and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Matth. xxvi, 65. Then the high

priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

Acts xiv, 14. Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out.

Acts xvi, 22. And the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat

them

NOT ONLY WERE CLOTHES

RENT, BUT SACKCLOTH WAS ALSO WORN, AND CLOTHES WERE COVERED WITH DUST.

gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and and many lay in sackcloth and fasting, and weeping, and wailing, ashes. So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he re

ceived it not.

Job xvi, 15. I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled

my horn in the dust.

Ps. XXXV, 13. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

1 Kings xxi, 27. And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those

words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

2 Kings vi, 30. And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

2 Kings xix, 1, 2. And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes and covered

himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of

Amoz.

Neh ix, 1. Now, in the twenty and fourth day of this month. the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

and went into the house of the

LORD. And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Sheb na the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

with sackcloth, lament and howl: Jer. iv, 8. For this gird you for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters Jer. xlix, 3. Howl, O Heshbon, Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges.

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Lam. ii, 10. The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins, of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Ezek. xxvii, 30. And shall cause

their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes.

Micah i, 10. Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

CHANGES OF RAIMENT OFTEN REFERRED TO, AND

garments.

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Gen. xli, 14. Then Pharaoh sent brought him hastily out of the dungeon: and he shaved himself, called Joseph, and they and he changed his raiment, and

came in unto Pharaoh.

gave each man changes of raiGen. xlv, 22. To all of them he inent; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

2 Kings v, 5, 22. 23. And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of

Israel.

And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment. And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from of the sons of the prophets: give mount Ephraim two young men them, I pray thee, a talent of silAnd Naaman said, Be content, ver, and two changes of garments. take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silVer in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon them before him. two of his servants; and they bare

Ps. cil, 26. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment: as a and they shall be changed. vesture shalt thou change them,

Zech. ill, 4. And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the fithy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

OF NECESSITY OFTEN
WASHED.

said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them, to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes. And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.

Exod. xix, 10, 14. And the LORD

Lev. xiii, 6. And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is

Gen. xxxv, 2. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you,

clothes, and be clean.

Lev. xv, 5,8,11, 22. And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the

DISEASE THE TOKEN OF SIN. Deut. xxviii, 21. The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

John vi, 14. Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.

OFTEN PAINFUL. Job vii, 3, 4. So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Job xxx, 15, 16, 19. Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my son as the wind; and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become

like dust and ashes.

Eccles. v, 17. All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and, wrath with his sickness.

Isa. xxxviii, 9-11. The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Rev. xvi, 10. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain.

BUT SENT BY GOD.

Gen. xxxi, 42. Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham,

and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

2 Sam. vil, 14. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.

Job v, 6, 7. Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Job x, 17. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me: changes and war are against me.

Job xvi, 14. He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a giant.

Job xxx, 11, 26. Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. When I looked for good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there

came darkness.

Ps. lxvi, 10. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Ps. Ixxxix, 30-33. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; their trangression with the rod, Then will I visit and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

Ps. cxix, 75. I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

Eccles. vii, 14. In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Isa. xxi, 4. My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Isa. xxvii, 7, 8. Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it; he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.

Jer. viii, 15. We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble.

Jer. xv, 11. The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil, and in the time of affliction.

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Jer. xlviii, 16. The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

Lam. 1, 12-14. Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. From above hath be sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet; he hath turned me back; he hath made me deso

late and faint all the day. The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall; the

LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

Lam. iii, 1, 2, 31-33. I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness but not into light. For the LORD

will not cast off for ever: But

have compassion according to the though he cause grief, yet will he multitude of his mercies. For he

doth

grieve the children of men. not afflict willingly, nor

COMFORT AND HOPE UNDER

AFFLICTION.

Deut. viil, 5. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

2 Sam. xxii, 17, 19. He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

Job v, 11, 17. To set up on high those that below; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

Job xi, 16. Because thou shalt

forget thy misery, and remember

it as waters that pass away.

