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pointed time ;-wait for it, because it will sing man complain ? a man for the punishsurely come.

ment of his sins. Zeph. iii. 8. Wait upon me, saith the James iv. 7. Submit yourselves to God. Lord.

Ps. xxxix. 9. I was dumb and opened Mark xv. 43. Joseph of Arimathea not my mouth, because thou didst it. waited for the kingdom of God. Luke Threats. Isa. xlv. 9. Wo to him that xxiii. 51.

striveth with his Maker. Luke ii. 25. Simeon waited for the consolation of Israel.

xii. 36. Be ye like men that wait for RELYING UPON GOD. the coming of their Lord.

Rom. viii. 23. We groan within our- CXXVIII. Relying upon God. 2 Chron. selves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, xiii. 18. The children of Judah prevailed the redemption of our body.

against their enemies, because they relied 1 Cor. i. 5. 7. In every thing ye are upon the Lord God of their fathers. 1, enriched : So that ye come behind in no Chron. v. 20. gift, waiting for the coming of our Lord xiv. 11. Help us, O Lord our God, for Jesus Christ.

we rest on thee. Gal. v. 5. We through the Spirit wait xvi. 8. Because thou didst rely upon for the hope of righteousness by faith. the Lord, he delivered thine enemies into

1 Thess. i. 9. Ye turned from idols to thine hand. serve the living and true God, and to wait Ps. xxxvii. 7. Rest in the Lord, and for his Son from heaven. 2 Thess. iii. 5. wait patiently for him. James v. 7. See Zech. ix. 1.

lv. 22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord,

and he will sustain thee; he shall never CXXVI. The wicked wait not for God. suffer the righteous to be moved. 2 Kings vi. 33. Behold, this evil is of the cxvi. 7. Return unto thy rest, O my soul. Lord, what should I wait for the Lord Jer. vi. 16. Walk in the good way, and any longer ?

ye shall find rest to your souls. Ps. cvi. 13. They forget his works, 1 Pet. v. 7. Casting all your care upon they waited not for his counsel.

him, for he careth for you.

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SUBMISSION AND RESIGNATION

TRUST IN GOD.
TO GOD.

CXXIX. Trusting in God and Christ. CXXVII. Language expressive of this 2 Sam. xxii. 2, 3. David said, The Lord temper of mind. Judg. x. 15. Do unto us is my rock and my fortress, and my deli. what seemeth good unto thee.

verer; the God of my rock, in him will I 1 Sam. iii. 18. Eli said, It is the Lord, trust; he is my shield and the horn of my let him do what seemeth him good. 2 high tower, and my refuge, my Saviour : Sam. x. 12.-xv. 26.

thou savest me from violence. Ps. xviii. 2 Kings xx. 19. Hezekiah said unto 2.-cxliv. 1, 2. Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord Ver. 31. The Lord is a buckler to all which thou hast spoken. Isa. xxxix. 8. that trust in him.

Matt. xi. 26. Jesus said, Even so, Fa. 2 Kings xviii. 5. Hezekiah trusted in ther; for so it seemed good in thy sight. the Lord God of Israel, so that after him Luke x. 21.

was none like him among all the kings vi. 10. Thy will be done. Luke xi. 2. of Judah, nor any that were before him.

xxvi. 42. Jesus prayed, and said, O my Ch. xix. 10. 2 Chron. xxxii. 7, 8. Isa. Father, if this cup may not pass away xxxvi. xxxvii. chapters. from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. 1 Chron. v. 18-20. The sons of Reu

Acts xxi. 14. The will of the Lord be ben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of done.

Manasseh, made war with the Hagarites. Neh. ix. 33. Thou art just in all that is And the Hagarites were delivered into brought upon us.

their hand; for they cried to God in the Job i. 21. The Lord gave, and the battle, and he was entreated of them; be. Lord hath taken away, and blessed be his cause they put their trust in him.

Job xiii. 15. Job said, Though he slay Lam. iii. 39. Wherefore should a liv- me, yet will I trust in him,

name.

