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SCRIPTURE ACCOUNT
OF THE
FAITH AND PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANS:
CONSISTING OP
AK EXTEJVSIVE COLLECTIOK OF PERTIJ^EA'T TEXTS
OF SCRIPTURE, GirEJV AT LARGE, UFOJ\r THE
VARIOUS ARTICLES OF REVEALED RELIGIOJV;
REDUCED INTO DISTINCT SECTIONS, SO A8 TO EMBRACE _ ALL
THE BRANCHES OF EACH SUBJECT, THE MOTIVE!^ TO TKTE.^
BELIEF OR PRACTICE OF THE DOCTRINES TAUGHT, AND THE \
THREATENINGS, PROMISES, REWARDS, PUNISHMENTS,, EXA14'
PLES, &C. ANNEXED. j Q '' (;
ADDRESSED Vv^Xv
TO THE UNDERSTANDING, THE HOPEST
THE FEARS OF CHRISTIANS.
THE WHOLE FORMING A COMPLETE
CONCORDANCE
TO ALL THE ARTICLES OF FAITH AND PRACTICE TAUGHT
IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
By HUGH GASTON, V. D. M.
Member of the Root Presbytery, County Antrim, Ireland.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
PHILADELPHIA :
PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY D. HOGAN, NO. 51, SOUTH
THIRD STREET.
fHOMAS ¥. SfiLES, PRINTER.
1807.
RECOMMENDATIONS,
IThe editor submits to his fiatrons the following afifirobatory testimonials
to t/iis valuable ivork<, with which he was fiolitely favoured ivhenjiro'
fiosalsfor iiublishing it were first issued. '\
THE design of Gaston's Collections^ is to arrange under the gene-
ral heads or common topics of Theology, the various texts of scrip-
ture, which, in the opinion of the author, bear upon the several points
which he specifies ;— or in other words, to form a kind of system of
divinity from the Bible itself. The compiler appears to have been
a man of orthodox principles, and his work is the fruit of much in-
dustry. It will I think be found of considerable use to those who
wish to support their religious principles by scripture authority.
ASHBEL GREEN, D. D.
Senior Pastor of the Second Presbytenan Church,
April 22, 1805. PlUladelJihia.
I HAVE examined the work entitled, " Gaston's Collections, or
a Scri/iture Account of the Faith and Practice of Christians^ i!fc."
and am of opinion that it is well adapted to facilitate the study of the
sacred writings.
P. MILLEDOLER,
Pastor of the Third Presbyterian Chvrch,
April 2.5, 1805. Philadd/ihia.
Philadellihia, May &th, 1805.
d?:ar sir,
IT is with pleasure I inform you, that " Gaston's Scrip-
ture Collections," is a book I have been for some considerable
length of time acquainted with. Without any hesitation I give you
an unequivocal approbation of the work, and consider it not only as
the best adapted book for the student in divinity, but also peculiarly
suitable for the private Christian ; because he *has in one compre-
hensive view, all the proofs necessary, on the different subjects
IV RECOMMENDATIONS.
stated, without the trouble of laboriously consulting a Concordance,
which many conveniently cannot do I or the promotion of the great
caube of the dear Ivedeemer, among my fellow Christians and citi-
zens, I warmiy recommend it to all the lovers of Christ and the re-
vealed will of God — Wishing you success and encouragement in the
republication of so valuable a work, 1 am.
Dear Sir, Your's
GEO. POTTS,
Pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Churchy
Philadellihia^
DEAR SIR,
YOUR intention of publising " Gaston's Scripture Col-
lections," meets my hearty approbation. It affords such an elucida-
tion of the various topics of religion, both theoretical and practical,
as will, 1 make no doubt, be highly interesting to the friends of truth.
The judicious arrangement of the texts of scriptui*e under the com-
mon heads of systematic divinity, brings the proofs of the several arti-
cles vmder one view, so as to present the most striking evidence ■
THUS SAITH THE LORD. The application of the quotations
is, in general, appropriate, and well calculated to support the doc-
trines of which they are the foundation. To some, moreover, the
utility of the work will be enhanced, by the circumstance, that there
is no comment but that which must necessarily be inferred from the
local arrangement of the several portions of scripture, under the re-
spective heads of doctrine. It will of course be less liable to the
charge oisophhtri} and inisconstruction ofscri/iture, than the common
systems of divipity, which proceed upon explanation and argu-
ment That the work may contribute to the extension of scriptural
information, the pron»otion of vital piety, and real edification of the
}3ody of Christ, is the earnest wish of
Your's, Sec.
S. B. WYLIE, A. M.
Fastor of the Fifformcd Frei:hyitrian Church.
F hUadclhhia ,
PREFACE.
THE sacred Scriptures, after the strictest researches of an
enhghtened and enquiring age, are still allowed by the
wise, judicious, and thinking part of mankind,* who are ac-
qainted with them, to be the only books in the world which
truly and fully shew the way of salvation to all those who take
any serious thought about it. The Scriptures, upon the solid
principles of truth contained in them, have the strongest tendency
to improve and perfect human nature in every branch of personal
and social duty, or to make mankind wiser and better in every
station and relation of life. This effect they have produced,
and will still produce wherever tliey are duly attended to. An
attempt, if well executed, to promote the knowledge and prac-
tice of the truths they contain, must therefore be of real service
to society ; and though the attempt should fail, the undertaker may
nevertheless enjoy the pleasure of an heart ready and disposed
to do good, and all the candid part of mankind will make favour-
able allowances on account of the goodness of the design.
With these views, the author of the following work offers it to
the public ; who will find upon perusal, as will as by the follow-
ing account of it, that it is a work entirely new, and differentia
method, at least, from any thing of the kind hitherto pubUshed.
THE Method, in this work the several articles of re.
vealed religion are ranged under distinct heads or chapters.
The subject of each chapter is only mentioned at the beginning ol
it ; and the scripture account of the subject is afterward given at
large,ina numerous collection of express and pertinent textsof scrip-
ture, with which the chapter is filled up. Care is taken to insert
every article of revealed religion, and every express and pertmi-nt
text upon every one, in order to make it full and complete. The
several different v/ords by which any article of religion is expres-
sed in the Bible are exhibited under distinct sections,, andtliose sec-
tions are filled up with those places in the Bible where the word
occurs upon that subject, and produced mostly in the order m
vi PREFACE.
which thc5^ lie in the Bible ; so that this work, in some measure,
answers the ends both of a Common-place Book and Concordance
.upon the articles of religion. Thus, in chaper 1. page 5. section 17,
the ETERNITY of God is expressed by the different words, eternal^
everlastings fir ever^ the Jirst and last^ which make so many dis-
tinct sections. In like manner, every doctrine or duty of revealed
religion is laid down first, and the motives to the belief or practice
of them are made so many distinct sections in each chapter, and ge-
nerally come under the heads of threaterings, promises, rewards,
punishments, examples. Sec. In this respect this work differs from
any book of the kind hitherto published. So much is transcribed of
the places quoted, as expresses the principal part of the text, and is
sufncient to direct the reader to the places to be consulted at
large m the Bible upon the subjecc: more would have needlessly
swelled the size of the book, and not have left sufficient room
for inserting every express and pertinent text upon every subject.
OCCASION AND DESIGN OF THE WORK. Itmight
easily be made appear, that the reading of the holy Scriptures,
after a method which the nature of their composition seems
to require, must be highly useful and proper, for our acquiring
from the Scri'ptures themselves the true knowledge of ever^'
article of religion contained in them.
Every one who is acquainted with the sacred Scriptures, knows,
that the complete account which they contain of any one article
of religion, is never to be met with altogether in one place, with-
out other subjects intermixed with it, but is to be collected from
many different places of the Bible, where the sacred writers have
touched upon it.
In every one of the many different places of the Bible, where
any one article of religion is touched upon, it is still placed in some
useful light for instruction, so that none of these places are super-
fluous. Ail these places, taken together, do make up the com-
plete scripture account of the subject ; they contain all the light
winch the Spirit of revelation has afforded upon it in writing as
needful for instruction ; whoever v/ill view any scripture truth,
in all that light afforded, must search the scriptures for the different
places in which it is contained, or where the subject is mentioned.
In these places it will be found, sufficiently explained, enforced by
all its proper motives, applied to all its proper uses, and set in e-
very acivantag.ous light needful for being rightly understood, and
propcrlv applied, even after extraordinary inspiration hath ceas-
ed.
Our blessed Saviour, v/ho best knew the most profitable method
of our reading the Scriptures, directed to search them [John v.
3, 9.J lurthe knowledge of his character and offices, taught, not
PREFACE. vil
all in one, but in different places of the Scriptures, Trhich being
taken all together, fully and plainly described him to the wm-ld,
•and left unbelievers inexcuseable. Those have succeeded best m
ascertaining the true sense of many portions of scripture, and ia
answering objections against them, and setting several scripture
doctrines in a clear light, who have first searched the Scriptures
for the whole and complete account of the subject, and hereby
were enabled to show that what was doubtful, by being briefly ex-
pressed in one place, was sufficiently enlarged upon and explained-
in others. Besides such explications of scripture truths as are to
be found in the Scriptures themselves, none else are to be depend-
ed upon: for the sacred writers, being sufficiently qualified for
their work, did not leave it to be mended by inferior hands ; they
left the scriptures a finished performance, containing a system of
religion from God, which, like all his other works, is good and
perfect in its kind, being full and complete in all its parts, plain
and proper in its terms and expressions, and efficacious or suf-
ficient to answer the ends for which it was written. If it fails, no
other writings will prove effectual for reforming the world, and
making mankind wise to salvation. Every hopeful method ought
to be tried for assisting Christians to reap from the holy scriptures
all the benefit they are suited to afford. The dividing the books
of the Bible into chapters and verses, [though not first written in
that form] is of great use for finding any particular place the read-
er is directed to consult. A work, directing the reader what
places of the Bible to consult for the complete and full account
whii h the sacred writers have given of every article of religion, it
is presumed, might be of great use to many, who have not leisure
or proper helps to search for such an account, and also to others
on many occasions, who would hereby be furnished with all the
express and pertinent scriptures before them, at once, upon any
suliject they had occasion to treat of, without the pains of collect-,
ing them. Such a work might be of service to some who have not
ability to purchase many books, and to others who have not lei-
sure to read many upon religion, or any other subject ; as by it
they would be asisted to find in the Bible those places, that, taken
together, do contain the best, the fullest and plainest, though
brief account, that is to be expected of every article both of faith
and practice. A work that would answer this end, might be^the
means of occasioning proper places of the Bible to be consulted
upon every article of rehgion, and for direction in every circum-
stance of life ; and so of turning the attention of readers from
books wherein error is often conveyed along with truth, to the
danger or hurt of the readers, and of engaging their attention
more to the hol}^ Scriptures, which are the most and improving
writings for all Christians. And when it shall please God to turn
viii PREFACE.
the attention of Christians chiefly to the Bible, and to enable them
to make aright use of it, it may be expected that the blessed Re-
deemer's kingdom of knowledge, righteousness, truth and holi-
ness, peace and love, shall be more enlarged and strengthened in
the earth. It was thus, at the first spreading of the gospel, and
also, at our happy reformation, heathens and Papists were turn-
ed from the worship of creatures to the worship of the one living
and true God, through one only Mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ ;
and the security of the Protestant religion, against Popery and
every other error, does, under God, depend on the knowledge
and use that Protestants make of their Bibles. In hopes of an-
swering, in some measure, some of those valuable ends, the fol-
lowing work is composed upon the foregoing plan or method.
All possible care is taken to render it satisfactory to the reader, by
making it more full and complete than any thing of the kind hither-
to published, and by inserting the true scripture account of the
subjects mentioned, without regard to the private distinguishing-
opinions of any party or denomination of Christians ; so that it is
presumed it may be useful at least to some of every denomination,
and can be offensive or hurtful to none, who are not prejudiced
against scripture truth.
CONTENTS.
(Noti. In the follotv'ing table ofcofttenti the number of the -page Is Set doixm immediately
after the Sections that are contained in it. e. g. Ihejirji eight Sections tuill be found
in page I. — Protn section g to i6 inclmi've, in page 4, <^c.
CHAP. I. The Perfections of God.
Sect.
1 'T^HAT there is a God, as- 37
JL scrted, and proved by
his works.
2 The perfection of God asserted
The unity of God asserted.
Is God alone.
There is none else.
There is none besides him.
There is none with him.
None before him. Page 3
None like him.
10 None to be compared mito him
1 1 No likeness of God.
12 He is the living God.
1 3 The true God.
1 4 God is a Spirit.
1 5 God is invisible.
16 God is unsearchable. Page 4:
17 The eternity God.
18 Pie is everlasting.
19 He is for ever.
20 He is the First and Last.
2 1 He is immortal.
22 He is incorruptible. Page 5
23 He is blessed.
24 He is unchangeable.
25 He is present every where.
26 God*s greatness. Page 6
27 God is exalted.
28 God's excellency.
29 God's majesty.
30 God's glory. Page 7
3 1 God is glorious in favours spi-
ritual and temporal to his
people. Page 8
32 God's knowledge is perfect.
33 God's knowledge is unde rived.
34 God's knowledge extendeth to
all things.
•"5 Things which Godr alone
knoweth. Page 9
*6 Secret things which God will
discover.
b
18
God's knowledge of man and
all his ways. Page 10
God knoweth the hearts of all
men.
He knoweth the hearts of the
righteous.
He knoweth the hearts of the
wicked.
He knoweth his people.
God knoweth the religious
principles and practice of his
people. Page 1 1
43 God knoweth their works.—.
He knoweth their wants,
their sorrows, their wrongs
from oppressors. Page 1 2
44 God's knowledge of the wick-
ed and their sins.
45 God knoweth the proud.
46 He knoweth the impenitent.
47 He knoweth hypocritical pro-
fessors.
48 He knoweth liars and unchari-
table persons. Page 1 3
49 God knoweth envious persons.
50 God knoweth wicked ways.
51 God knoweth whoredom, na-
tural and spiritual.
52 He knoweth murderers.
53 The sins of the wicked against
God's knowledge.
54 The v/isdom of God in general.
55 The wisdom of God in crea-
tion. Page 14
The wisdom of God in re
demption by Jesus Christ.
The wisdom of creatures, no-
thing in comparison of God's
wisdom
58 The power of God.
59 He is the mighty God. Page 1 5
60 He is the Almighty God
61 G©d's strength.
56
57
X . C O N T E N
62 God's arm. . 90
63 Hand or God.
64 Finger of God.
65 God called a Rock.
65 Nothing hard to God.
67 All thing possible tO' God.
68 God is able to do every thing.
69 God's power in his wonderful
doings. Page 1 6
70 The prosperity and adversity of
man in God's power.
7 1 God's power in the creation ol
the heavens and (iaxxh.l^age 1 7
72 God's power in the govern-
ment of heaven and earth.
^o Acts of God's power toward his
church. i^age 18
74 God's power tovrard the righ-
teous.
75 God's power in spiritual bles-
sings toward his people.
76 God's power against the wick-
ed. Page 19
77 Sins of the wicked against the
attribute or power. — Duties
resulting from, or founded
upon the doctrine of God's [
power. Page 2 1
78 God's power in miracles, re-
corded in the Old Testa-
ment. Page 22
79 The righteousness of God.
T S,
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
In punishing the wicked
In men's reaping as
they sow.
— In rewards to the righ-
teous.
Things of God called righte-
ous are, his judgments, sta-
tutes, precepts, testimonies,
commands, words, ways, &c.
The justice of God. Page 28
Injustice and iniquity denied
concerning God.
Truth ascribed to God.
Things of God called truth.
J 'age 29
Lying denied concerning God
The faithfulness of God.
Things of God called faithful
are his commands, word,
counsels, Ghrist. — God is to
be praised for his faithfulness.
God's faithfulness in fulfilling
his promises. Page 30
God's faithfulness in fulfil-
ling his threatenings.
God's purity.
God's holiness.
Other words expressing God's
holiness. Page 31
God is the Holy One, by way
of eminence.
Things pertaining to God cal-
led holy are, his name,
throne, heaven, place, hill,
Ufc. U'c. Page 32
The £>:oodness of God.
The Lord doth s^ooi^L.Page 33
The mercy of God. Page 3j
Mercy of God promised.
Page 35
Persons to whom mercy is
promised, are those w^ho o-
bey, repent, fear, love, and
trust in God.
Mercy prayed for, 2^ age o7
Mercy acknowledged in vari-
ous instances. Page 38
Thanks for mercy.
Mercy in the pardon of
sin. Page 39
107 Pardon and forgiveness pray-
ed for. Page 40
Compassion ascribed to God.
— God excited to compas-
sion toward his people.
Compassion to whom pro-
mised.
Instances of God's compas-
sion exeiciscd. Pagt 41
— God excited cornpfassion
in enemies toward his people
Compassion ascribed to
Christ.
112 Pity ascribed to God toward
his people.
1 13 God will not pity the v.lckcd.
1 14 Long-suffering of Gvd.PaA2
91
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
108
109
110
111
I 17
118
1 19
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
327
128
129
130
131
1 1 5 Forbearance- ascribed to God.
116 Kin Iness ascribed to God,
pro:iiiscd and exercised to-
wards his people.
Kiadiiess prayed for. Page 43
Th:mks for kindness. |
God is gracious. Pa^-e 44 1
God's tiirone is a tlirone ofj
grace. ^ {
God's Spirit is a Spirit of
grace.
Christ is gracious.
The grace of God in man's sal-
vation in election.
In calling. Page 4,5
In justiiication.
In pardon of sin.
Adoption through grace.
Sanctirication through grace.
The Gospel is of grace giv-
en. Page 46
Alms called grace in men.
Ministerial abilities through
grace.
132 Effects of the Gospel in a
sanctified nature and prac-
tice called grace. Page 47
133 Faith through grace.
134 Hope through grace.
135 Prayer and praise through
grace.
136 Salvation is of grace.
137 Grace prayed for. Page 48
J 38 God's favour. Page 49
139 God's favour denied to the
Avicked.
1 40 God giveth the favour of men.
141 God with-holdeth the favour
of men.
142 God is bountiful,
lis Men ought to be bountiful.
144 God's blessing, he blesseth
his people. Page 50
145 Persons pronounced blessed,
who they are. Page 5 1
146 God's blessing promised by
w.iy of covenant, or cove-
. nant blessings. Page 33.
147 Auger ascribed to God. |
CONTENTS
" ■■ 148
XI
G,';^d's anger threatened a-
gainst the wicked. Page. 54
149 Wrath of God threatened a-
gcdiist sinners.
150 God is wroth — Prayers and
promises against God's,
wrath.
God's indignation against sin-
ners.
Page 5 5
152 Fury ascribed to God.
1 53
154
155
156
Vengeance.
God abhorreth.
God lotheth, dcspiseth.
God hateth.
157 The Lord is a terrible God.
158 The dreadful God.
[ 59 God's jealousy for his people.
ragainst sinners.
Page 5 6
160 Ze.al ascribed to GodPag.57.
CHx\P. II.
Sect,
Creation of all things.
Of the heavens and earth.
Page 57
Sun moon and stars created.
The sea. , Page 58
Summer and winter.
North and south.
Clouds, wind.
Rain.
Creatures in the sea.
Creatures on the dry land.
. Page 59
9
10
11
12 Man created, his body.
13 His soul.
14 Man's spiritual state after his
creation. Page 60.
15 Man's disobedience and fail
from his happy state.
1 6 Man's first sin referred to.
17 Angels, their number.
1 18 Their names.
119 Their nature.
|20 Their excellency.
1 2 1 T lie ir c m pi o y n \ i > n t . Page 6 1
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
CONTENTS.
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37
38
39
40
41
Instances of care and s> rvices
of angels for God's people.
Revelations of God's will, and
directions given by angels.
Page 62
Angels inflict God's judgments
on the wicked. Page 63
Angels their attendance on and
services to Christ on earth.
Their attendarce on Christ at
his coming to judgment.
Their employment at the day
of judgment. Page 64
They are worshippers of God
the Father.
They worship Christ ?,nd are
subject to him- They are
not to be worshipped.
Devils, angels that sinned.
What thier sin is supposed to
have been.
Names given to them in scrip-
ture. Page 65
They are enemies to all good
and promoters of sin and mis-
ery.
Instances of Satan's enmity to!
Christ and his servants. P<».6 6!
They believe that there is a
God ; they knew Christ.
They know Christ's servants.
They know the sacred scrip-!
tures.
Satan was overconie by Christ.
Page 67.
Satan is overcome by Chris-j
tians through divine power
communicated.
Promises to them that over-
come Satan.
Duties exhorted to in opposi-
tion to Satan. Page 68
CHAP, III.
Sect.
GocTs Governm€7it,
God is the King, Ruler and
Governor of the world, hav-
ing a throne, dominion, gov-
ernment. Pag^ 69
God is the Law^giver.
3 God is the Judge of the earth.
4 Counsels of God.
5 Purpose of God. Page 70
6 God doth will.
7 Determinations of God.
8 Ordination of God, things or-
dained of God. Page 71
9 Decrees of God, things de-
creed by him.
10 Appointments of God, things
appointed by him.
11 Predestination, things predes-
tinated of God.
12 Election of Jews. Page 72
\ 3 Election of Christians, Page 74
1 4 Persons chosen or elected of
God to fill offices in church
and state.
1 5 Calling, God doth call, his peo-
ple are called, Page 75
16 Particular persons called to
offices.
\7 Justification, God justifieth.
18 Men not justified by the works
of the law.
19 Mankind justified freely, and
by grace through Christ.
Page 78
20 Sanctification, God sanctified
the Jews.
2 1 Jews were commanded to sanc-
tify themselves,
22 God doth sanctify Christians.
23 God doth sanctify Christians
by his word and Spirit,
24 Justification and sanctification,
otherwise expressed, God
doth wash.-^Our duty to wash
ourselves. Page 79
25 God doth cleanse. — Duty to
cleanse ourselves-»-Promises
to the cleansed.
26 God doth purge. — Duty to
purge ourselves.
2r Godpurifieth. — -Duty to purify
.ourselves. Page 80
28 God doth refine.
29 The Lord is r. God unto his
people, he is with them and
among them.
CONTENTS.
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42
43
44
45
46
49
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30 God forsake til not his people, j
Page 8 I
Prayers that God would not
forsake his people.
God forsaketh the wicked.
God doth not cast off nor re-
ject his people. Page 82
34 Prayers a<^ainst being; cast offj
35 God casteth off and rejecteth
the wicked. j
35 God is a Father to his people.
Page 83
37 How mankind become the
children of God and he their
Father. Page 84
38 Blessings from God as a Father
to his people as his children.
Page 85
39 Marks and characters of God's
children in the exercise of
the graces and practice of the
duties of religion. Pags ^6
40 Wicked stiled children of what-
ever evil principle reigns in
them.
41 Under God their heavenly Fa-
ther Christians are brethren,
and sisters, and owe to each
other the duties of that rela-
tion. Page 87
Christ is the elder brother of
Christians.
Salvation from God, he is the
Saviour — God saveth his ]jeo-|
pie from evils. Page 88, 89
Persons to whom salvation is
promised. — Salvation prayed
for. Page 90, 91
Salvation is of grace.
Word of God a mean of salva-
tion.
47 Ministry a mean of salvation.
48 God is the defence of his peo
pie. Page 92
God is a Redeemer, redemp-
tion to his people is from him
God redeemeth his people
from enemies and other
evils. — Threats against those
redeemed v/ho apostatised af-'
terward. — "Redemption of
particular persons from evils.
Page 93, 94
5 1 God a counsellor to the right-
eous.
52 God depriveth the wicked of
counsel. Page 94
53 God a teacher, he doth teach
his people, teaching from
God prayed for.
54 Holy Ghost teacheth.
55 God doth instruct.
56 God doth direct. Page 95
57 God doth lead. — Promises that
God will lead his people.
58 Christ doth lead.
59 God doth guide his people.
60 God doth strengthen. 2'age 96
Strength promised -Prayed
for — Obtained. Page 97, 9 ?>
61 God doth uphold. Page 98
62 God giveth safety.
63 God called a shield, rock,
fortress, refuge. Page 99
64 God is an helper to his people.
Page 100
— Help from God promis-
ed. — Prayed for. — Help ac-
knowledged. Page 101
65 Help from the creatures with-
out God is vain.
66 God a deliverer, hedclivereth
from vsickness.
67 God delivereth from enemies
and oppression. Page \Q2
68 Christ a deliverer — Deliver-
ance prayed for. Page 103
69 Deliverance to the poor and
needy.
70 Prophets and apostles deliv-
ered. Page 104
71 All God's faithful servants
shall be delivered.
72 Deliverance from moral evil.
7\i God delivereth the wicked in-
to their enemies hands —
Heathens delivered into the
hands of the Israelites./^. 105
74 God is a keeper to his people.
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CONTENTS.
75 God prcserveth liis people.
Fage 108
75 God is the creator of his peo-
ple. — Threats against those
who apostatized after they
had been created.
God is the creator of Christians
they are new creatures, God's
workmanship. ^^g^ 109
Duty of Christians us new
creatures.
God is to his people their plan-
ter, builder, &c. they are
his planting, his vine-yard
which he watereth and mak-
77
78
79
80
81
82
building, God planted the
JoV'ish nation in Canaan.
The Lord planted, watered
and made fruitful the Jewish
church. J'a^e 1 10
Apostacy or unfruitl'ulness,
threats and reproofs against it.
The fruitful, whether Jews or
Gentiles, arc God's planting.
Page 1 i 1
CHAP. IV. O/Jesm Christ, pro^
fihecy and miracles.
Seer.
1 The testimony of prophecy ap-
pealed to as a foundation of[
faith in Chriat. j
2 The testimony of prophecy!
urged by the apostles. j
Page 1 1 2 1
'3 Prophecies concerning Christ,'
fultilled, in the incarnation!
life, death, resurrection and:
ascension.
4 The nation, tribe and family he j
was to descend from. |
5 The time of his life and death
fixed by other events fore-i
told in prophecy. Page 1 13 !
6 The country and town where 'i
Christ should be born. ||
7 Prophecies concerning hisp
forerunner John Baptist. jj
8 His purging the temple. '
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10
11
12
13
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16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
His working miracles.
Page 1 1 4
That the Spirit of the Lord
should be upon him.
That he should be a Prophet.
That he should preach or
teach.
That he should not seek the
applause of men.
Tiuit he should be a suA'crer.
—Infirmities he was touched
with.' Page 1 1 5
That he should be despised of
men.
That he should be hated.
Reproached.
The reproaches that were cast
upon him.
That he should be persecuted.
Page 1 1 6
That Jews and Gentiles should
join against him.
That he should be sold for
money.
The use they apply the money
to, foretold.
Prophecies concerning his
betrayer. Page 1 17
How this is expressed by
Christ.
That Christ should be for-
saken.
Peter's denying him.
That he should be beaten and
spitted on.
Christ's account of his treat-
ment.
What kind of death he should
die.
Christ's silence. l^age 1 1 8
They gave sentence against
him.
They gave him gall.
They mock him on the cross.
They part his garments. —
His words on the cross.
Christ's prays for his enemies.
His death. Page 119
A bone of him was not to be
broken.
C O N T E N T S.
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.38 Was to be buried with the rich.',
59 Thut he should arise from the;
dead. I
40 Christ's rests the credit of his;
pretensions on the certainty j
of his rovirrection from the
dead.
4 1 The witnesses of his resur-
rection.
42 Other evidences of his resur-
rection. P^'g^ 12!0]
43 He was raised by the power of
God.
44 Christ's ascension.
4 J 'J hat he should sit at God's
right hand.
46 The Holy Ghost promised.
47 The Holy Ghost promised by
Christ. Fafre 121
48 More prophecies of Christ con-
cerning the persecution oi
Christians.
49 The evidence of miracles ap-
pealed to as a foundation of
f^\ith in Christ. Page 122
50 New Testament miracles, at-
tending the birth of Christ. !
5 1 Miraculous cures.
52 Devils cast out. Page 123
5 3 Sickness healed, blindness cu-
red, deafness, lameness, <^c.
54 The dead raised.
5 5 Christ calms the wind and sea,
walks on the water, feeds
thousands, ^c. Page 124
— A great draught of iishes.
— A piece of money taken in
a fish's mouth. — A fig-tree
cursed withers.
5(S Miracles accompanying the
death of Christ.
57 Disciples are impowered to
work miracles.
58 Miracles wrought by the a-
postles. Pci^'e 125
CHAP. V.
1 Christ's glory before his iji^ar-
nation.
2 His glory on earth.
3 His glory afier Ijis resurrec-
tion. Page 126
4 Christ's exaltation at God's
right hand.
5 Christ's exaltaion above man-
kind.
6 The church is subject to Christ
7 Christ is exalted above angels.
Page 127
CHAP. VI. Divine Titles given
to Christ.
Sect.
1 Son of God. Page 123
2 Christ is distinguished from
the created sons of God.
3 Christ is the image of God.
4 God.
5 Lord. Page 130
6 One with the Father,
7 The same things spoken of the
Father, and of Christ. — .
Chrit's titles ranged alphabet-
call y Page 133
CHAP. VH. C/irist's Works.
Sect.
1 He created all things.
2 He will raise the dead.
3 He will change the bodies of
mankind.
4 He will judge the world.
Page 135
5 He will dispense suital)lc re-
wards and punishments.
6 Rewards from Christ to the
righteous. J^og(^ 136
7 Punishments to be inflicted on
the wicked by Christ. Pag. 137
CHAP. VIH. IVorshiJi offered to
Christ,
Sect.
' 1 Acts of worship offered to
Christ jointly with the Father.
2 Acts of worship oflcred to
Christ alone. Page \r,9
'■^.fi
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CONTENTS.
CHAP. IX. Perfections ofChrht.
Sect.
1 Christ's knowledge. Pagie I 40
2 Christ's wisdom.
3 Power and dominion. -Pi?^^ 1 4 1
4 Acts of Christ's power toward
his people
5 Acts of his power against his
enemies.
6 Christ's righteousness.
Page 142
7 He promoted righteousness.
8 Christ's holiness.
9 justice. Page 143
10 truth.
1 1 -goodness.
12 eternity. Page 144
CHAP. X. C/irist's benefits to men
or blessings they receive through
him as a Saviour <i Redeemer^ De-
liverer^ i^c.
Sect.
1 Christ is the Saviour, salva-
tion is by him. Page 144
2 Christ is a Redeemer, redemp-
tion is through him. Pa, 146
Christ a ransom.
a price.
a deliverer.
Mediator.
Intercessor.
8 Advocate.
9 Reconciliation by Christ.
Page 147
10 Peace wdth God by Christ.
1 1 Grace from Christ.
12 Justification by Christ.P^.148
13 Sanctification through Christ.
14 Christ is life to his people.
15 Eternal life is from and by
Christ. Page 149
16 Eternal life is the gift of God
through Christ.
17 Benefits from Christ against
sin. Page 150
13 Christ's love to his people.
Page 1 5 1
19 Christ's care of his people. —
Christ's presence with lilsi
people.
Christ's excellencies and be-
nefits, briefly expressed.
Titles given to Christ taken
from the high&:st offices on
earth, denoting his benefits
and dignity.
Christ a Prophet. Page l52
This office foretold by the pro-
phets.
Christ's account of his pro-
phetic office. Page 153
Christ is called the light of
the world.
Christ is called a Priest.
His offering a sacrifice. P. 154
Christ was given and deliver-
ed, the design thereof.
Christ gave himself, and for
what end.
Christ suffered, the end thereof .
Christ's death the efficacy
thereof.
Christ's blood, the efficacy
thereof. Page 155
Christ a propitiation.
Atonement. Page] 56
Christ called a King having
dominion.
A Prince.
A Governor.
Christ called David. Page 157
The offspring of David.
The son of David. Page 15B
CHAP. XI. Bafitism and the
JLord*s Su/i/ier.
Sect.
1 Baptism before Christ's death.
Page 15 8
2 Baptism after Christ's resur-
rection. Page 159
3 The institution of the Lord's
Supper.
4 It is to be received frequently.
5 To be received with suitable
* preparation. Page 160
CONTENTS.
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Chap. Xll. OJthe Holy Ghost,
Sect.
1 The Spirit's influence upon the
material and animul creation.
2 Upon the minds of man-
kind. Page 162
3 Upon the formation of
Christ's body.
4 Upon the endowments of
Christ's mind. Page 163
5 Upon the actions of
Christ's life.
-Ilis miracles.
-Upon his oblation.
-Bis resurrection.
■Upon the apostles, is a
6
7
8
9
10
witness to Christ.
Upon the apostles,
fur-
nishing them with the know-
ledge of divine truths and ut-
terance to express them.
Page 164
1 1 The scriptures written by the
prophets and apostles under
the influence of the Holy
Ghost. Page 166!
12 Miraculous gifts of the Spirit!
upon the apostles and some!
primitive Christians.
13 The influences of the Spirit |
upon the minds of Christians
in general in their sanctifica--
tiom ' Page \6y\
14 The Spirit's influences upon'
governors, magistrates and!
warriors.
15 The Spirit proceedeth from'
the Father and the Son, or is'
given and sent by them. |
Page 171;
16 Sins against and duties towardj
his Spirit. Page 172
CHAP. XHI. Oftlie Trinity.
The same things attributed to the Father, to
the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
Sect.
1 Eternity.
2 Omnipresence.
S Omniscience.
4 Wisdom. Pa^c 173
5 Omnipotence.
6 Goodness.
7 Works of God Creation.
8 Sending teachers. Page 174
9 Teachers receive their know-
ledge from Father, Son and
Holy Ghost.
10 Father, Son and Spirit spake
by those that were sent.
1 1 Father Son and Holy Ghost are
in Christians as in a temple.
12 Sanctification by Father, Son
and Spirit.
13 God's people are ledby Father,
Son and Holy Spirit.
14 Give life.
15 Raising the dead. Page \7 5
1 6 The Son and Spirit joined with
the Father, in acts of worship.
Pas^e 176
CHAP, XIV. Dutiea toivard God.
Sect.
1 Knowing God and Christ.
2 Denying God.
3 Prayers for them that know
God, and promises to them.
4 God will be known by his peo-
ple. — .God is made known by
his works. Pfi.sie 176
5 Christ called light as a teacher
sent to give the knowledge of
God.
6 Duties of the enlightened who
know God. Page 177
7 The wicked know not God.
8 Faith in God. Page 178
9 Faith in Christ.
10 Faith in Christ, brief summa-
ries thereof,
1 1 Confessing Christ, promises
to it.
12 Denying Christ, threats.
Page 179
13 The certainty and assurance
of faith, being strong, stedfast,
and persevering in faith.
Page 180
14 Graces and duties accompany-
ing true faith, or marks and e-
videncesoftrue hith. Page 1 8 1
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55
56
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15 God the author and supreme.] 44
cause of tldth. I! 4 5
16 Prayers and thanks to God for;j
faith. J'age 183 ! 46
1 7 Christ the author of faith — The 1 47
Holy Ghost the author of faith:!
1 8 Means of faith are God's word.-i 48
19 A Gospel ministry. Fage 184,j
— The Gospel called faith,!' 49
and the law of idhh.Page 1 85 i|
20 Promise of justification to be-' 50
lieving- in God. ' "i
2 1 Justification promised to be-
lieving in Christ. Page 186
22 Adoption or being sons of God
promised to faith.
23 God's love promised to believ-
ing in Christ.
24 Christ prayeth for believers.
25 Sins of believers pardoned.
26 Holy Spirit promised to be-
lievers, i 57
27 Light and direction promised
to believers.
28 Grace and peace promised to
behevers. Page 187
29 Joy and comfort promised to
believers.
30 Christ is precious to believers.
3 1 They have access to God in
prayer.
32 Sanctification by faith.
53 Salvation by faith in God.
34 Salvation by faith in Christ.
Page 188
55 Things extraordinary promis-
ed to the faith of some primi-
tive Christians. Pag- (? 189
3 6 These promises were fulfilled.
37 Miracles wrought for persons
of eminent faith.
38 Instances of approved faith. \
39 Want of faith reproved P. 1 90
40 Exhortations against unbelief.;
41 Threatenings against unbehef;
toward God. |
42 Threatenings against unbelief|i70
toward Christ. P^/^-^191j|
43 Causes of unbelief assigned in jj 7 1
in scripture. Page 192
N T S.
Looking to God.
Remembering God, and not
remembering God.
Forgetting God.
Threats against those that for-
get God. Page 193
Warning against fortretting
God.
Meditation upon God and his
word. Page 194
Fearing God.
The excellency of fearing God.
A commanded duty.
God is to be feared on account
of his perfections.
On account of his words
and w^orks. Page 195
p'car of the Lord promised and
prayed for.
Joined with obedience to-
ward God.
V/ith the worship of God.
■ It is a motive to duty? and
59
60
61
162
a restraint from sin. J^age 1 9 5
Promises to them that fear
God. Page 197
Other expressions setting
forth the fear of God. — Trem-
bling. Page 198
Fleaven and earth tremble at
God's greatness. Quake,
terror, reverence, afraid.
Threatenings against those
that fear not God.
63 The wickecl fear not God with
that ftar which is a restraint
from sin and motive to du-
ty. Page\9 9
64 The wicked have a tormenting
fear of God.
God delivers the wicked up to
their fears of enemies./^. 200
Love to God commanded.
Promises to thern that loveGod
Prayers for them that love God
Exhortations to love God.
Instances of persons loving
God. Page 201
How love to God is produced
Christians.
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93
72 Prayed for as a gift from God.
73 It is a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
T4 Love to God is evidenced by
keeping his commandmeiita,
and loving his servants.
75 Love to Christ enforced by
promises. Page 202 \\
76 Prayers for them that lovc||
Christ. I
77 Love to Christ enforced by.
threatenings.
78 iin forced by the exam-i
pie of God the Father.
79 Enforced by the exam-'
pie of the church of God. I
80 Enforced by Christ's love to-
his church.
81 Obedience to Christ the evi-j
dence of love to him.
82 Hating God, threats against
it. Pacfe 203
Hating Christ.
Desiring God.
Thirsting, longing for God
and the things of God, pro-
mises to such.
86 Joy in God. Fa^^e 204
87 Joy in God through Christ.
88 Persons encouraged to rejoice
in God are the righteous.
The meek.
Those that seek God.
Those that trust in God.
Those that hope in God.
Those that have faith or be-
lieve.
94 Joy promised. i
95 Things of God rejoiced in are
Christ.- Fa(fe205\
96 The Holy Ghost.
97 God's worship.
98 The worship of God fixed a
cause of rejoicing. j
99 God's presence with his peo-,
pie, cause of joy. Pnge 20o
100 God's love and care of his!
people, a cause of joy.
101 Ciod's mercy, a cause of joy.!
102 Help and strength from God,]
a cause of joy. ^
XIX
103 Salvation from God against
enemies, cause of joy.
104 God's vengeance upon his and
his people's enemies, cause
of joy.
105 God's word, cause of joy.
106 God's providential goNcrn-
ment, cause of joy.7^fl_§-t' 207
107 Temporal deliverances of
God's church, cause of joy.
108 Spiritual blessings conferred
on the church, a cause of re-
joicing.
109 God's work of creation, cause
ofjoy.
1 10 Worldly prosperity from the
hand of God a cause ofjoy.
Page 20$
1 1 1 Rejoicing in God in time of
worldly adversity.
1 1 2 Comfort and consolation from
God promised. Page 209
God satisfieth. Page 2 1
113
114
Delight in God,
1 1 5 Things of God delighted in by
his people.
116 Delight in Christ,
1 17 Glorying in God..
118 Sinful glorying of the wick-
ed. Page 2 1 1
1 1 9 Boasting in God.
120 Sjnful boasting of the wicked
121 Hope in God and Christ.
Page 2 12
The hope of the wicked.
The expectation of the righte-
ous from God.
124 The expectation of the wick-
ed. Pa^<?,2l5
God.
Page 2 1 6
The wicked wait not for God.
Submission and resignation
to God, the language there-
of. , Pagi'2\7
Relying upon God.
Trusting in God and Cluisi:.
Page 2 1 8
;0 Confidence in God. Page 22 1
)1 Conhdcnce in God as^'curity
122
123
125
126
127
128
129
The righteous wsiit for
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CONTENTS.
against the fear of evil from
man. Page 222
132 The confidence of the wicked.
133 Assurance of the righteous.
134 Seeking God commanded.
135 God is to be sought with all
the heart. Page 223
136 Promises to them that seek
God.
137 Prayers for them that seek
God.
138 Examples of God's people
seeking him. Page 224
139 The wicked seek not God.
140 Seek not God aright.
^1 hreats against them.
Page 225
1 4 1 Drawing near to God.
142 Coming to God. Page 226
Through Christ,
Come to Christ.
Following God.
-Christ.
143
144
145 Forsaking God, threats. P. 227
146 Departing from God. — Not
departing, instances.
147 Backsliding from God — Pro-
mise.
148 The wicked go aside, go as-
tray, err, wander, turn a-
way from God.
149 Confession thereof.
Page 228
150 Threats.
15 1 Worship due to God only.^~
Angels not to be worshipped
152 How God is to be worship-
ped. Page 229
J 53 Worship offered by the wick-
ed unacceptable to God.
154 Fasting appointed of God.
155 Fasts extraordinary and mi-
raculous kept.
156 Fasting acceptably,
157 Fasts of the wicked. Pa. 230
158 General occasions of fasts.
159 After being defeated by en-
emies.
160 Judgments threatened.
1 6 1 Discretionary fasts. Page 23 1
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167
168
169
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186
187
188
189
190
191
192
Persons whose prayer shall
be heard.
The divine influence in pray-
er, the Spirit's assistance.
Prayer to be made in the
name of Christ.
Prayer to be made in faith.
Page 232
— W^ith sincerity of heart,
With love to God.
With the fear of God.
With obedience to God.
With humility, confes-
sion, and turning from sin.
Page 233
With forgiven essto ward
men.
With alms & good works.
Must be frequviUt, fervent
and importunate. Page 234
Prayer with tears.
Private prayer.
Public prayer, a part public of
worship. Page 235
Directions concerning the
words or expressions to be
used in prayer. Page 236
Of the gestures of body us-
ed in prayer.
Things to be prayed for.
The Lord's prayer, a model.
Spiritual blessings, wisdom
and grace to be prayed frjr.
Such earthly things as arc
agreeable to God's will, and
submission to it.
Daily bread to be prayed for.
Page 237
— ^Health and deliverance
from sickness.
The prayer of the poor heard.
Intercessory prayer.
For whom we ought to pray.
For the church of God.
Instances of such prayers
Page 238
For enemies.
Instances of such prayers.
Motives to prayer, it is a
pmmanded duty.
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193 God promiseth that he Avill
hear prayer. Page 239
194 God hath heard prayer.
195 Testimony of God's people,
that he hath heard their
prayer.
Their expectation that God
will hear their prayer.
Their intreaties that their
prayers may be heard.
Their grief at not being
heard.
The efficacy of prayer, mira-
cles wrought by it. P^^;. 240
Armies defeated by prayer
and God's people delivered.
Prayers against evil from
enemies. Page 2 41
Praver in trouble, instances
thereof. Page 242
Prayerless persons, or not
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200
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202
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204
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206
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209
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211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
praymg.
Pav-e 243
The prayers of hypocrites.
The prayers of the wicked
not acceptable to God.P.244
Praise and thanks due unto'
God, and required by him
from the righteous. Pfl5:.2 4 5
Praise from the wicked un-
acceptable to God.
The wicked, their unthank-
fulncss.
Praise must be freqiaent.
Praise must be with sincerity.
God prcpareth his people
for his praise, or the divine
influences therein. /^c7^<? 246
Thanks to God through
Christ.
Praise is a part of public
worship. Page 247
Of singing the praises of
God. Page 248
Subjects of praise God'
goodness and mercy. P.249
Praise for Christ.
For blessings from God by
and through Christ. Pa. 2 50
For God's will revealed.
219 For the obedience and faith of
Christians as owing to God.
20 For God's care of his church
Page in
221 For God's great and marvel-
lous works.
222 For God's marvellous acts
upon the bodies and minds
of mankind.
223 For daily bread. Page 252
224 For deliverance from trouble
and affliction.
225 For deliverance from ene-
mies. Page 253
226 Honour dueto God, andclaim-
cd by him.
227 God is honoured by acts of
worship, praise and thanks.
228 By holiness of life in his
people.
229 By his people in keeping the
Sabbath. Page 255
230 By acts of charity and mercy
to the poor.
231 Honouring Christ, motives
to it.
The vrickcd dishonour God,
and are punished.
Glorifying God.
Christ gloriiicd God on earth
Men glorify God by praise
and thankfulness. Page 256
236 By faith.
237 By good work.
8 By various duties.
239 Doxologies, or glory ascrib-
ed to God in worship.
Page 257
240 God is glorified in the restor-
ation and prevalence of true
religion among his people.
Page 25 8
241 The wicked glorify not God^
and are punished.
242 God is glorified in the des-
truction of the wicked.
243 Sanctifying God. Page 259
244 Threats against those who
sanctify liot God. Page 260
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CHAP. XV. Characters good and
bad-, nvith Jiromiscs and threats,
^ect.
1 Godliness in heart and life.
.2 Promises to the godly.
3 Means of godliness given.
Page 260
Godliness misrepresented.
Ungodly described by their
practice.
Threats against the ungodly.'
Righteousness required. i
Page 261 1
Promises to the righteous of
peculiar favour from God.
Promises of blessings to the
righteous, as the conse-
quence of righteousness by
the appointment of God.
Page 263
The righteous shall be dehver-
ed from enemies.
The death of the righteous
blessed.
The righteous blessed after
death. Page 264
Unrighteousness forbidden.
Threats against the unrighte-
ous.
Pardon promised to those that
forsake unrighteousness.
Zeal a duty. — Want of zeal.
Page 265
Ur right.
Promises to the upright. P.2 66 1
Uprightness prayed for, and
prayer for the upright.
Integrity.
Particular instances of integ-
rity.
Sincerity.
Perfection a commanded duty,
Pag'j 267
Directions for attaining
fection.
Means of perfection, are,
God and Christ.
The holy Scriptures, a mean
of perfection.
ptr-
27 The ministry, a mean of per-
fection.
28 Promises to the perfect.
29 Instances of persons called
perfect. Page 268
30 Hypocrisy forbidden.
31 Marks of hypocrites. Pa. 269
32 Threats.
33 Hypocrites hurtful to men.
34 The heart of tlie righteous to-
ward God, the whole heart
or sincerity in duties.
Page 27 Q
35 Pure heart.
36 Perfect heart.
o7 Upright heart.
38 Single heart.
39 Clean heart. Page 271
40 Broken contrite heart.
41 Duties respecting the heart.
Page 272
42 God taketh notice of the heart.
43 God influenceth the hearts of
the religious. Page 273
44 God's judgments on the hearts
of the wicked. Page 27 4f
45 Satan influences the hearts of
the wicked, instances thereof
46 An evil heart described.
47 The hearts of the wicked.
48 Keeping a good conscience.
Page 273
49 A good conscience how at
lained.
50 Natural conscience, instances
of the force thereof.
51 A weak conscience not to be
wounded.
52 Of an evil conscience.
53 Serving God commanded.
54 With the heart.
5 5 With suitable dispositions of
heart. Page 276
56 God's servants, promises to
them. Page 277
57 God's servants, prayers for
them- Page 27 S
58 Not serving God, threats.
Page 279
59 Obedience to God commanded.
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CONTENTS
Universal ebcdience requir-i 8 6
eel. i*tig*i 279 1
Obedience required with an
hii^-h esteem of God's law.
— Witli resolution of heart.
Ability for obedience promis-
ed. Pnge 280|
Ability for obedience prayed
for. Fag-e^^X
Ability received from God
acknowledged.
Instances of obedience.
Promises to the obedient.
Faga 282
Threats against the disobe-
dient. Fage 284
Obedience to Christ comman-
ded.
Promises to them that obey
Christ. Fage'^QS
Promises to them that over-
come temptations in obey-
ing Christ.
Disobedience to Christ,
threats.
God will render to mankind I
according to their works,
good or bad. Fage 286
Good works commanded.
Fage 2^7
Ability for good works pro-
mised.
Promises to the performance
of good works. Fage 288
Examples of good works.
Omission of good works,
threats.
Shunning evil and doing
good commanded.
Promises to them that do
good, that do well.
Evil doers, their works to be
avoided. Fage 289
Evil doing, the character of
the wicked.
Threats against evil-doers.
Fage 290
the works
xxiit
walk not in
Fage
and
Darkness
thereof.
Threats against them
The ri;^hteous
darkness. Fage 291
87 The wicked and their works
called dead, the righteous
are alive from the dead.
88 Works of the devil, children
of the devil.
89 The righteous have no fellow-
ship with the children of the
devil.
90 Works of the flesh, living af-
ter the flesh. Fage 292
91 Lusts of the flesh, forbidden
to Christians.
92 Lusting after women.
Fage 293
93 Lustingaftermeats anddrinks
94 The evil of lusts.
95 Corruption prevailing.
96 Confession of corruption.
97 The righteous not corrupt.
Fage 294
98 Defilement of sin.
99 Threats against it.
100 Uncleanness of sin.
101 Confession of uncleanness.
102 Promises against uncleanness.
Fage 295
103 Directions against it.
104 Threats against it.
105 Pollution,
106 Filthiness.
107 Directions.
108 Promi^ies.
109 Threats.
1 10 Vileness. Page 296
111 Confession of vileness.
112 Abominabieness.
113 Promises to the just, and
prayers for them. Fage 297
114 Threatnings against the un-
just.
115 The unjust hurtful in the
earth.
1 1 6 The general character of a
good man's walk and life.
Fa,
1 17 Promises to the good.
118 Evil men. Fage 299
119 Perverseness.
122
12:1
Rebellion ag-ainst God forbicl-
adversaries of the
XXIV
120 Threats. . ,.
121 Threats against the forward. !|
Page 300
The rigliteoiis not forward.
Stubbornncs, tlie stiff-neck-
ed in thcii- own ways, and
ways of their own sight and
eyes.
124 The wicked are revolters.
Pa.^e 301
125
den.
126 Enemies
Lord.
127 Deliverance from enmity a-
gainst God.
128 God's threatenings against
the wicked. Page 303
129 Threats against the wicked of
evils, as the consequences
of wickedness, under the
providential government of
God. Page 305
130 God's threatenings against
sinners. Page 308
131 Sinners threatened with var-
ious evils under the provi-
dence of God. Page 309
132 Transgressors, threatenings
against them. Page 310
133 Iniquity forbidden.
1 34 God's threatening against the
workers thereof. Page 31 1
135 Iniquity, the punishment
thereof threatened under the
providential government of
God, with instances thereof
executed. Page 3 1 3
rii'st Commandment.
136 Idolatry, or the w^orship of
strange god's forbidden
137 Threatenings against idolaters
138 Judgments inflicted upon
idolaters. Page 2 \ A'
139 God's judgments upon parti-
cular tran pressors of this
commandment.
1 40 Covenants and intermarriages
CONTENTS.
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149
150
151
152
15;
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
with the inhabitants of Ca-
naan forbidden to the Jews
Making covenants and inter-
marriages with transgres-
sors of this commandment
punished. Page 2X0^
Strange gods to be put away.
Transgressors of this com-
mandment among the peo-
ple of Israel, &: the enticers.
thereto, to be put to death.
Threatenings against strange
gods.
Strange gods are vanity.
Page 317
Enquiring concerning future
events of those who by na-
ture are no gods forbidden.
Page 3 1 B
Second Commandment.
Images, the use of them for-
bidden.
God's judgments on the
breakers of this command-
ment. Page 3 18
Images no representation of
God.
Images were commanded to
be broken.
Images were broken. Pa.o'20
Instances of images used by
apostates as outward symbols
in worship offered to the
true God.
Worship to images refused
though commanded by
kings.
Threats against idols and
idolaters.
Promises, warnings, and ex-
hortations against idolatory.
Page 321
God's judgments upon idol-
aters. Page 322
Magicians.
Inch ante rs.
Soothsayers.
Observers of times.
Witches.
CONTENTS.
162 Wizards, worshipping an-i
gels, 8cc. Page 323
163 Diviners.
164 Diviners are deceivers, and
false prophets.
165 Threats against diviners.
166 Familiar spirits, threats a-
gainst those that consult
them. Page 324
Third Commandment.
1 67 Profaning the name of God.
168 Swearing falsely. Page 32 4>
3 69 Swearing by the creatures.
1 70 Swearing by false gods,
1 7 1 Svrearing in common conver-
sation.
172 Swearing to commit sin.
173 Rash unnecessary swearing.
174 God only is to be sworn by.
175 An oath, the nature and duty
thereof. Page 325
176 Oaths to be strictly kept.
177 Things to be sworn to are
truth and duty.
1 78 Articles of peace ratified by
oath.
179 Breach of such oaths punish-
ed.
1 80 Private compacts ratified by
oaths. Page 326
1 8 1 Oaths sworn to kings.
182 The oath of a single person
decides controversy.
183 The duty and lawfulness of
swearing, examples.
184 God swears to Abraham.
185 To give the land of Canaan.
186 To fulfil his covenant. — To
continue the seed of David
187 To the continuance of
Christ's priesthood.
188 To fulfil his threatenings a-
gainst the unbelieving and
disobedient.
189 Jesus Christ answers upon
oath.
190 An angel swears.
191 Asseverations or sincerity
XXV
which are equal to an oath
among Christians. Page 327
192 Ancient forms of swearing.
193 Blasphemy forbidden.
194 Occasions of it to be avoided.
195 From whence it proceeds.
196 Instances of blasphemers
punished. Page 328
197 Blasphemy against the Holy
Ghost.
198 Persons unjustly accused of
blasphemy.
199 Of vows.
200 Vows to do duty
201 Sinful vows. Page S29
Fourth Commandment.
202 Of the Sabbath. Page 329
203 The Sabbath, a day of rest
from servile work.
204 Duties of the Sabbath, wor-
shipping God, reading and
hearing his word.
205 Works of charity and mercy
to be done on the Sabbath.
Page 330
206 Promises to them that keep
the Sabbath.
207 The care of God's people to
sanctify the Sabbath them-
selves, and to prevent the
profaning of it by others.
Page 331
208 Threatenings against Sab-
bath-breakers. Page 332
209 Sabbath privilges withdrawn-
210 The change of the Sabbath
from the seventh to the first
day of the week. Page 333
^CIiAP. XVI. Duties toward
Mankind.
Sect.
1 Love toward mankind. Pa. 333
2 How love toward mankind is
produced. Page 334
3 Prayers and thanks to God for
Christian love as being his
gift. Page 335
d
XXVI
CONTENTS.
4 The influence and effects ofiSl
love upon the temper and be- ""^
haviour of Christiana, &.c.
5 Charity with otlier graces en- oj
joined. Fage 335 34
6 Approved examples of charity: 35
and other p;races. j36
7 Hatred toward mankind,threat-J37
enings against it. J°age 336'|o8
8 Duty of the righteous towardj'39
those that hate them. ji40
9 Prayers and complaints to God
against the hatred ofthe wick-
ed.
10 Promises to those that are un-
justly hated and threatenings
against those that hate them.
Page 337
1 1 Envy forbidden to the righte-
ous.
1 2 The wicked, their envy hurtful
to themselves.
13 Enw a mark of an unconvert-
ed state.
PCL
150
14 Malice forbidden to the right-
eous. 51
1 5 Malice in the wricked.
1 6 An ger forbi dd e n . Piige 339
1 7 Instances of the anger of the 5
righteous against sin. 5.i
1 8 Sinful anger, instances thereof. 54
19 Wrath. 5 6
20 Contention. Page 340 1 57
21 Promise's and prayers against j
contention. I 58
■22 The righteous contcjul only!
against sin. j'59
23 Peace commanded with pro- j 60
mises to it. Pagf^ .541 |
25 Peace praved for as a desirab'ejj61
gift of God. Page 3 4 2 ji 62
Peace the gift of God, promis-:i63
es and instances thereof ij64
Peace with God is the blessed;
26
reward of the righteous man . j
S8 Peace promised to the church |
of God. P'^ge 343 j
29 Unity.
60 IIonc5uring one another.
J*c^£ 344!
65
66
Despising others.
Strife forbidden to the godly •
Page 3 15
Fightings, quarrels.
Divisions forbidden.
Offences forbidden. Page 34 6
Threats against offenders.
Doing good to others. Pa. 347
Don";g evil.
Doing wrong.
Doing miscliicf the character
ofthe wicked. Page 348
Of being harmless.
Blameless.
Promises to the merciful.
J^oge 349
Unmerciful, threats.
Compassion and pity. Pa. 3:0
Cruelty ofthe wicked.
Forgiveness* Page 33 \
Revenge.
Duty of giving and receiving
good counsel. Page 352
Rejecting evil counsel, the
duty and safety thereof.
Tlie mutual obligation of giv-
ing und receiving instruction.
J^age 5 53
Of refusing instruction.
To edify one another.
To warn one another.
To adnjonish one another.
To rebuke one another, and to
hearken to rebuke. Page 354
Of not giving and receiving
rel)uke.
To reprove one another.
Not hearkening to reproof
Page 35 5
Gentleness.
To shew kinchicss commanded
To give comfort.
Friendship and faithfulness
therein. J- age 35 6
Unfaithfulness in friendship. —
Bearing with one another's
WTciknesse^, &c. Page 357
Forbearing to judge one ano-
ther on account ofdiflerences.
Page 358
CONTENTS.
xxvu
67 Setting good example.
68 Enticing others, and being en-
ticied to sin.
69 Of gratitude.
70 In;j,ratitudi;. Page 359
CHAP. X\ar. Dunes tozvards
ourselvtii'.-
S:'::t.
1 Temperance in meat and
drink.
2 Oiintempcrancc in meat and
drink. J^age o^o\
o Drunkenness, the evils there-
of. Page 361 1
4 or making others drunk.
5 Sleep.
('» Laliour commanded, and pro-
mises to the laborious, the
diligent and industrious.
J^age 2G2
7 Of the sluggard, the slothful,
and idle. Page 36:3
S The study and pursuit of vvrs-
dom recommended.
9 The excellency of wisdom a-
bove «ll other endowments.
Page 364
10 Wisdom is profitable, plear
sant and honourable.
1 1 Wisdom is the gift of God.
Page 365
12 Wisdom prayed for.
13 Wisdom and religion the
same. Page 366
14 A fciol's vain pretences to
to v/isdom .
15 A fool recieveth not instruc-
tion. , Page 367
16 A fool discoveretli his folly.
17 A fool's conduct towards his
parents.
1 S A fool mischievous,
19 He is wrathful.
20 Contentious.
2 1 A IVioi's words. Page :^Q?\
22 A fiioi's psoasureo.
23 Ti-eatmen^: for fools.
2% VoWy LUid wickedne^^s ti^e'
s.un^. ' Pay:: 36.)
25 PatiencetowardGod. P«. 370
26 Patience toward men.
Pa^e37l
27 Contentment.
28 Discontent, murmuring.
29 Grudging.
30 Meekness. Page 372
31 Meekness how produced.
32 Meekness, examples thereof.
oo Promises to the meek.
34 Humility toward God.
Paze 373
oo Humility towards men.
36 Promises to the humble.
Page 374
57 Promises to humbled smners,
oS Examples of humility.
39 The elect are humble.
40 Humbled saints, their ex-
pressions. Page 375
41 Pride against God.
42 Pride agcdnst men.
43 Spiritual pride, seeming
righteous.
44 Proud of wisdom jind know-
ledge. 2^ age 277
45 The proud seek honour from
men.
46 Threats and prayers against
the proud. Pa^e 37&
47 Arrogancy.
48 Loftiness.
49 Plaughtiness.
50 Exalting one's self. Pa. 379
5 I Lifting up one's self.
52 Magnifying one's self.
53 Glorying.
54 Boasting. Page SQO
55 Scorning.
5Q Threats against kings and
nations of the foregoing
characters ofpii<l(^, &c.
5 7 Of marriage. Page 38.1
5 8 Divorce,
59 Divorce Vv'as> disapprove?}..
GO Divorce is exprcHly fovbiddca
in the. N'ew Te:itan'ie"it.
61 Maryia.ge v.'ith unbelieverr.
6 2 Jews, forbidden tmiiaiTy wilb
tiic heath e lis Page 38^1
3KV1U
CONTENTS.
63 Embracing Ghmtianity did
not dissolve marriage con-
tracted before.
64 Husbands duties.
65 Duties of wives. — Women's
apparel. Page 383
66 Children, duties toward
them, to provide for their
support.
67 To defend them.
68 To pray for them.
69 To instruct them. Page 384
70 Particular heads of instruc-
tion.
71 Instances of parents careful
to instruct their children.
72 Correcting children.
73 Parents careful to marry
their children into religious
ifamilies. Page 385
74 Portions given to children.
75 Children are among the pro-
mised blessings of God to
mankind.
76 Children promised. Page 386
77 A desire of children.
78 God's care of mothers.
Page 387
79 God's care of children.
80 Grief of parents at parting
■with children.
81 Godly parents blessed in the
happiness of their children.
82 Wicked parents punished in
the calamities of their chil-
dren.
83 Particular calamities threaten-
ed against the children of
the wicked. Page 388
84 That they shall be slain by
enemies.
85 Suffer by famine.
'^ 86 Gtherevilsthreatenedagainst
the children of the wicked.
87 Erroneous principles in re-
ligion have destroyed the
natural affection of parents
toward their children.
88 Calamities upon wicked par-
ents and children.
8 9 Want of children to the wick-
ed.
90 Promises to the godly who
are childless. Page 389
91 Duties of children toward
paients.
92 Instances of dutiful children
blessed.
93 Disobedient and undutiful
children, threats against
them. Page 390
94 Instances of undutiful children
cursed.
95 Duties of masters toward
servants. Pageo9\
96 Duties of servants. Page 392
97 Duties of the civil magistrate,
to administer justice impar-
tially. Page 393
98 Qualifications of the civil
magistrate.
99 The magistrate's concern
with religion. Page 394
100 Good magistrates a blessing-
promised to God's people.
Page 395
1 1 Magistracy is of divine ap-
pointment.
102 Sins of magistrates, pervert-
ing of judgment, respect of
persons, partiality.
103 Perverting of judgment
through covetousnesii, tak-
ing gifts.
104 Perverting judgment thro'
drunkenness. Page 396
105 The misery of being govern-
ed by weak or wicked rulers.
106 Wicked rulers set over the
people as a punishment for
sin.
107 Wicked rulers, enemies to
religion.
108 God's providence over kings
and rulers exalting or abas-
ing them. Page 39 7
109 Particular instances of God's
providence exalting or abas-
ing rulers. Page 2i)S
CON T E N T S.
ilO
111
112
113
11
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
123
129
Duties toward governors,
praying foi-them. Page 39 8
Honour aiid respect to be
shewn to maj^istrates in
words and actions.
Obedience to magistrates.
Rebellion against mugistrdtesJ
the sin and punishment!
thereof. Page 399;
Disobedience to magistrates
a duty? when they abuse
their power, by command-
ing things contrary to God*s
law, instances thereof.
Ministers of Christ their du-
ties, the commission given
to the apostles. Page 400
Power committed to the a-
pQstles of excommunication.
Persons unjustly excommun-
icated. Page 402
None may intrude into the
ministerial office.
Teaching truth the duty of
ministers. ^^^g(^ ^^^
The good effects of preaching
Good minist;:rs promised.
Page 407
Faithful ministers, promises
to them, and prayers for
them.
-They are holy and un-
blameable in life and con-
versation. Page 408
Their humanity, self-
denial, and condescension.
Page 410
They seek not applause from
men.
They seek not riches, they
are not covetous.
They speak boldly the truths
ci" religion without fear.
Page 4 1 1
Instances of becoming bold-
ness in reproving sinners
and declaring the truths of;
religion.
The sufferings of the apo^-'
ties, S:c. for reli'rion. i-'.412
XXIX
130 Their temperance. Page 413
131 They pray for the people.
Page 4 1 4
Instances of their prayers
for the people.
132 The support of Christians in
gCHcral, and of the Lord's
ministers in particular, un-
der sufferings for religion.
Page 415
133 Wicked ministers, their sin
and punishment. Page 416
134 Their cor\^etousncss. Pa. 417
135 Their intemperance.
136 Their slothfulness. Page 4\S
137 They deceive the people with
liatteries and false doctrine.
Page 4 1 9
138 Duties toward the ministry,
to receive their instructions.
Page 421
139 To esteem and love them.
140 To pvay for them.
141 To support them. Pa^^ 422
Sins against them, despising
them, not hearkening to
their instructions. Page 423
Not supporting them.
Page 424
14
Sixth Commandment.
144 Murder forbidden. Page 42 i
145 Cases wherein killing of a
man was not to be punished
with death.
146 Threatening against murder-
ers.
147 Instances of the punishment
of murder.
148 Striking, wounding, maiming
how to be punished. P. 425
Seventh Commandment.
149 Ofadultery and fornication.
jl50 Thrcatenings, or the evil
consequences of adultery
and fornication. Page 426
151 Examples, exhortations,
XXX
CONTENTS.
152
154
155
155
promises, Sec. ai^ainst adul- ] ITS Lying abhorred by God and
tjood men.
\76 Satan and his children are
liars.
177 Threats and prayers ai^ainst
liarii. ' Page 440
tery and fornication
Eiehth Commandment
conccrmng pro-
md the use of riches^j 178
Precepts
ptrty, I
in society.
Theft, threat ut;ainst it.
Page
Robbery forbidden.
Fraud and cheating.
Lands, the lu-./ thereof.
Page 431 I
Things found, lent, or en- 1
trusted, the law thereof. |
Oppression forbidden, and du-'
ties towards the oppressed.'
The words of the wicked in-
jurious and ofiensive.
179
V/ords of the wicked against
God.
180 Evil speaking.
181 Talkativeness, rashness with
157
158
159 Restitution to tue injured toj|l86 Slandering.
160
the tongue.
Page A43
182
Flattery.
183
Tale -bearing.
Page 444
18-1
Vv'hispering.
185
Back-biting.
be made.
Oppressors thret
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
153
169
170
171
17
173
174
Prayers for the oppressed.
Promises to the oppressed.
I^age 43 3 \
Duties of the rich toward the
poor, hospitality.
Lending without usury.
Giving alms. Page 434
Alms in secret. }
Alms to be given to the poor!
of every denomination. !
Alms to poor Christians.
Prouiiseb to tlic poor.
or being uncharitable to the
poor.
I'he stranger, v. idov»^ and ili-
thericss, duties toward them
ar.d threateniugs against
tnoLie taat oppress tnem. i
J 'age 4371;
Promises to the strangers |j
the fatherless, and widow.:!
Ij
Nlnlh Commandment. .j
jl99
Ofv.itncss-beisrinp;. Pag'^ 439 |'200
Lying f(n'uidden, trutii com- 1
marided.
187 Reproach, prayers and com-
plaints against.it. Page 445
183 Reproach, God will bring it
upon the wicked.
189 Reproach, promises against
it. Page 446
190 Reviling practised by the
wicked and endured by the
godly.
191 Rriling, instances thereof.
192 Evil communications.
Pag J 447
193 Unprofitable disputes about
religion.
jl 194 Cursing forbidden and avoid-
|l ed by the righteous.
I 195 Curking practised by the
wicked.
196 The righteous, their care of
their words. P^'gt' 448
197 The rigliceous praise God
with their mouths.
198 The words of the righteous
to v.ard m en . i 'ag^ 4 4 9
Tenth Com.mandment.
Of Covetousnesr>.
'I'hreats against covetous per-
sons, instances thereof pun-
nished I^oge 45 1
C O N T E
-0 1 An "insatiable desire of riches. '(
202 Thr jats against unjust iTiea-|;
sures of acquiring- riches. j
.203 Riches are not a lasting pos-|
session.
204 Riches cannot be carried
hence to the other world.
205 Poss.-ssin.jj riches but not us-!
ing them, the vanity thereof.;
Pat^e 452i
Riches are attended with care
and trouble. |
Riches recommend no man!
to the favour of God. I
The advantages which one
man hath over another by I
means of his viche^.Page 45 31
Trusting in riches and abu-
singthem, the sin of the wick-
ed, and avoided by the godiy.
Riches take the heart and
thoughts off" from God and re-
ligion. Page 454
The wicked rich man, his
portion. Page 45 5
i he use of riches in the hand
of a wise and good man tov/ard
liimself.
3 God maketh rich. Page \ ^6]
14 Riches promised to the righ-|
tcous. j
Instances of good men that I
were rich. j
Instances of riches not re-;
garded by good men. j
Those things that are neces-'
sary to the support of life|
promised to the righteous. — |
Foo d promised. Pa^^e -157;
Famine, deliverance from it'
promised. Pui^-e ^59\
Not earthly but spiritual rich j
esjor the interests of the soul I
the chief objects of a wise
man's dcjires and pursuits.
Page 460
220 Raiment promised.
221 Supports of life miraculously
supplied. Page 46ll>2 6
N T S.
CHAP.
XXXI
206
207
203
209
210
211
21
21
215
216
2ir
218
210
XVIII.
1 Repentance the first doctrine-
preached at the publishing of
the gospel. Page 461
2 The duty of repentance en-
forced by threatenings.
3 Repentance enforced by pre-
mises.
4 Returning to God, promises
thereto. Pog^ 462
5 Remarkable instances of pen-
itent returning tinners ob-
taining mercy. I^age 463
6 Turning to God enjoined by
commands, enforced by
threatenings against those
v/ho turn not from sin.
Page 464
7 The cause and means of re-
pentance and conversion.
Page 465
8 Jesus Christ giveth repentance.
9 God's law, a mean of convert-
The ministry a mean of con-
verting sinners.
Repentance promised.
Necessaries to repentance. —
Self examination. Page 466
Consideration.
Inconsi deration of tlie wicked.
The case of those who with*
stand the means of repen-
tance, l^aze 467
Sorrow for sin.
Mourning for sin. Page 463
Reproofs and threats for not
n.ourning for sin.
Heaviness for sin.
Grief for sin.
Not grieving for sin.
Weeping for sin. Page 469
Tears for sin.
The heart alicctcd fcr having
, sinned.
A broken, contrite heart.
Page 470
Shame the portion of sinners.
xxxii C O N T E
27 Shame enjoined as a mark of
penitents.
28 Avoiding sin, is avoiding
shame.
29 Reproofs for not being asham-
ed of sin.
r>0 Abhorring and loathing one's
self for shi.
31 & 32 Confession and acknow-
ledgment of sin^promises to it.
33 Exhortations to confession.
34 Instances of confessing peni-
tents obtaining mercy.
35 Confessions made in scripture
expressions. FageA7\
36 Amendment. Page 472
37 Fruitfulncss in religion.
Fage 473
CHAP. XIX.
Sect.
1 Of death and the shortness of
human life.
2 The term and boundary of hu-
man life. PageA74.\
3 The term of Hfe is in God's
hand.
4 Death prevailing over all man-
kind of every character, rank,
and station. Page 475
5 Preparative duties for death.
6 No preparative duties are to be
performed after death.
7 The death of the righteous
happy. Page 476
8 The death of the wicked.
Page 477
9 The dead leave all their pos-
sessions behind them.
10 Of the resurrection of the dead.
Page 478
CHAP. XX.
Sect.
1 Of a future judgment, and
its consequences.
2 God is judge. Page 480
3 The persons and things that
shall be judged.
4 Of the time when the day of
judgment shall be. Page 481
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
IS
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
126
27
28
29
N T S.
Uses to be made of the dcc-
trine of a future judgment,
and its consecjuenccs for en-
couraging stcdfastnc&s ar.d
perseverance. Page 482
The dissolution of the heavens
and the earth. Page 483
The happiness of the righte-
ous in heaven is inconceivt-
ably great.
Christians are heirs, thev
have an inheritance, a king-
dom. Sec. P^ge 484
The righteous have rest.
T he righteous enjoy mansions,-
a new heaven, an heavenly
temple, light, Sec.
They are present with Christ.
Pcge 48 5
Christians are in a state of
They are free from pain and
sorrow.
Eternal life is from God.
Life is promised. Page 486
To righteousness.
To the spiritually-minded.
To seeking God.
To godliness.
To fearmg Gcd.
To lovint;- God.
To mortification, dying unto
sin. Fage 487
To suffering for Christ's sake.
To perseverance.
To those that overcome.
To repentance.
To the wise. — Future punish-
ments. — Sinners that shall
not enter into the kingdom of
heaven. Page 488
The greatest punishments and
sufferings in this life, set
forth in the language expres-
sive of future punishments.
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The punishment of the v.ick-
cd in a future state. Page 490
SCRIPTURE ACCOUNT, ^c.
€HAP. L
tONCERNING THE BEING AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD,
!• ^ I ^HAT there is a God, asserted, and proved by his nvorks* Exod.
I iii. 14. The Lord said to Moses, I am that I am.
Ps. ix. 1 6. The Lord is known by the judgments he exe-
cute th.
xix. I. The heavens declare thei glory of God, and the earth sheweth
his handy-work.
Ver. 2. Day unto day iittereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge. Job xii. 7, 8, 9. ,
Iviii. 1 1. Verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
c. 3. The Lord he is God, he made us.
2 Cor. i. 21. He that anointed us is God.
Heb. iii. 4. He that built all things is God. Rom. i. 20.
II. God is perfect » Matt. v. 48. Your Father in heaven is perfect.
1 John i. 5. God is light and in him is no darkness at all.
III. God is one, Deut. vi. 4. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God Ls
one Lord.
1 Cor. viii. 4. There is none other God, but one. Mark xii. 29.
Ver. 6. To us there is but one God. Gal. iii. 20. God is one.
Eph. iv. 6. One God and Father of all. Matt, xxiii. 9. John viii. 4 1 .
1 Tim. ii. 5. There is one God and one Mediator.
Jam. ii. 1 9. Thou believest there is one God, thou doest well.
IV. He is God and Lord, alone, 2 Kings xix. 15. Thou art God
alone. Ps. Ixxxvi. 10. Isa. xxxvii. 16, 20.
Neh. ix. 6. Thou art Lord alone. Ps. xxxiii. 18. Whose name
alone is Jehovah.
V. JSToiie else, Deut. iv. o5. The Lord he is God, there is none
else. Isa. xlv. 5, 6, 14, 18, 22 — xlvi. 9.
VI. ^one besides him, 2 Sam. vii. 22. Neither is there any God
besides thee.
xxii. 32. Who is God save the Lord? 2 Kings v. 15.
Isa. xliv. 6, 8. Beside me there is no God, I know not any. Ch.
xlv. 5, 14, 21.
Hos. xiii. 4. Thou shalt know no God but me. Exod. xx. 3.
VII. J^Tone ivith him, Deut. xxxii. 39. I am God, there is no God
with me.
VIII. J^one before him, Isa xliii. 10. Before me there was no Cod
fi)rmed.
A
4 Attributes of God. Chap. I.
IX. Ac>72<? like him. Exod. viii. 10. There is none like unto the Lord
our God.
XV. 1 1. Who is like unto thee, O Lord, amongst the gods, who is
like unto thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders.
Ps. xx3vv. 10. IV'lic. vii. 18.
1 Kings viii. 23. O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee,
in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mer-
cy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart. Exod.
ix. 14. Deut. xx.iii. 26. 2 Sam. vii. 22. 1 Chron. xvii. 10. Ps. Ixxxvi.
8. Isa. xlvi. 9. Jer. x. 6, 7, 10.
X. Jfone to be comfiared unto him. Ps. Ixxxix. 6. Who in heaven
can be compared unto the Lord ?
XL jYo likeness of God among the creatures. Isa. xl. 18. What
likeness will ye compare to him. Ch. xlvi. 5. Deut. iv. 12.
Acts xvii. 29. We ought not to think that the God-head is like
to gold, or Sliver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
XII. The living God. Dan. iv. 34. He liveth for ever and ever,
his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from gen-
eration to generation.
vi. 26. He is the living God, and stedfast for ever. Acts xiv. 15^
1 Thess. i. 9. Heb. ix. 14 — x. 31.
XIII. He is the true God, Jer. x. 10. The Lord is the true God, he
is the living God, and an everlasting King.
Ver. 1 1 . The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth,
shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens. See John
xvii. 3. 1 Thess. i. 9. 1 John v. 20.
XIV. God is a Spirit, John iv. 24. God is a Spirit, and they that wor-
ship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. 2 Cor. iii 17.
XV. God is invisible. Exod. xxxiii. 20. There shall no man see my
face and live.
John i. 18. No man hath seen God at any time. 1 Johniv. 12.
V. 37. Ye have neither heard his voice nor seen his shape.
Rom. i. 20. The invisible things of God, are his eternal power
and God-head.
Col. i. 15. Christ is the image of the invisible God.
Heb. xi. 27. Moses endured as seeing him who is invisible.
1 Tim. vi. 1 6. God whom no man hath seen or can see. Ch. i.
17. Jobix. 11.
Other exfiressions to the same purpose, Isa. xlv. 1 5. Verily thou art
a God that hideth thyself.
2 Sam. xxii, 12. He made darkness pavillions round about him, dark
waters and thick clouds of the skies. Ps. xviii. II. I Kings viii. 12.
2 Chron. vi. 1.
Ps. xcvii 2. Clouds and darkness are round about him.
Ixxvii. 19. Thy way is in the sea, and thy foot-steps not known.
Nah. i. 3. The Lord hath his way in the whirl-wind, and in the
storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
XVI. God is unsearclmble. Job. xi. 7. Canst thou by searching find
out God ? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection. V^er. 8.
9. Ps. cxlv. 3. His greatness is unsearchable.
Job xxxvii. 23. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find hira out.
Chap. I, Attributes of God» 5
Job V. 9. He doth great things, and unsearchable, and marvellous
things without number. Ch. ix. 10.
Eccl. iii. 1 1 . No man can find out the work that God maketh from
the beginning to the end.
Rom. xi. 33. How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways
past finding out.
Ps. xxxvi. 6. Thy judgments are a great deep.
Job xxvi. 14. How little a portion is heard of him, the thunder
of his power who can understi^nd ?
XVH. God is eiemal. Isa. Ivii. 15. The high and lofty one that in-
habiteth eternity.
1 Tim. i. 17. To the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only
wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever.
See Deut. xxxiii. 27. The eternal God. Rom. i. 20. Eternal God-
head. 2 Cor. iv. 8. Things not seen are eternal.
XVHI. Everlasting. Isa. xl. 28. The everlasting God, the Lord,
the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary,
there is no searching of his understanding. Ch. Ixiii. 16. Thy name
is from everlasting.
Ps. xc. 2. From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
xciii. 2. Thy throne is of old, and thou art from everlasting. Hab.
i. 12.
Ps. cxliii. 13. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy do-
minion endureth through all generations.
Jer. X. 10. He is an everlasting King. Dan. iv. 3. His kingdom is
an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to gen-
eration. Ch. vii. 27. Lam. v. 19. 2 Pet. i. 11.
XIX. For ever. Ps. ix. 7. The Lord shall endure for ever.
xc. 4. A thousand years are in* thy sight but as yesterday, when it
is past, and as a watch in the night. 2 Pet. iii. 8.
cii. 12. Thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever, and thy remem-
brance unto all generations.
Ver. 24. Thy years are throughout all generations.
Ver. 27. Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. Ver!
25, 26. Job X. 5. — xxxvi. 26.
cxxxv. 3. Thy name, O Lord, endureth for ever, and thy memorial
throughout all generations.
Lam. V. 19. Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever, thy throne is from
generation to generation.
Ps. civ. 3 1 . The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever.
XX. First and last. Isa. xiiv. 6. Thus saith the Lord, the King of
Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts, I am the first and I am
the last, and besides me there is no God. Ch. xli. 4.-— xiviii. 12.
Rev. i. 8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,
saith the Lord, which is and which was, and which is to come, the
Almighty. Ver. 4, 17.
XXI. Immortal. 1 Tim. i. 17. The King eternal, immortal, invi-
sible, the only wise God.
vi. 1 6. Who only hath immortality, dwelling in light, which no man
can approach unto, whom no man hath seen or can see, to whom be
honour and power everlasting. Amen.
XXII. Incorruptible. Rom. i. 23. The incorruptible God.
6 God^s Greatness. Chap. L
XXIII. Blessed. Ps. cxix. 12. Blessed art thou, O Lord, teach me
thy statutes.
Rom. i. 25. The Creator is blessed for evermore. 1 Tim. i. 11.
The blessed God.
1 Tim. vi. 15. The blessed and only potentate, the King of kings,
and Lord of lords.
XXIV. Unchangeable. Mai. iii. 6. I am the Lord, I change not.
James i. 17. With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turn-
ing.
Numb, xxiii. 19. God is not a man that he should lie, neither the
son of man that he should repent.
XXV. Present every ivhere. 1 Kings viii. 27. Behold the heaven
and the heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee.
Ps. cxxxix. 3. Thou compassest my path, and my lying down.
Ver. 7. Whither shall I go from thy Spirit, or whither shall I
flee from thy presence I
Ver. 8. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there ; if I make my
bed ;n hell, behold thou art there.
V^er. 9. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the ut-
termost parts of the sea,
Ver. 10. Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand
shall hold me.
Jer. xxiii. 23. Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God
afar off.
Ver. 24. Do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord.
Eph. i. 23. He filleth all in all.
GOD*S GREATNESS.
XXVI. GocVs Greatness. Deut. x. 17. The Lord your God, is God
of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty and a terrible, which
.regardeth not persons nor taketh reward.
xxxii. 3. Ascribe ye greatness to our God.
2 Sam. vii. 22. Thou art great, O Lord, and there is none like thee.
1 Kings viii. 42. They shall hear of thy great name, and of thy
strong hand. 2 Chron- vi. 12,
1 Chron. xvi. 25. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
he also is to be feared above all gods. 2 Chron. ii. 5. Exod. xviii. 1 1.
xvii. 2 1 . Thou didst make thyself a name of greatness and terri-
bleness. Deut. v. 24.
xxix. 11. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and
the glory.
Neh. ix. 32. The great, the mighty and the terrible God, that
l^eepeth covenant and rnercy. Ch. iv. 14.
Job xxxiii. 12. God is greater than man. John x. 29. Greater than
all. 1 John iii. 20. Greater than our heart. Ch. iv. 4. Greater than he
that is in the world.
xxxvi. 26. God is great, and we know him not.
Ps. Ixxvii. }3. Who is so great a God as our God. Tit. ii. 13. Rev,
xix. 17.
Ixxxvi. 10. Thou art great, and doest wondrous things.
xpv. 3. The Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods,
Ps. cxxxv. 5.
xcix. 2. The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high above all people..-
Chap. I. God''s Excellency — Majesty— Glory, y
Ps. civ. 1 . O Lord my God, thou art very great, thou art cloathed
with honour and majesty.
cxlv. 3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, his great-
ness is unsearchable. Ps. xlviii. 1. — xcvi. 4.
cl. 2. Praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Jer. xxxii. 18. The great, the mighty God, the Lord of hosts is his
name. Isa. xii. 6.
Heb. vi. 13. God could swear by no greater, he swareby himself.
See God's perfections of knowledge-^ ivisdom^ fioiuer^ goodness^ 77iercyy
Sec. ail called great.
GOD EXALTED.
XXVn. God 28 exalted. 1 Chron. xxix. 11. Thou art exalted as
head, above all. Ps. xxi. 13. — xlvii. 9. — cxviii. 6.
Neh. ix. 5. His glorious name is exalted above all blessing and
praise.
Ps. xlvi. 10. I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted
in the earth.
Ivii. 5 . Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, let thy glory be
above all the earth. Ver. 1 1. Ps. cviii. 5.
xcvii. 9. Thou art high above all the earth, thou art exalted fai
above all gods.
Isa. xii. 4. Praise the Lord, calj upon his^ame, declare his doings
among the people, make known that his name is exalted.
xxxiii. 5. The Lord is exalted, for he dwelleth on high, he hatl>
^lled Zion with judgment and righteousness.
See Isa. ii. 1 i, 17. — v. 16. — xxx. 18. — xxxiii. 10. — xlix. 1 1.
god's excellency and majesty. '
XXVIII. God*s Excellency. Job xiii. 11. Shall not his excellency
make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you ?
xxxvii. 23. The Almighty is excellent in power, and judgment.
Ps. viii. 1. How excellent in all the earth is thy name. Ver. 8.
Ps. cxlviii. 13.
cl- 2. Praise him according to his excellent greatness. Isa. xii. 5.
Isa. xxviii. 29. The Lord of hosts is wonderful in counsel and exr
cellent in working. See Exod. xv. 7. Deut. xxxiii. 26. Job. xxxvii.
4. Ps. Ixviii. 34.
XXIX. God's Majesty. 1 Chron. xxix. 11. Thine, O Lord, is the
greatness and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the ma-
jesty, for all that is in the heaven and in the parth is thine ; thine is
the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Job xxxvii. 22. With God is terrible majesty. Ps. xcvi. 6.
Ps. xxix. 4. The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.
xciii. 1. He is cloathed with majesty. Ps. civ. 1.
Isa. xxiv. 14. They shall sing for the majesty of the Lord. Ps. cxlv,
5, 12.
Jude, ver. 25. To the only wise God, be glory and majesty. See
Isa. ii. 10.
god's glory.
XXX. God is glorious. Exod. xv. 1 1 . Who is like ujito thee, glorious
in holiness, fearful in praises.
» God's Glory Chap. L
1 Chron. xxix. 1 1 . Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the pow-
er, and the glory. Matt. vi. 13.
Ps. viii. 1 . Thou hast set thy glory above the heavens. Ps. xix. 1
xcvii. 6. — cxiii. 4. — cxlviii. 13.
Ivii. 5. Let thy glory be above all the earth. Ver. 1 1 . Ps. Ixxii. 19.
civ. 3 1 . The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever.
cxxxviii. 5. Great is the glory of the Lord. Ps. cxlv. 5, 11, 12.
Isa. vi. 3. The whole earth is full of his glory.
He is the God of glory. Ps. xxix. 3. Acts. vii. 2.
/;z/i/.9wawc. Deut. xxviii. 58. 1 Chron. xxix. 13. Neh.ix. 5.
In his work. Ps. cxi. 3. His work is honorable and glorious.
In deliverances of his fieople . Isa. Ixiii. 12, 14. He led his people
with his glorious arm.
In the o-uerthroiv of his enemies. Exod. xv. 1. He hath triumphed
gloriously. Ps. Ixxvi. 4.
Ver. 6. I'hy right hand is become glorious in power.
Ps. xlv. 3. Gird thy sword, O niost Mighty, with thy glory and thy
majesty. See Isa. xxx. 30. and 2 Thess. i. 9.
XXXI. God is glorious in fa-vours spiritual and temporal^ confer-
red on his people^ and in the advancement of religion among them. Num.
xiv. 22. These men have seen my glory and my miracles.
Deut. V. 24. The Lord hath shewed us his glory and his greatness.
Ps. Ixiii. 2. My soul thirsteth to see thy power and thy glory,
as I have seen thee in thy sanctuary.
Ixxix. 9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy
name.
xc 16. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto
their children.
cii. 16. When the Lord shall build up Jerusalem, he shall appear
in his glory. Zech ii. 5. I will be the glory in the midst of her.
Isa. xxiv. 23 The Lord shall reign in Jerusalem gloriously.
XXXV. 2. They shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency
of our God.
xl. 5. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see
it. Ch. lix. 19.
xliii. 7. I have created him, for my glory.
Iviii. 8. The glory of the Lord shall be thy rear-ward.
Ix. 1. The glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
Ixii. 2. The Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings
thy glory. Ch. Ixvi. 18, 19.
Hab. ii. 14. The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the
glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
Luke ii. 14. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace
and good-will to men.
2 Cor. iii. 4. God hath shined into our hearts, to give the light of
knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.
Col. i. 1 1. Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious
power. Eph. iii. 16.
1 Pet. iv. 14. The Spirit of glory and of God, resteth upon you.
See Isa. xxxiii. 21. — xlvi. 13 — Hag. ii 7.
Hence the Gospel, is called the glorious Gospel. 1 Tim. i. 1 1.
Chap. I. God^s Knowledge, 9
Future glory. 2 Col% iii. 18. We behold as in a glass the glory of
the Lord.
Rom. V. 2. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
GocPs fioivcr called his glory. Rom. vi. 4. Christ was raised from
the dead by the glory of the Father.
John xi. 4, 40. Lazarus, his sickness, and rising from, the dead, is
called the glory of God.
1 Cor. xi. 7. Man is the image and glory of God.
Heb. i. 3. Christ is the brightness of the Father's glory.
god's knowledge.
XXXII. God^s knowledge is perfect. 1 Sam. ii. 3. The Lord is
a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Job xxxvii. 16. He is perfect in knowledge. Ch. xxxvi. 4.
Ps. cxlvii. 5. Misunderstanding is infinite. See Rom. xi. 33.
Isai. xl. 28. There is no searching of his understanding. Prov.
xxii. 12.
xi. 2, The Spirit of the Lord is the Spirit of knowledge.
XXXI I I. God's knowledge is underived. Job xxi. 22. Shall any
teach God knowledge.
Ps. xciv. 9. He that planted the ear shall he not hear? he that
formed the eye shall he not see ?
Ver. 10. He that teacheth man knowledge, shall himself not know ?
Isa. xl. 14. With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him ?
and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge,
and shewed him the way of understanding I
XXXIV. God's knowledge extendeth to all things. Job xxviii. 10.
His eye seeth every precious thing.
Ver. 24. He looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth unde?
the whole heaven.
Ps. cxxxix. 12. Darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shin-
eth as the day, the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Dan. ii. 22. He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light
dwelleth with him.
Acts XV. 18. Known unto God are all his works from tlie begin-
ning of the world.
Heb. iv. 13. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in
his sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him
Xvith whom we have to do.
1 John iii. 20. God knoweth all things.
XXXV. Things which God only knoweth. Gen. xl. 8. Joseph said?
Do not interpretations belong to God ?
Deut. xxix. 29. Secret things belong to the Lord our God.
1 Kings viii. 39. Thou only knowest the hearts of all the children
of men.
Job. xxiv. 1. Times are not hidden from the Almighty. Acts i. 7.
Isai. xlii. 9. New things do I declare, before they spring forth, I
tell you of them.
xlvi. 9. I am God, and there is none like me.
Ver. 10. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient
times, the things that are not yet done. Ch. xlviii. 3, 6, 16.
Matt. xi. 27. No mtm knoweth the Son, but the Father. John x. 15.
Mark xiii. 32. Of the day and hour of judgment knoweth no
10 God'^s Knowledge. Chap. I,
man, ho not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son but
the Father.
1 Cor. ii. 1 1 . The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
XXXVI. Secret things ivhich God ivill discover. Job xx. 27. The
heavens shall reveal the iniquity of the wicked, and the earth shall
rise up against hiin.
xxviii. 1 1 . The thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
Erl. xii. 14. God will bring into judgment every secret thing.
Dan.ii. 22. God revealeth deep and secret things. Ver. 28, 29, 47.
Matt. x. 26. There is nothing hid that shall not be known.
Rom. ii. 16. God will judge the secrets of men.
1 Cor. iv. 5. God will bring to light the hidden things of darkness,
will make manifest the counsels of the heart.
Eph. iii, 9. The mystery (of redemption) hath been hid in God
from the foundation of the world.
Ver. 10. Now made known. Col. i. 26.
XXXVII. The knowledge of God extendeth to man and all his toayg.
2 Chron. xvi. 9. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the
whole earth, to shew himself strong inbehalf of those whose heart is
perfect towards him.
Job xxxiv. 2 1 . His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all
his goings. Chap. xiii. 27. — xxxi. 4.
Ps. xi. 4. His eyes behold, his eye-lids try the children of men.
xxxiii. 13. The Lord looketh from heaven, he beholdeth all the
sons of men.
Ver. 14. From the place of his habitation he lookfeth upon all the
inhabitants of the e-irth.
Ixvi. 7. His eyes behold the nations.
ciii. 4. He knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust.
cxiii. 6. He huuibieth himself to behold the things that are in hea-
ven and in the earth.
cxxxix. 1. O Lord thou hast searched me and known me.
Ver. 2. Thou knowest my down -sitting and mine up-rising, thou
understandeth my thought afar off.
Ver. 3. Thovi coinpassest my path, and my lying down, and art ac-
quainted with all my ways.
Ver. 4. For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou
knowest it altogether.
Ver. 6. Such knowletlge is too wonderful for nie, it is high, I can-
not attain unto it.
cxxxix. 11. If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the
night shall be light about me. Ver. 12, 13. Dan.ii. 22.
Ver. 15. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made
in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Ver. 16. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect,.
and in thy book ail my members were written, which in continuance
were fashioned when as yet there was none of them.
Prov. V. 2 1 . The ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and
he pondereth all his goings.
XV. 3. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil
and the good.
Jer. xxiii. 24. Can any hide himself in secret^ that I shall not see
him ? saith the Lord.
Chap. I. Godh Knowledge. \\
Jer. xxxii. 19. Thine eyes are upon all the ways of the sons of
tnen, to i^ive every one according to his ways, and according to the
fruit of his doings.
XXXVIII. G yd krioiveth the hearts of all men. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. The
Lord seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appear-
ance, but God looketh on the heart. Job x. 4. Pro v. xv. 1 ' .
1 Kinj^s viii. 39. Thou only knowest the hearts of all the chil»
dren of men.
1 Chron. xxviii. 9. The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understand-
eth all the imag-inations of the thoughts.
Jer. XX. 1 2. O Lord of hosts that seest the reins and heart.
Acts i. 24. Thou Lord knowest the hearts of all men.
XXXIX. God knoweih the hearts of the righteous. Gen. XX. 6. I
know thou didst this in the integrity of thine heart.
Ps. xix. 14. Let the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy
sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
cxxxix. 23. Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me and
know my thoughts ;
Ver. 24. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me
hi the way everlasting.
Isa. Ixvi. 2. To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and
of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
Jer. xii. 3. Thou, O Lord, knowest me, thou hast seen me, and
tried mine heart toward thee.
1 Pet. iii. 4. The hidden man of the heart, even a meek and quiet
spirit is in the sight of God of great price. See Acts xv. 8.
XL. God knoweth the hearts cf the ivicked, Deut. xxxi. 20. They
will provoke me :
Ver. 2 1 . For I know their imagination which they go about even now.
Ps. xciv. 11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, tliat they
are vanity.
Ezek. xi. 5. I know the things tliat come into your minds every
one of j»««-. /Xt*"*-
Luke xvi. 15. Jesus said, ye are they that justify yourselves be-
ipve. men, but God knoweth your hearts.
Acts viii. 2 1. Thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
XLI. God hwweth his fieofile. Gen. vii. 1. The Lord said to No-
ah, thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
xviii. 19. I know Abraham that he will command his children and
his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord.
2 Sam. vii. 20. Thou Lord knowest thy servant. I Chr. xvii. ' 8.
Ps. i. 6. The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous. Psi xxxvii. 1 8.
xxxiv. 15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his
ears are open to their cry.
Ixxx. 14. Look down from heaven and behold, and visit this thy
vine. Ps. cxix. 132. — xxv. 18. Deut. xxvi. !5. Isai. l.-iii. 15.
Isa. Ivii. 18. I have seen his ways, and will heal him, saith the Lord*
Jer. xxiv. 6. I will set mine eyes upon them for good. Zech. xii»>t.
2 Tim. ii. 19. The Lord knoweth them that are his. Gal. iv. 9.
XLII. God knoweth the religious firincifiles and firartices of his freo»
pie. Rev. ii. 19. I know thy works, and charity, and service f ^nd faith,
and /latietJce.
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12 God^s Knoxvledge, CiiAv, I^
I Cor. viii. 3. If any man love God, the same is known of God.
Ps. xxxiii. 18. The eye of the Lord is upon them th^t /ear him,
upon them that ho/ie in his mercy. See Gen. xxii. 12.
Nah. i. 7. The Lord knoweth them that trust in him.
1 Pet. iii. 4. A meek and quiet spirit is in the sight of God of great
price.
2 Chron. sn. 7. The Lord saw that they humbled themselves.
Col. i. 22. Present you holy and unbla?7ieable, and unrejiroveable in
his sight.
Mat. vi. 18. Appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father which
seeth in secret, and thy Father shall reward thee openly.
Ver. 6. When thou prayest enter into thy closet, and when thou
hast shut thy door, /iraz/ to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Fa-
ther which seethin secret, himself shall reward thee openly.
Ver. 4. That thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father which
seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. See Acts x. 4, 31.
Job xxxiii. 27. He looketh upon man, and if any say I have sinned
and perverted that which was ri.^ht, and it profited me not ;
Vc-r. 28. He shall deliver his soul fromi going into the pit, and his
life shall see the light. See Jonah iii 10.
Jer. xvii. 16. Thou knowest that which came out of my li/is was
right before thee.
Mai. iii. 1 6. They that feared the Lord s/iake often one to another,
and the Lord hearkened and heaM it, and a book of remembrance
was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thou[2;ht
on his name. See Ps. cxxxix. 4. Jer. v. 3. Ps. xl. 9. 2 Cor. xi. 31.
XLUI Th'ir ivorks. 2 Cor. viii. 21. Provide things honest not
only in the sight of God, but also of men.
Rev. ii. 2. Lknow thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience ;
and how thou canst not bear them that are evil.
Ver. 9. I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, ver. 13,
19. Ch. iii. 8. Heb. xiii. 21. 1 John iii. 22.
Their tvants. Matt. vi. 8. Your Father knoweth wha^'tliings ye
have need of before ye ask him.
Mat. vi. 31. Take no thought, saying, what shall we eat, or whav^
shall we drink, or wherewithal' shall we be clothed.
Ver. 32. For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have Jiecd of
all these things. Luke xii. 30.
Their sorrows. Exod. iii. 7. The Lord said of his people, I know
their sorrows. Ch. xiv. 24. Neh. ix. 9. Act. vii. 34.
Deut. ii. 7. The Lord thy God knoweth thy walking through the
wilderness. /
Their ajfiictions. Ps. xxxi. 7. Thou hast known my soul in adversity.
Ps. cii. 19. He hath looked down from the height of his sanctua-
ry : from heaven, did the Lord behold the earth :
Ver. 20. To hear the groaning of the prisoner. Ps. xxxviii. 9.
2 Sam. xvi. 12. Job x. 15. Ps. xxxix. U, 12.
'Their wrongs from oppressors^ Gen. xxxi. 12. The Lord said to
Jacob, I have seen all that Laban doth to thee. Ver. 42.
Exod. ii. 25. God looked upon the children of Israel, and had re-
spect untd them, under oppression. Ver. 24. Ch* iv. 31.
Chap. I. GocPs Knozvkdge. 1%
1 Sam. ix. 16. I have looked upon my people because their cry
i? come up unto me. See 2 Kin^^s xiii 4. — xiv. 26.
Ps. X. 14. Thou beholdest mischief and spite to requite it.
XXXV. 21. They opened their mouth against me.
Ver. 22. This thou hast seen, O Lord.
Ixix. 16. "^ hou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my
dishonour, mine adversaries are all before thee.
Jer. lix. ' 5. '1 he Lord saw it and it displeased him that there was
no judgment.
Lam. iii. 59. Lord thou hast seen rny wrong, judge thou my cause.
Dan. ix. 18. O my God incline thine e-ar and hear, open thine
eyes, and behold our desolations. Isa. xxxvii. 17. Jer. xlviii. 30.
God $aw in alliiction Hagar, Gen. xvi. 13. — Leah, Gen.xxix. 31,,
Hannah, 1 Sam. i. 1 1.
XLIV. God\^ knonvledge of the ivickcd and their sins. Gen. vi. 5.
God saw the v/ickedness of man, that it was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil con-
tinually.
Exod. xxxii. 9. The Lord said I have seen this people, and behold
it is a stiff-necked people. Deut. xxxii. 19.
Job xi. 11. He knoweth vain man, he seeth wickedness also, will
he not then consider it ?
xx'iiv. 22. There is no darkness nor shadow of death, where the
workers of iniquity may hide themsehes. Amos ix. 2, 3, 4.
Ps. xiv. 2. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children
of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Ver. 3. They are all gone aside. Ps. liii. 2.
Ixix. 5. My sins are not hid from thee.
xc. 8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret*sinsin
the light of thy countenance.
Isa. xlviii 8. I knew that thou wouldst deal treacherously.
Jer. xvi. 17. Mine eyes are upon all their ways, neither is their
iniquity hid from, mine eyes.
Amos V. 1 1 . I know their manifold transgressions, and their migh-
ty sins. Ch. ix. 8. I will set mine eyes upon them for evil.
Hab. i. 13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst
not look upon iniquity.
Luke XV. 21.1 have sinned against heaven, and in tiiy sight.
XLV. God knoweth the proud. 2 Sam. xxii. 28. Thine eyes are
upon the haughty, that thou may est bring them down. Sec Job iv. 12.
Ps. cxxxviii. 6. The proud he knoweth afar off.
XL VI. God knoweth the imfienitent. Jer. viii. 6. I hearkened and
heard, but they spake not aright, no man repenteth him of his wick-
edness, saying, what have I done, every one turneth to his course,
as the horse rusheth into the battle.
XLVn. Hjfiocritical tirufcssors. Matt. xxii. 1 ' . The King came
in to see the guests, and saw there a man not having a wedding gar-
ment on.
Rev. ii. 9. I know the blasphemy of them which say, they are
Jews and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan.
iii. 1. I know thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
XLVni. Liars and uncharitable fi€rso7is. Prov. xxiv. 11. if thou
.forbear to deliver them that are drawn to death.
14 God^s Wisdovi, Chap. I.
Prov, xxiv. 1 2. If thou sayest we knew it not, doth not he that pon-;^
dereththe heart consider it, and he that keepeth thy soul doth he not
know it, and shall he not render to every man according to his works f
XLIX. Envious persons. Prov. xxiv. 1 7. Rejoice not when thine
enemy falleth, and let not thine heart he glad when he gtumbleth.
Ver. 18. Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn
away his wrath from him.
L. Wicked works. Job. xxxiv. 25. He knoweth their works, and
overthroweth them. Ch. xxiv. 23.
Isa. Ixvi. 18.1 know their works, and their thoughts.
Rev. iii. 15.1 know thy works, that thou art neither cold not hot.
LL Whoredom., natural and sfiiritual. Jer. xxix. 23. Because they
have committed rillany in Israel, and have committed adultery with
their neighbours v/ives, ar\d have spoken lying words, even I know,
and am a witness, saith the Lord.
Hos. V. 3. I know Ephraim and Israel is not hid from me, for now
Ephraim, thou committest whoredom and Israel is defiled-
Vei'- 4. They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God.
for the spirit of whoi'edonis is in them. Ch. vi. 10.
LIE Murderers. 2 Sam. xii. 9. Nathan said to David^' wherefore
hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, in doing evil in
his sight, thou hast killed Uriah with the sword, Sec.
2 Kings ix. 26. The Lord said, I have seen the blood of Naboth,
and the blood of his sons. See Gen. iv. 10.
Ps. Ixxii. 14. Precious shall the blood of the needy be in his sight.
Jer. xviii. 23. Lord thou knowest all their counsel against me to
slay me ; forgive not their iniquity.
IJII. The sins of the ivicked against this attribute of God. Job xxii.
13. They say how doth God know ? can he judge thro' the dark cloud '<
Ps. lix. 7, 8,
Ps. X. 11. He said in his heart, God hatli forgotten, he hideth his
face, he will never see it.
Uxiii. 1 1. They say how doth God know, and is there knowledge
in the Most Higli ? ,
xciv. 7. T hey say the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God
pf Jacob regard it, See ver. 8, 9.
god's "WISDOM.
LIV. God''s Wisdom asserted. Job ix. 4. He is wise in heart and
mighty in strength, who hath hardened himself against him and hath
prospered i Isa. xxxi. 2.
xxxvi. 5. God is mighty in strength and wisdom. Ch. xxxviii. 37.
Dan. ii. 20. Blessed l^e God, for wisdom and might are his. Prov*^
viii. 14.
Rom. y\. 33. O the depth of the wisdom of God ! &c.
xvi 27. To God only wise be glory, through Jesus Christ, for ever.
1 Tim. i. 17. Jude ver, 25. Rev. vii. 12.
LV. God's Wi.sdom in creation, Ps. civ. 24. O Lord how mani-
fold are thy v/orks, in wisdom hast thou made them all. Ps. cxxxvi. 5.
Prov. iii. 19. The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth, by un-
(ling hath he established the heavens.
. r. 2CJ. By his knowledge the depths arc broken up, and the
clouds drop down the dew.
Chap. I. God^s Potver, 15
Jer. X. 12. He hath made the earth by his power, he hath esta-
blished the vorkl hy his wisdom, and hath stretched out tlie heavens
by his discretion. Ch. li. 15.
LVI. GocTs Wudom in redemptioi. by Jesus Christ, Eph. i. 8. He
hath abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence.
Ver. 9. Having made known unto us the mystery of his will.
iii. 10. That he might make know the manifold wisdom of God.
Ver. 1 1 . According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in
Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom. xi. 33.
Coi. ii. 3. Christ in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and
knowledge.
Rev. V. 12. Worthy is the lamb to receive wisdom, Sec.
LVII. The wisdom of creatures nothing in comparison of God's Wis-
dom.
Job iv. 18. Behold he putteth no trust in his servants, and his an-
gels he chargeth with folly.
xxxvii. 24. He respectetb not any that are wise of heart.
Prov. xxi. 30. There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor coun-
sel against the Lord.
Isa. xliv. 25. He frustrateth the tokens of liars, and maketh divi-
ners mad, he turneth wise men backward, and maketh their know-
ledge foolish. Ch. xl. 23.
1 Cor. i. 25. The foolishness of God is wiser than men.
Ver. 27. God hath chosen the foolish things of this world, to pon-
found the wise.
iii. 9. The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is
written, he taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job v. 13.
god's power.
LVin. Poiver ascribed to God. 1 Chron. xxix. 11. Thine, O
Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the vic-
tory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth,
is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head
above all. Matt. vi. 13. Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and
the glory, for ever.
Ver. 12. In thine hand is power and might, and in thine hand it
is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 2 Chron. xx. 6.
Ps. Ixii. 1 1. Power belongeth unto God.
cxlvii. 5. Great is our Lord, and of great power, his understand-
ing is infinite.
See Job xxvi. 14. and xxxvii. 23. The thunder of his power. Ps,
xxix. 4. andlxviii. 33. His voice powerful. Hab. iii. 4. The hiding
of his power.
LIX. Might. Deut. iii. 24. What God is there in heaven, or iu
earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy
might ?
Jer. x. 6. Thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
Dan. ii. 20. Blessed be God, for wisdom and might are his.
Mighty. Ps. Ixxxix. 6. Who among the sons of the mighty, and
be likened unto the Lord ?
Ps. xciii. 4. The Lord on high is mightier than the voice of ma»
ny waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
16 GocPs Pcxver* . Chap. I.
Jer. ii. 18. The great, the mighty God, the Lord of hosts is his
name.
Ver. 19. Great in counsel, and mighty in work.
LX. Almighty. Gen. xvii. 1. The Lord said, I am the Almighty
God. Rev. i. 8.'
Exod. vi. 3. God appeared to Abraham by the name of God Al-
mighty.
Hev- xix. 6. The Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
LXI. Strength. Job ix. 4. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength,
who hath hardened hjmself against him and hath prospered ? Ch.
xxxvi. 5, 19. if I speak of strength, lo, he is strong.
Ps. xii. 15. With him is wisdom, and strength, he hath counsel
and understanding.
lxx.\ix. 8. O Lord of hosts, who is a strong Lord, like unto thee ?
Ps. xciii. 1. The Lord is clothed with strength.
Isa. xxvi. 4. In the Lord, Jehovah, is everlasting strength.
1 Cor. i. 25. The weakness of God is stronger than men.
LXIL Arm, Job xl. 9. Hast thou an arm like God ? or canst thou
thunder with a voice like him ^
Ps. lxx>.ix. 13. Thou hast a mighty arm, strong is thy hand, and
high is thy right hand.
I^XIII. Haiid. Exod. xv. 6. Thy right hand is glorious in power.
LXIV. Finger. Exod. viii. 19. Ihe magicians said, it i? the'fin^
ger of God.
xxxi. 18. The tables were written with the finger of God.
Ps. viii. 3. The heavens are the work of tliy fingers.
Luke xi. 20. Jesus cast out devils with th^ finger of God.
LXV. Rock. Deut. xxxii. 4. He is the Rock, his work is perfect,
all his ways are judgment, a God of truth and without iniquity, just
and right is he. I Sam. ii. 2 — 2 Sam. xxii. 32 Ps. xviii. 31.
LXVI. Hard. Gen. xviii. 14. Is any thing too hard for the Lord?
Jer. xxxii. 17. There is nothing too hard for thee. Ver. 27.
LXVH. Possible. Matt. xix. 26. With God, all things are possi<.
ble. Mark x. 27.
Luke i. o7. W^ith God nothing shall be impossible.
xviii. 27. Those things that are impossible with men, are possibly
ivith God. Zech. viii. 6.
LXVIIL Able, Phil. iii. 21. He is able to subdue all things to
himself.
Rom. iv. 21. He was able to perform what he had promised.
Eph. iii. 20. Able to do abundantly above all that we ask, or think,
LXIX. God'^s JWiVer in his ivonderful doings. Exod. xv. 1 1. Who
is like unto thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing
w<ondcrs ?
Dent. iii. 24. What God is there in heiven, or in earth, that caij
do according to thy works, and according to thy might ?
xxxii. 4. He is the Rock, his work is perfect.
Job V. 9. He doth great things, and unsearchable, marvellous
things, without number. Ch. ix. 10. — xxxvii. 5. Ps. Ixxii. 18.-^
jxxxvi. 10. — cxviii. 23. — cxxxvi. 4.
Ps. cxi. 1. The works of his hands are verity and judgment.
tnKv. I. God's Power, ^ IT
Eccl iii. 14. Whatsoever God doth shall be for ever, tiothing can
be put to it, nor any thmg taken from it.
Dan. iv. 3. How great are his signs, and hov/ mii);hty are his won-
ders, his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion froni
generation to generation !
Ver. 35. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing,
and he doth according to his will in the army of hcvwen, and among
the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand, or say unto
him what doest thou ? See Job ix. 12 Isa. xlv. 9.
LXX. The firohfierity and adversity of mankind in his hand. Job ii.
10. Shall v/e receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not re-
ceive evil ?
Job V. 18. Pie makcth sore, and he bindeth up, he woundcth and
his hands make whole.
xii. 10. In his hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath
of all mankind.
xxiii. 13. He is in one mind, and who can turn him ? and what
his soul desireth, even that he doth.
Ver 14 He performeth the thing that is appointed for me, and
many such things are with him.
Isa. xlv. 7 I form light, and I create darkness, I make peace and
I creat- evil ; I the Lord do all these things. Amos iii. 6.
Eccl. ix. 1. The righteous, and the wise, and their works are in
the hand of God.
Dan. V. 23. God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all
thy ways. Acts xvii. 28.
Jam. iv. 12. He is the one laM^-giver, who is able to save, and to
destroy. See Jer. xviii. 6. Isa. xlv. 9. As clay in the hand of the
potter, so are we in his hand.
LXXI. God's Poiver^ in the creation of heaven and earth. Job
xxvi. 1 3. By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens, his hand hath
formed the crooked serpent.
Ps. xcv. 5. The seals his, he made it, his harfds formed the dry land,
cii. 25. Of old hast thou laid the foundations of the earth, and the
heavens are the work of thy hands. Heb. i. 10.
Isa. xl. 12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his
hand, and meted out the heaven with a span, and comprehended the
dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountiuns in scales,
and the hills in a balance ? Prov. xxx. 4.
Isa. xl. 26. He calleth the creatures all by names, by the great-
ness of his mie^ht, for that he is strong in power none faileth.
xlviii. .13. Mine hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and
my right hand hath spanned out the heavens.
Ixvi. 2. All these things have mine hands made.
Jer. X. 12. He hath made the earth by his power, he hath esta-
blished the world by his wisdom, he hath stretched out the heavens
by his discretion. Ch. li. 15.
xKvii. 5. I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are up-
on the ground, by my great power, and by my out-stretched arm,
and have given it unto wh<j>m it &e«mcd meet unto me. Ch. xxxii. J 7.
18 Cod^s Power. Chap. I*
Rom. i. 20. The invisible things of God, from the creation of the
World are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
even his eternal power and God-heud.
LXXIL God\<} Power^ in the government of the heavens and the
earth. Job xxvi. 12. He divideth the sea by his power, by his un-
derstanding he smiteth through the proud. See from ver. 5 to 14,
and Ps. Ixxiv. 13.
xxviii. 19. He putteth forth his hand iiponthe rock, and overturn-,
eth the mountains by the roots.
Ps. Ixv. 6. By his strength he setteth fast the mountains.
xcv. 4. In his hand are the deep places of the earth, the strength
of hills is his.
Isa. xliii. 16. The Lord maketh a way in the sea, and a path in
the mighty waters.
Ver. 1 7. He bringeth forth the chariot and the horse, the army
and the power.
1. 2. At my rebuke I dry up the sea, and make the rivers a wil-'
derness.
Ver. 3. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth
their covering. Nah. i. 3, 4, 5.
Dan. iv. 35. He doth according to his will in the army of heaven,
and among the inhabitants of the earth.
Heb. i. 3. Upholding all things by the word of his power.
LXXHI. Acts of his power ^ toward his Church. Exod. vi. 6. I will
redeem you, with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments.
Exod. xiii. 3. By strength of hand, the Lord brought you out
Egypt. Ps. cxxxvi. \2.
XV. 13k Thou hast guided thy people in thy strength, unto thy ho-
ly habitation.
Ver. 17. Thou wilt plant them in the mount of thine inheritance,
in the sanctuary, O Lord, which thine hands have established.
Num. xiv. 13. Thou broughtest up this people, in thy might.
Deut. Iv. 34. Hath God assayed to take a nation, from the midst
of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by
war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great
terrors, according to all that the Lord thy God did for you in the-
land of Egypt. Ch. v. 15. — vii. 19. — >xxvi. 8. Jer. xxxii. 21. Ezek.
XX. 5, 6, 22, 28, 42. — xlvii. 14. Dan. ix. 15.
vi. 21. The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Ch. vii. 8, 9. — ix. 26. — xi. 2. — xxvi. 8. — ^kxxiv. 12.
Neh. i. 10. Thy people thou hast redeemed by thy great power,
and by thy strong hand. Ch. ix. 32. Exod. xxxii. 11.
Ps. Ixxix. 1 1. Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee,
according to the greatness of thy power.
cvi. 8. He saved them for his name's sake, that he might make
his mighty power to be known. Ps. cxi. 6.
■ Isa. xlix. 26. All flesh shall know that I the Lord, am thy Saviour
and thy Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob. Ch. Ix. 16. — Ixiii. 15.
Jer. XX. 1 1. The Lord is with me, a mighty and terrible one, there-
fore n'ly persecutors shall stumble, and shall not prevail. Ps. xlv. 3.
Chap. I. GocPs Power, 1^
See Numb. xi. 23. Deut. xxxiii. 27. Ps. xliv. 3 — Ixxvii. 10, 14. —
Jxxviii. 54. — Ixxx. 15. — cxviii. 23. Isa. li. 9, 11. Jer. 1. 34.
LXXIV. GocVs power towards the righteous. 2 Chron. xvi. 9. The
eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the whole earth, to shew
himself strong in behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him.
Hand, 2 Chron. xxix. 12. Both riches and honoiU' come of thee,
and thou reignest over all, and in thine hand is power and might,
and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
Ch. xKv. 9.
Ezra viii. 22. The hand of our God is upon all them for good
that seek him, but his power and wrath is against all them that for-
sake him. Ver. 3 1 .
Ps. xvii. 7. Thou savest by thy right hand them that put their
trust in thee. Ps. xviii. 35. — xxxvii. 24. Dan. iii. 17.
XX, 6. He will hear with the strength of his right hand. Ps. Ix. 5.
xxxi. 5. Into thine hand I commit my spirit. Luke xxiii. 46.
Ver. 15. My times are in thine hand.
Ixiii. 8. Thy right hand upholdeth me. Ps. cviii. 6.
Ixxx. 17, Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand. Ps;
Ixxxix. 21.
Isa. i. 25. The Lord saith I will turn mine hand upon thee, and
purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin. See ver. 22.
LXXV. God'' s flow er in spiritual blessings to his people. Ps. xcv. 7.
We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. ^ Ps.
cxxxviii. 8. Isa. xix. 25. — xxix. 23. — xlv. 11. — ix. 21. — Ixiv. 8, Jer.
xviii. 6. compare Matt. iii. 9. and Rom. xi. 23.
ex. 3. Thy people shall be willing in a day of thy power. 2 Chr.
xxx. 12.
Ixiii. 1, 2. My soul thirsteth for thee to see thy power and thy
glory, as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. Ps. xcvi. 6. 1 Chr. xvi. 27.
Eph. i. 19. The exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who
believe. 2 Cor. vi. 7. Eph. iii. 7.
iii. 20. He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we
ask or think. 2 Pet. i. 3. His divine power hath given to us ^11
things that pertain to life and godliness.
John X. 29. None is able to pluck his people out of his hand.
2 Tim. i. 12. He is able to keep that committed unto him.
Rom. xvi. 25. To him that is of power to stablish you, be glory
for ever amen. Ch. xiv. 4.
2 Cor. ix. 8. God is able to make all grace abound toward you.
Acts XX. 32. I recommend you to God, and to the word of his
grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance
among all them which are sanctified.
Jude Ver. 24. He is able to keep you from falling, and to present
you faultless before the presence of his glory, with exceeding joy.
1 Pet. i. 5. We are kept by the power of God, through faith un-
to salvation.
Duty. Eph. vi. 10. Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of
his might.
LXXVI. God^s power against the imcked. Ezra viii. 22. God's
power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. Nah. i. j^.
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20 God^s Power. Chap. I,
Ezraix. 1 1, Who knoweth the power of thine anger. Heb. x. 31.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Nah. i. 3. The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and
will not at all acquit the Avicked.
2 Thess. i. 9. The wicked shall be punished with pverlastipg de-
struction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his
power. See Ps. lix. 1 1.— -Ixvi. 3. Rom. i\. 17.
Almighty. Job xxi. 10. The eyes of the wicked shall see his de-
struction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. Ch. xxvii.
13, £cc.
Job xl. 2. Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct
him, he that hath reproved God let him answer it.
Isa. xiii. 6. The day of the Lord shall come as a destruction from
the Ali^ghty. Joe' i. 15. — ii. 11.
Might. Ps. xxiv. 8. The Lord strong and mighty in battle.
Isa. i. 24. Thus saith the Lord, the mighty one of Israel, I will
ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies.
Jer. xvi. 21. I will cause them to know my hand and my might,
and they shall know that my name is the Lord.
Strength. Jer. xxi. 5. I will fight against you with an outstretched
hand, and with a strong arm, even with anger and fury, and in great
nvrath.
Rev. xviii. 8. Strong is the Lord who judges Babylon.
Hand. Exod. ix. 3. To Pharaoh Moses said, the hand of the Lord
4s upon the cattle, upon the horses, the asses, the camels, the oxen,
and the sheep.
Exod. ix. 15. I will stretch out mine hand that I may smite thee,
and thy people with pestilence. Ch. iii. 20.
Ver. 16. For this cause have I raised thee up to shew in thee my
power.
Exod. XV. 1 6. Fear and dread shall fall upon them, by the great-
ness of thine arm. Ch. vii. 5.
Deut. ii. 15. The hand of the Lord was against those that mur-
mured, to destroy them until they were consumed.
xxxii. 20, to 44. How should one chase a thousand, and two put
ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord
had shut them up ?
Judg. ii. 15. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord
was against them for evil. 1 Sam. v. 9. — vi. 3. — vii. 13.
xii 5. If ye rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then
shall the Iiand of the Lord be against you.
Job X. 7. There is none that can deliver out of thine hand. Ps. 1.
22. Hos. ii. 10.
Job xxvii. 22. God shall cast upon the wicked man, and shall not
spare, he would fain flee out of his hand.
Ps. xxi. 8. Thine hand shall find out thine enemies. Ps. xcviii. 1.
— cxviii. 5.
Ixvi. 5. The Lord is terrible in his doing?^ to the children of men.
Ver. 3.
Ps. Ixxv. 8. In the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine
^s red : it is full of mixture, and he poureth out the same : but the
Chap. I* God^s Poxver. gl
dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall Wring them out, and
drink them. Jer. xxv; 15, 17. — li. 7. Hab. ii. 16.
cvi. 26. He lifted up his hand against them, and overthrew them
in the wilderness. Ezek. xx. 22, 24, 33. Ch. xxii. 13, 14, 15.
Isa. X. 32. Pie shall stretch his hand against the mount of the daugh-
ter of Zion. Ch. xix. 16. Ch. XXV. 11. Jer. vi. 12, 16.--xv. 6.
Xxxi. 3. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that
helpeth, and he that is helped, shall fall together.
I. 1 1. This shall ye have of mine hand, ye shall lie down in sorrow.
lii. 10. The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the sight of all
nations.
Ezek. xiv* 13. When the land sinneth against me by trespassing
(grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and I will break
the staff of the bread thereof, and I will send a famine upon it, and
cut off' man and beast from it. Ch. vi. 14.
xxv. 7. I will stretch mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee
for a spoil to the heathen. Ch. xiii. 16 — -xxxv. 3.
Amos ix. 2. Thou they dig to hell, thence shall mine hand take
them.
Zeph. i. 4. I will stretch mine hand upon Judah. Ch. ii. 13.
Acts xiii. 11. The hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt
be blind for a season.
LXXVIL Sins against the fioiver of God. Ps. xxviii. 5. Because
they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands,
he shall destroy them and not build them up.
Isa. V. 12. They regarded not the work of the Lord, neither con-
sidered the operation of his hands. Ch. xxvi. 1 1. — >liii. 1 — Ixv. 2.
V. 25. His anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out
still. Ch. ix. 12, 17, 21 — x. 4.— xiv. 27.
Matt. xxii. 29. Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the pow-
er of God.
Duties resulting from or founded upon the doctrine of God\'i power.
Isa. xxxiii. 13^ Ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
Ps. xviii. 1 . I will love thee, O Lord, my sti^cngth. See love to God.
Luke xii. 5. Fear him, who after he hath killed, hath power to
cast into hell. See fear of God.
Isa. xxvi. 4. Trust in the Lord for ever, for in the Lord Jehovah
is everlasting strength. See trust in God.
1 Chron. ^vi, 1 1. Seek the Lord and his strength. Ps. cv. 4. See,
Seek God.
pg. xxi. 1. The king shall joy in thy strength. See Joy in God.
Ps. iix. 17. To thee, O my strength, will I sing. See praising God.
Ixviii. 34. Ascribe ye strength unto the Lord.
xcvi. 7. Give unto the Lord, glory and strength.
cxlv. 6. Men shall speak of the glory of thine acts. Ver. 1 1.
cl. 1. Praise the Lord in the firmament of his power.
Jude ver. 25. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory end
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever, amen.
Rev. iv. 1 1 . Thou art worthy O Lord, to receive glory and ho-
nour, and power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy plea-
sure thev are, and were created. Se^ Ch. v. 13. — vii. 12. — xix. 1.
22 Old Testament Miracles, Chap. I,
OLD TESTAMENT MIRACLES.
As miracles may be considered as uncommon effects^ produced by thz
inierjiosal and exertion oj divine fiower^ it is thought firofier to give
the following miracles a place under this article. See Miracles^ Ch,
4ih. Sect. 50 to 58.
LXXV^III, 1. Miracles.^ affecting nations^ and particular persons.
Gen. 7th and 8th chapters. The flood with aH its circumstances, the
design thereof, 2 Pet. ii. 5. To destroy the ungodly.
Gen. X. 1 The birth of Isaac. Ch. xxi. 2.
xxi. 13. He is miraculously delivered from death.
xix. 24. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Sec. Deut.xxix.
23. Isa. xiii. 19. Jer. xlix. 18. — I. 4.
Exod. iii. 2. An angel appears to Moses in a flame of fire, in a bush.
iv. 3. Moses's rod is changed into a serpent.
Vcr. 4. His hand becomes leprous and is restored.
vii. 10. Aaron's rod is turned into a serpent before Pharaoh.
Ver. 12. It swallows up the Magicians' rods, turned into' serpents
also.
Ver. 20. The waters of Egypt are turned into blood.
viii, 6. The plague of frogs.
Ver. 17. The plague of lice.
Ver. 2 1 . The plague of flies.
ix. 6. A plague upon cattle.
Ver. 10. Plague of boils.
Ver. 23. Thunder, hail, and fire.
X. 13. The plague of locusts. «,
Ver. 22. Darkness, sent as a plague.
xii. 29. The death of the first born.
Ver. 3 1 . Israel leaves Egypt.
xiii. 21. Is guided by a pillar of a cloud and fire^
xiv. 20. The pillar is dark toward the Egyptians, and bright fov
ward the Israelites.
Ver. 21 The sea is divided.
Ver. 22. Israel passth through safely.
Ver. 26. The sea returns and overwhelms the Egyptians.
2. These miracles wrought by the power of God, Exod. iii. 20. I
will smite Egypt with all my wonders. Ch. iv. 9, 17, 28. — ^'ii. 3.
xi. 9. — Deut. vi. 22, — vii. 19. — xxvi. 8.^ — xxxiv. 1 1.
Neh. ix. 10. Thou shewest wonders on Pharoah. Jer. xxxii. 20, 2 1 .
3. The design of these miracles, Exod. vi. 6, 7. I will redeem yoii
with great judgments, and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.
vii. V. The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I
stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt.
Ver. 17. Ch. xiv. 4, 18. The waters turned into bloody in this thou
shalt know that I am the Lord.
viii. 10. By the plague of frogs, that thou mayest knoAv that there
is none like unto the Lord our God. Ch. ix. 14.
Ver. I 7. Of the plague of lice. The magicians said, it is the finger
of God.
Ver. 22. No swarms of flies shall be in the land of Goshen, to the"
end thou mavest know, that 1 am the Lord in tJie midst of the earth.
Chap. I. Old Testament Miracles* $0
Exod. ix. 16. For this cause have I raised ihee up, that my name
may be known in all the earth.
Ver. 27. At the plague of hail, Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron,
and said unto them, I have sinned this time, the Lord is righteous,
I and my people are wicked.
Ver. 28. Intreat the Lord for me, and I will let you go.
Ver. 29. Moses said, I will spread abroad my hands unto the Lord,
and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail,
that thou mayest know that the earth is the Lord's.
Exod. X. 16. At the plague of locusts, Pharaoh called for Moses
and Aaron, and said, I have sinned against the Lord your God.
Ver. 17. Intreat the Lord your God, that he may take away this
death only from me.
Ver. 24. At the plague of darkness, Pharaoh said to Moses, go
serve the Lord your God, only let your flocks and your herds be stay-
ed, let your little ones go with you.
xi. 7. Against any of the children of Israel, shall not a dog move
his tongue against man or beast, that ye may know, how that the Lord
doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Exod. xiv. 4, 17. Concerning the overthrow of Pharaoh and his army.
God said, I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host.
Ver. 18. The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I
have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon
his horsemen.
xii. 31. Ufion the death of the first-born of Egyfit. Pharaoh said,
ilake .your flocks, and your herds, and be gone, and bless me also.
* 4. Jfter the overthrow of Pharaoh. Exod. xiv. 31. Israel saw that
great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians, and the people
feared the Lord, and believed the Lord.
XV. 1. They sang this song to the Lord,, saying, I will sing unto
the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously, the horse and the rider
hath he thrown into the sea, Sec.
xxix. 46. Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, which
brought them out of the land of Egypt.
5. Miracles in the wilderness and the borders thereof. Exod. xvi. 12,
13. Quails and manna sent for food. Num. xi. 31.
xvii. 6. Water brought from a rock, for drink. Num. xx. 11.
Deut. xxix. 5, 6. Israelites clothes waxed not old, Sec. that ye
might know that I am the Lord thy God.
Exod. xix. 16. fhunders and lightenings and a thick cloud appear
upon Mount Sinai, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud is
card, so that all the people trembled. Ch. xx. 18.
XX. 1. The law is delivered. Ver. 22. The Lord talked with them
/rom heaven.
xxiv. 18. Moses tarries forty days on the mount.
xxxiv. 28. Moses fasts forty days.
Ver. 29. His face shines so that the Israelites could not look upon it.
Lev. ix. 24. Eire from the Lord consumes the burnt ofrering.
X. 2. Fire from the Lord consumes Nadab and Abihu, for ofier-
ing with strange fire unto the Lord.
Numb. xiv. 37. Men who brought an evil report, die by the plague.
S'i Old Testament Miracles* Chap, I,
xvi. 1 . The rebellion of Corah, and his company.
Ver. 32. The earth opens, and swallows them up.
Ver. 49. Fourteen thousand die by the plague, for murmuring.
xvii. 8. Aaron's rod budded, as a decisive token of the priesthood
being fixed in the house of Levi.
xi. 25. The spirit of prophecy given to the elders of Israel.
xxi. 4. The people for murmuring are bitten by fiery serpents.
Ver. 6. And healed by looking on a brazen serpent.
Ver. 9. On a. pole.
xxii. 28. Balaam reproved by an aks speaking, and terrified at the
sight of an angel, as he went to curse Israel.
xxiii 8, 20. 3 s forced to bless Israel. Ch. xxiv. 4, 13.
Jos. iii. 7. Jordan stops until Israel passeth over.
6. Tke design and use to be made of these miracles^ isi thvA set forth,
Exod. X. 2. Tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's soft, what
things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done,
amongst them ; that ye may know how that I am the Lord.
Dent. iv. 32. Ask now of the days that are past, since the day that
God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of hea-
ven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this
great thing is, or hath been heard like it.
Ver. 33. Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of
the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live.
iv. 34. Or hath God assayed to take him a nation, fromi the midst
of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by
war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by greats
terrors, according to all that the Lord yovu' God did for you in Egypt,
before your eyes.
Ver. 25. Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know, that
the Lord is Ciod, there is none else besides him.
Ver. 36. Out of heaven he mad^ thee to hear his voice that
he might instruct thee, and upon earth Jhe shewed thee his great fire,
and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Ver. 39. Know therefore, this day, knd consider it in thine heart,
that the Lord he is God in heaven dx>ve, and in the earth beneath,
there is none else.
Jos. iv. 23. The Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan be-
fore you, as he did the Red sea.
Ver. 24. That all the people of the earth naight know the hand
of the Lord that it is great, and that we might feai' the Lord oui*
God for ever. Ch. iii. 10, 14.
xxiv. 3 1 . Israel served the Lord, all the days of Joshua, and all the;
day of the elders that outlived Joshua, which had k^own all the works
of the Lord which he l^ad done for Israel. Judg. ii. 7.
7. Other miracles and remarkable firo-vidences in the land of Israel;
ivrought for jiromoting the faith and nvorship, of the one living and true
God.
Jos. vi. 20. Jericho taken, the wails thereof felling down at the
sound of rams horns.
X. 11. Israel's enemies destroyed by hail.
Ver. 1 3. The sun stands stilL
CiiAi\ I. Old Testament Miracles, 25
Jiidg. vi. 38. A sign given to Gideon by a fleece,
vii. 13. Another sign, a Midianitish host miraculously discomfitted.
Judg. xiii. 19. An angel foretels the birth of Samson.
Samson's works. Ch. xiv. 6. — xv. 14, 15, 19 — xvi. 3, 12, 14,30.
1. Sam. V. 3. Dagon falls before the ark.
vi. 12. The ark carried to the land of Israel by cattle, without a
guide. Vcr. 14.
vii. 10. God thundereth upon the Philistines.
xii. 18. Thunder and rain sent at Samuel's prayer.
xiv. 15. Enemies struck with groundless fear.
Ver. 20. They kill one another.
xvii. 49. David kills Goliah.
Ver. 46. Saying, the Lord will deliver thee into mine hand, that
all the earth may know that there is a God in I raei.
xix. 20. The spirit of prophecy comes upon Saul's messengers.
Ver. 21. And upon Saul. Ver. 24.
1 Kings xiii. 5. The altar rent, and ashes poured out as a sign
foretold by the prophet.
^ er. 6. Jeroboam's withered hand restored at the prayer of the
prophet.
Ver. 28. An ass and lion stand by the carcase of a disobedient
prophet, slain by the lion.
xvii. 1 . Elijah^ miracl-s , viz. A great drought.
Ver. 6. He is fed by ravens.
Ver. 16. Multiplies a barrel of meal, and cruise of oil in famine.
Ver, 22. Brings a dead child to life.
xviii. 33. In a contest with the priests of Baal, to decide whethef
the God of Israel, or Baal, was the true God, fire consumes Elijah'^
sacrifice, though much water was poured on it.
Ver. 27. Elijah prayed and said, hear me, O Lord, that this peo-
ple may know that thou art the Lord God.
Ver. 38- When the fire consumed the 'sacrifice, the people feU
on their faces and cried, the Lord he is God, the Lord he is God.
1 Kings XX. 13. A remarkable victory. Ver. 28.
^ 2 Kings i. 10. Officers sent to lay hold on Elijah, are consumed by
fire from Heaven,
ii. 8. Jorddn struck with Elijah's mantle, divides. Ver. 14.
Ver. i L Elijah is carried to heaven.
Ver. 22. Waters healed by Elisha.
iii. 16. Waters appear like blood to the enemy.
Ver. 24. A great slaughter of them.
iv. 5. Elisha multiplies a Mddow's oil.
Ver. %-:i. Restores a dead child to life.
iv". 40. Sons of the prophets, miraculously fed.
^ V. 14. Naaman cured of leprosy. Ver. 27. leprosy entailed upon
Geha^i and his offspring.
vi. 6. Iron swims.
2. Kings iv. 12. Elisha discovereth secret counsels.
Ver. 18. At his prayer the enemy is smitten with blindness.
Ver. 20. Their eyes opened.
26 Old Testament Miracles, Chap. I.
2 Kings xiii. 2}. A dead man is restored to life, on touching the
bones of Elisha.
xix. o5. An angel smites the host of the Assyrians. Isa. xxxvii. 20.
XX. 10. The shadow returns ten degrees on the dial, as a sign
to Hezekiah.
1 Chron. xxi. 26. An angel slaying -the Israelites is stopped at
David's prayer.
2 Chron. vii. 1. Fire consumes the sacrifice at Solomon's prayer.
XX. 23. Enemies destroy one another.
Neh. xix. 2 1 . During forty years travel in the wilderness, he
clothes of the Israelites waxed not old, nor did their feet swell.
Deut. viii. 4. — xxix. 5.
8. Miraculous judgments by the hand of ene?nies ufion the wicked^ the
end and design of every one of which is exfiressly said to be, that
God might be knoivii by them,
Ezek. vi. 7. Your cities shall be laid waste. Ver. 10, 14. Ch.
xxxiii. 29.
vii. 4. I will recompense thy ways upon thee. Ver. 9, 27.
xi. 10, Ye shall fall by the sword. Ver. 12.
xii. 15. I will scatter them among the nations. Ver. 16, 17, 20.
xiii. 9. Mine hand shall be upon the prophets that divine lies.
Ver. 14, 21, 23.,
xiv. 8. Every one that settethup his idols in his heart, and cometh
to a prophet to enquire of me, I will set my face against that man.
?cv. 7. I set my (ace against you. Ver. 8.
XX. 37. I will cause you to pass under the rod. Ver. 12, 44.
Ver. 38. I will purge out the rebels from among you.
Ezek. xxi. 3. Thus saith the Lord, I am against thee, and will
draw forth my sword, it shall not return empty.
xxii. 15. And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse
thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
Ver. 22. As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall
ye be melted in the midst thereof ; and ye shall know that I the
i^ord, have poured out my fury upon you.
xxiii. 46. I will give you to be removed and spoiled. Ver. 47.
XXV. 7. I will deliver thee for a sport to the heathen. See Ch.
xxi v. 21, 24, 27.
9. Judgments upon other nations^ for the same end. Ezek. xxv. 1 6.
I will stretch out mine hand, upon the Philistines. Ver. 5, 7, 11,
-14, 17.
xxvi. 3. I am against thee, O Tyrus. Ver. 6.
xxviii. 22. Against thee, O Zidon. Ver. 23, 24, 26.
xxix. 3. Against thee, O Pharaoh. Ver. 9, 16, 21. Ch. xxx.— xxxii.
XXXV. 2. Mount Seir, I will lay thy cities v/aste. Ver. 4, 9, 15.
xxxyiii. 16. Thou Gog shall come against my people.
10. The same is asserted to be the end of the folloiving merciful fir o-
Lndences^ as the reader ivillfind by consulting at large the filaces quoted.
Isa. xlix. 23. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their
<)ueens thy nursing mothers : They shall bow down to thee, with
fheir face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet, and
Chap* L Righteousness of God. 27
thou shalt know that I am the Lord : For they shall not be ashamed
that wait for me.
Ezek. xxxiv. 27. The tree shall yield her fruit, the earth shall
yield her increase, and they shall be safe.
xxxvi. o7 . I will increase them with men like a flock.
Ver. 38. So shall the waste cities be filled with men. Ver. 1 1, 24.
xxxvii. 6. I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh up-
on you, and cov^r you with skin, and put breath into you ; and ye
shall live, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
Ver. 13. Ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened
your graves, O my people, and Ijrought you up out of your graves.
xxxix. 6. When I have brought thein from captivity then shall
they know, that I am the Lord, which caused them to be led into
captivity.
Ver. 7, 22, 23. See Isa. xliii. 9, 10, 11, 12 — xlv. 3.— iv. 6
Ixvi. 14. Ezek. xvi. 62.
li. Miracles in Babylon, DdiW. 11. 31. Daniel tells the king, his
aream, and the interpretation thereof.
Ver. 47. The king answered, of a truth it is, that your God- is a
God of Gods, and Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets. ^
iii. 25. Three men live in the fire unhurt by it. ';
Ver. 29. The king made a decree, that whosoever should speak
against God who delivered them, should be cut to pieces.
iv. 19. Daniel explains the king's dream, which being accomplish-
ed, the king praised and honoured the King of heaven. Ver. 34, ^7.
V. 25. Daniel explains the writing upon the v/all, concerning
Belshazzar, and
Daniel's visions.
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.
LXXIX. Righteousness ascribed to God. Deut. xxxii. 4. All his ways
are judgment, a God of truth and without iniquity, just and light "
is he.
Job xxxvi. 3. Elihu said, I will ascribe righteousness to my
Maker.
Ps. xl. 7. He is the righteous I>ord, that loveth righteousness.
Ps. xxxiii. 5.
xxxvi. 6. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains, thy
judgments are a great deep.
xlviii. 10. Thy right hand is full of righteousness.
ixxi. 19. Thy righteousness, O God, is very high.
xcii. 15. There is no unrighteousness in the Lord.
xcvii. 2, Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his
throne.
cxi. 3. His righteousness endure th for ever. Ps. cxii. 3, 9.
cxix. 137. Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy
judgments. Jer. xii. 1.
Ver. 142. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and
thy law is the truth.
cxlv. 17. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all
his works.
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28 Justice of God. Chap. 1.
Jer. ix. 24. I imi the Lord, which exercise loving kindness, judg-
ment and righteousness in the earth.
LXXX. God is righteous in punishing the ivicked. Gen. xviii. 23.
Abraham said, wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked.
Gen. xviii. 25. That be far from thee, to slay the righteous with
the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be
far from thee, shall not the judge of all the earth do right ?
Eiod. ix. 27. Pharaoh said, the Lord is righteous, I and my peo-
ple are wicked.
Neh. ix. S3. Tliou art just in all that is brought upon us, for thou
hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Lara.i. 18. Dan. ix. 14.
Job XXX iv. 23. He will not lay upon man more than right.
Ps. xcviii. 2. His righteousness hath he openly shewed in the
sight of the heathen.
cxxix. 4. The Lord is righteous, he hath cut asunder the cords
of the wicked.
Isa. xxviii. 17. Judgment will I lay to the line, and righteous-
ness to the plummet.
Dan. ix.7. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto
us confusion of face, as at this day. Ver. 14. Mic. vi. 5.
Rev. xvi. 5. The angel said, thou art righteous, O Lord, beeau&e
thou hast judged thus. Ch. xviii. 6.
LXXXI. Men shall reafi as they sow. For this see the following texts.
Job. iv. 8. Prov. xxii. 8. Jer. ii. 19. Hos. x. 13. Gal. vi. 7, 8.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
LXXX I L In rewards to the righteous. 1 Sam. xxvi. 23. The
Lord render to every man his righteousness, and his faithfulness.
2 Sam. xxii. 21. The Lord rewarded me according to my righte-
ousness. Ps. xviii. 20. See 1 Kings viii. 32. Job xxxiii. 26.
Matt. XX. 4. What is right, that shall ye receive.
LXXXUL Things of God declared to be right ^ arid righteous are his
judgments.
Neh. ix. 13. Thou gavcst them right judgments, and true laws,
good statutes and commandments. See Deut. iv. 8. Ps. xix. 9. —
cxix. 7, 62\ r06, 13r, 160, 164. Jer. xii. 1.
Statutes. Ps. xix. 8. The statutes of the Loi'd are right.
Precepts. Ps. cxix. 128. I esteem all thy precepts concerning all
things to be right.
Testrwonies, Ps. cxrx. 138. Thy testimonies thou hast commanded,
?.re righteous. Ver. 144.
Commands. Ps. cxix. 172, All thy commandments are righteous-
ness.
Word. Ps. xxxiii. 4. The word of the Lard is right, and all his
works are done in truth. Isa. ^Iv. 19.
]Vaiis. Hos. xiv. 9. The ways of the Lord are right, and the just
shall wrilk therein. Acts yiii. 10.
JUSTICE OF GOD.
LXXXIV. Justice ascribed to God. Deut. xxxii. 4. A God of
inith without iniquity, just and light is lie.
Neh. ix. 33. Tliou art just in all that ij: brought upon us.. Lam. i. IS.
C'HAP. I. GccPs Triit/t. 29
Job iv. 47. Shall mortal man be more just than God.
vrii. 3. Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty per-
vert justice ?
xxxvii. 23. He is excellent in power, and in judgment and in
plenty of justice.
Ps. Ixxxix. 14. Justice and judgment are the habitation of liis
throne, mercy and truth shall go before his face. Ps. xcvii. 2.
Isa. xlv. 21.1 the Lord, a just God, and Saviour.
Jer. 1. 7. They have sinned against the Lord, tlie habitation jo[
justice.
Zeph. iii. 5. The just Lord is in the midst thereof.
1 John i. 9. He is just to forgive us our sins.
Rev. XV. 3. Just and true are thy ways, O thou King of saints.
LXXXV. Injustice and ini(^uity denied concerning God. Deut. xxxii.
4. Stjc abov-e. *
2 Chron. xix. 7. There is no iniquity with the Lord.
Job xxxiv. 12. Surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the
Almighty pervert judgment. See Jer. ii. 5. Zeph. iii. 5.
god's truth.
LXXXVI. IVutk ascribed to God. Exod. xxx. 6. The Lord
<iod merciful and gracious, abundant in goodness and truth.
I>eut. xxxii. 4. A God of truth, without iniquity, just and right
is he.
Ps. XXV. 10. All the paths of the Lord arc mercy and truth, to
such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Ivii. 3. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
Ver. 10. Thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth
unto the clouds.
Ixxxv. 10. Mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and
peace.
Ixxxvi. 15. Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, graci-
ous, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
Ixxxix. 15. Justice and judgment, are the habitation of thy throne,
mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
xci. 4. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
xcvi. 13. He shall judge the world with his righteousness, and
the people with Ms truth.
xcviii. 3. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward
the house of Israel.
c. 5. The Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting, and his trutli
endureth to all generations. ;Ps, cxvii. 2.
cxlvi. 6. He keepeth truth for ever.
See Gen. xxiv. 27. — xxxii. lO.Ps.xxxi. 5.-^cxv. 1. — cxxxviii. 2.
Numb, xxiii. 19. John vii. 28. — viii. 26. 2 Cor. i. 8. Piev. iii. 7. —
vi. 10.
LXXXVIL T/iings of God called truth. Ps. xxxiii. 4. The word
of the Lord is right, and all his works arc done in truth. Ps. cxi. 8.
Dan. iv. 37. All his works are truth, and his ways judgment.
Ps. cxix. 142. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
and thy. law is the truth. Ps. xix. 9. — cxix. IfiO,
30 GocTs Faithfulness, Chap. I.
Isa. XXV. 1. Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
Rev. XV. 3. Just and true are thy ways, O thou King of saint -.
'LH'KXV III. Lyi Jig- dcfiied of God, Numb, xxiii. 19. God is not
a man that he should lie.
1 Sam. XV. 29. The Strenc^th of Israel will not lie. Ps. Ixxxix. 35.
Tit. i. 2. God cannot lie. Hcb. vi. 18.
god's faithfulness.
LXXXIX. The faithfulness of God. Deut. vii. 9. He is the faith-
ful God which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him 5
and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.
Ps. xxxvi. 5. Thy mercy, Lord, is in the heavens, and thy faith-
fulness rcacheth vmto the clouds.
Ixxxix. 8. O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto
thee, or unto thy faithfulness round about thee. Ver. 2.
Ver. 33. My loving kindness will I not take from him, nor suf-
fer my faithfulness to fail. Ver. 24.
cxix. 90. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations. Ver. 75.
cxliii. 1 . In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.
Isa. xlix. The Lord is faithful.
Lam. iii. 23. Great is thy faithfulness.
1 Cor. i. 9. God is faithful by whom ye were called into the fel-
lowship of his Son, Jesus Christ. Ch. x. 12.
1 Thess. V. 24. Faithful is he, that calleth you.
2 Thess. iii. 3. The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you and
keep you from evil.
2 Tim. ii. 13. He abideth faithful.
Heb. X. 23. He is Mthful that hath promised.
1 Pet. iv. 19. »'he faithful Creator.
1 John i. 9. He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins.
XC. Things of God called faithful. Commands and testimonies.
Ps. cxix- 138. Thy commandments arc righteous, and very faith-
ful. Ver. 86. '
Word. Tit. i. 9. The scriptures are the faithful word. Rev. xxi. 5.
— xxii. 6.
Counsels, Isa. xxv. 1. Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and
truth.
Christ. Rev. i. 5. He is the faithful witness. Ch. xix. 11.
GOn TO BE PRAISED FOR HIS FAITHFULNESS.
Ps. xl. 10. I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation.
Ixxxix. 1. With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness.
Ver. 5. The heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord, and thy
faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
xcii. 2. It is a good thing to shew forth thy loving kindness every
morning, and thy faithfulness every night. Ps. l.-.xxviii. 11.
XCI. God's faithfulness in fulfilling his promises, Jos. xxi. 45. There
failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto
the house of Israel : all came to pass. Ch. xxiii. 14, 15. 1 Kings
viii. ! 5, 20, 24.
Mic. vii. 20. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mer-
cy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the
days of old. Jer. xi. 5. Compare Gen. xxvi. 3. Deut. ix. 5.
Chap. I, GocVs Purity — Holiness, 31
Acts iii. 18. Those thiiii^s which God shewed by the mouth of all
his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath fulfilled. Ch. xiii. 32.
Luke i. 72, 73. Ps, l%xxix. 34.
XCII. Fidfillbv^ threatening^. Lam. ii. i7. The Lord hiith fulfilled
his word that he commeaided in the days of old, he hath thrown down
and hath not pitied, he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thcc,
Sec. See Isa. Ixvi. II. Jer. i. 12. — \xxix. 16.— Ii. 29. Ezek. xii. 25.
god's purity.
XCIII. God is pure. Job iv. 17. Shall man ])e more pure than
his Maker. Ver. 18.
XV. 15. Behold he putteth no trust in his saints, yea the heavens
are not clean in his sis^ht.
XXV. 5. Behold to the moon, and it shineth not, yea the stars are
not pure in his sight.
Hab. i. 13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst
not look upon iniquity.
1 John iii 3. God is pure.
Ps. xix. 8. His commandment is pure.
Ps. xii. 6. Ps. cxix. 140. Prov. xxx. 5. His word is pure.
god's holiness.
XCIV. Holiness of God. Exod. xv. II. Who is like unto thee, O
Lord, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders.
Lev. xi. 44. Ye shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
Ch. xix. 2. — XX. 26. — xxi. 8.
Jos. xxiv. 19. He is an holy God, a jealous God.
I Sam. ii. 2. There is none holy as th3 Lord.
''Ps. xxii. 3. Thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of
Israel.
xcix. 5. Worship at his footstool, for he is holy. Ver. 9.
cxlv. 17. The Lord is holy in all his works.
Isa. V. 16. God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
vi. 3. Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is
full of his glory. Rev. iv. 8.
Ixiii. 15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation
of thy holiness, and of thy glory.
Amos iv. 2. The Lord hath sworn by his holiness.
John xvii. 1 1. Holy Father keep through thine own name, those
whom thou hast given me.
Rev. iii. 7. These things saith he that is holy.
vi. 10. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not avenge
our blood on them that dwell on the earth.
XV. 4. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name,
for thou only art holy, for all nations shall come and worship before
thee.
XCV. The same otheraeise expressed thus. Job iv. 17. Shall man
be more pure than his Maker. Ch. ix. 2.
Ver. 18. Behold he putteth no trust in his servants, and his an-
gels he chargeth with folly.
XV. 15. He putteth no trust in his saints, yea the heavens are not
clean in his sight.
XXV. 5. Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not, yea thie stars
are not pure in his sight.
;32 GocPs Holiness. Chap. I.
Job xxxiv. 10. Far be it from God that he should do wickedness,
and from the Almighty that he should commit iniquity.
Ps. V. 4. Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness,
neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Ver. 5. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight, thou hatest all
the workers of iniquity.
Lam. iii. 38. Out of the mouth of the Most High, proceedeth not
evil and good.
Hab. i. 13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst
not look on iniquity.
Jam. i. 13. God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tcmptcth he
any man.
I John i^ 5. God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
XCVI. God is the holy one by ivay of eminency, Isa. xliii. 15. I am
the Lord your holy one.
Hab. i. 12. Art not thou from everlasting, O Lord, my holy one.
See 2 King xix. 2. Isa. xxix. 23. — xxxvii. 23.^ — xlix. 7. Jer. 1. 29.
The holy one of Israel, Ps. Ixxi. 22. I will praise thee, O thou ho-
ly one of Israel. Ps. Ixxxix. 18. Isa. i. 4.— x. 20.-r-xii. 6.— xvii. 7.
xxix. 19. — xxxi. 1. Jer. li. 5. Ezek. xxxix. 7.
XCVJI. Things pertaining to God declared holy.
Bis naine. Ps. cxi. 9. Holy and reverend is his name. Lev. xxii.
32. Ps. xcix. 3. Isa. Ivii- 15. Ezek. xxxix. 7.
Throne, Ps. xlvii. 8. God sitteth on the throne of his holiness.
Heaven. Ps. xx. 6. He will hpar from his holy heaven, with the
saving strength of his right hand. 2 Chron. xxx. 27.
JPlace. Ps. xxiv. 3. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord,
Avho shall stand in his holy place I
Ver. 4, He that hath clean hands and a pure heart. Ps. xlvi. 4.
Jxviii. 17, 35.
Hill. Ps. iii. 4. I cry*d, God heard me out of his holy hill. Ps. ii.
6. — XV. 1. — xliii. 3.-— -xcix. 9.
Habitation. Deut. xxvi. 15. Look down from thy holy habitation,
from heaven, and bless thy people. Ps. Ixviii. 5. Jer, xxv. 30. Zech.
ii. 13.
Mountain, Isa. xlv. 25. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my
holy mountain. Ch. xi. 9. — Ivi. 7. — Ivii. 13. Lzek. xx. 40. Deut.
xi. 45. Joel iii. 17. Zech. viii. 3.
House, Ps. xciii. 5. Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord.
1 Chr- xxix. 3.
Oracle. Ps. xxviii. 2. Hear the voice of my supplication, when I
cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thine holy oracle.
Isa. xxvii. 13. — Ixiv. 11.
Fromiae, Ps. cv. 42. He remembered his holy promise.
Covenant. Luke i. 72. God remembered his holy covenant. Dan.
xi. 28, 30.
Law. Rom. vii. 12. The law and the commandment is holy, just
and good.
Scrifitures, Rom. i. 2. God promised in the holy scriptures.
.2 Tim. iii. 15.
Calling, 2 Tim. i. 9. God hath saved us, and called us with an
holy calling.
Chap. I. Goodness of GocL o$
Sabbath, Exocl. xvi. 23. To morrow is the rest of the holy Sab-
bath. Ch. xxxi. 14, 15. Neh. ix. 14. Isa. Iviii. 13.
Peofile. Deut. vii. 6. Thou art an holy people to the Lord your
God. Ch. xiv. 2, 21. See Exod. xix. 6. and 1 Pet. ii. 1. Lev. x. 10.
Num. XV. 40. 1 Cor. iii. 17. Eph. i. 4. — v. 27. Heb. iii. 1. 1 Pet. i-
15. — ii. 5. — 2 Pet. iii. 1 1.
Pr<iiihetfi, Luke i. 70. God spake by the mouth of his holy pro-
phets. 2 Pet. iii. 2. Rev. xxii. 6.
Priests. Exod. xxii- 31. Ye priests shall be holy unto me.
Isa. Iii. n. Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord.
Jesus. Acts iv. 30. Signs and wonders done by the holy child Jesus.
Heb. vii. 26. Ps. xvi. 10. — Ixxxix. 19. Acts ii. 27. — iii. 14.-- -xiii. 2,5.
Sfiirit. Ps. Ii. 11. Take not thy holy Spirit away. Isa. Ixiii. 10, 11.
Luke xi. 13. Rom. i. 4. Eph. i. 13. — iv. 30. — 1 Thess. iv. 8.
Angels. Mark viii. 38. The Son of man cometh with his holy an-
gels. Acts X. 20. Rev. xiv. 10.
GOODNESS OF GOD.
XCVIII. Goodness ascribed to God. Exod, xxxiv. 6. The Lord,
the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant
in goodness and truth.
1 Chron. xvi. 34. O give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his
mercy endureth for ever. 2 Chron. v. 13. — vii. 3. Ezr. iii. 11. Ps.
c. 5. — cvi. 1. — cvii. 1. — cxviii. 1, 29. — cxxxv. 3. — cxxxvi. 1. — cxlv.
9. Jer. xxxiii. 11. Lam. iii. 25. Nah. i. 7.
Ps. XXV. 8. Good and upright is the Lopdy therefore will he teach
srinners in the way.
xxxiv. 8. O taste and sec that the Lord is good, blessed is the man
that trusteth in him.
iii. 1. The goodness of God endureth continually.
Ixxxvi. 5. Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and plen-
teous in mercy to all that call upon thee. Ps. cxix. 68.
cxlv. 7. Men shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great good-
ness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
Zech. ix. 17. How great is his goodness 1 how great is his lx)unty !
Matt. xix. 17. There is none good but one, that is God. Luke
xviii. 19.
Rom. ii. 4. The goodness of God, lead^th to repentance. \
xi. 22. Behold the goodness and severity of God.
XCIX. The Lord doth good. Gen. xxxii. 12. The Lord said to
Jacob, I will surely do thee good, Sec.
1. 20. Joseph said to his brethren, ye thought evil against me, but
God meant it for good.
Exod. xxxiii. 19. The Lord said, I will make all my goodness pas,v
lie fore thee.
Deut. XXX. 9. The Lord will rejoice over thee for good.
xxxiii. 16. Blessed be Joseph, for the good will of him that dwelt
in the bush.
2 Sam. vii. 28. O Lord, thou hast promised this goodness unto
thy servant. Ver. 29.
1 Kings viii. 66. The people rejoiced for all the goodness th i
l/)rd had done, for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
34 Goodness of God, Chap. 1*
Ezn viii. 22. The hand of our God is upon all thein for good that
seek him. Vei^ 18. Ch. vii. 9. Neh.ii. 8, 18.
Neh. V. 19. Think upon nic, O my God, for good. Ch. xiii. 31.
ix. 25. Thy people delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Job ii. 10. Shall Vve receive good at the hand of God, and shall we
not receive evil ?
Ps. iv. 6. Many say, who will shew us any good, Lord lift thou up
the light of thy countenance upon us.
Ps. xxi. 3. Thou prevcntcst, with the blessings of thy goodness.
xxiii. 6. Goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
XXV. 7. According to thy mercy, remember me for thy goodness
sake.
xxvii. 13. I had fainted unless I had believed, to see the goodness
of the Lord, in the land of the living.
xxxiii. 5. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
xxxiv. 10. 1 hey that seek the Lord, shall not want any good thing.
Ixv. 4. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even
of thy holy temple.
Ixix. 16. Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving kindness is good.
Ixxiii. I. Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a clean heart.
Ixxxiv. 11* The Lord God is a sun and shield, he will give grace
and glory, no good thing will he with-hold from them that walk up-
rightly.
Ixxxvi. 17. Shew me a token for good.
ciii. 5. Bless the Loi^d, O my soul, who satisfieth thy mouth with
good things.
cvii. 8. O that men would praise the Lord, for his goodness, and
for his wonderful v/orks to the children of men. Ver. 15, 21, 31.
cxix. 122. lie surety for thy servant for good*
cxliii. 10. Thy Spirit is good, lead me into the land of uprightness.
cxliv. 2. The Lord is my goodness, my fortress, and high
tower. Sec.
Isa. Ixiii. 7. I will mention the loving-kindness of the Lord, and
the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestow-
ed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which
iie hath bestowed on them.
Jer. xxiv. 5. I sent them captives out of this place, for their good,
Ver. 6. I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will build
them, and plant them.
xxix. 32. The wicked shall not behold the good that I will do for
my people.
xxxi. 12. They shall come and shig in the height of Zion, and
shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat and /or
wine, Sir.
Ver. 14. My people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the
Lord.
Jer. xxxii. 39. I will give them one heart and one way, that they
may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children
after them.
Ver. 42. I will bring upon this people all the good that I have
promised.
Chap. L 3Iercij of God, 35
Jer. xxxiii. 9. The nations of the earth shall hear the good that
1 do unto my people, and they shall fear and tremble for all the good-
ness, and for all the prosperity.
Ver. 14. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will per-
form that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Is-
rael. Sec Jos. xxi. 45 — xxiii. 14.— xxiv. 20. and 1 Kings viii. 56.
Hos. iii. 5. The children of Israel shall fear the Lord, and his
goodness, in the latter days.
Mat. vii. 1 1. If ye being evil, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more shall your Father vv^hich is in heaven, give
good things to them that ask him.
XX. 15. Is thine eye evil because I am good.
Luke i 53. He hath filled the hungry with good things.
ii. 14. Glory to God in the highest, and on fearth, peace and good
will towards men.
xii. 32. It is your Father's good pleasure, to give you the king-
dom.
Acts xiv. 17. God left not himself without witness, in that he did
good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons. Ps. civ.
28. — Ixviii. 10 — Ixxxv. 12.
Rom. viii. 28. All things work together for good to them that love
God, to them that are the called according to his purpose.
Jam. i. 17. Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above,
and cometh down from the Father of lights.
MERCY OF GOD.
C. God is mcrcifuh Exod. xxxiv. 6. The Lord God, merciful and
gracious, long suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.
Ver. 7. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, trans-
gression and sin.
Numb. xiv. 18. The I>ord is long suffering, and of great mercy,
forgiving iniquity.
Neh. ix. 17. Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and mer-
ciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. Ver. 19, 27, 28, 31.
Ps. xxxvi. 5. Thy mercy. Lord, is in the heavens, and thy faith-
fulness reacheth unto the clouds.
Ivii. 1 0. Thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth reach-
eth unto the clouds. Ps. cviii. 4.
Ixii. 12. Unto thee, O Lord, bclongeth mercy.
Ixxxvi. 15. Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gra-
cious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. Ver. 5.
c. 5. The Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting, and his truth en-
t3ureth to all generations.
ciii. 8. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plen-
teous in mercy. Ps. cxi. 4.
cxvi. 5. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous, yea, oiir God is mer-
ciful.
cxix. 156. Great are thy tender mercies, O Lord. 2 Sam. xxiv. 14.
cxxxviii. 8. Thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever.
Ps. cxlv. 8. The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion, slow to
anger, and of great mercv.
E
^>G Mercy of God, Chap. I,
Dan. ix. 9. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenes-
ses though we have rebelled against him.
Lam. iii. 22. It is of the Lords mercies, that we are not consum-
ed, because his compassions fail not.
\'er. 32. Though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion ac-
cording to the multitude of his mercies.
Jonah iv. 2. Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to an-
ger and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
Mie. vii. 18. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniqui-
ty, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage ?
he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
2 Cor. i. 3. The Father of mercies, and God of all comfort.
Eph. ii. 4. God is rich in mercy.
Jam. ii. 13. Mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
V. 11. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
1 Pet. ii. 3. If ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
CI. Mercy firomised, Ps. v. 7. I will come unto thy house, in the
multitude of thy mercy.
Ivii. 3. God shall send forth his mercy, and his truth.
lix. 10. The God of my mercy shall prevent me.
Ps. Ixxxix. 2. Mercy shall be built for ever, thy faithfulness shalt
thou establish in the heavens.
Ver. 14. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Ver. 28. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore.
cii. 13. Thou shalt have mercy on Zion.
Isa. xiv. 1. The Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will choose
Israel.
xxx. 18. Therefore will the Lord Wait, that he may be gracious
unto you, and therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy
upon you.
liv. 7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great
mercies will I gather thee.
Ver. 8. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment,
i)ut with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the
Lord thy Redeemer.
Ver. 10. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed,
but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the cove-
nant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
xlii. 2 1 . The Lord is well pleased for his mercies sake, he will mag-
nify the law, and make it honourable.
Isa. Iv. 3. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the
ijure mercies of David.
xlix. 10. He that hath mercy on them, shall lead them, even by
the springs of water, shall he guide them.
Ix. 10. In my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had
mercy on thee.
Jer. xxx. 18. I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and
will have mercy on his dwelling places. Ch. xxxiii. 26. Ezck. xxxix.
25^ Hos. i. 7. — xii. 23.
xlii. 21. I will shew mercies unto you, that the king of Babylon
may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your ov/n land.
Chap. I. Mercy of God, t^7
Lam. iii. 32. Though the Lord cause grief, yet will he have com-
passion according to the multitude of his mercies.
Hos. ii. 19. I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in
judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies.
Mic. vii. 20. Thou wilt perform the truth unto Jacob, and the mer-
cy unto Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers.
Zech. i. 16. Thus saith the Lord, I am returned to Jerusalem, with
mercies.
X. 16. I will bring them again to this place, for I have mercy upon
them, and they shall be as though I had not cast them off.
Rom. ix. 15. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. Exod.
xxxix. 19.
Ver. 1 6. It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but
of God that sheweth mercy.
CIL Persons to nvhom mercy is firomised, Mercy is promised to the
obedient. See the following texts on promises to the obedient. Exod.
XX. 6. Deut. V. 10. — xiii. 17, 18. Ps. xxv. 10. To the penitent.
See in promises to conversion, or turning to God, the following texts.
2 Chron. xxx. 9. Prov.xxviii. 13. Isa.lv. 7. Jer. iii. 12. — xxxi. 19,20.
To them that fear God. See in promises to them that fear God ihc
following texts. Ps. ciii. 11, 13, 17. Luke i. 50.
To them that love God. See in promises to loving God, the following
texts. Exod. XX. 6. Deut. v. 10. Ps. cxix. 132. Jude ver. 21.
To them that trust in God. See in promises to them that trust in
God, the following texts. Ps. xxxii. 10. — xxxiii. 22.
CIIL Mercy p,r ay ed for. Numb. vi. 24. On this wise the priests
.shall bless (or pray for) the people. The Lord bless thee and keep thee.
Ver. 25. The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious
unto thee.
Ver. 26. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give
thee peace.
xiv. 19, Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people, accord-
ing to the greatness of thy mercy.
Deut. xxi. 8. Be merciful, O Lord, unto thy people, whom thou
hast redeemed.
Neh. xiii. 22. Remember me, O my God, and spare me according
to the greatness of thy mercy.
Ps. iv. 1. Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
vi, 2. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak, O Lord,
heal me.
Ver. 4. O save me for thy mercies sake. Ps. xxx. 10. — Ixix. 13,
14, 16, 17. — Ivii. 1. — xHv. 26. — Ivi. 1. — cxxiii. 3.
ix. 13. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, consider my trouble.
xxv. 6. Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy loving
kindnesses, for they have been ever of old. Ps. Ixxxvi. 6.
Ver. 7. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgres-
sions : according to thy mercy remember thou me.
Ver. 16. For thy goodness sake, O Lord, turn thee unto me, and
have mercy upon me, for I am desolate and afflicted. Ps. Ixxxvi. 16.
xxvi. 1 1. I will walk in mine integrity, redeem me, and be mer^
ciful unto me.
38 Mercy of God, Chap. L
Ps. xl. 11. With-hold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O
Lord, let thy loving kindness and thy truth continually preserve mc
Ps. xli. 4. Lord be merciful unto m#, and heal my soul, for I havc-
sinned ag;ainst thee.
li. 1. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kind-
ness, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my
transgressions.
Ixi. 7. O prepare mercy and truth that may preserve the king.
?xxix. 8. O remember not against us former iniquities, let thy
tender mercies speedily prevent us.
Ver. 9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy
name, and deliver us and purge away our sins for thy names's sake.-
Ixxxix. 7. Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salva-
tion.
Ixxxvi. 3. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for I cry unto thee daily.
