep but ye have set keepers of my selves. Thus saith the Lord Get charge in my sanctuary for your

ward the outer court on the fore-have committed: wherefore I have No stranger, uncircumcised

part of the chambers, the length thereot was fifty cubits. For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were an hundred cubi's. And from under these chambers was the entry on

consumed them in mine anger.
Now let them put away their
whoredom, and the carcases of
their kings, far from me, and I
will dwell in the midst of them
for ever. This is the law of the
house; Upon the top of the moun-
tain the whole limit thereof round

heart, nor uncircumcised is fee shall enter into my sanctuary & any stranger that is among the children of Israel

Ezek. xlvi, 8-10, 19-24. Ant when the prince shall enter, be shall go in by the way of the

the east side, as one goeth into about shall be most holy. Behold porch of that gate, and be sh

them from the outer court. The

chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building. And the way before them was like the appearance of the

chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they; and all their goings out were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors. And according to the doors

of the chambers that acere toward

this is the law of the house. And

altar after the cubits: The cubit is
these are the measures of the
a cubit and an hand-breadth; even
the bottom shall be a cubit, and
der thereof by the edge thereof
the breadth a cubit, and the bor-
round about shall be a span: and
this shall be the higher place of
the altar. And from the bottom
upon the ground even to the
and the breadth one cubit; and
lower settle shall be two cubits,

go forth by the way thereof. Bu when the people of the land sal solemn feasts, he that entereth come before the LOED in the by the way of the north gate worship shall go out by the wa entereth by the way of the sout of the south gate, and be the gate shall go forth by the way the north gate: he shall not turn by the way of the gu whereby he came in, but shal prince in the midst of them, wh forth over against it.

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the way, even the way directly

and the breadth one cubit. So the
greater settle shall be four cubits,
altar shall be four cubits; and from
the altar and upward shall be four

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he brought me through the they go forth, shall go forth. Af which was at the sideof the gat to the holy chambers of the p and, behold, there was a plac which looked toward the B said he unto me, This is the pr the two sides westward. trespass-offering and the sin where the priests shall bokth meat-offering, that they bear ing, where they shall take not out into the outer court i sanctify the people. This L Ezek. xliv, 1-4, 6-9. Then he brought me forth into the e brought me back the way of the court, and caused me to pasti gate of the outward sanctuary, the four corners of the court 15which looketh toward the east, behold,in every corner of the or and it was shut. Then said the there was a court. In the LORD unto me, This gate shall corners of the court there be shut, it shall not be opened, courts joined of forty es and no man shall enter in by it; long, and thirty broad: because the LORD, the God of Is-four corners were of eat me

before the wall toward the east,
as one entereth into them. Then
said he unto me, The north cham-
bers and the south chambers, twelve cubits long, twelve broad,
And the altar shall be
which are before the separate
place, they be holy chambers,where And the settle shall be fourteen
square in the four squares thereof.
the priests that approach unto the cubits long, and fourteen broad in
LORD shall eat the most holy
the four squares thereof; and the
things: there shall they lay the
most holy things, and the neat-cubit; and the bottom thereof shall
border about it shall be half a
offering, and the sin-offering, and be a cubit about; and his stairs
the trespass-offering; for the place shall look toward the east.
is holy. Now, when he had made
an end of measuring the inner
house, he brought me forth to-
ward the gate whose prospect is
toward the east, and measured it
round about. He measured the
east side with the measuring-reed,
five hundred reeds, with the mea-
suring-reed round about. He mea-
sured the north side, five hundred

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

will be their God.

Exod. xxxiii, 9, 10. And it came tabernacle, the cloudy pillar deto pass, as Moses entered into the 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.

Matth. vi, 5. And when thou 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.

Acts 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 Stephen.

Acts xiil, 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. FRESIDED OVER BY ELDERS-ONE OF WHOM IS CALLED THE CHIEF RULER.

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

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

AND TEMPLE.

AS THE SCENE OF GOD'S PRESENCE.

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

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

And

Exod. xix, 12, 13, 23--25. thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not 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 mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, nd thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the press and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lést he break forth upon them. So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.

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

every man in his tent-door

Exod. xxxiv, 2, 3. And be ready and present thyself there to me in the morning unto mount Sinai, in the morning, and come up in the top of the mount. And no man shall come up with thee, throughout all the mount; neither neither let any man be seen let the flocks and herds feed be

fore that mount.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

P8. xciii, 5. Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.

Jonah i, 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. Behold, 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 tiem, 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 & 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 Auron, 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 ninister 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 he 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 Tobial: And he bad prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime 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 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 Eliashib 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.

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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 al uations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves

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

DOL my Faiber house an house of merchandise.

Acts xxi, 27-29. And when the seven days were almost end the Jews which were of Asa when they saw him in the tempe stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the m that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the k,

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this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polla.ed t holy place. For they had sea before with him in the dy Trophimus an Ephesian, wh they supposed that Paul L

brought into the temple

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

Lam. i, 10. The adversary hath 1 Cor. iii, 12-15, 17. Now if any spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen man build upon this foundation that the heathen entered into her gold, silver, precious stones, whe sanctuary, whom thou didst com-hay, stubble; Every man's work mand 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 Gop; 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:

shall be made manifest; for e day shall declare it, because & shall be revealed by fire; and de fire shall try every man's werkd what sort it is. If any mass work abide which be bath ba

thereupon, he shall receive a te ward. If any man's work shall be burnt, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet sous by fire. If any man defile the temple of God, him stall Gold stroy: for the temple of God a holy, which temple ye are.

THE DIVINE PROMISE OF PROTECTION AND BLESSING

Exod. xx, 24. In all places where I record my name w come unto thee, and i whi Last thee.

1 Kings ix, 3. 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 cloud 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 sons 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, 28. 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 psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.

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

Ps. xlii, 3, 4. O send out thy Col. iii, 16. Let the word of light and thy truth: let them lead Christ dwell in you richly in all me; let them bring ine unto the wisdom; teaching and admonish-holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. ing one another in psalms, and Then will I go unto the altar of hymns, and spiritual songs, sing- God, unto God my exceeding joy: ing with grace in your hearts to yea, upon the harp will I praise the Lord. thee, O God, my God.

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

my God; early will I seek thee: Ps. Ixiii, 1, 2. O God, thou art 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.

amiable are thy tabernacles, O Ps. lxxxiv, 1, 2. 4, 5, 7, 10. How 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.

flourish in the courts of our God.

in their place, and read in the booked in the house of the LORD shall Neh. ix. 3. 4. And they stood up of the law of the LORD their God Ps. xcii, 13. Those that be plantone 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, Shebaniali, 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

they said unto me, Let us go into Ps. cxxii, 1, 9. I was glad when 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 the word of the LORD, all ye of there this word, and say, Hear 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.

tinually in the temple, praising Luke xxiv, 53. And were conand 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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