Job xxxv. 14. Judgment is before him, rejoice in him because we trusted in his therefore trust thou in him.

holy name. Let thy mercy be upon us. Ps. ii. 12. Blessed are they that put xxxiv. 8. Blessed is the man that their trust in him.

trusteth in him. (Ps. lxxxiv. 12.) Ver. iv. 5. Offer the sacrifices of righteous. 22. None that trust in him shall be deness, and put your trust in the Lord.

solate. v. 11. Let all those that put their trust xxxvi. 7. How excellent is thy lovingin thee rejoice.

kindness, O God; therefore the sons of vii. 1. "O Lord my God, in thee do I men put their trust under the shadow of put my trust; save me from all that per. thy wings. secute me.

xxxvii. 3. Trust in the Lord and do ix. 10. They that know thy name will good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and put their trust in thee; for thou, Lord, verily thou shalt be fed. Ver. 5. 40. hast not forsaken them that seek thee. xl. 4. Blessed is the man that maketh xi. 1. In the Lord put I my trust.

the Lord his trust. Ver. 3. xiii. 5. I have trusted in thy mercy, my xliv. 6. I will not trust in my bow: heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. thou hast saved us from our enemies.

xvi. 1. Preserve me O God, for in thee Ver. 7. do I put my trust.

lii. 8. I trust in the mercy of God for xvii. 7. Shew thy marvellous loving- ever and ever. kindness, O thou that savest by thy right lv. 22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, hand them which put their trust in and he shall sustain thee; he shall never thee.

suffer the righteous to be moved. Ver. 23. xx. 7. Some trust in chariots and horses, lvi. 3, 4. What time I am afraid, I will but we will remember the name of the trust in thee. In God I have put my trust, Lord our God.

I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. xxi. 7. The king trusteth in the Lord, Ps. cxviii. 6. and through the mercy of the Most High Ivii, 1. Be merciful unto me, O God, he shall not be moved.

be merciful unto me, for my soul trusteth xxii. 4, 5. Our fathers trusted in thee in thee; yea, in the shadow of thy wings and thou didst deliver them. They trusted will I make my refuge, until the calami. in thee, and were not confounded. ties be overpast.

Ver. 8. He trusted in the Lord that Ixi. 4. I will trust in the covert of thy he would deliver him. Matt. xxvii. 43. wings.

xxy. 2. O my God, I trust in thee; let Ixii. 8. Trust in hiin at all times : God me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies is a refuge for us. triumph over me.-Ver. 20. O keep my Ixiv. 10. The righteous shall be glad soul, and deliver me; let me not be in the Lord, and shall trust in him. ashamed, for I put my trust in thee. lxxiii. 28. It is good for me to draw

xxvi. 1. I have trusted in the Lord, near to God: I have put my trust in the therefore I shall not slide.

Lord God. xxviii. 7. The Lord is my strength and lxxxvii. 2. O thou my God, save thy my shield; my heart trusted in him and servant that trusteth in thee. I am helped : therefore my heart greatly xci. 2. I will say of the Lord, He is rejoiceth, and with my song will I praise my refuge and my fortress, my God, in him.

him will I trust. xxxi. 1. In thee, O Lord, do I put my cxii. 7. A good man shall not be afraid trust: let me never be ashamed: deliver of evil tidings ; his heart is fixed trusting me in thy righteousness. Ps. Ixxi. 1. 5. in the Lord. Ver. 8.

Ver. 6. I have hated them that regard cxv. 9. Israel, trust thou in the Lord : lying vanities, but I trusted in the Lord. he is their help and shield. Ver. 10, 11.

Ver. 19. How great is thy goodness cxviii. 8, 9. It is better to trust in the which thou hast laid up for them that Lord, than to put confidence in man. It fear thee, which thou hast wrought for is better to trust in the Lord, than to put them that trust in thee before the sons of confidence in princes. Ps. cxlvi. 3.

cxix. 41, 42. Let thy mereies come xxxii. 10. Many sorrows shall be to unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation, acthe wicked; but he that trusteth in the cording to thy word. For I trust in thy Lord, mercy shall compass him round. word.

Ps, xxxiii. 21, 22. “Our hearts shall cxxv. 1. They that trust in the Lord

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shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be Matt. xii. 21. In his (Christ's] name removed.

shall the Gentiles trust. cxli. 8. Mine eyes are unto thee, O Rom. xv. 12. In him shall the Gentiles God, the Lord; in thee is my trust; leave trust. Isa. xi. 10. Isa. li. 5. not my soul destitute.