Ver. 5. For thou. Lord, art good and ready to forgive, and plen-
teous in mercy, to all that call upon thee. Ps. xxvii. 7.
xc. 14. O satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice
and be glad all our days.
Ps. cix. 2 1 . Because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me, for I am
poor and needy,
Ver. 26. Help me> O Lord my God, and save me according to
thy mercy.
cxix. 41. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even thy
salvation, according to thy word.
Ver. 58. Be merciful unto me according to thy word.
Ver. "77. Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live.
cxix. 124, Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and
teach me thy statutes.
Ver. 132. Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou
usest to do unto those that love thy name.
Hos. >.iv. 2. Take away all our iniquity, receive us graciously. .
Hab. iii. 2. O Lord revive thy work in the midst of the years, in
wrath remember mercy.
Mai. i. 9. Beseech God that he will be gracious unto us.
Luke xviii. 13. God be merciful to me a sinner.
Gal. vi. 16. As many as walk according to this rule, peace be ou
them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
1 Tim. i. 2. Grace, mercy and peace, from God the Father, and
the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. i. 2. Tit. i. 4. 2 John ver. 3.
2 Tim. i. 1 6. The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus.
Ver. 18. The Lord grant that he may find mercy of the Lord in
that day.
Heb. iv. 6. Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we
may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Jude ver. 2. Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied.
CIV. Mercy acknoivledged in -various instances. Gen. xix. 16. The
Lord being merciful unto Lot, brought him forth, and set him with-
out the city.
Ver. 19. Lot«aid, thou hast magnified thv mercy, in saving my
life*
Chap. I. Mercy of God. 39
Exod. XV. 13. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which
thou hast redeemed.
2 Sam. xxii. 51. He sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David
and to his seed for evermore. Ps. xviii. 50. 1 Kings iii. G. 2 Chron.
6. 42.
Ezra vii. 28. Blessed be the Lord who hath extended mercy unto
me, before the kin,^ and his counsellors. Ch. ix. 9.
Ps. xciv. 18. When I said my foot slippeth, thy mercy, Lord,
held me up.
xcviii. 3. The Lord hath remembered his mercy, and his truth,
toward the house of Israel. Luke i. 54, 72, 71 .
cvi. 45. He remembered for them his covenant, and repented ac-
cording to the multitude of his mercies.
cxix. 64. The earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy.
Rom. ix. 23. That God might make known the riches of hi.s
glory, on the vessels of mercy, that he had afore prepared unto
glory.
1 Cor. vii. 25. Paul said, I obtained mercy of the Lord to be
faithful.
1 Tim. i. 13. Paul said, I who was a blasphemer, and a persecutor,
and injurious, obtained mercy.
Tit. iii. 5. According to his mercy he saved us.
1 Pet. i. 3. His abundant mercy. Ch. ii. 10. Ye have obtained
mercy.
CV. Thanks for mercy. Gen. xxiv. 47. Abraham's servant said,
blessed be the Lord God, who hath not left destitute my master, of
his mercy and his truth.
1 Chron. xvi. 34. O give thanks tmto the Lord for he is good, for
his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Chron. v. 13.— vii. 36. — xx. 21.
Ezr. iii. 11. Ps. cvi. 1. — cvii. 1. — cxviii. 1. — cxxxvi. 1. Jer. iii. 11.
Ps. lix. 16. I will sing aloud of thy mercy. Ps. Ixxxix. 1.
Ixvi. 20. Blessed be God who hath not turned away my prayer,
nor his mercy from me.
ciii. 1. Bless the Lord, O my soul.
Ver. 4. Who crowneth thee with loving kindness, and tender
mercies.
cxv. 1. Not unto us, but unto thy name, give glory, for thy mercy
and thy truth's sake.
CVI. Mercy in the fiardon of sin. See in Sect. 1. texts. Exod.
xxxiv. 6, 7. Numb. xiv. 18. Neh. ix. 17. Ps. Ixxxv. 5. Dan. ix. 9.
Ps. xxxii. I. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, and
whose sin is covered.
"V^er. 2. Blessed is the man, to whom the Lord imputeth not ini-
quity.
Ixv. 3. As for our transgressions thou wilt purge them away.
Ixxxv. 2. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast
<:overedall their sin.
ciii. 3. The Lord forgiveth all thine iniquities, he healeth all thy
vliseases.
Ver. 10. He has not dealt with us after our sins.
cxxx. 4. 7'here is forgiveness with thee, that thou may est be feared.
-iO Mercy of God. Chap. I,
Isa. i. 18. Though your sins be as scarlet or crimson, they shall
be as snow, or as wool.
xxxiii. 24. The inhabitant shall not say I am sick, the people tlia?
dwell there shall be forgiven their iniquity.
xliii. 25. I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions, for
mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
xliv. 22. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and
as a cloud, thy sins.
Iv. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man
hi<j thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have
mercy upon him, and to our God for he will abundantly pardon. See
promises to repentance, and turning to God.
Jer. iii. 12. Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I
will not cause mine anger to fall upon you : for I am merciful, saith
the Lord, I will npt keep anger for ever.
Ver. 22. Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your
backslidings.
xxxiii. 8. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they
have sinned against me, and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby
they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
1. 20. In those days, and in that lime, saith the Lord, the iniquity
of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none ; and the sins
of Judah, and they shall not be found ; for I will pardon them.
Ezek. xxxiii. 1 5. If the wicked restore the pledge, give again
that he hath robbed, walk in statutes of life, none of his sins that
lie hath committed shall be mentioned unto him, he shall surely live.
Hos. xi. 8. How shall I give thee up Ephraim ? how shall I deliver
thee Israel? Sec. H^
Ver. 9. I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not
return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God and not man.
xiv. 4. I will heal their backslidings, I will love them freely, for
mine anger is turned away. ^
Matt. xii. 31. All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven
unto men, but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.
Ver. 32. Whosoever shall speak a word against the son of man
it shall be forgiven him.
Heb. x. 17. Their sins and their iniquity will I remember no
more. Ch. viii. 12. Jer. xxxi. 34.
CVII. Pardon and forgiveness firayed /ov^/'ExoCl* xxxii. 31, 32.
Moses said, this people have sinned a great sin. Yet now, if thou
wilt, forgive their sin, if not, blot me out of thy book which thou
hast written.
xxxiv. 9. O Lord, pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us
for thine inheritance.
Numb. xiv. 19. Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people,
according to the greatness of thy mercy. Ver. 20.
I Kings viii. 30. Solomon prays for forgiveness to the people.
2Chron. xxx. 18. Good Lord, pardon every one. See.
Job vii. 20. I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou
preserver of men.
Ver. 21. Why dost thou not pardon my transgression ?
Chap. le God is compassionate, 41
Ps. XXV. 18. Look upon mine affliction and my pain, and forgive
all my sins. Ver 11. Ps. xxxi. 3.
Dan. ix. 19. O Lord hear, O Lord forgive, hearken and do, defer
not for thine own sake, O my God.
Amos vii. 2. O Lord God, forgive I beseech thee.
Luke xxiii. 34. Jesus said, Father forgive them, for they know
not what they do.
Acts viii. 22. Peter said to Simon Magus, repent and pray God,
if perhaps the thoughts of thine heart may be forgiven thee. See
Naaman*s prayer. 2 Kings v. 18. Hezekiah*s prayer. 2 Chron. xxx.
18, 19.
GOD is COMPASSIONATE.
CVIIL Compassion ascribed to God. Ps. Ixxxvi. 15. Thou, O
Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious : long-suffering,
and plenteous in mercy and truth.
Ps. cxlv. 8. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to
anger and of great mercy. Ps. cxi. 4. — cxii. 4.
God excited compassion toivard his people in the hearts of their ene-
mies. Ps. cvi. 46. 1 Kings viii. 50. 2 Chron. xxx. 9.
CIX. Compassion to whom promised. Deut. xxx. ii. When thou
shalt return unto the Lord thy God and shalt obey his voice ;
Ver. 3. Then the Lord will return thy captivity, and have com-
passion on thee. 1 Ch. xiii. 17.
Jer. xii. 15. After I have plucked them out, I will return and have
compassion on them, and will bring them again every man to his
heritage, and to his land.
Lam. iii. 32. Though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion
according to the multitude of his mercies.
Mic. vii. 18. Who is a God like unto thee, who pardoneth iniqui-
ty. See.
Ver. 19. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us, he
will subdue our iniquities, and thou wilt cast all their sins into the
depths of the sea.
Rom. ix. 15. I will have compassion on M'hom I will have com-
passion. Exod. xxxiii. 19.
ex. Instances of compassion excited. 2 Kings xiii. 23. The Lord
was gracious unto Israel, and had compassion on them, when they
were oppressed by enemies,
2 Chron. xxxvi. 15. The Lord God of their fathers sent to them
by his messengers, rising up betimes and sending, because he had
compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place.
Ps. Ixxviii. 38. He being full of compassion forgave their iniqui-
ty and destroyed them not, yea, many times turned he his anger away,
and did not stir up his wrath.
Lam. iii. 32. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consum-»
ed, because his compassions fail not.
Matt, xviii. 27. The Lord of that servant moved with compassioiij
forgave him the debt.
Mark v, 19. Jesus gaid to the man out of vvhom he had cast a devii,.
■^.2 ifod piticth—Long ayfl'tring of GocI» CiiAv, i*
go tell how great things the Lord hath done for thcc, and hath had
compassion on thcc.
Luke XV. 20. The Father saw tlie prodigal son returning, and had
compassion on him, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
God excited comjiassion towards his pcofiley in the hearts of their ene-
7nies. Ps. cvi. 46. 1 Kings viii. 50. 2 Chron. xxx. 9.
CXL Comfiassioji ascribed to Christ. InstaJices iii which it nvas exci-
ted. Matt. ix. 36. At seeing the multitude scattered as sheep with-
out a shepherd. Mark vi. 34.
xiv. U. At seeing a multitude of sick persons whom he healed.
XV. 32; At seeing a multitude without bread, whoftt he fed. Mark
viii. 2.
XX. 34. At seeing blind men, whose eyes he opened.
Mark i. 41. At seeing a leper, whom he healed.
ix. 22, 25. At seeing a child possessed of a dumb spirit whom he
cast out.
Luke vii. 13. At seeing a mother's grief, whose son he restored
to life.
GOD PITIETH.
CXII. God hath fiity on his people, Ps. ciii. 13. Like as a father
pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
Isa. Ixiii. 9. In his love and his pity, he redeemed his people, and
he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Ezek. xxxvi. 21.1 had pity for mine holy name, which the house
of Israel had profaned among the heathen.
Joel ii. 18. The Lord will be jealous for his land and pity his peo-
ple.
Jam. V. 1 1. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
CXIIl. God ivill not pity the ivicked. Ezek. v. 6. She hath changed
my judgments unto wickedness, they have refused my judgments
and statutesyiW^ have not walked in them.
Ver. 1 1/T will not spare, neither will mine eyes pity. Ch. vii. 491
— viii. 18. — ix. 10.
Ver. 13. I will cause my fury to rest upon them.
Jer. xiii. 10. This evil people refuse to hear my words, and I will
not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy upon them, but destroy theni'j
iiaith the Lord. Zech. xi. 5.
LONG-SUFFERING OF GOD, FORBEARANCE..
CXIV. Long suffering ascribed to God. Rom. ii. 4. Despisest thou
the riches of his goodness and forbearance, and long- suffering, not
knov/ing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance.
ix. 22. God endured with much long suffering the vessels of wT^t Ji
fitted to destruction.
Ver. 23. That he might make known the riches of his glory, ou
the vessels of mercy which he had afore prepared unto glory.
1 Pet. iii. 20. 1 he long suffering of God waited in the days of
Noah, while the ark was preparing.
2 Pet. iii. 9. The Lord is long suffering to us-ward, not williri>;
that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
VeV. 15. The long suffering of our Lord is salvation.
Chap. I. Kindness of Goch 43
I Tim. i. 16. I obtained mercy, that in mc Christ might shcv/
all lon^- suffering- for a pattern to them which should hereafter be-
lieve on him to life everlasting. See Numb. xiv. 18. Ps. Ixxxvi. 15,
CXV. Forbearance ascribed to God. Numb. xiv. 27. The Lord said,
hov/ long shall I bear this evil congregatioji which murmur against me.
Neh. ix. 30. Many years didst thou forbear them.
Jer. xliv. 22. The Lord would no longer forbear, because of the
evil of their doings.
Luke xviii. 7. The Lord will avenge his ow^n elect, though he
bear long.
KINDNESS OF GOD.
CXVL Kindness ascribed to God^ firomised and exercised towa.rda
his fieofilc.
Neh. ix. 17. Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and mer-
ciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.
Ps. xxxvi. 7. How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God, there*
fore the sons of men put their trust unxler the shadow of thy wings.
xlii. 8. The Lord will command his loving kindness in the day
time, and in the night, his song shall be with me, and it(^ prayer to
the God of my salvation. ■ • ,
Ixxxix. 33. My loving kindness will I not utterly ulw-jj;\)ta him,
nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. ,.' "^^x* .-
cvii. 43. The wise, they shall understand the loving kindness of.
tlie Lord.
cxvii. 2. His marvellous kinilness is great toward us.
Isa. liv. 8. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee, for a moment,
but with everlasting kindness, will I have mercy on thee.
Ver. 10. The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but-
my kindness shall not depart from thep, neither shall the covenant
of my peace be removed, saith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee.
Jer. ix. 24. I am the Lord which exercise loving kindness and
judgment, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I
delight, saith the Lord.
xxxi. 3. I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with
loving kindness have I drav/n thee.
xxxii. 18. Thou showest loving kindness unto thousands.
Hos. ii. 19. I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and i;i
judgment, and in loving kindness, and in mercies.
Joel ii. 13. The Lord your (iod is gracious and merciful, slow to
anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the Evil.
Luke vi. 35. God is kind unto the unthankful, and to the evi!.
Eph. ii. 6. God hath raised us up, and made us sit to'^rethcr i:t
heavenly placc;>, in Christ Jcf;iis.
Ver. 7. That in the ages to come, he might shcv/ the exceedin;;
riches of his grace, in his kindness toward us, through Christ Jcsu-,
Tit. iii. 4. The kindness of God our Saviour towards men, appear •
cd, not by works of rigliteousness which wc have done, but accordhii^
to his mercy /le savccl u^*., &c.
CXVII. Kindneas /irrr/edfor. Gen. xxiv. 12. Abraham's servant
ayed, and srad, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray theo.
' '' — --o-.'i spc^d TiV.\ shew kindness to mv mar.to!-.
44 Grace of God, Chap. L
Ruth i. 8, Naomi said, the Lord jdeal kindly with you, as you have
dealt with the dead, and with me,
2 Sam. ii. 6. David said, the Lord shew kindness and truth unto you.
Ps. xvii. 7. Shew thy marvellous loving kindness, O thou that
savest by thy right hand them that put their trust in thee.
XXV. 6. Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and thy loving
kindnesses, for they have been ever of old.
xxxvi. 10. O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know
thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
xl. 1 1 .Let thy loving kindness and thy truth continually pre serve me.
li. i. Have mercy upon me,0 God, according to thy loving kindness.
Ixix. 16. Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving kindness, turn to me
according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.
Ixxxviii. 1 1. Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave,
or thy faithfulness in destruction. •
Ixxxix. 49. Lord, where are thy loving kindnesses ?
cxix. 76. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness, be for my com-
fort, according to thy word.
Ps. cxix. 88. Quicken me after thy loving kindness, so shall I keep
the testimonies of thy mouth. Ver. 149, 159.
cxliii. 8. Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning,
for in thee do I trust.
CXVHL Thanks for GocVs kindness. Ps. xxvi. 3. Thy loving kind-
ness is before mine eyes, and I have walked in thy truth.
XX xi. 2 1 . Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvel-
lous kindness.
xl. 10. 1 have not concealed thy loving kindness, and thy truth.
xlviii. 9 . We have thought of thy loving kindness, O God, in the
midst of thy temple.
Ixiii. 3. Because thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips
shall praise thee.
xcii. 2, It is a good thing to shew forth thy loving kindness in the
morning, and thy faithfulness every night.
ciii. 4. Bless the Lord, O my soul, who crowneththee with loving
kindness, and tender mercies.
cxxxviii. 2. I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy
name, for thy loving kindness and for thy truth, for thou hast mag'
nified thy word above all thy name.
Isa. Ixii. 7. I will mention the loving kindness of the Lord, and the
praises of the Lord, according to all that he hath bestowed on us, and
the great goodness he hath bestowed, &c.
GRACE OF GOD.
CXIX. God is gracious. Gen. vi. 8. Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord, Moses found grace. Exod. xxxiii. 12, 13, 16.
Exod. xxii. 27. The Lord said, when the poor crieth, I will hear,
for I am gracious. ,
xxxiii. 19. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I
Avill have mercy on whom I will have mercy.
xxxiv. 6. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering,
and abundant in goodness and truth. 2 Chron. xxx. 9.
2 Kings xiii. 23. The Lord was gracious unto Israel, (in their dis-
Chap. I. Grace of God. 45
tress) and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, be-
cause of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not
destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence.
Ezra ix. 8. For a little space, grace hath been shewed from the
Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to leave us a
nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give
us a reviving.
Neh. ix. 17. Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious, merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest not thy people.
Ps. Ixxvii. 9. Hath God forgotten to be gracious.
Ixxxvi. 15. Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gra^
cious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy, and truth. Ps. ciii. 8.
. — cxi. 4. — cxii. 4. — cxvi. 5. — cxlv. 8. Joel ii. 13.
Isa. XXX. 18. Therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gra-
cious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted that he may have
mercy upon you.
Ver. 19. He will be gracious unto thee, at the voice of thy cry,
when he heareth it he will answer thee.
Jonah iv. 2. Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger,
and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. See Amos v. 5.
Zech. iv. 7. Grace, grace.
CXX. GocVs throne is a throne of grace. Heb. iv. 16. Let us come
boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find
grace to help in time of need.
CXXL GocTs Spirit is a Sfiirit of grace. Heb. x. 29. The Spirit of
grace.
Zech. xii. 10. The Spirit of grace, and supplication.
CXXn. Christ is gracious. Luke iv. 32. Gracious words proceed-
ed out of his mouth.
John i. 14. He was full of grace and truth.
Ver. 16. Of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
Acts XV. 1 1 . We believe that through the grace of our Lord Je-
sus Christ we shall be saved.
Rom. xvi. 20. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
1 Cor. xvi. 23. Phil. iv. 23. 1 Thess. v. 28. 2 Thess. iii. 18.
2 Cor. viii. 9. Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that
though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through
his poverty might be rich.
Eph. i. 7. We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
of sins, according to the riches of his grace.
1 Pet. ii. 3. If so be ye have tasted, that the Lord is gracious.
CXXIII. The grace of God in the oeconomy of man's salvation. In
election.
Rom. xi. 5. There is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Ver. 6. And if by grace, then it is no more of works, otherwise
grace is no more grace.
CXX IV. Calling is of grace. Gal. i. 1 5. God who separated me from
my mother's womb, called me by his grace to reveal his Son in me.
2 Tim. i. 9. God hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling,
not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and
grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus, before the world began.
46 Grace of God, Chap. I,
1 Pet. V. 10. The God of all grace who hath called us unto his
eternal g-Iory by Christ Jesus, jnake you perfect, stable, strengthen
and settle you.
CXXV. Justification is of grace. Rom. iii. 24. Bemg justified free-
ly by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ.
Gal. ii. 30. I do not fru;>trate the grace of God, if righteousness
came by the law, then is Christ dead in vain.
V. 4. Christ is become of none affect to you, whosoever of you arc
justified by the law, ye are fallen from grace. See Rom. v, 15, 17,
20,21.
CXXVI. Pardon of sin is through grace. Eph. i. 7. In Christ we
have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sin, according
to the riches of his grace.
CXXVII. Adoption through grace. Eph.i. 5. God having predes-
tinated us to the adoption of children, by Jesus Christ, to himself, ac-
cording to the good pleasure of his will.
Ver. 6. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath
made us accepted in the beloved.
CXXVIII. Sanctifijing grace or sanctijication through grace. Ps.
Ixxxiv. 1 1. The Lord God is a sun and shield, the Lord will give grace
and glory, and no good thing will he with-hold from them that walk
uprightly.
Prov. iii. 24. He scorneth the scorners, but giveth grace to the
lowly.
Jam. iv. 1 6. Pie resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
2 Cor. ix. 8. God is able to make all grace abound toward you,
that ye always having sufl^iciency in all things may abound to every
good work. Ver. 14.
xii. 9. The Lord said, my grace is sufficient for thee, my strength
is made perfect in weakness.
CXXIX. The gos/iel is of grace given. John i. 17. The law was
^iven by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Acts xiii, 43. Paul and Barnabas exhorted Christians to continue
in the grace of God.
xiv. 3. The Lord gave testimony to the word of his grace, and
granted si^afeand wonders to be done in confirmation of it.
XX. 24. -Ylostify the gospel of the grace of God.
Ver. 32. I recommend you to God, and to the word of his grace,
which is able to ^lild you up, and to give you an inheritance among
all them that are sanctified.
Rom. V. 2. By Jesus Christ we have access by faith, into this
grace, wherein we stand and rejoice, in hope of the glory of God.
vi. 14. Sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under
the law, but under grace. Ver. 15.
2 Cor. vi. 1. We beseech you, that ye receive not the grace of
God in vain.
viii. 1 . We do you to wit, (we make known to you) of the grace
of God bestowed on the churches.
Gal, i. 6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him, that
called you unto the grace of Christ.
Phil. i. 7. Yg are all partakers of my grace.
Chap. I. Grace of God, 47
Col. i. 6. The gospel bringeth forth fruit m you, smce the day ye
heard of it, and knew the grace of God.
Tit. ii. 11. The grace of God that bringeth salvation, hath ap-
peared unto all men.
Ver. 1 2. Teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.
Ver. 13. Looking for the blessed hope. Sec.
Heb. xii. 15. Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of
God.
1 Pet. i. 10. The prophets prophesied of the grace that should
come unto you.
V. 12. This is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
Jude ver. 4. Ungodly men turn the grace of God into lasciviou§-
ncss.
GXXX. Gi-ving alnifi called grace. 2 Cor. iv. 15. — viii. 6, 7, 19.
CXXXI. Ministerial abilities for fiublishing the gosjiel are of grace.
Acts xiv. 26. The apostles had been recommended to the grace
of God, for the work of the ministry which they fulfilled. Ch. xv. 40.
Rom. i. 5. By whom (Christ) we have received grace and apostle-
ship, for obedience to the faith among all nations.
xii. 3. I say through the grace given unto me, to every man that is
among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to tliink.
Ver. 6. Having gifts diflferii^g, according to the grace that is given
to us, let us exercise them, 8cc. 1 Pet. iv. 7, 10.
XV. 1 5. I have written the more boldly unto you, because of the
grace that is given to me of God.
Ver. 16. That I should be a minister.
1 Cor. iii. 10. According to the grace of God given unto me, as a
wise master builder, I have laid the foundation.
Gal. ii. 9. When the brethren perceived the grace of God given
unto me, they gave the right hand of fellowship. See Eph. iii. 2, 7, 8.
CXXXIL The effects of the gospel in a sanctified nature andfiractice^
called grace. Acts iv. 33. Great grace was upon them all.
xi. 23. When Barnabas had seen the grace of God, he was glad,
and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart, they would cleave
unto the Lord.
1 Cor. i. 4. I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace
of God, which is given you by Jesus Christ.
XV. 10. By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace w^hich
was bestowed on me was not in vain, but I laboured more abun-
dantly than they all, yet not I but the grace of God which was with
me.
2 Cor. i. 12. Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,
that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but
by the grace of God we had our conversation in the world.
1 Tim. i. 14. The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, with
faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim. ii. 1. Be strong in the grace which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Pet. iii. 18. Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Heb. xii. 28. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom that cannot be
48 • Grace of God. Ghap, I,
moved, let us have grace whereby we may serve God, acceptably
■with reverence and godly fear.
Heb. xiii. 9. Be not carried about witli diverse and strange doc-
trines, for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace.
CXXXIII. Faith through grace. Acts xviii. 27. Apollos helped
them much who had believed through grace.
CXXXIV. Hofie through grace. 2Thes.ii. 16. Now the Lord Jesus
Christ himself, and God even our father, which hath loved us, and hath
given us everlasting consolation and good hope, through grace,
Ver. 17. Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good
word and work.
CXXXV. Prayer avd Jiraise through grace. Zech. xii. 10. I will
pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the Spirit of grace and supplication.
Col. iii. 16. Singing with grace in your hearts.
CXXXVI. Salvation is of grace. Eph. ii. 5, 7. When we were dead
in sins, he hath quickened us, together with Christ, (by grace ye are
saved ;) That in ages to come, he might shew the exceeding richesi
of his grace, in his kindness towards us, through Jesus Christ.
Ver. 8. For by grace ye are saved through faith, and that not of
yourselves, it is the gift of God.
Heb. ii. 9. Jesus Christ, by the grace of God, did taste death for
every man.
1 Pet. i. 13. Be sober, and hope unto the end, for the grace that
is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
iii. 7. Husbands and wives live together, as being heirs of the
grace of life.
CXXXVH. Grace fir ay ed for. Gen. xliii. 29. Joseph said to Ben-
jamin, God be gracious unto thee my son.
^umb. vi. 23. On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel.
V er. 24. The Lord bless thee and keep thee.
Ver. 25. The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gra-
cious unto thee,
Ver. 26.. And lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee
peace.
Ps. cxix. 29. Grant me thy law graciously.
Isa. xxxiii. 2. Lord be gracious unto us, we have waited for
tiicc.
Hos. xiv. 2. Take away all iniquity, receive us graciously.
Mai. i. 9. Beseech God that he will be gracious unto us.
Kom. i. 7. Grace to you, and peace from God ou'' Father, and
the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. i. 3. 2 Cor. i. 2. Gal. i. 3. Eph. i. 2.
Phil. i. 2. Col. i. 2. 1 Thess. i. 1. 2 Thess. i. 2. Philem. ver. 3.
2 Cor. xiii. 14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the
love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you
all. Amen.
Gal. vi. 18. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your
spirit. Rev. xxii. 2 1 .
Eph. vi. 24. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ
in sincerity. Amen.
Chap. I. God's Favour. m
Col. iv. 18. Grace be with you. 2 Tim. iv. 22. Tit. iii. 15. Heb.
xiii. 25.
1 TiSi. i. 2. Grace, mercy and peace, from God our Father and
Jesus Christ our Lord. 2 i im. i. 2. Tit. i. 4.
vi. 21. Grace be with thee.
1 Pet. i. 3. Grace to you, and peace be multiplied. 2 Pet. i. 2.
Rev. i. 4. Grace be unto you, and peace from him which is, and
which was, and which is to come.
god's favour.
CXXXVIII. God* s favour. 2 Sam. xv. 25. David said, if I have
found favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me again, and
shew me both the ark and his habitation.
Job X. 12. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visita-
tion hath preserved my spirit.
xxxiii. 26, The penetent shall pray unto God and he will be fa-
vourable unto him, and he shall see his face with joy, for he will ren-
der unto every man his righteousness.
Ps. V. 12. Thou Lord, wilt bless the righteous, with favour wilt
compass him about, as with a shield.
XXX. 5. In his favour is life.
Ver. 7. Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand
strong.
xli. 1 1 . By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine ene-
my doth not triumph over me.
xliv. 3. Thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thyxoun-
tenance, saved them, because thou hadst a favour for them.
Ixxvii. 7. Will the Lord cast off for ever ? Will he be favourable
no more ?
Ixxxv. 1 . Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land, thou hast
brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Ixxxix. 17. Thou art the glory of their strength, and in thy fa-
vour shall our horn be exalted.
cii. 13. Thou wilt have mercy on Zion, for the time to favour her,
yea the set time is come.
cvi. 4. Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest
unto thy people.
cxix. 58. I intreated thy favour with my whole heart, be merciful
unto me according to thy word.
Prov. iii*. 3. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee.
Ver. 4. S(^shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the
sight of God and man.
viii. 35. Whoso findeth wisdom findeth life, and shall obtain fa-
vour of the Lord.
xii. 2. A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord, but a man of
wicked devices will he condemn.
Song viii. 1 0. I was in his eyes, as one that found favour.
Isa. Ix. 10. In my favour have I had mercy on thee.
Luke i. 28. The angel said to Mary, hail, thou that art highly fa-
voured, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women.
Ver. 30. Thou hast found f;ivour vrith God.
50 God^s BiesiJing. Chap, I.
Luke ii. J-. Jesus increased in wisdom and fataluve, and in favcur
with Gcd and man. ^ ^
• Acts vii. 46. David found favour before God. Sec 1 Sam. ii. 22.
CXXXIX. God's favour denied to the wicked. Isa. xxvii. 1 1 . It is
a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not
have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no
favour. See Jer. xvi. 13.
CXL. God giveth or ivith-hcldcth the favour of men. Gen. xxxix.
21. The Lord was with Joseph and shewed him mercy, and gave
him favour hi the sight of the keeper of the prison. Acts vii. 10.
Exod. iii. 21. The Lord said I will give this people favour in the
sight of the Egyptians. Ch. xi. 3. — xii. 36.
Dan. i. 9. God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love
with the prince of the eunuchs.
CXLl. God ivith-holdethfrom man^ the favour of man. Deut. xxviii.
49, 50. Jos. xi. 20. Ps. cix. 12.
CXLIL God is bountiful. Ps. Ixxiii. 6. The Lord hath dealt boun-
tifdiiy with me.
cxvi. 7. Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt
tuuntitully with thee.
cxi\. i7. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live and
keep thy word. See Ps. cxlii. 7.
CXLIIl. Man ought to be bountiful. Prov. ii. 9. He that hath a
bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Ps. xli. 1.
2 C©r. ix. 6. He that soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully.
Ver. 5, 11.
GOD*S BLESSING.
CXLIV. God blcsscih his jieofile. Exod. xx. 24. In all places where
I record my name, I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.
Numb. vi. 27. They shall put my name upon the children of Is'^
rael, and I will bless them.
xxii. 12. God said to Balaam, thou shall not curse the people, for
they are blessed. Ch. xxiii. 20.
Deut. xxiii. 5. The Lord turned the curse of Balaam into a bless-
ing, because he loved thee. Neh. xiii. 2.
XX vi. 15. Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and
bless thy people Israel.
2 Sam. vii. 29. David prayed and said, O Lord God, with thy
blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever. 1 Chrcn.
xvii. 22.
1 Chron. iv. 10. Jabez prayed and said, O that thou wouldst bless
me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with
me, and that thou wouldst keep me from evil.
Ps. iii. 8. Thy blessing is upon the people.
xxviii. 9. Save thy people and bless thine inheritance, feed them
also, and lift them up for ever. Ps. cix. 28.
xxix. 1 1. The Lord will bless his people with peace.
Ixvii. 1. God be merciful to us and bless u??, and cause his face to
shine upon us.
Chap< I. GocPs Blessing, 51
Ps. Ixvii. 7. God shall bless us and all the ends of the earth shall
fear him.
cxv. 12. The Lord hath been mindful of us, and he will bless us,
he will bless the house of Israel, he will bless the house of Aaron.
See Ps. cxxviii. 5. — cxxxii. 15. — cxxxiv. 3.
CXLV. Persons pronounced blessedif their graces and duties. Ps.i. 1*
Blessed is- the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly.
ii. 12. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him (Christ.)
V. 12. Thou Lord will bless the righteous, with favour wilt thou
compass him as with a shield.
xxiv. 4. He that hath clean hands and a pure heart, Sec.
Ver. 5. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord.
xxxii. 1. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin
is covered. Rom. iv. 7.
Ver. 2. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not ini-
quity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. Rom. iv. 7, 8.
xxxiii. 12. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
xxxiv. 8. Blessed is the man who trusteth in the Lord. Ps.lxxxiv. 12.
xl. 4. Blessed is the man who maketh the Lord his trust.
xli. 1,2. Blessed is he that considereth the poor. Prov. xxii. 9.
Ixv. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest and causest to
approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts.
Ixxxiv. 4. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house.
Ver. 5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, in whose
heart are thy ways.
Ixxxix. 15. Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound, they
shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance.
xciv. 12. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and
teach est him out of thy law.
cvi* 3. Blessed are they that keep judgment, and him that doth
righteousness at all times.
cxii. 2. The generation of the upright shall be blessed.
cxix. 1 . Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the
law of the Lord.
Ver. 2. Blessed are they that keep God's testimonies, and that
seek him with their whole heart.
cxxviii. 1 . Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord, and walketh
in his ways. Ver. 4. Ps. cxv. 13.
Prov. iii. 23. The Lord blesseth the habitation of the just.
viii. 32. Wisdom saith, blessed are they that keep my ways.
Ver. 34. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at
my gates.
X. 6. Blessings are upon the head of the just. Isa. xix. 25.
Ver. 7. The memory of the just is blessed.
xi. 26. Blessings shall be upon the head of him that selleth corn,
that is, on him who is good to the poor.
xxii. 9. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he
giveth of his bread to the poor.
XX. 7. The just man's children are blessed after him.
xxviii. 20. A faithful man shall abound with blessings.
Isa. XXX. 18. Blessed are all that wait for the Lord.
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52 'God^s Blessing. Chap. I.
Isa. xxxii. 20. Blessed are they that sow beside all waters.
Ivi. 2. Blessed is the man that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting
it, and keepeth his hand from doing evil.
Matt* V. 3. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven.
Ver. 4. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Ver. 5. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Ver. 6. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righte-
ousness, for they shall be filled.
Ver. 7. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Ver. 8. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
Ver. 9. Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the
children of God.
Ver. 10. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness
sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Ver. 1 1. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute
you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.
Lukevi. 22.
xi. 26. Jesus said, blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended
in me. Luke vii. 23.
xxiv. 45, 46. Blessed is that faithful and wise servant, whom his
Lord when he cometh shall find, giving his household their meat in
due season. Luke xii. 43.
XXV. 34. Christ will say, come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
XXV. 35. Tor I was an hungered and ye gave me meat. Sec.
Ver. 40. Ye have done it unto my brethren, ye have done it unto
me. Compare Luke vi. 20, to 24. afid Matt. xiii. 6.
Luke xi. 28. Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep
it. Jam. i. 25. Rev xxii. 14. Dent. xi. 26. — xxx. 19.
xiv. 13. When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the
lame and the blind,
Ver. 14. And thou shalt be blessed. Deut. xv. 10.
Ver. 15. Blessed is he that shall eat byead in the kingdom of
God.
xii. 37. Blessed are those servants whom their Lord when he
cometh shall find watching. Ver. 38.
John XX. 29. Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have be-
lieved. Matt. xvi. 17. — xiii. 16. Blessed are your eyes for they see,
and your cars for they hear.
Gal. iii. 9. They which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abra-
ham.
Jam. i. 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, for
when he is tried he shall receive a crown of life.
Rev. i. 3. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words
of this prophesy, and keep those things that arc written therein.
xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead which die in the I^ord.
xvi. 1 5. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments,
least he walk naked, and they see his shame.
xix. 9. Blessed are they who are called to the marriage supper of
the Lamb.
Chap. I. GocPs Blessing, 53
Rev. XX. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath pag:t in the first re-
surrection.
CXLVI. God's blessing Jiromised by ivay of covenant, or covenant
blessings.
Deut. vii. 9. He keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love
him and keep his commfindments, to a thousand generations.
2 Sam. xxiii. S. David said, although my house be not so with
God, y.et hath he made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in
all things and sure.
Ps. XXV, 14. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him,
and he will shew them his covenant.
Ixxxix. 3. I have made a covenant with my chosen.
Ver. 28. My covenant shall stand fast with him.
Ver. 34. My covenant will I not break.
Isa. xlii. 6. I will give thee (Christ) for a covenant of the people,
for a light of the Gentiles. Ch. xlix. 8. — Iv. 4.
liv. 10. The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but
my kindness shall never depart from thee, neither shall my covenant
of peace be removed, saith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee.
Iv. 3. Incline your ear and come unto me, hear and your souls
shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even
the sure mercies of David.
Jer. xxxi. 33. This shall be the covenant that I will make with
the house of Israel, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward
parts and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they
shall be my people. Heb. viii. 10.
xxxii. 40. I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I
will not turn away from them to do them good, but I will put my
fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Ver. 38.
xxxiii. 20. Thus saith the Lord, if you can break my covenant of
the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be
day and night in their season ;
Ver. 2 1 . Then may also my covenant be broken with David my
servant, and that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne,
and with the Levites the priests my ministers. Ver. 25, 26.
I. 5. They shall say, come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord,
in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
Ezek. xi. 19. I will give them one heart, and I will put a new
spirit within you, and I will take the stony heart out of your fleshy
and will give them an heart of flesh. Jer. xxiv. 7.
Ver. 20. That they may walk in my statutes and keep mine ordi-
nances and do them, and they shall be my people, and I will be their
God.
xvi. 8. When I passed by thee and looked upon thee, behold thy
time was a time of love, and 1 spread my skirt over thee and cover-
ed thy nakedness, yea, I sware unto thee and entered into a cove-
nant with thee, saith the Lord, and thou becamest mine.
Ver. 60. I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of
thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
Ver. 62. I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt
know that I am the Lord.
^^ God's Anger. Chap. I,
Ezek. XX. 37. I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will
bring you into the bond of the covenant.
xxxvi. 25. I will sprinkle clean water upon you.
Ver. 26. A new heart will I give unto you.
Ver. 27. I will put my Spirit within you.
Ver. 28. And ye sh^ll be my people, and I will be your God.
xxxvii. 26. I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be
an everlasting covenant with them, and 1 will set my sanctuary in
the midst of them for evermore.
Ver. 27. My tabernacle shall be with them, yea, I will be their
God, and they shall be my people. Ver. 23, 24. Chr. xxxiv. 24,
25,31.
Hos. ii. 19. I will betroth thee unto me for ever, in righteousness,
in judgment and in loving kindness, and in mercies.
Ver. 20. I will betroth thee to me in faithfulness, and thou shalt
know that I am the Lord. Isa. liv. 5. Thy Maker is thine husband.
jYeiv Cove7iant. Heb. viii. 8. I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel. Jer. xxxi. 31, 32, 33, 34.
xii. 24. Jesus the mediator of the new covenant.
GOD*S ANGER.
CXLVII. ^7iger ascribed to God. Neh. ix. 17. Thou art a God
ready to pardon, gracious, slow to anger, and of great kindness. See
Ps. ciii. 8. Joel ii. 13. Nah. i. 3.
CXLVIII. God's anger threatened against the wicked. Numb, xxxii.
14. Ye are risen up in your fathers steady a race of sinful men tp
augment the fierce anger of the Lord.
Deut. xxix. 19. If one say, I shall have peace, though I walk in
the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst.
Ver. 20. The Lord will not spare him, but the anger of the Lord
and his jealousy, shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that
are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot
put his name from under heaven.
xxxii. 21. They have moved me to jealousy, they have provoked
me to anger.
Ver. 22. A fire is kindled in mine anger, that shall burn to the
lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set
on fire the foundation of the mountains.
Job. xxi. 17. God distributeth sorrows in his anger. Ch. ix. 13.
Ps. vii. 11. God is angry with the wicked every day. Ps. xxxviii. 3.
Ixxvi. 7. Who may stand in thy sight, when once thou art angry.
Ps. xc. 7, 11. Nah. i. 6.
Ixxviii. 41. They tempted God, they remembered not his hand.
Ver. 49. He past upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath,
and indignation.
Ver. 5Q. He made a May for his anger, he spared not their soul
from death. Isa. v. 24> 25. See Isa. x. 25. — xiii. 9, 13 — xxx. 27, 30.
— xlii. 24, 25. — Ixvi. 15. Jer. xviii. 23. — xxv.38. — xlix. 37.-— Ii. 44.
Lam. ii. 1. — iii. 43. — iv. 11. Ezek. v. 13. — vii. 3. — xiii. 13. — xxii,
20, 21. Mic. V. 15.
Chap. I. GocTs Wrath. ss
GOD S WRATH.
CXLIX. Go(Vs wrath threatened ugahist sinners. Ezra viii. 22.
His power and his wrath, is agunst aii that forsake him.
Job. XX. 23. God shall cast the fury of his wrath, upon the wicked.
Ch. xxi. 20, 30. Ps. Ixxviii. 49.
Ps. ii. 12. When his wrath is kindled but a little, blessed are all
they that put their trust in him. Ps. xc. 7, 9, 1 1. — cii. 10.
Prov. xi. 4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. Job xx. 28.
Ezek. vii. 19. Zeph. i. 18.
Isa. ix. 19. Through the v/rath of the Lord of hosts, is the land
darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire. Jer. 1. 13.
— vii. 29.
Jer. X. 10. At his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations
shall not be able to abide his indignation. Hos. v. 10.
Nah. i. 2. The Lord reserveth wrath for his enemies.
Rom. i. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven, against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.
ii. 8. Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, shall be up-
on every soul of man, that doth evil. Ver. 5. Ch. iv. 15. — ix. 22.
Eph. ii. 3. We were by nature children of wrath.
V. 6. The wrath of God comet h upon the children of disobedience.
Col. iii. 6.
Rev. vi. 16. The wicked said to the mountains and rocks fall on
us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and
from the wrath of the Lamb ;
Ver. 17. For the great day of his wrath-is come, and whg shall
be able to stand ? See Rev. xiv. 10. — xvi 19.
CL. God is wroth. Isa. xlvii. 6. I was wroth with my people, and
polluted mine inheritance.
Isa. Ixiv. 5. Behold thou art wroth, for we have sinned.
Ps. Ix. 1. O Lord thou hast cast us off, thou hast been displeased.
Prayers. Ps. vi. I. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither
chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Ps. xxxviii. 1.
Isa. Ixiv. 9. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember
iniquity for ever, behold, we are all thy people.
Promises. Isa. Ivii. 16. I will not contend for ever, neither will I
be always wroth, for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls
that I have made.
CLI. God's indignation against sinners. Isa. Ixvi. 1 4. The hand
of the Lord shall be known towards his servants, and his indignation
towards his enemies. Ch. xxx. 30.
Jer. X. 10. At his wrath, the earth shall tremble, and the nations
shall not be able to abide hii indignation. Job xxvi. 1 1. the pillars of
heaven tremble, and are astoiiished at his reproof. Ch. ix. 6. He
shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
See Nah. i. 5, 6, 8.
Mic. vii. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have
sinned against him.
Rom. ii. 8. To those that obey unrighteousness, God will render
indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of
man that doth evil.
56 God'^s Jealousy, Chap. I.
Heb. X. 27. A fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indigna-
tion, wliich shall devour the adversaries.
CLII. Fury. Lev. xxvi. 27. If ye will walk contrary to me,
Ver. 28. Then Mdll I walk contrary to you in fury.
Job XX. 23. God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon the wicked,
and shall rain it upon him. '
Isa. lix. 18. Godwin repay fury to his adversaries. Ch. Ixiii. 3.
Jer. iv. 4. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the
foreskins of your hearts, lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn
that none can quench it, because of the evil of you r doings.
Ezek. V. 15. 1 will execute judgments on thee in anger, and in fury,
and in furious rebukes. Ch. vi. 12. — xxxviii. 18. Nah. i. 2, 6.
CLIIL Vengeance. Deut. xxxii. 35. To me belongeth vengeance,
and recompence. Ps. xciv. 1. Heb. x. SO.
Ver. 4L I will render vengeance to mine enemies. Ver. 43.
Rom. iii. 5. The Lord taketh vengeance. Ch. xii. 19.
2 Thess. i. 8. The Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from hea-
ven, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God,
and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
CLIV. God abhorretli. Ps. v. 6. The Lord will abhor the bloody
man.
X. 3. The covetous man the Lord abhorreth.
CLV. Loathetfu Zech. xi. 8. My soul loathed them.
Prov. xiii. 5. A wicked man is loathsome.
God despiseth. Amos v. 21. I hate, I despise your feast-days.
CLVL God hateth. Ps. v. 5. Thou hatest all the workers of ini-
i^uity. Ps. xi. 5.
Jer. xliv. 8. Do not the abominable thing I hate, (viz.) Sin.
Hos. ix. 15. I hate them for their wickedness.
CLVn. The Lord is a terrible God. Deut. vii. 21. The Lord your
God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. Jer. xx. 1 1.
Job XXX vii. 23. With God is terrible majesty.
Ps. xlvii. 2. The Lord most high is terrible. Ps. Ixviii. 35.
Deut. X, 2 1 . He hath done terrible things. 1 Chron xvii. 2 1 . See
Ps. Ixv. 5. — Ixvi. 3, 5. — cvi. 22.»— cxlv, 6. Isa. Ixiv. 3. Joel ii. 1 I.
CLVIII. Dreadful. Dan. ix. 7. O Lord the great and dreadful God.
Heb. X. 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God. See Job xiii. 11. Isa. viii. 13. Mai. i. 14.
god's JEAI.OUSY'
CLIX. G od is jealous for his ficofile. Promises, Ezek. xxxix. 25.
Thus saith the Lord, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob, and
have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous
for my holy name.
Jpel ii. 18. The Lord will be jealous for his land, and pity his peo-
ple.
Zech. i. 14. Thus saith the Lord of hosts. I am jealous for Jeru-
salem, and for Zion, with a great jealousy. Ch. viii. 2.
God^s Jealousy in threats against sinners, Exod. xx. 5. I the Lord
your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers up-
on the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that
hate me. Ch. xxxiv. 14. Deut. iv. 24. — v. 9. — vi. 15. Jos. xxiv. 19.
Chap. II. Creation, 57
Numb. XXV. H. Phineas turned away my wrath, I consumed not
the children of Israel in my jealousy.
Deut. xxix. 20. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy, shall
smoke against the man that promiseth himself peace in his wickedness.
Ps. Ixxix. 5. Wilt thou be angry for ever, shall thy jealousy burn
like a lire ?
Ezek. xvi. 38. I will judge thee, and give thee blood in furv and
jealousy. Ver. 41,42. Ch. xxiii. 25. — xxxvi. 5, 6. — xxxviii. 19.Nah.
i. 2. Zeph. i. 18. — iii. 8. The wicked provoke God to jealousy. See
Deut. xxxii. 16. Ps. Ixxviii. 58.
CLX. Zeal ascribed to God. Isa.ix. 7. The zeal of the Lord of hosts
%vill perform this (viz.) to exalt Christ and promote his kingdom.
xxxvii. 32. -The zeal of the Lord will defend Jerusalem.
lix. 17. He was clad with zeal, as a cloke. See Isa. Ixiii. 15. Ezek
r. 13
C H A P. II.
CREATION.
I. GOD created all things. See the Wisdom of God. Also, Power
of God in creation.
Prov. xxvi. 10. The great God that formed all things. Eccl. iii.
11. — xi. 5.
Isa. xliv. 24. I am the Lord that makelh all things. Jer. x. 16.
Heb. iii. 4. He that built all things is God.
Rev. iv. 1 1 . Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and hon-
our, and power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure
they are and were created.
II. God created the heavens and the earth. Gen. i. 1. In the begin-
ning, God created the heavens and the earth. Ch. ii. 4. Exod. xx. 1 1.
— xxxi. 17. 2 Kings xix. 15. 1 Chron. xvi. 26. Ps. xcvi. 5. Isa.
xxxvii. 16. Heb. i. 10.
Neh. ix. 6. Thou hast made heaven, and the heaven of heavens,
with all their hosts, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas,
and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all, an4 the host of
heaven worshippeth thee.
Job ix. 8. He alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon;
the waves of the sea.
xj^xviii. 4. Where wast thou v/hen I laid the foundations of the
earth ?
Ver. 5. Who hath laid the measures thereof, or who hath stretch-
ed the line upon it ?
Ver. 6. Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened, or who
laid the corner stone thereof ?
Ver. 7. When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons
of God shouted for joy.
Ps. xxiv. 2. He hath founded the earth upon the seas, and estab-
lished it upon the floods. Ps. Ixxviii. 69, — civ. 5, — cxix. 90, 91. —
cxxxvi. 6.
58 Creation. Chap, II.
Ps. xxyiii. 6. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and
all the host of them, by the breath of his mouth.
Ixxxix. 11. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine, as for
the world, and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
civ. 2. Thou stretchest out the heavens like a curtain. Job xxxvii.
18. Like a molten looking-glass.
Isa. xl. 28. He is the Creator of the ends of the earth.
Isa. :j.lii. 5. The Lord created the heavens and stretched them out,
he spread fcrth the earth, and that which cometh out of it.
li. 13. The Lord hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the
foundations of the earth. Ver. 16.
Rev. >:iv. 7. Worship him that made heaven and earth, and the
sea, and the fountains of waters. Acts xiv. 15. — xvii. 24. Ps. cxlvi. 6.
See ivisdom of God in creation. See also power of Godin creation,
in. Sun and moon created. Gen. i. 16. God made two great lights,
the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night, he made the stars also. Job xxxviii. 12, !9, 24.
Gen. i. 3. God said let there be light, and there was light. Ps.
Ixxiv. 16, 17.
Job ix. 9. Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the
chambersof the south. Ver. 7. Amos v.. 8.
Ps. viii. 3. When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers,
the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained.
Ver. 4. W^hat is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of
man that thou visitest him.
xix. 4. In the heavens hath he seta tabernacle for the sun.
Ps. civ. 19. He hath appointed the moon for seasons, and the sun
knoweth his going down.
cxlviii. 3. Praise ye him sun, moon and stars, praise him all ye stars
of light.
Ver. 5. For he commanded, and they were created. Ver. 6.
Jer. xxxi. 35. He giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordi-
nances of the moon and stars for a light by night, which divideth the
sea, when the waves thereof do roar, the Lord of hosts is his name.
IV. The sea. Gen. i. 9. God said, let the waters under the heaven
be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, and
it was so.
Ver. 10. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering to-
gether of the waters called he seas, and God saw that it was good.
Job xxvi. 10. He hath compassed the waters v/ith bounds, until
the day and night come to an end.
xxxviii. 8. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth as
if it had issued out of the womb.
Ver. 9. I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness
a swaddling band for it.
Ver. 10. And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bai's and
doors.
Ver. 1 1 . And said hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here
shall thy proud waves be stayed. See ver. 16, 22, 25, 28.
Ps. xxxiii. 7. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an
heap, and layeth up the depth in t^tore-houses.
Chap. II. Creation. S^
Ps. xcv. 5. The sea is his, he made it, his hands formed the dry
iand.
civ. 10. He sendcth the springs into the valleys.
Prov. viii. 27. He prepared Uie heavens, he set a compass upon
the face of the depth.
Ver. 28. He established the clouds above, he strengthened the
fountains of the deep.
Ver. 29. He gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not
pass his commandment.
Isa. xl. 12. Who hath measured the waters in the hallow of his
hand.
xliii. 16. The Lord maketli a way in the sea, and a path in the
mighty waters.
Ver. 20. I give waters in the wildemesa, and rivers in the desert.
Ch. xlviii. 21.
Jonah i. 9. I fear the Lord God of heaven, which hath made the
sea, and the dry land.
Nah. i. 3. The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind, and in the
storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Ver. 4. He rebuketh the sea and maketh it dry, and drieth up all
the rivers.
V. Summer and winter. Ps Ixxiv. 1 6. The day is thine, the night
also is thine, thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Ver. 1 7. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth, thou hast made
summer and winter.
VI. J^orih and south. Job xxvi. 7. He stretcheth out the north over
the empty places, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Ps. Ixxxix. 12. The north and south thou hast created them.
V^n. Clouds. Job xxvi. 8. He bindeth up the waters in his thick
clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them. Ver. 9.
xxxvi. 29. Can any understand the spreadings of the clouds? Ver.
30, 32. See Ps. civ. 3. — cxlvii. 8. Prov. viii. 28.
Wind, Job. xxviii. 25. He maketh a weight for the winds, and he
weigheth the waters by measure. Ch. xxxvii. 16. the balancings of
the clouds. Prov. xxx. 4. Amos iv. 13.
VIH. Rain. Job xxviii. 26. He made a decree for the rain, and
a way for the lightning of tl e thunder.
Ps. cxxxv. 7. He maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth
the wind out of his treasures. Jer. li. 16.
Jer. X. 13. When he uttercth his voice, there is a multitude of
waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from
the ends of the earth, he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth
forth the wind out of his treasures. Ch. xiv. 22. Ch. li. (6.
IX. The inhabitants of the sea. Gen. i. 20, God said, let the waters
bring forth abundantly, the moving creature that hath lifc^ and fowl
that may fly above the earth, in the open firmament of heavei\.
Ver. 21. And God created great whales, and every living creature
that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their
kind ; and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it
was good. Ps. viii. 8.
X. The inferior creatures cf the dry kind. Gen. i. 34. G©d said, let
H
60 Creation of Man. Chap. If.
the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and
creeping things, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was so.
Gen. i. 25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and
cattle after their kind : and every thing that creepeth upon the earth
after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
XI. Grass^ hfrbs, and trees. Gen. i. M. And God, said let the
earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth :
and it was so.
Ver. 12. And the earth brought forth grass and herb, yielding
seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in
itself after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Gen. ii. 4, 5.
CREATION OF MAN.
XII. His body. Gen. ii. 7. God formed man of the dust of the
ground. Job xxxiii. 6.
iii. 19. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Job. x. 9.
Job X. 8. Thine hands have made me, and fashioned me together
roundabout. Ps. cxix. 73. — cxxxviii. 8.
Ver. 1 1. Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fen-
cetl: me with bones and sinews.
Ps. cxxxix. 14. I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Ver. 15. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made
in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Ver. 16. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect,
antT in thy book all my members are written, which in continuance
were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Acts xvii. 20. He made of one blood all nations that dwell on the
face of the earth. Job xxxi. 15.
XIII. His sold'. Gen. ii. 7. The Lord breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life, and man became a living soul. Job x. 12..
Job xxxiii. 4. The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of
the Almighty hath given me life. Isa. xlii. 5.
Isa. Ivii. 16. I will not contend for ever, (saith the Lord,) for the
spirit should fail before me and the souls which I have made.
Jer. xxxviii. 16. The Lord made us this soul.
Zech.xii. i. He formeththe spirit of man within him.
1 Cor.xv. 14. Adam was made a living soul.
XIV. Man's s/nriiual state after his creation. Gen. i. 37. God
created man in his own image. Ch. ix. 6,
V. 1. In the likeness of God made he him.
Ps. viii. 5. Thou madest man a little lower than the angels, and:
crowned him with glory and honour. Heb. ii. 7.
Ver. 6. Thou madest him to have dominion over the work^ of thy
hands.
Eccl. vii. 29. God made mun upright.
Jam. iii 9. Men are made after the similitude of God.
Col. iii. 1 0. The new man is renewed in knowledge, after the image
of him that created him-
Chap. II. Angels, 51
XV. Mans Jirst difiohcdinicc^ or fall from his hafifiy state. Gen. ii.
16. The Lord God commanded the man saymg, of every tree of the
garden thou mayest freely cat.
Ver. If. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not leat of it, for in the <!ay thou eatest thereof, thou shall sure-
ly die.
iii. 6. The woman took of the fruit thereof and did eat, and gave
also unto her husband with her and he did eat. 2 Cor. xi. 3. See
^«ntence pronounced against the offenders. Ver. 14 to 20.
XVI. *S'(?e the above sin and its consequences referred to^ Rom. \.
12. By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin.
Rom. V. 15. Through the ofience of one many be dead.
Ver. 17. By one man's offence death reigned.
Ver. 18. By the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to
condemnation.
Ver. 19. By one man's disobedience many were made sinners.
AXGELS.
XV^II. Their number . Gen. xxxii. 1, 2. They are God's host.
I Kings xxii. 19. 2 Chron. xviii. 18. Heavenly host. Luke ii. 13.
Ps. Ixviii. 17. The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thou-
sands of angels.
Dan. vii. 10. Thousands of thouiiands ministered unto him, and
ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
Heb xii. 22. Ah innumerable company of angels.
XVIII. Their names, Eph. i. 21. Angels, authorities, principali-
ties, powers, m/ights, thrones, dominions. 1 Pet. iii. 22. Col. i. 16, Sec.
Cherubims. 1 Sam. iv. 4. 2 Sam. vi. 2. 2 Kings xix. 15. Ps. xviii.
10. — Ixxx. 1. — xcix. 1. Seraphims. Isa. vi. 2, 6.
jin^els of God. Gen. xii. 17. Matt. xxii. 30. Sons of God. Job i.
8. — ii. 1. — xxKviii. 7. Christ's angels. Rev. xxii. 16. Michael's an-
gels. Rev. xii. 7.
XIX. Their nature^ they arc sufierior to men. Ps. viii. 5. Heb.. ii.
7, 9. They are spirits. Ps. civ. 4, Heb. i. 7. Holy. Rev. xiv. 10.
Elect. 1 Tim. v. 21.
They excel in wisdom and knowledge. 2 Sam. xiv. 20.
They excel in utterance, or speaking tongues. 1 Cor. xiii. 1.
XX. They excel i?i strength. Ps. ciii. 4.
They were created by Christ. Col. i. 16.
They are fellow servants to the prophets and apostles, and are
not to be worshipped. Judg. xiii. 16. Col.ii. 18. Rev. xix. 10. — xxii. 9.
They look into gospel mysteries concerning Christ. Eph. iii. 10.
They are present in Christian assemblies. 1 Cor. xi. 10.
They see the behaviour of Christians. I Tim. v. 21.
They see the treatment Christians receive in the world. 1 Cor. iv.9
They behold the face of God, for Christians. Matt, xviii. 10.
They rejoice at the conversion of sinners. Luke xv. 10.
XXI. Their employment for the good of God''s fieofUc^ in iHirious in-
stances. Gen. xix. 15. An angel hastened lot out of Sodom. See ver. 29.
62 Angels. , Chap. II..
Gen. xxii. 11. An angel saved Isaac from being slain. Ver. 12.
xxiv. 40. Abraham said to his servant, the Lord before whom I
walk will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way. Ver. 7.
xxviii" 12. Jacob dreamed, and beheld a ladder, and the angels of
God ascending and descending. Heb. i. 14. Are they not ministering
spirits, sent forth to minister for them, who shall be heirs of salva-
tion ?
xhiii. 16. Angel redeemed Jacob, out of all evil. Ch. xxxi. 11.
XXII. Instances of the care and services of angels fur God's fieoj-ife^
coming from Kgyfit.
Exod. xix. 20. An angel of God went before the camp of Israel.
Ch. xiii. 21 \xiii. 20, 23. — xxxii. 34. — xxxiii. 2.
Numb. XX. 16. God sent his angel and brought us out of Egypt.
Zech. xii. 8.
Isa. Ixiii. 9. The angel of his presence saved them.
1 Kings xix. 5, 7. An angel feeds and refreshes Elijah when per-
secuted.
2 Kings vi. 17. Angels deliver Elisha from enemies.
Ps. xxxiv. 7. 1 he angel of the Lord encampeth round about them
that fear him, and delivereth them.
xci. 1 1 . He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in
all thy ways.
Ver. 12. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash
thy foot against a stone.
D.in. iii. 25, 28. Angels saved three Jews, viz. Shadrach, Meshach
and Abed-nego, from being burned in the fiery furnace.
vi. 22. An angel saved Daniel from being hurt in the lions den.
Mat xviii. 10. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little
ones, for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always be-
hold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
LuKe <vi. 22. The beggar died, and was carried by angels into
Abraham's bosom.
John V. 4. An angel went down at a certain season, and troubled
the water, and whoever stepped in first was healed.
Acts V. 19, 20. An angel delivered the apostles from prison. Ch.
xii. 7, 11.
XXIII. Revelations of God^s will and directions given by angels.
Gen. xvi. 7. An angel directs Hager to return home, and informs
her of the future greatness of her son's posterity. Ch. xxi. 17, 18.
Gen xviii. 2, 10. Angels foretel to Abraham the birth of a son,
and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
xxii. 1 7. An angel informs Abraham of the future greatness of
liis posterity.
xxxi. 1 1. An angel directs Jacob to return to his country.
Exod. iii. 2, 10. An angel directs Moses to deliver Israel. Deut.
xxxiii. 16. Acts. vii. 30, 35, 38.
vi. 11 to 22. An angel directs Gideon to deliver Israel from ene-
mies.
xiii. 3 to 21. An angel foretels the Inrth of Samson.
2 Kings iii. 1 , 1 5, 1 6. An angel directs Elijah to deliver a message
Chap. II. Angels. ^ 65
full of reproof to the king of Samaria, for consulting heathen gods
about his recovery.
Dan. viii. 17, 19. The angel Gabriel explains to Daniel a vision,
concerning the delivery of the Jews. Ch. i '. 21, 22.
X. 1 1. An angel expounds to Daniel, and encourages him, See to
ver. 22.
Zech. i. 9 to 20. An angel expounds to the prophets. See Ch. ii.
iii. iv. Ver. 1 to 8. Ch. v. vi. Ver. 1 to 9.
Acts vii. 53 The law was delivered on mount Sinai by angels.
Ver. 38. Gal. iii, 19. Heb. ii. 2.
viii. 26. By direction of an angel, Philip joins the eunuch, and
instructs and baptizes him. See from ver. 30, to 39.
X. 3. By direction of an angel Cornelius sends for Peter, to receive
from him the knowledge of Christ. Ver. 4, 6, 22, 30. Ch. xi.
13, U.
xxvii. 24. By information from an angel, Paul declare's the safety
of himself, and those who sailed with him.
Rev. i. I. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto
liim, and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant Joim.
Ch. xxii. 16.
xxii. 9. The angel said, I am thy fellow servant, and of tliy bre-
thren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book.
See other revelations by angels. Rev. x. 1, 5, 6, 7. — xi. 15. — xiv.
6 to 19. — xvii. 1. — xviii. I, 21.
XXIV. Angels infilct. God's judgments on the wicked. Gen. iii. 24.
V/hen Adam and Eve had been turned out of Paradise, God planted
cherubims and a flaming sword to keep the way of the tree of life.
xix. 1 to 29. Sodom is destroyed by angels.
Exod. xii. 29. The first born in Egypt slain by a destroying an gel.
Ver. 23.
Numb. xxii. 22. The angel of the Lord stood in the way for an
.adversary against Balaam. See to ver. 36.
Judg. ii. 1, 4. An angel is sent to reprove Israel for disobedi-
ence.
2 Sam. xxiv. ' 6. An angel strctcIicJout his hand upon Jerusalem
to destroy it, after he had slain in other parts, seventy thousand men
by pestilence. Ver. 15.
2 Kings xix. 35. An angel of the Lord smote in tlie camp of tiie
Assyrians, an hundred fourscore and five thousand. Jsa. xxxvil. 36,
Ps. XXXV. 5. Let the angel of the Lord chase the wicked.
Ver. 6. Let the angel of the Lord persecute them.
Ixxviii. 49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath
and indignation and trouble, by sending evil angels among them-
Acts xii. 23. An angel of the Lord smote Herod because he gave
not God the glory, and he was eaten of worms.
Rev. vii. 2. To four angels it was given to hurt the earth and the sea.
viii. 5. See to the end of this chapter, and the whole 9th chapter.
XV. 1. Seven angels, having the seven last plagues, Ver. 6. See
these plagues through the whole 16th chapter.
XX. 1. An angel binds Satan. See also Ch. xix. 17.
64 , Angels. Chap. II.
XXV. Their attendance on^ and services to Christ. Luke i. 1 1 to
21. The angel Gabriel foretels the birth, manner of life, and minis-
try of John the forerunner of Christ.
Ver 26. The same angel foretels to the virgin Mary the concep-
tion and birth of Jesus Christ, and his greatness. See to ver. 35.
Matt. i. 20. An angel informs Joseph of Christ's conception, in
the womb by the power of the Holy Ghost.
Luke ii. 9 to 14. Angels publish the birth of Christ to shepherds,
and praise God on that occasion.
Matt. ii. 13. An angel warns Joseph to carry Jesus and his mo-
ther unto Egypt for safety.
Ver. 19. An angel directs Joseph and Mary, to return with Jesus
from Egypt. Ver. 28.
Matt. iv. 1 1 . Angels ministered unto Jesus when he was tempted
of the devil. Mark i. 13. John i. 5 1 .
Lvike xxii. 43. When Christ was in an agony, before he was ap-
prehended by enemies, there appeared an angel unto him from hea-
ven strengthening him.
Matt. xxvi. 51. When Jesus was apprehended, Peter drew his
sword to fight for him.
Ver. 52. Jesus said, put up thy sword, thinkest thou that I can-
not now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than
twelve legions of angels.
Matt, xxviii. 2. At Christ's resurrection, an angel rolls back the
stone from the door of the sepulchre, and sat on it.
Ver. 5. He publishes Christ's resurrection to those who came to
the sepulchre and directs them where to publish it. V^er. 7. Luke
xxiv. 5, 6, 7. John xx. 12, 13.
Acts i. 10, 11. Christ's ascension, angels declare to the apostles
his coming again.
XXVI. They shall attend Christ at his coming to judgment. Matt.
xvi. 21. The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with
his angels, and then shall he reward every man according to his
work. Ch. XXV. 31, 32. Mark viii. 38. Luke i:^. 26.
Luke xii. 8. Jesus said, whosoever shall confess me before men,
him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God.
Ver. 9. He that denieth me before men, shall be denied before the
angels of God. Rev. iii. 5.
1 Thess. iv. 16. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven,
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 1 Cor. xv. 52.
XXVII. Their employment at the day of judgment. Matt. xiii. o9.
The harvest is the end of the world, the reapers are the angels.
Matt. xxiv. 31. The Son of man shall send his angels with a great
sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the
four winds, from the one end of heaven to the other. Mark xiii. 27.
xiii. 41. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they
shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them that
do iniquity.
Ver. 42. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire, there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth. Ver 49, 50.
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Chap. IL jDevils. 65
2 Thess. i. 7. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with
his mighty angels.
Ver. 8. In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not
God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ver. 9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction, from
the pi'esence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.
XXVIIL They are worshippers of God the Father. Ps. ciii. 20.
Bless the Lord all ye his angels. Rev. vii. 11. — ^iix. iO. — xxii. 9.
Ver. 21. Bless the Lord all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his that
do his pleasure. Ps. cxlviii. 2.
Isa. vi. 2. The seraphims cried one to another, and said, holy,
holy, lioly, is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory.
Dan. vii. 10. Thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten
thousand times ten thousand stood before him.
XXIX. They worship Chris-t and are subject to him. Heb. i. 4. Christ
was made better than the angels,
Ver. 6. God said, let all the angels of God worship him.
R£v. V. 11. Angels round about the throne said,
Ver. 12. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power
and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and glory, and honour, and
blessing.
They are not to be worshipped. See Col.ii. 18. Rev. xix. 10, 11,
—xxii. 8, 9.
DEVILS.
XXX. Of angels^ some sinned and are reserved unto punishment,
2 Pet. ii. 4. God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to bell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be re-
served unto judgment.
Jude ver. 6. The angels that kept not their fii^t estate, but left
their own habitatiDn, God hath reserved in everlasting chains under
darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Rev. XX. 10. The devil that deceived the nations, was cast into
the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet
are, and shall be tormented day and night, for ever and ever.
Matt. XXV. 41. Everlasting fire is prepared for the devil and hii^
angels-
XXXI. What their sin is supposed to have been. See alcove Jude
ver. 6.
1 Tim. iii. 6. Pride is called the condemnation of the devil.
Job xxxviii. 7. Morning stars, is the name of angels, this name is^
given to the proud king of Bal)ylon losing his power, as one of these
morning stars falling.
Isa. xiv. 9. Hell from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at.
thy coming.
Ver. 12. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of tho
morning.
Luke X. 1 8. Jesus said, I beheld Satan fall as lightning from heaven,
XXXII. jXa me s given to these in scripture. — The God of this world,
2 Cor. iv. 4. — The prince of this world, John xiv. 30. — xvi. 1 1, Bee F-
zebub the prince of devils, Luke xi. 15. — The prince of the power ol
the airj Lph. ii. 2.— Belial who hath his sons and children of th*
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wicked. See Deut. xiii. 13. Judg. xix. 22.— xx. 13. 1 Sam. ii. 12.—
X, 277— XXX. 22. 2 Sam.xx. 1. 1 Kings xxi. 10. 2 Chr. xiii. 7. 2 Cor.
vi. 15. — Vhe devil and his angels. Mat. xxv. 41.
The dra<ron and his angels. Rev. >_ii. 7, 9. The angel of the bot-
tomless pit. Rev. ix. 11.
Rev. xii. 9. The great dragon, the old serpent, the devil and Sa-
tan, the deceiver and hi;i angels.
Ver. 10. The accuser of the brethren, compare Jobi. 9. — ii. 5.
Zech. iii. 1.
Ti ey are called principalities and powers. Rom. viii. 38. Eph . vi. 12.
XXXiil. Devils are refireacnted as enemies to all good ^ and firomo-
iers of sin and misery among mankind. Gen. iii. I to 7. Satan cal-
led the serpent. 2 Cor. xi. 3. And the old serpent the devii. Rev.
xii. 9. ---XX. 2. Beguiled Eve.
2 Sam. xxiv. 1. Ke moved David to number the people.
Zech. iii. 2. Satan stood at Joshua's right hand to resist him.
Matt. xiii. 38. The tares are the children of the wicked one.
Ver. 39. The enemy that sowed the tares is the devil.
Luke xxii. 31, 32. Satan desired to have Peter to sift him.
John vi. 70. Jesus said (of Judas), one of you is a devil.
xiii. 27. Satan entered into Judas, and tempted him to betray hi^
master. Luke x^ii. 3.
xvii. 12. Judas v/as the son of perdition. 2 Thess- iii. 5. The man
of sin is the son of perdition.
viii. 44. To his enemies Jesus said, ye are of your father the devil,
and the lusts of your father ye will do ; he was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in
him.
Acts V. 3. lie put in the hearts of Ananias and Sapphira to lie to
the Holy Ghost.
Eph. ii. 2. Satan is the spirit that worketh in the children of dis-
obedience.
vi. 12. Devils are the rulers of the darknes.s of this world.
1 Thess. iii. 5. Satan is the tempter, l Tim. v. 15. Some turn
aside after him.
Jam. iii. 15. Envy and strife is the wisdom that is earthly, sensu-
al, and devilish.
1 John iii. 8. He that committcth sin is of the devil. Ver. 11.
Ver. 12. Cain was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.
Rev. xii. 9. Satan deceiveth the whole world.
Satan's hurtfulness to the bodies and worldly interests of mankind.
See Job i. 6 to 20. and ii. 7. Also devils cast out by Christ. Sec
Christ's miracles.
XXXIV. The eninitij and endeavours of Satan^ and his servanCn^ to
Christ and his servaJits, Matt. iv. 1. Satan tempted Christ. Mark i. 12.
xiii. 19. V/hen any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and un-
derstandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away
that which was sown in his heart. Mark iv. 15.
Luke viii. 12. The devil taketh away the word out of their hearts,
lest th. y should believe, and be saved.
Acts ^iii, 10. They pervert the ri^ht ways of the Lord.
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2 Cor. iv« 4. The gocl of this world hath blinded the minds of
those who believe not.
2 Cor. xii. 7. A messenger of Satan buffetted Paul.
1 Thess. ii. 18. Satan hindered the apostles. Rev. il. 10.
2 Thess. ii. 9, The coming of the man of sin, is after the work-
ing of Satan with all pov/cr and signs, and laying wonders, and with
ail deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because
they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved,
1 Tim. iv. 1. Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.
Rev. iii. 9. They say they are Jews, and are not, but are of the
synagogue of Satan. See Rev. ii. 9, 10. — 3<ii. 13. — xx. 9.
' XXXV. I'heij bt'llrue that there is a God. Jam. ii. 19. The devils
believe and tremble.
They kno^jj Chrht. Mark. i. 24. They said to Jesus, let us alone,
what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth, art thou come
to torment us before the time, we know thee who thou art, the holy
one of God.
Luke iv. 4 1 . Devils came out of many, crying out, and saying, thou
art Christ the Son of God.
XXXVI. They hie%v Christ's servants. Acts xvi. 16. A damsel
possessed with a spirit of divination, v/hich brought her masters much
gain by sooth-saying,
Ver. 17. Followed Paul and other apostles, saying, these men
are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way
of salvation.
Ver. 18. Paul commanded the evil spirit to come out of her.
xix. ! 3. Certain vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to
call over them which had evil spirits, the name of the L.ord Jesus,
saying, we adjure you by Jesus., whom Paul preacheth.
Ver. 15. The evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know^, and
Paul I know, but who are ye ?
Acts xix. 16. And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leapt on
them and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they
fled out of that house naked and wounded.
XXX Vil. They knew the sacred scrifitures. Matt. iv. 6. They pro-
duce the v/ords of Ps. xci. 1 1. Saying, it is written, he shall give his
angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear
thee up, lest at any time thou dush thy foot against a stone.
XXXVIII. Satan was over corac by Christ. Matt. iv. 1 to 12. When
Jesus was forty days tempted of the devil, the devil leaveth him
without succeeding.
John xiii. 3 1 . Jesus said, now shall the prince of this world be
cast out.
xiv. 30. Jesus said, the prince of this world cometh and hath no-
thing in me.
xvi. 1 1. The prince of this v/orld is judged.
Col. ii. 15. He spoiled principalities and pov/ers, triumphing over
them.
Heb. ii. 14. Christ destroyed him that had the power of death,
that is the devil.
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1 John iii. 8. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that he mii^ht destroy the works of the devil.
Rev. xvii. 14. The Lamh shall evercome them, i. e. the servants
of Satan. See Rev. xii. 7, 9, 10, 1 1.
XXXIX. Satan is overcome by Christians, through divine Jiower com-
inunicated.
Matt. X. 1. Jesus gave his disciples power against unclean spirits,
to cast them out. Mark iii. 15. — vi. 7.
Luke X. 1 7. The disciples returned with joy, saying to Jesus, even
the devils are subject to us, through thy name.
Acts xxvi. 17, 18. Jesus said to Paul, I send thee to open mens
eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of
Satan unto God.
Rom. xvi. 20. The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet.
2 Tim. ii. 25. If God will give them repentance to the acknow-
ledgment of the truth ;
Ver. 26. That they may recover themselves out of the snare of
the devil, who are taken captive by him, at his will. Col, i. 13.
1 John ii. 14, I have written unto you young men, because ye are
strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome
the wicked one. Ver. 13. Eph. vi. 10, 11.
V. 18. He that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wick-
ed one toucheth him not. Ch. iv. 4.
Rev. xii. 11. They overcame Satan by the blood of the Lamb,
and by the word of their testimony. See Rom. viii. 37, 38.
XL. Promises to them that overcome Satan. Rev. ii 7. The tree of
life. — 1 1. 1 hat he shall not be hurt of the second death. — 17. Shall
have hidden manna. — 26. Power over the nations. Ch. iii. 5.
Shall be cloathed in white. — 12. Shall be made a pillar in the temple
of God — 21. Shall sit with Christ in his throne. Ch. xxi. 7. Shall
inherit all things. — 1 Cor. vi. 3. Shall judge fallen angels.
XLI. Duties exhorted to in ofifiosition to Satan. 1 Cor. vii. 5. Let
the husband and wife come together, that Satan tempt you not for
your incontinency.
2 Cor. ii. 11. Let us receive an offender, when become penitent,
lest Satan get an advantage of us, for we arc not ignorant of his de-
vices.
xi. 2» Paul said, I am jealous over you, with a godly jealousy.
Ver. 3. I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve,
through his subtilty, so your minds shall be corrupted from the sim-
plicity that is in Christ.
Ver. 14. For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
Ver. 15. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed, as the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be
according to their works.
Eph. iv. 26. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
Ver. 27. Neither give place to the devil.
vi. 11. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to
stand against the wiles of the de\il.
Ver. 12. For wc wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
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principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph. vi. 1 6. Take the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to
quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
Jam. iv. 7. Resist the devil, and he will flee^^from you.
1 Pet. V. 8. Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the de-
vil, as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour.
Ver. 9. Whom resist stedfast in the fidth.
Jude ver. 9. Michael the archangel said, the Lord rebuke thee^
Satan. Zech. iii. 2.
CHAP. III.
GOD'S GOVERNMENT.
I. HE is the klng^ ruler and governor of the rjorld^ having a throjic,
kingdom^ dominion^ government. 2 Kings xix. 15. Thou art the God
of all the kingdoms of the earth.
2 Chron. xxix. 1 1. Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glo-
ry, and thou art exalted as head above all. Matt. vi. 13.
XX. 6. Art thou not God in heaven, and rulest not thou over all
the kingdoms of the heathen, and in thine hand is there not power,
and might, so that none is able to withstand thee ?
Job. xxv. 2. Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in
his high places.
Ps. X. 16 'i he Lord is King for ever and ever.
xi. 4. The Lord's throne is in heaven, his eyes behold, his eye-lids
try the children of men.
xxii. 28. The kingdom is the Lord's, and he is the governor a-
mong the nations.
xlv. 6. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever, the sceptre of
thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
xlvii. 2. The Lord most high, is a great King over all the earth.
Ver. 8. God reigneth over the heathen, God sitteth on the throne
of his holiness.
Ixvi. 7. He ruleth by his power for ever, his eyes behold the na-
tions.
Ixxxix. 14. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne.
xcv. 2. The Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
xcvii. 9. Clouds and darkness are round about him, righteousness
and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
ciii. 19. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens, and
his kingdom rulelh over all.
cxlv. 13. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy domi-
nion endureth throughout ail generations.
Prov. viii. 16. By me princes rule even all the nobles of the earth.
Isa. xxxvii. 16. Thou art God, even thou alone, of all the king-
doms of ihe earth. Ch. vi. 5. The king, the Lord of hosts.
Ixvi. 1. The heaven i:> my throne, and the earth is my footstool.
Jer. X. 10, Tiie Lord, he is the true God, he is the living God^
70 Counsels of God. Chap. III.
and an everlasting King, at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the
nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Dan. iv. 3. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his domi-
nion is from generation to generation. Ver. 34.
vi. 26. He is the living God and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom
is that v;hich shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even
\into the end. Ch. vii. 14, 27.
1 Tim. vi. 15. He is the blessed and only potentate, the King of
khigs and Lord of lords.
H. God is the lanv-givcr. Isa. xxxiii. 22, The Lord is our law-giv-
er, the Lord is our king.
Jam. iv. 12. He is the one law-giver, who is able to srive and to
destroy.
HL God is the judge of the earth. Gen. xviii. 25. The judge of
till the earth. Ps. xciv. 2. Heb. xii. 23.
Deut. X. ii. 16. 1 he Lord shall judge his people. Eccl. iii. 17. He
shall judge the righteous and the wicked.
1 Sam. ii. 10. The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth.
Ps. ix. 4. Thou sittest in the throne judging right.
i. 6. God is judge himself. Ps. Ixxvi. 8.
xcvi. 13: He shall judge the world v/ith righteousness, and the
people with his truth.
COUNSELS OF GOD.
IV. God hath his coviif^els. Ps. xxxiii. 11. The counsel of the
Lord standeth for ever, and the thoughts of his heart to all genera-
tions, Prov. xix. 2 I .
Prov. viii. 14. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom, I have under-
standing.
Isa. XXV. 1. Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
xxviii. 29. Tiie Lord of hosts is wonderful in counsel, and excel-
lent in working. Jer. xxxii 19.
xl. 14r With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him ?
Ver. 17. All nations before him are as nothing.
xlvi. 10. My counsel shall stand, I will do all my pleasure.
Jer. xxxii. 19. The Lord of hosts, great in counsel and mighty in
work.
Acts ii. 23. Jesus was delivered by the determinate counsel, and
fore-knowledge of God.
iv. 27. Against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed,
both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with tne Gentiles and people of Is-
rael, v/erc gathered together.
Ver. 28. For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel deter-
mined before to be done.
Heb. vi. 17. God willing to shew the immutability of his counsel,
confirmed (his promise) by an oath.
V. Furfiose of God. Jer. Ii. 29. Every purpose of God, shall be
performed. See purposes of God, concerning particular nations. Isa.
xiv. 24, 27. — :ax. 12. — xxiii. 9 — xlvi. 11. — xlix. 20.
Chap. III. IVill of God-^Ordinations of God. 7i
Rom. viii. 28. All things work together for good, to them that
love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
ix. 11. That the purpose of God according to election might stand.
Ver. 12, It was said the eldest brother should serve the younger.
Ver. 17. Concerning Pharoah God said, for this same purpose
have I raised thee up, that 1 might shew my power in thee.
Eph. i. 11. In Christ we have obtained an inheritance^ being pre-
destinated, according to the purpose of him who worketb all things,
after the counsel of his own will.
iii. 1 1 . According to the eternal purpose, which God purposed in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Tim. i. 9. God hath saved us, and called us with an holy cal-
ling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose,
and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus, before the world be-
gan.
WILL OF GOD.
VI. God doth ivill. Job xxiii. 13. He is of one mind, and who can
turn him ? and what his soul desireth that he doth. Ps. xxxiii. 1 1.
Dan. iv. 35. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as no-
thing, and he doth according to his will, in the army of heaven, and
among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand, or
say unto him, what doest thou ? Job. xxxiii. 13.
Isa. xlvi. 10. My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.
Iv. 11. My word shall accomplish that which I please.
VII. Determinations of God. Job xiv. 5. Man's days are determin-
ed, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed the
bounds that he cannot pass. Ver. 14- Acts xvii. 26.
Isa. X. 23. The Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even
determined in the midst of all the land. Ch. xxviii. 22. Zeph. iii. 8.
Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and
upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of
sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting
righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint
the most holy. Ver. 26, 27.
xi. 36. That that is determined shall be done.
Zeph. iii. 8. My determination is to gather the nations, to pour
upon them mine indignation.
►■ Matt. xxvi. 24. The Son of man goeth as it is determined of him..
Acts iv. 28.
ORDINATIONS OF GOD.
VIII. Ordination^ things ordained of God. Ps. cxxxii. 17. I have
ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
Jer. i. 5. I ordained thee to be a prophet to the nations. 2 Tim.
ii. 7.
Hab. ii. 12. Thou hast ordained them, (the enemy,) for judgment,
and, O mighty God, thou hast ordained them for correction.
XV. 16. Jesus said, I have ordained you, that ye should go and
bring forth fruit. Eph. ii. 10.
Acts i. 21, 22. Of those men must one be orduincd, a witness v.ith
us, of Christ's resurrection.
72 Decrees of God-^Predestination — Election. Chap. III.
Acts i. 23. And the apostles appointed two, Joseph and Matthias.
Ver. 24. And they prayed, and said, thou Lord, which knowest the
hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen ;
Ver. 25. That he may take part of this ministry.
Ver. 26. And they gave forth the lots, and the lot fell on Matthi-
as, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.
Jude ver. 14. There are certain men crept in unawares, who were
before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning
the grace of God into lasciviousness, &c.
nECREES OF GOD.
IX. Decrees., things decreed of God. Job xxviii. 26. He made ia
decree for the rain. Ps. cxlviii. 6.
xxxviii. 10. He broke up for the sea his decreed place, and set
bars and doors. Prov. viii. 29. Jer. v. 22.
Dan. iv. 24. This is the decree of the most high God, that is come
upon the king.
Zeph. ii. 2. Before the decree break forth, before the day of the
Lord^s anger come upon you.
X. Appointment s.) things appointed of God» 2 Sam. xvii. 4. The
Lord had appointed to defeat the counsels of Ahitophel
Job vii. 1. Is there not an appointed time for man upon the earth ?
are not his days like the days of an hireling. Ch. xiv. 5, 14.
Prov. viii. 29. He appointed the foundations of the earth.
Dan. viii. 19. At the time appointed, the end shall be. Ch. xi. 27,
35.
Mic. vi. 9. He hath appointed the rod.
Hab. ii. 3. The vision is for an appointed timfc.
Luke xxii. 29. He appointed unto Christ a kingdom.
Acts xvii. 3 L He hath appointed a day, in which he will judge
the world by Jesus Christ.
Gal. iv. 4. When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth
his Son made of a woman.
I Pet ii. 8. Christ is a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence,
to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient, whereunto
also they were appointed. Jude ver. 4.
PREDESTINATION.
XI. Predestination. Things predestinated of God. Rom. ix. 16..
Whom God did foreknow, he did predestinate to be conformed to
the image of his J^on, that he might be the first born among many
brethren.
Ver. 30. Moreover whom did he predestinate, them he also cal-
led, and whom he called, them he also justified, and whom he justi-
fied, them he also glorified.
Eph. i. 5. God having predestinated us to the adoption of children,
by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will.
Ver. 11. In him we have obtained an inheritance, being predes-
tinated according to the purpose of him, who worketh all things ac-
cording to the counsel of his will.
Ver. 12. That we should be to the praise of his glory.
ELECTION.
XII. Election of the Jeivs* Neh. ix. 7, Thou art the Lord, the God
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who didst choose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the
Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham.
Neh. ix. 8. And madest a covenant with him. Compare Gen. xi.
31 xii. 1, 2, 3. Acts xiii. 17.
Deut. iv, 37. Because the Lord loved thy fathers, therefore he
chose their seed after them, and brought thee out of Egypt.
vii. 6 The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people,
unto himself, above all the people that are upon the face of the
earth. Ch. xiv. 2.
Ver. 7. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you,
because ye were more in number than any people, (for ye wxre the
fewest of all the people :)
Ver. 8. But because the Lord loved you, and because he would
keep the oath, which he had sworn to your fathers. Ch. x. 15.
1 Kings iii. 8. Thy servant is in the midst of thy people, whoirt
thou hast chosen.
1 Chron. xvi 13. O ye seed of Israel, his servant, ye children of
Jacob his chosen ones.
Ver. 14. He is the Lord your God. Ps. cv. 6, 7.
Ps. xxxiii. 12. Blessed is the nation, whose God is the Lord, and
the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Ixv. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou chusest and causest to ap-
proach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts.
cv. 43. The Lord brought forth his people with joy, and his cho-
sen with gladness.
cvi 4. Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thoubearest
unto thy people ; O visit me, with thy salvation.
Ver. 5. That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may re-
joice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine in-
heritance.
cxxxii. 13. The Lord hath chosen Zion, he hath desired it for his
habitation.
Ver. 15. I will abundantly bless her provision, Sec. Ps. Ixxviii. 68.
cxx vv. 4. The Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel
for his peculiar treasure.
Isa. xiv. 1. The Lord will yet choose Israel, and set him in his
own land. Ch. xlxix. 7. Zech. i. 17. — ii. 12.
xli. 8. Thou Israel art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen.
Ver. 9. I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.
xliii. 20. 1 give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desar^,
to give drink to my people, my chosen.
xliv. 2. Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee
from the womb, which will help thee, fear not, O Jacob, my servant,
and Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
Ver. 3. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods
upon the dry ground, I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my
blessing upon thine offspring.
Ver. 4. And they shall spring up. Sec.
xiv. 4. For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have
called thee by thy name (Cyrus,; I have surnamed thee, though thou
hast not known mc.
r4 Election. , Chap. III.
Isa. xlviii. 10. I have refined thee, but not with silver, I have cho-
sen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Ver. 17. I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to profit,
which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
Ixv. 9. Mine elect shall inherit my mountain, and my servants
shall dwell there.
Ver. 22. Mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Fzek. XX. 5. Thus saith the Lord God, I chose Israel, and lifted
lip mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, an made myself
known unto them-
Zech. iii. 2. O Satan, the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem, rebuke
thee : Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire ?
Xin. Election of Christians. Matt. xx. 16. Jesus said, many be
called but few chosen.
xxiv. 22. For the elect's sake, those days ^of calamity) shall be
shortened. Mark. xiii. 20.
Ver. 24. False Christs, and false prophets shall shew great signs
and wonders, insomuch, that (if it were possible) they shall deceive
the very elect.
Ver. 31. 'Jhe Son of man shall fat the last day) send his angels
with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his
elect, from the four winds, from the one end of heaven to the other.
Luke xviii. 7. Shall not God avenge his own elect which cry day
and night iuito him.
John vi. 37. Jesus said, all that the Father hath given me, &C.
xiii. 18. Jesus said, I speak not of you all, I know whom I have
chosen : But that the scriptures might be fulfilled, he that eateth
bread with me hath lifted up the heel against me.
XV. 1 6. 1 have chosen you and ordained you, that ye should go
and bring forth fruit.
Ver. 1 9. I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the w^orld
hateth you.
Rom. viii. 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God*8
elect, it is God that justifieth them.
ix. 6. They are not all Israel, which are of Israel.
Ver. 10. When Rebecca had conceived by Isaac.
Rom. ix. 1 1 . The children being not yet born, neither having done
any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election
might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth.
Ver. 12. It was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger.
Ver 13. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, and Esau \\2l\c 1 hated.
Ver. 1 6. It is not of him that willeth, or of him that runneth, but
of God that sheweth mercy.
Ver. 18. He hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom
he will he hardeneth.
Ver. 2 1 . Hath not the potter power over the clay ?
xi. 2. God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew.
Ver. 4. Seven thousand were reserved in Israel, who had not
bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Ver. 5. So at this time, there is a remnant according to the elec-
tion of grace.
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Rom. xi. 6. And if by grace it is no more of works.
Ver. 7. Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for, but the
election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
Ver. 28. As touching the election, the Jews are beloved for the
Father's sake.
Eph. i. 4. God hath chosen us in Christ, before the foundation of
the world, that we should be holy and without blame, before him in
love.
V^er. 5. Having predestinated us to the adoption of children, by
Jesus Christ, to himself according to the good pleasure of his will.
Col. iii. 12. Put on (as the elect of God, holy and beloved bow-
els of mercies, kindness, humbleness, Sec.
1 Thess. i. 4. Knowing brethren, beloved, your election of God.
2 Thess. ii. 13. God hath from the beginning chosen you to sal-
vation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
2 Tim. ii. 10. I endure all things for the elects' sake, that they
may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
Tit. i. 1 . Paul an apostle according to the faith of God's elect.
Jam. ii. 5. Hith not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in
faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them that
love him.
1 Pet. i. 2. Elect according to the fore -knowledge of God the
Father, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience, and sprink-
ling of the blood of Jesus.
ii. 2. Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy na-
tion, a peculiar people, that ye should shevv forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness, to his marvellous light.
V. 13. The church that is in Babylon elected together with you,
1 John, ver I. The elect lady. Ver. 13. The elect sister.
Rev. xvii. 14. They that are with the Lamb, are called and cho-
sen, and faithful.
See 1 Tim. v. 21. Elect angels.
Christ is God's elect. Isa. xlii. i.
XIV. Persons chosen or elected of Godj to fill offices in the church
mid state.
Deut. xvii 15. Thou shalt set him king over thee, whom the
Lord thy God shall choose. Kings chosen of God were Saul.
1 Sam. X. 24. David, 2 Sam. vi. 21. I Kings viii. 16. Ps. lxx:viii. 70.
Ixxxix. 3, 19. — Solomon, 1 Chron. xxix. 1. 1 Sam. ii. 28.
Priests chosen. Levi, Deut. x. 8. Aaron, Num xvi. 5. — xvii. 5, 8.
Twelve apostles chosen. Luke vi. 13.— Matthias, Acts i. 24, 26.
— Stephen, Acts vi. 5. — Paul, Acts ix. 15. — xxii. i 4.
Place of worship chosen. Deut. xii. 5. — xi. 14. — xviii. 21, 26. The
temple. 1 Kings ix. 3. — Jerusalem. 1 Kings xi. 14. Neh. i. 9.
CALLING.
XV. God doth call; his fieofilc are call d. Isa.xl. I. Thus saith the
Lord, that created thee, O Jacob, that formed thee, O Israel, fear
not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name, thou
art mine.
xlviii. 12. Hearken unto mc, O Jacob, and Israel my called, I am
lie, I am the first, I also am the last.
76 Calling, Chap, III.
Isa. Iv. 5. Behold thou shalt cail a nation that thou knowest not,
and nations that knew not thee, shall run unto thee.
Ixii. 2. Thou shalt be called by a new name, which the Lord shall
name.
Joel ii. 32. In mount Zion, and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance,
as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.
Matt. XX. 1. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is
an house-holder, which went out early in the morning to hire labour-
ers unto his vineyard. Ver. 3, 4, 5, 6. He went out about the third,
the sixth, the ninth, and eleventh hour, and sent those he found into
his vineyard. Ver. 9.
Ver. 9, 10. They received every man a penny.
Ver. 1 1. When they murmured against the good man of the house,
I>ecause the first received not more than they who entered last.
Ver. 13. He answered and said, friend I do thee no wrong.
Ver. 15. Is it not lawful for me to do what 1 will with mine own ?
is thine eye evil, because I am good ?
Ver, 16. So the last shall be first, and the first last ; for many be
called but few chosen. Ch. xix. 30.
Matth xxii. 2. The kingdom of heaven shall be like unto a king,
which made a marriage for his son.
Ver. 3. And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden
to the wedding.
John X. 3. The good shepherd ealleth his own sheep by name.
XV. 15. Jesus said, I call you not servants, I have called you
iViends. Heb. iii. 1 1. Christ is not ashamed to call them brethren.
Acts ii. 39. The promise is unto you, and to your children, and
to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Rom. i. 6. Among whom are ye also the called of Jesus Christ.
Ver. 7. To all that be in Rome, called to the saints.
iv. 17. God caileth those things that arc not as though they were.
viii. 28. All thin$^s work together for good, to them that love God.
to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Ver. 30. Whom God did predestinate them he also called.
ix. 11. That the purpose of God according to election might stand,
not of works, but of him that callcth.
Ver. 23. The vessels of mercy he hath prepared unto glory.
Ver. 24. Even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only but
also of the Gentiles.
Ver. 25. God saith, I will call them my people, which were not
my people, and her beloved which was not beloved. Hos. ii. 23.
xi. 29. The gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
1 Cor. i. 9. God is faithful, by whom we were called into the fel-
lowship of his 3on Jesufi Christ our Lord.
Ver. 24. Ui)to them wlio are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ
the power of Cod, and the v/it.;dom of God,
Ver. 26. Ve see your calling bretliren, how that not many wise
men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called.
Ver. 27. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
'•onfound the wise. Ch. xxviii.
I Cor. vii. 1. God hath c.uied us to peace.
Chap. III. Calling; 77
1 Cor, vii. 17. As the Lord hath calledevcry man, so let him walk.
See ver. 18, 20, 21, 24.
Gal. i. 6. I marvel that ye are so soon remov€d from him that
called you into the p;race of Christ.
V. 8. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
Ver. 13. Brethren ye have been called into liberty.
Epii. i. 16. I cease not to give thanks, and to pray, Sec.
Ver. 18. That ye may know what is the hope of his callini^, and
what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.
iv. 1. Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called.
Ver. 2. With all loAviiness and meekness, &:c.
Ver. 4. Ye are called in one hope of your calling.
Phil. iii. 14. 1 press forward toward the mark, for the prize of the,
high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Col. iii. 15. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which
ye are called in one body.
1 Thess. li. 12. Walk v/orthy of God, who hath called you unt?)
his kingdom and glory.
iv. 7. God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
V. 24. Faithful is he that calleth you.
2 Thess. i. 1 1. We pray that God would count you worthy of this
calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work
of faith with power.
2 Thess. ii. 14. God hath called you, by our gospel, to the obtain-
ing of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Tim. vi. 12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal
life whereunto thou art called.
2 Tim. i. 9. God hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling,
not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and
grace, which was given us in Chiist Jesus before the world began.
Hcb. iii. 12. Holy brethren, piutakers of the heavenly calling.
ix. 15. Jesus is the mediator of the New 'i'estament, that they
which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
1 Pet. i. 15. As he v.'hich hath called you is holy, so he ye holy
in all manner of conversation.
ii. 9. Shew forth the praises v')f him who hath called you out of
darkness, into his marvellous light.
Ver. 21. If ye do well, and siifier for it, and take it patiently, even
hereunto were ye called.
iii. 9. Not rendering evil for evil, or i-ailing for railing, but con-
t?ari^v•ise blessing, knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye may
inherit a blessing.
1 Pet. V. 10. The God of all grace hath called us unto his eternal
;rlory by Christ Jesus.
2 Pet. i. 3. His divine power hath given vmto us all things that
pertain to life and godliness, through the knov/iedge of him that hath
called us to glory and virtue.
Ver. 10. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure.
Jude ver. 1. To them that are sanctified by Gc^l the Father, and
preserved in Jesiis Christ, and called.
Ver. 2. Mercy unto you, and peace and love be multiplied.
^S yustfficcition. Chap. III.
Rev. xvii. 12. They that are with the Lamb, arc called and cho-
sen, and I'aithful.
xix. 9. Blessed are they that are called unto the marriage supper
of the Lamb. Abraham called. See Isa. li. 2. Heb. xi. 8.
XVL Pwrticular persGiis called to offices.
Priests, Christ, Isa. xlii. 6. Heb. v. 10. — Aaron, Heb. v. 4.
Prophets. Isa. xlxix. 1, 2.
Apostles. Acts xiii 2. Rom.i. 1. 1 Cor. i. 1,2. Gal. i. 15.
God's people are called by his name, xxviii. 10. Josh. xiv. 9w — xv <
16. Dan. ix- 18, 19. Amos^ ix. 11, 12. Jam. ii. 7.
The heathens not called bv God's name. Isa. Ixiii. 19 Ixv. L
JUSTIFICATION'.
XVII. Jusiijiration, God justifieth. Isa. xlv. 25. In the Lord shall
the seed of Jacob be justified, and shall glory. Rom. iii. 30.
Rom. iii. 26. That God might be just, and the justifier of him
that believeth in Jesus.
Rom. viii. 30. Whom he called, them he also justified, and whom
he justified, them he also glorified.
Ver. 31. If God be for us, who can be against us ?
Ver. 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God*s elect ?
Ver. 34. It is God that justifieth, who is he that condemneth .?
XVI i I. Men notjustijicd by the works of the laiv. Rom. iii. 20. By
the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in God*s sight.
Ver. 28. We conclude that a man is justified by faith without the
deeds of the law.
iv. 15. The law worketh wn'ath.
Gal. ii. 16. A man is not justified by the works of the law, but by
the faith of Jesus Christ.
iii. 10. As many as are of the works of the law are under the
curse, for it is written, cursed is every one that continueth not in all
things that arc written in the book of the law to do them. Deut. xxvii.
26. Jam. ii. \0*
Gal. iii. 1 1. That no man is justified by the law in the sight of
God, is evident: for the just shall live by faith. Hub. ii. 4. Rom. i.
17. Heb. X. 38.
Ver. 1 2. And the law is not of faith, but the man that doth them,
shall live in them. Lev. xviii. 15 Neh. ix. 29. Ezek. iii. 21. — xviii.
9, 17.— XX. 11, 13, 21.— .^xxiii. 13, 15, 16. Matt. xix. 17. Rom.x. 5.
James ii. 10. He that shall offend in one point is guilty of all.
Compare Rom. iii 19. Isa. ixiv. 6. Ps. cxliii. 2.
Gal. v. 4. Christ is become of none effect to you, v/hosocvcr of
you are justified by the huv, ye are fallen from grace.
XIX. Men are justified freely and by f^race^ through Christ. Isa.
liii. 11. By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many,
for he shall bear Aeir iniquities.
Rom. iii. 24. Being justified freely by his grace through the re-
demption that is in Je^ms Christ.
Chap. IIL Sanctif cation* ^9
SANCTIFICATION.
XX. God sanciijied the Jews. Exod. xxxi. 13. The Sabbath i^ a
sign between me and you throughout your generations : that ye may
know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. Lev. xx. 8.— xxi.
viii. 15. Ezek. xx. 12.
Ezek. xxvii. 28. The heathen shall know, that I the Lord do
sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them.
XXI. Jews were commanded to aanctify themselves* Lev\ xi. 44. I
am the Lord your God, yc shall therefore sanctify yourselves and ye
shall be holy, for I am holy. Ch. xx. 7. See Numb. xi. 18. —Jos. iii. 5
— vii. 13. — I Sam. xvi. 5. Joel ii. 16.
XXII. God doth sanctify Christians. I Thess. iv. 3. This is the will
of God, even your sanctification.
v. 23. The very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray
God, your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless un-
to the coming of our Lord Jesus.
Col- i. 12. The Father hath made us meet to be partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in light.
Ps. Ix ixiv. 11. The Lord will give grace and glory.
XXIII. God sanctijieth Christians by his word and Sfiirit. John
xvii. 17. Sanctify them through thy truth. Ver. 19.
Rom. XV. 16. That the offering of the Gentiles might be accepta-
ble, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
2 Cor. iii. 18. We arc changed into the image of Christ by the
Spirit of the Lord.
2 Thess. ii. 13. God has chosen you to salvation through sanctifi-
cation of the Spiriit andbelicf of the truth. Acts .sx. 32. I Pet. i. 2.
XXIV. Justijication and sanctification exhressed in other ivords.
God doth wash. Ps. Ii. 2. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquities
and cleanse me from my sin.
Ver. 7. Wash thou me and I shall be whiter than the snow.
Isa. i. 18. Though your shis be as scarlet they shall be as white as
snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
iv. 4. When the Lord shall have washed av/ay the filth of the
daughter of Zion.
Ezek. xvi. 4. Thou wast not washed. Ver. 9. I washed thee with
water.
Rev. i. 5. Unto him (Christ) that loved us, and washed us from
our sins, in his own blood.
Ver. 6. And hath made us kings and priests unto God and hi*
Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever.
vii. 14. These have washed their robes and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb.
Duty to wash ourselves, Ps. xxvi. 6. I will Vv^ash my hands in in-
nocence. Ps. Ixxiii. 13.
Isa. i. 16. Wash you, make you clean.
Jer. iv. 14. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness, that
thou mayest be saved.
80 Sanctijicatioru Chap, III.
Acts xxii. 16. Be baptized and wash away thy sins, calling upon
the name of the Lord.
Hob. X. 22. Let us draw near unto God, with a true heart in fill
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil con-
science, and our bodies washed with pure water.
XXV. God doth cleanse * Ps. xix. 12. Cleanse thou me from secret
faults. Ps. li. 10.
Jer. xxxiii. 8. I will cleanse them from all iniquity, whereby they
have sinned against me. Ezek. xxxvii. 23.
Ezek. xxxvi. 25. Then wil I sprinkle clean water upon you, and
you shall be clean from all your filthiness. See Efficacy of Christ's
blood.
Eph. vi. 26. That he might cleanse the church, &c. 1 John
i. 9.
Duty to cleanse ourselves* Matt, xxiii. 26. Thou blind Pharisee,
cleanse first that which is within.
2 Cor. vii. 1. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of
flesh and spirit. See Isa. i. 16. — lii. 11. — Jam. iv. 8. — Ps. cxix. 9.
Promises to the cleansed. Job xvii. 9. Ps. xviii. 20, 24. — xxiv. 24.
— Ixxiii. i.
XXVL God doth fiurge. Ps. Ixv. 3. As for our transgressions thou
wilt purge them av/ay. See Ps. li. 7. — Ixxix. 9.
Isa. i 25. I will purely purge away thy dross.
\'i. 7. He said, thine iniquity is taken away, thy sin is purged.
xxvii. 9. By this (affliction) shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged,
and this is all the fruit to take away his sin.
Ezek* xxiv, 13. Because I have purged thee, and thou wast not
purged, thou shalt not be purged any more at all, till 1 have caused
my fury to rest upon thee.
Dan. xi. 35. Some of them shall fall to try them, and to purge,
and to make white.
Mai. iii. 3. He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he
shall purify the sons Levi, and shall purge them as gold and silver,
that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
Matt, iii 11. John Baptist said, Jesus shall baptise you v/ith the
Holy Ghost and Avith fire.
Ver, 12. Whose fun is in his hand, and he will purely purge his
floor, and gather his wheat into his garner.
John XV. 2. Jesus said, every branch iu^ me that beareth fruit, my
Father purgeth, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Heb. i. 3 Christ by himself purged our sins. See Christ's blood.
Dutij. 1 Cor. V. 7.-2 Tim. ii. 21.
* XXVn. God fiurijieth. Acts xv. 9. God purifying their hearts
by faith.
Tit. ii. \ 4. Christ gave himself for us, that he might redeem us
from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zeaious
of good works. See Mai. iii. 3. above.
Duty. James iv. 8. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, purify your
hearts, ye double-minded.
I Pet. i. 22, Ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth,
through the Spirit. 1 'I im. i. 5. ^^ harity out of a pure heurt.
1 John iii. 3. Every one that hath tliis iiope in him purified
Chap. III. God forsaketh not his People. 81
himself even as he is pure. 2 Tim, ii. 22. Call on the Lord out of
a pure heart.
XXVIII. God doth refme.\s2i.y\\\\u 10. Behold I have refined thee
but not with silver, I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Zech. xiii. 9. I will refine them as silver is refined, and 1 will try
them as gold is tried.
Mai. iii. 2. He is like a refiner's fire, and fuller's soap. Ver. 3.
XXIX. The Lord is a God unto hisfieojile, he is ivith them and among
than.
Exod. xxix. 45. I will dwell among the children of Israel, and I
will be their God. Ch. xx. 2.
Ver. 46. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God.
Lev. xxvi. 11. I win set my tabernacle among you, and my sou!
sliall not abhor you.
Ver. 12. I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and ye
shall be my people.
Ps. xlviii. 14. This is our God for ever and ever, he will be our
guide, even unto death.
Isa. xli. 10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee, be not dismayed I
am thy God.
Jer. vii. 23. Obey my voice, anti I will be your God, and ye shall
be my people. Ch. xxx. 18, 22.
Zech. viii. 2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I am jealous for Zion
Ver. 8. I will be their God in truth and in righteousness.
2 Cor. vi. 16. I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will
be their God, and they shall be my people.
Heb. xi. 16. God is not ashamed to be called their God.
Rev. xxi. 3. Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he^
will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, and be their God.
XXX. Godforsaketh7irjthisfieoJde. Deut. iv. 31. The Lord thy
God is a merciful God, he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee^
n&r forget the covenant of thy fathers. See Ch. xxxi. 6, 8. Jos. i. 5.
— 1 Chr. xxviii. 20. Neh. ix. 17, 19, 31.
i Sam. xii. 22. The Lord will not forsake his people, for his
great name's sake, because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his^
p-ople.
Ezra ix. 9. God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath ex-
tended mercy to us, in the sight of the kings of Persia.
Ps. ix. 10. Thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
xxxvii. 28. He forsaketli not his saints, they are presei'ved for
ever. Ver. 25.
xciv. 14. The Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he
[orsake his inheritance.
Isa. xiii, 16. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked
things srrai:i;ht, Sec. These things will I do, and not forsake them.
xliv. 21. Remember these, O Jacob, and Isruel, for thou art my
servant ; I have formed thee, thou art my servant ; O Israel, thou
shalt not be forgotten of me,
xlix. 14. But Zion said, the Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord
hai]) for«:otten me.
82 God doth not reject his People, GSap.- III.
Isa. xlix. 15. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she
should not have compassion on the son of her womb ? yea, they may
forget, yet I will not forget.
xlix. 16. Behold 1 have graven thee on the palms of my hands,'
thy walls are continually before me.
liv. 7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great
mercies will I gather thee. Vcr. 8, 9, 10.
2 Cor. iv. 9. We are persecuted but not forsaken.
Heb. xiii. 5. Be content, for he hath said, I will never leave thee,
nor forsake thee.
XXXI. Prayers that God would not forsake his people. 1 Kings
viii. 57. The Lord be with us, let him not leave us nor forsake us.
Ps. xxvii. 9. Leave me not neither forsake me, O God of my sal-
vation. See Ps. xxxviii. 21. — Ixxi. 9, 18. — cxix. 8, — cxxxviii. 8.
XXXn. God forsaketh the ivicked. Deut. xxxi. 16. The Lord said,
this people will forsake me, and break my covenant.
Ver. 1 7. Then mine anger shall be kindled against them, and I
will forsake them.
Judg. vi. 13. The Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into
the hands of enemies.
2 Kings XX vi. 14. Thus saith the Lord, I will forsake the rem-
nant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their ene-
mies, because of their sins.
2 Chr. xii. 5. Thus saith the Lord, ye have forsaken me, and there-
fore have 1 left you in the hand of your enemies.
XV. 2. If ye forsake the Lord, he will forsake you. Ch. xxiv. 20.
Ps. Ixxviii. 60. He forsook the tabernacle of Shilo. Ver. 61.
Jer. xii. 7. I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage,
I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hands of her
enemies.
xxiii. 39. I will utterly forget you, and forsake you, and the cit}
that I gave your fathers. Ver. oo,
XXXin. God doth not cast offnor reject his people. Lev. xxvi. 43.
When they accept the punishment of their iniquity.
Ver. 44. I will not cast them away, neither abhor them to destro}
them utterly.
2 Kings xiii. 23. The Lord had compassion on his people, and
would not destroy them, neither cast them off.
Neh. i. 9. If ye turn unto me and keep my commandments, though
ye were cast out, I will gather you.
Job. viii. 20. God will not cast away a perfect rnan.
Ps. cxiv. 14. The Lord will not cast off his people. Amos iii. 31.
Isa. xii. 9. I have chosen thee and not cast thee away.
Jer. xxxiii. 25. Thus saith the Lord, if my covenant be not with
day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinance of heaven
and earth ;
Vcr. 26. Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, I will cause
their captivity to return and have mercy on them. Ver. 20, Ch.xxxi.
37. Lam. iii.' 31, 32.
Zech. X. 6. They shall be as though 1 had not cast them off, for I
am the Lord their God. Ezt-k. xi. 19^. Mic. iv. 7.
Chap. hi. God a Father. 83
Rom. xi. 2. God hath not cast away his people which he fore-
knew. Ver. 4.
XXXI V. Prayers against being cast off. Ps. xUii. 2. Why dost
thou cast me oflf ? why go I mourning ?
Ver. 3. O send out thy light and truth, let them lead me, 8cc.
xliy. 9. O Lord cast us not off for ever. Ps. Ixxiv. 1. Ps. Ixxvii. 7.
Jer. xiv. 19, 21.
li. 11. Cast me not away from thy presence.
Ixxi- 9. Cast me not off in time of old age.
XXXV. God castcth off and rcjecteth the wicked. 2 Kings xvii. 20.
Because of their wickedness the Lord rejected the seed of Israel,
and aifficted them. Ch. xxiii. 27.
1 Chron. xxviii. 9. If thou forsake the Lord he will cast thee off
for ever.
Ps. xliv. 9. Thou hast cast off and put us to shame. Ps. Ix. 1, 10.
— Ixxxis:. 38. — cviii. 11.
ixxiii. 18. Thou castedst the wicked down to destruction. Ps. v. 10.
Ixxxix. 44. Tnou hast made his glory to cease, thou hast cast his
throne down to the ground. Ps. cxlvii. 6.
Jer. vi. 30. Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord
hath rejected them.
Jer. vii. 1 5. Because ye have done these evil works, saith the
Lord, I will cast you out of my sight. Ver. 20. Ch. xv. 1, 2» — xxiii.
39.— lii. 3.
xvi. 12. Ye have done evil.
Ver. 13. Therefore I will cast you out of this land, into another
land, where I will shevv you no favour. Ch. xxii. 26.
Lam. V. 22. Thou hast utterly rejected us and art wroth against us.
Ezek. xxviii. 16. X will cast thee as profane out of the mountain
of God.
xxxii. 4. I will cast thee forth upon the open field.
Ver. 8. The bright lights of heaven Avill I make dark over thee.
Hos. ix. 17. God will cast them away because they did not hear-
ken unto him.
Matt. iii. 10. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn
down and cast into the lire.
viii. 12. The children of the kingdom shall be cast into utter dark-
ness.
xiii. 48. See the paraUe of the net and fishers casting the bad fish
away.
Luke ix. 25. What is a man advantaged if he lose his ov/n soul,
or be cast away.
John XV. 6. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch
and is withered.
1 Cor. ix. 27. I keep my body under, lest I be cast away.
Heb. vi. 8. That ground which beareth thorns and briar* is reject-
ed, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned.
xii. 17. Esau was rejected.
GOD A FATHER.
XT'vXVI. God a father to his fieojdc. Exod. iv. 22. Thus suith the
Lord, Israel is my L-;on, even my first born. Jer. xxxi. 9. Rom. ix. 4*
84f God a Father, Chap. III.
Exod. iv. 23. Let my son go. Hos. xi. 1.
Dent. xiv. 1 . Ye are the children of the Lord your God.
Isa. xliii. 6. Bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from
the ends of the earth. Ch. xlv. U.
Ixiii. 16. Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ig-
norant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not : thou, O Lord, art our
Father, our Redeemer. Ver. 8.
Ixiv. 8. Thou, Lord, art our Father, we are the clay, and thou our
potter, we are all the work of thine hands.
Jer. xxxi. 20. Is Ephraim my dear son ? is he a pleasant child ?
Hos. i. 10. In the place where it was said, ye are not my people,
there shall it be said unto you, ye are the sons of the living God.
Mai. ii. 10. Ilave we not all one Father ? hath not one God crea-
ted us ?
Matt. vi. 9. Our Father which art in heaven,
xxiii. 9. One is your Father which is in heaven.
John XX. 17. Jesus said, I ascend to my Father, and your Father,
to my God and your God
Rom. ix. 25. To us there is but one God the Father, of whom are
all things.
2 Cor. vi. 18. I will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons
and daughters, saith the Lord almighty. Jer. xxxi. 1, 9. Hos. i. 10.
Eph. iv. 6. There is one God and Father of all, who is above al!
and through all, and in you all.
XXXVII. How any of mankind come into the relation of children^ of
aons and daughters unto God, besides that of being created by God. John
]. 12. To as many as received Christ, to them gave he power to be-'
come the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
Ver. 13. Who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God.
John iii. 3. Jesus said, exeept a man be bom again, he cannot en-
ter into the kingdom of God.
Ver. 5. Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he can-
not enter into the kingdom of God. Tit. iii. 5, 6.
Ver. 6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is
born of the Spirit is spirit.
Ver. 7. Marvel not that I said ye must be born again.
Ver. 8. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the
sound thereof, canst not discern whence it cometh and whither it go-
eth, so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Gal. iii. 26. Ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus Christ.
— iv. 4. God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the
law to redeem them that were under the law ;
Ver. 5. That we might receive the adoption of sons.
Eph. i. 4. God hath chosen us in Christ before the foundation of
the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in
love.
Ver. 5. Having predestinated us to the adoption of children by
Jesus Christ, to himself according to the good pleasure of his will.
Ver. 6. To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath
made us accepted in the beloved.
1 Pft. i. 32. Love one another with a pure heart fervently.
Chap. III. God a Father, 85
1 Pet. i. 23. Ye bein^ born again not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever.
James i. 8. Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that
we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
2 Pet. i. 3. God hath begotten us to a lively hope by the resur-
rection of Jesus Christ. Lukexx. 36. The children of the resurrection.
1 John iii. 1 . Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestow-
ed on us, that we should be called the sons of God.
XXXVIII. Blessings from God as a Father to his /leofile, as his
children*
Matt. vi. 6. Thy Father shall reward thee openly.
Ver. 8. Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before
ye ask him.
Ver. 14. Your heavenly Father will forgive your trespasses.
X. 29. A sparrow shall not fall to the ground without your Father.
Ver. 30. The very hairs of your head are numbered.
Ver. 31. Fear ye not, therefore, ye are of more value than many
:4p arrows.
xiii. 43. The righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the king-
dom of their Father.
xviii. 14. It is not the will of your Father that one of these little
ones should perish.
Luke xii. 32. Fear not little flock, it is your Father's good will to
give you the kingdom.
John xi. 5 1. The high priest prophesied, that Jesus should die.
Ver. 52. And gather together in one the children of God.
Hom. i. 7. Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
viii. 15. Ye have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry,
Abba Father. Gal. iv. 6. Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth
the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying Abba, Father.
Ver. 16. The Spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are
the children of God.
Ver. 17. And if children then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs
with Christ. Gal iv. 7. If a son then an heir of God through Christ.
Ver. ly. The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the Sons of God. 1 John iii. 2.
Ver. 2 ■ . The creature shall be delivered from the bondage of cor-
ruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
2 Cor. i. 3. God is to us the Father of mercies, a God of all com-
fort.
Eph. ii. 8. Through Christ we have access by the Spirit, unto the
Father.
2 Thess. ii. 16. Our Father hath loved us, and given us everlas-
ting consolation and good hope through grace.
Heb. ii. 10. Bringing many sons unto glory.
Jam. i. 17. Every good and perfect gift, cometh fram the Father
of lights.
1 John i. 3. Our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son
Jesus Christ.
ii. 1 . We have an advocate with the Father.
iii. 2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not appear
86 God a Father. Chap. HI.
v.hat we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear we shall
be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
Jude vcr. 1. Sanctified by God the Father, preserved in Jesus
Christ, and called.
XXXIX. Marks and cliaracters of God's children m the exercise of
the i^races^ and practice of the duties of religion. Mai. i. 6. If I be a
Father, where is mine honour, saith the Lord of hosts.
Mat. V. 9. Blessed are the peace-nrakers, for they shall be called
the children of God.
Vcr. 16. Let your light so shine before men, that they seeing
your good works, may glorify yciir Father which is in heaven.
Ver. 44. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good
to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you,
and persecute you.
Ver, 45, That ye may be the children of your Father v/hich is in
heaven, for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good,
and sendeth rain on the just, and on the unjust. Luke vi. 35.
iv. 14. If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father
will also forgive you.
Luke vi. 36. Be ye merciful as your Father also is merciful.
Ver. 48. Be ye perfect as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
John. iv. 23. The true worshippers shall worship the Father in
spirit and in truth.
Rom. viii. 14. As many as are led by the Spirit, are the sons of
God. Ver. 16.
Eph. V. 1. Be ye followers of God as dear children, and walk in
love, as Christ also hath loved us. Ver. 2. ; '
Ver. 20. Giving thanks always for all things unto God the Father,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. James iii. 9. With the tongue
bless we God, even the Father. Phil. iv. 20. Unto God our Father,
be glory for ever and ever.
Phil. ii. 14. Uo all thinps without murmurings, and disputings.
Ver. 15. That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God
■without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among
v/hom ye shine as lights in the world.
Heb. xii. 5. The exhortation speaketh unto you as unto children,
my son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, neither fuint
v/hen thou art rebuked of him.
Ver. 6. Fcr whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgelh
every son whom he receiveth.
Ver. 7. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with
?^ons, for what son is he v/hom the fcither chasteneth not.
Ver. 8. if ye be without chastisement whereof all are partakers,
then are ' ye bastards and not sons.
Ver. 9. Shall we not be in subjection to the Father of spirits and
live ?
Ver. 10. He chastened us for our profit that we might be partak-
ers oi his holiness.
1 Pe.. i. 14. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves ac-
cording to the former lusts in your ignorance :
Ver. 15. But as he which huih called you is holy, so be ye holy
in all manner of conversaiicn.
Chap. III. God a Father, 67
1 Pet. i. 17. Call on the Father, and pass the time of your sojourn-
in i^: here in fear.
Ver. 22. Love one another with a pure heart fervently.
Ver. 23. Ye bein.o: born again not of corruptible seed, but of in-
corruptible by the Avord of God which liveth and abideth for ever.
1 John ii. 29. Every one that doth righteousness is born of God-. *
iii. 9. Whosoever is born ol God doth not commit sin, for his
seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God-
Ch. v. 18.
1 John iii. 10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the
children of the devil ; whosoever doth not righteousness is not of
God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
iv. 7. Every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
V. 1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.
Ver. 4. W^hosr.ever is born of God, overcometh the world.
Ver. 18. He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that
wicked one toucheth him not.
Rev. xxi. 7. He that overcometh, shall be my son.
XL. The wicked are stiled the children of nvhattver evil firincipk
reigns in them^ and so are called^
Children of the devil. John viii. 44. Acts xiii. 10. 1 John iii. 10.
Children of Belial. Deut. xiii. 13. Judg. xx. 13. 1 Sam. x. 27.
1 Kings xxi. 10.
Children of the wicked one. Matt. xiii. 38.
Children of wickedness. 2 Sam. vii. 10.
Children of transgression. Isa. Ivii. 4.
Children of inicjuity. Hos. x. 9.
Children of disobedience. Eph. ii. 2. — v. 6. Col. iii. 6.
Children of this world. Luke xvi. 8. — xx. 34. I John ii. 15.
Children of the flesh. Rom. ix. 8.
Children of Ethiopians. Amos ix. 7.
Children in whom is no faith. Deut. xxxii. 20.
Backsliding children. Jcr. iii. 14.
Foolish children. Jer. iv. 22.
Impudent children. Ezek. ii. 4.
Rebellious children. Isa. i. 2. Jer. xxx. 1.
Lying children. Jer. xxx. 9.
Children of wrath. Eph. ii. 3.
Cursed Children. 3 Pet. ii. 14.
XLI. Under God their heavenly Father^ christians are brethren and
sisters, and owe to each other the duties of that relation.
Matt, xviii. 35. Forgive every one his brother's trespass.
Rom. xii. 10. With brotherly love, preferring one another.
xiv. 13. Let no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall
in his brother's way.
xvi. 17. I beseech ye, brethren, mark them which cause divisions,
and offences, and avoid them.
1 Cor. V. 1 1. If any one that is called a brother, be a fornicator,
or covetous, or an idolater, or a ruiler, or a drunkard, or an extor-
tioner, with such a one do not eat.
vi. 5. Is there not one among you able to judge between his bre-
thren. Ver. 6, 8.
88 Salvation-^God a Saviour, Chap. III.
\ 1 Cor. viii. 12. When ye sin against the brethren, ye sin against
Christ. Vcr. 11, 13.
1 Thess. iv. 6. Let no man go beyond, and defraud his brother in
any matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such.
V. 25. Brethren, pray for us. 2 Thess. iii. 1.
2 Thess. iii. 6. We command you brethren in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that yc withdraw yourselves from every brother
that walketh disorderly.
Heb. xiii. 1. Let brotherly love continue. 1 Pet. iii. 8. Love as
brethren.
Jam. ii. 15. If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily
food ;
Ver. IG. And one of you say unto them, depart in peace, be yc
warmed, and filled, notwithstanding ye gave them not those thingt*
which are needful to the body, what doth it profit ?
1 Pet. i. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls, in obeying the
truth through the Spirit, unto the unfeigned love of the brethren, see
that ye love one another with a pure heart, fervently.
ii. 17. Love the brotherhood.
1 John ii. 9. He that hateth his brother is in darkness. Ch. iii. 15^
He is a murderer.
1 John iii. 15. We know that we have passed from death unto
life, because we love the brethren.
Ver. 16. W^e ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Rev xii. 10. Satan the accuser of the brethren is cast out.
XLII. Christ is the elder brother. John xx. 17. Jesus said, go un-
to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and
your Father, to my God and your God.
Rom. viii. 29. Whom he did foreknow, he did predestinate to b©
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-borw
among many brethren.
Hcb. ii. 11. He is not ashamed to call them brethren.
Ver. 12. Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren.
Vcr. 17. 1( behoved him to be made like unto his brethren.
SALVATION.
XLHl. God is a Saviour* 2 Sam. xxii. 3. The God of my rock,
my Saviour.
Ps. cvi. 21. They forgot God their Saviour.
Isa. xliii. 3. I am the Lord thy God, the holy one of Israel, thy
Saviour. Isa. Ix. 16.
xlix. 26. I will feed them, that oppress thee, with their own flesh,
and they shall be drunken M'ith their own blood, and all flesh shall
know that I the Lord am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the migh-
ty one of Jacob. Zech. xiv. 12. .;
Jer. xiv. 8. O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof, in time of
trouble, why shouldst thou be a stranger in the land ?
Hos. xiii. 4. There is no Saviour besides me, saith the Lord. Isa.
xliii. 1 1 . — xiv. 21.
I>uke i. 47. My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
1 Tim. ii. 3, 4. God our Saviour, who will have all men to be sav-
ed, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
Chap. IIL God saveth his People, 89
1 Tim. iv. 10. The living God, is the saviour of all men, especial-
ly of those that believe.
Jude ver. 25. To the only wise God our Satiour, be glory and
majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
God saveth his people. Deut. xxxiii. 29. Who is like thee, a peo-
ple saved by the Lord ? compare Exod. xiv. 13, 14, 30. — xv. 2. Numb.
X. 9. Dent. XX. 4. I Sam. xi. 13. — xix. 5.
1 Sam. xiv. 6. There is no restraint to the Lord, to save by ma-
ny or by few. Ver. 39. 2 Chron. xiv. 11. — xx. 17.
xvii. 14. The Lord saveth not with sword and spear. Ps. xx. 6.
The Lord saveth with the saving strength of his right hand. Ps.
cxxxviii. 7.
2 San. xxii. 2. David said, the Lord is my rock, and my fortress,
and my deliverer.
Ver. 3. The God of my rock, in him will I trust ; he is my shield,
and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, and
my Saviour ; thou savest me from violence.
Ver. 36. Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation.
Ver. 47. The Lord liveth, blessed be my rock, exalted be the
God of my salvation. Ps.^ xviii. 2. — xxxv. 46.
Ps. iii. 8. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord. Isa. xliii. 11. Hos.
xiii. 4. Jonah ii. 9.
xxvii. 1. The Lord is my light, and my salvation. Ps. Ixii. 6.
Isa. xii. 2.
ixii. 7. God is my salvation and my glory, the rock of my strength.
Ps. XXV. 5. — xl, 2. And my refuge is in God. Ps. Ixviii. 19, 20.
Ixix. 35. God will save Zion, he will build Jerusalem.
Ixxi. 34. Thou hast given commandment to save me.
Ixxiv. 12. God is my king of old, working salvation in the earth.
xcviii. 2. The Lord hath made known his salvation.
Ver. 3. All the ends of the earth have seen tne salvation of our
God.
cxl. 7. O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast
covered my head in the day of battle.
cxliv. 10. He giveth salvation unto kings. Ch. xci. 16.
Isa. xii. 2. Behold God is my salvation, I will trust and not be
afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song.
XXV. 9. Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will
save us, this is the Lord we have waited for him, we will be glad and
rejoice in his salvation.
xxvi. 1. Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Ch,
xxxiii. 6, 22.
xxxv. 4. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, be strong, fear
not, behold your God jviil come with vengeance, even God with a
rccompence ; he will come and save you.
xliii. \. Thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and that
formed thee, O Israel, fear not, I have redeemed thee.
Ver. 2. When thou passest through the waters, I will be witli
ihee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee, when thou
walkest through the fire thon shalt not be burnt, neither sh?ill I'v-
flame kindle upon thee.
90 To whom Salvation is promised. Chap. HI.
Isa. xliii. 3. For 1 am the Lord thy God, the holy one of Israel,
thy Saviour.
Ver. 1 1. I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Sa-
viour. Ch. xlv. 2L Hos. xiii. 4.
xlv. 8. Drop down, ye heavens from above, and let the sl^ies pour
down righteousness, and let the earth open, and let them bring forth
saivaiion, and ict righteousness spring up together, i the Lord
have created it. Ver. 14, 15.
xlix. 25. Ihus saith the Lord, I will contend with him that con-
tendeth with thee, 1 will save thy children.
Ver. 26. I will feed them that oppress thee, with their own fiesh.
and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as witli sweet
wine.
All flesh shall know, that I the Lord, am thy Saviour, and thy
Redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob. Zech. xiv. 12.
Isa. lix. 1. The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot
save.
Jer. iii. 23. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills,
and from the multitude of mountains, truly in the Lord our God is
the Salvation of Israel. Ps. cxxi. 1.
XV. 20. I am with thee, to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the
Lord. Ch. xxx. 11, 15. — xlii. 11.
xxiii. 6. In those days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell
safely.
xxx. 7. It is the time of Jacob's tix)uble, but he shall be saved out
of it. Ver. 10. Ch. xiv. 8, 9.
xlvi. 27. i'ear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismay-
ed, O Israel, for behold I will save thee from afar-off, and thy seed
from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall return and be in rest,
and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. Zech. viii. 9. — x. 6.
— xii. 7.
Ezek. xxxiv. 22. I will save m.y flock, and they shall no more be
a prey by the carelessness of their shepherds.
xxxvi. 29. I will save them from all their uncleanness.
xxxvii. 23. I will save them and I will cleanse thein, so they shall
be my people, and I will be their God.
Hos. i. 7. I will have mercy or. the house of Jacob, and I will save
them by the Lord. Ch. xiii. 10. Zech. iii. 17, 19.
XLIV. Persons to whom salvation is firoinised. Job xxii. 29. God
shall save the humble person. See Promises to the Humble.
Ps. vii. 10. God saveth the upris^ht in heart. Prov.xxviii. !S. See
Upright.
xvii. 7. Thou savest them which put their trust in ttice. See Trust
in God.
xxxiv. 1 8. The Lord saveth lucii as be of a contrite spirit. See
C;on trite.
xxxvii. 40. He shall save the rigl^teous, because they trust in him.
I. 23. To him that ordereth aripht his conversation, 1 will shew
the salvation of God.
Ixxii. 13. He shall save tlie souls of the needy. \ev. A. j ob a .
i.>. Ps. xxxiv. 6. — cix. 31,
Chap. III. Salvation prayed for. 91
Ps. Ixxxv. 9, His salvation is nigh them that fear him. Ps. cxlv. 19.
cxix. 94. I am thine, save me, for I have sought thy precepts.
Ver, 146. Save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies,
Ver. 166. I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy command-
ments.
cxlix. 4. He will beautify the meek with salvation.
Prov. XX. 22. Wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee. Isa.
XXV. 9.
Jer. iv. 14. O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that
thou mayest be saved.
Mark xvi. 16. He that belie veth, and is baptized shall be saved.
Luke vii. 50. Acts xvi. 31. Rom. x. 9. Heb. x. 39. See salvation by
Christ.
Salvation firayed for. 1 Sam. vii. 8. The people said to Samuel,
cease not to cry unto the Lord our God, that he will save us out of
the hands of the Philistines.
Ver. 10. The Lord discomfited the Philistines.
2 Kings xix. 19. Hezekiah prayed, and said, O Lord, save us out
of the hands of the king of Assyria, that all kingdoms of the earth
may know, that thou art the Lord God, even thou only.
Ver. 34. And the Lord said, I will defend this city, to save it.
Isa. xxxvii. 20, 35.
Ver. 35. And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the
Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians, an hundred
and fourscore, and five thousand. 2 Chron. xKxii. 22.
2 Chron. vi. 41. Let thy priests, O Lord, be cloathed with salva-
tion.
Ps. iii. 7. Save me, O my God.
vi. 4. Deliver my soul, O save me for thy mercies sake. Ps. xxxi.
16. — cix. 26.
vii. 8. Save me from all them that persecute me.
xiv. 7. O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion.
xxvii. 9. Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God, of my salva-
tion. Ps. li. 14. — Ixxxviii. 1.
xxviii. 9. Save thy people, bless thine inheritance. Jer. xxxi. 7.
xxxi. 2. Be thou for an house of defence to save me.
XXXV. 5. Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
xxxviii. 22. Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
li. 12. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation.
liv. 1. Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy
strength.
Iv. 16. I will call upon God, and the Lord will save me.
lix. 2. Save me from bloody men.
Ixix. 1. Save me, O God, for the waters are come into my soul.
Ver. 13. Hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Ver. 29. Let thy salvati ^n, O God, set me on high.
Ixxi. 2. Incline thine c.u" unto me, and save me.
Ixxix. 9. Help us, O God, of our salvation, for the glory of thy
name.
Ixxx. 2. Stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
Ver. 3. Cause thy face to shine, and v\c shall be saved.
M
9i God a Defence, C^HT. III.
Ps. Ixxxv. 4. Turn us, O God of our salvation, and causfe thine
anger tovvard us to cease.
Ver. 7. Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
cvi. 4. O visit me with thy salvation.
xlvii. Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the
heathen.
cvii. 13. They cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved
them out of all their distresses. Ver. 19.
cxviii. 21. Save me, I beseech thee, O Lord.
cxix. 4L Let thy mercies come also unto me, O Lord, even thy
salvation, according to thy word.
Ver. 123. Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of
ihy righteousness. Ver. 81, 174. • -
Ver. 146. Save me, and I shall keep thy testimonies.
Ver. 155. Save us from the wicked, for they keep not thy statutes.
Isa. xxxiii. 2. O Lord, be gracious to us, be thou their arm, every
morning, our salvation also, in time of trouble
Jer. ii. 27. In the time of their trouble, they v/ill say, arise and
save us.
XLV. Salvaiion is of grace. Ps. vi. 4. O save me for thy mercies sake.
Ixxx. 3. Cause thy face to shine upon us, and we shall be saved.
cvi. 4. He saved them for his name's sake.
Acts ii. 47. The Lord added to the church daily such as should
be saved.
Eph. ii. 5. By grace ye are saved. Ver. 8. By grace ye are saved
through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.
2 Tim. i. 9. God hath saved us and called us with an holy calling,
not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and
grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world beg m.
Tit. iii. 5. Not according to works of righteousness which we had
done, but according to his mercy he saved us.
XLVI. The word of God, a mean of salvation, Rom. i. 16. The
gospel is the power of God to salvation.
I Cor. i. 18. Unto us who are saved, the preaching of the cross of
Christ is the power of God.
Ver. 21. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save
them that believe.
XV. 2 Ye are saved by the gospel, if ye keep in memory yvhat I
preached unto you.
Jam. i. 21. The ingrafted word is able to save your souls,
I Pet. iii. 2 1 . Baptism doth now save us.
XLVII. The ministry a mean of salvation. 1 Cor. ix. 22. I am
made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
1 Tim. iv. 16. Take heed unto thyself, and unto thy doctrine;
continue in them : for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and
them that hear thee.
Jam. V. 20. He which convertcth thcsinner from the error of his
way, shall save a soul from death.
Jude ver. 23. Others save with fear. Sec.
GOD A DEFENCE.
XLVIIf. God is the defence of hii^ /leofile. Num. xiv. 9. Their
defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us, fear them not.
Chap. III. Redemption — God a Redeemer. 93
2 Kin^s xix. 34. The Lord said, I will defend this city to save it,
for Ti'inp own sake, and for m)' servant David's sa];e.
Job xxii. 23. If thou return to the Ahiughty, thou shalt be biiih up.
\'er. 2 5. Yea the Almighty shall be thy defence.
Ps. V. 1 i. Let those that put tlicir trust in thee rejoice, because
thou defendest them.
vii. 10. Our defence is of God, who saveth the upright in heart.
XX. 1. The Lord hear thee In the day of trouble, the name of the
God of Jacob defend thee.
xxxi. 2. Be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save
Ver. 3. For thou art my rock and my fortress.
lix. 1. O my God defend me from them that rise up against me.
Ver. 9. I will wait upon thee, for God is my defence. Ver. M .
Ps. Ixii. 2, 6.
Ver. 16. Thou hast been my defence and my refuge \\\ the day
of trouble.
Ixxxix. 18. The Lord is our defence, the holy one of Israel is our
King.
Isa. iv. 5. Upon all the glory shall be a defence, upon mount Zion.
xxxi. 5. The Lord of hosts will defend Jerusalem, also he will de-
liver it, and will preserve it.
Isa. xxxiii. 15. He that worketh righteousness. Sec.
Ver. 16. He shall dwell on high, his place of defence shall be the
munition of rocks, bread shall be given him, his water shall be sure.
Zech. ix. 15. The Lord of hosts shall defend his people, and they
shall devour and subdue their enemies.
xviii. 8. The Lord shall defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and
he that is feeble among them shall be as David, and the house of
David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them
REDEMPTION.
XLIX. God a redeemer. Is. xli. 14. Fear not, I will help thee,
saith the Lord thy redeemer.
xlvii. 4. As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name.
liv. 8. With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith
the Lord thy redeemer.
Ix. 16. Thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy saviour, and thy
redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob. Ch. xliv. 6. — xlviii. 17. — xlix.
7, 26. — Ixiii. 16. Jer. 1. 34. Ps. xix. 14 — Ixxviii. 55.
L. God redeemeth his ■ficofdc from enemies and other exn/s. Exod. vi.
6. The Lord said I will redeem you with a strctclicd-out arm, and
with great judgments.
Ver. 7. And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to
you a God. 2 Sam. vii. 23. Isa. xliii. 1.
XV. 13. Thou in thy mercy hast led forth thy people, which thou
hast redeemed. Ps. Ixxvii. 15.
Deut. vii. 8. The Lord redeemed you out of the house of bondage.
Ch. xiii. 5.— XV. 15. — xxiv. 18. Mic. vi. 4.
xxi. 8. Be merciful unto thy people, O Lord, whom thou hast re-
deemed. Neh. i. 10. Ps. Ixxiv. 2.
94 God a Coumellor. CiiAr. HI.
Ps. cvi. 10. He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. Ps.
evil. 2. — cxi. 9. — cxxxvi. 24. Mic. iv. 10.
cxxxviii. 10. The Lord shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
Isa. i. 27.
Isa. xliv. 23. The Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified him-
self in Israel. Ch. xxiv.
I. 2. Is mine hand shortened that it cannot redeem ?
li. 11. The redeemed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion.
Ch. XXXV. 9. Jer. xxxi. 11, 12.
lii. 3. Ye shall be redeemed without money. Jer. xv. 21.
Ixii. 12. They shall call them the holy people, the redeemed of
the Lord.
Ixiii. 4. The year of my redeemed is come, saith the Lord.
Hos. xiii. 14. I will ransom them from the power of the grave,
and I will redeem them from death. Ps. xlix. 15.
Zech. X. 8. I will gather them, for I have redeemed them.
Threats. Hos. vii. 13. Wo unto them for they have fled from mc.
Destruction unto them for they have transgressed against me, though
I redeem.ed them.
Redemption of fiarticular persons fro7v evils. Gen. xlviii. 16. Jacob
said, the angel that redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads. Isa.
xxix. 22. The Lord redeemed Abraham.
2 Sam. iv. 9. David said, the Lord hath redeemed my soul out of
all adversities. 1 Kings i. 29. Ps. xxxi. 5. — ixxi. 23.
Job v. 20. In famine he shall redeem thee from death, and in war
from the power of the sword.
Ps. xxxiv. 22. The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants. Ps.
Ixxii. 14.
ciii. 3. Bless the Lord, O my soul ;
Ver. 4. "Who redeemeth thy life from destruction. Lam. iii. 58.
GOD A COUNSELLOR.
LL God giveth connselto the righteous. Ps. xvi. 7. I bless the Lord
who hath given me counsel.
Ixxiii. 24. Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward
receive! me to glory. Ps. xxxii. 8. Prov. viii. 14.
cxix. 24. Thy testimonies are my counsellors.
Rev. iii. 18. I counsel thee to buy of me raiment, Sec.
LH. God depriveth the wicked of counsel. Job v. 13. He taketh
the wise in their ow^n craftiness, and the counsel of the froward is
carried headlong.
xii. 17. He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and makcth judges
fools.
xviii. 7. The w'icked's own counsel shall cast him down.
Ps. V. 10. Let them fall by their own counsel.
xxxiii. 10. The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought.
Isa. viii. 10. Take counsel and it shall come to nought, for God is
with us. Sec Ps. ii. 2, 4. Isa. iii. 1, 3. — xxix. 14. Jer. xviii. 18. —
xlix. 7. Ezek. vii. 26. Mic. iv. 9.
Chap. III. God doth teach — Instruct, 95
GGD DOTH TEACH.
LIII. God a teacher. Job xxxv. 1 1. God teacheth us more than the
beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven.
xxxvi. 22. Who teacheth like him. Ps. xciv. 10, 12.
Ps. XXV. 8. The Lord will teach sinners in the way.
Ver. 9. The meek will he teach his way.
Ver. 12. What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he
•<each the way that he shall chuse. Ps. xxxii. 8. — Ixxxv. 13.
Ixxi. 17. O God, thou hast taught me from my youth. Ps. cxix. 102.
Isa. xlviii. 17. I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit.
liv. 13. All thy children shall be taught of the Lord. Ch. xxviii. 26.
Mic. iv. 2. The God of Jacob he will teach us of his ways.
Hos. xi. 13. I taught Ephr*iim to go, taking them by the arms.
Jer. xxxii. 23.
Mic. vi. 18. He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good.
Acts ii. 28. Thou hast made known to me the wuys of life.
2 Cor. iv. 6. God hath shined into our hearts, to give the light of
the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
1 Thess. iv. 9. Ye are taught of God to love one another. See Ps.
cxli. 4. Compare Ps. xviii. 34. 2 Sam. xxii. 35.
Teaching from God firaijedfor. Job xxxiv. 32. That which I know
not teach thou me.
Ps. XXV. 4. O Lord teach me thy paths. Ver. 5.
xxvii. 11. Teach me thy way, O Lord. Ps. Ixxxvi 11.
xc. 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our
hearts to wisdom.
cxix. 12. Teach me thy statutes. Ver. xxvi. 33, 64, 68, 124, 135.
Ver 66. Teach me good judgment and knowledge.
Ver. 108. O Lord, teach me thy judgments.
cxliii. 10. Teach me to do thy will, for thou art mv God.
LIV. The Holy Ghost teacheth. John xiv. 26. The Holy Ghost
shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance.
1 John ii. 27. The same anointing teacheth you all things.
Neh. ix. 11. Thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them.
INSTRUCT.
LV. God doth instruct. Isa. viii. 1 1 . The Lord instructed ihe that
I should not v/alk in the way of the people.
Jer. xxxi. 19. After that I M'as instructed, I smote upon my thighs
Phil. iv. 12. Every where, and"in all things I am instructed.
2 Tim. iii. 16. All scripture is profitable for instruction. See Deut,
iv. 36. — xxxii. 10. Jer. vi. 8.
LVL God doth direct. Ps. cxix. 5. O that my ways were directed
to keep thy statutes.
Ver. 133. Order thou raiy steps in thy word.
Prov. iii. 6. In all thy ways acknowledge the Lord, and he shall^
direct thy paths.
xvi. 9. A man's heart deviscth his way, but the Lord directeth his
steps.
Isa. XXX. 1 1 . Thine ears shall hear a voice behind thee, saying, this
96 God doth lead — StrengtJieit, Chap. III.
is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the ri,^ht hand, and when
ye turn to the left.
Isa. xlv. 1. I will direct all his ways.
Ixi. 8. I will direct their work in truth.
Jer. X, 23. O Lord I know, that the way of man is not in himself,
it is not in man that waiketh to direct his steps. Prov. xx. 24. Man's
goings are of the Lord.
Ps. xxxvii. 2 3. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.
2 Thess. iii. 5. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God.
LEAD.
LViL God doth lead. Deut. xxxii. 12. The Lord alone did lead
his people. His portion. Isa. Ixiii. 14.
Ps. V. 8. Lead me, O Lord, in thy rigliteousness.
xxiii. 3. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness. Ps. clxiii. 1 0.
XXV. 5. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me, for thou art the God
of my salvation. Ps. xxxi. 3, — Ix. 9.
xliii. 3. O send out thy light and thy truth, and let them lead me.
ixi. 2. Lead me to the Rock that is higher than L
cxxxix. 24. Lead me in the way everlasting.
Rom. ii. 4. The goodness of God leadeth to repentance.
PromUeft of God that he ivill lead his peopde. Isa. xlii. 12. I M'iil
bring the blind by a way they have not known, I will lead them in
paths they haAe not known. Sec Ch. xlviii. 17. — xlix. 10. — Ivii. 18.
Jer. xxxi. 9.
LVIII. Christ doth lead, Isa. xl. 11. He shall gently lead those
that are with young.
Isa. Iv. 4. I have given him for a leader to the people. See Jolni
X. 3. Rev. vii. 17.
LIX. God doih guide. Ps. xxv. 9. The meek will he guide in
judgment.
Ps. xxxi. 3. For thy name's sake, lead me and guide me.
xxxii. 8. I will instruct thee, and teach thee in ihe way which
thou shalt go, I will guide thee with mine eye.
xlviii. 14. This is our God, he will be our guide even unto death.
Ixxiii. 24. 'i'hou wilt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward
receive me unto glory.
John xvi. 13. 'Jlie Spirit of truth shall guide you into all truth.
See Isa. Iviii. 11. Jer. iii. 4. Luke i. 79.
STRENGTHEN.
LX. God doth strengthen. Ge«. xlix. 24. Joseph's bow abode in
strength, the arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of
the mighty God of Jacob.
I Sam. ii. 4. The bows of the mighty are brolien, and they that
stumbled are girt with strength.
XV. 29. The Strength of Israel will not lie. Ch. xxiii. 1 6. Jos. xiv. 12.
1 Chron. xvi. 27. Strength and gladness are in his holy place,
Ver. 14. Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be
able to offer so Avillingly after this sort ? for all things come of thee,
and of thine own have we given thee.
Neh. viii. 10. The joy of the Lord is your strength.
Chap. III. Strength promised— Prmjed for. ^^
Job xxiii. 6. Will God plead against me with his great power ?
no, but he would put strength in me.
Ps. viii. 2. Out of the mouth of babes thou hast ordained strength.
xxxvii. ^9. The Lord is the strength of the righteous.
Ixviii. 35. The God of Israel is he that giveth strength unto his
people.
Ixxxiv. 5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee. Ver. 7.
Ixxxix. 17. Thou art the glory of their strength.
xcix. 4. The kings strength loveth judgment.
cxlvii. 13. O Zion, he halh strengthened the bars of thy gates.
Prov. viii. 29. The way of the Lord is strength to the upright.
Isa. Kxv. 4. O Lord thou hast been a strength to the poor, and to
the needy in his distress.
xl. 29. He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no
might, he increaseth strength.
Dan. ii. ^7. The God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and
power, and strength and glory. Ezek. xxx. 24, 25. Judg. iii. 12.
Hos. vii. 5. I bound and strengthened their arms.
Amos V. 9. The Lord strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong.
2 Cor. xii. 9. My strength is made perfect in weakness.
Heb. xi, 11. Through faith, Sarah received strength to conceive.
Ver. 34. Many out of weakness were made strong.
1 Pet. iv. 1 1. if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability
that Cod giveth.
Strength firomised. 1 Sam. ii. 10. The Lord shall give strength to
his king. Judg. vii. 11. Ps. xxi. 10.
Job xvii. 9. He that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
Ps. XX. 6. God will hear with the saving strength of his right hand.
xxvii. 14. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall
strengthen thine heart.
xxix. 11. The Lord will strengthen his poople.
xli. 3. The Lord will strengthen him (that considereth the case of
the poor,) upon a bed of languishing.
ex. 2. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion.
Isa. xxvii. 2. Let him take hold of my strength, and he shall make
peace with me.
xl. 31. They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.
xli. 10. Fear not for I am vvith thee, 1 am thy God, I will strength-
en thee.
xlv. 24. Surely shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness
and strength. Mic. v. 4.
Iii. 1. Put on thy strength, O Zion.
liv. 2. Lengthen thy cords, strengthen thy stakes.
Ver. 3. Thou shalt break forth on the right liand, and on the left.
Ezek. xxxiv. 16. I will strengthen that which was sick.
1 Cor. X. 13. God will not suffer you to be tempted above what
ye are able to bear. See Joel iii. 16. Zech. x. 6. — xii. 5.
Strength prayed for. 1 Chron. xvi. 11. Seek the Lord, and hi>.
strength. Ps. cv* 4.
Neh. ix. 6. Nehemiah said, O God, strengthen my h»mdr,. Sec
Judg. xvi. 22.
98 God doth uphold. Chap. III.
Ps. XX. 2. The Lord strengthen thee out of Zion.
Ixviii. 28. Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought
in us.
Ixxxvi. 16. Give thy strength unto thy servant.
cxix. 28. Strengthen thou me, according to thy word.
Eph. iii. 16. We pray that God would grant you to be strength-
ened with might by his power, in the inner man. Col. i. 11.
1 Pet. V. 10. The God of all grace, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Strengh obtained. Exod. xv. 2. The Lord is my strength and my
song, he is become my salvation. 2 Sam. xxii. 33. Ps. xviii. 2. — 27.
7. — cxviii. 14. Isa. 12. 2.
2 Sam. xxii. 40. Thou hast girded rr.e with strength. Ps. xviii. 39.
Ezra vii. 28. I was strengthened, as the hand of the Lord my God
was upon me.
Ps. xviii. 32. It is God that girdeth me with strength, and makes
my way perfect.
xix. 14. O Lord my strength, and my redeemer. Ps. xviii. 1.
— xxviii. 7.
xxvii. i. The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be
afraid? Ps. 43. 2.
Ps. xlvi. 1. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help.
Ixii. 7. The rock of my strength and my refuge is in God
Ixxi. 16. I will go in the strength of the Lord God.
Ixxiii. 26. God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for
ever.
Ixxxi. 1. Sing aloud unto God our strength.
Ps. cxxxviii. 3. Thou strengthenedst me with strength in my soul
cxl. 7. O God the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my
head in the day of battle. Ps. cxliv. 1.
Jer. xvi. 19. O Lord my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge
in the day of affliction.
Hab. ix. 3. The Lord is my strength.
2 Cor. iii. 5. Our sufficiency is of God.
xii. 10. When I am weak, then am I strong.
1. Tim. i. 12. Jesus Christ our Lord hath enabled me.
2 Tim. iv. 17. The Lord stood with me, and strengthened me.
UPHOLD.
LXL God doth uphold. Ps. xvii. 5. Hold up my goings in th\
paths, that my foot-steps slip not.
xviii. 35. Thy right hand hath holden me up. Ps, Ixiii. 8.
xxxvii. 17. The Lord upholdeththe righteous.
xli. 1 2« Thou upholdest me in mine integrity.
li. 12. Uphold me with thy free Spirit.
ixvi. 9. The Lord holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not oun
feet to be moved.
Ixxi. 6. By thee have I been holden up from the womb.
cxix. 117. Hold thou me up, so shall I be in safety.
cxlv. 14. The Lord upholdeth ail that fall, he raiseth all that arr
bowed down.
Isa. xli. 13. I the Lord, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee,
febr not. for I will help thee. Ps. Ixxiii. 2::.
Chap. III. Safety, 99
Isa. xlii. 6. I the Lord will hold thine hand, and will keep thee.
Hos. xi. 3. T taught Ephraini to go, taking him by the arms, but
they knew me not. Ch. vii. 15.
Rom. xiv. 4. He shall be holden up, for God is able to make him
stand.
Rev. ii. 1. He holdeth the seven stars in his right hand.
SAFETY.
LXII. God giveth safety* Exod. xxxiv. 24. I will cast out the na-
tions before thee, and enlarge thy borders, neither shall any mart
desire thy land when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord,
thrice in the year.
Lev. XXV. 18. Ye shall keep my statutes and my judgments, and
do them, and shall dwell in the land safely. Ver. 19. Deut. xii. 10.
Job V. 1 1. The Lord doth set on high those that be low, that those
that mourn may be exalted to safety. Ch. xi. 14, 18,
Ps. iv. 8. Thou Lord makest me to dwell in safety* Ps. cxix. 1 17,
1 Sam. xii. 1 1.
xii. 5. I will set the poor in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Isa. xiv, 30. The needy shall lie down safely.
Prov. i. 23. Whoso hearkeneth to wisdom shall dwell safely. Ch.
iii. 21, 23.
xviii 10. The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous
runneth into it and is safe. Ch. xxi. 3 1 . Safety is of the Lord.
xxix. 25. Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord, shall be safe. See
safety promised to God's church and people, Jer. x::iii. 6. — xxxii.
37. Ezek. xxviii. 26. — xxxiv. 25, 28. — xxxviii. 11. Zech.xiv. 11,
12, 13.
LXHL God called a shield^ rock^ fortress^ refuge-, See. Gen. xv. 1.
The Lord said to Abram, fear not, I am thy shield, and exceeding-
great reward.
Deut. xxxii. 4. The Lord, he is the rock, his work is perfect, all
his ways are judgment, a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and
right is he.
Ver. 31. Their rock is not as our rock, the enemies themselves
being judges. 1 Sam. ii. 2.
xxxiii. 27. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are
the everlasting arms.
Ver. xxix. The Lord, the shield of thy help, and the sword of
thine excellency.
2 Sam. xxii. 2. David said, the Lord is my rock, and my fortress,
and my deliverer.
Ver. 3. The God of my rock, in him will I trust, he is my shield
and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower, and my rcfiige,
and my saviour. Ver. 32, 47, 51. Ps. xviii. 2, 31, 35, 46. — iii. 3. —
cxliv. 2.
V. 12. Thou Lord wilt bless the righteous with favour, thou wilt
compass him about, as with a shield.
ix. 9. The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in
time of trouble.
xxviii. 7. The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart-trust-
100 Help. Chap. UU
ed in him, and I am helped, therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth,
and with my song will I praise him.
Ps. xxxi. 3. Thou art my rock and my fortress, and therefore for
thy name's sake, lead me and guide me. Ps. Ixi. 2. — Ixxi. 3, 7.
xxxiii. 20. Our soul waiteth on the Lord, he is our help and
shield. Ps. lix. 11. — Ixxxiv. 9.
xlii. 9. I will say unto God, my rock, why hast thou forsaken me.
xlvi. I. God is our rock and strength, a very present help in time
of trouble. Ver. 7. 11.
xlvii. 9. The shields that defend the earth are the Lord's.
xlviii. 3. God is known in the palaces of Zion, for a refuge.
Ivii. 1. In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until
the calamities be over past. Ps. Ixi. 4.
lix. 16. I will sing aloud of thy power, and of thy mercy, for thou
hast been my defence and refuge, in the day of trouble.
Ixi. 3. Thou hast been a tower, from the enemy.
Ixii. 7. The rock of my strength and my refuge is in God. Ver.
6, 8.
Ixxxiv. 1 1. The Lord is a sun and shield.
Ixxxix. 26. Thou art my Father, ray God, and the rock of my
salvation. Ps. xcv. 11.
xci. 2. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge, and my fortress,
and my God, in him will I trust. Ver. 4. Ps. xciv. 22. — cxv. 9,
10, II.
Ps. cxix. 1 14. Thou art my hiding place, and my shield, I hope in
thy word.
cxlii. 4. Refuge failed me, no man cared for my soul.
Ver. 5. I cried unto thee, O Lord, I said, thou art my refuge and
my portion, in the land of the living.
Prov. xiv. 26. In the fear of the Lord, is strong confidence, and
his children shall have a place of refuge.
xviii. 10. The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous
runneth into it, and is safe.
Isa. iv. 6. There shall be a place of refuge, and covert from the
storm.
XXV. 4. Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the
needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the
heat, when the blast of the terrible ones, is as a storm against the
wall.
Jer xvi. 19. O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, my refuge,
in the day of affliction.
Nah. i. 7. The Lord is a strong hold, in the day of trouble.
Heb. vi. 18. We have fled for refuge, to lay hold on the hope set
before us, /. e. Christ.
HELP.
LXIV. God is an helper to hispcojlile. Deut. xxxiii. 26. Godrideth
on the heavens in thy help.
1 Chron. xii. 18. Thy God helpetli thee.
2 Chpon. XXV. 18; God hath power to help, and to cast down,
xxxii. 8. Witli us, is the Lord our God to help us.
Chap. Ill, Help, 101
Ps. X. 4. Thou art the help of the fatherless.
xlvi. 1. God is a very present help, in time of trouble.
Ixxii. 12. He delivereth him that hath no help.
Ixxxix. 19. I have laid help upon one that is mighty.
cxv. 9. O Israel, trust thou in the Lord, he is their help and shield.
Ver. 10, II.
cxlvi. 5. Happy is he, that hath the God of Jacob for his help.
Hos. ix. 13. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy
help.
Rom. viii. 26. The Spirit helpeth our infirmities.
Heb. iv. 16. Let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we
may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
xiii. 6. We may boldiy say, the Lord is mine helper, I wdll not
fear what man shall do unto me.
Hel/ifrom God firomhcd. Gen. xlix. 25. The God of thy Father
shall help thee, and bless thee.
Ps. xxxvii. 40. The Lord shall help the righteous, and deliver
them.
xlvi. 5. The Lord shall help, and that right early.
Isa. xli. 10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee, be not dismayed,
for I am thy God, I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea,
I Vv'ill uphold thee, with the right hand of my righteousness. Ver.
13, 14. Ch. xliv. 2.
Isa. 1. 7. The Lord will help me, therefore will I not be confound-
ed. Ch. xlix. 8. Ps. xlii. 5.
Helf I prayed for. Dcut. xxxiii. 7. Be thou an help to Judah from
his enemies.
Ps. xii. 1 . Help, Lord for the godly man ceaseth«
XX. 2. Lord send help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee.
XXXV. 2. Lord stand up for my help. Ps. cix. 26.
xxxviii. 22. Make haste to help i>ie, O Lord, my salvation. Ps.
xxii. 1, 19 — xl. 13. — Ixx. 1. — Ixxi. 12.
lix. 4. Awake to help me.
Ix. 11. Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man.
Ps. cviii. 12.
Ixxix. 9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy
name.
cxix. 173. Let thine hand make help to me, for I have chosen
thy precepts.
Ver. 175. Let thy judgments help me. See 2 Cliron. xiv. 1 1. — ^
XX. 4, 9. ,
Hel/ifrom God acknowledged. Exod. xviii. 4. Moses said, the God
of my Fathers was mine help.
1 Sam. vii. 12. Samuel said, hitherto hath the Lord helped me.
Ps. xxvii. 9. David said, thou hast been mine help, leave me not,
neither forsake me, O God, of my salvation.
xxviii. 7. The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart trust-
eth in him, and I am helped. Ps. xxxiii. 20.
xl. 17. Thou art my help, and my deliverer. Ps. liv. 4. — Ixx. "J.
Ixiii. 7. Thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy
wings will I rejoice.
102 God a Deliverer, Chap. IIL
Ps. xciv. 7. Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had dwelt
in silence.
cxvi. 6. I was brought low, and he helped me. Ps. cxviii. 13.
cxviii. 7. The Lord taketh my part, with them that help me.
. cxxi. 1. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence Com-
eth my help.
Ver. 2. Mine help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven
and earth.
cxxiv. 8. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven
and earth.
Acts xxvi. 22. Having obtained help of God, I continue unto this
day. See 1 Chron.xv. 26. — 2 Chron. xviii. 31. — xxvi. 7, 15. Ps. xliv.
6. Isa. xlix. 8.
LXV. HeJjifrom the creatures^ vain. Ps. xxxiii. 17. An horse is
a vain thing for safety.
Ix. 11. Vain is the help of man. Ps. cviii. 12.
cxxvii. 1. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain.
cxivi. 3. Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in
whom there is no help.
Jer. iii. 23. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and
from the multitude of mountains, truly in the Lord our God is the
salvation of Israel.
GOD A DELIVERKll.
LXVL God deliverethfrom sichicss. Deut. vii. 15. The Lord will
take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil dis-
eases of Egypt upon thee. Exod. xv. 26. — xxiii. 25.
Job xxxiii. 25. His flesh shall be fresher than a child's, he shall
return to the days of his youth.
Ver. 28. God will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and
his life shall see the light.
Ps. xci. 5. He shall deliver thee, thou shalt not be afraid for the
terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day.
Ver. 6. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for
the destruction that wasteth at noon day.
ciii. 3. Who forgive th all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy
diseases. Ps. xli. 3. — cxvi. 6.
Jer. xxxiii. 6. Behold I will bring health and cure, and I will cure
them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
LXVn. God deliverethfrom enemies^ ofifiression^ i^c. Exod. iii. 8.
The Lord said, I am come down to deliver my people out of the
hand of the Egyptians.
xii. 27. The Lord smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses
Ch. xviii. 4, 8, 10. Judg. x. II.
Deut. xxiii. 14. The Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy
camp to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before ihee.
1 Sam. xvii. 37. David said, the Lord delivered me out of the paw
of the lion, and out cf the power of the bear.
2 San!, xii. 7. The Lord said to David, I anointed thee king, and
delivered thee out of the hand of Saul. Ch. xxii,
Chap. III. God a Deliverer. 103
2 Kings xiii. 17. Elisha said, the arrow of the Lord's deliverance.
xvii. 39. The Lord your God ye shall fear, and he shall deliver-
you out of the hand of all your enemies.
XX. 6. The Lord said to Hezekiah, I will deliver thee and this
city out of the hand of the kini^ of Assyria. Ch. xix. 34, 35. Mic. v.
6. Isa. xxxi. 5.
1 Chron. xi. 14. The Lord saveth the Israelites from the Phillis-
tines, by a great deliverance.
2 Chron. xii. 7. The Lord said, I will not destroy them, but will
grant them a deliverance.
Ezra ix. 1 3. Thou hast punished us less than our iniquities de-
serve, and hast given us a deliverance.
Neh. ix. 28. Many times didst thou deliver them, according to
thy mercy. Ps. cvi. 43.
Job v. 19. He shall deliver thee in six troubles, in seven!^therc
shall no evil touch thee. Ps. liv. 7. — Ixxxi. 7.
xxxiii. 24. He is gracious, and saith, deliver him from going down
to the pit. Ver. 28.
Ps. xviii. 2. The Lord is my deliverer. Ver. 17, 43, 48, 50.
xxii. 4. Our fathers trusted in thee, and thou deliveredst them.
Ver. 5.
xxxii. 7. Thou art my hiding place, thou shalt compass me about
with songs of deliverance.
Iv. 18. He hath delivered my soul in peace, from battle that was
against me.
Ivi. 13. Thou hast delivered my soul from death. Ps. Ixxxvi. 13.
— cxvi. 8.
Ixxviii. 42. They remembered not the day, when he delivered
them from the enemy.
Isa. xxxviii. 17. Thou hast in love to my soul, delivered it from
the pit of corruption.
xlvi. 3, 4. O house of Jacob, I will carry you, and will deliver
you.
Ezek. xiii. 21.1 will deliver my people out of your hand. Ver.-
16. saith God to the false prophets. Ch. xxxiv. 12.
Dan. vi. 27. God delivereth and rescueth, and worketh signs and
wonders, in heaven and earth.
Acts vii. 10. God delivereth Joseph out of all his aHlictions.
Col. i. 13. The Father delivered us fron the power of darkness.
2 Pet. ii. 7. God delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conver-
sation of the wicked.
LXVIII. Christ a deliverer. Rom. xi. 26. There shall come out
of Zion the deliverer. Isa. lix. 20.
Gal. i. 4. The Lord Jesus gave himself for us, that he might de-
liver us from this present evil world.
1 Thess. i. 10. Jesus delivered us from the wrath to come.
Heb. ii. 15. Jesus took part of flesh and blood, that he might de-
liver them, who through fear of death, were all their life time sub-
ject to bondage : By Christ we are delivered from the law. Rom.
vii. 6 — Fro.n the body of death. Ver. 24> 25 — From the bondage of
corruption. Ch. viii. 2L
104 God a Deliverer, Chap. III.
Deiivera7ice firaijedfor* Gen. xxxii. II. Jacob said, deliver me I
pray thee, from the hand of my brother.
1 Sam. xxiv. 15. David said to Saul, the Lord plead my cause, and
deliver me out of thine hand.
xxvi. 24. Let the Lord deliver me out of all tribulation.
Ps. vi. 4. Lord deliver my noul.
vii. 1. Save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.
Ps. cxlii. 1 — cxliii. 9.
xvii. 13. Deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword.
XX. 20. Deliver my soul from the sword, my darling from the pow-
er of the dog'.
XXV. 19. (consider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hat^
mc with a cruel hatred.
Vcr. 20. O keep my soul, and deliver me.
xxvii. 12. Deliver me not over to the will of mine enemies, for
false witnesses are risen up at^ainst mc. Ps. Ixxiv. 19.
xxxi. 1. Deliver me in thy righteousness.
Vcr. 2. Bow doAvn thine ear to me, and deliver me speedily.
Ver. 15. Deliver ]iic from the hand of mine enemies, and from
them that persecute me.
xL 13. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me.
Ver. 17. Let them be ashamed and confounded, that seek after my
soul to destroy it.
xiiii. 1. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man; Ps. lix.
Z — Ixxi. 4. — cxl. 1. — cxlJv. 2, 7, 1 1.
xliv. 4. O God command deliverance for Jacob.
Vcr. 5. Through thee we wiil push down our enemies.
Ix. 5. That thy beloved rnay be delivered, save with thy right
hand. Ps. cviii. C.
Ixix. 14. Deliver mc out of the mire, and let me not sink, let me
be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Ver. 18. Deliver me because of mine enemies.
cvii. 6. Thev cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he deliver-
ed them out of all their distresses.
Ver. 20. He delivered them from their destructions.
cix. 20. Let this calamity be the reward of mine adversaries.
Ver. 2 1 , Because thy mercy is good, do thou deliver me.
cxix. 134. Deliver me from the oppression of man.
Ver. 153. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me. Ver. 154, 170.
Matt. vi. 13. Deliver us from evil. See Isa. xix. 20. Rom. xv. 31.
LXIX. Persons that shall be delivered are., the poor and needy.
.Tob xxxvi. 15. He delivered the poor in his affliction.
Ps. XXXV. 1.0. Lord, who is like unto thee ? which deliverest the
poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and needy
from him that spoileth him. See Ps. Ixxii. 12. — Ixxxii. 4. Isa. xx. 1 3.
LXX. Prof I fir is and afiostles delivered* Jer. i. 8. Be not afraid of
their faces, (suirh the Lord to his prophet,) for I am with thee, to
deliver thee. V« r. 19. Ch. xv. 19, 20, 21. Ch. xxxix. 17.
Acts xxvi. 17. I am Jesus, who have appeared unto thee, deliver-
ing thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I nov
send thee.
