If we think by our own works (or the works of the law) to be saved, shall we not be cast out as children of the bondwoman? What bad disposition did Sarah indulge, in speaking thus of Hagar and Ishmael? What does the word of God say in Eccl. vii. 20? Why are the sins of God's people recorded in the Bible? 1 Cor. x. 11, 12. 11. How was Abraham affected by these words of Sarah? What thing was grievous to him? What is said of Abraham's concern for Ishmael in 12. What did God say to Abraham when he was grieved on account of Ishmael? What did he bid Abraham do? In whom should his seed be called? How are those words explained in Rom. ix. 7, 8? 13. What promise did God make concerning Ishmael, the son of the bondwoman? Why would he do so? May not faithful pious parents take encouragement from this to look for God's blessing upon their children? May wicked, disobedient children, expect a blessing because their parents are pious? Where do you learn that God kept his promise concerning Ishmael? Gen. xxv. 16. What was foretold concerning Ishmael in Gen. xvi. 12? What were the descendants of Ishmael called in Scripture ? What people living at this day are descendants of Ishmael? Does their character answer to the propnecy of Ishmael? VOL.-3 Ꭰ How many years is it since that prophecy was spoken? 14. What did Abraham do early in the morning? Where did Hagar wander? What is a wilderness? In what part of the land of Canaan was Beer-sheba ? Why was that name afterwards given to it? Gen. xxvi. 32, 33 ? 15. What did Hagar do after the water was gone? What is a shrub? Why could she not get more water? 16. What did she do then? What is the meaning of a bow-shot? What did she say ? What did she do as she sat there? Was Hagar right or wrong in giving way to despond. ency ? Had not God promised that her son should be made a great nation? In times of difficulty and trouble, to whom should we go? 17. Whose voice did God hear? Who called to Hagar out of heaven? What promise is written in Is. xli. 17? 18. What did the angel tell Hagar to do? What did he again promise? 19. What did God then do for her? What did she see? Are not many, like Hagar, disposed to overlook mercies which God has placed around them? What did Hagar do when she saw the well? Of what were the bottles made in those days? 20. Who was with the lad? Where did he dwell? What did he become? What is an archer? 21. In what wilderness did he dwell? Out of what land did his mother take him a wife? Where do we read again of Ishmael? Gen. xxv. 8, 9. How old was Ishmael when he died? Gen. xxv. 17. Where did his people live? Gen. xxv. 18. LESSON XIV. Genesis, Chap. xxìt. verses 1—19. Trial of Abraham's Faith. 1. What came to pass after these things? What things? See chap. xxi. What is meant here by the word tempt ? What is written in Prov. xvii. 3? What is the common meaning of the word tempt ? Does God ever tempt people in this way? James i. 13, 14. For what end does God tempt or try his people? See Deut. viii. 2, and 1 Pet. i. 7. When the Lord called Abraham by name, what did he answer? What does this answer imply? What should we learn from this when called to duty? 2. When Abraham had thus spoken, what did.the Lord say to him? Into what land was he to go? What was he there to do with Isaac? What is the meaning of the name Moriah? What mention is made of Mount Moriah in 2 Chron. iii. 1? In what part of the land was Moriah? In what manner were burnt offerings presented to the Lord? Was this the same Isaac to whom the promise had often been given? 3. At what time did Abraham rise up to obey this command of God? What does David say in Ps. cxix. 60? What may you learn from this part of Abraham's conduct? Whom did he take with him? What did he do before he set off? What is the meaning of clave? Did Abraham show in this act his great devotion to the will of God? Will our desire to obey God lead us often to do things that appear very hard? Was Abraham an old man then? See Gen. xxi. 5. What do we learn from Prov. iii. 5, when we are called to any difficult service? Whom does the Lord Jesus call his friends in John xv. 14? 4. How long did Abraham travel before he saw the place? Did he trust in God during all this time? Do you suppose Abraham was very sorrowful in doing this? 5. What did Abraham say to his young me when he saw the place? What is probably the reason that he did not take the young men with him? How was worship usually performed in those days? 6. What did Abraham do with the wood? Of whom was Isaac a type, or sign, in bearing the wood upon which he was to be sacrificed? See John xix. 17. What did Abraham take in his hand? 7. How did Isaac then speak to Abraham his father? What did Abraham answer? What did Isaac then say? Did Isaac then know what was to be the sacrifice? 8. What was Abraham's answer to Isaac's question "where is the Lamb?" Was not this a severe trial of Abraham's feelings? Does God ever call his people to do and to suffer things* that are very severe ? How ought they then to act? 9. To what place did Abraham and Isaac come? What did Abraham build there? Of what were altars usually built? What did Abraham then lay in order? Where did he lay him? Do we read that Isaac struggled, or made ance? To whom was he like in this respect? any resist Was the Lord Jesus bound? Matt. xxvii. 2. What is said of Jesus in Is. liii. 7? 10. When Isaac was bound and laid upon the altar, what did Abraham do? Did he really intend to kill him? How was Abraham strengthened to do this? Heb. xi. 17-19. |