2 Cor. i. 9, 10. We had the sentence cxliii. 8. Cause me to hear thy loving of death within ourselves, that we should kindness in the morning, for in thee do not trust in ourselves, but in God which I trust : cause me to know the way raiseth the dead. Who delivered us; in wherein I should walk, for I lift my soul whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. to thee.

iii. 4, 5. Such trust have we through Prov. iii. 5. Trust in the Lord with Christ to Godward. Not that we are suf. all thine heart, and lean not unto thine ficient of ourselves, but our sufficiency is own understanding.

of God. xvi. 3. Commit thy works unto the Eph. i. 12, 13. That we should be to Lord.

the praise of his glory, who first trusted Ver. 20. Whoso trusteth in the Lord, in Christ. In whom ye also trusted after happy is he.

that ye heard the word of truth, the gos. xxii. 19. That thy trust may be in the pel of your salvation. Lord, I have made known to thee, &c. 1 Tim. iv. 10. We both labour and

xxviii. 25. He that putteth his trust in suffer reproach, because we trust in the the Lord shall be made fat.

living God; who is the Saviour of all xxix. 25. Whoso putteth his trust in men, especially of them that believe. the Lord shall be safe.

v. 5. She that is a widow indeed and Isa. xii. 2. Behold God is my salva- desolate, trusteth in God. 1 Pet. iii. 5. tion, I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength, and my song, he is also become my salvation.

CONFIDENCE. xxvi. 3, 4. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, CXXX. Confidence in God. Ps. Ixv. 5. because he trusteth in thee. Trust in the O God of our salvation, who art the confi. Lord for ever, for in the Lord Jehovah is dence of the ends of the earth. everlasting strength.

Prov. iii. 25, 26. Be not afraid of sud. 1. 10. Who is among you that feareth den fear, neither of the desolation of the the Lord, and obeyeth the voice of his wicked when it cometh. For the Lord servant, that walketh in darkness and shall be thy confidence, and shall keep hath no light ? let him trust in the thy feet from being taken. name of the Lord, and stay upon his xiv. 26. In the fear of the Lord is strong God.

confidence. li. 5. The isles shall wait upon me, Isa. xxx. 15. Thus saith the Lord, in and on mine arm shall they trust. Matt. quietness and confidence shall be your xii. 21,

strength. lvii. 13. He that putteth his trust in the 2 Cor. v. 6. We are confident and will. Lord, shall inherit the land, and shall ing rather to be absent from the body. possess my holy mountain.

Eph. iii. 12. In Christ Jesus our Lord, Jer. xvii. 7, 8. Blessed is the man that we have boldness and access with confitrusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the dence, by the faith of him. Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted Phil. i. 6. Being confident of this, that by the waters, and that spreadeth out her he that hath begun a good work in you, roots by the river.

will perform it until the day of Jesus xlix. 11. Let thy widows trust in me. Christ.

Dan. iii. 28. The Lord sent his angel, 2 Thess. iii. 4. We have confidence in and delivered his servant that trusted in the Lord touching you. Gal. v. 10. Philem. him.

ver. 21. Neh. i. 7, 8. The Lord is good, a strong- Heb. ïi. 6. We are Christ's house, if hold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth we hold fast the confidence, and the re. them that trust in him. But darkness joicing of the hope firm unto the end. shall pursue his enemies.

Ver. 14. We are made partakers of Christ, Zeph. iii. 12. An afflicted and poor if we hold the beginning of our confidence people, shall trust in the name of the steadfast unto the end. Lord.

x. 35. Cast not away your confidence,

which hath great recompense of re- the Lord shall be safe. Ch. iii. 21 to ward.

25. 1 John ii. 28. Little children, abide in Isa. xii. 2. God is my salvation, I will Christ, that when he shall appear we may trust and not be afraid. have confidence, and not be ashamed be. xli. 10. Fear not thou, I am with thee, fore bim at his coming.

saith the Lord. Ver. 13, 14. Ch. xxxv. iii. 21. Beloved, if our heart condemn! 4. Ch. xliii. 15.-i. 7. 12.-liv. 4. 14. us not, then have we confidence toward Jer. i. 8.—xxiii. 4.-XXX. 10,-xxxix. 17. God.