Chap. III. God a Delhern-. lOp
2Cor. i. 10. God delivered vis from so f>'reat a death, and doth
deliver, in whom we trust, that he will yet deliver us. See 2 Tim.
iii. 11 — iv. 17, 18.
LXXI. Ml GoiVs faithful servants shall he delhrred. Job xxli. 30.
He shall deliver the island of the innocent.
Ps. xxxiii. 19. The eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him,
upon them that hope in his mercy, to deliver their soul from death.
xixiv. 17. The righteous cry, and the Lord delivereth them out
of all their troubles. Vcr. 7, 19. Ps, xxxvii. 40. Prov. xi. 8.
xl. 1. He that considereth the poor, the Lord will deliver him.
Ver. 2.
1. 15. Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee,
and thou shalt glorify me.
xci. 14. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I de-
liver him. Ver. 2, 3, 4, 15.
Prov. xxviii. 26. Whoso walketh wisely, shall be delivered.
Ezek. xiv. 16. Noah, Daniel and Job, should be delivered in a city
devoted to destruction by the Lord.
Dan. iii. 17. Our God whom we serve, is able to deliver us from
the fiery furnace-
Ver. 28. God sent his angel, and delivered his servants, that trust-
ed in him.
xii. 1. At that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that
shall be found written in the book.
Joel ii. 32. Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord, shall
be delivered. Obad. ver. 17.
LXXn. Deliverance f^om moral evil, or sin. Ps. xxxix. 8. Deliver
me from all my transgressions.
li. 14. Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God of my salva-
tion.
ixxix. 8. O remember not against us former iniquities.
Vcr. 9. Deliver us and purge awii.y our sin, for thy name's
sake.
cxix. 170. Deliver me according to thv word.
Miitt. vi. 13. Deliver us from evil.
LXXin. God delivereth into natural evil, God delivereth the vjick-
ed into the hands of their enemies.
Gen. xiv. 20. Mclchezedck said to Abram, blessed be the most
high God, who hath delivered thine enemies into ihinc hand.
Exod. xxiii. 31. The Lord said, (to his people,) I will deliver the
inhabitants of the land into thine hand. Dcut. iii. 2. — vii. 2, 3, 16,
23, 24.
Num. xxi. 3. The Lord delivered up the Canaanites, and Israel
destroyed them.
Deut. ii. 33. The Lord delivered Sihon, Sec. Ver. 36. Judg. xi.
9, 21.
xxviii. 25. If thou rebel, thou shalt be smitten before thine ene-
mies. Ver. 29. See this fulftlled, 2 Chron. xxix. 28. Neh. ix. 26, 27.
Ps. Ixxviii. 59, 6J. Isa. xlii. 24, 2r>.
Judg. xxiv. 10. David said to Sau!, this day the Lord delivei-ed
thee !nto mine hand. See I Sam. xvii. 45.
106 God Keepeth. Chap. II L
1 Kings xiii. 26. The prophet said, the man of God was disobedi-
ent to the word of the Lord, therefore the Lord hath delivered him
unto the lion.
2 Chron. xxv. 20. A.m?ziah would not hearken to advice, for it
came of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their
enemies.
Isa. xxxiv. 2. The indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and
his fury upon all their armies, he hath utterly destroyed them, he
hath delivered them to the slaughter.
Ver. 3. Their slain shall be cast out, &c. Ver. 5. Ch. xiii. 3, 4,5.
Hab.i. 12.
Jer. XV. 9. The residue of them will I deliver to the sword, be-
fore their enemies, saith the Lord.
Jer. XX. 4. Thus saith the Lord, I will make thee a terror to thy-
self, and to all thy friends, and they shall fall by tlie sword of their
enemies, and I will give Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Ver. 5.
xxi. 4 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, behold I will turn back
the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight a-
gainst the king of Babylon.
Ver. 5. And I will deliver Zedekiah, Sec. into the hands of Ne-
buchadnezzar. Ch. xxiv. 8, 9, 10. Ch. xxix. 17, 21.
xliii. 10. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, take Ne-
buchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, ,
Ver. 1 1. And he shall deliver such as are for death,, to death, &c..
Ch. xlvi. 26.
Ezek. xi. 8. I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord.
Ver. 9. I will deliver you into the hands of strangers. Ver. 10.
xvi. 27. For thy wickedness I have diminished thy ordinary food,
and have delivered thee into the hand of them that hate thee. Mic.
vi. 14. 5.
xxi. 31. I wull deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, skilful
to destroy. Ver. 32. Ch. xxiii. 28. — xxv. 7. — xxxi. 10, 11.
Amos iii. 6. Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not
done it ?
Heathens delivered into the hands of Israel were, Og, Deut. iii. 2.
Amorites, Jos. x. 12. — Ch. xi. 6. Many kings, Ch. xxi. 44. All
their enemies, Judg. iv. 1. The Canaanites, Ch. iv. 7. Siscra,
Ch. vii. 7. Midianiics, Ch. viii. 7. Zebaand Zulmunna, Ch.xi. 32.
f'hildren of Amnion, Ch. xviii. 15. Philistines, I Sam. ,Nxiii. 4.
Moabites, 2 Kings iii. 18.
THE LORD DOTH KEEP HIS PKOPLK.
LXXIV. God doth keep, his servants from evil. Gen. xxviii. If-.
"I he Lord said to Jacob, behold 1 am with thee, and will keep thee,
ill all places, whither thou goest,and 1 will not leave thee. Ver. 20, 2 1 ,
Lxod. xxiii. 20.- The Lord said, behold 1 send an angel before
thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place, which
1 have prepared.
Numb. vi. 23. On this wise Apron ;md his sons shrvll blc^ the
< hlldrrn of Israel, saj ing.
Chap. IIL God Keepeth, 107
Numb. vi. 24. The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.
Ver. 25. The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious
wnto thee.
Ver. 26. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give
thee peace.
Deut. xxxii. 10. The Lord kept Jacob, as the apple of his eye.
Jos. xiv. 10. Moses said, the Lord hath kept me alive, &c.
I Sam. ii. 9. The Lord will keep the feet of his saints, and the
wicked shall be silent in darkness, for by strength shall no man pre-
vail.
XXV. 34. David said, blessed be the Lord, that hath kept his ser-
vant from doing evil. Ver. 39.
1 Chron. iv. 10. Jabez called on God, and said, O that thou wouldst
bless me, and keep me from evil.
Job xxxiii. 18. He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life
from perishing by the sword.
Ps. xii. 7. Thou wilt keep them, O Lord, and shalt preserve them
from this generation. Ps. xxxi. 20.
xvii. 8. Keep me as the apple of thine eye, hide me under the
shadow of thy wings.
xix. 13. Keep back thy servant, from presumptuous sins.
xxv. 20. O keep my soul and deliver me, let me not be ashamed,
for I trust in thee.
XXX. 3. O Lord thou hast brought up my soul from the grave,
thou hast kept me alive.
xxxiii. 19. The eye of the Lord is on them that fear him, to keep
them alive in famine.
xxxiv. 20. The Lord keepeth all his bones, not one of them is
broken.
xci. 1 1 . He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee
in all thy ways.
cxxi. 5. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved, he that keepeth
thee will not slumber.
Ver. 5. The Lord is thy keeper.
cxxvii. I. Except the Lord keep the city, the watch-men w^atch
but in vain.
cxl. 4. Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked.
cxli. 3. O Lord, keep the door of my lips.
Ver. 9. Keep me from the snare laid for me.
Prov. iii, 26. The Lord shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Isa. xxvi. 3. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose heart is
stayed on thee.
xxvii. 3. The Lord will keep the vine-yard, he will water it, he
will keep it night and day.
xlii. 6. I will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people.
Jcr. xxxi. 10. He will gather Israel, and will keep him as a shep-
herd doth his flock.
John xvii. 11. Jesus prayed thus, holy Father, keep through thine
own name, those whom thou hast given me.
Ver. 15. I pray that thou shouldst keep them from the evil that is
in the world.
2 Thess. iii. 3. The Lord is faithful, who will stablish you, and
keep you from evil.
O
108 God PreservetJu Chap. III.
2 Tim. i. 12. 'V\\q Lord whom I have believed, is able to keep that
which I have committed unto him.
1 Pet. i. 5. We are kept by the power of God, through faith unto
salvation.
iv. 19. Let them that suffer, according to the will of God, commit
the keeping of their souls unto him, in well doing, as unto a faithful
Creator.
Jude ver. 24» Unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and
to present you faultless before the presence of his glory, with exceed-
ing joy.
Ver. 25. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and ever.
Rev. iii. 10, I will keep thee from the hour of temptation.
GOD PRESERVETH.
LXXV. God fircserveth his fieofile. Gen. xlv. 8. Joseph said, God
sent nie hither, to preserve you, a posterity in the earth.
Deut. vi. 24. God commanded us, to do these statutes, and to fear
the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us
alive as at this day.
Jos. xxiv. 17. God preserved us in all the way wherein we went,
among all people, through whom we passed.
2 Sam. viii. 6. The Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.
1 Sam. XXX. 23.
Neh. ix. 6. Lord, thou hast made all things, and thou presenrest
them all.
Job vii. 20. I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou pre-
server of men.
X. 12. Thou hast granted me liie and favour, and thy visitation
preserveth my spirit.
xxix. 2. O that I were as in months past, as in the days when God
preserved me.
Ps. xvi. I. Preserve me, O Lord, for in thee do I put my trust.
xxxi. 23. The Lord preserveth the faithful.
xxxii. 7. Thou art my hiding-place, thou shalt preserve me from
trouble.
xxxvi. 6. O Lord thou preservest man and beast.
xxxvii. 28. The Lord forsaketh not his saints, they are preserved
for ever.
xli. 2. The Lord will presene him, and keep him alive, and he
shall be blessed that considereth the poor.
Ixiv. 1. O my God, preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Ixxix. 11. Preserve thou those that are appointed to die.
Ixxxvi. 2. Preserve my. soul, O thou my God, save thy servant
that trusteth in thee.
xcvii. 10. The Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he deliver-
eth them out of the hand of the wicked. Ps. cxl. I.
cxvi. 6. The Lord preserveth the simple.
cxxi. 7. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil, he shall pre-
serve thy soul.
Ver. 8. He shall preserve thy going out, and coming in.
cxlv. 20, The Lord preser\eth all those that love him.
Chap. III. God is the Creator. 109
Ps. cxlvi. 9. The Lord preserveth the strangers, he relieveththc
fatherless and widow. Jer. xlix. 11.
Prov. ii. 8. He preserveth the way of his saints.
Tsa. xlix. 6. Thou art my servant, to restore the preserved of Israel,
1 Thess. V. 23. I pray God that your whole spirit and soul, and
body, be preserved blameless, unto the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
2 Tim. iv. 1 8. The Lord will preserve me untohis heavenly kingdom .
GOD IS THE CREATOR.
LXXVI. Godis the Creator of his people. Ps. Ii. 10. Create in me
^ clean heart, O God, renew a right spirit within me.
cii. 8. The people that shall be created shall praise the Lord.
cxlix. 2. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him, let the chil-
dren of Zion be joyful in their king.
Isa. xliii. I. Thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and
formed thee, O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have
called thee by name, thou art mine.
Ver. 7. I have created him for my glory, I have formed him, yea
I have made him.
Ver. 15. I am the Lord, your holy one, the creator of Israel, your
king.
Ver. 21. This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew
forth my praise. Ch. xliv. 2, 21, 24. — xlvi. 4.
Ezek. XXX vii. from ver. 1 to 15. The vision of dry bones raised
to life.
Threats against those ivho apostatised after they had been created.
Deut. xxxii. 6. Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and
unwise, is he not thy Father that hath bought thee, hath he not made
thee, and established thee.
Ver. 15. Jeshurun forsook God that made him.
Ver. 18. Of the rock that begat thee, thou art unmindful, and
hast forgotten God that formed thee.
Ver. 19. The Lord abhorred them. Ver. 22.
Ver. 23. He said, I will heap mischief upon them.
Ezek. xxi. 39. Thus saith the Lord, I will judge thee in the places
where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity. See Jerusa-
lem's birth and nativity described. Ch. xvi. 3 to 14.
Ver. 31. I will pour mine indignation upon thee, I will blow a-
gainst thee in the fire of my wrath, I will deliver thee inlo the hand
of brutish men, skilful to destroy. Ver. 32.
xxviii. 12. Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus.
Ver. 15. Thou wast perfect in thy ways, from the day that thou
wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Ver. 16. Thou hast sinned, therefore I will cast thee as profane
out of the mountain of (iod. Ver. 18.
LXXVI I. God the Creator of Christians^ they are new creatures^
God's workmanship. Rom. xiv. 20. For meat, destroy not thou the
work of God.
2 Cor. v. 17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
Gal. vi. 15. In Christ Jesus, neither circumcision availeth anv
thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Eph, i. 6. He hath made us accepted in the beloved.
110 Cod is the Creator, Chap. III.
Col. i. 12. He hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritanct
of the saints in light.
ii. 10. We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good
works-
Ver. 13. Ye are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Ver. 15.
Rev. i. 6. lie hath made us kings and priests to God, and his Fa-
ther.
LXXVIII. Duty of Christians as new creatures. Rom. vi. 4. We
should walk in newness of life.
vii. 6. We should serve in newness of spirit.
xii. 2. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.
1 Cor. V. 7. Purge out the old leaven, that ye may become a new
lump.
Eph. iv. 22. Put off the old man which is corrupt according to the
deceitful lusts.
Ver. 24. And put on the new man which after God is created in
righteousness and true holiness.
Col. iii. 9. Ye have put ofF the old man with his deeds, and have
pvt on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image
of him that created him.
I Pet. iv. 19. Let those that suffer according to the will of God,
commit the keeping of their souls unto him in well doing, as unto a
faithful Creator.
LXXIX. God is to his fieo/iley their planter, builder, ijfc. they are
hit: /'.'anting, his vine-yard, which he ivatereth and maketh fruitful, his
hous^' his building, kj'c.
God planted the Jewish nation in the land of Canaan. Exod. xv. \7»
Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine
inheritance, in the sanctuary which thine hands have established.
2 Sam. vii. 10.
Jer. xxxii. 41. I will plant them in this land assuredly, with my
whole heart. Ch. xxiv. 6. — xxxi. 4, 12, 28. — xlii. 10.
Amos ix. 15. I will plant them upon their own land, and they shall
no more be plucked up out of their land, saith the Lord.
LXXX. The Lord planted, watered, and mad' fruitful, the Jewish
church. Ps. Ixxx. 8. Tl ou hast brought a vine out of Egypt, thou
hast cast out the heathen and planted it. Ver. 15. Ps. Ixxii. 16.
Isa. iv. 2. In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and
glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely.
Ch. Ix. 21.
Isa. V. 1. My beloved hath a vine-yard in a very fruitful hill.
Ver. 2. He fenced it, and planted it, and planted it with the choice
^'ine.
Ver. 7. The vine-yard of the Lord of hosts, is the house of Israel.
xxvii. 3. I the Lord do keep the vine-yard, I will water it every
moment, lest any hurt it, and I will keep it night and day. Ver. 2,
6. C\i. xx'.vki. 31.
XXXV- 7. The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty
land springs of water.
xli- 1 8. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst
of the valleys, and 1 will make the wilderness a pool of water. Ver.
19, 20.
Chap. III. God is the Creator. ill
Isa. xliv. o. I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods
upon the dry ground, and I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed^ and
my blessing upon thine offspring.
Ver, 4. And they shall spring up as among the grass, and as the
willows by the water courses. Ch. xlix. 10. — Iviii. 11.
Ixi. 3. That they may be called trees of righteousness, the plant-
ing of the Lord that he might be glorified.
Ver. 1 1 . P'or as the earth bringeth forth the bud, and the garden
causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord will
cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all people.
Jer. xxxi. 12.
Hos. ii. 23. I will sow her unto me in the earth, and I will have
mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy.
xiv. 5. I will be as the ciew unto Israel, he shall grow as the lily
and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Ver. 7. They shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine.
Ver. 8. I am like a green fir-tree, from me is thy fruit found.
Mai. iv. 2. Ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall.
See Jer. xviii. 9.
LXXXL Afiostacy^ or unfruitfulness^ threats and reproofs against it,
Jer. ii. 21. I planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed : how
art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me ?
xi. 17. The Lord of hosts that planted thee hath pronounced evil
against thee. Ch. xlv. 4. Ezek. xvii. 5, 8, 9. — xix. 10, 12.
Jer. xviii. 9, 10. At what instant I speak concerning a nation to
pluck up, &c.
Matt. iii. 10. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is
hewn down and cast into the fire.
xiii. 3. See the parable of the sower. Mark iv. 4. Luke viii. 5.
Ver. 24. The parable of the wheat, and tares.
xxi. 32. The parable of the husbandman letting out the vineyard,
and requiring the fruits. Mark xii. 1 . Luke xx. 9.
Luke xiii. 6. The parable of the unfruitful fig-tree cumbering the
ground. V^er. 7, 8, 9.
LXXXIL The fruitful,, whether Jews or Gentiles^ are God*s filanting.
Ps. i. 3. The righteous shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of
water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season, his leaf shall not
wither. Jer. xvii. 8.
xcii. 13. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord, shall
flourish in the courts of our God.
Ver. 14. They shall bring forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat
and flourishing.
Matt. vii. 17. Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit. Ver. 18.
Ch. xii. 33.
John XV. 1 , I am the true vine, my Father is the husbandman.
Ver. 2. Every branch that beareth not fruit he taketh away, and
every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth, that it may bring forth
more fruit. Ver. 4, 5, 6, 8. ,
Rom. vi. 22. Ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end ever-
lasting life. Ch. vii. 4.
1 Cor. iii. 9. Ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
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Eph. ii. 20. Ye are built upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.
Ver. 21. In whom all the building fitly framed together growcth
into an holy temple unto the Lord.
Ver. 22. In whom ye are builded together for an habitation of
God through the Spirit.
2 Thess. i. 3. We are bound to thank God for you, brethren, be-
cause your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every on©
of you toward each other aboundeth.
1 Pet. ii. 5. Ye also, as lively stones are built up a spiritual house,
an holy priesthood.
CHAP. IV,
PROPHECIES CONCERNING CHRIST.
PROPHECT AND MIRACLES.
I. THE testimony of firophecy apficaled to as a foundation of faith in
Christ* John v. 39. Search the scriptures, for in them ye think ye
have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me.
Ver. 44. How can ye believe, which receive honour one of ano-
ther, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only ?
Ver. 45. There is one that accuseth you, even Moses in whom yc
trust.
Ver. 46. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed mc,
for he wrote of me. John i. 45.
Ver. 47. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe
my words ?
Matt. xxvi. 24. The Son of man goeth as it is written of him.
Mark ix. 12. It is written of the Son of man that he must suffer
many things.
Luke xviii. 3 1 . All things written by the prophets concerning the
Son of man, must be accomplished.
xxii. 37. This that is written must be accomplished in me.
xxiv. 44. All things must be fulfilled which were Avritten in the
law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning mc,
Ver. 46. Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to sufier,
and to rise from the dead the third day.
II. The testimony of prophecy urged by the apostles. Acts xvii. 2.
Paul reasoned out of the scriptures, ver. 3. opening and alleging
that Christ must needs have suiTei-ed and risen again from the dead,
and that this Jesus which I preach unto you is Christ.
xxiv. 14. After the way which they call heresy, so worship I the
God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law
and the prophets.
xxvi. 22. I continue witnessing both to small and great, saying none
other things, than those which the prophets and Moses did say should
Chap. IV. Prophecies concerning Christ, llS
come, ver. 32. that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the
first that should rise from the dead.
Acts iii. 18. Peter said, those things that God before had shewed,
by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hatii
fulfilled.
X. 43. To him gave all the prophets witness.
xviii. 28. Apostles mightily convinced the Jews, shewing by the
scriptures that Jesus was Christ.
xxviii. 23. Paul expounded and testified the kingdom of God, per-
suading; them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and
out of the prophets.
III. Profihecies concerning Christ fulfilled^ in his incarnation^ lifcy
deathf resurrection^ and ascension. Gen. iii. 15. The seed of the
woman shall bruise the serpent's head.
Isa. vii. 14. The Lord himself shall give you a sign, behold a vir-
gin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
ix. 6. Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. See this
fulfilled in the conception, and birth of Jesus. Matt. i. 18 to 25.
Luke i. 28 to 35.
Gal. iv. 4. God sent forth his Son, made of a woman.
John i. 14. He was made flesh.
Hcb. xii. 14. He took part of flesh and blood.
Ver. 17. Was made like unto his brethren.
Phil. ii. 7. Was made in the likeness of men.
Ver. 8. Was found in fashion as a man.
IV. The nation^ tribe^ and family he was to descend from* Gen. xii.
3. Abram, in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Acts
iii. 25. Gal. iii. 8.
xxi. 12. In Isaac shall thy seed be called. Gal. iii. 16. Thy seed'
which is Christ.
xxvi. 4. Isaac — in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed.
xxviii. 14. Jacob — in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be
blessed.
xlix. 8. Judah — thy brethren shall praise thee, 8cc. Ver. 10.
Isa. xi. 1. David — A branch shall grow out of his roots.
Ps. Ixxxix. 29. His seed will I make to endure for ever. See Jer.
xxiii. 5. — xxxiii. 15. Ps. xviii. 50. — Ixxxix. 4, 36. — cxxxii. 11.
John vii. 42. Christ cometh of the seed of David.
Matt. xxii. 42. He is David's son.
ix. 27. Thou son of David have mercy on us. Ch. xv. 22. — xx. 30,
xxi. 9. Hosannah to the son of David.
Mark xi. 10. Blessed be the kingdom of our father David.
Heb. vii. 14. It is evident our Lord sprang from Judah.
Rom. i. 3. Jesus Christ was made of the seed of David.
Acts xiii. 23. Of this man's seed according to the flesh, hath God
raised unto Israel a Saviour. See Christ's descent reckoned. Matt, i-
1 to 18. Luke iii. 23 to 34.
V. The time of Christ's life and death fixed by other events foretold
inprofihecy^ well knoivn when they hafifiened. Gen. xlix. 10. The sceptrr
shall not depart from Judah, nor a law-^iver from botwoon his feet*
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till Shilo come. * As a proof that this sceptre, the ensign of govern-
<^ ment was departed from Judah at our Saviour's birth' —
Luke ii. 3. Joseph and IVIary with others, went to be taxed by the
authority of a heathen emperor.
Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and
upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end
of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in ever-
lasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision of prophecy, and to
anoint the most holy.
Ver. 25. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth
of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem, unto the Mes-
siah the prince, shall be seven weeks ; and threescore and two weeks,
the street shall be built again, and the wall even in troublesome times,
Ver. 26. And after threescore and two weeks, shall the Messiah
be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that
shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end
thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war, desolations
are determined.
Hag.ii. 7. The desire of all nations shall come, apd I will fill this
house (viz. the temple) with my glory.
Ver. 9. The glory of this latter house, shall be greater than that
of the former house.
The only glory it had above the former^ but ivas in other respects inferior
to it J (Ezra iii. 12.) thisjixes the coming of Christ nvhile the temfile
was standing.
VI. The country and town where Christ should be born. Mic. v. 2.
Thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thou-
sands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me, that is to
be ruler in Israel. — Fulfilled :
Matt. ii. 1. Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
John vii. 42. Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the
town of Bethlehem where David was.
VII. Of his forerunner John Baptist. Isa. xl. 3. The voice of him
that crieth in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord.
Mai. iii. 1. I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare my
way before me.
iv. 5. I will send you Elijah the prophet — Fulfilled :
Matt. iii. 1. In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the
wilderness of Judea, saying, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at
hand. Luke i. 17.
Matt. xi. 14. This is Elias which was for to come.
xvii. 12. Elias is come already. Mark ix. 13.
VIII. His purging the temple. Ps. Ixix. 9. The zeal of thine house
hath eaten me up.
Matt. xxi. 12. Jesus cast out all them that sold and bought in the
temple. Mark xi. 15. Luke xix. 45. John ii. 13, &c.
IX. His working miracles. Isa. xxxv. 5. The eyes of the blind
shall be opened, the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Ver. 6. The lame shall leap as an hart, and the tongue of the
dumb shall sing — Fulfilled :
Matt. XV. 30. Great multitudes cam*^ unto him, having: ^'ith them
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those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and
he healed ihcm. See New Testament Miracles.
X. That the Spirit of the Lord should be upon hivu Tsa. xi, 2. The
Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and un-
derstanding^, &c. Ver. 3.
Ixi. 1. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because he hath
anointed me to preach, Sec.
Ps. xlv. 7. God hath anointed thee with the oi! of ecladness, above
thy fellows.— Fulfilled :
Matt. iii. 16. He sav/ the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and
lighting upon him. John i. 33.
John iii. 34. God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him
Acts iv. 27. Jesus whom thou hast anointed. Ch. x. 38.
XL That he should be a Prophet. Deut. xviii. 15, The Lord thy
God will raise up unto thee a Prophet, unto him shall ye hearken.
Heb. i. 1. God who spake unto the fathers by the prophets, hath
in these last days spoken to us by his Son Christ. Heb. ii. 3. See
Christ's predictions concerning his death, 8r.c.
XH. That he should preach or teach. Ps. xl. 9. I have preached
righteousness in the great congregation.
Isa. Ixi. 1. He hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the
meek. See Isa. xi. 2, 3, 4. — ii. 3. Mic. iv. 2.
Matt. iv. 23. Jesus went about preaching the gospel. Ch. ix. 34,
Matt. xi. 27. Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the^ Son,
and he to whom the Son will reveal him. Ch. xvii. 26.
John vii. 14. Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus went up into
the temple and taught.
Ver. 26. My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
xii. 49. I have not spoken of myself, the Father which sent me
gave me co.nmandment what I should say. Ch. xiv. 10, 24. — For
the nature of his preaching, see his sermon. Matt. 5th, 6th, 7th
chapters.
XIII. That he should not seek the applause of men. Isa. xlii. 2. He
shall not cry nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets^
John V. 41. I receive not honour from men.
When he ivrought miracles he often said,
Matt. viii. 4. See thou tell no man. Ch. ix. 30. xvi. 20. Mark vii. 24.
IMark v. 43. See that no man know it. Ch. ix. 30.
XIV. That he should be a sufferer. Isa. iii. 14. His visage was
more marred than any man.
liii. 3. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
Ilcb. iv. 15. Was touched v/ith the feeling of our infirmities.
The ir.fivmities uvrf,
rvlatt. iv. 1. He was tempted of the devil.
Ver. 2. Hcj fasted and hungred. Ch. xxi. 18.
John ix. 28. He thirsted. Ch. iv. 10.
iv. 6. He was weary.
Matt. viii. 24. He slept. Ch. xi. 35. lie wept.
Mark iii. 5. He was grieved,
xii. 27. His soul was troubied.
Matt. xxvi. 2>1 . He T>^as sonowful.
Luke xxii. 24. In an agony he prayed.
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Matt. viii. 20. He had not where to lay his head.
XV. That he should be desfiised of men. Isa. xlix. 7. Thus saith the
Lord to him whom man despiseth, whom the nation abhorreth.
liii. 2. He hath no form nor comeliness, nor beauty that we should
desire him.
Isa. liii, 3. He was despised and rejected of men, and we esteem-
ed him not.
Ps. xxii. 6. I am despised of the people, cxviii. 22. — Fulfilled:
John i. 1 1. He came to his own, and his own received him not.
Luke xix. 14. They say, we will not have this man to reign over us.
Matt, xxvii. 23. The people said, let him be crucified. Ver. 25.
His blood be upon us, and our children. Ver. 25.
Luke xxiii. 18. They cried out all at once, saying, away with this
man.
John xviil. 40. Release unto us, not this man, but Barabbas.
XVr. That he should be hated. Luke xix. 14. His citizens hated him.
John vii. 7. The world hateth me.
XV. 18. It hated me before it hated you.
Matt. x. 22. Ye shall be hated for my name's sake. Ch. xxiv. Q.-
Mark xiii. 13. Luke xxi. 17.
XVH. That he should be refiroached. Ps. xxii. 6. I am a reproach
of men.
XVIII. The refiroaches cast ufion him were, Matt. xiii. 55. Is not
this the carpenter's son.
Ver. 57. And they were offended in him.
Mark vi. 3. Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary.
John i. 46. Can any good thing come out of Nazareth.
vii. 52. Out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.
Luke vii. 39. If this man were a prophet, he would have known
who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, for she
is a sinner.
John ix. 24. This man is a sinner.
Luke XV. 2. He receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Matt. xi. 19. ^He is a man gluttonous, and a wine-bibber, a friend
of publicans anefv^sinners. Luke vii. 34.
.xxvii. 63. A deceiver. John vii. 12. He deceiveth the people.
John ix. 16. This man is not of God.
Matt. ix. 3. This man blasphemeth.
xxvi. 65. Ye have heard his blasphemy- John x. 2>3.
John X. 20. He hath a devil, and is mad, why hear ye him ?
viii. 48. Thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil. Ver. 52.
Matt. xii. 24. This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Btelz<:-
bub the prince of devils. Ch. ix. 20.
Luke xvi. 14. They derided him. Ch. xxiii. 2,5.
Matt, xxvii. 29. They mocked him. Ch. xxxi. Mark xv, 20.
John v. 16. They call him a Sabbath-breaker.
Heb. xii. 3. He endured such contradiction of sinners against hini-
self.
XIX. That he should be persecuted, Isa. liii. 4. We did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.
Ps. Ixix. 26. They persecute him whom thou hast smitten, they
speak to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. Ps. vii. I.
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John V. 16. The Jews did persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him,
because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
Vev. 18. They sought the more to kill him, because he said that^
God was his Father.
XV. 20. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you also.
XX. That Jews and Gentiles should join against him. Ps. ii. 1. Why
do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing. Kings of
the earth do set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together
against the Lord, and against his anointed. — Fulfilled ;
Matt. xii. 14. The Pharisees held a counsel together, how they
might destroy him. Mark iii. 16. John xi. 53.
Luke xxiii. 12. Pilate and Herod were made friends together.
Acts iv. 27. Against thy holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed,
both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and people of Israel
were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy coun-
sel determined before to be done.
XXI. Should be sold for money. Zech. xi. 12. They weighed for
my price thirty pieces of silver, a goodly price that I was prised at
of them. Amos ii. 6. — Fulfilled :
Matt. xxvi. 15. They covenanted with Judas for thirty pieces of
silver, and from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
XXII. The use they apply the money to., foretold. Zech. xi. 13. I
took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the
house of the Lord.
Matt, xxvii. 7. They bought with them the potter's field, to bury
strangers jn.
Ver. 8. Wherefore that field is called the field of blood unto this
day. Acts i. 16, 19.
XXIII. Prophecies concerning the person nvho should betray Christ.
John vi. 64. Jesus knew from the beginning who should betray him.
Ver. 70. He said, have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is
a devil.
Ver. 71. He spake this of Judas, for he it was that should betray
him. iii
Matt. xxvi. 21. One of you shall betray me. '^^^K^
Ver. 23. He that dippeth his hand with me in tfe dish, shall be-
tray me.
Luke xxii. 21. The hand of him that betrayeth me is on the table
with me.
John xiii. 18. He that eateth bread with me hath lift up his heel
against me. — Fulfilled :
Matt. xxvi. 14. Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went
unto the chief priests,
Ver. 15. And said unto them, what will ye give me, and I will
deliver him unto you ? and they covenanted with him for thirty pieces
of silver.
Ver, 1 6. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Matt. xxvi. 47. Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a
great multitude.
Ver. 4H, He j^ave them a sign, saving, whomsoever I shall kiss.,
the same ih he.
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Matt. xxvi. 49. And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, hail,
master, and kissed him.
Ps. cix. 7. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned.
Vcr. 8. Let his days be few, and let another take his office. Acts
i. 20.
XXIV. Thus cjc/iressed by Christ, Matt. xxvi. 34. Wo unto that
man, by whom the Son of man is beti\yed, it had been good for that
man if he had not been born. — Fulfilled:.
Matt, xxvii. 4. Judas said, I have sinned in that I have betrayed
innocent blood.
Ver. 5. And he went and hanged himself.
Acts i. 25. That he might go to his own place.
XXV. That Christ ^houUi be forsaken. Zech. xiil. 7. Awake, O
sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow,
saith the Lord of hosts, smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be
scattered.
The same thus ex'firessed by Christ,
Matt. xxvi. 31. All ye shall be offended because of me this night.
Mark xiv. 27. John xvi. 32. — Fulfilled:
Ver. 56. They all forsook him and fled.
XXVI. Peter's denying hinu Mutt. xxvi. 34. Peter, thou shult
deny me.
Ver. 70. Peter denied, &c.
Ver. 72, He denied again with nn oath.
Ver. 74. He denied, and began to curse and to sv/ear.
XXVII. Beaten and sf at on. Ps. xxii. 16.- The assembly of the
wicked have inclosed me.
Isa. 1. 3. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them
that plucked oif the hair, I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Fulfilled, Matt. xxvi. 67.
Mic. v. i. They shall smite the judge of Israel, with a rod upon
the cheek. — Fulfilled, Matt, xxvii. SO.'
XXVIII. Christ's own account of this. Matt. xvi. 21. From that
time forth, Jesus began to shew unto his disciples, how that he must
go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief
priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Matt. XX. 18. Behold we go up unto Jerusalem, (Luke xiii. o3.
For it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem) and the Son
of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes,
and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him unto the
Gentiles, to mock, &c. Mark x. 34. To spit upon and to scourge, and
to crucify him, and the third day he shall rise again.
XXIX. What kind of death he should die, Ps. xxii. 16. They pier-
ced my hands and feet.
Zech. xii. 10. They shall look on him whom they have pierced,
John iii. 15. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so
must the son of man be lifted up.
Matt. xxvi. 2. After two days is the passover, and the son of man
is betrayed to be crucified.
Ver. 45. The hour is come, that the son of man should be glorified.
XXX. Christ's silence. Isa. liii. 7. He was oppressed and he was
afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth, he was brought as a lamb to
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the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he o-
pened not his mouth.
Matt, xxvii. 12. When he was accused, he answered nothing. Mark
xiv. 61. — XV. 3, 5. Luke xxiii. 9.
1 Pet. ii. 23^ When he was reviled, he reviled not again.
XXXI. They give sentence against him. Matt. xxvi. 66. They con-
demn him to death.
Ver. 67. Then did they spit in his face, and buffetted him, others
smote him with the palms of their hands.
Ver. 68. Saying prophecy to us, thou Christ, who is he that smote
thee. Luke xxii. 64.
Luke xxiii. 1. They lead him to Pilate (a Gentile.)
Ver. 7. Pilate sends him to Herod.
Ver. 1 1. Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mock-
ed him, and sent him again to Pilate.
Ver. 21. The people cried, crucify him.
Ver. 23. And the voices of them, and of the chief priests, pre-
vailed.
Ver. 24. And Pilate gave sentence, that it should be even as they
required.
Ver. 26. Pilate scourged Jesus, and delivered him to be crucified,
Ver. 27, 28, 29.
Ver. 30. They spit upon him, and smote him on the head, and
led him away to crucify him.
XXXH. Give him gall. Ps. xxii. 25. My tongue cleaveth to my
jaws.
Ixix. 21. They gave me gall for my meat, and in my thirst, they
gave me vinegar to drink. — Fulfilled :
Matt, xxvii. 34. They gave him vinegar mingled with gall. Ver.
48. Mark xv. 36. Luke xxiii. 36. John xix. 29,
XXXHI. IViey mock him on the cross. Ps. xxii. 7. All they thut
see me, laugh me to scorn.
Ver. 8. Saying he trusted in the Lord, let him deliver him. See
this fulfilled. Matt, xxvii, Ver. 39 to 44. Mark xv. 29.
XXXin. Fart his garme7its. Ps. xxii. 1 8. They part my garments
among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. Mark xv. 24.
HIS WORDS ON THE CROSS.
Ps. xxii. L My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me. Mark
XXV. 34.
XXXV. Prays for his enerriles. Isa. liii. 12. He made intercession
for transgressors.
Luke xxiii. 34. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they do.
XXXVI. His death. Dan. ix. 26. Messiah shall be cut off.
Isa. liii. 8. Cut off out of the land of the living.
Ver. 12. He hath poured out his soul unto death.
Luke xxii. 53. This is your hour, and the power of darkness.
Matt, xxvii. 50. Jesus cried, and yielded up the ghost. Mark xvi
57, 39. Luke xxiii. 46. John xix. SO.
Isa. liii. 12. He was numbered with transgressors.
Mark xy. 27. With him they crucified two thieves.
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XXXVII. ji bone of him should not be broken. 1 Cor. v. 7. Christ
our passover, is sacrificed for us.
John xix. 36. That the scripture might be fulfilled, a bone of him
shall not be broken.
XXXVIII. Buried with the rich. Isa. liii. 9. He made his grave
with the rich.
Matt, xxvii. 57. There came a rich man of Arimathea,
Ver. 58. And begged the body of Jesus.
Ver. 59. He wrapped it in clean linen, and laid it in his own new
tomb.
Ver. 66. They made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone and set-
ting a watch.
XXXIX. That he should arise from the dead, Ps. xvi. 10. Thou wilt
not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one t©
see corruption.
Christ often promised he should rise on the third day, which an-
swers to his not seeing corruption, in the foregoing texts. See Matt.
xvi. 21. — XX. 18. Mark viii. 31.
XL. Christ seems to rest the credifofall his firetensions on this events
of his rising from the dead.
Matt. xvi. 16. Peter said unto him, thou art Christ, the Son of the
living God.
Ver. 20. He charged his disciples that they should tell no man,
that he was Jesus, the Christ, (Mark ix. 10.) till the Son of man
were risen from the dead.
XLI. The witnesses of his resurrection. Matt, xxviii. 5. The angel
said to the women, fear not ye, for I know that ye seek Jesus which
was crucified.
Ver. 6. He is not here, for he is risen as he said.
Ver. 7. Go quickly and tell his disciples, that he is risen from the
dead, and behold he goeth before you into Galilee, there shall ye see
him. See John xx. and Mark xvi. 6, 7. Luke xxiv. 5, 6.
XLIl. Other evidences of Christ*s resurrection are^ his appearances
often after his resurrection^ to many who had been personally acquainted
with him before his death.
Mark xvi. 9. He appeared first to Mary Magdalen, John 20. 4.
Matt, xxviii. 9. To other women.
Mark xvi. 12. To two disciples, as they went into the country
Luke xxiv. 36. To the eleven, and others with them.
Ver. 40. He shewed his hands and his feet to them.
Ver 43. He did eat before them. Mark xvi. 14. John xx. 19.
John XX. 26. To the disciples.
Ver. 27. And said to Thomas, reach hither thy hand, and thrusr
i-t into my side, and be not faithless but believing.
l-.ukc xxiv. 34. He appeared to Simon.
John xxi. 1. To the disciples, at the sea of Tiberias.
Matt, xxviii. 16. To the eleven, on a mountain in Galilee.
Actsi. 3. To the apostles he shewed himself alive after his passion,
hy many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speak- '
\\^'Q of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
\ Cor. XV. 6. He was seen of above five hundred brethren at oncf-
of whom the ;^reater part remain unto this pi-esent.
Cha.p. IV. Prophecies conceming Christ, 1#1
Acts X. 40. Him God raised up the third day, and shewed hira
openly unto witnesses chosen before of God> even to us who did eat
and drink with him, after he rose from the dead.
Acts ii. 24, This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are
witnesses.
1 Cor. XV. 14. If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain
and your faith is also vain.
XLIII. He was raised by t?ie flower of God, Rom. vi. 4. Christ
was raised from the dead, by the glory of the Father.
Heb. xiii. 20. The God of peace brought again from the dead, our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom. i. 4. He was declared to be the Son of God, with power by
the resurrection from the dead.
1 Cor. XV. 20. He is the first fruits of them that slept.
Rev. i. 5. The first begotten from the dead. See Acts iii. 15, 26.
— iv. 10, 33.— V. 30. — xiii. 30, S3, 34. — xvii. 3. Rom. iv. 24, 25. —
vii. 4.— viii. 11. 1 Cor. vi. 14 — xv. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Eph. i. 20.
Col. ii. 12. iThess. i. 10. 2Tim.ii. 8. iPet. i. 21.
XLIV. Christ*s ascension. Ps. xvi. 12. Thou wilt shew me the
path of life.
Ixviii. 18. Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity
captive, thou hast received gifts for men. Ps. xxiv. 7.
John vi. 62. What and if ye shall see the son of man ascend up,
where he was before. Ch. xiv. 12.
John XX. 17. Jesus said, I ascend unto my Father, and your Fa-
ther, to my God, and your God. — Fulfilled :
Luke xxiv. 5 1 . It came to pass while he blessed them, that he was
parted from them, and carried up into heaven. Mark xvi. 19.
Actsi. 9. While they beheld he was taken up, and a cloud receiv-
ed him out of their sight.
XLV. T/iai he should sit at God*s right hand. Ps. ex. 1 . The Lord
said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine ene-
mies thy foot-stool. Matt. xxii. 44.
cxviii. 22. The stone which the builders refused, &c.
Acts vii. 55. Stephen full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly
into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the
right hand of God,
Ver. 56, And said, behold I see the heavens opened, and the Son
of man standing on the right hand of God.
XLVI. The Holy Ghost firomised. Isa. xliv. 3. I will pour out my
Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine olTspring.
Joel ii. 28. I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. Acts ii. 17.
XLVH. Promised by Christ. Luke xxiv. 49. Behold I send the
promise of the Father upon you, but tarry ye in Jerusalem till ye be
endowed with power from on high. Acts i. 4.
John xiv. 16. I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
comforter, that he may abide with you for ever.
Ver. 26. He shall teach you all things, and biing all things to your
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
XV. 26. He shall testifiy of me.
Ver. 27. And ye shall bear witness, because you have been with
me from the beginning.
122 Blirades of ChrkU Chap. IV.
Acts i. 5. Ye shr.ll be baptized with the Holy Ghost, not many
days hence.
Matt. iii. 1 1. John said of Christ, he shall baptize you with the
Holy Ghost and with fire.— Fulfilled :
Acts ii. 4. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began
to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Ver. 16. Peter said, this is that which was spoken of by the pro-
phet Joel.
ii. 32. Jesus being by the right hand of God exalted, and having
received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed
forth this, v/hich ye now see and hear.
Other firofihecies uttered by Christ, besides those in the foregoing
articles'.
XLVin. The fiemeciitions of Christians, Matt. x. 22. Ye shall be
hated of all men for my sake. Ver. 16. Markxiii. 13. Luke xxi. 17.
— X. 3.
xxiv. 9. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall
kill you. Ch. X. 17. John xvi. 2. Matt, xxiii. 34. — v. 11. — x. 23..
John XV. 20.— Fulfilled:
Acts vi. 12. They stoned Stephen. Ch. vii. 59.
viii. 1. At that time there was a great persecution.
ix. 1. Saul persecuted. Ch. xxii. 7, 8. — xxvi. 14, 15.
xxvi. 9. 1 verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many
things against the name of Jesus. Ver. 11. Ch. xxii. 14.
Acts xxviii. 22. As concerning this sect, we know that it is every
where spoken against.
MIRACLES OF CHRIST.
XLIX. The evidence of miracles afifiealed to, as a fcundation of faith
in Christ*
Matt. xi. 5. To determine John Babtist's faith, Christ only sends
him an account of his miracles and ministry.
John V. 36. The works that I do, bear witness of mc, that the
Father hath sent me. Ch. ix. 4. — x. 25.
X. o7. If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
Ver. 38. Though ye believe not me, believe the works, that ye
may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in him. Ch. xiv. 1 1 .
XV. 24. If I had not done among them the works which none other
man did, they had not had sin.
V. 5^. Except ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.
XX. 30. Many other signs did Jesus, which cire not written ; but
these are written that ye may believe.
Ver. 51. But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus
is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life
through his name.
xii. 37. Though he had done so many miracles, some believed not.
Matt. xi. 20. He began to upbraid the cities, wherein most of his
mighty works were done, beca\ise they repented not.
Acts ii. 22. Jesus approved of God by miracles, and wonders, and
signs, whicli Cod did by him.
Chap. IV. Miracles of Christ. 125
L. Aew TeataTTumf Miracles^ a foundation of faith in Christ.
Miracles attending the birth of Christy and that q/'John his forerunner*
Luke i. 20. Zacharias is struck dumb, for unbelief.
Ver. 64. The use of his speech is restored.
Ver. 41. The babe leaped in Elizabeth, filled with the. Holy Ghost,
and she prophesieth of Christ.
Matt. i. 18. Christ's miraculous conception and birth foretold by
an angel. Ver. 20.
Luke ii. 11, 15. Christ's birth published by an angel, to shepherds,
who, thereby finding him, glorified God. Ver. 20.
Matt. ii. 2. An extraordinary star appears, and guides the wise
men to where Christ was, who worship him.
Luke ii. 25. Simon and Anna are directed by the Spirit, to ac-
knowledge Christ and speak of him. Ver. 60.
LI. Miraculous cures^ performed by Christy and the effects thereof.
Mat. iv. 23. Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their syna-
gogues, and preachuig the gospel of the kingdom, and healing alt
manner of sickness, and all manner of diseases among the people.
Ver. 24. And they brought unto him, all sick people, that were
taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were pos-
sessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those which
had the palsy, and he healed them.
The effects thereof nuas-t Ver. 24, 25.
His fame spread abroad, and there followed him great multitudes,
xi. 5. The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the deaf hear,
the dead are raised up. Isa. xxxv. 6.
XV. 29. Great multitudes came unto him, having with them those
that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and he
healed them.
Effect. Ver. 31. They wondered and glorified God.
LH. Devils cast out by Christ. Matt. viii. 16. He cast out the spi-
rits with his word. Mark i. 32, 33. Luke iv. 40.
Ver. 28. Out of two men he cast devils, who enter into the swine.
Ver. 31. Mark v. 1, 8, 15. Luke viii. 26, 29.
Matt. viii. 28. Effect. The people were taken with great fear.
ix. 32. He casts a devil out of a dumb man, who then spake.
Effect. The people marvelled, saying, it was never so seen in Israel,
Matt. xii. 22. He casts a devil out of a man, blind and dumb, who
then both spake and saw. Luke xi. 14.
Effect. Ver. 23. The people were amazed, and said, is not this
the son of David ?
XV. 22. He cast a devil out of the daughter of a woman of Ca-
naan. Mark vii. 24. He commended her faith.
xvii. 15. Casts a devil out of a child that was lunatick, and sore
vexed with a devil. Mark ix. 21. Luke ix. 43.
Effect. The people were all amazed at the mighty power of God.
The father of the child said, I believe, help thou mine unbelief.
Mark i. 23. Christ casts out an unclean spirit. Luke iv. 36.
Effect. Vev. 27, 28. The people were amazed, and his fame spread
abroad.
Ver. 34. He casts out many devils.
xvi. 9. Casts seven devils out of Mary Magdalen. Luke viii. 2.
Q
124 Miracles of Christ. Chap. IV\
Luke xxxi. 32. Christ said, I do cures, and cast out devils.— ^ThuP
did Chriiit literally.
(ien. iii. 15. Bruise the serpent's head.
Heb. ii. 14. Destroyed the devil.
1 John iii. 8. Destroyed the works of the devil.
xii. 31. He cast out the prince of this world.
Jyuke xi. 22. Being stroui^er than he.
CoJ. ii. 15. He spoiled principalities and powers.
Luke xi. 20. By the fin^^er, the power and Spirit of God.
LUL Christ heals sicknesses. Matt. viii. 13, 14. The servant of a
believing centurion. Luke vii. I. Peter's wife's mother, Mark i. 32.
Luke iv. 38.
,ix. 35. Every sickness and disease among the people. Matt, xii,
15. — xiv. 14. Luke ix. 11.
John iv. 50. A noble man's Son. Rjfect. Ver. 53. The father of
the child, and his whole house believed.
Christ cures blindness. Matt. ix. 29. Two blind men, by touching
their eyes. Effect. Ver. 31. His fame spread abroad.
Mark viii. 22, 23. A blind man spitting upon his eyes.
x. 46. ('ures Bartimeus. Ch. vii. 21, Cures many. Mark x. 46.
John ix. 6, 7. A blind man, by anointing his eyes with clay.
Kff'ect.\t.v. 16. 32, 33, 33. The man said, since the world began
uas it not heard, that any man opened the eyes of one that was born
bli^d, if this man were not of God, he could do nothing. Isa. xxix.
iS.' — XXXV. 5.
Christ cures dtafv.css. Matt. vii. 32. A man that was deaf, and had
an inipcdiment in his speech, by putting his fingers into his ears,
and touching his tongue, i'ffct. Ver. 37. They were beyond mea-
sure astonished, saying, he hath done all things well. Matt. xi. 15.
Cures lamcnes.i.Luke xiii. 13. Makes straight a woman bowed
down with an innrmity. JCffcct. They glorified (iod.
xxii. 5 1 . Heals a servant's ear that was cut off.
John v. 8. Cures a man, at the pool of Bethesda.
Cures h'/irosif. Matt. viii. 3. A leper by touching him. Mark i. 40.
Effect. They blazed abroad his fame.
Lukexvii. 14. Ten lepers. Effect. One of them who was a Sama-
ritan glorified Ciod, and returned to Jesus, and gave him thanks.
xix. 2, 3. Cures the dropsy.
Cures the [lalsy. Matt. iv. 24 viii. 6. Mark ii. 3, 5, 10, 12. Luke
v. 18, 24, 25. E.ffcQt. They marvelled and glorified God, and his
fame spread abroad.
Matt. ix. 22. He cures a bloody issue. Luke viii. 44.
xii. 10. He restores a withered haiul. Luke vi. 10.
LIV.' Raises the dead to life. Mutt. ix. 25. Jairus's daughter.
Luke vii. 11. A wido\v's son.
John xi. 39. Lazarus. Effect. \ ev. 45. Ch. xii. 11. Many of the
Jews believed on him, because of Lazarus.
LV\ He calms the vjirid and sea. Matt. viii. 26. Mark vi. 51. Luke
VI u
24. Eifect. Tl'.ev marvelled, sayiiigi what manner of man is
tins, that even the winds and seas obey him.
xiv. 25. He walked on the sea. John vi. 19.
Chap. IV. Miracles of the Apostles. 125
Matt. xiv. 29, Makes Peter walk upon the water.
Mark vi. 43. Feeds five thousand, with five loaves.
viii. 8. Feeds four thousand, with seven loaves.
John ii. 8. He turns water into wine.
Effect, Ver. 23. Ch. iii. 2. Many believed on him, seeing the mira-
cles which he did.
xxi. 6. Directs the disciples,' to take a great draught of fishes.
Effect, Luke v. 8. Peter fell down, and said, depart from me, for
I am a sinful man, O Lord.
John xvii. 27. Directs Peter to find a piece of money in a fish's
mouth.
Matt. xxi. 19 He curses the barren fi»g-tree, which immediately
withers.
LVL Miracles accompanying the death of Chriat nvere^ Matt, xxvii.
45. a supernatural darkness.
Ver. 51. The veil of the temple rent, the earth quaked, the rocks
rent, graves opened, many bodies of saints arose.
Effect. Ver. 54. The centurion and those that were with him, see-
ing these things, said, truly this was the Son of God.
xxviii. 2. A great earthquake at his resurrection.
LVn. Christ emjionvers his disci files to nvork miracles for Jiropagat-
ing the Gospel.
Matt. X. 1. He gave them power, against unclean spirits, to cast
them out, and to heal all manner of sickness, and all manner of dis-
jcases.
Ver. 8. He said unto them, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise
the dead, cast out devils, freely ye have received, freely give. Mark
iii. 15. — vi. 7 — xvi. 17. Luke ix. 1. — x. 19. — xxiv. 49. 1 Cor. xii.9,
28, 30.
MIRACLFS OF THE APOSTLES.
LVni. Miracles norought by the afwstles. Mark vl. 13. They cast
out many devils, and anointed with oil, many that were sick, and heal-
ed them. Ch. ix. 6.
Luke X. 17. The devils were subject unto them.
Acts ii. 4. Being filled with the Holy Ghost, they spake m ith other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 1 Cor. xiv. 22.
Ver. 41. Three thousand are converted by Peter's sermon.
Ver. 43. Many wonders and'^igns were done by the apostle*. Ch.
xiv. 3.
iii. 2. 6, 7. Peter and John cured a lame man, at the gate of the
temple.
v. 13. Many signs and wonders were wrought by the apostles.
Effect. Ver. 1 4. Believers were the more added to the Lord.
Ver. 15. They brought the sick into the streets.
Ver. 16. There came also a multitude out of the cities round a-
bout, unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vex-
ed with unclean spirits, and they were healed every one.
viii. 6, 7. Philip did many miracles, casting out unclean spirits,
ruring palsies, and the lame.
Acts ix. 4, 11, 17. Paul's conversion. Ch. y.xii. 13.~-xxvi. 14.
126 Christ's Glory. Chap. V.
Acts. ix. 34. Peter heals Eneas of the palsy.
Ver. 40. Raises Doreas from the dead.
X. 1 . Cornelius his vision.
Ver. 1 1. Peter's vision, Ver. 13. A voice to him.
Ver. 44. The Holy Ghost falls upon Cornelius, and others that
heard Peter preaching the gospel.
V. 5, 10. The death of Ananias and Sapphira.
Ver. 19. The apostles are brought out of prison, by an angel.
vi. 15. Stephen's face seen, as the face of an angel.
vii. 55. Stephen sees Christ.
xiii. 1 1 . Elimas struck blind.
xiv. 10. Paul heals a cripple, at Lystra.
xvi. 18. Paul casts out a spirit of divination.
Ver. 26. The apostles in prison, have their bands loosed, an earth-
quake happens.
xix. 6. The Holy Ghost given, at Paul's laying on his hands.
Ver. 11. Paul casts out evil spirits, &c.
Ver. 12. Diseases cured by handkerchiefs. See. brought from Paul's
body.
xxviii. 5. Shakes a viper off his hands unhurt.
xxviii. 8. Paul cures the father of Publius of a fever and bloody-
flux.
Ver. 9. Others cured of diseases.
Heb. ii. 3. God bearing them witness, with signs and wonders,
and with divers miracles by the power of the Spirit of God, Rom.
XV. 19.
C H J P, V.
CHRIST'S GLORY, EXALTATION, DIVINE TITLES,
WORKS, WORSHIP.
Christ's glory.
I. CHRIST'S glory before his incarnation. John xvii. 5. O Father,
glorify me with the glory which I had with thee, before the world
was. See Prov. viii. 22 to ver. 32. — xxx. 4.
II. Christ's giory on earth, Luke ix. 30, 31. At his transfiguration.
Ver. 32. Peter and they that were with him saw his glory.
, Ver. 35. There came a voice — this is my beloved Son, hear ye him.
John i. 14. We beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begot-
ten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 2 Pet. i. 16.
ii. 11. This beginning of miracles did Jesus, and manifested forth
his glory. Ch. xi. 4.
xii. 41. These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory. Isa. liii. 1-
xvii. 22. The glory which thou hast given me, I have given them.
2 Pet. i 17. He received from God the Father, honour and glory,
when there came such a voice, from the excellent glory, This is my
beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Matt. xvii. 5. Heb. iii. 3.
III. Christ's glory., after his resurrection, Luke xxi\. 26. Ought
not Christ to have suiTcrcd these things, and enter into- his gloryi^
Chap. V. Christ's Exaltation. 127
1 Cor. ii. 8. The Lord of glory. Jam. ii. 1.
I Tim. iii. 16. He was received up into glory.
Heb. i. 3. The brightness of the Father's glory.
1 Pet. i. 21. God received him up, and gave him glory, that your
feith and hope might be in God.
Rev. i. 6. To him be glory and dominion for ever. See Mark x.
37. John vii. 39. — xii. 16, 23. — xiii. 31. — xvii. 24. Acts xiii. 3-. GaU
i. 5. 2 Pet. iii. 18. See Christ shall judge the world.
Christ's exaltation.
IV. Christ's exaltation at God's right hand. Ps. ex. i. The Lord
said to my Lord, sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine ene-
mies thy foot-stool. Matt. xxii. 44. Acts ii. 34. I Cor. xv. 25.
Isa. Iii. 13. He shall be exalted and extolled.
Mark xvi. 19. The Lord was received up into heaven, and sat on
the right hand of God.
Acts yii. 55. Stephen full of the Holy Ghost, saw the glory of
Cod, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.
Eph- i. 20. He set him on his own right hand.
Col. iii. 1. Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Heb. i. 3. Who sat down on the rigiit hand of the Majesty on highv
viii. 3. We have an high priest, who is set on the right hand of
the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.
X. 12. He for ever sat down on the right hand of God.
xii. 2. On the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Pet. iii 22. Who is on the right hand of God. Ch. iv. 3.
Rev. iii. 21. I am set down with my Father in his throne.
V. The same otherwise exfiressed thus, Ps. viii. 5. Thou hast
crowned him with glory and honour. Heb. xxvii. 9. Rev. xix. 12.
Ixxxix. 19. I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
John vi. 62. Ye shall see the son of man, ascend up where he was
before.
Acts ii. 33. Jesus being by the right hand of God exalted, hath
«hed forth this which ye now see, and hear. See Christ's power,
also his kingly office, his works.
Acts v. 31. Him hath God exalted with his right kand.
Phil. ii. 9. God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name,
which is above every name.
VL Christ exalted above mankind. Ps. cxviii. 22. The stone which
the builders refused is become the head of the corner. Ver. 23.
This is the Lord's doing, it is marvellous in our eyes. Matt. xxi. 42.
Acts iv. 11. 1 Pet. ii. 7.
Ixxxix. 27. I will make him my first born higher than the kings
of the earth.
Matt, xxiii. 8. One is your master, even Christ.
Rom. viii. 29. That he might be the first bom among many
brethren. Heb. i. 2. Appointed heir of all things.
1 Cor. xi. 3. The head of every man is Christ. Eph. iv. 15.
Eph. i. 23. God gave him to be the head over all things, to the
church.
iv. 15. May grow up into him, which is the head, even Christ
128 Christ's Titles. Chap. Vf.
Eph. V. 23. Christ is the head of the church.
XXIV. The church is subject to Christ. Matt. iii. 11. He is great-
er than John the Baptist.
xii. 6. Greater than the temple.
Ver. 41. Greater than Jonas.
Ver. 42. Greater than Solomon.
Heb. iii. 3. Worthy of more glory than Moses.
VII. Christ exalted aborve angels. Ps. viii. 6. Thou hast put all
thirtgs under his feet. Cor. xv. 27. Eph. i. 22.
Eph- i. 17. The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory."
Ver. 20. Raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right
hand.
Ver. 21. Far above all principality and power, and might, and do-
minion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but
also in that which is to come.
i. 22. And hath put all things under l\is feet.
Phil. ii. 9. God hath given him a name, which is above every
name.
Ver. 10. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of
things in heaven, and things in earth.
Col. ii. 10. Ye ai-e compleat in him, which is the head of all prin-
cipality and power.
Heb. i. 4. Made so much better than the angels, as he hath by
inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Ver. 5. Unto which of the angels said he at any time, thou art
my Son, this day have I begotten thee ? Ps. ii. 7.
Ver. 13. To which of the angels said he at any time, sit on my
right hand, until I make thine enemies thy foot-stool ? Ps. ex. i.
ii. 5. Unto tlie angels bath he not put in subjection the world to
come.
Ver. 8. Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet, for
in that he put all things under him, he left nothing that is not put
under him. See Christ worshipped.
CHAP. VI.
DIVINE TITLES GIVEN TO CHRIST.
I. CHRIST is the Son of God. Ps. ii. 7. Thou art my Son, this
day have I begotten thee.
Ver. 12. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish.
Ixxxix. 27.1 will make him my first born, higher than the kings
of the earth.
Isa. ix. 6. Unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be
upon his shoulders.
Matt. iii. 17. A voice from heaven, saying, this is my beloved Soxjt.
in whom I am well pleased.
Chap. VI. Christ's Titles. 129
Matt. viii. 29. The devils cried out, saying, what have we to do
with thee, Jesus thou Son of God.
Luke i. 32. He shall be great, ^nd shall be called the Son of the
highest.
Ver. 35. He shall be called the Son of God.
John i. 34. I saw and bare record, that this is the Son of God.
Ver. 49. Nathanael said, thou art the Son of God.
V. 18. The Jews sought the more to kill him, because he said thut
God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
ix. 35. Jesus said, dost thou believe on the Son of God ?
Ver. 37. It is he that talketh with thee.
X. 36. Say ye, thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of
God. Ver. 25, 32, 37. Ch. xv. 10.
xix. 7. The Jews said, by our law he ought to die, becau«ie he
made himself the Son of God.
XX. 17. I ascend to my Father and your Father, to my God and
your God.
Ver. 3 1 . These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is
the Christ the Son of God.
Acts iii. 13. The God of our fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus.
Ver, 20. God having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you.
viii. 37. The Eunuch said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son
of God.
ix. 20. Straightway Paul preached Christ, that ke is the Son of
God.
Romi i. S, 4. His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was declared
to be the Son of God with power.
viii. 32. He spared not his own Son ; but delivered him up to death
for us ail.
2 Cor. xi. 31. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Eph. i. 3. Blessed be the God and Fatiier of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Col. i. 3. We give thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Heb. i. 2. God hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son.
1 Pet. i. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
I John iv. 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of
God, God dwelleth in him.
V. 5. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth
that Jesus is the Son of God.
Htnce the title of Father *o often given to God, by Jesus Christ and
others, as in Matt. xi. 25. 1 thank thee, O Father, Lord of heavea
and earth.
Ver. 27. No man knoweth the Son but the Father.
xxviii. 9. Baptizing in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost.
Mark xiii. 32. Of that day knoweth no man, no not the Son, but
the Father.
xiv. 36. Abba Father, all things are possible to thee.
Luke X. 22. No man knows who the Father is but the Son.
xxii. 42. Father, if thou be willing, remove this cu^ .
xxiii. 34. Father forgive them.
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" Luke xxiii. 46. Father into thy hands I commend my spirit.
John iii. 35. The Father loveth the Son.
V. 23. That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour
the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father.
1 John ii. 23. Whoso denieth the Son hath not the Father ; and
so in many other places.
II. Christ 18 distinguished from the created sons of Gody by the fiecn-
Xar epithets of begotten^i first and only begotten^ first^born^ Isfc,
Ps. ii. 7. Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Ixxxix. 27. I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings
•f the earth. Acts xiii. 33. Heb. i. 5. — v. 5.
John i. 14. The only begotten of the Father.
Ver. 18. Which is in the bosom of the Father.
iii. 16. God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son.
Ver. 18.
Heb. i. 6. When he bringeth in his firet begotten into the world,
he saith, let all the angels of God worship him.
I John iv. 9. God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that
we might live through him. Ch. v. 1. See Rom. viii. 3. Gal. iv. 4.
God's own Son.
III. Christ is called the image of God. 2 Cor. iv. 4. Christ who is
the image of God.
Col. i. 15. The image of the invisible God.
Phil. ii. 6. Who being in the form of God.
Heb. i. 3. The brightness of the Father's glory, and express image
of his person.
IV. Christ is called God* Isa. vii. 14. Emanuel, God with us.
Matt. i. 23.
ix. 6. The mighty God. — Ixiii. 1. Mighty to save.
John i. I. The word was God.
Acts XX. 23. Feed the church of God, which he hath purchased
with his own blood.
Rom. ix. 5. Christ, who is over all, God blessed for ever.
_ Phil. ii. 6. He thought it not robbery to be equal with God.
Col. ii. 9. In him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
1 Tim. iii. 16. God was manifested m the flesh. Tit. i. 3.
Tit. ii. 10. Adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour.
Ver. 13. Looking for the blessed hope, and the glorious appear-
ing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Heb. i. 8. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever.
iii. 4. He that built all things is God. See Christ creates.
1 John iii. 16. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he
laid down his life for us.
V. 20. This is the true God and eternal life.
V. Christ is Lord, Ps. ex. 1 . The Lord said to my Lord, sit thou
on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy foot-Mool. Matt,
xxii. 44. Acts ii. 25. Heb. i. 13.
Isa. xl. 3. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, prepare
jc the way of the Lord. Matt. iii. 3.
Jcr. xxiii. 6. This is his name, wherewith he shall be called, the
Chap. VI. Christ's Titles. 131
Lord our righteousness. In the original it is Jehovah our righteouss
ness.
Joel ii. 32. Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be
saved. Rom. x. 13.
Mai. iii. 1. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his
temple, even the messenger of the covenant.
Matt. vii. 21. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall
enter into the kingdom of heaven. Ver. 22. Many will say unto
me in that day, Lord, have we not piXDpl>esied in thy name, &c.
xxiv. 42. Watch, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
See ver. 45, 46, 48, 50.
Mark ii. 28. The Son of man is Lord of the sabbath.
Luke ii. 11. Unto us is born a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
V. 8. Peter said, depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
vi. 46. Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which
I say.
xxiii. 42. Lord remember me when thou comestinto thy kingdom.
John vi. 68. Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of
eternal life.
xiii. 13. Ye call me master and Lord, and ye say well, for so I am.
Acts ii. 36. God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye crucified,
both Lord and Christ.
Ver. 38. Repent and be baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Ch. viii. 16. — x. 48. — xxii. 16.
V. 14. Believers were the more added to the Lord.
vii. 59. They stoned Stephen calling upon God, and saying, Lord
Jesus receive my spirit.
ix. 5. The Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persei;utest.
Ver. 10. To Ananias the Lord said. Sec. Ver 15, 17. Ch. xviii. 9.
Ver. 29. Paul spake boldly in the name of Lord.
Ver. 43. Many believed in the name of the Lord.
X. 36. Jesus Christ, he is Lord of all.
xi. 20. They spake, preaching the Lord Jesus.
Ver. 23. Barnabas exhorted, that with purpose of heart they would
.leave unto the Lord.
xvi. 3i. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shaltbe saved.
xxiii, 8. Crispiis believed in the Lord with all his house.
Ver. 25. ApoJlos was instructed in the way of the Lord.
zax. 10. All that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus.
Rom. X. 12. 'Jilt' same Lord is rich unto all that call upon him.
xiv. 9. Christ both died and rose and revived, that he mi^ht be
Lord both of the dead and the living. Acts. x. 36. Lord of all. I Cor.
ii. 8. and of glory.
I Cor. i. 10. I beseech you by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that ye all speak the same thini^.
iii. 5. Ye believed even as the Lord gave to every man.
iv. 4. He thr.t judgeth me is the Lord.
V. 4. In the nanvc of our Lord Jesus Christ — with the power of
Hir Lord Jesus Christ, to deliver such iiii one unto Satan. Ver. 5.
vi. 11. Ye are justihed in the name of our Lord Jesus Oiiist.
vlii. 6. To uiithert; is one Lord Jesus Ciuist.
P.
132 Christ's Titles, Chap. VI.
1 Cor. xi. 23. I received of the Lord that which also I delivered
unto you.
xii. 3. No man can say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
Ver. 5. There are differences of administrations, but the same
Lord.
XV. 47. The second man is the Lord from heaven.
2 Cor. i. 14. Ye are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
V. 6. While we are at home in the body we are absent from the
Lord. Ver. 8. Are willing rather to be present with the Lord.
Eph. v. 29. Even as the Lord cherisheth the church.
vi. 8. Whatsoever good things any man doth, the same shall he re-
ceive of the Lord.
Phil. ii. 11. That every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord to the glory of God the Father.
Col. iii. 17. Wliatsoever ye do in word or in deed, do all in the
name of the Lord Jesus.
Ver. 23. Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as to the Lord.
Ver. 24. Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of
the inheritance, for yc serve the Lord Christ.
1 Thess. i. 8. From you sounded out the word of the Lord,
iv. 1. We exhort ycu by the Lord Jesus.
Yev. 2. Ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord
Jesus.
Ver. 16. The Lord himself shall descend.
Ver. 17. We shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, so
shall we ever be with the Lord.
2 Thess. i. 7. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with
his mighty angels,
Ver. 8. In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know^ not
God, and that obey not tlie gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ver. 12. That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified.
1 Tim. i. 1 2. I thank Jesus Christ our Lord, who enabled me.
vi. 15. He is King of kings, and Lord of lords. Rev, xvii. 14 — .
xix. 16.
2 Tim. ii. 22. Call on the Lord out of a pure heart. Rom. x. 14.
iv. 8. There is laid up for me a crown of life, which the Lord the
righteous judge shall give me at that day.
Ileb. ii. 3. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation,
which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed
to us by them that heard him.
xiii. 20. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep.
1 Pet. ii. 3. If ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Ver. 4. To whom coming as unto a living stone.
2 Pet. i. 2. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
Rev. i. 8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,
saith the Lord. ,
xi. 8. The city where our Lord was crucified.
xxii. 20. He which tcstifieth these things saith, I come quickly.
Amen, even so come Lord Jesus.
Ver. 21. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all-
Amen .
Chap. VI. Christ's Titles, .133
VI. Christ is one iviih the Father. John x. 30, I and my Father
are one. Ch. xvii. 11, 22.
Ver. 38. The Father is in me and I in him. Ch. xvii. 21. — xiv.
10, U, 12.
xii. 44. He that believeth on me, believeth on him that sent me.
Ver. 45. He that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. Ch. xiv. 9. — .
viii. 9.
xiv. 7. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
Ver. 11. I am in the Father, and he in me. Ch. xiii. 32.
XV. 23. He that hateth me hateth the Father. 1 John ii. 23. Who-
soever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father.
xvi. 15. All things that the Father hath are mine.
xvii. 10. All mine are thine, and thine are mine.
Heb. i. 3. Who being the brightness of the Father's glory, and
the express image of his person.
John V. 26. As the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given
to the Son to have life in himself. Col. i. 19.
VII. The same things spoken of God the Father^ and of Christ.
Eph. V. 5. The kingdom of Christ and of God.
1 John V. 7. There are three that bear record in heaven, the Fa-
ther, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.
Col. ii. 2. The mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ,
2 Thess. ii. 16. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God even
our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting con-
solation and good hope through grace;
Ver. 17. Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word
and Avork.
1 Tim. vi. 13. I gave thee charge in the sight of God, and before-
Jesus Christ, &c.
Tit. ii. 13. The appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ.
Rev. xiv. 4. The first fruits unto God, and to the Lamb.
xxi. 22. The Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple
of the city.
Ver. 23. The glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the
light thereof. Ch. xi. 15, — xx. 6.
Christ'' s titles tJi general., ranged in an alfihabetical order,
Adam the last, I Cor. xv. 45. Bishop. 1 Pet. ii. 25.
Advocate. I John ii 1. Blessed and only Potentate. iTiit^.
Anir^el of the covenant. Mai. iii. 1. vi. 15.
— of God's presence. Isa. Ixiii. 9. Branch of righteousness. Zech.
Anointed (Christ). John i. 41. iii. 8.
with the Holy (ihost. Acts Bread from heaven. John vi. 50.
X. 38. Bright and morning star. Rev.
not by measure, Ps, xiv. 7. xxii. 16.
Apostle and high priest. Heb. iii. I . Brightness of the Father's glory.
Beginning of the creation of God. Heb. i. 3.
Rev. iii. 14. Captain of the Lord's hosts. Jos.
Begotten of the Father, John i. 14. v. 14, 15.
Beloved of God. Eph. i, G. — — -of Salvation. Hob. ii. 1^.
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Chrisfs Titles,
Chap. \h
Chosen servant. Matt. xii. 18. —
Luke xxiii. 35.
Consolation of Israel. Lnke ii. 5.
Corner stone. Eph. ii. 20. 1 Pet.
ii. 6.
Counsellor. Isa. ix. 6.
David. Jer. xxx. 9. Ezek. xxxvii.
24, 25. Hos. iii. 5.
Deliverer. Rom. xi. 26.
Emanuel. Isa. vii. 14. Matt. i. 29.
Everlasting Father. Isa. ix. 6.
Express ima^e of God's person.
Heb. i. 3.
Faithful witness. Rev. i. 5. — iii.
14.— xix. 11.
First-begotten of the dead. Rev.
i. 5.
First-born. Col. i. 15, 18.
First-fruits, i Cor. xv. 20.
First and last. Rev. ii. 8.
Fountain opened. Zech. xiii. 1.
Clory of the Lord. Isa. xl. 5.
God. Rom. ix. 5. 1 Tim. iii. 16.
2 Pet. i. 1. I John. v. 20.
Governor of Israel. Matt. ii. 9.
Head of the church. Col. i. 10.
Head of the corner. Matt. xxi.
42.
Heir of all things. Heb. i. 2.
High Priest. Heb. iii. 1.
Holy One of God. Mark i. 24.
Holy One of Israel. I?a. xl. 16.
Holy Child. Acts iv. 30.
Hope. 1 Tim. i. 1.
Hope of Israel. Acts xxviii. 20.
Horn of salvation. Luke i. 69.
Ps, xviii. 2.
I Am. John viii. 58. Exod. iii. 14.
Jehovah, Exod. vi. 3, Gen. xi. 24.
Jesus. Matt. i. 21. I Thess. i. 10.
Image of the invisible God. Col.
i. 15.
Kingof Zion. Ps. ii. 6. Matt. xxi.
5. Isa. Ixii. 1 1.
King of the Jews. Matt. ii. 2.
King of Israel. John i. 49.
King of kings. Rev. xvii. 14.
Lamb of God. John i. 29. Rev.
xiii. 8.
Li^ht of the world. John ix. 5. —
viii. 12.
Life. John xiv. 6. Col. iii. 4.
Lion of the tribe of Judah. Rev.
v. 5.
Lord. Rom. i. 3. Luke ii. 11.
of lords. Rev. xvii. 14.
Man. Acts xvii. 31. 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Mediator. 1 Tim. ii. 5. Heb. ix.
15.
Messiah. John i. 41. — iv. 25.
Melchisedeck. Heb. vii. 1,3.
Mighty God. Isa. ix. 6.
Michael. Rev. xii. 7.
Offspring of David. Rev. xxii. 1 6.
Only begotten of the Father. John
i. 14.
Passover. 1 Cor. v. 7.
Potentate, only. 1 Tim. vi. 15.
Prophet. Luke xxi. 19. Acts ii.
28.
Propitiation. I John ii. 2.
Prince of peace. Isa. ix. 6.
Prince of the kings of the earth.
Rev. i. 5.
Prince of life. Acts iii. 15,
Power of God. 1 Cor. i. 14.
Purifier. Mai. iii. 3. Matt. iii. 12,
Ransom. 1 Tim.ii. 6.
Redeemer. Isa. lix. 20. Job xix.
25.
Refiner." Mai. iii. 3.
Righteous servant. Isa. liii. 1 .
Righteousness. 1 Cor. i. 30.
Rock. 1 Cor. X.4. Deut. xxxii. 15.
Root of David. Rev. xxii. 16.
Ruler in Israel. Mic. v. 2.
Saviour. Luke ii. 11. Eph. v. 23.
Seed of the woman. Gen. iii. 17.
-of David. 2 Tim. ii. 18.
Shilo. Gen. xlix. 10.
Son of God. John i. 34.
Son of the Most High. Luke i. 3 1 .
Son of man. John iii. 13. Matt.
XXV. 3 .
Second man. 1 Cor. xv. 47.
Servant of God. Matt. xii. 18.
Shepherd. John x. 11, 14.
Great Shepherd. Heb. xiii. 20.
Shepherd of souls. 1 Pet. ii. 25.
Stone refused. Matt. xxi. 42. —
Ps. cxviii. 22. — Acts iv. IL
Sun of righteousness. Mdtt. iv. 3.
Chap. VII. Chrisfs Works, 13.5
True witness. Rev. iii. 14. Wisdom of God. I Cor. i. 14-.
Truth. John xiv. 6. , our. 1 Cor. i. 30.
Vine. John XV. 1. Word of God. John i. 1. Rev,.
"Way. John xiv. 6. xix. 13c
Wonderful. Isa.ix. 6. With God. John i. 1, 14.
CHAP, riL
CHRIST'S WORKS.
I. HE created all things. John i. 3. All things were made by him,
and without him was not any thing made. Rev. viii. 29, 30,
Ver. 10. The world was made by him.
1 Cor. viii. 6. By whom are all things.
Eph. iii. 9. God created all things by Jesus Christ.
Col. i- 16. By him were all things created, that are in heaven,
and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones
or dominions, principalities or powers, all things were created by him
and for him, and he is before all things, and by him all things con-
sist.
Heb. i. 2. By him God made the worlds-
Ver. 10. Thou, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundations of the
earth, and the heavens are the works of thine hands. Ver. 11.
Ch. iii. 3, 4.
n. Christ fihall raise the dead. John x. 18. Jesus said, I have power
to lay dovvn my life and to take it again. Ch ii. 19, 21
V. 21. As the Father rdseth the dead and quickeneth them, even
so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
Ver. 25. The hour is comin<^, and now is, in the which all that are
in their graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that
heiir shall live.
Ver. 28. All that are in their graves shall hear his voice.
Ver. 29. And shall came forth ; they that have done good unto the
resurrection of life, und they that have done evil unto the resurrec-
tion of damnation. Dan. xii. 2.
vi. 40. This is the will of him that sent me, that every one that
seeth the Son and beiieveth on him may have everlasting life, and I
will raise him up at the last day- V^er. 39, 40. Ch. xi. 25, 26.
2 lim. i. 10.
III. Christ will change the bodies of mankind. Phil iii. 21. Christ
shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his
glorious body, according to the working of his mighty power, whereby
he is able even to subdue all things to himself. See 1 Cor. xv.
51, 52.
IV. Christ shall judge the world. Isa. xi. 3. He shall not judge
after the sight of his eyes.
Matt. xxiv. 30. They shall see the Son of man coming in the
clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Ver. 31. He shall send his angels with the sound of a tnimpet,
136 Chris fs Works. Chap. Vil.
and they shall gather together his elect from the four \vincls, from
one end of heaven to the other. Dan. vii. 13, 14. Markxiii. 24 to
^28. Rev. i. 7.—xiv. 14 xxii. 20.
Matt. XXV. 31. The Son of man shall come in his glory, and all
bis holy angels with him, and then shall he sit upon the throne of
his glory. Matt. xix. 28. Luke ix. 26.
Ver. 32. Before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall
separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth the sheep
from the goats.
Ver. 33. He shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats
on the left.
John v. 22. The Father hath committed all judgment to the Son.
Ver. 27. He hath given him authority to execute judgment, be-
cause he is the Son of man.
Acts x. 42. The apostles said, Jesus commanded us to preach un-
to the people and to testify, that it is he which was ordained of God
to be the judge of the quick and dead.
xvii. 3 1 . God hath appointed a day in which he will judge the
world in righteousness, by that man w^hom he hath ordained (Jesus
Christ.)
Rom. ii. 16. God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ.
xiv. 10. We must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
2 Tim. iv. 1. The Lord Jesus shall judge the quick and the dead
at his appearing and his kingdom.
V. Christ ivill dispense suitable reivards andfiunish7nentsto all mankind.
Matt. x.i. 27. The Son of man shall come, then shall he reward
every one according to his works. Rom. iv. 10. 2 Cor. v. 10.
Gal. vi. 7, 8. Rev. xxii. 12. See, God will render to men accord-
ing to their works, in Chap, upon Good Works.
VL Reivards from Christ to the righteous. Matt. xxv. 34. To them
on his right hand, he will say, come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Ver. 35. For I was an hungered and ye gave me meat, I was thirs-
ty and ye gave me drink, I was a stranger and ye took me in.
\ er. 36. Naked and ye clothed me, 1 was sick and ye visited me.
I was in prison and ye came unto me.
V^er. 40. Verily I -say unto you, in as much as ye have done it
unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Ver. 46. The righteous shall go into life eternal. Ver. 36 to 40.
xiii. 43. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun, in the
kingdom ^ their Father. Dan. xii. 3. As the brightness of the fir-
mament and as the stars forever and ever.
xix. 28. Jesus said, ye that have followed me in the regeneration,
\Tlien the Son of man shall sit upon the throne of his glory, ye aiso
shall %it upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
( I Cor. vi. 2.) Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world,
t-hat we shall judge angels ? Luke xxii. 30.
Ver. 29. Every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or
bisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my
name's sake, shall receive an hundred-foid, and shall inherit ever-
JHSting life. Luke xviii. 29, 30.
Chap. VII. Chris fs Works. 13f
Luke xxii. 29. I appoint unto you a kingdom as my Father hath
appointed unto me.
Ver. 30. That ye may eat and drink at my table, Sec.
Col. iii. 4. When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall
yc also appear with him in glory.
1 Thess. iv. 17. We shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air, so shall we ever be with the Lord. John ver. 26.
2 Thess. i. 10. Christ shall come to be glorified in his saints, and
to be admired in all them that believe.
Rev. ii. 10. I will give thee a crown of life. 2 Tim. ir. 8. A crown
of righteousness. 1 Cor. ix. 25. An incorruptible crown. 1 Pet. i. 4.
An inheritance incorruptible.
vii. 17. The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed
them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. See, Being glad, rejoicing
in the Lord.
xi. 18. Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead that they
should be judged, and that thou shouldst give a reward unto thy ser-
vants the prophets, and unto the saints, and unto them that fear thy
»ame, small and great.
VII. Puniuhments injiicted on the racked by Christ. Matt. vii. 22.
Many will say to me in that day. Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied
in thy name, and in thy name cast out devils, and in thy name done
many wonderful works. Luke xiii. 26. We have eaten and drunk in
thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
Ver. 23. And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you, de-
part from me, ye that work iniquity.
xiii. 40. As the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall
it be in the end of the world.
Ver. 41. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they
shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them whicU
do iniquity.
Ver. 42. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire, there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth. Ver. 49, 50.
XXV. 32. Before the Son of man shall be gathered all nations, and
he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth the
sheep from the goats.
Ver. 33. And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the
goats on the left.
Ver. 41. Then shall he say to them on the left hand, depart from
me, ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his
angels.
Matt. XXV. 42. For I was an hungered and ye gave me no meat, I
was thirsty and ye gave me no drink.
Ver. 43. I was a stranger, and ye took me not in, naked and ye
clothed me not, sick and in prison, and ye visited me not.
Ver. 45. I say unto you, in as much as ye did it not to one of the
least of these, ye did it not to me.
Ver. 46, And these shall go away into everlasting punishment.
Mark ix. 44. The worm dieth not, kc. Isa. Ixvi. 44. John iii. 36.
The wrath of God abideth on them.
138 Christ's Works-. Chap. VII.
Matt. X. 1 1 . Jesus sent forth his disciples, and said unto them,
into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter,
Ver. 14. If they shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when
ye depart, shake off the dust of your feet.
\ er. 15. Veriiy 1 say unto youj it shall be more tolerable for the
land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that
city.
Mark viii. 38. Whosoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my
words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of iiim also shaii the
Son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father,
with the holy angels. See threats against Chorazin, and Bethsaida.
Matt. xi. 20, 22. Against Capernaum. Matt. xi. 23, 24. Against
the impenitent hearers of Christ. Matt. xii. 41, 42.
Luke iii. 43. He will gather the wheat into .us garner, but the
cha.T he Aviil burn with iire unquenchable.
John xii. 48. He that rejecteth me, hath one that judgeth him, the
word that 1 have spoken, the same shall judge him at the last day.
1 Thess. V. 2. The aay of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night-
Ver. 3. For when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden
destruction cometh upon them, and ihey shaii not escape.
2 Thess. i. 7. The Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from hea-
ven, with his mighty angels.
Ver. 8. In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not
God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Chnst.
Ver. 9. Who shall be puniiihed with everlasting destruction, from
the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.
ii. 8. The wicked one, (or man of sin) the Lord will consume with
the Spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his
coming Rev. xvii. 8.
2 Pet. ii. 4. God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to hell, and delivered them into chains oi darkness, to be re-
served unto judgment. Ver. 6, 14, 15.
2 Pet. ii. 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment, to
be punished.
Ver. 10. But chiefly them that walk after the lusts of uncleanness,
and despise government.
Rev. vi. 14. I^'he heavens departed as a scroll.
Ver. 15. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the
rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every
bondman, and every ireeman hid themselves in the dens, and in the
rocks of the mountains.
Rev. vi. 16. And said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us, and
hide us from the face of him that sictcth on the throne and from the
wrath of the Lamb,
Ver. IT. For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall
be able to stand ?
>:i. 18. Thy wrath is come, and the time that thou shouldst de-
stroy them, that destroy the earth.
XX. 14. Death and hell were cast into the lake of fi.re. This i';
the second dea^b.
Chap. VIII. Worship offered to Christ. 139
Rev. XX. 15. And whosoever was not found written in the book of
fife, was cast into the lake of fire. Ch. xix. 20.
xxi. 8. The wicked shall have their portion in the lake, which
burneth with fire and brimstone.
CHAP. riTL
WORSHIP OFFERED TO CHRIST.
I. ACTS of Ivor ship, offered to Christ jointly with the Father. Matt,
xxviii. 19. Go ye and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
John V. 23. All men should honour the Son, even as they honour
the Father.
Rom. i. 7. Grace to you, and peace from God the Father, and the
Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. i. 3. 2 Cor. i. 2. Gal. i. 3. Eph. i. 2 — vi.
23. Phil. i. 2. Col. i. 2. 1 Thess. i. 1. 2 Thess. i. 2. Philem. 3.
2 Cor. xii. 19. We speak before God in Christ.
1 Tim. i. 2. Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father, and
Jesus Christ our Lord. 2 Tim. i. 2. Tit. i. 4. 2 John 3. Rev. i. 4, 5.
Phil. ii. 11. Evei7 tongue shall confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
2 Thess. ii. 16. Our Lord Jesus Christ, and God even our Father,
comfort your hearts, and stablish you.
Rev. V. 13. Every creature which is in heaven, and in earth, heard
I, saying, blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him
that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever and ever.
vii. 9. I beheld and lo, a great number, which no man could num-
ber, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before
the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and
palms in their hands.
Ver. 10. And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God
which sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb.
n. Acts of nvorship offtred to Christ alone by the church in heaven^
and upon earth. Ps. ii. 12. Kiss the Son lest he be angry, and ye
perish.
Ixxii. 17. All nations shall call him blessed.
cxviii. 26. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Ix)rd-
Matt. xxi. 9. Mark xi. 9. Luke xiii. 35.
Matt. ii. 2, The wise men said, we are come to worship him.
xviii. 20. Where two or three are gathered together in my name.
Luke xxiii. 42. The malefactor said. Lord, remember me when
thou comest into thy kingdom.
xxiv, 52. The disciples worshipped him.
Acts vii. 59. They stoned Stephen calling upon God, and saying,
i-ord Jesus receive my spirit.
iii. 16. In the name of Jesus Christ, rise and walk.
ix. 14. Here he hath Luilhority to bind all thut cUl on thy najncf
' S
140 Perfections of Christ. Chap. IX.
Acts ix. 21. Is not this he that destroyed them which called on
this name.
xxii. 16. Be baptized and wash away thy sins, calling upon the
name of the Lord.
Rom. X. 12. The same Lord is rich unto all that call upon him.
Ver. 1 3. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be
saved. Acts ii. 21. Joel ii. 32.
\ er. 14. How shall they call on him of whom they have not heard ?
Rom. xvi. 20. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Ver. 24. 1 Cor. xvi. 23. Phil. iv. 23. 1 Thess. v. 28. 2 Thess. iii.
18. Gal. vi. 18. Philem. 25.
1 Cor. i. 2. With all that in every place, call on the name of Jesus
Christ our Lord.
2 Cor. xiii. 14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you
all. Rev. i. 5.— xxii. 21.
Gal. 1.5. To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Phil. ii. 9. At the name of Jesus, every knee should bow.
Ver. 19.1 trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Ch. xxiv.
Col. ii. 18. Let no man beguile you in a voluntary humility, and
worshipping of angels, not holding the head, which is Christ.
I Thess. iii. 1 1. Our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
1 Tim. i. 12. I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me.
ii. 7. I speak the truth in Christ.
V. 21. I charge thee before the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. i. 4.
2 Tim. ii. 9. Let every one that nameth the name of Christ, de-
part from iniquity.
iv. 22, The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit.
2 Pet. iii. 18. Grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ, to whom be glory both now aiid for ever.
Amen.
Heb. i. 6. When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world,
he saith, let all the angels of God worship him.
Rev. XT. 6. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins
in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and
his Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
V. 11. I heard the voice of many angels round ul)uut the throne,
and the beasts, and the elders, and the number of them was, ten
thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousimdrj.
Ver. 12. Saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb that was
slain, to receive power and riches, and wisdom, and .sirength, and
honour, and glory, and blessing.
C H A P. IX.
PERI ECTIONS OF CHRIST, OF KNOWLEDGE,
WISDOM, &c.
I. CNHISJ .iigt. fsa. xi. 2. The Spirit of the Lord shall
'v»'?t upon him, t he Spirit of knowledge, wisdom and understanding.
Chap. IX. Perfections of Christ. 141
Matt. ix. 4. Jesus knowing their thoughts. Ch. xii. 25. Luke
ix. 47.
Matt. xi. 27. Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son,
and he to whom the Son will reveal him. John i. 18. — x. 15.
Murk ii. 8. He perceived in spirit that they so reasoned within
themselves.
Luke vii. 39. The Pharisee spake within himself.
Ver. 40. Jesus answered.
John ii. 24. He knew all men, he knew what was in man.
vi. 64. He knew who should betray him. Ch. xiii. 11.
xvi. 19. He knew they were desirous to ask him.
Acts i. 24. Thou Lord which knowest the hearts of all men.
1 vor. iv. 5. The Lord will make manifest the counsels of the
heart.
Heb. xii. 13. The word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart. Rev. xix. 13. His name is the Word of God.
Rev. ii. 23. I am he which searcheth the reins and heart. Ch.
V. 6. ■
H. Christ* s nvisdom. Isa. xi. 2. The Spirit of wisdom shall rest up-
on him.
Luke ii. 40. Jesus was filled with wisdom. Ver. 52.
1 Cor. i. 24. Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Col. ii. 3. In him are hid all the treasures of wisdom, and know-
edge.
Rev. V. 12. Worthy is the Lamb to receive power, and riches, and
wisdom, &c.
HL Christ* s poiuer and dominion. Ps. xlv. 3. Gird thy sword O
most Mighty.
Isa. ix. 6. His name shall be called the mighty God.
Matt. xxiv. 30. They shall see the Son of man coming with pow-
er, and great glory.
xxvi. 64. Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right
hand of power.
xxviii. 18. All power is given to me in heaven and earth.
Luke iv. 32. His word was with power.
John x. 18. I have power to lay down my life, and to take it again.
icvii. 2. Thou hast given him power over all flesh.
Acts X. 38. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with power.
I Cor. i. 24. Christ the power of God.
XV. 24. He shall have put down all authority and power.
Eph. i. 2 1 . He is above all principality and power.
Col. ii. 10. The head of all power.
1 Tim. vi. 16. io him be power everlasting.
Heb. i. 3. Upholding all things by the word of his power.
1 Pet. iii. 22. Who is on the right hand of God, angels, authori'
•ies, and powers being made subject to him.
2 Pet. i. 1 6. We made known to you the power and coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Rev. xii. 10. Now is the power of Christ come. His works were
mighty. Matt. xi. 20, 21, 23.— xiii. 54, 58. Mark vi. 2. Luke ix. 43.
— xix. 37. — xxiv. 19. See Christ's miracles, and his works. Creating
■ »e wori.'h raising th?. dead, kc.
142 Perfections of Christ, Chap. IX.
IV. Various ads of Christ* s/iower toward his fieo/ile. Ps. ex. 4. Thy
people shall be willing in the day of thy power.
Isa. Ixiii. 1. Mighty to save. Ch. xlii. 4.
Matt. ix. 6. The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins.
Mark ii. 10. Luke v. 24.
X. 1. He called unto hini his twelve disciples, and gave them pow-
er against unclean spirits, to cast them out and to heal all manner
of sickness, and all manner of disease.
xvi. 18. I will build my church, kc.
Luke v. 17. The power of the Lord was present to heal.
John X. 28. Neither shall any pluck them out of my hand.
1 Cor. i. 8. Christ shall confirm you unto the end, that ye may be
blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. I Thess. iii. 13.
2 Cor.xii 9. He said my grace is sufficient for thee, my strength is
made perfect in weakness; most gladly therefore (saith Paul) will I ra-
ther glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon
me.
Phil. iii. 2 1 . The Lord Jesus Christ shall change our vile body, that
it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the
working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.
iy. 13. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Col, i. 29. 1 labour, striving according to his working which work-
eth in me mightily.
Heb. ii. 18. He is able to succour them that arc tempted.
vii. 25. Able to save to the uttermost.
2 Tim. i. 12. Able to keep that committed to him.
V. ^cis of his flower against his ene?nies. Ps. ii. 9. Thou shalt break
them with a rod of iron. Acts xiii. 13. Heb. i. 5.
ex. 2. Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. Heb. i. 13.
Isa. xi. 4. He shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth.
XXV. 8. He will swallow up death in victory. I Cor. xv. 57.
Ixiii. 3. 1 will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my
fury.
Luke iv. 36. With power he commanded the unclean spirit.
xix 27. Those mine enemies bring hither and slay them.
John xvi. 33. I have overcoine the world.
Col. ii. 15. He spoiled principalities and powers.
2 Thess. i. 9. His enemies shall be punished with everlasting de-
struction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his
power.
ii. 8. The Lord shall consume the wicked one, with the Spirit of
his mouth, and shall destroy him with the brightness of his coming.
Heb. ii. 14. He took part of flesh and blood, that he might destroy
him that had the power of death, that is the devil.
1 John iii. 8. The Son of God was manifested that he might des-
troy the works of the devil.
Rev. xvii. 14. The Lamb shall overcome them. Ch. iii. 21.
xix. 11. In righteousness he doth judge, and make war.
VL Chrits's righteousness, xlv. 7. Thou iovest righteousness, and
hatest iniquity.
Ixxii. C. He shall judge v/ith righteousness. Isa. xi. 4.
Chap. IX. Perfections of Chrmt. l4o
Isa. xi. 5. Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins.
xxxii. 1. ^. king shall reign in righteousness.
xlii. 6. I the Lord have called thee in righteousness.
ii. S. My righteousness is near.
liii. 9. He had done no violence, neither vi^as deceit in his mouth.
lix. 16. His righteousness, it sustained him.
Ver. 17. He put on righteousness as a breast-plate.
Ixi. 2. The Gentiles shall see thy righteousness.
Ixiii. 1. 1 that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Jer. xxiii. 5. I will raise unto David a righteous branch.
Ver. 6. This is his name, the Lord our Righteousness.
Matt. iv. 3. Unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun of righte-
ousness arise.
Matt. iii. 15. It becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
2 Tim. iv. 8. A crown of life the Lord the righteous judge shall
give.
Heb. i. 8. A sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy king-
dom. Ch. vii. 2. King of righteousness.
1 John ii. 1. We have an advocate, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Vn. He firomoted righteousness* Ps. xl. 9. I have preached righ-
teousness.
xlv. 4. Ride prosperously because of truth, and meekness, and
righteousness.
Ixxii. 7 . In his days shall the righteous flourish.
Isa. xxxii. 16. Judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righ-
teousness remain in the fruitful field.
Ver. 17. The work of righteousness shall be peace.
liv. 17. Their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
Ix. 17. I will make their exactors righteousness.
Ixi. 3. That they may be called trees of righteousness.
Ver. 10. He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness.
Ver. 11. The Lord will cause righteousness to spring forth.
Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are determined, to bring in everlasting-
righteousness.
John xvi. 8. He will reprove the world of rif^hteousness.
1 John ii. 29. If ye know that he is rip^hteous, ye know that every
one that doth righteousness is born of him.
VIII. Christ's holiness. Dan. ix. 24. To anoint the most holy.
Mark i. 24. I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God.
Luke i. 35. That holy thing that shall be born of thee shall be call
ed the Son of God.
Acts iii. 14. Ye denied the holy one, and the just.
iv. 27. Againt the holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed, both
Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and people of Israel were
gathered together. Ver. 30.
Heb. vii. 26. Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from
sinners. Ch- iv. 15. Without sin.
1 Pet. ii. 22. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.
Kcv. iii. 7. These things saith he that is holy.
IX. Christ's justice. Zech. ix. 9, He is just, and having, salvatioii.
Malt, xxvii. 19. Have nothing to do with that just man.
144 Chri^fff Benefits. Chap, X.
Ver. 24. I am innocent of the blood of this just man.
John V. 30. My judgment is just,
viii. 46. Who of you convinceth me of sin. Ch. xii. 7.
iii. 18. Christ suffered, the just for the unjust.
X. His truth. John i. 14. The only begotten of the Father, full
of ^race and truth. Ver. 17. Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
viii. 40. I have told you the truth. Ver. 45.
>:iv. 6. I am the way, the truth and the life.
xviii. o7. For tliis cause came 1 into the world, that I should bear
witness unto the truth.
2 Cor. xi. 10. As the truth of Christ is in me.
Eph. iv. 21. As the truth is in Jesus.
Rev. iii. 7. These things saith he that is holy.
XI. His goodness. Acts x. 38. He went a^out doing good.
John X. 11. I am the good shepherd,
Xii. //?.<? mercy, I Tim. i. 16. That in me Christ might shew all
long suffering.
Heb. ii. 17. That he might be a merciful and faithful high priest.
Xill. Christ's etcnnty. Prov. viii. 23. I was set up from everlast-
ing, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. See to ver. 32.
Mic. v. 2. Whose goings forth, have been of old, from everlasting.
John i. 1. In the beginning was the word.
viii. 58. Before Abraham was, I am.
xvii. 5. Glorify me, with the glory which I had with thee before
the world was.
Ver. 24. Thou lovest me before the foundation of the world.
Col. i. 17. He is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Heb. i. 12. Thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
vii. 3. Having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but like
tlie Son of God.
xiii. 8. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and to-day, and forever.
Rev. i. 8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending.
Ch. xxi. 6. — xxii. 13.
Ver. 17. The first and the last. Ch. ii. 8.
Ver. 18, I am he that iiveth, (or the living one,) and was dead.
C H A P. X.
CHRIST'S BENEFITS TO MEN, OR BLESSINGS THEY
RECEIVE THROUGH HIM, AS A SAVIOUR,
REDEEMER, DELIVERER, &c.
I. CHRIST is the Sa-vioiir^ sahmtion i^ by him, Isa. xxv. 9. AVe
will be glad and rejoice in thy salvation.
xlv. 17. Israel shall be saved in the Lord, with an everlasting sal-
viition. Ver. 22. Look unto me, 8cc.
xlvi. 13. I will place salvation in Zion.
xlix. 6. I will give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou may-
est be my salvation unto the end of the earth. Acts xiii. 47.
Chap. X. Christ's Benefits. l^
Isa. xlix. 8. I will give thee for a covenant of the people.
li. 5. My salvation is gone forth, the isles shall wait upon me, and
on mine arm shall they trust.
Ver. 6. My salvation shall be for ever, from generation to gene-
ration. Ver. 8.
Hi. 7. How beautiful are the feet of him that publisheth salvation.
Ver. 10. All ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Ivi. 1. My salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be
revealed.
lix. 16. His arm brought salvation, and his righteousness it sus-
tained him. Ch.lxiii. 5.
Ver. 17. He put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and an helmet
of salvation upon liis head.
Ix. 18. Thou shah cull thy walls salvation, and thy gates praise.
Isa. Ixi. 10. God hath cloathed me with the garment of salvation,
and covered me with the robe of righteousness.
Ixii. 1. For 2.ion's sake, I will not hold my peace, until the righte-
ousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a
lamp that burneth.
Ver. 1 1. Behold thy salvation cometh ; his reward is with him,, and
his work before him. Zech. ix. 9, 16.
ixiii. 1. I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. Ver, 5, 9.
Jer. xxxiii. 15. In those days, and at that lime^ vviil I cause the
branch of righteousness to grow up unto David, and he shall execute
judgment and righteousness in the land.
Ver. 16. In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shali
dwell safely : And this is the name wherewith she shall be called,
the Lord our Righteousness.
Matt. i. 21. He shall save his people from their sins.
xviii. 1 1. The Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
Luke i. 69. God hath raised up an horn of salvation for us.
Ver. 77. To give the knowledge of salvation unto his people, by
the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the day sprhig from on high hath visited us. Ver. 78.
ii. 11. Unto us is born this day a Saviour.
Luke i. 30. Mine eyes have seen thy salvation. (/. c, Christ.)
iii. 6. All flesh shall see the salvation of God.
ix. 56. The Sonof man is come,nottodestroy,buttosavemen's lives.
xix. 9. This day is salvation (/. <». Christ) come to this house.
John iii. 17. God sent not his Son into the world, to condemn the
world, but that the world through him might be saved,
iv. 22. Salvation (/. e, Christ,) is of the Jews.
Ver. 42. This is Chiist the Saviour of the world.
v. 3'4. ] hese things I say, that ye might be saved.
X. 9. By him if any man enter in, he shall be saved.
xii. 47. I came not to judge, but to save the world.
Acts ii. 21. Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord, shaK
be saved. See worship offered to Christ,
iv. 12. There is none other name, under heaven given among men,
whereby we must be saved.
V. 31. Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour.
\'m. 23. Of this man's (David's) seed, hath God rui-.ed unto Is-«
146 Christ's Benefts. Chap. "X.
rael a Saviour. Ver. 38. Through his name is preached to you, the
forgiveness of sins.
XV. 11. We believe, that through the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, we shall be saved.
Acts xvi. 31. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shaltbc
saved.
xxviii. 28. The salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles.
Rom. V. 9. We shall be saved from wrath, through him.
X. 9. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus, and
shalt believe in thine heart, thou shalt be saved.
2 Cor. vi. 2. In a day of salvation have I succoured thee. Tsa. iv. 8.
Eph. ii. 5. By grace ye are saved, through faith, and that not ol
yourselves.
V. 23. He is the saviour of the body.
Phil. iii. 20. Our conversation is in heaven, from whence we look
for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.
I Thess. v. 9. God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtaiii
salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Thess. ii. 13.
1 Tim. i. XV. Christ Jesus came into the world, to save sinners.
2 Tim. i. 10. Our Saviour Jesus Christ hath abolished death, and
brought life and immortality to light. Ver. 9.
ii. 10. That the elect may obtain the salvation, which is in Christ
Jesus.
Tit. iii. 5. According to his mercy he saved us, through Jesus
Christ our Saviour.
Heb. ii. 3. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation,
which began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by
them that heard him.
ii. 10. It became him, for whom are all things, and by whom
are all things, to make the Captain of our salvation perfect through
suffering.
V. 9. He became the author of eternal salvation, unto all that
obey him.
vii. 25. He is able to save to the uttermost, all that come unto God
by him.
ix. 28. He shall appear the second time, without sin, unto salvation,
1 John iv. 14. The Father has sent the Son, to be the Savbur of
the world.
II. Christ a Redeewer, redcwfition through him, Jobxix. 25. I know
that my Redeemer liveth.
Isa. lix. 20. The Redeemer shall come to Zlon, and unto them
that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
Rom. iii. 24. We are justified freely, by his grace, through the
redemption that is in Jesus Christ.
1 Cor. i. 50. Christ Jesus, of God is made unto us wisdom and
righteousnesf^ and sanctification and redemption. Ver. 3.
"Gal. iii. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.
iv. 4. God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the
law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive
the adoption of sons. Ver. 5.
Tit. ii. 14. He gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from
all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous to
good v.ork:;.
Chap. X. Christ's Benefits. 147
Heb. Ix 12. He entered into the holy place? having obtained eter-
nal redemption for us. Ver. 15.
1 Pet. i. 18. Ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, but
with the precious blood of Christ. Ver. 19.
Rev. V. 9. Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy blood.
xiv. 3. These were redeemed from the earth.
Ver. 4. Redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto
God and the Lamb.
III. Christ a ransom. Job xxxiii. 24. He is gracious, and saith,
deliver him, I have found a ransom.
Isa. XXXV. 10. The ransomed of the Lord shall come to Zion, with
songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. Ch. li. 10. — Iv. 12. Jer.
xxxi. 11. Hos. xiii. 14.
Matt. xx. 28. The Son of man came to give his life a ransom
for many. Mark x. 15.
1 Tim. ii. 6. Who gave his life a ransom for all.
IV. Christ a fir ice* 1 Cor. vi. 20. Ye are bought with a price.
Acts XX. 28. Feed the church of God, which he hath purchased
with his own blood.
V. Christ a deliverer. Luke iv. 18. He hath sent me to heal the
broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Isa. Ixi. 1.
Rom. xi. 26. There shall come out of Zion, the deliverer. Isa.
lix. 20. •
Gal. i. 4. Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver
us from this present evil world.
v. 1. Christ hath made us free. Rony viii. 2.
1 Thess. i. 10. He delivered us from the wrath to come.
VI. Mediator. \ Tim. ii. 5. There is one God, and one mediator,
between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.
Heb. viii. 6. He is the mediator of a better covenant;
ix. 12. The mediator of the new covenant.
VII. Intercessor, Isa. liii. 12. He made intercession for transgres-
sions.
Rom. viii. 34. Who maketh intercession for us.
VIII. Ad-vocate, 1 John ii. 1. We have an advocate with the Fa-
ther, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Heb. ix. 24. He entered into heaven, to appear in the presence of
God for us.
IX. Reconciliation by Christ. Rom. v. 10. We were reconciled to
God by the death of his Son. Ch. xi. 15.
2 Cor. V. 18, God hath reconciled us to himself, by Jesus Christ.
Ver. 19. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.
Eph. ii. 16. That he might reconcile both unto God by the cross.
Col.i. 19. It pleased the Father, that in him should all fulness
dwell, (and having made peace through the blood of his cross,} by
him to reconcile all things to himself.
Ver. 21. You hath he reconciled.
Heb. ii. 17. That he might be a merciful and faithful bigh pricSt,
^o make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Eph. i. 10. That he might gather together in one, ail things in
Christ, bo^ whi^h are in heaven, and which ai-e in earth, evenirvhim";.-
T
t4ij Chris fs Benefits. Chap. X*
2 Cor. V. 18, 19. The ministry afid word of reconciliation.
X. Peace ivUh God by Christ. Isa. ix. 6. His name shall be called
Prince of peace. Ver. 7.
liii. 5. The chastisement of oor peace was upon him.
liv. 10. Neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed.
Ezek. xxxiv. 25. 1 will make with them a covenant of peace. Jer.
xxxi. 31.
Zech. vi. 13. The council of peafce shall be between them.
ix. 10. He shall speak peace unto t|ie heathen. Ps. Ixxii. Eph. ii. 7.
Luke i. 79. To guide our feet into the way of peace.
ii. 14. On earth, peace, and good will to men.
xix. 38. Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
John xvi. 33. These things I have spoken, that ye might have
peace. Ch. xiv. 27. My peace I leave with you.
Acts x* 36. The word which God sent to the children of Israel,
preaching peace by Jesus Christ.
Rom. i. 7. Peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus
Christ. 1 Cor. i. 3. 2 Cor. i. 2. Gal. i.,3. Eph. i.' 2. Phik i. 2.
Col. i. 2. 1 Thess. i. 1. 2 Thess. i. 2. 2 Tim. i. 2. Tit. i. 4.
Philem. 3. I John 3. 1 Pet. i. 2. 2 Pet. i. 2. Jude 2. -
V. 1. We have peace with God, through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Eph. ii. 14. Christ, he is our peace. Ver. 15. Making peace.
Ver. 17* He preached peace. Eph. vi. 15. Rom. x. 15. The
gospel of peace. *
Phil. iv. 7. And the peace of God which passeth all understanding,
shall keep your hearts and minds, through Christ Jesus. Col. iii. 15,
XI. Grace from Christ. John i. 16. Of his fulness have all we re-
ceived, and grace for grace. Ver. 17. Grace and truth came by Je-
sus Christ.
Acts XV. 1 1 . Through the grace of our Lord JesUs Christ we s-hall
be saved.
Rom. V. 1 5. The grace of God, and the gift by gfaee, which is
by Jesus Christ, hath abounded to many.
Ver. 1 7. They which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift
of righteousness, shall reign in life by Jesus Christ.
xvi. 20. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. 2 Cor.
i. 3. — xiii. 14. Gal. vi. 18. 2 Thess. iii. 18.* Rev. xxii, 21.
1 Cor. i. 4. I thank God on your behalf, for the grace of God,
which is given you by Jesus Christ.
2 Cor. i. 2. Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and
ft'om the Lord Jesus Christ. Gal. i. 3. Eph. i. 2. Col. i. 2.
xii. 9. My grace is sufficient for thee.
. Eph. iv. 7. Unto every one of us is given grace according to th«
measure of the gift of Christ.
, Ver. 8 He received gifts for men.
Jill; JustiJicatio?i by Christ. Isa. liii. 11. By his knowledge shall
my righteous servant justify many.
. Acts xiii. 39. By him all that believe, are justified from all things,
from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. ,,
Rom. iii. 24. Justified freely by his grace, through the redemp-
tion that is in Jesus Chri&t. Ver. 26, 28.
Chap. X. , Christ's Benefts. \m
Rom..T. 1, Being justiiied by faith, we have peace witli God,
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ver. 9. Being justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
to come. Ver. 16, 17, 18, 19.
viii. 1. There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus,
1 Cor; vi. II. Ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Gal. ii. 16. A man is justified by the faith of Jesus Christ.
iii. 8. God would justify the heathen through faith. Ver. 24,
Ch. V. 4.
Xin. Sane tificat ion through Christ. 1 Cor. i. 2. To them that are
sanctified in Christ Jesus.
Ver. 30. Christ Jesus, dfyGod, is made unto us, wisdom and righ-
teousness, and sanctification, and redemption.
vi. II. Ye are sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Eph. V. 25. Christ loved the church and gave himself for it, that
he might sanctify and cleanse it. Ver. 27.
Tit. iii, 5. Not by works of righteousness, which we have done,
but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regenc
ration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.
Heb. ii. 11. He that sanctifieth? and they who are sanctified, are
aljofone.
X. 10. We are sanctified through the offering of the body of
Jesus.
Ver. 14. By one offering he hath perfected for ever, them that arei
sanctified. Ver. 29.
Heb. xiii. 12. Jesus that he might sanctify the people with hls-
own blood, suffered without the gate.
XIV. Christ is called life to his fieo/ile. John i. 4. In him was life,
and the life was the light of men.
V. 26. As the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to thi^
Son to have life in hitrtself.
vi. 68. Thou hast the words of eternal life.
xi. 25. I am the resurrection, ai^dthe life.
xiv. 6. I am the way, the truth and the life.
Acts iii. 15. The Prince of life.
1 John i. 1. Our hands have handled of the word of life.
Ver. 2. For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear
witness, and shew unto you, that eternal life which was with the Fa-
ther and was manifested unto us.
v. 12. He that hath the Son hath life, he that hath not the Son hath
not life.
Ver. 20. This is the true God, and eternal life.
XV. Eternal lije, is from and by Christ. John iv. 1 6. Whosoever shall
drink of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst.
John vi. 27. Labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for that
meat which endureth to everlasting life, which the Son of man shall
give unto you. Ver. 33.
vi. 48. 1 am the bread of life. Ver 53.
Ver. 51.1 am the living bread, which came down from heaven, if
any man eat of this bread he sh?il live for ever.
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John VI. 57. He that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
viii. 12. He that folio weth me shall have the light of life.
X. 10. I am come that'ye might have life.
Ver. 28. I give unto them eternal life, neither shall any pluck them
out of my hand,
xiv. 19. Because I live, ye shall live also.
Rom. V. 17. They which receive abundance of grace, and of the
gift of righteousness, shall reign in life by Jesus Christ.
Ver. 21. As sin reigned unto death, even so might grace reign
through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ.
Col. iii. 4. When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall
ye appear with him in glory. 4
1 Thess. V. 10. Christ died for us, that whether we wake or sleep
we should live together with him.
2 Tim. i. 10. Christ hath brought life and immortality to light by
the gospel.
1 John iv. 9. God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that
we might live through him.
XVI. Eternal life is the gift of God through him. Rom. vi. 23. The
wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesur
Christ our Lord. Ch. v. 18. Rev. xxii. 17.
1 Pet» iji. 7. Heirs of the grace of life.
Tit. i. 2. In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, pro*
tiaised before the world began.
I Pet. i. 3. God hath begotten us to a lively hope by the resurrec-
tion of Jesus Christ.
1 John ii. 25. This is the promise that he hath promised us, even
eternal life. I John ii. 25. 2 Tim. i. 1.
V. 11. This is the reward that God hath given to us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son. Rom. y. 1 7, 2 1 .
XVII. Benefits from Christ against sin, by way of extract from the
foregoing and following tections.
Isa. liii. 5. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruis*
ed for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace Tyas upon him.
and with his stripes we are healed.
Ver. 6. The Lord laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Ver. 10. Thou wilt make his soul an offering for sin.
Ver. 12. He bare the sin of many.
Zech. xiii. 1. There shall be a fountain opened to the house of
David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
Matt. i. 21. He shall save his people from their sins.
ix. 6. The Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins. Ver. 2.
xxvi. 28. My blood is shed for the remission of sins.
Luke xxiv. 46. Thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from
the dead the third day.
Ver. 47. That repentance and remission of sins should be preach-
ed in his name. Ch. i. 77.
John i. 29. The Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the
world.
Acts ii. 38. Repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ
f©r the remission of siijs.
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Acts V. 31. Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to^e a
prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of
sins.
X. 43. Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
xiii. 38. Through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness
of sins.
XXX. 26. God sent him to bless you in turning you from your ini-
quities.
Rom. iii. 25. To declare his righteousness for the remission of
sins.
V. 9. Being justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him.
, vi. 10. He died unto sin or.ce.
viii. 3. He condemned sin in the flesh.
1 Cor. XV. 3. Christ died for our sins.
Ver. 57. God giveth us the victory through otir Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Cor. V. 2 1 . We made him to be sin for us.
Gal. i, 4. He gave himself for our sins.
Eph. i. 7. In M'hom we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sin. Col. i. 14.
iv. 32. As God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Col. iii. 23. As Christ forgave you, so do ye.
I Tim. i. 15. Jesus Christ came to save sinners.
Heb. i. 3. He purged our sins by his own blood. Heb. ix. 22.
ii. 14. He took part of flesh and blood, that through death, hb
might destroy him that had the power of death,
ix. 26. He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Ver. 28. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many.
X. 14. By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
sanctified.
I Pet ii. 24. Who bare our sins in his own body on the tree.
iii- 18. Christ suffered for sins.
I John i. 7. The blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin. Ver. 9.
ii. 1. If any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous.
Ver. 2. He is the propitiation for our sins — for the sins of th*
whole world.
Ver. 12. Your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake,
iii. 5. He was manifested to take away our sins.
Ver. 8. That he might destroy the works of the devil.
Rev. i. 5. Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in
his own blood, and bath made us kings and priests unto God and hi^
Father, to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
XVII I. Christ^s love to his people. John xiii. 3. having loved his
own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Ver. 34. A new commandment I gave unto you, that yc love one
another as I loved you.
XV. 9. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you.
Vom. viii. o7. We arc more than conquerors, through him th aft
loved us.
Eph. V. ii. Christ hath loved us and given himself for us.
Vci;. 25. Christ loved the church, and ga\'e himself for it.
15S Chrisfs Benefif^. Cbap. X.
Rev. i. 5. Unto hini that loved us an4 washed us from our sins in
his own blood.
Ver. 6. And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Fa-
^her, be glory and dominion for ever.
iii. 9. I will make them to know tliat I have loved thee. See Ps.
xlv. II. Prov. viii. 31. Song. ii. 4, 6. — iv. 9. — vii. 10,
Christen care of his peofile. Iksa. xl. 11. He shall feed his flock like
;i shepherd, he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and gently lead
those that are with young. See Ch. xlix. 10. Ezek. xxxiv. 23.
Matt, xxiii. 37, How often would I have gathered thy children as
;• hen gathcreth her chickens under her wings. Isa. xlii. 3. Eph. v. 29.
ChrhCs jirtHencc with his fieofile. Matt, xviii. 20. Where two or
three are gathered together in thy name, there am I in the midst of
them.
xxviii. 20. 1 am with you alway unto the end of the world.
John xiv. 18. I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you.
Ver. 2 1 . He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will
k>ve him, and manifest myself to him.
Ver. 23. My Father will love him, and we will come to him.
Acts xviii. 10. I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt
thee. Ch. xxiii. II. 2 Tim. iv. 17.
i John i. 3. Our fellowship is with the Father and with the Son,
Rev. ii. 1. He walketh in the midst of the golden candlesticks.
iii. 20. Behold I stand at the door, and knock ; if any man hear my
voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him,
and he with me.
XX. Christ" s excellencies -and benefits briefly exfiressed, Eph. i. 3,
God the Father hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Christ^
Ver. 23. The fulness of him that filleth all in all.
iii. 8. The unsearchable riches of Christ.
Ver. 19. Being filled with all the fulness of God.
iv, 13. A perfect man, the measure of the stature of flie fulness
of Christ. Ver. 7. The measure of the gift of Christ.
Col. i. 19. It pleased the Father, that in him should all fulness
flv/ell.
Ver. 20. And by him to reconcile all tVmgs to himself.
ii. 10, Ye are complete in him.
m. 1 1. Christ is all and in ail.
*S.Xr. Titlfis given to Christ, taken from the highest, most honoura-
ble and useful offices among men, as prophet, priest, king, denot-
ing his benefits to mankind against sin, and his dignity above all
on earth.
XXII. Chrisfs jiroj^hetic office ivas carried on by his Spirit^ speak-
<«^ in the firojihets of old. 1 Pet, i. 10. Of which salvatioti (by Christ)
liic prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied
of t]ie grace that should come unto you.
Ver. 1 1. Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of
Christ v/hich was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand
fhe suficrings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
V(;r. \%. Unto whom it was revealed^ that not unto themschTJj,
CtiA?. X. Christ s Benejits* l53
but unt© us they did tninister the things which are now reported Mti"
to you by them that have preached the gospel unto you, with the Ho-
ly Ghost sent down from heaven, which things the. angels desire to
look into.
1 Pet. iii. 19. By which (Spirit) Christ preached unto the spirits
in prison;
Ver. 20. In the days of Noe, while the Ark w:a3 preparing*
2 Pet. i* 21. Prophecy came not in old time, by the will of menj
but holy men of God spake as they were moved by th«i Holy Ghost*
2 Tim. iii. 16.
XXIII. Christ* s prophetic office thus foretold by the propheta, Deut.
xviii. 18. The Lord said, I will raise them, up a prophet from ajnong
their brethren, like unto thee^ and will put my words in his mouthy
i^nd he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
Ps. xL 9. I have preached righteousness, I have not refrained my
lips. Ver. 10.
Isa. ix. 2. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great
light.
V^er. 6. Unto us a child is born, his name shall be called Counsellor,
xlii. 1 . I have put my Spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judg-
hient to the Gentiles.
Ver. 3. He shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Ver. 6. I will give thee for a light to the Gentiles.
Ver. 7. To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from
die prison, and them that sit in darkness from the prison house. Ch.
xlix. 9, 10.
xlix. 5. The Lord formed me from the womb to be his servant, to
bring Jacob again to him. Ver. 1, 2, 3, 6.
li. 4. I will make my judgment to rest, for a light to the peopU^
Ver. 5. The Isles shall Wait upon me.
Ver. 16. I have put my words in thy mouth.
Iii. 7. How beautiful are the feet of him that publisheth peace,
that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth salvation. Ver. 10. Luko
iv. 18.
iiv. 13. All thy children shall be taught of the LorcU
Iv. 4. I have given him for a wdtncss to the people.
lix. 21. My Spirit that is upon ihee, and my words which I have
put in thy mouth, shall not depiirt out of thy mouth, nor out of the
mouth of thy seed*
Ix. 2. The Lord shall arises upon thee and his glory shall l>c seen
upon thee.
Ver. 3. The Gentiles shall come to thy light.
Ver. 19. The Lord shall be thine everlasting light.
Ixi. 1. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, !>ccuiuse he hatli
anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek.
Mai. iii. 1. The Lord whom yc seek, shall come to his temple,
even the messenger of the covenant.
iv. 2. Unto you that fear my name, shall the Son of righteousness
arise w^ith healing under his wings. Rev. xxii. 16. The bright and
morning star.
XXIV. (Jhriat gave the following account (f hi» pirophetic ojjice.
154 Christ* s Benefits, Chap. X.
Matt. xi. 27. Neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son, and
he to whom the Son will reveal him.
Luke iv. 43. I must preach, for therefore am I sent. See Christ's
sermon, Matt. 5th, 6th, and 7th Chapters, and many other places-,
as Luke vi. 20.
John i. 1. In the berginning was the word.
iii. 34. He whom God sent speaketh the words of God.
vii. 16. My doctrine is not mine, but his that sient me.
viii. 26. He that sent me is true, and I speak to the world those
things which I have heard of him.
Ver. 28. As the Father hath taught me I speak.
Ver. 38. I speak that which I have seen with my Father.
xii. 50. Even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
xiv. 24. The word which ye hear is not mine, but his that sent mel
XV- 15. All things that I have heard of my Father I have made
known unto you.
xvii. 6. Father, I have manifested thy name unto them.
Ver. 8. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me.
Ver. 14.
Ver. 26. I have declared thy name, and will declare.
Heb. ii. 3. Salvation began to be spoken by the Lord.
Rev. i. 1. The revelation of Jesiis Christ which God gave unto
him.
XXV. Hence Christ is called the light of the world, Jphn i. 5. The
light shineth in darkness.
Ver. 9. The true light, that lighteth every man. . " ^ ■
iii. 19. Light is come into the world:
viii 12. Jesus said, I am the light of the world. Ch. ix. v. — xii.
35,46.
XXVL Christ a priest, Ps. ex. 4. The Lord hath sworn and will
not repent, thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedck..
See Heb. i. 13. — vii. 15, 17.
xl. 6. Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not — Lo ! I come, in the
volume of the bbok it is written of me.
Zech. vi. 13. He shall be a priest upon his throne.
Heb. vii. 13. Made like the Son of God, abideth a priest continu*
ally. Ver. 12.
Ver. 16. After the power of an endless life, Ver. 28. Consecrated
for evermore.
viii. 1 . We have an high-priest, who is set on the right hand of the
throne of the Majesty in the heavens.
ix. 11. Christ became an high-priest of goqd things to come.
Ver. 24. He entered into heaven itself to appear in the presence
of God for us. 1 John ii. 1.
XXVH. His offering <? sacrifice. 1 Cor. v. 7. Christ our passovcr
is sacrificed for us.
Eph. V. 2. Christ hath Idved us, and given himself for us, an offer-
ing and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.
Heb. viii. 3. It is of necessity that this man have somewhat to
offer.
ix. 14. He offered himself without spot to God.
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Heb. ix. 26, Once in the end of the world hath he appeared to
put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
X. 5. Sacrifice and offering thou wouidest not, but a bedy hast thou
prepared me. Ver. 8.
Ver. 12. But this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins,
for ever sat down on the right hand of God.
Ver. 14. By one offering he hath perfected for ever, them that
are sanctified.
XXVIIT. Christ was given, and delivered ; the design thefecf* John
iii. 16. God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlast-
ing life.
I John iv. 9. God sent his only begotton Son into the world, that
we might live through him. Acts ii. 23. Rom. iv. 25.— ^viii. 32.
XXIX. That Christ gave himself^ end for what end. Gal. i. 3, 4-
The Lord Jesus Christ gave himself for our sins, that he might de-
liver us from the present evil world.
Tit. ii. 14. He gave himself, that he might redeem us from aU
iniquity, and purity unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good
works.
Gal. ii. 20- The Son of God who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Eph. V. 2. Christ hath loved us, and given himself for us, an offer-
ing and a sacrifice to God, &c.
Ver. 25. The Son of God loved the church and gave himself for
-it, that hjp might sanctify and cleanse it.
1 Tim. ii. 6. Who gave himself a ransom for all.
John X. 15. I lay down my life for the sheep. Ver. 17. See Matt.
XX. 28. John x, 11. — x. 13. I John iii. 16.
XXX. Christ suffered^ the end there')/. Heb. xiii. 12. Jesus that
he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without
the gate.
I Pet. iii. 18. Christ hath once suffered for sins, that he might
bring us unto God. Ch. ii. 21. Suffered for us. See Isa. liii. 4, 5, 6.
XXXI. Christ suffered, the efficacy thereof, Rom. v. 6. When we
were without strength, Christ died for the ungodly.
Ver. 8. While we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
Ver. 10. We were reconciled to God by the death of his Son.
vi. 10. He died for our sins. John x. 11. He gave his life for the
sheep,
viii. 34. Who is he that condemneth ? It is Christ that died.
1 Cor. XV. 3. I delivered unto you first of all that which I also re-
ceived, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures.
2 Cor. v. 14. If one died for all, then were all dead.
Ver. 15. He^died for all, that they which live, should live unto
him, who died for them.
Heb. ii. 9. That he, by the grace of Godj should taste death for
every man. 1 Thess. v. 10. He died for us.
Ver. 14. That tNfough death he might destroy him that had the
power of death, that is the devil. Rom. xiv. 15. Heb. ix. 15, 16.
XXXII. Christ's blood, the tffiaicy thereof Zech. ix. 1 1 . As for thee
also, by the blood of the covenant, I have sent forth thy prisoners
out of the pit, wherein is no water.
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156 Christ's Benefts. Chap. X.
Zech. xiii. 1. In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the
house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for
uncleanness. See JoeHii. 18.
Matt. xxvi. 28. My blood, which is shed for the remission of sins.
Acts XX. 23. Feed the church of God, which he hath purchased
with his blood.
Rom. V. 9. Being justified by his blood, we shall be saved from
wrath to come. Rom. iii. 25.
Eph. i. 7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins. Col. i. 14.
ii 13. Ye are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Col. i. 30. Having made peace through the blood of his cross, by
him to reconcile all things to himself.
Heb. i. 3. He purged our sins by his own blood.
ix. 12. By his own blood, he entered into the holy place, having
obtained eternal redemption for us.
Ver. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ purge your
consciences from dead works to serve the living God.
Ver. 22. Without shedding of blood is no remission.
X. 19. Having boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of
Jesus.
Ver. 20. By a new and living way which he hath consecrated
through the veil, that is to say his flesh.
Ver. 29. The blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified.
Ch. xiii. 20. The blood of the everlasting covenant.
xii. 24. Ye are come to the blood of sprinklinir, which speaketh
better things than that of Abel.
xiii. 12. Jesus that he might sanctify the people with his own
blood, suffered without the gate.
I Pet. i. 2. Elect, according to the fore-knowledge of God the Fa-
ther, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprink-
ling of the blood of Jesus Christ.
Vei\ 19. Precious blood of Christ.
1 John i. 7. The blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin. Ver. 9.
V. 6. This is he thut carne by water and blood.
Rev. i. 5. Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in
his own blood, &c.
v. 9. Thou hast redeemed us by thy blood.
vii. 14. These have washed their robes, and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb.
xii. 1 1. They overcame by the blood of the Lamb. Hence the ti-
tle of Lamb given to Christ in Isa. liii. 7. John i. 29, 3Q>. Rev. v. 6,
8, 12, 13. — vi. I, 16. — vii. 9, 10, 17. — xiii. 8. — xiv. 4, 10. — xv. 3. —
xvii. 14.— xix. 7, 9.— xxi. 9, 14, 22, *^3, 27.— xxii. 1, 3.
XXXIII. Christ a porfiitiafion, Rom. iii. 25. Jesus Christ, whom
God hath set forth to ije a propitiation through faith in his blood, for
the remission of >.ins.
1 John ii. 2. He is the propitiation for our sins. — For the sins of
the whole v/orld. I Jotm iv. 10. God sent his Son to be the propitia-
tion for our bins.
XXXIV. Atonement, Rom. v. 12. We joy in God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have rec(»ired the aioncmciil.
Chap. X. Christ's Benefits, 157
XXXV. Christ sti/ed a Xing having dominion. Gen. xlix. 10, The
sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law-giver from between his
feet, till Shilbh come, and unto him shall the gathering of the people
be. Namb. xxiv. 17. For there shall come a star out of Jacob, and
a sceptre shall rise out of Israel.
Ps. ii. 6. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
xlv. 6 The sceptre of thy kingdom, is a sceptre that is right.
Ixxxix. 27. I will make him my first born, higher than th^ kings
of the earth.
Song i. 4. The King has brought me into his chambers.
Isa. xxxii. 1. Behold a King shall reign in righteousness, a man
shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tem-
pest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as a shadow of a great rock
in a weary land. Ver. 2.
Dan. vii. 1 4. (here was given him dominion and glory, and a king-
dom, that all people, nations and languages should serve him, his
dominion is an everlasting dominion which shall not pass away, his
kingdom shall not be destroyed. Vcr. 17.
Zech. ix. 9. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daugh-
ter of Jerusalem, behold thy King cometh unto thee, he is just and
having salvation. Isa. Ixii. 11. Matt. xxi. 5.
xiv. 9. The Lord shall be king over all the earth. Ps. Ixxii. 8.
Matt. ii. 2. Where is he that is born King of the Jews.
John i. 49. Thou art the Son of God, thou art the King of Israel,
xii. 13. Blessed is the King that cometh in the name of the Lord,
xviii. 36. My kingdom is not of this world. Ver. 37.
XXV. 34. Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, come
ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom, prepared for you.
1 Cor. XV. 24. Then cometh the end when he shall have deliver-
ed up the kingdom to God, even the Father. Ver. 26, 27.
Heb. ii. 9. Jesus crowned with glory, and honour, and all things
put under him. Ver. 8.
Rev. xi. 5. The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms
of our Lord, and of his Christ.
XXXVI. Prince, Dan. ix. 25. From the going forth of the com-
mandment, to Messiah the Prince. Isa. ix. 6. The Prince of peace.
Acts iii. 15. The Prince of life. Acts v. 3 1. A Prince and Saviour to
give repentance and forgiveness of sins.
XXXVII. Governor. Ps. xxii. 28. He is the governor among the
nations.
Isa. ix. 6. The government shall be upon his shoulders.
liii. 12. He shall divide the spoil with the strong.
Mic. V. 2. The ruler in Israel. Matt. ii. 6.
Isa. xl. 10. His arm shall rule for him. Ch. Ixii. II.
Iv. 4. 1 have given him for a leader, and commander to the people.
Ps. Ixxii. 2. He shall judge the people with righteousness.
ex. 6. He shall judge among the heathen. Joel iii. 12.
Isa. ii. 4. He shall judge among the nations. Mic. iv. 3.
Mai. iii. 2. He is like a refiner's lire, arid fuller's soap.
XX XVIII. Chrifit is Hiled David. Jer. xxx. 9. They shall serv2
the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto
them. Ezek. xxxiv. 23. — xxxvii. 24.
158 Baptism, Chap. Xl.
Hos, iii. 5. The children of Israel shall seek the Lord their God,
and David their king.
Amos ix. 1 1. I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen,
and will close up the breaches thereof, and will raise up the ruins,
and will build it as in the days of old.
XXXIX. The offstiring of David. Isa. xi. 1 . Thpre shall come forth
a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
Isa. xi. 4. With righteousness shall he judge. Rom. xv. 2.
xxii. 22. The key of the house of David, will I lay upon his shoul-
ders.
Jer. XXX. 5. I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a king
shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in
the earth.
Vcr. 6. In his days shall Judah be saved, and Israel shall dweU
safely.
xxxiii. 15. He shall execute judgment, and righteousness in the
land. Ver. 17.
Zech. iii. 8. I will bring forth my servant, the Branch.
Ver. 9. I will remove the iniquity of the land in one day.
vi. 12. The man whose name is the Branch, he shall grow out of
his place, he shall build the temple of the Lord.
Ver. 13. He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his
throne.
Rev. V. 5. The lion of the tribe of Judah hath prevailed.
xxii. 16. The root and offspring of David, the bright and morn-
ing star.
XL. The Son of David. Luke i. 32. The Lord shall give unto him
the throne of his father David.
^^er. 33. He shall rule over the house of Israel for ever, and of
his kingdom there shall be no end.
Rev. iii. 7. These things saith he that hath the key of David, that
opencth and no ^man shutteth, and that shutteth and no man open-
eth, Ch. i. 18. That hath the keys of hell and death.
e H A P. AX
BAPTISM AND THE LORD'S SUPPER,
i-OR ADMISSION INTO THE JEWISH CHURCH. SEE CIRCUMCISION
APPOINTED. GEN. 17 CHAP. FROM VER. 9 TO 25.
L BAPTISM before Christ's death. Luke iii. 16. John said, I in-
deed baptize you with water, but one mightier than I cometh, he shall
baptize you with the Holy Ghost. John i. 2, 6, 31, 33. Acts i. 5.
Acts xix. 4. John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying
unto the people, that ihey should believe on him which should come
after him, thai is, on Christ Jesus.
John iv. 2. Jesus bctptized not, but his disciples did.
1 Cor. X. 2. Our fathers were all baptized in the cloud, and in the
sea.
Chap. XI. Baptism,- 159
II. Baptism after Christ's resurrection. Matt, xxviii. 18,19. All
power is f>ivcn unto me in heaven, and in earth. Go ye therefore and
teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Ver. 20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you, and lo, I am with you always even unto the end of
the world.
Mark xvi. 16. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.
John iii. 5. Jesus said, except a man be born of water and of the
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Acts ii. 38. Peter said, repent and be baptized every one of you in
the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins.
Ver. 41. They that gladly received his word, were baptized.
viii. 12. When those who had been deceived by Simon Magus be-
lieved Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God,
and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and
women.
Ver. 13. Simon believed also and was baptized.
Acts viii. 36. The eunuch said to Philip, here is water, what hin-
dereth me to be baptized.
Ver. 37. Philip said, if thou believest with all thine heart thou
mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God.
Ver. 38, And they went both down into the water, and Philip
baptized him.
X. 47. Peter said, can any man forbid water, that these should not
be baptized which have received the Holy Ghost.
Ver. 48. And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of
the Lord.
xvi. 15. Lydia whose heart the Lord touched, and her houshold,
were baptized.
Ver. 33. The jailor, and all his, were baptizejd.
xix. 5. Some that had been baptized with John's baptisro, were
again baptized in the name of t^e Lord Jesus.
xxii. 16. Ananias said unto Saul, why tarriest thou? Arise and be
baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Cb. ix. 18. And he arose and was baptized.
Rom. vi. 3. As many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ,
were baptized into his death.
Ver, 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death,
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead, by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life,
1 Cor. i. 14. Paul baptized Crispus and Gaius.
Ver. 16. He baptized also the house of Stephanus.
Ver. 17. Christ sent him not to baptize but to preach the gospel.
xii. 13. By one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether
we be Jews or Gentiles, bond or free.
Gal. iii. 27. As many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have
put on Christ.
Ver. 28. Ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Col. ii. 12. Ye are buried with Christ in baptism, wherein also ye
160 The Lord's Supper, Chap. XL
are risen with hyu through the fliilh of the operation of God, who
hath raised him from the dead.
'1 it. iii. 5. He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renew-
ing of the Holy Ghost.
Heb. vi. 1,2. Baptism is one of the principles of the doctrine of
Christ, along with the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judg-
ment.
1 Pet. iii. 20. In the ar]^ eight persons were saved.
Ver. 21. The like figure wereunto baptism doth now save us (not
the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good con-
science toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
THE lord's supper.
See The ficisso-ver instituted to the Jews. Exod. Ch. xi. To be eaten by
lill of theviy even by some that nvere U7iclea?i,
Nuncb. ix. 6 to II. And was eaten by some such. 2 Chron. xxx.
18, 19.
1 Cor. V. 7. Christ our passover is sacrificed for us, therefore let
us keep the feast.
in. The tnatittdion of the^Lordh Supfier. Matt. xxvi. 26. As Jesus
irA his discipJes were eating the passover, Jesus took bread and bles-
sed it and brake it, and gave it to the disciples and said, take eat, this
is ray body. Luke xxii. 19. Which is given for you, this do in re-
in eml?rance of me.
VeK 27. And he took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to
ihem saying, drink ye all of it.
Ver- 28. For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed
for the remission of sins.
Ver. 29. But 1 say unto yovi, I will not drink henceforth of this
fruit cf the wine, until that day, when I drink it new with you in my
Father's kingdom. See the parallel places. Mark xiv. 22 to 25.
Luke xxii. 14 to 21.
Saint Paul's account of the Lord's su/ifier is — 1 Cor. xi. 23. I have
received of the Lord, that which also I delivered unto you, that the
Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed took bread,
Ver. 24. And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said,
take eat, this is my body which is broken for you, this do in remem-
brance of me.
Ver. 25. After the same manner also he took the cup when he had
supped, Saying, this cup is the New Testament in my blood, this do
ye as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me.
\'er. 26. For as oft as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do
shew the Lord's death till he come.
IV. It is to be received frequently. Acts ii. 42. The primitive
Christians continued stedfastly in the apostles doctrhie and fellow-
ship, and in breaking of bread and prayers.
XX. 7. On the first day of the week, when the disciples came to-
gether to break bread, Paul preached unto them. Ver. 1 1.
V. It is to be received ivith suitable fireparation, 1 Cor. v. 7. Purge
out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened :
for even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.
Chap. XF. The Lor<Ps Supper. 161
1 Cor. V. 8. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old lea^
ven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
X. 3. Our fathers did all eat the same spiritual meat.
Ver. 4. And did all drink the same spiritual drink, (for they drank
of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ.)
1 Cor. X. 5. With many of them God was not well pleased, for
they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Ver. 6. These things were our examples, to the intent we should
not lust after^evil things as they lusted.
Ver. 7. Neither be ye idolaters as some of them were.
Ver. 8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did.
Ver. 9. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted.
Ver. 10. Neither murmur, as some of them murmured.
Ver. 14. Flee from idolatry.
Ver. 16. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the com-
munion of the blood of Christ ? the bread which we break is it not
the communion of the body of Christ ?
Ver. 17. For we being many are one bread, and one body, for we
are all partakers of that one bread.
Ver. 20. The things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to
devils and not to God, and I would not that ye should have fellowship
with devils.
Ver. 21. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of de-
vils, ye cannot be partakers of the Lord*s table, and of the table of
devils.
Ver. 3 1 . Whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to
the glory of God.
Ver. 32. Give none offence, to Jews nor to Gentiles, -nor to the
church of God.
xi. 27. Whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the
Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
I Cor. xi. 28. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of
that bread, and drink of that cup.
Ver. 29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and
drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. See
abuses of this ordinance committed by the Corinthians reproved and
threatened in this Chap, from ver. 17 to 23, and from ver. 30 to 32.
See Mai. i, 7. The wicked say, the table of the Lord is contempti-
ble.
Portions of Scripture affording suitable matter of meditation^ at, de-
fore, and after receiving the Sacrament.
Ps. cxvi. 6, 12, 13, 14. Song ii. 3, 4. — v. 1. Isa. xxv. 6 to 10. —
Iv. 1. Rev. xxi. 6. — xxii. 17. John iv. 14. — vi. 35, 43, 5 1 to 63.
N. B. The preparation required to the acceptable receiving the Lord's
supper, are those same qualifications that are required in accepN
able prayer, which see at large in the chap, upon prayer. The sini
for which men ought to be excluded from this ordinance, are the
same sins persisted in, for whic^ the sacred scriptures allow thut
they should be excluded from Chrisiian so^ety, an 1 declare iliut
162 Holy Ghost. Chap. XII.
such shall be excluded out of the kingdom of heaven ; which see
in the various characters of sinners, and threats against them.
Also see, Persons that cannot enter into the kingdom of God; and,
Persons that shall be cast into the lake of lire.
CHAP. XII.
HOLY GHOST.
I. THE Sfiirifs injiuences ufion the material and animal creation.
Gen. i. 2. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Job xxvi. 13. By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens,
xxxii. 8. There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of th€ Al-
mighty giveth understanding.
xxxiii. 4. The Spirit of God hath made me.
xxxiv. 14. If he gather unto himself his Spirit and his breath, all
flesh shall perish together.
Ps. civ. 30. Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created.
Isa. xxxiv. 16. His Spirit hath gathered them, viz. the vultures to
destroy.
II. The S/iirit*s influences upon the minds of mankind. Upon the
prophets.
Numb. xi. 25. The Spirit rested upon the seventy elders, and they
prophesied.
Ver. 26. The Spirit of the Lord rested upon Edad and Medad, and
they prophesied.
Ver. 29. Moses said, would to God, that all the Lord's people were
prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them.
Numb. xxiv. 2. The Spirit of the Lord came upon Balaam, and he
took up his parable and said, ^cc.
1 Sam. X. 10. 1 he Spirit of the Lord came upon Saul, and he pro-
phesied. Ch. xix. 23.
xix. 20. The Spirit of the Lord was upon the messengers of Saul,
and they prophesied.
2 Sam. xxiii. 2. David said, the Spirit of the Lord spake by me.
and his word was on my tongue.
2 Chron. xx. 14. Upon Jahaziel came the Spirit of the Lord, in
the midst of the congregation.
Neh. ix. 30. Thou testifiedst against them by thy Spirit, in the
prophets.
Isa. xlviii. 16. The Lord God and his Spirit, hath sent mc.
1. 4. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned.
Ezek. ii. 2. The Spirit entered into me when he spake unto mc
Ch. iii.24.
iii. 12. The Spirit took me up, and I heard a voice saying, blessed
be the glory of the Lord. Ch. xi: 24.
Ezek. iii. 14. The Spirit took me up, and the hand of the Lord
was strong upon me. Ch. viii. 3. — xi. 1.
Chap.. XII. Holy Ghost. 163
Ezek. xi. 5. The Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto
me, speak, &:c. .
Joel ii. 28. I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh. Acts ii. 17, 18,
Mic. iii. 8. I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, and of
judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgressions, and
to Israel his sins. .
Zeqh. vii. 12. The words w^hich the Lord of hosts hath sent in his
Spirit, by the former prophets.
Matt. xxii. 43. How doth David in spirit call him LoriL
Luke i 15. John shall be filled with the Holy Ghost.
Ver. 76. Thou John shall be called the prophet of the Highest, viio
28. There hath not arisen a greater prophet than John the Baptist.
V*cr. 41. Elizabetli was filled with the Holy Ghost, and she spake.
Ver. 67. Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and he pro-
phesied.
ii. 25. The Holy Ghost was upon Simeon.
26. It was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not
•ee death before he had seen the Lord Christ. 2 Kings .ii. 9.
Luke ii. 27. He came by the Spirit into the temple. Ver. 28. He
took up the child (Jesus) in his arms and blessed (xod, and said,
Ver. 29. Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according
to thy word,
Ver. 30. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation.
Acts. i. 16. This scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which
the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David, spake concerning Judas.
xi. 28. Agabus signified by the Spirit, that there should be a great
dearth, which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.
xxi. 1 1 . Agabus said, thus saith the Spirit>.3o shall the Jews at Jerii-
salem bind the man that owneth this girdltf.
xxviii. 25. Well spake the Holy Ghost ?f. E^ • s the prophet.
1 Tim. iv. 1. The Spirit speaketh cxpressfy ti*.-. 'n the latter days
some shall depart from the faith.
Isa. ix. 8. The Holy Ghost thus signifying, that the way into the
holiest, was not yet made manifest.
1 Pet. i. 10. Of which salvation the prophets enquired and search-
ed diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should cpme unto you.
Ver. 1 1 . Searching diligently what, or what manner of time the
Spirit of Christ which wv.s in them did signify when it testified be-
forehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1 Pet. i. 12. Who preached the gospel with the Holy Ghost sent
down from heaven.
2 Pet. i. 21. Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man,
but holy men of God, spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
HL The Spirit's injliiences ii/ion Je^us Christ ; the formation of his
body. Matt. i. 18. Mary was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Ver. 20. That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Luke i. 35. The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the pow-
er of the Highest shall overshadow thee, therefore also, that holy
thing that shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
IV. Endowments of hi& viind, Isa. xi. 2. The Spiritofthe Lord God
hal! rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understandini', the vS i-
164 Holy Ghost. Chap. XII.
rit of knowledge, and of the fear of the Lord, and shall make him of
quick understanding in the fear of the Lord. Ver. 3.
Isa. xlii. 1. Behold my servant whom I uphold, mine elect in whom
my soul delighteth, I have put my Spirit upon him, he shall bring
forth judgment to the Gentiles. Matt. xii. 18.
Ixi. 1. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because he hath
anointed me to preach glad tidings to the meek. Luke iv. 18.
Matt. iii. 16. Jesus saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove,
and lighting upon him. Mark i. 10. Luke iii. 22.
Luke iii. 4. Jesus waxed strong in spirit, and the grace of God was
upon him.
John i. 32. John bare record saying, I saw the Spirit descending
from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
iii. 24. God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Actsi. 2. Jesus through the Holy Ghost had given commandment
unto the apostles.
Acts X. 58. God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost,
and with power.
V. Actions of his life ; his travels. Matt. iv. 1. Then was Jesus led
up of the Spirit into the wilderness.
Luke iv. 15. Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit, into Ga-
lilee.
VI. His miracles. Matt xii. 28. Jesus said, if I cast out devils by the
Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. Luke
xi. 20.
VII. XJfion his oblation, Heb. ix. 14. Christ through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot unto God.
Vin. His resurrection, 1 Pet. iii. 18. Christ being put to death
in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.
IX. The Sfiiric'^s'influe'nces ufion the apostles^, is a xvitness to Christ.
John XV. 26. The Comforter, the Spirit of truth, he shall testify of
me. Ver. 27.
Acts V. 32. We are his witnesses, so is also the Holy Ghost.
Rom. i. 4. .Tesus Christ declared to be the Son of God with pow-
er according to the Spirit of holiness.
1 Tim. iii. 16. God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the
Spirit.
Heb. X. 15. The Holy Ghost is a witness unto us.
1 John V. 6. It is the Spirit thatbeareth witness, because the Spirit
is truth.
Ver. 7. There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Ghost.
Ver. 8. There are three that bear record on earth, the Spirit, th«
water, and the blood.
Rev. xix. 10. The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.
X. The Sfiirit's influence ufion the a/iostles of Christy furnifihing thevi
with the knowledge of divine truths and utterance to express them. Luke
xii. 12. The Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour, what yc
ouglit to say. Mark. xiii. 1 1.
xxi. 15. I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your ad-
versaries shall not be able t^ eainsay nor resist. Matt. x. 19, 20.
xxiv. 49. Behold I send t t promise of tlie Father unto you, biU
Chap. XII. Holy Ghost, \e^
tarry ye in Jerusalem till ye be endowed v/ith power from on high.
Acts i. 4, 5, 8.
John xiv. 16. I will pray the Father, and he will give you another
,Comforter, even the Spirit of truth, that he may abide with you,
Ver. \7,
John xiv. 26. He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to
your remembrance whatsoever I have said unto you. Luke xxiv. 49,
xvi. 7. I will send the Comforter unto you.
Ver. 13. The Spirit of truth he will guide you unto all trnth, and
will show you things to come. Ver. 14, 15.
Ver. 26. He shall testify of me, and ye shall also bear witness,
Ver. 27.
Acts ii. 4. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
Ver. 14. Peter said, this is that which was spoken of by the pro-
phet Joel. Joel ii. 28.
Ver. 33. Jesus being by the right hand of God exalted, hath shed
forth this which ye now see and hear.
iv. 8. Peter filled with the Holy Ghost said, give ear.
Ver. 31. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake
the word of God with boldness.
vi. 10. They were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit, by
which Stephen spake.
vii. 55. Stephen full of the Holy Ghost looked up unto heaven, and
saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.
viii. 29. The Spirit said to Philip, go near and join this chariot.
X. 19. The Spirit said to Peter, behold three men seek thee.
Ver. 20. Go with them, for I have sent them. Ch. xi. 12.
xiii. 2. As they ministered unto the Lord and fasted, the Holy
Ghost said, separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work of the mi-
nistry whereunto I have appointed them.
Ver. 4. They being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed into
Seleucia.
Acts xiii. 9. Saul filled with the Holy Ghost said, O full of all sub-
lilty, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind.
Ver. 52. I'he apostles were filled with joy, and with the Holy
Ghost.
XV. 28. It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, to lay upon
you no greater burthen than these necessary things.
xvi. 6. Tliey were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word
in Asia.
Ver. 7. They assayed to go ir.to Bithynia, but the Spirit suffered
them not.
xix. 6. The Holy Ghost fell on them, and they spake with tongues
;,.nd prophesied.
XX. 22. Paul said, I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem.
Ver. 23. The Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that
bonds and afflictions abide me.
Ver. 28. Take heed to yourselves r,nd to cJI 'he fiock over v/hich
the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers.
xxi. 4. Certain disciples said to Pac,! Uirc'ae;^ the Spirit, that he
should not go up to Jerusalem,
1^ Holy Ghost, Chaf. XII.
1 Cbr.ii. 4. Paul said, my speech and my preaching was not with
enticing words of man '.s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit
and of power.
Ver. 5, That your faith might not stand in the wisdom of men,
but in the power of God.
Ver. 9. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered
into the heart of man, the things that God hath prepared for them
that love him. Isa. Ixiv. 8.
Ver. 10. But (iod hath revealed them to us by his Spirit.
Ver. 12. We have received the Spirit which is of God, that v/e
might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Ver. 13. Which things we speak, not in words which man's wis-
dom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth.
vii. 40. I think also that I have the Spirit of God.
2 Cor, iii. 6. God hath made us able ministers of the New Testa-
ment, not of the letter, but of the spirit, for the letter killeth, but
the spirit giveth life.
Ver. 8. Ministration of the Spirit is glorious.
vi. 4. Approving ourselves as the ministers of God by the Holy
Ghost, by jove unfeigned. Ver. 6.
Gal. i. 1 1. The gospel which was preached of me, is not after man.
Ver. 12. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it,
but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Ver. 16, It pleased God to reveal his Son in me, that I should
preach him among the heathen.
Eph. ii. 20. Ye are built upon the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, an habitation of God through the Spirit. Ver. 22.
iii 4, The mystery of the knowledge of Christ, is now revealed
unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.
Ver. 8. Unto me is this grace given, that I should preach among
the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. Ver. 7.
1 Thess. i. 5. Qur word came in power, and in the Holy Ghost.
1 Pet. i. 12. Those who have preached the gospel unto you, with
the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. Ch. iv. 1 1.
Rev. i. 10. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day.
ii. 7. Hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches, viz. Ver. 1 1,
17, 29. Ch. iii. 6.—xiii. 22.
xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, yea, sailh the
Spirit.
xvii. 5. He carried me away in the Spirit.
xxii. 17. The Spirit and the bride say come.
XI. Hence the follonving character is given of the Holy Scrifitures,
written dy the profihets and afiostles. 2 Tim. iii. 15. The holy scrip-
tures are able to muke wise unto salvation, through faith in Christ
Jesus.
Ver. 16. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is pro-
fitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction and instruction in righ-
teousness.
Ver. 17. That the man of God maybe perfect, thoroughly fur-
nished unto all good works. Rom. xv. 4. The scriptures were writ-
ten for our learning.
2 Pet.i. 2 1 . Holyrnen spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
Chap. XII. livly Ghost, 167
Heb. i. I. God who at sundry times, and in divers manners spake
unto the fathers by the prophets,
Ver. 2. Hath in these last days spoken by his Son vmto us, whom
he halh appointed heir of all things.
XII. Miraculous gifts of the S/iiritj ujion the afiostlcs^ and some fir i- '
mitive Christians,
Acts ii. 4. They were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to
speak with tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Ver. 8, 11, 17.
X. 44. While Peter spake, the Holy Ghost fell on all tha^ heard.
Ver. 45. On the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the
Holy Ghost.
Ver. 47. Peter said, can any man forbid water, that these should
not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost.
xi. 15. The Holy Ghost fell on them, (the Gentiles) as on us.
Ver. 16. Then remembered they the word of the Lord, y^ shall
be baptized with the Holy Ghost ?
Ver. 17. God gave them, (the Gentiles) the like gift, as he did
unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ver. 24. Barnabas was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost
und of faith.
XV. 8. God which knoweth the hearts, bear them witness, giving
them the Holy Ghost, even as unto us.
xix. 6. They spake with tongues and prophesied.
Rom. XV. 18. I will not dare to speak of those things, which
Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by
word and deed.
Ver. 19. Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of
the Spirit of God.
1 Cor. xii. 4. There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
Ver. 7. The manifestation of the Spirit, is given to every man to
profit withal.
Ver. 8. To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to ano-
ther the word of knowledge.
Ver. 9. To another faith, to another the gifts of healing.
Ver. 10. To another the working of miracles, to another prophe-
sy, to another the discerning of spirits, to another diverse kinds of
tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. Ver. 30.
Ver. 1 1 . But all these worketh that one and the self same Spirit,
. dividing severally to every man as he will.
1 Cor. xiv. 2. In the Spirit he speaketh mysteries.
Heb- ii. 4. God also bearing them witness both with signs and
wonders, and with diverse miracles and gifts, of the Holy Ghost.
Concerning the gifts of tongues. See 1 Cor. xiii. 8. — xiv. 2, 5, 6,
18,22,23,39.
XIII. The influences of the Sfiirit upon the minds of Christians in
general^ in their sanctification.
Gen. vi. 3. God said, my Spirit shall not always strive with msii-
Neh. ix. 20. Thou gavest thy good Spirit to instruct them.
Ps. Ii. 11. Take not thy holy Spirit from ii^e.
Ver. 12. Uphold me with thy free Spirit,
cxliii. 10. Thy Spirit is good, lead mc.
168 HqIij Ghost. Chap. XII.
Prov. i. ^o. I will pour out my Spirit unto you and make known
my words unto you.
Isa. xxxii. 15. Until the Spirit he poured upon us from on high,
and the wilderness be a fruitful field, then judgment shall dwell in
the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field,
xliv. 3. I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon
the dry ground, 1 will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my bles-
sing upon thine offspring.
Isa. lix. 21. This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord, mr
Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy
mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy
«eed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed.
Ixiii. 1 1. Where is he that put his holy Spirit within him ?
E2ek. xi. 19. I will put a new Spirit within you. Ch. xxxvi. 26.
xxxvi. 27. I v/ill put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk
in my statutes. Ch. xxxvii. 14.
xxxix. 29. I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel, saith
the Lord.
Mic. ii. 7. Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened ?
Hag. ii. 5. My Spirit remaineth among you, fear not.
Zee. iv. 6. Thus saith the word of the Lord, not by might, nor by
power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord, shall ye prevail.
xii. 10. I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inha-
hiants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication.
Matt. iii. 1 1. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
John iii. 5. Except a man be born of the Spirit, he cannot enter
into the kingdom of heaven.
Ver. 6. That which is born of the flesh, is flesh, and that which is
bom of the Spirit, is spirit.
Ver. 8. The wind bioweth where it listeth, thou hearestthe sound
thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth, so
is every one that is born of the Spirit.
vi. 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth.
vii. 39. This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on
him should receive.
xvi. 8. He will reprove the world of sin, and of judgment.
Acts v. 32. The Holy Ghost, God hath given to them that obey
him.
vi. 3. Look ye out men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost
Rud of wisdom.
Ver. 8. They chose Stephen, a man full of the Holy Ghost.
ix. 51. The churches walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the
tomfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Kom. V. 5. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the
Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
viii. 1 . There is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Ver. 2. The law of the Spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath made
me free from the law of sin and death.
Ver. 5. They that are after the Spirit do mind the things of the
Spirit.
Ver. 9. Ye are not in the flesh, but in the Si)irit, if so be, that
Chap. XII. Holy Ghost. 165
the Spirit of God dwell in you, now if any man have not the Spirit
of Christ he is none of his.
Rom. viii. 11. If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the
dead, dwell in you, he that raised up Jesus from the dead, shall also
quicken your mortal bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Ver. 13. If ye through the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the
body, ye shall live.
Ver. 14. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the .
sons of God.
Ver. 15. Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry
Abba Father.
Ver. 16. The Spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are
the children of God.
Ver. 23. We who have the first fruits of the Spirit, do groan
within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to w4t, the redemption of
the body.
Ver. 26. We know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit •
helpeth our infirmities.
xiv. 1 7. The kingdom of God, is not meat and drink, but righte-
ousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
XV. 13. Abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
Ver. 16. That the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable,
being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
1 Cor. iii. 13. Know ye not that ye are the temple of the Holy
Ghost, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you ?
vi. 11. Yc are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified, in the
name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Ver. 19. Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God.
xii. 3. No man speaking by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus accur-
sed, and no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
xiv. 15. I will pray with the spirit, I will sing with the spirit.
2 Cor. i. 22. God hath sealed us, and given the earnest of the
Spirit in our hearts.
iii. 3, Ye are the epistle of Christ, written with the Spirit of the
living God, in fleshly tables of the heart.
Ver. 17. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Ver. 18. We are changed from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of
the Lord.
iv. 13. We having the Spirit of faith, believe.
V. 5. God hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
xii. 18. Walked we not in the same Spirit.
xiii. 14. The grace of cur Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Ameji.
Gal. iii. 2. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by
the hearing of faith.
iii. 3. Having begun in the Spirit, are ye mads perfect in the flesh t
Ver. 14. That we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith.
iv. 6. Crod hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our heart-?*
crying Abba Father.
iro Holy Ghost. Chap. XII.
Gal. iv. 29. He that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that
was born after the Spirit.
V. 5. Wc through the Spirit do wait for the hope of righteousness
through faith.
Ver. 16. Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the
flesh.
Ver. 17. The flesh lustcth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against
the flesh, these are contrary.
Ver. 1 8. If ye be led by the Spirit ye are not under the law.
Ver. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Ver. 23.
V. 25. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
vi. 8. He that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life
everlasting.
Eph. i. 13. Ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise.
Ver. 16. Making inention of you in our prayers.
Ver. 17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory, may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the
knowledge of him.
Ver. 18. The eyes of your understanding being opened, &c.
• ii. 18. We have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Ver. 22. Ye are built up an habitation of God through the Spirit.
iii. 16. God grant you to be strengthened with might, by his Spi-
rit, in the inner man.
iv. 3. Keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ver. 4. There is one body and one Spirit.
Ver. 30. The holy Spirit wherewith ye are sealed*
V. 9. The fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and
truth.
Ver. 18. Be filled with the Spirit.
vi. 17. Take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Ver. 15. Praying with ail prayer and supplication in the Spirit.
Phil. i. 19. I know that this shall turn to my salvation, through
your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
ii. I. If there be any fellowship of the Spirit, be ye like minded.
iii. 3. We are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit^
which rejoice in Christ Jesus, &c.
Col. i. 8. Epaphras declared to us your love in the Spirit.
1 Thess. i. 6. Ye received the word with joy of the Holy Ghost,
iv. 8. God hath given unto us his holy Spirit.
v. 9. Quench not the Spirit.
2 Thess. ii. 13. God hath chosen you to salvation, through sanc-
tification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
1 Tim. iv. 12. Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in
conversation, in charity, in Spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Tim. i. 7. God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of love,
and of a sound mind.
Ver. 14. That good thing committed to thee, keep by the Holy
Ghost.
Chap. XII. Hohj Ghost, Mi
Tit» iii. 5. God according to his mercy saved us, by the wushin^^
of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost. ^ .
Heb. iii. 7. The Holy Ghost saith, To-day, if ye will hear his voice
harden not your hearts.
1 Pet. i. 2. Elect according to the fore -knowledge of God the Fa-
^er, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience, and sprink-*
ling of the blood of Jesus.
Ver. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truths
through the Spirit unto the unfeigned love of the brethren, see that
ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.
iv. 6. For this cause was the gospel preached unto them that av©
dead, that they might live according to God in the Spirit.
Ver. 14. The Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you.
1 John ii. 20. Ye have an unction from the holy one, and ye know
all things.
iii. 24. We know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath
given us.
iv. 2. Every Spirit that confeEseth that .Tesus Christ is come in
the flesh, is of God.
Ver. 6. I^ereby know we the Spirit of truth, and the spirit of er^
I'or. .
1 John iv. 13. Hereby know v/e, that we dwell in him, arid he in
iiSt because he hath given us of his Spirit.
Jude 20. Ye beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.
Rev. xxii. 17. The Spirit and the bride say come.
XIV. The Spirit" 3 i/ijiuences upon go~vernoi"&, magistrates and ivar"
riora.
Gen. xli. 38. Pharaoh said, can We find such a man as this, in
whom the Spirit of God is.
Numb. xi. 17. The Lord said unto Moses, I will take of the Spl-'
rit which is upon thee, and I will put it upon the elders, and they
shall bear the burthen of the people with thee.
xxvii. IB. ThejLord said unto Moses, take thee Joshua, a man in
whom is the Spirit, and lay thine hand upon him.
Ver. 21. At his v/ord shall they go out, and at his word shall they
come in, even all the congregation.
xxxiv. 9. Joshua was full of the Spirit of wisdom, and the children
of Israel hearkened unto him.
Judges iii. 10. The Spirit of the Lord came upon Othniel, and he
judged and went out to war.
Ch. vi. 34. Upon Gideon. Ch. xi. 29. Upon Jephtha. Ch. xiii.
25. — xiv. 6, 19. — XV. 14. Upon Sampson. 1 Sam. x. 6. — xi. 6. Up-
on Saul. Ch. xvi. 13. Upon David. 1 Chron. xi. 18. Upon Amasai,
That the Spirit directed in making the high priest's vestments.
See Exod. xxviii. 3. — xxxi. 10. In making the altar, and other
things pertaining to God's external worship among the Jews. Se«
Exod. xxxi. from ver. 1 to ver. 12.
XV. The Spirit proceedethfrom the Father and the Son, or is given
a?id sent by them*
Matt. iii. 11. He (Christ) shall babtize you v/ith the Holy Ghost.
Mark i. 8. Luke iii. 16. John i. 33. Acts i. 5.
Y
172 Holy Ghost. Chap. XII.
Luke XI. 13» How much more shall your heavenly Father give
the Holy Spirit.
xxiv. 49. I send the promise of the Father unto you.
John xiv. 16. The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom
the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and
bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto
you.
XV. 26. When the Comforter is come, whom I will sent imto you
from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the
Father.
xvi. 7. I will send him unto you.
Ver. 8. He shall reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness,
and of judgment.
Ver. 13. He will guide you into all truth, and shall shew you
thngs to come.
Acts i. 4. The promise of the Father. Ch. ii. 33.
V. 32. The Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey
him.
Gal. iii. 4. The promise of the Spirit. Eph. i. 13. The Spirit of
promise.
iv. 6. Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his
Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Hither may be referred all those places in the foregoing chafiter, lohere
God is refiresented as /iromisiJig, sending and giving the holy Spirit,
XVI. Sins against the Spirit reproved and punished, from ivhich the
contrary duties are easily knowJi. Isa. xxx. 1. Wo to rebellious chil-
dren, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me, and that cover
with a covering, but not of my Spirit.
Ixiii. 10. They rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit, therefore he
was turned to be their enemy.
Zech. vii. 12. They made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest
they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts
sent in his Spirit by the former prophets, therefore came a great
wrath from the Lord of hosts.
Matt. xii. 31. Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be for-
given unto men. 1 John V. 16, 17.
Ver. 32. Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not
be forgiven unto him.
Acts V. 3. Peter said, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie unto
the Holy Ghost, thou hast not lied unto men but unto God.
Ver. 9. How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit
of the Lord.
vii. 51. Ye uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist
Ihe Floly Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye.
Eph. iv. 30, (irieve not the holy Spirit of God.
1 Thess. v. 19. Quench not the Spirit.
Heb. vi. 4. It is impossible for those v/bo v/ere once enlightened,
and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and v/ere made partakers of the
Holy Ghost, and have tasted of the good v/ord of God, and the
powers of the world to come, if they fe'la v, ay, to renew them again
to repentance. ■ .
Chap. Xlir. The Trinity. 173
Heb. X. 28. He that despised Moses's law, died without mercy*
Ver. 29. Of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought wor*
thy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath count-
ed the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy
thing, and hath done despite to the Spirit of grace.
Jude, ver. 19. Sensual, having not the Spirit. See Simon Magus
his sin. Acts viii. 19, 20.
CHAP. XIII.
OF THE TRINITY.
THE SAME THINGS ATTRIBUTED TO THE FATHER, TO THE SON,
AND TO THE HOLY GHOST.
I. THE leather is, Deut. xxxiii. 27. The eternal God.
Isa. xl. 28. The everlasting God.
The Son is, Col. i. 17. Before all things.
Heb. xiii. 8. The same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.
Rev. i. 8. The beginning and the ending.
Ver. 17. The first and the last.
The Sfiirit is, Heb.ix. 14. The eternal Spirit,
II. The Fattier omnl fire sent, Jer. xxiii. 24. Do not I fill heaven
and earth, saith the Lord.
Ps. cxxxix. 7. Whither shall I flee from thy presence.
The Son. John iii. 13. The Son of man which is in heaven*
Eph.i. 23. He filleth all in all.
The S/iirit. Ps. cxxxix. 7. V/hither shall I go fi^om thy Spirit.
III. God's knowledge. 1 Sam. ii. 3. The Lord is a Gcd of know-
ledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Acts XV. 18. Known unto God are all his works.
1 Kings viii. 39. Thou only knowest the hearts of all the children
of men.
Jer. xi. 20. O Lord of hosts that triest the reins.
Matt. xi. 27. No man knoweth the Son but the Father.
The Son's knowledge. Matt. xi. 27. Neither knoweth any man the
Father, save the Son.
John ii. 24. He knew ail men— he knew what was in man.
