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Gal. iii. 9. They which be of faith are If you can break my covenant of the blessed with faithful Abraham.

day, and my covenant of the night, and James i. 12. Blessed is the man that that there should not be day and night endureth temptation, for when he is tried in their season ; then may also my covehe shall receive a crown of life.

nant be broken with David my servant, Rev. i. 3. Blessed is he that readeth, and that he should not have a son to and they that hear the words of this pro- reign upon his throne, and with the phecy, and keep those things that are Levites, the priests my ministers. Ver. written therein.

25, 26. xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead which die Jer. 1. 5. They shall say, Come, and let in the Lord.

us join ourselves to the Lord, in a perxvi. 15. Blessed is he that watcheth and petual covenant that shall not be forgot. keepeth his garments; lest he walk naked, ten. and they see his shame.

Ezek. xi. 19, 20. I will give them one xix. 9. Blessed are they who are called heart, and I will put a new spirit within to the marriage supper of the Lamb. you: and I will take the stony heart out

xx. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath of your flesh, and I will give them an part in the first resurrection.

heart of flesh; that they may walk in my

statutes, and keep mine ordinances and CXLVI. God's blessing promised by do them: and they shall be my people, way of covenant; or covenant blessings. and I will be their God. Jer. xxiv. 7. Deut. vii. 9. He keepeth covenant and xvi. 8. When I passed by thee, and mercy with them that love him, and looked upon thee, behold thy time was keep his commandments, to a thousand a time of love, and I spread my skirt generations.

over thee, and covered thy nakedness; 2 Sam. xxiii. 5. David said, Although yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into my house be not so with God, yet hath he a covenant with thee, saith the Lord, made with me an everlasting covenant, and thou becamest mine.—Ver. 60. I ordered in all things and sure.

will remember my covenant with thee Ps. xxv. 14. The secret of the Lord is in the days of thy youth, and I will estawith them that fear him, and he will show blish unto thee an everlasting covenant. them his covenant.

- Ver. 62. I will establish any covenant lxxxix. 3. I have made a covenant with with thee, and thou shalt know that I am my chosen.-Ver. 28. My covenant shall the Lord. stand fast with him.-Ver. 34. My cove- xx. 37. I will cause you to pass under vant will I not break.

the rod, and I will bring you into the bond Isa. xlii. 6. I will give thee (Christ) for of the covenant. a covenant of the people, for a light of the xxxvi. 25–28. I will sprinkle clean Gentiles. Ch. xlix. 8.-lv. 4.

water upon you.-A new heart will Į liv. 10. The mountains shall depart, and give unto you.—I will put my Spirit the hills be removed, but my kindness within you.—And ye shall be my people, shall never depart from thee, neither shall and I will be your God. my covenant of peace be removed, saith Xxxvii. 26, 27. I will make a covenant the Lord, that hath mercy on thee. of peace with them; it shall be an ever

lv. 3. Incline your ear and come unto lasting covenant with them; and will set me, hear and your souls shall live; and I my sanctuary in the midst of them for will make an everlasting covenant with evermore. My tabernacle shall be with you, even the sure mercies of David. them; yea, I will be their God, and they

Jer. xxxi. 33. This shall be the cove. shall be my people. Ver. 23, 24. 2 Chron, nant that I will make with the house of xxxiv. 24, 25. 31. Israel, saith the Lord, I will put my law Hos. ii. 19, 20. I will betroth thee unto in their inward parts, and write it in me for ever, in righteousness, in judg. their hearts, and will be their God, and ment, and in loving-kindness, and in they shall be my people. Heb. viii. 10. mercies: I will even betroth thee to me

xxxii. 40. I will make an everlasting in faithfulness, and thou shalt know that covenant with them, that I will not turn I am) the Lord, Isa. liv, 5, Thy Maker away from them to do them good; but I is thine husband, will put my fear in their hearts, that New Covenant, Heb. viii. 8. I will they shall not depart from me. Ver. 38. make a new covenant with the house of

Xxxiii, 20, 21, Thus saith the Lord, Israel, Jer, xxxi, 31, 32, 33, 34,

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Heb. xi. 24. Jesus the Mediator of the a little, blessed are all they that put new covenant.

their trust in him. Ps. XC. 7. 9. 11.

cii. 10. GOD'S ANGER.