–xlvi. 27, 28._li. 46. v. 14. This is the confidence that we Mic. iv. 4. They shall sit every man have in him, that if we ask anything ac- under his vine, and under his fig-tree, and cording to his will he heareth us. none shall make him afraid. Zeph. iii. 13.

16. CXXXI. Confidence in God a security Matt. x. 26. Fear them not. Luke i. against the fear of evil from man. Gen. 74.--xxi. 8. John xii. 15. xv. 1. God said to Abraham, Fear not, Luke xii. 4. Be not afraid of them that I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great kill the body. Ver. 32. reward.

Acts xviii. 9. Then spake the Lord to xxvi. 24. The Lord said to Isaac, Fear Paul, Be not afraid, for I am with thee. not, for I am with thee, and will bless Ver. 10. thec.

Rom. viii. 15. We have not received Lev. xxvi. 3. If ye walk in my statutes. the spirit of bondage, again to fear, but of -Ver. 26. None shall make you afraid. adoption. 2 Tim. i. 7. Job xi. 14, 15. 19. Ezek. xxxiv. 28.- Phil. i. 14. The brethren spake the xxxix. 26.

word without fear. Deut. i. 17. Ye shall not be afraid of Heb. ii. 15. Christ took part of flesh the face of man.-Ver. 20. The Lord your and blood, that he might deliver them God shall fight for you.

Ver. 30.

who through fear of death were all their 2 Kings vi. 16. The man of God said, lifetime subject to bondage. Fear not, for they that be with us be more 1 Pet. iii. 14. If ye suffer for righteous. than they that be with them.

ness' sake, be not afraid of their terror. Job v. 21. Neither shalt thou be afraid Matt. v. 10. for destruction when it cometh. Ver. 22. 1 John iv. 18. There is no fear in love. Ch. xi. 14, 15.

Rev. i. 17. Fear not, for I am the first Ps. iii. 5. The Lord sustained me, I' and the last. Ch. ii. 20. See Gen. xxi. 17. will not be afraid of thousands set against Exod. xx. 20. Numb. xiv. 9.—xxi. 34. Ps. xxvii. 3.

Deut. vii. 18, 19. 21.-XX. 1. 3.-xxxi. 6. xxiii. 4. I will fear no evil, for thou 8. Josh. xi. 6. 2 Kings i. 15. 2 Chron. XX. art with me.

17. Neh. iv. 14. Ps. xlix. 5. 16.-lxxviii. xxxiv. 4. The Lord delivered me from 53. Isa, vii. 4. 25.-viii. 12.-xiv. 3.- xl. all my fears.

9. Dan. x. 12. Joel ii. 2. Matt. viii. 26. xlvi. 2. I will not fear though the Mark iv. 40. Luke xxi. 9. John xii. 15. earth be removed.-Ver. 7. The Lord of Zech. ix. 9. Acts xxvii. 24. Heb. xi. 23. hosts is with me.

lvi. 3, 4. In God have I put my trust; CXXXII. Confidence of the wicked. Job I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. xxxi. 24. If I have made gold my hope, Heb. xiii. 6.

or have said to the fine gold, Thou art xci. 5, 6. Thou shalt not be afraid for my confidence-Ver. 28. This also were terror by night, nor for the arrow by day; iniquity. nor for the pestilence, nor for destruction. Ps. cxviii. 8, 9. It is better to trust in

cxii. 7. He shall not be afraid of evil the Lord, than to put confidence in man tidings; his heart is fixed, trusting in the It is better to trust in the Lord, than to Lord. Ver. 8.

put confidence in princes. cxviii. 6. The Lord is on my side, I Prov. xiv. 16. A wise man feareth and shall not fear.

departeth from evil: but a fool rageth and Prov. i. 33. Whoso hearkeneth unto is confident. me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet xxi. 22. A wise man scaleth the city from fear of evil.

of the mighty, and casteth down the con. xxix. 25. The fear of man bringeth fidence thereof. a snare, but whoso putteth his trust in xxv. 19. Confidence in an unfaithful

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man, in time of trouble, is like a broken Prov. viii. 17. Those that seek me tooth, and a foot out of joint.

early shall find me. Jer. ii. 37. The Lord hath rejected thy Isa. xlv. 19. I said not unto the secd of confidence in Egypt and Assyria. Ezek. Jacob, Scek ye me in vain. xxix. 16.