Actsi. 24. They pi^ayed and said, thou Lord, which knowest th©
hearts of all men.
Rev. ii. 23. 1 am he which searcheth the reins and heart. Ch. v. 6.
The S/iirit*s knowledge. 1 Cor. ii. 10. The Spirit searcheth all things,
yea the deep things of God.
Ver. 1 1. The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of
God.
IV. The wisdom of God. Job ix. 4. He is wise in heart, and mighty
in strength.
Dan. ii. 20. Wisdom and might are his.
Rev. vii. 12, Blessing, and glory, und wisdom, be unto our God,
ir4> The Trinity. Chap. XIII.
The Son's 'wisdom. Col. ii. 3. In him are hid all the treasures of
v.isdom and knowledge.
Rev. V. 12. Worthy is the Lamb to receive power, and riches, and
r/isdom, &c.
The Sfiirit's wisdom. Isa. ya. t2. He is the Spirit of wisdom.
Acts vi. o. Full of the Holy Ghost and of wisdom.
Eph. i. 17. The Spirit of wisdom and revelation.
V. The Power of God, Ps. Ixii. 1 1. Power belongeth unto God.
Matt. vi. 13. Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory.
Christ's power, Isa. ix. 6. His name, the mighty God.
Matt, xxviii. 18. All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.
1 Cor» i. 24. Christ the power of Gcd. See, the power of Christ.
The Spirit's power. Rom. xv. 13. Abound in hope, through the
power of the Holy Ghost.
Ver. 19. Through mighty signs and wonder? by the power of the
Spirit of God.
VI. Goodness of God. 1 Chron. xvi. 34. The Lord is good,
Christ, Acts x. 38. He went about doing good.
Spirit. Ps. cxliii. 10. Thy Spirit is good.
VH, Works of God. — Creation, Isa. xl. 28. The Creator of tho
ends of the earth.
Gen. i. 27. God created man.
JVorks of Christ. John i. 3. All things were made by him.
Col. i. 16. By him were all things created that are m heaven £ftid
ihat arc in earth.
Works of the Spirit. Job xxxiii. 4. The Spirit of God hath made
me.
Ps. civ. 50. Thou sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created.
Vni. God sendeth teachers to his church. Jer. vii. 25. I have sent
unto you my servants the prophets. Ch. xxv. 3, 4 — xxvi. 5. — xxix.
!t).-~xxxv. 14, 15. — xliv. 4.
Matt. ix. 38. Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that he will send
forth labourers into his harvest. See Acts ix. 15, 17. Gal, i. 15.
Eph. iv. 11, 12. Actsxxii. 14.
Christ sendeth them. Matt. x. 5. These twelve Jesus sent forth,
raying. Go, preach, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead,
icast out devils, kc.
^ Acts xxvi. 16, 17, 18. He said, I have appeared unto thee, to rnakc
thee a minister. I send thee to open their eyes, to turn them from,
darkness to light. Sec. See Ch. xxii. 14, 21.
' 1 Cor, i. 17. Paul said, Christ sent me to preach the gospel.
2 Cor. V. 20. We are an-^bassadors for Christ.
The Holy Ghost sendtth them, Jsa. xlviii. 16. The Lord Qod and
hi>; Spirit hath sent me.
Acts xiii. 2. The Holy Ghost said, separate me Baniabasand Saul
for the work whereunto i have called them.
\'er. 4. They being pent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed int«
ISelucia.
XX. 28. Paul said, take heed unto yourselves, and to all the (iocIm
pyer the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers — Or bishop •,
^- ^ii the oririnal.
Chap. XIII. Th^ TrmiUj. 175
IX. Teacher^s receive their knowledge from Ood. John vi. 45. They
shall be all taught of God. Isa. liv. 13. Jer. xxxi. 34.
Phil. iii. 15. God shall reveal this unto you.
From Christ. Gal. i. 12. Neither was I taught it but by the reve-
lation of Jesus Christ.
From the Sfiirit. Luke ii. 26. It was revealed unto him by the
Holy Ghost.
John xiv. 26. The Holy Spirit shall teach you all things.
X. God spake by those nvho ivere sent, Heb. i. 1 . God spake unto the
Fathers by the prophets.
Christ sfiake by them, 2 Cor. xiii. 3. Ye seek a proof of Christ
speaking in me.
Holy Ghost sfiake by them. Mark xiii. 11. It is not ye that speak,
but the Holy Ghost.
XI. God is in his iieoiile^ as his temfile. Acts vii. 48. The most
High dwelleth not in temples made with hands. Ch. xvii. 24.
1 Cor. iii. 1 6. Know ye not that ye are the temple of God ? Ver. 1 7.
2 Cor. vi. 16. Ye are the temple of the living God : God hath said,
I will dwell in them and live in them.
Christ is in them, 2 Cor. xiii. 5. Christ is in you of a truth.
Eph. iii. 17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts.
The Holy Ghost is in them, John xiv. 17. The Spirit of truth dwell-
eth with you, and shall be in you.
Rom. viii. xi. His Spirit that dwelleth in you.
1 Cor. vi. 19. Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.
iii. 13. Know ye not that ye are the temple of the Holy Ghost, and
that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you.
XII. God sanctijieth his fieojile . Jude 1 . To them that are sanctified
of God the Father.
Christ sanctifieth, Heb. ii. 11. He that sanctifieth and they that are
sanctified are all of one, wherefore he is not ashamed to call them
brethren .
37k? Spirit sanctifieth. Rom. xv. 16. Being sanctified by the Holy
Ghost.
XHI. God leadeth his people. Isa. xlviii. 17. I am the Lord thy God
which leadeth thee by the way thou shouldest go.
Christ leadeth. John x. iii. He calleth his own sheep by name, and
leadeth them.
The spirit leadeth* Rom. viii. 14. As many as are led by the Spirit
of God, lliey are the sons of God.
XIV. God is andgiveth life. Deut. xxx. 20. The Lord thy God he
is thy life.
Christ is life. Col. iii. 4. When Christ who is our life shall appear.
John V. 12. He that hath the Son hath life.
Gal. ii. 20. Christ liveth in me.
The Spirit is life. Rom. viii. 10. the Spirit is life.
XV. God raiseth the dead, John v. 21. The Father raiseth up the
dead and qiiickeneth them,
Rom. iv. 17. God quickeneth the dead. 2 Cor. i. 9.
Chrht T-aUeth (ht: detiid. Jo^m v, 21. The Son quickeneth whom he
v4ll.
176 Kiiotving God. Chap. XIV.
Jclm X. 18. i have po\ycr to lay down my life, and power to take
it ar^ain.
ii. 19. Dfehtroy this temple, (viz. his body. Ver. 21.) and in three
days I will raiijc it up.
Matt. xi. 5. The dead are raised up. Persons raised by Christ,
'>A>cre Lazarus. John xi. 32. — xii. 1.
A daughter. Matt. ix. 25. A widow's son. Luke vii. 11.
The Sfiirit raiseth the dead. 1. Pet. iii. 18. Jesus Christ quickened
bj the Spirit.
John vJ. 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth.
XVL The Son and S/iir it joined with the Father in ivorshi/i. Matt.
sxviii. 19. Gove therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
2 Cor. xiii. 14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, anclthe love
«f God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen.
DUTIES TOWARD GOD ENFORCED BY THREATS
AND PROMISES.
KNOWLEDGE.
I. TO kfioiu God and Christ commanded,^ with its fruits. Dent. iv. 39.
Know and consider in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven
above, and upon the earth beneath, there is none else.
1 Chron. xxvili. 9. Know thou the God of thy father, and serve
liTTn with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind.
Ps. xlvi. 10. Be stiil and know that I am God. Ps. c. 3.
Jer. i::. 24. Let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he under-
s-tandeth, and kricweth me, that I am the Lord, which exercise lov-
ijig' kindness and judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
Hos. vi. 6. I desired tiie knowledge of God, more than burnt of-
ferinc;s.
2 Pet. i. 8. Neither be ye barren nor imfruitful in the knowledge
f.f our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
I J. Deiiying God. Tit. i. IC. Some profess to know God, but in
works deny him. See 2 Pet. ii. 1.
ilL Prayers for them that know God, and promises to them. Ps.
xxxvi. 10. Continue thy loving kindness to th.em that know thee.
::ci. 14. I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Dan. xi. 32. The people that know God, shall he strong and do
<>vploits.
John xvii. 3. This is life eternal to know thee, the only living and
tA)e God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent, i John ii. IS.
IV. God will be known by his fieofile. Ps. xlviii. 3. God is known
in the palaces of Zion for a refuge.
Ixxvi. 1. In Judah God is known, his name is great in Israel.
Isa. xix. 21. The Lord shall be known to Egypt, the Egyptianu
shall know the Lord, and do sacrifice to him.
Uv. 13. All thy children shall be taught of the Lord.
Chap. XIV. Knowing; God, \7t
Is. Ix. 2. Darkness shall cover the earth, and p:ross darkness the
people, but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his giory shall be seea
upon thee.
Ver. 3. The Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the
brightness of thy rising. Isa. xiii. 7, 16.
Jer. xxiv. 7. I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the
Lord, and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
xxxi. 33. I will put my law in their inward parts, and v/iite it in
their hearts,
Ver. 34. A^d they shall all know me from the least even to the
greatest.
Hos. ii. 19. I will betroth thee to me, in righteousness and in
judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies, and in faithfulness,
and thou shalt know the Lord.
vi. 2. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord.
Hab. ii. 14. The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord,
as the waters cover the sea. Isa. xi. 9.
Mai. i. 1 1. From the rising of the sun to the going down of the
same, my name shall be great among the Gentiles, and in every-
place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering.
God is made known by his works. Ps. ix. 16. The Lord is knov/Ji
by the judgments he executeth.
xix. 1. The heavens declare the glory of God, the firmament
sheweth his handy work.
Ver. 2. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night shew-
eth knowledge. Rom. i. 20. The invisible things of God, from the
creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood bv the things
that he hath made, even his eternal power and God -he ad.
Ps. Iviii. 1 1. Verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
c. 3. The Lord he is God, he made us.
2 Cor. i. 21. He which stablisheth us with you in Chilst, and hath
anointed us is God.
Heb. iii. 4. He that built all things is God.
V. Christ called light^ as a teacher sent to give the true knowledge of
God.
Luke ii. S2. A light to lighten the Gentiles.
John i. 4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. Ver.
7, 8. Matt. iv. 16.
Ver. 9. The true light that lighteth every man, that comcth into
the world.
viii. 12. Jesus said, I am the light of the world, he that followcth
me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
ix. 5. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
X. 14. I know my sheep, and am known of mine.
xii. 46. I am come a light into the v/orld, that whosoever bcliev-
cth on me should not abide in darkness. Ver. S5, 36.
Acts xiii. 47. I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, tiiat thou
shouldst be for salvation to the ends of the earth.
VI. Duties of the enlightened^ ivho knoiv God. Acts xvi. 30. Thr,
times of ignorance Gqd winked at, but no^'* cominanueth all men
every where to repent.
ITS Faith. CiTAP. Xiy.
Rom. xiii. 12. Let us put on the armour of light.
Ver. 13. Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and
drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness.
1 Thess. V. 5. Ye are all the children of the light and of the day,
we are not of the night nor of darkness.
Ver. 6. Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch
and be sober.
Ver. 8. Let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breast-
plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.
1 Pet. ii. 9. Ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath cal-
led you out of darkness, to his marvellous light.
VIL Wicked know not God. Exod. v. 2. Pharaoh said, who is the
Lord ? that I should obey his voice. I know not the Lord, neither
will I let Israel go. Job xxi. 15.
Ps. xiv. 4. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge -
Ixxix. 6. Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not knowu
thee.
Ixxxii. 5. They know not, neither will they understand, they walk:
on in darkness.
Isa. i. 3. Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Ver. 7. Your country is desolate, your city is burnt with fire.
Jer. iv. 22. My people is foolish, they have not known me ; they
are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Ver. 27. The whole land shall be desolate.
v. 4. They are foolish, they know not the way of the Lord, nor
the judgments of their God. Ver. 5.
ixf 3. They proceed from evil to evil and know not me, saith the
Lord.
Ver. 1 1 , I will make Jerusalem heaps.
Hos. iv. I. The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of
the land, because there is no truth nor mercy, nor knowledge of
God in the land.
V. 4. The spirit of whoredoms is in them, they have not known
the Lord.
John viii. 19. Jesus Jiaid to the Pharisees, ye neither know me nor
my Father. Ver. 55.
xvi. 3. Jesus said unto his disciples, these things will they, do unto
you, because they have not known the Father nor me.
xvii. 25. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee.
Rom. i. 27. They did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
wherefore God gave them up to a reprobate mind. Ps. x. 4.
1 Cor. XV. 34. Some (professed Christians) have not the knowledge
of God.
1 John iv. 8. He that loveth not, knoweth not God.
FAITH.
VHL Faith in God. 2 Chron. xx. 20. Believe in the Lord your
God, so shall ye be established.
Isa. xliii^ 10. Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant
whom I have chosen, that ye may know and believe me, that I am
the Lord.
Chap. XIV. Faith, 17^
Mark xi. 22. Jesus said, have faith in God. John xii. 44.
Heb. vi. 1. Let us go on toward perfection, not laying again the
foundation of repentance, and of faith toward God.
xi. 6. Without faith it is impossible to please God, for he that
Cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek him.
Jam. ii. 19. Thou believest there is one God ; thou dost well.
1 Pet. i. 2 1 . That your faith and hope might be in God.
Ps. cxix. 66. I have believed thy commandments.
IX. Faith in Christ. John vi. 29. Jesus said, this is the work of
God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
1 John iii. 23. This is God's commandment that we should be-
lieve on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another.
John xii. 36. Believe in the light that ye may be the children of
light.
xiv. i. Jesus said, ye believe in God, believe also in me.
XX. 27, Jesus said to Thomas, be not faithless but believing.
X. Faith in Christy brief summaries thereof, John ix. 25. Dost thou
believe in the Son of God. Ver. 38.
xi. 27. I believe that thou art Christ the Son of God, that should
come into the world.
xvi. 30. Wfc believe that thou earnest forth from God.
xvii. 6. Jesus said, I have manifested thy name unto the men
which thou gavest me out of the world.
Ver. 8. And they have believed that thou didst send me. Ver. 21,
Acts viii. 37. Philip said to the eunuch, if thou believest with all
thine heart, thou mayest be baptized ; and he answered and said, I
believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Ver 38. And Philip baptized him.
Rom. vi. 8. If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall
also live with him.
x. 9. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart, that God raised him from the dead thou shalt
be saved.
1 Thess. iv. 14. If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even
so, them also that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
XL Confessing Christ ; promises. Matt. X. 32. Whosoever shall
confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father, which is
in heaven.
Rom. X. 9. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart, that God raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.
Ver. 10. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and
with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
1 John i V. 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God,
(^od dwelicth in him and he in him.
Rev.ii. 13. Thou boldest fast my name. Ch.iii. 8.
XII. Denying Christ ; threats. Matt. x. 33. Whosoever shall deny
me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in
licaven.
Luke xii. 9. He that denieth me before men, shall be denied bef&r*
the angels of God. Z
180 Faith. Chap. XIV.
2 Tim. ii. 12. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
2 Pet. ii. 1. False teachers shall bring in damnable heresies, even
denying the Lord that bought them.
1 John ii. 22. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the
Christ ? He is Antichrist that denieth the Father, and the Son.
I John ii. 23. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the
Father.
Jude ver. 4. Ungodly men turn the grace of God into lascivious-
ness, denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. See
Acts iii. U. Matt. xxvi. 70.
XIII. The certainty and assurance of faith. Luke i. 1. Many have
taken in hand to set forth a declaration of those things which arc
most surely believed among us.
Ver. 4. It seemed good to me also, that thou mightest know the
certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.
John iv. 22, We have heard ourselves, and know that this is in-
deed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
vi. 69. We believe and are sure that thou art Christ the Son of
the living God.
xvi. 30. Now arc we sure that thou knowest all things, by this mc
believe that thou earnest forth from God. Ver. 31.
xvii. 8. Jesus said, they have known surely that I came out from
thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. Ch. xvi. 27.
Acts i. 36. Let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God
hath made that same Jesus, both Lord and Christ.
xvii. 31. God hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the
world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained, whereof
he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from
the dead.
Ileb. X. 22. Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance
of faith.
xi. 1. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen. See Col. ii. 2. 1 Thess. i. 5. 2 Tim. iii. 14. 1 John
iii. 19.
Of heini^ strongs stedfasty and perseijering in faith. Rom. iv. 9.
Abraham being not weak in faith.
Ver. 20. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief,
but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.
Ver. 21. Being fully persuaded, that what God had promised he
was able to perform.
Ver. 22. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
1 Cor. xvi. 13. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like
men, be strong.
2 Cor. v. 7. We walk by faith, not by sight.
iv. 18. We look not at the things which are seen and are tempo-
ral, but at the things which are not seen, and arc eternal. Heb. xi. 27.
Moses endured as seeing him who is invisible.
xiii. 5. Examine yourselves whether yc be in the faith, prove your
own selves.
Gal. ii. 20. The liie which I now live in the Ucslj, I live by faith
©f the Son of God.
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Eph. iii. 17. I pray that Christ may dwell in your hearts, by fsuth.
vi. 16. Take the shield of faith, whereby ye may be able to quench
all the fiery darts of the wicked one.
Phil. i. 27. Stand fast in one Spirit, with one mind, strivin g toge-
ther for the faith of the gospel.
Col. i. 23. Continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and be not
moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard.
ii. 5. I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding the sted-
fastness of your faith in Christ.
Ver. 6. As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in
him.
Ver. 7. Rooted and built up in him, aud stablished in the faith, as
ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
1 Tim. vi. 12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal
life.
2 Tim. i. 13. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou ha«t
heard in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
iv. 7. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 1 have
kept the faith.
Ver. 8. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteous-
ness.
Tit. i. 13, Rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in th«
faith.
Heb. X. 23. Hold fast the profession of your faith, without waver-
ing.
James i. 3. The trying of your faith worketh patience. 1 Pet. 1.7.
1 Pet. v. 8. Your adversary the devil, walketh about, seeking whom
he may devour.
Ver. 9. Whom resist, stedfast in the faith.
2 Pet. iii. 7. Beware lest ye fall from your stedfastness.
1 John v. 4. This is the victory that overcometh the world, cvei>
your faith. See John viii. 31. Compare with Rom. x. 8. See also,
Acts xiv. 22. Ephvi. 10. 2 Tim. ii. 1. 1 John ii. 14. Rev. ii. 13. —
xiii. 8. See Heb. chap. xi. throughout.
XIV. Graces and duties^ accomftanying true fait h^ or marks and evi-
dences of true faith.
Exod. iv. 31. The people believed and worshipped.
xiv. 3 I . The people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord.
Ps. cvi. 12. The waters covered their enemies, then believed they
his words, they sung his praise.
cxvi. 10. I believed, therefore have I spoken. 2 Cor. iv. 13. Ps,
xxvii. 13.
Jonah iii. 5. The people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed
a fast.
Acts XV. 9. God purifying the hearts of the Gentiles by faith.
xvi. 34. The keeper of the prison rejoiced, believing in God, with
all his house.
XX. 21. Paul testified both to the Jews and also to the Greeks ;
repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ,
xxiv. 34. When Felix heard Paul concerning the faith.
182 Faith, Chap. XIV.
Acts xxiv. 25. Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and
judgment to come.
1 Cor. xiii. 2. Though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not charity I am nothing.
Ver. 13. Now abideth faith, hope, charity, but the greatest of these
is charity.
2 Cor. viii. 7. As ye abound in faith, in utterance, in knowledge,
and in all diligence, and in your love to us ; see that ye abound in
this grace also of liberality.
Gal. v. 6. Faith worketh by love .
Ver. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith.
Ver. 23. Meekness, temperance.
Eph. i. 15. After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love
to all the saints, I cease not to give thanks for you. Col. i. 4.
iii. 17. I pray that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that
ye being rooted and grounded in love, Sec.
1 Thess. i. 23. We give thanks to God, remembering your work
of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus
Christ.
Ver. 7. Ye were examples to all them that believe in Macedonia
and Achaia.
v. 8. Let us who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breast-
plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.
2 Thess. i. 3. We are bound to thank God always for you bre-
thren, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity
of every one of you towards each other aboundeth.
ii. 13. God hath chosen you to salvation, throyglt sanctification of
the Spirit, and belief of the truth.
1 Tim. i. 5. The end of the commandment is charity, out of a pure
heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.
Ver. 14. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, was exceeding abun-
dant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
ii. 15. Continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety.
iii. 9. Holding the mystery of faith, in a pure conscience.
iv. 12. Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversa-
tion, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
2 Tim.i. 13. Hold fast the form of sound words, in faith and love,
which is in Christ Jesus.
ii. 22. Follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that
call on the Lord, out of a pure heart.
. iii. 10. Thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, pur-
pose, faith, long sufFering, charity, patience.
Ver. 14. Continue in the things thou hast learned.
Ver. 17. Be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works*
Tit. i. I. The faith of God's elect, and the acknowledgmeni of the
truth which is after godliness.
ii. 1. Speak thou the things that become sound doctrine.
Ver. 2. That the aged men may be sober, grave, temperate, sound
in the faith, in ciiarity and in patience.
Hi. 8. This is a tuithful saying, and these thin4-;s I will that thou
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affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God, might be
careful to maintain good works. Ver. 14.
Heb. vi. 12. Be ye followers of them, who through faith and pa-
tience inherit the promises.
Jarnes ii. 14. What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say
he have faith, and have not works ? Can faith save him ?
Ver. 17. Faith if it hath not works is dead, being alone.
Ver. 20. Know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead.
Ver. 26. As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without
works is dead also. See ver. 22, 24.
2 Pet. i. 5, 6, 7. Add to your faith, virtue, knowledge, temper-
ance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity.
1 John iii. 23. This is God's commandment, that we should believe
on the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another.
Jude 20, Ye, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.
Ver. 21. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to eternal life.
Rev. ii. 19. I know thy works, and charity, and service and faith,
und thy patience, and thy works, and the last to be more than the
first.
xiii. 10. Here is the patience and faith of the saints.
xiv. 12. Here are they that keep the commandments of God and
the faith of Jesus.
XV. The author^ or cause and means of faith* God the author and
su/treme cause of faith.
Matt.xvi. 16. Peter said to Jesus, thou art Christ, the Son of the
living God.
Ver. 17. Jesus answered and said unto him, blessed art thou, Si-
mon Barjonah, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but
my Father which is in heaven.
John i. 1 3. They that believed on his name were born not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. I John
iv. 14, 15.--V. 1.
Acts xiii. 48. As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed.
xiv. 27. God opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Rom. xii. 3. Think soberly, as God hath dealt to every man, the
measure of faith.
1 Cor. ii. 5. Your faith should not stand but in the power of God.
Eph. ii. 8. By grace ye are saved through faith, and that not of
yourselves, it is the gift of God.
Phil. i. 29. Unto you it is given on the behalf of Christ, not only
to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.
2 Thess. ii. 13. God hath chosen you to salvation through sancti-
fication of the Spirit, and belief of the truth. See 1 Tim.i. 14.
XVI. God being the author of faith., he is firayedto and thanked Jor
faith., as his gift. Rom. xv.fS. The God of hope, fill you with all joy
and peace in believing.
Eph. i. 15. After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
and love to all the saints, I cease not to give thanks for you, making
mention of you in my prayers. Col. i. 3, 4. Philem. ver. 5.
Eph. vi. 23. Peace be to the brethren and love with faith, from God
the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
1S4 Fahh, Chap. XIV.
1 Thess. i. 2, 3. We give thanks to God always for you, remem-
bering your work of faith and labour of love. Col. ii. 13.
2 Thess. i. 3. We are bound to thank God always for you brethren,
because your faith groweth exceedingly.
Ver. 1 1 . We pray always for you that our God would count you
worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness,
and the work of faith with power.
XVII. Christ the author of faith. Luke xvii. 5. The apostles said,
Lord increase our faith.
1 Tim. i. 13. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, was exceeding
abundant with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
Heb. xii. I. Let us run with patience, the race set before us, look-
iiig to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.
1 Pet. i. 21. Ye by him do believe in God, who raised him from
the dead.
2 Pet. i. 1. To them that have obtained like precious faith with
us, through the righteousness of God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
See Eph. vi. 23. 2 Thess. i. 12.
The Holy Ghost the author of faith. 1 Cor. xii. 8. To one is given
by the Spirit, the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge.
Ver. 9. To another faith, by the same Spirit.
t? Cor. iv. 13. We having the same Spirit of faith, we also believe.
Gal. V. 22, The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffer-
ing, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
XVIII. Subordinate mean cf faith, is God^s ivord. John xx. 31.
These are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the
Son of God. Rom. i. 16. 1 John v. 3. Rev. i. 19.
XIX. A goafiel ministry the means of faith. John. i. 7. John came
for a witness that al! men might believe. Acts xix. 4.
xvii. 20. Jesus said, I pray not for those alone which thou gave st
vat. out of the world, but for them also which shall believe on me
through their word.
xix. 35. He that saw bare record, that ye might believe.
Acts. ii. 41. At hearing Peter's sermon, were added to the churc);
•itbout three thousand souls.
iv. 4. Many that heard the word believed.
viii. 1 2. They believed Philip preaching the things concerning the
kingdoni of God and the name of the Lord Jesus. Ver. 13.
Acts xi. 2 1 . The hand of the Lord was with the apostles, and a
great nuuiber believed.
xiv. 1. Paul and Barnabas so spake that a great number believed.
xv". 7, Paul said, God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by
my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
xvii. 2. Paul reasoned out of the scriptures, &c.
Ver. 4. And some of the Jews believed, of the devout Greeks a
great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
Ver. 54. Certain men clave to Paul, a^d believed. See Acts xviii.
4, 8, 2r, 28.— -xix. 9.
xxvi. 17. Jesus said to Paul, I send thee to the Gentiles to open
their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the
power of Satan unto God.
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Acts. xxvi. 18. That they may receive forgiveness of sins, and an
inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
Rom. i. 5. By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for
obedience to the faith.
X. 8. The word is nigh thee, the word of faith which we preach.
Ver. 14. How shall they call upon him on whom they have not be-
lieved ? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not
heard ? and how shall they hear without a preacher ?
Ver. 15. And how shall they preach except they be sent ?
Ver. 17. So faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of
(;od.
xvi. 25, 26. The mystery which was kept secret, is now made
known to all nations for the obedience of faith.
1 Cor. i 2 1 . It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save
them that believe.
iii. 5. Who is Paul or Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed,
even as the Ljord gave to every man.
Ver. 6. I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the in-
crease. Ver. 7.
XV. 2. I have delivered unto you the gospel by which ye are sav-
ed, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have
believed in vain.
Ver. 11. So we preach, and so ye believed.
2 Cor. i. 14. Not that we have dominion over your faith, but arc
helpers of your joy.
Eph. ii. 20. Ye are all built upon the foundation of the apostles
and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.
iv. 1 1 . Christ gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some
evangelists, and some pastors and teachers.
Ver. 12. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the mi-
nistry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.
Ver. 13. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man.
Phil. i. 25. I shall continue with you for your furtherance and joy
of faith.
ii. 17. If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith,
I joy and rejoice with you all.
1 Thess. ii. 3. We sent Timotheus to establish and comfort you,
concerning your faith.
Ver. 10. Praying that we might see your face, and perfect that
which is lacking in your faith.
Heb. xiii. 7. Remember them which have the rule over you, wlio
have spoken unto you the word of God, whose fiaith follow.
1 John i. 3. That which we have seen and heard declare we \mX^^
you.
THE GOSPEL CALLED FAITH, AND THE LAVf OF FAITi.
Rom. iii. 27. Boasting is excluded by the law of fAiili.
X. 8. The word of faith which we prcuch.
Gal. i. 23. Piiul preached the faith v/hich once he destroyed.
186 Faith. Chap. XVI.
Gal. iii. 2. Received yc the Spirit by the works of the law, or by
the hearing of faith ? Ver. 5.
Ver. 23. Before faith came we were shut up unto the faith that
should afterward be revealed. Ver. 25. See 1 Tim. i. 4. — v. 8. Jude
ver. 3. Rev. ii. 13.
XX. Promises to faith^ justijication to believing in God^ ftromiaed.
Gen. XV. 6. Abram believed in the Lord, and he counted it to him
for righteousness. Rom. iv. 3, 9. Gal. iii. 6. Jam. ii. 23.
John v. 24. Jesus said, he that heareth my words and believeth on
him that sent jnc, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into con-
demnation, but is passed from death unto life. See Luke i. 45.
XXI. Justijication to believing in Christ firomised. Acts xiii. 39. By
him all that believe are justified from all things, from which they
could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Rom. iii. 21. The righteousness of God (i. e. justification) with-
out the law is manifested^ being witnessed by the law and the pro-
phets.
Ver. 22. Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of
Jesus Christ, unto all and upon all that believe.
Ver. 25. Jesus Christ hath God set forth, to be a propitiation
through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remis-
sion of sins.
Ver. 26. To declare his righteousness, that he might be just, and
the justifier of them that believe in Jesus.
Ver. 28. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faitli
without the deeds of the law.
Ver. 30. God shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the un-
circumcision through faith.
Rem. iv. 5. He that worketh not but believeth on him that justi-
fieth the ungodly, his faith is counted to him for righteousness, or
justification.
v. 1 . Being justified by faith we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
X. 4. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness (or justifica-
tion) to every one that believeth.
xi. 20. Thou standest by faith. 2 Cor. i. 24.
Ver. 23. The Jews, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be
grafted in.
Ver. 26. And so all Israel shall be saved. Ver. 50, 31, 32.
Gal. ii. 16. A man is not justified by the works of the law, but by
the faith of Jesus Christ*.
Ver. 2 1. If righteousness came by the law, then is Christ dead in
vain.
. iii. 8. The scripture foreseeing that Ciod would justify the heathen,
throi^h faith preached before the gospel to Abram, saying, in thee
shall all nations be blessed. Gen. xii. 3.
Ver. 9. So they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abra-
ham.
Ver. 1 1 . But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of
God is evident, for the just shall live by faith. Hub. ii. 4. Rom.i. 17.
Heb, X. 38.
Chap. XIV. Faith. 187
Gal. iii. 1 2 . And the law is not of faith, but the man that doth the«e
things shall live in them.
Ver. 22. The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the pro-
mise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe,
Ver. 24. The law was our school-master to bring us to Christ, that
we might be justified by faith.
v. 5. We through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness (or
justification) through faith.
Ver. 6. In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any^thing, nor
uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.
Phil. iii. 3. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the
knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the
loss of all things, and count them but dung that I may win Christ.
Ver. 9. And be found in him not having mine own righteousness
which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ,
the righteousness which is of God by faith.
Ver. 10. That I might know him and the power of his resurrec-
tion, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable to
his death.
XXII. jidofition, or being the sons of God^ firomhed. John i. 12. To
as many as received Christ, to them gave he power to become the
sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.
Gal. iii. 26. Ye are all the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ.
Rom. viii. 17.
XXIII. GQd''s love promised to believers in Christ. John xvi. 27.
Tlie Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have
believed that I came out from God.
XXIV. Christ firayeth for believers. John xvii. 20. Neither pray
I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through
their word.
XXV. The sins of believers fiardoned. Acts x. 42, Whosoever be-
lieveth on me shall receive the remission of sins. Ch. xiii. .18.
Rom. iii. 25. Him hath God set forth to be a propitiation througk
faith in his blood, to declare his righteousnes for the remission of sins.
XXVI. 7he holy Spirit is given to beliex'crs. John vii 38. Jesus said,
he that beleiveth on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
waters.
Ver. 39. This spake he of the Spirit which they that believe oa
liim should receive.
Gal. iii. 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.
Ver. 14. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gen-
tiles, through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of th(t
Spirit through faith.
XX VII. They have light and direction, John xii. 36. Believe in
the light (that is, in Christ. Ch. i. 9. — viii, 12. — ix. 5.)
V^er. 46. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believ-
ffth on me shall not abide in darkness.
XXVIII. Thf.y have grace and peace, 2 Pet. i. 1, 2. To them that
have obtained like precious faith with uii> g^ra<;e aii^peaQ,^ be multl-
) lied. RoFTi. V- I. A a
188 Faith. Chap. XIV.
XXIX. Thty have joy and comfort, John xiv. 1 . Let not your hearts
be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in me.
I Cor. XV. 12. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing.
1 Pet. i. 8. In whom (Christ) believing ye rejoice with joy un-
speakable and full of glory.
1 John V. 10. He that belie veth on the Son of God, hath the wit-
ness in himself.
John viii. 56. Abraham saw Christ's day and was glad.
XXX. Christ is precious to them. 2 Thess. i. 10. He shall come
to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe.
1 Pet. ii. 1. To them that believe he is precious.
• XXXI. They have access to God in prayer. Eph. iii. I 2. In Christ
we have boldness, and access with confidence by the faith of him.
XXXII. Sanctijication by faith. Acts xv. 9. God purifying their
hearts by faith.
xxvi. 18. That they may receive an inheritance among them that
are sanctified by faith in me.
XXXIII. Salvation by faith in God. Dan. vi. 23. No manner of
hurt was found upon Daniel, (in the lion's den) because he believed
in his God.
XXXI V. Salvation to Christians by faith in Christ, Isa. xxviii. 16.
Thus saith the Lord God, behold I lay in Zion for a foundation, a
stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation, he
that believeth shall not make haste. Rom. ix. 33. — x. 11. He that
belicveth shall not be ashamed. 1 Pet. ii. 6. He that believeth shall
not be confounded.
Mark, xvi 15. Jesus said, preach the gospel :
A^er. 16. He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved, he that
believeth not shall be damned.
John iii. 1 4. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even
so must the Son of man be lifted up.
Ver. 15. That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have eternal life.
Ver. 16. God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.
Ver. 17. God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the
world, but that the world through him might be saved.
Ver. 18. He that believeth is not condemned, he that believeth not
is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of
the only begotten Son of God.
Ver. 36. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he
that believeth not the Son shall not sec life, but the wrath of God
abideth on him.
vi. 35. Jesus said, he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Ver. 40. This is the wiii of him that sent me, that every one that
secth the Son and believeth on him, may have everlasting life, and I
will raise him up at the last duy.
Ver. 47. He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
xi. 25. He that believeth on me, though he were deaJ, yet shall
h^ live.
Chap. XIV. Faith. 1^^
John xi. 26. Whosoever liveth and beiieveth in me shall never die,
or shall not die for ever.
XX. 31. These are M^ritten that ye might believe that Jesus is the
Christ the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through
his name.
Acts xvi. 31. Paul and Silas said to the Jailor, believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.
xxvi. 18. That they might receive an inheritance among them
that are sanctified by faith in me.
Rom. X. 9. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus,
and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead,
thou shalt be saved.
Eph. ii. 8. By grace ye are saved through faith.
2 Thess. ii. 13. God hath chosen us to salvation, th roil ghsanctifi-
cation of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
1 Tim. i. 1 6. I Paul obtained mercy, that in me Jesus Christ might
sheAV forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should
hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
vi. 12. Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life.
2 Tim. iii. 15. The scriptures are able to make thee wise unto
salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
iv. 7. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I
have kept the faith.
Ver. 8. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteous-
ness which the Lord the righteous judge shall give me at that day,
and not to me only, but unto all them that love his appearing.
Heb. iv. 3. We which have believed do enter into rest.
vi. 12. Be ye followers of them who through faith and patience
inherit the promises.
X. 39. We are not of them that draw back who perdition, but of
them who believe to the saving of the soul.
1 Pet. i. 5. We are kept by the power of God through faith unto
salvation.
Ver. 9. Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your soUl$.
1 John v. 13. These things have I written unto you that believe
on the name of the Son of God, that ye might know that ye have
eternal life.
XXXV. Things extraordinary firomised to the faith of some firimi-
five Christians. Matt. xxi. 2 1 . If ye have faith as a grain of mustard
seed, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this that is done to the fig-
tree, but also i/ ye shall say to this mountain be thou removed, and
be thou cast mto the sea, it shall be done. Luke xvii. 26.
Ver. 22. And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believ-
ing, ye shall receive. Mark xi. 24.
Mark xvi. 17. These signs shall follow them that believe ; in my
name shall they cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues.
Ver. 18. They shall take up serpents, and if they shall drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them, they shall lay hands on the sick
and they shall recover.
John xiv. 12. He that beiieveth on me, the works that I do shall
he do also.
190 Infidelity. Chap. XIV.
XXXVI. These promises were fulfilled in the following instances.
Acts ii. 4. The disciples of Christ spake with new tongues,
iii. 2 to 8, and xiv. 10. They cured the lame,
xvi. 18. They cast out unclean spirits. Ch. v. 16. — vii. 8.
xix. U, 12. They healed the sick. Ch. xxv. 8.
ix. 36, 37, 40. They raised the dead. Ch. xx. 12.
V. 5, 10. Lying hypocrites die at their rebuke,
xxviii. 3, 5. Paul shakes a viper off his hand, and is not hurt by it.
xiii. 1 1 , Enemies of the faith are struck with blindness.
ix. 12, 17, 18. They restore sight to the blind,
viii. 15, 17. The Holy Ghost is given at laying on of tlieir hands,
V. 12. They do great miracles, signs and wonders. Ch. vi. 8. —
XV. 12. 2 Cor. xii. 12.
viii. 6. The people gave the more heed to them and embraced
the faith. Ch. v. 4.
XXXVII, Instances of miracles wrought for persons of eminent faith.
Matt. viii. 8, 10, 13. Luke vii. 9. At the Centurion's faith his ser-
vant is heajed.
jx. 28, 29, 30. Two blind men restored to sight. Mark x. 52.
Mark ii. 5, One sick of the palsy cured. Matt. ix. 2, 6, 7.
- V. 34. A woman cured of a bloody issue.
ix. 20, 25. A dumb spirit is cast out of a child at the faith of the
child's father.
V. 36. At the faith of the ruler of the synagogue, his daughter
who had been dead is restored to life.
Luke xvii. 19. A leper cleansed.
John V. 50. At a nobleman^s faith his son is healed of a fever,
xi. 40 to 46. At Martha's faith her brother Lazarus is restored to
Ufe.
Acts iii. 16. By the faith of a lame man he is healed by Peter.
3yiv, 9. A cripple from the womb healed by Paul.
XXXVIIL Other instances of approved faith. In Abraham. Gen.
XV. 6. Compared with John viii. 56. Rom. iv, 18, 20. The virgin
"Mary. Luke i. 45. The woman who washed Christ's feet with tears.
X^uke vii. 37 to 50. The disciples. John ii. 22. The Samaritans.
John iv. 39. The Jews. John viii. 31. — xi. 45. A man born blind.
John ix. 35, 38. The chief rulers. John xii. 11, 42. Those given to
Christ. John xvii. 8. About five thousand. Acts iv. 4, 32. Many
priests. Acts vi. 7. Stephen. Acts vi. 8. The eunuch. Acts viii. 13.
They of the circumcision. Acts x. 45. A great number. Acts xi.
21.—- 'Xiv. 1, 23. Many at Lystra, Greeks and devout women. Acts
xvii* 4. Crispus the ruler of the synagogue. Acts xviii. 8. Ver. 27.
Many in Achaia. Acts xix. 18. Many thousands of Jews. Acts xxl.
20. Ver. 25. The Gentiles. Some among all nations. Rom. i. 5, 16.
kc, &c.
INFIDELITY.
XXXIX. V/ant of faith reproved. Matt. vi. 30. Jesus said, if Goe]
so cloath the grass of the field, will he not much more cloath you,
O ye of little faitli.
Chap. XIV. Infidelity. 191
Mark xvi. 14. Jesus upbraided the disciples with their unbelief
and hardness of heart, because they believed not those who had seen
him after he was risen. — Christ upbraided the disciples afraid upon
sea, with their want of faith. Matt. viii. 26. Peter upon sea. Matt,
xiv. 31. — The disciples solicitous about bread. Matt. xvi. 8, 9, 10,
The disciples at tlieir not being able to cast out a devil. Matt. xvii.
ir, 19, 20.
Matt. xiii. 58. Jesus did not many miracles there because of their
unbelief. Mark vi. 5, 6.
XL. Exhortations against unbelief. John xx. 27. Jesus . said t(>
Thomas, be not faithless but believing.
Heb. iii. 12. Take heed lest there be in any of you an evil heart
of unbelief.
iv. 11. Let us labour to enter into that rest, that remaineth to the
people of Gcd, lest any man fall after the same example of unbe-
lief.
XLL Threatnings against unbelief . Unbelief toivarda God; threats.
Numb. xiv. 1 1. The Lord said, how long shall this people provoke
me ? How long shall it be ere they believe me, for all the signs I
have shewed among them ?
Ver. 12.1 will scatter them with the pestilence and disinherit them.
Ver. 37, 38. Heb. iii. 17, IB.— iv. 6. Jude ver. 5.
XX, 12. The Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, because ye be-
lieved me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel,
therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I
have given them.
Deut. i. 32. Moses said, ye did not believe the Lord your God.
Ver. 34. And the Lord was wroth and sware saying,
Ver. 35. Surely there shall not one of these men, of this evil gen-
eration, see that good land which I sware to give unto their fathers.
Heb. iii. 19 — iv. 6.
2 Kings xvii. 14, 18, 20. Because they did not believe, the Lord
rejected the seed of Israel.
Isa. vii. 9. If ye will not believe, ye shall not be established,
liii. 9. Who hath believed our report. See Ps. Ixxviii. 2 1, 22, 32, 33.
— cvi. 24, 26, 29.
XLH. Unbelief tonvard Christ ; threats. Matt. xxi. 31. Jesus said,
verily I say unto you, the publicans and harlots enter into the king-
dom of heaven before you.
Ver. 32. For ye believed not John Baptist, but the publicans and
harlots believed him.
Mark xvi. 16. He that believeth not shall be damned.
Luke xii, 46. The Lord of the wicked servant will appoint him his
portion with unbciievers.
John iii. 18. He that believeth not is condemned already, because
he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Ver. 36. He that believeth not the Son, jhall not see life, but the
wrath of God abideth on h?.m. 1 John v. 10.
viii. 24. If ye beJieve not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Ver. 48. He that rcjecteth me and receiveth not my words, hath
192 bijidelhij. Chap. XIV.
one that judgeth him, the word that I have spoken, the same shall
judge him in the last day.
Rom. ix. 31. Israel hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Ver. 32. Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the
wori'ks of the law.
xi. 20. Because of unbelief the Jews were broken off.
xiv. 23. He that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth
not of faith, for whatsoever is not of faith, is sin.
2 Thess. ii. 10. They received not the love of the truth, tliat they
might be saved.
Ver. 1 1 . Yov this cause God shall send them strong delusion that
they might believe a lie.
'v>r. 12. That they all might be damned who believed not the
truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
1 Tim. V. 8. If any provide not for his own, he hath denied the faith.
1 Tim. v. 11. They have begun to wax wanton against Christ.
Ver. 12. Having damnation because they have cast off their first
faith.
Tit. i. 15. To them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing
pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Heb. iv. 2. Unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them,
but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with
faith in them that heard it.
Heb. X. 38. The just shall live by faithj but if any man draw back
my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Ver. 39. We are not of them that draw back to perdition, but of
them who believe to the saving of the soul.
xi, 31. By faith Rahab perished not with them that believed not.
1 John ii. 23. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the
Father.
Rev. xxi. 8. The fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all
liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone, M'hich is the second death. See Isa. Ixvi. 24.
XLHI. The follounng causes of unbelief are assignedin scripture by
Christ, and his afiQstles. Luke viii. 12. The devil taketh away the word
out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
John v. 44. How can ye believe which receive honour one of ano-
ther, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only ?
Ver. 46. Had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for
he wrote of me.
Ver. 47. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe
my words? 2 Cor. iii. 14, 15.
John viii. 45. Because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
X. 26. Ye believe me not because ye are not of my sheep.
2 Cor. iv. 4. Because the God of this world hath blinded their minds.
1 Tim. iv. 4. Giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of
dcTils.
vi. 10. The love of money. Ver. 20, 21. Professing science, false-
ly so called Hence is applied to unbelievers the prophecy of Isa.
vi. 9. Compared with John xii. 40, 41. Acts xxviii. 26, 27.
Chap. XIV. Forgetting: God, 193
LOOKING TO GOD.
XLIV. Look to God. Ps. xxxiv. 5. They looked unto Gcd and
were lightened. Ps. v. 3. — cxxiii. 2.
Isa. xvii. 7. At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes
shall have; respect to the Holy One of Israel. Ch. viii. 17.
xlv. 23. Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth,
for I am God, and there is none else.
Mic. vii. 7. I will look unto the Lord, I will wait for the God of
my salvation, my God will hear me. See Isa. xxxiii. 14.
REMEMBERING GOD.
XLV. Remembering God, Neh.iv. 14. Remember the Lord which
is great and terrible. Ps. xx. 7.
Job xxi. 6. When I remember him I am afraid.
Ps. xlii. 6. My God, my soul is cast down in me, therefore will I
remember thee. Ps. xx. 7. — Ixxvii. 10.
Ixiii. 5. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and
my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.
Ver. 6. When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on
thee in the night watches.
Eccl. xii. I. Remember thy Creator in the days of ^hy youth.
Isa. xxvi. 9. The desire of our soul is to thee, and to the remem-
brance of thy name.
Jonah ii. 7. When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the
Lord, and my prayer came unto thee, even unto thine holy temple.
See Zech. x. 9.
JVot remembering God. Isa. Ivii. 1 1. Of whom hast thou been afraid
that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me ? nor laid it to thy
heart? Ch. ii. 12, 13. Judg. viii. 34. Ps. Ixxviii. 42.
FORGETTING GOD.
XLVI. Forgetting God. Ps. cvi. 2 1. Israel forgat God their Saviour
which had done great things in Egypt for them.
Jer. ii. 32. My people have forgotten me days without number.
Ch. xiii. 25. — xviii. 5.
iii. 21. They have perverted their way, and have forgotten the
Lord their God.
Ezek. xxii. 12. Thou hast gained of thy neighbour by extortion,
and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord. Ver. 14. Jer. xxiv. 27.
XLVIL Threatenings against those that forget God. Deut. xxxii.
18. Of the rock'that begat thee, thou art unmindful, and hast forgot-
ten God that formed thee.
Ver. 19. The Lord abhorred them. See to ver. 26.
Judge iii. 7. The children of Israel forgat the Lord.
Ver. 8. Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, Jcc.
1 Sam. xii. 9, They forgat the Lord their God, and he sold them
into the hand of their enemies.
Ps. ix. 17. The wicked shall be turned into hell» and all tha na-
tions that forget God. .Tob viii. U, 12, 13.
194 Meditation. Chap. XIV.
Ps. I. 21. These things thou hast done and I kept silence, but I
>vill reprove thee, saith the Lord.
Vcr. 22. Consider this ye that forget God^ lest I tear you in pieces,
and there be none to deliver.
Isa. xvii. 10. Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy Salvation,
and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, thepefore shalt
thou plant pleasant plants, &c.
Ver. 1 1 . But the harvest shall be an heap in the day of desperate
sorrow.
Ezek. xxiii. Z5. Thou hast forgotten me, therefore bear thy lewd-
ness.
Hosf. viii. 14. Israel hath forgotten his Maker. I will send a fire up-
on his cities. .
XLVIII. Warnings against forgetting God. Deut- vi. 12. Beware
lest thou forget the Lord thy God.
Deut. viii. 1 1. Beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God, in not
keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes.
Ver. 12. Lest when thou hast eaten, and art full, and hast built
goodly houses, and hast dwelt therein ;
Ver. 13. And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy
silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied ;
Vcr. 1 4. That then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the
I^ord thy God. See to ver. 20.
Ps. xliv. 17. All this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten
thee.
Ver. 20. If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched
out our hands to a strange God, shall not God search out this ?
MEDITATION.
XLIX. Meditation upon God and his nvord. A good man meditate«
upon God *s law day and night. Ps. xlix. 3. — cxix. 97. — Jos. i. 8.
Job xxii. 22. Lay up his words in thine heart.
Ps. i. 2. A good man meditates upon God's law day and night.
xvi. 8. I have set the Lord always before me.
xl. 8. O my God, thy law is within my heart. Ps. xxxvii. 31. —
cxix. 1 1.
Ixiii. 5. My soul shall be satisfied —
Ver. 6. When 1 meditate on thee in the night watches. Ps. civ. 34.
ixii. 12. I will meditate on all thy works, and talk of thy doing.
Ps. cxliii. 5.
Ps. cxix. 15. I will meditate on thy precepts, and have respect to
thy ways. Ver. 78.
Ver. 23. Thy servant did meditate on thy statutes. Ver. 48.
Ver. 99. Thy testimonies are my meditation.
Ver. 148. Mine eyes prevented the night watches, that I mi" he
meditate in thy word.
Tim. iv. 15. Meditate upon ti.ese things.
Chap. XIV. Fearing God. 1^5
fKARING GOD,
L. Fear due untoGod. Exod. xv. 11. Who is like unto thee, O
Lord, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders.
Ps. Ixxvi. 7. Thou even thou art to be feared, and >vho may stand
^vhen thou art angry. Ver. 11.
Ixxxix. 7, God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints.
xcvi. 4. The Lord is to be feared above all Gods.
Jer. X. 7. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations.
Rev. xv. 4. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name,
for thou only art holy.
LI. The excell&ncy of fearing God. Job xxviii. 284 The fear of the
Lord that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.
Ps. cxi. 10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Prov. ix. 10. Prov. xv. 33. It is the instruction of wisdom.
Prov. i. 7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
Ps. xix. 9. It is clean enduring for ever.
LII. iV /« a commandgd duty. Deut. vi. 24, The Lord our God
commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for
our good always.
2 Kings xvii. 36. The Lord, him shall ye fear. Ver. 39.
1 Chron. xvi. 30. Fear before him all the earth. Ps. xcvi. 9.
Ps. xxii. 23. Fear liim all the seed of Israel.
xxxiii. 8. Let all the earth fear the Lord. Ps. xxxiv. 9.
Prov. xxiii. 17. Be thou in the fear of the Lord, all the day long.
xxiv. 21. Fear the Lord and the king. 1 Pet. ii. 17.
Isa. viii. 13. Sanctify the Lord God of hosts, and let him be yeur
fear, and let him be your dread.
Jer. V. 22. Will ye not fear me, saith the Lord ? will ye not trem-
ble £it my presence ? Ver. 24.
Mai. i. 6. If I be a master where is my fear ? saith the Lord of
hosts.
Matt. X. 28. Fear him that is able to destroy both soul and body in
hell.
Rev. xiv. 7. Fear Goil and give glory to him.
LIII. God is to be feared o?i accoimt of his perfections. Job xiii. 1 1.
Shall not his excellency make you afraid ?
xxy. 2. Dominion and fear are with him.
xxxvii. 23. The Almighty is excellent in power and judgment, and
in plenty of justice.
Ver. 24. Men do therefore fear him.
Ps. cxxx. 4. There is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be
feared. Rev. xv. 4.
LIV. God is to be f tared on account of his w6rdfi and 'vjorks. Deut.
iv, 10. I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear
tee all the days tliat they shall live upon the earth. 1 Kings viii. 40^
43. 2 Chron. vi. 30, 33.
Jos. iv. 23. The Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan a*^.
he did the Red sea, that all people of the earth might know ihe hand
of the Lord thai it is mighty, that ye might fear the Lord your God
for ever.
1 96 Fearing God, CniLP. XVI.
Eccl. iii. 14. What Gooldoth shall be for ever, nothing can be put
to it, nor any thing taken from it, and God doth it, that men may
fear before him. See Jer. xxxiii. 9. Rev. xiv. 7. Isa. Ixv. 8.
Exarnfiles. Instances. Exod. xiv. 31. 1 Sam. xii. 18.
LV. The fear of the Lord is firomised and prayed for* Ps. xxxvi.
11. Unite my heart to fear thy name.
Isa. lix. ]^. They shall fear the Lord from the west, and his glory
from the rising of the sun. See Ch. xxix. 23. Prov. ii. 5. Jer. xxxiii.
Jer. xxxli. 39. I will give them one heart and one way, that they
, may fear me for ever, for the good of them and of their children.
Ver. 40. I will put my fear into their hearts, and they shall not
depart from me.
Isa. xi. 2. The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord
shall rest upon him.
L VI. The/ear of God joined with obedience toward God. Deut. vi. 2.
fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments.
Ver. 3. That it may be well with thee.
Ver. 13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve him.
X. 12. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the
Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways and to love him, and to serve
the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
Ver. 20. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, him shalt thou serve,
and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
xiii. 4. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him and
keep his commandments and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him
and cleave unto him.
, Jos. xxiv. 14. Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sin-
cerity and in truth.
1 San^. xii. 24. Fear the Lord and serve him with all your heart.
Eccl. xii. 13. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is
the whole duty of man.
LVII. Joined with the worship, of God. Ps. ii. 11. Serve the Lord
with fear.
V. 7. In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple
. xxii. 23, Ye that fear the Lord praise him.
cxxxv. 20. Ye that fear the Lord, bless the Lord,
Acts X. 2. Cornelius feared God, and prayed to God alway.
Hcb. xii. 28. Serve God with reverence, and godly fear..
LV'IIL It is a 7noti"ue to duty in general toward God and man, and a
restraint from sin.
Gen. xxii. 12. God said to Abraham, thou fearest God, seeing thou
hast not with-held thy son, thine only son, from mc.
xlii. 18. Joseph said, this do, and live, for 1 fear God.
Exod. i. 17. The midwives feared God, and did not do as the king
,of Egypt commanded them.
ix. 20. He that feared Ciod among the servants ot'Pharaoh, made
his cattle and servants go into the houses.
XX. 20. That liis fear may be before your facts, that ye sin not.
Lev. xix. 14. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stuniblhig-
block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God. Ver. 32.
Deut. xiii. 1 1. All Israel shall hear and fear the Lord, uiid do no
more such wickedness, as thib among you. Ch. xiv. 23. — xvii. 13,
19. — xix. 30. — xxi. ^1. — xxxi. 12, 13.
Chap. XIV. Fearing God. 197
Job i. 1. Job feared God, and eschewed evil. Vcr. 8. Cli. ii. 3.
Prov. iii. 7. The fear of the Lord is to depart from evil,
viii. 13. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. Ch. xiv. 16.
xvi. 6. By the fear of the Lord, men depart from evil.
2 Cor. vii. 1. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the
flesh and Spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Ver. U.
Eph. V. 2 1 . Submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.
Phil. ii. 12. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
Heb. xi. 7. Noah moved with fear, preipared an ark.
1 Pet. i. 7. Pass the time of your sojourning here, in fear,
iii. 2. Your chaste conversation, coupled with fear.
Col. iii. 22. Servants obey your masters, not with eye-service but
singleness of heart, fearing God. Eph. vi, 5.
Instancps, Isaac, Gen. xxxi. 42, 43. 1 Kings xviii. 3, 4, 12, 13.
2 Kings. Obadiah iv. 1. Neh. vii. 2. Hanani, Ps. xl. 3. — Iii* 6. —
cxix. 63. See the qualifications of the civil magistrate, Command-
ment 5th.
, LIX. Proviiscs to them that fear God. Dcut. vi. 24, The Lord com-
manded us to fear the Lord our God, for our good always.
2 Kings xvii. 39. The Lord your God ye shall fear, and he shall
deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
Neh. i. 1 1. Let thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servants,
who desire to fear thy name.
Ps. XXV. 12. What man is he that feareth the Lord, him shall he
teach,
Ver. 14. The way that he shall chuse.
xxxi. 19. How great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for
them that fear thee.
xxxiii. 18. Behold the eye of the Lord is on them that fear him.
xxxiv. 7. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them
that fear him, and delivereth them.
. Ver. 3. There is no want to them that fear him.
Ix. 4. Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee.
Ixxxv. 9. His salvation is nigh them that fear him.
ciii. 11. As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his
mercy toward them that fear him.
Ver. 13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth
them that fear him. '
Ver. 17. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlast-
ing. upon them that fear him.
cxi. 5. Pie hath given meat unto them that fear him.
cxii. 1 . Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord.
cxv. 1 1 . Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord, he is their help
and shield.
Ver. 13. The Lord will bless them that fear him.
. cxix. 38. Stablish thy word unto thy servant who is devoted to
thy fear.
cxxviii. 1. Blessed is every one tliat feareth the Lord.
Vcr. 4. Thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.
cxlv. 19. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear hira, he will
hear their cry and will save th^m.
19S Fearing God, Ciia?.XIV
Ps. cxivii. 1 1. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him.
Prov. X. 27. The fear of the Lord prolongeth days.
xiv. 26. In the fear of the Lord is sti-ong confidence, and his chil-
dren shall have a place of refuge.
Ver. 27. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life to depart from
the gnares pf death,
XV. 16. Better is a little vrith the fear of the Lord, than great trea-
tures and trouble therewith.
xix. 23. The fear of the Lord tendeth to life, he that hath it shall
abide satisfied.
xxii. 24. By humility and the fear of Lord, are riches and honour
^nd life.
xxviii. 14, Happy is the man that feareth alway.
xxxi. 30. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman
that feareth the Lord she shall be praised.
Eccl. viii. 12. It shall be wc\\ with them that fear God.
Isa. xxxiii. 6. The fear of the Lord is his treasure.
1. 10. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, and obeyeth the
voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light ? let
him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Zeph. iii. 7. I said, surely thou wilt fear me, so thy dwelling
should not be cut off.
Mai. ii. 5. My covenant was with Levi, of life and peace, and I
gave them to him, for the fear wherewith he feared me.
iii. 16. They that feared the Lord, spake often one to another,
and the Lord hearkened and heard, and a book of remembrance was
written before him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought
upon his name.
Ver- 17. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord, in the day that
I make up my jewels, and I will spare them as a man spareth his
son that servcth him.
iv. 2. Unto you that fear my name, shall the sun of righteousness
arise with healing under his wings.
Luke i. 50. His mercy is on them that fear him from generation
to generation.
Rev. xi. 18. The time is come, that thou shouldst give a reward to
them that fear thy name. See 1 Sam. xii. 14, 18. Ps. Iii. 6. — Ixvi. 16.
r-cxviii. 4. — cxix. 74, 79. Eccl. vii. 18. Isa. Ix. 5. Jer. xxxii. 39, 40.
Acts ix. 31.
LX. Other expressions to the same effect. Trembling, Ezra ix. 4.
They trembled at the word. Isa. Ixvi. 2, 5.
Ezra X. 3. They trembled at the commandment.
Job xxi. 6. When I remember, trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Ps. cxix. 120.
Ps. ii. 11. Rejoice with trembling.
Hos. xiii. 11. Whem Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted him.-
self in Israel.
Joel ii. 11. Let all tremble, for the day of the Lord cometh. Vcr.
10. See Ezra x. 10. Job iv. 14. — xxxvii. 1. Isa. Ixiv. 2. Dart. vi. 26.
.Ter. xxxiii, 9. Hab, iii. 16. Acts vii. 32 — xvi. 29. — xxiv. 25. Eph.
vi. 5. Phil.'ii. 12.
Chap. XIV. Not fearing God. 199
LXI. Heaven and earth tremble at God's greatness. Job ix. 6. He
shaketh the earth out of her place, the pillars thereof tremble.
Job xxvi. 11. The pillars ©f heaven tremble, and are astonished
at his reproof.
Ps. xviii. 7. The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the
hills moved because he was wroth. See Ps. Ix. 2. — Ixxvii. 18 xcvii.
4. — civ. 32. — cxiv. 7. Jer. x. 10. — li. 29. Amos viii. 8.
Quake, Neh. i. 7. The mountains quake at him, the hills melt.
Heb. xii. 2 1 . Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake. See Exod.
xviii. 9. Ezek. xii. 18.
Terror. Job vi. 4. The terrors of God set themselves in array
against me.
xxxi. 23. Destruction from the Almighty was a terror to me.
Ps. Ixxxviii. 1 5. While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Jer. xvii. 17. Be not a terror to me, for thou art my hope in the
day of evil. Job xxxiii. 7.
2 Cor. V. 1 1. Knowing the terrors of the Lord we persuade men.
Reverence. Ps. Ixxxix. 7. God is to be had in reverence of all
that are about him.
Ps. cxi. 9. Holy and reverend is his name.
Heb. xii. 28. Serve God with reverence.
Ps. iv. 4. Stand in awe, and sin not. Ps. xxxiii. 8.— cxix. 16.
Afraid. Deut. ix. 19. I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure.
2 Sam. vi. 9. David was afraid of the Lord. See 1 Chron. xiii. 12.
Job xiii. il. — xxi. 6.— xxiii. 15. — xxxiii. 7. Ps. cxix. 120. — Ivi. 3.
Hab. iii. 2.
LXIL Threatninga against those that fear not God. Prov. i. 29.
They hated knowledge, and did not chuse the fear of the Lord.
Ver. 31. Therefore shall thay eat the fruit of their own way. Ver.
25, Sec.
Eccl. viii. 13. It shall not be well with the wicked, because they
fear not God.
Jer. ii. 19. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy
backslidings shall reprove thee, know therefore and see, that it is an
evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and
that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.
xliv. 10. They are not humbled neither have they feared, nor
walked in my law.
Ver. 1 1. Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Is-
rael, behold I will set my face against you for evil. Sec.
Mai. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, adulte-
rers, false swearers, against those that oppress the hireling in his
wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stran-
ger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. So?
2 lUngs xvii. 25, 40, 41. •
NOT FEARING GOD*
LXIII. The wicked fear not God^ luith that fear which is g. restraint
from sin, and a motive to duty.
Gen, XX. 1 1 . Abraham said, I thought surely the fear of God is
not in this place, and they will slay me for my wife's sake-
200 'Not fearing God, Chap. XVI.
Exod. ix.' 30. Moses said to Pharaoh, as for thee and tliy servants,
I know thut ye will not yet fear the Lord God, to let Israel go.
Dent. XXV. 18. Amalek smote Israel, and feared not God.
Job vi. 14. The wicked forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Ver- 18. The paths of their way are turned aside, they go to no-
thing and perish.
XV. 4. He casteth off fear, and restraineth prayer before God.
Ps. xxxvi. 1. The transgression of the wicked saith within my
heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
Iv. 19. Because they have no changes, therefore. they fear not God.
Ver. 20. He hath broken his covenant-
Ixiv. 4. Suddenly do thy shoot at the perfect, and fear not.
Jer. iii. 8. Judah feared not, but played the harlot.
^. 22. Fear ye not me ? saith the Lord.
Ver. 23. This people hath a revolting heart.
Ver. 24. Neither say they in their heart, let us fear the Lord our
God.
Luke xviii. 2. There was a judge which feared not God, neither
regarded man. See Jer. xxxvi. 24. Hos. x. 3. Luke xxiii. 40. Jude
ver. 12. •
LXIV. The ivicked have a. tormenting fear of Gody ivhich is their
punishment.
Job XV. 2 L A dreadful sound is in his ears.
_ Ver. 24. Trouble and anguish shall make Mm afraid.
xviii. 11. Terrors shall make him afraid on every side. Ver. 14.
Ch. xxiv. 17.
Ps. ix. 20. Put them in fear, O Lord, that. they may know them-
selves to be but men. Ps. Ixxxiii. 15.
Ixxiii. 19. They are utterly consumed with terrors.
Prov. X. 24. The fear of the wicked shall come upon him.
Isa. ii. 10. Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear
of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty. Ver. 1 9. Hos. x. 8. Mic.
vii. 17. Luke xxiii. 30. Rev.vi. 15, 16.
Heb. x. 27. A fearful looking for of judgment. Matt. XXV. 25.
Ver. 31. It is a fearful thing, to fall into the hands of the living
God.
Isa. xxxiii. 14. The sinners in Zion arc afraid, fearfulness hath
surprised the hypocrites, who among us shall dwell with devouring
iire, with everlasting burnings. ,
Heb. xii. 29, Our God is a consuming fire. See Isa. Ixvi. 4.
LXV. God delivers the wicked ufi to their fiura of their enemies.
Exod. XV. 6. Fear and dread shall fall upon them, by the great-
ness of thine arm. Gen. xxxv. 5. Isa. xix. 17. I will appoint over
you terror. Exod.xxviii. 26, 67. Ezek. xxi. 12. .. ..
Exod. xxiii. 27. I will send my fear before thee, and. noiake thine
enemies turn their backs. Dcut. xi. 25. — ii. 25. Jos. ii. 9.^
Lev. xxvi. 16. I will appoint over you terror. Exod.xxviii. 26, 67.
Ezek. xxi. 12. Lam. iii. 47.
Deut. iv. 34. Hath God assayed to take a nation. Sec. by great ter-
rors, &c. Ch. xxvi. 8.
xxxii. 25'. The sword and terror shall destroy. Jer. vi.- 24, 25. —
XXX. 5.
Chap. XIV. Love to God. ■ 201
2 Cluon. XX. 29. The fear of God was on all the kingdoms. Ps.
xviii. 45. See Ps. xiv. 5. — xlviii. 6. — liii, 5. Isa. xxiv. 17. Jer.xlviii.
43. — xlix. 5, 24, 29. Ezek. xxx. 13.
LOVE TO GOD.
LXVI. Love to God, comma7ided. Deut. vi. 5. Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy might. Ch. x. 12. Matt. xxii. 37.
xi. 1. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and
his statutes, and his judgments. Ch. xiii. 3.
xxx. 15. I have set before you this day life, and death, and good,
and evil.
Ver. 19. In that I command thee to love the Lord thy God.
Ver. 19.
Jos. xxii. 5. Take diligent heed, to love the Lord your God, 8cc.
Ps. xxxi. 23. O love the Lord all ye his saints.
LXVII. Promises to them that love God. Exod. xx. 6. I the Lord
thy God am a jealous God, shewing mercy unto thousands of them
that love me and keep my commandments. Deut. v. 10,
Deut. vii. 9. Know the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God,
which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and
keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. Dan. ix. 5.
Neh. i. 5.
Ps. xci. 14. fiecauvsc he hath set his love upon me, therefore will
I deliver him, and honour him. Ver. 15.
Ver. 16. I will shew him my salvation.
cxix. 132. Look upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest
to do unto them that love thy name.
cxlv. 20. The Lord preserveth them that love him.
Rom. viii. 28. All things work together for good, to them that
love God.
1 Cor. ii. 9. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have en-
tered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared
for them that love him.
viii. 3. If any man love God the same is known of him.
James ii. 5. A kingdom God hath promised to them that love
him. See also, Deut. xi. 13, 14, 15, 22, 23. — xix. 9. — xxx. 16, 19,
20. Ps.lxix.36. Isa.lvi.6,7. Jer.ii.2, 3. CoL ii. 12. Heb. vi. 10.
1 John iv. 7, 16, 18. Jude ver. 21.
LXVIIL Prayers for theni that love God. Judges v. 31. Let them
that love him be as the sun, when he goeth forth in his strength.
Ps. V. 1 1. Let them that love thy name, be joyful in thee.
LXIX. Rxhorlations to love God. Ps. xxxi. 20. O love the Lord
rdl ye saints.
1 Thess. v. 8. Putting on the breast-plate of faith and iove.
I Tim. vi. 11. O man of God, follow after righteousness, godli-
ness, faith and love.
Jude xxi. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
LXX. Infitanceaof/icrii07i:ilQvifigGfjd, Ps. xviii. 1. I v/ill love the
Lord my strength.
202 Lone to Christ. Chap. XIV.
Song i. 3. The upright love thee. 1 Kings iii. 3.
Rom. viii. 38. Neither death nor life, &c. nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord. Ver. 39.
2 Cor. vi. 4. Approving ourselves by love unfeigned. Ver. 6.
Eph. i. 4. He hath chosen us in Christ that we should be holy,
and without blame before him in love.
1 John iv. 19. We love him because he first loved us. Ps. cxvi. I.
LXXI. How love to God is produced in Christians. Deut. xxx. 6.
The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy
seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy
soul, that thou mayest live. 2 Cor. xiii. 1 1. God is the God of love.
LXXIL It is prayed for as a gift from God. Eph. vi. 23. Peace be
to the brethren and love, with faith from God the Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ. Phil. i. 9. I pray that your love may abound.
1 Thess. iii. 5. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God,
and into the patient waiting for Christ. See Eph. iii. 14, 17.
LXXin. It is a work of the Spirit. Rom. v. 5. The love of God,
is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost.
Gal. v. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, &c. Col. i.
.8.2Tini. i. 7.
Y. 6. Faith worketh by love.
LXXIV. Love to God is evidenced by keeping hia commandments,
and loving his servants.
Deut. xi. 13. Love the Lord your God and serve him with all your
heart, and with all your soul. Ver. 22. Ch. xix. 9.
xxx. 20. Love the Lord thy God, obey his voice, cleave unto him,
for he is thy life, and the length of thy days.
Isa. Ivi. 6. The sons of the stranger that join themselves to the
Lord, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, 8cc.
Ver. 7. Them will I bring to my holy mountain, 8cc.
Eph.iv. 15. Speaking the truth in love. Ver. 16.
i. Thess. i. 3. We give thanks to God, remembering your work
of faith and labour of love, &c. Heb. vi. 10.
1 John ii. 5. Whoso keepeth God's word, in him verily is the love
of God perfected. Ch. V. 2.
V. 3. This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.
2 John 6. This is the love of God, that we walk after his com-
mandments.
1 John iv. 20, If a man say I love God ; and hateth his brother, he
is a liar.
Ver. 21. For this commandment have we from him, that he who
loveth God, love his brother also. Ch. iii. 17. •
LOVE TO CHRIST.
LXXV. Love to Christ, enforced by pro?nises. Luke vii. 47. Jesus
said, her sins which are many are forgiven, for she loved much.
John xiv. 2 1. He that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and
I will love him.
C'kAp. XIV. Hating God. 2(fe
John xiv. 23. And we will come unto him, and mak* our abode
with him. Ch. xvi. 27.
1 Tim. i. 14. The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant
\Vith faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim. iv. 8. A crown of righteousness, the Lord the righteous
Judge will give to them that love him.
James i. 12. A croWn of life, the Lord hath promised to them
that serve hifti.
LXXVI* Prayers for them that love Christ. Eph. vi. 24. Grace
be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.
LXXVn. Love to Christ enforced by threatenings . Matt. x. 37. He
that loveth father or mother, son or daughter, more than me, is not
worthy of me.
1 Cor. xvi. 22. If any man love not the Lord JeSlis Christ, let him
be Artalhema Maran-atha.
Rev. ii. 4. 1 have somewhat against thee, becausfe thou hast lefE
thy first love.
LXXVIIL Enforced by the example of God tfie Pather^ ivho Idveth
Christ.
Prov. viii. 30. I was daily his delight.
Isa. xlii. 1. Mine elect in whom my soul delighteth. Matt. xii. 18.
Matt. iii. 1 7. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.
Ch. xvii. 5. 2 Pet. i. 17.
John iii. 35. The Father loveth the Son. Ch. xvii. 24.
viii. 42. Jesus said, if God were your Father, ye would love me:
LXXIX. Enforced by the examfile of the church of God^ ivho love
Christ.
Song i. 4. The upright love thee. Ver. 7. Ch. ii. 5.
vii. 6. How pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! See also,
Ch. i. 14, 15, 16. — ii. 3, 8, 9, 16, 17.— iii. 1 to 5.— iv. 1, 7, 16. — v.
2 to 16. — vi. 1, 2, 3. — vii. lO.-^viii. 1, 4, 5.
Rom. viii. 35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ.
1 Pet. i. 8. Whom having not seen ye love.
LXXX. Enforced by Christ*s love to his church. John xv. 9. I have
loved you, continue ye in my love. .Philem. 5.
Eph. V. 25. Christ loved the church and gave himself fot it.
LXXXL Obedience to Christ the evidence of love to hi-fn.. Matt, xii
33. The tree is known by his fruit.
John xiv. 15. Jesus said, if ye love me, keep my commandments.
Ver. 21. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he
it is that loveth me.
Ver. 23. If a man love me, he will keep my words. Ver. 24, 28.
XV. 10. If ye keep itiy commandments ye shall abide in my love
xxi. 15. Simon, lovest thou mc ? feed my lambs. Ver. 16,
2Cor. V. 14. The love of Christ constraineth us.
Phil. i. 17. Some of love preach Christ.
HATING GOD.
LXXXII. Threatenings against the haters cf God. Excd. xx. 5. J
am a jealous God, visitmg the iniquities of the fathers upon the chil-
dren, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
r c.
2b4 Joy in God, Chap. XIV.
Deut. vii. 10, .God rcpayeth them that hate him, to their face, to
destroy them : he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will
repay him to his face.
xxxii. 15. Jeshurun waxed fat, then he forsook God that made
him, and lightly esteemed the rpck of his salvation.
Ver. 19. The Lord abhorred ihem.
Ver. 22. A fire is kindled in jnine anger, saith the Lord, and shall
burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her in-
crease, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Ver. 23. I will heap mischiefs upon them.
Ver. 4 1 . I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward
them that hate me, saith God.
1 Sam. ii. 30. The Lord saith, them that honour me I will honour,
and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
2 Chron. xix. 2. Shouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them
that hate the Lord, therefore is wrath upon thee, from before the
Lord.
Ps. cxxxix. 21. Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee.
Rom. i. 30. Haters of God, Sec. are worthy of death.
LXXXIIL Hating Christ. John xv. 23. Jesus said, he that hateth
me hateth my Father also. Ver. 24. See Ps. xxi. 8. — Ixviii. 1. Prov.
viii. 36.
DESIRING GOD, THIRSTING, 8cC.
LXXXIV. Desiring God. Ps. Ixxiii. 25. Whom have I in heaven
but thee ? and there is none upon earth whom I desire besides thee.
Isa. xxvi. 8. The desire of our soul is to thy name, arid to the re-
membrance of thee.
Ver. 9. With my soul have I desired thee in the night, with my
spirit within me will I seek thee early. Christ is the desire of all na-
tions. Hag. ii. 7.
LXXXV. Thirsting^ longing for God, and the things of God. Ps.
xlii. 2. My soul thirsteth for God. Ps. Ixiii. 1, 8. — cxliii. 6.
Ixxxiv. 2. My soul longeth for the courts of the Lord.
cxix. 20. My soul breaketh, for the longing it hath unto thy testi-
jnonies at all times.
Ver. 131. I longed after thy commandments. Ver. 54, 94.
Ver. 174. I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord, and thy law is
Uiy delight.
Promises* Ps. Ixxxi. 10, Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it
Isa. xliv. 3. I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods
upon the diy ground. Ps. cvii. 9. Jer.xxxi. 13.
Iv. 1. Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. Rev.
xxii. 17.
Matt. V. 6. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness. John i v. 13, 14.— vi. 35. — vii. 37, 38.
JOY IN GOD.
LXXXVI. Joy in God. Phil. iii. 1. Finally, brethren, rejoice \u
the Lord.
- iv. 4. Rejoice in the Lord always.
) Thess. V. 16. Rcioice evermore.
C HAP. X IV. Joij in Gx)d, 205
LXXXVII. Through Christ. Rom. v. 11. We joy in God through
our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.'
LXXXVIII. Persons cjicouruged to rejoice in God, are the righte-
ous. Ps. xxxii. 1 1. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and
shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart. Ps. xxxiii. 1.
Ixiv. 10. The rightetj^s shaH be glad in the Lord, and ail the up-
light in heart shall glory. Ps Ixviii. 3.
xcvii. 11. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the up-
right in heart. Ver. 12. Job viii. '20, 21.
Matt. XXV. 2 1 . Thou good a.nd faithful servant, enter into the joy
©f thy Lord. Job xx^iii. 26.
LXXXIX. The meek. Isa. xxix. 19. The meek shall increase their
joy in the Lord. Ver. 20.
XC Those that seek God. Ps. xl. 16. Let those that seek thee re-
joice and be glad in thee. I Chron. xvi. 10, 27. Ps. Ixx. 4. — cv. 3.
XCL Those that trust in God. Ps. v. 11. Let all those that ^ut
tbeir trust in thee rejoice, let them ever shout for joy, because thou
defendest them, let them also that love thy name, be joyful in thee.
Ps. xxxiii. 21.
XCn. Those that hofie in God. Rom. v. 2. We rejoice in hope of
the glory of God. Heb. iii. 6. Rom. xii. 12. Ps. xvi. 11.
1 Pet. i. 3. God hath begotten us to a lively hope, Sec.
Ver. 6. Wherein ye greatly rejoice.
Luke X. 20 Rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
XCIIL Those who have faith or believe. Acts xvi. 34. The jailor'
rejoiced, believing in God, with all his house.
Rom. XV. 13. Now the Godof peace fill you with all joy, andpeac^
in* believing. Phil. i. 25.
1 Pet. i. 8. Believing in Christ, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory. Johi\ xiv. I.
XCIV. Joy promised, Ps. iv. 7. Thou hast put gladness in my
heart more than in the time that their corn and wine increased.
xvi. 11. Thou wilt shew me the path of life, in thy presence is ful-
ness of joy, at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore. Acts ii. 28.
xcii. 4. Thou hast made me glad through thy work.
cxxvi. 5. They that sov/ in tears, shall reap in joy. Isa. Ixi. 3, 10. '
Jer. xxxi. 9, 12. Matt. v. 4.
Eccl. ii. 26. God giveth to a man that is goodin his sight, wisdoip,
and knowledge, and joy. Ch. v. 20.— ix. 7.
Isa. Ixv. 14. My servant shall sing for joy of heart.
John xvi. 20. Your sorrow shall be turned into joy. Ch. xiv. 1, '
XCV. Things rejoiced in are God. See thejirst section. In Christ.
John viii. 56. Jesus said, Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he'
saw it, {ind was glad.
XV. 11. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might
remain ip you, and that your joy might be full. Ch. xvii, 13. 1 John
i. 4. • -
xvi. 22. I will see you again, and your hearts shall rejoice.
Phil. iii. 3. We arc the circumcision^ which worship God in the
Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh
206 Joy in God, . Chap. XIV,
Rev. xix. T. Lejk us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him,
for the marriage of the Lamb is come.
XCVI. In the Holy Ghost. Rom. xiv. 17. The kingdom of God is
not meat and drink, but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy
Ghost. Gal.v. 22. Col. i. 1 1.
XCVII. In God*s ivorshifi. Ps. ii. 11. Serve the Lord with fear, and
rejoice with trembling.
xxvii. 6. I will offer in his tabernacles sacrifices of joy.
xlii. 4. I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of
joy and praise. Ps. Iv. 14.
xliii. 4. 1 will go unto the altar of God, unto God, my exceeding joy,
Ixiii. 5 My mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips.
Ixvi. 1. Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands. P;?. Ixxx^. 8.
— xjcviii. 4, 6. — c. 1, 2.
Ixviii. 4. Sing praises to God, an4 rejoice before him. Ch. Ixxxi. I.
Ixxxix. 15. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound. Ver.
16.
cvii. 22. Declare his works with rejoicing.
cxviii. 24. This is the day God made, we will be glad and jrejoice
in it. ,
cxxii. 1 . I was glad when they said unto me, let us go \mtp the
house of the Lord.
Isa. Ivi. 7. I will make them joyful in my house of prayer.
See instances of this joy. 1 Chr. xv. 16. 2 Chr. xxiii. 18. — xxix.
30. Neh. xii. 48.
XCVIIL Worship. o/God^Jixed and carried on among God's fieqfile
a cause of their joy. 1 Sam. vi. 13. The people rejoiced to see the
Ark of God returning to Israel.
2 Sam. vi. 12. David brought the Ark of God to the city of Pavi4
with gladness. 1 Chr. xv. 25.
1 Chr. xxix. 9. David and the people rejoiced, because that with
a perfect heart the people offered willingly to the Lord the materials
for building the house of the Lord. 2 Chr. xxiv. 10.
2 Chr. vi. 41. At the dedication of the temple, Solomon prayed,
saying, let thy priests O Lord, be clothed with salvation, and let thy
la^uts rejoice in goodness. 1 Kings viii. 66. Ps. Ixiii. 2.
Ezra iii. 12. At laying the foundation of the second temple, many
shouted aloud for joy. Ver. 13.
vi. 12. They kept the dedication of the second temple with joy.
2 Chr. Xxix. 35. The service of the house of the Lord was set in
order.
Ver. 36. And Hezekiah the king, and all the people rejoiced, that
God had prepared the people.
2 Chron. xxx. 1, 21, 26. There was great joy in .Jerusalem, at
holding the passover by the commandment of king Hezekiah. See
Ch. XV. 12, 14, 15. Ezra. vi. 22.
Nch.' viii. 9, 10, 12. The people rejoiced at hearing the law read.
Ver. 12, 27, 43, 44. They rejoiced at the dedicating of the wall of
Jerusalem, and divine worship restored.
XCIX. God*s praence nvith his people, a cause of joy. Zech. ii. \6»
Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for lo I come and will 4!l\ve!l in
Chap. XIV. Joy in God. £07
the midst of thee, saiththe Lord. Ch. ix. 9. P». xvi. 8, 9j ll.-rxlvi.
4, 5. — xlviii. 2. Isa. xii. 6. Zeph. iii. 14 to 20.
C. God*s love and care for his people^ a cause of joy. Song i. 4. We
■will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more
than wine.
Ps. XXXV. 27. Let them shout for joy and be glad, let them say
continually the Lord be magnified, who taketh pleasure in the pros-
perity of his servants.
CI. God's mercy a cause of joy- Ps. xxxi. 7. I will be glad and
rejoice in thy mercy, thou hast considered my trouble, thou hast
known my soul in adversity. Ps. li. 8, 9, 12. — Ixxxv. 6, 7.
CII. Help, and strength from God a cause of joy. Neh. i. 10. The
joy of the Lord is your strength.
Ps. xvi. 8. Because the Lord is at my right hand, I shall not be
iTioved.
Ver. 9. Therefore my heart is glad.
xxviii. 7. The Lord is my strength, and my shield, my heart trust-
ed in him, and I am helped, therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth.
CIIL Salvation from God against enemies a cause of joy, 1 Sam.ii. I.
My mouth is enlarged over mine enemies, because I rejoice in thy
salvation.
Ps. ix. 14. I will rejoice in thy salvation. Ps. xiii. 5. — xxxv. 9.
cxviii. 15. The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the taberna-
cles of the righteous. Ps. xxi. 1 .
Luke i. 47. My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
CIV. God's vengeance upon his and his people* s eriemiesycause of rejoic-
ing. Deut. xxxii. 43. Rejoice, O ye nations with his people, for he will
avenge the blood of his servants and will render vengeance to his ad-
versaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Ps. xlviii. 11. Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah
be glad, because of thy judgments. Ver. 97. 8.
Iviii. 10. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the venge-
ance, he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. Job xxii. 19.
. CV. Rejoice in God*s ivord. Ps. xix. 9. The statutes of the Lord
are right, rejoicing the heart.
cxix. 14. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much
as in ail riches.
Ver. 111. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever, fbr
they are the rejoicing of my heart. Ver. 77^ 92, 174.
Jer. XV. 16. Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my
heart.
1 John i. 4. These things I write unto you that your joy may be full.
7'he word ivas received with joy. Acts ii. 14. — viii. 8. — xiii. 48.
1 Thess. i. 6.
CVL Joy in God's providential government. 1 Chr. xvi. 31. Let the
heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice, and let them say among
th^ nations the Lord reigneth.
Ps.,ix. 2. I win be glad and rejoice in thee.
Ver. 4. Thou sattest in the throne judging right.
Ver. 8 He will jud-ge the world in righteousness.
Ixvii. 4. Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for thou shah
judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth.
208 Joy in God. Chap. XIV-
Ps. Ixxxix:. VI, Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in thy naitie.
Ver. 14. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne.
xcvi. 10. Say among the heathen, the Lord reigneth, the world
shall be stablished^ that it shall not be moved ; he shall judge the
people righteously.
Ver. 1 1. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad.
Ver. 13. For the Lord shall judge the world with righteousness,
and the people with his truth. Ps. xcviii. 4, 9.
Ps. xcvii. 1, The Lord reigncth, let the earth rejoice, let the
niultitude of the isles be glad.
Ver. 2. Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his
thr'one.
Rev. xix. 6. The Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Ver. 7. Let us be glad and give honour to him. See Ps. civ. 34,
— cvii. 42. — cxlii. 9.
Cyil. Temporal deliverances of God* s churchy a cause of joy. See
the deliverances of the Jews from the Egyptians. Exod. xviii. 9, 10.
Ps, Ixvi. 6.-^cv. 43 cvi. 5.
Their deliverance from cafitivity, Ps. xiv. 7. — cxxvi. 3.
CVIIL Spiritual blessings conferred on the churchy a cause of rejoic-
ing. Isa. ix. 3. They joy before thee according to the joy in harvest.
Ver. 6. For unto us a child is bom, uritous a Son is given. Ch.lv,
4, 12, Zech. ix. 9. See rejoicing in Christ.
xii. 2. The Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song, he is also
become my salvation.
Ver. 3. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells
pf salvation. Ver. 5, 6, 7.
XXXV. 1. The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for
them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.
Ver. 2. It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice, even with joy and
singing, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of
our God.
xli. 10. Fear not, for I am with thee, I am thy God, I will strength-
en thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteous-
Bess, thou shalt rejoice in the Holy One of Israel, Ver. 13, 14.
~ xljx. 13. Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, for the Lord
hath comforted liis people.
U. 3. The Lord shall comfort Zion. Ver. 10, 12.
Ver. 1 1. They shall obtain gladness and joy, ^c. Ch. lii. 9. Ch.
liv. 1 to 8, '
Ix. 15. I will make thee an eternal excellency, the joy of many
generations. Ver. 16, 17.
Isa. Ixi. 3 to n — Ixv. 14, 18.-^lxvi. 5, 10 to 15.
Jcr. xxxi. 13, 14. — xxxiii. 8, 9, 10. Zeph.iii. 17, 18,20. Zech. ii. 10.
CTX. The ivork of creationa cause of joy. Job xxxviii. 4, 7. AVhen
God laid the foundations of the earth ; the morning stars sang toge-
ther, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.
ex. Wordly prosfierity from the hand of God^ a cause of joy. Deut.
xii, 7. Ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, you and
your housholds, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee. Ver.
12, 18.
Chap. XIV. Comfort in God, 209
Deut.'xxvi. 1 1. Thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the
Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house.
~ Joelii. 23. Be'glad ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord
your God, for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he
will cause to come down for you the rain, the former ruin, and the-
latter rain, in the first month.
Ver. 24. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall
overflow with wine and oil.
Ver. 26. And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the
name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wonderously with you.
CXL Rejoicing in God in time of ivor Idly adversity. Hab. iii. 17.
Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in .the
vines, the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield nu
meat, the flocks shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no
herd in the stall :
Ver. 18. Yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God oi
my salvation. See Ps.xlvi. 1 to 5.
COMFORT IN GOD.
CXIL God giveth comfort and consolation. Job xv. 11. Are the
consolations of God small with thee ?
Ps. xxiii. 4. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff,
they comfort me.
Ixxi. 20. O God thou hast shewed me great and sore troubles.
Ver. 21. Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on
every side.
Ixxxvi. 17. The Lord hath holpenme and comforted me.
xciv. 19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts
delight my soul.
cxix. 52. I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord, and havt*
comforted myself.
Ver. 76. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my com-
fort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
Ver. 82. Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying when wilt thou com-
fort me ?
Isa. xii. I. O Lord I will praise thee, though thou wast angry witli
me, thine anger is turned away and thou comfortedst me.
xl. 1. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Ver. 2. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry that her war
fare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned.
xlix. 13. The Lord hatli. comforted his people, and will have mer-
cy on his aft^icted. Ch. Iii. 9.
li. 3. The Lord shall comfort Zion, joy and gladness shall be
found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
Ver. 12. I, even I (saith the Lord) am he that comforteth you ;
who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die,
and of the son of man that shall be made as grass. .
Ivii. 18. I have seen his ways and will heal him, I will lead him,
and restore comfort:^ to him and to his mourncM-s.
Ixi. 7. r a]>point, to comfort all that mourn in 21ion,
210 Satisfaction^ Chap. XIV.
I^a. Ixvi. 13. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I com-
fort you.
Jer. xxxi. 13. I will turn their mourning into joy, and will com-
fort them.
IJos. ii. 14. I will speak comfortably unto her.
Zech. i. 13. The Lord answered with comfortable words.
Ver. 17. The Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose
Jerusalem.
Matt. V. 4. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be com-
forted.
Luke xvi. 25. Lazarus is comforted in heaven.
John xiv. 18. Jesus said, I will not leave you comfortless.
Acts ix. 3 1 . The churches walking in the fear of the Lord, and
in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
Rom. XV. 4. Whatsoever things were written aforetime were writ*
ten for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the
scriptures might have hope.
Ver. 5. Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be
like minded one toward another, according to Christ Jesus.
2 Cor. i. 3. Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.
Ver. 4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulations, that we maybe
able to comfort them that are in any trouble, by the comfort where-
with we ourselves are comforted of God.
Ver. 5. Our consolation aboundeth by Christ. Phil. ii. 1. 1 Pet.
Is.
vii. 6. God that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us-
2 Thess. ii. 1 6. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God even
our Father, which hath loved us and given us everlasting consolation
and good hope through grace. Heb. vi. 18.
Ver. 17. Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good
word and work.
Observe^ the foregoing scrifiturea represent a Christianas comfort^ ai
proceeding from God the Father ^ from Christy the Holy Ghost, and
from the holy scriptures.
SATISFACTION.
CXIIL God satisfieth. Ps. xvii. 15. I will behold thy face in
righteousness, I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.
xxxvi. 8. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of
thy house, and thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy plea-
sures.
V^er. 9. For with thee is the fountain of life.
ixiii. 5. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness.
Ver. 6. When 1 remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on
thee in the night watches.
Ixv. 4. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even
of thy holy place.
ciii. 2, 5. Bless the Lord, O ray soul, who satisfietli thy mouth
with good things.
cvii. 9. The Lord satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the. hun*-
gry soul with goodness.
Chap. XIV. Glorying ifi God. 211
Ps. cxxxii. 15. I will abundantly bless Zion's provision, I will sa-
tisfy her poor with bread.
Isa. Iv. 2. Wherefore do ye spend your money for that which is
not bread, and your labour for that which satisfieth not ; hearken di-
ligently unto me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight
itself in fatness.
Jer. xxxi. 14. I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and
my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.
Ver. 25. I have satisfied the weary soul.
DELIGHT IN GOD.
CXIV. Delight in God. Job xxii. 21. Acquaint thyself with God.
Ver. 26. Then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and
lift up thy face unto God.
Ps. xxxvii. 4. Delight thyself in the Lord, and he shall give thee
the desires of thine heart.
Isa. Iviii. 14. Keep the Sabbath, &c. Then shalt thou delight thy-
self in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of
the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father.
CXV^ Things of God delighted in by his fie o file, Neh. ix. 25. Thy
people delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
Ps, i. 2. A good man's delight is the law of the Lord. Ps. cxix. 70,
77, 92. Rom. vii. 22.
xciv. 19. Thy comforts delight my soul.
cxii. 1 . Blessed is the man that delighteth in God's commandmentn.
cxix. 16. I will delight myself in thy statutes. Ver. 47, 143.
Isa. Iviii. 13. Call the Sabbath a delight.
CXVI. Delight in Christ. Song ii. 3. I sat under his shadow with
great delight.
Mai. iii. I. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his
temple, even the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in.
GLORYING IN GOD.
CXVn. Glorying in God. Isa. xli. 16. Thou shalt rejoice in the
Lord* and glory in the Holy One of Israel. Ch. xliv. 25. Jer. vi. 2.
Jer. ix. 24. Let him that glorieth glory in the Lord. Ps. Ixiii. 1 1.
—Ixiv. 10— cv. 3.— -cvi. 4, 5. 1 Cor. i. 31. 2 Cor. x. 17.
Gal. vi. 14. God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto mc and
1 unto the world.
CXVIII. a inf id g'. or ying forbidden. Jer. ix. 23. Let not the wise
man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his
might, let not the rich man ijlory in his riches.
1 Cor. I. 29. No man should glory in God's sight. Rom. iv. 2.
iii. 21. Let no man glory in man.
iv. 7 Who maketh thee to difier ? and what In^st thou that thou
didst not receive ? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory
as if thou hadst not received it ?
ix. 16. Though I preach the gospel I have nothing to glory of,
for necessity is laid upon me, yea woe is unto me if 1 preach not the
gospel. D d
212 Hope in God, Chap. XIV.
2 Cor. xi. 18. Many glory after the flesh. 1 Cor. v. 6. Jarftes
i. 4.
xii. 5. Of myself will I not glory, but of mine infirmities. Ver. 9.
Ch. xi. 30.
BOASTING IN GOD.
CXIX. Boasting in God. Ps. xxxiv. 2. My soul shall make her
boast in the Lord.
xliv. 8. In God we boast all the day long.
SINFUL BOASTING.
CXX. Sinful boasting of the ivi eked. Ps. x. 3. The wicked boasteth
of his heart's desire. Ver. 4. God is not in all his thoughts.
xlix. 6. They boast themselves of the multitude of their riches.
lii. 1. Why boastest thou thyself of mischief ?
xciv. 4. How long shall the workers of iniquity boast themselves ?
Vef. 7. They say the Lord shall not see nor regard it.
Prov. xxvii. I . Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest
i.ot what a day may bring forth.
Isa. X. 15. Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth there-
with !
Ezek. XXXV. 13. With your mouth ye have boasted against me.
\'er1 14. Thus saith the Lord, I will make you desolate.
Rom. i. 20. Wicked men are boasters. 2 Tim. iii. 2.
ii. 17, 18. Thou makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will.
Ver. 23. Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking
the law dishonourest thou God ?
iii. 27. Boasting is excluded by the law of faith.
James iii. 5. Tlie tongue boasteth great things.
iv. 16. Ye rejoice in your boasting, all such rejoicing is evil.
HOPE IN GOD.
CXXL Hope in God and Christ. Ezra. x. 2. We have trespassed
against our God, yet now is there hope concerning this.
Job V. 15. God savcth the poor from the sword, and from the hand
of the mighty.
Ver. 16. The poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
xi. 14. Put iniquity far from thee.
Ver. 18. Then thou shalt be secure, because there is hope.
Ps. xvi. 9. My ilesh shall rest in hope.
\ev. 10. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. Acts ii. 26.
xxii. 9. Thou didst make mc to hope when 1 was upon my mo-
ther's breasts.
xxxi. 24. Be of : ood courage and he shall strengthen your hearti.
i II ye that hope in the Lord.
xxxiii. 18. The^eye of the Lord is upon tliem that fear him, upoij
them that hope in his mercy. Ver. 22. Ps. cxlvii. 1 1. Let ihy mercy
Lord be \\\iQi\ iis, according as we hojjc in thee.
xxxYJii. lo. 1 or ti»ce,<.» Lord, do I hope ; ihou wilt hear, O Lord,
my God'.. . -
Chap. XIV. Hope in God, 213
Ps. xxxix. 7. Lord, what wait I for, rny hope is in thee.
xlii. 5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul r Why art thou disqui-
eted in me ? hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, for the help
of his countenance. V'cr. 1. Ps. Ixxi. 4, 5, 14.
Ixxviii. 5. fie commanded our fathers, that they should make known
to their children his testimony and his law.
Ver. 7. That they might set their hope in God, and not fo^rget th-^
works of God, but keep his commandments.
cxix. 43. I have hoped in thy judgments.
Ver. 49. Remember the word on which thou hast caused me to
hope.
Ver. 74. I have hoped in thy word. Ver. 81, 114, 116.
Ver. 166. Lord I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy com-
mandments.
cxxxi*<3. Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is
mercy, and plenteous redemption.
c>;lvi. 5. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, and
whose hope is in tlie Lord his God.
Prov. x. 28. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the
expectation of the wicked shall perish.
xiv. 32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the
righteous hath hope in his death.
Jer. iii. 23. In vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from
the multitude of mountains ; truly in the Lord oUr God is the salva*
lion of Israel.
xiv. 8. O Lord, the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of
trouble.
xvii. 7. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose
hope the Lord is.
Ver. 13. O Lord, the hope of Israel.
Ver. 17. 'I'hou art my hope in the day of evil.
xxxi. 1 7. There is hope, saith the Lord, that thy children shall
come agaui from captivity.
1. 7. They sinned against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.
Lam. iii. 24. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore
will I hope in him.
Ver. 26. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait
for the salvation of the Lord.
Ver. 29. He putteih his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be
hope.
Ver. 31. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
Hos. ii. 15. The Lord saith, I will give her (the church) the val-
ley of Achor for a door of hope.
Joel iii. 16. The Lord will be the hope of his people.
Zech. ix. 12. Turn ye to the strong hold, ye pribo^iers of hope,
Acts, xxiii, 6. Of the hope and resurrection of the dead am i cal-
led in question, said Paul.
xxiv. 15 I have hope toward God, that there shall be a resurrec-
tion of the dead. Ch. xxvi. 6, 7. — xxviii, 20.
Rom. iv. 18. Abraham believed in hope.
V. 2. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Ver. 4. Experience wurketh hope.
214 Hope in God, Chap. XIV.
Rom. iv. 5. And hope maketh not ashamed.
vii. 24. We are saved by hope, but hope that is seen is not hope,
for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for ?
Ver. 25. If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience
wait for it.
xii. 12. Rejoicing; in hope.
XV. 4. Whatsoever thing;s were written aforetime, were -written
for our learnin,^, that we through patience and comfort of the scrip-
tures might have hope.
V^er. 13, Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing, that we may abound in hopethrough the power of the Holy
Ghost.
1 Cor. ix. 10. For our sakes this is written, that he that plougheth
should plough in hope, and that he that thresheth in hope should be
partaker of his hope.
xiii. 7. Charity hopeth all things.
Ver. 13. Now abideth faith, hope, charity.
XV. 19. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all
men most miserable.
2 Cor. iii. 12. Seeing we have such hope, we use great plainness
of speech.
Gal. V. 5. We thi'ough the Spirit wait for the hope of righteous-
ness through faith.
Eph. i. 18. Your understanding being enlightened, that ye may
know wh^t is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glo-
ry of his inheritance in the saints.
iv. 4, Ye are called in one hope of your calling.
Phil. i. 20. My earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing
I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also,
Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by
death.
Col. i. 5. The hope laid up for you in heaven.
Ver. 23. Be not moved away from the hope of the gospel.
Ver- 27. Christ in you the hope of glory.
1 Thess. i. 2. We give thanks to God always for you.
Ver. 23. Remembering your work of faith, and labour of love, and
patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and
our father
ii. 19. What is our hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing, are not even
ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ ?
V. 8. Let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breast-
plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.
2 Thess. ii. 1 6. Now our Lord Jesus Christ, and God even our
Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consola-
tion and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish
you in every good word and work.
1 Tim. i. 1. The Lord Jesus Christ which is our hope.
Tit. i. 2. In hope of eternal life, which God hath promised.
ii. 1 3. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing*
of the great God our Saviour, who gave himself for us.
iii. 17. Being justified by his grace, we shall be made heirs accord-
ing to the h6pe of eternal life.
Chap. XIV. Expectation, ' 215
Heb. iii. 6. Hold fast the confidence arvd rejoicing of hope firm
unto the end.
vi. 1 1. Full assurance of hope.
Ver. 17. God confirmed his promise by an oath.
Ver. 18. That we might have a strong consolation who have fled
for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us.
Ver. 19. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure
and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the vail.
Ver. 20. Whither the fore-runner is for us entered, even Jesus,
made an high-priest.
vii. 1 9. The law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a
better hope did.
xi. 6. Faith is the substance of things hoped for.
1 Pet. i. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto
a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Ver. 13. Be sober and hope to the end, for the grace that is, &c.
Ver. 21. God raised Christ from the dead and gave him glory, that
your faith and hope might be in God.
iii. 15. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that ask-
eth you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
1 John iii. 2. Now are we the sons of God ; when he shall appear
we shall be like him.
Ver. 3. Every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,
even as he is pure.
CXXil. The hofie of the wicked. Job viii. 13. The hypocrite's hope
shall perish. Ver. 14.
xi, 20. The eyes of the wicked shall fail, their hope shall be as
the giving up of the ghost.
xxvii. 8. What is the hope of the hypocrite, when God taketh
away his soul ?
Prov. X. 28. The expectation of the wicked shall perish. Job
xviii. 14.
xi. 7. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish, and
the hope of unjust men perisheth.
Jer. xvi^i. 1 2. They said there is no hope, but we will walk after
our own devices. Ch. ii. 2.5.
Eph. ii. 12. Having no hope, and without God in the world.
1 Thess. iv. 13. Sorrow not (for the dead) as others which have
no hope.
EXPECTATION.
CXXni. The exfiectation of the righteous from God. Ps. Ixii. S.
My expectation is from the Lord.
Prov. xxiii. 18. Thine expectation shall not be cut off. Ch. xxiv. 14.
Phil. i. 20. According to my earnest expectation Christ shall be
magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.
CXXIV. Exfiectation of the vAcked. Prov.x. 28. The expectation
of the wicked shall perish. Ch. xi. 7.
Prov. xi. 23. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.
Zech. ix. 5. Ekron, her expectation shall be ashamed.
216 Waiting, Chap. XIV.
Acts xli. 1 1. The Lord hath delivered me from the expectation of
the Jcwb.
WAITING.
CXXV. The righteous ivuit for Gud. Gen. xlix. 18. I have waited
for th}' salvation, O Lord.
Ps. XXV. 3. Let none .that wait on the Lord be ashamed.
Ver. 5. Thou art the God of my salvation, on thee do I wait all
the driy.. Ver 21.
xxvii. 14. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage and he shall
st^-eugthen thine heart.
xxxiii. 20. Our soui waitcth for the Lord, he is our help and our
shield. -i
xxxyii. 7. l^csl in the Lord and wait patiently for him.
Vcw 9. T,hose that wait on the Lord shall inherit the earth. Ver.
V A .i-<. 7 . Loid, what wait I for ? my hope is in thee, deliver me
fioin ail iny t ran si^ res slops. Ver. 8.
xl. i. I waited patiently for the Lqi'cI, and he inclined unto me and
hea^i'd my cry.
lix. 9. Iiev.a\isc of his strength I will wait upon thee, for God is
?iiy detoRct.
Idi. 1.' My soul waiteth vpon God, from him cometh my salva-
tiuii. '. cr. v>.
ixix. .J. Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Ver-. 6. L.c,i not them that wait on thee be ashamed.
cxxiii. 2. Our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have
nicrcy upon us.
c^xx. 5. i Wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word
do I hope.
Ver. 6. IMy soul waitcth for the Lord more than they that watch
for the morning.
Prov. viii. 34. Blcs-ed is the man that heareth me, (Wisdom)
watching daily at the po>ts of my gates.
XX. 22. Wait on the Lord and he shall save thee.
Isa. viii. 1-7. I will wait upon the Lord that hideth his face from
the house of Jacob, and I wiii look for him.
XXV. 9. Lc this is our God we have waited for him, and he will
save us ; this is the Lord, we have waited for him, we will be glad
and rejoice in his salvation.
..XVI. 3. In the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for
tiiee, the dei^ise of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance
of thee.
XXX. 18. The Loi d is a God of judgment, blessed are all that wait
for him.
xxxiii. 2. O Lord be gracious unto us, we have waited for thee,
be thou their arm every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.
xl. 31. They thatwuit upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
xiix. 23. Thou shait ki.ow that 1 am the Lord, for they shall not
be ashamed that wait for me.
ii. 5. The isies shall wai.^ upon me, and upon mine arm shall they
trust. See also, isa. xiii. i*
CiiAP. XIV Submission and Resignation, 217
. Isa. Ixiv. Men have not heard nor perceived by ihe car, neither
hath the eyes seen, what he hath prepared for them that wait for him.
Jer. xiv. 22. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that
can cause rain, or can the heavens give showers ? art not thou he,
O Lord our God ? therefore we will wait upon thee, for thou hitst
made all these things. .
Lam. iii. 25. The Lord is good unto them that wait foi- him, to
the soul that seeketh him.
Ver. 26. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wuit
for the salvation of the Lord. . . •
Hos. xii. 6. Keep meixy and judgment, and wait on thy God coiv
tinually.
Mic. vii. 7. I wni wait for the God of my salvation, my God will
hear me.
Hab. ii. 3. The vision is for an appointed time, wait for it, because
it will surely come.
Zeph. iii. 8. Wait upon me saith the Lord.
Mark xv. 43. Joseph of Arimathea waited for the kingdom of God.
Luke xxiii. 51.
Luke ii. 25. Simeon waited for the consolation of Israel.
xii. 36. Be ye like men that wait for the coming of their Lord.
Rom. viii. 23. VV^e groan within ourselves, wailing for the adop-
tion, to wit, the redemption of our body.
I Cor. i. 5, 7. In every thing ye are enriched : So that ye come
behind in no gift, waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Gal. v. 5. We through the Spirit Vvuit for tiie hope of righteous-
ness by faith.
1 Thess. i. 9. Ye turned from idols to serve the living anc? true
God, and to wait for his son from heaven. 2 Thess. iii. 3. Jam. v. 7.
See Zech. ix. 1 .
CXXVI. The wicked Kvait not for God. 2 Kings vi. 33. Behold this
evil is of the Lord, what should I wait for the Lord any longer r
Ps. cvi. 13. They forgat his works, they waited not for hi:; ecu n-
sel.
SUBMISSION AND RESIGNATION TO GOD.
CXXVII. The language exfiressive of this temper oftriindisy Jud?.
.X. 15. Do unto US what seemeth good unto thee.
1 Sam. iii. 18. Eli said, it is the Lord, let him do wiiat seemetii
him good. 2 Sam. x. 12. — xv. 26.
2 Kings XX. 19. Ilezekiah said unto Isaiah, good is tlie v.oi^l ;.
the Lord which thou hast spoken. Isa. xxmix. 8.
Matt, xi. 26. Jesus said, even so, Father, for so it scemcil gr,o:l in
thy sight. Luke X 21.
vi. 10. Thy v/ill be done. Luke xi. 2.
xxvi. 42. Jesus prayed and said, () my ! .uier. if this cu,> inay
not pass away from me except 1 drink it, thy will be done.
Acts xxi. 14. The will of the Lord be done.
Neh. ix. 33. Thou art just in all that ir. Ij ('ought upon us.
Job i. 21. The Lord gave, and the 1 ' t^ken awav.,anr ble=-
•ed be his name.
216 Trust in God. Chap. XIV.
Lam. iii. 39. Wherefore should a living man complain ? a man for
the punishment of his sins.
James iv. 7. Submit yourselves to God.
Ps. xxxix. 9. I was dumb and opened not my mouth "because thou
didst it.
Threats* Isa. xlv. 9. Woe to him that strivrth with his Maker.
RELYING UPON GOD.
CXXVIII. Relying ufion God. 2 Chron. xiii. 18. The children of
Judah prevailed against their enemies, because they relied upon the
Lord God of their fathers. 1 Chron. v. 20.
xiv. 1 1. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rest on thee.
xvi. 8. Because thou didst rely upon the Lord, he delivered thine-
enemies into thine hand.
Ps. xxxvii. 7. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him.
Iv. 22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain thee,
lie shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
cxvi. 7. Return unto thy rest, O my soul.
Jer. vi. 16. Walk in the good way, and ye shall find rest to your
souls.
1 Pet. v. 7. Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you.
TRUST IN GOD.
CXXIX. Trusting in God mid Christ* 2 Sam. xxii. 2. David said,
the Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer.
Ver. 3. The God of my rock in him will I trust, he is my shield
and the horn of my salvation, my high tower and my refuge, my sa-
viour, thou savest me from violence. Ps. xviii. 2. — cxliv. 1,2.
Ver. 31. The Lord is a buckler to all that trust in him.
2 Kings xviii. 5. Hezekiah trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that
after him was none like him, among all the kings of Judah, nor any
that were before him. Ch. xix. 10. 2 Chron. xxxii. 7, 8. Isa. xxxvii
xxxvii. chapters.
1 Chron. v. 18. The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the
tribe of Manasseh. Ver. 19. Made war with the Hagarites.
Ver. 20. And the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, for
they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them be^
cause they put their trust in him.
Job xiii. 15. Job said, though he slay me, yet wull I trust in him.
XXXV. 14. Judgment is before him, therefore trust thou in him.
Ps. ii. 12. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
iv. 5. Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the
Lord.
V. 1 1. Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice.
vii. 1. O Lord my God, in thee do I put my trust, save me from
all that persecute me.
ix. 10. They that know thy name, will put their trust in thee, for
thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
Ps. xi. 1. In the Lord put I my trust.
xiii. 5. 1 have trusted in thy mercy, my heart shall rejoice in thy
salvation.
Chap. XIV. Trust in God. 219
Ps. xvi. 1. Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I put ray trust.
xvii. 7. Shew thy marvellous loying kindness, O thou that savest
by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee.
XX. 7. Some trust in chariots and horses, but we will remember
the name of the Lord pur God.
xxi."7. The king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of
the Most High, he shall not be moved.
xxii. 4. Our fathers trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them. -
Ver, 5. They trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
Ps. xxii. 8. He trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him.
Matt, xxvii. 43.
XXV. 2. "O my God, I trust in thee, let me not be ashamed, let not
mine enemies triumph ov£r me.
Ver. 20. O keep my soul and deliver me, let me not be ashamed,
for I put my trust in thee. ...
xxvi. 1. I have trusted in the Lord, therefore I shall not slide.
xxviii. 7. The Lord is my strength, and my shield, my heart trust
ed in him and I am helped, therefore my iieart greatly rejoiceth,
and wiih my song will I praise him.
xxxi. I. In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust, let me never be asha-
med, deliver me in thy righteousness. Ps. Ixxi. 1,5.
Ver. 6. I have hated them that regard lying vanities, but I trusted
in the Lord.
Ps. xxxi. 19. How great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up
for them that fear thee, which thou hast wrought for them that trust
in thee before the sons of men.
xxxii. 10. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked, but he that. trust-
eth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him round.
Ps. xxxiii. 21. Our hearts shall rejoice in him because we trusted
in his holy name.
Ver. 22. Let thy mercy be upon us., •
xxxiv. 8. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. Ps. Ixxxiv. 12.
Ver. 22. None of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
■ xxxvi. 7. How excellent is thy loving khidness, O God, therefore
tiie sons of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
xxxvii. 3. Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell in
"the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Ver. 5, 40.
xl. 4. Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust.' Ver. 3.
xliv. 6. I will not trust in my bow, thou hast saved us from our
enemies. Ver. 7.
lii. 8. I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Iv. 22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee ;
he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Ver. 23.
Ivi. 3. What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Ver. 4. In God I have put my trust, I will not fear what flesh can
do unto me. Ps. cxviii. 6.
Ps. Ivii. 1. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me, for
my soul trusteth in thee, yea in the shadow of thy wings will I make
my refuge, until these calamities be over past.
Ps.'lxi. 4. I will trust in the covert of thy wings.
Ixii. 8. Trust in him at all times, God is a refuse for iis.
2tl6 Trust hi God. Chap. XIV.
Ps. Ixiv. 10. Tht righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall
trust in him.
Ixxiii. 28. It is good for me to draw near to Goc^ I have put my
trust in the Lord God.
Ixxxvii. 2, O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
xci. 2. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in him will I trust.
cxii. 7. A good man shall not be afraid of evil tidings, his heart is
fixed trusting in the Lord. Ver. 8.
cxv. 9. Israel, trust thou in the Lord, he is their help, and shield.
Ver. 10, n.
cxviii. 8. It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence
in man.
Ver. 9. It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in
princes. Ps cxlvi. 3.
cxix. 41. Let thy mercies come unto me, O Lord, even thy salva-
tion, according to thy word.
Ver. 42. For I trust in thy word.
ex XV. 1 . They that trust in the Lord, shall be as mount Zion, which
cannot be removed.
Ps. cxli. 8. Mine eyes are unto thee, O God, the Lord, in thee is
my trust, leave not my soul destitute.
cxliii. 8. Cause me to hear thy loving kindness in the morning, for
in thee do I trust ; cause me to know the way wherein I should walk,
for I lift my soul to thee.
Prov. iii. 5. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not
unto thine own understanding.
xvi. 3. Commit thy ways unto the I^rd.
xvi. 20. Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.
xxii. 19. That thy trust may be in the Lord, I have made kno\vn
to thee this day.
xxviii. 25. He that putteth his trust in the Lord, shall be made fat.
xxix. 25. Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.
Isa. xii. 2. Behold God is my salvation, I will trust and not be a-
fraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength, and my song, he also is
become my salvation.
xxvi. 3. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stay*
ed on thee, because he trusteth in thee.
Ver. 4. Trust in the Lord for ever, for in the Lord Jehovah is
everlasting strength.
1. 10. Whoso is among you that feareth the Lord, and obeycth the
voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light, let
him trust in the name of the Lord, and slay upon his God.
li. 5. The isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they
trust. Matt. xii. 21.
Ivii. 13. He that putteth his trust in the Lord, shall inherit the
land, and shall possess my holy mountain.
Jer. xvii. 7. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and
whose hope the Lord is.
Ver. 8. P'or he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that
spreadeth out her roots by the river, kc.
Jer. xlix. 11. Let thy widows trust in me-
Cjiap. XIV. Confdence, 221
Dan iii. 28. The Lord sent his angel, and delivered his servant
tliat trusted in him.
Neh. i. 7. The Lord is good, * strong hold in the day of trouble,
and he knoweth them that trust in him.
\'er. 8. But darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Zeph. iii. 12. An atflicted and poor people shall ^rust in the name
of the Lord.
Matt. xii. 21. In his (Christ's) name shall the Gentiles trust.
Rom. XV. 12. In him shall the Gentiles trust. Isa. xi. 10. Isa. li. 5.
2 Cor. i. 9. We had the sentence of death within ourselves, that
we should not trust in ourselves, but in God M'hich raiseth the dead.
Ver. 10. Who delivered us, in whom we trust, that he will yet de-
liver us.
iii. 4. Such trust have we through Christ to Godvvard.
Ver. 5- Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, but our sufficiency
is of God.
Eph. i. 12. That we should be to the praise of his glory who first
trusted in Christ.
Ver. 13. In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of
ta'uth, the gospel of your salvation.
1 Tim. iv. 10. We both labour and suffer reproach, because we
trust in the living God ; who is the Saviour of all men, especially of
them that believe.
V. 5. She that is a widow indeed and d<:sqlate, trujiteth in GikI.
1 Pet. iii. 5.
CONFIDENCE.
CXXX. Conjidence in God. Ps. Ixv. 5. O God of our salvation, wh»
art the confidence of the ends of the earth.
Prov. iii. 25. Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation
of the wicked when it cometh.
Ver. 26. For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy
feet from being taken.
xiv. 26. In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence.
Isa.;(xx. 15. Thus saith the Lord, in quietness and confidence shall
be your strength.
2 Cor. V. 6. We are confident and willing, rather to be absent from
the body.
Eph. iii. 12. In Christ Jesus our Lord, we have boldness and access
with confidence, by the faith of him.
Phil. i. 6. Being confident of this, that he that hath begun a good
work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
2 Thess. iii. 4. We have confidence in the Lord touching you. GaL
V. 10. Philem. ver. 21.
Heb. iii. 6. We arc Christ's house, if we hold fast the Qonfidence,
and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Ver, 14. We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the begin-
ning of our confidence stedfast unto the end.
X. 35. Cast not away your qonfidence which hath ^reat recompense
af reward.
222 Conjidtnce, Chai^. XIV.,
1 John ii. 28. Little children, abide in Christvthat when he shall
appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at
his coming.
iii. 21. Belovedj if our heart condemn us not, then have .w-e confi-
dence towards God.
V. 14. This is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask
any things according to his will he heareth us.
CXXXI. Cjnjidcnce in God^ a security against the fear of ev' I from
man. Gen. xv. 1. God said to Abraham fear hot, I am thy shield, and
thy exceeding great reward.
xxvi. 24. The Lord said to Isaac fear not, for I am with thee, and
will bless, thee.
Lev. xxvi. 3. If ye walk in my statutes. Ver. 26. None shall make
you afraid. Job. xi. 14, 15, 19. Ezek. xxxiv. 28. — xxxix. 26.
Deut. i. 17. Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man.
VeF.-20.The Lord your God shall fight for you. Ver. 30.
2- Kings vi. 16. The man of God said, fear not, for they that be
with u% be more thtin they that be with them.
Job V. 2 1. Neither shalt thou be afraid for destruction when it Com-
eth. Ver. 22. Ch. xi. 14, 15.
Ps. iii. 5. The Lord sustained me, I will not be afraid of thousands
«et against me. Ps. xxvii. 3.
xxiii. 4. I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
xxxiv. 4. The Lord delivered me from all my fears. /^
xlvi^ -2. I will riot fear though the earth be removed.
Ver. 7. The Lord of hosts is with me.
Ivi. 3, 4. In God have I put my tru?t, I will, not fear what flesh can
do unto me. Heb. xiii. 6.
xci. 5,., Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by nigbt, nor for
the arrow by day. . -
Ver. 6. Nor for the pestilence, nor for destruction.
cxii. 7. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings, his heart is fixed
trustii^ in the Lord. Ver,. 8. .
Ps. cxviii. 6. The Lord is on my side, I shall not fear.
Prov. i. 33. Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and
shall he quiet from fear of evil. ; '
xxix. 25. The fear of man bringeth a snare, but whoso putteth
his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Ch; iii. 21 to 25.
Isa. xil. 2. God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid. ■^■■
Isa. xli. 10. Fear not thou therefore, I am with -thee, saith the
Lord. Ver. 13, i'4.' Ch. xxxv. 4. Ch. xliii. 15.— ii. 7^, 12.— liv-. 4, 14.
Jer. i. B. — ^xxiii. 4 — xxx. lO.-r-xj^xix. 17 — xlvi. 27, -SS.— Ii.- 46.
Mic.'^iv. 4. They shall sit every man, under his vin^, and ur)der
}iis fig-tree, and none shall-make him .ai'raid. Zeph; iii. 1 3, 16.
Matt. X. 26. Fear them not. Luke i. 74. — xxi. 8. Johnxii. B.
Luke xii. 4. Be not afraid of them tliat kill the body. Ver. 32.
Acts xviii. 9. Then spake the Lord to Paul, be not afraid fur I am
with thee. Ver. 10. -7 .."..- : .. " '
RoriV. viii. f5. \Ve have not received, the Spirit of bondage, again
to fear, ^jput of ado;ptbjj^ Tiijj. i*.,. 7. .. ^.^ >'. \'. : . -*" •» — -
J-'hil. 1. 14: The brethren spake the word without fear.
Chap'. XIV. . ' Seeking :GgcI, 223
Heb. ii. 15. Christ took' part of flesh and blood, that he might de-
liver them, who through fear of death were all their life time subject
to bondage.
I Pet* iii. 14. If ye sufTcrfor righteousness sake, be not afraid of
their terror. Matt. v. 10.
1 John iv. 18. There is n© fear in love.
RevJ. 17. Fear not, for I am the first and the last. Ch. ii. 20. See
Gen. xxi. 17. Exod. xx. 20. Numb. xiv. 9. — xxi. 34. Deut. vii. 18,
19,21. XX. 1, 3.-— xxxi. 6, 8. Jos. xi^ 6. 2Kingsi.l5. 2 Chron. xx.
17. N«h.iv..l4. Ps. xlix. 5, 16. — Ixxviii. 53. Isa. vii. 4,25 — viii. 12.
xiv.*3.— xl. 9. Dan. x. 12. Joel ii. 2. Matt. viii. 26. Mark iv. 40.
Luke xxi. 9. John xii. 15. Zech. ix. 9. Acts xxvii. 24. Heb. xi. 23.
CXXXII. Conjidence of the wicked. Job xxxi. 24. If I have made
gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold thou art my confidence.
Ver. 28. '1 his also were iniquity.
Ps. cxviii. 8. It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confi-
dence in man.
Ver. 9. It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in
princes.
Prov. xiv* 16.. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil, but a
fool rageth. and is confident. . ■
xxi. 22. \ wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth
down the confidence thereof.
XXV, 19. Confidence in an unfaithful man, in time of trouble, is.
like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Jer. ii. 37. The Lord hath rejected thy confidence in Egypt and
Assyria. Ezek. xxix. 16.
xlviii. 13. The house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their con-
fidence, I Kings xii. 29. _... .
Rom. ii. 19. Thou art confident that thou art a guide, of the blind..
Phil -jii- 3. Have no confidence in the flesh.
CXXXill. Af^mrance of the righteous. Isa. xxxii. 17. The'work of
righteousness shall' be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quiet-
ness and assurance for ever. See 1 John iii. 19.'
. , SKEKlNG'GOD.-^ '-- ' -*'
CXXXIV. Seeking Gg)4 commajided. Ps. xxvii. 8. When thou saidst,
seek ye my face, my heart said unto thee, thy face. Lord, will I seek.
cv. 4. Seek the Lord and bis strength, seek his face continually.
Isa. viii. 19. Should not a people seek to their God.
Iv. 6. Sqek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him
while he is near. See Amos v. 1. Acts xv. 17. — xvii. 27.
Isa. xi. .10. There shall be a root of Jesse, [i. e, Christ) to it shall
the Gentiles seek.
CXXXV. God is fo be sought with all the heart, Deut. iv. 29. Thou
shalt find the Lord if thou seek him, with all thy heart and with all
thy soul. Jer. xxix. 13^ 14.
Ps. cxix. 2. Blessed are they that seek the Lord with their whole
heart.
1 Chron. xxii. 19. Set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord
your Ciod.
224 Srekmg God. Chap^JXIV.
Isa. xxvi. 9. With my soul have 1 rlcsircd thee in the night, yea,
%vith my spirit within me will I seek thee early.
Ps. Ixiii. 8. My soul foiloweth hard after thee.
CXXXVI. Promificg to them that seek God^ See the first two text*
in the last section.
Ezra viii. 22. The hand of God is upon all them for good, that
seek him, but his power and his wrath is against ail them that for-
sake him.
Ps. ix. 10. Thou Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
xxxiv. 10. They that seek the Lord, shall not want any good thing.
Ixix 32. Vour heart shall live that seek the Lord.
Prov. viii. 17. Those that seek me early shall find me.
Isa. xlv. 19. I said not unto the seed of Jacob, seek ye me in vain.
Lam. iii. 25. The Lord is good to them that wait for him, to the
soul that seeketh him.
Hos. X. 12. Seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness
upon you.
Amos V. 4. Thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, seek ye
mc and ye shall live.
Ver. 6. Seek the Lord and ye shall live, lest he breakout like fire
in the house of Joseph and devour it, and there be none to quench it
in Beth-cl.
Ver. 8. Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, that turn-
eth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark
with night, See. Ver. 9.
Zeph. ii. 3, Seek ye the Lord all ye meek of the earth, which have
wrought his judgments, seek righteousness, seek meeknest;, it may
be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger.
Matt. vii. 7 . Seek and ye shall find. Ver. 8. He that seeketh find-
eth. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. 2 Chron. xv. 2.
Heb. xi. 6. God is si rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
See Job viii. 5; 6. Ps. xxii. 26.
CXXXVII. Praxjers for them tliat seek God. 2 Chron. xxx. 18.
Hczekiah prayed, saying, good Lord, pardon every one,
Ver, l^. That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of
his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification
of the sanctuary .
Ver. 20. And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the
people.
Ps. Ixix. 6. Let none of those that seek thee be confounded.
Ixx. 4. Let all those that seek thee, rejoice and be glad in thee,
'dvA let such as love thy salvation say continually, the Lord be mag-
nified.
cv. 3. Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord, 1 Chron.
xvj. IQ.
CXXXVIII. Examples ofGod'sfieopIe seeking him. 2 Chron. xi. 16.
Out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek the Lord
God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the Lord God of
their fathers, arid would not worship calves set up by Jeroboam.
Chap. XIV. Not Sfekmg Cod. 2%3
2 Chron. xiv. 4. Asa commanded Judah to seek the Lord God a
their fathers, and to do the law and the coinniandnients. V'^er. 7.
XV. 12. Israel entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God (1
their fathers with all their heart and with all their sioul.
Ver. 13. And that whosoever would not seek the Lord God of if
rael, should be put to death. 2 Kings xxiii. 3. Neh. x. 29. 2 Chro).
xxiv. 3 h
xvii. 3 The Lord was vvith Jehosaphat. Ver. 4. Because he sougp;
the Lord God of his fathers, and walked in his commandments. C
xix. 3.— XX. 3. — xxii. 9.
xVkVi. 5. Uzziah sought God, and as long as lie sought the Lo 1
God made him prosper. Ver. 7. j
2 Chron. xxxi. 21. In every work that Hezekiah began in the sf-
vice of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandmei?,
to seek God, he did it with all his heart and prospered. |
Ezravi. 21. The children of Israel separated themselves from le
filthincss of the heathen of the land, to seek the Lord Gocfof
Israel.
vii. 10. Ezra prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord .id
to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. j
Job v. 8. 1 would seek unto God, and unto God would I comlut
my cause. j
Ps. xxiv. 6. This is the generation of them that seek him.
xxxiv. 4. I sought the Lord, he heard aiid delivered me frortall
my fears. Ch. Ixxvii. 2.
Song iii. 2. I will seek him whom my soul loveth. Ch. vi. I.
Isa. xxvi. 9. With my Spirit within me, will 1 seek thee earh
Dan. ix. 3. I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by piyer
and supplications, with fastings and sackcloth and ashes.
Mai. iii. 1, The Lord (Christ) whom ye seek shall come.Scc.
Isa. 1. 4y 5. Hos.iii. 5. Zech. viii. 21, 2>,
NOT SEEKING GOD,
CXXXIX. The ivicked seek not God. 2 Chron. xvi. 2. Asa i his
disease, sought not to the Lord but to the physicians.
Ps. X. 14. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will
not seek after God, God is not in ail his thoughts.
xiv. 2. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the chiklijn af
men, to see if there were any that did understand and seek Gol.
Ver. 3. They are all gone aside. Ps. liii. 2. Rom. iii. 11. j
CXL. The wicked seek not God aright. 2 Chron. xii. 14. Rehcpoam
prepared not his heart to seek the Lord. i
Isa. Iviii. 2. They seek me daily, and delight to know my [ways,
as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinadces of
their God ; they seek of me, the ordinances of justice, they take de-
light in approaching unto God.
Ver. 3. In the day of your fust, ye exact all your labours, ye fast
for strife. John vi. 26.
Threats against the wicked^ who seek not God aright. Ps. Ixxxiii. 16.
Fill their face* with shame, O Lord, that they may seek thy Hame-
226 Coming to God, CnsinXlV.
Ps. cxix. 155. Salvation is far frona the wicked, for they seek not
thy statutes. '
Prav. i. 8. They shall seek me early, but shall not find me.
Isa. ix. \o. The people turned not to them that smiteth them, nei-
ther do they seek the Lord of hosts.
Ver. 14. Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel, head and
tail, &c. Hos. vii. 10, 13, 14, 16.
xxxi. 1. Woe to them that go down .to.Eg;ypt, that ""stay on horses,
hat trust in chariots, but look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither
seek the Lord. Ch. xxii. 21.
Jer. X. 21. The pastors are became brutish, and have not sought
he Lord, therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks shall
e scattered. , „ ,
Hos. V. 5. The pride of Israel doth testify to his face, therefore
'lall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity.
Ver. 6. They shall go with their flocks and their herds, to seek
le Lord, but they shall not find, hian, he,, huth withdrawn himself
Dm them.
Ver. 15. I will go and return to my places saith the' Lord, till they
iknowledge their offence, and seek my face, in their affliction they
vll seek me early. Zeph. i. 6.
John vii. 34. Jesus said, ye shall seek me, and shall not find me.
viii. 21. Ye shall seek me, and die in your sins.
DRAWING NEAR TO GOD.
!3XLI. Drawing near to God, Lev. x- ^. The. Lord spake saying,
I 'ill be sanctified in all them that come nigh me, and before all the
peple will I be glorified.
Sam. xiv; 36. The priest said, let us draw near to God.
's. Ixv. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou causest to approach un-
to hee.
ixiii. 28. It is good for me, that I draw near to God.
ar. XXX. 21.1 will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach
uni me.
""er. 22. And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
leb. X. 22. Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance
of kith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience,
Ch.vii. 19.
Jmes iv. 3. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
la. xxix. 13. The wicked draw nigh with their lips only. Matt.
Xy. i. Ezek. xxxiii. 31.
COMING TO GOD.
CILII. Coining to God. Ps. Ixv. 2. O thou that hcarest prjiyjer,
unto thee shall all flesh come.
Isa. xlv. 24. In the Lord have I righteousness and strength, even
^o him shall all men come.
' Iv. 3. Incline your ear, and come unto me, hear and your soul
>hall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you.
Chap. XIV. Forsaking God. 227
Jer. iii. 22. Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal youi*
backslidings ; behold we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our
God. Ch. XXX. 21.
Come to God through Christ. Heb. vii. 25. Christ is able to save them
to the uttermost, that come to God by him. Heb. iv. 16. — xi. 6.
Come to Christ, Matt, xi- 28. Jesus said, come unto me all ye that
labour, and are heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest. Isa. Iv. 1. — Ix.
3. Rev. xxii. 17.
John vi. 37. Jesus said, all that the Father hath given me, shall
come unto me, and he that cometh unto me, 1 will in no wise cast out.
John vi. 44. No man can come unto me, except the Father draw
him.
FOLLOWING GOD.
CXLUl. Follounng God. I Sam. xii. 14. Continue following the
Lord your God. Ver. 20, 21, 2 5. 1 Kings ix. 6, 7, 8. If ye will not,
then shall the hand of the Lord be against you.
1 Kings xviii. 21. Elijah suid, if the Lord be God, follow him,
Deut. xiii. 4.
Ps. Ixiii. 8. My soul foUoweth hard after thee.
Eph. v. 1. Be ye followers of God as dear children.
CXLIV. Following Christ, Matt. xvi. 24. Jesus said, if any man
will come after me, let him take up his cross and follow mc. John
xii. 26.
John viii. 12. He that foUoweth me shall not walk in darkness.
X. 27. My ^heep hear my voice and they follow me.
Ver. 28. And 1 will give unto them eternal life, and they shall
never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand.
FORSAKING GOD.
CXLV. ForsaHng God. Threats. I Chron. xxvlii. 9. If thou for-
sake God he will cast thee off for ever.
2 Chron. xv. 21. The Lord is with you, while ye be with him, and
if ye seek him, he will be found of you, if you forsake him, he will
cast you off for ever.
xxiv. 20. Because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath forsaken you.
Ezra viii. 2. God's power and wrath is against all that forsake
him.
Isa. i. 4. They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the
Holy One of Israel to anger.
Ver. 28. They that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
Jer. ii. 13. My people have forsaken me the fountain of living wa-
ters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no
water. See threats to ver. 19.
Ver. 19. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy back-
slidings shall reprove thee, know therefore, and see that it is an evil
thing and bitter, that thou hast fors iken the Lord thy God.
xvii. 13. () Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be
ashamed. See Deut. viii. 20. — xxxi. 16, 17. — xxxii. 15 to 32.
2 Chron. xii. 15, isa. Ixv. 11.
Ff
^as, Going astray. Chap. XIV.
1?5PARTING FROM GOD.
CXLVI. Defiar ting from God. Jer. xvii. 5. Cursed be the Baan
that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart de-
parteth from the Lord. Ver. 13. See Ezek. xviii. 24 xxxiii. 12.
See this sin confessed* Dan. ix. 5, 1 1. Isa. lix. 12, 13.
JVoi departing from God. Instances. 2 Sam. xxii. 22. I have kept
the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from, my God.
Ver. 23. For all his judgments were before me, and for his statutes
I did not wickedly depart from them. See Ps. xviii. 21. Ps. cxix.
3, 8, 10, 11, 102.
BACKSLIDING.
CXLVn. Backslidvigfrom God. Prov. xiv. 14. The backslider in
heart shall be filled with his own ways.
Isa. i. 4. They arc gone away backward. Jer. vii. 24.
Jer. ii. 19. Thy backslidings shall reprove thee.
v. 6. Their transgressions are many, their backslidings are in-
creased.
Ver. 7. How shall I pardon thee. Ch. viii. 5, 13. — xiv. 2 to 7.
XV. 6. Thou hast forsaken me, and art gone away backward, there-
fore will I destroy thee.
xlix. 4. O backsliding daughter, I will bring a fear upon thee.
Hos. iv. 16. Israel slideth back, as a backsliding heifer.
xi. 6. The sword shall abide on his cities.
Ver. 7. For my people are bent to backsliding.
X. 38. If any man draw back, my soul shall have no ple>5ure in him.
Ver. 39. We are not of them that draw back to perdition, but to
them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Promise. Hos. xiv. I. Return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast
fallen by thine iniquity.
Ver. 4. I will heal your backslidings. Jer. iii. 22.
GOING ASTRAY.
CXLV^HL The wicked go aside, go astray, err, wander, turn away
from God,
Ps. xiv. 3. They are all gone aside, &cc.
Iviii. 3. The wicked are estranged from the very womb, they go
astray as soon as born.
Ixxviii. 57. They are turned aside like a deceitful bow. Ver. 62.
xcv. 10. It is a people that do err in heart.
Prov. V. 23. The wicked shall die without instruction, and in the
greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
xiv. 22. Do they not err that devise evil, but mercy and truth shall
be to them that devise good.
Isa. xliv. 20. A deceived heart hath turned him aside, he cannot
deliver his soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my ri^ht hand ?
Jer. ii. 27. They have turned their back unto me, and not their
face.
viii. 6. Every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into
the battle.
CXLIX. Confession. Isa. llii. 6. All we like lost sheep liave gone
astray, we have turned every one to his own way.
Chap. XIV. Worship. 22«
CL. Threatfi. Ps. cxix. 21. Thou hast rebuked the proud that are
cursed, that do err from thy commandments.
Ver. 1 18. Thou hast trodden down all them that do err, from thy
statutes.
Prov. xxviii. 10. Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an
evil way, shall fall himself into his own pit.
James v. 20. He that converteth a sinner from the error of his
way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins,
2 Pet. iii. 17. Beware lest ye be led away with the error of the
wicked. See Rom. i- 27.
WORSHIP.
CLI. Worsfufi due to God only. See commandment I. 2 Kings xvii.
36. The Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great
power, and with a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, him shall
ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. Neh. ix. 6.
Ps. xxii. 37. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn
unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before
him. \^er. 29. Ps- Ixxxvi. 9, 10.
xcv. 6. O come let us worship and bow down, lei us kneel before
the Lord our maker.
Ver. 7. For he is God.
xcvii. 7. Worship him all ye gods,
xcix. 5. Worship at his foot-stool, for he is holy.
Ver. 9. Worship at his holy hill.
Ua. Ixvi. 23. AH flesh shall come and worship before me, saith
the Lord.
Zeph. ii. 11. Men shall worship him, every one from his place,
even ail the isles of the heathen.
Rev. iv. 10. In heaven the four and twenty elders fell down before
him, that sat on the throne, and worshipped him that liveth for ever
and ever. See Ch. v. 14. — vii. 11 xi. 16. — xiv. 7. — xix. 4.
Rev. XV. 4. All nations shall come and worship before thee, for
thy judgments are made manifest.
Heb. i. 6. Let all the angels of God worship Christ — For the
worship due to Christ, see worship offered to him by the church
in heaven, and on earth. Chap, upon the dignity and offices of Jesus
Christ.
Angcds not be worshihfied. See Col. ii. 18. Rev. xix. 10, 11. — xxii.
8, 9. Against worshipping creatures for God. See commandments,
1st and 2d.
CLII. How God ifi to be nvorshipfied. 1 Chr. xvi. 29. W^orship the
Lord in the beauty of holiness.
xxix. 9. With a perfect heart the people offered willingly to the
Lord.
Ps, Ii. 6. Thou desirest truth in the inward parts.
Ver. 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and
contrite heart, O (iod, thou wilt not despise.
John iv. 23. The true v/orshippers shall worship the Father in
spirit and in truth, for the I'^ather seeketh such to worship him.
Acts xxiv. 14. After the way which they (the Jews) call heresy,
so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things vv^hich are
written in the law, and the prophets.
230 Fasting. Chap. XIV.
Phil. iii. 3. We are the circumcision which worship God in the
spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the
flesh. See Mai. i. 11 iii. 4.
CLIII. Worship, offered by the ivicked unaccefitable to God. Isa. i. 1 1.
To what purpose are the multitude of your sacrifices to me, saith the
Lord.
Ver. 12. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required
this at your hands to tread my courts ?
Ver. 15. Your hands are full of blood. Ver. 16. Wash you, makcL
you clean. See Ch. Ixvi. 3, 4. Jer. vii. 9, 10, 11, 21, 22 — vi. 20.
Ps. 1. 16. Unto the wicked God saith, what hast thou to do, to de-
clare my statutes ? or that thou shouldst take my covenant in thy
mouth ?
Ver. 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castcth my words be-
hind thee.
Prov. vii. 14. The whorish woman said, I have peace offerings
with me, this day I have paid my vows.
Ver. 27. Her house is the way to hell, Sec.
Mai. i. 8. If ye offer the blind, the lame and the sick for sacri-
fice, is it not evil ? offer it up to thy governor will he be pleased with
Ihee ? Ver. 9.
Ver.^ 10. I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, nei-
ther will I accept an offering at your hands. See ver. 13, 14.
Matt. XV. 8. This people draweth near me with their mouth, and
honoureth mc with their lips, but their heart is tar from me.
Ver. 9. In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men. See Acts xvii. 25.
FASTING.
QXAV . Fasting afifiointed by God, Lev. xxiii. 27. The tenth day
of the seventh month shall be a day of atonement, an holy convoca-
tion unto you, ye shall afflict your souls and offer an offering made
by fire unto the Lord.
Ver. 28. Ye shall do no work in that same day. See to ver. 33.
CLV. Fasts extraordinary and miraculous kefit by Moses. Exod.xxxiv.
28. By Elijah. 1 Kings xix. 8. By Jesus Christ. Matt. iv. 2.
CLV I. Fasting acceptably. Isa. Iviii. 6. Is not this the fast that I
have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy
burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke. .
Ver. 7. To deal thy bread to the hungry, and to bring the poor
that are cast out into thine house ; when thou seest the naked that
thou cover him, &c. Zech. viii. 19.
Matt. vi. 16. When ye fast be not as the hypocrites, of a sad coun-
tenance.
Ver. 17. When thou fastest anoint thine head and wash thy face.
Ver. 18. That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Fa-
ther which is in secret.
CLVII. Fasts of the ivicked. Isa. Iviii. 3. In the days of your fast
you exact all your labours.
Ver. 4. Ye h?X for strife and debate. Ver. 5.
Jer. xiv. 12. When thoy fa^t I will not hear their crv. Zfch. vii. 5.
Chap. XIV. Fasting, 231
Matt. vi. 16. Hypocrites fast with a sad countenance to appear
unto men.
Luke xviii. 12. The Pharisee said T fast twice in the week, yet
was not justified. See an hypocritical fast appointed by Jesebel.
I Kings xxi. 9.
CLVIII. Occasions of fasts observed by God's fieofile before ivar^ or
on exficcted attack from an enemy* 2 Chron. xx. 3. At the approach (
of enemies, king Jehoshaphat proclaims a fast.
Ver. 15. He and his people are delivered from their enemies*
See 1 Sam. vii. 6.
Esther |iv. 3. The Jews threatened with destruction in Babylon, \
fast. Ver. 16. And are delivered.
CLIX. After beinf^ dfeated by enemies. See Jos. vii. 6. Judges xx. /
26. I Sam. xxxi. 13. 2 Sam. i. 12. At calamities from the hand of
God, upon man or beast, or the fruit of the earth. Joel i. 14. — ii. 12, i
J5, 16, 17.
CLX. Judgments threatened by the Mmighty against sinners.
1 Kings xxi. 27. Ahab terrified at God's threatenings against him, '
fasted.
Ver. 29. God brought not the evil threatened in his day.
Jonah iii. 5, 7. The king and people of Nineveh terrified at God*5 f
threatenings against them by Jonah, proclaim a fast, and keep it with
great strictness. [
Jonah iii. 10. They are saved from destruction. Daniel fasts and 1
prays for the Jews' return from captivity. Dan. ix. 3. The Jews held a
fast setting out on their return from captivity. Ezra viii.21,23. The
Jews having returned from captivity, and restoring the publick wor-
ship of God hold a fast and read the law* Neh. ix. I. Also, see Jcr.
xxxvi. 6.
The apostles fasted and prayed with the church before they or-
dained eiders and preachers of the gospel. Acts xiv. 23. — xiii. 2, 3.
Devils cast out by fasting and prayer. Matt. xvii. 21.
CLXI. Fasts of fiarticular persona held at their ozvn discretion.
2 Sam. xii. 16. David fasted when his child was sick.
Ps. XXXV. 13. When they were sick, I humbled my soul with fast-
ing.
Ixix. 10. I wept and chastened my soul with fasting.
cix. 24. My knees are weak through fasting.
Matt. ix. 14. John's disciples and the Pharisees fasted often.
Mar!- ii. 18.
Christ's disciples fasted, after he was taken from them. 2 Cor. vi*.
.1.— xi. 27.
Luke ii. 37. Anna served God with fasting night and day.
Acts. x. 50. Cornelius while he fasted and prayed, was directed I y
an angel to send for Peter to preach the gospel.
1 Cor. vii. 3. Husband and wife ought not to separate except for a
time, to give themselves to fasting and prayer.
N. B. Religious fasting is always to be accompanied with prayer,
and with all the requisites in prayer, which see in the chapter up-
on prayer.
^2 Prayer. Chap. XIV.
PRAYER.
CLXII. Fcrnorus whose prayer shall he heard. Ps. iv. 3. The Lord
hath set apart him that is godly for himself, the Lord will hear when
I call unto him.
xxvi. C. I will wash mine hands in innocency, so will I compass
thine altar.
xxxiv. 15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his
ears are open to their cry. 1 Pet. iiL 12. His ears are open to their
prayers.
\ er. 17. The rit?,hteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth
them out of all their troubles.
Pi-ov. XV. 8. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the
Lord, but the prayer of the uprii^ht is his delij^ht.
Ver. 29. The Lord is far from the wicked, but he heareth the
prayer of the rig-hteous.
1 Tim. ii. 8. I will that men pray every where, liftinj^ up holy
hands without wrath and doubtin?^.
James v. 16. The prayer of a riji^hteous man availeth much.
CLXII I. Of the divine influence in firayer^ the Sfiirit^s assistance.
Ps. 10. 17. Lord, thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine
ear to hear.
Ixxx. 18. Quicken us, and we will call on thy name.
Zech. xii. 10. I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, Sec.
xiii. 9. 1 will refine them as silver is refined, and I will try them
as f!:old is tried, and they shall call on my name and I will hear them,
1 will say it is my people, and they shall say the Lord is my God.
Rom. viii. 15. Ye have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we
cry, Abba Father.
Ver. 26. The Spirit hclpeth our innrmilies, for we know not what
to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit maketh intercession for ut;
with groaninq;s which cannot be uttered.
\'er. 27. And he that searcheth the heart knoweth the mind of
the Spirit.
Gal. iv. 6. Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of
ius Son into your hearts cryinc^, Abba Father.
Eph. vi. 18. Prayine with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit.
Jv.de ver. 20. Prayinj^ in tliB Holy Ghost. I Cor. xiv. 15.
CLXIV. Prayer is to be made in the name of Christ. John xiv. 13.
Je?us said, wiiutsoevcr ye shall ask in my name, that will I do unto
J on.
y^r. 14. That t'le Father may be glorified in the Son.
xvi. 23. Whatsoever ye shall ask the F'ather in my name he will
give it you.
\'er. 24. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name, ask and ye
shall receive that your joy may be full.
Col. iii. 17. Whatsoever ye do in word or in deed, do all in the
name of the Lord Jesus. See Heb. iv. 14, 16. Dan. ix. 18.
CLXV. Prayer ?ni^st be made in faith. Matt, xxi, 22. All thingi*
•whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer balieving, ye jjhall receive.
Chap. XIV. Prayer. 233
John XV. 7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall
ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Eph. iii. 12. In whom (Christ) we have boldness and access by
the faith of him. Heb. iv. 16.
Heb. X. 22. Let us dravv near with a tiiie heart in full assurance
of faith,
xi. 6. He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that lie
is a revvarder of them that diligently seek him.
James i. 6. Ask in faith nothing wavering. Ver. 7. Luke xii. 29.
V. 15. The prayer of fiiith shall save the sick. Jude ver. 20.
CLXVL With sincerity of heart. Ps. xvii. I. Give ear unto my
prayer that goeth not out of feigned lips.
XXV. 1. Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Ixii. 6. Pour out your heart before God, he is a refuge for us.
cxlv. 18. The Lord is nigh unto all that call upon him in truth.
Jer. xxix. 13. The Lord said ye shall find me when ye shall search
for me with all your heart. Ver. 14. 2 Chron. xv. 15.
Lam. iii. 41. Let us lift up our heart, with our hands to God hi
the heavens.
2 Tim. ii. 22. Call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Heb. X. 22. Let us draw near with a pure heart, Sec. Job xi. 13.
CLXVn. With love to God, Ps. xci. 14. The Lord said, because
lie hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him.
Ver. 15. He shall call upon me and I will answer him.
CLXVHL With the fear of God, Ps. cxlv. 19. The Lord will ful-
fil the desire of them that fear him, he also will hear their cry, and
will save them.
CLXIX. With ohedierice to God. Isa. Ivi. 6. The sons of the stran-
ger that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the
name of the Lord, and to be his servants, every one that keepeth the
sabbath from polluting it and taketh hold of my covenant.
Ver. 7. Even them will 1 bring to my holy mountain, and will
make them joyful in my house of prayer, their burnt-ofierings and
their sacrifices shall be accepted on mine altar.
John ix. 31. If any man be a worshipper of God and doth his will,
him he hcaieth.
1 John iii. 22. Whatsoever \\q ask, we receive of him, because
we keep his commandments and do those things that are pleasing in
liis sight.
Prov. xxviii. 9. He that turneth away his car from hearing the
law, even his prayer shall be an abomination.
CLXX. With hnmiiity., coufc.Hsio7i arid turning fro/n sin. 2 Chron.
vii.l4. If my people shall humble themselves and pray and seek my
face, and turn from their wicked way:-;, then will I hear from heaven
and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Ch. vi. 26, to ver.
40. 1 Kings viii. 37, to ver. 50.
xxxiii. 12. Manasseh humbled himself and prayed, and Ciod wa.s
intreated. Ver- 13.
Ps. ix. 12. (lod forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
X. 17. Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble.
Jer. xxxvi. 6. Go read the "words of the Lordj in the cars of thf
people.
234 Prayer. Chap. XIV.
Jer. xxxvi. 7. It may be, they will present their supplication before
the Lord, and will return every one from his evil way, for great is
the anger and fury that the Lord hath pronounced against them.
Luke xviii. 9 to 15. See the humble publican*s prayer accepted.
See more instances of the prayers of penitent returning sinners
heard. Judg. iii. 7, 8, 9, 12, 15. — iv. 1, 3. — vi. 1, 7, 10 to 16. — xi. 33,
1 Sam. vii. 4 to 1 1. 2 Sam. xxiv. 17, 25. Ps. xxxii. 5. Acts ix. 11.
CL.XXL Wick forgiveness towards men. Matt. v. 24. Be reconci-
led to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
vi. 12. After this manner pray ye, forgive us our debts as we for-
give our debtors.
Ver. 14. For if ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Fa-
ther will also forgive you.
Ver. 15. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will
your Father forgive your trespasses. Matt. xi. 25, 26.
Luke vi. 37. Forgive and ye shall be forgiven. Col. iii. 13.
1 Tim. ii. 8. Pray without wrath.
CLXXII. VVuh alms and good works. Isa. Iviii. 7. Deal thy bread
to the hungry, bring the poor that are cast out to thine house, when
thou seest the naked cover him, 8cc.
Ver. 9. Then shalt thou call and the Lord will answer.
Acts X. 2. Cornelius a devout man, and one that feared God, with
all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to
God alway.
Acts X. 3. He saw an angel coming unto him, saying unto him,
Ver. 4. Cornelius, thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a
memorial before God. See Prov. xxi. 13.
CLXXIIL Prayer 7nust be frequent,^ fervent and importunate. Ps.
v. 3. My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord, in the morn-
ing will 1 direct my prayer to thee, and will look up.
iv. 17. Evening and morning and at noon will I cry aloud, and he
shall hear my voice.
Ixxxvi. 3. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for I have cried unto thee
daily.
Ixxxviii. 1. O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and
night before thee.
Ver. 9. I have called daily upon thee.
Ver. 13. Unto thee have I cried, O Lord, in the morning shall my
prayer prevent thee.
cxvi. 2. He hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call up-
on him as long as I live. Ver. 13, 17.
cxix. 147. 1 prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried unto
ihee.
Ver. 167. Seven times a day do I praise thee.
Dan. vi. 10. Daniel kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and
prayed and gave thanks. Ver. 11.
Matt. XX vi. 41. Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.
Luke ii. 37. Anna served God with fastings and prayers night and
day. 1 Tim. v. 5.
V. 33. The disciples of John fast often and make prayers.
vi. !2. Jesus continued all night in prayer to God.
Chap. XIV. Prayer, 2^
Luke xviii. 1 . Jesus spake a parable that men ought always to pra)?*
and not to faint. Ch. xi. 5 to 15.
Acts i. 4. The apostles continued with one accord in prayer and
supplication.
ii. 42i The primitive Christians continued stedfastly in the apostles
iloctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in prayers.
vi. 4. The apostles said, we will give ourselves continually td
prayer, and to the ministry of ihe word.
X. 2. Cornelius prayed to God always. Ver. 31.
xii. 5. Prayer was made without ceasing of the church for Peter-.
Rom. xii. 12. Continue instant in prayer. 2 Thess. v. 7. Pray
without ceasing.
1 Cor. vii 5. Give yourselves to fasting and prayer.
Eph. vi. 18. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the
Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplicalion^s
for all saints.
Col. iv. 2. Continue in prayer, and watch in the same.
1 Thess. iii. 10. Night and day praying exceedingly.
Heb. V. 7. In the days of his flesh Christ offered up prayers and
supplications, with strong crying and tears, and was heard.
1 Pet. iv. 7. The end of all things is at hand, be ye therefore so-
ber and watch unto prayer. Eph. vi. 18. See more instances, 1 Sam*
L 10, 12. Matt. xxvi. 44. 2 Cor. xii. 7, 8, 9.
CLXXI V. Prayers and tears. See Heb. v. 7. in the former section.
2 Kings XX. 2, 3. Hczekiah prayed imto the Lord, and wept sore.
Ver. 5. Thus saith the Lord to Hczekiah, I have heard thy pray-
er, I have seen thy tears, behold I will heal thee. Isa. xxxviii. 5.
Jer. xxxi. 9. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications
will I lead them, I will cause them to walk in a straight way wherein
they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is
my first-born. Ver. 12. See Job xvi. 20. Psal. vi. 7, 8, 9. — xxxix.
12. — xlii- 3, 4. — Ivi. 8, 9. Acts xx. 19.
CLXXV. Private Prayer. Matt, vi, 6. When thou pray est, enter
into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father
which is in secret, and thy Father which secth in secret shall reward
thee openly.
xiv. 23. Jesus, when he had sent the multitude av,:ay, went up unto
a mountain to pray, and was there alone. Luke vi. 12.
xxvi. 36. Jesus saith to his disciples, sit ye here till I go and pray-
yonder.
Ver. 39. And he went a little farther and fell on his face and pray-
ed. Ver. xlii. 44.
Mark i. 35. In the morning Jesus rising up a great while before
day, went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Luke V. 16. Jesus withdrew himself into the wilderness and pray-
ed. Ch. ix. 18.
Acts X. 9. Peter went up to the house top to-pray. Ver. 30,
CLXXVL Public firayer^ being a fiart of fiublic ivorshifi^ \ Kings
viii. 27. But will God indeed dwell on the earth, behold the heaven,
and tlie heaven of heavens cannot contain thee.
V^r. 28. Yet have thou respect imto the prayer of thy servajit.
Ver. 39. That thine eves may be open towar'4 tbis howse nirlll
G s ■■■■*'
i^J6 Prayer. Ghap. XIV.
and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said my name shall
be there.
1 Kings viii. 30. Hearken unto the supplication of thy servant and
of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place, and hear
thou in heaven and forgive.
2 Chron. vii. 12. I have chosen this place to myself for a house
of sacrifice.
Ver. 15. Mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the
prayer that is made in this place.
Ps. Ixxxvii. 2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the
dwellings of Jacob.
cxvi. 1 8. I will pay my vows unto the Lord in the presence of all
his people.
Ver. 19- In the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, O
Jerusalem.
Isa. Ivi. 7. I will make them joyful in my house of prayer, their
burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar ;
for mine house shall be called the house of prayer tor all people.
Zech. viii. 21. Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord.
Joel i. 14. Call an assembly, gather the elders, and call the inha-
bitants of the land, unto the house of the Lord your God, and cry
unto the Lord. Ver. 19. Neh. xi. 17.
ii. 15. Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly.
Ver. 16. Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble
the elders, gather the children and those that suck the breasts.
- Ver. 17. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between
the porch and the altar, and let them say, spare thy people, O Lord.
Matt, xviii. 19. If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any
thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them, of my Father
which is in heaven.
Ver. 20. For where two or three are gathered together in my
name, there am I in the midst of them.
Heb. X. 25. Not forsaking the assembling yourselves together as
the manner of some is. See instances, Luke i. 10. Acts i. 14. — ii. 4.
46. — iii. 1. — xvi. 13.
CLXXVII. Directions concerning the rjords or cxfiressions to be
used in firayer.
Eel. V. 1. Keep thy foot when thou gqest into the house of God,
and be more ready to hear than to offer the sacrifice of fools.
Ver. 2. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be
hasty to utter any thing before God, for God is in heaven and thou
upon earth, therefore let thy words be few.
Hos. xiv. 2. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord, and say
unto him, take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously ; so will
we render the calves of our lips.
Matt. vi. 7. Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do. See 1
Kings xviii. 26, 27.
1 Cor. xiv. 14. If I pray in an unknown tongue mine understand-
ing is unfruitful.
Ver. 19. In the church I had rather speak five words with my un-
derstanding, that by my voice I might teach Others, than ten thou-
sand words in an unknown tongue.
Chap. XIV. Prayer. 23r
CLXXVIII. Of the gestures of body usedinfirayer. The hands lifted
lip, spread abroad, spread forth, so prayed Moses. Exod. ix. 29. Da-
vid. Ps. Ixiii. 4. Solomon. 1 Kings viii. 22. The church. Isa. i. IS.
Standinjj, so prayed Phinehas. Judg. xx. 28. Solomon. I Kings
viii. 22. The humble publican. Luke |:|;ll, 13.
Kneeling, so prayed Solomon. 2 Chron. vi. 13. Jesus Christ. Luke
xxii. 41. Saint Paul. Acts xx. 36. — xxi. 5. Daniel. Dan. vi. 10. Ste-
phen. Acts vii. 60, Peter. Acts ix. 40. See Ps. xcv. 6.
Falling on the face, so prayed Moses. Deut. ix. 18, 25. David
and the elders. 1 Chron. xxi. 16. Job. Job i. 20. Ezekiel. Ezek. ix.
8. Jesus Christ. Matt. xxvi. 39.
Sitting, so prayed David. 2 Sam. vii. 18. Nehemiah. Neh. i. 4.
Head uncovered. 1 Cor. xi. 4.
CLXXIX. The things to be Grayed for being as numerous and va-
rious as the gifts of God for the supfily of the ivants of moji sfiiritual
end temporal,, they cannot be fully exhibited under this head, Hoiocver
afciv of the firincifial of them may be set forth in the follonving order,
CLXXX. The Lord* sprayer as to words, matter, and methody affords
a goody though brief model of things to be prayed for.
Matt. vi. 9. After this manner pray ye, our Father which art in
heaven, Sec.
CLXXXL Spiritual blessings, ivisdom and grace to he asked. Ps.
ix. 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hcurts
to wisdom. Jam. i. 5. If any lack wisdom, let him asK. of God, and
it shall be given him.
2 Chron. i. 10, 1 1, 12. See Solomon's prayer for wisdom accepted.
Matt. vi. 33. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteous-
ness.
Luke xi. 13. If ye know how to give good gifts unto your chil-
dren, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spi-
rit to them that ask him ? Matt. vii. 1 1 .
1 Cor. xii. 31. Covet earnestly the best gifts.
xiv. i. Desire spiritual gifts.
Col. iii. 1. Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth
on the right hand of God.
V^er. 2. Set your affections on things above, not on things on
earth.
Heb. iv. !6. Let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that wc
may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
CLXXX II. For such earthly things as are agreeable to God*s will,
and ivith submission to it.
Example. Luke xxii. 42. Jesus prayed. Father, if thou be willing,
remove this cup from me, nevertheless not my will but thine be
done. Matt. xxvi. 39. Not as I will, but as thou wilt.
1 John v. 14. If we ask any thing according to his will he heareth
us. Ver. 15. See 2 Sam. vii. 27.
James iv. 3. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that
ye may consume it upon your lusts.
CLXXXIII. For daily bread. Matt vi. 11. Give us this day our
daily bread.
1 Tim. iv. 5. Every creature of God is good ; it is sanctified by the
word of CigJ and prayer. Sec I Kings viii. 37, 38. 2 Chron. vii. 13.
238 ^- Prayer, Cha?. XIV.
CLXXXIV. For health and deliverance from sickncdH, 2 Kings xx.
2. Hezekiah prayed to the Lord in his sickness.
Ver. 5. Thus saith the Lord, [to him] 1 have heard thy prayers,
I have seen thy tears, I will heal thee. Isa. xxxviii. I.
Ver. 7. Isaiah said, take a lump of figs, and they took, and laid it
on the boil, and he recovered.
Jobxxxiv. 28. God heareth the cry of the afflicted. Isa. xxvi. 16.
Acts xxviii. 8. Publius lay sick of a fever, to whom Paul entered
in and prayed, and laid his hands on him and healed him.
James v. 13. Is any among you afflicted ? let him pray.
Ver. 14. Is any sick? let him send for the elders of the church,
and let them pray over him.
Ver. 15. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick.
2 Chron. xvi. 12, Asa in his disease sought not to the Lord, but to
the physicians.
CLXXXV. The firayer of the floor heard. Ps. xxxiv. 6. This poor
man cried, the Lord heard and delivered him out of all his distresses.
Ixxii. 12. God shall deliver the needy when he crieth, the poor
also, and him that hath no helper. Job xxxiv. 28.
cii. 7. The Lord will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not
despise their prayer.
See prayers for deliverance from enemies, for deliverance from
trouble.
CLXXXVI. Interceaaary prayer^ or /irayerfor others.
CLXXX\''II. For whom we ought to fir ay ^ \ 'i jm. ii. 1. I exhort
that supplications, prayers and intercessions, and giving thanks be
made for all men.
CLXXXVJII. For the church of God, Ps. cxxii. 6, Pray for the
peace of Jerusalem, thoy shall prosper that love thee-
Isa. Ixii. 6. Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence.
Ver. 7. Give him np rest X\\\ he establish, and till he make Jeru-
salem a praise in the earth.
Matt. ix. 38. Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that he will send
forth labourers into his harvest.
Eph. vi. 18. Praying always with all prayer and supplication for
all saints.
Junies v. 1 6. Pray one for another.
1 John V. 16. Pray for a brother that sinneth.
CLXXXIX. InHtancra of auch firayera, Ps. U. 18. Do good in thy
good pleasure to Zion, build thou the walls of thy Jerusalem.
Ixxx. 14, Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts, look down,
from heaven, and behold and visit this thy vine.
cxviii. 25. O Lord, I beseech thee send prosperity.
cxxii. 7. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy pa-
laces.
Ps. cxxxii. 9. Let thy prjcsts be cloathecj with righteousness, and
let thy saints shout for joy.
\'er. 16. I will also cloalh herpriests with salvation, and her saints
shall shout aloud for joy.
Amos vii. 2. O I^ord God, forgive, 1 bc-seech thee, by M'hom shall
Jacob arise, for he is small .'*
Chap. XIV» Prayer^ 239
Hab. iii. 2. O Lord revive thy work in the midst of the years, in
the midst of the years make known ; in wrath remember mercy*
Mutt, vi- 10. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, &c.
See in Commandment 5th, the duties of ministers and people, &C.
to pray one for another.
CXC. For enemies. Jer. xxix. 7. Seek the peace of the city whi-
ther I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto
the Lord for it. F.zra vi. 10.
Matt. V. 44. Pray for them that despitefully use you and perse-
cute you.
CXCI. Instances of such prayers. Luke xxiii. 34, Jesus upon the
cross prayed for his persecutors, saying. Father forgive them for
they know not what they do.
Acts vii. 60. Stephen prayed, for them that put hira to death, say-
ing, Lord lay not this sin to their charge.
2 Tim. iv. 16. Paul being forsaken by Christians in his distress
said, I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
See more instances of such prayers ; Abraham for Abimelech.
Gen. XX. 7, 14, 17. ^^oses for Pharaoh. Exod. viii. 8. — ix. 28. —
' — X. 18. Job for those who wronged him. Job xlii. 8, 9. David
for his enemies. Ps. xxxv. 12, 13, 14. — cxli. 5.
CXCIL Motives to prayer. It is a commanded duty. Ezek. xxvi.
36. Thus saith the Lord, I will be enquired of by the house of Israel.
Matt. vii. 7. Ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, kc.
John xvi 24.
Phil. iv. 6. Be careful for nothing, but in every thing by prayer
and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known
to God.
James iv. 8. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you.
CXCIIl. God promiseth that he will hear prayer. Deut. iv. 7. What
nation hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all
things that we call upon him for ?
Ps. Ixv. 2. O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh
come.
Ixxxvi. 5. Thou art good and ready to forgive, and plenteous in
mercy to all that call upon thee. Rom. x. 12.
Isa. XXX. 19. He will be gracious, at the voice of thy cry he will
answer thee.
Ixv. 24. Before they call I will answer, while they are yet speak-
ing I will hear, saith the Lord.
Jer. xxix. 12. Ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken
unto you.
xxxiii. 3. Thus saith the Lord, call upon me, and I will answer
thee.
Joel ii. 32. Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be
delivered. Hoiii. x. 13.
Zech. xiii. 9. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them.
Matt. vii. 8. Every one that asketh receiveth. Vcr. 1 1.
Rom. X. 12. The Lord is rich in mercy to all that call upon him.
See Rev. v. 8 — viii. 3, 4. — Kxod. xxii. 23, 27. 2 Chron. vii. 14. Sec.
See the qualifi( ations of those whose prayers bhall be heard, for
to them the ubovc pronuses do belong.
240 Prayer, Chap. XIV.
CXCIV. Declarations of God that he hath heard prayer, 1 Kings
ix. 3. The Lord said to Solomon, I have heard thy prayer. See Kings
XX. 5. 2 Chron. vii. 12. Isa. xxxviii. 5.
2 Kings xix. 20. Thus saith the Lord to Hezekiah, that which
thou hast prayed against the king of Assyria, I have heard. Ch. xxii.
19. 2 Chr. xxxiv. 27.
Isa. xlix. 8. In an acceptable time I have heard thee. 2 Chron. vi. 2.
CXCV. The testimony of God's peofile that their prayers nvere heard,
Deut. ix. 19. Moses said, the Lord hearkened to me. Ch. x. 10.
xxvi. 7. We cried unto the Lord God of our Fathers, the Lord heard
our voice, and looked on our affliction and our labour, and our op-
pression. Numb. XX. 16.
2 Sam. xxii. 7. In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried
to my God, he heard my voice out of his holy temple, and my cry
did enter into his ears. Ps. iii. 4. — xviii. 6.
Ps. vi. 9. 'i he Lord hath heard my supplication, the Lord "vvill re-
ceive my prayer. Ver. 8. Ps. xxviii. 6. — xxxi. 22.
xxii. 21. Thou hast heard me. Ver. 24. Ps. xl. 1. — cxviii. 21. —
cxx. 1.
xxxiv. 4. I sought the Lord, he heard me, and delivered me from
all my fears. Ps. Ixi. 5. — Ixvi. 19. — ixxvii. 1. — cxvi. 1 to 4 — cxix.
26. Lam. iii. 56.
Jonah ii. 2. Out of the belly of hell I cried, and thou heardst my
voice.
John xi. 41. Jesus said, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
CXCVI. Their confident expectations that their prayers shall be heard,
Ps. iv. 3. The Lord vvill hear when I call on him.
X. 17. Lord, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear.
. Ps. xvii. 6. Thou wilt hear me, O God. Ps. xxxviii. 15.
Iv. 17. I will pray and cry aloud, and he shall hear my voice.
CXCVII. Their entreaties that they may be heard. 2 Kings xix
1 6. O Lord bow down thine ear and hear, &c.
2 C hron. vi. 40. O God, I beseech thee, let thine eye be open and
let thine ears be attent to the prayer that is made in this place.
I Kings viii. 30, 50. Neh. i 6, 1 1. Ps. cxxx. 2. '
Ps. XV. 1. Give ear unto my words, O Lord. Ps. liv. 2.
xvii. 1, 6. O God incline thine ear unto me. Ps. Iv. l.-^lxxi. 2. —
Ixxxvi. 6. — Ixxxviii. 2. Isa. xxxvii. 17. Dan. ix. 18.
xxxix. 12. Hear ray prayer, give ear to my cry. Ps. Ixxxiv. 4.—
cxli. 1. — cxiiii. i.
