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Deut. x. 22. The Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Joshua xxi. 43.

And the Lord gave unto Israel all the land which he sware unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein. 44. And the Lord gave them rest round about, according to all that he sware unto their fathers. 45. There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel: all came to pass.

Acts iii. 25. Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenants which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. 26. Unto you first, God having raised up his son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

Gal. iii. 8. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9. So then they which be of faith, are blessed with faithful Abraham.-13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us.-14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 16. Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

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32d Q.-Did God reveal himself to the children of Abraham?

A. He did to Isaac, also to Jacob, otherwise called Israel; but the most remarkable revelation of the divine will to the descendants of Abraham, was through Moses, whom God appointed to be the Legislator of the Israelites.

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Gen. xxvi. 2. And the Lord appeared unto him [Isaac], and said, Go not down into Egypt: Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father: 4. And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

Gen. xxviii. 10. And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. 11. And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set: and lay down in that place to sleep. 12. And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.

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13. And behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. 14. And in thee, and in thy seed, shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Gen. xxxv. 9. And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. 10. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

Exod. iii. 1. Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law. 2. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. 4. And God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. 7. I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt. 8. And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land, unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. 15. Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you.

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38d Q.-Wherein did this revelation of the divine will differ from those that preceded it?

A.-By it God chose the Israelites, from among other nations, to be a separate and peculiar people unto himself, that they might preserve the knowledge of the only true God, in the midst of heathen darkness; and, to effect this purpose, he gave them,

through Moses, Laws, Statutes, and Judg ments, for their civil and religious conduct.

Exod. xix. 3. And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4. Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5. Now therefore if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people for all the earth is mine. 6. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.

Deut. iv. 5. Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me; that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 6. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 7. 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?

Deut. vii..6. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

Deut. ix. 5. Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deut. xxviii. 10. And all the people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.

Deut. xxx. 15. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil: 16. In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk

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in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, that thou mayst live and multiply and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. 17. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; 18. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

34th Q.-Did this comprise the whole of the divine revelation delivered to the Israelites ?

A. No, Moses also committed to writing an account of the origin of the world, the creation and fall of man, and a summary history of the world to his own time; comprising an instructive description of God's dealings with mankind, both before the flood, and afterwards, during the patriarchal age; and this history, with the Law subjoined to it, is considered as the first written revelation of God to man,

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35th Q.-Is the Law of Moses of universal and perpetual obligation?

A.--The Law of Moses was adapted to the state of the Israelites as a nation or political body; it therefore admits of a threefold. consideration, 1st. As political; 2dly. As

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