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keep the Commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

For what Nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is, in all things that we call upon him for? And what Nation is there, that hath Statutes and Judgments so righteous, as all this Law that I set before you? Only take heed and keep thy Soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life, but teach them to thy Sons, and thy Sons' sons.

Specially the day when thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Mountain burned with Fire unto the midst of Heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness,-And the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the Fire, Ye heard the voice but saw no Similitude, only ye heard a voice,-And he declared unto you his Covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even Ten Commandments, and He wrote them, on two Tables of Stone.

If therefore ye shall make any similitude or likeness of any thing in Heaven or Earth, and fall down and worship it, or when thou shall lift up thy eyes unto Heaven, and seest the Sun, and the Moon, and the Stars, if thou shouldest worship and serve them; I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from the Land ye go to -and the Lord shall scatter you among the possess,

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But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him if thou seek hin, with all thy heart, and all thy soul.-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 shall

be obedient unto his voice, He will not forsake thee neither destroy thee, nor forget the promises he made to thy Fathers.

For ask now of the days that are past, since the the day that God created Man upon the Earth, and ask from the one side of the Heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it.—Did ever People hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the Fire as thou hast heard, and live? Or hath God assayed to go and take him a Nation, from the midst of another Nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before

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Unto thee it was shewed, That thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, there is none else beside him. --And can we believe that the Israelites could forget these affectionate and impressive exhortations? The History will tell us that they did.

CHAPTER 41.

THE WORDS OF MOSES.

THEN did Moses rehearse unto the Children of Israel, the Ten Commandments and all other the Statutes and Commandments which God had commanded to teach them, saying,-Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. These words shall be in thine heart, and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy Children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And it shall be, when the Lord hath brought thee into the promised Land of Canaan, houses full of good things, wells and vineyards which thou madest not; then beware lest thou forget God, and go after other Gods, the Gods of the People round about you. But smite them and destroy them, make no marriages with them, for thou art a special People chosen by God, from amongst all Nations.—And when thou grow rich in Lands, and in Flocks, say not in thine heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth, but remember the Lord thy God, it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his Covenant that he sware to thy Fathers, as it is at this day.

Hear, O Israel,-after that the Lord hath cast out the Nations before thee, speak not in thine heart saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this Land, but, for the wickedness of these Nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee. Remember and forget not, how thou didst provoke the Lord thy God at various times; by making the Molten Calf and worshipping it, whilst I was in the Mount of Horeb, with the Lord, and so at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattavah. Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day which

I knew you.

And now Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

The love of God is the first Commandment, and、 the love of our Neighbour is the second. If any supposed duty to our Neighbour appear to direct us one way, and the love and fear of God to point another

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way, we must not hesitate to chuse the latter. But the love of our Neighbour, rightly understood, will always be agreeable to our Duty to God. We are to love God with all our soul,—and serve him with all our strength. God will not accept half service; we must, in every action, have before our eyes his holy Commandments, and be guided by them alone, and not be drawn aside from them by other motives and tempta

tions.

CHAPTER 42.

THE LAST WORDS AND DEATH OF MOSES.

THEN did Moses give many more particular Commandments unto the Children of Israel, that they should observe and do when they came into the Land of Canaan. How they should keep their solemn Feasts, and how justice should be administered by the Judges and Priests, and how they should act in their dealings, every man with his neighbour.-And Moses foretold that in after times God would raise up a Prophet from the midst of Israel, like unto himself by which he meant,

JESUS CHRIST.

And Moses said, See, I have set before thee this day, life and good, death and evil.

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And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel:-I am an hundred and twenty years old this day. I can no more go out and come in. Lord hath said, Thou shalt not go over Jordan. The Lord shall go over before thee, and destroy the Nations; and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath said.-And Moses called unto Joshua and said, Be strong and of good courage. And when Moses had finished writing the Law in a Book, he put it in the Ark of the Covenant. And he made an Holy Song, and spake it to the People.

And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel. And the Lord spake unto Moses the same day saying, Get thee unto Mount Nebo and thence behold the Land of Canaan, and die there.

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shalt see the Land, but shalt not go thither.-Then Moses blessed the Children of Israel, and all the Tribes thereof, and foretold many particulars that should thereafter happen to them.

And Moses went up from the Plains of Moab unto the Mountain of Nebo, to the Top of Pisgah. And the Lord shewed him all the Land of Canaan.-So Moses the Servant of the Lord died there, and He buried him in a Valley in the Land of Moab, but no man knoweth of his Sepulchre.

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. And the Children of Israel wept for Moses in the Plains of Moab thirty days.

And Joshua the Son of Nun, was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands upon him, and the Children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses.

Here end the Five Books written by Moses, the first and greatest of all the Prophets.

Next follow the Books containing the History of the Jews for eight hundred and fifty years, from the death of Moses which happened 1450 years before Christ, to the end of the Kingdom of Israel about six hundred years before Christ.

THESE BOOKS ARE CALLED,

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