Ps. iv. 1. Hear my prayer. Ps. xiii. 3 — xx. 12. — xxvii. 7 — xxx.
10 xxxvi. 16 — liv. 2. — Iv. 2. — ix. 5 — Ixi. 1 — Ixix. 13 — Ixxxiv.
iJ.— cii. 1, 20— cxU. 2.— cxliii 1. Neh. iv. 4. Dan. ix. 19.
CXCVTII Tiir grirfat not bcir.g ansivered. Job xix. 7. I cry but
am not heard. Ch. xxx. 20.
Ps. xxii. 2. I cry but thou hearest not.
llab i. 2. Plow long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear ?
CXCIX. Of the efficacy of prayer. Miracles %vrought by it. Bitter
waters made sweet. Exod. xv. 25. Waters broui^ht out of a rock.
Exod. xvii. 26. The sun and moon made to stand still.
Jos. X. 1.2, 13. The siiadow made to return backward on a sun-
Cha?. XIV. Prmjer, 241
dial. 2 Kings xx. 1 1. The dead raised to life. 1 Kings xvii. 21, 22.
2 Kings iv. 32, 25. Acts ix. 37, 40. Jonah delivered from the fish.
Jonah ii. 1, 10. Rain withheld and given. Jam. v. 17, 18. I Kings
xvii. 1,18, 42, 45. Devils cast out by prayer and fasting.
CC. Jrmies of enemies defeated^ and God^s praying people delivered
npon their prayer. Exod. ii. 23. The children of Israel (in Egypt)
sighed by reason of their bondage, and they cried, and their cry came
up to God. Ch. iii. 7, 9. Numb. xx. 15, 16.
xiv. 9. The Egyptians pursued after Israel and overtook them.
Ver. 10. And they were sore afraid, and cried unto the Lord.
Ver. 30. And the Lord saved Israel out of the hands of the Egyp-
tians. Jos. xxiy. 7. Ps. cvi. 44. — cvii. throughout.
Judg. iv. 13, 14, 15. Israel delivered from Jabin, and Sisera his
captain.
Judg. X. 6 to 16. Ch. xi. 33. 1 Sam. vii. 8, 10, 1 1. Israel deliver-
ed from the Philistines.
2 Kings xiii. 4, 5. Delivered from the Syrians. Ch. v. 6, 18.
2 Chron. xiii. 14, 15. Delivered from Jeroboam.
2 Chron. xiv. 2 to 12. Delivered from the Ethiopians.
2 Chron. xxxii. 20, 22. Delivered from the Assyrian army. 2 Kings
xviii. 3. See prayer with humility, confession and turning from sin.
See also prayers of kings and prophets, Commandment 5th, which
afford instances of prayer prevailing for deliverance from enemies.
CCI. Prayers against evil from enemies, Deut. xxxiii. 7. Be thou
an help to Judah against his enemies.
Ps. iii. 1. Lord, how are they increased that trouble me.
Ver. 4. I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.
V. 8. Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness, because of mine
enemies.
vi. 7. Mine eye is consumed because of grief, it waxeth old because
of all mine enemies.
Ver. 10. Let them be ashamed.
vii. 6. Lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies.
xvii. 9. Keep me from my deadly enemies.
xviii. 3. I will call upon the Lord, so shall I be delivered from
mine enemies. Ver. 4, 5, 6, 40.
Ps. xxvii. 11. Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain
path, because of mine enemies.
Ver. 12. Deliver me not over to the will of mine enemies.
XXX. 1 . Thou hast not made my foes to rejoice over me ; I cried
unto the Lord.
Ver. 8. Lord be thou mifte helper. Ver. iO.
xxxi. 11. I was a reproach among all mine enemies. Ver. 15, 18.
Ps. xxxviii. 19, 21. — xli. 5. I said unto the Lord, deliver me from
the hand of mine enemies.
xliv. 4. O God command deliverance for Jacob. Ver. 5, 23.
Iv. 1. Give ear to my prayer, O God, ver. 3. because of the voice
of the enemy.
Ver. 18. He hath delivered my soul from battle that was against
me.
Ivi. 9. When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back-
lix. I. Deliver me from mine enemicJi, O my God. Ps. cxliii. 9.
242 Prayer. Chap. XIV.
Ps. cxliii. 1. Hear my prayer, for the enemy hath persecuted my
soul.
Acts iv. 18. The rulers of the Jews commanded the apostles not
to speak nor teach in the name of Jesus.
Vcr. 24. The disciples prayed and said, Lord, behold their threat-
enings, and grant unto thy servants, that with boldness they may
speak thy word.
Ver. 31. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where
they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the Holy
Ghost, and spake the word of God with boldness.
Rev. vi. 9. Under the altar in heaven John saw the souls of them
that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which
they held.
Ver. 10. And they cried with a loud voice, saying, how long, O
Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood vipon
them that dwell on the earth. See also, Ps. ix. 13 — x. 1, 24. — xiii. 2,
3, 4. — XXV. 2, 19. — xxxv. 19. — xxxvi. 1 1 — xlii. 9, 10 — xliii. 2. — Ixi.
3 — Ixiv. 1. — Ixvi. 12, 17, 19 — Ixix. 12, 13, 18.— Ixxi. 10, 12.--lxxiv.
3, 10, 18. — Ixxx.6. — Ixxxiii. 16. — Ixxxvi. 17. — Ixxxix. 42 — cii. 8. —
cix. 1. — cxix. 98, — cxxxix. 157. — cxxxviii. 7.
CCH. Prayer in trouble^ instances thereof. Neh. ix. 32. O God, let
not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us.
Ps. iv. 1 . Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness, thou
hast heard me in distress.
XX. 1. The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble.
xxii. 1 1. Be not far from me for trouble is near, for there is no
man to help me.
XXV. 17. The troubles of my heart are enlarged, O bring thou me
out of my distress.
Ver. 22. Redeem Israel, O God, out of ail his troubles.
XXX. 7. Thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled, I cried unto
the Lord.
Ver. 8. Thou hast girded me with gladness. Ver. 1 1,
xxxi. 9. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble.
Ver. 10. My life is spent with grief.
xl. 1. I waited for the Lord, he brought me out of a horrible pit.
V^er. 2.
1. 15. Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee.
Ix. 11. Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man.
Ps. Ixi. 2. I will cry unto thee when my heart is overwhelmed.
Ixix. 17. Hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble.
Ixxi. 20. Thou hast shewed me great wid sore troubles, thou wilt
quicken me again.
Ixxxvii. 2. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.
Ver. 14. Thou art the God that doest wonders.
Ixxxi. 7. Thou caliedst in trouble, and I delivered thee.
Ixxxvi. 7. In the day of trouble I will call upon thee, for thou wilt
answer me.
Ixxxviii. 2. Let my prayer come before thee, for I am full of trou-
ble. Ver. 3.
xci. 15. He shall call upon me, I will answer hiin, I will be with
him in trouble.
Chap. XIV. Prayer. 243
Ps. cii. 2. Hide not thy face from me, in the day when I am in
trouble.
cvii. 6. They cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he deliver-
ed them out of all their distresses. V er. 13, 19, 28.
cxvi. 3. I found sorrow and trouble.
Ver. 4. Then called I on the name of the Lord, O Lord, I be-
seech thee, deliver my soul.
Ver. 7. The Lord dealt bountifully with me.
Ps. cxviii. 5. I called upon the Lord in distress, and the Lord
answered me.
cxx. 1. In my distress I cried unto the Lord, and he heard me.
cxxx. 1. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.
Ver. 2. Lord hear my voice, let thine ears be attentive to the
voice of my supplication.
cxxxviii. 3. In the day when I cried thou answeredst me.
Ver. 7 . Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me.
Ver. 8. Forsake not the work of thine own hands.
cxlii. 2. I poured out my complaint, I shewed before him my
trouble.
Ver. 3. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou
knewest my path.
cxliii. 11. For thy righteousness sake, bring my soul out of trou-
ble. Isa. xxvi. 16. O Lord in trouble have they visited thee, they
poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
xxxiii. 20. O Lord, be gracious unto us, be thou our salvation in
time of trouble.
Jer. xiv. 8. O the hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in time of
trouble, why should thou be as a stranger in the land. Ver. 20.
Lam. iii. 55.1 called upon the name of the Lord, out of the low
dungeon.
Ver. 56. Thou heardst my voice.
Jonah i. 6. The ship-master in danger said unto Jonah, arise and
call upon tliy God.
CCIII. Of jirayerless persons^ or of not firaying. Job xxi. 15. The
wicked say, what is the Almighty that we should serve him ? and
what profit shall we have if we pray unto him ? Mai. iii. 14.
xxxvi. 13. Hypocrites cry not when he bindeth them.
Ps. X. 4. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will
not seek after God ? God is not in all his thoughts.
xiv. 4. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge ? who eat
up my people as bread, and call not upon the Lord. Ps. liii. 4.
Isa. xliii. 22. Thou hast not called upon mc, O Jacob, thou hast
been weary of me, O Israel, Sec.
Ver. 28. Therefore have I profaned the princes of the sanctuary,
and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to the robbers.
Jer. x. 25. Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not^
and upon the families that cull not on thy name. Ps. Ixxix. 6.
Dan. ix. 13. All this evil is come upon us, yet made we not our
prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our ini»
quities, and understand thy truth.
Ver. 14. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and
brought it upon us.
Hh
244 Prayer. Chap. XIV.
Hos. vii. 7. There is none among them that calleth unto me.
Ver. 13. Woe unto them for they have fled from me.
Ver. 14. They have not cried unto me, v^hen they howled upon
their beds.
Zeph. i. 4, 6. I Mill cut off them that turned back from the Lord,
and those that have not sou|2;ht the Lord, nor enquired after him.
James iv. 2. Ye have not because ye ask not.
CCIV, Tht prayers of hypocrites* Ps Ixy.viii. 34. When God slew
them then they sought him and enquired early after God.
Ver. 36. Nevertheless they flattered him with their tongues.
Ver. ol . Their heart was not right with him. Ps. 1. 16.
Ezek. xxxiii. 31. With their mouth they shew much love, but
their heart goeth after their covetousness. Isa. xxix. 14. Jer. xii. 2.
Matt. vi. 6. When thou pray est thou shalt not be as the hypocrites
are, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues, and in the cor-
ners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
XV. 8. Thi^J people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and
honoureth me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Ver. 9. In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men.
xxiii. 14. Woe unto you hypocrites, for ye devour widows houses,
and for a pretence make long prayers. Mark xii. 40.
CCV. Prayers of the nvickcd not acceptable to God. Job xxxv. 13.
God will not hear vanity.
Ps. Ixvi. 11. If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not
hear me.
cix. 7. Let the prayer of the wicked l^ecome a sin.
Prov. i. 27. When distress ana anguish coraeth, then shall they
call upon me, but I will not answer, they shall seek me early but
they shall not find me.
Ver. 29. For that they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the
fear of the Lord.
XV. 8. The sacrifice of the- wicked is an abomination to the Lord.
Ch. XTsi. 27.
Isa. i. 4. Ah 1 sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity.
Ver. 1 1. \o what purpose is the multitude of you sacrifices to me,
saith the Lord ?
Ver. 15. When ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes
from you, when ye make many prayers I will not hear; your hands
are full of blood.
lix. 1. I he Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, nor
his ear heavy that it cannot hear.
\'er. 2. But your iniquities have separated between you and your
C'-od, and your sins ha\e hid his face from you that lie will not hear.
Isa. Ixvi 3.
Jer. vi. 19. Behold I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit
of their thoui^hts, because they have ut t heaikened unto my worcs
nor to my h.w, but rejected it.
Ver. 20, Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacri-
fices sweet unto me. Ch. vii. 20, 21, 22-. Amos v. 22, 23.
xi. 10, They are turned back to the iniquities of their ibre-fathers
wliich refujicd to hear my words.
Chap. XIV. Of praising God, 245
Jer. xi. 11. Therefore thus saith the Lord, 1 will bring evil upcA
them, and though they cry unto me I will not hearken unto them.
Ver. 14. Pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry nor
prayer for them, for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto
me for their trouble. See Ch. xiv. 11, 12. Ezek. viii. 18. Mic. iii. 4.
Zech.vii. 13. Jobxxvii. 9. Lam. iii. 42, 44. Matt. xv. 8,9. John ix. 31.
The prayers of the wicked answered with reproofs and threaten-
ings. Ps. i. 16. Jer. xxxii. 16 to 25, 44. — xxxvii. 3 to 6. — xlii. 2 to
9. Zech. vii. 2, 4 to 14.
OF PRAISING GOD.
CCVL Praise and thanks due unto God, and required by him Jrviik
the righteous. Exod. xv. I i . Who is like unto thee, O Lord, glori-
ous in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders.
1 Chron. xvi. 25. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. Ps.
xlviii. 1.
Ps. xlvii. 7. God is King of all the earth, sing ye praises with un-
derstanding.
1. 14. Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows to the Most
High.
Ver. 23. Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me.
Ixvi. 2. Sing forth the honour of his name, make his praise glorious.
Ver. 4. All the earth shall sing to thy holy name.
Ixviii. 4. Sing unto God, sing praises to his name, extol him that
rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah.
Ver. 32. Shig unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth.
Ixix. 30. I will praiire the name of God with a song, I will magni-
fy him with thanksgiving.
Ver. 31. This shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock.
xcii. 1. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing
praises unto thy name, O Most Hi,:!).
Ps. xcii. 2, To shew forth thy living kindness every morning, and
thy fed Ih fulness every night. Ps. cxxxv. 3.
xcvi. 2. Sing unto the Lord, bless his name, shew forth his salva-
tion from day to day.
cvii. 32. Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and de-
clare his works with rejoicing.
cxlv. 3. Great is the Lord, and greatly' to be praised, his greatness
is unsearchable. Ps. xcvi. 4.
cl. 6. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.
Isa. xiii. 8. "Sly glory will 1 not give to another, nor my praise to
graven images.
xlii. 10. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the
end of the earth. Ch. xliii. 21. Jer. xx. 13.
Phil.iv. 6. In every thing by prayer and supplication vath thanks-
giving, let your requests be made known to God.
Col. ii.7. Abounding in faith, with thanksgiving.
iii. 15. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which ye arc
called, and be ye thankful.
1 Pet. ii. 9. Ye are a chosen generation, to shew forth the praises
of him that called you.
246 Praise. Chap. XIV.
PRAISE.
CCVII. Praiseafrom the loicked unaccefitahle to God. Amos iv. 2.
The Lord will take you away with hooks.
Ver. 5. Offer a thanksgiving with leaven, for this liketh you.
Ver. 6. I have given you cleanness of teeth, and want of bread, Sec.
V. 22. Though ye offer burnt-offerings, and meat-offerings, I will
nbt accept them.
Ver. 24. But let judgment run down like waters, Sec.
Luke xviii. 1 1. The Pharisee said, God I thank thee, that I am not
as other men, — yet he went not to his house justified.
CC\^IIL The wicked unthankful. Rom. i. 2 L When they knew
God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful. Sec.
2 Tim. iii. 2. Men shall be lovers of then- own selves, 8cc. unthank-
ful, unholy, Sec.
CCIX. Praise must be frequent. Ps. xxxiv. I . I will bless the Lord
at all times, his praise shall be continually in my mouth.
XXXV. 28. My tongue shall speak of thy righteousness, and of thy
praise all the day long.
Ps. Ixiii 4. I will bless thee while I live.
cxi. 1. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart. Ps. cxxxiii. I.
cxix. 1 64. Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righte-
ous judgments.
c -Iv. 2. Lvery day will I bless thee, and will praise thy name for
ever and ever.
CCX. With sincerity. Ps. cxi. 1. I will praise the Lord with my
whole heart.
1 Cor. ^iv. 15.1 will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the
understanding. Ps. xivii. 7.
Eph. V. 19. Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord.
Col. iii. 16. Singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
CCXL God pre/iareth his Jieo file for his praise^ — or divine infiuen-
ces therein. Ps. li. 15. O Lord open thou my lips, and my mouth shall
shew forth thy praise.
c .iii. i7L My lips shall utter praise when thou hast taught thy
law to me.
Ver. 175. Let my soul live, and it shall praise thee.
Isa. xliii. 2 1 . This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew
forth my praise.
Ixi. 11. The Lord will caiise righteousness, and praise to spring
forth.
Jer. xiii. 1 1 . I have caused to cleave unto me the whole house
of Israel, and the whole house of Judah, saith the Lord, that they
TTiight be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and
for a glory, but they would not hear.
Jer. xxxiii. 8. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, and will
pardon all theii' iniquities whireby they have sinned, and whereby
they have transgressed against me.
Ver. 9. And it shall be to me for a name of joy and praise, and an
honour before ail nations of the earth. Ver. 1 1.
Chap. XIV. Praise. 247
Hos. xiv. 2. Take away all our iniquity, Sec. so will we render the
calves of our lips.
Matt. xxi. 16. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast
perfected praise. Ps. viii. 2.
CXII. Thanking God through Christ. Rom. i. 8. I thank my God
through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of through ,
the whole world.
Rom. vii. 24. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death.
Ver. 25. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Cor.
XV. 57. who giveth us the victory, 2 Cor. ii. 14. which caus-
eth us to triumph.
Phil. i. 1 1. The fruits of righteousness are by Jesus Christ to the
praise and glory of God.
Heb. xiii. 15. By him let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name.
Eph. V. 20. Give thanks always for all things unto God, and the
Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
CCXIU. Praise is a /lart of public tvorshifi. Ps. ix. 11. Sing praises
to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion, declare among the people his
doings.
Ver. 14. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, that I may shew forth
thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
xxii. 22. In the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Ver. 24. My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation.
Ps. xxvi. 8. O Lord, I have loved the habitations of thy house,
and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Ver. 12. In the congregation will I bless the Lord.
xxvii. 4. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek af-
ter, that 1 may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the Lord, and enquire in his temple.
Ver. 6. I will offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy, I will sing
praises unto the Lord.
XXXV. 18. I will give thee thanks in the great congregation, I will
praise thee among much people.
xlii. 2. When shall I come and appear before God ?
Ver. 5. I shall yet praise him.
Ivii. 3. I will praise thee among the people, I will sing unto thee
among the nations.
Ver. 10. For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth
reacheth unto the clouds. Ps. cviii. 3. — cix. 30.
Ixv. 1. Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Zion.
Ixxxiv. 4. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, they will be
still praising thee.
Ps. Ixxxix. 5. The heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord, thy
faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.
Ver. 7. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints,
to be had in reverence of all that are about him.
xcv. 2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, &.c.
Ver. 3.
c. 4. (Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with
praise.
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248 Praise. Chap, XIV.
Ps. cii. 2 J. Declare the name of the Lord- in Zion, and his praise
in Jerusalem.
Ver. 22. When the people are gathered together to serve the
Lord.
cvii. 32. Let them exalt him in the congregation of the people,
and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
cxi. 1, I will praise the Lord in the assembly of the upright.
cxvi. 18. I will pay my vows unto the Lord in the presence of all
liis people.
Ver. 19. In the courts of the Lord's house.
cxviii. 19. Open to me the gates of righteousness, and I will go
into them, and I will praise the Lord.
cxxxiv. 2. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the
Lord.
cxxxv. 19. Bless the Lord, O house of Israel, bless the Lord, O
house of Aaron.
Ver. 21. Blessed be the Lord out of Zion, which dwelleth in Je-
rusalem, praise ye the Lord,
cxxxviii. 1. I will praise thee with my whole heart, before the
i»ods will I snig praise unto thee. See Neh. viii. 6. — h . 5. Ps. cxlvii.
7, 12. — cxlix. l.— cl. 1, 2, 6. Isa. Ixiv. 11. Heb. ii. 12. Rev. vii. 12.
See regulations made for the order of public thanks and praise.
1 Chron. xvi. 4, 7. — xxiii. 30. — xxix. 13 to 20. Ps. cv. 1. 2 Chron.
v. 13. Neh. xi. 17 — xii. 8, 24, &c.
CCXIV. Of fiwgi?!^- the /I'^aisetf 'jf God. Job \yix\m. 6. When the
foundations of the earth were laid,
Ver. 7. The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy.
Ps. xiii. 6. I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt boun-
tifully with me.
xviii. 49. I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, among the heathen,
and sing praises unto thy name. Rom. xv. 19.
xxi. 13. Be thou exalted in thine own strength, so will we sing
and praise thy power. Ps. lix. 16, 17.
XXX. 4. Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, give thanks at the
remembrance of his holiness. Ver. 12. Ps. vii. 17.
xxxiii. 3* Sing unto him a new song, play skilfully with a loud
noise.
li. 14. I will sing aloud of thy righteousness- Ver. 15.
Ixvii. 4. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy. Ps. ix. 2, 1 1.
— xlii- 4. — Ixxxi. 1. — xcv. 1, 2 xcvi. 1, 2 — xcviii. 8, 9. — c. 2.
Ixxxix. 1. I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever. Ps. Ixi.
7, 8. — ci. 1. — cviii 3.
civ. 33. I will sing unto my God while I have being. Ps. Ixxv. 9.
•^-cxlvi. 2. Isa. xxxAiii. 20.
cv. 2. Sing psalms unto him, talk of all his wondrous works.
cxxxviii. 5. Kings of the earth shall sing in the ways of the Lord,
for great is the glory of the Lord.
cxlvii. 1, 7, 8, 9. Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving, who co-
vereth the heaven with clouds, who giveth the beast his food.
cxlix. 1. Sini^untd the Lord a now sonn;. Ps, cxliv. 9,
Chap. XIV. Praise, 249
Ps. cxlix. 5. Let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud
upon their beds.
Ver. 6. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth.
Isa. xii. 5. Sing unto the Lord, for he hath done excellent things.
xxiv. 14. They shall sing for the majesty of the Lord.
xxvi. 19. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust, for thy dew
is as the dew of herbs.
XXXV. 6. ^'he tongue of the dumb shall sing.
Ver. 10. The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion
with songs, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads. Ch. li. 11.
xlii. 10. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the
end of the earth.
Ver. 1 2. Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise
in the islands.
xlviii. 20. Go forth with the voice of singing, the Lord hath re-
deemed his servant Jacob.
Isa. xlix. 13. Sing O heavens, and be joyful, O earth, for the
Loid hath comforted his people, Ch. xiv. 23. — lii. 9. — Iv. 12. Ps.
cxxvi. 1,2.
Acts xvi. 25. At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sung praises
to God in the prison.
James v. 13. Is any merry ? let him sing psalms.
CCXV. The subjects of praise and thanks to God are so many and va-
rious that they cannot be emivierated. Let therefore a brief view of ttie
principal of them suffice under the following heads^ viz.
. God's goodness ajid mercy ^ and acts thereof towards mankind* Ps. xvi.
7. I will bless the Lord who hath given me counsel.
Ps. xxviii. 7. The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart
trusted in him and I am helped, therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth,
and with my song will I praise him.
xxxiii. 2. Praise the Lord. Ver. 5. The earth is full of his good-
ness.
xlii. 5. I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Ivii. 9. I will praise thee, O Lord. Ver. U). For thy mercy is great
im.to the heavens, and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. Ps. cviii.
3, 4,.
Ixiii. 3. Because thy loving-kindness is better than life my lips shall
praise thee. Ver. 5. Ch. cxxxviii. 1,2.
Ixvii. 1. God be merciful unto us, and bless us, and cause thy face
to shine upon us. Ver. 3. And let the people praise thee, O God.
Ixviii. 19. Blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with his bene-
fits, even the God of our salvation.
Ver. 35. The God of Israel is he, that giveth strength and power
to his people, blessed be God.
Ixxi. 6. By thee have I been holden up from the womb, thou art
he that took me out of my mother's bowels.
Ver. 8. My praise shall be continually of thee.
Ver. 14. I will hope continuallv and praise thee more and more.
Ver. 23.
Ixxxvi. 12. I will praisje thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart,
and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
250 Pfaise. Chap. XIV.
Ps. Ixxxvi. 13. For gpcat is thy mercy toward mc, and thou hast
delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Ixxxix. 1 . I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever. Ver. 2.
c. 4. Be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
Ver. 5. For the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting, and his
truth to all generations. Ps. cxvii. 1, 2.
ciii. 2. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.
Ver. 3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy
diseases.
cvi. 1. Praise ye the Lord, O give thanks unto the Lord, for he
is good, for his mercy endureth for ever. Ps. xlvii. 48. — cvii. 1, 8,
15, 21, 31.
Isa. xii. 2. The Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song, he al-
so is become my salvation.
Ver. 4. Praise the Lord, declare his doing among the people,
make mention that his name is exalted.
Ver. 5. Sing unto the Lord, for he hath done excellent things.
Ixiii. 7. I will mention the loving kindness of the Lord, Sec. See
also Ps. cxii. 1, 4.— cxv. 12, 18. — cxviii. 19, 21, 28, 29. — cxxxiv. 1,
2, 3. — cxxxv. 2, 3, 14, 19. — cxxxviii. 2, 4 — cxlv. 1, 8, 9. — cxlvi. I,
8, 10. — cxlviii. 1, 7, 14. Jer. xxxiii. 11.
CCXVL For Christ. Luke i. 68. Blessed be the God of Israel,
for he hath visited and redeemed his people.
Ver. 69. He hath raised up an horn of salvation for us.
Ver. 70. As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets.
ii. 10. The angel said, behold I bring you glad tidings of great
joy-
Ver. 1 1 . Unto you is born a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Isa. ix. 6.
Ver. 13. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of
the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Ver. 14. Glory to God in the highest, peace and good will toward
men.
Ver. 28. Simeon (at seeing Christ) blessed God.
Ver, 29. And said, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.
Ver. 30. For mine eyes have seen thy salvation.
Ver. 31. Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people.
Ver. 32. A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy
people Israel. Luke ii. 38. — xxiv- 52, 53.
2 Cor. ix. 15. Thanks to God for his unspeakable gift.
CCXVII. For blessings from God by and through Christ, 1 Cor. i.
4. I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which
is given you by Jesus Christ.
Ver. 5. That in every thing ye are enriched by him, so that ye
come behind in no gift.
XV. 57. Thanks to God who giveth us the victory, through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Cor. ii. 14. Thanks to God who always causeth us to triumph in
C:hrist.
Eph. i. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
uho hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in
Christ.
Chap. XIV. Praise. 251
Eph. i. 4. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foun»
dation of the world.
Ver. 6. And hath made us accepted in the beloved.
1 Pet. i. 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord JesUs
Christ, who according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again
to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Ver. 4. To an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth
not away, reserved in heaven for you. Rom. i. 8. — vii. 25.
CCXVIII. For God's will revealed. Matt. xi. 25. Jesus said, 1
thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast
hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them
unto babes. '
CCXIX. For the obedience and faith of Christians^ as owing to God.
Rom. vi. 17. God be thanked ye have obeyed from the heart, that
form of doctrine which was delivered unto you.
2 Cor. viii. 16. Thanks be to God, which put the same earnest
care into the heart of Titus for you.
Eph. i. 15. After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,
and love to all the saints,
Ver. 1 6. I ceased not to give thanks for you, making mention of
you in my prayers.
Phil. i. 3. I thank God upon every remembrance of you. 1 Cor.
i. 4.
Col. i. 3. We give thanks to God, and the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Ver. 4. Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the
love which ye have to all the saints.
1 Thess. ii. 13. We thank God without ceasing, because when ye
received the word of God, ye received it not as the M'ord of men,
but (as it is in truth) the word of God.
iii. 9. What thanks can we render to God for you, for the joy
wherewith we joy for your sakes before God.
2 Thess. i. 3. We are bound to thank God always for you brethren,
because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of eve-
ry one of you toward each other aboundeth.
1 Tim. i. 12. I thank Jesus our Loi-d who hath enabled me, for
that he counted me faithful, puittng me into the ministry.
2 Tim. i. 3. I thank God whom I serve with a p\u'e conscience,
that without ceasing, I have remembrance of you in my prayers.
2 Cor, ix. 1 L God thanked for charitable contributions of saints
to others in distress.
CCXX. For God's care of his church. Ps. ix. 11. Sing praises to
the Lord which dweileth in Zion.
V^er. 15. The heathen are ^unk down in the pit that they made.
Ixix. oO. T will praise the name of God with a song, and will mag-
nify him with thanksgiving. Ver. 35. For God will save Zion.
cii. 16. When the Lgrd shall build Zion he shall appear in iiis
glory.
Ver. 18. And the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord-
cxlvii. 1, 2. Praise the Lord— The Lord, doth buiicl up Jerusalem.
Ver.. 12. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, pnuse thv God, O Zion.
Ii
252 Praise. Chap. XIV.
Ps. cxlvii. 1 3. For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates, he
hath blessed thy children within thee.
Ver. 14. He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with
the finest of the wheat. Ps. cxlix. i to 6. See xli. 9, 10. — cxlyi. 1, 7,
8, 9, 10. Isa. xii. 1, 2.— li. 3. — ix. 6, 8,9. — Ixiii. 7, 8, 9. Jcr. xxx.
18, 19. Acts ii. 47.
CCXXI. For God*s great and marvellous roorks. Ps. xxvi. 7. That
I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell all thy wondrous
works. Ps. cxlv. 4, 10.
Ixvi. 1. Make a joyfiil noise unto God all ye lands.
Ver. 2. Sing forth the honour of his name, and make his praise
glorious.
Ver. 3. Say unto him, how terrible art thou in thy works.
Ixxv. Unto thee, O God, we do give thanks, for that thy name is
near, thy wondrous works declare.
civ. I. Bless the Lord, O my soul, O Lord my God, thou art very
great, thou art cloathed with honour and majesty.
Ver. 24. How manifold are thy works ! in wisdom thou hast made
them all.
cvii. 22. Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and de-
clare his works with rejoicing. Ver. 8.
cxi. 1. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, the works of
the Lord are great.
Ver. 2. His work is most honourable and pure. Ver. 3.
cxxxix. 14. I will praise thee, for 1 am fearfully and wonderfully
made, marvellous are thy works. Rev. xv. 3.
Ps. cl. I. Praise the Lord. Ver. 2. Praise him for his mighty acts,
praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Ver. 6. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.
cxiviii. 5. Praise the name of the Lord, for he commanded and
they were created.
Isa. xlii. 12. Let him give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise
in the islands. See Ps. ix. 1. — xl. 5. — Ixviii. 4, 26, 33. — Ixxiii. 28. —
Ixxviii. 4. — Ixxxvi. 8. — xcii. 5. — cv. 5.
CCXXI L Fur God's marvelloua acts ii/ion the bodies and ivinds of men.
Dan. iv. 34, ?:>7 . Nebuchadnezzer praised God for being restored
to the use of reason.
.Jonah ii. 8, 9. Jonah for his being delivered from the fish.
Luke i. 64. Zacharias for his being restored to the use of his speech.
xviii. 43. The blind for being restored to the use oT sight.
Acts iii. 8. The Lame for being healed.
Isa. xxxviii. 20. Hezekiah praised Ciod for his re covcry from sick-
ness. See Ps. cKviii. 19, 21.
CCXXHL For daily bread. Dent. viii. 10. Wlicn thou hast eaten
and art full, then thou slialt bless the Lord thy (iod.
Isa. Ixii. 8. They that have gathered in the corn and wine, shall
eat and praise the Lord.
Joel ii. 26. Ye shall cat in plenty, and be satifiiiod, and praise the
name of the Lord your God, tluit hath dealt wonderously with you.
Mark viii. 6. Jesus took t?K" seven loaves and gave thanks. John
vi. I J, .i:^.
Chap. XIV. Praine, "-ZSo
Acts xxvii. 35. Paul took bread and srave thanks.
Rom. xiv. 6. He that eateth to the Lord, giveth God thanks.
1 Tim. iv. 3. Meats God hath created to be received with thanks-
giving; of them that know the truth.
Ver. 4. Every creature of God is good, if it be received with
thanksgiving. See 1 Cor. x. 30, 31.
CCXXIV. For deliverance from trouble and affiiction, Ps. xxii. 23.
Ye that fear the Lord, praise him, all ye seed of Jacob giorify him,
and fear him all ye seed of Israel.
Ver. 24. For he hath not despised the affiiction of the afflicted,
neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he cried unto him,
he heard.
XXX. 1 1 . Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing, thou
hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.
Ver. 12. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.
xxxiv. 1 . I will bless the Lord at all times, his praises shall be con-
tinually in my mouth.
Ver. 4. He delivered me from all my fears.
xlii. 1 1. 1 shall praise him, who is the health of my countenance
and my God. Ps. xl. 2.
liv. 6. I will praise the Lord for it is good.
Ver. 7. For he hath delivered me out of all trouble.
Ivi. 12. I will render praise unto thee, for thou hast delivered my
soul from death. Ps. cxvi. 8.
Ixvi. 8. O bless our God, ye people, make the voice of his praise
to be heard.
Ver. 9. Who hokleth our souls in life, and sufTcreth not our feet
to be moved.
xcii. 1. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to
sing praise unto the name of the Most High. Ver. 2, 3.
Ver. 4. For thou Lord hast made me glad through my works. See
Ps. xxvi. 12. — xxxi. 7, 2 1 — cxlii. 7. — cxliv. 7, 9.
CCXXV. For deliverance from envmien. Gen. xiv. 20. Melchise^
deck said to Abraham, blessed be the most high God, that hath de-
livered thine enen-ies into thine hand.
Exod. xviii. 10. .lethro said, blessed be the Lord who hath deliver-
ed you out of the hand of the Egyptians. See Excd. xv. 1 to 22. Ps.
iMNviii. 4, 12.
Deut. X. 21. The Lwd, he is thy praise, he is thy God, whicli
hath done for thcc these great and terrible things, which thine eyes
have seen.
2 Sam. xxii. 2. The Lord is my rock and ray fortress, and my de-
liverer. Ps. xviii. 3.
Ver. 47. Blessed be my rock, and exalted he the God of my sal-
vation.
1 Chron. xvi. 34. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good. Ps.
cvii. 1. — cxviii. 1. — cxxxvi. 1.
I Chron. xvi. 35. Say ye, save us, O God of our salvation, and ga-
ther us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we n)ay give
thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
V^er. 36. The people said, Amen, praised be the Lord.
254 Praise. Chap. XIV.
Ps. vii. 6. Arise, O Lord, Hft up thyself, because of mine enemies.
Ver. 10. My defence is of God, who saveth the uprii^ht in heart.
Ver. 17. I will praise the Lord according to his rij^hteousness, and
sing praise to the name of the Most High. Ps. ix. 2.
ix. I. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart, and shew forth
thy marvellous works.
Ver. 2. I will be t^lad and rejoice in thee.
Ver. 3. When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and
perish at thy presence. Ver. 14.
xxi. 8. Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies.
Ver. 13. Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength, so will we
sing and praise thy power.
xxii. 20. Deliver my soul from the sword.
Ver. 25. My praise shall be of thee. Ps. xxxv. 18, 28.
xxx. 1. I will exalt thee, O Lord, for thou hast lifted me up, and
hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
Ver. 12. 1 will give thanks unto thee for ever and ever.
xlii. 9. Why go I mourning, because of the oppression of the
enemy.
Ver. 1 1 . O my soul, hope in God, for I shall yet praise him.
xliii. I. O God, plead my cause against the ungodly — I will praise
thee. Ver. 4.
xliv. 7. Thou hast saved us from our enemies, and put them to
shame that hated us.
Ver, 8. In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for
ever and ever.
Ivi. 4. In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust.
Ver. 9. When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back.
Ivii. 3. He shall send from heaven and save me from the reproach
of him that would swallow me up.
Ver. 5. Be thou exalted. Lord, above the heavens, and let thy glo-
ry be above the earth.
Ver. 7. 1 will sing and give praise.
Ixi. 3. Thou hast been a shelter for me, a strong tower.from the
enemy.
Ver. 8. I will sing praise to thy name for ever.
Ixxi. 10. Mine enemies spake against me, and they that wait for
my soul took counsel together, &c.
Ver. 22. I will praise thee, my God, O thou holy one of Israel.
Ver. 24. My tongue shall speak of thy righteousness all the day
Jong, for they are brought into shame that seek my luirt.
Ixxix. 9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name.
Ver. 13. So wc will give thee thanks for ever and ever, and will
shew forth thy praise to all generations.
xcviii. 3. The Lord hath made known his salvation, his righteous-
ness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
,\ er. 4. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth, rejoice
and sing his praise.
cxi. 6. He hath shewed his people the power of his works, that h^
may give them the heritage of the heathen.
Chap. XIV. Nonotiring God, 255
Ps. cxi. 9. He sent redemption unto his people.
Ver. 10. His praise endureth for ever.
cxxiv. 2. Men rose up against us.
Ver. 6. Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us a prey to
their teeth.
Rev. xix. I. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, say-
ing, Alleluia, salvation, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our
God.
xix. 2. For true and righteous are his judgments, for he hath judg-
ed the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornica-
tions, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. See
Exod XV. I. Compare Rev. xv. 2. Judges v. 3. 2 Chron. xx. 22,
26, 28. Ps. xviii. 46. — xxviii. 6. — xli. 9, 13. — cvi. 12. — cxviii. 14,
J5.— cxliv. 1, 2. Isa. XXV. 1, 4.
HONOURING GOD.
CCXXVL Honour due to God and claimed by him. Mai. i. 6. A
son honoureth hi.i f tiier, and a servant his master ; if I then be a
Fatiier, where is mine honour ? If I be a Master, where is my fear?
5aith the Lord of hosts. John viii. 49. Jesus said, honour my Father.
1 Sam. ii. 30. The Lord saith, them that honour me, I will ho-
nour.
CCXXVn. God is to be honoured by acts of worshifi upraise and thanks*
Ps. xxvi. 8. Lord, I have icved the habitation of thy house, and
the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Ixvi. 2. Sing forth the honour of his name, make his praise glo-
rious.
Ixxi. 8. Let my mouth be filled with thy praise, and with thine
honour all the day.
xcvi. 6. Honour and majesty are before him, strength and beauty
are in his sanctuary. 1 Chron. xvi. 27.
civ. 1. Thou art cloathed with honour and majesty,
cxlv. 5. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of
thy wondrous works.
Isa. xliii. 20. The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragon,
and the owls : Because I give waters in the Avilderness, and rivers in
the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
Dan. iv. 37. 1 did extol and honour the King of heaven, all whoso
works are truth, and his ways judgment. Ver. 34.
1 Tim. i. 17. To the only wise God be honour and glory, &c.
Ch. vi. 16.
Rev. iv. 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and ho-
nour, and power, 8>cc. Ch. vii. 12. — xix. 1, 7.
CCXXVUI. By holiness of life. Jer. xxxiii. 8. I will (saith the
Lord) cleanse them from all their iniquity.
Ver. 9. And it shall be to me a name of joy and praise., and an
honour before all the nations of the earth.
CCXXIX. By keeping the Sabbath, Isa. Iviii. 13. If thou turn away
thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy dayj
and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord honourable, and
25iJ Glorifying God. Chap. XIV.
shalt honour him, not do'uii^ thine own wajs, nar flndh-sg tlilnc ov.n
pleasure, nor speaking thine own words.
Isa. iviii. 14. Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and T
will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed
thee with the heritage of Jacob.
CCXXX. Hy acts of charity and mercy to the fioor. Prov. iii. 9.
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all
thine increase, so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy pres-
ses shall burst out with new wine.
xiv. 31. He that oppresseth the poor, reproacheth his Maker, but
he that howoureth him hath mercy on the poor. Ver. 21.
CCXXXI. Ho-nnurin:^ Christy motives to it. John v. 22. The Fa-
ther hath committed all judgment unto the Son.
Ver. 23. 1 hat all men should honour the Son, even as they ho-
nour the Father ; he that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the
Father that sent him. See Rev. v. 12, 13. The Father and Son ho-
noured.
John viii. 58. Jesus said, it is the Father that honoureth me.
2 Pet. i. 17. He received from God the Father honour and glory,
when there came such a voice from the excellent glory, this is my
beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Matt. xvii. 5.
For the honours due and paid to Christ by the church, in heaven and
upon earth, sec Chap, concerning the dignity and offices of Je-
sus Christ.
CCXXXH. The ivickeu dishonour God and are fmniahed, Lsa. xxix.
13. This people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips
do honour me, but have removed their heart far fi-om me, woe unto
them. Ver. 14. Ch. xliii. 25. — Iviii. 2. Matt. xv. 8. Pom. ii. 23.
1 Sam. ii. 29. The Lord said to Eli, wherefore honourest thou
thv sons above me ? to make yourselves fat with the choicest of the
oflcrings of Jacob ?
Ver. 36. Behold it shall come to pass, that every one that is left
in thine house, shall come and crouch to the priest for a piece of sil-
ver, and for a morsel of bread, and shall say, put me (I pray thee)
into one of the priest's offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
Ver. 30. For them that honour me I will honour, and them that
despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
GLORIFYING GOD.
CCXXXHL To glorify God commanded. 1 Sam. vi. 5. Ye shall
give glory to the God of Israel. I Cor. vi. 20 — x. 31.
ls;\. xlix. 3. Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be
glorified. Ch. xliii- 7.
XCXXXIV. Christ i^lorijied God on earth. John xiii. 31. God is
glorified in jiim. Ver. 32.
xvii. 4. I have glorified thee on earth, I have finisiicd the work
wli ch thou gavest me to do Ch. vii. 18. He sought God's glory.
CCXXX V. DIen glorify God by Jiruine and thankf nines -i.
1 Chron. xvi. 28. Give unto the Lord, ye kindreds of the people,
give unto tlic Lord, glory and strcnj^th. \cv. 24.
Chap. XIV. Glorifying GocL 257
1 Chron. xvi. 29. Give unto the Lord, the glory due unto his
name, come before him, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Ps. xxix. 1, 2, 9. — xcvi. 3, 7, 8 — Ixxii. 19.
Ps. xxii. 23. Ye that fear the Lord, praise him, all ye seed of Ja-
cob glorify him. '^
1. 23. Whoso offereth praise, glorifieth me. V^cr. 15.
Ixxxvi. 9. All nations whom thou hast made shall come and wor-
ship before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name.
cxv. 1. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give
glory, for thy mercy and for thy truth's sake. Isa. xxv. 3, 4.
Isa. xlii. 12. Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare his
praise in the islands. Ch. xxiv. 15.
Luke ii. 20. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising Gcd.
Acts xi. 18. The brethren glorified God for the conversion of
the Gentiles.
Gal. i. 24. The apostles glorified God, in Paul, for his conver-
sion. Acts xxi. 20.
CCXXXVL By faith. Rom. iv. 20. Abraham was strong in faith,
giving glory to God.
Eph. i. 12.. We being predestinated, that we should be to the
praise of his glory who first trusted in Christ. Ver. 5, 6.
Phil. ii. 11. Confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father.
CCXXXVIL By good works. Matt. v. 16. Let your light so shine
before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your
Father which is in heaven. 1 Pet. ii. 12.
John XV. 8. Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit.
Phil. i. 1 1. Being filled with the fruits of rigJucousness which are
by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
CCXXXVIIl. Various branches of duty nvhcreby God is to be glo-
rified. Jos. vii. 19. Joshua said to Achan, give glory to the God oi"
Lsrael, and make confession of thy secret sin.
Hag. i. 7. Thus saich the Lord of Hosts. \c\\ 8. Bring wood and'
build the house and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorifie«t.
John xxi. 19. This spake Jesus, signifying by what death Peter
should glorify God.
Rom. XV. 5. Be ye like minded one toward another. Ver. 6. That
ye may with one mind, and v.ith one F.iouth glorify Ciod, ev(^n xh^
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Cor. iv. 15. All things are for your sakes, that the abundant
grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory
of God.
viii. 19. This grace (or gift to the poor saints) is af.!ninih:!er<'d by
us to the glory of the same Lord. Ch. ix. 13.
I Pet. iv. 11. If any speak let him speak as the ori.t.lr.s oi God,
that God in all things may be gjorifted through Jesu:^ Ch;ist.
Ver. 16. Jf any suii'er as a Cluistian, let him giorifv Ciod on this
behalf.
Rev. xiv. 7. Fear God and give glory to him. Ch. xi. 13. — xv. 4.
1 Cor, X. 31. Whether ye eat or drink, or whutsovcr ye do, do ail
to the glory of God.
CCXXXIX. Vi/xoiogies or glory ascribed to God in nuorshh/i. Luks
253 Glorifyiny God, Chap. XIV.
ii. 14. Gloty to God in the highest, and on earth peace, and good-will
toward men.
Rom. xvi. 27. To God only wise be glory, through Jesus Christ
ever. Amen. Jude 25.
Eph. iii. 21. Unto him be gl^y in the church by Jesus Christ
throughout all ages, world without end. Amen. Gal. i. 5.
Phil. iv. 20. Now vinto God and our Father, be glory for ever and
ever. Amen.
2 Tim. iv. 18. The Lord will preserve me unto his heavenly king-
dom, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Heb. xiii. 20. Now the God of peace that brought again from the
dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through
the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Ver. 21. Muke you perfect in every good work to do his will,
working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus
Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Pet. V. -10. The God of all grace who hath called us unto his
eternal glory by Christ Jesus, make7ou perfect, stablish, strengthen,
settle you.
Ver. 1 1. To him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
2 Pet. iii. 18. Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, to' whom be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Rev. fv. 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and ho-
nour, and power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy plea-
sure they are and were created. Rom. xi. 36.
Rev. vii. 12. Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving*
and honour, and power and might, be unto our God for ever and ever.
Amen.
Note. The reader may observe in the above scriptures, that the things
mentioned along with glory, are reasons for ascribing it to God,
also that glory is in some of them directly ascribed to Christ, and
in others to God the Father through Christ. See Christ's glory be-
fore and in his incarnation, and after it. Chap. Upon the dignity
and orfices of Jesus Christ.
CCXL. God h glorified in the restoration and prevalence of true re-
ligion among his people. Ps. ii. 19. Let the whole earth be filled with
his glory. Ps. xcvii. 6. — cii. 16.
Isa. xliv. 23. The Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified him-
self in Israel. Ch. xlix. 3.
Ix. 1. The glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
Ver. 21. Thy people shall be all righteous that I may be glorified.
Isa. Ixi. 3. To give \mto them that mourn in Zion, beauty for ash-
es, 8cc. That they might be called trees of righteousness, the plant-
ing of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Ixvi. 18. 1 will gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come
and see my glory.
Hab. ii. 18. Ihe earth shall be filled with the knowledge of th«
gloi-y of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
Rom. XV. 7. Receive ye one another as Christ received us, to the
glory of C;r-d the Father.
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2 Cor. i. 20. All the promises of God in Christ are yea, and in him
amen, unto the glory of God.
iv. 6. God hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the know-
ledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Eph. i. 6. God having predestinated us to the adoption of children,
by Jesus Christ, to the praise of the glory of his grace. Ver. 12. See
Christ's glory before his incarnation on earth, and after his resurrec-
tion.
God giorified by those who saw miracles wrought by his fiower^ as
when the fialsy was cured. Matt. ix. 8. The dumb made to speak.
Matt. XV. 31. The dead raised to life. Luke. vii. 16. The lame heal-
ed. Luke. xiii. 13. Acts iv. 21. The leper cleansed. Luke xvii. 15.
Sight given to the blind. Luke xviii. 43. The appearances at Christ's
birth. Luke ii. 20. At his death. Luke xxiii. 47.
CCXLL The ivicked glorify not God^ and are punished, Dan. v. 22.
Thou hast not humbled thine heart.
Ver. 23. Daniel said to Balshazzar, thou hast lifted* up thyself
against the Lord of heaven, &c. and the God in whose hand thy breath
is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
Ver. 26. God hath numbered thy kingdom.
Ver. 27. Thou art weighed in the balances and art found w^anting.
Ver. 28. Thy kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Per-
sians.
Mai. ii. 2. If you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,
said the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will
curse your blessings. Jer. xiii. 26.
Acts xii. 23. An angel smote Herod, because he gave not God the
glory, and he was eaten of worms.
Rom. i. 2 1. When they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful.
Ver. 24. Wherefore God gave them up, &c.
iii. 23. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Rev. xvi. 9. The men that were scorched with fire repented not
to give glory to God.
CCXLII. God is glorijied in the destruction of the wicked. Exod. xiv.
4. I will be honoured upon Pharaoh and his host. Ver. 17, 18.
Lev. X. 2. There went out fire from the Lord, and devoured Nadab,
and Abihu.
Ver. 3. The Lord spake saying, before all the people will I be glo-
rified.
Isa. xxvi. 14. Thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all
their memory to perish.
Ver. 15. O Lord, thou art glorified.
Ezek.xxviii. 22. Thus saith the Lord God, behold I am againstfthee,
Zidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of thee. Ch. xxxix. 1 1 .
CCXLIII. Sanctifying God. Lev. x. 3. The Lord spake, saying,
1 will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the peo-
ple I will be glorified.
Isa. V. 16. God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness,
vili. 13. Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself, and let him be your
fear, and let him be vour dread.
K k
260 Godliyiess, Chap. XV.
Isa. xxix. 23. They shall sanctify my name, and shall sanctify the
holy one of Jacob.
Ezek. XX. 41.1 will be sanctified in you before the heathen. Ch.
xxxvi. 23. — xxviii. 25.— xxxix. 21.
1 Pet. iii. 15. Sanctify the Mfcrd God in your hearts. See Ezek.
xxviii. 22. — xxxviii. 16.
CCXLIV. Threats against those that sanctify not God. Numb. xx.
12. The Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, because ye believed me
not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye
shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given
them. Ch. xxvii. 14. Deut. xxxii. 51.
CHAP. XV.
CHARACTERS GOOD AND BAD, WITH PROMISES AND THREATS.
I. GODLINESS in heart and life. Ps. xxxii. 6. For this shall eve-
ry godly one pray unto thee.
2 Cor. i. 12. Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,
that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not by fleshly wisdom, but by
the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world.
vii. 9. Ye were made sorry [for sin] after a godly manner. Ver.
10, 11.
xi. 2. Paul said, I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy.
1 Tim. ii. 2. Pray that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in
all godliness and honesty.
Ver. 10. Good works become women professing godliness.
iv. 7. Exercise thyself unto godliness.
JY. 11. O man of God, follow after righteousness, godliness, faith^
love, patience, meekness, fight the good fight of faith.
Tit. ii. 12. Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, live soberly,
righteously and godly in the present world.
Heb. xii. 28. Let us serve God with reverence and godly fear.
2 Pet. i. 16. Add to patience, godliness, Sec. Ver. 7.
iii. 1 1. What manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conver-
sation and godliness ?
IL Frojnises to the godly. Ps. iv. 3. The Lord hath set apnrt him
that is godly for himself.
1 Tim. iv. 8. Godliness is profitable unto all things, haviag the
promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
vi. 6. Godliness with contentment is great gain.
2 Pet. ii. 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto ihe day of judgment to
be punished.
IIL Means of godliness given, Ps. xii. 1. Help Lord, for the godly
man ceaseth.
Rom. xi. 26. Christ shall turn aM'-ay ungodliness from .Tacob.
1 Tim. iii. 16. The gospel contains the mystery of gocUin-js^.
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1 Tim. vi. 3. Gospel contains the doctrine which is according to
j^odliness.
Tit. i. 1 . The truth [in the gospel] is according to godliness.
IV. Godimetis miareprcaented. 1 Tim. vi. 3. Corrupt men suppose
tliat gain is godliness.
2 Tim. iii. 5. Hypocrites have a form of godliness, but deny the
power thereof.
\-, The ungodly described by their practice. Ps. xviii. 4. Floods of
ungodly men made me afraid.
Prov. xvi. 27. An ungodly man diggeth up evil.
xix. 28. An ungodly witness scorncth judgment.
2 Tim. ii. 16. Vain babblings increase unto ungodliness.
Jude ver. 4. Ungodly men turn the grace of God into lascivious-
ness.
Ver. 18. They walk after their own ungodly lusts.
VI. Threats against the ungodly, 2 Chron. xix. 2. Shouldest thou
help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord ? therefore is
wrath upon thee from the Lord.
Ps. i. 1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
ungodly.
Ver. 4. The ungodly are like the chaff which the wind driveth
away.
Ver, 5. The ungodly shall not stand in judgment,
Ver. 6. The way of the ungodly shall perish.
iii. 7. Thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
xliii. 1. Plead my cause against an ungodly nation.
Ixxiii. 12. The ungodly prosper in the world, they increase in
riches.
\'er. 1 8. Thou didst set them in slippery places, thou castedst
them down into destruction.
Rom. i. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against al)
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.
1 Pet. iv. 18. If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the
ungodly and the sinner appear ?
2 Pet. ii. 5. God spared not the old world, bringing in the flood
upon the world of the ungodly?
Ver. 6. And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes,
condemned them with an overthrow making them an example untk>
those that after should live ungodly.
iii. 7. The heavens and the earth wiiich are now, are reserved unto
fire against the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men.
Jude ver. 14, 15. Behold the Lord cometh, to execute judgment
upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly, of all their ungodly
deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard
speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
RIGHTEOUSXV-SS,
VII . Righteousness required. Dent. vi. 25. It shall be our right-
eousness if we observe to do all these commandment* bt^fore the
Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
Dan. ir. 27. Rreak off thy sins by righteousness.
262 Righteousness, Chap. XV.
Amos V. 24. Let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness
as a mighty stream.
Zeph. ii. 3. Seek the Lord, seek righteousness, seek meekness, &c.
Matt. iii. 15. Jesus said, it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.
V. 20, Jesus said, except your righteousness shall exceed the
righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter
into the kingdom of heaven.
vi. 33. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.
Luke i. 75. Serve God in holiness and righteousness.
Acts xxiv. 25. Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance and
judgment to come.
Rom. vi. 13. Yield your members as instruments of righteousness
unto God. Ver. 19.
1 Cor. XV. 34. Awake unto righteousness.
2 Cor. vi. 4, 7. Approving ourselves by the armour of righteousness.
Ver. 14. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?
P^ph.iv. 24. Put on the new man, which after God is created in
righteousness.
v. 9. The fruit of the Spirit is in all righteousness, goodness and
truth.
vi. 14. Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth,
and having on the breast-plate of righteousness.
Phil. i. 1 1. Approving things that are excellent, being filled with
the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the praise
and glory of God.
1 Tim. vl. 11. Follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love,
patience, meekness. 2 Tim. ii. 22.
2 Tim. iii. 16, The scripture is profitable for instruction in righte-
ousness.
Tit. ii. 11. The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared
to all men.
Ver. 12. Teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
we should live soberly, righteously and godly, in this present world.
Heb. xi. 13. The prophets through faith wrought righteousness.
1 Pet, ii. 24. We being dead to sin, should live unto righteousness.
1 John ii. 29. Every one that doth righteousness is born of God.
iii. 7. He that doth righteousness is righteous.
Ver. 10. Whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God.
VIIL Promises to the righteous of fieculiar favour from God. Ps. i.
6. The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous.
cxlvi. 8. The Lord loveth the righteous. Ps. xi. 7. — xxiii. 5.
V. 12. Thou Lord wilt bless the righteous, with favour thou wilt
compass him as with a shield. Ps. cvi. 3. Matt. v. 6.
xxxiv. 15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his
ears are open unto their cry. Job xxxvi. 7. Ps. xxxiii. 18. 1 Pet. iii. 1 1 .
Ver. 17. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth and deiivereth
them out of all their troubles. Ps. x. 24.— xv. 29. Jam. v, 16.
I Pet. iii. 12.
xiv, 5. God is in the generation of the righteous. Isa. Ixiv. 5.
xxxvii. 17. The Lord upholdeth the righteous. Ps. Iv. ~2. He
shall never suffer the righteous to be movvd. Ps. xv. 2.
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Ps. xxxvii 39. The salvation of the righteous is of the Lord. Gen.
vii. 1. Prov. xviii. 10. Isa. xxxiii. 15, 16. — Ixiv. 5. 2 Pet. ii. 5.
xi. 5. The Lord trieth the righteous.
Prov. ii. 7. The Lord layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous
Jer. XX. 12.
iii. 32. The secret of the Lord is with the righteous. Ps. xxv. 14.
Job xxxiii. 26. God will render unto every man his righteous-
ness. 1 Sam. xxvi. 23. 1 Kings viii. 32.
Ps. vii. 8. Judge me according to my righteousness. Ps. xviii.
20, 24. 2 Sam. xxii. 21.
Ver. 1 1. God judgeth the righteous, God is angry with the wick-
ed every day.
xxxvii. 6. He shall bring forth thy righteousness.
Iviii. 1 1. Verily there is a reward for the righteous, verily he is a
God that judg-eth in the earth.
IX. Projuises of blessings to the righteous^ as the consequence of
righteousness by the apfiointment of God.
Job iv- 7. Whoever perished being innocent, or where were the
righteous cut off?
xvii. 9. The righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath
clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
Ps. xxxvii. 29. The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in
it for ever.
Ixxii. 7. In his [the good King's days] the righteous shall flourish.
Ixxv. 10. The horn of the righteous shall be exalted,
xcii. 12. The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree, and
grow like the cedar in Lebanon. Ps. i. 3. — Hi. 8. Prov. xi. 28.
xcvii. 1 1 . Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the
upright in heart.
cvi. 3. Blessed is he that doth righteousness at all times.
Prov. X. ii. Righteousness delivereth from death. Ch. xi. 4, 6.
Ver. 24. The desire of the righteous shall be granted.
Ver. 28. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the ex-
pectation of the wicked shall perish.
xi. 8, The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked
Cometh in his stead. Ch. x. 30. — -xii. 3.
Ver. 18. To him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Ver. 19. Righteousness tendeth to life ; he that pursueth evil, pur-
sueth it to his own hurt. Ch. xii. 28.
Ver. oO. The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life.
Ver. 31. Thb righteous shall be recompensed in the earth,
xii. 3. A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root
of the righteous shall not be moved. Ch. x. 2 5.
Ver. 7. The wicked are overthrown and are not, but the house of
the righteous shall stand. Ch. xi. 21.
Ver. 26. The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour.
Ver. 28. In the way of righteousness is life, and in the path-\yay
thereof is no death. Ch. xiii. 6.
xiii. 9. The light of the righteous rejoiceth, but the lamp of the
wicked shall be put out.
Prov. xiii. 21. Evil pursueth sinners, but to the righteous good
shall be repaid.
264 Righteousness, Chaf. XV.
Prov. xiv. 34. Righteousness exalteth a nati<^, but sin is a re-
proach to any people.
xvi. 12. The throne is exalted by righteousness.
Ver. 31. The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the
ivay of righteousness.
xxi. 21. He that followeth after righteousness and mercy, findeth
life, righteousness and honour.
xxviii. 1. The wicked flee when no man pursueth, but the right'
eous is bold as a lion.
Eccl. ix. I. The righteous and the wise, and their works are in
the hand of God.
Isa. ill. 10. Say ye to the righteous, it shall be well with him, for
they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Isa. xxiv. 16. From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard
songs, even glory to the righteous.
xxxii. 17. The work of righteousness shall be peace, and the ef-
fect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.
xxxiii. 15. He that walketh righteously, 8cc.
Ver. 16. He shall dwell on high, his place of defence shall be the
munition of rocks, bread shall be given him, his water shall be sure.
Ixiv. 5. Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteous-
ness, those that remember thee in thy ways.
Ezek. xiv. 14. Though Noah, Daniel and Job were in the city,
[devoted to destruction for iniquity] they should deliver but their
own souls by their righteousness. See Gen. vii. I. — xviii. 23.
xviii. 20. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him.
Ver. 22. In his righteousness that he hath done, he shall live.
Mai. iii. 18. Ye shall discern between the righteous and the wicked.
X. The righteous shail be deliveredfrm enemies. Ps. xxxiv. 2 1 . They
that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Hi. 6. The righteous shall see [the destruction of the wicked] and
fear, and shall laugh at him.
Iviii. 10. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance,
and shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
cxxv. 3. The rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the
righteous.
Prov. xiv. 19. The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at
the gates of the righteous.
xxi. 18. The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous.
Zech. xiv. 12. This shall be a plague wherewitl^ the Lord will
smite all the people who have fought against Jerusalem, their flesh
shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes
shall consume away in their holes, and their tongues shall consume
away in their mouth.
XI. The death of the righteous blessed. Num. xxiii. 10. Let me die
the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.
prov. xiv. 32. The righteous hath hope in his death.
Is^. Ivii. 1. The righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
XII. The righteous blesficd after death, Ps. xv. 1. Lord who shall
dwell in thy holy hill? He that worketh righteousness. Ps. xxiv. 4.
cxii. 6. The righteous shall be in everlasting; remembrance.
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Isa. Ivii. 2. He shall enter into peace, they shall rest in their beds^
each one walking in his uprightness.
Dan. xii. 3. They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the
firmament, and they that turn many to righteousnessras the stars
for ever and ever.
Matt. xiii. 43. Tlie righteous shall shine forth as the sun, in the
kingdom of their Father.
XXV. 46. The righteous shall go into life eternal.
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS,
XIII. Unrighteousness forbidden. Rom. vi. 13. Neither yield ye
your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield
yourselves unio God as those that are alive from the dead, and your
members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
2 Cor. vi. 14. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighte-
ousness ? What communion hath light with darkness ?
XIV. Threats against the unrighteous. Deut. xxvi. 16. All that do
unrighteously are an abomination to the Lord.
Job xxvii. 7. Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth
up against me as the unrighteous.
Rom. i. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.
Ver. 29. Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wick-
edness, Sec.
Ver. 34. They who commit such things are worthy of death.
ii. 18. Unto them that obey unrighteousness, God will render hi-
dignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man
that doth evil.
1 Cor. vi. 9. Know ye not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit
the kingdom of God ?
2 Thess. ii. 10. The Wicked [man of sin] is filled with all deceiver
ableness of unrighteousness in them that perish.
Ver. 12. That they all might be damned who believed not the
truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Pet. ii. 13. They shall receive the reward of unrighteousness.
Ver. 14. Cursed children.
Ver. 17. To whom is reserved the mist of darkness for ever.
XV. Pardon promised to those that forsake unrighteousness. Isa. Iv.
7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy
upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Heb. viii. 12. I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their
sins, and their iniquities will I remember no more.
ZEAL.
XVI. Zeal a duty. Gal. iv. 18. It is good to be zealously affected
in a good thing.
Tit. ii. 14. Christ gave himself for us, that he might redeem us
from all iniquity, and purify unto himself, a peculiar people, zealous
of good works.
Rev. iii. 19. Be zealous and repent.
Instances in Phineas. Num. xxv, 11, IS. In Christ. Isa. Trx. 17.
ties uprightness. Chap. XV.
Ps. Ixix. 9. In David. Ps. cxix. 139. In the Corinthians. 1 Cor. xiv.
12. 2 Cor. vii. 11 ix. 2. In Epaphras. Col. iv. 13.
Zeo/, erroMfotts. Instances in Saul's slaying the Gibeonitrs. In Paul
for the law of Moses before his conversion. Acts xxii. 3. Gal. i. 14.
Phil. iii. 6. In the Jews. Acts xxi. 20. Rom. xvi. 2. See Jehu boast-
ing of his zeal. 2 Kings x. 16.
JVant of Zeal. Rev. iii. 1 5. Because thou art neither cold nor hot, I
will spue thee out of my mouth.
UPRIGHTNESS.
XVII. Vfiright. Prov. xv. 21, A man of understanding walketh
uprightly.
xvi. 17. The high-way of the upright is to depart from evil,
xxi. 29. As for the upright, he directeth his way. See Ch. xiv. 2.
XVI II. Promises to the ufiright, 1 Chron. xxix. 17. I know, my
Grod, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness.
Ps. vii. 10. God saveth the upright in heart.
xi. 7. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness, and his counte-
nance doth behold the upright.
xv. 2. He that walketh uprightly shall abide in thy tabeniacle.
xviii. 25. With an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
xxxvii. 18. The Lord knoweth the days of the upright, and their
inheritance shall be for ever.
Ver. 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the
latter end of that man is peace.
xlix. 14. The upright shall have dominion over the wicked.
Ixxxiv. 1 1 . The Lord will with-hold no good from them that walk
uprightly. '-
xcvii. 11. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the
upright in heart.
cxii. 2. The generation of the upright shall be blessed.
Ver. 4. Unto the upright there ariseth light in darkness.
cxl. 13. Lord, the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
Prov. ii. 7. The Lord is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Ver. 2 1 . The upright shall dwell in the land, 8cc.
X. 9. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely.
Ver. 29. The way of the Lord is strength to the upright.
xi. 3. The integrity of the upright shall preserve them.
Ver. 5, 6. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them.
Ver. 11. By the blessing of the upright the city is preserved.
Ch. xxix. 8. Gen. xviii. 23 to 28.
Ver. 20. The upright in their way are God's delight.
xii- 6. The mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Ver. 22. They that deal truly are God's delight.
xiii. 6. Righteousness keepeth the upright in the way.
xiv. 1 1. The tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
XV, 8. The prayer of the upright is God's delight.
xxi. 18. The wicked shall be a ransom for the lighteous, and the
transgressor for the upright.
xxviii. 6. Better is the poor that walketh in his upri,^htness, than
he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
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Prov. xxviii. 10. T'he upright shairhaTe good things in possif^ssion.
Ver. 18. Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved, but he tHat is
perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
Ver. 20. A faithful man shall abound v\rith blessing.
Isa. Ivii. 2. The righteous shall enter into peace, they shall rest in
their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
Mic ii. 7, My words do good to him that walketh uprightly. See
Rom. xiv. 22. John iii. 21. . .. ^
XIX. The upright prayed for f and prayer for ufirightness. Ps. xxv.
21. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for 1 wait on thee.
cxliii. 10. Lead me unto the land of uprightness.
cxxv. 4. Do good to them that are upright in heart.
xxxvi.lO. Continue thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
INTEGRITY.
XX. Integrity. Ps. vii. 8. Judge me, O Lord, according to mine
integrity.
xxv. 11. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me.
xli. 12. Thou upholdest me in mine integrity.
Prov. xix. 1. Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than
he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Ch. xxviii. 6.
XX. 7. The just man walketh in his integrity.
Job xxvii. 7. My heart shall not reproach me.
XXU Particular instances of integrity. Gen. xx. 6. God said to
Abimelech, I know that thoii didst this in the integrity of thine heart,
for I with-held thee from sinning against me.
Job ii. 3. Job holdeth fast his integrity. Ver. 9. Ch. xxvii. 5. —
xxxi. 6. 1 Kings ix. 4.
Ps. xxvi. 1 . David said, I walked in mine integrity. Ver. 1 1 . Ps.
lxx\iii. 72.
SINCERITY.
XXIL Sincerity. Josh. xxiv. 14. Feat" and serve the Lord in sin-
cerity.
1 Cor. V. 8. Keep the feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity.
Phil. i. 9. I pray that ye may be sincere and without oifence until
the day of Christ.
Eph. vi. 24. Grace be with them that love our Lord Jesus Christ
in sincerity.
2 Cor. ii. 17. As of sincerity in the sight of God speak we.
i. 12. In simplicity and godly sincerity we have had our conversa-
tion.
Tit. »j. 7. In doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity.
1 Pet. ii. 2. Desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye m^y grovr
thereby.
PROSPERITY.
XXIII. Perfection a commanded duty. Gen. xvii. 1. The Lord said
unto Abraham, 1 am the Almighty God, walk before me and be thou
perfect.
Deut. xviii. 13. Thou .-,halt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
Matt. V. 48. Be ye perfect, even as your t\aher which is in heaven
is perfect.
Rom. xii. 2. Be ye tvansforincd by the renewing of your minds, that
ye may prove what is tliat t;ood and acceptable and perfect will of God.
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268 Perfection. Chap. XV.
2 Cor. vii. 1. Let us cleanse ourselves fronvthl filthiness of flesh
and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
xiii. 1 1. Be perfect, be of one mind.
Col. iii. 14. Put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Heb. vi. 1. Let us go on unto perfection.
XXIV. Directions for attaining fierfection. Matt. xix. 21. If thou
•wilt be perfect keep the commandments. 1 John ii. 5. — iv. 12.
Luke vi. 40. Every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
Phil. iii. 12. Not as though I were already perfect, or had already
attained.
Ver. 14. I press forward toward the mark, for the prize of the
high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Ver. 15. Let us as many as be perfect, be thus minded.
Jam. i. 4. Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be per-
fect and entire, wanting nothing.
iii. 2. If any offend not ift w^ord, the same is a perfect man.
XXV. Means of fierfection are, God and Christ, 2 Sam. xxii. 33.
God maketh my way perfect. Ps. xviii. 32.
Ps. cxxxviii. 8. The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.
Ezek. xvi. 4. Thy beauty was perfect through my comeliness which
I put upon thee. 1 Cor. iv. 7. Who maketh thee to differ ?
John xvii. 23. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made
perfect in one.
2 Cor. xii. 9. My grace is sufficient for thee, my strength is made
perfect in weakness.
Col. ii. 10. Ye are complete in him, viz. Christ.
iv. 12. Praying fervently for you, that ye may stand perfect and
complete in all the will of God.
Heb. X.- 14. By one offering Christ hath perfected for ever them
that are sanctified.
xiii. 2 1 . God make you perfect, working in you that which is well-
pleasing in his sight.
1 Pet. v. 10. The God of all grace make you perfect, stablish,
strengthen, settle you. See Heb. xi. 40. — xii. 2 3.
XXVI. Th^ holy Scri/itures a mean of fierfection, 2 Tim. iii. 16. All
scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction and instruction in righteousness.
Ver. 17. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnish-
ed to all good works.
Ps. cxix. 1 1. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not
«in aj^ainst thee. See Gal. iii. 3. See the Spirit's influence upon all
Christians.
XXVII. The ministry, Eph. iv. 11. He gave apostles, prophets,
evangelists, pastors and teachers.
Ver. 12. For the perfecting of the saints.
Ver. 13. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, unto the measure of
the stature of the fulness of Christ.
Col. i. 28. We preach Christ, warning every man, and teachinfj^
every man in :ill wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in
Christ Jesus.
i riiess. iii. 9. We joy before God tor your sakcs.
Chap. XV. Hypocrisy, 269
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1 Thess. iii. 10. Praying that we mij^ht perfect what is lacking in
your faith.
XXVIII. Pro77iises to the perfect. Job viii. 20. God will not cast
away a perfect man.
Ps. xxxvii. 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright,
for the latter end of that man is peace.
Prov. ii. 21. The upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect
shall remain in it.
XXIX. Instances qffiersons called perfect. Noah. Gen. vi. 9. Job.
Job i. 1, 8. — ii. 3. David. Ps. ci. 2, 6. Persons called righteous.
Noah. Gen. vii. 1. Dgvid. I Kings iii. 6. Job. Job xxix. 14. Zacha-
rias and Elizabeth. Luhe i. 6. Abel. Heb. xi. 4.
HYPOCRISY.
XXX. Hypoc rim forbidden, Luke xii. 1 . Jesus said, beware of the
leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
James iii. 17 The wisdom from above is without partiality, and
without hypocrisy.
XXXI. Marks of hypocrites. 2 Kings x. 16. They say, come and
see my zeal for the Lord.
Job xii. 2. No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die
"With you.
XV. 8. They restrain wisdom to themselves, Jer. viii. 8.
Ps. xii. 2. They speak with a double heart. Jer. xii. 2.
Prov. XX. 6. They proclaim their own goodness.
XXX. 12. They are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed
from their filthiness.
Isa. Ixv. 5. They say, stand by thyself, come not near to me, fpr
I am holier than thou. Luke xviii. 9. They trust in themselves that
they are righteous, and despise others,
Ixvi. 5. They hate their brethren, and cast them out, and say, let
the Lord be glorified. Matt. vii. 4. They say let me pull the mote
out of thine eye, &c.
Matt. vi. 5. They pray standing in the synagogues and in the cor-
ners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Luke xviii. U. In
prayer they say, God, I thank thee, I am not as other men are, ex-
tortioners, &c.
xxiii. 14. They devour widows houses, and for a pretence make
long prayers.
vi. 16. When they fast they disfigure their faces, that they may
appear unto men to fast. Luke xviii. 12. I fast twice in the week,
said the Pharisee.
Ver. 2. When they give alms they sound a trumpet, that they may
have glory of men.
Luke xvi. 18. They justify themselves before men.
John V. 44. They receive honour one of another, and seek not the
honour that cometh from God only.
Matt, xxiii. 25. They make clean the outside of the cup and plat-
ter, but within are full of extortion and excess.
Ver. 27. Like whited sepulchres outwardly beautiful, but within
are full of rottenness.
270 The Heart, Chap. XV.
Matt, xxiii. 18. Outwardly they appear righteous, unto men, but
■within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
XV. 8. They honour God with their lips, but their heart is far from
him.
Ver. 9. In vain they worship God, teaching for doctrines the com-
mandments of men.
xxiii. 13. They shut up the kingdom of heaven against men, they
neither go in themselves, nor sufTer others to go in.
Ver. 15. They compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and
make him two-fold more the child of hell than themselves.
Ver. 23. They pay tythe of mint, anise and cummin, all manner
of herbs, Luke xi 42 and omit the weightier matters of the law,
judgment, mercy and faith. Luke xviii. 12.
Ver. 24. They strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
XXX H. Threats. Job viii. 13. The hypocrite's hope shall perish.
xiii. 16. An hypocrite shall not come before God. Ps. v. 5.
XV. 34. The congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate.
xvii. 8. The innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
XX. 5. The joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment.
xxvii. 8. What is the hope of the hypocrite, when God taketh
away his soul ?
xxxvi. 13. The hypocrites heap up wrath, they cry not when God
bindeth thSm.
Isa. ix. 17. The Lord shall have no pleasure in their young men,
neither shall he have mercy on their fatherless and widows, for every
one is an- hypocrite and an evil doer.
X. 6. An hypocritical nation, the people of God's wrath.
xxxiii. 14. tearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites : who among
us shall dwell with devouring lire ? who among us shall dwell with
everlasting Inirnings.
Matt, xxiii. 33. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye
escape the damnation of hell.
Matt. xxiv. 5 1. The Lord of the evil servant shall appoint him his
portion with the hypocrites, there shall l)e weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
XXXTIL Hijfiocrit.es hurtful to men. Job xxxiv. 30. That the hypo-
crite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
Prov. xi. 9. The hypocrite with his mouth devoureth his neigh-
bour. See Isa. xxxii. 6. Mark xii. 14, 15. Prov. xxvii. 14.
THE HEART.
XXXIV. The heart of the righteous toward God. Whole heart sig-
nifxjing sincerity in duties.
Deut. xi. 13. Love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your
heart, and with all your soul. Ch. xiii. 3 — xxx. 6. Matt. xxii. o7>
Jos. xxii. 5. 1 Sam. xii. 20, 24.
xxvi.'16. Thou shalt keep and do these statutes and judgments,
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. 1 Kings ii. 4. — viii. 23.
xxx. 2. When thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul.
Chap. XV. The Heart. \n
Deut xxxii. 3. Then the Lord will turn thy captivity, Sec.
12 Kings xxxiii. 3. Josiah the king made a covenant before the
Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and
his testimonies, and his statutes, with ail their heart, and. with all
their soul. 2 Chron. xxxiv. 31, — xv. 12.
Ps. ix. 1. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart.
Ixxxvi. 12. I will praise thee, O Lord, with all my heart.
cxix. 2, Blessed are they that keep the Lord's testimonies, and
seek him with the whole heart. Ver. 10.
Ver. 34. Give me understanding and I shall keep thy law, yea I
shall observe it with n^y whole heart. Ver. 69.
Ver. 58. I intreated thy favour with my whole heart. Ver. 145.-
Prov. iii. 5. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not
to thine own understanding.
Jer. xxiv. 7. They shall return to me with their whole heart.
xxix. 13. Ye shall seek me, and find me (saith the Lord) \yhcn ye
search for me with all your heart. 2 Chron. xv. 12. — xxii. 9-.
Acts viii. ^7. If thou believest with all thine heart, &:c.
Col. iii. 23. Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as unto the Lord.
XXXV. Pure heart. Ps. xxiv. 3. Who shall ascend into the hill
of God I and who shall stand in his holy place ?
Ver. 4. He that hath clean hands and a pure heart.
Matt. v. 8. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
See 1 Tim. i. 5. 2 Tim. ii. 22. 1 Pet. i. 22.
XXXVL Perfect heart. 1 Kings viii. 61. Let your hearts be per-
fect with the Lord your God, to walk in his statutes, and keep his
commandments. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. Serve God with a perfect heart
and v/ith a willing mind, for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and un--
derstandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.
1 Chron. xxix. 9. W ith a perfect heart the people offered willingly.
2 Chron. xvi- 9. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the
whole earth, to shew himself strong in behalf of those whose heart-
is perfect with him.
Ps. ci. 2. 1 will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
Luke viii. 15. But that on the good ground, are they, which in
an honest and good heart, having heard "he word, keep it, and bring*
forth fruit with patience.
See instances, Asa. 1 Chon. xv. 14. 2 Chron. xv. 17. Ilezekiah.*'
2 Kings XX. 3. Isa. xxxviii. 3. Want of a perfect heart in Solomon.
1 Kings xi. 4. — xv. 3. And in Amaziah. 2 Chron. xxv. 2. ^
XXXVII. Upright heart. Ps. vii. 10. God saveth the upright in
heart.
xxxii. 11. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and
shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart. Ps. Ixiv. 10.
xxxvi. 10. O continue thy loving kindness to them that know thee,
and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
xcvii. 11. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the-,
upright in heart.
cxix. 7. I will praise thee with uprightness of heurt when I shall
have learned thy righteous judgments. See Job xxxiii. 3. -
XXXVIIL Single heart. Acts ii. 46. Eph. vi. 5. Col. iii. 22. '
XXXIX. Clean heart. Ps. U. 10. Create in me a clean heart O God.
272 The Heart, Chap. XV.
Ps. Ixxiii. 1. God is j^ood to such as are of a clean heart.
Prov. XX. 9. Who can say I have made my heart clean ?
XL. Broken contrite heart. Ps. xxxiv. 1 8. The Lord is nigh unto
them that are of a hroken heart, and saveth such as be of a contrite
spirit.
li. 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a
contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
cix. 1 6. See prayers against those who would slay the broken in
heart.
cxlvii. 3. The Lord healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up
their wounds.
Isa. Ivii. 15. Thus saith the Lord, I dwell with him that is of a
contrite and humljle spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to
revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Ixi. 1. The Lord hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted.
Luke iv. 18. '
Ixvi. 2. To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of
a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
XLL Duties respecting the heart. Deut. xxxii. 46. Set your heart
unto all the words which I command you.
Jos. xxiv. 23. Incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel.
1 Sam. vii. 3. Prepare your hearts unto the Lord and serve him
only. Job xi. 13.
2 Chron. xxx. 18, 19. Lord, pardon every one that prepareth his
heart to seek the Lord (iod of his fathers.
Ezra vii. 10. Ezra prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord,
and to do it.
Job xi. 13. If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine
hands towards him,
Ver. 15. Then shalt thou lift up thy face with joy.
Ps. Ixxvii. 6. 1 commune with mine own heart. Ps. iv. 4.
Prov. iv. 23. Keep thine heart. Ch. xxiii. 19. Guide thine heart,
S:c.
Jer. iv. 4. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the
foreskins of your heart.
Ver. 14. Wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest
be clean. Isa. i. 16.
xxx. 21. Who is this that engageth his heart to approach unto
me, saith the Lord.
Ver. 22. Ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Ezek. xviii. 3 1 . Make you a new heart, and a new spirit, for why
will ye die, O house of Israel ?
Joel ii. 1 3. Rent your heart and not your garments, and turn a-
gain to the Lord.
See James iv. 13. Purify your hearts.
V. 8. Stablish your hearts.
Afifily the heart.
Ps. xc. 12. To wisdom. Eccl. vii. 25. ^Prov. ii. 2. To under-
standing. Prov. xxii. 17. To knowledge. Prov. xxiii. 12. To instruc-
tion.
Chap. XV. The Heart. 273
XLII. God taketh notice of the heart. This is to be considered as a
motive to the foregoing duties.
Jer. XX. 12. O Lord of hosts that triest the righteous, and seest
the reins and heart.
1 Kings viii. 39. Lord thou only Jcnowest the hearts of all the chil-
dren of men. 2 Chron. vi. 36,
Ps. xliv. 21. God knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Prov. XV. 1 1. Hell and destruction are before the Lord, how much
more the hearts of the children of men.
Luke xvi. 15. God knoweth your hearts.
Acts i. 24. Thou, Lord, knowest the hearts of all men.
Heb. iv. 12. The word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart.
1 Chron. xxviii. 9. The Lord seeth uU hearts, and understandeth
all the imaginations of the thoughts.
Jer.xvii. 10. I the Lord search the heart and try the reins.
Rom, viii. 27. He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the
mind of the Spirit.
Rev. ii. 23. 1 am he which searcheth the reins and heart.
1 Chron. xxix. 17. I knosv, my God, that thou triest the heart, and
hast pleasure in uprightness. Ver. 18, 19.
Ps. vii. 9. The righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
xxvi. 2. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me, try my reins and
my heart.
Jer. xi. 3. Thou hast tried mine heart toward thee.
1 Thess. ii. 4. God trieth the hearts.
Ps. xvii. 3. Thou hast proved mine heart, thou hast tried me.
Prov. xxi. 2. The Lord pondcreth the hearts. Ch. xxiv. 12.
XLIIL God infuenceth the heartfi of the righteous. Ps. Ii. 10. Cre^
ate in me a clean heart, O God, Sec.
Jer. xxiv. 7. I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the
Lord.
xxxii. 39, I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may
fear me for ever.
Ezek. xi. 19. I will give them one heart, and I will put anew Spi-
rit within you, and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and
will give them an heart of flesh.
Ver. 20. That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine or-
dinances and do them, and they shall be my people, and I will be
their God. Ch. xxxvi. 26. See 1 Sam. x. 9. 2 Chron. xxx. 12.
1 Chron. xxix. 18. O Lord, prepare their heart unto thee.
Ps. X. 17. Thou Lord wilt prepare their heart.
Prov. xvi. 1. The preparation of the heart in man, and the answer
of the tongue is from the Lord. Ver. 9. Ch. xix. 21.
Deut. xxx. 6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and
the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, that thou raayest live. 2 Thess. iii. 5.
1 Sam. X. 26. There went with Saul a bund of men, whose heart*
God had touched.
Acts xvi. 14. The Lord opened the heart of Lydia, that she at-
tended to the things spoken by Paul.
XV. 9. Qod purifyin^;; their hearts by fuitlx
274 The Htart. Chap. XV.
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Ps. cxix. 32. I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou
hast enlarged ray heart.
1 Kings iv. 29. God gave unto Solomon wisdom and understanding
exceeding much, and largeness of heart.
Ps. xxxiii. 15. He fashioneth their hearts.
1 Kings viii. 37. The Lord our God be with us, us he was with
our fathers, let him not leave us nor forsake us.
Ver. 58. That he may incHne our hearts unlo him, to walk in his
ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes and his judg-
ments.
• Ps. c^ix. 36. Incline my heart unto thy statutes. Ver. 8. Ps. cxli. 4.
Ixxxvi. 1 1. Unite my heart to fear thy name.
Isa. Ivii. 15. Thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eter-
nity, whose name is Holy, I dwell in the high and holy place, with
him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit
of the humble,^ and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Ps. xxvii; 14. Wait on the Lord and he shall strengthen thine
heart. Ps. xxxi. 24. — Ixxiii. 26. Isa. xxxv. 4.
1 Thess. iii. 12, 13. The Lord stablish your hearts unblameable
ilV holiness, before God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ with all his saints. 1 Thess. ii. 17.
Prov. xxi. 1 . The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, he turn-
cth it, &c. Job xii. 24.
ILzra vi. 22. The Lord turned the heart of the king of Assyria
unto his people.
Ps. cv. 25. He turned their heart to hate his people.
Mai. iv. 6. He shall turn the heart of the fathers unto the children,
Sec. Luke xi. 17.
Ezra vii. 27. Ezra said, blessed be the Lord God of our fathers,
who hath put this in the kuig's heart, to beautify the house of the
Lord.
Neh. ii. 12. I told no man what God had put in my heart to do at
Jerusalem.
Jer. xxxii. 40. I will put my fear in their hearts, &c.
xxxi. 33. I will put my law in their inward parts, write it in their
hearts. Heb. viii. 10.
2 Cor. iii. 3. Ye are the epistle of Christ, written with the Spirit
of the living God in fleshly tables of the heart.
XLIV. God'^sjiidgmentHontheheartHofilittvicked, Exod. vii. 13.
The Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart. Ch. ix. 12. — x. 1,20, 27. — xi.
10.— xiv. 8.
Exod.ix. 14. I will send my plagues upon thine heart.
Deut. ii. 30. The Lord hardened the spirit of Sihon, king of Hesh-
bon, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into
the hand of Israel.
jtxviii. 28. The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blind-
ness, and astonishment of heart. *I.ev. xxvi. 16.
xxix. 4. The Lord hath not given \q\\ an heart to perceive.
Isa. xliv. 18, He hath shut their eyes that they cannot see, and
tlieir hearts that they cannot understand.
Job xvii. 4. Thou hast shut their h(.:irts from understanding, therr -
fore shdlt thou not exalt them.
Chap. XV. Conscience. 2f Ji
Eccl. iii. 1 1. He hath set the world in their heart.
XLV. Satan*s injiuences on the heart of the nvicked* Instance}! thereof.
See Satan's tempting Eve. Gen. iii. 1 to 6. Tempting David to num-
ber the people. 1 Chron. xxi. I. He taketh away the word out of their
heart. Matt. xiii. 19. He put into the heart of Judas to betray Christ.
John xiii. 2. Put into the hearts of Ananias and Sapphira to lie. Acts
V. 3. He blinds the minds of unbelievers. 2 Cor. iv. 4. Eph. iv. 18.
XLVI. -^n evil heart described. Gen. vi. 5. Every imagination of
the thoughts of man's heart, was evil continually.
Prov. XX. 9. Who can say I have made my heart clean ?
Jer. xvii. 9. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desper-
ately wicked, who can know it ?
Matt. XV. 19. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts^ murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
Ver. 20. These are the things which defile a man. Mark vii. 21,
22, ^.3.
XLVn. In Scri/iture the hearts of the ivicked are described as wicked,
Prpvv xxvi. 23. Ueut. xv. 9. 1 Kings ii. 44.
Uncirtuincised. Jer. ix. 26.
Hard. 1 Sam. vi. 6* Prov. xxviii. 14. Zech. vii* 12. Mark xvi. 1 5.
Stony. Ezek, xi. 19.— xxxvi. 26.
Set to do evil. Eccl. viii. 11. Full of evil. Eccl. ix. 3.
Froioard. Prov. vi. 15.— xi. 20. Isa. Ivii. 17.
Perverse. Prov. xii. 8. — xxiii. o3. Eccl. xi. 9.
Backslidingi Prov. xiv. 14. Far from God. Isa. xxix. 13.
Departing from God. Jer. xvii. 5. Not right with God. Acts viii. 2 1 ,
pyhorishj idolatrous, Ezek. vi. 9. — 'xi. 21. — xiv. 4.
Rebellious. Jer. v. 23.
Full oj iniquity. Ps. xli. 6. Isa. xxxii. 6.
Full of evil imaginations. Deut. xxix. 19. Ps. cxl. 2.
Full of hy/iocT'isy. Job xxxvi. 3. Deceit. Prov. xii, 20. Ps. xii. 2.
Fretting against God. Prov. xix. 3. Impenitent. Rom. ii. 4.
Fufl of firide. 2 Chron. xxvi. 16. Covetousness. Isa. xxii. 17,
2 Pet. ii. 14.
CONSCIENCE.
XLVIII, Keeping a good conscience. Acts xxiii. 1. Paul said, I have
lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
Rom. ix. I. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also
bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost.
xiii. 5. Ye must needs be subject (to magistrates) not only for
wrath but also for conscience sake.
2 Cor. i. 12, Oiu' rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,
that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but
by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world.
iv. 2. By manifestation of the truth, commending omselves to eve-
ry man's conscience, in the sight of Ciod. Ch. v. 11.
1 1 im. i. 5. The end of the commandment is charity, out of a
pure heart and of good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,
Ver. 19. War a good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience,
iii. 9. Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.
2 Tim. i. '^. I serve God with a pure conscience.
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276 Servinj^r God. Citap. XV.
Heb. X. 22. Having our hearts sprinkled li^omali evil conscience.
xiii. 18. We trust we have a good conscience, in all things wiHing
to live honestly.
1 Pet. ii. 19. This is thank-worthy, if a man for conscience toward
God, endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
iii. 15. Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts.
Ver. 16. Having a good conscience, a good conversation in Christ.
XLIX. ji good conscience^ how attained. Acts xxiv. 16. I excrcis©
myself to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God and
toward men.
Heb. ix. 2. Gifts and sacrifices were offered (under the law) which
could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to th«
conscience. Ch. x. 2.
Ver. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through
the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God, purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God. 1 Pet. iii. 21.
X. 22. Having the heart sprinkled from an evil conscience.
L. Natural conscience, instances of the force thereof. John viii. 9. In
the accusers of the woman before Christ.
Rom. ii. 15. In the Gentiles, who have not the law.
Acts. xxiv. 25. In Felix hearing Paul preach.
1 Sam. xxiv. 5. 2 Sam. xxiv. 10. David's heart smote him,
LI. A lueek conscience not to be ivounded. I Cor. viii. 12. When ye
sin against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, ye sin a-
gainst Christ. See Ver. 7 to 25, 27. Ch. x. 28, 29.
LI I. Of an evil conscience. 1 Tim. iv. 1. Some shall depart from
the faith.
Ver. 2. Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared.
Tit. i- 5. Unto them that are defiled and unbelieving there is no-
thing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
SERVING GOD.
LIII. Commanded. Deut. vi. 13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God,
and shalt serve him.
Deut. X. 12. O Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee,
but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love
him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all
t^y soul. Ver. 13.
Ver. 20. The Lord thy God, him shall thou serve, and to him
shalt thou cleave. Matt. iv. 10.
LIV. With the heart. See the last quoted text. Deut. x. 12.
1 Chron. xxviii. 9. Serve him with a perfect heart, and with a wil-
ling mind.
Eph. vi. 6. Doing the will of God from the heart.
Ver. 5. With singleness of hcnirt, as unto Christ.
Ver. 7. With good will doing service to the Lord. See Deut. xi.
>3, 14. — xiii. 4. — xxvi. 6. — xxxii. 46. Jos. xxii. 5 xxiv. 14, 15.
1 Sam. vii. 3. — xii. !4, 20, 24. I Kings xi. 4 xiv. 8. Ps. cxix. 69.
LV. With suitable dlsfiositions of heart. Jos. Xxiv. 4. Fear the Lord,
and serve him in.sinceritv and tnitli. Ver 24, 31.
Chap. XV^. GocTs Servants. 2ft
Acts XX. 19. Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, Ch,
xxvi. 7.
Luke i. 74, Serve him in holiness, and righteousness.
Rom. i. 9. I serve God with my spirit in the gospel of his Son.
vii. 6. We are delivered from the law, that we should serve io
newness of spirit.
Rom. xii. 1. Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and ac-
ceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
xii, 1 1. Fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.
2 lim. i. 3. I serve God with a pure conscience.
Heb. ix. 14. The blood of Christ, shall purge your conscience from
dead works to serve the living God.
xii, 28. Let us have grace, whereby we may serve God, with re-
verence and godly fear. Ps. ii. 11.
Ps. c. 2. Serve the Lord with gladness.
Eccl. ix. 10. Do it with all thy might.
Acts xxvi. 7. Serving God instantly.
Rev. vii. 15. In heaven they serve God day and night.
god's servants,
LVL God^s servants. Promises to them. Exod. xxiii. 25. Ye shall
serve the Lord, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water. Ch. xv.
2-6. Deut. xi. 13, 14.
I Kings viU. 23. Thou deepest covenant and mercy with thy ser-
vants, that walk before thee with all their heart. Gen. xxxii. 10.
Job xxxvi. 1 1. If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their,
days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure. Ps, cxix. 165. Prov.
iii. 17.
XXXV. 27. Let the Lord be magnified that hath pleasure i^ the
prosperity of his servants. Ps. cxlvii, 11, — cxlix. 4,
Ps. cii. 28. The children of thy servants shall continue, and'ti)pir
^ced shall be established before thee. Ps. Ixix. 36.
cv. 6. O ye seed of Abraham his servants, ye childr^ oj^ J^cobr
his chosen.
Ver. 7. He is the Lord your God. Ver. 42, Isa. xii. 8, 9.
Isa. xliv. 1. Fear not, O Jacob, my servant.
Ver. 2. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods
upon the dry ground. Ver. 26.
xlv. 4. For Jacob my servant's sake I have called thee by name.
xlviii. 20. The Lord hath redeemed his servant Jacob.
xlix. 3, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glori«
ficd. :
Ivi. 1 7. No weapon formed against thee shall prosper, every tongue
that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn : this
is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness
is of me, saith the Lord.
Ivi. 6. The sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord,
to serve him, 8^c.
Ver. 7. Even them will I bring to my holy moimtaja, and make,
them joyful in my house of prayer.
278 God's Servants. Chap. XV.
Isa. Ixv, 8. Thus saith the Lord, a*j the new wine is found in the
cluster, and one saith, destroy it not, for a blessing is in it : so will
I do for my servant's sake, that I may not destroy them all.
Ver. 9. Mine elect shall inherit my holy mountain, and my ser-
vants shall dwell there.
Ver. 13. Thus 3aith the Lord God, behold my servants shall eat,
drink and rejoice.
Ver. 14. They shall sing for joy of heart.
Ixvi. 13. I will comfort you, and ye shall be comforted.
Ver 14. And when you see this, your heart shall rejoice and your
bones shall flourish like an herb, and the hand of the Lord shall be
known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
Jer. XXX. 10. Fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the Lord,
neither be dismayed, O Israel, for I will save thee from afar, and thy
seed from the land of their captivity, and Jacob shall return and be
in rest and quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
Ver, 1 1. For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee. Ch. xxiz.
10 — xlvi. 27, 28.
Joel ii. 29. Upon rny servants and upon my hand-maids, will I pour
out my Spirit. Isa. xliv. 3. Acts ii. 17.
Zeph. iii. 9. I will turn to the people a pure language, that they
rpay all cajl upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one con-
sent.
Matt. xxiv. 45. Blessed is the faithful and wise servant, Ver. 46,
48, 50.
3;xv. 21. Well done, thou good find faithful servant, enter thorn
into the joy of thy Lord. Ver. 23, 26, 30.
Luke xii. 37. Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he
Cometh, shall find watchipg.
Gal. iv 7. Thou art no more ^ servant but a sop, and if a son,
then ap heir of God, through Christ.
Rev. vii. 3. Hurt not the earth, till we have sealed the servants of
our God in their fore -heads.
xix. 2. The Lord our God hath judged the great whore, which
did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood
of his servants at her hand. Deut. xxviii. 43. 2 Kings ix. 7. Ps. Ixxix.
!0.— .cxvi. 15.
L\TI. God's servants. Prayers for them. 2 Sam. vii. 29. With
thy blessing, let the house of thy servant by blessed for ever.
xxiv. 10. O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant.
Neh. i. 11. Let thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy serr
vants, who desire to fear thy name. Job xlii. 8. Dan. ix. 17.
Ps. xix. 13. Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sin.
xxvii. 9. Put not thy servant away in anger.
xxxi, 16. Make thy face to shine upon thy servants, save me for
thy mercies sake.
Ixix. 17. Hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble,
hear me speedily.
Ixxxvi, 2. O my God, sav6 thy servant that trusteth in thee. Ver.
16. Dan. iii. 17, 28.— vi. 16.
Ixxxix. 50. Remember Lord, the reproach of thy servants.
Chap. XV. Ohedtence, 279
Ps. xc. 13. Let it repent thee, concerning thy servants. Ps. cxxxv.
14. Deut. xxxii. o^.
Ver. 16. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory
unto their children.
NOT SERVINa GOD.
LVIIL ^ot serving God, Threats. Deut. xxviii. 47. Because thou
servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and gladness of heart,
for the abundance of all things,
Ver. 48. Therefore shall thou serve thine enemies, in hunger and
thirst, and nakedness and want of all things. Jer. xvii. 1 to 5, Neh.
ix. 35, 36.
Mai. iii. 14. Ye have suid, it is vain to serve God : and what pro-
fit is it that we have kept his ordinances ?
Ver. 18. Ye shall discern between him that serveth God, and him
that serveth him not. Job xxi. 15.
Matt. xxiv. 40. The Lord of the wicked servant shall come in a
day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour, when he is not
aware.
Ver. 41. And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion,
with hypocrites, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
XXV. 30. Cast the wicked and unprofitable servant into utter
darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. See
Ver. 2 6.
Luke xii. 47. That servant which knew his Lord*s will, and pre-
pared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten
with many stripes.
Rom. i. 25. They served the creature more than the Creator.
Ver. 26. For this cause God gave them up to vile aficctions, See.
See omission of good works.
OBEDIENCE.
LIX. Commanded. Eccl. xii. 13. Fear Qod and keep his com-
mandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
Jer. vii. 23. This thing commanded I your fathers, saying, obey
my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my peoplp. Lev.
xix. 21. 1 Sam. xv. 22. Jer. xi. 4. Deut. vi. 24, 25.— vii. 12.
Ezek. XX. 19. I am the Lord your God, walk in my statutes, ajul
keep my judgments and do them. Ch. xxxvii. 24.
1 Cor. vii. 19. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is no-
thing, but keeping the commandments of God. Ps. cxix. 4.
LX. Universal obedience required. Deut. xxviii. 14. Thou shalt not
go aside, from any of the words which I commanded thee this day,
to the right hand or to the left.
Jos. i. 7. Observe to do according to all the law, turn not from it to
the right hand, or to the left, that thou may est prosper whitherso-
ever thou goest.
1 Chron. xxviii. 8. Keep, and seek fgr all the Commandments of
the Lord your God.
Ps. cxix. 1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way.
2^ Obedience, Chap. XV.
Ps. cxix. 6. I shall not be ash«imed when I have respect untaall
thy commandments.
Matt. y. 19. Whosoever shallf break one of these least command-
ments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdona
of heaven.
Gal. iii. 10. It is written i« the laAv, cursed is every one that con-
tiniieth not in all things that are written in the book of the law to do
them. DeM. vii. 26* J'er. xi. 3.
Col. iv. 1 %, I pray that ye may stand perfect and complete in all
the will of God. iPet. iv. 2.
Jtimesii. 10. '^Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend
m one jjoint, if? guilty of all.
LXI. With an hi ^h eattem of God* 6 law. Ps. cxix. 128. I esteem
alltliy precepts right. (Prov.iii. 1'7.) Ways of pleasantness and paths
of peace. 1 John iii. 5. Not t^j'ievoiis.
V'er. IT'S* I' have chosen thy precepts.
A er. III. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever, for
they are the rejoicing of my heart. See rejoicing" in God, in his word.
V€r. 9?. (> how I loA^ thy l«vw. Ver. 139. See love to^God.
cxix. 20. My soul breaketh for the longing it hath unto thy testi-
monies at aW^ times. Ver. 4-0. Se« longing fm* God and the things of
God.
Ver. 1 1 . Thy law have t hid in my heart that I might not sin
against thee.
Ver. 15.1 will meditate on thy precepts, and have respect unto
thy? ways. See Meditation.
Vei*. ^o: \ did not forget thy statutes. Ver. 5^5^ 9-3. P-s. xviii. 22.
Rom. vii. 22. I delight in the law of God, after the inward man.
Ps. i-. 2. — \\. 8 — <?xix. 16, 70, 7% 7T, 92, 147, 174. See Delight.
LXri-. W^ith resolution of h-oart, Jos. xxiv. 15. Joshua said, as for
jne and my house we will serve the Lord.
Ver. 24. The people said, the Lord our God will we serve, and
his voice will we obey.
Ps. cxix. 57. O Loid, I have said that I w»uld keep thy word.
Ver. 69". I" will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
Ver. 106. I have sworn and 1 will perform it, that I will keep, thy
fighleous judgments.
Ver. r-12. r have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes.
Ver. rr7. 1 will have respect unto thy statutes continually,. Ver. 145.
See 2 Kings xxiii. 3. 2 Chron. xv. 12, 15=. — xxxiv. 31. Where the king;
and the people enter into a covenants an oath and, curse to seek God.
LXIIl.. jibility for obedience ^iromised. Deut. xxx. 6. Thej Lord th.^
God will circumcise thine heaitt, and the heart of thy seed, to.love the
Lord thy God with all thine, heart and with all thy soul.
Ver. 8. And thou shalt obey the voice of the Lord to do all his
commandments.
2 Chron. xxx. 12. The hand of God was tq g;ive t^iem Qnp heart
to do the commandment by the word of the Lord.
Ps. ex, 3. Thy people shall be willing in tlie day of thy ppwijr.
Isa. ii. 3. He will teach us of his ways, and we shall walk ia lliU
paths. Mic. iv. 2.
Chap. .XV. Obedience. 281
Ezek. xi. 19. I will give them one heart, and I will puta new spi-
rit within them, and 1 will take the stony heart out of their^esh,
and I will give them an heart of flesh.
Ver. 20. That they may walk in my statutes, imd keep my com-
mandments and do them, and they shall be my people, aiwi I wail
be their God. Ch. xxxvi. 26, 27. Jer. xxiv. 7. — ^xxxi. 33. — xxxii. 39.
Zeph. iii. 9. I will turn to the people a pure language, that thBy
may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one con-
sent.
John XV. 5. Jesus said, without me ye can do nothing.
Acts V. 32. The Holy Ghost God hath given to them that xAyty
him.
2 Cor. xii. 9. The Lord said to Paul, my grace is sufficient for
thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Phil. ii. 13. God worketh in you, both to will, and to do of his
good pleasure. I Pet. iv. 1. The ability God giveth.
LXIV. Ability fiT ay cd for, 1 Kings viii. 57. Solomon prayed, the
Lord our God be with us.
Ver. 58. That he may incline our hearts unto hire, to walk in all
his ways, and to keep all his commandments, and his statutes, and
his judgments. Ver. 61.
1 Chron. xxii. 1 1. David prayed, the Lord be with thee, my son.
Ch. xxix. 19.
Ver. 12. And give thee wisdom and understanding, that thou
mayest keep the law of the Lord. 1 Kings iii- 9.
xxix. 13. David said, our God, we thank thee and praise thy -glo-
rious name.
Ver. 14. For all things come of thee, and of thine own have wc
given thee. See ver. 11, 12.
Ver. 18. Keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of
the hearts of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee.
Ver. 19. To keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy
statutes.
Ps. Ix. 12, Throuirh God we shall do valiantly. Ps. cviii. 15.
cxix. 5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes.
Ver. 32. I will run the ways of thy commandments, when thou
shalt enlarge my heart.
Ver. 33. Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and I shall
keep it.
Ver. 34. Give me understanding, so shall I keep thy law.
Ver. 36. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies. Ver. 4 3, 44.
Ver. 80. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes.
Ver. 88. Quicken me, so shall I keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
cxliii. 10. 'leach me to do thy will, for thou art my God.
2 Thess. ii. 16. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himscif, and God e-
vcn our Father, who hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting
consolation and good hope through grace.
Ver. 17. Comfort your hearts, and stablish yo^i in every good
word and work. Col. i. 9. 2 Thesr. i. 1 1 .
Heb. xiii. 20. Now the God oi peare that brought agiiin fioni the
dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great Sljepherd ot tiie slrtep, vhror^;,!!
ths bloo.l of lh(
282 Obedience. Chap. XV.
Heb. xiii. 21. Make you perfect in every good work, working in
you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to
whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
LXV. Ability from God acknowledged. 1 Cor. xv. 10. Paul said, by
the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace which was bestowed
on me was not in vain : I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet
not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
2 Cor. iii. 5. Our sufficiency is of God. Ch. xii. 10. Joel iii. 10.
Tsa. XXXV. 4.
Phil. iv. 13. I can do all things through Christ which strengthen-
eth me.
Eph. vi. 10. Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
2 Tim. ii. 1. Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. See
God doth lead, guide, strengthen, and uphold. Sec.
LXVI. Instances of obedience. Ps. cxix. 22. I have kept thy testi-
monies.
Ver. 60. I made haste and delayed not to keep thy command-
ments.
Ver. 63. I am a companion of them that fear thee, and of them
that keep thy precepts.
Ver. 87. I forsook not thy precepts.
Ver. 101. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I
might keep thy word.
Ver. 102. I have not departed from thy judgments, for thou hast
taught me. Ver. 129.
Ver. 1 10, I erred not from thy precepts.
Ver. 168. I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies, for all
my ways are before thee.
John iv. 34. Jesus said, my meat is to do the will of him that sent
me.
viii. 29. I do always the things that please him.
xii. 17. I have kept my Father's commandments.'
xvii. 4. I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
Phil. ii. 8. He became obedient unto death. Heb. v. 8.
Heb. x. 7. I came to do thy will. Ps. xl. 6.
John xiii. 15. Jesus said, I have given you an example.
1 John ii. 6. He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself to
walk even as he walked.
Rom. vi. 17. Ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine
delivered unto you.
Rev. iii. 8. I know thy works, thou hast kept my words. Ver. 10.
xii. 17. The dragon went to make war with them which kept the
commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus.
xiv. 12. Here are they that keep the commandments of God and
the faith of Jesus. Abraham. Gen. xviii. ) 9. — xxii. 18. The children
of Levi. Deut. xxxiii. 9, II. Noah, Daniel, and Job. Ezek. xiv. 4,
Job i. 8. — xxiii. 11. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Dan. iii.
26. David. 1 Kings xiv. 8. Jehoshaphat. I Kings xxii. 43. Hczckiah.
2 Kings xviii. 6. Josiah. 2 Kings xjiiii. 3. Ps. Ixxviii. 7.
LXVIL Promises to the obedient. Exod. xix. 5. If ye will obey
my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be a peculiar
treasure unto mc above all people, for all the earth is min.e.
Chap. XV. Disobedience, 283
Exod. XX. 6. I am the Lord, shewing mercy unto thousands of
them that love me and keep my commandments. Deut. v. 10. — vii.
9. Neh. i. 5. Jer. xxxii. 18. Dan. ix. 4.
Lev. xviii. 5. Ye shall keep my statutes and my judgments, which
if a man do he shall live in them. Neh. ix. 29. Prov. iv. 4. — vii. 2.
Ezek. XX. 1 1, 13, 21. Rom. x. 5. Gal. iii. 12.
xxvi. 3. If ye will walk in my statutes, and keep my command-
ments and do them,
Ver. 4. Then will I give rain in due season, and the land shall
yield her increase.
Ver. 5. Ye shall eat bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
Ver. 6 I win give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down and
none shall make you afraid. Isa. i. 19.
Ver. 7. And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall be-
fore you by the sword. See to ver. 12. and Chap. xxv. 18, 19.
Deut. iv. 1. Hearken, O Israel, to the statues and judgments which
I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess
the land.
Ver. 6. Keep and do them, for this is your wisdom and under-,
standing in the sight of the nations. Ver. 7, 8, 30.
Ver. 40. Thou shalt keep his statutes, that it way go well with thee,
and with thy children after thee. Ch. vi. 1, 2, 17, 18, 25 — xii. 28.
V. 29. O that there were such an heart in them, kc. Ver. 32.
xiii. 4. Thou shalt keep his commandments and obey his voice.
Ver. 17. That the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his an-
ger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee and mul-
tiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers.
Deut. 28. 1. If thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the
Lord thy God, to observe and do iili his commandments, the Lord
thy God will set thee on high, above all nations of the earth. See va-
rious blessings promised to ver. 14th of this chapter, and in Lev.
xxvi. 3 to 14. and Deut. vii. 12, 13, 14, 15. — xi. 9, 13, 14, 15 xxk.
8, 9.
xxix. 9. Keep the words of this covenant and do them, that ye
may prosper in all that ye do. 1 Kings ii. 3, 4. Jer. xxxviii. 20.
XXX. 19. 1 have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing,
therefore chusc life thai both thou and thy seed may live. Ver. \€>.
Ver. 20. That thou mayst love the Lord thy God, and that thou
mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him, (for he
is thy life and the length of thy days.) Ch. v. 1, 10. — viii. 2, 6, 1 I, 20.
— xii. 1, 25. — XXX. 8 to 16. 1 Sam. xii. 14. 2 Kings iii. 14. Prov. iii. 2,
Ps. xix. 8. The statutes of the Lord are right.
Ver. 1 1 . tn keeping them there is a great reward.
xxv. 10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, to such
as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
xxxvii. 34. Keep his way and he shall exalt thee.
1. 23. To him that ordcreth his convcrsadon aright, I will shew
the salvation of God.
cxix. 2. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies.
Prov. i. 3. Let thhie heart keep my commandments, for long life
and peace shall they add to thee.
xiii. 32. Blessed are thev that keep thy ways.
N n
^84 Disobedience, Chap. XV,
Prov. xix. 16. He that keepeth the commandments, keepeth his
own soul.
xxix. 18. He that keepeth the law happy is he.
Isa. xlviii. 18. Thus saith the Lord, O that thou hadst hearkened
to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river, and thy
righteousness as the waves of the sea.
Jer. vi. 16. Thus saith the Lord, stand ye in the ways and see, and
ask for the old paths, where is the good way and walk therein, and ye
shall find rest for your souls.
vii. 23. This thing commanded I your fathers, saying, obey my
voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people, walk ye in
all my ways that it may be well with you.
xxvi. 13. Obey the voice of the Lord your God, and he will repent
him of the evil, that he hath pronounced against you.
Ezek. xviii. 5. If a man be just and do that which is right,
Ver. 9. And hath walked in my statutes, and kept my judgments,
he shall surely live. Ver. 18, 19. Ch. xxxvii. 24.
Matt. vii. 22. Jesus said, not every one that saith unto me. Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doth the
will of my Father which is in heaven.
xii. 50. Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in hea-
ven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
xix. 17 If thou wilt enter into life keep the commandments.
Luke xi. 28. Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it.
John ix. 3 I . If any man be a worshipper of God and doth his will,
him he heareth.
xiii. 17% If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
Rom. ii. 13. Not the hearers of the law are just before God, but
the doers of the law shall be justified.
1 John ii. 17. He that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
iii. 22. Whatsoever things we ask we receive of him, beCause we
keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his
sight.
Rev. xxii. 14. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that
they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in through
the gates into the city.
DISOBEDIENCE.
I^XVIII. Threats against the disobedient . Deut. xxviii. 15# If thou
wilt not hearken imto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and
to do all his commandments and his statutes, all these curses shall
come upon thee and overtake thee.
Ver,! 16. Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou
be in the field.
Ver. 17. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Ver. 18. Cuvsed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
land, and the increase of thy kine and the flocks of thy sheep.
,* Ver. 19. Cursed shalt thou be when tliou comest in, and cursed
J shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Ver. 20. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexatioo, and re-
buke, in all that thou scilest thine hand unto for to do, until thou
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be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly, because of the wicked-
ness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. See to the end
of this Chap, also the parallel place, Levit. xxvi. 14 to 40. contain-
ing threatenings of many dreadful calamities. See also the following
scriptures, wherein the disobedient are threatened with the evils of
war, famine, pestilence, sickness, death, Sec. &c. Neh. ix. 26. Isa.
xxiv. 1 to 13. — xliii. 27, 28, — Ixv. 12. Jer. vi. 19, 22, 23. — xxv. 4 to
9. — xxvi. 4, 6.— xxix. 17.
Eph. ii. 2. The prince of the power of the air worketh in the
children of disobedience.
V. 6. The wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience.
Col. iii. 6.
1 Tim. i. 9. The law is made for the lawless and disobedient.
1 Pet. ii. 7. To them which be disobedient, Christ is a stone of
stumbling anda rock of offence. See the threatenings against the
wicked, ungodly, and other sins mentioned.
OBEDIENCE TO CHBIST.
LXIX Obedience to Christ* s command. Matt, xxviii. 19. Go ye and
teach all nations, ver. 20. to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you, and lo I am with you alway, unto the end of the
world.
John xiv. 15. If ye love me keep my commandments. Ver. 21, 23.
Ver. 24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings.
XV. 14. Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Ver. 10.
1 Cor. ix. 21. Being under the law to Christ.
James i. 22. Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only. Ch.
ii. 8, 12, 17.
1 John ii. 3* Hereby do we know that we know him, if we keep
his commandments.
Ver. 4. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his com-
mandments, is a lier, and the truth is not in him.
Ver. 5. But whoso keepeth his word, verily in him is the love of
God perfected.
John viii. 31. If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples
indeed.
LXX. Promises to them that obey Christ, Matt. vii. 24. Whoso-
ever heareth these sayings of mine and doth them, 1 will liken him
unio a wise man which built his house upon a rock :
Ver. 25. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the
wind blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was found-
ed upon a rock.
John viii. 5 1. If a man keep my sayings he shall never see death.
xii. 26. If any man serve me, let him follow me, and where I am
there shall also my servant be. If any man serve me, him will my Fa-
ther honour.
Hcb. V. 9. Christ became the author of eternal salvation to them
that obey him.
Rev. ii. 26. He that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will
I give power over the nations.
Ver. 28. I will give him the morning star. Ver. 17.
286 IVorks. Chap. XV.
Rev. xi. 18 The time is come that thou shouldst give a reward
unto thy servants the prophets, &c.
LXXI. Promises to them that overcome temfitations in the obedience
of Christ.
Rev. ii. 7. He shall eat of the tree of life.
Ver. 11. Shall not be hurt of the second death.
Ver. 17. Hidden manna and a white stone and new name shall be
given him.
Ver. 26. Power over the nations given to him.
iii. 5. Shall be cloathed in white.
Ver. 12. Shall be a pillar in Christ's temple.
Ver. 21. Shall sit with Christ in his throne.
xxi. 7. Shall inherit all things.
DISOBEDIENCE TO CHRIST.
LXXII. Disobedience to Christ. Threats. Matt. vii. 26. Every one
that heareth these sayings of mine and doth them not, shall be liken-
ed unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand, and the
rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat up-
on that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.
Luke vi. 46. Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things
that I say.
xix. 27. Those mine enemies that would not that I should reign
over them, bring hither and slay before me.'
Rom. X. 16. They have not all obeyed the gospel. Isa. liii. 1.
xvi. 18. Some serve notour Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly.
Gal. iii. 1 . Who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the
truth.
2 Thess. i. 7. The Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from hea-
ven with his mighty angels.
Ver. 8. In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not
God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ver. 9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from
the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.
Ver. 10. When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and ad-
mired in all them that believe.
1 Pet. iv. 17. What shall be the end of them that obey not the
gospel? See Ps. ii. 12. Deut. xviii. 18, 19. Rev. xii. 5. — xix. 15.
See Christ's kingly oflice.
Works.
LXXHL God will render to mankind according to their nvorks^good
or dad.
Job xxxiv. 10. Far be it from God that he should do wickedness.
Ver. 11. For the work of a man will he render unto him, and cause
every man to find according to his work.
Ps. Ixii. 12. The Lord rendereth imto every man according to his
work.
Eccl. xii. 4. God will brini^ every man's work into judgment.
I Cor. xiii. J. Everv man's works shall be made manifest.
Chap. XV. Worh, 287
Isa. iii. 10. Say ye to the righteous that it shall be well with them,
for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Isa. iii. 11. Wo unto the wicked, it shall be ill vvdth him, for the
reward of his hands shall be given him.
Jer. xvii. 10. I the Lord search the heart and try the reins^ even
to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit
of his doings. Prov. xxiv. 12.
xxxii. 19. Thine eyes are upon all the ways of the sons of men,
to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit
of his doings.
Matt. xvi. 27. The Son of man shall come in his glory with his
angels, and then shall he reward every man according to his works.
Rom. ii. 6. God will render to every man according to his works.
2 Cor. v. 10. We must all appear before the judgment-seat of
Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, ac-
cording to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Gal. vi. 7. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Eph. vi. 8. Whatsoever good things any man doth, the same shall
he receive of the Lord.
I Pet. i. 17. God without respect of persons judgeth according to
every man's work.
Rev. ii. 23. All t}ie churches shall know that I am he which search-
eth the reins and hearts, and I will give unto every one of you ac-
cording unto your works.
Rev. XX. 12. I saw the dead small and great stand before God, and
the books were opened, and another book was opened which is the
book of life, and the dead were judged out of those things which
were written in the books according to their works.
xxii. 12. Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to
give every man according as his works shall be. See this reward
prayed for, against the wicked. Neh. vi. 14. Ps. xxviii. 4. 2 Tim.
iv. 14. Threatened against the wicked. Jer. xxi. 14 — xxv. 14. Ezek.
vii. 27. — xxiv. 14. Mic. vii. 13. 2 Cor. xi. 15.
LXXIV. Good works covnnanded. Matt. v. 16. Let your light so
shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify
your Father which is in heaven. 1 Pet. ii. 12, 15.
Col. i. 10. Walk worthy of the Lord, unto all pleasing, being fruit-
ful in every good work. John xv. 8. Herein, saith Christ, is my Fa-
ther glorified, that ye bear much fruit, so shall ye be my disciples.
1 Tim. ii. 8. I will that women adorn themselves with good
works.
v. 10. Let a widow be tcd^en into the number, having followed e-
very good work.
2 Tim. ii. 21. If a man purge himself from these sins, he shall
be a vessel sanctified unto honour, and meet for the master's use,
and prepared unto every good work.
Tit. ii. 7. In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works,
iii. 1. Put them in mind to be ready to every good work.
Ver. 8. These things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they
who have believed in God, might be careful to maintain in)od works,
these things are fi:ood and profitable unto men.
288 VPlsrh, Chap. XV.
Ver. 14. Let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessa-
ry uses.
Heb. X. 24. Let us consider one another, to provoke unto love
and to good works. See Jam. iii. 13.
LXXV. Ability for fierforiyiitig good works^ promised. Isa. xxvi. 21.
Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us, for thou hast wrought all our
works in us. 2 Cor. v. 5.
Ixi. 8. I will direct their work in truth, saith the Lord.
2 Cor. ix. 8. God is able to make all grace abound toward you,
^that ye always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to e-
very good work.
Eph. ii. 10. We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
unto good M'orks, which God hath before ordained that we should
walk in them.
iii. 20. His power worketh in vis. Eph. i. 19.
Phil. i. 6. He that hath begun a good work in you, will perform
it until the day of Christ.
Phil. ii. 12. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for
it is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good plea-
sure.
2 Thess. ii. 17. Our Lord Jesus Christ, and God even our Father,
comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
2 Tim. iii. 16. The scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof,
for correction and instruction in righteousness.
Ver. 17. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly fur-
nished unto all good works.
2 Tim. iv. 18. The Lord will deliver me from every evil work,
and preserve me to his heavenly kingdom.
Tit. ii. 14. Christ gave himself for us that he might redeem us
from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous
of good works.
Heb. ix. 14. The blood of Christ shall purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God.
xiii. 20. Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead
our Lord Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through
the blood of the everlasting covenant ;
Ver. 21. Make you perfect in every good work to do his will,
working in you, that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Je-
sus Christ, to whom be glory, for ever and ever. Amen. See ability
for obedience. Also see, God doth strengthen, lead, guide, Sec.
LXXVL Promises to the performance of good ivorks. Heb. vi. 10,
God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love.
Rom. ii. 10. Glory, honour and peace to every one that worketh
good.
Gal. vi. 4. Let every man prove his own work, and then sliall he
have rejoicing in himself, and not in another.
James i. 25. A doer of the work shall be blessed in his deed.
ii. 17. Faith without works is dead. See this Ch. from ver. 14 to
24.
Rev. xiv. 13. Blessed arc the dead that die in the Lord, ihev K'-.t
Chap. XV. Doing Good 289
from their labours, and their works do follow them. See 2 Chron.
XV. 7. — xxxi. 20, 21. Isa. xlix. 4. Jer. xxxi. 16. Rev. ii. 2. — ix. 13,
19, 26, 28. — iii. I, 8, 15.
LXXVII. Exain}iles of good works. Acts x. 28. Jesus went about
doing good. John x. 32. See examples of obedience in the above 2d
or 3d Ch. of Rev.
LXXVIII. Omission of good works. Threats. Luke xii. 47. That ser-
vant which knew his Lord's will and did it not, shall be beaten with
many stripes.
James i. 22. Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, de-
ceiving yourselves. See the parable of the talent hid in the earth.
Matt. XXV. 25, 26, 30. And Christ's sentence against the wicked, for
omitting duty. Matt. xxv. 41, 42. The unfruitful tree cut down.
Matt. iii. 10 — vii. 19. Luke iii. 9.^-xiii. 6, 10. John v. 2. The bar-
ren fig-tree cursed. Matt. xxi. 19. The parable of the seed sown,
not bearing fruit. Matt. xiii. 23. Mark iv. 4. Luke viii. 8. The ser-
vants professing but not working. Matt. xxi. 30. Not being rich to-
ward God. Luke xii. 20, 2 1. Is being like a fool. James iv. 17. Jude
12. Deut. xxxii. 32. Heb. vi. 8.
DOING GOOD.
LXXIX. Shunning evil and doing good^ commanded. Ps. xxxiv. 14,
Depart from evil, and do good. Ps. xxxvii. 3, 8, 27. Isa. Ivi. 2. Isa.
i. 16. 1 Pet. iii. 11.
Ps. xcvii. 10. Ye that love the Lord, hate evil.
Matt. xii. 12. It is lawful to do well on the sabbath day.
2 Cor. xiii. 7. I pray God, that ye do no evil.
1 Pet. ii. 15. It is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put
to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
iii. 1 1. Eschew evil and do good. Ver. 17.
iv. 15. Let none of you suffer as an evil doer.
1 John ver. 11. Follow not that which is evil, but that which is
good.
Examjiles, Job i. 1. Job feared God and eschewed evil. Ver. 8.
Ch. ii. 3.
Ps. cxix. 10. I have refrained my feet from every evil way.
Acts X. 38. Jesus went about doing good.
LXXX. Promises to them that do good., that do well. Gen. iv. 7. If
thou dost well, shalt thou not be accepted ?
Matt. xxvi. 44. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord shall find
so doing.
Rom. ii. 7. To those who seek for glory, honour, and immortality,
by a patient continuance in well-doing, God will give eternal life.
Ver. 10. Glory, honour and peace to every man that workcth good.
Gal. vi. 9. Let us not be weary iji well-doing, for in due season
we shall reap if we f-dnt not.
Eph. vi. 8. Whatsoever good thing any man doth, the same shall
he receive of the Lord.
1 Pet. iv. 19. Let them that suffer according to the will of God>
tomuiit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing.
290 Evil Doers. Chap. XV
EVIL DOEHS.
LXXXI. Jivil doers a?id their ivorks to be avoided, Exod. xxiii. 2.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.
V^r. 24. Thou shult not do after their works. Lev. xviil. 3.
Ps. xxvi. 5. I have hated the cougregation of evil doers, I will not
hit with the wicked.
ci. 3. I hate the works of them that turn aside, it shall not cleave
to me. Ver. 8.
cxix. 1 15. Depart from mc, yc evil doers, fori will keep the com-
mandments of ray God.
cxli. 4. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked
works with men that work iniquity.
Isa. Ivi. 2. Blessed is the man that keepeth his hand from doing evil.
Matt, xxiii. 3. Do ye not after tlie works of the Scribes and Pha-
risees, for they say and do not.
Rom. xii. 2. Be not conformed to this world.
Eph. iv. 17. Walk not us other Gentiles.
1 Pet. iv. 3. The time past of our life may suilice us, to have
Avroughtthe will of the Gentiles.
Rev. xviii. 4. I heard a voice, saying, come out, my people, that
ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Isa. li. 11. 2 Cor. vi. 17. Evil company is to be avoided, besides some
of the above scriptures, See Ps. i. 1, 2. — cxxv. 11. Prov. i. 15. —
iv. 14. — xvi. 29. — xxii. 25.
LXXXII. Doi7ig' evil the character of the wicked, Ps. xxxvi. 3.
The wicked hath left off to be wise and to do good. Ps. xiv. 3. — liii.
1, 3. Rom. iii. 12.
Prov. ii. 14. The wicked rejoice to do evil. (Mic. vii. 3.) They do
evil with both hands.
Eccl. viii. 11. Because sentence against an evil work is not exe-
cuted speedily ; therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set
in them to do evil.
Jer. iv. 22. My people are wise to do evil, but to do good they have
no knowledge.
xiii. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his
spots, then may ye also do good, that arc accustomed to do evil.
Rom. vii. 19. The good that I would I do not, but the evil which
I would not, that I do.
Ver. 21.1 find a law in my members that when I would do good,
evil is present with me.
i^XXXlIl. Threats against evil doers, 2 Sam. iii. 39. The Lord
shall reward the doer of evil, according to his wickedness.
Job viii. 20. God will not help evil doers.
Ps. xxxiv. 16. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
1 Pet. iii. 12. Mic. iii. 4.
xxxvii. 9. Evil doers shall be cut off.
Isa. i. 4. A seed of evil doers, children that are corrupters.
Ver. 15. When ye make many prayers I will not hear. See threats
from ver. 5 to 16.
xiv. 20. The sp'nl v.[ v\\\ doers shall never be renowned.
ChAp. XV. The Righteous not in Darkness, 291
Isa. xxxi. 2. God will arise against the house of evil doers. Ps»
xciv. 16.
Jer. iv. 4. Thus saith the Lord, circumcise yourselves tbthe Lord,
lest my fury come forth like fire and burn that none can quench it,
because of the evil of your doings. Ch. xxi. 12. Ezek. xxxvi. 17.
Jer. xxvi. 3 'xliv. 22. 2 Kings xxii. 17.
xviii. 10. If a nation do evil in my sight, I Will repent me of the
good wherewith I said 1 would benefit thera.
Ezek. xxxvi. 9. According to their wayj and according to their do-
ings, I judged them. Hos. iv. 9. — xii. 2. Zech. i. 6.
Hos. vii. 2. Their own doings have beset them about. Jer. iv. 18,
Rom. ii. 9. Tribulation- and anguish shall be upon every soul of
man that doth evil. See Deut. iv. 25, 26. — xxxi. 29. Isa. iv. 18, 20,
22. — lix. 6. — l;:vi. 18. Jer. vii. 13, 18. — xxxii. 30. — xliv. 8* Ezek.
xxi. 24. — xxxiii. 26, 29.
WORKS OF DARKNESS.
LXXXIV-^. Darkness and the works thereof. Ps. Ixxxii. 5. The
wicked walk in darkness.
Prov. ii. 13. Evil men leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in
the paths of darkness.
iv. 19. The way of the wicked is as darkness.
John iii. 19. Men love darkness rather than light, because their
deeds are evil.
Rom i. 21. Their foolish heart was darkened* Ver. 22. They be-
came fools.
Eph. iv. 18. Having the understanding darkened. Matt. vi. 23.
1 John. ii. 9, 1 1. He that hateth his brother is in darkness.
Rev. xvi. 10. The kingdom of the beast was full of darkness.
LXXXV. Threats, Isa. v. 20. Woe to them that call evil good, and
good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness.
xxix. 15. Woe to them whose works are in the dark.
1 Cor. iv. 5. The Lord will bring to light the hidden things of
darkness.
NOT IN DARKNESS.
LXXXVI. The righteous nvalk not in darkness. John viii. 12. He
that followeth Christ shall not walk in darkness. Ch. xiii. 35.
Acts xxvi. 18. The Lord said to Paul, I send thee to open men's
eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of
Satan unto God.
Rom. xiii. 12. Let us cast off the unfruitful works of darkness.
2 Cor. vi. 14. What communion hath light with darkness.
Eph. V. 11. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of dark-
ness.
vi. 12. Wrestle against the rulers of the darkness of this world.
Col. i. 13. God hath delivered us from the power of darkness.
1 Pet. ii. 9.
1 Thess- V. 4. Ye are not in darkness.
^^er. V. Ye are all the children of light, and of the day.
1 John i. 6. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk
in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.
O©
292 Works of the Flesh Chap. XV.
DEAD WORKS.
LXXXVII. The ivicked) and their works called dead^ the righteous
are alive from the dead. Rom. vi. 13. Yield yourselves unto God as
those that are alive from the dead.
Eph. ii. 1. You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses
and sins.
Eph. V. 14. Awake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, and
Christ shall give thee light.
Col. ii. 13. You being dead in your sins hath he quickened.
1 Tim* V. 6. She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
Heb. vi. 1 . Repentance from dead works.
ix. 14. The blood of Christ shall purge your conscience from dead
works, to serve the living God.
Jude 12. The wicked are as trees twice dead.
Rev. iii. 1. Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead.
WORKS OF THE DEVIL, CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL.
LXXXVIII. Works of the devil, children of the devil* John viii. 44.,
To the wicked Jesus said, ye are of your father the devili and the
lusts of your father ye will do.
Acts xiii. 10. Paul said, O thou child of the devil, thou enemy of
all righteousness.
1 Tim. iv. I. Some will depart from the faith, giving heed to se^
ducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.
John iii. 8. He that committeth sin is of the devil.
Ver. 10. In this the children of God are manifest and the children
of the devil, whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God.
LXXXIX. The righteous have no fellows hi fi with the children of the
devil. 1 Cor. x. 20. I would not that ye should have fellowship with
devils. Ver. 21.
Eph. iv. 27. Neither give place to the devil.
James iv. 7. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
WORKS OF TH]^ FLESH.
XC. Works of the fleshy living after the flesh. Rom. vii. 5. When
we were in the flesh, the motions of sin did work in our members to
bring forth fruit unto death.
Ver. 18. In my flesh dwelleth no good thing.
Ver. 25. With the flesh I serve the law of sin.
viii. 6. To be carnally minded is death.
Ver. 7. The carnal mind is enmity against God.
Ver. 13. If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die.
xiii. 14. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for
the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof.
2 Cor. vii. 1. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthincss of flesh
and spirit.
Gal. v. 17. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit.
Ver. 19. The worksof the f|esh are adultery, fornication, unclean-
ness, lasciTiousncss, Sec.
Chap. XV. l^orAs of the Flesh, 293
Gal. V. 24. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh.
vi. 8. He that sovveth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.
Eph. ii. 1 . Ye were dead in trespasses and sins.
Eph. ii. 2. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course
of this world.
Ver. 3. In the lusts of your flesh fulfillinj^ the desires of flesh and
of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath. Ver. II.
Col. ii. 11. Putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the cir-
cumcision of Christ.
Ver. 13. You being dead in your sins hath he quickened.
Ver. 1 8. Let no man beguile you vainly puffed up by his fleshy mind.
1 Pet. ii. II. Abstain from fleshy lusts which war against the soul.
iv. 2. Live not in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of
God.
2 Pet. ii. 20. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they
are again entangled therein and overcome, tjie latter end is worse
with them than the beginning,
1 John ii. 16. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the
pride of life, is not of the Father.
XCI. Liista of the Jienh forbidden to Christians, Rom. vi. 12. Let
not sin reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts
thereof. V^er. 13.
xiii. 14. Put ye on the Lord Jesus, and make not provision for the
flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Gal. V. 16. Walk in the Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of
the flesh.
Ver. 17. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit.
Ver. 24. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts.
Eph. iv 22. Put off the old man which is corrupt according to the
deceitful lusts.
2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful lusts, but follow righteousness, faith, &c.
Tit. ii- 12. Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously and godly in this present world.
1 Pet. i. 14k As obedient children not fashioning yourselves accord-
ing to the former lusts in your ignorance.
ii. 11. I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from flesh-
ly lusts which war against the soul.
iv. 2. Live no longer to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Ver. 3. The time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought
the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts,
excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.
2 Pel. i. 4. There are given to us exceeding great and precious
promises, that by these ye might be partakers of a divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
1 John ii. 16. All that is in the world, the lusts of the flesh, the
lust of the eye, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of
the world.
Ver. 17. The world passeth away and the lust thereof.
XCII. Lusting after women, Prov. vi. 25. Lust not after beauty,
in thine he»rt.
294 The Righteous not corrupt, Ghap. XV.
Matt- V. 28. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her,
hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
XCIII. Lusting after meats and drinks. See instances in the Jews
punished. Numb. xi. 4, 34. Ps. Ixxviii. 18, 30. — Ixxxi. 12. — cvi. 14.
1 Cor. X. 6.
XCIV. The evil of lusts. John viii. 44. They are of the devil.
1 John ii. 26. They are of the world. Mark iv. 19. They choak the
word.
Eph. ii. 3. They prevail in the children of disobedience and
^rath.
1 Thess. iv. 5. In those who knew not God. Tit. iii. 3.
James i. 14. By them men are drawn away to sin, and enticed.
Ver. 15. 2 Pet. ii. 18.
iv. I. From them proceed wars and fightings among men. Ver. 2,
3, 5. Because of them prayers are not answered.
2 Tim. iv. 3. Through them men pervert the gospel. Ch. iii. 6.
2 Pet. iii. 3. Jude ver. 16, 18.
1 Tim. vi. 9f They drown meq in destruction and perdition.
eomiUPTION OF SIN.
XGV. Cor rufition fir ev ailing. Gen. vi. 11. The earth was corrupt
before God.
vi. 12. For all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
Exod. xxxii. 7. The Lord said unto Moses, thy people have cor-
rupted themselves. Deut ix. 12.
Ver. 8. They have turned aside quickly, out of the way. Deut.
xxxi. 29.
Deut. xxxii. 5. They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not
the spot of God's children, they are a perverse and wicked genera^
tion,
Ver, <5. Do ye thus requite the Lord ? O foolish people, and un-
wise. Judges ii. 19,
Matt. vii. 17. A corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. Ver. 18.
Ch. xii. 23.
Rev. xix. 2. The great whore did corrupt the earth, with her for-
nications. See Isa. i. 4. Hos. ix. 9. Zeph. iii. 38.
XCVL Confession of corruption. Neh. i 7. We have dealt very
corruptly against thee, and have not kept thy commandments, &c.
Ezek. XX, 4i. Pardon promised.
THE RIGHTEOUS NOT CORRUPT.
XCVIL The righteous not corrufit, Eph. iv. 22. Put off the old
man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and put on
the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true
holiness.
2 Pet. i. 4, God hath given to us exceeding great and precious
promises, that by these ye might be. partakers of a divine nature,
having escaped the corruption that is in the world, through lust. See
J Pet. i.-22, 23.
Chap. XV. Undeanness. 295
DEFILEMENT OF SIN.
XCVITI. Defilement of sin. Matt. xv. 18. Those things which pro-
ceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and defile the man.
Ver. 11.
Ver. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
Ver. 20. These are the things which defile a man-
XCIX. Threats. Lev. xviii. 25. The land is defiled, therefore I do
visit the iniquity thereof upon it.
Ver. 28. The land shall spue you out, when ye defile it, as it spued
out the nations before you.
Numb. XXXV. 34. Defile not the land wherein I dwell, for I the
Lord dwell among the children of Israel. Ch. xliii. 7, 8.
Isa. xxiv. 5. The earth is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, be-
cause they have transgressed the law, changed the ordinances, Sec.
Ver. 6. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth.
Rev. xxi. 27. There shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of
heaven any thing that defileth. Sec. See Ezek. xxxvi. 17, 18. Hos.
v. 3, 6. Tit. i 15. Heb. xii, 15.
Rev. iii. 4. Thou hast a few names, which have not defiled their
garments.
UNCI.EANNESS.
C. Uncleanness of sin, Isa. vi. 5. I dwell in the midst of a people
of unclean lips.
Ezek. xliv. 23. Cause them to discern between the clean and
unclean. Ch. xxii. 26.
Matt, xxiii. 2. Ye are full of all uncleanness.
Rom. vi. 19. Ye yielded your members servants to uncleanness.
Gal. v. 19. The works of the flesh are uncleanness.
Eph. iv. 19. Who being past feeling have given themselves over
to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Rom.
i. 24.
■ 2 Pet. ii. 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to
be punished.
Ver. 10. But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lusts of
uncleanness. •
CI. Confession of uncleanness. Isa. Ixiv. 6. We are all as an unclean
thing, and our righteousness as filthy rags. Ch. i. 5, 6.
CII. Promises against uncleanness of sin. Isa. xxxv. 8. An highway
shall be in the land, called the way of holiness, the unclean shall not
pass over it.
iii. 1. Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city,
there shall no more come into thee, the uncircumcised and the un-
clean.
Ezek. xxxvi. 29. I will save you from all your uncleanness.
Zech. xiii. 1. There shall be a fountain opened for sin and un-
cleanness.
296 Vileness, Chap. XV.
cm. DirecHonis, Eph. v. 3. Uncleanness let it not be named a-
mongst you.
Col. iii. 5. Mortify fornication, uncleanness. 1 Thess. v. 7.
CIV. Threats. Ezek. xxxix. 24. According to their uncleanness
have 1 done unto them.
Eph. V. 5. No whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous
man who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ
and of God.
POLLUTION.
CV. Pollution. Ezek. xvi. 6, 22. I saw thee polluted in thine own
"blood, and said unto thee, live.
Zeph. iii. 1. Woe to the city that is filthy and polluted.
2 Pet. ii. 20. If after they have escaped the pollutions of tlie world,
through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they
are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse
with them than the beginning. See the wicked pollute God's name.
Isa. XX. 9. — xlviii. II. Jer. xxxiv. 16. Ezek. xiii. 19. — xxxix. 7. Mai.
i. 7. They pollute God's house. 2 Chron. xxxvi. 14. Ezek. xliv. 7.
Zeph. iii. 4. Thev pollute God's Sabbaths. Isa. Ivi. 2. Ezek. xx. 13.
to 24,
FILTHINESS.
CVI. Filthinens, Ezra ix. 11, The land is unclean, with the filthi-
ness of the people. Lam i. 9.
Prov. XXX. 12. There is a generation that are pure in their own
eyes, and yet is not washed from their own filthiness. Rev. xvii. 4.
CVII. Directions. 2 Cor. vii.J. Let us cleanse ourselves from all
filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Eph. V. 4. Let not filthiness be once named amongst you.
Col. iii. 8. Put off all filthy communications. James i. 21.
2 Pet. ii. 7. Lot was vexed with the filthy conversation of the
wicked.
Ezra vi. 2 1 . The children of Israel, separated themselves from the
filthiness of the heathen, to seek the Lord God of Israel.
CVI 1 1, Promises. Isa. iv. 3. Every one in Zion shall be called holy,
Ver 4. When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the
daughters of Zion.
Ezek. xxxvi. 5. From all your filthiness will I cleanse you. Ch.
xxii. 15. — xjuv. 13.
CIX. Threats. Rev. xxii. 1 1 . He that is filthy let him be filthy stilL
i^zek. xxiv. 13. Thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness.
VILENKSS.
ex. Vilenesa of sin, 1 Sam. iii. 13. I will judge Eli's house for
ever, for the iniquity which he knoweth, because his sons made
themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Ps. xii. 8. The wicked walk on every side when vile men are ex-
alted. Ps. cxiv. 20,
XV. 4. In the eyes of the righteous, a vile person is despised.
Chap. XV. The Just. 29r
Jer. XV. 19. Take forth the precious from the vile.
Rom. i. 26. They did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
wherefore God gave them over to vile aftections.
Ver. 27. He gave them over to a reprobate mind.
CXI. Confession ofvilcness. Job xl. 4. Behold I am vile, what shall
I answer thee, I will lay my hand upon my mouth. Gen. xxxii. 10.
Ezra ix. 6.
ABOMINABLENESS.
CXII. Abominabkness of sin. Job xv. 16. How abominable and fil-
thy is man, that drinketh iniquity like water ?
Ps. xiv. 1. They have done abominable works, none doth go©d.
Ps. liii. 1.
Jer. xliv. 4. I sent unto you my servants, the prophets, saying, do
not this abominable thing that I hate. Ezek. xxiii. 36.
Ver. 7. Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your own
souls.
Ezek. xviii. 24. When the righteous doth according to the abo-
minations that the wicked man doth, he shall die.
xxxiii. 29. They shall know that I am the Lord, when I have laid
the land desolate for all their abominations.
Rev. xxi. 8. The fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, &c.
shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone.
Ver. 27. There shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of hea-
ven, any thing that defileth or worketh an abomination.
These things are abomination in the sight of God, viz. the sacri-
fice, the way, the thoughts of the wicked. Prov. xv. 8, 9, 26. He
that justifieth the wicked. Prov. xvii. 15. The froward. Prov. iii.
32. — xi. 20. He that turneth away his car from hearing the la-n
Ch. xxviii. 9. Those that deny God in works. Tit. i. 16.
THE JUST. . '
CXHI. Promises to the just^ anWfirayers for them. Ps. vii. 9. O let
the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just.
Prov. iii. oo. The curse of the Lord is in tlie house of the wicked,
but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
iv. 18. The path of the just, is as the shining light, that shineth
mors and more unto the perfect day.
X. 6. Blessings are upon the head of the just, but violence cover-
eth the mouth of the wicked.
Ver. 7. The memory of the just is blessed, hut the name of the
wicked shall rot.
xi. 9. Through knowledge shall the Just be delhered.
xii. 13. The just shall come out of trouble.
V^er. 21. There shall no evil happen to the just.
xiii- 22. The wealth of the sinrier, is laid iin for the 'ust. Job xxvll,
IG, 17.
298 Good Men. Chap. XV.
Pi*ov. xvii. 1 5. He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemn-
eth the just, even they both are an abomination to the Lord.
Ver. 26. To punish the just is not i^ood.
xxiv. 16. A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again, but
the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Isa. xxvi. 7. Thou dost weigh the path of the just.
Ezek. xviii. 5, 9. If a man be just, and do that which is lawful and
right, he shall surely live.
Hab. ii. 4. The just shall live by faith. Rom. i. 17. Gal. iii. 1 1.
Heb. X. 38.
Luke i. 17. He shall turn the disobedient to the wisdom of the
just.
xiv. 13. When thou makcst a feast, call the poor. Sec.
Ver. 14. Thou shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Heb. xii. 23. Ihe spirits of just men made perfect.
2 Pet. ii. 3. God delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conver-
sation of the wicked.
UNJUST.
CXIV. Threatenings against the unjust. Prov. xi. 7. When a wick-
ed man dieth his expectation shall perish, and the hope of the unjust
man perisheth.
xxix. 27. An unjust man is an abomination to the just.
2 Pet. ii. 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of
temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to
be punished.
Ver. 10. But chiefly them that walk after the lusts of the flesh.
CXV. The unjust hurtful in the earth. Ps. xliii. 1. O God deliver
me from the unjust man.
Isa. xxvi. 10. In the land of unrighteousness \y\\\ he deal unjustly.
Zeph.iii. 7. The unjust knoweth no shame.
Luke 16. 10. He that is unjust in that which is least, is unjust al-
so in much.
1 Cor. vi. I. Dare any of you go to law before the unjust.
N. B. Just and unjust, in the above mentioned passages, are taken
from a more universal character, than merely acts of civil justice
between man and man.
GOOD MEN.
CXVI. The general character cfa good man^s tvalk or lij\'.
Gen. V. 22. He walketh with God. Ch vi. 9.
xvii. 1. Walketh before God. Ch. xxlv. 40. — xlviii. 15. I Sum.
ii. 35.
1 Kings iii. 6. — viii. 25. — ix. 4. Ps.lvi. 13. — cxvi. 9. Isa. xxxviii. 3.
Matt vi. 10. He doih the will of God. Heb. x. 36.
Ps. xl. 8. He delighteth to do God's will.
Eph. vi. 6. He doth God's will from the heart.
Col. iv. 12. He stands complete and perfect in the v»i]! of God.
1 Pet. iv. 2. He lives to the will of God.
Lxod. xvi. 4. He walketh in God's h\w.
Ch-ap. XV. Evil Men. 299
Ezek. xi. 20. In God's commandments, statutes and judgments.
Ps. Ixxxix. 30. Ezek. xviii. 9. — xx. 19 — xxxvii. 24. Zech. x. 12.
Luke i. 6. Gal. vi. 16.
Ps. cxxviii. 1. In God's ways. Ps. cxix. 3.— cxliii. 8. Isa. ii. 3.
Jcr. vi. 16. Hos. xiv. 9.
xxvi. 3. In God's truth. Ps. Ixxxvi. 11. Isa. ii. 5. — xxxviii. 3.
'2 John ver. 4, 6. 3 John \'^er. 3. 4.
Col. i. 10. Worthy of God, to please him. 1 Thess. iv. 1.
Col. ii. 6. Walk m Christ. 1 John ii. 6. Walk as Christ walked.
Gal. V. 16. Walkafterthe Spirit. Rom. viii. 12. Led by the Spirit.
Eph. V. 8. In the light. John viii. 12. — xii. 35. 1 John i. 7.
iv. 1. W^ortiiy of his vccalion. 1 Cor. vii. 17.
Rom. vi. 14. Walketh in newness of life. Gal. vi. 16.
Prov. xxviii. 26. Walketh wisely. Eph. jv^. 15. Col. iv. 5,
Rom. xiii. 13. Honestly, or honourably. 1 Thess. iv. 12.
To which may be added the several dispositions of heart, and duties
of life toward God and mai^, mentioned in this work, to which
promises are made.
CXVII. Profni/scs to the good. 2 Chron. xix. 1 1. The Lord shall be
with the good man.
Ps. i. 3. Whatsoever he doth shall prosper.
xxxvii. 23. 'i'he steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.
cxii. 5. A good man shcweth favour, and lendeth, he will guide
his affairs with discretion.
Ver. 6. He shall not be moved for ever.
Prov. ii. 20. W^alk in the way of good men and keep the paths of
the righteous.
Ver. 21. For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect
shall remain in it.
xii. 2. A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord, but a man of
wicked devices will he condemn.
xiii. 22. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's chil-
dren, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just
xiv. 14. The backslider in heart, shall be filled with his own ways,
but a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Ver. 19. The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the
gates of the righteous.
Eccl. ii. 26. God giveth to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom
and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he giveth travel, to gather
and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God.
Matt. XXV. 21. Christ will say, well done, good and faithful ser-
vant enter into the joy of thy Lord.
Rom. V. 7. For a good man some would even dare to die.
EVIL MEN.
CXVIII. Evil men, Ps. x. 15. O Lord, break thou the arm of the
evil man.
cxl. 1. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man.
Prov. ii. 10. When wisdom entereth into thine heart,
Ver. 11. Discretion shall preserve thee,
\^er. 12. To deliver thee from the way of the evil m«in.
p p
300 Frowardness, Chap. XV.
t*s. iv. 14. Enter not ifi the path of the wicked, and go not in the
way of evil men.
Ver. 15. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn away from it, and pass away.
xvii. 1 1 . An evil man seeketh only rebellion.
xxiv. 1. Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be
with them. Ver. 19, 20.
xxviii. 5. Evil men understand not judgment.
xxix. 6. In the transgression of an evil man is a snare.
Matt. xii. 35. An evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart,
l^ringeth forth evil things.
2 Tim. iii. 9. Evil men shall wax worse and worse.
PERVERSENESS.
CXIX. Perveraeness charged upon sinners. Deut. xxxii. 5. They
have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of God's chil-
dren, they are a perverse and crooked generation.
1 Kings viii. 47. We have sinned and done perversely, we have
committed wickedness.
Job ix. 20. If I say 1 am perfect, my mouth shall prove me per-
verse.
xxxiii. 27. I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and
it profited me nothing.
Jer. iii. 21. They have perverted their way, and have forgotten
the Lord their God.
xxiii. 36. They have perverted the words of the living God.
Ezek. ix. 9. The city is full of perverscness, for they say, the Lord
hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.
Matt. xvii. 17. Jesus said, O faithless and perverse generation.
CXX. Threats. Numb. xxii. 32. The angel said to Balaam, I went
out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse.
Prov. X. 9. He that is perverse in his ways shall be known.
xi. 3. The perverscness of transgressors shall destroy them.
xii. 8. He that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
xxviii. 6. Better is he that walketh in his uprightness, than he that
is perverse in his ways though he be rich.
Ver. 18. He that is perverse in his ways shall fall at otice,
Mic. iii. 9. Hear, ye that pervert all iniquity.
Ver. |2. Zion for your sakes shall be plowed as a field.
Perverse lifts. Prov. iv. 24. — fviii. 8.— xv. 4. — xix. I. — xvii. 20.
Isa, |ix. 3,
FROWARDNESS.
CXXI. Threats against the froivard. Deut. xxxii. 20. I will hide
my face froii^ them, they are a very froward generation, children in
whom is no faith.
Job v. 13. The counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
|*s. xviii. 26. With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure, and with
t|ie froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. 2 Sam. xxii. 27.
frpv. \\\. 32. Th^ froward is an abomination to the Loi*d, Ch. xi.
m-.
3^Y^, 20. He that hath a froward heart findeth no good.
Chap. XV. Revolting. 301
Prov. xxi. 8. The way of the froward is strange, but as for the
pure his work is rif^ht.
xxii. 5. Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward, but he
that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.
Isa. Ivii. 7. I smote him, he went on frowardly in the way of his
heart.
CXXII. The righteous not froward. Ps. ci. 4. A froward heart
shall depart from me.
Prov. viii. 8 All the words of wisdom's mouth are righteousness,'
there is nothing froward or perverse in them. See froward tongue,
froward mouth.
Prov. vi. 12. A wicked man walketh with a froward mouth.
X. 31. The froward tongue shall be cut out.
Ver. 32. The mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. Ver. 30.
xvi. 28. A froward man soweth strife. See Ch. xvii. 20.
STUBBORNNESS.
CXXII I. Stubbornness^ the stiff necked in their own ways, arid ways
>9f their own sight and eyes, Exod. xxxii. 9. The Lord said, it is a
Stiff-necked people.
Ver. 10. Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them,
that I may consume them.
xxxiii. 3, 5. The Lord said, I will not go up in the midst of thee,
lest I consume thee, for thou art a stiff-necked people. Deut. ix. 6, 13.
Deut. xxix. 19. If any say, I shall have peace, though I walk in
the imagination of my heart to add drunkenness to thirst.
Ver. 20. The Lord will not spare him, but the anger of the Lord
and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that
are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot
out his name from under heaven.
1 Sam. XV. 23. Stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Jer. vii. 24. They turned not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil hearts, and went
backward and not forward. Ver. 25, 26.
Ver. 29. The Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of
his wrath.
xxxi. 18. Ephraim said, thou hast chastised me as a bullock un-
accustomed to the yoke.
Acts vii. 5 1. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,
ye do always resist the Holy Ghost. Deut. x. 16. 2 Chron. xxx. 8,
The same thing is imfilied in those expressions oj' walking after the
counsel or the imagination of an evil heart, as in the following scrifitiires,
Eccl. xi. 9. O young man, walk in the ways of thine heart and in
the sight of thine eyes, but know, that for all these things God will
bring thee to judgment.
Jer. iii, 17. Neither shall they walk any more after the imagina-
tion of their evil heart. Ch. ix. 14,— -xi. 8. — xiii. 10.- — xvi, 12. — ^xvii.
23. — xxiii, 17.
REVOLTING.
CXXIII. The wicked are revolters. Isa. i. 5. Whv Will ve bj?
i>tricken any more, ye will revolt more and more.
302 Rebellhiu Chap. XV.
Isa. xxxi. 6. The children of Israel have deeply revolted.
Jer. V. 23. This people hath a revolting and rebellious heart. Ch.
vi. 28.
Hos. ix. 15. I will love them no more, all their princes are re-
voltcrs.
REBELLION.
GXXV. Rebellion against God forbidden. Numb. xiv. 9. Rebel not
against the Lord, ihe Lord is with us. Ps. Ixxviii. 8.
Jos. xxii. 29. The people said, God forbid that we should rebel
against the Lord, and turn from following him.
Threats. 1 Sam. xii. 15. If ye will rebel against the commandment
of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you, as it was
against your fathers.
XV. 23. Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, stubbornness is as
iniquity and idolatry.
Neh. ix. 26. They were disobedient and rebelled against thee, and
cast thy law behind their backs, and wrought great provocations.
Ver. 27. Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hands of their
enemies, who vexed them.
Ps. Ixviii. 6. Rebels dwell in a dry land.
cvii. 1 1. Because they rebelled against the words of God, and con-
temned the counsels of the Most High.
Ver. 12. Therefore he brought down their heart with labour,
they fell down, and there was none to help. See Num. xx. 24. — xxvii.
14. Deut.i. 26, 43.— ix. 7, 23, 24 — xxxi. 27.
Isa. i. 2. I have nourished and brought up children, and they have
rebelled against mc.
Ver. 9. Except the Lord had left us a very small remnant, we
should have been as Sodom and like unto (Jomorrah. Ver. 19, 20.
xxx. i. Woe to rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take coun-
sel but not of me, and that cover with a covering, but not of my
Spirit.
Ver. 9. This is a rebellious people, lying children, that will not
hear the law of the Lord.
xlv. 9. Woe to him that striveth with his Maker.
Ixiii. 10. They rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit, therefore he
was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against tiiem.
Ixv. 2. I have spread out mine hands all day to a rebellious people,
which walketh in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts.
Ixv. 3. A people that provoketii me to anger continually to my
face.
Ver. 6. I will recompense into their bosom their iniquities.
Jer. iv. 17. Enemies are against thee roundabout, because she
hath been rebellious against me, saith the Lord.
Ver. 18. Thy wuys and thy doings have procured these things
unto thee.
Lam. i. 13. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, &c.
Ver. 18. The Lord is righteous, for I have i-ebellcd against his
commandments.
iii. 42. We have transgressed and rebelled.
Chap. XV. mcked. 303
Lam. iii. 4.3. Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us.
Ezek. XX. 8. They rebelled against me, I said, I will pour out my
fury upon them, to accomplish mine anger against them. Ver. 13,
21, 38.
Dan. ix. 5. We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and
have done wickedly, and have rebelled even by departing from thy
precepts, and from thy judgments.
Hos. vii. 13. Woe unto them that rebel against me. Ch. xiii. 18.
KNEMIES, ADVERSARIES.
CXXVI. Enemies^ adversaries of the Lord. Deut. xxxii. 43. God
will render vengeance to his adversaries.
1 Sam. ii, 10. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pie-
ces.
Ps. xxxvii. 20. The enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of
lambs, into smoke shall they consume away.
Ixviii. I. Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered. Ps. Ixxxiii.
1,2.
Ver. 21. God shall wound the head of his enemies.
xcvii. 3. A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies
round about.
Isa. i. 24. I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of
mine enemies, saith the Lord.
lix. 18. According to their deeds, he will repay fury to his adver-
saries.
Ixiv. 2. Make thy name known to thine adversaries.
Ixvi. 6. A voice of noise from the city, a voice of the Lord, that
rendereth recompence to his enemies.
Ver. 14. The indignation of the Lord shall be known toward his
enemies.
Jer. xlvi. 10. This is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of
vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries
Nah. i. 2. The Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, he re-
serveth wrath for his enemies.
Ver. 8. Darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Heb. X. 27. Fiery indignation shall devour the adversaries. Ver. 1 3.
CXXVIL Deliveranccfrom enmity affuinst God, Rom. v. 10. When
we were enemies we were reconciled by the death of his Son.
Col. i. 2 1. You who were enemies in your minds by wicked works',
hath he reconciled.
V, ICKED.
CXXVIII. God's threatcnhv^s agahist the wicked. Exod. X'iii. 7.
I will not justify the wicked. Nah. i. 3, The Lord will not acquit the
wicked.
Deut. xxviii. 20. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation,
and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do ; until
thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly ; because of the
wickedness ol thy doings whereby thou hast forsaken me.
2 Sam. iii 39. The Lord will reward the doer of evil, according
to his wickedness. Ps. xxviii. 4.- — xciv. 23. Isa. xiv. 16,
304 * Wicked, Chap. XV,
2 Chron. vi. 23. Judge thy servants by requiting the wicked, by
recompensing his way upon his own head.
Job X. 3. God will not shine upon the counsel of the wicked.
XX. 23. God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon the wicked, and
rain it upon them.
xxi. 1 7. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out ? and how oft
Cometh their destruction upon them ? God distributeth sorrows in his
anger.
V'er. 19. God layeth up his iniquity for his children, he rewardeth
him, and he shall know it.
Ver. 20. His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of
the wrath of the Almighty.
xxvii. 13. This is the portion of a wicked man from God. See to
ver. 22.
Ver. 22. For God shall cast upon him and shall not spare.
xxxvi. 6. God preserveth not the life of the wicked.
Ps. V. 4. Thou art not a God that hast pleasure in wickedness. Ps.
xi. 5.
vii. 1 1. God is angry with the wicked every day.
ix. 5. Thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their me-
mory for ever.
X. 15. Break thou the arm of the wicked. Ps.xxxvii. 17. The arms
of the wicked shall be broken.
xi. 6. Upon the wicked God shall rain snares, fire and brimstone
and an horrible tempest, this shall be the portion of their cup. Jer.
xxiii. 19. — XXX. 23.
xxviii. 3. Draw me not away with the wicked.
Ver. 4. Give them according to their deeds.
Ver. 5. The Lord shall destroy them and not build them up.
Ixxiii. 1 8. Thou didst set the wicked in slippery places.
Ixxv. 8. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine
is red, it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same ; but the
dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and
drink them.
xciv. 3. Lord, how long shall the wicked triumph ? Ver. 23. God
shall bring upon them their own iniquity.
cvii. 34. God turneth a frtiitful land into barrenness, for the wick-
edness of them that dwell therein. Jer. xii. 4.
cxrx. 1 19. Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross.
cxxix. 4. The Lord hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
cxxxix. 19. Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God.
cxl. 8. Grant not, O Lord, the desire of the wicked.
civ. 20. AH the wicked will the Lord destroy.
cxlvi. 9. The way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
cxlvii. 6. The Lord casteth the wicked down to the ground.
Prov. iii. 33. The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked.
vi. 18. The Lord doth hate an heart that deviseth wicked imagi-
nations. Ch. xii. 2.
X. 3. God casteth away the substance of the wicked.
XV. 8. The sacrifice oi the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
•21,27.
Ghap. XV. Wicked, 305
Prov. XV. 9. The way of the wicked.
Ver. 26. The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the
Lord.
Ver. 29. The Lord is far from tlie wicked.
vi 4. The Lord hath made the wicked for the day of evil. Mai.
iv. 1.
xxi. 12. God overthroweth the wicked for his wickedness. Isa.
xiii. 11.
Isa. xi. 4. With the breath of his lips, God shall slay the wicked.
2 Thess. ii. 8.
xiv. 5. The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked.
Ivii. 21. There is no peace saith my God to the wicked. Ch. xlviii.
22 -— lix. 8.
Jer. i. 16. I will utter my judgments (saith the Lord) against them
for all their wickedness.
ii. 33. Thou hast taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Ver. 35. Behold 1 will plead with thee, saith the Lord.
vii. 12. See what I did to Shilo, for the wickedness of my people.
xiv. 16. I will pour their own wickedness upon them.
xxv. 31. God shall give them that are wicked to the sword. Ezek.
xxxi. 1 1.
xxxiii. 5. For their wickedness, I have hid my face from this city.
xliv. 9. Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and
the wickedness of your kings, &c.
Ver. 1 1. I will set my face against you for evil.
Hos. vii. 1, 2. I remember all their wickedness.
ix. 15. For the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out
of my house.
Joel iii. 13. Put ye in the sickle, 8cc. for their wickedness is great,
Jonah i. 2. Gry against Nineveh, for their wickedness is come up
before me.
Hab. iii. 13. Thou woundest the head out of the house of the
wicked.
Zeph. i. 3 I will consume man and beast, and the stumbling blocks
with the wicked.
Mai. iv. 1. Behold the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven, an^
all the proud, yea, all that do wickedly shall be stubble, and the day
that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that shall
leave them neither root nor branch. Prov. xvi. 4.
Matt. xxiv. 51. The Lord of the evil servant shall cut him asun-
der, and appoint him his portion wich hypocrites, there shall be weep-
ing and gnashing of teeth. Gh. xviii. 32, 34.
GXXIX. Threat nings (against the wicked^ of evils as the consequen-
cea of wickedness under the firovidential gouernment of God. Job iv.
8. They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Prov. xxii, 8. Gal. vi. 7, 8.
viii. 22. The dwelling-place of the wicked shall come to noue^ht,
Gh. xxi. 28.
xi. 20. The eyes of the wicked shall fail.
XV. 20. The wicked man traveileth with pain all his days.
Ver. 24, Trouble and anguish shall muke him afraid. See to ver. 3 I .
306 mcked. Chap. XV.
Job xviii. 5. The li«;ht of the wicked shall be put out, and the
spark of his fire shall not shine.
Ver. 6. The light shall be dark in his tabernacle. See to ver. 21.
Ver. 21. Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked.
XX. 5. The triumphing; of the wicked is short. See to ver. 29.
Ver. 12. Thout^h wickedness be sweet in his mouth
Ver. 16. He shall suck the poison of asps.
Ver. 29. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the
heritage appointed unto him by God. Ch. xxvii. 13 to 23.
xxi. 7. Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are migh-
ty in power ?
Ver. 16. Ch. xxii. IS. Ch. xxiv. 24. They are exalted for a lit-
tle, but arc gone and brought low, they are taken out of the way,
and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Job xxi. 17. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out. Prov.
xiii. 9. — xxiv. 20.
Ver. 30. The wicked is reserved to the day of destruction, they
shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. Piov. xvi. 4.
xxi;. 15, Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have
trodden ?
Ver. 16. Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation
was overthrown with a flood.
xxiv. 20. The worm shall feed sweetly upon him, and he shall be
no more remembered, and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
xxvii. 7. Let mine enemy be as thC' wicked. Ver. 13. This is his
portion.
Ver. 14. If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his
offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Ver. 16. Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare rai-
ment as the clay. Hab. ii. 5.
\'er. 17. He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the
innocent shall divide the spoil.
Ver. 1 8. He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the
keeper maketh.
Ver. 20. I'crrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth
him away in the night.
Ver. 2 1 . The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth, and
as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Job xxxi. 3. Is not destruction to the wicked ? and a strange pun-
ish ment to the workers of iniquity. Ps. lii. 5.
xxxviii. 15. From the wicked their light is withholden.
Ps. is 16. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
Ps. X. 2.
Ver. 17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations
that forget God.
xxxi. 17. Let the wicked be ashamed, let them be silent in the
grave.
xxxii. 10. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked.
xxxiv. 21. Evil shall slay the wicked, and they that hate the just
shall be dosolate.
xxxvii. 10. Yet a little while and the wicked shall not be.
N er. 17. The arms of the wicked shall be broken.
Chap. XV. IVicked. 307
Ps. xxxvii. 20. The wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the
Lord shall be as the fat of rams. Ps. Iviii. 7.
Ver. 28. The seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
Ver. 5. I have seen the wicked great in power.
Ver. 38. But the end of the wicked shall be cut off. Ver. 34.
Iv. 15. Let death seize upon the wicked.
Iviii. 10. The righteous shall wash his feet in the blood of the
wicked.
xcii. 7. The wicked spring up as grass, it is that they may be de-
stroyed for ever. Ver. 1 1. Ps. xciv. 3, 13.
cvi. 18. A fire was kindled, the flame burned up the wicked.
Ps. cxix. 155. Salvation is far from the wicked.
cxli. 10. Let the wicked fall into their own nets.
Prov. ii. 22. The wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the
transgressors shall be rooted out of it. 1 Sam. xii. 25.
iv. 19. The way of the wicked is as darkness, they know not at
what they stumble.
v. 22. His own iniquity shall take the wicked himself, and he shall
be holden with the cords of his sin.
X. 2. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing. Ver. 3.
Ver. 7. The name of the wicked shall rot.
Ver. 24. The fear of the wicked shall come upon him.
Ver. 27. The years of the wicked shall be shortened. Ps. Iv. 23.
Prov. X. 30. The wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
xi. 5. The wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
Ver. 8. The righteous is delivered out of trouble, but the wicked
cometh in his stead.
Ver. 2 1 . The wicked shall not be unpunished.
Ver. 31 The wicked and the sinner shall be recompensed in the
earth.
xii. 3. A man shall not be established by wickedness.
Ver. 7. The wicked are overthrown, and are not.
Ver. 13. The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips.
Ver. 2 1 . The wicked shall be filled with mischief.
V^er. 26. The way of the wicked seduceth them.
xiii. 5. A wicked man is lothsome, and cometh to shame.
Ver. 6. Wickedness overthroweth the sinner.
Ver. 25. The belly of the wicked shall want.
xivr 11. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown.
Ver. 17. A man of wicked devices is hated.
Ver, 19. The wicked bow at the gates of the righteous.
Ver. 32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness.
XV. 6. In the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
Prov. xviii. 3. When the wicked cometh, then cometh contempi.
xxi. 18, 1 he wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous.
xxiv. 16. The wicked shall fall into mischief.
Ver. 20. The candle of the wicked shall be put out.
xxvi 26. The wickedness of the wicked shall be shewed before
the whole congregc tion.
xxviii. I. The wicked fleeth when no man pursucth. Job xv. 21.
Ver. 4. Such as keep the law contend with the wicked.
Ecc. viii. 8. Wickedness shall not deliver those given to it.
308 Sinners. Ghap. XV.
Eccl. viii. 10. I saw the wicked buried, and tbey Mere forgotten.
Ver. 13. It shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he pro-
long his days.