Prov. xi. 4. Riches profit not in the day

of wrath. Job xx. 28. Ezek. vii. 19. CXLVII. Anger ascribed to God. Neh. Zeph. i. 18. ix. 17. Thou art a God ready to pardon, Isa. ix. 19. Through the wrath of the gracious, slow to anger, and of great kind- Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and

See Ps. ciii. 8. Joel ii. 13. the people shall be as the fuel of the fire. Nah. i.3.

Jer. I. 13.-vii. 29.

Jer. x. 10. At his wrath the earth shall CXLVIII. God's anger threatened tremble, and the nations shall not be able against the wicked. Numb. xxxii. 14. Ye to abide his indignation. Hos. v. 10. are risen up in your father's stead, a race Nah. i. 2. The Lord reserveth wrath of sinful men, to augment the fierce anger for his enemies. of the Lord.

Rom. i. 18. The wrath of God is reDeut. xxix. 19, 20. If one say, I shall vealed from heaven, against all ungodlihave peace, though I walk in the imagi. ness and unrighteousness of men. nation of mine heart, to add drunkenness ii. 8, 9. Indignation and wrath, tribulato thirst: The Lord will not spare him; tion and anguish, shall be upon every soul but the anger of the Lord, and his jea- of man that doeth evil. Ver. 5. Ch. iv. lousy, shali smoke against that man, and 15.-ix. 22. all the curses that are written in this book Eph. ii. 3. We were by nature children shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall of wrath. blot out his name from under heaven. v. 6. The wrath of God cometh upon

xxxii. 21, 22. They have moved me to the children of disobedience. Col. iii. 6. jealousy; they have provoked me to anger. Rev. vi. 16, 17. The wioked said to the A fire is kindled in mine anger, that shall mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume us from the face of him that sitteth on the the earth with her increase, and set on fire throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: the foundations of the mountains. For the great day of his wrath is come;

Job xxi. 17. God distributeth sorrows and who shall be able to stand? See Rev. in his anger. Ch. ix. 13.

xiv. 10.-xvi. 19. Ps. vii. 11. God is angry with the wicked every day. Ps. xxxviii. 3.

CL. God is wroth. Isa. xlvii. 6. I was Ixxvi. 7. Who may stand in thy sight, wroth with my people, and polluted mine when once thou art angry. Ps. xc. 7. 11. inheritance. Nah. i. 6.

Isa. Ixiv. 5. Behold thou art wroth; for lxxviii. 41. They tempted God; they we have sinned. remembered not his hand.-Ver. 49. He Ps. Ix. 1. O Lord, thou hast cast us off; cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, thou hast been displeased. wrath, and indignation.— Ver. 50. He Prayers deprecating his wrath. Ps. vi. 1. made a way for his anger; he spared not O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger; their soul from death. Isa. v. 24, 25. See neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Isa. x. 25.-xiii. 9.13.-xxx. 27.30.-xlii. Ps. xxxviii. 1. 24, 25-lxvi. 15. Jer. xviii. 23.—xxv. 38.

Isa. lxiv. 9. Be not wroth very sore, -xlix. 37.—li. 44. Lam. ii. 1.-iii. 43. O Lord; neither remember iniquity for -iv. 21.-Ezek. v. 13.-vii. 3.-xiii. 13. ever: behold, we are all thy people. -xxii. 20, 21. Mic. v. 15.

Promises. Isa. lvii. 16. I will not con.

tend for ever, neither will I be always GOD'S WRATH.

wroth: for the spirit should fail before

me, and the souls that I have made. CXLIX. God's wrath threatened against sinners. Ezra viii. 22. His power, and CLI. God's indignation against sinners. his wrath, is against all that forsake Isa. lxvi. 14. The hand of the Lord him.

shall be known towards his servants, and Job xx. 23. God shall cast the fury of his indignation towards his enemies. Ch. his wrath upon the wicked. Ch. xxi. 20. xxx. 30. 30. Ps. lxxviii. 49.

