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(7) He formeth the mountains, and createth the wind.

(1) God made every living creature, beast, and cattle, and creeping thing of the earth; every winged fowl and moving creature which the waters bring forth; and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew.

(n) God created man ; male and female created he them. Thou, O Lord, art our Father, and we are all the work of thy hand. We are the clay, and thou our pofter. Thy hands have made us and fashioned us. Thou hast clothed us with skin and flesh, and hast fenced us with bones and sinews. Thine eyes did see our substance, yet being unperfect, and in thy book were all our members written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them,

(0) The Lord hath formed the spirit of man within him, he hath made us this soul.

(p) He made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the face of the earth..

(9) The Lord he is God, it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

(r) He hath created us for his glory; he hath formed us for himself, that we should shew forth his praise.

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(s) By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

(t) Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

(u) He spake, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created. He said, Let them be, and it was so.

(w) The Lord hath made all things for himself; and for his pleasure they are and were created. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things.

(x) Why then hath the fool said in his heart, There is no God? Understand, ye brutish among the people, and ye fools, when will ye be wise? Shall the work say of him that made it, he made me not?

(y) Every house is builded by some, man, but he that built all things is God.

GOD is the PRESERVER of all things.

(x) By him all things consist.

(a) He preserveth and upholdeth all things by the word of his power; and they continue this day according to his ordinances.

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(b) The Lord hath established the heavens and the earth, and they abide.

(c) He hath compassed the waters with bounds until the day and night come to an end: he bindeth the floods from overflowing.

(d) And because he hath said it; therefore while the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

(e) The earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God.

(f) With thee, O Lord, is the fountain of life. Thou preservest man and beast. Thou givest food to all Aesh: In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

(g) And God blessed every living creature, and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply. He said also to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat; and it was so..

(b) The Lord, he is the preserver of men. (1) In him we live and move, and have our being. (4) He holdeth our soul in life; and he will be our guide, even unto death.

(6) Prov. 3. 19. Psal. 119. 90. (c) Job 26. 10. Job 28. 11. (d) Gen. 8. 21, 22. -- (e) Heb. 6. 7. 136.25.

(f) Psal. 36. 9, 6. Psal.

Job 12. 10. (g) Gen. 1. 21, 22, 25, 28, 30. (6) Job 7. 20. (1) Acts.17. 28. (4) Peal. 66. 9. Psal. 48. 14.

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(1) My defence is of God. The Lord is my keeper. I laid me down and slept; I awaked, for the Lord sustained me: The Lord shall preserve my going out and my coming in.

(m) He is with me, and will keep me in all places whither I-go, and give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on. For by him have I been holden up from the womb; he hath fed me all my life long.

(n) Thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety, and thy visitation preserveth my spirit. GOD is the Supreme LORD, DISPOSER, and GOVERNOR of all things.

(o) The most high God is the possessor of heaven and earth. All that is in the heaven and in the earth is his. The world is his, and the ful- · ness thereof.

(p) God is the judge of all, and he reigneth over all. Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. All things serve thee.

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(9) Whatsoever the Lord pleaseth, that doth he in heaven and in earth, in the seas, and in all deep plaçes.

(r) He hath 'appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; and he doth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. .

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(s) The counsel of the Lord, that shall stand, and he will do all his pleasure.

(t) All angels, and authorities, and powers, are subject to him; and his angels do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

(u) The sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, the Lord hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

(w) He appointed the moon for seasons, and the sun knoweth his going down.

(*) He commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, and he sealeth up the stars. He turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night.

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(y) God thundereth marvellously with his voice; he directeth the sound of it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the

earth.

(*) He causeth the vapours to ascend; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

(a) He saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; he calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth.

(b) By the breath of God frost is given, and the breadth of the waters is straitned..

(c) Fire and hail, snow and vapour, wind and storm. fulfil his word. He turneth them round

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