Isa. iii. 1 1. Woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him, the reward
of his hands shall be given him.
ix. 18. \Vickedness biirneth as the fire.
xlvii. 10. Thou hast trusted in thy wickedness.
Ver. 11. Therefore shall evil come upon thee.
Ivii. 20. The wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest>
whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
Jer. ii. 19. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy back-
slidings shall reprove thee.
Jer. iii. 2. Thou hast polluted the land with thy wickedness,
Ver. 3, Therefore there shall be no rain.
iv. 18. Thy ways and thy doings have procured these things unto
thee, this is thy wickedness because it is bitter.
V. 25. Your iniquities have turned away those things, and your sins
have with-holden good things from you.
Ver. 26. For among my people are found wicked men.
vi. 6. This city to be visited.
Ver. 7. For as a fountain casteth out her waters, so she castcth out
her wickedness.
xii. 1. Vv'^herefore doth the way of the wicked prosper.
Ver. 4. How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the field
wither ? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are
consumed, &c.
xliv. 3. The cities are a desolation because of their wickedness.
Ezek. iii. 18. The wicked man shall die in his wickedness. V^er. 9.
Ch. xxxiii. 8, 9, 14.
xviii. 20, The wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Ezek. xviii. 24. When the righteous turneth away from his righte-
ousness and committeth iniquity, and doth according to all the abomi-
nations that the wicked man doth, shall he live ? all his righteousness
that he hath done shall not be mentioned, in his trespass that he hath
trespassed, and in his sins that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Ver. 26, 27.
xxxiii. 8. O wicked man thou shalt surely die.
Hos. x. 13. Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity.
Ver. 14. Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all
thy fortresses shall be spoiled.
Nah.i. 19. There is no healing of thy hurt, for on whom hath not
thy wickedness passed.
Zeck. V. 8. As a talent of lead is their wickedness.
Matt. xiii. 49, At the end of tiic world, the angels shall sever the
wicked from among the just.
Ver. 50. And shall cast them into a turnace of fire, there shall be
wailing, and gn«sliing of teeth.
SINXERS.
CXXX. Sirmers^ God's thrccU('7ihigs ai^aivst them. (Icn. xxxii. 33.
The Lord said to Moses, whosuever hatl: shined a^jain ,t me, hiiv. \\\\\
1 blot out oi mv boois.
Chap. XV. Sinners. 309
Gen. xxxii. 34. I will visit their sin upon them.
xxxiv. 7. God will hy no means clear the guilty.
Jos. xxiv. 19. He is a jealous God, he will not forgive their trans-
l^-ressions nor their sins.
2 Chi'on. vi. 22. If a man sin, judge thou in this house.
Ps. xc, 7. We are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath
we are troubled.
Ver. 8., Thou hast set bur iniquities before thee, and our secret
sins in the light of thy countenance.
Prov. viii. 36. He that sinneth against me, wrongeth his own
soul. Numb. xvi. 38.
Eccl. ii. 2o. To the sinner God giveth travel.
Isa. xiii. 9. The Lord shall destroy the sinners of the land out of it.
xxx. 1. Woe unto rcbeiiious children, saith tJie Lord, 8cc. who
add sin to sin.
Jer. ii. 25. I will plead with thee, saith the Lord, because of thy
sins,
XV. 1 3. Thy substance will I give to thine enemies, because of thy
sins. Ch. xvii. 3. — 1. 14.
Ezek. xiv. 15. When the land sinneth, I will break the staff of
bread.
Ezek. xviii. 4. The soul that sinneth it shall die. Ver. 20.
xxi. 24. In all your doings, your sins appeca', 8cc. ye shall be taken.
xxviii. 16. Thou hast sinned, therefore I will cast thee as profane
out of the mountain of God.
Hos iv. 7. They sinned against me, therefore will I ch^ge their
glory into shame.
Ver. 9. I will punish them for their ways.
ix. 9. I will visit their sin.
Amos V. 12. I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty
sins.
ix. 8. The eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful kingdom, and he
will destroy it from off the face of the earth.
Ver. 10. The sinners of my people shall die by the sword.
Mic. vi. 13. I will make thee a desolation because of thy sins.
John xvi. 8. The Spirit shall reprove the world of sin.
2 Pet. ii. 4, God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to hell.
Jude ver. 15. The Lord cometh to execute judgment, and to con-
vince ungodly sinners of their ungodly deeds.
CXXXI. iiinners threatened with various evils under the providence
of God, Deut. xxiv. 16. Every one shall die for his own sin. Lev.
xxii. 9. 2 Kings xiv. 6. 2 Chron xxv. 4. Ezek. xviii. 20.
Job XX. 1 1. His bones are full of the sin of his youth which shall
lie down with him in the dust.
Ps. i. 5. Sinners shall not stand in the congregation of the right-
eous.
xxxviii. 6. There is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
Prov. xiii. 21. Evil pursueth sinners.
Ver. 22. The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
xiv. 34. Sin is a reproach to any people.
xxiv. 9. The sinner is an abomination amonp: men.
310 Transgressors. Chap. XV.
Isa. i. 28. The destruction of the transgressors, and of the sinner
shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed.
xxxiii. 14. The sinners in Zion are afraid, who among us shall
dwell with everlasting burnings ?
Ixv. 20. The sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Jer. xl. 3. Because ye have sinned against the Lord, this is come
upon you. Ch. xliv. 23.
Jer. 1. 7. Their enemies prevailed, and said, we offend not because
they have sinned. Zech. i. 17.
Lam. i. 8. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore she is re-
moved, all that honoured her despise her. Ezek. xvi. 52.
V. 7. Our fathers have sinned and are not, we have borne their
iniquities.
Ver. 16. Woe unto us that we have sinned.
Ezek. xxxiii. 10. If our sins be upon us, Sec. how should we live ?
Ver. 12. The righteous shall not be able to live in the day that
he sinneth.
Hos. xiii. 2. They sin more and more.
Ver. 3. They shall be as the morning cloud, and the early dew
that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven away with the whirl-
wind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
Mic. i. 5. For the sins of the house of Israel is all this evil.
Rom. ii. 12. As many as have sinned without law shall perish
without law.
V. 14. Death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that
had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression.
Ver. 10, 21. Sin reigned unto death.
vi. 23. The wages of sin is death.
vii. 5. The motions of sin did work in our members to bring forth
fruit unto death.
Ver, 9. Sin revived and I died.
Ver, IL Sin slew me.
1 Cor. XV. 56. The sting of death is sin.
2 Thess. ii. 3. The man of sin is the son of perdition.
1 Tim. i. 9. The law is made for sinners.
Heb. X. 26, If we sin wilfully after we have received the know-
ledge of the truth) there rcmaineth no more sacrifice for sin.
Ver. 27 But a certain fearful looking-for of judgment, and fiery
indignation, that shall devour the adversaries. Ch. iv. 6.
James i. 15. Sin when finished bringeth forth death.
1 John V. 17. There is a sin unto death. Matt. xii. 31.
TRANSGRESSORS,
o.
CXXXII. Transgressors^ threatenings against them. Prov. xi.
The perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. V^er. 6.
xiii. 2. The soul of the transgressor shall eat violence. Ver. 15.
xxvi. 10. The great God that formed all things rewardeth the
transgressor.
Isa. xxiv. 5. The earth is defiled under the inhabitants thereof,
because they have transgressed.
Chap. XV. Iniquity, ^11
Isa. xxiv. 6. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth. Ver. 20.
The transgression of the earth shall be heavy upon it.
Ixvi. 24. The men that have transgressed again&t me, their worm
shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be
an abhorring to all flesh.
Jer. xxxiv. 18, 20. 1 will give the men that have transgressed int^
the hand of their enemies.
Ezek. xiv. 10. They shall bear the punishment of their iniquity ;
Ver. 1 1. That they may no more go astray nor be polluted with
their transgressions.
XX. 38. \ will purge from among you the rebels and them that
transgress.
xxxix. 24. According to their uncleanness, and according to their
transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
Hos vi. 13. Woe unto them for they have fled from me, destruc-
tion unto them for they have transgressed against me.
Matt. XV. 3. Why do ye transgress the commandments of God by
your tradition ?
Actsi. 25. Judas by transgression fell from the ministry.
Heb. ii. 2. If the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every
transgression received a just recompence of reward j
Ver. 3. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation ?
1 John iii. 4. Sin is the transgression of the law.
2 John ver. 9. Whosoever transgresseth, abideth not in the doctrine
of Christ, he hath not God. See particular calamities threatened a-
gainst transgresssors in the civil state. Prov. xxviii 2. — In the church.
Isa. xliii. 27. Destruction by wild beasts. Isa. v. 6. From famine
and pestilence. Amos iv. 2 to ver. 10.
INIQUITY.
CXXXIII. Iniquitij forbidden. Job xxii. 23. Put iniquity far frotp
thy tabernacles.
xxvi. 10. God commandeth that they return from iniquity.
Jer. xxxvi. 3. It may be that they will return every one from his
evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity.
Ezek. xviii. 8. He that hath withdrawn his hands from iniquity,
Ver. 17. He shall not die for the iniquity of his father.
Dan. iv. 27. Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine inir
quity by shewing mercy to the poor.
Zeph. iii- 13. The remnant shall not do iniquity.
Acts iii. 26. God sent his Son to bless you, in turning every one
from his iniquity.
Rom. vi. 19. Yield your members servants to righteousness.
2 Tim. ii. 19. Let every one that nameth the name of Christ, de-
part from iniquity.
Tit. ii. 14. Christ gave himself for us, that he might redeem us
from all iniquity.
Heb. i. 9. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity.
CXXXIV. God\<i threatenings agai?ist the workers thereof. Gen. xliv.
16. Judah said, God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants.
312
Iniquity, Chap. XV.
Lev. xviii. 25. The laud is defiled, therefore I do visit the iniquity
thereof upon it, the hmd doth vomit out her inhabitants.
2 Sam. vii. 14. If he commit iniquity 1 will chasten him with the
rod of men. Ps. Ixxxix. 32.
Job xiii. 26. Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me
to possess the iniquities of my youth.
xiv. 1 7. My transgression is scaled up in a bag, and thou sewest
up mine iniquities.
Ps. V. 5. Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity.
xc. 8. Thou settest our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in
the light of thy countenance. Job x. 6, 14. — xxxiv. 22.
xciv. 16. Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniqui-
Ver. 2?. God shall bring upon them their own iniquities, and shall
cut them off in their own wickedness.
Ps. cxxv. 5. Such as turn aside, God shall lead forth with the
workers of iniquity.
Isa. xiii. 1 1. I will punish the wicked for their iniquity.
xxii. 14. This iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die,
saith the Lord of hosts.
xxvi. 21. The Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabi-
tants of the earth for tlieir iniquity.
xxxi. 2. God will arise against the house of evil doers, and against
the help of them tliat work iniquity.
lix. 2. Your iniquties have separated between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you.
Ixiv. 7. Thou luibt consumed us because of our iniquities.
Jer. ii. 22. Thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.
ix. 5. They weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Ver 9. Shall not my soul be avenged of such a nation ?
xi. 10. They are turned back to the iniquity of their fore-fathers.
Ver. 11. I will bring evil upon them that they shall not escape.
xiv. 10. I will now remember their iniquities, and visit their sins.
Hos. viii. 13 — ix. 9,
xvi. 10. Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil
against us ?
Jer. xvi. 17. Mine eyes are upon all their ways, neither is their
iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Ver. 18. 1 will recompense their iniquity. .
XXV. 12. I will punish that nation for their iniquity, and make it
a desolation.
XXX. 14. I have wounded thee for the multitude of thine iniqui-
ties, and because thy sins are increased.
V^er. \5. For the multitude of thine iniquities, I have done these
things unto thee. Hos.. ix. 7.
xxxvi. 31.1 will punish him and his seed, and his servants for their
iniquity.
li. 6. Flee nut of Babylon, be not cut off in her iniquities, for this
is the time of the Lord's vengeance. Gen. xix. 15.
Lzek. ix. 9. The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is ex-
ceeding great.
Ver. TO. Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity.
Chap, XV. Iniquity, 313
Ezek. xvi. 49. This was the iniquity of tliy sister Sodom, pride,
idleness, lidness of bread, Sec.
Ver. 50. Therefore I tooli them away as I saw gcod. Ver. 52,
xxi. 23. God will call to remembrance the iniquity that they may
be taken. Ver. 24, 25, 29. Chap. xxix. 16.
Ezek. xxxviii. 18. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the mul-
titude of thine iniquities, therefore I will bring forth a fire and it
shall devour thee, and bring thee to ashes.
Amos iii. 2. 1 will punish you for all your iniquities.
Hab. i. 3. Why doest thou shew me iniquity.
Ver. 13. Thou canst not look upon iniquity.
Matt. vii. 23. Christ will say in the day of judgment, depart from
me, ye that work iniquity.
xiii. 41. He. shall cast them who do iniquity, into a furnace of fire.
Rev. xviii. 5. Babylon's sins have reached unto heaven, God hath
remembered her iniquities.
Ver. 6. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto
her double.
CXXXV. The puJiishment thereof threatened under the providen-
tial goxyernment of Gody intermixt with instances thereof. Gen. iv. 16,
Cain said, my punishment (or initpiity) is greater than 1 can bear.
XV. 16. The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Lev. xxvi. 39. They shall pine away in their iniquity in your ene-
mies hands, and the iniquity of your fathers. Ezek. xxiv. 23.
Job XX. 27. The heavens shall reveal the wicked man's iniquity,
and the earth shall rise up against him. Ver. 22. Every hand of the
wicked shall be upon him.
xxi. 19. God layeth up his iniquity for his children.
Ps. vii. 14. The wicked travelleth with iniquity.
xxxi. 10. My life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing,
my strength faileth because of mine iniquity.
xxxvii. l. The M^orkers of iniquity shall be cut down. Ps. xxxvi. 12.
xcii. 7. When the wicked spring as the grass, and tiie workers of
iniquity do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. \''er. 9,
Ps. cvi. 43. They were brought low for their iniquity.
cvii. 17. Fools because of their transgression, and because of their
iniquities are brought low.
Prov. V. 22. His own iniquity shall take the wicked himself, and
he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
X. 29. Destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
Isa. V. 18. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity,
and sin as it were with a cart rope.
xxiK. 20. All that watch for iniquity are cut off.
XXX. 13. Iniquity shall be unto you as a breach ready to fall.
1. 1. For your iniquities ye have sold yourselves.
Ixiv. 6. Our iniquities like the wind have carried us away.
Jer. v. 25. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and
your sins have withhoiden guod things from you.
xiii. 22. For the greatness of thine iniquiiy are thy skirts disco-
vered, kc.
xxxi. 30. Every one slr.iil (iif for his ov,-n iniquity. Ezek. iii. l;\
314 Commandment First, Chap. XV.
Lam. iv. 6. The punishment of the iniquity of my people is grea-
ter than the sin of Sodom.
Ezek. iv. 16. They shall drink water by measure, and with asto-
nishment.
Ver. 17. They shall want bread and water, and consume away for
their iniquiy.
xxxii. 27. Their iniquity shall be upon their bones.
xxxiii. 6. He is taken away in his iniquity.
Ver. 8. He shall die in his iniquity. Ver. 9, 13, 18.
xxxix. 23. The house of Israel went into captivity for their ini-
quity.
Dan. ix. 16. For our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers we arc
become a reproach.
Hos. xiv. 1. Israel, return unto the Lord, for thou hast fallen by
thine iniquity.
Mic. ii. 1 . Woe unto them that devise iniquity, and work evil up-
on their beds.
Hab. ii. 12. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and es-
tablisheth a city by iniquity. Mic. iii. 10.
Matt, xxiii. 28. Ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Ver. 20.
Woe unto you.
COMMANDMENT FIRST.
CXXXVI. Idolatry forbidden, Exod. xx. 3. Thou shalt have no
other gods before me. Ch. xxxiii. 14. Ps. Ixxxi. 9. Hos. xiii. 4.
L Cor viii. 4, 5.
xxiii. 13. Make no mention of the names of other gods. Jos. xxiii. 7.
Ver. 24. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods nor serve them.
Deut. iv. 15. Take good heed unto yourselves.
Ver. 1 9. Lest when thou seest the sun and the moon, and the stars,
even all the host of heaven, thou shouldst be driven to worship and
serve them.
vi. 14. Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people
which are round about you. Judges vi. 10.
xii. 30. Enquire not after their gods, saying, how did these na-
tions serve their gods, even so will I do likewise. Jer. vi. 7.
CXXXVII. Enforced by threatenin^s^ as firtventatives. Exod. xxii.
^0. He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he
sliall utterly be destroyed. Lev. xx. 5.
Deut. viii. 19. If thou at all do forsake the Lord your God, and
walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify
iigainst you tiiis day, that ye shall surely perish.
1 Kings ix. 6. If you or your children shall turn aside, and serve
other gods, and worship them, then will I cut off Israel out of the
land which I have given them. Ver. 9. See Chap, xxviii 15, 36, 64.
— xxix. 18 to 28. — xxx. 17, 18. — xxxi. 16, 17. Jos. xxiii. 16. — xxiv.
^0, 2 Chion.vii. 19, 20. Ps. xvi. 4. — xliv. 20,21. Jer. xvi. 13. — xxii. 9.
CXXXVIIl. Judgmenle inflicted ufion tranagrefisora oftliif; command.
Deut. xxxii. !:'>. Jeshivrun waxed fat, and kicked ; he forsook God
ijiat ni udr liitm.
Chap. XV. Commandment First. 315
Deut. xxxii. 1 6. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods.
xxxii. 17. They sacrificed to devils, to gods whom they knew not,
to new gods that came newly up.
Ver. 19. And the Lord abhorred them and said,
Ver. 20. I will hide my face from them.
Ver. 22. A fire is kindled in mine anger. Ver. 23. I will heap
mischief upon them. Ver. 24, 25, 26, 37.'
Judges ii. 11. The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the
Lord.
Ver 12. They followed other gods, of the gods of the people
round about them, and bowed themselves unto them.
Ver. 14. And the anger of the Lord was against Israel, and he de-
livered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold
them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could
no longer stand before their enemies.
Ver. 15. Whithersoever they went out the hand of the Lord was
against them for evil, and they were greatly distressed. Ver. 17, 20,
23. Ch. iii. 7, 8. — x. 6, 7, 13, 14. Jer. xi. 10. — xiii. 10.
v. 8. They chose new gods, then was war in the gates.
X. 6. The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and
served the gods of the Philistines.
Ver. 7. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and
he sold them into the hands of the Philistines.
Judges X. 10. They cried unto the Lord.
Ver. 13. The Lord said, ye have forsiiken me, and served other gods.
Ver. 14. Let the gods which ye have chosen deliver you in the
time of your tribulation.
2 Kings xvii. 7. The children of Israel feared other gods.
Ver. 8. And walked in the statutes pf the heathen. Jer. xliv. 3
to 28.
Ver. 18. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and re-
moved them out of his sight.
2 Kings xxii. 17. Because they have forsaken me, and have burnt
incense to other gods, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against
this place, and shall not be quenched. Jer. i. 16. — xix. 4.
Ps. cvi. 28. They joined themselves to Baal-peor.
Ver. 29. The plague broke in among them.
Jer. V. 19. As yc have served other gods in your land, so shall
ye serve strangers in a land not yours.
vii. 9. Will ye walk after other gods, and come and stand before
me in this house.
Ver. 15. I will cast you out of my sight.
Jer. vii. 20. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, behold mine an-
ger aud my fury shall be poured out Upon this place, &c. Ver. 30
to 34. Ch. viii. 2, 11 — xix. 3 to 14.
xi. 9. They went after other gods to serve them.
Ver. 1 1. Thus saith the Lord, I will bring evil upon this place.
Ver. 14. Therefore pray not for this people. Tsa. Ivii. 3, 5, 13
Jer. xliv. 21, 22, 23, — iii. 3, 6, 8, 20.
U r
316 Commandment First. Chap. XV.
Ezek. XX. 32. Ye say we will be as the heathen, as the families
of the countries.
Ver. 33. As I live, saith the Lord, surely with a stretched out
arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you. Ch. viii. 16.
Zeph. i. 3, 4, 5.
CXXIX. God* s judgments ufion particular transgressors of this com-
mand^ as, On Solomon. 1 Kings xi. 1, 9, 1.1, 53. Jerobojan. Kings xii.
28.— .;dv.2, 17. Baasha. 1 Kings xyi. 3, 12. Ahab. 1 King xvi. 30. —
xxi. 21. — xxii. 34, 5^. 2 Kings x. 11. Ahaziah. 2 Kings i. 2. Jeho-
ram. 2 Chron. xxi. 11, 1^4, 19. Manasseh. 2 Kings xxi. 3, 4, 5, 6.
2 Chron. xxxiii. 2 to 15. Amaziah. 2 Chron. xxv. 14 to 20.
CXL. Covenants and intermarriages ivith the heathen inhabitants of Ca-
naan forbidden to the Jews, lest they should thereby be cnsJiared to their
idolatry,
Exod. xxiii. 32. Thou shalt make no covenant with them nor with
their gods. Ver. 33. Deut. vii. 2. Numb, xxxiii. 55.
xxxiv. 12. Take heed to thyself lest thou make a covenant with
the inhabitants of the land, lest it be a snare unto thee.
Ver. 15. And they go a whoring after their gods, and they do
sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of the sacri-
fice.
Ver. 1 6. And thou t^ke of their daughters unto thy spns, and their
daughters go a whoring after their gods, and nriake thy sons go a
whoring after their gods. Deut. vii. 3,^4. Ch. xx, 17, 18. Jos. xxiii.
12, 13. Judges ii. 1, 2.-— iii. 5 to 8.
Transgressed in making a covenant with the Gibeonites. Jos. ix.
14, 15. This covenant confirmed for their punishment. 2 Sam. xxi. 1,
CXLI. Making covenants and intermarriages with transgressors of
this command punished.
Numb. XXV. 2. They call the people unto the sacrifices of their
gods, and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Ver. 3. And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor, and the anger of
the Lord was kindled against Israel.
Ver. 4. And the Lord said to Moses, take all the heads of the peo-
ple, and hang them up before the Lord.
Ver. 8. The plague was stayed.
Ver. 9. Those that died in the plague were twenty and four thou-
sand.
Judges i. 21, 27 to 34. They did not drive out the inhabitants.
ii. 1. The angel of the Lord said, Ver. 2. Ye have not obeyed my
voice.
Ver. 3. Wherefore I will not drive them out before you, but they
shall be as thorns in you sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto
you.
Ver. 4. When the angel of the Lord spake these words, the chil-
dren of Israel lift up their voice and wept.
iii. 6. The children of Israel dwelt among the Can.aanit^s, and they
took their daughters to be their wives, apd gave th^ir daughters to
their sons, and served their gods.
Ver. 8. Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Is-
yael, and he sold them. into the hand of the king of Mesopotamia.
Chap. XV. Commandment Pirst. 317
1 Kings xi. 1. Solomon loved many strange wives.
Ver. 4. When he was old his wives turned away his heart after
other gods.
Ver. 9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, and said, 1 will
rend the kingdom from thee. Ver. 11, 33.
1 Kings xvi. 3 1 . Ahab took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Eth-
baal king of the Zidonians.
xxi. 25. There was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself
to work wickedness, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
2 Kings V. 17, 18. Naaman asks pardon for being present at idol-
atrous worship, though he joined not in it.
CXLII. Strange gods to be fiut away. Gen. xxxv. 2. Jacob said
unto his houshold, put away the strange gods that are among you.
Ver. 4. Jos. xxiv. 14, 23. I Sam. vii, 3.
Judges X. 16. They put away the strange gods, and served the
Lord, and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
2 Kings xxiii. 4, 5. Josiah put down the idolatrous priests. See to
ver. 26.
2 Chron. xxxiii. 1 5. Manasseh put away the strange gods.
Hos. xiv. 3. Neither will we say to the work of our hands, ye are
our gods. See Deut. xxxii. 12. Jos. iii. 12. Dan. iii. 12.
CXL I n. Transgressors of this commandment among the fieofile of Is-
rael and the enticers thereto^ to bejiut to death by the hands of men,
Deut. xiii. 1. If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of
dreams, and giveth a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder
come to pass, whereof he spake, saying, let us go after other gods.
Ver. 5. That prophet, or that dreamer, shall be put to death. Ch.
xviii. 20. 1 Sam. xxvi. 19.
xiii. 6. If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend which is as thine
own soul, entice thee, saying, let us go and serve other gods,
Ver. 8. Thou shalt not consent unto him, neither shall thine eye
pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him, but
thou shalt surely kill him, thine hand shall be first upon him to put
him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people.
Ver. 12. If thou shalt hear say, in one of thy cities,
Ver. 13. Certain men the children of Belial are gone out, and have
withdrawn the inhabitants of the city, saying, let us go serve other
gods;
Ver. 1 4. Then thou shalt make search diligently, and if it be truth,
Ver. 15. Thou shalt smite the inhabitants of that city with the
edge of the sword, and destroy it utterly :
Ver. 16. It shall be an heap for ever. Deut. xvii. 2 to 8. 1 Kings
xviii. 40. Job xxxi. U.
CXLIV\ Threatenings against strange gods, Exod. xii. 12. Against
the gods oF Egypt will I execute judgment.
Numb, xxxiii. 4. Upon the gods of Egypt the Lord executed
judgment,
Zeph. ii. ] 1. The Lord will famish all the gods of the earth.
CXLV. Strange gods are vanity. Judges vi. 31, .Toash said, if Baal
p!f»ad for himself.
318 Coynmandment Second. Chap. XV.
1 Kings xviii. 20. Elijah said, if the Lord he God, follow him, but
if Baal, then follow him.
Elijah mocked the priests of Baal, saying, cry aloud for he is a
god, either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or
peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked.
Ver. 29. There was neither voice nor any to answer.
2 Kings xix. 18. They were no gods. Ch. xviii. 35.
1 Chron. xvi. 26. All the gods of the people are idols,
Isa. xli. 23. Shew the things to come hereafter, that we may know
that ye are gods. Ver. 24.
Acts xix. 26. Paul persuaded, that they are no gods that are made
with hands.
Rom. i. 25. They served and worshipped the creature.
Gal. iv. 8. Did service to them, which by nature are no gods.
CXLVI. Enquiring concerning future e^enta^from those luho by na-
ture are no gods.
Isa. xli. 2. Shew the things to come hereafter, that we may know
that ye are gods.
2 Kings i. 2. Ahaziah sent to enquire of the god of Ekron if he
should recovfcr.
Ver. 4. Therefore, thus saith the Lord, thou shalt surely die.
Instance, Saul. 1 Sam. xxviii. 7. His punishment. iChron. x. 13.
COMMANDMENT SECOND.
CXLVn. Images, the use of them forbidden^ tvith fireventative
threatenings.
Exod. XX. 4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth, thou shalt
not bow down to them, nor serve them, for I the Lord thy God, am
a jealous God. Chap, xxxiv. 17. Lev. xix. 4. — xxvi. 1, 30. Deut. iv.
16, 17, 18, 19,25 V. 8. — xvi. 22.
Deut. xxvii. 15. Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or a
molten image, an abomination to the Lord.
Ps. xcvii. 7. Confounded be all they that serve graven images.
Isa. xlii. 8. My glory will I not give to another, nor my praise to
graven images.
Rev. xiv. 9. If any man worship the beast or his image,
Ver. 10. The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation,
and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone, in the presence
of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb, &c.
CXLVI II. God^s judgment s'ujion the breakers of this commandment ,
Exod. xxxii. 4. Aaron made a molten calf. Deut. ix. 12, 16.
Neh. XXXV. 9, 18. Ps. cvi. 19. The Lord plagued the people, be-
cause of the calf which Aaron made.
1 Kings xiv. 9. Thou (Jeroboam) hast made thee molten images,
to provoke me to anger.
Ver. 10. I will bring cvij upon the house of Jeroboam. Ch. xvi. 3.
Chap. XV. Coynmandment Second. 319
1 Kings xi.v. 22. Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they
provoked him to jealousy with their sins.
Ver. 23. 1 hey built him high places, and images, and groves, on
every high hill, and under every green tree.
Ver. 25. And it came to pass that Shishak, king of Egypt, came
gainst Jerusalem.
Ver. 26. And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord,
and the treasures of the king's house, he took away all the shields
of gold, which Solomon had made.
2 Kings xvii. 16. They made molten images, even two calves and
made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and worship-
ed Baal.
Ver. 17. They caused their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire, and used divination and enchantments.
Ver. 18. Therefore the Lord was angry with Israel, and remov-
ed them out of his sight. Ver. 20.
2 Chron. xxviii. 2. Ahaz made molten images for Baalim.
Ver. 3. He burnt his children in the fire, after the abomination
of the heathen. Sec.
Ver. 5. Wherefore the Lord delivered him into the hands of the
king of Assyria.
xxxiii. 7. Manasseh set a carved image in the house of God.
Ver. 9. He made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err.
Ver. 1 1. Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of
the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh and bound him
with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 2 Kings xxi. 7, 12.
xxxiii. 22. Amon sacrificed to all carved images.
Ver. 24. And his servants conspired against him, and slew him.
Ps. Ixxviii. 58. They provoked him to anger with their high ph;-
ces, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Ver. 59. And God was wroth and greatly abhorred Israel.
Ver. 62. He gave his people over to the sword.
Isa. viii. 19. Why have they provoked me to anger, with thcii-
graven images ?
Ver. 22. Why is not the health of the daughter of my people re-
stored ?
Jer. 1. 37. A sword is upon their treasures.
Ver. 38. For it is a land of graven images, they arc mad upon
their images.
Ezek. vii 20. They made the images of their abominations in
the house of the Lord.
\'cr. 21. I will give it into the hands of the wicked for a spoil,
and they shall spoil it. Ch. vi. 4 — v. 13.
viii. 12. Seest thou what the ancients of Israel do In the ihA'k, e
\ery one in the house of his imagery.
Ver. 13. therefore will I deal in fury, mine eye shall not r^pare,
neither will I have pity, though they cry in mine ears with a loud
voice, yet svill I not hear them..
xvi. 17. Thovi madest thyself images. Sec to ver. 30.
Ver. 20. 'Iherefore 1 have delivered thee jdIo ijje hand oi tliC^n
that hate thee.
Chap, x^xxiii. throughout, L'^rw^Ps a'/ios^tan; and fr.iJiishff'cnt.
320 Commandment Second. Chap. XV.
Dan. iii. 1 . The king made an image. Ver. 5. He commanded to
worship it.
iv. 25. They shall drive thee from among men, thy dwelling shall
be with the beast of the field.
Hos. X. 1. According to the goodness of his land they have made
goodly images.
Ver. 10. It is my desire that I should chastise them. Ch. iii. 4.
xi. 2. They sacrificed unto Baalim, and burnt incense to graven
images.
Ver. 5. The Assyrian shall be his king.
xiii. 2. They sin more and more, and have made them molten
images of their silver.
Ver. 3. Therefore they shall be as the chaff, that is driven with
the whirl -wind.
Amos V. 26. Ye have born the tabernacle of your Moloch, and
Chiun your images.
Ver. 27. Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity.
Rom. i. 23. They changed the glory of God into an image.
Ver. 24. Wherefore God gave them up, &c. Rev. xiii. 14. — xix.
20. — xvi. 2. See also Lev. xxvi. 14, 30. Isa. xxi. 9. — xxvii. 9. Jer.
xliii. 10, 13 — 1. 2 — li. 47, 52. Ezek. vi. 4, 6. — xxx. 13. Hos. iii. 4.
CXLIX. Images'^ no representation of God. Deut. iv. 12. The
Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire, ye heard the voice
of the words, but saw no manner of similitude.
Ver. 15. Take therefore heed unto yourselves,
Ver. 16. Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven im-
age, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female.
Ver. 17, 18, 19. .
Isa. xl. 18. To whom will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye
compare unto him. Ver. 25. Ch. xlvi. 5.
Acts xvii. 29. We ought not to think that the God-head is like
unto gold or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Images are vanity. Isa. xl. 19, 20. — xli. 29. — xliv. 9, 10 to 13.
— xlv. 20. Jer. X. 8, 14. Hab. ii. 18, 19.
CL. They were commanded to be broken. Lev. vii. 25. Ye shall de-
stroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their
groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
Numb xxxiii. 52. Ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the
land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all
their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places.
Exod. X iii. 24. — xxxiv. 13. Deut. vii. 5, 25. Isa. xxx. 22. — xvii 8,
CLI. Images were broken down. Exod. xxxii. 20. Moses burnt the
calf which they had made in the fire.
2 Sam. V. 21. David burnt their images.
2 Kings iii. 2. Jehoram put away the images of Baal.
X. 26. Jehu lind his men burnt the images of Baal. Ch. xi. 18.
xviii. 4. Hezekiah removed the high places, and brake the ima-
ges, and cut dov^'n the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen ser-
pent which Moses had made, for the children of Israel did burn in-
ctmse to it.
xxiii. 14. Jobiah brake in pieces the images, and cut down the
gtoves, &c. Ver. 19, 24.
Chap. XV. Commandment SeconcL 321
2 Chron. xiv. 3. Asa brake down their images. Ver. v.
CLII. Instances of images used by afiostates^ as outward symbols in
nvorsliip offered to the true God.
Exod. xxxii. 4, 5. To the golden calf. Neh. ix. 18. Judges xvli.
3. Micah's image. Ver. 13. Ch. xviii. 31. 1 Kings xii. 26 to 33.
Jeroboam's calves.
CLIII. Worshifi to i7nages refused., tfiough commanded by kings.
Dan. iii. 18. Refused by Shadrach, Meshech and Abedne.L^o.
1 Kings xix. 4. By seven thousand in Israel. Rom. xi. 4. Rev. xv.
2. — XX. 4.
CLIV. Threats against idols and idolators. Isa. ii. 8. Their land is
full of idols, they worship the work of their own hands, that which
their own fingers have made.
Ver. 9. The mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth
himself, therefore forgive them not. Ch. xxvii. 1 1.
Ver. 18. The idols he shall utterly abolish,
Ver. 20. In that day shall a man cast his idols of silver, and his
idols of gold, which they made, each one for himself to worship, to
the moles and to the bats.
Ver. 21. To go hito the ciifts of the rocks, and into the tops of the
ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty,
when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
xix 1. The Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into
Egypt, the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence.
Ver. 3. They shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to
them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizzards. Sec to ver. IB.
Their punishment.
xlv. 16. They shall go to confusion, that are makers of idols.
Zeph. i. 3. I wall consume, saith the Lord, the stumbling blocks
with the wicked. Ezek. xiv. 4, 7.
Ver. 4. i will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place.
Ver. 5 And them that worship the host of he:iven, and that swear
by the Lord, and that swear by Malchimi. See threats to ver. 18.
Zech. xiii. 2. Thus saith the Lord, I will cut off the names of idols
out of the land of Egypt. Ezek. xxx. 12.
1 Cor. vi. 9. Idolaters shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Eph. V. 5.
Rev. xxi. 4. Idolaters shall have their portion in the lake which
burneth with fire and brimstone.
xxii. 15. Without (the heavenly Jerusalem) are dogs and sorce-
rers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, &c.
CLV. Promises-, warnings and exhortations^ against idolatry ,
Ezek. xviii- 6. If a man be just, and hath not lift up his eyes to
idols he shall live. Ver. 9.
Ver. 17. He shall not die for the iniquity of his father.
xxxvi. 25. From all your idols will I cleanse you. Ch. xxxvii. 23,
Isa. xxxi. 7, — xxvii. 9.
Acts XV. 20. Write to them that they abstain from idolatry.
Ver. 29. That they abstain from meats offered to idols. Ch. xxi.
25. Rev, ii. 14, ^^0.
322 Commandment Second. Chap. XV.
1 Cor. V. II. I have written unto you, if any man that is called a
brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a
drunkard, or an extortioner, with such an one no not to eat.
Against eating with idolaters at their sacrifices. See 1 Cor. viii. 4
to 14. Ch. X. 19, 20.
X. 7. Neither be ye idolaters as some of the Jews were.
Ver. 14. Flee from idolatry.
2 Cor. vi. 16. What aijreement hath the temple of God with
idols.
1 John V. 2 1 . Little children keep yourselves from idols.
Idols are vanity. See Isa. xlvi. 1. — xlviii. 5. Ezek. viii. 6. Zech x.
2. Idolatries abominable. I Pet. iv. 3. Sacrificing to devils. 1 Cor.
x. 20. Rev. ix. 20.
CLVI. GocVs jud^^ments ufion idolaters. Ps. cvi. 25. They learned
the works of the heathen. Ver. 36. And served their idols.
Ver. 40. Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his
people. See Isa. ii. 8, 9. See to ver. 22.
Isa. Ivii. 4. Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of false-
hood.
Ver. 5. Enflaming yourselves with idols.
Ver. 10. Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way.
Ver. 12. Thy works shall not profit thee.
Ezek. vi. 5. I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel
before their idols- Ver. 6, 9, 13.
viii. 10. I saw the idols of Israel pourtrayed upon the wall.
Ver. 18. I will deal in fury, mine eye shall not spare.
xiv. 3. These men have set up their idols in their heart.
Ver. 4. Thus saith the Lord, every man of the house of Israel,
that setteth up his idols in his heart, and cometh to the prophet, I the
Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his
idols.
Ver. 5. That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, be-
cause thev are estranged from me through their idols. Ver. 6, 8, 9.
xiv. 30. Thussaitii tlie Lord God, because tiiy filthiness was pour-
ed out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms, with
thv lovers, and with ail the idols of thine abominations.
Ver. 38. I will judge thee as a woman that breaketh wedlock.
Ver. 37.
XX. 7. Then said I, defile not yourselves with idols, but they re-
belled against me.
Ver. 8. Then said I, I will pour out my fury upon them. See t©
ver. 40.
xxii. 3. Thus saith the Lord, the city maketh idols against her-
self to defile herself.
Ver. 4. Therefore have I made thee a reproach. See Chap. 23d,
throughout.
xxxiii. 25. Thus saith the Lord, ye lift up your eyes unto your
idols, and shall ye possess the land ? See also, ver. 27, 28.
xxxvi. 18. I poured out my fury upon them because of their idols.
xliv. 10. Israel went astray from me after their idols.
Ver. 12. Therefore have I lift up mine hand against them.
Chap. XV. Commandment Second. 323
Hos. iv. 17. Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone.
In the following places, and most of those quoted from Ezek. idola*
try is reproved and threatened, under the name of whoredom, fil*
thiness and abomination, viz. Hos. i. 2. — ii. 2. — iv. 10, 13. — v. 3.
_^vi. 10. — ix. 1. Nah. iii. 4. Rev. xvii. 1, 15. — xix. 2.
Idolatry to be purged. See Commandment first.
CLV^II. Magicians. Exod. 7th, 8th, and 9th Chapters. Dan.ii. 2.
Sorcerers. Mai. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness against the sorce-
rers.
Rev. xxi. 8. Soixcrers shall have their portion in the lake that bur-
neth with fire and brimstone.
xxii. 15. Without the new Jerusalem are dogs and sorcerers. Isa.
xlvii. 9. — hai. 3. Jer. xxvii. 9, 10. Rev. ix. 21. — xviii. 1. Acts viii.
9. Simon. Acts xiii. 6, 8. Elimas.
CLVIII. Inchanters. Lev. xix. 26. Ye shall not use enchantments,
nor observe times.
Numb, xxiii. 23. No enchantment against Jacob, no divination a-
gainst Israel.
CLIX. Soothsayers. Isa. ii. 6. Thou hast forsaken thy people, the
house of Jacob, because they are replenished from the east, and are
sooth-sayers like the Philistines, and please themselves in the children
of strangers.
Mic. v. 12. Thou shalt have no more soothsayers. Jos. xiii. 22.
Dan. ii. 27. — v. 7, 11. Acts xvi. 16.
CLX. Observers of times. Lev. xix. 26. Ye shall not observe times.
Deut. xviii. 10. There shall not be found among you an observer
of times.
Ver. 14. These nations hearkened to the observers of times, and
to diviners, but the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee to do so.
Gal. iv. 10. Ye observe days and months, and times, and years.
Ver. 1 1. I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labour
in vain. 2 Kings x. 6.
CLXI. Witches, Exod. xxii. 18. Thou shalt not sufier a witch to
live.
Deut. xviii. 10. There shall not be found among you, one that
useth divination, or an observer of times, or an inchanter, or a witch,
Ver. 11, 12. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or
a wizard, or a necromancer, for all these things are an abomination
to the Lord. See instances. Balaam. Numb. xxiv. I. Israel. 2 Kings
Kvii. 17. Isa. xlvii. 9, 12. Mauasseh. 2 Kings xxi. 6. Exod. vii. 11.
32. — viii. 7, 18. Jer. xxvii. 29.
Vx'<x\. v. 20. The works of the flesh are witchcrafts. See 1 Sam. xv.
03. 2 Kings ix. 22. 2 Chron. xxxiii. 6. Mic. v. 12. Nah. iii. 4, 5.
CLXII. Wizards. Lev. xix. 31. Regard not them that have fami-
liar spirits, neither seek after wizards to be defiled with them.
XX. 6. The soul that turneth after such I will sureiy cut him off.
Iha. viii. 19.
Ver. 27. A wizard shall surely be put to death. Deut. xviii. IJ-
i Sam, xxviii. 3,9. 2 Kings xxi. 6. — xxiii. 24. Isa. xix. 3.
To which maij be added, as breaches of thifi comminid. Col. ii- 18.
\\'ors]iipv»in'.>' ofanr^rls. Rfv xix. 10.
S s
324 Commandment Third, Chap. XV.
Acts xii. 23. Giving undue honours to men.
xiv. 11. Sacrificing unto men.
1 Cor. X. 20, Sacrificing to devils. Lev. xvii. 7.
Col. iii. 5. Covetousness is idolatry.
Phil. iii. 19. Whose god is their belly.
It is called goinj^ a whoring. Lev. xvii. 7. Ezek. xvi. 6, 28. — xx. 30.
— xxiii. 8, 17, 43. And in many other places as may be observed from
the scriptures in the foregoing sections.
CLXin. Diviners^ iiistances thereof. Numb. xxii. 7. The elders
of Moab departed with the rewards of divination in their hand, and
came to Balaam.
Ezek. xxi. 21. The king of Babylon stood to use divination.
Deut. xviii. 4. These nations hearkened to diviners. 1 Sam. vi. 2.
Ver. 10. There shall not be found among you one that useth di-
vination. Gen. xliv. 5. 1 Sam. xxviii. 8. Acts. xvi. 16.
CLXIV. They are deceivera and false fir op he ts, Jer. xiv. 14. They
prophesy unto you a false divination.
xxvii. 9. Hearken not to your diviners, your dreamers, your in-
chanters, your sorcerers.
Ver. 10. They prophesy a lie unto you.
xxix. 8. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, let not your diviners deceive
you, neither hearken to your dreams, which ye cause to be dreamed.
Ver. 9. For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name, I have
not sent them, saith the Lord. Ezek. xii. 24. — xxi. 29. Mic iii. 7, 11.
Zech. X. 2. — xxii. 28.
CLXV. Threatening^ against them. Isa. xliv. 25. The Lord that
frustrateth the tokens of liars and maketh diviners mad, thatturneth
wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolishness.
Ver. 26. That conlirmeth the word of his servant and performeth
the counsel of his messengers.
Ezek. xiii. 9. Mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vani-
ty, and divine lies. Ver. 23.
CLXVL Familiar sfiirits forbidden with threatenings against them^
and those that consult them. Lev. xix. 31. — xx. 6, 27. Isa. viii. 19.
They were put away by Saul. I Sam. xxviii. 3, 9. By Josiah. 2 Kings
xxiii, 24, They were consulted by Saul. I Sam. xxviii. 7, 8. 1 Chron.
X. 13. By Manasseh. 2 Kings xxi. 6. 2 Chron. xxxiii. 6. By the
Egyptians. Isa. xix. 3. They mutter and peep out of the dust. Isa.
xxix. 4.
COMMANDMENT THIRD.
CLX V'll. Profaning the name of God. Exod. xx. 7. Thou shalt not
take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not
hold him guiltless that taketh his name in^vain. Deut. v. 11.
Lev. xviii. 21. Neither shalt thou profane the nanie of thy God,
Ch. xix. 12, — XX. 3. — xxi. 6. — xxii. 2, 32.
CLXVIH. Swearing fai'idy. Lev. xix. 12. Ye ^hall not swear by
my name falsely.
Jer. vii. 9. Will ye suear falsely, and come and stand biforc me
in this house.
Ver. 15. I will cast you out of my sight.
Ver. 23. Because of sweailu!
Chap. XV. Comma7idment Third. 325
Hos. iv. 2. By swearing and lying, and killing, and stealing, and
committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Ver. 3. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dvvel-
leth therein shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the
fowls of heaven, yea the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
Zech. V. 3. This is the curse that goeth forth, every one that
sweareth shall be cut off according to it.
Ver. 4. It shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house
of him that sweareth falsely. And it shall remain in the midst of his
house, and shall consume the timber thereof, and the stones thereof.
viii. 17. Love no false oath— It is an abomination to the Lord.
Mai. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and adul-
terers, against false swearers, saith the Lord of hosts. Isa. xlviii. 1.
Jer. V. 2, 9. Hos. x. 4. 1 Tim. i. 10. Instance. Matt. xxvi. 72, 74.
Lev. V. I to 6. False swearers enjoined to make confession^ o^<?r sa-
crijice, Ch. vi. 2 to 6. and to make restitution to those they had injured.
CLXIX. Swearing by the creatures. Matt. v. 33. Swear not at all,
neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by Jerusalem, nor by thy
head. Ver. 34, 35, 36. Jam. v. 12. Matt, xxiii. 16 to 22. Instances'.
Gen. xlii. 15, 16. By the life of Pharaoh.
I Sam. XX. 3. As thy soul liveth. Ch. xxvi. 26. 2 Sam. xi. 11.
CLXX. Svjearing by other gods, Jos. xxiii. 7. Neither make men-
tion of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them.
Jer. v. 7. How shall I pardon thee for this ? thy children have for-
saken me, and have sworn by them that are no gods. Hos. iv. 15.
Amos viii. 14. Zeph. i. 4, 5.
CLXXI. Swearing in common conversation forbidden. Matt. v. 34.
Swear not at all, neither by heaven, kc. Ver. 35, 36.
James v. 12. Above all things my brethren swear not, neither by
heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, but let your
communication be yea, yea, nay, nay. Sec.
CLXXI I. Swearing to commit sin-, or to encourage it. Instances^
1 Sam. xxviii. 10. Saul to the witch of Endor.
Ps. cii. 8. David's enemies.
Acts xxiii. 21. Paul's enemies.
CLXXIIL Rash^ unnecessary swearing. Instances. Israel. Judg.
xxi. I to 18. Saul. I Sam. xiv. 24, 39, 45. David, 1 Sam. xxv. 22.
Joab. 2 Sam. xix. 7. Herod. Mark vi. 23.
CLXX IV. The /josiiive part of this commandment^ God only is to
be sworn by. Deut. vi. 13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and
serve him, and shall swear by his name. Ch. x. 20.
Isa. Ixv. 16. He that sweareth shall swear by the God of truth.
Jer. xii. 16. If they learn the ways of my people, to swear by my
name. Sec. Then shall they be built, 8cc.
Heb. vi. 16. Men verily swear by the greater. 1 Kings viii. 31.
Ps. Ixiii. 11.
CLXXV. The nature and duty of an oath. Jer. v. 2. Thou shalt
swear the Lord liveth in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness.
Heb. vi. 16. An oath for connrmation is an end of all strife^
2 Chron. vi. 22.
3;26 Commandment Third. Chap. XV.
CLXXyi. Such oaths to be carefully kefit. Ps. xv. l.I^ord who
shall abide in thy tabernacle, who shall dwell in thy holy hill.
Ver. 4. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
xxiv. 3. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord, and who shall
stand in his holy place ?
Ver. 4. He that hath clean hands and a pure heart, who hath not
lift up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
CLXXVH. The things to be sworn to^ are truth and duty. Deut.
xxix. 10. You stand this day all of you before the Lord your God.
Ver. 12. That thou shouldst enter into the covenant of the Lord
thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with
thee this day. Ver. 13, 14.
2 Chron. xv. 12. They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord
God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soul.
N er. 14. And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice.
Ver. 15, And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, and the Lord gave
them rest on every side.
E?ra X. 5. Ezra made the chief priest and Levites, and all I&racl
to swear to a covenant with God. Ver. 3.
Neh. X. 29. They entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk
in God's law,
Isa. xix. 18. Five cities in the land of Egypt shall speak the lan-
guage of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts.
xlv. 23. Unto me, every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall
swear. See Neh. xiii. 25. Ps. cxix. 106. — cxxxii. 2. Ezek. xvi. 59.
Dan. ix. 11. Hah. iii. 9.
CLXXVHL Duty towards men sworn to. Articles of peace ratijied
by oath. Gen. xxi. 23. Abraham and Abimelech swear both. Ver.
24, 31.
xxvi. 31. Abimelech and Isaac sware one to another.
xxxi. 53. Jacob sware (to Laban) by the fear of his father Isaac.
Jos. ii. 12. The spies sware to Rahab. Ch. vi. 22.
ix. 15. Joshua and the princes of the congregation, swear to the
Gibeonites. Ver. 19, 20. 2 Sam. xxi. 2.
I Sam. xix. 6, 24, 21. Saul and David swear to each other.
XX. 42. Jonathan and David sware. 2 Sam. xxi. 7. See also Judg.
XV. 12. — XXX. 15. 2 Sam. xix. 23. 2 Kings xxv. 4. Jer. xxxviii. 16.
— xl. 9.
CLXXIX. The breach of such oaths punished. 2 Sam. xxi. 1, 9.
2 Chron. xxvi. 13. Ezek. xvii. 16.
CLXXX. Private compacts ratified by oath. Gen. xxiv. 2, 9, 37, 4 1 .
Abraham takes an oath of his servant, concerning a wife to his son
Isaac.
xxv. 33. Esau sells his birth-right upon oath.
xlvii. 29,30,31. Jacob takes an oath of Joseph concerning his burial.
1. 25. Joseph takes an oath of the children of Israel to carry his
bones out of Egypt. Exod. xiii. 19.
1 Kings i. 13, 29. David by oath fixed Solomon to be his successor.
2 Kings xi. 4. Jehoiada takes an oath of the rulers to conceal Joash
from his enemies.
. Neh. v. 12. Nehemiah takes an oath of the priests to do justice to
injured persons.
C«AE, XV. Commandment Third, 3'27
CLXXXI. Oaths sworn takings. Eccl. viii. 2. I counsel thee to keep
the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
Oaths exacted by kings from the fieople. 'See I Kings ii. 42. — xviii. 10.
CLXXXll. The oath of a single fier son decides contro-versy* Exod.
xxii. 10, 1 1 . In cases of property where no other evidence can be had.
Numb. V. 12 to 22. J woman's oath in case of jealousy without e~oi-
dence against her,
CLXXXI II. The duty and lawfulness of swearing upon proper occa-
sions is urg^d not only from the foregoing scriptures^ but filso^from the
following examples.
CLXXXI V. God promised upon oath to bless Abraham^ a7id to muU
tiply his ofsfiring.
Gen. xxii. 1 5. The angel of the Lord called unto Abraham and said,
Ver. 16. By myself have I svs^orn, saith the Lord,
Ver. 17. That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying 1
will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which
is upon the sea-shore. Exod. xxxii. 13. Deut. xiii. 17.
CLXXXV. To give the land of Canaan. Gen. xxiv. 7. Abraham
said, the Lord God of heaven svvare unto me, saying, unto thy seed will
1 give this land. Ch. xii. 7.
xxvi. 2. The Lord appeared unto Isaac, and said,
Ver. 3. i will be with thee and will bless thee, for unto thee and
unto thy seed, will I give all these countries, and I will perform the
oath which I swear unto Abraham thy father. Ch. xxii. 16. — 1. 24.
CLXXXVI. To fulfil his co-venant. Deu.vii. 12. If ye hearken to
these judgments and keep and do them, the Lord thy God will keep
unto thee the covenant and the mercy, which he sware unto thy fa-
thers. Ch. iv. 31. — vii. 8. — viii. 18. — ix. 5 — xxviii. 9.
To continue the seed of David. Ps. Ixxxix. 3. 1 have sworn unto
David my servant.
Ver. 4. Thy seed will I establish for ever, and will build up thy
throne to all generations. Ver. 35, 49.
CLXXXVI I. The perpetuity of Christ's priesthood. Heb. vii. 21.
The Lord sware and will not repent, thou art a priest lor ever after
the order of Melchizedeck. Ps. ex. 4. See Isa. xlv. »2, 23.
CLXXXVIII. Tofuful his threatenings against the unbelieving and
disobedient,
Heb. iii. 18. To whom sware he, that they should not enter hito
his rest, but to them that believed not. See Numb. xiv. 23. — xxxii
10, 1 1. Judg. ii. 15. Jer. xlix. 13. — li. 14. Amos vi. 8. also Lev. xxvi
and Deut. xxviii. referred to in these threatenings.
CLXXXIX. Example 2d. Jesus Christ answers upon oath^ Matt.
xxvi. 63, 6'i, tendered to him by the high priest.
CXC. Example 3d. The angel. Rev. x. 5, 6. The angel lifted up
his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever,
that there shall be time no longer, kc.
CXC I. Elxample ^th, Asseveratioyis of sincerity which are equal
to an oath among Christians.
Rom. i. 9. God is my witness. Phil. i. 8. God is my record.
^ Cor. i. 23. 1 call God for a record upon my soul.
xii. 19. We speak before God in Christ. Ch. ii. 17.
Gal. i. 20. Behold before God I lie not.
328 Commandment Third, Chap, XV.
1 Tim. V. 2 1. 1 charge thee before God.
CXCIl. Ancient forms of swearing among men were, by lifting ufi
the hand.
Gen. xiv. 22. Abraham said, I have lift up my hand to the Lord.
See Deut. xxxii. 40. Rev. x. 5. By putting the hand under the
thigh of him that administered the oath. Gen. xxiv. 2, 3, 9.
The usual expressions were. 1 Sam. xxv. 34. As the God of Is-
rael liveth. 1 Kings xvii. 1 xviii. 15. 2 Kings iii. 14. As the Lord
of hosts liveth. Ch. v. 16. 2 Kings ii. 2. As the Lord iiveth, and as
thy soul liveth. Ch.iv. 30. 1 Sam. xx. 3. As thy soul liveth. Ch. xxvi.
26. 2 Sam. xi. 1 1.
CXCllL Of bla^tfihemy forbidden. Col. iii. 8. Put off all these, an-
ger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communications.
CXCIV. Occadons of it to be avoided. 2 Sam. xii. 14. Nathan said
to David, because by this deed, thou hast given great occasion to
the enemies of the I.ord to blaspheme.
2 Sam. xii. 14. The child that is born unto thee, shall surely die.
Isa. Iii. 5. Ezek. xxxvi. 20. Mah ii. 17. Rom. ii. 24.
1 Tim. vi. I. Let as many servants as are under the yoke, count
their masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his
doctrine be not blasphemed. Tit. ii. 5.
CXCV. From whence it firoceeda. Matt. xv. 19. Out of the heart
proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, thefts, false-witness, blas-
phemies. Mark vii. 22. Gen. vi. 5. — viii. 21.
CXCVI. Instances of blasfihemers a7id their fiunishments. Lev. xxiv.
10. The son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian,
and a man of Israel strove together.
V^er. 11. And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name
of the Lord, and cursed.
Ver. 14. The Lord spake unto Moses saying, bring forth him that
hath cursed without the camp, and let all the congregation stone him.
Ver. 16. He that blasphemeth the name of the Lord shall surely
be put to death.
2 Kings xviii. 32, 33. and xix. 10. The King of Assyria's blasphemy,
xix. 35, 36, 37. His punishment.
Ps. Ixxiv. 10. O Lord, shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for
ever ?
Ver. 18. Remember, O Lord, that the foolish people have blas-
phemed thy name.
Isa. Ixv. 7. Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers to-
gether, saith the Lord, which have burnt incense upon the moun-
tains, and blasphemed me upon the hills ; therefore will I measure
their former works into their bosoms. Ezek. xx. 27. — xxxv. 12.
Luke xxii. 65. Many other things blasphemously spake they against
Jesus.
Acts xxvi. 11. I (Paul) compelled them to blaspheme, I M'as a
blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious, but I obtained mercy
because I did it ignorantly.
xviii 6. The Jews opposed and blasphemed. Ch. xiii. 45.
1 Tim. i. 2u. Of whom is Hymeneus and Philelus, whom I have
delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Chap. XV. Commandment Fourth* 329
2 Tim. iii. I. In the last days perilous times shall come.
Ver. 2. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers.
James ii. 7. Do not rich men blaspheme that worthy name by the
which ye are called.
Rev. ii. 3. I know the blasphemy of them, which say they arc
Jews and are not.
xiii. I. The beast had upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Ver. 5. There was given to him a mouth speakinij great things
and blasphemies.
Ver. 6. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to
blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and them that dwell thereiii.
xvi. 9. Men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the
name of God. Ver. 11. 16.
CXCVII. Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost^ its punishment. Matt.
xii. 3. All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unio men,
but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto
men. Mark iii. 28. Luke xii. 10. 1 John v. 16.
CXCVIII. Persons unjustly accused and put to death for blasphemy.
1 Kings xxi. 10, 13. Naboth. Acts vi. 11, 13. Stephen. Je^sus Christ.
Matt. ix. 3. — xxvi. 65. Mark ii. 7. Luke v. 21. John x oi^ 36.
CXCIX. Of vows. They are religiously to be fu filed. Numb. xxx. 2.
If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soui
with a bond, he shall not break his word, he shall do according to
all that proceedeth out of his mouth.
Deut. xxiii. 21. When thou shalt vow a vow unto the I.,ord thy
God, thou shalt not be slack to pay it, for the Lord thy God wiil sure-
ly require it of thee, and it would be a sin in ihee.
Ver. 22. But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee-
Prov. XX. 25. It is a snare after vows to make enquiry.
Eccl. v. 4. When thou vowest a vow unto God, deter not to pay
it, for he hath no pleasure in fools, pay that which thou hast vowed.
Ver. 5. Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou
shouldst vow and not pay. See Job xxii. 27. Ps. xxii. 25. — 1. 14. — ivi.
12 — Ixi. 5, 8, 13. — Ixxvi. 11. — cxvi. 14, 18. Jer. xliv. 25. Nah. i. 15.
CC. Vows to do duty. Instances. Gen. xxviii. 20. Jacob vowed a
vow saying, if God will be with me and keep mc in the way that I
go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, then shall
the Lord be my God. Ver. 21. Ch. xxxi. 13. Numb. xxi. 2. 1 Sam.
i. 11, 28. Ps. cxxxii. 2. Jonah i. 16 — ii. 9.
CCI. Sinful vows. Judg. xi. 30 to 39. Jephtha's vow.
Mai. i. 14. To vow a corrupt thing.
Lev. xxvii. The redemption of things vowed.
Numb. xxx. 3, Sec. A wom:m's vow in her virginity and married
^ale, in what cases binding.
vi. 2, Sec. Of a Nazarite's vow. Concerning Nazal ites, See Judg.
xiii. 5, 7. — xvi. 17. Lam. iv. 7. Amos ii. 11, 12.
COMMANDMENT FOURTH.
CCII. Of the Sabbath. Exod. XX. 8. Remember the Subhath day
to keep it holy, Sec. Ver. 9, 10, 1 1 .
330 Commandment Fourth, Chap. XV.
Exod. xxxi. 13. Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep, for it is a sign
between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord which
doth sanctify you. Gen. ii. 2, 3. Deut. v. 12, 15. Ezek. xx. 12.
xliv. 24.
CCIII. The Sabbath a day of rest f^'om servile ivork, Exod. xx. 10.
In it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
thy man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stran-
ger that is is within thy gates. Ver. 11.
xvi. 23. The Lord said, to-morrow is the rest of the holy Sab-
bath.
Ver. 29. I^et no man go out of his place on the seventh day, to
gather manna.
xxiii. 12. Six days thou shalt do thy work, in the seventh day thou
shalt rest, that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thine
handmaid, and the stranger may be refreshed. Ch. xxxiv. 21, — xxxv.
23. Deut. V. 14, 15.
Jer. xvii. 21. Thus saith the Lord, take heed to yourselves and
bear no burthen on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of
Jerusalem.
Ver. 21. Neither carry forth a burthen out of your houses on the
Sabbath day, neither do ye any work. Luke xxiii. 56- Heb. iv. 9.
CCIV. The duties of the Sabbath^ nvorshipfiing God, readi7ig^ hearing
his word, Sj/c.
Lev. xix. 30. Ye shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanc-
tuary, I am the Lord. Ch. xxvi. 2.
Ezek. xlvi. 3. The people shall worship before the Lord in the
Sabbaths.
Mark vi. 2. When the Sabbath day was come, Jesus began to teach
in the synagogue.
Luke iv. 16. Jesus, as his custom was, went into the synagogue
on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read.
Ver. 31. He came to Capernau«i and taught them on the Sabbath
day. Ch. xiii. 10.
Acts xiii. 14. The disciples went into the synagogue on the Sab-
bath day.
Ver. 15. After the reading of the law and the prophets,
Ver. 16. Paul stood up and said, men of Israel, and ye that fear
God give audience,
Ver. 27. The prophets are read every Sabbath day.
\'er. 42. The Gentiles besought that these words might be preach-
ed unto them the next Sabbath.
Ver. 44. The next Sabbath day came almost the whole city toge-
ther to hear the word of God.
XV. 21. Moses hath in every city them that preach him, being
read in the synagogues every Sabbath day.
xvii. 2. Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three
Sabbaths reasoned with them out of the scriptures.
Ver. 3. Opening and ailedging that Christ must needs have suf-
fered.
xviii. 4. Paul reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath.
CCV. Works of charity and mercy to be done on the Sabbath day.
Jnstanres. "Malt. xii. 1. Jesus went on the Subbatli dav ihroTi :h tr.f.
CriAP. XV. Commandment Fourth, 331
corn, and his disciples bcin^ an hungred began to pluck the ears of
corn and to eat. Mark ii. 23.
Matt. xii. 2, The Pharisees saidj thy disciples do that which is not
lawful on the Sabbath.
Ver. 3. Jesus said, have ye not read what David did?
Ver. 5. Have ye not read in the law. Sec. ?
Ver. 7. I will have mercy and not sacrifice.
Ver. 12. It is lawful to do well on the Sabbath day.
V^er. 13. He healed the withered hand. Mark iii. 2, 4. Luke vi. 9.
Mark ii. 27. The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the
Sabbath.
Luke xiii. 15. The Lord said, doth not each of you loose his ox
or his ass on the Sabbath day ? Ch. xiv. 3, 5.
Ver. 15. And ought not this women to be loosed from her bond
on the Sabbath day I vSee John v. 8, 9, 10, 18. — vii. 22 ix. 14.
CCVL Promises to them that keep the Sabbath. Isa. Ivi. 2. Blessed
is the man that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it.
Ver. 4. Thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs that keep my Sabbathsy
and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant.
Ver. 5. Even unto them, will I give in mine house and within my
walls a place and a name, better than of sons and of daughters. Sec.
Ver. 6. Also the sons of the stranger that join themselves to the
Lord to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his ser-
vants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh
hold of my covenant.
Ver. 7. Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make
them joyful in my house of prayer.
Iviii. 13. If thou turn away thy foot from the vSabbath, from doing
thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy
of the Lord, honourable, and shalt honour him, not doing thine owiif
ways, nor finding thine own pleasures, nor speaking thine own words.-
Ver. 14. Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will
cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee
with the heritage of Jacob.
CCVII. The care of God's people to mnd'ify the Sabbath themselves^
and to prevent the profaning it by others.
Neh. X. 29. They entered into an oath, and into a curse to walk
in God's law.
Ver. 3 1 And if the people of the land bring ware, or any victuals,
on the Sabbath day to sell, not to buy it of them on the Sabbath.
xiii. 15 In those days I saw in Judah, some treading wine presses*
on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and leading asses ; as also
wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burthens which they brought
into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, and 1 testified against them, in
the day wherein they sold victuals.
Ver. 16. There dv/elt men of Tyre also therein, which brought
fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the Sabbath unto the chil-
dren of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Ver. 17. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said
unto theivi, what evil thing is this that ve do, and profane the Sabbath
dav'
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332 Commandment Fourth, Chap. XV.
Neh. xiii. 18. Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring
all this evil upon us, and upon this city ? yet ye bring more wrath
upon Israel by profaning the Sabbath.
Ver. 19. And it catne to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem
began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded, that the gates
should be shut and not be opened till after the Sabbath, and some of
my servants 1 set at the gates, that there should no burthen be brought
in on the Sabbath day.
Ver. 20. So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware, lodged
without Jerusalem once or twice.
V^er. 21. Then I testified against them and said unto them, why
lodge ye about the wall, if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you ;
from that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.
Ver. 22. And I commanded the Leviies, that they should cleanse
themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanc-
tify the Sabbath.
CCVIII. Threatening 8 against Sabbath-breakers. Exod. xxxi. 14.
Ye shall keep the Sabbath, every one that defileth it, shall surely be
put to death.
Ver. 15. Whosoever doth any work on the Sabbath day, he shall
surely be put to death. Ch. xxxv. 2.
Numb. XV. 32. While the children of Israel were in the wilder*
ness, they found a man that gathered sticks on the Sabbath day,
Ver. 33. And they brought him to Moses and Aaron,
Ver. 34. And they put him in ward.
Ver. 35. And the Lord said unto Moses, the man shall be surely
put to death, all the congregation shall stone him with stones with-
out the camp.
Ver. 36. And all the congregation brought him without the camp,
and stoned him with stones, and he died, as the Lord commanded
Moses.
Jer. xvii. 27. If ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the Sab-
bath, &c.
Ezek. XX. 15. I would not bring them into the land which I had
given them,
Ver. 16. Because they walked not in my statutes, but polluted my
Sabbaths.
Ver. 23. I lifted up mine hand unto them in the wilderness, that
I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them among
the njiiions.
Ver. 24. Because they had despised my statutes and polluted my
Sabbaths.
xxii. 8. Thou hast profaned my Sabbaths.
Ver. 14. Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in
the days that 1 will deal with thee ?
Ver. 26. Her priests have hid tiicir eyes from my Sabbaths, and
I. am profaned among them.
Ver 31. Therefoie have I poured out mine indignation upon
them, I have consumed them with the tire of my wrath, their own
ways have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord.
xxiii. 38. They have dciiied my sanctuary, and have prof*incd my
Subb.iths.
Chap. XVI. Love to Mankind. 333
Ezek. xxiii. 46. Thus saith the Lord God, I will give them to be
removed and spoiled.
CCIX. Sabbath firivilcges withdrawn. Lam. ii. 6. The Lord hath
caused the Sabbaths to be fogottcn in Zion.
Hos. ii. II. I will cause her Sabbaths to cease.
Lam. i. 7. The adversaries did mock at her Sabbaths. See Isa. i.
13. Amos viii. 11.
CCX. The change of the Sabbath from the seventh to thejirst day of
the week.
Gen. ii. 2. God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because
that in it God rested from all his works. Exod. xx. 1 1. ^
Col. ii. 16. Let no man judge you, in meat or in drink, or in re-
spect of an holy-day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days :
Ver. 17. Which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is
of Christ. Rom. xiv. 6.
Luke xxiv. 1, 6. Christ rose from the dead in the first day.
Acts XX. 7. Upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came
together, to break bread, Paul preached unto them. John xx. 19.
1 Cor. xvi. 2. On the first day of the week let every one lay by
him as (iod hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I
come.
Rev. i. 9, 10. I wa% in the Spirit on the Lord's day.
C H J P. XVI.
DUTIES TOWARDS MANKIND.
L LOVE. Lev. xix. 18. Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge
against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself.
Ver. 34. The stranger that dwelleth with you shall be as one born
among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself.
Matt. V. 44. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do
good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefuly use
you and persecute you.
Ver. 45. That ye may be the children of your Father which is in
heaven, for he makctli his sun to rise on the evil and on the good,
and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Ver. 46. For if you love them which love you, what reward have
ye ? Do not even the Publicans the same.
Ver. 47. And if you salute yom- brethren only, what do ye more
than others ? Do not even the Publicans the same ?
Ver. 48. Be ye therefore peifect, even as your Father which is in
heaven is perfect.
xxii. 37. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Ver. 38. This is the first and great commandment.
Ver. 39. And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neigh-
bour as thyself.
334 Love, Chap. XVI.
Matt. xxii. 40r On these two commandments hang all the law and
the prophets. Rom. xiii. 9. James ii. 8.
John xiii. 34. A new commandment I give imto you, *Iutt ye love
one another, as I have loved you ; that ye love one another. Ch.
%Y. 12.
Ver. 35, By this shall all men knov/ that ye are my disciples, if
ye have love one to another.
Rom. xii. 9. Let love be without dissimulation.
xiii. 8. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: he that
ioveth another, hath fulfilled the law.
Ver. 10. Love worketh no iii to his neighbour, therefore love is
the fulfilling of the law.
Gal V. 14. All the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, thou
^hait love thy neighbour as thyself. Ver. 15.
Eph. V. 2. Walk in love, as Christ hath loved us, and hath given
Jiimself for us.
Phil. i. 9. I pray that your love may abound more and more.
Heb. X. 24. Let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and
to good works.
xiii. 1. Let brotherly love continue. 1 Pet. iii. 8. Love as brethren.
1 Pet. i. 2. See tliat ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.
ii. 17. Honour all men, love the brother-hood-
I John ii. 10. He that lovcth his brother abideth in the light, and
there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
iii. 11. This is the message that ye have heard from the beginning,
that we should love one another.
Ver. 14. We know that we have passed from death unto life, be-
cause we love tht brethren. -
Ver. 18. My little children let us not love in word, neither in
tpngue,but in deed and in truth.
1 John iii. 23. This is God's commandment, that we should be-
lieve on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as
\iQ, gave us commandment.
iv. 10. God loved us, and sent his Son, to be the propitiation for
pur sins.
Ver. 1 1. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one
another.
Ver. 20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a
liar, for he that loveth not Jus brother, whom he hath seen, how can
he love God whom he hath not seen ?
Ver. 21. And this commandment had we from God, that he who
loveth God, love his brother also.
2 John 5. That commandment we have from the beginning, that
we love one another.
II. Of the caiifie of love ^ aJid how it is firoduccd. Prov. xvii. 9. He
that covereth a transgression seeketh love.
xviii. 24. A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly, and
there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Heb. X. 20. Let us provoke one another to love and to good
works.
Chap. XVI. Charitij. 335
Gal. V. 6. Faith worketh by Love.
Ver. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, Sec.
I Thess. iv. 9. Ye are taught of (Jod to love one another.
1 John iv. 7. Let us love one another, for love is of God.
Ver. 8. He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for (iod is love.
Ver. 12. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us.
Ver. 16. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God
And God in him.
v. 2. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we
love God and keep his commandments.
in. Prayers and thanks to God for Christian love^ as being his gift.
\ Thess. iii. 12. The Lord make you to hicrease and abound in
love, one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward
you. Ch. iii. 1. Col. ii. 2.
Eph.i. 15. After I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love
unto all the saints,
Ver. 16.1 cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you
in my prayers.
IV. The infuence and effests of love upon the temficr and behaviour
of Christians^ one toward another, or hoiv love is evidenced.
Rom. xii. 1 2. Be kindly affectionate one to another, with brotherly
love.
xiii. 10. Love wor/.eth no ill to his neighbour.
Gal. V. 13. By love serve one another.
Eph. iv. 2. Forbearing one another in love.
Ver. 15. Speaking the truth in love. Ver. 16. Edifying in love.
Phil. ii. 2. Be like minded, having the same love, being (.f one ac-
cord, of one mind. Philem. 9. For love's sake, 1 beseech thee.
I John iii. 18. Let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed,
8cc. See duties of husbands and wives, ministers and people, Com-
mandment Fifth. .
CHARITY.
V. Charity ivith other graces enjoined. 1 Cor. viii. 1 . Knowledge
puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
xiii. 1. Though I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels,
and have not charity, I am become as sounding braiis, or a tinkling
cymbal.
Ver. 2. And though I have the gilt of prophecy, and understand
all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that
I could remove mountains, and have not charity, 1 am nothing.
Ver. 3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and
though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profit-
eth me nothing.
Ver. 4. Charity suffereth long and is kind, charity envieth not,
charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up ;
Ver. 5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, sccketh not her own, is
not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.
Ver. 6. Rejoiceth not in ini(|^uty, but rejoiceth in the truth.
Ver. 7. Beareth all things, bciieveth aii things, hopeth all things,
endureth all thin<>-;.
336 Hatred, Chap. XVI.
1 Cor. xiii. 8. Charity never faileth.
Ver. 13. Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three, but the
greritest of these is charity.
xiv. 1. Fd'ovv after charity, and desire spiritual gifts.
xvi. 14. Let all your thinj^s be done with charity.
Col. iii. 14. Above all things put on charity, which is the bond of
peifectness.
1 Tim. i. 5. The end of the commandment is charity, out of a
pure hea^t, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.
ii. 15. The woman shall be saved in child-bearing, if they conti-
nue in faith and charity, and holiness, with sobriety.
iv. 22. Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversa-
tion, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful lusts, but follow righteousness, faith,
charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
'Jit. ii. 1. Speak the things that become sound doctrine.
Ver. 2. That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in
the faith, in charity, in patience.
1 Pet. iv. 8. Above all things have fervent charity among your-
selves, for charity shall cover a multitude of sins. Prov. x. 12.
V. 14. Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity.
2 Pet. i. 5. Add to your faith, virtue, knowledge,
Ver. 6. Temperance, patience, godliness,
Ver. 7. Brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, charily.
Jude ver. 12. Your feasts of charity.
VL Jpproved exumfika of charity^ and other graces. 2 Thcss. i. 3.
\Ve are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet,
because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every
one of you all, toward each other, aboundeth. 1 Thess. iii. 6.
2 Tim. iii. 10. Tliou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of
life, purpose, faith, long suffering, charity, patience, persecutions,
alilictons, kc.
Kev. ii. 18. To the angel of the church of Thyatira, write these
things, saith the Son of Ciod.
\'ei-. 19. I know thy works and charity, and service and faith, and
paticnrc. See ver. 3. John ver. 6.
See instances of charitable conduct toward others. 1 Cor. viii. 9,
V2, 13.
HATIIKD.
Vn. Haired, thrratenlnirs against it. Lev, xix. 17. Thou shalt not
hate thy brother in thine heart.
Ps. xxxiv. 2 1. Evil shall slay the wicked, and they that hate the
righteous shall be desolate.
Prov. xxix. 10. The blood-thirsty hate the upright.
Ezek. xxxv. 5. Becnuse thou (mount Seir) hast had a perpetual
hatr-.d, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel ;
Ver. 6. 1 he re fore as i live, saith the Lord, I will prepare thee
unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee.
Amos V. 10. They hate hitii that rcbuketh in the gate, they abhor
/lim that spoaketh iipri;4htly.
Chap. XVI. Hatred. ZZ7
Mic.iii. 2. Who hate the good, and love the evil.
Mutt. X. 22. Jesus said, ye shall be hated of all men, for my name's
sake. Ch. xxiv. 9.
xxiv. 10. They shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
John vii. 7. The world hateth me, because 1 testily oi it, that the
works thereof are evil.
XV. 18. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it
hated you.
Ver. 19. If you w^re of the world, the world would love his own,
but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth you. Ver. 20.
xvii. 14. Jesus said of his disciples, the world huth hated them
because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Tit. iii. 3. We ourselves were sometimes fooiish, disobedient, de-
ceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy,
hateful and hating one another.
1 John ii. 9. He that hateth his brother is in darkness. Ver. 1 1.
iii. 13. Marvel not, brethren, if the world hate you.
Ver. 15. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death, whoso-
ever hateth his brother, is a murderer, and ye know that no murderer
hath eternal life abiding in him.
1 John iv. 20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother,
he is a liar, for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen,
how can he love God whom he hath not seen ?
VIII. The duty oj the righteous tonvard those that hate them. Exod,
xxiii. 5. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his
burthen, thou shalt surely help with him.
Matt. V. 44. Do good to them that hate you.
Rom. xii. 21. Overcome evil with good.
IX. Prayers and complaints to God, against the hatred of the nvicked,
Ps. ix. 13. O Lord, consider my trouble, which I suifcr of them
that hate me.
Ixix. 14. Let me be delivered from them that hate me. See also
Ps. XXV. 19. — XXXV. 19, — xxxviii. 19. — xli. 7. — Iv. 3. — Ixxxvi. 17.
X. Promises to those that are unjustly hated, and thrcatcnings againsf
their haters.
Job viii. 22. They that hate thee shall be cloathed with shame.
Ps. xviii. 17. Ciod hath delivered me from them that hated me.
'xxxiv. 21. They that hate the just, shall be desolate.
xliv. 7. Thou hast put tliem to shame that hated u }.
Ixxxix. 23. I will plague them that hate him.
Ps. cvi. 10. He saved his people from the hand of him that hated
them.
. cxviii. 7. The Lord taketh my part, therefore I shall sec my de-
sire on them that hate nic.
Isa. Ixvi. 5. Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his
word, your brethren that hated you, and cast you out for my name":;
sake, said, let the Lord be glorified : but he shall appear to your joy,
and they shall be ashamed.
Luke vi. 22. Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when
they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach yoU;
Hftdcast out your name, as cvU, for the Son of man's sake.
338 Envy, Chap. XVI.
Luke vi. 23. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for behold your re-
ward is great in heaven..
See Gen. xxiv. 60. Deut.vii. 15. — xxx. 7.— xxxiii. 1 1. The right-
eous hate only the haters of God. 2 Chron. xix. 2. Fs. xxvi. 5. —
xxxi. 6.— Ixviii. 1. — cxxxix. 21,22. Ps. xv. 4.
ENVY.
XI. Envy forbidden to the rightPOiiH. Prov. xxiii. 17. Let not thine
heart envy sinners, but be thou in the fear of the Lord, all the day
long.
xxiv. 1. Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be
with them. Ver. 19.
Ps. xxxvii. 1. Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither be
thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Rom. xiii. 13. Let us walk honestly, not in strife and envying.
2 Cor. xii. 20. I fear lest there be envying amongst you.
Gal. v. 26. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one
another, envying one another.
1 Pet. ii. 1. Laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies,
and envies, and evil speaking.
Ver. 2. As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word
that ye may grow thereby. See Ps. Ixxiii. 2. CGuipare Job xxi. 7.
Jer. xii. 1. Hab. i. 3. Prov. iii. 31. Isa. xi. 13. James v. 13.
XIL The luicked, their envy hurtful to themselves. Job v. 2. Envy
slayeth the silly one.
Prov. xiv. 30. Envy is the rottenness of the bones.
XIII. Envy toward others-^ is a mark uf an unconverted state,
Prov. xxvii. 4. Who is able to stand before envy.
Matt, xxvii. 18. The Jews for envy delivered Jesus to be put to
death. Mark xv. 10.
Acts V. 17, 18. The Jews filled with envy, laid their hands on the
apostles, and put them into the common prison.
vii. 9. The patriarchs moved with envy sold Joseph.
xiii. 45. The Jews filled with envy spake against the things that
were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Ch. xvii. 5.
Rom. i. 29. The reprobate mind is filled with all unrighteousness,
envy, Sec.
Phil. i. 15. Some preach Christ of envy.
I Tim. vi. 4. Doting about tjuestions and strifes of words, where-
of Cometh envy, 8cc.
Tit. iii. 3. We (in our unconverted state) were foolish, living in
malice and envy.
James iv. 5. The spirit that dwelleth in us, lusteth to envy.
1 Cor. iii. 3. Whereas there is among you envying and strife, &:c.
are ye not carnal ?
Gal. v. 19. The works of the flesh are envyings, murders. Sec.
Ver. 21.
James iii. 14. IF ye have bitter envyings and strife in your hearts,
glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Ver. 15. This wisdom descendeth nor from above, but is earthly,
sensual, devilish.
Chap. XVI. Anger, 339
James iii. 1 6. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion
and every evil work.
MALICE.
XIV". Malice forbidden to the righteous. 1 Cor. v. 8. Let us keep
the feast, not with the old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice
and wickedness, hut with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
xiv. 20. In malice be ye children, but in understanding be ye men.
Eph. iv. 31. Let all bitterness and wrath, and anger, and clamour,
and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
Col. iii 8. Put off anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy commu-
nications, &c. 1 Pet. ii. I.
XV. Malice in the wicked. Rom. i. 28, 39. A reprobate mind, fil-
led with all unrighteousness, maliciousness.
Tit. iii. 3. Foolish, living in malice and envy.
3 John iii. 9, 10. Diotrephes who loveth the pre-eminence re-
ceiveth us not, prating against us with malicious words.
ANGER.
XVI. Anger forbidden. Ps. xxxvii. 8. Cease from anger, and for-
sake wrath, fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Prov. xiv. 1 7. He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly, and a man of
wicked devices is hated.
XV. 1. A soft answer tumeth away wrath, but grievous words stir
up anger.
Ver. 18. A wrathful man stirreth up strife, but he that is slow to
anger appeaseth strife.
xvi. 32. He that is slow to anger, is better than the mighty, and
he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.
xix. 1 1. The discretion of a man deferreth his anger, and it is his
glory to pass over a transgression. Ch. xiv. 29.
xxi. 14. A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a reward in the bo-
som strong wrath.
xxii. 24. Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furi-
ous man thou shalt not go.
XXV. 28. He that hath no rule over his own spirit, is like a city
that is broken down, and without walls.
xxvii. 4. Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous, but who is able
to stand before envy.
xxix. 22. An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man
aboundeth in transgression.
Eccl. vii. 9. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger rest-
eth in the bosom of fools.
Matt. v. 22. Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause,
shall be in danger of the judgment.
Eph. iv. 26. Ec ye angry and sin not, let not the sun go down up^
on your wrath.
Ver. 27. Neither give place to the devil.
Ver. 31. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour,
and evil-speaking be put way from you, with all malice. Col. iii. 8-
U u
340 Contention. Chap. XVI.
Tit. i. 7. A bishop must be blameless, not self-willed, not soon
ani^ry. See the government of the tongue, Commandment Ninth.
XVII. Instances of the anger of the righteous against sin. Gen. xxx.
1 . Rachel envied her sister, and said unto Jacob, give me children
or else I die.
Ver. 2. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel.
Exod. xi. 8. Moses went out from Pharaoh in great anger.
xxxii. 19. When Moses saw the golden calf, and the Israelites
dancing before it, his anger was kindled.
Mark iii. 5. Jesus looked on them with anger, being grieved for
the hardness of their hearts, he saith. Sec.
XVIII. Sinful anger .f instances of it, (ien. ix. 5. Simeon and Levi
are brethren, instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
Ver. 6. O my soul come not thou into their secret ; unto their as-
sembly, mine honour, be not thou united : for in their anger they
slew a man. Ch. xxxiv. 26.
Ver. 7. Cursed be their anger for it was fierce, and their wrath for
it was cruel. See Isa. xiv. 6. Amos i. 1 1. Ps. xi. 4.
John vii. 23. Are ye (said Christ) angry at me, because I have
made a man whole on the Sabbath day. Rev. xi. 8.
WRATH.
XIX. Wrath. Ps. Ixxvi. 10. The remainder of wrath shalt thou
restrain.
Prov. v. 2. Wrath slayeth the foolish man.
xii. 16. A fool's wrath is presently known, but a prudent man co-
vereth shame.
xiv 29. He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he
that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
xix. 19. A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment.
xxi. 24. Proud and haughty scorner is his name that dealeth in
proud wrath.
xxvii. 3. A stone is heavy, and the sand is weighty, but a fool's
wrath is heavier than them both. Ver. 4.
Rom. xii. 19. Avengonot yourselves, but rather pive place to wrath.
Gal. V. 20. The works of the flesh are wrath. Sec.
2 Cor. xii. 20. I fear lest there be among you wrath, strifes.
Eph. iv. 26. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
Ver. 31. Let all wrath be put away,, Sec. Col. iii. 8.
vi. 4. Fathers provoke not your children to wrath.
1 Tim. ii. 8. Pray, lifting up holy hands without wrath.
James i. 19. Let every man be slow to wrath.
Ver. 20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of
(iod.
Rom. xii. 12. The devil is gone down, having great wrath, Sec.
Isa. xvi. 6. We have heard of the pride of Moab and his Avratli.
but his lies shall not be so.
Ver. 7. Therefore shall Moab howl. Jer. xlviti. 30.
CONTENTION.
XX. Contention forbidden. Prov. xiii. 10. Only by pride cnnieiii
contention, but with the well-ad\ised is wisdom.
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Prov. xvii. 14. The beginning of strife is as when one letleth out
water, therefore leave oiT contention before it be meddled with.
xviii. 6. A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth
for strokes.
Ver. 19. A brother is harder to be won, than a strong city, and
their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
xxii. 10. Cast out the scorner and contention shall go out, yea
strife and reproach shall cease.
xxiii. 29. Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath conten-
tions ? who hath babblings ? who hath wounds without cause ? who
hath redness of eyes ?
Ver. 30. They that tarry long at the wine.
xxvi. 21. As coais are to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a
contentious man to kindle strife.
xxix. 9. If a wise man contend with a foolish man, whether he rage
or laugh, there is no rest.
Hab. i. 3. rhere are that raise up strife and contention.
Rom. ii. 8. Unto them that are contentious and obey not the truth,
but obey unrighteousness, God will render indignation and wrath.
1 Cor. i. 11. It hath been declared unto me that there are conten-
tions among you.
Ver. 12. Every one of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos,
and 1 of Cephas, and I of Christ.
xi. 16. If any man seems to be contentious, we have no such cus-
tom, neither the churches of God.
Tit iii. 9. Avoid contentions about the law, for they are vain.
XXI. Promises and prayers against contention, Isa. xli. 12. Thou
shalt not find them that centended with thee ; they that war against
^hee shall be ais nothing.
xlix. 25. I will contend with them that contend with thee.
XXII. The righteous contend only against sin. Prov. xxviii. 4. Such
as keep the law contend with the wicked.
Neh. xiii. 11. I contended with the rulers and said, why is the
house of God forsaken ?
Ver. 17. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto
them, what cvii thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath
day.
Ver. 25. I contended with them that had married strange wives,'
and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their
hair. Sec.
1 Thess. ii. 2. We were bold to speak the gospel with much con-
tention.
Jude 3. Contend for the faith delivered to the saints.
PEACE.
XXI II. Peace commanded^ ivith firomiscs to it. Ps. xxxiv. 14. Dc
good, seek peace and pursue it. 1 Pet. iii. 1 1 .
cxx. 6. I am for peace, but ye are for war. Ver. 7.
Prov. xii. 20. To the counsellors of peace is joy.
Zech. viii. 19. Love peace.
Matt. V. 9. Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called
the children of God. James iii. 13.
342 Peace. Chap. XVI.
Matt. V. 25. Ag^rce with thine adversary quickly.
Mark ix. 50. Have peace one with another.
Rom. xii. 18. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you live peace-
ably with all men.
xiv- 19. Let us follow after the things which make for peace.
1 Cor vii. 3. God hath called us to peace.
2 Cor. xiii. 1 1. Live in peace, and the God of all peace shall be
with you.
Eph. iv. 3. Keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Col. iii. 15. Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which
ye are called in one body, and be ye thankful.
1 Thess. v. 13. Be at peace among yourselves.
2 Tim ii. 22. Follow after righteousness, faith, charity, peace
with them that call on the Lord, out of a pure heart.
Heb. xii. 14. ollow peace with all men, and holiness, without
which no man shall see the Lord.
XXIV. Motives to p.e ace among Chrhtians. John xiv. 27. Jesus said.
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you. Luke xxiv. 36.
Rom. X. 15. How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
gospel of peace ? Isa. Iii. 7. Nah. i. 15. Eph. vi. 15.
-•^iv. 17. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righte-
ousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
XV. 33. The God of peace be with you. 2 Cor. xiii. 11. Phil. iv. 9.
X i. 20. The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet
1 Cor xiv. 33. God is not the author of confusion, but of peace.
Eph. vi. 15. The gospel is the gospel of peace.
1 Thess. V. 23. The very God of peace sanctify you wholly.
Heb. xiii. 20. The God of peace make you perfect.
Gal. V. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace.
James iii. 17. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, 8cc.
XXV. Peace prayed for^ as a d'sirable gift of God. Numb. vi. 26.
The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.
Ps. cxxii. 6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Ver. 7, 8.
Jer. xxix. 7. Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you
to be carried away captive, and pray unto the Lord for it.
Luke X. 5. Jesus said, into whatsoever house ye enter first, say
peace be to this house.
Ver. 6. If the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it,
If not, it shall turn to you again. Matt. x. 13.
Rom. i. 7. Grace to you, and peice from God our Father, and the
l.ord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor. i. 3. 2 Cor. i. 2. Gal. i. 3. Eph. i. 2. Sec.
XV. 13. The God of hope fill you with joy and peace in believing.
(ial. vi. 16. As many as walk according to this rule, peace be up-
on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of Ciod.
Eph. vi. 23. Peace be to the bretliren, and love with faith from
God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Phil. iv. 6. In cverv thing by prayer and supplication v, ith thanks-
giving let your requests be made known unto Gcd.
Ver. 7. And the peace of God which passeth all undcrstandliig
shall keep your heart.^ and miilds through Jesus Chri-it.
Chap. XVI. Peace. 343
2 Thess. iii. 16. Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace
always, by all means. The Lord be with you all.
1 Pet. i. 2. Grace to you, and peace be multipled. Ver. 3.
John V. 14. Peace be with all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
Rev. i. 4. Grace be unto you, and peace from him which is, and
which was, and which is to come, and from the seven Spirits which
are before the throne.
XXVI. Peace the gift of God., firomises and instances thereof. Lev.
xxvi. '^&» If ye will walk in my statutes, 1 will give peace in your
land. Isa. xlviii. 18.
2 Kings XX. 19. Hezekiah said un^o Isaiah, good is the word of
the Lord, which thou hast spoken. And he said, is it not good if peace
and truth be in my days ?
1 Chron. xxii. 9. The Lord said, I will give peace and quietness xm-.
to Israel in Solomon's days.
Job v. 23. The beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Ver. 24. Thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peauj.
Ps. xxxvii. 1 1. The meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight
themselves in abundance of peace.
Iv. 18. He hath delivered my soul in peace from battle that was
against me.
Prov. xvi. 17. When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh
his enemies to be at peace with him.
Isa. xlv. 7. I form light, and I create darkness, I make peace and
I create evil, I the Lord do all these things Ch. ivii. 19.
XXVII. Peace with God is the blessed reivard of the righteous ot
good man.
Job xxii. 21. Acquaint now thyself with God, and be at peace.
xxxvii. 17. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the
end of that man is peace.
Ps. cxix. 165. Great peace have they that love thy law.
Prov. iii. 17. Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her
paths are peace.
xxvi. 3. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is
stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee.
isa. xxvii. 5. Let him take hold of my strength that he may make
peace with me, and he shall make peace with me.
xxxii. 17. The work of righteousness shall be peace, and the ef-
fect of righteousness, quietness, and assurance for ever.
Ivii. 2. He shall enter into peace, they shall rest in their beds each
one walking in his uprightness.
Kom.ii. 10. Glory, honour, and peace to every one that worketh
good.
viii. 6. To be spiritually minded is life and peace.
2 Pet. iii. 14. 13e diligent that ye may be found of him in peace
without spot and blameless.
XXV I II. Peace promised to the church oj God. Ps. xxix. 1 1. The
Lord will bless his people with peace. Ps. Ixxxv. 8, 10.
Ixxii. 3. T.he mountains shall bring peace to the people. Ver. 7.
cxxv. 5. Peace shall be upon Israel. Ps. cxxviii. 6.
cxivii. 14. He maketh peace in thy borders, (Job xxv. 2.) He ma-
l^eth peace in his hlj^h places. Sec Pts. 46.
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Tsa. ii. 4. They shall beat their swords to plough-shares, and their
spears into prunin.^-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
xi. 6. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall
lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fat-
ling" together, and a little child shall lead them.
Ver. 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain.
Ver. 7, 8, 13.
xxvi. 12. Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us.
xxxii. 18. My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in
sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
liv. 10. The mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but
my kindness shall not depart from thee, nor my covenant of peace
be removed.
Ver. 13. All thy children shall be taught of God, and great shall
be the peace of thy children.
Iv. 12. Ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace.
Ik. 17. 1 will make thine officers peace, and thine exactors righte-
ousness.
Ixvi. 12. Thus saith the Lord, behold I will extend peace to her
like a river.
Jer. xxxiii. 6. I will reveal unto them abundance of peace and
truth.
Ezek. xxxiv. 25. I will make with them a covenant of peace, and
they shall dwell safely and sleep in the woods. Ch. xxvii. 26.
Hag. ii. 9. In this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.
Zech. vi. 13. The council of peace shall be between thern.
XXIX. Unity. Ps. cxxxiii. 1. Behold how good and how pleasant
it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
Amos iii. 3. Can two walk together except they be agreed.
John xvii. 20. Jesus said, I pray for those that shall believe on me.
Ver. 21. That they all may be one. Ver. 22, 23.
Acts iv. 32. The multitude that believed were of one heart.
Rom. XV. 5. Be like minded one toward another.
1 Cor. i. 10. Be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and
in the same judgment.
2 Cor. xiii. 1 1. Be of one mind.
Gal. V. 13. If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye
be not consumed one of another.
Phil. i. 27 . Let us stand fast in one Spirit.
HONOUR.
XXX. Honouring one another. Lev. xix. 32. Thou shalt honour
the face of the old man.
Ps. XV. 4. 'I*he rij^htcous honoureth them that fear the Lord.
Rom. xii. 10. Be kindly affectioned, in honour preferring one
another.
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Rom. xiii. 7. Render honour to whom honour is due.
Phil. ii. 3. In lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than
themselves.
1 Tim. V. 3. Honour widows that are widows indeed.
vi. 1. Let serva.nts count their masters worthy of all honour.
I Pet. ii. 17. Honour all men. Fear God. Honour the king. See
Luke xiv. 8.
DESPISING OTHERS.
XXXL Despising others. Prov. xi. 12. He that is void of wisdom
dcspiseth his neighbour.
xiv. 21. He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth.
Luke xviii. 9. Jesus spake a parable to certain that trusted in them-
selves that they were righteous, and despised others.
1 Tim. vi. 2. Servants that have believing masters, let them not
despise them.
2 Tim. iii. 1. Perilous times shall come.
Ver. 3. Men shall be lovers of their ownselvcs, and despisers of
those that are good.
James ii. 5. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in
faith.
Ver. 6. But ye have despised the poor.
STRIFE.
XXX H. Strife Jor bidden to the godly^ and to be avoided by their.
Gen. xiii. 6. Abraham said unto Lot, let there be no strife, I pray
thee, between thee and me, for we be brethren. Ver. 9.
Prov. iii. 30. Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done
thee no harm.
XX. 3. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife, but every
fool will be meddling.
x\ii. 10. Cast out the scorner and contention shall go out, ycy
strife and reproach shall cease.
XXV. 8. Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to
do in the end thereof.
XX vi. 17. He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife, belonging
not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
Ver. 20. Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out, so v/heie
there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
Ver. 21. As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a
contentious man to kindle strife.
Matt. xii. 19. My servant (i. e. Christ) sh.,11 not strive nor cry,
n.ither shall any man heyr his voice in the streets. Isa. xiii. I.
Rom. xiii. 13. Let us walk honestly, as in the day — not in strife
and envying.
1 Cor. iii, 3. Whereas there is among you envying and strife, and
divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men ?
Ver. 4. While one saith, I am of Paul, and another I am of Apol-
los, are ye not carnal.
2 Cor. xii. 20. I fear lest there be debates, envyings, wraths,
strifes, backbitings, whisj^erings, swellings, tumults.
t346 fences. Chap XVI.
Gal. V. 20. The works of the flesh are wrath, strife.
Phil. ii. 3. Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory.
1 Tim. vi. 4. Proud, knowing nothing, but doting about strifes of
words whereof cometh envy, strife, railing, evil surmisings. Sec.
2 Tim. ii. 23. Foolish and unlearned questions avoid, they do gen-
der strifes.
Ver. 24. And the servant of the Lord must not strive. Ver. 14.
iii. 9.
Heb. vi. 1 6. An oath for the confirmation of trirth, is an end of
strife.
James iii. 14. If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,
glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Ver. 15. This wisdom is earthly, sensual, devilish.
Ver. 16. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and
every evil work.
FIGHTINGS.
XXXIIL Fightings^ quarrels. Mark vi. 18. John said to Herod,
it is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.
Ver. 19. Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him.
2 Cor. vii. 5. Without were fightings, within were fears.
Col. iii. 13. If any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ
forgave you, so do ye.
James iv. 1. From whence come wars and fightings among you ?
Come they not hence ? even of your lusts that war in your members.
DIVISIONS,
XXXIV. Divisions forbidden. Judg. v. 15. For the divisions of
Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.
Ver. 16. For the divisions of Reuben were great searchings of
heart.
Matt. xii. 25. Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to
desolation, and every city or house divided against itself shall not
stand.
Rom.xvi. 17. Mark them which cause divisions, and avoid them.
I Cor. i. 10. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there
be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together
in the same mind and in the same judgment.
iii. 3. Whereas there is among you envying and strife and divi-
sions, are ye not carnal and walk as men ? Ch. xi. 18.
xii. 25. There should be no schism in the body, the members should
have the same care one of another.
OFFENCES.
XXXV. Offences forbidden. Isa. xi. 13. Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
Matt. xvii. 25. Jesus said to Peter, of whom do the kings of the
earth take custom or tribute ? of their own children or of stran-
gers ?
Ver. 26. Peter said unto him, of strangers. Jesus saith unto him,
then are the children free.
Ver. 27. Notwithstanding, lest \to should ofTend them, go thou to
Chap. XVI. Doing Good. H7
the sea» and east an hook, and take up the fish that, first comeih up,
and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of mo-
ney, that take and give unto them for me and thee.
Acts. xxiv. 16. Paul said, herein do I exercise myself, to have M*
ways a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men.
Rom. xiv. 21. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor
any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made
weak.
1 Cor. X. 32. Give none offence, neither to the Jews nor to the
Gentiles, nor to the church of God. 2 Cor. vi. 3. Giving none offence.
Ver. 33. Even as I please all men in ail things, not seeking mine
own profit, but the profit of many. 2 Cor. xi. 29.
Gal. v. 26. Let us not be desirous of vain-glory, provoking one
another.
Phil. i. 10. I pray that ye may be sincere and without offence till
the day of Christ.
1 Thess. iv. 11. We beseech you that ye study to be quiet.
Ver. 12. That ye walk honestly toward them that are without.
XXXVI. Threats against offenders. Matt. xiii. 41. The Son of man
shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom,
all things than offend, and them which do iniquity, and cast them
into a furnace of fire, &c. Ver. 42.
xviii. 6. Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe
in me, it were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his
neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Ver. 7. Woe unto that man by whom the offence cometh.
DOING GOOD.
XXXVII. Doing good to others. Ps. xxxvii. 3. Trust in the Lord,
and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt
be fed.
Eccl. iii. 12. Rejoice and do good.
Amos v. 15. Hate the evil and love the good.
Mic. iii. 2. The wicked hate the good and love the evil.
Luke vi. 31. As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to
them likewise.
Ver. 33. If ye do good to them which do godd to you, what thanks
have ye ? For sinners also do even the same.
Ver. 35. Do good and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your
reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest ;
for he is kind unto the unthankful and the evil.
Gal. vi. 9. Let us not be weary in well-doing.
Ver. 10. As we have opportunity let us do good unto all men, es-
pecially to thern who are of the household of faith.
Eph. vi. I. Whatsoever good thing any man doth, the same shall
he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. Col. iii. 24.
1 Thess. v. 15. See thj^t none render evil for evil unto any man';
but ever follow that which ia good, both among yourselves and to all
men.
I Tim. vi. 17. Charge them that are rich,
Ver. 18- Th.4t they do good, that they be rlrh in good works.
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348 Doing Mischief, Chap. XVI.
Heb. xiii. 16. To do good and comtnunicate forget not, for with
such sacrifices God is well pleased.
1 Pet. iii. 13. Who is he that will harm you, if ye be doers of that
which is good.
DOING EVIL.
XXXVIII. Doing evil, 2 Sam. iii. 39. The Lord shall reward the
doer of evil according to his wickedness.
Job viii. 20. God will not help evil doers.
Ps. xxvi. 5. I have hated the congregation of evil-doers.
xxxiv. 14. Depart from evil. Isa. i. 4, 16. 1 Pet. iii. 10.
Ver. 16. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
Prov. xxiv. 8. He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mis-
chievous person.
Isa. xiv. 20. The seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.
xxxi. 2. The Lord will arise against the house of evil doers.
John iii. 20. Every one that doeth evil hateth the light.
Ver. 21. He that doth truth cometh to the light.
Rom. xiii. 4. If thou do that which is evil, be afraid of the power.
1 Pet. ii. 2, 14.
2 Cor. xiii. 7. I pray to God that ye do no evil.
Phil. iii. 2. Beware of evil workers.
1 Thess. v. 22. Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Pet. iii. 12. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil.
iv. 15. Let none of you suffer as an evil doer.
3 John 1 1. Follow not that which is evil, but that which is good,
he that doeth good is of God, but he that doeth evil hath not seen
God.
DOING WRONG.
XXXIX. Doing wrong. Acts vi. 26, 27- He that did the wrong,
thrust Moses away, saying, who made thee a ruler and a judge over
us. Exod. ii. 1 3.
1 Cor. vi. 7. There is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to
law one with another, why do ye not rather take wrong ? why do ye
not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded ?
Ver. 8. Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and lliat your brethren.
Co^iii. 25. He that doth wrong, shall receive for the wrong that
he doth. See Jer. xxii. 3, 13. 2 Cor. vii. 2. 1 Pet. ii. 19.
DOING MISCHIEF.
XL. Doing mischief, the character of the wicked. Exod. xxxii. 22.
Aaron said, the people are set on mi^ciiief.
Job XV. 35. They conceive niischifci\ and bring forth v.mity.
Ps. xxvi. 10, In their hands is mischief.
xxviii. 3. They speak to theii- neityhb<#rs, !)ut mischief is in their
hearts.
xxxvi. 4. The wicked deviseth mischief upon his bed, he scttetl^
himseil'in a way thai is not i;,ooci, hr abhorrtth not evil.
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Ps. xxxviii. 12. They that seek my hurt, speak mischievous things,
and imagine deceit all the day long*.
Iv. 10. Mischief and sorrow are in the midst of the wicked.
Prov. iv. 16. The wicked sleep not, except they do mischief.
Vi. 14. A wicked man deviseth mischief continually.
X. 23. It is a sport to a fool to do mischief.
xvii. 20. He that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Ch. xiii. 17. — xxiv. 2, 8, 16. — xxviii. 14.
Eccl. X. 13. The end of a fool's talk, is mischievous madness.
Isa. lix 4. They conceive mischief, and bring forth folly. See
Ezek. xi. 2. Dan. xi. 17. Mic. vii. 3. Acts xiii. 10.
Threat^. Ps. vii. 14. The wicked hath conceived mischief and
brought forth falsehood.
Ver. 16. His mischief shall return upon his own head.
X. 14. Thou beholdest mischief and spite to requite it.
xxi. 11, They imagine a mischievous device against me;
Ver. 12. Therefore shalt thou make them tuni their back.
lii. 2. Thy tongue deviseth mischief : God shall destroy thee*
Ver. 5. Ps. ixii. 3.
xciv. 20. Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee,
which frameth mischief by a law ?
cxl. 1. Deliver me from the evil man.
Ver. 2. They imagine mischief in their heart continually.
Ver. 9. Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Prov. xi. 27. He that diligently sceketh good procureth favouc
but he that seeketh mischief it shall come upon him.
HARMLESS.
XLI. Of being harmless. Matt. x. 16. Be wise as serpents and h^rm*
less as doves. Rom. xvi. 19.
Phil. ii. 15. Be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without
rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom
ye shine as lights in the world.
BLAMELESS.
XLH. Blameless. 1 Cor. i. 8. God shall confirm you unto the end,
that ye may be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Eph. i. 4. God hath chosen us in Christ, that we should be holy
and without blame before him in love.
1 Thcss. V. 3. The very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I
pray God that your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blame-
less unto the coming of our Lord Jesub Christ.
1 Tim. V. 7. These things give in charge, that they may be blame*
less.
2 Pet. iii. 14. Be diligent that ye may be found of him without
spot, and blameless. See Luke i. 6.
^L MERCY.
XLHL Promises to the merciful. Ps. xviii. 25. With the merciful
thou wilt shew thyself merciful.
xxxvii. 21. Thfc righteous siieweth morcy. Ver. 26. He is ever
rnerciful.
360 Compassion and Pity. Chap. XVI.
ProV. iii. S. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee, bind them about
thy neck, write them upon the table of thine heart.
xi 17. The merciful man doth good to his own soul, but he that
is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
xvi. 6. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged.
xxi. 21. He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth
life, righteousness and honour.
Dan. iv. 27. Break oflf thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniqui-
ties by shewing mercy.
Hos. vi. 5. I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge
of God more than burnt offerings. Matt. ix. 13.— xii. 7.
xii. 6. Keep mercy and judgment.
Mic, vi 3. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly
and love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.
Zech. vii. 9. Thus spake the Lord of hosts, saying, execute true
judgment and shew mercy and compassions every one to his brother.
Matt. v. 7. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Lilke vi. 36. Be ye merciful as your Father is merciful.
Rom. xii. 8. He that sheweth mercy, let him do it with cheerful-
ness.
Phil. ii. 1. If there are any bowels and nlercies, fulfil ye my joy.
Ver. 2.
Col. iii. 12, Put on (as the elect of God holy and beloved) bowels
of mercies.
James iii. 17. The wisdom that is from above is full of mercy.
UNMERCIFUL.
XLIV. Umnerdful. Threats. Ps. cix. 12. Let there be none to ex-
tend mercy unto him.
Ver. 16. Because he remembered not to shew mercy.
Hos. iv. 1. The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of
the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God
in the land.
Matt, xxiii. 23. Woe to you, ye have omitted the weightier mat-
ters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith.
Rom. i. 28, 29. The reprobate mind is filled with all unrighteous-
pess, implacable, unmerciful.
James ii. 13. He shall have judgment without mercy that shewed
DO mercy. Matt. vii. 22.
COMPASSION AND PITY.
XLV. Comfiasfiion and pity, Zech. vii. 9. Thus spake the Lord of
hosts, saying, execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compas-
sions every man to his brother.
Matt. XV iii. 33. Shouldst thou not have had compassion oti thy fel-
low servant, even as 1 had pity on thee.
Luke X. 33. xV Samaritan had compassigp on him that fell among
thieves.
Ver. 37. Jesus said, go thou and do likewise.
1 Pet. iii. 8. Brethren, be all of one mind, having compassion one
of another.
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1 John iii. 15. Whosoever hath this world^s good, and seeth his
brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion toward
him, how dweileth the love of God in that man ? See Heb. xiii. 3.
— X. 32, 33, 34. Phil. iv. 14. Job xxx. 25. Ps. xxxv. 13,, 14.
Rom. xii. 15. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with
those that weep.
Gal. vi. 2. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the Uw of
Chiist.
Job vi. 14. To the aiHicted pity should be shewed.
xix. 22. Have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of
God hath touched me.
1 Pet. iii 8. Be pitiful, be courteous. Eph. iv. 32.
Matt. XXV, 34 to 46. See there Christ's sentences, at the last day,
to the compassionate and uncompassionate. Amos i. 11.
See persons not to be pitied. Deut. vii. 16. — xiii. 8. — xix. 13, 21.
fZek. ix. 5, 6.
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CRUELTY OF THE WICKED.
XLVI. Cruelty of the wicked. Gen. xlix. 5. Instruments of cruel-
ty are in their habitations. Ver. 7.
Deut. xxxii. 33. Their wine is the poison of dragons and the cru-
el venom of asps.
Prov. xii. 10. The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Ps. Ixxiv. 20. Earth's dark places arc full of the habitations of
cruelty.
Lam. iv. 3. The daughter of my people is become cruel.
Prayers, Ps. Ixxi. 4. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of
the wicked, and out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Ps. XXV. 19. — xxvii. 12.
Threats. Zech. i. 15. Thus saith the Lord, I am very sore dis-
pleased with the heathen, that are at ease, for I was but a little dis-
pleased and they helped forward the affliction. Amos i. 1 1. Obad. i.
15. Gen xiii. 21. Amos vi. 1, 3, 6. Isa. xlvii. 6. Judg. ix. 24. Ezek.
xviii. 18. — xxxiv. 4.
FORGIVENESS.
XLVIL Forgiveness, Matt. vi. 9. After this manner pray ye, our
Father which art in heaven.
Ver. 12. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
Ver. 14. If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father
will also forgive you.
Ver. 15. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will
your Father forgive you your trespasses.
xviii. 15. If thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him
his fault between thee and him alone ; if he shall hear thee, thou hast
gained thy brother.
Ver. 21. Peter said, how oft shall my brother offend and I forgive
him ? till seven times ?
XXI i. Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee till seven times,
but until beventy times seven.
352 Good Counsel Chap. XVI.
Matt, xviii. 27 . The Lord of that servant (who could not pay) for-
gave him ail the debt.
Ver. 35. So likewise shall iii)'^ heavenly Father do also to you, if
ye from your hearts forii;ive eveiy one his brother their trespasses.
Mark xi. 25. When ye stand praying', forgive, if ye have ought
uj^ainst any, that your Fatiier also which is in heaven may forgive
you your trespasses.
Ver. 26. But if you do not fori?;ive, neitlier Mill your Father which
is in heaven fori-ive you your trespasses.
Jjike vi. 57. ForL';ive and ye shall be ibrj^iven.
Ver. 38. i'or with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to
you again.
xvii. 5. Take heed to yourselves, if thy brother trespass against
thee, rebuke him, and if he repent, forgive him.
Ver. 4, And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and
seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying I repent, thou shalt
forgive him.
Eph. iv. 32, Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving
one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Col. iii. 12. Put on (as the el xt of God, holy and beloved) bowels
of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering.
Ver. 13. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if
any men have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so
do ye. See 2 Cor. ii. 7, 10. Gal. vi. 1.
REVENGE.
XLVIII. Revenge. Lev. xix. 18. Thou shalt not avenge nor bear
any grudge against the children of thy people.
Prov. XX. 22. Say not thou, I will recompence evil.
xxiv. 29. Say not I will do to him as he hath done to me, I will
render to thenj m according to his work. I Thess. v. 15. 1 Pet. iii. 9.
xii. 20. Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil.
Zecb- vii. 10. Let none of you imagine evil against his brother in
his heart. Ch. viii. 17.
Kom. xii. 19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather
y^ive place to wrath, for it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay
eaith the Lord.
Ver. 20. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst,
y'wc him diink; for in so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire on his
luad .
^ er. 21. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Pravcrs and cowfilaints. Ps. cxl. 1, 2. Deliver me, O Lord, from
the evil men, which im igine mischief in their heart, llos. vii. 15.
Lam. iii. 60, Ps. x. 2. — xxi. 10. See revenge punished. Ezek. xxv.
12 to 18.
GOOD COUNSEL.
XLIX. The duty of giving and receiving good counsel. Ps. Iv. 14.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in
company.
CliAp. XVI. Good Counsel 353
Prov. i. 5. A wise man will hear and will increase in learning, and
a man of understanding- will attain unto wise counsel.
xi. 14. Where no counsel is the people fall, hut in the niulthude
of counsellors there is safety- Ch. xv. 22 — xx. 18. — xxiv. 6,
xii. 5. He that hearkeneth to counsel is wise.
xiii. 10. With the well-advised is wisdom.
xix. 20. Hear counsel and receive instruction, that thou mayestbe
wise in thy latter end.
xxvii. 9. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, so doth the
sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Instances of good counsel received by Moses Exod. xviii. 19, — by
Bathsheba. I Kings i. 12. — by the king of Israel. 2 Kings vi. 9, 10.
— by the kingof Judah. 2 Chron. xxx. 2, 23. — by the princes of Ju-
dah. Ezek. x. 3, 8.
L. Rejecting evii counsel, the duty and safe fy thereof. Ps. i. 1. Bles-
sed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. Job
xxi. 16. — xxii. 18.
Prov. i. 10. If sinners entice thee consent thou not.
xii. 5. The counsel of the wicked is deceit.
xix. 27. Cease to hear the instruction that causcth to err from
the words of knowledge.
FolloTjers oj evil coun.scl punished. Instances thereof Those who
followed the counsel of Balaam. Numb. xxxi. 16. — Rehoboam for fol-
lowing the counsel of the young men. 1 Kings xii. 8, 14. Ahaziah for
following the evil counsel of his mother. 2 Chron. xxii. 3, 4, 5.
LI. The mutual obligations to giviyig and receiving instruction from
one another. Prov. iv. 13. 'lake fast hold of instruction, let her not
go, keep her for she is thy life. Ch. i. 2, 3. — v. 1 — vi. 23.
viii. 10. Receive my instructions and not silver] and knowledge
vather than choice gold.
Ver. 33. Hear instruction and !)c wise, and refuse it not.
ix. 9. Ciive instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser,
teach a just man and he will increase in learning.
X. 17. He is in the way of life that kecpeth instruction, but he that
refaseth reproof erreth.
xii. 1 . Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge, but he that
hateth reproof is brutish.
XV. 32. He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul, bat he
that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
xix. 20. Hear counsel and receive hiiiruction, that thou maycst
be wise in thy latter end.
Ver. 27. Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causcth to
err from the words of knowledge.
xxi. 1 1. \\ hen a scorner is punished the simple is made wise, but
when the wise is instructed he receiveth knowledge.
xxiii. 12. Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the
words of knowledge.
Ver. 23. Buy the truth and sell it not ; also, wisdom, and instruc-
don, and understanding.
Job iv. o. Thou hast instructed many, and hast strengthene.l the
v.rak hands.
3S4f Good Counsel, Chap. XVI.
Dan. xi. 33. They that understand among the people shall instruct
many. See Prov. i. 2, 3.
LII. Of refusing instruction, Prov. i. 7. Fools dispise wisdom and
instruction. Ch. xv. 5.
V. 23. The wicked shall die without instruction, and in the great-
nes of his folly he shall go astray. Ver. 12, 13.
xiii. 18. Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruc-
tion, but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
xvi. 22 Understanding is a well-spring of life to him that hath it,
but the instruction of fools is folly. See Heb. v. 12.
LIII. To edify one another, Rom. xiv. 19. Let us follow after the
things which make for peace, and the things wherewith one may
edify another.
XV. 2. Let every one please his neighbour for his good to edifica-
tion.
1 Cor. viii. 1. Charity edifieth.
xiv. 26. Let all things be done to edifying.
Eph. iv. 29. Let no corrupt communications proceed out of your
mouth, but that which is good for the use of edifying, that it may
minister grace to the hearers.
1 Thess. V. 11. Comfort yourselves together, and edify one ano-
ther. See Eph. iv 16. 1 Cor. x. 23. — xiv. 3, 12.
LIV. To exhort one another. Heb. iii. 13. Exhort one another dai-
ly, while it is called to-day, lest any of you be hardened through the
deceitfulness of sin.
X. 24. Let us consider one another to provoke one another to love
and to good works.
Ver. 25. Exhorting one another.
LV. T'o ivarn one another. 1 Thess. v. 11. Warn them that are
unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient to-
ward all men.
LVT. To admonish one another. Eccl. v. 13. Bettfer is a poor and
wise child, than an old and foolish king, that will no more be admo-
nished.
xii. 1 1. The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fixed by
the masters of assemblies.
Ver. 12. By these, my son, be thou admonished.
Rom. XV. 14. I myself am persuaded of you, my brethren, thiat ye
are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish
one another.
Col. iii. 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you, in all wisdom,
teaching and admonishing one another.
2 Thess. iii. 14. If any man obey not our word by this episth*,
note that man, and have no companv with him, that he may be asham-
ed.
Ver. 15. Yet count him not as ;^n enemy, but admonish him as a
brother.
LVn. To rtluike one another., and to hearken to rebuke. Lev. xix.
17. I'hou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and suffer not sin
upon him.
Prov. xxviii. 23. He that rebuketh a man, afterwards shall find
more fuvour than he that flatlereth with the tongue. Ch. I'cxvii. ;>.
Chap. XVI. Go<xi Counsel. ttS
Pi-ov. xxiv. 2S. To them that rebuke the wicked uhall be delight,
and a good blessing shall come upon them.
Matt. viii. 33. Jesus rebuked Peter. Luke xsdii. 4. One thief re-
buked another.
1 Tim. V. 20. Them that sin rebuke before all,that others may fe^r.
LVIII. Of not giving and receiving rebuke. Prov. ix. 7. He that
reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame, and he that rebuketh
a wicked man getteth to himself a blot.
Ver. 8. Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee, rebuke a wise
m^ji an4 he will love thee.
xiii. 1. A scorner heareth not rebuke.
Amos V. iO. The wicked hate him th^t rebuketh in the gat?e,and
they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
Matt. vii. 6. Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast
ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet,
and turn again and rent you.
1 Tim. v. 1. Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father.
LIX. To re/irove one another* Ps. cxli. 5. Let the righteous smite
me, it shall be a kindness, and let him reprove me, it sahU he an ex-
cellent oil, which shall not break my head. Prov. xxvii. 6.
Prov. vi. 23. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life.
xiii. 18. He that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
XV. 5. He that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Ver. 3 1 . The ear that heareth the reproof of life, abideth amoig
the wise.
Ver. 32. He that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
xvii. 10. A reproof entereth more into a wise man than a hundred
stripes into a fool.
xix. 25. Reprove one that hath understanding and he will under-
stand knowledge.
XXV. 10. As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so
is a wise reprover on an obedient ear.
Eph. v. 1 1. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of dark-
ness, but rather reprove them.
Ver. 13. All things that are reproved arc made manifest by the
light.
LX. Of not heakening to refiroof Prov. x. 17. He is in the way of
life that keepeth instruction, but he that refuscth reproof erreth.
xii. 1. Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge, but he that ha-
teth reproof is brutish.
xviii. 10. Correction is grievous to him that forsakcth the way, and
he that hateth reproof shall die.
Ver. 12. A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him, neither will
lie go unto the wise.
xxix. 1. He that being often reproved, hardenctb his neck, shall
suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy.
Isa. xxix. 20. The terrible one is brought to nought, and the scor-
ner is consumed, and all them that watch for iniquity are cut off.
"*/er. 21. That make a man an oftcndcr for a word, and that lay
d snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and that turn JV^ide the
just, for a thinfr of n^nglit.
Y V
356 Friendship. Chap. XVI.
Hos. iv. 4. Let no man strive nor reprove another, for thy people
are as they that strive with the priest.
Luke iii. 19. Herod being reproved by John for Herodias sake his
brother Phillip*s wife, and for all the evil he had done, shut up John
in prison.
John iii. 20. Every one that doth evil hateth the light, neither com-
eth to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
LXL Gentleness. Gal. v. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is gentleness,
kindness.
James iii. 17. The wisdom from above is pure, peaceable, gen-
tle, &c.
Examfiles. Isa. xl. 11. Christ will gently lead those that are with
young.
2 Cor. X. 1. I beseech you by the gentleness of Christ.
1 Thess. ii. 7. We the apostles were gentle among you as a nurse.
2 Tim. ii. 24. The servant of the Lord must be gentle. Tit. iii. 2.
KINDNESS.
LXn. To shenv kindness commanded, Rom. xii. 10. Be kindly af-
fectioned one to another.
1 Cor. xiii. 4. Charity suflfereth long, and is kind.
2 Cor. vi. 4. Approving ourselves as the ministers of God.
Ver. 6. By pureness, by kindness, &c.
Eph. iv. 32. Be ye kind one to another, tender hearted.
Col. iii. 12. Put on as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels
of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness. Sec.
2 Pet. i. 7. Add to godliness brotherly kindness.
LXIIL To give comfort. Job xxix. 25. Job said, I sat as one that
comforteth the mourners.
Isa. xl. 1. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2 Cor. i. 4. God comforteth us, that we may be able to comfort
them that are in trouble.
ii. 7. Ye ought to forgive and comfort him (the offender,) lest per-
haps such an one should be swallowed up of too much sorrow.
1 Thess. iv 18. Comfort one another.
V. 11. Comfort yourselves together.
Ver. 14. Comfort the feeble minded.
Instances of comfort shewn by Josifih. Gen. I. 21. Bv Job's friends.
Job ii. 1 1 . — xlii. 11.
FRIENDSHIP.
LXIV. Friendshifi and faithfulness therein. Jobxis.21. Have pity
upon me, O ve my fiiends, for the hand of God hath touched me.
Ch. vi. 14.
Prov. vi. 3. Make svir^ thy friend.
xvii. 17. A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for ad-
versity.
xviii. 24. A man that hall) friends, must shew himself friendiy.
and there is a friend that stickcth closer th.an a brotlier.
XX. 6. Most men will pi-oclain\ every one his own goodn
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a taithful man who can find.
Chap. XVI. Friendship » Z57
Prov. xxvii. 9. Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, so doih
the sweetness of a man's friend, by hearty counsel.
V'er. 10. Thine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not, nei-
ther go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity, for bet-
ter is a neig-hbour that is near, than a brother far of!'.
Ver. 17. Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the counte-
nance of his friend.
John XV. 13. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friends. 1 John iii 16. Acts xv. 26.
LXV. Unfaithfulness in friendnlnp . Job vi. 14. To him that is af-
flicted, pity should be shewed from his friend ; but he forsaketh the
fear of the Almighty*
Ver. 27. Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for
your friend. Ch. xvi. 2. — xxi 34.
xvi. 20. My friends scorn me, but mine eye poureth out tears un-
to God.
xvii. 5. He that speaketh flattery to his friends even the eyes of
his children shall fdl.
xix. 14. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have
forgotten me.
Ver. 19. All my friends abhorred me, and they whom I loved are
turned against me.
Is. xxxviii. 11. My lovers and my friends stands aloof from my
sore, and my kinsmen s-tand afar off.
xli. 2. Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted, which did eat
of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Iv. 12. If it was an enemy that reproached me, then I could have
borne it-
V^ep. 13. But it was thou, O man, mine equal, my guide, and mine
acquaintance.
Ver. 1 4, We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house
of God in company.
Ps. Ixix 20. I looked for comforters, but I found none.
Ixxxviii. 18. r.ovcr and friend thou hast put far from me.
Prov. xiv. 20. The poor is hated even of his own neighbour, but
the rich hath many friends.
xix. 4. Wealth maketh many friends, but the poor is separated
from his neigh!)our. \'cr. 6, 7.
xxii. 24. Make no friendship with an angry man.
xxv. 19, Co.iiidence in an imfaithful man in time of trouble, i.s
like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint.
xxvii. 14. He that blcsseth his friend with a loud voice rising ear-
ly in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
Lam. i. 2. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.
Mic. vii. 5. T-i'ust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a
guide. '
Zech. xiii. 6. I was wounded in the house of my friend.
Of bearing with one another\'i iveuknesscs or dijf'crences in matters of
religion. Rom. xiv. 1. Him that is weak in the faith receive you, but
not to doubtful disputations.
XV. 1. We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of
the weak, and not to please ourselves.
358 Forbearance* Ch^p. XVI.
\ Cor. xiii, 7. Charity beareth all things, endureth all thmgs.
Gal. vi. I. Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which
are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, consi-
dering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Ver. 2. Bear ye one anothers burdens, and so fulfil the law of
Christ.
FORBEARANCE.
LXVI. Forbearance. Forbearing to judge one another on account of
differences. Isa. Ixv. 2. A rebellious people which walketh in a way
not good, after their own thoughts-
Ver, 5. Which say, stand by thyself, come not near to me for I
am holier than thou ; these are a smoke in my nose.
Isa. Ivi. 5. Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word,
your brethren that hated you, that cast you out, for my name's sake,
said, let the Lord be glorified ; but he shall appear to your joy^ and
they shall be ashamed. Compare Matt, i II. Luke vi. 22, 23.
Matt. vii. 1. Judge not and ye shall not be judged. Luke vj. o1 .
Ver. 2. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and
with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
Ver. 3. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's
eye, but conslderest not the beam that is in thine own eye.
Ver. 4. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, let me pull out the
mote out of thine eye, and behold, a beam is in thine own eye ?
Ver. 5. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own
eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy
brother's eye.
John viii. 7. Jesus said, he that is without sin among you, let
him first cast a stone,
Rom.ii I. Thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that
judgest, for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thyself,
for thou that judgest dost the same things.
Ver. 2. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to
truth, against them that commit such things.
Rom. ii. 3. Thinkest thou, O man, which judgest them whi^h do
sUch things, apd dpst thes£>me, that thou ^halt escape the judgment
of God?
xiv. 2. One believeth that he may eat all things, another who is
weak eateth herbs.
Ver- 3. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not, and
let not him which eateth not, judge him that eateth.
Ver. 4. Who art thou that judgest another man's servant, to fii#
own master he standeth or falleth ?
Ver. 6. One man esteemeth one day above another, another esteem-r
^th every day alike, let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Ver. 10. Why dost thou judge thy brother r or why dost thou set
at nought thy brother ? for we shall all stand before the judgment
^eat of Christ.
Ver. 12. Every one of us shall give an account of himself to God.
Ver. 13. Let us not therefore judge one another any more. Gal.
vi. 5. Every man shall bear his own burden.
\ Cor. iv. 5. Jydge nothing before the time \mtil the Lord come.
Chap. XVL Ingratitude, 35^
James iv. U. He that judgeth his brother iudgeth the law, but if
thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law but a judge.
Ver. 12. There is one law-giver who is able to save and to desti^oy,
who art thou that judgest another ? See 1 Cor. v. 10, 13. Luke xvi. 15.
^ee thos that despised Christ. Ch. xviii. 1 1. See the proud Pharisee.
GOOD EXAMPLE.
LXVII. Setting good examfile. Matt. v. 16. Let your light so shine
before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your
Father which is in heaven.
Col. iv. 5. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without. 1 Thcss.
iv. 12. Neh. v. 9.
1 Tim. iv. 12 Be thou an example of believers.
OF ENTICING OTHERS.
LXVIIL Of enticing others^ and being enticed to si?u Jer. xx. 10.
My familiars watched for my halting, saying, peradventure he will
be enticed, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our re-
venge on him.
Ver. 1 1. But the Lord is with me, therefore they shall not prevail.
Prov. i. 10. If sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Ver. 1 1 to 14. .
Ver. 4 5. Walk not thou in the way with them, refrain thy foot
from their path.
xxviii. 10. Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil
way, he shall fall himself into his own pit.
Hab. ii. 15. Woe to him that giveth his neighbour drink, hnd raa-
keth him drunken. See.
Rom. xiv 13. Let no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion
to fall in his brother's way. Ver. 21. 1 Cor. viii. 9, 12, 13. 2 Cor.
xi. 29.
1 Tim. v. 22. Be not partaker of other men's sins,keep thyself pure.
Rev. ii. 14. I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there
them that hold the doctine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stum-
bling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto
idols, and to commit fornication. Numb. xxv. 1. See false teachers
deceive the people. Cymmandment Fifth. Neh. vi. 13. Instance.
OF GRATITUDE.
LXIX. Of gratitude or returns of friendnhip . Instances thereof.
Fxod. ii. 20. Reuel to Moses.
1 Sam. XV. 6. Saul to the Kenites.
2 Sam. X. 2. David to Hanun.
ix. 17. David to Jonathan's family*
xix. 32 to 38. David tp Barzillai. 1 Kings ii. 7.
OF INGRATITUDE.
LXX. Ingratitude. Instances. Gen. xl. 23. Yet did not the chief
butler remember Joseph but forgat him.
Judg. viii. 35. The children of Israel did not shew kindness to the
Jiouse of Gideon accoixling to all goodness which he had shewed
unto Israel.
Ps. XXXV. 12. They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of
my soul. Ps. xxxviii. 20. — cii. 5.
Ver. 13. But as for me, when they were sick, mv clothing was
sackcloth.
3G0 Temperance, Chap. XVI I.
]^s. XXXV. 14. I humbled my soul witli fasting, T behaved myself
as thouj^h he had been my friend or brother, 1 bowed down heavily
as one that mourneth for his mother.
Ver. 15. But in my adversity they rejoiced. Ps. cix. 4, 5.
Prov. xvii. 13. Whoso rewardeth evil for t^ood, evil shall not de-
part from his house. See 1 Sam. xxiii. 5, 12. — xxv. 21. Jer. xviii.
20, 21. Eccl. ix. 14, 15.
CHAP, XVIL
DUTIES TOWARD OURSELVES.
TEMPERANCE.
I, THE tewf'crate use of 7neat and drink allowed. Eccl. ii. 24. There
is no'hing' better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and
that he Jihould make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Ch. iii. 13.
— v. 18, 19, 20.
I Tim. iv. 3. Meats God hath created to be received with thanks-
giving, of them which believe and know the truth
Ver. 4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be re-
iiised, if it be received with thanksgiving.
Ver. S. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
V. 23. Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often in-
firmities.
II. Intemperance inmeat and drink forb'dden. Deut. xxi. 20. If the
parents shall say to the elders of the city, this our son is stubborn
and rebellious, he is a glutton and a drunkard ;
Ver. 21. All the men of the city shall stone him v/ith stones that
he die.
Prov. xxi. 17. He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man, he
that loveth wine and oii shall not be rich.
xxiii 1. When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently
whui IS before thcc ;
Ver, 2. And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to
appetite.
\'er. 3. Be not desirous of his dainties, for they are deceitful meats.
^ Prov. xxiii. 20. Be not amongst wine-bibbers, amongst riotous
eateis of fiesh.
\'er. 21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.
xxviii. 7. H« that is a companion of riotous men shameth his fatlier,
XXX. 32. The earth cannot bear a fool when he is full of meat.
Mcitt. xxiv. 48. If the evil servant shctll say in his heart, my Lord
delay eth his coming ;
Ver. 49. And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat
and drink with the drunken,
Ver. 50. The Lord of that servant, shall come in a day when he
looketh not tor hiin, and in an hour when he is not aware of.
\'er. 5 1. And shall cut him asunder,' and appoint him his portion
wiih hypocrites, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
CiiAP. XVII. Intemperance, 361
Luke vi. 25. Woe unto you that are full for ye shall hunger.
xxi. 34. Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be
overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of chis
life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Rom. xiii. 13. Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting
and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness.
Ver. 14. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not pro-
vision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
I Cor. vii. 31. Use this world as not abusing it.
ix. 25. Every man that strive th for the mastery is temperate in ali
things.
Ver. 27. I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest
that by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should
be a cast away.
Phil. iii. 19. Whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly,
whose glory is their shame, who mind earthly things.
1 Thess. v. 7. They that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that
be drunken, are drunken in the night.
Ver. 8. But let us who are of the day be sober. Tit. ii. 12. Live
soberly, Sec.
1 Pet. iv^ 5. The wicked think it strange that ye run not to tlie
same excess of riot.
2 Pet. i. 6. Add to knowledge, temperance.
ii. 15. They shall receive the reward of umighteousness that count
it pleasure to riot in the day time : spots they are, and blemishes,
sporting themselves with their own deceivings.
jude ver. 12. Feeding themselves without fear. See Amos vi. 6.
IIL Drunkenness^ the exnls thereof. Prov. xx. I. Wine is a mocker,
strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Rrov. xxiii. 29. Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath con-
teijSbns ? who hath babbUngs ? who hath wounds without cause ? who
haff redness of eyes ?
Ver. 30. They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek
mixt wine.
Ver. 31. Look not on the wine when it is red, when it giveth his
colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
Ver. 32. At the lust it bitteh like a serpent, and stingeth like an
adder.
Ver. 33. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart
shall utter perverse things. \''er. 34, 35.
Isa. V. 1 1. Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that
they may follow strong drink, that continue until night, till wine in-
flame them.
Ver. 22. Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men
of strength to mingle strong drink.
Ivi. 12. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill our-
selves with strong drink, and to-morrow shidlbe as this day and much
more abundant.
I Cor. V. 1 1. I have written to you, if any one that is called a bro-
ther be a drunkard, with such an one iiot to keep company, nor to ea'
with hi'n.
362 Labour commemded. CttA^. XVII.
1 Cor. vi. 10. t)ru«kards shall not inherit the kingdom of Cod.
Gal. V. 19. Th€ works of the flesh are these, adultery, &:c.
Ver. 21. Drunkenness, i^vellings, and such like, they that do such
things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Ver. 23.
Eph. V. 18. Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be
filled with the Spirit.
IV. Of making others drunk. Esther i. 3. King Ahasuerus made
a feast unto the nobles and princes,
\"er. 5. And to all the people that were present. Ver. 7. And
gave them drink. Sec.
Ver. 8. The drinking was according to law, none did compel, for
so the king had appointed to all the offic€i*s of his house, that they
should do according to every man's pleasuixj.
Hab. ii. 15. Woe unto hini that giveth his neighbour driwk, that
putteth thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou
mayst look on their nakedness.
\m\ 16. Thou art filled with shame for glory ; drink thou also,
and let thy foreskin be uncovered, tlie cup of the Lord's right hand
shall be turned unto thee, and shameful shewing shall be on thy glo-
ry. See 2 Sam. xi. 13. Isa. hi. 12.
Unhappy instances of drunkenness in Noah. Gen. ix. 21. In Lot,
Gen. xix. 32. Nabal. 1 Sam. xxv. 36. Elah. 1 Kings xvi. 9, 10. Ben-
hadad. 1 Kings xx. 16 to 22. See wicked clergymen, their drunken-
Ti-ess. Also magistrates perverting judgment through drunkenness.
SLEEP.
V. Sleefi. Prov. vi. 9. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard, when
wilt thou awake out of sleep ?
V«r. 10. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding ©f tiie
hands to sleep.
Ver. 11. So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth^and
thy want as an armed man.
XX. 13. Love not sleep lest thou come to poverty, open thine^^s
and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
xxiii. 21. Drowsiness s^hall clothe a man with rags.
xx\u. 1 4. As th^ door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the sl^i-
ful upon his bed.
LABOUR COMMANDED.
VI. Labour commanded-^ and firoinises to the laborious^ the di^getH
und industrious. Gen. iii. 19. In the sweat of thy face, shalt thou eat
bread, till thou return unto the ground.
Exod. XX. 19. Si:-: days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work.
Prov. X. 4. lie bcc ometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand, but
the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
xii. 1 1. He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread, but he
that followeth vain persons is void of understanding. Ch. xxviii. 29.
Ver. 24. The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful
shall be under tribute.
V^er. 27. The slothful roasteth not th:it which he took in huntiiu;,
hut the substance of the diligent man is precious.
xiii. 4. The soul of the sluggard desireth and hath nothing, bu;
\i\it soul of the diligent shalt be made fat.
Chap. XVII. The Sluggard. 363
Prov. xiii. 1 1 . Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished ; but
he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
xiv. 23. In all labour there is profit, but the labour of the lips tend-
eth only to penury.
Prov. xxi. 5. T e thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteous-
ness, but of every one that is hasty, only to want.
xxii. 21. Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand
before kings, he shall not stand before mean men.
xxxi. 27. A good wife eateth not the bread of idleness.
Eccl. V. 12. The sleep of a labouring man is sweet.
xi. 6. In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening with-hold
not thy hand.
Rom. xii. 1 1. Be not slothful in business.
Eph. iv. 28. Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him
labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may
have to give to him that needeth.
1 'I'hess. iv. 11. We beseech you, that ye study to be quiet, and
to do your own business, and to work wiih your own hands.
Ver. 12. That ye may walk honestly towards them that are with-
out, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
2 Thess. iii. 10. We command you, that if any would not work,
neither should he eat.
Ver. 1 1. For we hear that there are some which walk among you
disorderly working not at all, but are busy bodies.
Ver. 12. Now them that are such we command and exhort, by
our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their
own bread.
Ver. 14. And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note
that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
1 Tim. V. 13.
OF THE SLUGGARD.
VII. Of the diiggard^ the slothful and idle. See several oftheforego-
big texts^ where these persons are cotnpared ivith the diligent^ life. Prov.
vi. 6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise.
Ver 7. Which having no guide, overseer or ruler,
Ver. 8. Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathcreth her food
in the harvest.
X. 26. As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the
sluggard to them that send him.
XV. 19. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns, but
the v/ay of the righteous is made plain.
xviii. 9. He that is slothful in his work, is Ijrothcr to him that is
a great waster.
xix. 15. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul
shall suffer hunger.
\ cr. 24. A slothful man hideth his hand in 'his bosom, and will
not so much as bring it to his mouth. Ch. xxvi. 15.
XX. 4. The sluggard will not plough by reason of the cold, there-
fore shall he beg ia harvest and have nothing.
xxi. 25. The desire of the sbthfiil killelh him, for his hands re-
ixx^'c to labour. Ch. xiii. 4.
xv'ii. 13. The sio-hlVJ nia.i\ s:ath, there i:> a Lion vatbout. I shall
364. Wisdom. Chap. XVII.
be slain in the streets. Ch. xxvi. 13. There is a lion in the way, a
lion is in the streets.
Prov. xxiv. 30. I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vine-
yard of the man void of understanding ;
Ver. 3 1 . And lo ! it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had
covered the face thereof, and the stone- wall thereof was broken down.
Ver. 32. Then I saw and considered it well, and looked upon it
and received instruction.
Eccl. X. 18. By much slothfulness, the building decayeth, and
through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
Ezek. xvi. 49. This was the iniquity of Sodom, pride, fulness of
bread, and abundance of idleness.
WISDOM.
VIII. The study and fiurauit of ivisdom recommended. Job xxxil. 7.
Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Prov. i. 2. Know wisdom and instruction, and perceive the words
of understanding.
Ver. 20. Wisdom crieth without in the chief places of concourse,
Ver. 21, 23. Ch. viii. 1 to 12, 14, 33.
ii. 2. Incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thine heart to under-
standing. Ver. 3, 4, 5.
iii. 21. Keep sound wisdom and instruction. Ver. 22.
iv. 5. Get wisdom, get understanding.
V. 1. My son, attend to my wisdom. Ver. 7.
vii. 4, Say unto wisdom thou art my father, and call understand-
ing thy kinswoman. V^er. 5.
xviii. 1. Through desire a man having separated himself, seeketh
and intermeddleth with all wisdom. Eccl. i. 13, 16, 17. — ii. 3, 9, 12.
— vii 23, 25. — viii. 16.— ix. 13.
xxii. 7. Kow down thine ear to the words of the wise, and apply
thine heart to my knov*ledge.
xxiii. 23. Buy the truth and sell it not, also wisdom and instruc-
tion, and understanding.
xxvii. 1 1. My son, be wise and make my heart glad. Ch. xxix. 3,
Matt. X. 16. Be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
James iii. 13. Who is a wise man among you, let him shew out,
of a good conversation his works with the meekness of wisdom.
IX. The excellency ofivisdom abosje all other endo7V?nentfi. Job xxviii.
13. Man knoweth no' the price of wisdom.
Ver. i 5. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weigh-
ed for the price thereof. See ver. 16 to 20.
Prov. iii. 14. The merchandise of wisdom is better than the mer-
chandise of silver, and the gain thereof than tine gold. Ch. xvi. 16.
.Ver, 15. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things thou
canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
IV. 7. Wisdom is the principal thin;];, therefore get wisdom, and
with all thy getting get undcirstunding.
Eccl.ii. 1 3. Wisdom excclleth folly, as fur as light e:;celleth daik-
T»ess.
iv. 13. Better is a poor and wise ciiild, than an old and foolish king.
IX. .16. Wisdon is belter than stienv;;th. Prov. iii. 2 1, 22, 23.
CiTAP. XVII. Wisdom. 365
Eccl. ix. 18. Wisdom is better than weapons of war.
X. Wisdom if} firojitahle^ pleasant mid honciirablc Job xxii. 2. He
that is wise may be profitable unto himself.
Prov. ii. 10. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and know-
ledge is pleasant unto thy soul ;
Ver. 1 1. Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep
thee, to deliver thee from the away of the evil man.
iii. 13. Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that
getteth understanding.
Ver. 16. Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand
riches and honour.
Ver. 17. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths arft
peace. Ch. xxiv. 13, 14.
iii. 18. Wisdom is a tree of life, to every one that findeth her, and
happy is every one that retaineth her.
Ver. 35. The wise shall inherit glory.
iv. 8. Exalt wisdom and she shall promote thee, she shall bring
thee to honour w^hen thou dost embrace her.
Ver. 9. She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace, a crown
of glory shall she deliver unto thee.
ix. 1. Wisdom hath builded her house. Ch. xxiv. 3, 4 — xiv. I.
Ver. 12. If thou be wise thou shalt be wise for thyself,
xi. 29. The fool shall be servant to the wise in heart,
xii. 18. A man shall be commended according to his wisdom,
xvi. 20. He that handleth a matter wisely, shall find good.
Ver. 21. The wise in heart shall be called prudent.
Prov. xviii. 4. The well-spring of wisdom is a flowing brook.
Eccl. vii. 1 1 . Wisdom is good with an inheritance : and by it there
is profit to them that see the sun.
Ver. 12. Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence, but the
excellency of knowledge is that wisdom giveth life.
\ er. 19. Wisdom strenglheneth a wise man, more than ten mighty
men that are in the city. Ch. ix. 15, 16, 18 Prov. iii. 21.
vili, I, A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine.
Ver. 5. A wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
x. 10. Wisdom is profitable to direct,
xii. 11. The words of the wise are as goads and nails.
XI. Wisdom is the gift of God. Exod. xxxi. 6. In the heart of all
that are v/ise hearted, I have put wisdom, saith the Lord. Ver. 3.
Job xxvih. 12. Where shall wisdom be found ? And where is the
place thereof?
Ver. 23- The Lord knoweth the place thereof, and the way there-
of. Ver. 20.
Ps. li. 6. In the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Ps. cxix. 98, 99, 100.
Prov. ii. 6. The Lord giveth wisdom, out of his mouth cometh
knowledge and understanding.
Y^r. 7. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous.
Eccl. ii. 26. God giveth to a man that is good in his sight, know-
ledge, and wisdom, and joy.
ix. 1. The righteous, and the wise, and their works arc in the
hand of God.
366 Wisdom. Chap. XVII.
Dan. ii. 21. God givetli wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to
them that know understandings. Vcr. 23. See Acts vii. 10.
Luke xxi. 15. I will give you a mouth and wisdom. 2 Pet. iii. 15.
James iii 17. The wisdom from above is pure, Sec. Ver. 17.
XII. Wisdom prayed for by those who believed it to be the gift of
God, 1 Kings xxii. 12. For Solomon David prayed thus, the Lord
give thee wisdom, that thou may est keep the law of the Lord. Ps.
Ixxii. 1.
1 Kings iii. 8. Solomon prayed thus. Lord give thy servant an un-
derstanding heart, that he may judge thy people, and that he may
discern between good and bad.
1 Kings iii. 1 1. And God said, because, thou hast asked this thing,
and hast not asked for thyself long life, neither hast asked riches for
thyself, nor the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself, un-
derstanding to discern judgement ;
Ver. 12. Behold I have done according to thy words, I have given
thee a vvise and an understanding heart.
Ver. 13. 1 have also given thee, that which thou hast not asked,
both riches and honour. Ver. 28. Ch. iv. 9. — v. 12. 2 Chron. i. 10.
Ps. xc. 12. So teach us to number our days that we may apply our
hearts to wisdom.
Col. i 9. I pray that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his
will in all wisdom.
James viii. 5. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that
giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given
him. Ver. 17,
XIII. Wisdom and religion the same. Deut. iv. 5. I have taught you
jitatutes and judgments.
Ver. 6. Keep and do them, for this is your wisdom, and under-
standing,
xxxii 29. O that they were wise, that they understood this, that
they would consider their latter end.
Job xxviii. 2 8. Behold the fear of the Lord that is wisdom, and
to depart from evil is understanding. Ps. cxi. 10. Prov. i. 7.
Ps. ii. 10. Be wise, O ye kings, be instructed, O ye judges of the
earth'
Ver. 11. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
xxvii. 30, The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his
toiigue talketh of judgment. Prov. viii. 8.
Ixiv. 10. They shall wisely consider the Lord's doings.
ci. 2. I will beh .ve myself wisely in a perfect way.
cvii. 43. Whoso is wise and will obsesve these things even they
shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. Hos. xiv. 9.
Prov. x. 8. The wise in heart will receive the comnKindments.
XV. 24. The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart
from hpll beneath. Ch, xiii. 14,
xis.. 8. lie that gctteth wisdom loveth his own soul, and he that
hath understanding shall find good. Ch. viii. 2>6. He that sinneth
jigainst me (wisdom) wrongeth his own soul ; all that hate me love
death.
Prov. xxi. 12. The righteous widely considereth the house of the
wicked.
Chap. XVII. Folly.
Dan. xii. 3. They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the
firmament.
Ver. iO. The wise shall understand.
Mic. vi. 9. The Lord's voice cricth unto the city, and the man of
wisdom shall see thy name.
Matt. vii. 24. He that heareth Christ's sayings and doeth them,
shall be likened unto a wise man. See the parable of the ten virgins.
Matt. XXV. I to 13.
Rom. xvi. 19. I would have you wise unto that which is good, and
simple concerning evil.
Eph. v. 15. Walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise.
Ver. 16. Redeeming the time because the days are evil.
Col. iii. 16. Let the word of God dwell in you richly in all wisr
dom.
iv. 5. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming
the time,
2 Tim. ii. 15. The holy scriptures are able to make thee wise to
salvation. See Prov. xxviii. 26. Luke xii. 4 2.
FOLLY.
XIV. AfooVs vain firetences to wisdom^ he is wise in his own conceit.
Job xi. 12. Vain man would be wise.
xii. 2. Ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
XV. 8. Dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
xxiii. 4. Cease from thine own wisdom.
xxxii. 9. Great men are not always wise, neither do the aged un-
derstand judgment.
Prov. iii. 7. Be not wise in thine own eyes.
xii. 15. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.
xiv. 2. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the
end thereof are the ways of death.
xxvi. 12. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit, there is more
hope of a fool than of him.
Ver. 16. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit, than seven
men that can render a reason.
xxxviii. 1 1. The rich man is wise in his own conceit.
Ver 26. He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.
Isa. V. 2 1 . Woe to them are wise in their own eyes, and prudent
in their own sight.
Jer. viii. 8. How do ye say we are wise, and the law of the Lord
is with us ?
Rom. i. 22. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools :
Ver. 23. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an
image.
xi. 25. I would not have you ignorant. See. lest ye be wise in your
own conceit.
xii. 16. Be not wise in your own conceit. See Isa. x. 12, 13. — xix.
11. I Cor. iii. 18. 2 Cor. x. 12. Col. ii. 23.
XV. A fool re.ceiveth Twt instruction. Prov. i. 7. Fools despise wis-
dom and instruction. Ch. v. 12, 13.
xvii. 16. He hath no heart to get wisdom. Ch. i. 7, 22.
368 Follif, Chap. XVIL
Prov. xviii. 2. He hath no delight in understanding^. Ch. xxiv. 7.
xvii. 10. A reproof entereth more into a wise man, than an hundred
stripes into a fool.
xxvii. 22. Thoufi^h thou shouldst bray a fool in a morter, yet will
not his foolishness depart from him.
X. 21, Fools die for vv^ant of wisdom.
XVI. He di&coxit'rcth his foilu, Prov. xiii. 16. A fool laycth open
his f lly.
x-^vi. 1 1. As a do^ returneth to his vomit, so a Ibol returneth to
his folly.
Eccl. X. 2. A wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's
heart at his left hand.
Ver. 3. When a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom f.uleth him,
aiid he sayeth to every one, that he is a fool.
XVII. Totoard his parent H. Prov. x. 1. A wise son maketh a p;hid
fa'her, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. Ch. xv. 20.
Ho despiseth his mother.
XV. 5. A fool despiseth his father's instructions.
xvii. 21. He that begetteth a fool doth it to his sorrow, and the fa-
ther of a fool hath no joy.
Ver. 25. A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to
her that bare him.
xix. 13. A foolish son is the calamity of his father. See disobedi-
ent and undutiful children, Commandment Fifth.
XVIII. Mischievous. Prov. x. 23. It is a sport to a fool to do mis-
chief.
xiii. 19. It is an abomination to fools to depart from mischief,
xvii. 12. Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than
a fool in his folly.
XIX. WrathfuL Job v. 2. Wrath killeth the foolish man
Prov. xii. 16. A fool's wrath is presently known,
xiv. 16. A fool rat^eth and is confident.
xxvii. 3. A fool's wrath is heavier than both the sand and a stone.
xxix. 9. If a wise man contend with a foolish man, whether he
rave or laugh, th' re is no rest.
Keel. vii. 9. Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. See anger, wrath.
XX. Ccntentions Prov. xviii. 2. A fool's lips enter into contention.
XX. 3. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife, but every
fuel will be meddling. See contention, strife.
XXL His nvords. Prov. xv. 2. The mouth of fools pourcth out
iooiishness. Ver. 28.
xviii. 14. The mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Ver. 7. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are tlie
snare of his soul. Ch. x. 14. — xii. 13. — xiii. 3.
xxix. 1 1. A fool uttereth all his mind.
Eccl. V. 3. A fooPs voice is known by the multitude of words.
X. 12. The lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Ver. 13. The beginning of his words is foolishness, and the end
of his talk is mischievous madness.
Ver. 14. A fool is full of words. See talkativ(Miess, rashness See
Prov. xvii. 7. — xxvi. 7.
Chap. XVIL Follij. 369
XXII. His Jileasures. Prov. xv. 2 1 . Folly is joy to him that is des-
titute of wisdom, &c.
xvii. 24. His eyes are in the ends of the earth.
XXX. 22. The earth is disquieted, and cannot bear a fool when he
is filled whith meat.
Eccl. vi. 7. His laiighter is like the crackling of thorns under a
pot.
vii. 4. His heart is in the house of mirth.
XXIII. Treaimnitforfoolfi. Prov. xiv. 7. Go from the presence of
a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
xxiii. 9. Speak not in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the
wisdom of thy words. Matt. \ii. 6. Cast not your pearl before swine-
xxxvi. 1. Ilonour is not seetnly for a fool.
Ver. 3. x\ rod for the fool's back. Ch. x. 13. — xix. 29.— xxix. 15,
Ver- 4. Answer not a fool according to his folly, i'jst thou be also
like unto him.
Ver. 5. Lest he be wise in his own concei*. See Eccl. x. 5, 6, 7.
XX IV', Fdly and luickednesa the .mine, Deut. xxxii. 6. Do ye thus
requite the I.^ord, O foolish people and unwise.
}oh V. 3. I have seen the- foolish taking root, but sudf'enly I curs-
ed his habitation. Ps. K iii. 3, 9, U, 17, 18.
J^3. T . 5- The foolish shall not stand m thy sight, thou hatcst all
the workers ol iniquity.
xiv- 1. The fool hath said in his heart there is no God. Ch. liii. 1.
K.^> vi. >;. The wicked hath left off to be wise and -o do good.
xvxviil 5. My wounds stink, and are corrupt because of my fool-
ishness.
IxiX' 5. O God, thou knowcst my foolishness, and my sins are not
hid from thee.
Ixxiv. 18. O Lord, the foclisn people have blasphemed thy name.
Ver. 22.
Ixxv. 4. I said unto the fools, deal not foolishly, and to the wicked,
lift not up the horn.
Ixxxv. 8. The Lord will s])cak peace to his people, and to his
saints, but let them not return again to folly.
xciv. 7. They commit wickedness, and say, the Lord shall not see,
neither shall the ^^od'of Jacob regard it.
Ver. 8. Understand, ye brutish among the people, and, ye fools*
when will ye be wise ?
Ver. 9. He thut planted the ear shall he not hear ? he that, forme lli
the eye shall he not see ?
Ver. 10. He that chasteneth the heathen snail he not correct ? he
'hat teacheth man knowledge shall he not know r Ps. xcv. 2.
cvii. 17. Pools because of their transgression and because of ini-
quities are aillicted.
Prov. i. 7, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knov/ledge^
but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Ver. 32. The prosperity of fools shall destroy them,
ix. 6. Forsake the foolish and live, and go in the vvay of undet
standing.
xiv. y. pools make a mock at sin.
370 Patience. Chap. XVII.
Prov. XV. 21. Follv is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom, but
a man of understandmg walketh uprightly,
xix 13. The foolishness of man perverteth his way, and his heart
fretteth against the Lord.
xxi. 30. There is no wisdom nor understanding, nor counsel against
the Lord.
xxiv. 9. The thought of foolishness is sin.
xxvi. 10. The great God that formed all things rewardeth the fool
and the transgressor.
XXX. 2. I am more brutish than any man, and have not the under-
standing of a man.
Ver. 3. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the
holy.
Eccl. v. 1. In the house of God, be more ready to hear than to
offer the sacrifice of fools.
Ver, 4. God hath no pleasure in fools.
vii. 5. I applied mine heart to know the wickedness of folly.
Jcr. iv. 22. My people is foolish, they have not known me, they
are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Ch. v.
4, 21.— X. 8.
viii. 9. They have rejected the word of the Lord, and what wis-
»'.om is in them ? Ch. xxiii. 13.
Matt. vii. io. He that doth not Christ's sayings, is like unto a
foolish man.
XXV. 3. See the parab!e of the foolish virgins.
Luke xii. 20. God said, thou fool, this night shall thy soul be re-
quired of ciiee.
Ver. 21. So is every one that layeth up treasure for himself and
is not rich tov/aid God. Sec Numb. xii. 11. I Sam. xiii. 13. 2 Sam.
xxiv. iO. Matt, xxiii. 17, 19. Mark vii. 22. Luke xi. 40. — xxiv. 25.
Rom. i. 21. Gal. iii. 1, 3. 1 Pet. ii. 1.5.
PATIENCE.
XXV. Patience toward God, Ps. xxxvii. 7. Rest in the Lord and
wait patiently for him, fret not thyself because of him who prospereth
in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
xl. 1. I waited patiently for the Lord, and he heard me.
Luke viii. 15. The seed sown on the good ground, are they which
in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and
bring forth fruit with patience.
xxi. 19. In your patience possess your soul.
Rom. ii. 6. To them who by patient continuing in well-doing, seek
for glory, honour and immortality, God will give eternal life. Ver. 7.
V. 3. We glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh
patience.
Ver. 4. And patience experience ; and experience hope. Ch.
xii. 12.
viii. 25. If we hope for that we see not, then do we with paticnct
wait for it.
xii. 12. Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing in
stant in prayer.
Chap. XVIL Patience. 371
Rom. XV. 4. Whatsoever things were written aforetime were writ-
ten for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the
scriptures might have hope.
2 Cor. vi. 4. In all things approving ourselves as the ministers of
Christ in much patience, in afllictions, in distresses, in necessities.
xii. 12. The signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all
patience, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds.
Col.i. 11. Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious
power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness.
1 Thess. i. 2, 3. We give thanks, remembering your work of
faith and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus
Christ, in the sight of God our Father.
2 Thess. i. 4. We glory in you for your patience and faith in all
your persecutions and tribulations.
iii. 5. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into
the patient wailing for Christ.
Heb. vi. 12. Be ye followers of them, who through faith and pa-
tience inherit the promises.
Ver. 1 5. Abraham, after he had patiently endured, obtained the
promise.
X. 36. Ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will
of God ye might receive the promise.
xii. 1. Let us run with patience the race set before us, Ecc.
James i. 3. The trying of your faith worketh patience.
Ver. 4. Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be entire,
wanting nothing.
v. 7. Be patient unto the coming of the Lord. The husbandman
hath long patience.
Ver. 8. Be ye also patient, stablish yourselves, for the coming of
the Lord draweth nigh.
Ver. 10. Take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the
Lord for an example of suffering affliction with patience.
Ver. 1 1. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the
end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy.
1 Pet. ii. 20. If when ye do well and suffer for it, ye take it pa-
tiently, this is acceptable with God.
Rev. i. 9. I John am your brother and companion in tribulation,
and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ.
ii. 2. I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience.
Ver. 3. And hast borne, and hast patience for my name's sake, and
hast laboured and hast not fainted.
Ver. 19. I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith,
and patience.
iii. 10. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will
keep thee from the hour of temptation.
xiii. iO. Here is the patience and faith of the saints.
xiv. 12. Here is the patience of the saints, here are they that keep
the commandments of (xod, and tlie faitii of Jesus.
XXVL Patience toward 7n en. Eccl. vii. 8. 'I'iie patient in spirit i$.-
better than the proud in spirit.
1 Thess. V. 14. Be patient toward all men.
1 'I'im. iii. 3. A bishop must be bl;imeies.s, patient-.
A a a
372 Meekness. Chap. XVIL
1 Tim. vi. 11. O man of God, follow after righteousness, godli-
ness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
2 Tim. ii. 24. The servant of the Lord must be gentle to all men,
apt to teach, patient.
iii. 10, 11. Thou hast ftilly known my doctrine, mannerof life, pur-
pose, faith, lon^-suffering, charity, patience, persecutions, afflic-
tions.
Tit. i. 1,2. Speak thou the things that become sound doctrine,
that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in the faith, in
charity, in patience.
2 Pet. i\ 5. Add to your faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance,
patience, godliness, brotherly-kindness, and charity.
CONTENTMENT.
XXVII. Contentment. Luke iii. 14. John Baptist said to the sol-
diers, be content with your wages.
Phil. iv. 11. Paul said, I have learned in whatsoever state I am
therewith to be content.
1 Tim. vi. 6. Godliness with contentment is great gain.
Ver. 8. Having food and raiment, let us therewith be content.
Heb. xiii. 5. Let your conversation be without covetousness, and
be content with such things as you have ; for he hath said, 1 will ne-
ver leave thee nor sorsake thee.
DISCONTENT, MURMURING.
XXV in. Discontent^ Murmuring. Lam. iii. 39. Wherefore doth a
living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins ?
1 Cor. X. 10. Neither murmur ye as some of the Jews murmured
and were destroyed. See the murmurings of the Jews and their pu-
nishments. Exod.xv. 24. For drink, xvi. 2 to 12. For bread. Numb,
xiv. 2, 27, 29, 36. When they heard an evil report of the promised
land. Ch. xvi. 11,41. Corah and his company about the priesthood.
Phil. ii. 14. Do all things without murmurings and disputing^.
Jude ver. 16. Murmurcrs, complainers, walking after their own
lusts.
GRUDGING.
^Wyi.Grudgi7ig. Lev. xix. 18. Thou shalt not avenge nor hear
any grudge against the children of thy people.
2 Cor. ix. 7. Give to the poor not grudgingly.
James v. 9. Grudge not one against another, lest ye be condemned-
1 PcK iv. 9. Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
MEEKNESS.
XXX. The cxerciae of mteknesii required. Gal. vi. 1. If a man be
overtaken in a fault, yc which are spiritual restore such an one in
the spirit of meekness.
Eph. iv. 1. Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called-.
Chap. XVII. HumiUtij, 3/3
Eph. iv. 2. With all lowliness, and meekness, and long-suffering.
I Tim. vi. U. Follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love,
patience, meekness.
2Tim. ii. 25. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves.
Tit. iii. 2. Shewing all meekness to all men.
James iii. 13. Who is a wise man and endowed with wisdom a-
mongst you, let him shew out of a good conversation his works, with
meekness of wisdom.
1 Pet. iii. 15. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that
asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and
fear.
XXXI. Hoxi) firoduced* Gal. v. 23. The fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, tem-
perance.
' XXXII. Examfilesi of meeknesa. Numb. xii. 3- Moses was very
meek.
Matt.xxi. 5. Behold thy King (Jesus) cometh unto thee, meek, and
sitting upon an ass. Isa. Ixii. 11. Zech. ix. 9.
2 Cor. X. 1. 1 beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of
Christ, &c.
Col. iii. 12. Put on (as the elect of God) bowels of mercies, kind-
ness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering.
XXX ill. Promises to the meek, Ps. xxii. 26. The meek shall eat
and shall be satisfied.
XXV. 9. The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will
he teach his way.
xxxvii. 1 1 . The meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight them-
selves in abundance of peace.
xlv. 4. In thy majesty ride prosperously, because of truth, and
meekness, and righteousness.
Ixxvi. 9. God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.
cxlvii. 6. The Lord lifteth up the meek, and casteth the wicked
down to the ground.
cxlix. 7. The Lord will beautify the meek with salvation.
Isa. xi. 4. With righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove
with equity, for the meek of the earth.
xxix. 19. The meek shall increase their joy in the Lord.
Ixi. 1. The Lord hath appointed me to preach glad tidings to the
meek.
Zeph. ii. 3. Seek the Lord all ye meek of the earth, which have
wrought his judgments, seek righteousness, seek meekness, it may
be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger.
Matt. V. 5. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
1 Pet. iii. 4. Tlie ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit is in the
sight of God of great price.
HUMILITY.
XXXIV. Humility toward God. Deut. viii. 2. The Lord thy God
led thee forty years in the wilderness to humble thee.
Ver. 3. He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed
tlie with manna.
3r4 Humility. Chap. XVII.
Mic. vi. 8. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee ? but to
do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.
James iv. 10. Humble yourselves in th^ sight of the Lord, and he
shall exalt you. 1 Pet. v. 6.
XXXV. Humility toward men. Prov. vi. 3. Humble thyself, make
sure thy friend.
XXV. 6. Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand
not in the place of great men.
Ver. 7. For better it is that it be said unto thee, come up hither,
than that thou shouldst be put lower. Luke xiv. 8, 10.
Jer. xlv. 5. Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not.
Matt. XX. 26. Whosoever shall be great among you, let him be
your minister.
Ver. 27. Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your
servant.
Ver. 28. Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto,
but to minister.
Rom. xii. 3. I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man
that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought
to think ; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every
man the measure of faith.
Ver. 16. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low es-
tate.
Eph. V. 21. Submit yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
1 Pet. V. 5. All of you be subject one to another, and be ye cloth-
ed with humility.
Phil, ii 3. In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than
themselves,
XXXVI. Promises to tlie humble. Job xxii. 29. God shall save the
humble person.
Ps. ix. 12. God forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
X. 17. O Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble, thou
wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear.
cxxxviii. 9. Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect to the
lowly.
Prov. XV. ^^» Before honour is humility. Ch. xviii. 12.
xvi. 19. Better is it to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than
to di\ide the spoil with the proud.
xxii. 4. By humility and the fear of the Lord, are riches, and ho-
nour, and life.
xjiix. 23. Honour shall uphold the humble person.
Isa. Ivii. 15. The Lord saith, I dwell with him that is of an hum-
ble and contrite spirit. Ch. Ixvi. 2.
Matt. V. 3. Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for theirs is the king-
dom of heaven.
xvjii. 4. Whosoever shall humble himself as this little child, the
same shall be greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
xxiii. 12. Whosoever humbieth himself shall be exalted. Luke
xiv. 11.
James iv. 6. God rcsisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the hum-
ble. Prov. iii. 34.
Chap. XVII. Humility. 375
XXXVII. To humbled sinners. Promises to them. Lev. xxvi. 41. If
their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they accept of the pun-
ishment of their iniquities,
Ver. 42. Then will I remember my covenant. 2 Chron. vit. 14.
2 Kings xxii. 19. Josiah, because thine heart was tender and thou
hast humbled thyself before the Lord, and hast rent thy cloaths and
wept before me, I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.
Ver. 20. Behold therefore I will leather thee unto thy fathers, and
thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace, and thine eyes shall-
not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.
2 Chron. xxxii. 25. Hezekiah rendered not again according to the
benetitdone unto him, for his heart was lifted up, therefore there was
wrath upon him.
Ver. 26, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, so
the wrath of the Lord came not upon him. See Ahab. 1 Kings xxi.
29. Rehoboam. 2 Chron. xii. 6, 7, 12. Manassch. 2 Chron. xxxiii.
12, 19. Nebuchadnezzar. Dan. iv. 30 to 'S7 .
XXXV ilL Examples of humility. Jesus Christ. Matt. xi. 29. Jesus
said, take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and low-
ly in heart, and ye shall lind rest unto your souls.
XX. 28. The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to
minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
John xiii. 5. Jesus poured water into a bason, and began to wash
the disciples feet.
Ver. 12. After he had washed their feet, he said unto them, know
ye what 1 have done unto you ?
Ver. 13. Ye call me master and Lord, and ye say well, for so I am.
Ver. 14. If I then, your Lord and master, have washed your feet,
ye also ought to wash one anothers feet.
Ver. 15. For I have given you an example) that ye should do as F
have done to you.
Phil. ii. 5. Let this mind be hi you which was also in Christ Jesus,
Ver. 6. Who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery to
be equal with Ciod.
Ver. 7. Yet made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.
Ver. 8. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
Sec.
XXXIX. The elect. Col. iii. 12. Put on as the elect of God, holy
and beloved bowels of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meek-
ness, long-suft'ering, forbearing one another in love. Eph. iv. 2.
XL. Humbled saints* Their exfiressions. Gen. xvili. 27. Abraham
said, behold now I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord who
am but dust and ashes.
xxxii. 9. Jacob said, O God,
Ver. 10. 1 am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies, and of
all the trutli, which thou iiast shewed unto thy servant.
xli. 16. Joseph said, it is not in me to give an answer, God shall
give an answer of peace. Dan. ii. 30.
