AFFLICTIONS.-PRAYER IN.

ened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Isa. 64:1. Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence. 9. Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 10. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 11. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers ! praised thee, is burnt up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste. 12. Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O LORD? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore? Jer. 10:24. O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Jer. 14:8. O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night? 9. Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not. 19. Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy Soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble! 20. We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee. 21. Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us. Jer. 32:16-25.

Jer. 15:15. O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

Jer. 16:19. O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Jer. 17:17. Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil. 18. Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed:

distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

Lam. 2:18. Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. 19. Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord : lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Lam. 5:1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 16. The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 17. For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. 19. Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. 20. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. 22. But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. chapters 1-5.

Dan. 6:10. He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

Joel 1:19. O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

Jonah 1:14. Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.

Jonah 2:1. Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, 2. And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. 3. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. 4. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple. 5. The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head. 6. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corLam. 1:9. O LORD, behold my affliction: for ruption, O LORD my God. 7. When my soul the enemy hath magnified himself. 10. The fainted within me I remembered the LORD: adversary hath spread out his hand upon all and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine her pleasant things: for she hath seen that holy temple. 8. They that observe lying the heathen entered into her sanctuary, vanities forsake their own mercy. 9. But I whom thou didst command that they should will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of not enter into thy congregation. 11. All her thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have people sigh, they seek bread; they have given vowed. Salvation is of the LORD. 10. And their pleasant things for meat to relieve the the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomSoul: see, O LORD, and consider: for I am be-ited out Jonah upon the dry land. come vile. 20. Behold, O LORD: for I am in Hab, 1:12, Art thou not from everlasting,

Jer. 18:19. Give heed to me, O LORD, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. Jer. 20:7,8.

O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall psalms. 14. Is any sick among you? let him not die. Ŏ LORD, thou hast ordained them call for the elders of the church; and let for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast them pray over him, anointing him with established them for correction. 13. Thou oil in the name of the Lord: 15. And the art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest Lord shall raise him up; and if he have comthou upon them that deal treacherously, and mitted sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16. holdest thy tongue when the wicked devour- Confess your faults one to another, and pray eth the man that is more righteous than he? one for another, that ye may be healed. Matt. 8:25. His disciples came to him and The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous See PRAYER. awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish. man availeth much. Matt. 14:30. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.

Matt. 15:22. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her 24. But he away; for she crieth after us. answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25. Then came she and worshipped him, saying, 26. But he answered and Lord, help me. said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and cast it to dogs. 27. And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master's table. 28. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.

PRAYER IN, ANSWERED. See PRAYER, ANSWERED.

PRAYER FOR THE AFFLICTED. See INTERCESSION.

RESIGNATION IN: Job 5:17. Happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: Job 13:15. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:

Job 34:31. Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: 32. That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

v. 34.

Psa. 46:10. Be still, and know that I am God: Psa. 4:4; 37:1.

Prov. 3:11. My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

Lam. 3:22. It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compasMatt. 26:39. And he went a little farther, sions fail not. 23. They are new every mornand fell on his face, and prayed, saying, Oing: great is thy faithfulness. 24. The LORD my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. 42. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. v. 44; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42.

Matt. 27:46. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Mark 15:34; Luke 23:46.

is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. 27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 28. He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. 29. He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope. 30. He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach. 31. For the Lord will not cast off for ever: 32. But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. 33. For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men. 34. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth, 35. To turn Acts 4:29. Now, Lord, behold their threat-aside the right of a man before the face of enings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, 30. By stretching forth thy hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.

Luke 18:1. And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

John 11:3. Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

Acts 7:59. And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 60. And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.

2 Cor. 12:8. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. Jas. 5:13. Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing

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the Most High, 36. To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Mic. 6:9. 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.

Matt. 26:39. O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42; John 18:11.

Luke 21:19. In your patience possess ye your souls.

AFFLICTIONS.-RESIGNATION IN, EXEMPLIFIED.

Rom. 5:3. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience :

Rom. 12:12. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; 2 Cor. 12:9. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Phil. 2:14. Do all things without murmurings:

Col: 1:11. Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; 1 Thess. 3:3. That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto.