Lam.ii. 25. The Lord is good to them xlviii. 13. The house of Israel was that wait for him, to the soul that sceketh ashamed of Beth-el their confidence. 1 him. Kings xii. 29.

Hos. x. 12. Seek the Lord, till he come Phil. iii. 3. Have no confidence in thc and rain righteousness upon you. flesh.

Amos v. 4. Thus saith the Lord to the

house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall CXXXIII. Assurance of the righteous. live.-Ver. 6. Seek the Lord, and ye

shall Isa. xxxii. 17. The work of righteous- live ; lest he break out like fire in the ness shall be peace; and the effect of house of Joseph, and devour it, and there righteousness, quietness and assurance be none to quench it in Beth-el. for ever. See 1 John iii. 19.

Ver. 8. Seek him that maketh the

seven stars, and Orion; that turncth the SEEKING GOD.

shadow of death into the morning, and

maketh the day dark with night, &c. CXXXIV. Seeking God commanded. Ver. 9. Ps. xxvii. 8. When dou saidst, Seek ye Zeph. ii. 3. Scek ye the Lord, all ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy meek of the earth, which have wrought face, Lord, will I seek.

his judgments: scek righteousness, soek cv. 4. Seek the Lord and his strength; ineekness, it may be ye shall be hid in seek his face continually.

the day of the Lord's anger. Isa. viii. 19. Should not a people seek Matt. vii. 7,8. Seek and ye shall find. to their God?

He that secketh findcth. 1 Chron. xxviii, lv. 6. Seek ye the Lord while he may 9. 2 Chron. xv. 2. be found; call upon him while he is near. Heb. xi. 6. God is a rewarder of them See Amos v. 1. Acts xv. 17.-xvii. 27. that diligently seek him. See Job viii.

xi. 10. There shall be a root of Jesse, 5, 6. Ps. xxii. 26. [i. e. Christ,] to it shall the Gentiles seek.

CXXXVII. Prayers for them that seek CXXXV. God is to be sought with all God. 2 Chron. Xxx. 18—20. Hezekiah the heart. Deut. iv. 29. Thou shalt find prayed, saying, Good Lord, pardon every the Lord, if thou seek him with all thy one that prepareth his heart to seek God, heart and with all thy soul. Jer. xxix. the Lord God of his fathers, though he 13, 14.

be not cleansed according to the purifi. Ps. cxix. 2. Blessed are they that seek cation of the sanctuary. And the Lord the Lord with their whole heart.

hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the 1 Chron. xxii. 19. Set your heart and people. your soul to seek the Lord your God. Ps. lxix. 6. Let none of those that seek

Isa. xxvi. 9. With my soul have I de- thee be confounded.
sired thee in the night; yea, with my lxx. 4. Let all those that seek thee, re-
spirit within me will I seek thee early. Ps. joice and be glad in thee; and let such
lxiii. 8. My soul followeth hard after thee. as love thy salvation say continually, the

Lord be magnified.
CXXXVI. Promises to them that seek cv. 3. Let the heart of them rejoice that
God. See the first two texts in the last seek the Lord. 1 Chron. xvi. 10.
section.

Ezra viii. 22. The hand of God is upon CXXXVIII. Examples of God's people all them for good that seek him; but his seeking him. 2 Chron. xi. 16. Out of all power and his wrath is against all them the tribes of Israel, such as set their that forsake him.

hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel Ps, ix. 10. Thou, Lord, hast not for- came to Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the saken them that seek thee.

Lord God of their fathers, (and would not xxxiv. 10. They that scek the Lord worship the calves set up by Jeroboam.] shall not want any good thing.

xiv. 4. Asa commanded Judah to seek lxix. 32. Your heart shall live that seek the Lord God of their fathers, and to do the Lord.

the law and the commandments. Ver. 7.

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