Jer, x. 10. At his wrath the earth Ps.ii. 12. When his wrath is kindled but shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Job | hatest all the workers of iniquity. Ps. xxvi. 11. The pillars of heaven tremble, xi. 5. and are astonished at his reproof. Ch. ix. Jer. xliv. 8. Do not the abominable 6. He shaketh the earth out of her place, thing I hate (viz. sin). and the pillars thereof tremble. See Nah. Hos. ix. 15. I hate them for their wicki. 5, 6. 8.

edness. Mic. vii. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against CLVII. The Lord is a terrible God. Deut. him.

vii. 21. The Lord your God is among you, Rom. ii. 8. To those that obey unrigh- a mighty God and terrible. Jer. xx. 11. teousness, God will render indignation Job xxxvii. 22. With God is terrible and wrath, tribulation and anguish upon majesty. every soul of man that doeth evil.

Ps. xlvii. 2. The Lord most high is Heb. x. 27. A fearful looking for of terrible. Ps. lxviii. 35. judgment, and fiery indignation, which Deut.x. 21. He hath done terrible things. shall devour the adversaries.

1 Chron. xvii. 21. See Ps. lxv. 5.—Ixvi. 3.

5.-cvi. 22.-cxlv. 6. Isa. lxiv. 5.Joel ii. 11. CLII. God's fury. Lev. xxvi. 27, 28. If ye will walk contrary to me, then will CLVIII. Dreadful. Dan. ix. 7. O Lord, I walk contrary to you in fury:

the great and dreadful God. Job xx. 23. God shall cast the fury of Heb. x. 31. It is a fearful thing to fall his wrath upon the wicked, and shall rain into the hands of the living God. See Job it upon him.

xiii. 11. Isa. viii. 13. Mal. i. 14. Isa. lix. 18. God will repay fury to his adversaries. Ch. lxiii. 3. Jer. iv. 4. Circumcise yourselves to the

GOD'S JEALOUSY. Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, lest my fury come forth like fire, CLIX. God is jealous for his people. and burn that none can quench it, be. Promises. Ezek. xxxix. 25. Thus saith the cause of the evil of your doings.

Lord, I will bring again the captivity of Ezek. v. 15. I will execute judgments Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole on thee in anger, and in fury, and in furi. house of Israel, and I will be jealous for ous rebukes. Ch. vi. 12.-xxxviii. 18. my holy name. Nah. i. 2. 6.

Joel ii. 18. The Lord will be jealous

for his land, and pity his people. CLIII. His vengeance. Deut. xxxii. 35. Zech. i. 14. Thus saith the Lord of To me belongeth vengeance and recom- hosts, I am jealous for Jerusalem, and for pense. Ps. xciv. 1. Heb. x. 30. Zion, with a great jealousy. Ch. viii. 2. !

Deut. xxxii.41. I will render vengeance God's jealousy in threats against sin. to mine enemies. Ver. 43.

ners. Exod. xx. 5. I the Lord your God Rom. iii. 5. The Lord taketh vengeance. I am jealous God, visiting the iniquities Ch. xii. 19.

of the fathers upon the children, unto the 2 Thess. i. 8. The Lord Jesus Christ third and fourth generation of them that shall be revealed from heaven, in flaming hate me. Ch. xxxiv. 14. Deut. iv. 24.—v. fire, taking vengeance on them that know 9.-vi. 15. Josh. xxiv. 19. not God, and obey not the gospel of our Numb. xxv. 11. Phineas turned away Lord Jesus Christ.

my wrath, that I consumed not the chil.

dren of Israel in my jealousy. CLIV. God abhorreth, Ps, v. 6. The Deut. xxix. 20. T'he anger of the Lord Lord will abhor the bloody man. and his jealousy shall smoke against the

x. 3. The covetous man the Lord ab- man that promiseth himself peace in his horreth.

wickedness.

