CHRIST differed from other physicians in nine points.
PUNCTUALITY taught by what bird?

SIN like a poisonous serpent in five points.

God's PUNISHMENT compared to eight objects.

The SPIRITUAL differs from the worldly race in six points.

GOD'S INFLUENCE like rain in seven points.

The RESURRECTION like what four objects.

REST spiritual differs from worldly rest in four points.

RICHES Compared to a certain bird.

The river of GOD'S GRACE differs from an earthly river in nine points. CHRIST like a rock in ten points.

EVIL PASSIONS like the sea in eight points.

GOD'S WORD like seed in twelve points.

The RIGHTEOUS like soldiers in twelve points.
The RIGHTEOUS strangers on earth in five points.
AFFLICTION like refined silver in ten points.
The RIGHTEOUS are servants in six points.
The RIGHTEOUS like sheep in ten points.

The SINNER'S HEART a stone in four points.

STORM of God's wrath differs from earthly storms in four points.
The RIGHTEOUS shall be like stars in five points.

CHRIST like the sun in four points.

DEATH of the righteous like sleep in four points.

PROVIDENCE like a good shepherd in five points.

The RIGHTEOUS like something very valuable got from the sea.
The HOLY SPIRIT like a seal in three points.

TIME like to what five objects?

The TONGUE like to what five objects?
WICKED like thorns in six points.

RIGHTEOUS like what four trees ?

The RIGHTEOUS are watchmen in seven points.

The WAY to heaven differs from earthly ways in nine respects.

SPIRITUAL like material walking in five points.

The HOLY SPIRIT like water in nine points.
The WORLD like a wilderness in eight points.
The HOLY SPIRIT like wind in six points.
WORDS and DEEDS compared to five objects.
CONSCIENCE like a worm in three points.
MAN like a worm in five points.

WICKED like what is often seen in hot countries.

WORLD'S PLEASURES brief, like what grows of itself.

WORLD compared to a thing found chiefly with the poor.

SCRIPTURE SIMILES ILLUSTRATIVE

OF TEXTS.

Adoption, Believers have received the spirit of
Arm of flesh, he trusting in, cursed

Bride of Christ, the Church the

Blood, woe unto him that builds a town with
Bees, Jews chased by Canaanites as

Billows of sorrow went over David

Bucket, nations as a drop of a

Bullocks unaccustomed to the yoke are the obstinate

Bulls, the wicked compass the righteous as

Bulwarks, salvation of God as

Rom. 8. 15.

Jer. 16. 5.

Rev. 21.9.

Hab. 2. 12.

Is. 26. I.

Ps. 55. 22.

Hos. 7. 8.

Jer. 5. 27.

Cake, Ephraim is a cake not turned

Cage full of unclean birds, Babylon is, Rev. 18. 2,

and sinners are

Cart rope, sin drawn in as with a

Is. 5. 18.

Candlestick of the unfaithful removed

Cedar, righteous flourish as a .

Crooked nation the Jews, Deut. 32.5; so sinners

Crows fed by God, though they sow not

Dead, the wicked twice

Dish, Jerusalem wiped out as a
Dream, the wicked fly away as a

Hireling, man looks for the reward of his work as an
Hissing, Babylon shall be as an

Honeycomb, a bad woman's lips like, but her end wormwood

Is. 32. 2.
Job 7.2.

Jer. 51.37.

Prov. 5.3.

Ps. 112. 9.

Ps. 148. 2.

Col. 3.5.

2 Tim. 4. 3.

Ex. 15. 10.

Pierce themselves with many sorrows, the rich do
Plummet, God's judgments laid to the
Pillar in God's temple, the believer is a .

Schoolmaster the law to bring us to Christ
Scroll, heavens will depart as a

Shadow of evening desired by the servant, so death

Song, a lovely one, those hearing not doing are like
Strait between life and death

Vessels of wrath fitted to destruction are the wicked. Rom. 9.22.

Wrestling against the flesh, the devil, and the world Eph. 6. 12.

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ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE BIBLE OF

ORIENTAL CUSTOMS.

Abraham entertains angels under a tree, chapatis or flour cakes prepared

A wife selected for Isaac by an (ghatak) intermediate

agent

A stone anointed by Jacob with oil

Gen. 18. 4.

Gen. 24.4.

Gen. 28. 18.

Gen. 29. 26.

Gen. 33.4.

Gen. 35.2.

Laban refused to marry his younger daughter to

Jacob before the elder was married.

Esau reconciled to Jacob falls on his knees
Jacob orders his family to change their garments

before worship

The Egyptians would not eat with the Jews
Joseph gave his brethren changes of raiment after the
feast

Moses ordered to put off his shoes on holy ground
First born of man and beast sanctified to God.
The Jews danced before the golden calf .
The fire on the altar perpetually burning
Watering seed with the foot.

Deborah the prophetess lived under a palm tree
The servant, Uriah, slept at the door of the King's
house

Gen. 43. 24.

Gen. 43. 32.

Gen. 45. 22.

David, after grieving for his child, anoints his body,

Naboth refuses to sell his father's inheritance .
Queen Jezebel eaten by dogs.

A present from the king to Elisha.
The Jewish women tinkled with their feet

God puts a hook in the nose of the Assyrian king
Women sewing pillows to all arm-holes.

Lev. 6. 13.

Deut. II. 10.

Judges 4. 5.