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Of the grace of Christ.

MALACHI

Elijabs coming and office: Before 16 For the LORD the God of Ifrael faith, || that 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your fakes, Before Chrift he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence and he shall not + deftroy the fruits of your ground; Chrift d. 397 with his garment, faith the LORD of hofts: therefore neither fhall your vine caft her fruit before the time cir. 397. take heed to your fpirit, that you deal not treache-in the field, faith the LORD of hofts. if he hate roully. 12 And all nations fhall call you bleffed: for ye corrupt. her, pat fhall be a delightfom land, faith the LORD of hosts. 13 Your words have been ftout against me, d Job faith the LORD: yet ye fay, What have we fpoken 21. 14so much against thee?

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17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words: her away yet ye fay, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye fay, Every one that doth evil, is good in the fight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? CHAP. III.

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Of the messenger, majesty, and grace of Chrift: 7Of the rebellion, & facrilege, 13 and infidelity of the people. 16 The promise of bleffing to them that fear God. Ehold, a I will fend my meffenger, and he fhall prepare the way before me: and the LORD whom ye feek, fhall fuddenly come to his temple: even the meffenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in behold, he fhall come, faith the LORD of hofts.

2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiners fire, and like fullers fope.

3 And he fhall fit as a refiner and purifier of filver: and he thall purifie the fons of Levi, and purge them as gold and filver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

4 Then fhall the offering of Judah and Jerufalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as informer years.

5 And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a fwife witness against the forcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false fwearers, and against thofe that || opprefs the hireling in his wages, defraud. the widow and the fatherlels, and that turn afide the ftranger from his right, and fear not me, faith the

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8 ¶ Will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me: but ye fay, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

9 Ye are curfed with a curfe: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

10 Bring ye all the tithes into the ftore-houfe, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, faith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and † pour you out a bleffing,that there fhall not be room enough to receive it.

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14 Ye have faid, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it, that we have kept † his ordinance, Heb. and that we have walked † mournfully before the in bis obfer LORD of hosts?

15 And now we call the proud happy: yea, they that work wickedness † are fet up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

16 Then they that feared the LORD, fpake often one to another, and the LORD hearkned, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

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18 Then shall ye return and difcern between the
righteous and the wicked; between him that serveth
God, and him that ferveth him not.
CHA P. IV.

I Gods judgment on the wicked, 2 and his bleffing on
the good: 4 He exhorteth to the study of the law,
5 and telleth of Elijabs coming and office.

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Or behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly fhall be stubble, and the day that cometh hall burn them up, faith the LORD of hofts, that it fhall leave them neither root nor branch.

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2 But unto you that tear my name, fhall the a fun a Luke of righteoufnefs arise with healing in his wings; and • 78, ye fhall go forth and grow up as calves of the ftall.

3 And ye fhall tread down the wicked; for they fhall be afhes under the foles of your feet, in the day that I fhall do this, faith the LORD of hofts. 4 Remember ye the b law of Mofes my fervant, b Exod. which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Ifrael, with the ftatutes and judgments.

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5 Behold, I will fend you Elijah the prophet, c Matth. before the coming of the great and dreadful day of 11:14. the LORD.

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6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to Lake 1. the children, and the heart of the children to their '7. fathers, left I come and fmite the earth with a curfe.

The end of the Prophets.

THE NEW

TESTAMENT

OF OUR

Lord and Saviour ESUS CHRIST

Newly TRANSLATED out of the

ORIGINAL GREEK

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TRANSLATIONS
Diligently COMPARED and REVISED.

By His Majesty's Special Command.
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Children of RobertScott and Ross Bell his

Robert Bom in Kily 1801

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All died within a
each other in

George Bown on 13 March 1803 days of
John Born 19. set7 1805.

David Born 10 det? 1806.

1887.

David died 5 March 1849

in the Persiament Square aged 42. at Easter

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Robert Born on the 7" May

1808 in The Parliament

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Dalry House Edinburgh

Robert died March 1840 aged 3.2.

Grizell Born at St Léonards Grizell died a child. at Hermet It Termets 9 March.

1810

William Born at same place 12 September 1811. called after an uncle of his mother W Bell

Helen Born 7th July 1813

Witham Bell died 22 November 1890. At Penkill Castle Ayrshire. aged 79.

Died 1828 aged 15 years 3 month

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