59. THE RELIGIOUS USE OF MUSIC, AND ITS INFLUENCE.

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THE WORD OF GOD

TO BE OUR ONLY GUIDE.

...ABRAHAM obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.— Gen. xxvi. 5.

And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth.-Ex. xiii. 9.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua.-Ex. xvii. 14.

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.-Ex. xviii. 20.

If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.—-23.

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.-Ex. xix. 5.

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And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.-8.

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And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.Ex. xxiv. 7.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.-12.

Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.— Lev. xviii. 4.

Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.-5.

And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee have I now any power at all to say anything? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.-Num. xxii. 38.

But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I thee, saying, all that the Lord speaketh, that I must do ?-Num. xxiii. 26.

If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak?Num. xxiv. 13.