Exod. iii. 1 1. Moses said unto God, who am I ? that I should go
unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out
of Egypt ^
376 HumUity, Chap. XVII.
1 Chron. xxix. 14. David said, what am I, and what is my peo-
ple, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort ? All
thinijs come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. See
2 8am. vii. 19. Thou hast spoken of thy servant's house for a great
While to come, &c.
Job vii. 17. Job said, what is man that thou shouldest magnify
him, and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him.
viii. 9. We are but of yesterday and know nothing. Ch. iv. 19.
Crushed before the moth.
xl. 4. Behold I am vile, I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
xlii. 5, 6. Mine eye seeth thee — wherefore 1 abhor myself, and
i*cpent In dust and ashes.
Ps. viii. 3. When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers,
the moon and stars which thou hast made, I say,
Ver. 4. What is man, that thou art mindful of him ? and the son
of man that thou visitest him ?
XXV. 13. 1 humbled my soul with fasting.
cxv. 1. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give
glory, for thy mercy and for thy truths sake.
cxliv. 3. Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him,
or the Son of man that thou makest account of him ?
Ver. 4. Man is like unto vanity.
Mdtf* viii. 8. The centurion said to Jesus, I am not worthy that
thou shouldst come under my roof.
I>uke v. 8. Siknon Peter said to Jesus, depart from me, for I am
a sinful man, O Lord.
xviii. 13. The publican standing afar off, would not so much as lift-
up his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be
merciful to me a sinner.
Ver. 14, This man went down to his house justified rather than
the other.
Acts xiii. 13. The apostles said, why look ye upon us, as tl»ough
by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk.
Ver. 15. The name of Jesus, through faith in his name hath made
this .nan stroni^.
XX. 13. Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Ver. 19.
Rom. vii. 18. I know that in me (that is in my llesh) dwelleth no
good thing.
1 Cor. XV, 9. I am less than the least of all the apostles, and am
not worthy to be called an apostle. Eph. iii. 3. To me who am less
than the least of all saints in this grace given.
2 Cor. iii, 5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think any
tiling as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.
■xii. 10. When 1 am weak, then am I strong.
Gal. ii. 20. I live, yet not I, but Christ livcth in me.
Phil. iii. 12. Not as though I had already attained, either were al-
ready perfect.
Ver. 13. I count not myself to have apprehended.
Ver. 14. I press toward the mark, for the prize of the high call-
ing of God in Christ Jesus. »
Chap. XVII. Pride. :^77
PRIDE.
XLI. Pride against God. Exod. xviii. 11. The Lord is greater
than all gods, for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was
above them. Compare Exod. ix. 17.
Ps. X. 4. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will
not seek after God, God is not in all his thoughts. See Jer. xliij. 2.
Ixxiii. 6. The pride of the wicked compasseth them about as a
chain.
Ver. 9. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue
walketh through the earth.
Ver. 1 1. They say, how doth God know, and is thej*e knowledge
in the Most High ?
Ver. 18. Thou castedst them down.
cxix. 21. Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do
err from thy commandments. Isa. xiv. 4 to 24. See the pride and
fall of Babylon.
XLI I. Pride against men. Ps. x. 2. The wicked in his pride doth
persecute the poor.
xvii. 10. With their mouth they speak proudly.
Ver. 1 1. They have compassed us in our steps.
Ixxxvi. 4. O God, the proud are risen against me. Ver. 17.
cxix. 51. The proud have had me greatly in derision.
Ver. 69. They forged a lie against me. Ver. 78, 122.
Ver. 85. They have digged a pit for me. Ps. cxl. 5.
cxxiii. 4. Our soul is filled with the contempt of the proud.
Prov. xxi. 24. He dealeth in proud wrath.
xxviii. 25. The proud in heart stirrcth up strife. Ch.xiii. 10.
XLHL Sfiiritual firide — they seem righteous. Deut. ix. 4. Speak
not in thine heart, saying, for my righteousness the Lord brought
me in to possess this land.
2 Kings X. 16. Come see my zeal for the Lord said Jehu.
Isa. Ixv. 3. A people that provoketh me to anger continually.
Ver. 5. Say, stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am ho-
lier than thou, these are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth alj
the day.
Luke xviii. 9, They trust in themselves that they are righteoub
and despise others.
V^er. 1 1. The Pharisee said, God, I thank thee that I am not as
other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Pub-
lican :
Ver. 12. I fast twice in the week, I pay tythes of all that I pos-
sess, Sec.
Rom. X. 3. Being ignorant of God's righteousness, they go aboui
to establish their own righteousness.
I Cor. X. 12. They think they stand, but should take heed ks"
they fall.
XLIV'^. They are firoud of their sufifiosed wisdom and know/edgd.
Job xii. 2. No doubt ye are the people, and wisdom shall die
with you.
XV. 8. Dost thou restrain wisdom to thvself.
378 Pridt. Chap. XVII.
Jer. viii. 8. How say ye we are wise, and the law of God is with
us ?
1 Cor. iii. 18. They deceive themselves, they seem to be wise,
iv. 6. They are puffed up. Ver. 8. They are full, they are rich,
they reign as kings without instructors.
viii. 1. Their knowledge puffeth them up.
Ver. 2. If they think they know any thing, they know nothing,
as they ought to know.
2 Cor. X. 12. They commend themselves; but they, measuring
themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among them-
selves, are not wise.
Ver. 13. They boast themselves without their measure.
1 Tim. vi. 4, 5. Proud knowing nothing, doting about questions,
&c. 2 Tim. iii. 2.
Rev. iii. 1 7. They know not that they are poor and miserable, and
wretched, and blind and naked. See Corah and his company. Numbi
xvi. 3.
XLV. The proud seek honour from men* Prov. xxv. 6, 7. They put
hemselves in the place of great men.
Matt, xxiii. 6. They chuse the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the
chief seats in the synagogues. Luke xiv. 7.
Ver. 7. They love to be called of men. Rabbi, Rabbi.
John V. 44. They seek honour of men, and not the honour that
cometh from God only.
xii. 43. They love the praise of men more than the praise of God.
See instances. Haman. Esther iii. 5. — v. 5, &c. And Naaman the As-
syrian. 2 Kings v. 11 to 15.
XLV^I. Threats and firayers againt the firoud. Sam- ii. 3. Talk no
more so exceeding proudly, let not arrogancy come out of your mouth,
for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Job ix. 13. If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers
do stoop under him.
xxvi. 12. By his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
Ps. xii. 3. The Lord shall cut otf the tongue that speaketh proud
tilings. Ps. xxxi. 18. — xl. 4. — xvii. 13.
xxxi. 23. The Lord plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
xxxvi. 1 1. Let not the foot of pride come against me.
lix. 12. Let them be taken in their pride.
xciv. 2. Lift up thyself, thou Judge of the earth, render a reward
to the proud. Luke i. 51.
cxxxviii. 6. The proud the Lord knoweth afar off.
Prov. viii. 13. Wisdom saith, pride and arrogancy do I hate. Ch.
\i. 16, 17.
xvi. 5. Every one that is proud is an abomination to the Lord.
Ver. 18. Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit
tjefore a fall. Ch. xi. 2. When pride cometh, then cometh shame,
but \vith the lowly is wisdom.
xxi. 4. An high look, a proud heart, and ihe ploughing of the wick-
f'd is sin.
xxix. 23. A man's pride shall bring him low.
Isa. ii. 11. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the
haughtiness of men shall he bowed down, and the Lord alone shall
hi- exalted in that da v.
CiiAP. XVII. . Haughty, 379
Isa. ii. 12, For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every-
one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up, and
he shall be brought low. Ch. v. 15, 16. — xxvi. 5.
xiii. 11.1 will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will
lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
xxiii. 9. The Lord hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory.
Tsa. ::xv, 11. He shall bring down their pride.
Kxviii. I. Woe to the crown of pride.
Jer. xiji. 15. Hear ye and give ear, be not proud fop the Lord hath
spoken.
Ver. IG. Give glory to the Lord your God before he cause dark-
ness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains. Ver. 18.
Dau. iv. 37. Those that walk in pride, he is able to abase.
Zepli. ii. 10. This shall they have for their pride.
Ver. 1 1 . The Lord will be terrible unto them.
Mark vii. 22. Out of the heart proceed pride, foolishness, and these
defile the man. Ver. 23.
Rom. i. 28. God gave them over to a reprobate mind who did not
like to retain God in their knowledge.
Ver, 29. Being filled with all unrighteousness.
Ver. 30. Proud, boasters, Sec.
1 John ii. 16. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the
pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the work].
ARROGANCY.
XLVII. Jr7H)gancy> 1 Sam. ii. 3. Let not arrogancy come out of
your mouth.
Prov. viii. 13. Pride and arrogancy and the evil way do I hate, saith
wisdom.
Isa. xiii. 1 1. I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, saith
the Lord.
LOFTINESS.
XLVIII. Loftiness. Ps. Ixxiii. 8. The wicked rspeak loftily. Prov.
XXX. 13.
Ver. 18. Thou castedst them down to destruction.
cxxxi. 1. Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty.
HAUGHTY.
XLIX. Haughty, 2 Sam. xxil. 28. Thine eyes are upon the haugh-
ty, that thou mayst bring them down. Ezek. xvi. 50.
Prov. xviii. 12. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty.
Ch. xvi. 8.
Isa. iii. 16. Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk
vith stretched forth necks,
Ver. 17. The Lord will smite them with a scab, See.
Isa. xiii 1 1. I will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Zeph. iii. 11. Thou shalt no more be haughty. Mic. ii. 3.
L. Exalting one stt'if. Ps. Ixvi. 7. Let not the rebellious exalt them-
Of^lves. Ps. cxI. H.
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380 Boasting, Chap. XVIL
Prov. xvii. 19. He that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Matt, xxiii. 12. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abasecL Luke
xiv. 11.
2 Thess. ii. 4. The man of sin and son of perdition, opposeth and
exalteth himself above all that is called God or is worshipped.
Ver. 8. Whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.
LI. Lifting up, one\'i self. Deut. viii. 11, 14. Beware thine heart be
not lifted up and thou forget the Lord thy God. Ver. 11, 12, 17.
xvii. 18. The king shall write him a copy of the law.
Ver. 19. He Shall read therein, that he way learn to fear the Lord
his God,
Deut; xvii. 20. That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren -
2 Chron. xxvi. 16. When Uzziah was strong his heart was lifted
up to his destruction, for he transgressed against the Lord his God.
Ch. XXV. 19, 20.
Ps. Ixxxiii. 2. They that hate thee have lifted up the head.
1 Tim. iii. 16. A bishop must not be a novice, lest being lifted up
with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. See Prov.xxx. 32.
LIL Magnifying one*H self Ps. xxxv. 26. Let them be clothed with
shame that magnify themselves. Ps. xxxviii. 16. — Iv. 12. Lam.i. 9.
LHL Glorying. Jer. xlix. 4. Wherefore gloriest thou, O back-
sliding daughter, that trusted in her treasures ?
Ver. 5. Behold 1 will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord of
hosts, from all that are about thee.
Prov. XXV. 27. For men to search their own glory, is not glory.
1 Cor. i. 27. (iod hath chosen the foolish things of the world to
confound the wise, and weak things to confound the mighty.
Ver. 28. And base things and things that are despised, and things
that are not, hath God chosen to bring to nought things that are.
Ver. 29. That no flesh should glory in his presence.
iii. 21. Let no man glory in men. Ch. v. 2, 6.
iv. 7. Who maketh thee to difier, and what hast thou, that thou
didst not receive, now if thou didst receive it, why didst thou glory
as if thou hadst not received it ?
2 Cor. V. 12. Some glory in appearance.
xi. 18. Many glory after the flesh.
xii. 5. Of myself \nll 1 not glory, but in mine infirmities.
Gal. V. 26. Let us not be desirous of vain-glory.
Phil. ii. 3. Let nothing be done through strife and vain-glory.
iii. 19. Some glory, whose glory is their shame.
James iii. 14. Glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Prov. xxvii. 2. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own
mouth, a stranger and not thine own lips. Ch. xxv. 27. 2 Cor. xii. 5.
P-OASTING.
LIV. Brasti7!g, 2 Kings xx. 11. Let not him that girdeth on his
armour boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Ps. X. 3. The v.'icked boasteth of his heart*s desire. James iii, 5.
xlix. 6. They boast themselves of the multitude of their riches,
Luke xii. 16 to 20.
Chap. XVII. Of Marriage, 381.
Ps. Hi. 1. They boast of mischief. Ps. xciv. 4.
Prov. xxvii. i. Boast not thyself of to-morrow, James iv. 14, 15, 16.
Rom. i. 30. The wicked are proud, boasters, kc.
iii. 27. Boasting (against God,) is excluded by the Jaw of faith.
Eph. ii. 8, 9. Ye are saved through faith, not of works, lest any
man should boast.
SCORNING.
LV. Scorning. Ps* i. I Blessed is he that sitteth not in the seat
of the scornful.
cxxiii. 4. Our soul is filled with the scorning of those that are at
ease.
Prov. i. 22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity, and
the scorners delight in their scornings, and fools hate knowledge ?
iii. 34. The Lord scorneth the scorners, but he giveth grace to
the lowly.
ix. 7. He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself a blot.
Ver. 8. Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee.
Ver. 12. if tiiou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
xiii. 1. A scorner heareth not rebuke.
xiv. 6. A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not.
XV. 12. A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him.
xix. 25. Smite a scorner and the simple will beware.
Ver. 29. Judgments are prepared for scorners.
xxi. 1 1. When the scorner is punished the simple is made wise.
Ver. 24. Proud and haughty scorner is his name that dealeth in
proud wrath.
xxii. 10. Cast out the scorner and contention shall go out, yea
strife and reproach shall cease.
xxiv. 9. The scorner is an abomination to men.
xxix. 8. Scornful men bring a city into a snare.
Isa. xxviii. 14. Hear the word of the Lord ye scornful men, that
iiile this people. Ver. 15, 16.
Hos. vii. 5. The king stretched out his hand with scorners.
LVL Threatfi against kings and nations of the foregoing characters
of firidc^ harughtincsfi^ Isfc,
Pharaoh. Exod. ix. 17. Ch. x. \U H, 27. Neh. ix. 10, 11. Ezek.
xxix. 15. Isa. xix. 1 1.
Assyria. 2 Kings xix. 22 to 36. Compare, Isa. xxxvii. 23. — x. 5
to 17.~xiv. 4 to 24. Jer. 1. 29, 31. Ezek. xxxi. 3 to 18. Dan.iv. 30,
31, 32.— -v. 20. Hab. ii. 4 to 12. Zech. x. 11.
Israel. Neh. ix. 16, 17, 27, 29. Isa. ix. 8 to 10. Hos. v. 5, 13.
— vi. 7.
Judah. Jer. xiii. 9 to 27.
Tyre. Isa. xxiii. 8, 9. Ezek. xxviii. 2 to 18. Zech. ix. 3, 4.
Moab. Isa. xvi. 6 to 16. Jer. xlviii. 26 to 42. Zeph. ii. 8 to 15,
Ammon. Jer. xiix. 16.
Edom. Ezek. xxxv. 13, Obad. Ver. 4, 12, 15.
OF MARRIAGE.
LVII. Of Marriage, Gen. i. 27. God created man, mule and fe-
male. Matt. xix. 45.
382 Of Marriage. Chap. XV 11.
Gen. ii. 18. The Lord said it is not good that the man should be
alone, 1 will create him an help-mate for him.
Ver. 23. Adam suid of the woman, this is bone of my bone, and
flesh of my flesh.
Ver. 24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. 1 Cor. xi. 12.
John ii. 1. There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee.
Ver. 2. Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage.
1 Cor. vii. 2. To avoid fornication, let every man have his own
wife, and every woman her own husband. See ver. 9, 28, 36.
ix. 5. Have we not power to lead about a wife as well as other
apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas ?
1 Tim. iv. 1. In the latter times some shall depart from the faith»
Ver. 3. Forbidding to marry.
V. 14. I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear chil-
dren, Sec.
Heb. xiii. 4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled,
but whoremongers, and adulterers God will judge.
LVin. Divorce was fiennitted by the law of Moses. Deut. xxiv.
1 to 4.
LIX. Divorce was disafifiroved. Mai. ii. 15.
LX. Divorce is exfiressly forbidden in the JVenv Testament. Matt.
xix. 4. Jesus said, he which made them at the beginning, made them
■male and female ;
Ver. 5. For this cause sh«ll a man leave father and mother, and
cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. Gen. ii. 24. 1 Cor.
vi. 16. Eph. V. 31.
Ver. 6. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man
put asunder.
Ver. 8, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts sufl^ered you
to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Ver. 9. I say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except
it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery,
and whoso marrieth her that is put away doth commit adultery. Ch.
V. 32. Whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of
fornication causeth her to commit adultery.
Rom. vii. 2, The woman which hath an husband. Is bound by the
law to her husband so long as he liveth.
Ver. 3. If while her husband liveth she be married to another
man, she shall be called an adulteress, but if her husband be dead
she i^ no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
1 Cor. vii. 10. Let not the wife depart from her husband.
Ver. 1 L Or if she depart let her remain unmarried, or let her be
reconciled to her husband ; And let not the. husband put away his
wife. Ver. 34.
LXI. Of marriage with ujibelievcrs. 2 Cor. vi. 14. Be ye not un-
equally yoked together with unbelievers.
Ver. 15. For what part hath he that bclieveth with an infidel ?
Ver. 17. WJierefore come out from among them and be ye sepa-
rate, saith the Lord.
LXII. The Jews were forbidden to make 7narriages with the heathen
inhabitants of Caiuiariy lest they should be thereby enticed to idolatry.
CiiAP. XVII. Of Marriage. 383
Exod. xxxiv. 16. Take heed, lest thou take of their daughters unto
thy sons, and their daughters make thy sons go a whoring after their
gods.
Deut. vii. 3. Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor
his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Ver. 4. For they will turn away thy son from following me. Josv
xxiii. 12, 13. See instances of such unhappy marriages. Judg. iii. 5
to 8. 1 Kings xi. 1 to 12. Ezra ix. 2, 12.
Reformed. Neh. xiii. 23 to 27. This sin reformed. Ezra x. 2, 3, 11.
LXIII. The embracing of Christianity did not dissolve-marriage al-
ready contracted with unbeliever,^. 1 Cor. vii. 12. If any brother hath
a wife that bclieveth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let
him not put her away.
Ver. 13. The woman that hath an husband that believeth not, and
if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away. See
concerning this matter, to ver. 17.
LXlV. The husband his duties* Prov. v. 18. Rejoice with the wife
of thy youth. Eccl. ix. 9.
Ver. 19. Be thou ravished always with her love. Ch. xix. 14. —
xviii. 22.
1 Cor. vii. 3. Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence,
likewise also the wife to the husband.
Ver. 4. The wife hath not power over her own body, but the hus'
band, likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body,
but the wife.
Ver. 5. Defraud not one another.
Eph. v. 23. The husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ
is the head of the church.
Eph. v. -25. Husbands love your wives, even as Christ loved the
church.
Ver. 28. So ought men to love their wives, even as their own bo-
dies.
Ver. 33. Let every one of you love his wife, even as himself.
Col. iii. 19. Husbands love your wives, and be not bitter against
them.
1 Pet. iii. 7. Husbands dwell with your wives according to know-
ledge, giving honour unto the wife as the weaker vessel, and being
lieirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hinder-
ed. Ver. 9.
LXV. The wife ,) her duties. Prov. xi. 16. A gracious woman re-
taineth honour.
xii. 4. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she that
maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
xiv. 1. Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish
plucketh it down with her hands.
Ver. 14. A prudent wife is from the Lord.
Prov. xxxi. 10. Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price
is far above rubies.
Ver. 1 1. The heart of her liusband doth safely trust in her.
Ver. 12. She will do him good, and not evil all the days of her
life. See to the end of this chap.
384 Duties toivards Children, Chap. XVII.
1 Cor. vii 34. She that is married careth for the things of the
world, how she may please her husband.
Eph. V. 22. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands,
as unto the Lord. Col. iii. 18.
Ver. 23. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ
is the head of the chui'ch.
Ver. 24. As the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be
unto their own husbands in every thing.
Ver. 33. Let the wife see that she reverence her husband.
1 Tim. ii. II. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Ver. 12. I suHTer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority
Over the man, but to be in silence, for Adam was first formed then
Eve. V^er, 13.
V. 14. I will that the younger women marry, bear children,
guide the house, j;ive none occasion to the adversary to speak re-
proachfully.
Tit. ii. 4. That the asjcd women teach the young women to be
sober, to love their husbands, to love tlieir children.
Ver. 5. To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient
to their own husbands, that the word of Ciod be not blasphemed.
1 Pet. iii. I. Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands.
Ver. 6. Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord.
' Concerning womcn'a apfiurel. See 1 Tim. ii. 9. 1 Pet. iii. 3, 4.
DUTIES TOWARDS CHILDREN.
LXVI. To firovide for their sufiport. Gen. xxx. 30. Jacob said,
and now when shall I provide for mine own house also ?
Prov. xiii. 22. A i>:ood man leaveth an inheritance to his childrens
children. 1 Chron. xxviii. 8.
2 Cor. xii. 14. The parents ought to lay up for their children.
1 Tim. v. 8. If a man provide not for his ov^n, specially for those
of his own house, he hath denied the faitli, and is worse than an in-
fidel.
LXVn. To defend them. Neh. iv. 14. Fight for your sons and
your daughters, your wives and your houses. Sec Exod. xxii. Numb,
i. 12. '
LX\ III. To fir ay for them. Instances. Gen. xvii. 18. Abraham
prays for Ishmael. Ver. 20.
2 Sim. xii. 6. David for his child. Ver. 21.
Job i. 5. Job for his sons.
LXIX. LiHtruct them. (ien. xviii. 19. I know Abraham that he
will command his children and his houshold after him, and they shall
keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the Lord
may bring upon Abrahum that vv'hich he hath spoken of him.
Exod. X. 2. 'I'ell into I'ne cars of thy sons, and of thy sons son,
what things 1 have wrought in Egypt, that ye may know how that
1 am tlie Lord.
Deut. vi. 6. Thcbc words which 1 command thee this day §ha!I be
in thine heart, and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy chil-
dren, and talk of them when thou sittcst in thine house, and when
thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest dowp, and when thou
risestup. Vn*.' 8. 20, 2*1 . Ch. xi. 18, 19.
Chvp. XVII. Duties towards Children, 385
Deut. xxxii. 46. Yc shall cominand your children to do all the
words of this law.
Prov. xxii. 6. Train up a child in the way he should go, &c.
Isa. xxxviii. 19. '1 he lathers to the children shall make knowTi
thy truth. Ps. Ixxviii. 4, 7,
Joel i. 2. Give ear all ye inhabitants of the land.
Ver. 3. Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell
their children, and their children another generation.
Eph. vi. 4. Fathers, provoke not your children, but bring them up
in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Col. iii. 21. See also
Deut. iv. 9, 10. — xx>i. 12, 13.
LXX. Particular heads of ivstruction, Exod. xii. 26. When your
children shall ask, what mean ye by this service ?
Ver. 27. Ye shall say it is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, who
passed ever the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he
slew the Egyptians.
xiii. 7. Thou shalt shew thy son, saying, this is done because of
that which the Lord did to me when 1 came out of Egypt. Ver. 14.
Jos. iv. 20. 1 hose twelve stones which they took out of Jordon,
did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
Ver. 21. Saying, when your children shall ask their fathers, what
mean these stones ?
Jos. iv. 22. Then yc shall let your children know, saying, the Lord
your God dried up the waters of Jordan before you.
Ver. 24. That all the people of the earth might know the hand of
the Lord that it is mighty.
liXXI. Parents careful to instruct children^ nvere. Gen. xviii. 19.
Abraham. I Chron. xxviii. 9. David. Prov. iv. 3. Samuel's motheiv
Prov. xxxi. 1. Timothy's mother and grandmother. 2 Tim. i. 5.
LXXIL Correcting Children. Prov. xiii. 24. He that spareth the
rod hateth his son, but he that lovcth him chastencth him betimes.
xiv. 18. Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul
spare for his crying.
xxii. 15. Eoolishnesss is bound up in the heart of a child, but the
rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
xxiii. 13. With-hold not correction from the child.
Ver. 14. Thou shalt beat him with a rod, and shalt deliver his sou!
from hell.
xxix. 15. The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to
himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Ver. 17. Correct thy son and he shall give thee rest, yea, lie shall
give delight unto thy soul. Sec Deut. viii. 5. 1 Tim. iii. 4.
This duty neglected by David, 1 Kings i.6. By Eli. 1 Sam.ii.22,8;c,
LXXin. Parents careful to marry their children into religious fa-
milies. Gen. y.xiv. 2. Abraham said to his servant,
Ver. 3. Swear by the God of heaven and earth, that thou shalt not
take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanitcs, Sec. Ver.
4, 38: See also, Ch. xxvii. 46. — -xxviii. 1, 6. — xxxviii. 6. Transgree*
sed by Esau. Gen. xxvi. 35. — xxviii. 8, 9. Marriage with the hea-
then inhabitants of Canaan forbidden, for the ill consequences of such
marriages. Exod. xxxiv. 16. Deut.vii. 3, Jos. xxiii. 12, 13. Judg. iii.
r>, 6, 7. 1 Kings xi. 1 tq 12. Ej^ra ix. 2. 12. Neh. xiii. 23 to 27.
386 '^Children among the promised Blessings. Chap. XV U.
LXXIV. Portions given to children by /larents. Gen.xxv. 5. Abra-
ham gave all that he had to Isaac.
V^er. 6. But unto the sons of the concubines which Abraham had,
Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from Isaac.
xlviii. 21. Israel said to Joseph, ver. 22. I have given thee one
portion above thy brethren. The oldest son by the law of Moses ww,
to have a double portion. Deut. xxi. 15, ,16, 17.
CHILDREN AMONG THE PROMISED BLESSINGS.
LXXV. Children are amo7ig the promised blessings of God to mar.
kind. Gen. i. 21. God blessed Adam and Eve, and said unto theni
be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.
viii. 15. God spake unto Noah, saying, ver. 16. Go forth of the
ark, thou and thy wife, and thy sons and thy sons wives with thee.
Ver. 17. And be fruitful and multiply upon the earth. Ch. ix. I, 7.
xiii. 14. The Lord said unto Abram, ver 16. I will make thy
seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of
the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Ch. xxii. 16, 17.
XV. 5. The Lord said to Abram, look toward heaven and tell the
stars if thou be able to number them, and he said unto him, so shall
thy seed be.
xvii. 1. The Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto him,
Ver. 5. Thy name shall be called Abraham, for a father of many
nations have I made the§..
Ver. 6. I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and will make nations
of thee and kings shall come out of thee. See Hagar. Ch. xvi. 10.
-—xvii. 20. — xxi. 13.
xxvi. 2. The Lord appeared unto Isaac and said, ver. 4. I will
make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven.
xxviii. 14. The Lord said unto Jacob, thy seed shall be as the dust
of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east,
and to the north, and to the south. See Ch. xxxv. 9, 1 1. — xxxii. 12.
xxxiii. 5. Jacob said, these are the children that God hath graci-
ously given thy servant. Isa. viii. 18.
LXXVJ. Children promised. Gen. xlviii. 19. Jacob said, Ephraim's
seed shall become a multitude of nations.
xlix. 22. Joseph is a fruitful bough.
Gen. xlix. 25. The Almighty shall bless thee, with the blessings
of the breasts and of the womb.
Lev. xxvi. 19. I will make you fruitful and will multiply you.
Numb, xxiv. 7. It is said of Jacob, his seed shall be upon many
waters.
Deut. vii. 13. The Lord thy God will love thee, and bless thee, and
multiply thee.
Ver. 14. Thou shalt be blessed above all people, there shall noi
be male nor female, barren among you. Exod. xxiii. 26.
xxviii. 4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body. Ver. 1 1.
Jos. xxiv. 3. I took your father Abraham, and mulliplied his sect!.
Neh. ix. 23. Their children thou mult,ipliedst as the stars of hea-
X en . ,
Job v. 25. Thine offspring shall be a*^ the irrass of the earth. Jsa.
xlviii. 18, 19, — xlix. 20.
Chap. XVII. Children among the projuised Blessings, 387
Ps. cxiii. 9. He maketh the barren woman to be a joyful mother
of children.
cxv. 14.. The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and
your children.
cxxvii. 3. Children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of
the womb is his reward.
cxxviii. 3. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine, by the sides of thine
house, thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Ver. 6. Yea, thou shalt see thy children's xchildren.
cxliv. 12. That our sons may be as olive plants, our daughters like
corner stones. See also, Deut. i. 10. — x. 22. — xiii. 17. — xxviii. 62.
63. Jos. xxiv. 3. Job xlii. 12, 13. Ps. cvii. 38. Prov. xiv. 28. Jer. iii.
16. — XXX. 19. — xxxiii. 22. Ezek xvi. 7. — xxxvi. 10, 11. — xxxvii. 26.
LXXVII. A desire of having children is natural to inayikind. Inatan^
ces. Prov. xxx. 1 6. The grave and the barren womb are not satisfied.
Gen. xi. 30. Sarah Abram's wife was barren. Ch. xvi. 1, 2, 3. She
gave her hnndinaid to Abram, and said, it may be that I may obtain
children by her.
XV. 2. Abram said. Lord, -what wilt thou give me seeing I go child-
less, to me thou hast given no seed-
xviii. IC. The angel said, Sarah shall have a son. Ch. xvii. 19.
Gen. xviii. 12. Sarah heard it and laughed.
xxiv. 60. They blessed Rebekah and said, be thou the mother of
thousands of millions.
XXV. 2 I . Isaac intreated the Lord for his wife, because she was bar-
ren, and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife con-
ceived.
xxviii. 1. Isaac blessed Jacob and said. Ver. 3. God Almighty
bless thee, and make thee fruitful and multiply thee.
xxx. 13. Leah said, happy am I, for the daughters will call me
blessed. Ver. 20. I have borne six sons.
xxix. 31. Rachel was barren. Ch. xxk. 1, She enAied her sister,
and said unto Jacob, give me children or else I die.
xxx. 23. Rachel conceived and bare a son, and said God had ta-
ken away my reproach.
I Sam. i. 3. Hannah had no children. Ver. 10. She was in bitter-
ness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord and wept sore.
Ver. 19. And the Lord remembered her. Ver. 20. She concelv-
and bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, because I have
asked him of the Lord. Ch. xxvii. For this child 1 prayed, and the
Lord hath given me my petition.
Luke i. 7. Elizabeth was barren. Ver. 13. The angel said unto
Zachurias, thy prayer is heard, thy wife shall bear thee a son.
Luke i. 24. Elizabeth conceived and said, thus hath the Lord dealt
with me, to take away my reproach. Ver. 23,
LXXV^Hl. God\s care of mothcr.is Gen. ii. 16. Unto the womafi
the Lord said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception,
in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children. I Tim ii. 15. Nevcrthv-
le-s she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith and
holiness with sobricty-
xlix. 23. 1 he Almighty shall bless thee with the bU'ssuxfrs (if the
breasts and oi the womb.
C c c
,588 The ^Vicked punished in their Children. Chap. XVII.
Deut. vii. 13. He will bless the fruit of thy womb. See Exod. xxi.
21. Hurt not a woman with child.
LXXIX. God*s care of children. Exod. i. 17. The midwives saved
the mfen cliildren alive.
Ver. 2 1 . And God made them houses.
Ps. xxii. 9. Thou art he that took me out of the womb, and didst
make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
Ver. 10. 1 was cast upon thee from the wonib, thou art my God
from my mother's belly. Ps. Ixxi. 6.
Jonah iv. 11. God said should not I spare Nineveh, that great city,
wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot dis-
cern them between their right hand and their left ?
Mark x. 14. Jesus said, suffer little children to come unto me, and
forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Ver. 16. And he took them in his arms, and blessed them, and
said, of such is the kingdom of heaven.
LXXX. The grief of fiarents at parting with their children. Gen.
xliii. 14. Jacob said. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereav-
ed. Ch. xlii. 38.— xliv. 29, 31.
Job xxix. 2. Job said, O that I were as in months past.
V^er. 5. When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children
were about me.
LXXXI. Godly fiarents hlessed in the happiness of their children,
Deut. iv. 40. Thou shalt keep his statutes, that it may be well with
thee, and with thy children after thee. See Ch. v. 29. — xii. 25, 28.
Ps. XXV. 12. He that fcaretli the Lord, ver. 13. His seed shall in-
herit the earth.
x.Kxvii. 25. Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his
seed liegging bread.
V^er. 26. His seed is blessed.
cii. 28. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed
shall be established before thee.
cxlvii. 13. He hath blessed thy children with thee.
Isa. xliv. 3. I will pour rny blessing upon thine offering. See Ch.
Ixi. 9. — Ixv. 23.
Jer. xxxii. 39. I will give them one heart, and one way, that they
may fear me for ever, for the good of them and of their children af-
ter them.
THE WICKED PUNISHED IN THEIR CHILDREN.
LXXXH. The wicked punished in the tcdamities of their children.
Exod. XX. 5. I am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers
upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that
hate nic. Ch. xxxiv. 7. Numb. xiv. 18. Deut. v. 9.
Numb. iv. 33. Your children shall wander in this wilderness, forty
years, and bear your whoredoms.
Job xxi. 9. God layeth up the iniquity of the wicked for his chil-
dren. Isa. xiv. 21.
Jer. ii. 9. With your childrcns children will I plead, snith the Lord.
xxxii. 18. Thou recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the
bosom of their children after them. See an instance, 2 Sam. xii. 14, 15.
LXXX HI. Particular calamities threatened against the children of
fhe rncked. Captivity. Deut. xxviii. oZ, Thy sons and thy daughters
Chap. XVII. The Wicked punished in their Children. 389
shall be given to another people, and thine eyes shall look and fail for
them all the day
2 Chron. xxix. 6. Our fathers turned away their faces from the
habitation of the Lord.
Ver. 9. Our sons and our daughters, and our wives are in capti-
vity for this.
Jer. xlviii. 46. Woe be unto thee, thy sons and thy daughters are
taken ceiptives.
Lam. i. 16. I'or the multitude of her transgressions her children
are gone into captivity.
Joel iii. 8. I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand
of the children of Judah. Ch. ii. I 6. See also Jer> x. 20. — xxxviii. 23.
— xlvii. 3. Lam. v. 13. Ezek. xxx. 18. Mic. i. 16.
LXXXIV. Siain by an enemy. Isa. xiii. 16. Thy children shall be
dashed in pieces before thine eyes. Ps. cxxxvii. 9. Hos. xiii. 16.
Jer. xvi. 3. Their children shall die of grevious deaths.
xviii. 2 1 . Deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their
blood by the force of the sword, let their wives, &c. Ps. cix. 10.
xliv. 7. 'Jlius saith the Lord, wherefore commit ye this great evil a-
gain'it your souls, to cut off from you man, woman, child and suckling.
Ezek. xxiii. 47. The enemy shall slay their sons and their daughters.
xxiv. 2 1 . Your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword.
Ch. XXV. Amos vii. 17. See also Lev. xxvi. 22. 1 Sam. xv. 33. 2 Kings
XXV. 7. 2 Chron. xxi. 14. Job xxvii. 13, 14. Isa. xlvii. 9. — li. 18.
Jer. xiv. 16. — xv. 7. Ezek. ix. 6. 1 Kings xxi. 19, 21, 22. compared
with 2 Kings ix. 25, 26.
LXXXV. buffer by famine. Jer. v. 15. I will bring a nation upon
you, and they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread which thy
sons and thy daughters should eat. Ver. 17. Job v. 5.
Jer. xi. 22. Their sons and their daughters shall die by famine.
Hos. iv. 6. 'J hou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will
forget thy children.
Ver. 10. They shall eat and not have enough. See Ps. cix. 9, 10,
12. Jer. xviii. 21. Lam. iv. 4.
LXXXV I. Other evih ufion the children of the ivicked. Job v. 4.
His children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, neither
is there any to deliver them.
Ver. 5. The robber swalloweth up their substance.
xvii. 5. He that speaketh flattery to his friends even the eyes of
his children shall fail.
XX. 10. His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands
shall restore their goods.
LXXXV II. Err oncoua principled in re ii'^ion haue destroyed the na-
tural affection of parents toward their children. 2 Kings xvi. 3. Ahaz
made his sons to pass through the fire.
2 Chron. xxviii. 3. Ahaz burnt his children in the fire. See also,
2 Kings xvii. 17, 31 — xi. 7. Jer. xxsii. 35. Ezek. xvi. 21. — xx. 26.
Matt.'x. 21. Forbidden. Lev. xviii. 21 — xx. 2, 3, 4, Deut xviii. 10.
LXXXV III. Calamities upon ivicked parents and children. Lev.
xxvi. 29. Ye shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.
See Deut. xxviii. 53. Jer. xix. 9. 2 Kings vi. 29. Limi. ii. 20. — iv. 10.
LXXXIX^ Want of children to the ivicked. Hos. ix. 14. Give
390 Commandment Fifth. Chap. XVII.
them a miscarrying womb and dry brearts. 2 Sam. vi. 23. Lev. xx.
20. Jer. xxii. 30.
XC Promises to the ,^odly who are childless. Ps: Ixviii. 6. Yet set-
teth he the solitary in families.
cxiii. 9. He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a
joyful mother of children.
Isa. Ivi. 4. To the eunuchs, &c. will I give a name, and a place
within my walls, 8cc.
COMMAND?4ENT FIFTH.
XCI. Duties of children towards fiurents. Exod. xx. 12. Honour
thy f-ither and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land.
Deut. V. 16. Matt. xv. 4. Kph. vi. 2.
Lev.xi-c. 3. Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.
Prov. i. 8. iVIy son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake
not the law of thy mother.
Ver. 9, They shall be an ornament of grace unto thine head, and
chains about thy neck.
iv 1. My son, forget not my law, but let thine heart keep my
commandments, for length of days and long life, and peace shall they
add to thee. Ver. 2.
V. 1. My son attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my
understanding.
vi. 20. Keep thy father's commandments, and forsake not the law
of thy mother.
Ver. 21. Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tic them
about thy neck. Ver. 22.
X. 7. A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the hea-
viness of his mother.
xiii. U A wise son heareth his father's instructions, but a scorner
heareth not rebuke.
XV. 20. A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son despis-
eth his mother.
xxiii. 22, Hearken to the father that begat thee, and despise not
thy mother when she is old.
X ix. 3. Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father,
Mul. i. 6. A son honoureth his father. Ch. iii. 17.
Matt. xix. 19. Jesus said, honour thy father and thy mother.
Eph. vi. 1. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is
right. Col. iii. 20.
Ver. 2. Honour thy father and thy mother, which is the first com-
mandment with promise. Exod. xx. 12.
Ver. 3. Thar it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live
long on the earth
1 I'im. iii. 4. Having his children in subjection.
v. 4. Let them learn to shew pity, and to requite their parents.
XCII. Instances of dutiful children blessed. Gen. ix. 23. Shem and
Japhet. Ver. 26, 27. They are blessed of, xv.viii. 7. their father Jacob.
Ch. xlvii, l2.-^xlix. 26.— 1. 10. Joseph. Ruth i. 15, 16, 17. Ruth.
Luke ii. 5 1. Jesus. Jer. xxxv. 8, 18, 19. 'I'he sons of Jonadab.
XCUI. Disobedience arid undutiful children^ threats against them.
Exod. X \i. 15. He that smiteth his father or mother, shall be surely
put to death.
Chap. XVII. Duties of Masters. 391
Exod. xxi. 17. He that curseth his father or his mother shall sure-
ly be put to death. Lev. xxiv. 15. — xx. 9. Matt. xv. 4, 5, 6. Prov.
XX. 20.
Deut. xxi. 18. If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that
will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother,
V^er. 21, All the men of the city shall stone him with stones that
he die.
xxvii. 16. Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mo-
ther, and all the people shall say, Amen. Ezek. xxii. 7, 14.
Prov. XV. 5. A fool despiseth his father's instruction. Ver. 20.
xvii. 21. He that ber^etteth a fool doth it to his sorrow, and the
father of a fool hath no joy.
Ver. 25. A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to
her that bare him. Ch. x. 1.
xix. 13. A foolish son is a calamity to his father.
Ver. 26. He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother
is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
xxviii. 7. He that is a companion of liotous men, shameth his fa-
ther.
Ver. 24. Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith it is
no trangression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.
XXX. 1 1. Their is a generation that curseth their father and doth
not bless their mother.
Ver. 17. The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey
his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pluck it out, and the youjig
eagles shall eat it.
Isa. xlv. 10. Woe unto him that saith unto his father what begets-
test thou ? and to ihe woman what hast thou brought forth ?
Mic. vii. 6. The son dishonoureth the father, and the daughter
riseth up against the mother. Luke xii. 53.
2 Tim. iii. 2. Perilous times shall come, men shall be disobedient
to parents, Sec.
XCIV. Pa>'ticiilar instances of undutiful disobedient children airsed.
Gen. ix. 22. Ham. Ver. 25. He is cursed of his father.
1 Sam. ii. 25. The sons of Eli are punished. Ver. 31 to 35.
DUTIES OF mastp:rs.
XCV. Duties of masters toivards servants. Lev. xix. 13. The wa-
ges of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the
morning. See Deut- xxiv. 15. Jer. xxii. 13. Mai. iii. 5. James v. 4-.
Luke X. 7.
XXV. 43. You shall not rule over him with rigour. Ver. 46, 53.
Deut. xxiv. 14. Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant, that is
poor and needy, whether he ha of thy brethren or of strangers.
Job xxxi. 13. If 1 did despise the cause of my man-servant or cf
my maid-servant when they contended with me ;
Ver. 14. What shall 1 do when (Jod riseth up, and when he visit-
eth, what shall I answer him ?
Ver. 15. Did not he that made me in the womb make them, did
not one fashion us both ?
Matt. viii. 6. The centurion besouidit Jesus lo heal his servant-
392 Duties of Servants. Ghap. XVII.
Eph. vi. 9. Ye masters do the same things unto your servants, for-
bearing threatcnings, knowing that your master is also in heaven,
neither is there respect of persons with him. Col. iv. 1.
Prov. XXX. 10. Accuse not a servant to his master.
Exod. xxi. 20, 26. Beating servants, the law thereof.
xxi. 2. An Hebrew servant, when to go free. Lev. xxv. 39, 40,
41, 54. Jer. xxxiv. 14.
Lev. xxv. 44, 45, 46. Concerning slaves.
Deut. xxiii. 15, 16. The fugitive servant.
DUTIES OF SERVANTS.
X'CVL Duties of servants. Prov. xiv. 35. The king's favour is to-
vj'ard a wise servant.
xvii. 2. A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth
shame.
xxvii. 18. He that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
Mai. i. 6. A servant honoureth his master.
Matt. X. 24. Neither is the servant above his master. Ver. 25.
Prov. xix. 10. For a servant to have rule over princes is not seeriily.
Luke iii. 14. Be content with your wages.
xvii. 7. Who of you having a servant ploughing or feeding cattle,
■will say to him by and by when he is come from the field go sit
down to meat ?
Ver. 8. And v,^ill not rather say unto him, make ready wherewith
I may sup, and afterward thou shalt sup.
1 Cor. vii. 21. Art thou called being a servant, care not for it, but
if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.
Ver. 22. He that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the
liOrd's freeman.
Eph. vi. 5. Servants be obedient to them that are your masters ac-
cording to the flesh.
Ver. 6. Not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as the sei'vants
of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.
Ver. 7. With good-will, doing service as unto the Lord, £\nd not
io men.
Ver. 8. Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doth, the
same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
Col. iii. 22. Servants obey in all things your masters according to
the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but in singleness of
heart, fearing God. See ver. 23, 24, 25.
1 Tim. vi. 1. Let as many servants as are under the yoke count
their masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his
doctrine be not blasphemed. Ver. 2.
Tit. ii. 9. Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters, and to
please them well in all things, not answering again.
Ver. 10. Not purloining but shewing all good fidelity, that they
may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
1 Pet. ii. 18. Servants be subject to your masters with all fear,
not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. Ver. 19,
20,21. Servants are called faithful. Matt. xxiv. 45 xxv. 21. Jn-
atances. Abraham's servant. Gen. xxiv. Jacob. Gen. xxxi. 6. Sec
Chap. XVII. Magistrates. 393
Ps. cxxxii. 2. Servants are wicked, slothful, unprofitable. Matt. xxv.
26, 30. Who knew his Lord's will and did it not. Luke xii. 47.
MAGISTRATES.
XCVIL Duties of the civil magiatrate^ to administer justice impar^
tially*
Deut. i. 16. Judge righteously between every man and his bro-
ther, and the stranger that is with you. John vii. 24.
xvi. 18. Judge the people with just judgment. Ezek. xviii. 8.
xix. 18. Make diligent inquisition. Jobxxix. 16, 17. Prov.xxv. 2.
xxv. 1. Justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
Ps. Ixxxii. 3. Defend the poor and fatherless, do justice to the
afflicted and needy. Ps. Ixxii. 2.
Ver. 4. Deliver the poor and needy out of the hand of the wicked.
Prov. XX. 8. A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scat-
tereth away all evil with his eyes.
Ver. 26. A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the
wheel over them, Ps. ci. 4.
V er. 28. Mercy and truth uphold the king, and his throne is up-
holden by mercy. Ch. xvi. 2. Is established by righteousness.
xxi. 3. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord
than sacrifice.
xxix. 14. The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne
shall be established for ever.
Isa. i. 1 7. Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the father-
less, plead for the widow.
Ver. 18. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as snow or
as wool.
Ivi. 1. Thus saith the Lord, keep judgment and do justice.
Ver. 2. Blessed is the man that doth this.
Iviii. 6. Loose the bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burdens,
let the oppressed go free, break every yoke.
Ver. 8. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning.
Ixi. 8. I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery.
Jer. xxii. 3. Thus saith the Lord,execute judgment and righte-
ousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, and
do no wrong ; do no violence to the stranger, to the fatherless, noi-
to ll)e widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place. Ch. xxi. 12.
Ver. 4. Then shall there enter in by the gates of this house, kings
sitting upon the throne of David, &c.
Ver. 16. He judged the cause of the poor and needy, then it was
well with him.
Ezek. xlv. 9. Thus saith the Lord God, remove violence and spoi4,
and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from
my people, suith the Lord.
Hos. xii. 6. Keep mercy and do judgment, wait on thy God con-
tinually. Isa. xvi. 4. In mercy shall thy throne be established.
Amos V. 24. Let judgment run down as waters, and righteous-
ness as a mighty stream.
Zech. viii. 16. Execute the judgment of peace and truth in your
gates. Ch. vii. 9. Exod. xviii. 16. — xxiii. 6, 7, 8. Deut, xvi. 19. See
Lev. xix. 15. Amos v. 15.
394 Magistrates. , Chap. XVII.
XCVIII. Qualifications of the civil 7nagistratc. Exod. xviii. 21.
Thou shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God,
men of truth, hating covetousness, and place such to be rulers.
Deut. i. 13. Take ye wise men and understanding, known among
your tribes, and 1 will make them rulers over you. Ver. 15.
xvii. 18. The king shall write him a copy of this law in a book.
Ver. 19. He shall read therein all the days of his life, that he may
learn to fear the Lord his God, and to keep all the words of this law
and these statutes to do them. Ver. 15, 16, 17, 20. Josh. i. 8.
2 Sam. xxiii. 3. He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in
the fear of God. 2 Chron. xix. 6, 7, 9.
Neh. V. 9. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of (jod ?
Ps. ii. 10. Be wise, ye kings, be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Ver. 11. Serve the Lord with fear.
Prov. xxix. 2. When the righteous are in authority the people
rejoice.
Examfiles. Jehoshaphat. 2 Chron. xx. 3. Nehrmiah. Neh. v. 15,
XCIX. The magistrate's concern with religion. Numb. xiv. 17.
Moses the chief magistrate, prayeth for the people. Deut. ix. 26.
He enquireth of God for the people. Exod. xviii. 15.
Josh, vii.6. Joshua prayeth for the people. \''er. 7.
xxiv. 1 to 28. His religious exhortation to the people.
2 Sam. vi. 2. David's care of the ark of God. 1 Chron. xxiii. 6.
He devides the priests into courses.
vii. 2. He resolves to build an house for the worship of God. Ver.
7, 8. 1 Kings viii. 18.
1 Chron. xxii. 3. He prepares materials for building the temple.
2 Sam vi. 18. He blesses the people in the name of the Lord,
xxiv. 17. He prayeth for the people. Ver. 25.
1 Chron. xxix. 19. He prayeth for Solomon.
2 Sam. iii. 1. David waxed stronger and stronger. Ch. v. 10. He
grew great, and the Lord established him. Ver, 12,
viii. 14. The Loi'd preserved him whithersoever he wxnt.
I Kings iii. 3. Solomon loved the Lord.
Ver. 9. He prayed to God for qualifications to govern the people.
Ver. 1 1. His prayer was answered. Ch. iv. 29.
vi. 14. He built the house of God.
viii. 23. His prayer and exhortation at the dedication of the tem-
ple. 2 Chron. viii. 14. He appoints the courses of the priests.
1 Chron. xxix. 25. The Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly.
2 Kings xiii. 4, 5. Jehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord
hearkened unto him, and gave Israel a saviour.
2 Chron. xiv. 2, 4. Asa reforms abuses in religion.
Ver. 1 1. He prayeth against the Ethiopian army.
Ver. 12. The Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa.
XV. 8. He farther reforms the nation, and takes an oath of the
people to reform and to seek the Lord, Ver. 12, 13, 14.
xvii. 7, 8, 9. Jehoshaphat enjoins the princes and the Levites to
teach the law of the Lord.
xix. 4. He reforms abuses, gives a religious charge to tJie judges.
See to ver. II,
Chap. XVII. Magistrotes, 395
2 Chron. xx. 6. He appoints a fast, prays against the enemies of
the nation^ and is heard. See to Ver. 24.
XXX. 2. Hezekiah took counsel with the princes, to celebrate the
passover, which had been long neglected.
Ver. 5, 6, 7. He writes letters and makes proclamation to as^m*
ble the people. Ver. 18. He prays for the people.
xxxi. 2. He appoints the courses of the priests.
xx>iii. 20. He prayed to God against the Assyrian army.
Ver. 21. And the Lord sent an angel which cut off all the mighty
men of valour and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king
of Assyria. 2 Kings xix. 15, 20. Isa. xxxvi. 1.
Ver. 22. God saved Hezekiah.
Ver. 23. He was magnified in the sight of all nations.
2 Kings xxii. 3. Josiah, his care for the house of God.
Ver. 13. He sends to enquire of the Lord.
xxii. 2, 3. He reads the law to the people, and takes an oath of
the people to keep it, and reforms abuses in religion. Jer. xxii. 1 5.
God was with him.
Ezraix. 6. Ezra prays and reforms abuses in religion. Ch. viii. 2 L
x. 1,5. He takes an oath of the people to reform.
Neu. i. 4 to 1 i. Nehemiah's prayer and confession, on which de-
liverance is obtained. See chapters 2d, 3rd, 4th.
V. 6 to 9. He reforms abusers in religion. Ch. xiii. 10 to 31.
viii. 9. He teached the people.
ix. I, Sec. A remarkable fast is kept, with acknowledgement of
mercies, humiliation and confession of sins.
x. 29. The people enter into a curse and into an oath to walk in
God's law.
Jonah iii. 7. The king of Nineveh appoints a fast.
Ver. 10. God approves thereof, and is intreated to be gracious.
C. Good magistrates a blessing firomised to God's fieojile, Isa. i. 26.
I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the
beginning.
Ver. 27. Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts
with righteousness.
xxviii. 6. The Lord shall be for a Spirit of judgment to them that
sit in judgment.
xxxii. 16. Judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and ric^hteous-
ness in the fruitful field.
xxxiii. 5. The Lord hath filled Zion with judgment and with righ-
teousness.
xlix. 23. King* shall be thy nursing fathers and queens thy nursing
mothers.
xl. 16. Thou shalt suck the breasts ofjvings.
Ver. 17. I Avill make thine officers peace, and thine exactors right-
eousness.
Jer. XXX. 20. I whi punish all that oppress my people,
Ver. 21. Their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor
shhll proceed from the midst of them, and I will cause him to draw
near, and he shall approach unto me ; for who is this that engageth
ills he;\rL tf) upprouc h unto me, saith U^.c Lord :
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Ezek. xlv. 8. Princes shall no more oppress -ftiy people.
Zech. ix. 8. No oppressor shall pass through them any more.
CI. Magistracy is of divine appointment . Deut. xvi. 18. Jvidges and
officers shalt thou make in all thy gates, and they shall judge the peo-
ple. Ch. xvii. 5. Numb. xi. 16, 17.
Prov. viii. 15. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
Rom. xiii. 1. There is no power but of God, the powers that be
are ordained of God.
Ver. 2. The ordinance of God.
Ver. 4. The magistrate is the minister of God.
CI I. Sins of magistrates. Perverting of judgment^ respect of persons^
partiality, &c. Exod. xxiii. 6. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of
the poor in his cause. Ver. 2,
Ver. 7. The innocent and righteous slay thou not, for I will not
justify the wicked.
Lev. xix. 15. Thou shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, thou
shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of
-the mighty. Prov. xxiv. 23.
Deut. i. 17. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment, ye shall not
be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God*s. 2 Chron. xix.
6. The Lord is with you in judgment. Ver. 7. Rom. ii. 11. There
is no respect of persons with God. Eph. vi. 9. Col. xiii. 25.
Prov. xvi. 12. It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness.
Zech. vii. 10. Oppress not the widow nor the fatherless, the stran-
ger nor the poor. Job xxxi. 21.
Isa. X. I . Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that
write grievousness which they have prescribed.
Ver. 2. To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away
the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey,
and that they may rob the fatherless. Jer. xxii. 3, 5.
Isa. X. 3. What will ye do in the day of visitation ? See Deut. xix.
15. Job xxxii. 21. Ps. xciv. 20. Eccl. v. 8. Isa. i. 10 — iii. 12 to 15.
— xxviii. 14 to 18. Mic iii. 1 to 4. Acts xxiii. 3.
cm. Perverting of judgment through covetousness^ taking gifts, Isfc.
Exod. xxiii. 8. Thou shalt not take a gift, for a gift blindeth the
eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. Deut.
xvi. 9.
. Prov. xxix. 4. He that receiveth gifts, overthroweth the land.
xxiii. 23. A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom, to pervert
Hhe ways of judgment. See persons threatened for this sin. 1 Sam.
viii. 3. Isa. i. 23, 24. — v. 22, 23. Jer. xxii. 17, 18, 19. Ezek. xxii.
27,31. Hos. iv. 18. Amosv. 12. Mic. iii. H, 12. — vii. 3,4. See^ per-
sons free from it. 1 Sam. xii. 3. Neh. v. 14, 15. Promises to such.
Isa. > xxiii. 15. Ezek. xviii. 17.
CIV. Perverting of judgment through drunkenness. Prov. xxxi. 4.
It is not for kintrs to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink, lest
they drink and forget the law, and pervert the juugment of any of the
aitlicteci.
Isa. xxviii. 1. Woe to the drunkards of Ephraim. Ver. 3. Tlx;y
shall be trodden under foot.
Ver. 7. They hcive erred llirough wine, and through strong drink
are they out oi the way. V er. S.
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Isa. V. 22. Woe to them that are mii^hty to drink wine, and men
of strength to mingle strong drink. See Eccl. x. 16, 17.
CV. T/ie misery of being governed by weak or wicked rulers.
Ps. xii. 8. The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men
are exalted. Eccl. x. 5, 6.
xciv. 20. Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee,
which framcth mischief by a law.
Prov. xxviii. 15. As a roaring lion, and a raging bear, so is a wick-
ed ruler over poor people.
Ver. 16. The prince that wanteth understanding is a great op-
pressor.
xxix. 2. When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Eccl. iii. 12. If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Ver. 16. I saw the place of judgment, that wickedness was there,
and the place of righteousness that iniquity was there. Mic.vii. 3,4
X. 16. Woe unto thee, O land, when thy king is u child.
iv. 1 3. Better is a poor and wise child, tlian an old and foolish king,
that will no more be admonished.
Isa. lix. 14. Judgment is turned away backward, and justice stand-
eth afar off, truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Amos vi. 12. Ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of
righteousness into hemlock. Hos. x. 4.
CVI. Such set over a fieofde^ as a punishment for sin. Neh. ix. 37.
The kings whom thou hast set over us for our sins have dominion
over onr bodies, &c.
Ps. cvi. 4. They that hated them, ruled over them.
Prov. xxviii- 2. For the transgressions of a land many are the
princes thereof.
Isa. iii. 4. I will give children to their princes, and babes shall
rule over them.
Ver. 5. The child shall behave himself proudly against the an-
cients, &c.
Ver. 12. Children are their oppressors, women rule over them.
Verc 13, 14.
Jer. li. 47. There shall come ruler against ruler.
Lam. v. 8. Servants have ruled over us. Neh. v. 15.
Hos. xiii, 1 1 . I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him
away in my wrath.
Joel ii. 7. Give not thy heritage to the heathen that they should
rule over them.
Ezra ix. 7. For our iniquities have we, our kings and our priests,
been delivered into the hand of the kings of the land, to the sword,
captivitv, spoil and confusion of face. Neh. ix. 24. See 1 Sam. viii.
11 to 19.
CVII. Wicked rulers, enemies to religion, Ps. ii. 2. The kings of
the earth set themselves, and the rulers took counsel against the
Lord, and against his anointed. Ver. 9. Acts iv. 26.
Luke xxiii. 35. They derided Christ. John vii. 48. Acts i. 26.
xiii. 27. See also Ezra ix. 2. Neh. v. 7. — xiii. I 1. Rev. xvi. 14.
CVIIL God''s providence over kifigs and rulers, exalting or abasing'
them.
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Job xii. 1 7. He Icadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the
judges fools. Isa. xliv. 25.
Ver. 18. He looseth the bond of kings and girdeth their loins with
a ^'^irdlc.
Ver. 21. He poureth contempt upon princes. Ps. cvii. 40.
xxxiv. 19. He accepteth not t^ie persons of princes, nor regardeth
the rich more than the poor.
Ver. 24. He -shall break in pieces mighty men without number,
and set others in their stead.
Ps.Ixxv.7. He putteth down one and setteth up another. Ps.lxxviii.
6. Dan. ii. 21.
Ps, Ixxvi. 12. He shall cut off the spirit of princes, he shall be
terrible to the kings of the earth.
Ixxxii. 1. God standcth in the congregation of the mighty, he
judgeth among the gods.
cxxxv. 10. Who smote great nations, who slew great kings.
Isa. xl 22, 23. He bringeth the princes to nothing.
CIX. Particular instances of God^s providence in exalting or debase
ing riders.
Acts xiii. 20. God gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
Ver. 21. Afterward he gave them Saul.
Ver. 22. When he had removed him, he raised up unto them
David. 1 Sam. XX. 30. Ps. Ixxviii. 70. — Ixxxix. 19.
1 Chron. xxix. 1. Solomon whom alone thou hast chosen.
Isa. xix. 18. The princes of Zoan are become fools, ver. 14. The
Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst of Egypt.
xxii. 3. Ail thy rulers are fled together, ver. 5. for it is a day of
trouble and of treading dovvn% and of perplexity from the Lord.
xxix. IQ. The Lord hath poured upon you the spirit of deep sleep,
and huh closed your eyes, your rulers hath he covered.
Ver. 14. The wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the un-
dprstanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
xliv. 1. Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus whose right
hand I have holden to subdue nations before him. Ch. xliv. 28.
2 Chron. xxxvi. 2. Ezra i. 1 to f.
Jer. xxi. 4- Thus saith the Lord, I will tuni back the weapons of
war in your hands. Ver. 7. I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah
and the people into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. Ver. 5, 6.
xxyii. 6. 1 have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchjid-
nezzar the king of Babylon my servant.
Ver. 7. Ail nations shall serve him, and his son, aqd his son's son.
Jer. xxviii. 14. See further, concerning Nebuchadnezzar. Dan. ii.
3f.-_iv. 17, 30 to 33.— V. 18, 19, 23, 28. Isa. xiv. 12.
Ezek. xxviii. 2. Say unto the prince of Tyrus, thus saith the Lord
pod, because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god ;
Ver 7. I \vill bring strangers upon thee, ver. 8. and they shall
bring thee down to the pit.
ex. Duties toward governors^ praying for them, Ps. Ixxii. 15.
Prayer shall be made for him continually.
1 Tim. ii. I . I exhort, that supplications, prayers, intercessipns, and
giving of thanks be made for all men.
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I Tim. ii. 2. For kings, and for all that are in authority, Ecc.
Ver. 3. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God.
CXI. Honour and re.^fitct to be shenvn to their persona in ivords and
actions.
Exod. xxii. 28. Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ru-
ler of thy people. Acts xxiii. 5.
1 Sam. xxvi. 9. David said, destroy not 5aul, the Lord's anointed.
Ver. 11. Ch. x iv. 6, 7, 8.
Prov. XX. 2. The fear of a king, is as the roaring of a lion. -^
xxiv. 21. Fear thou the Lord and the king, and meddle not with
tliem that are given to change.
Eccl. X. 20. Curse not the king, no not in thy thought.
1 Pet. ii. 17. Fear God, honour the king.
2 Pet. ii. 9. The Lord knoweth how to reserve the unjust to the
day of judgment to be punished.
Ver. 10. But chiefly them that despise government, and are not
afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Jude ver. 8. These filthy dreamers despise dominion, and speak
evil of dignities. Ver. II. See Prov. xxv. 6, 7, 15. Eccl, viii. 4.
See the respectful behaviour of Nathan to David. I Kings i. 23,
24. Of Daniel to Darius. Dan. vi. 21. And of Paul to Agrippa. Acts
xxvi. 1,2,3, Miriam and Aaron their disrespectful language to Mo-
ses. Numb. xii. 1, 2. Their punishment. Ver. 9, 10, 11.
CXIL Obedience to magistratefi. Eccl. viii. 2. Keep the kings com-
mandment, and that in regard of the oath of God. See Ezek. xvii.
12 to 20.
Ver. 5. He who keepeth the commandments, shall feel no evil
thing.
Matt. xvii. 26. Jesus said, then are the children free.
Ver. 27. Notwithstanding lest we offend, give that piece of mor
jfey for me and thee.
xxii. 21. Render unto Cesar the things which are Cesar's.
Rom. xiii. 1. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers.
Ver. 5. Be subject not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
Ver. 7. Render to all their dues, tribute to whom tribute is due, &c.
Tit, iii. 1 . Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and
powers, to obey magistrates.
1 Pet. ii. 13. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for
the Lord's sake, wliether it be to the king as supreme, or unto go-
vernors that are sent by him, for the punishment of evil doers, and
for the praise of them that do well. See Deut. xvii. 1 1. Matt, xxiii,
:2, 3. Prov. xxv. 15. Eccl. x. 4.
CXIIL Rebellion against, magistrates in lawful authority^ the sin
and jiuninhment thereof,
Deut xvii. 12. The man that will not hearken unto the priest, or
unto the jndge shall die.
Jos. i. 18. Whosoever will, not hearken unto thy words, he shall
be put to death.
Judges ii. 17. They would not hearken to their judges.
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Ezra vii. 26. Whosoever will not do the law of God and of the king,
let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death
or to banishment, cr to confiscations of goods, or to imprisonment.
Ch. X. 6, 7, a.
Rom. xiii. 2. Whosoever resisteth, resisteth the ordinance of God,
and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
See the rebellion of Korah and his company. Numb. xvi. 1 . &c.
Of the Jews. Ezek. xvii. 12 to 20. See also Prov. xvi. 14, 15. — xix.
12— XX. 2.
CXIV. Disobedience to magistrates a duty^ nvhen they abuse their
poiver^ by commanding things contrary to God's law.
Instances. Exod. i. 15 to 20. The midwives in Egypt.
1 Sam. xiY. 45. Saul's army. Ch. xxii. 17. Saul's footmen.
2 Chron. xi. 1 6. Those which refused to worship Jeroboam's calves.
Esther iii. 1, 2, 3 — v. 9. Mordccai.
Dan. iii. 15 to 18. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
vi. 7 to 10. 'i'he prophet Daniel.
Acts iv. 18, 19, 20. — V. 27, 28, 29. The apostles.
Heb. xi. 27. Moses — Obeying in such cases a sin.
Instances. 2 Sam. xxii. 18. 2 Kings xvii. 7, 8, 19. 1 Kings xii. 28.
MINISTERS OF CHRIST.
CXV. Ministers of Christy their duties. The commission given to the
afiostles.
Matt. V. 1. Jesus's disciples came unto him.
Ver. 18. He said, ye are the salt of the earth, the light of the
world. Ver. 14.
ix. 38 . Pray the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth labourers,
X. 5. These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them saying,
Ver. 7. Go preach,
Ver. 8. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out
devils.
Ver. 14. Whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words
Avhen ye depart out of that house or city* shake off the dust of your
feet.
Ver. 15. Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the
land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that
.city. Ver. 40.
xj^viii. 18. Jesus said, all power is given unto me in heaven and
in earth.
Ver. 1 9. Go ye therefore teach all nations, baptizing them, in the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
\'er. 20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you, and lo, I am with you always even unto the end of
the world. Amen.
Mark iii. 1 4. Jesus ordained twelve apostles, that they should be
with him.
V^er. 15. And that he might send them forth to preach, and to
have power to heal sickness, and to cast out devils. Ch. vi. 8. See
Luke vi. 13. — ix. I, 6. — x. 1, 16. — xxi. 15.
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John xiiL 20. He that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth me.
xvii. 18. As thou hast sent me mto the world, even so have I also
sent them mto the world. Ver. 6, 7, 8, 14, 26.
XX. 21. As my Father hath sent me, so send I you.
Acts i. 24. For filling Judas's place, the apostles prayed and said,
thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men> shew whither of
these two thou hast chosen, that he may take part of this ministry,
&.C. Ver. 25.
ix. 15. The Lord s'aid of Paul, he is a chosen vessel unto me, to
beai" my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of
Israel. Vor. 17.
xiii. 2. The Holy Ghost said, separate me Barnabas and Saul, for
the work whereunto I have called them.
xxii. 21. Paul said, Jesus said unto me, I will send thee far hence,
unto the Gentiles.
xxvi. 16. Jesus said to Paul, I have appeared unto thee for this
purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness, both of these things
which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear
unto thee.
Ver. 17. Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles,
to whom I now send thee.
Ver. 1 8. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness unto
light, and from the power of Satan unto God.
Rom. i. 1. Paul called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel
of God.
X. 14, 15. How shall they hear without a preacher, and how shall
they preach except they be sent.
XV. 15. 1 have written the more boldly unto you, putting you in
mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,
Ver. 1 6. That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the
Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, &c. 2 Tim. i. 11. — ii. 7.
1 Cor. i. 17. Paul said, Christ sent me to preach the gospel. Ver. 27.
iv. 1. Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ and
stewards of the mysteries of God.
Ver. 2. Moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found
faithful.
ix. 17. A dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
1 Cor. xi. 23. Paul said, I have received of the Lord that which I
delivered unto you.
XV. 3. 1 delivered unto you, that which I received, how that Christ
died for our sins, according to the scriptures.
2 Cor. iii. 5. Our suftkiency is of God. 1 Tim. i. 12.
Ver. 6. Who hath made us able ministers of the New Testament.
iv. 7. We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excel-
lency of the power may be of God and not of us. \^er. 1.
V. 18, God hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
Ver. 20. We are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did be,-
jijccch you by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
xii. 1. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Gal. i. 1. Paul an apostle (not of men, neither by man, but by Je-
sus Christ and God the F^Atber.) I Tim. i. 1.
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Gal. i. 15. It pleased God, who separated me from my mother's
womb,
Vcr. 16. And called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that
I might preach him among the heathen.
Eph. iii. 7. I was made a minister of the gospel according to the
gift of the grace of God, given unto me by the effectual working of
his power. Col. i. 23, 25.
Gal. i. 11,12. Neither was I taught the gospel but by the revela-
tion of Jesus Christ.
Eph. iv. 11. He gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some
evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
Ver. 12. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the mi-
nistry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. 1 Cor. xii. 28.
Heb. xiii. 7. Remember them which have the rule over you, who
have spoken unto you the word of God. Phil. ii. 12.
Rev. i. 1 1. What thou seest write in a book, and send it to the se-
\-en churches. See the Spiiit's influences upon the apn^stles.
CXVI. Power committed to the a/iostles. Matt, xviii. 18. Whatso-
ever ye shall bind ou earth, shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoe-
ver ye shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in heaven. Ch. xvi. 19.
John XX. 23. Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted, and
whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
1 Cor. ix. 18. I abuse not my power in the gospel.
2 Cor. i. 24. Not that we have- dominion over your faith, but are
helpers of your joy.
X. 8. Our authority the Lord hath given us for edification, and not
for destruction.
1 Pet. v. 3. Neither as being lords over God*s heritage, but being
cnsamples to the flock.
CXVII. Excommunication. Matt, xviii. 15. If thy brother trespass
against thee, go tell him his fault between thee and him alone : If
he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother ;
Ver. 16. If he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two
more.
Ver. 17. And if he neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church,
l)ut if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an hea-
ihen man and a publican.
Rom. xvi. 17. Mark them which cause divisions, contrary to the*
doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them.
1 Cor. V. I. It is reported that there is fornication among you, and
such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles,
that one should have his father's wife.
Ver. 3. I have judged concerning him that hath done this deed.
Ver. 4. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gather-
.•d together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord' Jesus Christ.
\'er. 5. To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of
the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
Ver. 1 1. 'I have written to you not to keep company, if any man thai
Ts called a- brother, hr a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a
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railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such an one, no not to eat.
1 Cor. V. 13. Therefore put away from among yourselves that
wicked person.
2 Cor. ii. 6. Sufficient to such a man is the punishment inflicted
of many. Jude ver. 22.
2 Thess.iii. 6. Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walk-
eth disorderly.
Ver. 14. If any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that
man, and have no company with him that he may be ashamed.
2 John ver. 10. If there come any unto you, and bring not this
doctrine (of Christ) receive him not into your house, neither bid him
God speed. See Lev. x. 10. Put a difference between the holy and
profane, and Deut. xvii. 12. Ezek. xxii. 26. — xliv. 23.
J^or persons U7yustly excommunicated and hated^ see suffering for rC'
lig:on i and supfiorts of ministers^ and others^ under sufferings for reli'
gion.
CXVIII. A''one may intrude into the ministerial off ce. Numb, xviii.
7. The Lord said, I have given your priests office unto you, as a ser-
vice of gift.
Ver. 32. Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh
the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin and die.
Deut X. 8. The Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark
of the covenant of the Lord, and to stand before the Lord, and to
minister unto him, and to bless in his name. Ch. xxi. 5.
Jer. xxiii. 21.1 have not sent these prophets yet they ran.
Ver. 30. I am against the prophets, saith the Lord.
xix. 31. I sent him not, he caused you to trust in a lie.
John x. 1. He that comelh not in by the door, is a thief and a rob-
ber.
Rom. X. 15. How shall they preach except they be sent.
Phil. i. 15. Some preach Christ even of envy.
Heb. V. 4. No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is
called of God as was Aaron. See the punishment of intrusion into
the priest's office upon Korah and his company. Numb. xvi. ver. i
to 36. Upon king Saul. I Sam. xiii. vcr» 13 to 16. Upon Uzziah.
2 Chron. xxvi. J 6 to 22.
CXIX. Teachirig truths the duty of ministers. Exod. xviii. 20. Thou
shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way
wherein they must walk, and the work they must do.
xxiv. 12. The LoVd said unto Moses, I will give thee a law and
commandments which I have written that thou mayest teach them.
Lev. X. 10. Take heed that ye put a difference between the holy
and unholy, and between the clean and the unclean. Ezek. xliv. 23,
Ver. 1 1. And teach the children of Isreal the statutes whicli the
Lord hath spoken unto them. Deut. iv. 14. — v. 31. — vi. 1. — xxxi. 19.
Deut. xxxiii. 10. The children of Levi shall teach Jacob thy judg-
ments, and Israel thy Law. 2 Kings xvii. 28. 2 Chron. xxx, 22. —
xvii. 9. Ezra vii. 10.
I Sam. xii. 23, Samuel said^ L will teach you the go6d and the
right way.
Neh, viii. 8 The Leviics read in the boek of rle lav.' of God dis-
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stinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the read-
in^. See ver. 5, 6.
Isa. viii. 20. To the law and to the testimony, &c.
xxviii. 10. Precept must be upon precept, line upon line, here a
little and there a little.
1. 4. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned that
I should know how to speak a word to him that is weary.
Isa. li. 16. I have put my words in thy mouth, and have concealed
thee in the hollow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens and
lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion thou art my peo-
ple. Jer. i. 9.
Iviii. K Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, shew
my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Ezck. xvi. 2. Cause Jerusalem to know her abominations.
XX. 4. Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers.
Jer. iii. 15. I will give youpcistors according to mine own heart
that shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
xiii. 28. The prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream, and
he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully, what is the
chaif to the wheat, saith the Lord ?
Ver. 29. Is not my word like as a fire, saith the Lord, and like a
hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces ? Ch. xx. 9.
Ezek. ii. 7. Then thou shalt speak my words unto them whether
they will hear or whether they will forbear.
iii. 17. I have made thee a watch-man unto the house of Israel,
therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning.
Ezek. iii. 18. When I say unto the wicked, thou shalt surely die,
and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked
from his wicked way, to save his life, he shall die in his iniquity, but
his blood will I require at thy hand.
Ver. 19. If thou warn the wicked and he turn not from his wick-
edness, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy souL
Hab. ii. 1.
xvi. 2. Cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Hos. viii. L Set the trumpet to thy mouth.
Mic. iii. 8. I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, and of
judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and
to Israel his sin.
Mai. ii. 7. The priest's lips should preserve knowledge, and the
people should ask the law at his mouth, for he is the messenger of
the Lord of hosts.
xiii. 52. Every scribe instructed into the kingdom of heaven is like
an housholder that bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and
old.
Matt, xxviii. 19. Go ye, and teach all nations.
Ver. 2o, Teaching, them to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you, and lo. I am with you alvvays even unto the end of
the world.
John xxi. 1 5% Lo Jesus said to Peter, feed my lambs, feed my sheep.
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Acts V. 42. Daily in the temple and in every house the apostles
ceased not to teach and to preach Jesus Christ.
VI. 4. The apostles said, we will give ourselves continually to pray-
er, and to the ministry of the word.
xvi. 21. When they had preached the gospel and taught many,
they returned again,
Ver. 22. Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting ihem
to continue in the faith.
xvi. 40. Paul and Silas comforted the brethren and departed.
xviii. 6. Paul said, I am free from the blood of all men.
XX. 17. Paul called the elders of the church of Ephesus.
Ver. 18. And said, ye know after what manner I have been with
you at all seasons.
Ver. 19. Serving the Lord with all humility.
Ver. 20. I ke.pt back nothing that was profitable unto you.
Ver. 24, I have testified the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts XX. 26. I take you to record that I am pure from the blood of
all men. Ch. xviii. 6. Ezek. iii. 17.
Ver. 27. I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of
God.
Ver. 28. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock,
over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers (or bishops)
to feed the church of God.
Ver. 31. Watch, and remember that I ceased not to warn every
man night and day with tears.
xxviii. 31. Paul continued preachmg the kingdom of God, and
teaching those things that concern the Lord Jesus with all confi-
dence.
Rom. xii. 7. Let us wait on ministering, on teaching, on exhortation.
XV. 16. Ministering the gospel of the grace of God.
xvi. 12. Tryphena, and Tryphosa, and Persis, laboured much in
the Lord.
1 Cor. iii. 9. We are labourers together with God.
Ver. 10. According to the grace of God given unto me, as a wise
master builder I have laid the foundation.
Ver. 1 1 . Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which
is Jesus Christ. See to ver. 15.
1 Cor. iv. 1. Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of
Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Ver. 2. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found
faithful. Ver. 4. 1 Pet. iv. 10.
V^er. 14. As my beloved sons I warn you.
ix. 16. Though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of,
for necessity is laid upon me ; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not
the gospel.
xiv. 3. He that prophesieth (i. e. preacheth) speakcth unto mei»
to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
XV. 10. I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I but the
grace of God which was with me.
xvi 10. Timotheus worketh the work of the Lord as I also do.
2 Cor. vi. 10. We then as workers together with Ciod beseech
you, that ye receive not die grace of God in vain,
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ii. 17. We are not as many which corrupt the word of God, but
as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
2 Cor. iv. 2. We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,
not walking in craftiness, not handling the word of God deceitfully,
but by manifestation of the truth commendmg ourselves to every
mans's conscience in the sight of God.
V. 19. God hath committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Ver. 20. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ ; as though God
did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye recon-
ciled to God.
Eph. vi. 21. Tychicus a beloved brother, and faithful minister in
the Lord. Col. iv. 7.
Phil. ii. 1 6. Holding forth the word of life, &c.
Col. i. 28. Christ whom we preach, warning every man, and teach-
ing every man in ail wisdom, that he may present every man perfect
in Christ Jesus.
iv. 17. Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the
Lord, that thou fulfil it.
1 Thess. ii. 3. Our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of unrighte-
ousness, nor in guile.
Ver. 9. Labouring night an 1 day, because we would not be charge-
able unto you, we preached the gospel of God.
Ver. 1 1. Ye know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged
every one of you (as a father doth his children.)
iv. 1. We beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye
have received of us how ye ought to walk and please God, so yc
would abound more and more.
2 Thess. iii 12. We command and exhort by our Lord Jesus
Chrisi ihat with quietness they work and eat their ov;n blood.
1 Tim. i. 3. Charge some that they teach none other doctrine.
Ver. 4. Neither give heed to fables, and endless genealogies,
which minister questions rather than godly edifying, which is in
faith. Ch. vi. 4, 5. 2 Tim. ii. 14, 16. Ch. iv. 4. Tit. i. l4.-~iii. 9.
ii. 7. 1 am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, a teacher of the
Gentiles in faith and verity. 2 Tim. i. 1 1.
iv. 6. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things,
thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the
words of faith and of good doctrine.
Ver. 11. These things command and teach.
Ver. 16. Take heed unlo thyself and to thy doctrine. Ver. 13.
\. 17. Labour in the word and doctrine.
Ver. 20. Them that sin, rebuke before ail, that others may fear.
Ver. 21. Observe these things without preferring one before ano-
ther, doing nothing by partiality.
Ver. 22. Lay hands suddenly on no man. Ch. iii. 2 to 10. Tit. i.
6 to 10.
vi. 2. These things teach and exhort.
Ver. 3. If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome
words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine
which is according to godliness,
V'cr. 4. He is proud, knowing nothing, but <loting about ques-
tions, kc.
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1 Tim. ii. 2. The things which thou hast heard of me among ma-
ny witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be
able to teach others also.
Ver. 15. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman ^
that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
V^er. 25. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves.
iv. 2. Preach the word, be instant in season, and out of season, re-
prove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. Tit. i. 13.
Ver. 5. Watch in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an
evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Tit. i. y. By sound doctrine convince gainsayers.
ii. 1. Speak the things that become sound doctrine.
Ver. 7. In doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity.
Ver. 8. Sound speech that cannot be condemned.
Ver. 15. Those things speak and exhort and rebuke with all au-
thority.
Heb. X. 11. Every priest standeth daily ministering.
xiii. 17. Ministers watch for souls, as they that must give an ac-
count.
1 Pet. V. 1 . Feed the flock of God, taking the oversight thereof, not
by constraint but willingly, not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind.
iv. 11. If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God, if
any man minister let him do it as ol the ability which God giveth,
that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ.
2 Pet. i. 12. I will not be negligent to put you always in remem-
brance of those things, though ye knew them, and be established in
the present truth.
Ver. 13. I think it my duty to stir up your pure minds by way of
remembrance. Ch.iii. I.
Ver. 15. I will endeavour, that after my decease, ye may have
these things always in remembrance. Phil. iii. 1.
1 John i. 3. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you.
Jude ver. 3. It was needful that I should write to you, and exhort you.
CXX. The good effects of fireaching. Matt. xii. 41. The man of
Nineveh repented at the preaching of Jonas. Jonah iii. 2, 5.
Acts ii. 41. At Peter's sermon there were added to the church a-
bout three thousand souls.
xxi. 19. Paul declared what things God had wrought by his min-
isters among the Gentiles.
Ver. 20. And the brethren glorified God.
1 Cor. i. 21. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to
save them that believe.
iii. 5. Who is Paul, or who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye
believed, even as the Lord gave to every man.
CXXI. A good ininistrij firomised. 1 Sam. ii. 35. I will raise me
ijp a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine
heart, and in my mind.
Isa. XXX. 20. Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity,
and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into
a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers.
Ver. 2 1 . And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying,
this is the way, walk ye in it. ^
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Jer. iii. 15. I will give you pastors according to mine own heart
that shall feed you with knowledge and undei^tanding.
xxiii. 4. I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them,
and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be
lacking, saith the Lord. Isa. Ixii. 6.
CXXlI. Faithful miniHtry* Promises to them and firayers for them^
Deut. xxxiii. 8. Let tliy Urim and thy Thummimbe with thy holyones.
Ver. 1 1. Of Levi, bless. Lord, his substance and accept the work
of his hands, smite through the loins of them that rise up against him.
Ps. cxv. 12. The Lord hath been mindful of us, he will bless the
house of Israel, he Aviil bless the house of Aaron. Ps. cxxxv. 19.
cxxxii. 13. The Lord hath chosen Zion.
^^er. 1 6. I will clothe her priests with salvation. Sec.
Isa. xlix. 4. 1 said I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength
for nought, and in vain, yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and
my work with my God.
Jer. XV. 19. Thus saith the Lord, if thou take forth the precious
from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth : let them return unto thee,
but return not thou unto them.
xxxi. 14. I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my
people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.
Jer. xxxiii. 20. If you can break my covenant of the day, and of
the night,
Ver. 2 1 . Then may also my covenant be broken with the Levites,
the priests, my ministers.
Ezek. xliv. 15. The priests that kept my charge when the children
of Israel went astray from me, they shall come unto me and minis-
ter unto me.
Dan. xii. 3. They that be wise shall shine as the. brightness of the
firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for
ever and ever. Prov. xi. 30. James v. 20.
Mdtt. V. 19. Whosoever shall do and teach these command ments»
the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Luke xii. 42. Who then is that faithful and wise steward whom
his Lord shall make ruler over his houshoid, to give them their por-
tion of meat in due season.
Ver. 43. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh
shall find so doing.
xxii. 29. Jesus said, I appoint unto you a kingdom. Matt. xix. 28.
John iv. 36. He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit
unto life eternal. See 2 Tim. iv. 7, 8. Rev. ii. 10.
C XXI 1 1. Holy and imblameable in life and conversation. Lev. xxi.
16. The priests shall be holy unto their God. Ezek. xliv. 24,
Lam. iv. 7. Her Naxarites were purer than snow, kc.
Isa. Iii. n. Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord.
Matt. V. 13. Ye are the salt of the earth. Ch. xiv. The light of
the world.
Ver. 16. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see
your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
X. 16. BeAvise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Acts XX. 28. Take heed unto yourselves.
Rom. ii. 2 1 . Thou th^t tcachcst another, tcachcst thou not thyself ?
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1 Cor. ix. 27. Paul said, I keep under my body and bring it into
subjection, lest by any means when I have preached to others, I my-
self should be cast away. Matt. vii. 22.
2 Cor. vi. 3. Giving none offence, that the ministry be not blamed.
Ver. 4. In all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God,
In much patience, &c,
Ver. 6. By pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by the Ho-
ly Ghost, by love unfeigned.
Ver. 7 . By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour
of righteousness on the right hand, and on the left.
viii. 20. Avoiding this, that no man should blame us.
xi. 12. J cut off occasion from them that seek occasion.
Phil. iii. 17. Ye have us for an example.
iv. 9. These things which thou hast heard and seen in me do, &c.
1 Thess. ii. 10. Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holy and just-
ly, and unbiameably we behaved ourselves among you.
2 Thess. iii. 7. We behaved not ourselves disorderly among you.
Ver. 9. We make ourselves an ensample to you to follow us.
1 Tim. iii. I. If a man desire the office of a bishop he desireth a
good work.
Ver. 2. A. bishop must be blameless, vigilant, sober, of good be-
ha.iour, given to hospitality.
Ver. 3. Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre,
but patient, not a brawler, not covetous ;
Ver. 4. One that ruleth well his own house.
Ver. 6. Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall int6
the condemnation of the devil.
Ver. 7. He must have a good report of them that are without, lest
he fall into reproach. Tit. i. 7, 8, 9. A bishop must be blameless as
the steward of God, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine,
no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; but a lover of hospitality, a lo-
ver of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate ; holding fast the faith-
ful word, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and
convince gainsayers.
Ver. 8. Likewise must the deacons be grave. Sec. See to ver. 14.
1 Tim. iv. 12. Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an ex-
ample of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spi-
rit, in faith, in purity. Tit. ii. 15.
Ver. 13. Give attendance to reading, 8cc.
Ver. 14. Neglect not the gift that is in thee.
Ver. 15. Meditate on these things, give thyself wholly to them.
Ver. 16. Take heed unto thyself and to thy doctrine, continue in
them, for in doing this, thou shalt both save thyself, and them that
hear thee.
V. 22. Keep thyself pure.
vi. 11. Thou O man of God, follow after righteousness, godliness,
faith, love, patience, meekness.
Ver. 12. Fight the good fight of faith.
Ver. 14. Keep this commandment without spot unrebukeable.
Ver. 20. Keep that which is committed to thy trust. 2 Tim. i. 14
2 Tim. i. 13. Hold fast the form of sound words in faith and love
vviiich is in Christ Jesus.
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2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful lusts, but follow righteousness, faith,
charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Ver. 24. The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle
unto all men, apt to teach, patient.
Ver. 25. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves.
2 Tim. iii. 10. Thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of
life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, patience.
Ver. 14. Continue in the things which thou hast learned and hast
been assured of.
Tit. ii. 7. In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works.
1 Pet. V. 3. Being ensamples to the flock. See instances. Acts vi,
3. The seven deacons. Ch. xvi. 2. Timotheus. Ch. xxii. 12. Anani-!
as. Heb. xi. 2. The elders. 3 John ver. 12. Demetrius.
CXXIV. Their hmnility^ self-denial and condescension for the good
of mankind in their office. Rom. i. 11. I long for you that I may im-
part some spiritual gift unto you.
xi. 13. I magnify mine office.
1 Cor. ix. 12. We suffer all things lest we should hinder the gos-
pel.
Ver. 19. I made myself servant of all that I might gain the more.
Ver. 22. I am made all things to all men that 1 might by all means
save some.
Ver. 23. This I do for the gospel's sake.
X. 33. I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit,
but the profit of many, that they might be saved.
2 Cor. i. 24. We are helpers of your joy. Acts xvi. 40.
ii. 4. The love I have for you all.
V. 20. We pray you be ye reconciled to God.
vi. 1 . We beseech you, that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
Ver. 13. I speak as to my children.
vii. 4. Great is my glorying in you, I am comforted. Acts xi. 23.
Ver. 13. We were comforted in your comfort.
xi. 2. I am jealous over you wit!* a godly jealousy.
Ver. 3. I fear lest your minds should be corrupted from the sim-
plicity that is in Christ. See ver. 23 to 29.
Ver. 1 1. Wherefore ? because I love you not ? God knoweth.
2 Cor. xii. 15.1 will very gladly spend and be spent for you, thou§;h
the more I love you the less I be loved.
Ver. 19. We do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
Ver. 29. Who is weak and I am not weak ? who is offended and
I burn not ?
Gal. iv. 1 1. I am afraid lest I have bestowed labour on you in vain.
Ver. 19. My little children of whom I travel in birth till Christ
be formed in you.
Phil. i. 8. God is my record how greatly I long after you in the
bowels of Jesus Christ.
ii. 17. If I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith,
I joy and rejoice with you all.
Ver. 20. Timotheus will naturally care for your state.
iv. 1. Dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand
/ast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
Col. i. 24. I rejoice in ray sufferings for you, I fiU up that which
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behind of the uffliction of Christ in my Iksh for his body's sake, which
is the church.
Col. ii. 1. I would that ye knew what i2;reat conflict I have for you,
and for them of Laodicea, and for as many us ha\e not seen my face
in the flesh :
Ver. 2. That ihcir hearts might be knit together in love, and unto
all riches of the full assurance of understanding-, Sec.
ii. 5. Though I be absent in the liesh, yet i am with you in the
spirit, joying and beholding your order and the stedfastness of your
faith in Christ.
iv. 8. I sent Timotheus to comfort your hearts. 1 Cor. iv. 7,
1 Thess. iii. 2.
1 Thess. ii. 7. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cher-
isheth her children.
Ver. 8. licing afiectionately desirous of you, we were willin^^ to
have imparted to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own
souls, because ye were dear unto us.
Ver. 9. Labouring night and day we preached the gospel unto you.
Ver. 1 1. We exhorted and comforted and cherished every one of
you as a father doth his children.
Ver. 19. For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing ? are
not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ ?
iii. 7. Brethren, we were comforted over you in all our afflictions
and distress by your faith.
Ver. 8. For now we live, if yc stand ilist in the Lord.
Ver. 9. What thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy
wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God ? V^er. 10, 11.
2 Tim. ii. U). I endure all things for the elects sake, that they may
obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eterniil glory.
3 John ver. 4. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children
walk in the truth. 2 John ver. 4.
CXXy. They St ek not alijilau^'w f'om nun^ they Jlaitcr not mm in
thnr vicey, and jirtjudiccfi. \ Thess. ii. 4. We speak not as pleasinp*
men, but God whicli trieth our heaats.
Ver. 5. Neither used we liatteiing words.
Ver. 6. Neither of men sought we glory.
Gal. i. 10. if i yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ.
CXXVT. Thf.j ficck not riches (.f mcn^ arc not covetous. 2 Cor. xii.
14. Paul said I .*.cek not youi's but yon.
1 Tim. iii. 3. A bishop must not be grcedv of filthv lucre. Ver. 8
Tit. i. 7.
I Pet. V. 2. Feed the flock of God, taking the oversight, not for
filchy lucre's sake. Sec Luke ix. 62. 2 Tim. ii, 4. See instances,
Samuel. 1 Sam. xii. 1,2, 3. Paul. 1 O^i-. Ik. 14. 2 Cor. vii. 2. ix.
11. — xii. 13, 17, 18. 1 Thess. ii. 5. Phil. iv. 11, 12.
CXXViL Their duty a^id encjurcr^emcnt to sfieak boldly the trutha
of religion without fi ar. Isa. I. 4. The Lord God hatli given me the
tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a v/ord in
season to him that is weary.
Jer. i. 7. The Lord said to me, say not I am a child, for thou sh^lt
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go to all that 1 send thee, and whatsoever I shall command tiiee, that
thou shalt speak.
Jer. i. 8. Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver
thee, saith the Lord. \ er. 5, 9.
Ver. 17. Be not afraid of their faces lest I confound thee before
them. Ch. vi. 27. — xv. 20, 21.— -xx. II. Ezek. ii. 6, 7.
Ezek. iii. 8. I have made thy face strong against their faces. Ver. 9.
Matt. X. 28. Fear not them which kill the body. Ver. 26, 31.
Acts iv. 29. Lord s^rant unto thy servants, that with all boldness
they may speak thy word.
xviii. 9. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, be
not afraid but speak and hold not thy peace.
Ver. 10. For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee tohuit
thee, for I have much people in this city. Ver. 1 i.
xxviii. 3L Paul taught those things that concern the Lord Jesus
with all confidence.
Eph. vi. 19. Paul said, pray for me that utterance may be given
me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery
of the gospel.
Eph. vi. 20. That I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.
Prov. XX. 25. The fear of man bringeth a sntue.
Rev. xxi. 8. The fearful and unbelieving, shall have their portion
in the lake that burncth with lire and brimstone, which 4s the second
death. See Moses's excuse, and God's replv to him. Exod. iv. 10
to 13.
CXXVIIL Instances of becoming boldness in refiroving sinners and
declaring the truths of religion. I Sam. xiii. 13. Samuel said to Saul,
thou hast done foolishly, thou hast not kept the commandment of the
Lord thy God. 2 Chron. xvi. 7, S.
2 Sam. xii. 7. Nathan said to David, thou art the man that hast
done wickedly.
Ver. 9. Wherefore hast thou despised the Lord to do evil in his
sight ?
1 Kings xxi. 20. Elijah said to Ahab, thou hast sold thy life to
work evil in the sight of the Lord. See more instances in a prophet.
2 Chron. xxv. 16. Daniel. Dan. iv. 27. — v. 22, 23. John Baptist.
Matt. xiv. 4 Peter and John. Acts xiv. 13, 18, 19, 20. Paul. /\ct3
ix. 29. — xix. 8. 2 Cor. x. 1,2. — xi. 21. Rom. xv. 1 J. 1 Thcss. ii. 2.
Barnabas and Paul. Acts xiii. 46. — xiv. 5. Apolos. Acts xviii. 25,
26. Many brethren. Phil. i. 14.
CXXIX. The sufferings of the a/iosflc.^, 15" c. for religion. Acts v.
41 . The apostles departed from the presence ot the counsel rejoic-
ing that they were counted v/orthy to suffer shame, for the name oi
Christ.
ix. 16, The Lord said of Paul, I will shew him how great things
he must suffer for my name's sake.
XX. 23. Paul Said, the Holy Ghost witnesscth in every city, saying,
that bonds and afflictions abide me.
\ er. 24. But none of these things move me, neither count I my
life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and
the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the
j^ospel of the grace of God.
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1 Cor. ii. 3. I was with you in weakness and in fear, 8cc.
iv. 9. God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed
to death, for we are made a spectacle unto the world, to angels and
to men.
Ver. 10. We are fools, we are weak, we are dishonourable, we
are despised. Ch. xxvii. 28.
Ver. 1 1 . We hunger and thirst, are naked, buffeted, and have no
certain dwelling-place.
Ver. 12. Being reviled we bless, being persecuted we suffer it.
Ver. 13. Being defamed we intreat, we are made as the filth of
the world, and are the off-scouring of all things unto this day.
2 Cor. i. 5. Tiie sufferings of Christ abound in us.
Ver. 8. Id Asia, we were pressed out of measure, above strength,
insomuch that we despaired even of life.
Ver. 9. We had the sentence of death within ourselves.
Ver. 10. God delivered us.
vi. 4. In all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God in
much patience, in afRictions, in necesiiides, iu distress.
Ver. 5. In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in
watchings, in fastings.
V^er. 8. By honour and dishonour, by evil report, and good report,
as deceivers, and yet true.
Ver. 9. As unknQwn, and yet well known, as dying, and behold
we live, as chastened and not killed.
Ver. 10. As sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making
many rich, as having nothing yet possessing all things.
xi. 23. In labours abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons
frequent, in deaths oft. Ver. 25, 26.
Ver. 27. In weariness and painfulness, in watchings ofien, in hun-
ger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Eph. vi. 20. For the gospel I am an ambassador in bonds.
1 Tim. iv. 10. We labour and suffer reproach.
2 Tim. ii. 3. Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Ch. iv. 5.
iii. 1 1. Thou hast known what persecutions I endured.
V^er. 12. All that will li\e godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer per-
secutions. Acts xiv. 22.
Hcb. xi. 25. Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the peo-
ple of God, than to enjoy the pleasure* of sin for a season. Ver. 26.
Ch. xiii. 13.
Ver. 36. Others had trial of cruel mockingr., and scourgings.
Ver. o7 . They v/ere stoned, they were sawn asunder, Sec. Ver. 38.
Rev. xvi. 6. They shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou
hast given them blood to drink, for they are worthy.
xi. 7. The beast that aseendeth out of the bottomless pit, shall
make war against the witnesses, and shall overcome tliem and shall
kill them.
xvii. 6. I saw the woman drunken v/ith the blood of the saints, and
wiih the biood of the martyrs of Jesus.
xii. 6. The woman Bed into the wilderness. Ver. 14.
CXXK. Tilth' ti-mjurancc. Lev. x. 8. The Lord spake unto Aaron,
^uying,
4.14 Ministers of Christ. Chap. XVII.
Lev. X. 9. Do not drink wine, nor strong drink, thou nor thy sons
\(?ith thee, when j^e go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest
ye die. Ezek. xliv. 21. Luke i. 15.
liUke xxi. 34. Jesus said unto his disciples, take heed to yourselves,
lest at any timeyour hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drun-
kenness and the cares of this life.
1 Cor. ix. 27. Paul said, I keep my body under. Jer. xxxv. 6.
1 Tim. iii. 3. A bishop must not be given to wine. Tit. i. 7. See
wine forbidden to Nazarites. Numb. vi. 3. Amos ii. 12.
CXXXL They pray for the fieofile. Numb. vi. 23. On this wise ye
shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,
Ver. 24. The Lord bless thee, and keep thee,
Ver. 25. The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gra-
cious unto thee,
Ver. 26. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give
thee peace.
Joel ii. 17. Let the priests the minisiers of the Lord weep between
the porch and the altar, and let them say spare thy people, O Lord,
and give not thy heritage to reproach.
Rom. i. 9. Without ceasing, I make mention of you always in my
prayers.
X. 1. My heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they
may be saved.
XV. 13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in be-
lieving, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy
Ghost.
1 Cor. i. 4. I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace
of God which is given you by Jesus Christ.
2 Cor. xiii. 7. I pray to God that ye do no evil.
Eph. i. 16. I cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of
you in my prayers.
\'^er. 17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory, may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of him. See Ver. 18, 19.
Phil. i. 3. I thank my God on every remembrance of you.
Ver. 4. Always in every prayer of mine, for you all, making request,
Ver. 5. That he that hath begun a good work in you, will perform
it until the day of Christ.
Ver. 9. This I pray that your love may abound yet more and more,
in knowledge, and in a\\ ju.igujent. ^
V^er. 10. That yc m.iy approve the things that are excellent, and
that ye may be sincere and without offence until the day of Christ.
Ver. 11. Bcirijjj filled with the fVtsits of righteousness, which are
by Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of (iod.
CoL i. 9. We cease not to pray for you and to desire that ye mi'j;ht
be filled with the iiuowledge of ni.i v/iil, in all wisdom and spiritual
underst.^nciini^j;.
Ver. 10. That ye mi.j;ht walk worthy of the Lord \mto all pleasing,
being fruitful in every jrood work, increasing iii Ll»e knowledge of
God.
Ver. H. Strengthened wLh nil might according to his glorious
powtr,-nnto ail putien;,r and iongrHLifVerint:; willi joyfulncss.
Chap. XVII. J^rmhters of Christ. ' 415
Col. iv. 12. Labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may
stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
1 Thess. iii. 12. The Lord make you to encrease and abound in
love, one towards another and*towards all men.
Ver. 13. To the end that he may cntahlish your hearts unblamcable
in holiness before God even our Father, at the comiui^ of our Lord
Jesus Christ with all his saints.
V. 23. The very God of peace sanctify you wdiolly, and I pray (iod
your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless unto
the cominf^ of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thess. i. 1 1. We pray always for you, that our God would count
you worthy of this calling-, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his good-
ness, and the work of faith with power.
Ver. 12. That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glori-
fied in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and
the Lord Jesus Christ.
ii. 16. Now the Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God even our Fa-
ther which hath loved us and given us everlasting consolation and
good hope through grace,
Ver. 17. Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word
and work.
James v. 14. Is any sick among you ? let him call for the elders
of the church, and let them pray over him. Ver. 15.
See more instances of such prayers. Exod. xxxii. I i. Moses for the
Israelites when they offended in making the golden calf. Deut. ix. 20.
Numb. xi. 2. For the people when a fire from the Lord consum-
ed many of them.
xiv. 1 3, 20. For the people when they murmured.
xxi. 6, 7, 8. For the people when ])itten with fiery serpents.
I Sam. xii. 19, 23. Samuel for the people offending by asking &
king.
Nch- ix. 6. The priests for the people to ver. 37. Ch. x. 28 to
^5?). On which a reformation ensues. Ch. xii. 43.
Dan.ix. 4 to 20. Daniel for the people.
Amos vii. 2 to 7. Amos for the people.
Hah. i. 3 to 17. Habakkuk for the people. Ver. 17, 18, 19. C^hri:,'.
for the disciples. John xiv. 16. — xvi. 26. — -xvii. 9, 15, 20. For Peter
Luke xxii. 32. For children. Matt. xix. 13.
CXXXIL The Hiipp-orts of Christians in general^ of the LorcVs minii,-
ters in pMrticutar^ nnder snjff'ering.s fjr religion.
Isa. Ixvi. 5. Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at \\\%
word, your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for mv name'?>
sake, said, let the Lord be glorified; bv^t he shall appear to yom
joy, and they shall be ashamed, l.uke vi. '22, 23.
Matt. V. 10. Blessed are they which arc persecuted for righteousr
ner>s sake. Tor theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Ver. 1 1.
X, 39. He that loseth his life for my suke shall find it.
xix. 29. Every one that huth forsaken houses or brethren, or sis^
ters, or f;«.ther or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's
sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall iuiierit everlasting life
Rom. V. 3. \Vc g'ory in tribulations, kno-.ving that tfibulation work-
ejh pi'.tiencc,
416 IVicked Ministers, Chap. XVII.
Rom. V. i. And patience, experience and experience hope ;
Ver. 5. And hope maketh not ashamed. James i. 2.
viii. 17. If so be that we suffer for Christ, that we may be also glo-
rified toi^ether.
Ver. 18. The sufferings of this present time are not fit to be com-
pared to the i^lory that shall be revealed in us.
Ver. 35. Who shidl separate us from the love of Christ ? Shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or pe-
ril, or the sword ?
Ver. 36. (As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day
lon^ ; we are counted as sheep for the slaui^hter.)
Ver. 37. In all these things we arc more than conquerors, through
him that loved us.
2 Cor. iv. 9. We are persecuted but not forsaken. Ch. vi. 8, 9, 10.
xii. 10. I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessi-
ties, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake : For when I am
weak, then am 1 strong.
Ver. 9. He said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee ; for my
strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I
rather glory in mine infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest
upon me.
I Tim. iv. 10. We labour and suffer reproach, because we trust
in the living God.
Heb. X. 34. Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing
that in heaven ye have a better and a more enduring substance.
xi. 26. Moses had respect to the recompence of reward.
Ver. 27. He endured as seeing him who is invisible.
Ver. 35. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that
they might obtain a better resurrection.
xii. 1. Seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us run with patience the race set before us.
Ver. 2. Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, who
for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God. Ch.
ii. 9. — xiii. 13, Matt. x. 24. James v. 10. 1 Pet. ii. 21.-^iv. 1, 13, 14,
16, 19. Rev. ii. 10.
WICKED MINISTERS.
CXXXni. Wicked minlstcra^ their sin and fiunishmejit. Lev. x, 1.
Nadab and Abihu offered strange fire before the Lord which he com-
manded them not.
Ver. 2. And there went out a fire from the Lord and devoured
them.
1 Sam. ii. 12. The sonsofEii were sons of Belial, they knew not
the Lord. See to ver. 17. Their covetousncss. Ver. 22. Their uii-
cleanness. Ver. 27. to the end, the punishment of Eli's house.
Isa. xliii. 27. Thy teachers have transgressed against me.
Ver. 23. Therefore I have profaned the prmces of the oanctuary,
I have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Jer. ii. 8. The priests said not, where is the Lord ? and they that
handle the law knew me not ; the pastors also transgressed again--:
nic, &.:c.
Chap. XVII. JVIcked Minisier^. 417
Jer. ii. 9. Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saithtlie Lord, and
with your children's children.
X. 21, The pastors are become brutish and have not souj^ht the
Lord, therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks sliall be
scattered.
xxiii. 1 1. Both prophet and priest are profane, etc.
Ver. 12. Wherefore I will bi-ing evil upon them, even the year
of their visitation, saidi the Lord.
Ver. 14. They commit adultery and walk in lies, they strenj^then
the hands of evii-doers, that none doth return from his wickedness,
they are all of them to me as Sodom.
Ver. 15. Thus saith the Lord, I will feed them with wormwood,
arid make them drink the water of gall, for from the priests is pro-
faneness g;one forth to all the Land.
Ver. 22. If they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my peo-
ple to hear my words, then they should have turned them from the
evil of their doings.
Ver. 27. They cause my people to forget my name by their dreams.
Ver. 30. Therefore I am against the prophets, saith the Lord,
Ezek. xxii. 26. Her priests have violated my law, and have pi*o-
faned my holy things.
Ver. 31. Therefore I poured out mine indignation upon them,
their own way have I recompensed upon their. heads.
Zeph. iii. 4. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons, her
priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence t© the
law.
Ver. 5. The just Lord is in the midst thereof, kc.
Mai. i. 6. O ye priests that despise my name.
Ver. 7. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar.
Ver. 8. If ye offer the blind, and the lame, and the sick, is it not evil i
Ver. 9. VVill he regard your persons, saith the Lord ?
ii. 8. O ye priests, ye have departed out of the way, ye have cau-
sed many to stumble at the law.
\'er. 9. Therefore have I made you contemj)tii)le before all the
people, according as ye have not kept my ways.
Matt. vii. 22. Many will say to me in that day. Lord, Lord, ha\t'
we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out devils, and
in thy name done many wonderful works.
Ver. 23. Then will i profess unto them I never knew you, depar!
from me ye that v/ork iniquity. Ch. xxv. 44, 45.
2 Tim. iii, 5. Having a form of godliness, but denying llie power
thereof, from such turn away. Ver. 13.
CXXXIV. Their covetaufiTiesfi. Isa. Ivi. 11. Her watchmen are all
greedy dogs which can never have enough ; they all look to their own
way, every one for his gain from his quarter. See the covetousness
of Eli's sons. 1 Sam. ii. 12 to 17.
Jer. viii. 10. Every one from the least, even to the greatest, is
given to covetousness. Ch. vi. 13.
Ezek. xiii. 19. Will ye pollute my name for handfuls of barley and
pieces ot" bread.
IIos. vi. 9. As troops of robber.s the priests murder in the way,
they commit iewdncBs.
416 IVicked Mlnh'ta-&'. Chap. XVlii
Mai. i. lu. Who is there among; you that would sliut the doors for
nouL^ht ? neither do they kindle fire on mine altar for nouii;ht. I have
no pleasure in you, neither will I accept an offering at your hands,
saith the Lord of hosts.
iii. 1 1 . The pricts teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money.
V'er. 12. Therefore shall Zion for your sakesbe plowed as a field.
John X. 12, He that is an hireling-, whose own the sheep are not.»
iieelh the wolf cominy; and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth.
Ver. 13. The hireiing; ileeth, because he is un hireling, and careth
not for the sheep.
Acts XX. 29. After niy departure shall grievous wolves enter iiv
among you, not sparing the flock.
1 i im. vi. 5. i\len of corrupt minds, supposing that gain is godli-
ness.
2 'j'im iv. 10. Demas hath forsaken us, having loved this present
world.
'Jit. i. 1 1. Teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's
sake.
2 Fet. ii.3. Through covctousness shall they make merchandize of
'you.
Jude ver. 11. They ran greedily after the error of Balaam for
reward. 2 Pet. ii. 14, 15.
CXXXV. I/ieir intemfierance. Isa. xxviii. 7. The priest and the
inophet have erred; through strong drink they are out of the way.
Ver. 8, 17. Ch. Ivi. 12.
Luke xii. 45. If that servant shall begin to eat and to drink, and to
be drunken,
^ er. 46. The Lord of that servant will cut him in sunder, and ap-
point him his poitioh with unbelievers.
Rom. xvi. 1 8. Such sei vc not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own
beliy.
Phil iii'. 19. Whose Cod is their belly, whose glory is their shame,
who mind eathly things.
2 Pet. ii. ):>. 'Ihcy count it pleasure to riot in the day-time-.
Jude ver. 12. Fecriin'.^ themselves without fear.
\ er. 19. Sensual, liuving not the Spirit.
CXXXV'L Their fshthfulncfifi. isa. Ivi. 10. His watchmen are i.ll
dumb doi.':s, they caimoi bark, sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Jer xxiii. 5. Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the
»h(.ep of n)v p-dsture, saith the Lord.
Ver. 2. Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and
have not v ibited them ; behc^ld 1 will visit upon you the evil of your
do'uipfs, ii- iththe Lord.
EzVk.- iii. \^. "When I say unto the wicked, thou shah surely die ;
and thoti give.^t him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked
from his wicked v.ny to save his life ; the same wicked man shall die
in his iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
xxxiv. 2. Thus saith the Lord, woe be to the shepherds; should
not the shepherds feed the flock. See to ver. 1 1.
xliv. 8. Ye have not kept the charge of mine holy tlungs, but yc
have sr»t ko^'p'T^. of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
Chap. XVII. Wicked Ministers. 410
Ezek. xliv. 12. They shall bear their inquity.
Hos. iv 6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because
thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be
no priest to me ; seein^j thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will
also forget thy children.
Ver. 9. There shall be like people like priest, and I will punish them
for their ways, and reward them for their doings.
Luke xi. 52. they have taken away the key of knowledge.
Matt, xxiii. 3 They say and do not, they bind heavy burdens on
men's shoulders, but they themselves will not touch them with one of
their fingers.
Kxv. 26. Thou wicked and slothful servant.
1 Cor. ix. 16. Woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel.
OF FALSE PROPHETS AND FALSE TEACHERS.
CXXXVII. They deceive the fieofile ivith Jiatt erics and f ah e doctrine^
Isa. ix. 14. The Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail.
Ver. 15. The prophet that teacheth lies is the tail.
Ver. 16. For the leaders of this people cause them to err. Ch. ili.l2.
J.er. V. 30. A wonderful thinp;is committed in the land.
Ver. 31. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule
by their means, and my people love to have it so.
xiv 14. Ihe prophets prophesy lies in my name, I sent them not,
neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them ; they pro-
phesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thmg of nought,
and the deceit of their heart. Ch. xxvii. 9, 10, &c.
vi. 14. They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
slightly, saying peace, peace, when there was no peace. Ch. viii. 1 1.
Ezek. xiii. 10. 18. Mic. iii. 5.
yii. 10. Many pastors have devoured my vineyard. Ver. 11.
xxiii. 16. The prophets speak a vision of their own heart, and not
out of the mouth of the Lord.
Ver. 21.1 have not sent them, yet they ran.
Ver. 25 1 hey say I have dreamed, I have dreamed. Ver. 27, 28. Ch.
xxviii. 9. 15 — xxix. 8, 9, 31, 32.— ,1. 6. Zech. x. 2.
Ezek. xiii. 10. Ye have seduced my people, saying peace peace,
when there was no peace ; one built the wall and another daubed it with
untempered mortar. Ch. xxii. 28, to 31.
Ver. 14. Thus saith the Lord, I will break dov/n the wall which ye
have daubed with untempered mortar, it shall fall, and ye shall be con-
sumed in the midst thereof. Ver. 15.
Ver. 18. Woe unto them tliat sew pillows to all arm-holes. See to
ver. 23. Ch. xxii. 28.
Lam.ii. 14. Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee,
and have not discovered thine inicjuity.
Ezek. xxii. 26. They have put no difference between the holy and
profane, between the unclean and the clean.
xxxiv. 4. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye
liealed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was
broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away,
420 Wicked Mhiisters, Chap. XVll,
neither have ye sought that which was lost, but with force and with
cruelty have ye ruled them.
Ezek. xliv. 10. TheLevites that are gone away far from me, when
Israel went astray ;
Ver. 12. Because they ministered unto Ihem before their idols, and
caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore have I lift up
mine hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their
iniquity. Ch. xiv. 9, 10.
Matt. V. 19. Whosoever shall break one of these l^ast command-
ments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of
heaven.
XV. 9. In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the com-
mandments of men.
xxiii. 16. Woe unto you, ye blind guides. Ch. xv. 14.
xxiv 1 1. Many flilse prophets shall rise and shall deceive many.
Ver. 24. If it were possible they shall deceive the very elect. Mark
xiii. 22.
Luke. xi. 52. They have taken away the key of knowledge, kc.
Acts. XX. 30. Of yourownselves shall men arise, speaking perverse
things to draw away disciples after them. Ch. xv. 1, 24. Gal. i 7.
Rom. xvi. 1 7. Mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary
to the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them.
Ver. 18. By good words and fair speeches they deceive the hearts
of the simple.
2 Cor. xi. 1 3 Such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ. Ver. 14, 15,20.
Gal.ii. 4. False brethren came in privily to spy out our liberty, that
they might bring us into bondage.
Ver. 5. To whom we gave place, by subjection, no, not for an hour,
that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
Eph. iv. 14. They lie in wait to deceive.
V. 6. Let no man deceive you. I John iii. 7.
Phil. i. 15. Some preach Christ of envy,
iii. 2. Beware of dogs, beware of evil-workers.
Ver. 18. They are enemies to the cross of Christ.
Col. ii. 8. Beware least any man deceive you through philosophy
and vain deceit, after the tradition ofmen, after the rudiments of this
world, and not after Christ.
Ver. 18. Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary hu-
mility and worshipping angels.
Ver. 22. After the commandments and doctrines ofmen.
2 ' hess. ii. 3. Let no man deceive you by any means.
Ver. 4. i he man of sin exalteth himself.
Ver. 9. Whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power
and signs, and lying v/onders.
Ver 10, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness.
1 Tim. iv. 1. Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to se-
ducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.
Ver. 2. Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared
Ver. 3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from
meats.
Chap. XVII* Duties toward the Mlnhtry. 421
1 Tim. vi. 3. They consent not to wholesome words, even the words
^f our Lord Jesus Christ. Ver. 4.
2 Tim. ii. 18. Who concerniug the truth have erred, and overthrew
the fiiith of some.
iii. 6. They creep into houses, and lead captive sily women.
Ver. S. They withstand the truth.
Ver. 13. Evil men and seducers wax w^orse and worse, deceiving
iind being deceived.
Tit. i. 10. Unruly and vain talkers and deceivers subvert whole
houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
Heb. xiii. 9. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines.
2 Pet. ii. 1. There was false prophets among the people, even as
there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in
damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and
bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
Ver. 2. Many shall follow their pernicious ways, by reason of
Avhom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. Jude ver. 4 to 20.
1 John ii. 18. Even now are there many antichrists.
Ver. 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us.
Ver. 26. These things I have written unto yqu concerning them
that seduce you.
iv. I . Many false prophets are gone out into the world.
2 John ver. 7. Many deceivers are entered into the world ; look
to yourselves. 3 John ver. 10..
Rev. ii. 2. Thou hast tried them which say that they are apostles
and are not, and hast found them liars.
Ver. 9. I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and
are not.
xviii. 23. By thy sorceries v/ere all nations deceived. Ch.xix. 20 —
XX. 20. Gal. vi. 13.
DUTIES TOWARD THE MINISTRY.
XXXVIIL To receive their instructions. Deut. xvii. 9. Thou shalt
come unto the priests the Levites, and incjuire.
Ver. 10. And thou shalt do according to tnc sentence which thcv
shall shew thee.
Ver. 11. According to the sentence of the law which they shall
teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee
thou shalt do ; thou shalt not decline from the sentence which thtv
shall shew thee, to the right-hand nor to the left I Sam. ix. 9.
2 Chron. xx. 20. Believe his prophets, so shall yc prosper. Ch.
XXX. 22.
Mai. ii. 7. The priests lips should keep knowledge, and they
should seek the law at his mouth, for he is the messenger of tlie
Lord of hosts.
John viii. 47. He that is of God heareth God's words.
Matt, xxiii. 2. The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses seat.
Ver. 3. All therefore whatsoever they bid you do, that observe
and do.
Luke X. 16. He that heareth you heareth me. Matt. x. 40. John
xiii. 20.
422 Duties toxvard the Minis try. Chap. XVII.
1 Cor. iv. 6. Be not puffed up for one against another.
Ver. 16. Be ye followers of me. Phil. 3. 17.
xi. 1 . Be ye followers of me, even as I am of Christ.
xvi. 16. Submit yourselves to such as have addicted themselves to
the ministry, and to every one that helpeth with us andlaboureth.
Heb. xiii. 7. Remember them which have the rule over you, who
have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow, consider-
ing the end of their conversation.
Ver. 17. i">bey them which have the rule over you, and submit
yourselves, for they watch for your souls, as they that must give
account, that they rnay do it with joy and not with grief, lor that is
unproritubie for you.
CXXXIX. To eHtt-em and love thei7i, 1 Cor. iv. I. Let a man so
account of us'as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the my-
steries of God.
XVI. 1 1. Let no man despise Timothy, but conduct him as a brother.
2 Cor. viii. 7. le abound in love to us.
Ver 24 Shew a prove of your love.
Gal. iv. 14. Ye received me as an angel.
Phil. ii. 2. lultii ye my joy.
1 Thess. V. 12. Know them which labour among you and are over
ycu in thel^ord, and admonish you.
Ver. 1 3. Esteem them highly in love for their works sake. Phil.ii 29.
V. 17. Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double
honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Tit. iii. 15. Greet them who love us in the faith.
CXL. To pray for them. Acts xii. 5. Prayer was made without
ceasing of the church unto God for Peter in the prison, and he was
delivered Ver. 7.
Matt. ix. 38. Pray ye the Lord of the harvest, that they would
send forth labourers into the harvest.
Rom. XV 30. I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's
sake, and for the the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with
me in your prayers to God for me. Ver. 31, 32.
?. Cor. i. 10. God delivered us from death.
Ver. 11. You helping together by prayer for us. Phil. i. 19.
Philem. ver. 22.
1 Thess. V. 25. Brethren, pray for us. Heb. xiii. 18.
2 Thess. iii. 1. Brethren pray for us, that the word of the Lord
may have free course and be gioiiried.
Ver. 2. And that we may be deiiveicd from unreasonable and wick-
ed men.
Eph. vi. 19, Pray fcrme, that utterance may be given to ine, that I
may open my mxouth boldly to m.ake known the mystery of the gospel.
Ver. 20. That I may speak boklly ao I ought to r.peLk. Col. iv. 3, 4.
CXLI. Sufjiort them. Dcut. xii." 19. 'i ake heed that thou forsake
not the Levite so long as thou shalt I've upon the earih. Ch. xiv. 29.
— xvi. 17.
2 Chron. xxxi. 4. Hczckiah commanded the people to give the por-
tion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraccdin
the law of the Lord. See Neh.xiii. 10. 1 1. E-ek. xiiv. 30. Mai. iii. 10.
Chap. XVil. Duties toxuard the Mmistry. 423
ISIatt. X. 10. Jesus said, the workman is worthy of his meat.
I Cor. ix. 11. Paul said, if we have soAvn vmto you spiritual things,
is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things r
Ver* 13. Do ye not know that they which wait at the altar are par-
takers with the altar ?
\'^er. 14. Even so hath God ordained, that they Avhich preach the
gosp?l, should live of the gospel. Sec Ver. 4 to 9. Deut. xxv. 4.
Gal. vi. 6. Let him that is taught in the word, comraunicate to him
that teacheth, in all good things.
Phil. IV. 16. Paul said, ye sent once and again to my necessity.
Ver. 17. Not because I desire a gift, but I desire fruit thai may a-
bonnd to your account. Ver. 18. Heb. x. 34.
CXLII. Desfii^sing them^ and not hearkening to their instructions. Deut.
xvii. 2. The man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken to
tlie priest tiiat standeth to minister before the Lord, even that man shall
die.
2. Chron. xxxvi. 15, 16. The Lord sent by his messengers the pro-
phets, but they mocked the messengers of God and despised his
words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose
against his people, and there was no remedy. Ch. vii. 25. — xxv. 3, 4.
— -xxvi. 5 — xxix. 19. — xxxv. 5.
Isa. xxx. 9. This is a rebellious people which will not hear the lav/
of the Lord.
Ver. 10. Which say to tlie seers, see not, and to the prophets, pro-
phesy not to us right things, speak unto uir smooth things. 1 Kings,
xxii. 8. 2 Chr. xxxvi. 15, 16. Jer. xi. 21. Mic. ii. 6.
liii. Who hath believed our report. Ch. xlix. 4.
Jer. ii.25. Thou saidst 1 have loved strangers, and after them I
will go.
v. 25. Prophets prophesy fiiisely, and the people love to have it so.
vi, 10. The word of the Lord is unio them a reproach, they have no
delight in it.
Ver. 17. I set v/atchmen over them, saying, hearken to the sound
of the trumpet, but they said, we will not hearken,
xviii. 1 8. They said, come let us smite the prophet with the tongue,
and let us not give heed to any of his words. See Ch. xxvi. 9. Lam.
iii. 61, 62.
Lam. iv. 16. The Lord will no more regard them, they respected
not the person of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
Ezek. iii. 7. The house of Israel will not hearken unto thee, for they
will not hearken unto me, saith the Lord.
xxxiii. 30. The children of thy people are talking against thee by
the walls, and in the doers of the houses.
Ver 31. They come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit
before thee as my people, they hear my words but they will not do them.
Ver. 32. i'hou art to them vs. a lovely song of one that hath a plea-
sant voice, and can play well on an instrument, ior they hear thy words,
but do them not.
Ver. 33. They shall know that a propiiet hath been among them.
Dan ix. 6. Vve have not hcarkenecl to thy servants the prophets
which spake in thy name.
424 Sixth Commandments Chap. XVII.
Hos. iv. 4. My people are as they that strive with the priest.
Zech. vii 11. They refused to hearken and pulled away the shoul-
der, and stopped their ears that they should not hear the words which
the Lord hath sent hi his Spirit by the prophets, therefore came wrath
from the Lord of hosts.
Matt, xviii. 17. If one neglect to hear the church, let him be unto
thee as an heathen man, and a publican.
X. 1 1. Into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, shake
the dust off your feet.
Ver. 15. It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the
day of judgment than for that city.
V^er. 16. He that despiseth you despiseth me.
John i. 1 1. Christ came to liis own, and his own received him not.
iii 11. Jesus said, ye receive not our witness.
V, 43, Jesus said, I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive
me not, if another come in his own name him ye will receive.
xii. 48. Jesus said, he that rejectcth me and receiveth not my words,
hath one that judgeth him, the word that I have spoken, the same shall
judge him "at the last day.
Eph. iv. 14. Be no more chldren tossed to and fro, with every wind
of doctrine.
1 Thess. iv. 8. He that despiseth, despiseth not men but God, who
hath given unto us his Holy Spirit, See Matt, xxiii. o7» Luke. xiii. 34.
2 Tim. \. 1 S.Paul said, all that are in Asia, be turned away from mc.
iv. 3. The time will come when they will not endure sound doc-
trine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers
having itching ears.
Ver. 4. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and
shall be turned into fables.
1 Cor. iii. 4. One saith I am of Paul, another I am of Apollos, t^'c.
Ch. i. 12.
iv. 6. Puffed up for one against another.
CXLHI. jYot supporting them. Mai. iii. 9. Ye arc cursed with a curses
for ye have robbed me, even thi3 whole nation. Ver. 10. Neh. xiii.
10, 12
SIXTH COMMANDMENT.
CXLIV. Of Murder. Exod. xx. 13. Thou shalt not kill. Matt. xix.
IS. I Tim. i. 9. Death the punishment of murderers.
Gen. ix. 6. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood he
shed. Ver. 5.
Exod. xxi. 12. He that smiteth a man so that he die, shall surely
be put to death. Ver. 15, 14. Lev. xxiv. 17.
Numb. XXXV. 16. The murderer shiul surely be put to death. Ver.
17, 18, 21, 30.
Ver. 3 1 . Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, he
shall surely be put to death.
Ver. 33. Blood deiileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed
of the blood that is shed thei-ein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Deut. xix. 11. If a man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him,
r.nd smite him mortally that he die, Ver. 13. '1 hine eye shall not pi-
ty him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of ir.nocent blooU.
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CXLV. Cases excepted wherein the killing of a man was not to be
punished with death. P^xod. xxi. 20. If a man smite his servant with
a rod and he die under his hand, he shall be surely punished.
xxii. 3. If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he
die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
Ver 3, But if the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed
for him.
Deut. xix. 4. Whosoever killeth his neighbour ignorantly whom
he hated not,
Ver. 6. He is not worthy of death. Numb. xxxv. 15, 22.
CXLVI- Threateniiiga agalufit imirderers, Ps. v. 6. The Lord will
abhor the bloody man. See Ps- li. 14. Jonah i. 14.
Iv. 23. Bloody men shall not live half their days,
cvi- 38. The land was polluted with blood. Ver. 40. Therefore
the wrath of the Lord was kindled.
cix. 31. The Lord shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save
him from those that conc!-jmn his soul.
Prov. vi. 17. i he Lord doth hate hands that shed innocent blood,
xxviii. 1 7. A man that doth violence to the blood of any person,
shall flee to the pit, let no man stay him.
Isa. lix. 3. Your hands are defiled with blood. Ver. 7.
Ver. 10 We are as dead men.
Jer. ii. 34. Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of
the poor innocents.
vii. 9. Will ye steal, murder, commit adultery, &c.
Ver. 15. I Avill cast you out of my sight. Ver. 16. Pray not for
this people.
xix. 3 I will bring evil upon this place. Ver. 4. They have filled
it with the blood of innocents. Lam. iv. 14, 16.
Ezek. xxiv. 6. Woe to the bloody city. Ver. 9. Neh. iii. 1.
xxxv. 6. As I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto
blood, and blood shall pursue thee ; sith thou hast not hated blood,
even blood shall pursue thee.
Hab. ii. 10- Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cuttin^r
off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. ^
Ver. 1 1. For the stone shall cry out the wall, and the beam out
of the timber shall answer it.
John viii. 44. The devil was a murderer from the beginning.
Gal. V, 21. The works of the flesh are, murders. James iv. 1.
1 John iii. 15- No murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
Rev. xxi. 8. Murderers shall have their part in the lake thatburn-
eth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
xxii. 15. Without the heavenly Jerusalem are murderers, &c.
See Hos. iv. 2, 3. Matt xxiii 35.
CXLVIL Instances of the fiunishment of murder.JJ'^onQdim'i Gen. iv.5,
24. Upon Simeon and Levi, Gen. xlix. 5,6,7 — xxxiv. 25? 26. Up-
on David, 2 Sam. 1 Ith and 12th chapters, and upon Ahab, 1 Kings
xxii. 38. Upon Manasseth, 2 Kings xxiv. 3, 4.
CXLVIII- Strikijig^ wounding^ maiming. How to be punished.
Exod. xxi. 18 to 25, Lev, xxiv. 19. Deut. xxii. 23, 24 xxvii. 24.
426 Sevaith CGmmandmaiL Chkw XVII.
SEVENTH COMMAlv^DMENT.
CXLIX. Adultery andfjrnicadon, Exod. xx. 14, Thou shalt not
commit adultery. Mark x. 19. James ii. 11.
Deut. xxiii. 17. There shall be no v/hore of the daughter of Israel,
Lev. xis. 29.
CL. Threaterdnga^ rjv the evil consequences of adult erij^ 077 d fornica-
tion^ ijfc. Gen. xii. 17. The Lord plaj^ued Pharaoh and his house
with great plagues, because of Sarai Abram's ^\i^e, who vas tiiktn
into Pharaoh's house. Ver. 15.
XX. 2. Abimelech took Sarah Abraham's wife.
Ver. 3. God said to him, thou art a dead man. for slie is a man's wife.
Ver. 7. If thou restore her not thou shalt surely die.
Ver. 9. Abim.elech said to Abraham, thou hast brought on mc
and on my kingdom a great sin. Ch. xxvi. 7, 10, 11.
XXXV. 22. Reuben lay with Bilhah his father's concubine. Ch. xlix.
4. Jacob said, thou shalt not excel, because thou wentest up to thy
father's bed, and didst defile it.
Exod. xxii. 16. If a man entice a maid, that is not betrothed, and
he with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wile.
Ver. 1 7. If her father refuse to give her to him, lie shall pay mon-
ey according; to the dowry of virgins.
Lev.xviii. 20. Thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife
to defile thyself with her. Ver. 28. That the land spue you not out.
XX. 10. The man that committeth adult'jry with another man's
wife, thp adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
See to ver. 22.
xxi. 7. The priest shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane.
Ver. 9. And the daughter of the priest, if she profane herself by
playing the whore, she profaneth her father, she shall be burnt.
Numb. V. 12. If a man's wife go aside and commit a trespass a-
gainst hira,
Ver. 13. And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the
eyes of her husband, and there be no witness against her.
Ver. 19. The priest shall charge her with an oath of cursing.
Ver. 21.
Ver. 27. And if she be defiled, her belly shall sv/cU, and her thigh
shall rot.
Deut. xxii. 22. If a man be found lying with a woman married to
an husband, they shall both of them die.
Ver. 23. If a damsel that is a virgin, be betrothed unto an husband,
and a man find her in the city and lie with her,
Ver. 24. Ye shall stone them both with stones that they die, the
damsel because she cried not, being in the city, and the man because
he hath humbled his neighbour's wife.
Deut. xxii. 25. But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field
and force her and lie with her, then the man only shall die.
Ver. 28. If a man find a damsel that is a virgin which is not be-
trothed, and lay hold on lier, and lie with her, and they be found ;
Ver. 29. Then the man shall pive unto the demscl's father fifty
Chap. XVI I. Seventh Commandment. 427
shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled
her, he may not put her away all his days.
Deut. xxiii. 2. A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the
Lord even to his tenth generation.
Ver. 18. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of
a dog into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow,
2 Sam. xii. 4. David lay with the wife of Uriah,
xii. 11. See the punishment thereof.
Job xxvi. 15. The eye of the adulterer Waiteth for the twilight say-
ing, no eye shall see me.
Ver. 17. The morning is to them as the shadow of death.
Ver. 18. Their portion is cursed in the earth.
xxxi. 9. If mine heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have
laid wait at my neighbour's door ;
Ver. 10. Then let my wife grind to another, and let others how down
upon her.
Ver. 1 1 . For it is an heinous crime, it is an iniquity to be punished
by the judges.
Ver. 12, It is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root
out all mine increase.
Prov. V. 3. The lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb,
and her mouth is smoother than oil.
Ver. 4. But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharper than a two edged
sword.
Ver. 5. Her feet go down to death, her steps take hold on hell.
Ver. 6. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are
moveable.
Ver. 8. Remove thy way far from her, come not nigh the door of
her house.
Ver 9. Lest thou give thine honour to others, and thy years unto
the cruel.
Ver. 10. Lest strangers be fdled with thy wealth, and thy labours
be in the house of a stranger ?
Ver. 1 1. And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body
are consumed.
Ver. 20. Why wilt thou be ravished with a strange woman, and em-
brace the bosom of a stanger?
Ver 21. For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and
he pondereth all his goings.
vi, 24. Keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue
of a strange woman.
Ver. 25. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart, neither let her
take thee with her eye -lids,
Ver. 26. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a
piece of bread, and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Ver. 27. Can a man take fire in his bosom and not be burnt.
Ver. 28. Can he go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt.
Ver. 29. So he that goeth into his neighbour's wife, whosoever
toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Ver. 32. Whoso committeth adultery with a woman, lacketh un-
derstanding, he that doth it destroy cth his own scul.
H h h
428 Seventh Commandment* Chap. XVII.
Prov. vi. 33. A wound and dishonour shall he get, and his reproach
shall not be ^viped away.
Ver. 34. For jealousy is the rage of a man. Ver. 35. He vill not re-
t^ard any ransom. Ch. vii. 5. See the description of a v/horish woniL.ii,
and the fool taken by her snares, to ver. 26.
Ver. 27. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers
of death.
ix. 17. She saith, stolen v/aters are sweet.
Ver. 18. But know that the dead are there, and that her guests arc
in the deeps of hell.
xxii. 14. The mouth of a strange wom^an is a deep pit, he that is ab-
horred of tile Lord shall iall therein.
xxiii. 27. A whore is a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a r arrow
Ver. 28. She lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth transrn es-
sors among men.
XXX. 20. An adulterous woman saith, I have done no wicked-
ness.
xxxi. 3. Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that
which dcstroyeth kines.
Eccl. vii. 26. I find more bitter than death, the woman whose her-rt
is snares and nets, and her hands as bands, whoso pleaseth God shall
escape from her, biit the sinner shall be taken by htr.
Jer. vii. 9. Vv'ill ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, aud swear
falsely, &c.
Ver. 10. And come and stand before me in this house.
Ver. 15. I will cast you out of my sight.
V. 7. When I fed them to the full, they then committed adultery,
and assembled themselves by troops in the hariots houses.
Ver. 8. They were as fed horses in the morning, every one weighing
after his neghbour's wife. Ch. xiii. 27.
Ver. 9. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord, and sliall
not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this ?
ix. 2. They be all adulterers. Ver. 9. Shall not my soul be avenged
on such a nation ?
xxiii. 10. The land is full of adu'terers. The land mcurneth.
xxix. 23. Because they have committed adultery with their neigh-
bours wives, even I know ard am a witness, saith the Lord.
Ezek. xxii. 1 1. One hath committed abominations with his ncif.'b-
bour's wife, another hath defiled his daughter-iri-luw, and arxiher hulh
humbled his sister.
Ver. 14. Can thine heart endure, or thine hands be strong in the day
that I will deal with tl.ee ?
Hos. iv. 2. By swearin^^ and lying, and killing and stealing, and com-
mitting^ aduiteryj they break out.
Ver. 3. Therefore shall the land mourn.
Ver. 1 1. Whoredom and wine take away the heart.
Ver. 13. Your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouse*-
shall commit adultery.
Ver. 14. I will not punish your daughters nor your spouscs ; f .r
ihejcnselves are separsited v/ith whores.
Chap. XVII. Seventh CommandmeTit. 4Q9
Hos. vii, 4. They are all adulterers as an oven heated.
Ver. 7. There is none among them that calleth unto me.
Mai. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness against the adulterers and false
swearers, kc.
Rom. i. 28. As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
Ver. 29. Being filled with all unri^^hteousness, fornication, Sec.
1 Cor. iii. 16. Know ye not that ye are the temples of God.
Ver. 17. If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy.
V. 1, It is reported that there is fornication among ym, and such
fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles.
Ver. 9. I wrote to you, not to keep company with fornicators.
Ver. 1 1. If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, v/ith
such an one no not to eat.
Ver. 13. Put away from among you that wicked person.
vi. 9. Neither fornicators nor idolaters, adulterers, Sec. shall inher-
it the kingdom of God. Ver. 10,
Ver. 13. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord.
Ver. 15. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ,
shall I make them members of an harlot ?
Ver. 16. He that is joined to an harlot is one body with her.
Ver. 18. He that comniitteth fornication sinn;:th against his own
body.
X. 8. Neither let us commit fornication as some of them did, and
fell in one day, three and twenty thousand. Numb. xxv. 1, 9.
2 Cor. xii. 20. I fear lest I shall not find you such as I would.
Ver. 2 1 And that I sliall bewail many wlio have sinned, and have
not repented of their fornication, lasciviousness, &c.
Gal. V. 19. The works of the flesh, are adultery, fornication, un-
cleanness.
Ver. 21. They that do such things shall not inherit the kingdom
of God.
Eph. V. 5. No whoremonger nor unclean person hath an inheri-
tance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Ver. 6. Because of t'lese things cometh the wrath of Gqd upon
the children of disobedience'
Col. iii. 5. Fornication, uncleanncss, inordinate afTection, Sec.
Ver. 6. For which things sake cometh the wrath of God upon the
children of disobedience.
1 Tim. i. 10. The law is made for whoremongers, Sec.
Hcb. xiii. 4. Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
2 Pet. ii. 14. Having eyes full of adultery, cursed children,
Jude vii. Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them, giving
themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set
forth for an example, suffering tlie vengeance of eternal firg. Ver. 8.
Rev. xxi. 8. Murderers and whovemongcrs, &c. shuHhave their
part in the lulie that burneth v,-ith fire and biimsLGiic, vvl.ich is the
second death.
xxii. 15. Without [tlie lieavcn'y Jerusalem] are dogs, sorcerers,
ike.
430 Eighth Commandjnent. Chav. XVII.
Matt. V. 28. Whosoever lookcth on a woman to lust after her, hath
committed adultery with her already in his heart.
XV. 19. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murder, adulteries,
fornications, &c. these defile a man. Ver. 20.
CLI. Examples^ exhortations^ firomises^ ilfc, against adultery and
fornication. Gen.xxxix. 7. His master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph,
and said, lie with me. Vcr, 8. But he refused. V^er. 9. And said, how
can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God ?
Job xxxi. 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes, why then should
I look upon a maid ?
Ezek. xviii. 6. If a man be just and do that which is lawful and right,
and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, &c. he shall live. Ver. 9.
John viii. 4. Jesus said to the woman taken in adultery, sin no more.
Acts XV. 20. Abstain from fornication. Ver. 29.
Rom. xiii. 13. Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting
and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness.
Vcr. 14. Make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof.
1 Cpr. vi. 15. Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ.
Ver. 18. Flee fornication.
vii. 9. If they cannot contain, let them marry.
ix. 27. I keep my body under, lest I should be a cast-away.
X. 8. Let us not commit fornication.
Eph. V. 3. Fornication and all uncleanness, let it not be once nam-
ed amongst you, as becometh saints. Ver. 4.
Col. iii. 5. Mortify your members Avhich are upon the earth, for-
Tiication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, &c.
1 Thess. iv. 3. This is the will of God, even your sanctification,
and that ye abstain from fornication.
Ver. 4, Every one of you should know how to possess his vessel
in sanctification and honour.
Ver. 5, Not in the lust of concupiscence, as the Gentiles which
know not God.
Ver 7. God hath not called us to uncleanness, but unto holiness.
1 Tim. i. 10. The law is made for whoremongers, for them that
defile themselves with mankind.
2 Tim ii. 22. Flee youthful lusts.
1 Pet. ii, IL Abstainfromfleshly lusts which war against the soul,
ILIGHTH COMMANDMENT.
THEFT FORBIDDEN.
CLII. Precepts concerning firoperty^ and the use of riches in society.
Exod. X. 15. Thou shalt not steal. Lev. xix. 11, 13. Deut. v. 19.
Matt. xix. 18. Rom. xiii. 9. Eph. iv. 28. 1 Pet. iv. 15.
CLIII. Threat enings against theft. Exod. xxi. 16. He that stealeth
fiman, shall surely be put to death, Deut. xxiv. 7. 1 Tim. i. 10.
xxii. 1. If a man steal an ox or a sheep, he shall restore five oxon
for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Ver. 2. If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die,
there shall no blood be shed for him. Ver. 7. If the theft be found
in his hand he shall restore double. Ver. 7. Prov. vi. SO.
Jos, vii. 1 1. Israel hath sinned, they ]^vc stolen and dissembled alsq,
Chap. XVII. Eighth CommandmenU 431
Jos. vii. 12.Therefore they could not stand before theirenemies, &c.
Ps. 1. la. When thou suwest a thief, thou consentedst with him.
Ver. 21. But I will reprove thee.
Prov. xxix. 24. Whoso isapartner with a thief, hateth his own soul.
XXX. &. Feed me with food convenient.
Ver. 9. Lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of God in vain.
Jer. vii. 9. Will ye steal, &c. Ver. 15. I will cast you out of
^y sight.
Hos. iv. 2. By swearing and lying, killing and stealing they breakout.
Ver. 3. Therefore shall the land mourn.
Zech. V. 4. The curse (of the Lord} shall enter into the house of
the thief, and shall consume it.
Luke xii. 3 3. In the heavens, where no thief approacheth.
1 Cor. vi. 10. Neither thieves nor covetous^ nor extortioners,
shall inherit the kingdom of heaven.
CLIV. Robbtry forbidden ivith threateningfi.'LiCWYA.K. 13. Thou shalt
not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him-
Ps. Ixii. 10. Become not vain in robbery. Ver. 12.
Prov. xxi. 7. The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them.
Isa. Ixi. 8. I the Lord hate robbery. Ch. x. 2. — xvii. 14.
Ezek. xxii. 28. The people have used robbery, &c.
Ver. 31. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon
them, saith the Lord. Ch. xviii. 10, 13.
Amos iii. 10. They store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Ver. 1 1. Therefore (saith the Lord) thy palaces shall be spoiled.
Neh. iii. I. Woe to the bloody city, it is full of blood.
^LV. Fraud and cheating in commerce forbiddciu'Litw xix. 11, Ye
shall not steal, neither deal falsely. Prov. xx. 14.
Lev. xix. Z5. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in
mete-yard, in weight, or in measure.
Ver. 36. Just balances, just weights, a just cphah, and a just
bin shall ye have.
XXV. 14. If thou seilcst ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought
ofthy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another. Prov. xi. 26.
Duet. XXV. 13. Thou shalt not have in thy bags divers weights, a
great and a small,
Ver. 14. Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures, a.
great and a small.
Ver. 15. Thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and
just measure shalt thou have, that thy days may be lengthened in the
land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Ver. 16. For all they that do unrighteously are an abomination to
the Lord.
Prov. xi. 1 . A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a
just weight is his delight. See Prov. xvi. 1 1 — xx. 10, 23. Hos. xii.
'/, 8; 14. Amos viii. 6. Mic. vi. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. Ilab. ii. 6.
I Thess. iv. 6. This is the will of God that no man go beyond or
defraud his brother in any matter, because that the Lord is the aven-
ger of all such.
CLVI. Concerning pro jierty in lands. The larv thereof. Deut. xix. 14.
Thou shdt not remove thy neighbour's land-murk.
432 Oppresswn forbidden, ^c. Chap. XVII.
Deut. xxvii. 17. Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's iaiKi-
mark, and all the people shall say Amen. See Job xxiv.2. Prov. xxij.
28 — xxiii. 10, 11.
Exod. xxii. 5. If a man cause a field or a vmeyard to be eaten, and
shall put in his beast into another man's field, of the best of his own
vineyard and of his own field shall he m^ke restitution.
Ver. 6. If a fire break out and catch in thorns, so that the stacks
of corn, or the standing corn of the fivdd be consumed, he that kin-
dled the fire shall make restitution.
CLVII. Cone ernirig things founds lent, or entrusted v^th a neighbour to
keep. The law thereof. Lev. vi. 1 to 6.— xxiv, 18. Exod. xxii. 9 to l(i.
OPPRESSION FORBIDDEN, Scc.
CLVIII. Oji/iresision forbidden, ank dudes to the o/i/iressed. S,ee
duties of magistrates. Ste duties of masters,
Ps. xlii. 10. Trust not in oppression.
Prov. iii. 31, Envy not the oppressor? and chuse none of his ways*
Isa. i. 17. Relieve the opprcssed.
xlxiii. 15. Pie that despiseth the gain of oppression, ^c,
Ver. 16. He shall dwell on high, Ezek. xviii. 5, 7, 9, 16.
Iviii. 6. Is not this the fast that I have chosen, to let the oppressed
go free, &c.
Jer. xxi. lij. Believer him that is spoiled out of the hand of the
oppressor.
'Luke iii. 13. Jesus said to the publicans, exact no more than thvit
which is appointed you.
Ver 14. To the soldiers he said, do violence to no man, and be
content with your wages.
CLIX. Restitution to the injured to be made. Lev. vi. 5. 1 Sam. xli,
1. Luke xix. 8. Ps. xxxvii. 21. Gen. xliii. 12. — xUv. 8.
CLX. llireaterdngs against oppressors. Job xxvii. 13. This is tlic
heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
Ver. 14. If his children be multiplied it is for the sword, aud his
ofi'iipiiiig siiall not be satihfied with bread. See to ver. 19,
Prov. XX. 21. An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the begin-
ning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed,
xxii. 16. Kc that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, shall
surely come to want.
Ycv. 22. Rob noc the poor, neither oppress the adiicted ;
Ver. 23. For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul
cf those that spoiled them.
xxviii. 3. A poor man that oppresseth the poor. Is like a sweeping
rain which Icavcthno footl.
Ver 8. He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance,
he shall gather it for him that v/ill pity the poor.
Ver. 20. He that maketh haste to be rich, shall not he innocent.
Ver. 2 2. He that hasteh to be rich, hath an evil eye, and coii-
sidcreth not that proverty shall come upon him.
Isa. V. 8. Wo unto them that join house to house, that by field to
field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in tho
mid;3tof the earth. Mic. ii. 1.
CfiAF. XVII. Oppression forbidden, ^c. 433
Isa. xvi. 4. The oppressors ji.re consumed out of the land.
Kxx. 12. Because ye trust in oppression and perverseness, &c.
Vcr, 13. Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach.
xlix. 26. I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh, &c.
H. 23. I will put the cup oftrembling into the hand of them that
afflict thee.
lix. 13. In transc^ressing and lying against the Lord, in departing
away from our God ; speaking oppression and revolt,
Vcr. 15. The Lord saw itj and it displeased him, &c.
Jer. vi. 6. This is the city to be visited (by an enemy) she is wholly
oppression.
xvii. 11. He that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them
in the midst of his duys, and at his end shall be a fool.
xxii. \7. Sfieaking of Jeltoiakiin, — Thine eyes and thine heart are
not but for covetousness and oppression.
Ver, 18. They shall not lament for him. Ver. 19. He shall be
buried with the burial of an ass.
XXX. 20. I will punish all that oppress them,
Ezek. xviii. 12. He hath ©pressed the poor and needy, &c.
Ver. 13. Hath given forth upon usury.
Ver. 18. Hath spoiled his brother by violence, he shall die in his
ifuquity.
Iviic. ii. 2. They covet fields? and take them by violence.
Ver. 3. Therefore, saith the Lord, against this family do I devise
evil, Isa. V. 8. Sec Ecci. v. 8. also Isa. 1. 17, 18. Hos. xii. 7.
Am. iv. 1, 2. Hab. ii. 6. Zeph. i. 9. Acts vii. 26. 1 Cor. vi. 8.
CLXI. Prayers for the c/i/ii'esscd. Ps. xvii. 9. Keep me from tlic
wicked that oppress me.
xlii. 9. Why go I mourning, because of the oppression of the ene-
my. Fs. xliii. 2. — Iv. 3.
xliv. 24. Wherefore hidcst thou thy face, and forgettest our af-
fliction and our oppression.
liv. 2. Hear my prayer, O God. Ver. 3. For oppressors seek for
my soul.
Ixxiv. 21. O let not the oppressed return v/ith shame.
cxix. 121. Leave me not to mine oppressors. Ver. 122.
^"er. 134. Deliver me from the oppression of man.
Isa. xxxviii. 14. O Lord, I am oppressed, undertake for me.
CLXII. Promises to t/ic op/iressed. Ps. ix. 9. The Lord will be a
refuge for the oppressed.
x. 17. Thou wilt judge the oppressed.
xii. 5. P'or the oppression of the poor, for the sighs of the needy,
will I arise, saith the Lord.
XXXV. 10. Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor
from him that is too strong for him, and from him that spuileth hmi ?
Ixxii. 4. He shall save the children of tlie needy, and shall break in
pieces the oppressor.
Ver. 14. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, and
precious shall their blood be in his sight.
ciii. 6. The Lord executelh judgment for all tliat arc oppressed,
cxlvi. 7. He executcth judgment for the oppressed.
484j i^uties cf the Rich, ^c. Chap. XVII.
Isa. ix. 4. Thou bast broken the red of his oppressor, &c.
xiv. 2. They" shall rule over their oppressors.
xix. 20. They shall cry to the Lord, because of the oppressors, and
be shall deliver them.
liv. 15. Thou shall be far from oppress'on and from terror.
Jer. 1. o2. They were oppressed.
Ver. 34. Their Redeemer will plead their cause. See Ezek. xlv. 8.
Zech. ix. 8. See deliverances from national oppression. Exod. iii. 9.
Deut. xxvi. 7. Judg. ii. 16, 18 — iv. 3 vi, 9. and 7th and 8th Chap.
— X. 8, 12. — 2 Kings xiii, 4, 23. Isa, Iii. 4.
DUTIES OF THE RICH TOWAUD THE POOR.
CLXIII. Duties of the rich toward the poor. Hospitality, Rom.
Xii. 13. Given to hospitality. Vtr, «. 1 Tim. iii. 2.
1 Pet.iv. 9. Use hospitality one toward another without grudgine.
Ver. 10.
Heb. xiii. 2. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers.
1 Tim. V. 10. If she have lodged straniijers. See instances of hos-
pitality, Gen.xviii. 1 to 19. Acts x. "23 xxviii. 7. 3 .John ver. 5, 6,
CLXIV. Lending without usury. Exod. xxii.25. If thou lend to
any of my people that is poor, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer,
neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. See Lev. xxv, 35, 36, 37.
Deut. XV. 7 to 11. — xxiii. 19, 20. Ps. xv. 5. Prov. xxviii. 8. Ezek.
xviii. 8, 13, 17. — xxii. 12, 13.
Ver. 26« If thou take thy neighbour's raiment to pledge, thou
shalt deliver it to him by that tlie sun goeth down, Deut. xxiv. 6.
Job xxxi. 16.
Ps. xxxvii, 26. The righteous Is ever merciful and lendeth, his
seed is blessed.
cxii. 5, A good man shewcth favour and lendeth. Ver. 9. His
righteousness endurcth for ever. 2 Cor. ix. 9.
Prov, iii. 28. Say not to thy neighbour, go and come again, wht n
thou hast it by thee. Gal. vi. 10.
Matt, V, 42. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that
would borrow of thee, turn not thou away.
Acts iv. 32. They that believed had all things common.
CLXV. Giving alms. Promises, Ps. xxxvii. 21. The righteous
sheweth mercy and giveth,
Ver. 24. The Lord upholdeth him.
xli. 1. Blessed is he that considereth the poor. Ver. 2, 3.
cxii. 9. He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor, his righte-
ousness remaineth for ever, I Cor. ix. 9.
Prov. iii. 9. Honour the Lord with thy substance. Ver. 27. With»
hold not g: od from him to whom it is due, when it is in the power
of thine hand to do it.
•Ver. 10. So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, «&c,
xi. 24. There is that scattcreth, and yet increareth, &c,
Ver. 25. 'I he liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth
shall be watered himself also,
jciv. 21. He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
GhaP. XVII. Duties of the Richy^c. 435
Prov, xiv. 31. He that honoureth his Maker, hath mercy on the
poor.
xix. 17. He that hath pity on the poor, lendeth to the Lord, and
that which he hath given will he repay him.
xxii, 9. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth
of his bread to the poor.
xxviii. 2r. He that giveth to the poor shall not lack.
xxix. 7. The righteous considereth the cause of the poor.
Eccl. xi. 1. Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it
after many days.
Isa. xxxii. 8. The liberal deviseth liberal things, and by liberal
things shall he stand.
Iviii. 6. Is not this the fast that I have chosen (saith the Lord ?)
Ver, 7. To deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the
poor that are cast out, to thine house, when thou seest the naked,
that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own
flesh.
Ver, 9. Then shalt thou call, and the Lord .will answer.
Ver. 10. If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the
afflicted soul, then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness
be as the noon-^day.
Ver, 11. And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy
soul in drought, and make fat thy bones, and thou shalt be like a wa-
tered garden, and like a spring whose waters fail not. Ver. 12. See
Job xxxi, 16 to 20. and ver, 32. Ezek. xviii. 7. Hath given
his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment.
Ver, 9. He shall surely live, saith the Lord.
Mark. x. 21. Jesus said, sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the
poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. Lukexii. 33.— xviii. 22.
xii. 42. A poor widow threw in two mites.
Ver. 43, Jesus said, this poor widow hath cast in more than they all.
Ver. 44. She did cast in all that she had. 2 Cor. viii. 12.
Luke iii, 11, Jesus said, he that hath two coats, let him impart to
him that hath none, and he that hath meat do likewise.
vi. 38. Give and it shall be given unto you.
xi. 41. Give alms of such things as you have, and behold all things
are clean unto you.
xiv. 13. When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the
lame and the blind.
Ver. 14, And thou shalt be blessed, for thou shalt be recompensed
?,t the resurrection of the just.
xvi. 9. Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteous-
ness.
Acts X. 2. Cornelius gave much alms to the people, and prayed to
God always.
Ver. 4. The angel said unto him, thy prayers and thine alms are
come up as a memorial before God.
XX. 35. Support ye the weak, 'tis more blessed to give than to re-
ceive,
Eph. iv. 28. Give to him that needeth.
1. Tim. vi. 17. Charge them that are rich in this worllL
Iii ^
436 Promises to the Poor, ChAP. XVH.
I Tim. v'u 18. That they be rich in good works, ready to distri-
bute, willing to communicate.
Ver. 19. Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation
against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Heb. xiii. 16. To do good and communicate forget not, for with
such sacrifices God is well pleased.
CLXVI. Jims to be done in secret. Matt. vi. 1. Do not your
alms before men to be seen of them.
Ver. 3. When thou docst thine alms, let not thy right hand know
what thy left hand doth, Sec.
Ver. 4. That thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father which
seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
Rom. xii. 8. He that giveth let him do it with simplicity.
CLXVII. To be given to the poor of every denomination. Luke vi.
."^O. Give to every man that asketh.
Ver. 35. Love your enemies and do good| and ye shall be the chil-
dren of the Highest, for he is kind to the unthankful and the evil.
Ver. 36. Be ye therefore merciful as your Father is merciful. See
an instance, chap. x. 29 to 38.
Rom. xii. 20. If thine enemy hunger feed him.
Gal. vi. 10. Let us do good unto all men, especially to them who
are of the household of faith.
GLXVIU, To be given to poor Christians especially. Matt. x. 42.
Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones, a cup
of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you,
he shall in no wise lose his reward. Mark ix. 41. See above Gal. vi. 10.
Matt. XXV. 34 to 46. See there Christ's remarkable sentence at the
day of judgment, and the reasons given for it.
Rom. xii. 13. Distributing to the necessity of the saints,
I Cor. xvi. 2. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you
lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him. Mark iii. 4. For it
is lawful to do good on the sabbath. See instances of such liberality
to Saint Paul and other saints. Rom. xvi. 2. Phil. iv. 10. 2 Tim. i.
16, 18. Ileb. vi. 10. 3 John ver. 5, 6. Collections made for the
saints at Jerusalem. Rom. xv. 26. 1 Cor. xvi. 3. 2 Cor. 8th and
9th chapters.
PROMISES TO THE POOR.
CLXIX. Promises to the poor. Job v. 15. He saveth the poor
from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Ver. 16. So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
xxxvi. 15. He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth
their ears in oppression.
Ps. ix. 18. The needy shall not always be forgotten, the expecta-
tion of the poor shall not perish forever.
Ixviii. 10. Thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the
poor.
Ixix. o3. The Lord heareth the poor.
Ixxii. 2. He fliall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor
with judgment.
Ver. 12. He shall deliver the needy when he crieth,the poor also,
and him that hath no helper.
Chap. XVII. the Strangery Widow and Fatherless, 437
Ps. Ixx. 13. He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the
souls of the needy.
cii. 17. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise
their prayer.
cvii. 41 He setteth the poor on high from affliction, and maketh
him families like a flock.
cix. 3 1. He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him
from those that condemn his soul.
cxiii. 7. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the
needy out of the dunghill.
cxxxii. 15. I will satisfy her poor with bread.
cxl. 12. The Lord will maintain the right of the poor.
Isa. xiv. 30. The first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy
shall lie down in safety.
Jer. XX. 13. Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord, for he hath
delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evil doers.
Luke xvi. 25. Abraham said, son, remember, that thou in thy
life-time receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things,
but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.
James i. 9. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is ex-
alted.
ii. 5. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and
heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them that love him ?
Ps.lxxiv.21.
OF THE UNCHARITABLE TO THE POOR.
CLXX. Of the uncharitable to the poor. Deut. xv. 9. Beware of
hardness of heart toward thy poor brother. Chap. xxiv. 15.
Prov. xi. 26. He that with-holdeth corn, the people shall curse him.
xvii. 5. Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker.
xxi. 12. Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also,
shall cry himself and shall not be heard. Ver, 10, 26.
xxviii. 27. He that hideth his eyes from the poor, shall have many
a curse.
Isa.xxxii. 7. The instruments of the churl are evil, to destroy the
poor, Prov, xxiii. 7. Eat, saith he, but his heart is not with thee.
James ii. 15. If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily
food,
Ver. 16. And one of you say unto him, depart in peace, be you
"warmed, and filled, notwithstanding ye give them not those things
that be needful, what doth it profit ?
1 John iii. 17. Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his bro-
ther have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him,
how dwelleth the love of God in him ?
THE STRANGER, WIDOW AND FATHERLESS.
CLXXI. Duties towards them^ and threatenings against those that
oppress them, Exod. xxii. 21. Thou shalt not vex a stranger nor
oppress him, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Chap, xxiii.
y, 12. Lev. xix. 33.
438 The Stranger^ Widow and Fatherless. Chap. XVII.
Exod. xxii. 22. Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
Vcr. 23. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto
niC, I will surely hear their cry.
Ver. 24. And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with
the sword, and your children shall be fatherless.
Lev. xix. 10. Thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt
thou gather every grape of thy vineyard, thou shalt leave them foir
the poor and stranger. Lev. xxiv. 20, 21. — xxvi. 12.
Ver. 34. The stranger thatdwelleth with you, shall be unto you,
as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself.
xxiii. 22. Wh^^n ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not
make clean riddance of the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou
gather any gleaning of thy harvest, thou shalt leave them unto the
poor, and to the stranger. Chap. xxv. 6. Deut.xxiv. 19. Ruthii.2, 3.
Deut.i. 16. Judge righteously between every man and the stranger.
X. 19. Love the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of
JEgypt. Chap, xxvii. 7, 20. ^^'
Deut. xxiv. 17. Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stran-
ger, nor of the fatherless, nor take a widow's raiment to pledge.
Chap, xxvii. 19. cursed be he that pervcrteth the judgment of the
stranger, of the fatherless and widow, and all the people shall say
Amen.
Job xxiv. 3. The wicked drive away the ass of the fatherless, and
take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Ver. 9. They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a
pledge of the poor. Ver. 2L
Ver. 23. God's eyes are uptjn their ways.
Ver. 24. They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and
brought low, they are taken out of the way and cut off as the tops of
the ears of corn.
xxix. 12. I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and
him that had none to help him.
Ver. 13. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon
Hie, I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
xxxi. 16. If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have
caused the eyes of the widow to fail ;
17. If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not
eaten thereof ;
Ver. 21. If I have lift up mine hand against the fatherless ;
Ver. 22. Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder-blade.
Ver. 32. The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened
my door to the traveller.
Ps.xciv.6. The proud slay the widow and the stranger, and mur-
der the fatherless.
Ver. 10. He that chastiseth the nations shall he not correct you ?
Prov. xxiii. 10. Entcrnot into the field of the fatherless.
Ver. 11. For their Redeemer is mighty, he will plead their cause.
Isa. i. 17. Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Ver. 23. They judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of
the widpw come unto them.
Ver. 24. Therefore, saith the Lord, I will ease me of mine adver-
saries. Jer. V. 28, 29.
Chap. XVII. Ninth Commandment. 439
Isa. X. 1. Woe unto them that decree unrighttfous decrees,
Ver. 3. That widows may be their prey, and that they may rob
the fatherless. Mat. xxiii. U.
Jer. vii. 6. If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless and the
widow.
Ver. 7. Then will I cause you to dwell in this place. Gh. xxii. 3.
Zech, vii. 10.
Ezek. xxii. 7. In thee have they dealt by oppression with the stran-
ger, they vexed the fatherless and widow,
Ver. 15. I will scatter them among the heathen. Ver. 29, 31.
xlvii. 22. Give the stranger his inheritance. Ver. 23.
Mai. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness against those that oppress the
widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his
right,
1 Tim. V. .3. Honour widows that are widows indeed.
Ver. 16. If they have widows let them relieve them.
James i. 27. Pure religion and undefiled before God, and the Fa-
ther is this, to visit the facherless and widows in their affliction, and
to keep himself unspotted from the world. See Luke iv. 25.
CLXXIl.Prom/sesfo the stranger ^fatherless cjinf/ w/flfow.Deut.x.l8-
The Lord doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow,
and loveth the stranger in giving him food and raiment.
Ps. X. 14. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Ver. 18,
Ixviii. 5. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widow is
God in his holy habitation.
cxlvi. 9. The Lord preserveth the strangers, and relieveth the fa-
therless and widow.
Prov. XV. 25. The Lord will establish the border of the widow,
Ezek. xi. i6.Thus saith the Lord God, although I have cast them
far off among the heathen, and scattered them among the countries,
yet will 1 be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they
shall come.
Jer. xlix. 11. Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them
alive, and let thy widows trust in me.
Hos. xiv. 3. In thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Jer.'xxix. 7. Seek the peace of the city, whither I have caused you
to be carried away captives ; and pray unto the Lord for it, for in the
peace thereof shall ye have peace. iSee Ps. xxvii. 10. See 1 Kings
viii. 43. 2 Chron. vi. 33.
NINTH COMMANDMENT.
WITNESS BEARING.
CLXXni. Of witness hearings speaking truth; of falsehood, and
other sins of the tongue, Exod. zx. 16. Thou shalt not bear false wit-
ness against thy neighbour. Deut. v. 20. Matt. xix. 18. Rom. xiii. 9.
Numb. XXXV. SO. One witness shall not testify against any person
to cause him to die. Dent. xvii. 6.
Deut. xix. 15. One witness shall not rise up against any man for
any iniquity, or for any sin that he sinneth;out of the mouth of two
witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses shall the matter be es-
tablished. Matt, xviii. 16. 2 Cor. xiii. 1. 1 Tim. v, 19.
44:0 Ninth Commandment, Chap. XVII.
Deut. xix. 16. If a false witness rise up against any man, to testify
against him that which is wrong. Vcr. 17, IS.
Ver. xix. Then shall ye do unto him, as he thought to have done
unto his brother, so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
Ver. 21. Life shall go for life, eye for eye, &c.
Lev, V. 1. If a soul sin and hear the voice of swearing, and is a
witness, whether he hath seen or known of it, if he do not utter it,
then he shall bear his iniquity,
Prov. vi. 16. These things doth the Lord hate :
Ver. 19. A false witness that speaketh lies, &c.
xiv. 5. A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness will ut-
ter lies.
Ver. 25. A true witness deJivereth souls, but a deceitful witness
speaketh lies.
xix. 5. A false witness shall not be unpunished, Ver. 9.
xxi. 28 .A false witness shall perish.
xxiv. 28. Be not a witness against thy neighbour without a cause.
See Prov. xii. 17. — xix. 28. — xxv. 18. Matt. xv. 19.
Instances of false witness given against Naboth. 1 Kings xxi. 7, Sec.
Against David. Ps. xxvii. 12. — xxxv. 1 7. Against Christ. Matt. xxvi.
60. Against Stephen. Acts vi» 13.
CLXXIV. Lying forbidden^ truth commanded. Lev. xix. 11. Ye
shall not lie one to another. Zech. viii. 16, 17,
Ps. xxxiv, 13. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips that they
speak no guile. 1 Pet, iii. 10.
Prov. iv. 24. A froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from
thee.
Eph. iv. 15. Speaking the truth in love, grow up unto Christ.
Vcr. 25. Putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neigh-
bour.
Col. iii, 9. Lie not one to another, seeing ye have put off the old
man. SeePs. xv. 2. Isa. xxxiii. 15. Prov. xii. 17. 19.
CLXXV, Lying abhorred by God and good men. Prov. vi, 16.
These things doth the Lord hate. Ver. 17. A lying tongue, &c,
xii. 22. Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but they that
deal truly are his delight.
Job xxvii. 4. Job said, my lips shall not speak wickedness, neither
iTiy tongue utter deceit.
Ps. ci. 7. David said, he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
cxix. 29. Remove far from me vanity and lying.
Vcr. 163. I hate and abhor lying.
Prov. viii. 7, Wisdom. said, my mouth shall speak truth, wicked-
ness is an abomination to my lips.
xiii. 5. A righteous man hateth lying.
Isa. Ixiii. 8. My people (saith God) are children that will not lie.
CLXXVL Satan and his children are liars, John viii. 44. The de-
vil abode not in the truth, he is a liar and the father of it. Ver. 45.
Acts V. 3. Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy
Ghost ? See Isa. xxviii. 15, 17. — lix. 3, 4. Jer. xxiii. 14.
CLXXVII. Threatenings and prayers against liars, Ps. v. 6. Thou
shalt destroy them that S2>cak leasing.
(JhAP. XVII. Ninth Commandment, 441
Ps. xxxi. 18. Let lying lips be put to silence, which speak grievons
things, proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
xxxvi. 1. There is no fear of God before his eyes.
Ver. 3. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.
Ver. 12. They are cast down, they shall not arise. Ps. x. 7.
1. 19. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth de-
ceit.
Ver. 21.1 will reprove thee, saith the Lord,
lii. 2. Thy tongue deviscth mischief like a sharp razor working
deceitfully.
Ver. 3. Thou lovest evil more than good, and lying rather than to
speak righteousness.
Ver. 4, Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful
tongue.
Ver. 5. God shall destroy thee for ever.
Iv. 21. The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but
war was in his heart, his words were softer than oil, yet were they
drawn swords. Ver. 12, 13, 15.
Ver. 23. Thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of de-
struction.
Ps. Iviii. 3. The wicked are estranged from the very womb, they
go astray speaking lies.
Ver. 4. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent. Ps. cxl. 3, 9.
Ver. 6. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth.
Ver. 7. Let them melt away like waters.
lix. y. They belch out with their mouth, swords are in their lips.
Ver, 12. For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips,
let them even be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying which
they speak.
Ver. 13. Consume them in wrath.