Ps. lxxix. 5. Wilt thou be angry for CLV. Loatheth. Zech, xi. 8. My soul ever, shall thy jealousy burn like a fire ? loatheth them.

Ezek. xvi. 38. I will judge thee, and Prov.xiii.5. A wicked man is loathsome. give thee blood in fury and jealousy. Ver.

Despiseth. Amos v. 21. I hate, I de. 41,42. Ch. xxiii. 25.-xxxvi. 5, 6.— xxxviii. spise your feast-days.

19. Nah. i. 2. Zeph. i. 18.-iji. 8. The

wicked provoke God to jealousy. See CLVI. God hateth. Ps. v. 5. Thou Deut. xxxii. 16. Ps. Lxxviii. 58.

CLX. Zeal ascribed to God. Isa. ix. 7. Isa. xxxvii. 32. The zeal of the Lord The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform will defend Jerusalem. this. (viz. to exalt Christ and promote his lix. 17. He was clad with zeal as a kingdom.)

cloak. See Isa. lxiii. 15. Ezek. v. 13.

CHAPTER II.

CREATION

I. God created all things. See the Ps. xxxiii. 6. By the word of the Lord Wisdom of God. Also, Power of God in were the heavens made, and all the host creation.

of them by the breath of his mouth. Prov. xxvi. 10. The great God that lxxxix. 11. The heavens are thine, the formed all things. Eccl. iii. 11.-xi. 5. carth also is thine; as for the world, and

"Isa. xliv. 24. I am the Lord that the fulness thereof, thou hast founded maketh all things. Jer. x. 16.

them. Heb. iii. 4. He that built all things is civ. 2. Thou stretchest out the heavens God.

like a curtain. Job xxxvii. 18. Like a Rev. iv. 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, molten looking-glass. to receive glory, and honour, and power; Isa. xl. 28. He is the Creator of the for thou hast created all things, and for ends of the earth. thy pleasure they are and were created. xlii. 5. The Lord created the heavens,

II. God created the heavens and the and stretched them out: he spread forth earth. Gen. i. 1. In the beginning God the earth, and that which cometh out of it. created the heavens and the earth. Ch. ii. li. 13. The Lord hath stretched forth 4. Exod. xx. 11.-xxxi. 17. 2 Kings xix. the heavens, and laid the foundations of 15. 1 Chron. xvi. 26. Ps. xcvi. 5. Isa. the earth. Ver. 16. Xxxvii. 16. Heb. i. 10.

Rev. xiv. 7. Worship him that made Neh. ix. 6. Thou hast made heaven, heaven and earth, and the sea, and the and the heaven of heavens, with all their fountains of waters. Acts xiv. 15.-xvii. hosts, the earth, and all things that are 24. Ps. cxlvi. 6. therein, the seas, and all that is therein, See Wisdom of God in Creation. See and thou preservest them all; and the host also Power of God in Creation. of heaven worshippeth thee.

III. Sun and moon created. Gen. i. 16. Job ix. 8. He alone spreadeth out the God made two great lights, the greater heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of light to rule the day, and the lesser light the sea.

to rule the night; he made the stars also. xxxviii. 447. Where wast thou when Job xxxviii. 12. 19. 24. I laid the foundations of the earth? Who Gen. i. 3. God said, Let there be light, hath laid the measures thereof, or who and there was light. Ps. lxxiv. 16, 17. hath stretched the line upon it? Where. Job is. 9. Which maketh Arcturus, upon are the foundations thereof fastened, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of or who laid the corner stone thereof? the south. Ver. 7. Amos v. 8. When all the morning stars sang together, Ps. viii. 3, 4. When I consider the heaand all the sons of God shouted for joy. vens, the work of thy fingers, the moon

Ps. xxiv. 2. He hath founded the earth and the stars, which thou hast ordained : upon the seas, and established it upon the What is man, that thou art mindful of floods. Ps. lxxviii. 69.-civ. 5.-cxix. 90, him? and the son of man, that thou 91.-Cxxxvi. 6.