Job xxxiv, 31, 32. Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: That which I see not, teach thou me; if I have done

iniquity, I will do no more.

Ps. xxxiv, 19. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them ail.

Ps. xcl, 15. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

Ps. cxxix, 1, 2. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say: Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me.

Ps. cxl, 12. I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the

poor.

Ps. cxlvi, 8. The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous.

Ps. cxlvii, 2, 3. The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts or Israel,

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Prov. iii, 11. My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction.

Isa. xxv, 3, 4. Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee. For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

Micah vi, 9. The LORD's voice crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

Nah. 1, 9, 12. What do ye imagine

against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. Thus saith the LORD, Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

Acts vii, 10. And delivered him out of all his afflictions, aud gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt, and all his house.

Phil. iv, 19. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers,then are ye bastards, and not sons.

AFFLICTION SOMETIMES

NOT IMPROVED.

time of his distress did he tres2 Chron. xxviii, 22. And in the this is that king Ahaz. pass yet more against the LORD:

of God small with thee? is there Job xv, 11. Are the consolations any secret thing with thee?

Isa. ix, 13, 14. For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts; Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

your children; they received no Jer. ii, 30. In vain have I smitten devoured your prophets, like a correction: your own sword hath destroying lion.

Zeph. iii, 2. She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.

ADVANTAGES OF AFFLIC

TION.

afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Isa. xxvi, 8, 9, 16. Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the deand to the remembrance of thee. sire of our soul is to thy name, With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit the earth, the inhabitants of the within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in world will learn righteousness. LORD, in trouble have they visited thee; they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Isa. xlvill, 10. Behold, I have I have chosen thee in the furnace refined thee, but not with silver; of affliction.

Lam. iii, 19-21, 27, 28. Remembering mine affliction and my gall. My soul hath them still in misery, the wormwood and the remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone, and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

Hosea v, 15. I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.

God.

Job xxxvi, 8-10, 21. And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded. He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity. Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Ps. lv, 19. God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

P3. lxxviii, 34, 35. When he slew them, then they sought him; and Heb. xii, 5-8. And ye have for-they returned and enquired early after God: And they remembered gotten the exhortation which that God was their Rock, and the speaketh unto you as unto chilhigh God their Redeemer. dren, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father

Ps. xciv, 12, 13. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law; That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the

wicked.

Ps. cxix, 67, 71. Before I was

DISEASES GENERALLY,

SICKNESS.

Micah vi, 13. Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins.

John xi, 14. Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

Phil. ii, 26. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he

had been sick.

2 Tim. iv, 20. Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.

LEANNESS.

2 Sam. xiii, 4. And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king's son, lean from day to day?

wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.

Job xvi, 8. And thou hast filled

me with wrinkles, which is a wit

ness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

Job xxx, 22. Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my

substance.

Ps. xxii, 17. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon

me.

Ps. cli, 11. My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

Ps. cix, 24. My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh faileth of fatness.

SPECIAL FORMS OF DISEASE MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE.

AGUE.

Lev. xxvi, 16. I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart; and ye shall sow your seed in vain; for your enemies shall eat it.

BOILS.

Exod. ix, 10. And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven;

and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.

Lev. xiii, 18-23. The flesh also, in which, even in the skin thereof, was a boil. and is healed, And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest; And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil. But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower dark; then the priest shall shut than the skin, but be somewhat him up seven days. spread much abroad in the skin, And if it then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague. But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

2 Kings xx, 7. And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he

recovered.

BLINDNESS.

curse the deaf, nor put a stumLev. xix, 14. Thou shalt not bling-block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.

that maketh the blind to wander Deut. xxvii, 18. Cursed be he shall say, Amen. out of the way: and all the people

Matth. ix, 27. And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on

us.

John ix, 1-3, 39, 40. And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.....

Deut. xxviii, 29. And thou shalt grope at noon-day, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

Job xxix, 15. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

Isa. lix, 9, 10. Therefore is judg

ment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for