Ps. Ixii. 4. They delight in lies, they bless with their mouth, but
they curse inwardly. Ver. 3. Ye shall be slain all of you.
Ixiii. 1 1. The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
cix. 2. They have spoken against me with a lying tongue, let them
be condemned.
cxx. 3, What shall be given unto thee ? or what shall be done
unto thee, thou false tongue.
Ver. 4. Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
Prov. X. 18. He that hideth hatred with lying lips is a fool.
xii. 13. The wicked is snared with the transgression of his lips.
Ch. xvii. 20.
Ver. 19. A lying tongue is but for a moment.
xvii. 7. Lying lips become not a prince.
xix. 5. He that speaketh lies shall not escape, he shall perish. Ver. 9.
Ver. 22. A poor man is better than a liar. Ver. 1. — Ch. xix. 1.
xxi, 6. Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to
and fro of them that love death.
xxvi. 18. As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and
-death.
Ver. 19. So is he that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, am not
I in sport.
44f2 Ninth Commandment, Chap. XVII.
Prov. xxvi. 23. Lying lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd
covered over with silver dross. Ver. 24, 25, 26, 28.
Isa. Ivii. 11. Of whom hast thou been afraid, that thou hast lied,
and hast not remembered me, saith the Lord.
lix. 2. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you.
Isa. lix. 3. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers
with iniquity, your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath mutter-
ed perverscness. Ver. 12, 13, 14, 15.
Jer. ix. 3. They will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not
speak the truth, they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and
weary themselves to commit iniquity.
Ver. 7. Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, behold I will melt
them and try them.
Ver. 8. Their tongue is as an arrow shot out, it spcaketh deceit :
one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart
he layeth his wait.
Ver. 9. Shall I not visit them for these things, saith the Lord ;
shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Hos, iv. 1, The Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of
the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of
God in the land.
Ver. 2. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, they
break out.
Ver. 3. Therefore shall the land mourn.
1 Tim. iv. 2. Seducing spirits speaking lies in hypocrisy.
, Rev. xxi. 8. Liars shall have their portion in the lake that burn-
eth with fire and brimstone.
Ver. 27. There shall in no wise enter into heaven any thing that
defileth or worketh abomination, or that maketh a lie.
xxii. 15. Without are dogs and sorcerers, and whosoever lovcth
and maketh a lie. See Acts v. the death of Ananias and Sapphira.
CLXXVIII. The words of the ivicked, injurious and offensive^
Ps. V. 9. There is no faithfulness in their mouth, their throat is an
open sepulchre.
Ver. 10. Destroy them, O God. ' -
xxii. 7. They shut out the lip, they shake the head,
lix. 7. They belch out with their mouth, swords are in their lips,
for who (say they) doth hear us ?
Ver. 8. Thou, O God, shalt laugh at them. Ps. Ixiv. 3. — Ixix. 26.
Ps. cxl. 3. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent, ad-
ders poison is under, their lips.
Ver, 9. Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Prov. xii. 8. There is that speaketh like the piercing of a sword,
but the tongue of the wise is health.
xvi. 27. An ungodly man diggeth up evil, and in his lips there is
a burning fire. Ver. 30.
XV ii. 4. A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips, and a liar giv*
eth ear to a naughty tongue. Ver. 7.
xviii, 6. A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calletk
for strokes.
Chap. XViL Tafkativemss. Us
Prov. xviii. 7. His mouth is his destruction, and liis lips are the
snare of his soul.
xxiv. 2. Their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of
mischief.
Eccl. X. 12. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but
the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Lam. iii. 62. Thou hast heard the lips of those that rise up against
me*
Matt, xii* 34. How can ye, being evil, speak good things.
Vcr. 35. An evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringetli
ibrth evil things.
Matt. xii. 37. By thy words thou shalt be condemned.
XV. 18. The things that proceed out of the mou^h, come forth
from the heart and defile the man.
1 Cor. XV. 3. Evil communications corrupt good manners.
James iii. 5. The tongue is a little member and boasteth great
things.
Ver. 6. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, it defileth the
whole body. Ver. 8, 9, 10.
2 Pet. ii. 12. Those as natural brute beasts, speak evil of those
things they understand not.
CLXXIX. Words of the wicked against God. Jude ver. 14. The
Lord Cometh with ten thousands of his saints ;
Ver. 15. To execute judgment, and to convince all that are ungod-
ly of their ungodly speeches which they have ungodly spoken against
him,
CLXXX. Evil speaking»Vs. xii. 3. The Lord shall cut off the tongue
that speaketh proud things.
Ver. 4. Who have said, with our tongue will we prevail, our lips
are our own, who is Lord over us ?
Ps.xli. 5. Mine enemies speak evil of me. Ver. 6.
1. 19. Thou givcst thy mouth to evil. Ver. 21. I will reprove thee
aaith God.
Eph.iv. 31. Let all bitterness, and wrath and clamour, and evil
peaking be put away from you, with all malice.
Tit. iii. 2. Speak evil of no man. Ver. 6. Be not brawlers. 1 Pet,
iii. 9.
James iv. 11. Speak oot evil one of another.
1 Pet. ii. 1. Laying aside all malice, and all guile and hypocrisies
and envies, and evil-speaking. Ver, 2. As new born babes desire the
sincere milk of the word.
1 Pet. iii. 10. He that will love life and see good days, let him re-
frain his tongue from evil. Ps.xxxiv. 13. See Ps. cxl. 11.
TALKATIVENESS.
CLXXXL Talkativeness^ rashness ivith the tongue. Job v. 2.
Should a man of much talk be justified ?
2fclii. 3. Job said,who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge ?
therefore have 1 uttered that I understood net, things too wonderful
for me, which I knew not.
Ps. cvi. 33. They provoked Moses' spirit, go that he spake unadvi-
sedly with his lips,
Kkk
444* Tale-bearing. ChAP. XVII.
Prov. X. 8. A prating fool shall fall.
Ver. 19. In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin, But he
that refralneth his lips is wise. Job xiii. 5.
Prov. xiii. 3. He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life, but he
that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
xiv. 23. The talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.
xvii. 27. He that hath knowledge spareth his words. Job xiii. 5.
Ver. 28. Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is accounted wise.
xviii. 13, He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is
folly and shame to him.
xxi. 23. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his
soul from trouble.
xxix. 1 1 . A fool uttereth all his mind, but a wise man keepeth it
till afterward.
Ver. 20. Seest thou a man hasty in his words, there is more hope
of a fool than of him.
£ccl. iii. 7. There is a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
V. 2, Be not rash with thy mouth.
Ver. 3. A fool's voice is known by the multitude of words.
Eccl. X. 14. A fool is full of words.
Amos V. 13. The prudent shall keep silence in the evil time.
Mic. vii. 5. Keep the door of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy
bosom.
, James i. 19. Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak."
Ver. 26. If any man among you seemeth to be religious and bri-
dle th not his tongue, that man's religion is vain.
FLATTERY. .
CLXXXn. Flattery, Job. xvii. 5. He that speaketh flattery to
hist'friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.
xxxii. 21, Let me not accept any man's person, neither give flat-
tering titles to men. 1 Thess. ii. 5.
Ver. 22. In so doing ray Maker would soon take me away.
Ps. V. 9. They flatter with their tongues. Ver. 10. Destroy them
O God. Ps. xli. 6.
xii. 2. With flattering lips and a double heart they do speak. .
Ver. 3. The Lord shall cut ofl" all flattering lips.
. Ixxviii. 36. They did flatter God with their mouth and lied un-
to him.
Ver 37. For their heart was not right, with him. Isa. xxix. 13.
Prov. XX. 19. Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
xxvi. 28. A flattering mouth worketh ruin.
xxix. 5. A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his
feet. See Prov. ii. 16. — vi. 24. — vii. 21. — xxviii. 23. Ezek. xii.
24. Dan. Xi. 21, 32, 34.
TALE-BEARING.
CLXXXIII. Tale-bearing. Lev. xix. 16. Thou shalt not go up
and down as a tale-bearer among thy people.
Chap. XVIL Repfoach. 44.5
Prov. xi. 13. A tale-bearer revealeth secrets, but he that is of a
faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
xvii. 9. He that covercth a transgression sceketh love, but he that
repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
xviii. 8. The words of a tale-bearer arc as wounds, they go down
into the innermost parts of the belly. Chap. xxvi. 22.
XX. 19. He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets,
therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
xxvi. 20. Where there is no tale-bearer the strife ceaseth.
WHISPERING.
CLXXXIV. Whispering. Ps. xli. 7. All that hate me whisper
together against me.
Prov. xvi. 28. A whisperer separateth chief friends,
Rom. i. 29. The wicked ar€ full of envy, murder, debate ; whis-
perers.
2 Cor. xii. 20, I fear lest there be among you whisperings, sweK
lings, &CC.
BACK-BITING.
CLXXXV. Back-biting. Ps. xv. 1. Lord who shall abide in thy
tabernacle, who shall dwell in thy holy hill.
Ver. 3. He that back-biteth not with his tongue.
Prov. XXV. 23. An angry countenance driveth away a back-biting
tongue.
Rom.i. 28. The wicked have a reprobate mind. Ver. 29. Filled
with all unrighteousness. Ver. 30. Back-biters, kc. See 2 Cor. xii. 20,
SLANDERING, &:C.
CLXXXVI. Slandering, b'c. Ps.ci. 5. Whoso privily slandereth
his neighbour, him will I cut off.
Prov. X. 8. He that uttercth a slander is a fool.
. Ps. jtxxi. 13. I have heard the slanders of many, while they take
counsel against me.
1, 20. Thou slanderest thy own mother's son.
Ver. 21. I will reprove thee, saith God.
Jer. vi. 28. Grievous revellers, walking with slanders.
ix. 4. Every neighbour will walk with slanders. Ver. 7.
1 Tim.iii. 11. Deacons* wives must not be slanderers? See Ps.
Xxxi. 13. Rom. iii. 8.
REPROACH.
ClXXXVII. Prayers and complaints against it, Neh. iv. 4. Hear,
O our God, for we are despised, turn their reproach upon their own
head and give them for a prey.
Job. xvi. 10. They have smitten me reproachfully.
Ps. xxii. 6. I am a reproach of men and despised of the people.
xxxi. 11. I was a reproach among all mine enemies, and especi-
ally among my neighbours.
xxxix. 8. Deliver me from all mine enemies, make me not the re«»
proath of the foolish.
i46 Rtproaeh. Cvuf. XVU.
Ps* xlii. 10. As with a sword in my bones mine enemies reproach
me.
xliv. 13. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn,
and a derision to them that are round about us.
Iv. 12. It was not an enemy that reproached me, then 1 could
have borne it. Ver. 15. Let death seize upon them.
Ixix. 7. For thy sake, I have borne reproach, &c.
Ver. 9 . The reproaches of them that reproached thee arc fallen
upon me. Rom.xv. 3.
Ver. 10. When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting that
was to my reproach.
Ver, 19. Thou hast known my reproach, my shame and dishonour.
Ver. 23. Let their eyes be darkened.
Ixxiv. 10. O God, how long shall the adversary reproach.
Ver. 18. Remember that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord.
Ixxix. 4. We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn
and derision to them that are round about us.
Ver. 13. Render unto our neighbours seven -fold, into their bosom
their reproach.
Ixxxix. 41. He is a reproach to his neighbours.
Ver. 50, Remember, O Lord, the reproach of thy servants,
Ver. 51. Wherewith thine enemies have reproached*
cii. 8. Mine enemies reproach me all the day.
cix. 25. I became also a reproach unto them. Ver. 26. Hclpme,
O Lord, my God.
cxix. 22. Remove from me reproach and contempt.
Ver, 39. Turn away my reproach which I fear.
Lam. iii. 61. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all
their imaginations against me.
Ver. 64. Render unto them a recompense, O Lord.
Joel ii, \7. Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage
to reproach.
CLXXXVIII. Reproach. God will brin^ it upon the wicked. Jer.
xxiv. 9. I will deliver them to be removed into all kingdoms of the
earth, for their hurt, to be a reproach, and a taint, and a curse in all
places whither I shall drive them. Chap. xxix. 18.— xlii. 18. — ^xliv.
12. Ezek. V. 14, 15 (xxii. 4.
Isa. xliii, 27. Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have
transgjressed against me.
xliii. 28. Therefore have T profaned the princes of the sanctuary,
and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Dan. ix. 16. For the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusp.lcm and thy
people are become a reproach to all that are about us.
CLXXXIX. Reproach. Promises against it, Ps. Ivii. 3. He shall
save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up.
Isa. li. 7. Fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of
their revilings, for the moth shall eat them, &c. Ver. 8.
Ezek. xxxvi. 5. Ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an
infamy of the people. Ver. 7. Thus saith the Lord, the heathen that
are about you shall bear their shame.
Joel ii. 19. I will no more make you a reproach.
Chap. XVW Evil Communications. 44T
Zeph. ii. 8. I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the rcvilings
of the children of Ammon.
Ver. 9. As I lire, saith the Lord God of Israel, surely Moab shall
be as Sodonii and the children of Ammon a$ Gomorrha. Ver. 10, 11.
Luke vri. 22. Blessed are ye, saith Christ, when men shall reproach
you for my sake.
2 Cor. xii. 10. I take pleasure in reproaches for Christ. Heb.x. .*5.
I Pet. iv. 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy-
are ye. See Job. v. 21. Ps. xxxi. 20.— cxx. 2.
REVILING.
CXC. Reviling practised by the nvicked, and endured by the godly,
Exod. xxii. 28. Thou shall not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler
of thy people, Acts xxiii. 4, 5.
1 Cor. vi. 10. Neither thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, &c. shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Matt. V. 11. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, &c.
xxvii. 39. They that passed by reviled Christ.
Mark xv. 32. They that were crucified with him reviled him.
John ix. 28. The Pharisees reviled him whose eyes Christ opened,
1 Cor. iv. 12. Being reviled we bless.
\ Pet. ii. 23. Christ when he was reviled, reviled not again. Sec Isa.
ii. 7. Zeph. ii. 8. in the foregoing section.
RAILING.
CXCI. Railing. 2 Cor. v. 11. Keep not company with a railer.
1 Tim. vi. 4. Strifes of words whereof cometh envy, strife, rail-
ings, &c.
1 Pet. iii. 9. Love as brethren ; not rendering railing for railing,
2 Pet.ii. 11. Angels bring not a railing accusation against the
wicked.
Jude ver. 9. The angel durst not bring a railing accusation against
the devil. Ver. IS.
Instances of the wicked's railing. Senacherib, 2 Chron. xxxii. IT.
Nabal, 1 Sam. xxv. 14. Persons at Christ's crucifixion, Mark xv,
29. A malefactor, Luke xxiii. 39.
EVIL COMMUNICATIONS.
CXCII. Evil communications. Isa.ix. 17. Every mouth speaketk
folly. God's anger is not turned away. Sec.
I Cor. XV. 33. Be not deceived, evil communications corrupt good
manners.
Eph. iv. 29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your
moTifth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may
minister grace unto the hearers.
v. 3. Fornication and uncleanness, let it not be once named a-
inongst you.
Ver. 4. Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking or jesting, which
are not convenient.
448 The Righteous, Chap, XVII.
Matt. xii. 36. For every idle word, that men shall speak, they shall
give an account thereof in the day of judgment.
Col. iii. 8. Put off all these, anger, wrath, blasphemy, filthy com-
munications out of your mouth.
iv. 6. Let your speech be always with grace.
2 Pet. ii. 7. God delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conver-
sation of the wicked. See Isa. ix. 17.
CXCIII. Unprofitable disputes about religion, 1 Tim.i. 4. Neither
give heed to fables which minister questions rather than godly edi-
fying. See 1 Tim. vi. 4, 5. 2 Tim. ii. 14, 16, 17. Tit» iii. 9.
CURSING.
GXGIV. Cursing forbidden in scripture, and avoided by the righte-
ous.
Exod. xxii. 28. Thou shale not curse the ruler of thy people.
Lev. xix. 14. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-
block before the blind.
Job xxxi. 30, Job said, neither have I suffered my mouth to sin, by
wishing a curse to his soul that hated me,
Eccl. x. 20. Curse not the king in thy thought, curse not the rich.
Matt. V. 44. Bless them that curse you, Rom. xii. 14. Bless and
curse not.
James iii. 9. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cfirsing.
Ver. 10. These things ought not to be so. . -
GXCV. Cursing practised by the nvicked. Gen. xii. 3. I will curse
him that curseth thee. Ghap. xxvii. 29.
Judg. xvii. 2. Micah's mother cursed about her silver.
2 Sam. xvi. 5. Shimei pursed David. Ver. 12. He is punished.. \
Kings ii. 8, 46.
Ps. x. 7. The mouth of the wicked is full of cursing.
lix. 12. For the sin of their mouth, for cursing and lying consume
them in wrath. Ver. 13. Ps. Ixii. 4.
cix. 17. As he loved cursing let it come unto him.
Ver. 28. Let them curse, but bless thou.
Prov. xxvi. 2. The curse causeless shall not come.
xxix. 24. The wicked heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
Isa. viii. 21. The wicked shall fret themselves and curse their king
and their God.
Jer. V. 10. Every one of them doth curse me wrongfully.
xxiii. 10. Because of cursing the land mourneth.
Matt. xxvi. 74. Peter began to curse and to swear, when he denied
his master.
Acts xxiii. 12. The Jews bound themselves with a curse, neither
to eat nor drink, till they had killed Paul.
See Numb. xxii. 6 to 17 xxiii. i to 25. Deut. xxiii. 4. Jos.
xxiv. 9. Neh. xiii. 2. Where Balak hires Balaam to curse Israel.
THE RIGHTEOUS.
CX(.7VI. The righteous, their care of their 'Words. Job ii. 10. -,
Ib all this Job sinned not with his lips.
xxvii. 4. Job said, my lips shall not speak wickedness.
ChAP.XVIL- The Righteous, 44)9
Job xxxiil. 3. My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart.
Ps. xxxix. 1. David said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin
not with my tongue, I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the
wicked is before me.
cxli. 3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, keep the door o£
my lips.
Prov, viii. 6. Wisdom saith, the opening of my lips shall be right
things.
xvi* 23. The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth
learning to his lips,'
Mai. ii. 6. Iniquity was not found in Levi's lips.
CXGVIL They praise God nvith their mouths. Ps. xvii. 1. My
prayer goeth not out of feigned lips.
xl. 9. I preached righteousness, I refrained not my lips.
Ixiii. 3. My lips shall praise thee.
Ixvi, 14. I will pay my vows which my lips have uttered when I
was in trouble.
Ixxi. 23. My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee.
cxix. 13. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy
mouth.
Ver. 171. My lips shall utter praise when thou hast taught me thy
statutes.
Hos.xiv. 2. We will render the calves of our lips.
Heb. xiii. 15. Let us offer the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to
his name. See Mai. iii. 16. Matt. xiii. 52,
CXCVIII. The 'Words of the righteous^ the just ^ iS'c. toivard men.
Job vi. 25. How forcible are right words. Prov. xv. 23. Eccl. xii*
10,11.
Ps. xxxvii. 30. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and
his tongue talketh of judgment.
Prov. X. 11. The mouth of the righteous is a well of life.
Ver. 13. In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is
found.
Ver. 20. The tongue of the just is as choice silver. - t
Ver. 21. The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for
want of wisdom,
Ver. 31. The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom, but the
fro ward tongue shall be cut out.
Ver. 32. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but
the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
xii. 6. The mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
Ver. 14. A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his
mouth'. ■ Chap. xiii. 2.
yer. 18. There is that speaketh like the piercing of a sword, but
the tongue of the wise is health.
xiv. 3. In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of
the wise shall preserve them.
XV. 1. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir
up strife.
Ver. 2. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright, but the
mouth of fooh poureth out foolishness.
^m Jhe Righteous. CHAP. XVII.
Prov. XV. 4. A vjiolesoiic tongue is a tree of life, but pervcrse-
ncss therein is a breach in the spirit,
Ver. 7. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of
the foolish doth not so.
Ver. 28. The heart of the righteous studieth to answer, but the
mouth of the foolish poureth out evil things.
xvi. 13. Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love
him that speaketh right.
Ver. 21. The sweetness of the lips increaseth knowledge,
Ver. 24. Pleasant words are as an honey-comb, sweet to the soul
and health to the bones.
xviii, 20. A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his
mouth, and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.
Ver. 2 I. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they
that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Prov. XX. 15. The lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
xxii. 11. He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his
lips the king shall be his friend.
Ver. 17. Hear the words of the wise, they shall be fitted in thy
lips. Ver. 18.
xxiii. 16. My reins shall rejoice when thy lips speak right things.
Xxiv. 26. Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
Eccl. vii. 19. The words of the wise are heard in quiet, more
than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
X, 12. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips
df a fool will swallow up himself. Ver. 13, 14.
Matt. v. 37. Let your communications be yea> yea, nay, nay, for
whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
xii. 35. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bring-
eth forth good things.
xiii. 52. Every scribe instructed into the kingdom of heaven, is
like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of
his treasure things new and old.
Luke iv. 22. Gracious words proceeded out of Jesus mouth.
Eph. iv. 29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your
mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may
minister grace unto the hearers.
V. 3. Fornication and all uncleanness, let it not be once named a»
mongst you.
Ver. 4. Neither filthiness nor foolish talking, and jesting, which
are not convenient, but rather giving of thanks.
Col. iii. 8. Put filthy communications out of your mouth.
iv. 6. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt,
that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
James i. 26. If any man seem to be religious, andbridletb not his
tongue, that man's religion is vain.
iii. 2. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man.
Chap. XVII. Covetousnen, 451
TENTH COMMANDMENT.
COVETOUSNESS,
CXCIX. Of co'oetousness* Exod. xx. 17. Thou shait not covet thy
neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor
his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any
thing that is thy neighbour's. Deut. xv. 21. Rom. vii. 7. — xiii. 19.
P.s. cxix. 36. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to
covctousness.
1 Cor. v» 11. I have written to you, if any one that is called a
brother be covetous, Sec. with such an one no not to eat.
Eph. v. 3. Covctousness, let it not be once named among you as
becometh saints.
Col.iii. 5. Mortify your members, and covetousness,which is idola-
try.
Heb. xiii. 5. Let your conversation be without covctousness.
CC. Threatenings against covetous persons. Ps.x. 3. The wicked
blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhcrreth.
Isa. Ivii. 17. For the iniquity of his covctousness was I wroth and
smote him.
Jer. vi. 12. Their houses shall be turned unto others with their
fields.
Ver. 13. For. from the least of them even to the greatest, every
one is given to covetousness. Ch. viii. 10.
xxii. 17. Thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetous-
ness.
Ver. 18. Therefore, saith the Lord, they shall not lament him.
Ver. 19. He shall be buried with the burial of an ass.
li. 13. O Babylon, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covct-
ousness.
Mic. ii. l.Woe unto them, they covet fields and take them by vi-
olence.
Hab. ii. 9. Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his
house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered
from the power of evil.
Mark vii. 22. Thefts, covetousness, Sec. Ver. 23. Defile the man.
Rom. i. 29. Being filled with all unrighteousness, covetousness, Sec.
Ver. 34. They that commit such things are worthy of death.
1 Cor. vi. 9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit
the kingdom of God.
Ver. 10. Neither thieves nor covetous shall inherit the kingdoift
of God.
Eph. v. 5. No covetous man hath any inheritance in the kingdom
of Christ and of God. See Ezek. xxxiii. 28, 31.
See instances of covetous persons punished. Balaam, Numb. Chap,
xxii. and xxiii. Compare 2 Pet. ii. 15. Jude ver. 11. Rev. ii. 14.
His death, Numb. xxxi. 8, 16. Achan, Jos. vii. 5 to 25. Ahab,
I'Kingsxxi, 1 to 16, 19, 8cc. 2 Kings ix. 25.
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4?S^ Covetousness. Chap. XVII.
CCI. An insatiable desire of riches. Prov. xv. 97. He that is gree-
dy of gain troubleth his own house. ^,_^
xxvii. 20. Hell and destructionis-Jiever full, so the eyes of man are
never satisfied.
Eccl. iv. g. There is one alone, and there is not a second, yea he
hath neither child nor brother, yet there is no end of his labour, nei-
ther is his eye satisfied with riches, neither saith he for whom do I
labour and bereave my soul of good? this is also vanity, it is a sore
travel.
V. 10. He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver, nei-
ther he that loveth abundance with increase.
CCn. Threats against unjust measures of acquiring riches, Prov.
i. 18. They lay wait for their own blood, they lurk privily for their
own lives.
Ver. 19. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain,
which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Matt. xvi. 26. What is a man profited, if he gain the whole world
and lose his own soul, or what shall a man give in exchange for his
soul Job xxvii. 8. For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though
he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul ? Ver. 9. Will God
hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him l
1 Tim. vi. 9. They that will be rich fall into temptation and a
snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in
destruction and perdition.
Ver. 10. For the love of money is the root of all evil, which
while some coveted after they have erred from the faith, and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows.
Ver, il. But thou, O man of God, flee these things. See James
iv. 13, 16.
CCni. Riches are not a lasting possession. Prov. xxiii. 5. Riches
make themselves wings and fly away.
xxvii. 24. Riches are not for ever, and doth the crown endure to
every generation ? 1 Cor. vi. 13.
Matt. vi. 19. They are treasures which moth and rust do corrupt,
and which thieves break through and steal. 1 Tim. vi. 17. They
are uncertain.
xiii. 22. They are deceitful. Mark iv. 9. Heb, x. 34. Ye have in
heaven a better and an enduring substance.
GCIV, Riches cannot be carried hence to the other nvorld. Vs. xlix.
16. Be not afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house
is increased ;
Ver. 17. For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away, his glory
shall not descend after liim.
Eccl. V. 15. As he came forth of his toother's womb, naked shall
he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour,
which he may carry away in his hand.
Job i. 21. Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked
shall I return.
1 Tim. vi. 7. We broug^ht nothing into this world, and it is cer-
tain we can carry nothing out.
CCV. Possessing riches but not using theniy the vanity thereof, Froy.
xiii. 7. There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing. There i?
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that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. EccL vi. 1, 2.
ii. 26. , .
CGVI. Riches are attended with care and trouble in life, Eccl. ii.
4. I made me great works, I builded me houses, I planted me vine-
yards, Sec. to vcr. 10.
Ver. 11 . I looked on all the works that my hands had wroughr,
and on the labour that I had laboured to do, and behold all was va-
nity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit,
Eccl, ii. 22. For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vex-
ation of his spirit wherein he hath laboured ?
Ver. 23. For all his days are sorrows and his travel grief, yea,
his heart taketh not rest in the night.
Eccl. V. 11. When goods increase, they are increased that eat
them, and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the be-
holding of them with their eyes ?
Ver. 12. The abundance of the rich will not suffer them to
sleep.
Ver. 13. I have seen riches kept for the owners thereof to their
hurt.
Ver. 16. What profit hath he that laboureth for the wind ?
Ver. 17. All his days he eateth in darkness, and hath much sorrow
and wrath with his sickness,
Prov. XV. 6. In the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
Eccl. ix. n. Riches are not to men of skill, &c.
Prov. xxii. 1. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
CCVII. Riches recommend no man to the favour of God. Job
xxxiv. 19. God accepteih not the persons of princes, nor regardeth
the rich more than the poor.
xxxvi. 19. Will he esteem thy riches? no not gold, nor all the
forces of strength.
Prov. xi. 4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath.
xxii. 2. The rich and the poor meet together, the Lord is the ma-
ker of them all.
Ezek. vii. 18. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to de-
liver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. Zeph. i. 18.
Mark xii. 41. Many that were rich cast in much inio the trea-
sury of the temple.
Vcr. 42. A poor widow cast in two mites, which make a farthing.
Ver. 43. Jesus said, this poor widow hath cast in more than they all.
Ver. 44. For they did cast in of their abundance, but she did cast
in all that she had, even all her living.
Luke i. 53. He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the
rich he hath sent empty away. See the parable of the rich fool,
Luke xii. 20. Sec. And of the rich man and Lazarus, Luke xvi.
29 to 25.
CCVIIL The advantages which one man hath over another by
means of riches. Prov. x. 15. The rich man's wealth is his strong
city, the destruction of the poor is their poverty. Chap, xviii. 11..
xiii. 8. The ransom of a man's life are his riches. Eccl. vii. 12,
xiv. 20. The poor is hated even of his neighbour, but the ricli
hath many friends. Chap. xix. 4,
Ver. 24. The crown of the w^se is their riches.
454? Covetousness, Chap. XVlt.
Eccl. ix. 16. The poor man's wisdom is despised. Ver. 16. And
hi? words are not heard.
Prov. xxii. 7. Th?; rich ruleth over the poori and the borrower is
servant to the lender. ^,
xviii. 23. The poor useth intreaties, but the rich answereth
roughly.
CCIX. Trusting in riches and abusing tkem, the sin of the ivkked,
and avoided by the good. Job xxxi. 24. If I have made gold my
hope, or have said to the fine gold thou art my confidence.
Ver. 25. If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because
mine hand had gotten much.
Ver. 28. I should have denied the God that is above.
Ps. xlix. 6. They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves
in the multitude of their riches.
Ver. 7. None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor
give to God a ransom for him. Ver. viii. 14.
lii. 5. God shall destroy thee for ever. Ver. 7. Lo this is the man
that made not God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his
riches.
Ixii. 10. Tf riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Prov. xi. 28. He that trusteth in his riches shall fall.
X. 15. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and a high wall
in his own conceit. Chap, xviii. 11.
xxvii. 11. The rich man is wise in his own conceit.
Jer. ix. 23. Thus saith the Lord, let not the wise man glory in
his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not
the rich man glory in his riches.
Mark x. 24. How hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter
into the kingdom of God ! Ver. 25.
1 Tim. vi. 17. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they
be not high minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living
God who giveth us rickly all things to enjoy.
James ii. 6. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the
judgment seat ?
CCX. Riches take the heart and thoughts off from God and religion,
Deut. viii, 12. Beware lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and
when thy herds and thy flocks are multiplied, and thy silver and thy
gold is multiplied, then thine heart be lifted up and thou forget the
I^ord thy God, and thou say in thine heart, my power and the might
of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. Ver. 13, 14, 17, 18.
xxxii. 13. The Lord made Jacob ride on the high places of the
earth, that he might eat the increai:e of the fields, and he made him
to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock.
Ver 14. Butter of kine and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs and
rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of
■wheat, and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
Ver. 15. But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked ; thou art waxen fat,
thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness ; then he forsook
God which made him, and lightly esteemed the rock of his salva-
tion.
Hos. ii. 8. She did not know that I gave her corn and wine and
oil, and multiplied her silver and gold.
Chap. XVII. Covetousness. 455
Hos. ii. 9* Therefore will I return and take away my corn, Sec.
Ezek. xvi. etoSG.
Ainos viii. 5. The wicked say when will the Sabbath be gone, that
wc may set forth wheat.
Matt. viii. 31. Those who lost their swine entreated Jesus to de-
part out of their coasts.
xiii. 22. The cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches
choakthe word, and he becometh unfruitful.
xix. 21. Jesus said to the young man, if thou wilt be perfect, go
sell that thou hast and give to the poor, and thou shall have treasure
in heaven, and come and follow me.
Ver. 22. When the young -man heard that saying, he went away
sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
Ver. 24. Jesus said, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye
of a needle, than for a rich man ^o enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Mark X. 23, 24.
xxii. 2. Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain
king which made a marriage for his son ;
Ver. 3. And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden
to the wedding, and they would not come.
Ver. 5. They m'^ade light of it, and went their ways, one to
his farm, another to his merchandise. Luke xiv. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.
Luke xvi. 14. The Pharisees, who were covetous, heard these things
spoken by Christ against covetousness, and derided him.
Acts vi. 18. Those who lost their worldly gain by Paul's casting
out a spirit of divination, raise a tumult against him.
xix, 24. Demetrius and his craftsmen do the same, for his preach-
ing against idolatry by which they had their wealth.
2 Cor. iv. 4. Satan is called the god of this world. Luke v. 4.
He tempted Christ with riches to worship him.
Phil, iii, 19. The wicked whose end is destruction, mind earthly
things.
1 Tim. vi. 10. The love of money is the root of all evil, which
while some coveted after they have erred from the faith.
2 Tim. iv. 10. Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present
world.
James iv. 4. Whosoever will be the friend of the world is the ene-
my of God.
1 John iv. 4. They are of the world, therefore speak they of the
world, and the world heareth them. See Prov. xxx. 9. Hah. i. 16.
CCXI. The wicked rich'man, his portion. Job xx. 15. He hath
swallowed down riches, and shall vomit them up again, God shall cast
them out of his belly.
xxvii, 16. Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare rai-
ment as the clay. Hab. ii. 6.
Ver. 17. He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the
innocent shall divide the silver.
Ver. 19. The rich man shall lie down but he shall not be gathered,
he openeth his eyes and he is not. Ver. JO, 23.
Ps. xvii. 14. O Lord deliver my soul from men of the world, which
have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fiUcst with thy
hid treasure.
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Ps. xxxix. 6. He heapeth up riches and knoweth not whp shall
gather them.
Ixxiii. 3. I was envious at the foolish> when I saw the prosperity
of the wicked.
Ver. 7. Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than
their hearts could wish.
Ver. 12. These are the ungodly, they prosper in the world, they
increase in riches.
Ver. 17. I went into the sanctuary of God, then I understood
their end.
Ver. 18. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou castedst
them down into destruction. Ps. xxxvii. 1. Job xxi. 7. Jer. xii. 1.
Hab. i. 4.
Luke vi. 24. Woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received
your consolation.
xvi, 19. A rich man clothed in purple and fine linen, fared sump-
tuously every day.
Ver. 22. He died. Ver. 23. In hell he lift up his eyes being in
torment, &c.
Jam. i. 10. As the flower of the grass, the rich man shall fade away,
V. 1. Ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall
conie upon you.
Ver. 2. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-
eaten,
James v. 3. Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them
shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire, ye
have heaped treasure together for the last days. See Rev. vi. 15.t—
xviii. 3, 8, 17. Eccl. xi. 9
THE USE OF RICHES.
CCXII. The use of riches in the hands of a wise and good man to^
ivard himself, Eccl. iii. 12^ There is no good in them but for a
man to rejoice and do good in his life.
Eccl. V. 18. Behold that which I have seen, it is good and come-
ly, for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his la-
bour that. he taketh under the sun, all the days of his life, which
God giveth him, for it is his portion.
Ver. 19. Every man also to whom God hath given riches and
power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his
labour, this is the gift of God.
Ver. 20. For he shall not much remember the days of his life, be-
cause God answereth him in the joy of his heart. Chap. ii. 24. — iii.
IS.—viii. 15.
For the other uses which riches answer, see in Commandment 5th,
duties of parents towards children, and of people toward ministers ;
and Commandment 8th, duties of the rich.
CCXIII. God maketh rich. Deut. viii. 18. The Lord thy God it
is he that giveth thee power to get wealth.
1 Sam. ii. 7, The Lord maketh poor, and he maketh rich.
1 Kings iii. 13. The Lord said to Solomon, I have given thee both
riches and honour.
1 Chron. xxix. 12. Solomon said to God, both riches and honour
come of thee.
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Job. i. 2K Job said, the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken a-
"way» blessed be the name of the Lord.
Prov* X. 22. The blessing of the Lord it maketh rich, and he add-
eth no sorrow with it.
Eccl. ii. 26, God giveth to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom
and knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner he giveth travel, to gather
and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God.
Chap. iii. 13. See Gen. xxiv. 35.
CCXIV. Riches promised to the righteous. Ps. cxii. 2. The gene-
ration of the upright shall be blessed.
Ver. 3. Wealth and riches shall be in his house.
Prov. iii. 16. Length of days is in wisdom's right hand, and in her
left hand, riches and honour. Chap.viii. 18, 19. — xxii. 4. — xxiv. 3,4.
XV. G. In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but in the
revenues of the wicked is much trouble.
xxii. 4. By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches and ho-
nour, and life.
CCXV. Instances of good men that were rich. Abram, Gen. xiii.
2. Lot, Gen. xiii. 5. Isaac, Gen. xxvi. 12, 13. 14. Jacob, Gen. xxx.
43. — xxxvis 7. David, I Chron. xzix.28. Solomon, 1 Kings iii, 13.
— X. 23. Eccl. ii. 4 to 10. Job, Chap. i. 3. Jehoshaphat, 2 Chron.
xvii. 5. Hezekiah, 2 Chron. xxxii. 17 to 31.
CCXVI. Instances of riches not regarded by good men. Gen. xiv.
21. The king of Sodom said to Abram, give me the persons, and
take the goods to thyself.
Ver. 23. Abram said, I will not take any thing that is thine.
xxviii. 20. Jacob said, if God will be with me and keep me in the
way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on,
so that I come again to my father's house in peace, then shall the
Lord be my God.
\ King iii. 11. Solomon asked wisdom, and not riches.
Prov. xxx. 8. Agar prayed,' give me neither poverty nor riches,
feed me with food convenient for me.
Ver. 9. Lest I be rich and deny thee, and say who is the Lord, or
lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Gal. vi. 14. Paul said, the world is crucified unto me, and I unto
the world.
CCXVII. These things that are necessary for the support of man's
life^ promised to the righteous. Food promised. Gen. i. 29. God said,
behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the
face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a
tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat.
ix. 3. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you, even
as the green herb have I given you all things.
Exod. xxili. 25. Serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy
bread and thy water.
Deut. vii. 12. If ye hearken to these judgments and keep and do them,
Ver. 13. The Lord thy God will bless the fruit of thy land, thy
corn and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the
flocks of thy sheep. Ver. 14. Isa. xxx. 23.
Deut. viii. 7. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a
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land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of
the vallies and hills.
Deut. viii. 8. A land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig-trees,
and pomegranates, a land of oil and honey.
Ver. 9. A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness,
thou shalt not lack any thing in it, a land whose stones are iron and
out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Ver. 10. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless
the Lord, for the good land which he hath given thee.
Deut. xi. 13. If you shall hearken diligently unto my command-
ments, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your
heart and with all your soul,
Ver. 14. I will give you the rain of your land in due season, the
first rain and the latter rain that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and
thy wine, and thine oil.
Ver. 15. I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou
mayest eat and be fall.
Deut. xxviii. 2. If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord
thy God.
Ver. 3. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou
oe in the fit Id.
Ver. 4. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, and the increase of thy kine,
and the flocks of thy sheep.
Ver. 5. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Ver. 8. The Lord will command his blessing upon thee in thy
store houses.
Ver. 12. The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the hea-
ven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the
work of thine hand, and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and
thou shalt not borrow. Chap. xxx. 9. — xxxiii. 28. Isa. xxx. 23.
Ruth i. 6. The Lord hath visited his people in giving them bread.
Ps. xxiii. 1. The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want,
Ver. 5. Thou preparest a table for me, my cup runneth over.
xxxiv. Q. There is no want to them that fear God.
Ver. 10. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that
seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
xxxvii. 3. Trust in the Lord and do good, so shalt thou dwell
in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Ver. 16. A little that a righteous man hath, is better than the
riches of many wicked. Prov. xvi. 8.
Ver. 25. I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed beg-
ging bread.
cvii. 38. He blesseth them, so that they are multiplied greatly,
and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
cxi. 5. He hath given meat unto them that fear him, he will ever
be mindful of his covenant.
cxxviii. I. Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord, and that
walketh in his ways.
Ver. 2. Thou shalt eat the labour of thy hands, happy shalt thou
be, and it shall be well with thee.
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Ps. cxxxii. 15.1 will abundantly bless her provision, and will sa-
tisfy her poor with bread.
Prov. iii. 9. Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the
first fruits of all thine increase.
Ver, 10. So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses
shall burst out with new wine.
X. 3. The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish.
Prov. xiii. 25, The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul,
but the belly of the wicked shall want.
Isa. xxxiii. 15. He that walketh righteously, bread shall be given
him, and his waters shall be sure. Ver. 16.
Ixv. 13. Behold my servants shall eat but ye shall be hungry, be-
hold my servants shall drink but ye shall be thirsty.
Ver. 21. They shall build houses and inhabit them» and they shall
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
Ver. 22. They shall not build and another inhabit, they shall not
plant, and another eat, for as the days of a tree are the days of my
people, and mine eleft shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Ver. 23. They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth trouble,
for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring
Avith them.
Ezek. xxxvi. 29. I will save you from your uncleannesses, I will
call for the corn and will increase it.
Ver. 30. And 1 will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the in-
crease of the field.
Joel ii. 19. I will send you corn and wine. Hos. ii. 22.
Ver 26. Ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied. See Zech. ix. 17.
See Isaac's blessing to his sons, consisting chiefly, Zech. viii. 12#
Of the fruits of the earth. Gen. xxvii. 28. xxxvii. 39. See Acts
xiv. 17. See promises to obedience.
DELIVERANCE FROM FAMINE.
CCXVin. Deliverance from famine. Job v. 20. In famine he
shall redeem thee from death.
Ver. 22. At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh.
Ps. xxxiii. 18. Behold the eye of the Lord is on them that fear
him, on them that hope in his mercy.
Ver. 19. To deliver their soul from death, and to keep theili alive
in famine.
xxxvii. 19. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the
days of famine they shall be satisfied.
cvii. 9, He satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul
with goodness.
Ps. cxlvi. 7. Which giveth food to the hungry, Ver. 7.
Isa. xli. 17. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is
none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, 1 the Lord will hear them,
I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Ezek. xxxvi. 29. I will call for the corn and will increase it, and
will lay no famine upon you.
Ver. 30. Ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the
heathen.
Hab. iii. 17. Though the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall
fruit be in the vines, the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields
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shall yield no meat, the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there
shall be no herd in the stalls :
Hab. iii. 18. Yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God
of my salvation.
Matt. iv. 4. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
SPIRITUAL RICHES.
CCXIX. Not earthly, but spiritual riches, or the interests of the
soui, the chief object of a ivise man's desires and pursuits. Ps. xxxvii.
16. A little that a righteous man hath is better than the treasures
of many wicked.
Prov. XV. 6. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great
treasures and trouble therewith.
xxiii. 4. Labour not to be rich.
Jer. xlv. 5. Seekest thou great things for thyself ? seek them not.
Matt. vi. 8. Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of.
Ver. 9. After this manner pray ye.
Ver. 11. Give us this day our daily bread.
Ver. 19. Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, 8cc.
Ver. 20. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heavch.
Ver. 24. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Ver. 25. Therefore take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat
or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body what ye shall put on :
Is not the life more than meat, and the body more than raiment ?
Matt. vi. 26. Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, nei-
ther do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father
Jeedeth them ; are ye not much better than they ?
Ver. 27. Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to
his statufc.
Ver. 31. Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all
these things.
Ver. 33. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteous-
ness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Ver. 34. Take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the mor-
row shall take thought for the things of itself ; suQicient unto the
day is the evil thereof. Luke xii. 21 to 35.
Luke X. 41. Jesus said, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and
troubled about many things ; but one thing is needful, and Mary
hath chosen that better part that shall not be taken away from her.
xxi. 34. Take heed lest your hearts be overcharged with the cares
of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
John vi. 27. Labour not for the meat that perisheth, but for that
meat which endurethunto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall
give unto you.
1 Cor. iii. 22. All things are yours, 2 Cor. viii. 9. Our Lord Jesus
Christ though he was rich, for your sakes became poor, that ye
through his poverty might be rich.
Phil. iv. 6. Be careful for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and
Supplication,let you requests be made known to God. 1 Cor. vii.31,32.
Col. iii. 1. Seek thos't things which are above, where Christ sitteth
on the right hand of God,
Chap. XVIII. Of Repentance. 4.61
Col. iii. 2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on
the earth.
Jam.i. 10. Let the rich rejoice that he is made low,
ii. 5. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith,
and heirs of the kingdom, which he hath promised to them that love
him*
1 Pet. V. 6. Casting all your care upon God, for he careth for you.
Vs. Iv. 22.
1 John ii. 15. Love not the world, neither the things that are in
the world, if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in
him.
1 John v. 4. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world. See
2 Cor. ix. 8, 10.
CGXX. Raiment promised. Matt. vi. 25. Is not the body more
than raiment ?
Ver. 28. Why take ye thought for raiment ? consider the lilies of
the field, they toil not, neither do they spin.
Ver. 29. And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glo-
ry, was not arrayed like one of these.
Ver. 30. Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which
to-day is and to-raorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more
clothe you, O ye of little faith ? — Clothes miraculously supplied to
Adam and Eve, Gen. iii. 21. To the Jews in the wilderness. Deut.
viii. 4. Neh. x. 21. A gourd for Jonas. Jonah iv. 6.
CGXXI, Supportsof life miraculously supplied to the Jeivs. Exod.
xvi. 13, 14, 15. Quails and manna.
Deut. viii. 3. The Lord thy God fed thee with manna, that he might
make thee know, that man doth not live by bread only, but by every
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord, doth man live.
Neh. ix. 21, Matt. iv. 4.
1 Kings xvii. 6. The ravens brought to Elijah, bread and flesh in
the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening.
Ver. 14. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, the barrel of meal
shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that
the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
Ver. ir>. The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of
oil fail, according to the word of the Lord.
Mark vi. 43. Christ feeds five thousand with five loaves.
viii. 8. Christ feeds four thousand with seven loaves,
John ii. 8. Christ turns water into wine. See contentment, sub'-
mission, and resignation.
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CHAP. XVIII.
OF REPENTANCE.
I, REPENTANCE^ the first doctrine preached at the publishing of
the Gospel. Matt. iii. 1. John the Baptist came preaching and saying,
repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Acts xiii. 24. — xix. 4,
462 Repentance, Chap. XVIII,
Matt. iii. 8. Bring forth fruits meet for repentance.
Ver. 10. The axe is laid unto the root of the tree, every tree which
bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.
iv. 17. Jesus began to preach, and say, repent, for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand.
ix. 13. Jesus said, I came to call sinners to repentance, Mark ii. 17.
Mark vi. 12. The disciples being sent forth by Christ, preached
that men should repent. Ver. 7.
Acts XX. 21. Paul said, I taught, testifying both to the Jews, and
ilso to the Greeks, repentance toward God| and faith toward our
Lord Jesus Christ.
xxvi.20. I shewed first to the Jews and then to the Gentiles, that
they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repen-
tance. See above, Matt. iii. 8.
11. The duty of repentance enforced by threatenings in the NenvTesta-
ment. Matt. xi. 20. Then began Jesus to upbraid the cities wherein
most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not.
Ver. 21. Saying, woe unto the Ghorazin, woe unto thee Bethsaida,
for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in
Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long aejo in sackcloth and
ashes,
Ver. 22. But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre
and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. Ver. 2.3. See Ca-
pernaum threatened, ver. 34.
xii. 41. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this ge-
neration, and shall condemn it, because they repented at the preach-
ing of Jonas, and behold a greater than Jonas is here, Luke xi. 32.
Compare Jonah iii. 5.
xxi. 31. The publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of God
before you.
Ver. 32. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and
ye believed him not, but the publicans and harlots believed him, and
ye repented not.
Acts xvii. 30. The times of ignorance God winked at, but now
«;:ommandeth all men every where to repent.
Rev. ii. 5. Remember from whence thou art fallen and repent. I
will come and remove thy candlestick, except thou repent. See ver.
16, 21, 22. Chap. iii. 3. — ix. 20. — xvi. 9.
in. The duty of repentance encouraged by promises in the Neiv
Testament, John xxiv. 46. It behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise
from the dead, that repentance and remission of sins should be preach-
ed in his name among all nations.
Acts ii. 38. Repent and be baptised, in the name of tne Lord Jesus
Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost.
iii. 19. Repent and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.
viii. 22. Repent of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps
the thoughts of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
IV. Promises to those that return to God. Deut. iv.30.When thou
art in tribulation, and all these tilings are come upon thee, if thou
turn to the Lord thy God, and shall be obedient to his voice.
Chap. XVIII. Repentance. 463
Deut. iv. 31. He will not forsake thee. Chap. xxx. 1 to 10.
2 Chron, xv. 4.
1 Sam. vii. 3. If yc do return unto the Lord with all your hearts,
and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only, he will
deliver you. 1 Kings viii. 33 to 38, 48, 49. 2 Chron, vi. 37. Neh.
ix. 33. Ps. cvi. 6. Dan. ix. 5, 15.
Job xxii. 23. If thou return to the Almighty thou shalt be built up.
Isa. Iv. 7 . Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous
man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have
mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Jer. iii. 12. Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and
I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you. Ver. I, 10, 14.
Ver. 22. Return and I will heal your backslidings. Chap. iv. 1.
—XV. 19.
xviii. 7. At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and
concerning a kingdom to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy ;
Ver. 8. If that nation turn from their evil, I will repent of the
evil that I thought to do unto them. Chap. xxvi. 2, 3.— xxxvi. 3.
Ezek. xviii. 21. If the wicked will turn from all his sins that he
hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is law-
ful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Ver. 22. They shall not be mentioned unto him^ in hisrighteous^
ness that he hath done he shall live.
Ver, 23. Have I any pleasure at all that the wikccd shall die ?
saith the Lord God, and not that he should return from his ways and
live. Ver. 27, 28.
Ver. 30. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so iniquity
shall not be your ruin.
Ver. 32. For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth,
saith the Lord God, wherefore turn and live.
xxxiii, U. As 1 live saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the
death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and
live. Turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways, for why will ye die,
O house of Israel ? Ver. 14, 19. 2 Pet. iii. 9.
Hos. vi. 1. Let us return unto the Lord, for he hath torn, and he
will heal us, he hath smitten and he will bind us up. Lam, iii. 40.
xiv. 1, 2. O Israel, return unto the Lord, for thou hast fol-
len by thine iniquity, take with you words, and say unto him, take
away all iniquity and receive us graciously,
Ver. 7. I will heal their backslidings, I will love them freely,
saith the Lord. Chap. xii. 6.
Joel iii. 12. Therefore also, now saith the Lord, turn ye even to
me, with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and
with mourning,
Ver. 13. And rent your hearts and not your garments, and turn
unto the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to an-
ger, and of great kindness, and repentcth him of the evil.
Zech. i. 3. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, turn ye unto me, and I
will turn unto you, Mai. iii. 7.
ix. 12. Turn to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope.
V. Remarkable instances of penitent returning sinners obtaining mercy.
2 Chron. xv. 4. When they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord
464. Repentance. Chap. XVIII.
God of Israel and sought him, he was found of them. Chap, xxx.
6, 9. Neh. i. 9 — ix. 28.
Ps. Ixxiv. 34. They returned and enquired early after God.
Ver. 38. He forgave their iniquity.
cxix. 59. I turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Ver. 65. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, according to thy
word, 2 Kings xxiii. 25.
Jonah iii. 10. God saw the works of the Ninevites, that they turn-
ed from their evil way, and God repented him of the evil that he had
said he would do unto them, and he did it not. Matt. xii. 41.
VI. Turning to God erjoined by commands^ enforced by threatenings
against those who turn riot from sin.
2 Kings xvii. 13. The Lord testified against Israel and Judah by
the prophets and seers, saying, turn ye from your evil ways.
Ver. 14. But they would not hear.
Ver. 18. The Lord was angry, and removed them out of his sight.
Jer. xliv, 4, 5, 6.
Neh. ix. 26. They slew the prophets which teslifced against them,
to turn them to thee.
Ver. 27. Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their
enemies.
Ver. 35. They have not served thee in thy great goodness, nei-
ther turned from their wickedness.
V>r. 36. Behold we are servants in great distress. Ver. 37.
Job xxxvi. 10. He openeth their ear to discipline, and command-
eth that they return from iniquity.
Ver. 11. If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days
in prosperity, and their years in pleasure.
Ver. 12. If they obey not, they shall perish by the sword^ &c.
and die without knowledge.
Ps. vii. 12. If the wicked turn not, God will whet his sword, he
hath bent his bow and made it ready.
Ver, 13. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death.
Isa. xxxi. 6. Turn ye to him from whom the children of Israel
have deeply revolted.
Jer. v. 3. Thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved,
thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than a rock, they have refused to
return.
Ver. 4. Therefore I said, surely these are poor, they are foolish.
Ver. 6. A lion out of the forest shall slay them, &c.
viii. 5. Why is this people sliddcn back with a perpetual backslid-
ing, they refuse to return.
Ver. 6. No man repented him of his wickedness, saying, what
have I done ? Every one turned to his course as the horse rusheth
into the battle. Hos. xi. 5.
XV, 7. 1 will destroy my people sith they return not from their ways.
xviii. W. Thus saith the Lord, behold I frame evil against you,
return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and
your doings good. Chap. xxxv. 15.
xxiii. 14, The false prophets strengthen the hands of evil-doers,
that no man doth return from his wickedness.
Chap. XVIIL Repentance 465
Jer. xxiii. 15. Therefore, thus saiththe Lord of hosts, concerning
the prophets, behold I will feed them with wormwood, and make them
drink the water of gall. Ezek. xiii. 22.
XXV. 4. The Lord sent unto you his servants the prophets.
Ver. 5. They said, turn ye every one from his evil way, and from
the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land. Sec.
Ver. 7. Yet he have not hearkened unto me, saith the Lord. See
threats to ver. 12. Chap. xxvi. 3 xxxvi. 3, 7.
Ezek. iii. 9. If thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his
wickedness, he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy
soul. Chap, xxxiii. 9.
Dan. ix. 13. All this evil is come upon us, yet made we not our
prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniqui-
ties.
Ver. 14. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and
brought it upon us, Zech. i. 4, 6.
Hos. v. 3. I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me.
Ver. 4. They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God.
Ver. 14. I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to
the house of Judab, I will tear and I will take away, and none shall
rescue.
vii, 9. Grey hairs are here and there upon Ephraim, and he know-
eth it not.
Ver. 10. The pride of Israel doth testify to his face, and they do
not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him fer all this.
Ver. 13. Woe unto them, destruction unto them, they return but
not to the Most High, Chap, xi, 5.
XV. \, O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fal-
len by thine iniquity.
Am. iv. 6. I have given you cleanness of teeth and want of bread,
yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. Ver. 8, 9, 10, 11.
Jer. iv. 3. Thus saith the Lord, to them of Judah and Jerusalem,
break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Ver. 4. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the
foreskins of your hearts, lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn
that none can quench it. Hos. x. 12.
Matt, xviii. 3. Except ye be converted, and become as little chil-
dren, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
VII. The cause and means of repentance and conversion^ God the
cause ; this implied in prayers made to God for it^ and other eyipres-
sions, ascribing it to God as his gift*
Ps. Ixxx. 3. Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine,
and we shall be saved. Ver. 7, 19.
Ixxxv. 4. Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine an-
ger towards us to cease.
Song i. 4. Draw me, I will run after thee.
Jer. xxxi. 18. Turn thou me and I shall be turned, for thou art
the Lord my God.
Ver. 19. After that I was turned, I repented, and after that I was
instructed I smote upon my thigh, I was ashamed, yea even confoun-
ded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
466 Repentance, CHAP...XVIir.
Lam. V. 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be
turned.
Acts xi. 18. They said, then hath God also to the Gentiles grant-
ed repentance unto life.
Ver. 2 I. The hand of the Lord was with the disciples, and a great
number believed and turned unto the Lord.
Rom. ii. 4. The goodness of God leadeth to repentance.
2 Tim. ii. 25. In meekness instructing those that oppose them-
selves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the ackow-
ledgment of the truth.
VIIL yesus Christ giveth repentance. Acts iii. 26. God having
raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you in turning away every
one of you from his iniquities.
V. 31. Him hath God exalted a Prince and a Saviour to give repen-
tance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.
IX. God^s law a mean of converting sinners. Ps. xix. 4. The law
of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.
Luke xvi. 30. And he said, nay, father Abraham ; but if one went
unto them from the dead, they will repent.
Ver. 3 1 . If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they
be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
X. The ministry a mean of coniierting sinners* Ezek. iii. 19. If
thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, he shall
die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul. Chap, xxxiii. 9.
Dan.xii.3. They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as
the stars for ever and ever. James v. 19. Prov. xi. 30.
Lukei. 16. Many of the children of Israel shall John Baptist turn
to the Lord their God. Chap. xxii. 32.
Acts xxvi. 17. The Lord said to Paul, 1 send thee to open men's
eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan
unto God, that they may receive the forgiveness of sins, and an inheri-
tance among all them that are sanctified, by faith that is in me.
XI. Repentance promised. Ps. xxii. 27. All the ends of the world
shall remember and turn to the Lord. Ps. Ii. 3. — ex. 3.
Isa. i. 27. Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts
with righteousness.
X. 21. The remnant shall return unto the mighty God. Mic. v. 3.
lx.5. The abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, and
the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. Chap. Iv. 7.
Jer. xxiv. 7 They shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Hos. ii. 7. The church shall say, I will return unto my first husband.
xiv. 7. They that dwell under his shadow shall return, they shall
revive as the corn, and grow as the vine.
X.11. Self examination needful to repentance. iKings viii, 38. Know
every man the plague of his own heart.
Ps. iv. 4. Commune with your own heart on your bed, and be still.
Ixxvii. 6. My spirit made diligent search.
cxix. 59. I thought upon my ways* and turned my feet unto thy
testimonies.
Lam. iii. 4Q.Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the
Lord.
1 Cor, xi. 28. Let a man examine himself.
Chap. XVin. Repentance, 467
2 Cor. xiii. 5. Examine yourselves, prove your own selves.
Gal. vi. 4. Let every man prove his own work.
"Kill. Considerations needful to repentance. Deut. iv. 39. Consider
in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and in the
earth beneath.
1 Sam. xii.24.Consider how great things the Lord hath done for thee.
Job. xxiii. 15. When I consider him, 1 am afraid,
Ps. cxix. 95. I will consider thy testimonies.
Eccl. vii. 14. In the day of adversity consider.
Isa. xli. 20. Consider, that the hand of the Lord hath done this.
Ezek. xii. 3. It may be they will consider, though they be a re-
bellious house. Chap, xviii. 14.
Hag. i. 5. Thus saith the Lord, consider your ways.
2 Tim. ii. 7. Consider, and the Lord give thee understanding in all
things. For considering God's works. See Job xxxvii. 14. Ps. viii,
3. — Ixiv. 9. Eccl. vii, 13. Isa. lii. 15. Jer. xxx. 24.
XIV. The inconsideration of the ivicked. Deut. xxxii. 29. O that
they would consider their latter end.
Ps. 1. 22, Consider, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces,
and there be none to deliver.
Eccl.v. 1. They consider not that they do evil,
Isa. i, 3. Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Chap.
V. 12. Ps. Ixxxii. 5.— xciv. 8.
xliv. 19. None considereth in his heart. Chap, xlvii. 7.
Ver. 20. A deceived heart hath turned him aside, he canoot deliver
his soul, nor say, is there not a lie in my right hand.
Jer. ii. 10. Consider, hath a nation changed their Gods, but my
people have changed their glory.
X. 8. They are altogether brutish. Ver. 14. Chap. Ii. 17, 21.
Hos. vii'. 2. They consider not in their hearts that I remember all
their wickedness.
Matt. vii. 3. Thou considerest not the beam that is in tliine eye.
ix. 45. Ye know not what manner of spirits ye are of.
Luke xix. 42. If thou hadst known the things that belong t»
thy peace, but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Rev.iii, 17. Thou sayest I am rich, and increased with goods, and
have need of nothing, and knowest not, that thou art wretched and
miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
XV. The case of those toho withstand the appointed means ofrepert'
tance. Matt. xiii. 13. Jesus said, I speak to them in parables, be-
cause they seeing, see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do
they understand.
Ver. 14. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaias, which
saith, by hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing
ye shall see, and shall not perceive. Isa. vi. 9.
Ver. 15. For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are
dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest at anytime they
should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should un-
derstand with their heart, and should be converted and 1 should heal
them. Mark iv. 12. Luke viii. 10. John xii. 40. Acts xxviii. 26-
Rom.xi. 8,
Nnn
iSS Repentance. Chap. XVIII.
Luke xvi. SO. Dives said, if one went from the dead unto my bre-
thren they will repent.
Ver. 31. Abraham said. If they hear not Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.
xix. 41. Jesus wept over Jerusalem, saying,
Ver. 42. If thou hadst known in thia thy day the things which be-
long unto thy peace, but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Rom. ii. 5. After thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou trea-
surest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath.
Heb. vi. 4. It is impossible for those who were once enlightened,
and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the
Holy Ghost.
Ver. 5. And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers
of the world to come.
Ver. 6. If they fall away, to renew them again to repentance,
seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him
to open shame.
xii. 17. Esau found no place for repentance, though he sought it
carefully with tears. Matt, xxvii. 7.
Gen. vi. 3. God saith, my Spirit shall not always strive with man.
Ps. xcv. 8. Harden not your hearts. Heb. iii. 8. 15. — iv. 7.
XVI. Sorrow for sin. Ps. xiii. 3. How long shall I take counsel
in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily ?
xxxviii. 17. I am ready to halt, my sorrow is continually before me.
Ver. 18.1 will declare mine iniquity, I will be sorry for my sin.
Ixix. 29. I am poor and sorrowful, let thy salvation, O God, set
me on high. Ps. cxvi. 3, 4.
Eccl.' vii. 3. Sorrow is better than laughter. Prov. xiv. 13.
Jer. xxxi. 25. I have satiated every weary soul, I have replenished
every sorrowful soul.
Zeph. iii. 18. I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn
assembly.
John xvi. 20. Your sorrow shall be turned into joy.
Rom. ix. 2. I have continual sorrow in my heart.
2 Cor. vi. 10. As sorrowful yet always rejoicing.
vii. 9 to 12. Ye sorrowed to repentance.
XVII. Mourning for sin. Exod. xxxiii. 4. When the people heard
God's threatenings against them they mourned.. Numb. xiv. 39.
Ezra X. 6. Ezra mourned because of the transgressions of those
that had been carried captive.
Neh. i. 4. Nehemiah wept and mourned, fasted and prayed, and
said. Sec.
Job V. 11. God doth great things, that those that mourn may be
exalted. Ver. 8, 9.
Ps. xxxviii. 6. I go mourning all the day. Ps. xlii. 9. — xliii. 2.
Iv. 2. Attend unto me and hear me, 1 mourn in my complaint.
Isa. xxxviii. 14. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter, I did
mourn as a dove. Isa. lix. 11.
Ivii. 18. I will restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
Ixi. 2. The Lord hath sent me to comfort all that mourn.
Ver. 3. To give unto them that mourn in Zion, beauty for ashes,
Chap. XVIII. Repentance. 4€9
the oil of joy for mourning, and the garments of praise for the spirit
of heaviness.
Jer. xxxi. IS. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort
them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Ezek. vii. 16. They shall be on the mountains like doves of the
vallies, mourning every one for his iniquities. Ver. 27.
ix. 4. Set a mark on the fore-heads of them that sigh and mourn
for the abominations. Rev. vii. 3.
Dan. X. 2. I Daniel was mourning three full weeks, See.
Joel i. 9. The priests, the Lord's ministers mourn.
ii. 12. Turn ye unto me, (saith the Lord) with all your heart, with
fasting, with weeping and mourning,
Ver. 13, Rent your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto
the Lord your God.
Zech. xii. 10. They shall look on him whom they have pierced,
and mourn.
Ver. 12. The land shall mourn every family apart.
Matt. V. 4. Blessed are they that mourn, they shall be comforted.
XVin. Reproofs and threats for not mourning for sin. Isa. xxii.
12. In that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping and
mourning, and baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.
Ver. 13. But behold joy and gladness.
Zech. vii. 5. When ye fasted and mourned, did ye at all fast unto
me, even unto me.
Lukevi. 25. Wo unto you that laugh, ye shall mourn.
1 Gor. v. 2. Ye are puffed up and have not rather mourned.
James iv. 9. Be ye afflicted and mourn and weep, let your laugh-
ter be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness.
XIX. Heaviness for sin. Ezra ix. 5. I arose from my heaviness.
Ps. xxxviii. 4. Mine iniquities are as an heavy burden.
cxix. 28. My soul melteth for heaviness.
Matt. xi. 28. Gome unto me all ye that labour and are heavy la-
den, and I will give you rest. Isa, Ixi. 3.
XX. Grief for sin, 2 Ghron. vi.29. When every one shall know
his own sore, and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands and
pray, hear thou and forgive. 1 Kings viii. 38. When he shall know
the plague of his own heart. Ver. 39. Hear thou and forgive.
Neh. xiii. 8. Their profaning the house of God, grieved me sore.
Ps. cxix. 158. I beheld transgressors and was grieved.
Mark iii. 5. Jesus was grieved for the hardness of their hearts.
XXI. Not being grieved for sin. Jer, v. 7. Thou hast stricken
them, they were not grieved. Isa. Ivii. 10.
XXII. Weeping for sin. Judg. ii. 4. The Israelites being reprov-
ed by an angel for their sins, they lift up their voice and wept.
2 Kings xxii. 19, Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast
rent thy clothes and wept before me, I also have heard thee, saith the
Lord. 2 Chron. xxxi v. 26.
Ezrax. 1. Ezra confessed weeping.
Ps. vi. 8. The Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
cii. 9. 1 have mingled my drink with weeping.
cxxvi. 6. He that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed,
shall come again with rejoicing.
4ro Repentance* Chap. XVIII.
Jer. xiii. 17 . My soul shall weep in secret for your pride.
xxxi. 9. They shall come with weeping and supplication.
1. 4. The children of Israel shall go together weeping, to seek the
Lord their God.
Joel ii. 12. Turn ye unto me with all your heart, with fasting,
weeping and mourning.
Ver. 17. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between
the porch and the altar, and let them say, spare thy people, O Lord.
Luke vi. 21. Blessed are ye that weep. Ver. 25.
vii. 38. A woman stood weeping, and began to wash Jesus* feet
with tears.
xxiii. 28. Jesus said, weep not forme, but weep for yourselves.
James xliv. 9. — v. 1.
XXin. Tears for sin. 2 Kings xx. 5. I have seen thy^tears, be-
hold I will heal thee. Isa. xxxviii. 5.
Job xvi. 20. Mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
Ps. vi. 6. I water my couch with my tears.
xxxix- 12. Hold not thy peace at my tears.
xlii. 3. My tears have been my meat night and day.
Ivi. 8. Put my tears in thy bottle.
cxxvi. 5. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Jer. ix. 1. O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain
of tears. Ver. 18.
xiii. 17. Mine eye shall run down with tears.
Lam. ii. 11. Mine eyes do fail with tears.
Ver. 18. Let tears run down like a river day and night, give thy-
self no rest. Jer. xiv. 17.
Acts XX. 19. Serving the Lord with many tears.
Rev. vii. 15. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
XXIV. Heart affected for having sinned. 1 Sam.xxiv. 5. David's
heart smote him.
1 Kings viii. 38. Know the plague of his own heart. 2 Chron, vi.
29. His own sore.
2 Kings xxii. 19. Because thine heart was tender.
Isa. xlvii. 7. Lay to heart, Dan. v. 22. Humble the heart. Joel
ii. 13. Rent the heart. Acts ii. 37. They were pricked in their hearts.
Gtiap. ix. 6 xvi. 30. Ps. cix. 22. Heart wounded.
XXV. A broken contrite heart, Ps. xxxiv. 18. The Lord is nigh
unto them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as be of a
contrite spirit.
Ii. 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and
a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
cix. 16. See prayers against those who would slay the broken in
heart.
cxlvii. 3. The Lord healeth the broken in heart, and biadeth up
their wounds.
Isa. Ivii. 15. Thus saith the Lord, I dwell with him that is of a
contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and
to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Ixi. 1. The Lord hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted.
Lukeiv. 18.
Chap, XVIII. Repentame. mt
Isa. Ixvi. 2. To this man will I look, even to him that is poor an!
of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
XXVI. Shame the portion of sinners. Pro v. iii. 35. Shame shall
be the promotion of fools.
xiii. 5. A wicked man is lothsome and cometh to shame.
xiv. 34. Sin is a reproach to any people.
Dan. xii. 2. Some (at the last day) shall awake to shame, Sec.
XXVII. Shame enjoined as a mark of true penitents. Jer. xxii. 22.
Thou shalt be ashamed, yea^ even confounded for all thy wickedness.
Ezek. xliii. 10. Shew the house of Israel, that they may be asha-
med for their iniquities. Ver. 11. Hos. iv. 19.
Rom. vi. 21. What fruit had ye in these things whereof ye are
now ashamed. Jer, xxxi. 19— iii. 25.
XXVIII. Avoiding sin is avoiding shame. Ps. cxix. 6. Then shall
I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments*
See Rev. iii. 18 — xvi. 15. Compare, Gen. iii. 7. 8.
Job xi. 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let
not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
Ver. 15. For then thou shalt lift up thy face without spot, &c.
XXIX. Reproofs fornot being ashamed of sin. Jer. vi. 15. When
they had committed abominations they were not ashamed, neither
could they blush. Chap. viii. 12.
Zeph. iii. 5. The unjust knoweth no shame.
Phil. iii. 19. The wicked glory in their shame.
Jude 13. Foaming out of their own shame.
XXX. Abhorring and loathing one's self for sin. Job xlii. 6. Job
said, I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.
Ezek. vi. 9. They shall loathe themselves for the evils which they
have committed in all their abominations. Chap. xx. 43. — xxxvi. 3U
XXXI. Confession and acknowledgment of sin required of penitent s»
XXXII. Promises to confessing and acknowledging sin. Lev. xxvi.
40. If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers,
Ver. 41. If their uncircumcised heart be humbled,
Ver. 42. Then will I remember my covenant. 1 Kings viii. 33, 35.
Ps.xxxii. 5. I said, I will confess my transgressions, thou forgav-
est the iniquity of my sin.
Prov. xxviii. 13. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but
whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Job xxxi. 33.
1 John i. 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to for-
give us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
XXXIII. Exhortatiom to confession. Jos. vii. 19. Give glory to
God and make confession,
Jer. iii. 13. Acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast transgres-
sed against the Lord thy God. Ezra x. 1 1. Hos. v. 15.
Rom. xiv, 11. Every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall con-
fess to God.
XXXIV. Instances, Matt. iii. 16. They were baptised confess-
ing their sins.
Acts xix. 8. Many that believed, confessed and shewed their deeds.
XXXV. Confessions made in scripture expressions. Ezra ix. 6.
O my God, I am ashamed, and blush to lift up my face to thee my
God, for our iniquities arc increased over our heads, and our trespass
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is grown up unto the heavens. Ver. 7, 13, 15. Ps. xxxviii. 4.— xl.
12. Jer. xiv. 20.
Neh. i. 6. Both I and my father's house have sinned. Ps. cvi. 6.
Ver. 7. We have dealt very corruptly against thee.
ix. 16. They dealt proudly and hardened their necks, and heark-
ned not to thy commandments.
Ver. 26. They were disobedient and rebelled against thee, and cast
thy laws behind their backs.
Ver. 35. They have not served thee in thy great goodness, nei-
ther turned they from their wicked works.
Job xiii. 23. How many are mine iniquities and my sins, make me
to know my transgressions and my sins.
xiv, 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an nnclean.
XV. 14. What is man that he should be clean ? and he that is
born of a woman, that he should be righteous. 1 Kings viii. 46.
Ver. 15. Behold he putteth no trust in his saints, and the heavens
are not clean in his sight.
xl. 4. Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee ? I will lay mine
hand upon my mouth.
Ps. xxxviii. 18. I will declare mine iniquity, I will be sorry for
my sin. Ps. xxxii. 5.
li. 3. I acknowledge my transgressions, my sin is ever before me.
Ver. 5. Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mo-
ther conceive me.
Ixix. 5. O God thou knowest my foolishness, and my sins are not
hid from thee. Ps. cxxx. 3. If thou. Lord, shouldst mark iniquity,
O Lord, who should stand ?
Prov. XX. 9. Who can say I have made my heart clean ? I am
pure from my sin ? 1 John i. 8. If we say we have no sin we deceive
ourselves and the truth is not in us.
Eccl. vii. 20. There is not a just man upon earth that doth good
and sinneth not.
Isa. lix. 12. Our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and
our sins testify against us.
Ixiv. 6. We are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags> and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities like
the wind have taken us away.
Jer. xiv. 7. Our backslidings are many, we have sinned against
thee. Ver. 20. Luke iii. 42.
Dan. ix. 5. We have sinned and have committed iniquity, and have
done wickedly and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts,
and from thy judgments.
Ver. 8. OLord to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to
our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
Rom. vii. 18. In my flesh dwelleth no good thing.
Ver. 21.1 find a law that when I would do good, evil is present
with me.
Ver. 23. I see a law in my members, warring against the law of
my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is
in my members.
XXXVl. Ainendment, Deut.x. 16. Circumcise the foreskin of
your hearty and be no more stiff-necked. Jer. iv. 4,
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Job. xxxiv. 32. If I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
Isa. i. 16. Cease to do evil, learn to do well.
Jen vii. 3. Amend your ways and your doings. Ver. 15. Chap.
xXvi. 13. — XXXV. 15.
Matt. iii. 8. Bring forth fruits meet for repentance. Luke iii. 8.
John V. 14. Sin no more. Chap. viii. 11. Ps. iv, 4. Stand in awe
and sin not.
Rom. vi. 1. Shall we continue in sin, Sec. God forbid.
Eph. V. 14. Awake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead. See
dead works.
James iv. 8. Cleanse your hands, purify your hearts.
FRUITFULNESS.
XXXVIII. Fruitfulness in religion. Ps. i. 3. He shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season.
xcii. 14. They shall bring forth fruit in old age, they shall be fat
and flourishing. See ver. 12, 13. Ps. Ixxxiv. 7.
Prov. iv. 18. The path of the just is as the shining light that shi-
neth, Sec.
Isa. V. 4. What could have been done more to my vineyard that I
have not done in it, to make it fruitful.
Jer. xxxi. 12. Their soul shall be as a watered garden. Mai. iv. 2.
Hos. xiv. 5. I will be as the dew unto Israel, he shall grow as the
lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Ver. 8. I am like a green fir-tree ; from me is thy fruit found.
Matt. vii. 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Ver. 20.
Chap. xii. 33.
Ver. 17. Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit. Chap. xiii.
23. Mark xii. 2.
John XV. 2. Every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth that it
may bring forth more fruit. Matt, xiii, 12.
Ver. 5. I am the vine ye are the branches, he that abideth in me
and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit, for without me ye
can do nothing.
John XV. 8. Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much
fruit, so shall ye be my disciples.
Ver. 1 6. I have chosen you and ordained you, that ye should go
and bring forth fruit.
Rom. vi. 22. Being made free from sin ye have your fruit unto ho-
liness and the end everlasting life. Chap. vii. 4.
Eph. iv. 15, Grow up unto Christ in all things.
Eph. V. 9. The fruit of the Spirit is in all righteousness, goodness
and truth.
Phil. i. 11. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are
by Jesus Christ, to the praise and glory of God.
Col. i. 10. Walk worthy of the Lord, to all pleasing being fruitful
in every good work. Chap. vi. — ii. 7.
James iii. 17. The wisdom from above is full of good fruits.
I Pet. ii, 2. Desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow
thereby.
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2 Pet. i. 8. If these things be in you and abound, they make you
that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge df
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
iii. 18. Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Sa-
viour jesus Christ.
Jude ver. 20. Building yourselves up in your most holy faith.
CHAP, XIX,
OF DEATH.
I. THE shortness of human life. Gen. xlvii, 9. Jacob said, few
and evil have the days of the years of my life been. Job xiv. L Man
that is born of a woman is of few days.
1 Sam. XX. 3. There is but a step between me and death.
1 Chron. xxix. 15. Our days on earth are as a shadow, and there
is none abiding. Job viii. 9. Ps.cii. 11.— cxliv. 4. Zech. i. 5»
Job vii. 6. Our days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.
ix. 25. Our days are swifter than a post, they fly away.
Ver. 26. They are passed away as the swift ships, and as the eagle
that hasteth to the prey.
xvi. 22. When a few years are come, then I shall go the way
whence I shall not return.
xvii. 1. My days are extinct, my breath is corrupt, the graves arc
ready for me.
Ps. xxxix. 4. Lord make me to know mine end, and the measure
of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am.
Ver. 5. Behold, thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and
mine age is as nothing before thee; verily every man at his best
estate is altogether vanity.
Ver, 13. O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go hence
and be no more. Ps. xc. 3, 5, 6, 10, 12.
ciii. 15. Man's days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he
ilourisheth.
Ver. 16. For the windpasseth over it, and it is gone, and the place
thereof shall know it no more. Isa, xl. 6, 7, 8. James i. 10. 1 Pet.
i. 24. ^
James iv. 14. Our life is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little
time and then vanisheth away. Heb. xiii. 14. Here we have no con-
tinuing city. 1 Chron. xxix. 15. There is none abiding.
II. Of the term or boundary ef human life. Job vii. 1. Is
there not an appointed time for man upon earth ? Are not his days
like the days of an hireling ?
xiv. 5. Man's days are determined, the number of his months arc
with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.
Ver. 14. All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my
change come.
Ps. xc. 0. The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and
Chap. XIX. Of Death. 475
if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength
labour and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away.
Eccl. iii. 2. A time to be born and a time to die.
Matt. vi. 27. Which of you can add one cubit to his stature (or
age)?
Acts xvii. 26. God hath made of one blood all nations of men that
dwell on the face of the earth, and hath determined the times, be-
fore appointed, and the bounds of their habition.
III. The time of life is in God's hand. Job v. 18. The Lord mak-
eth sore and he bindeth up, he woundeth and his hands make vvliple,
i Sam. ii. 6. The Lord killeth and he maketh alive, he bringeth
down to the grave and he raiseth up. Deut xxxli. 39.
Ps. Ixviii. 20. Unto God the Lord belong the issues from death
Ps, ix. 13. — ciii. 4.
Dan. V. 23. God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all
thy ways.
Acts xvii. 28. In him we live, and move, and have our being.
Rev. i. 18. I have the keys of hell, and of death, saith Christ.
IV. Death prevailing over all mankind, of every character, rank
and station, Jos. xxiii. 14. Joshua said, I am going the way of all
the earth, 1 Kings ii. 2.
Job iv. 19. Mortal men dwell in houses of clay, their foundation
is in the dust, they are crushed before the moth.
Ver. 20. They are destroyed from morning to evening, they perish
for ever without any regarding it.
Ver. 21. Doth not their excellency that is in them go away ? they
die without wisdom.
vir. 9. He that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Ver. 10. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his
place know him any more.
ix. 22. God destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
xiv. 2. Man cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down.
Ver. 10. Man dieth and wasteth away, yea man giveth up the
ghost, and where is he ?
Ver. 12. Man lieth down, and riseth not till the heavens be no
more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of sleep.
Ver. 19. Thou destroyest the hope of man.
Ver. 20. Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth^
thou changest his countenance and sendest him away,
xvii. 13. If I wait, the grave is mine house Ver. 1.
Ver. 14. I have said to corruption thou art my father, and to the
Worm, thou art my mother and sister.
Ver. 15. And where is now my hope ?
xxi. 23. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and
quiet.
Ver. 24. His breasts are full of milk, and his bones moistened
with marrow.
Ver. 25 Another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never
eateth with pleasure.
Ver. 26. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms
shall cover them.
xxiv, 24. The mighty are exalted for a little while, but arc gone and
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brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut
off as the tops of the ears of corn. Eccl. viii. 8. Neither shall
wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Job XXX. 23. 1 know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the
house appointed for all living. Eccl. viii. 8. There is no discharge
in that war.
xxxiv. 14. If he set his heart upon man, and if he gather unto
him his spirit and his breath.
Ver. 15. All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again
to dust.
Ps, xlix. 7. They that trust in their wealth, none of them can by
any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him.
Ver. 9. That he should live for ever and not see corruption.
Ver. 10. Wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person
perish, and leave their wealth to others. Ver. 11 to 14.
Ixxxii. 6. I have said ye are gods, and all of you children of the
Most Hi^h.
Ver. 7. But ye shall die like men. Ps. cxlvi. 4.
Ixxxix. 48. What man is he that livetli and shall not see death ?
Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave ?
xc. 3. Thou turnest men to destruction.
Ver. 5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood, they are as a
bleep in the morning, they are like grass that groweth up.
Ver. 6. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the even-
ing it is cut down and withereth.
Eccl. i. 4. One generation cometh and another goeth.
ii. 16. How dieth the wise man ? as the fool.
viii, 8. No man hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit,
neither hath he power in the day of death, and there is no discharge
in that war.
xii. 5. Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about
the streets.
Ver. 7. The dust shall return to dust as it was, and the spirit shall
return unto God who gave it.
V. Preparative duties for death. Deut. xxxii. 29. O that they
were wise, that they would consider their latter end.
Ps. xc. 12. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply
our hearts to wisdom, Ps. xxxix. 4.
John ix. 4. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is
da^'', the night cometh when no man can work.
I Pet. i. 17. Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. Matt.
X. 28..
VI. No preparative duties are to be performed after death. Isa.
xxxviii. 18. The grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate
thee, they that go down to the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Ver, 19. The living, the living, he shall praise thee as I do this
day. SeePs. vi. 5 — xxx. 9 — Ixxxviii. 10, 11, 12 — cxv. 17.
VII. The death of the righteous happy. Ps. xxxi. 5. Into thine
hand I commit my spirit, O Lord. Acts vii. 59.
xxxvii. 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for
the end of tliat man is peace.
cxvi. 1 1. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the- death of his saints.
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Prov. xiv. 32. The righteous hath hope in his death. Numb, xxiii.
10. Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be
like his.
Eccl. vii. 1 . The day of his death is better than the day of his
birth.
Isa. Ivii. 1. The righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Ver. 2. He shall enter into peace. 2 Kings xxii. 19, 20.
Job iii. 17. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the
weary be at rest.
Ver. 18. There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the
voice of the oppressor.
ts. Ixxiii. 24. Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, and after-
ward receive me into glory, Ps. Ixxxiv. 11. The Lord will give grace
and glory.
Luke xvi. 22. Lazarus died and was carried by angels into Abra-
ham's bosom.
Ver. 25. Now he is comforted.
Luke xxiii. 43. Jesus said, this day shalt thou be with me in Pa-
radise.
1 Cor. iii. 22. Whether life or death, all are yours. Ver. 23. Ye
are Christ's.
' 2 Cor. V. 6. While we are at home in the body, we are absent
from the Lord.
Ver. 8. . We are willing rather to be absent from the body, and
to be present with the Lord.
Phil. i. 21. For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Ver, 23. I have a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which
far better.
1 Thess. V. 10. Christ died for us, that whether we wake or sleep,
we should live together with him. Rom. xiv. 8, 9.
Heb, xii. 23. The righteous go to the spirits of just men made
perfect.
Rev. xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from
henceforth : yea saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labour,
and their works do follow them.
y 111, Death of the ivicked. Job zxvii. 20. Terrors take hold on
him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Ver 21. The east wind canieth him away and he departeth, and
as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Ver, 22. For God shall cast upon him and shall not spare.
Ver. 23. Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out
of his place, Jer. xxiii. 19.
xxxvi. 6. God preserveth not the life of the wicked.
Ps. xxxvii. 34. When the wicked are cutofFthou shalt see it^v
Ver. 38. The end of wicked men shall be cut off.
Prov. xi. 7. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation perisheth.
Ver. 10. When the wicked perish there is shouting.
xii. 7. The wicked are overthrown and are not. Chap. x. 27.
xiv. 32. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness.
Eccl.viii. 10. I saw the wicked buried, they were forgotten.
. Isa. xiv. 9. Hell from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at
thy coming.
4,76 Of the Resurrection. Chap. XIX,
Isa. xiv. IS. Thou slialt be brought dovrn to hell, to the sides of
the pit.
Ezek. xviii. 18. He shall die in his iniquity. Chap, xxxiii. 8, 9.
Luke xvi. 23. The rich man died and was buried, and in hell he
lift up his eyes being in torment. Ps.ix. 17.
IX. The dead leave all their possessions behind them. Ps. xlix. 10.
They leave their wealth to others. Job i. 21. Eccl. ii. 18.
Ver. 14. Their beauty shall consume in the grave.
Ver. 17. When he dieth he shall carry nothing away, his glory
shall not descend after him.
Eccl. V. 15. As he came, naked shall he return, and shall take
nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
Ver. 16. In all points as he came, so shall he go. Chap. ii. 19.
Who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool that shall be
^fter him.
ix. 5. The memory of them is forgotten also.
Ver. 6. Also, their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now
perished, neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing
that is done under the sun.
Job xiv. 21. His sons come to honour and he knoweth it not, they
are brought low, but he perceiveth it not.
1 Tim. vi. 7. We brought nothing into this world, and it is cer-
tain we can carry nothing out.
or THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD.
X. That there shall be a resurrection of the dead. See Christ shall
raise the dead. Job xix. 25.1 know that my Redeemer liveth, and
that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.
Ver. 26. And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet
in my flesh shall I see God.
Ver. 27. Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold,
^nd not another, though my reins be consumed within me. Ps. xlix. 15.
Ps xvi 9. My flesh shall rest in hope. Ver. 10. Ps. Ixviii. 20.
Acts ii. 26, 27, 28, 31,
Dan. xii. 2. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth
shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting shame
and contempt. Ps, xyii. 15.
Matt. xxii. 30. In the resurrection they neither marry nor are
given in marriage, but are as the angels in heaven.
Ver. 31. As touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not
read, that which was spoken unto you, by God, saying,
Ver. 32. I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob ; God is not the God of the dead, but of the living*
Luke XX. 35, 36.
Luke xiv. 14. Thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of
the just.
Acts xiv. 2. The apostles taught the people, and preached through
Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Heb. vi, 1,2.
xxiii. 6. Paul said, of the hope of the resurrection of the dead I
^m called in question. Chap. xxiv. 21.
xxiv. 15. Paul said, I have hope toward God, that there shall be
^ resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Chap. XIX. Of the Resurrection. ^*l%
Acts xxvi. 8 . Why should it be thought a thing incredible with
you, that God should raise the dead.
Rom. iv. 17. God quickeneth the dead. 2 Cor. i. 9. God raisetU
the dead.
viii. II. If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesi^s from the dead
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Ver. 19. The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the Son of God.
Ver. 21. Because the creature shall be delivered from the bondage
of corruption into the glorious hberty of ihe children of God.
Ver. 23. We ourselves who have the fiist fruits of the Spirit, we
groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemp-
tion of our body.
1 Cor. vi. 14. God both raised up the Lord Jesus, and will also
raise up us by his own power.
XV. 12. How say some of you, that there is no resurrection of the
dead. 2 Tim. ii. 17, 18.
Ver. 13. If there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not
risen.
Ver. 14. And if Christ be not risen, then is your preaching vain,
and your faith is also vain.
Ver. 20. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the
firsi-fruits of them that slept.
Ver. 21. Since by man came death, by man came also the resur-
rection of the dead.
Ver 22. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be
made alive.
Ver. 23. But every man in his order, Christ the first-fruitSy
and afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Col. i. 18.
Ver. 35. Some men will say, how are the dead raised, and with
what bodies do they come ?
Ver. 38. God giveth a body as it pleaseth him.
Ver. 42. So also is the resurrection of the dead, it is sown in cor-
ruption, it is raised in incorrupiion.
Ver. 43. It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory, it is sown
in weakness it is raised in power.
Ver. 44. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
Ver. 52. The dead shall be raised incorruptible.
Ver. 53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this
mortal must put on immortality.
Ver. 54. Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,
death is swallowed up in victory. Isa. xxv. 7,8. — xxvi. 19. Hos.
xiii. 14.
2 Cor. iv. 14. He that raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us
also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
V. 1 . We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were
dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens.
Ver. 2. For in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed
, upon with our house which is from heaven.
480 Of a Future Judgment, Chap. XX.
2 Cor. V. 3. If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked,
Ver. 4. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan being burdened,
not for that we would be unclothed but clothed upon, that mortality
might be swallowed up of life.
Eph. iv. 30. By the holy Spirit of God ye are sealed unto the day
of redemption.
1 Thess. iv. 14. If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even
so them that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Ver. 15. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that
we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not
prevent them which are asleep.
Ver. 16. For the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God,
and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
Ver. 17. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet theLord in the air, so shall
we ever be with the Lord.
Heb. xi. 19. Abraham accounted that God was able to raise Isaac
from the dead.
Ver. 35. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that
they might obtain a better resurrection.
Rev, XX. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first re-
surrection, on such the second death hath no power, but they shall
be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand
years.
Ver. 13. The sea gave up the dead which were in it, Isa. xxvi.
19. See Christ shall change the bodies of mankind.
CHAP. XX.
OF A FUTURE JUDGMENT.
I, OF a future judgment and its consequences. Acts xxiv. 25.
Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance and judgment to come,
Felix trembled.
Heb, vi. 1. Let us go on toward perfection.
Ver. 2. Not laying again the foundation of the resurrection of the
dead and of eternal judgment.
ix. 27. It is appointed unto all men once to die, but after this
the judgment.
IL God is judge. See Christ shall judge the world. Ps. 1. 6. God
is judge — The judge of all the earth. Gen. xviii. 25.
xcvi. 13. He cometh to judge the earth. He shall judge the world
■with righteousness, and ihe people with his truth. Ver. 10. Ps. Iviii
11. — xcviii. 8.
Acts xvii. 31. He hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the
world in righteousness.
Rom. ii. 2. The judgment of God is according to truth. Chap.
iiik 5.
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Rom. ii. 12. As many as have sinned in the law shall be judged
by the law.
Ver. 16. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by
Jesus Christ.
1 Cor. iv. 4. He that judgeth me is the Lord.
Rev. XX. \\. 1 saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it,
from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was
found no place for them.
Ver. 12. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God,
and the books were opened ; and another book was opened which is
the book of life : and the dead were judged out of those things which
were written in the books according to their works.
III. The persons and things that shall be judged, Eccl. iii. 17.
God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.
xi. 9. Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart
cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine
heart, and in the sight of thine eyes, but know that, for all these
things God will bring thee into judgment.
xii. 14. God will bring every work into judgment, with every se-
cret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil. Rom. ii. 16.
God shall judge the secrets of men.
Matt. xii. 36. Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall
give account thereof in the day of judgment. Ver. 37.
Rom. xiv. 12. Every one shall give account of himself to God.
1 Cor. ili. 14. Every man's work shall be made manifest.
Heb. xiii. 17. Ministers watch for your souls as they that must
give account.
1 Pet. iv. 4. They that run to excess of riot,
Ver. 5. Shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick
and the dead.
Ver. 17. Judgment must begin at the house of God.
IV. When the day of Judgment shall -be. Mark. xiii. 24. The sun
shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.
Ver. 25. And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that
are in heaven shall be shaken.
Ver. 26. And then shall they see the Son of Man coming in the
clouds with great power and glory.
Ver. 32. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the
angels which are in heaven, neither the Son but the Father. Matt.
xxiv. 29 to 44.
1 Thess. V. 2. The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the
night. 2 Pet. iii. 10.
2 Thess. ii, 3. The day shall not come, except there come a fal.
ling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.
Ver. 8. Whom the Lord shall consume. Sec.
V. Uses to be made of the doctrine of a future judgment^ and its
consequences ; for encouraging stedfastness and perseverance in swi"
dry graces and duties of the christian life, Luke xxi. 34. Take heed
to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be over-charged with sur-
feiting and drunkenness^ and the cares of this life, and so that day
come upon you unawares, compare 1 Pet. iv.45.
482 Of a Future judgment. Chap. XX.
Luke xxi. 35. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell
on the face of the earth.
Luke xxi. 36. Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may
be accounted worthy, to escape all these things that shall come to
pass, and to stand before the Son of man. See Matt. xxiv. 42, 44
fo 51. Mark xiii. 33 to 37.
1 Cor. i. 8. The Lord Jesus Christ shall confirm you unto the end,
that ye may be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.
iv. 4. He thatjudgeth me is the Lord. See Christ shall judge.
Ver. 5. Therefore judge nothing before the time till the Lord come.
See Matt. vii. 1, 2, Rom. xiv. 3, 10, 13. Col. ii. 16. James iv. 11.
Acts. xvii. 30. The times of ignorance God winked at, but now
commandeth all men every where to repent.
Ver. 31. Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge
the world in righteousness by JesUs Christ.
Col. iii. 4. When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall yc
appear with him in glory.
Ver. 5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the
upon the earth, fornicarion, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil
concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Ver. 8. Also put off anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy com-
munications out of your mouth-
Ver. 9. Lie not.
Ver. 24. Knowing that of the Lord yc shall receive the reward of
the inheritance.
1 Thess. ii. 19. We who are ministers, what is our hope or joy
or crown of rejoicing ? are not even ye in the presence of our Lord
Jesus Christ at his coming ?
iii. 12. The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one
toward another, and toward all men.
Ver. 13. To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in
holiness before God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Je-
sus Christ with all his saints.
iv. 17. We shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in
the air, so shall we be ever with the Lord.
Ver. 18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
V. 2. The day of the Lord cometh as a thief in the night. 2 Pet.
iii. 10.
Ver. 4. But ye, brethren are not in darkness, that that day should
overtake you as a thief.
Ver. 6. Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch
and be sober.
1 Thess. V. 8. Putting on the breast-plate of faith, and love, and
for an helmet the hope of salvation.
2. Thess. ii. 1. We beseech you brethren by the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him.
Ver. 2. That ye be not soon shaken in mind.
1 Tim. vi. 14. Keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable
until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. See Obedience to Christ.
Tit. ii. 12. Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
soberly, righteously and godly, in this present world.
CiCAP. XX. Of a Future Judgment, 4gS
Tit. ii. 13. Looking for the blessed hope, and the glorious appear-
ing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
James v. 7. Be patient, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
Ver. S. Stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth
nigh.
1 Pet. i. 7. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious
than that of gold that perisheth, though it be tried by fire, might be
found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus
Christ.
Ver. 9. Ye receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your
souls.
Ver. IS. Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober and hope to
the end, for the grace that shall be brought to you at the revelation
of Jesus Christ.'
Ver. 14. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according
to the former lusts in your ignorance.
Ver. 15. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in
all manner of conversation.
1 Pet. iv. 7. The end of all things is at hand, be ye therefore so-
ber and watch unto prayer.
Ver. 13. Rejoice, in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's suffer-
ings, that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with
exceeding joy.
2 Pet. iii. 1 1. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and
godliness.
Ver. 12. Looking for and hasting to the coming of the day of God,
when the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat. Ver. 13, 14.
1 John ii, 8. Little children, abide in Christ, that when he shall
appear ye may have confidence, and not be ashamed at his coming.
iv. 17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have bold-
ness in the day of judgment.
Rev. xiv. 7. Fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his
judgment is come, and worship him that made heaven and earth and
the fountains of waters.
VL The dissolution of the heavens and the earth, Ps. cii. 25. The
heavens are the work of thine hands.
Ver. 26. They shall perish but thou shalt endure, yea all of them
shall wax old like a garment, and as a vesture shalt thou, (Christ,
Heb. i. 10, 11, 12.) change them and they shall be changed.
2 Pet. iii. 7. The heavens and the earth which are now are kept in
store, reserved unto fire, against the day of judgment and perdition
of ungodly men.
Ver. 10. The heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works
that are therein shall be burnt up. Ver. 12.
Ver. 13. Nevertheless we according to his promise look for new
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Sec Rcr.
vi. 14. Isa. xxxiv, 24. — li. 6. — Ixv. 17. — Ixvi. 22.
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484 The Happiness of the Righteous. Chap. XX.
THKHAPPINESS OF THE RIGHTEOUS,
VII. The happiness of the righteous in heaven^ is inconceivably great,
1 Cor. ii. 9. Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered
into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them
that love him. Isa. Ixiv 4.
I John iii. 2, Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth
not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall ap-
pear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. Rom. viii. 29.
Phil, iii, 21.
VIII. Christians are heirs. Rom. viii. 17. If children then
heirs, h'-irs of God, and joint heirs of Christ. Chap. iv. 7.
Gal. iii. 27 Heirs according to the promise. Eph. iii. 6.
Tit. iii. 17. Heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Heb. i. 17. Heirs of salvation.
vi. 17. Heirs of promise. Chap. xi. 7, 10. Heirs of righteousness
by faith.
James ii. 5. Heirs of a kingdom which God hath prepared for them
that love him.
1 Pet. iii. 7. Heirs of the grace of life.
Christians have an inheritance, a kingdom., ^c.
Matt. XIX. 21. Thou shalt have treasure in heaven.
Ver. 29. Shall inherit everlasting life.
XXV. 34. Christ will say, come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you, from the foundation of the world. Luke
xii. 32.
Luke xxii. 29. I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my Father
hath appointed unto me.
Ver. 30. That ye may eat at my table, and drink in my kingdom.
Acts xiv. 20. We must through manifold tribulations enter into
the kingdom of God.
XX. 32. To an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith^
in Jesus Christ. Chap. xxvi. 18.
Rom. V. 17. They which receive abundance of grace and of the gift
of righteousness, shall reign in life by Jesus Christ. 2 Tim. li. 12.
If we suffer with Chris we shall also reign with him. Matt.xix, 28.
Gal. iii. 18. An inheritance not of law, but of promise. Rom.iv.l4.
Eph. i. 11. In Christ we have obtained an inheritance.
Ver. 14. The spirit of promise is the earnest of our inheritance.
Ver. 18. The glory of God*s inheritance in the saints.
CoL i. 12. The Father hath made us meet to be partakers of the in-
heritance of the saints in light.
Col. iii. 24. Of the .Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inhe-
ritance, for ye serve the Lord Christ. ?
1 Thess. ii. 12, God hath called us to his kingdom and glory.
2 Thess. i. 5. That ye may be accounted worthy of the kingdom
for which ye suffer. • •
2 Tim. iv, 18. The Lord shall preserve me to his heavenly king-
dom*
Heb. ix. 15. Christ the mediator, &C. that they might receive the
promise of eternal inheritance. . •
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• Hcb. X. 34. An enduring substance. Chap. xii. 28. A kingdom
that cannot be moved.
2 Pet. i. 3. God hath begotten us to a lively hope.
Ver. 4. To an inheritance incorruptible, undefilcd, and that fadeth
not away, reserved in heaven.
2 Pet. i. 11. An entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Clirist.
Rev. i. 6. Jesus Christ hath made us kings and priests unto God
and his Father. Chap, v, 10.— xx. 4, 6. See Luke vi. 20,— xiii.28,
29. — xiv. 15.
xxi. 7. He that overcometh shall inherit all things.
1 Cor. v-i. 9. The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of
God. Ver. 10. Gal. v. 21. Eph. v. 5.
IX. The righteous have rest. Job. iii. 17. There (in heaven) the
weary are at rest.
Ps. cxvi. 7. Return unto thy rest, Omy soul.
Jer. vi. 16. Walk in the good way and ye shall find rest unto your
souls. Isa. Ivii. 2.
Matt. xi. 28. Gome unto me (said Jesus») and I will give you rest.
Ver. 29. Ye shall find rest unto your souls,
2 Thess. i. 7. God will give you rest, when the Lord Jesus shall
be revealed from- heaven.
Heb. iv. 9. There remaineth a rest for the people of God.
Ver. 1 1. Let us labour to enter into that rest.
Rev. xiv. 13. The dead which die in the Lord, rest from their la-
bour, and their works do follow them.
X. Others enjoy mansions^ a new heaven, an heavenly temple, lights
<Jfc, John xiv. 2. In my Father's house are many mansions, I go to
prepare a place for you.
Ver. 3. 1 will come again and receive you unto myself, that where
I am, there ye may be also.
2 Pet. iii. 13. We look for new heavens, and anew earth, wherein
dwelleth righteousness.
Rev. iii. 4. They shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
Rev. xxi. 22. The Lord God Almighty, and the lamb are the tem-
ple of it.
Ver. 23. The glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light
thereof.
xxii. 4. And they shall see his face, and his name shall be In their
foreheads.
Ver. 5. The Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign for
ever and ever.
XI. They are present ivith Christ, John xvii. 24. I will that they
also whom thou hast given me be with me where 1 am, that they
may behold my glory which thou hast given me. Chap. xii. 26.
Col. iii. 4. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye
also appear with him in glory. 1 John iii. 2.
1 Thess. iv. 17. We shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Rev. iii. 4. Thou hast a few names even in Sardis, which have not
defiled their garments, and they shall walk with me in white for they
are worthy.
^H6 The Happiness of the Righteous. ChAp, SS^r
Rev. iii. 21. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me
in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my
Father in his throne. Ver. 5.
Rev. vii. 15. They are before the throne of God, and serve him
day and night in his temple, and he that sitteth on the throne shall
dwell among them.
xiv. 4, These are they which follow the lamb, withersoever he
goeth, these were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits
unto God and to the Lamb. Ver. 5.
XII. Are in a state of joy. Ps. xvi. 11. Thou wilt shew me the
path of life, in thy presence is fulness of joy, and at thy right hand
are pleasures for evermore. Ps.xxxvi. 8, 9. Isa. xxxv. 10.
Matt. XXV. 21. Enter into the joy of thy Lord.
Jude 24. He is able to present you faultless before the presence
of his glory with exceeding joy.
Xlil. Free from pain and sorrow, Isa. xxxiii. 24. The inhabitant
iihall not say I am sick, the proplc that dwell there shall be forgiven
their iniquity.
xxxv. 10. Sorrow and sighing shall fly away.
Ix. 19. The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither shall
the moon give light unto thee, but the Lord shall be unto thee an
everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Ver. 20.
Matt. vi. 20. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,where nei-
ther moth nor rust doth corrupt nor thieves break through and steal.
Rev, vii. 15. They are before the throne of God, and serve him
day and night in his temple, and he that sitteth on the throne shall
lead them.
Ver. 16. And they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more,
neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat.
Ver. 17. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall
feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
N. B. The above texts from Isaiah though prophetical of the happy
state of the church on earth, are more strictly true and expressive
of the happiness of glorified saints in heaven.
Rev. xxi. 4. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall
there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.
xxii. 3. There shall be no more curse, but the throne of God
and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him.
XIV. Eter7iallife is from God* Ps. xi. 6. Thou wilt shew me the
path of life. Acts ii. 28.
xxxvi. 9. With thee is the fountain of life.
Ixiii. 3. Thy loving kindness is better than life.
Rev. xxii. 1, I beheld a pure river of water of life, clear as crys-
tal proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Ver. 2. In the midst of the street and of either side of the river
was the Tree of Life. See life through Christ.
XV. Life promised to siindrj graces and duties* See promises to
faith in Christy to obedience. Lev. xviii, 5. Keep my statutes and my
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judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them. Neh. ix. 29.
Ezek. XX. 11, 13, 21. Rom. x 5. Gal. iii. 5.
Ezek. xviii, 9. He that hath walked in my statutes and kept my
judgments, he shall surely live. Ver. 17, 19. Chap, xxxiii. 13.
Matt. xix. 16. One came and said unto Jesus, good master, what
good thing shall I do that 1 may have eternal life I
. Ver. 17. Jesus said unto him if thou wilt enter into life, keep the
commandments. Ver. 18, 19,21. Mark x. 17, 19. Luke x. 25, Sic.
- John iv. 36. He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit
unto life eternal, that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice
together.
xii. 50. The Father's commandment is life everlasting.
Rom. ii. 7. To them who by patient continuance in well doing
seek for glory, honour and immortality, God will give eternal life.
vi. 22. Being made free from sin, and become the servants of God,
ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life.
Rev. ii. 7. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree
of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
xxii. 14. Blessed arc they that do his commandments that they may
have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates
into the city. See promises to obedience, to good works, well-do-
ing, kc.
XVI. To the righteous. Prov. xi. 19. Righteousness tendeth to
life. Ver. 30. Chap. xxi. 21.
xii. 28. In the way of righteousness is life, and in the path way
thereof is no death.
Matt. XXV. 46. The righteous shall go into life eternal. See pro-
mises to the righteous.
XVII. To the spiritually minded. Rom. viii. 6. To be spiritually
minded is life and peace. Ver. 10, 13.
Gal. vi. 8. He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap
life everlasting.
XVIII. To seeking God. Ps.xxii. 26. Yotir hearts shall live that
seek him.
Amos v. 4. Seek ye me, and your soul shall live. See seeking God's
promises.
XIX. To godliness. See promises to godliness.
1 Tim. iv. 8. Godliness hath the promise of the life that now is,
and of that which is to come.
XX. To the fear of God. See promises to fearing God.
Prov. xiv. 27. The fear of the lord is a fountain of life to depart
from the snares of death. Chap. xix. 23. — xxii. 4.
XXI. To loving God. See promises to loving God.
James i. 12. A crown of life he hath promised to them that love
him.
XXII. To mortifcation, dying unto sin. Matt, xviii. 8, If thy
hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off* and cast them from you, it
is better for thee to enter into life,hak or maimed, rather than having
two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
Ver. 9. If thine eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee,
it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having
two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
488 ' Future Punishments, Chap. XX.
Rom. vi. 8. If we be dead with Christ we shall also live with him.
Ver. 1 1. Rr-tkon ye yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive
unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord,
Gal ii. 20. I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me. Rom. viii. 2.
2Tim. ii. 11. If we be dead with Christ we shall also live with him.
XXI II. To suffe-ing for Christ's sake. Matt. x. 39. He that
loseth his life for my sake shall find it. John xii. 25.
xix. 2^/. Every one that hath forsaken houses or brethren or sis-
ters, or father or mother, or wife or children, or lands for my name s
sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life*
XXIV. To perseverance. Rev. ii. lO. Be thou faithful unto
death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Matt. x. 22.
XXV. To those that o'oercome. Rev, ii. 7. To him that overcometh
•will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the pa-
radise of Gnd. See ver 11, 17, 26. Ch. iii. 5, 12, 2 i. Ch. xxi. 7.
XXVI. To repentance. See promises to repentance, conversion,
turning, &c.
Acts xi 18. Then hath God unto the Gentiles granted repentance
unto life.
XXVII. To the wise. See promises to the love and study of wisdom.
Prov. iv. 4. Wisdom saith, keep my commandments and live,
viii. 35. Whoso findeth wisdom findcth life, and shall obtain fk-
vour of the Lord. Ch. xvi. 22. •
Eccl. vii. 12. Wisdom giveth life. See chap. xiii. 14.^xv. 24.
FUTURE PUNISHMENTS.
Sinners that shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matt. V. 20. Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteous-
ness of the scribes and l^barisees, ye shall in no case enter into the
kingaom of heaven, Ch. vii. 21, 22, 23. Jesus said, not every one,
that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of hea-
ven, but he that doth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Ver. 22. Many will say unto me in that day. Lord. Lord, have
we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out devils, and
in thy name done many wonderful works ?
Ver. 23. And then will 1 profess unco them, I never knew you,
depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Luke xiii. 26.
xviii. 3. Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye,
shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Mark x. 15.
Mark X. 23, 24, 25, 27. Jesns said, how hardly shall they that
have riches, enter into the kingdom of God ? how hard is it for them
that trust in riches, to enter into the kingdom of God ?— -It is easier
for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man
to enter into the kingdom of God. — With men it is impossible, but.
not with God, for with God all things are possible.
Luke xiii. 24. Strive to enter into at the strait gate, for many
shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able. ^latt. vii. 13. For wide is
the gate, and broad is the way that Icadeth to destruction, and many
there be which go in thereat, because strait is the gate, and narrow
is the way, which Icadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Chap. XX. Future Punishments. 4-89
John iii. 3. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the king-
dom of God.
Ver. 5. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he can-
not enter into the kingdom of God*
I. Cor. vi. 9. Know ye not, that the unrighteous shall not enter
into the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves
with mankind.
Ver. 10. Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
nor extortioners dhall inherit the kingdom of Ciod.
XV. 50. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kmgdom of God.
Gal. v. 19. The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these,
adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness.
Ver. 20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies.
Ver. 21. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings and such like,
of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past,
that they which do such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Eph, V. 5. No whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous
man who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of God
and of Christ.
Heb. iii. 19. The Jews could not enter into the promised land,
because of uHbelief.
iv. 1. Let us fcarjest a promise being left us, of entering into his
rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Rev. xxi 27. There shall in no wi-e enter into the heavenly Jeru-
salem, any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh an abo-
mination, or maketh a lie. Chap, xx. 15.
xxii. 15. Without are dogs and sorcerers, and whoremongers and
murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Chap XXI. 8.
XXVIII. The greatest punishment and sufferings in this life^ set
forth in the language expressive of future punishments.
Deut. IV. 24. Theli(;rd thy God is a consuming fire Heb. xii. 29.
xxxii. 22. A fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the
lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on
fire the foundations of the mountams.
Ps. xi. 6. Upon the wicked he shall rain fire and brimstone and an
horrible tempest. Ps. I. 3.
Ps. xcvii. 3. A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies
round about. See instances hereof. Gen, xix. 24. Exod. ix. 23, 24.
Lev. X 3. 2 Kings i. i2.
Isa. xiv. 9. Hell from beneath is moved, to meet thee at thy coming.
xxxiii. 14. Who of us shall dwell with devouring fire, who of us
shall dwell with everlasting burnings ?
XXXV. 4. God will come with vengeance, Sec.
Ixvi. 14. The indignation of the Lord shall be known towadhis
enemies.
Ver. 15. For behold the Lord will come with fire, and with his
chariots, like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his re-
buke with flames of fire.
VdO Future Punishments. Chap. XX.
Isa. Ixvi. 24. Themen that have transgressed against me, their worm
shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched.
Jer. iv. 4. Circumcise your hearts to the Lord, take away the fore-
skin of your hearts, lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none
can quench it, for the evil of your doings. Ch. xxi. 12.
Lam. ii. 4. He poured out his fury like fire. Ezek. xxxviii. 22.
Amos. v. 6. Seek ye the Lord an4 ye shall live, lest he break out like
fire, and devour, and there be none to quench it.
Nah. i. 5. The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the
earth is burnt up at his presence, yea the world and all that dwell
therein.
Hab. iii. 5. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went
forth at his feet.
Mai. iii. 2. Who may abide the day of his coming, and who shall
stand when he appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire and fuller's
soap.
iv. 1. Behold the day of the Lord cometh, that shall burn as an o
ven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble,
and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts.
XX.lX.The fiurdshment of the wicked in a future state is thus set forth,
Ps. ix. 17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the na-
tions that forget God. Ps. Ixxix. 6.
Matt. iii. 10. Every branch that beareth not fruit, is hewn down
and cast into the fire. Ch. vii. 19. Every tree that bringethnot forth
good fruit, is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
v. 22. Whosoever shall say to his brother, thou fool, shall be in
danger of hell fire.
x. 28. Fear him that is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
xiii. 40. As the tares are gathered, and burnt in the fire, so shall
it be in the end of the world.
Ver. 41. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they
shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which
do iniquity.
Ver. 42. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire, there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth.
xxiii. 29. Woe unto you hypocrites, &c.
Ver. 33. How can ye escape the damnation of hell ?
XXV. 41. Christ shall say unto them on the left hand, depart from
me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the de\il and his
angels.
Ver. 42. For I was anhungered, and he gave me no meat, I was
thirsty and ye gave me no drink.
Ver. 43. I was a stranger, and ye took me not in, naked and ye
clothed me not, sick and in prison and ye visted me not.
Ver. 45. Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye
did not unto me.
Ver. 46. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment.
Mark ix. 43. If thy hand offend thee cut it off, it is better for
thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell.
Ver, 45. And if thv foot offend thee, cut it; off. it is better for thee
Chap. XX. Future Punishments, 491
to enter halt into life, than having two Icet, to be cast into hell, into
the fire that never shall be qiienciied.
Mark ix. 47. And if thine eye otfendthee, pluck it out, it is better
for thee to enter into the Idntrdom of God with one eye,than having two
eyes, to be cast into heii fire.
Ver. 48. Where their worm dieth not, and their fire is not quench^
ed. Matt. v. 29.--xviii. 8, 9.
Luke iii. 17 He will gather the wheat into his garner, but the chaff
he will burn with fire unquenchable.
xvi 23. In hell the rich man lift up his eyes, being in torment.
\"er. 21. Tormented in this flame. Ver. 25, 28.
Rom. ix. 22. God endureth with much iong-sijftering the vessels of
wrath, fitted to destruction.
Phil. iii. IS, 19. The enemies of the cross of Christ, their end is de-
struction.
1 Thess. v. 2. The day of the Lord so comcth, as a thief in the
night.
Ver. 3 When they shall say peace and safety, then sadden destruc-
tion cometh upon them as travail upon a woman witii chiid, and they
shall not escape. 2 Pet. iii. 10, 12. Rev. iii. 3. — xvi. 15.
2 Thess. i. 7. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with
his mighty angels,
Ver. 8. In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not
God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ver. 9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction, from
the presence of the Lord, and from the glory oi his power.
ii. 8. Then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming. ,
Ver. 12. That they all might be damned, wlio believed not the
truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Heb. vi. 8. The end of the unfruitful is to be burned. Matt. iii.
10. — vii. 19.
X, 27. Fiery indignation shall devour the adversaries.
Ver. 28. He that despised Moses law died without mercy.
Ver. 29. Of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought wor-
thy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, ana hath counted
the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy
thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace ?
Ver. 30. Vengeance is mine, I will recompense, saith the Lord.
Ver. 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living
God. Heb. xii. 29. For our ood is a consuming fire.
2 Pet. ii. 4. He spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them
down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserv-
ed unto judgment.
Ver. 9. The Lordknoweth how to deliver the godly out of temp-
tation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be
punished.
Ver. 10. But chiefly them who walk after the flesh, in the lusts of
uncleanness.
iii. 7. 1 he heavens an^l the earth are kept in store, reserved unto
fire, against the day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men.
"^^2 Future Punishments, Chap. XX
r Jude 7. Sqclom and Gonioin-ha are set for an example, suffering
the venget»nce ot eternal fire.
Rev. xiv. 9. If any man shall worship the beast and his image, and
shall receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
Ver. 10. The same shall drink of ti.e wine of the wrath of God,
poured out without mixture, into the cup of his indignation, and he
shall be tormented with lire and brimstone.
Ver. 11. The smoke of their torment ascendethup for ever and
ever, and they have no rest day nor night.
xviii. 9. Ihey shall see the smoke of their burning.
xix. 20. The beast and the false prophet were cast alive into the
lake of fire burning with brimstone.
XX. 10. Ihe devil was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone
where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day
an : night, for ever and ever.
Ver. 14,. Death and hell were cast into the lake of fire ; this is the
second death.
Ver. 15. And whosoever was not found written in the Lamb's book
of life, was cast into the lake of fire.
xxi. 8. '1 he fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and
murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and aduUerers, and
liars, shall have their part in the h.ke, that burneth with fire and
brinastone, which is the seccnd death. Ch. xxii. 5.
A*. B. The reader may observe the dreadfulness and duration of the
foregoing punishments mentioned : Also, against what sins they i.re
denounced. !See also threats denounced against the various sorts
of sinners, in the words Wicked, Ungodly, Disobedient^ Unbe-
lievers,, &c. in this work.
^JCflE END.
INDEX.
l^OfE IN THE FOLLOWING INDEX, THE NUMERICAL LETTERS R&«
FEU TO THE SECTIONS, AND THE FIGURES TO THE PAGE.
ABHORRED of God, who are so
cHv. 56.
Abhorring" one's self for sin, xxx. 471
Ability for oljedience, Ixiii. 280.
•—For g-ood works, Ixxv. 288.
Able to do every thing-, God is so,lxviii
16.
Abominablcness of sin, cxii. 297".
Access to God in prayer, xxxi. 188.
Admonish one another, lvi.354.
Adoption is of q-race, cxxvii. 46.
— Promised to faith, xxii. 187.
Adversaries of God, cxxvi. 303.
Adversity ofman in God's hand,lxx. 16.
Adversity, rejoicing' in it, cxi. 209.
Adultery and fornication, cxlix. 426.
Affection, natural, how destro3'ed,
Ixxxvii. 389.
Affliction, deliverance from it, matter
of praise to God, ccxxiv. 253.
Alive, the rig'hteous are only truly so,
Ixxxvii. 192.
Almighty God, Ix. 16.
Alms called j^race, cxxx. 47.
— MiiTst accompany prayer, clxxii. 234.
— Required of christians, clxvii. 434.
Amendment of life, xxxvl. 472.
Ang^els, their numbers and names,
xvii. xviii. 61.
— Their employment about mankind,
xxi.61.
— Theyhave revealed God's Vv ill, xxiii.
62. '
— They have inflicted God's judg-
ments, xxiv. 63.
— Their attendance on Christ, xxv.
xxvi. 64.
— Tiieir work at the day of judgment,
xxvi). 64.
— They worship God.xxviii. 65.
— They worship Christ, xxix. 65.
— They are not to be worshipped, cli.
229.
—Anger ascribed to God, cxlvii. 53.
— Threatened against sinners, cxlviii.
54.
Anger in men, xvi. xvli. xviii. 339.
Apostacy from God, Ixxxi. 111.
Apostles, their commission, cxv. 400
— Their power, cxvi. 402.
— Their miracles, Ivli. 125.
— Their inspiration by the Spirit,ix.
164.
— Their writing by the Spirit, xi. 166.
Applause of men not sought by Christ,
xiii. 115.
— Not sought by ministers of Christ,
cxxv. 411.
Appointments of God, x. 72.
Arm of God, denoting his power, Ixii.
16.
Arrogancy, xlvii. 379.
Ascension of Christ, xliv. 121.
Astray from God, cxlviii. 228.
Assistance in prayer from the SpIriP,
clxvii. 232.
Assnranc*! of faith, cxxxiii. 223.
Atonement of Christ, xxxiv. l^B-
Author of faith, xv. xvi. xvii. 183.
B.
Back-biting, clxxxv. 445.
Backsliding from God, cxlvii. 228.
Baptism, i. 158.
Bearing with one another's weaknes-
ses and infirmities Ixv. 357.
Being of God, haw evidenced, i. 3, and
iv. 176.
Believers, promises to them, 186. to
189.
Benefits of Christ to mankind, 144,
to 158.
Benefits of Christ against sift, xvii. 150
Blameless, xlii. 349.
Blasphemy, cxciii. 328.
Blessedness. of God, xxiii. 6.
Blessings of God to his people, cxllr.
50.
To whom promised, cxliv, 51.
Promised by way of covenant, cxlvi.
53.
Through Christ, matter of praise,
ccxvii. 250.
• — Spiritual, cause of joy, cvli. 208,
God's pov/er therein, xv. 18.
Blind curtY] by Ch.rist, hii. 124.
Blood of Christ, its efficacy, x,\xii. 154.
Boasting in God, cxi\. il i.
Boastintj- sinfully, cxx. 219, Sc liv. 279.
494
INDEX.
Borlv of Ch'-ist formed by the Holv
Ghost, 111. 163.
Borf^es of mankind will be chang-ed bv
Christ, ii?. 135.
Boldness of Christ's servants in speak-
ing h's truth, cxxvii. 411.
Bounty in God, cxlii. 50.
—In men, cxHIi. 50.
Broad, daily, to bepraved for, clxxxlii.
237.
^God to be praised for it, ccxxiii, 252.
Brethren, the duties of christians as
such,xii. 87.
Broken heart, xl. 271.
Brother, Christ so railed, vlii. 88.
Eu'lder, God is so to his church, Ixxix
no.
Burial of Christ, xxxviii. 120.
Calamities on wicked parents and chil
dren, xxxviii. 388.
On the childrenof the wicked,lxxxii
388.
Cailinp: of God's people, xv. 75.
— Is of nr^ce, c.vxiv. 45.
■-'Is holv, xcvii. 32.
— Persons called of God to offices, xvi,
78.
Care of God for his people, cause of
joy,c.20r.
— Cavse of praise, ccxx. "^SA.
Care of Christ fo his people, xviii. 152.
Cast off, who are so, xxw. 83.
— Who are not so, xxxiii. 82.
Ch^.rity, V. vi. 335.
Childless., promises to them, xc. 389.
ChiVTrp.n, their duties toward parents,
xci.S^O.
— Di'tiful, blessed, xcii. 590,
— Undutiful, cursed, xciii. 390.
Children desired, Ixxvii. 387.
— Promised, Ixxvi-o^fi.
—God's care of them, Ixxix. 383.
— D'rUies toward them, Ixvi. 384.
— Of God, how made so, xxxvi'.84.
— Their dutif-s and marks, xxxix. 86.
— Their blcssines, xxxviii. 85.
Children of the'devil, Ixxj^vmI. 2P2.
— What the wicked are c^/ddren of,
xl. 87. ■
Chosen of God, see election, xii.'
• 72.— xiii 74 — xivf 75.
Ci^rist, prophecies concerning him,
112 to 122. ; \'
— Ilisir.carnation, iii. lir*. ;
. — J^Iisirnraries, 112 to 126-.'. •"-'
— His glory, i. 126.
Christ, his exaltation, iv. 127,
—.His titles, i. 128.
— His works, i. 135.
— His worship, i. 139.
— His perfections, i. 140.
— His benefits, i. 14i.
Acrainst sin, xvii. 150.
— His benefits, cause of joy, xcv. 20c*.
— Cause of praise, ccxvi. 250.
Church of God, prayers for it,
cl xxxviii. 238.
— God's power toward it, Ixxiii. 18.
Clean heart, xxxix. 271.
Cleanse, God doth cleanse his people,
XXV. 80.
— Duty to cleanse ourselves, xxv. 80.
Clouds, \\'ind and rain created, vii. viir.
58.
Comfort to believers, xxix. 188.
—Is the gift of God, cxii.209.
—Giving it to one another, Ixiii. 256.
Coming to God through Christ, cxlii.
2-6.
Coming to ChrLst, cxlii, 226.
Commands of God are right, Isxxiii.
28.
Commands of God are faithful, xc. 50.
Conimunications,evil, forbidden, cxcii.
447.
Compare, nothing to God, x. 4.
Compassion ascribed to God, cviii. 41.
— To whom exercised, cix. 41.
— Instances thereof, ex. 41.
Contpassion ascribed to Christ, cxi
42.
Compassion in men, xlv. 350.
— God excites it toward his people,
cviii. 41.
Conceit, being wise therein, xiv. 367.
Confessing Chri.st, xi. 179.
Confession of sin, xxxii 471.
— I o be made in prayer, clxx. 252.
Confulence of the righteous in God,
cxx.r. 222.
Confidence of the wicked, sinful,
cxxxii. 221.
Conscience, good, xlviii o75.
— How attained, xilx. 276.
— Evilctmscience, iii.276.
— Naturid, its force, 1. 276.
— VVetik, not to be wounded, li. 276.
Considerati«;n, xiii. 467.
Contention, xx. 340.
■ Coritciitious, fools are so, xx. 368,
Contentment, xxvii, 372.
'Coiitrite heart, xl.271.
jCorrectingci iKiren, Ixxii 385.
iC<)rwjition..oi sin, xcv. 294.
j Covenant of God, holy, xcvii. 32.
INDEX.
4»
Covenant blessing's, cxlvi. 5:3.
Coven ants with the heathen inhabitants
of Canaan forbidden to the Jews,
cxi. 316.
Covenants with them punished, cxli.
316.
Covetousness in g-eneral, cc 451.
— In mag-istrates, ciii. 396.
— In ministers cxxxjv. 417.
Counsels of God, iv. 70.
— Are faithful, xc. 30.
Counsel, God giveth it to his people,
li. 94.
— The wicked are deprived of it, lii
94.
— The dutv of giving- and receiving it,
xlix. 352.
— Rejecting evil counsel, the wisdom
thereof, 1. 353-
Creation of all things, i. ST.
— The M isdom of God in it, Iv. 14.
—The power of God in it, Ixxi. 17*
— Done by Christ, i. 135.
—The Spirit's woik in it, i. 162.
— Cause of joy to angels, cix. 206.
Creator, God is so to his people, Ixxvi.
108.
Creatures, christians are new ones,
Ixxvii. 109.
Creatures in the sea and land made,
ix. 58.
Crucifixion of Christ, xxix. 118.
Cruelty, xlvi. 351.
Cures, miraculous ones performed by
Christ, li. 123.
Cursing, the sin thereof, cxciv. 448.
D.
Darkness, works thereof, Ixxxiv. 291.
David, Christ descended from him,
xxxviii. 158.
Dead works, Ixxxvii. 292.
Dead raised by Christ, liv. 124.
—Will all be raised by Clirist, ii. 135.
Deaf cured by Christ, liii. 124.
Death prevails over all, iv. 475.
— Preparative duties for it, v. vi. 476.
Death of tlie righteous happy, xi. 264,
— vii. 476.
Death of the wicked miserable, viii.
47A
Death of Christ, xxxvi. 119.
— Its efficacy, xxxi. 154.
Deceiving by false doctrine, cxxxvii
419.
Decrees of God, ix. 72.
Defence, God is so to his people, xlviii
92.
Defilement of sin, xcvlii. 295.
Delight in God, cxiv. 211.
— In Christ, cxvi. 211.
Deliverance from sickness, Ixvi. 102.
— From enemies, Ixvii. 102.
— From 3ins,lxxii. 105.
— To whom promised, Ixix. 104.
— Of God's church, cause ofjov, evil.
208.
Deliverer, Christ so called, lxviii.103.
—V. 147.
Denying God, ii. 176.
Denying Christ, xxvi. 118.— xii. 179*
Departing from God, cxl. 228.
Descent of Christ, iv. 113.
Desiring God, Ixxxiv. 204.
Despising Christ, xv. 116.
Despising ministers of Christ, cxIiL
423.
Despising one another, xxxi. 345.
Destruction of the wicked, ccxlii. 259.
Determinations of God, vii. 71.
Devils, their sin and punishment, xxx,
65.
— Their enmity, xxxiii. 66.
— Their knowledge, XXXV. 67-
— They were cast out by Christ, lii.
123.
— They were overcome by Christ,
xxxviii 67.
How to be overcome by Christians,
xxxix. 68.
— Works, and children of the devil,
Ixxxviii. 292.
Diligence and industry, vi. 362,
Direction from God, Ivi. 95.
— Promised to believers, xxvii. 187^
Discontentment, xxviii. 372.
Dishonouring God, ccxxxii. 256.
Disobedience to God, Ixviii. 284.
—To Christ, Ixxii. 286.
— To parents, xciii. 390.
— To magistrate?, cxiv. 399.
— To ministers, cxliv. 423.
Disputes about religion, cxciii. 448.
Diviners, clxiii- 324.
Divisions, xxxiv. 346.
Divorce, Iviii. 382.
Dominion of God, i. 69.
' Doxoiogies, or glory ascribed to God
in worship, ccxxxix. 257.
Drawing near to God, cxli. 226.
Drcudiulness of God, clviii. 56.
Drunkenness, iii. iv. 351.
in uiagistratcs, iv. 396.
In ministers, cxxxv. 418.
DuLies M:conipan} , ng faith xiv. 181.
Toward God and Ciirist, i. 176. &c.
4'96
INDEX.
Edifying one another, liii. 554.
Efficacy of prayer in working mira-
cles, cxcix, 240.
— In defeating enemies, cc. 215.
Election of grace, cxxlii. 45.
— Of Jews, xii. 72.
•^Of Christians, xiii. 74.
— Of persons to office, xiv. 75.
Enemies of God, cxxvi. 303.
Enemies to be prayed for, rxc. 239.
— Overcome by prayer, cc. 241.
— Their prevailing- occasions fa.st-
ing and prayer, clix. 231.
—Praters against evil from them,
xti. 241.
— God redeemeth his people from
them. 1. 93.
^— God delivereth from them, Ixvii.
103. I
— Deliverance from them, cause of !
praise to God, ccxxv. 253. I
— Salvation from them, cause of joy
in God, ciii. 207.
— God excited com])ass*on In them
toward his people, cviii. 41.
— The wicked delivered up to their
ft'ars of enemies, Ixv. 200.
— The wicked delivered into their
enemies hands, Ixxiii, 105.
Enlightened persons, their duties,
vi. 177.
Enquiring of those who are no Gods
forbidden cxlvi. 518.
Enticing others to sin, Ixviii. 359,
Envy, xi. xii xiii. 338.
— Known to God, xii\. 14.
Eternal life is from God, xiv. 486.
Eternal life to whom promised, xv.
486.
Eternity of God, vii. 5.
— O" Christ, xiii. 144. See Christ's
glorv before his inrjirnation, i, 126.
Everlasting God, xviii, 5.
Evil doers to be avoided, l.\xxi. 289.
Evil doing, Ixxix. 289.
Evil men, cxviii. 299.— -Doiog evil
to men, xxxviii. 348.
Exaltation of Christ, iv. vi. vii. 127.
Exalted, God is so, xxvii. 7.
Exaltincf self, t'\e sin and punishment
thereof, 1. 379.
Examination of self, the duty thereof,
cxvii. 402.
Example, giving, Ixvii S59.
Exrellency of God, xxviii. 7.
Excellencyof Christ, XX. 152.
Excommunication, cxvi'. 402.
Exhort one another, liv. 354.
Exiieotution from God, cxxiii. 215.
— rhat God will hear prayer, cxcvi.
240.
Expectation of the wicked,cxxiv. 215.
F.
Faith in God, viii. 178.
—In Cin-ist, ix. 179.
— God is glorified by it, ccxxxvi. 257.
— Tlie author, cause and means of,
xv. xviii. 183.
— Marks and evidence of true faith,
x-v. 181.
— Through grace, cxxxiii. 48.
— Promises to faith, xx. 186.— -xcji,.
205.
— Praver to be made with it, clxr.
232.'
Faithfulness of God, Ixxxix. 30.
— In his promises, xoi. 30.
— In his threatenings, x -ii. 31.
Faithfulness of Christ, xc. 30.
Faithfulness in friendship, Ixiv. 356,.
Fall of man into sin. xv. 61.
Familiar spirits, 324.
Fasting appointed, cliv. 230.
— What kind is acceptable,clxvi.230.
— ^Vliat kind unacceptable, clvii-
230. ^
— Occasions of fasting, clviii. 231.
— Voluntary f: sting, elxi. 231.
— Miraculous fasting, civ. 230.
Father, God is so to his people, xxxvi.
83.
—To Christ, i. ii. 128.
Favour of God promised to the rigii-
tewis, cxxxviii. 49.
— Deny'd to the wicked, cXxxix. 50.
Favour with men promised to the
righteous, cxl. 50.
— Deny'd to the wicked, cxli. 50.
Fear of God enjoined, 1. 195.
— Promised as the gift of God, Iv,
196.
— Promises to it,liy. 197— xx. 487.
— Duties joined with it, Ivi. 196. —
cl xviii. 233.
— Its usefulness in life, Iviii. 196.
— Threats acrainsttliose that fear not
God, 1 xii. 199.
Fear of men, tlie security against it,
cxxxi. 222.
Feeds,— -Christ feeds thousands, Iv.
124.
Fellowship with the wicked to be
avoided, lixxix. 292.
INDEX,
4yr
Fig-tree cursed, withers, Iv. 125.
Fig-htJng-s, xxxiii. 346.
Filthiiiess of sin, cvi. 296.
Fing-er of God, denoting his power,
Ixiv. 16.
First and hist, God so called, xx. 5.
Fishes,a miraculous draught of them,
Iv. 125.
Flattery, clxxxii. 444.
Fcllowiiig God, cxliii. 22?'.
Following- Christ, cxUv. 227.
Folly wnd vvicketlness the same, xxlv.
369.
Food promised, ccxv. 457.
Food miraculously supplied, ccxxi.
461.
Fools described, xlv. to xxiii. 367.
Forbearance of God, cxv. 43.
Forbearing- one anotlier. See Ixv. 357.
F^>rg-etting God, xlvi. 193.
Forg-iveness m God. See pardon of
sin, cvi. 39.
— Promised to believers, xxv. 187-
Forgiveness promised to penitents,
XV, 265,
— Prayed for, cvii. 40.
— Is of grace, cxxvi. 46. See mercy
of God, c. 35. to cv. 39.
Jorgiveness in n»en, xivii. ool.
— Required in prajer, clxxi. 234.
Forms of swearing, cxcii. 326.
Fornication, cl. 426.
Forsaking God, exlv. 227.
< — God forsaketh tlie wicked,xxxii.S2.
— God forsaketh not his people, xxx.
81.
— Forsaken of friends, Christ was so
XXV. 118.
Fortress, God is so to his people,
Ixiii. 99.
Fraud forbidden, civ. 430.
Friendship, faithfulness therein, Ixiv.
356.
Frowardness, cxxi. 300.
Fruitfulness in religion required,
xxxvii. 473.
— From whence it proceeds, Ixxx.
110.
Fulfilment of prophecy concerning
Christ, 113 to 122.
Fury ascribed to God against the
wicked, clii. 56.
Future punishments, xxix. 489,-490
G.
Gall given to Christ, xxxii. 119,
Garments of Christ parted, xxxiv.
119;
Gentleness toward men, 1x1, 356.
Gestures in prayer, cixxviii, 237.
Given, Christ was so, and for what
end, xxviii. 154.
Glory of God, xxx. 7.
— In favours to his people, xxxi. 8,
Glory of Christ, i. 126. See his eter-*
nity, xiii. 144.
Glorying of the righteous in God,
cxvii. 211.
Glorying of the wicked in sin, cxviii.
211.— 4iii. 379.
Glorifying God, ccxxxiii. 256.
— Ciiristglorihed God, cc.xxxiv 256.
— How men glorify God, xxiii, 2a7<.
God, how known, i. 3.— iv. 176^-- v.
154.
God. Christ so called, iv. 133.
Godliness, promises to it, i. 260.-»--
xix. 487.
Goodness of Go<l, xcviii. 33.
God doth g-ood, xcviii. 33.
Goodness of God, matter of praise,
ccxv. 249.
Goodness of Christ, xi. 144.
Good man, his character, cxvl. 298.
Good men, promises to them, cxvii.
299.
— Doing good in general, Ixxix. 289.
— Doing good to others, xxxvii. 34.7.
Gospel of grace given, cxxix. 46.
Government of God, i. 69. Cause of
joy, cvi. 207.
— Over the visible heavens and earth,
Ixxii. 18.
Government is of divine appointment,
ci. 396.
Governors, their duties, xcvii. 393.
— The Spirit's influence over titem>
xiv. 171.
— Their sins, cii. 396.
— Duties toward tliem, ex. 398.
— Sins against them, cxui 3y^»
Grace of God in man's salvation,
cxxiii. 45.
Grace prayed for, cxxxvii. 48.
— Promised to believers, xxviii. 187.
— Promised from Christ, xi. 14S.
Graciousness of God, cxix. 44.
Graciousncss of Christ, cxxii. 45.
Grass, herbs, trees, &c. created, xI.
60.
Gratitude, Ixix. 350.
Greatness ot God, xxvi. 6.
Grief of parents for children, Ixxx.
388.
Grief for s'n, xx. 469.
— At praver rot being heard, cxcviii.
i>4a.
(9%
INDEX.
Grudging" at others' prosperity, xxlx.
372.
Guide, God is so, lix. 96.
H.
Habitation of God, holy, xsvii. 32.
Hand of God, denotinjj; liis power,
Ixiii. 16.
Hard, nothing- is so to God, Ixvi. 16.
Harmless, xli! 349.
Hated of God, the wicked, are so,
clvi. 56.
Hated of men, Christ was so,kvi 116.
— Pi'omises to those that are unjustly
hated, x. 33/.
Haters, duties toward them, viii. 337.
— Prayers ag-ainst haters, ix. 337'
Hating God, Ixxxii. 203.
Hating Christ, Ixxxiii. 204.
Hatred toward men, vii. 336.
Haughtiness, xlix. 379.
Health to be prayed for, clxxxiv. 238.
Heart known to God, xxxviii. 11. —
xhi. 273.
— Of the rigliteous described, xxxiv.
to 1. 270.
—Duties respecting the heart, xli,
xlii. 272.
—Affected for sin, xxiv. 470.
— Broken, contrite, xxv. 470. xl. 272.
—-Serving God witii the, liv'. 276.
•—God's influences on the hearts of
tiie righteous, xhii. 273. Ixiii. 230.
—■Evil, xlvi. xlvii. 2?" 5.
— Of the wicked, Satan's influence
on it, xlv. 275.
—God's judgments on it, xliv 274.
Heaven and earth, the creation
thereof, ii. 57.
— The dissolution thereof, vi. 483.
—Holy, xcvii. 32.
—The happiness of the righteous in
it, vii. 4y4.
Heaviness and grief for sin, xix. 469.
Heirs, Cluistians are so, viii. 484.
Help from God promised, Ixiv. 100.
— Cause of joy, cii. 207.
Hell. l*ee iuture punishments, 489,
490.
— Help from creatures vain, Ixv. 102.
Hill of G(k1, iioly, xcvii. 32.
Holy Ghost, his i4ifiiiences and opera-
tions upon tiie creatures, 162 to 171.
— Promised to believers, Ivi. 121. —
xxvi. 1^7.
— Rejoicing in him, xcvi. 206.
Holiness oi Gful, xciv. to xcvi. 31.
Holincs^s of Christ, viii. 143.
Holiness of angels, xix. 16.
Holiness m men, God honoured by
it, cclxxxviii. 255.
— Directions for attaining it, xxiv.
268.
Holiness in ministers of Christ,
cxxiii. 407.
Honour due to God, ccxxvi. 255.
— How performed, ccxxvii, to cc-xxi:.
255.
— Due to Christ, ccxxxi. 256.
— Due to magistrates, cxi. 3 J J.
— Due to parents, xci. 390.
— Due to one another, xxx. 344.
Hope in God and Christ, cxxi. 212-
— Through grace, cxxxiv. 48.
— Promises to it, xcii. 205.
Hope of the wicked perisheth, cxxit.
215.
Hospitality, clxiii, 434.
House of God, holy, xcvii. 32.
iiun.bled saints, theu* expressions,
xl.-fey^ 3-y^
Humility toward God, xxxiv. 372.
— Toward mtn, xxxv. 372.
Humilitv of ministers, cxxiv. 410.
— Examples of it, xxxviii. 375.
Humility in prayer, cixx. 233.
— Promises to it, xxxvi. 3/4. See
pride, xli. 377.
Husbands, their duties, Ixiv. 383..
lixpocnsy, xxx. 269.
—Marks 'of it, xxxi. 269.
Hypocrites known to God, xlvii. 13.
— iheir prayer not accepted, cciv.
244.
I.
Idleness, vii. 363.
Idolatry, cxxxvi. 314.
— Thre'ats against it, 314, 321, 322.
Jealousv of God, for his people, chx.
.56.
—'■Against his enemies, chx. 56.
Jesus Christ, prophecies concerning
him, i. 112.
— His miracles, xlix. 122.
— His Glory, i. 126.
— His exaltation, iv. 127.
•—His titles, i. 128. vii. 133-
— His works, i. 135.
— His worship, i. 139.
— His perfections, i. 140.
— His benefits, i. 144.
Ignorance of God, vii. 178.
Images forbidden, 318, 320.
— With threateuings, xlvia. 318.
INDEX.
499
Images are no representations of
God, 320.
Immortality of God, xxi. 5.
Impenitent known to God, xlvi. 13.
See XV. 467.
Importunity in prayer, clxxiii. 237.
Incarnation of Christ, iii. 113.
Inchant?rs, clviii. 323.
Inconsideration, xiv. 167.
Incorruptible God, xxii. 5.
Indignation ascribed to God, cli. 55.
Industry, vi. 362.
Influences of God*s Spirit,162 to 171.
In prayer, 232.
In praise, ccxi. 246.
Ingratitude, Ixx. 359.
Inheritance of Christians, viii. 484.
Iniquity forbidden, cxxxiii. 311.
— Threats against the workers of it,
311.
Iniquity is not in God, Ixxxv. 29.
Injustice not in God, Ixxxv. 28.
Instruction from God, Iv. 95
From ministers, cxxxviii. 421.
Not receiving it from ministers,
cxlii. 423.
. Giving and receiving it, li. 353.
Refuging it, Iii. 354.
■ Fools refuse it, xv. 367.
Instruction to be given to children,
Ixix. 384.
Integrity, XX. 267.
Intemperance in meat and drink, ii.
360. See drunkenness, 361.
—In magistrates, iv. 396.
— ^In ministers, cxxxv. 418.
Intercession of Christ, vii. 147.
Intreaties that prayer may be heard,
240.
Intruders into the ministerial office,
cxviii. 403.
Invisible God, xv. 4.
Joy in God, Ixxxvi. 204.
• Through Christ, Ixxxvii. 205.
• In God promised, xciv. 205.
Joy and comfort promised to believ-
ers, xxix. 188.
Joy in heaven, xii. 486.
Judge of the world, God, iii. 70 —
ii. 480.
Judge at the last day, Christ, iv. 135.
Judging one another forbidden, Ixvi.
358.
Judgment, future, i. 480.
—The time of it, iv. 481.
— The persons to be judged, iii 481.
-^Employment of Angels at it, xxvii.
64.
— ^Uses of the doctrine of it, v. 481.
Judgments of God are right, Ixxxiii.
28.
— Have been inflicted by angels,
xxiv. 63.
— Threatened, occasioned fasting,
clx. 231
Just, promises to them, cxiii. 297.
Justice of God, Ixxxiv. 28.
—Of Christ, ix. 143.
— Of magistrates, xcvii. 393.
Justification from God, xvii. 78.
— Not by works of the law, xviii. 78.
— Is of grace cxxv. 46.
— Is free, and by grace through.
Christ, xix. 78.
—Is by Christ, xii. 148,
— Is promised to faith in God, xx.
186.
—Is promised to faith in Christ, x;si.
186.
Keep, God doth keep his people,
Ixiv. 106.
Kindness of God, cxvi. 43.
Kindness prayed for, cxvii. 43.
— Thanks for it, cxviii. 44.
Kindness in men, Ixii. 356.
King, God is so, i. 69.
— Christ is so, xxxv. 157.
Kings, see magistrates, 393 to 400.
Kings, disobeying them sinful, cxiii.
399.
— When not sinful, cxiv. 400. — cliii.
321.
Kingdom of heaven, who shall not
enter into it, xxvii. 488.
-- — Who sliall enter into it, vii. viii.
484.
Knowing God and Christ, a duty,
i. 176.
— Not knowing God, a sin, vii. 178.
— How God is made known, iv. 176.
.— i. 3.
Knowledge, God's is perfect,xxxii.9.
— Things which God alone know-
eth, xxxv. 9.
— God knoweth his people, xii. 11.
— He knoweth the wicked, xliv. 13.
* — Sins agauist this attribute of God,
liii. 14.
Knowledge, Chrisffs, i. 140.
S s s
500
INDEX.
Labour, a duty» vi. 36^.
Lame cured by Christ, liii. 124.
Lands, the law thereof, clvi. 430.
Law of God, holy, xcvii. 32.
— To be esteemed and obeyed, Ixi.
280.
— Is a means of conversion, ix. 466.
Law-giver, God is so, ii 70.
Leader, God is so, Ivii. 96.
— Christ is so, Iviii. 96.
Lending, the law thereof, clvii. 432.
Leprosy, cured by Christ, liii. 124.
Li.irs, clxxvii. 440.
Life of man, short, i. 474.
— The term of it, ii. iii. 474.
Life eternal, the gift of God thro'
Christ, xvi. 150.
— Is from and by Christ, xv. 149.
Life, Christ so called, xiv. 149,
Light, tne works and children there-
of, Ixxxvi. 291.
Light of the world, Christ, ixv. 154.
.—V. 177.
Light and direction promised, xxvii.
187.
Likeness, none of God, xi. 4.
Living God, xii. 4
Loathed of God, who, cxv. 56.
Loathing of self, because of sin,
XXX. 471.
Loftiiijss in man, xlviii. 379.
Longing foi God, Ixxxv. 204.
Long-suflfering of God, cxiv, 42.
—Of men, see Ixvi. 357, 358.
Looking to God, xliv. 193.
Lord, Christ so called, v. 130.
Love, God's to Christ, Ixxviii. 203.
— GfHl's love to believers, in Christ,
xxiii. 187.
— God's love to his people, cause of
joy, c 207.
Love. to God, Ixvi. 201.— -xxi. 487.
— How produced, Ixxi. 202.
— How evidenced, Ixxiv. 202.
— Prayer to be made with it, clxvii.
233.
Love, Christ's to his church, xviii.
151.— Ixxx 203.
—The church's iove to Christ, Ixxix.
203.
— Love to Christ, how enforced,
Ixxv.' Ixxvi. Ixxvii. 202.
— How evidenced, Ixxxi. 203.
Love to mankind, i. 333.
— To ministers of Christ,cxxxix.422.
Lusts ofthe flesh, xci. 293.
Lukewarmness, see want of seal
xvi. 265.
Lying, clxxiv. 440.
M.
Magicians, clvii. 323.
Magistrates, 393 to 400.
— Their qualifications, xcviii. 394.
— Their duties, xcvii. 393.
—Their sins, cii. 396.
— Their concern with religion, 394.
— Good ones promised, x. 395.
— Evil ones threatened ta be given aa
a punishment, cvi, 397.
— Evil ones enemies to religion, 397.
— Enemies to civil interest, cv. 397.
Magnifying ones self, Iii. 379.
Majesty of God, xxix. 7.
Mahce, xiv. 394.
Man, his creation, xii. 60.
—His condition after his creation,
xiv. 60.
— His fall into sin, xv. 61.
Mansions in heaven, x. 485.
Marks and evidences of faith,xiv. i81 .
Marriage, Ivii. 381.
— Into religious families, Ixxiii. 385.
— With heathens, forbidden, lxi.382.
Masters, their duties, xcv. 391.
Means of conversion, x. 466.
—Of faith, xviii. xix. 184.
— Of godliness, iii. 260.
— Of perfection, xxvii. 268.
— Of salvation, xlvii. 92
Meat and drink, temperance there-
in, i. 360.
Mediator, Christ, vi. 145.
Meditation upon God and his word,
xlix. 194.
Meek, they rejoice in God, Ixxxix.
205.
Meek, promises to them, xxx 372.
Mercy of God, c. 35.
— Promised, ci, 36.
— To whom promised, cii. 37.
— Prayed for, ciii. 37.
— Acknowledged, civ. 38.
— Cause of joy, ci. 207.
— Cause of praise, ccxv. 249.
— Cause of thanks, cv. 39.
Mercy in men, xliii. 349.
Might, ascribed to God, lix. 15.
Mind of man influenced by God's
Spirit, ii. 162.
Mind of Christ, was influenced by it,
iv. 163.
Ministerial abilities, of grace given,
cxxxi. 47.
INDEX.
501
Ministers, their duties, cxv. 400.
— They are means of conversion,466.
Of faith, xix. 184.
——Of perfection, xxvii. 268.
Of salvation, xxvii . 268.
—Good ones promised, cxxi. 407.
—Promises to them, cxxii. 407.
—Wicked ones,threats againstthem,
416.
— Duties towards them, 421.
— Sins against them, 423.
Miracles recorded in the Old Testa-
ment, God's power therein, Ixxviii.
22.
—The design thereof, iii.22.— vi.24.
viii. ix. X. 26.
Miracles, the evidence thereof ap-
pealed to by Christ, xlix. 122.
Miracles attendingthe birth ofChrist,
123.
Wrought by Christ, ix. 114.
Wrought by the influence of the
Spirit, vi. 146.
^Attending the death ofChrist,
125.
Miracles of the apostles, 125 & 190.
Miracles wrought by prayer, cxcix.
240.
— Wrought for persons of eminent
faith, xxxvii. 190.
Miraculous gifts of the Spirit,xii.l67.
Mischief, doing it, xl. 348.
Mischievous, fools are so, xviii. 368.
Money in a fish's mouth, Iv. 125.
Money, Christ was sold for it, xxi.
117.
Mortification, promises to it, xxn.
487.
Mothers, God's care of them, Ixxviii.
387.
Motives to prayer, cxcii. to cxcviii,
239.
Mountain of God, holy, xcvii. 32.
Mourning for sin, xvii 468.
Murder forbidden, cxliv. 424.
Murderers known to God, lii. 14.
— Threats against them, cxlvi. 425,
Murmuring, xxviii. 372.
N.
Name of God is holy, xcvii. 32.
Name of Christ, prayer to be made
in it, clxiv. 232.
New creatures, christians, Ixxvh.
109.
—Their duty as such, Ixxviii. 110.
North and south created, vi. 58.
o.
Oath, the nature and duty thereof,
clxxv. 225.
Obedience to God, lix. to Ixvii. 279.
—XV. 486.
— Must accompany prayer, clxix.233.
--Thanks for it, ccxix. 251.
Obedience to Christ, Ixix. 285.
— Is an evidence oflovetohim,lxxxl.
203.
Obedience to parents, xci. 390.
— To magistrates, .)99.
— To ministers, cxxxviii. 421.
Oblation ofChrist, vii. 164.
Observers of times, clx. 323.
Offences forbidden, xxxv 346.
Offices of Christ, as prophet, 152.
Priest, 154.
-King, 157.
One with the Father, Christ, vi. 133.
Operations of the Spirit, 126 to 171.
Oppression forbidden, clviii. 432.
— Deliverance from it, Ixvii. 102.
Oppressors,threats againstthem,432.
Oppressed, promises to them, 433.
Oracle of God, holy, xcvii. 33.
Ordination of God, viii. 71.
Overcome, promises to such, xli 68
— lxxi.286.— XIV. 488.
Pain, freedom from it in heaven, xiii.
486,
Palsy cured by Christ, liii. 124.
Pardon of sin, cvi. 39.
— Promised to faith, xxvi. 187.
-To repentance, xv. 265.
—Is of grace, cxxvi. 46.
—Prayed for, cvii. 40.
Parents, their duties, Ixvi. 384.
Duties toward them, xci. 390.
A fool's conduct towards them,
xvii. 368.
—Wicked parents cursed, Lxxxii.
388.
—Godly parents blessed, Ixxxi. 388
Partiality forbidden, cii. 396.
Patience toward God, xxv. 370.
— Towards men, xxvi. 371.
Patience in God, see compassion, 41.
Peace with God, xxvii. 343.
—Thro' Christ, x. 148.
—Promised to believers, xxviii. 187.
—Promised to the church of God,
xxviii. 343.
i02
INDEX.
Peace with nien, xxiii. xxv. xxvi
341.
People of God, holy, xcvii. 33.
— Known to him, xli. 11.
Perfections of God, ii. 3.
—Of Christ, i. to xiii. 140.
— Required in men, xxiii. 267.
Persecution of Christ, xix. 116,
—Of Christians, xlviii. 122.
Perseverance, promises to it, xxiv.
488.
Perseverance in faith, xiii. 180.
Perverseness, 300.
Pity ascribed to men, xlv. 350.
—To God, xii. 42.
— Persons that God will not pity,
xiii. 42.
Place of God, holy, xcvii. 31.
Planter, God is so to his people,
Ixxix. 110.
Pleasures of fools, xxii, 369.
Pollution of sin, cv. 296.
Poor, promises to them, clxix. 436.
—God will deliver them, Ixix. 104.
-Their prayer heard, clxxxv. 238.
— Duties towards them, cvii, 436.
—Charity to them, is honouring God,
256.
Portions to children, Ixxiv. 386.
Possible, all things so to God, Ixvii.
16.
Power of God, Iviii. 15.
— In creation, Ixxi. 17.
— In government, Ixxii. 18.
— Toward his church, Ixxiii. 18.
-^Toward the righteous, Ixxiv. 19.
—In spiritual blessings, Ixxv, 19.
— Against the wicked, Ixxvi. 19.
—Sins and duties respecting God's
power, Ixxvii. 21.
Power of Christ, iii. 141.
— Toward his church, iv, 142.
— Against his enemies, v. 142.
—Committed to the Apostles, cxvi.
402. .
Praise due to God, and required,
ccvi. 246.
—Subjects of it, 249 to 253.
—Divine influence therein, ccxi. 246.
—Must be frequent, ccix. 246.
— Must be sincere, ccix. 246.
—God is honoured by it, ccxxvii. 255.
—Is glorified by it, ccxxxv. 256.
Praise offered by the righteous, ac-
ceptable, 449.
— By the wicked is vmacceptable, 246.
Prayer, the Lord's, a good model,
clxxx. 237. ^^
—Promises that it shall be heard^^»r
— Persons, whose prayer shall be
heard, 232.
— Access to God in it promised, 188.
— Through grace, cxxxv. 48.
— In the name of Christ, 232.
—With assistance of the Spirit, 232.
— With duties toward God and man,
233.
—Public, 235.
—Private, clxxv. 235.
— Intercessory, for whom, 238.
— Ofparentsfor children, Ixviii. 384.
— Subjects for governors, ex. 398.
— Governors for subjects, xcix. 394.
— People for ministers, cxl. 422.
— Ministers for people, cxxxi. 414.
-For what we ought to pray, 237.
Prayerless persons, ccxxxvii. 243.
Preacher, Christ one, xii. 115.
Preaching, its good effects, cxx. 407.
Precepts of God, righteous, 28.
—Holy, 33.
Predestination, xi. 72.
Presence of God, every where, xxv. S.
—With his people, xxix. 81.
—This, a cause of joy, xcix. 206.
Presence of Christ with his people,
152.
Present with Christ, xi. 485.
Preserver, God is so, Ixxv. 108.
Precious, Christ is so, xxx. 188.
Price, Christ is, 147.
Pride against God, xli. 377.
— Against men, xiii. 377.
—Spiritual pride, xliii. 377.
Priest, Christ so called, 154.
Prince, Christ so called, 157.
Procession of the Holy Ghost, xv. 171.
Promises of God holy, xcvii. 32.
Profaning the name of God, 324.
Prophecy concerning Christ, 112.
Phrophet, Christ, xi. 115.— xxii. xxiii
xxiv. 152.
Prophets directed by the Spirit, ii.
162.
— Were holy, xcvii. 83
— Delivered from enemies, Ixx. 104-.
Prophets, false ones, 324.
Propitiation, Christ, xxxiii. 156.
Prosperity and adversity in God's
hand, 16.
—From God, cause of joy, ex. 208.
Proud described, xli. 377.
—They are known to God, xlv. IS.
— Tiireats and prayers against them,
378, 381.
Provide for Children, Ixvi. 384.
Providence towards kings, 398.
INDEX.
503
Punishments, God righteous in in-
flicting* them, Ixxx. 28.
—Will be inflicted by Christ, vii. 137.
— Inflicted by angels, xxiv. xxvii. 63.
— Future, xxvii. 488.
Purge, God doth,xxvi. 80. Our duty.
Purify, God doth, xxvii. 80. Our duty.
Purity of God, xciii. 31.
—Of heart, 271.
Q.
Qjialifications of magistrates, 394.
— Of ministers, 407.
Quarrels, 346,
R.
Railing, 447.
Raiment promised, 461.
Ransom, Christ, 147.
Rebellion against God, 302.
— Against magistrates, 399.
— Against ministers,cxlii. 433.
Rebuke one another, 354.
Reconciliation by Christ, 147.
Redemption by Christ, ii. 146.
— The wisdom of God in it, Ivi. 15.
— Promised to God's people, 93.
Refine, God doth, xxviii. 81.
Refuge, God is, Ixiii. 99.
Rejoicing in God, Ixxxvi. 204,
— In things of God, xcv. 205.
—Through Christ, Ixxxvii. 205.
— In Christ, xciii. 205.
— To whom promised, Ixxxviii. 205.
Relying upon God, 218
Remembering God, 193.
Repentance preached, i. 461.
— Enforced by threats, xv. 467.
— Enforced by promises, iii. 462.—
xxvi. 488.
— Promised, xi. 466.
— Cause and means, God, vii. 465.
Christ, viii. 466.
God's law, ix. 466.
The ministry, x. 466.
Reproach, 445.
— Cast on Christ, xvii. 116.
Reprove one another, 355.
Resignation to God, cxxvii. 217.
Resolution to obey God, Ixii. 280.
Restitution, 432.
Resurrection of Christ foretold, 120.
— Evidences of it, xh. 120.
— Ho w effected, xliii. 121. — viii. 164.
Resurrection of the dead, x. 478.
—By Clirist, ix. 147.
Returning to God, 462, 464.
Revelations of God's will by angels,
62.
Revenge, xlviii. 352.
Revilings, 447.
Revolting from God, 301.
Rewards, God righteous therein, 28.
— According to works, 286.
— Dispensed by Christ, v. 136.
To the righteous, vi. 136.
Rich, their duties, 434.
— Their sins, 454.
Riches their disadvantages, 452.
— Their advantages, 453, 456.
— Promised, 457.
—Ministers seek them not, 411.
— Spiritual, only to be sought, 460.
Righteous, promises to them, 262.
Righteous, life promised to them,
xvi. 487.
— Their happiness in heaven, 484.
— Their joy in God, Ixxxviii. 205.
— God's power toward them, xix. 18.
— Christ's power toward them, 142.
Righteousness required, 261.
Righteousness of God, Ixxix. 27.
—Of Christ, vi. 142.
Robbery forbidden, 430.
Rock, the power of God, Ixv. 16.
Ixiii. 99.
Ruler, God is so, i. 69.
— Christ is so, 157.
Rulers, their duties, xcvii. 393.
— Their sins, eii. 396.
s.
Sabbath, 329 to 333.
Sacraments, or baptism and thesuji-
per, 158.
Sacrifice of Christ, 154 and 164.
Safety^ is from God, 99.
Salvation from God, xliii. 88.
—By Christ, i. 144.
— To whom promised, xliv. 90.
—To faith in Christ, 188.
— Through grace, cxxxvi. 48. — xlv.
92.
— Means of it, xlv. 92.
— Prayed for, xliv. 90.
Sanctification, 79.
—Through faith, 188.
—Through and by Christ, 149.
— The Spirit's work therein, 167.
Sanctifying God, 259.
Satan's influences on the hearts of the
wicked, 275.
Satisfy, God doth, 210.
Saviour, God, 88.
—Christ, 144.
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INDEX.
Scorning, 379.
Scriptures, holy, 33.
— Written under the influence of the
Spirit, 166.
— Are means of faith, 184.
— Of sanctiiication, xxiii.79.
—Of perfection, 268.
—Of salvation, 92.
Sea created, 58.
Secret things known to God, xxiv. 9.
Seeking God, 223.
—Promises to it, 224, 487.
—Not seeking God, 225.
Servants of God, promises to them,
277—105.
—Serving God, liii. to Iviii. 277-
Servants, their duties, 392.
Shame for sin, xxvi. 471.
Shield, God so called, Ixiii. 99.
Shortness of life, 474.
Sickness deliverance from it, 102.
—To be prayed for, 238.
—Cured by Christ, 124.
Sin, its entrance into the world, xvi.
61.
Called corruption, 294. Defile-
ment, 295. Unclewiness, 295.
Pollution, 296. Filthiness, 296.
Vileness, 296. Abominableness,
297. Perverseness, 300.
— Benefits of Christ against it, 151.
Sinners, threats against them, 308.
Sincerity, 267.— In heart, 270.— In
prayer, 233. — In praise, 246.
Singing God's praise, 248.
Single heart, 271.
Sitting at God's right hand, Christ,
121.
Slander, 445.
Sleep, temperance therein, 362.
Sloth, see sluggard, vii. 363.
Slothfulness in ministers, 418.
Son of God, Christ, 128.
Sons of God, see adoption, 46.
Soothsayers, 329.
Sorrows of God's people known to
him, xliii. 12.
— None in heaven, xiii. 486.
Sorrow for sin, xvi. 468.
Speaking evil, clxxx. 443.
Spirit of God, holy, xcvii. 33.
Sanctifieth or maketh holv, 79. ,
—See Holy Ghost, 162 to 171.
Spirit of grace, cxxi. 45.
.^Was upon Christ, x 115. — iii. 163.
Spirits, familiar, 324.
Spiritual riches to be sought, 460.
Spiritual things to be prayed for, 237.
Spirituality of God, xiv. 4.
Spiritually minded, xvii. 487.
Statutes of God, righteous, lxxxiii.28]
Stedfastness in faith, xiii. 180.
Strange gods, 314.
— Are vanity, 317.
— Worshippers thereof punished, 317
Strangers, duties toward them, 437.
— Promises to them, 439.
Strength of God, 180.
— God giveth strength, 96.
— This cause of joy, 207.
Striking, the law thereof, 425.
Strife, xxxii. 345.
Strong in faith, xiii^ 180.
Stubbornness, cxxiii. 301.
Subjection to Christ, vi. 128.
Submission and resignation to God,
217.
— Prayer to be made with it, 237.
— Sufterings of Christ, xiv. 115.
— The benefits thereof, 154.
Sufferings of Christ's servants, 412.
— Their supports therein, 415.
— Promises to them, 488.
Summer and winter created, v. 58.
Sun, moon and stars created, iii. 58.
Supper, Lord's, its institution, 160.
— Preparation for it, v. 160.
Supports of life promised, ccxvii.457.
— Miraculously supplied, 461.
Supporting ministers, 422.
— Not supporting them,* 424.
Swearing lawfully, clxxv. 325,
— Sinfully, clxviii. 324.
Tale-bearing, 444.
Talkativeness, 143.
Teacher, God is, 95.
—Holy Ghost, 95.
—Christ, xii. 115.
— Ministers, 403.
Tears for sin, 470.
—With prayer, 235.
Temperance, i. 360.
— In ministers of Christ, 413
Temple, heavenly, 485.
Terrlbleness of God, 56.
Testimonies of God are righteous,
28. Faithful, 30.
Thanks due to God, 245.
—To be offered through Christ, 247.
— For what to be offered, 249, &c.
Theft, 430.
Thirsting for God, 204.
Threats, God's faithfulness therein,
31.
INDEX.
505
Throne of God, dominion, i. 69.
— Is holy, xcvii. 32.
-^Of grace, 45.
Titles of Christ, 128.— xxi. 152.
Transgressors, threats against them,
310.
Treatment for fools, 369.
Trinity, 173 to 176.
Trouble, prayer in it, 242. ^
— Deliverance from it, 253.
Trusting in God and Christ, 218.
— Joy promised to it,xci. 205.
True God, xiii. 4.
Truth of God, Ixxxv. 2.8.
Things of God called truth, Ixxxvii.
28.
Truth of Christ, x. 144.
Truth, speaking it, 440.
Turning to God, vi. 464.
u.
Unbelief, see want of faith, 190.
Unchangeableness of God, xxiv. 6.
Uncharitableness toward the poor,
437.
— Known to God,xlviii. 13.
Uncleanness of sin, 295.
Ungodly, threats against them, 261 .
Unity of God, iii. 3.
—Of Christ with God, vi. 133.
— Among mp n, 344.
Unjust, threats against them, 298.
Unmerciful, 350.
Unrighteous, threats, 265.
Unsearchableness of God, xvi. 4.
Unthankfulness, 246.
Uphold, God doth, 98.
Upright, xvii. 266.
—In heart, 271.
Usury, 434.
V.
Vengeance of God, 56.
— Upon the wicked, cause of joy to
God's people, 207.
Vileness of sin, 296.
Vows, 329.
w.
Waiting upon God, 216.
—Not waiting, 217.
Wander from God, 228.
Want of children, 389.
Wants of God's people known to him,
12.
Warn one another, 354.
Wash, God doth, 79. Our duty.
Ways of God right, Ixxxiii. 28.
Ways of man's hearty 301.
Weeping for sin, xxii. 469.
Whispering, 445.
Whoredom, natural and spiritual,
known to God, li. 14.
Wicked, their sins known to God^
xliv. 13.
— God's threatenings against themj
303.
—They glorify not God, 259.
— God glorified in their destruction,
259.
— God's power against them,. Ixxvi.
19.
— Their pi-ayer not heard, 244.
— Their praise not acceptable, 246.
Will of God, vi. 71.
— Revealed, is matter of praise, 251.
WisdciUi of God, liv. 14.
— In creation, Iv. 14.
— In redemption, Ivi. 15.
— Man's wisdom nothing compared
to God's, Ivii. 15.
Wisdom of Christ, ii. 141.
Wisdom, its excellency, ix. 364.
Wisdom and religion the same, 366.
— The study of it recommended,364.
—Is the gift of God, 365.
—Prayed for, 237—366.
— Promises to it, xxvii. 488.
Wisdom vainly pretended to by fools,
367.
— Being proud of it, 377.
Witches, 323.
Witness bearing, 439.
Wives their duties, 383.
Wizards, 323.
Wonderful doings, God's power
therein, 16.
Word of God right, Ixxxlii. 28.
—Faithful, 30.
— A mean of faith, 184. — Of sanctifi-
cation, 79. — Of salvation, 92.
Words of prayer, 236.
Words ot the righteous, cxcvi. 448.
—Of the wicked, 440.
—Of fools, 368.
Works, God's, matter of praise, 252.
Works of Christ, 135.
Works of God's people known to
him, 12.
Woiks of the wicked known, 14.
Works, rewards according to them,
Ixxiii. 286.
Works, good, commanded, 287.
— God is glorified bv tlicm, 257.
Works of the Devii; 292.
— Oftheiiesh, 292.
506
INDEX,
—Of darkness, 291.
Worship of God, 229.
—Of Christ, 139.
—Of the Holy Ghost, 176.
— OiFered by angels, xxviii. xxix.
65.
Worship not due to angels, 65. —
233.
Worship, God honoured by it, 255.
—What kind acceptable, 229.
— What kind unacceptable, 230.
— Rejoicing in it, 206.
Worship, public, see prayer, 235.
See praise, 247.
—Private, 235.
Wounding, maiming, 425.
Wrath of God against the wicked,
55.
— Prayers and promises to be deli-
vered from it, 55.
Wrath in men forbidden, 340.
Wrathful, fools are so, 368.
Zeal in God, ST.
—In men, 265.
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