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Ps. xix. 4. In the heavens hath he set the clouds are the dust of his feet. He a tabernacle for the sun.

rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and civ. 19. He hath appointed the moon drieth up all the rivers. for seasons, and the sun knoweth his going down.

V. Summer and winter. · Ps. lxxiv. 16, exlviii. 3. Praise ye him sun, moon 17. The day is thine and the night also is and stars : praise him all ye stars of light. thine: thou hast prepared the light and the

- Ver. 5. For he commanded, and they sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the were created. Ver. 6.

earth: thou hast made summer and winter. Jer. xxxi. 35. He giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the VI. North and south. Job xxvi. 7. He moon and stars for a light by night; which stretcheth out the north over the empty pladivideth the sea, when the waves thereof ces, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. do roar : the Lord of hosts is his name. Ps. lxxxix. 12. The north and south

thou hast created them. IV. The sea. Gen. i. 9, 10. God said, Let the waters under the heaven be ga. VII. Clouds and wind. Job xxxi. 8. thered together into one place, and let the He bindeth up the waters in his thick dry land appear: and it was so. And clouds, and the cloud is not rent under God called the dry land earth, and the them. Ver. 9. gathering together of the waters called he xxxvi. 29. Can any understand the seas: and God saw that it was good. spreading of the clouds ? Ver. 30. 32.

Job xxvi. 10. He hath compassed the See Ps. civ. 3.—cxlvii. 8. Prov. viii. 28. waters with bounds, until the day and Job xxviii. 25. He maketh the weight night come to an end.

for the winds; and he weigheth the xxxviii. 8–11. Who shut up the sea waters by measure. Ch. xxxvii. 16. The with doors, when it brake forth as if it balancing of the clouds. Prov. xxx. 4. had issued out of the womb? I made the Amos iv. 13. cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it; and VIII. Rain. Job xxviii. 26. He made brake up for it my decreed place, and set a decree for the rain, and a way for the bars and doors; and said Hitherto shalt lightning of the thunder. thou come and no further, and here shall Ps. cxxxv. 7. He maketh lightnings thy proud waves be stayed. See Ver. for the rain, and bringeth the wind out of 16. 22. 25. 28.

his treasures. Jer. li. 16. Ps. xxxiii. 7. He gathereth the waters Jer. x. 13. When he uttereth his voice, of the sea together as an heap, and lay there is a multitude of waters in the eth up the depth in store-houses. heavens, and he causeth the vapours to

xcv. 5. The sea is his, and he made it: ascend from the ends of the earth: he his hands formed the dry land. • maketh lightnings with rain, and bring.

civ. 10. He sendeth the springs into eth forth the wind out of his treasures. the valleys.

Ch. xiv. 22. Cha li. 16. Prov. viii. 27–29. He prepared the heavens: he set a compass upon the IX. The inhabitants of the sea. Gen. i. face of the depth: He established the 20, 21. God said, Let the waters bring clouds above: he strengthened the foun- forth abundantly, the moving creature tains of the deep: he gave the sea his that hath life; and fowl that may fly decree, that the waters should not pass above the earth, in the open firmament his commandment.

of heaven. And God created great Isa. xl. 12. Who hath measured the whales, and every living creature that waters in the hollow of his hand. moveth, which the waters brought forth

xliii. 16. The Lord maketh a way in abundantly after their kind; and every the sea, and a path in the mighty waters. winged fowl after his kind : and God saw -Ver. 20. I give waters in the wilder that it was good. Ps. viii. 8. ness, and rivers in the desert. Ch. xlviii. 21. X. The inferior creatures of the dry

Jonah i. 9. I fear the Lord God of land. Gen. i. 24, 25. God said, Let the heaven, which hath made the sea and the earth bring forth the living creature after dry land.

his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and Nah. i. 3, 4. The Lord hath his way beast of the earth after his kind : and it in the whirlwind, and in the storm, and was so. And God made the beast of the

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