2 Thess. 1:4. So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure;

2 Tim. 2:3. Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2 Tim. 4:5. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,

Heb. 10:34. For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

Heb. 12:3. Consider him that endureth such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. 4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. 5. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: 9. We have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? vs. 6-12.

Jas. 1:10. [Let] the rich [rejoice] in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Jas. 4:7. Submit yourselves therefore to God.

1 Pet. 1:6. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 1 Pet. 2:20. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

1 Pet. 4:12. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13. But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 19. Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

1 Pet. 5:6. Humble yourselves therefore

under the mighty hand of God, that he may
exalt you in due time: 7. Casting all your
care upon him; for he careth for you.
See RESIGNATION.

RESIGNATION IN, EXEMPLIFIED: Judg.
10:15. And the children of Israel said unto
the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us
whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver
us only, we pray thee, this day.

1 Sam. 3:18. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

2 Sam. 12:23. Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

2 Sam. 15:26. If he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

2 Sam. 16:10. And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? so let him curse, because the LORD hath said unto him, Curse David. Who shall then say, Wherefore hast thou done so? 12. It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.

2 Sam. 24:14. David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

2 Kin. 4:26. Is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.

2 Kin. 20:19. Then said Hezekiah unto And he said, Is it not Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. good, if peace and truth be in my days? Isa. 39:8.

Neh. 9:33. Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

Esth. 4:16. And so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

Job 1:21. Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. 22. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

Job 2:10. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Job 13:15. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him; but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

Job 14:14. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Psa. 39:9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

Psa. 71:20. Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Psa. 119:75. I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

Jer. 10:19. Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it.

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Lam. 1:18. The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Lam. 3:39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Dan. 9:14. Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

Mic. 7:9. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. Luke 23:40. Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? 41. And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.

Acts 21:14. When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

Rom. 5:3. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 4. And patience, perience; and experience, hope:

2. A king of the Amalekites, taken prisoner by Saul, and slain by Samuel, 1 Sam. 15:8,33.

AGAR. See HAGAR.

AGATE, a precious stone, Ex. 28:19;
Isa. 54:12; Ezek. 27:16.
AGE, OLD. See OLD AGE.
AGED, gospel invitation to, Matt. 20:
5,6. See OLD AGE.

AGEE, father of Shammah, 2 Sam. 23:11. AGENCY, IN SALVATION OF MEN: Job 33:14. For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. 15. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; 16. Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, 17. That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man. 18. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. 19. He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: 20. So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. 21. His flesh is consumed ex-away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out. 22. Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. 23. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness; 24. Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom. 25. His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth: 26. He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness. 27. He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; 28. He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. 29. Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, 30. To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

2 Cor. 6:4. But in all things approving our selves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5. In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 6. By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 7. By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8. By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; 9. As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; 10. As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

2 Cor. 7:4. I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.

2 Thess. 1:4. We ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience Psa. 8:2. Out of the mouth of babes and and faith in all your persecutions and trib-sucklings hast thou ordained strength be ulations that ye endure: cause of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

Jas. 5:11. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord: that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. See RESIGNATION.

INSTANCES OF RESIGNATION IN: Aaron, at the death of Nadab and Abihu, Lev. 10:1-3. Eli, when judgments against his house were foretold, 1 Sam. 3:15-18. David, at the death of his child, 2 Sam. 12:23. The Shunammite, 2 Kin. 4:18-37. Jesus, in Gethsemane, Matt. 26:39; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42; John 18:11. Paul and Silas in prison, Acts 16:23-25.

AGABUS, a prophet, Acts 11:28; 21:10. AGAG. 1. A king of the Amalekites, Num. 24:7.

Matt. 4:19. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. Luke 5:10.

Matt. 5:13. Ye are the salt of the earth? but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 14. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. 15. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

God to be acknowledged in, Jer. 5:24; Hos. 2:8. Requires wisdom, Isa. 28:26; diligence, Prov. 27:23,27; Eccl. 11:6; patience, Jas. 5:7; toil, 2 Tim. 2:6. Persons engaged in, called husbandmen, 2Chr. 26:10; laborers, Matt. 9:37; 20:1; tillers of the ground, Gen. 4:2. Plant2 Kin. 9:6. Thus saith the LORD God of Is-ers of vineyards exempted from military rael, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel. 7. And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. 2 Kin. 19:25. Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. 26. Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded.