Habesh. See Abyssixlvn Chukch. Habit. See Dress.
Habit, '-a power and ability of doing anything, ac- qiured by frequent repetition of the same action. ' !Man,' says Dr. Paley, ' is a buncUe of habits. There are hab- its of industry, attention, vigilance, advertency; of a prompt obedience to the judgment occurring, or of yielding to the first impulse of passion ; of extending our views to the future, t)r of resting upon the present; of apprehending, methodizing, reasoning; of indolence and dilatoriness ; of vanity, self-conceit, melancholy, partiality; of fretfuluess, suspicion, captiousness, censo- riousness; of pride, ambition, covetousness ; of over- reaching, intriguing, projecting; in a word, there is not a quality or function, either of body or mind, whicli does not feel the influence of this great law of animated nature.' " " If the term attachme7it seems too good to be applied to habits, let us, if you please, call them ties. Habits, in fact, are ties, chains. We contract them \m- awares, often without feeling any pleasure in them ; but we cannot break them without pain. It costs us some- thing to cease to be what we have always been, to ceaso doing what we have always done. Life itself, in its least attractive form, the life least deserving of the name, is dear to us from the mere habit of living. The most intimate attachments, and, still more, the most incontestable duties, have often given way before the power of habit. To have the lf>ins girt about, then, is not merely to distrust our attachments; it is to prevent our habits from striking their roots too deep within. Nothing, therefore, which is habitual should be regard- ed as trivial The most invisible ties are not the weak- est, and, at aU events, their number renders them inde- . structible. We must remember that a cable is com- posed of threads. It is impossible to dispense with habits; a life without habits is a life without a rule. But in regard to these, as in regard to everything else, it is necessary to say M-ith the apostle, 'All things are lawful unto me, but I will not be brought under the power of any'" (Yinet, Gospel Studies, p. 310). See Fellowes, Boch/ of Theology, i, 58 ; Paley, Moral Philos- ophy, i, 48 ; Kames, Elem. of Criticism, eh. xiv ; .Tortin, Sermons, \iA. iii; Keid, Active Powers of if an; Jiuller, On the Christ iun Doctrine oj Sin (see Index).
Habitation (represented by several Hcb. and Gr. words), (iod is metapliorieclly called the habitation of his people (Psa. Ixxi, 3) , in him they find the most ilc-
Haberkorn, Pi-.tki:, a C.erman divine, I)orn a>
But/ba.h Ml \r,a\. After filhng various other jiosts, he
was made jirofcssor of tlieologv at (iiessen, and lUed i ,. , . ,
there, Ai.ril. 107G. He was distinguished as a polemic, I ''«''*^"^ '"^'"f- '*'<^^'.^'' »"'* ^"™<^^""^ (^ **«• ^"' ^)- Justice
and judgment are the liabitation of God's throne (Psa. Ixxxix, 14), all his acts being fomuled on justice and judgment (Psa. cxvii. 2). The land of Canaan, the citv
especially against the Komanists and Syncretists (q. v.). He wrote (1) VimUcittio Lvlh.Ji\hi:—('2) Ileptas dv<pv- Uitiimuw Anli-\V<iUcmbitryicnriim (KioO, 1()52, 2 vols. 8vo).— Tholuek, in Hcrzog, /{eal-Kiinjklop, v, 438, 439.
Habert, Isaac, doctor of the Sorbonne, the first Pnri>i!in ilicologian who wrote against .Jansenius. He was a native of I'aris. studied at the Sorbonne, was aji- pointed canon of the cathedral of Paris, and in 1645 bishop of Valires. He filled this post for Iwenly-three years, was rejiuted a very pious man, and died at I'onI lie Salars, near Itode/., in 1668. lu \M\ ju" accused Jansenius of holding heretical doi'triucs on forty points, and tliereby provoked Antoine Arnauld to .inswer him
of Jerusalem, the tabernacle and Temple, are spoken of as the habitation of (iod ; there he does or did signally .show himself present (Psa. cxxxii, 5, 13; Epli. ii, 22). Eternity is represented as his habitation (Isa. Ivii, 15). He '• inhabited the jiraLscs of Israel," a bold metaphor, implying that Jehovah is the object of, and kindly ac- cepts the praises of liis people (Psa. xxii, 3). See DwKM.iNc;.
Habits. See Yestjients.
Ha'bor (Heb. Chabor', "lisn, if of Shemitic origin,
ill iiis Apolor/ir, in which he sought to prove the iden- 'rom "iSn, toyo/w, meanhig the united stream: if of Per- lity of the doctrines of Jansenius and St. Augustine, sic derivation, from A7/M6/)a/-=:{i;*:p,;^voc, with 6e()M///;/i
■ anks [ Filrst, Lex. s. v.] ; Sept. 'A/itip 'and Xa^wp). a
Habert nevertheless remained a declared enemy of .Ian senilis, and to him is ascribed the autliorshiii of the let- ter sent to pope Innocent X in 1651, and signed by eighty-five bishops, praying him to decide the (picstion finally. The most noteworthy of his works are: De gratia ex partibus yrfccis (1646) x—De consensu hierar-
river, and ai)i>arently also a district of AssvTia, to which considerable interest is attached in connection with the first captivity. We read in 1 Chron. y, 26, that Tilgath- l)ihicser carried .nway '• the lieubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of JIauasseh, aud brought them imto
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Ilalah, and flabor, and Hara, and to the river (Jnzan." About *2veuteen years later, Shalmaneser, the successDi- of the former mouarch, " took Samaria, and carried Is- rael away into Assyria, and i)laced them in Ilalah, and in Habor, the river of (Jozan" (A.V., "hij the river Oo- zan," 2 Kings xvii, 6; xviii, 11). There are two rivers still bearing tliis name, and geograi)hers are not agreed as to which is here referred to. See CArxivrrv.