God said to the Jewish priests what applies to the Christian priesthood, too: "And now, O ye priests, this commandment is to you, if you will not hear, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to My name, saith the Lord of Hosts, I will curse your blessings, because you have not laid it to heart" (

"Thus saith the Lord God," it cried, "Woe to the bloody city!

The heart of fools, saith the wise man, is in the house of mirth; meaning, it seems, especially such hurtfully wanton mirth: for it is (as he further telleth us) the property of fools to delight in doing harm ("It is as sport to a fool to do mischief").

For what saith the Scripture? 'When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace; but if one stronger than he cometh, he divideth the spoils.'

better marry than burn, saith the Apostle, but they are otherwise persuaded.

You, Thus saith the Spirit, when the retinue Of saints with Christ returns on earth to shine, When the fifth angel's vial pours condign Vengeance with awful ire and torments due, You shall be girt with gloom; your lips profane, Disloyal tongues, and savage teeth shall grind And gnash with fury fell and anger vain:

" What saith the Princeton professor?

What saith the CONSTITUTION?

The command went forth through the lips of Mosleima: "Thus saith the Prophet of the Lord: Ye shall go forth out of my land within a space of ten days; whosoever that remaineth behind shall be put to death.

The Old Man would then formally announce to those who were present, as follows: 'Thus saith the law of our prophet, He causes all who fight for their Lord to enter into paradise; if you obey me you shall enjoy that happiness.'

6th verse"Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts"In his application, he took a brief review of the history of the islandthe conquest by the Spanishthe extermination by the Indiansand the consequent introduction of the negroes from Africa.

I felt myself colour up, and I laughed out, 'Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity!'

"As I was walking in the street" (saith a good fellow in Petronius) "to see the town served one evening, I spied an old woman in a corner selling of cabbages and roots" (as our hucksters do plums, apples, and such like fruits); "mother" (quoth he) "can you tell where I can dwell?

When dealing with such unbelievers, we do not confine ourselves to the "thus saith the Lord"to the Divine command, to "let the oppressed go free and break every yoke"to the fact, that God is an abolitionist: but we also show how contrary to all sound philosophy is the fear, that the slave, on whom have been heaped all imaginable outrages, will, when those outrages are exchanged for justice and mercy, turn and rend his penitent master.

"Doth not," saith this kind of slanderer, "his temper incline him to do thus?

" "What saith our young knight?" demanded the King.

But what saith the maiden herself?

Patritius saith 52 miles in height. 3016.

No dweller in the skies is wroth as he, With him who saith the asking traveller nay.

"He that walketh uprightly, walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known:" and, "The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying lip is but for a moment," saith the great observer of things.

Therefore saith Saint Paul, "I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

Therefore crush him, saith the Philistine, as we crush the vine; strike him, as one strikes the lyre.

Gabriel Harvey, replying in 1597, in his "Trimming of Thomas Nash, Gentleman" (written in the name of Richard Litchfield, the barber-surgeon of Trinity College, Cambridge), also alludes to this commonplace: "The virtuous riches wherewith (as broad-spread fame reporteth) you are endued, though fama malum (as saith the poet) which I confirm," &c.

Yea, marryfor, saith the priest, man has dominion over the beast of the field and the fowl of the air:

But there is a medium to be observed between gluttony and absolute starvation, and "medio tutis-simus ibis," saith the proverb; and I do beg to tell those over cautious ladies and gentlemen, who seem to know no medium between the cloistered nun and the abandoned profligate, that Nature will prevail in their spite, or, as Obadiah wisely and truly said, "When lambs meet they will play."