Ifa. xxvi 9. With my Soul have I defired thee in the Night, yea, with my Spirit within me, will I feek thee early. Pf. Ixiii. 8. My Soul followeth hard after thee. 136. Promises to them that feek God. See the first two Texts in the laft Section. Ezra viii. 22. The Hand of God is upon all them for Good, that feek him, but his Power and his Wrath is against all them that forfake him. Pf. ix. 10. Thou Lord, haft not forfaken them that feek thee. xxxiv. 10. They that feek the Lord, fhall not want any good Thing. Ixix. 32. Your Heart shall live that feek the Lord. Prov. viii. 17. Those that seek me early shall find me. Ifa. xlv. 19. I faid, 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 feeketh him. Hof. x. 12. Seek the Lord, till he come and rain Righteousness upon you. Am. v. 4. Thus faith the Lord to the House of Ifrael, feek ye me and ye fhall live. Ver. 6. Seek the Lord and ye fhall live, left he break forth like Fire in the Houfe of Jacob and devour it, and there be none to quench it, in Beth-el. Ver. 8. Seek him that maketh the feven Stars and Orion, that turneth the Shadow of Death into the Morning, and maketh the Day dark with Night, &c. Ver. 9. Zeph. ii. 3. Seek ye the Lord all ye Meek of the Earth, which have wrought his judgments, feek Righteousness, feek Meekness, it may be, ye fhall be hid in the Day of the Lord's Anger. Matt. vii. 7. Seek and ye fhall find, Ver. 8. He that feeketh findeth, I Chron. 28. 9.-2 Chron. 15. 2. Heb. xi. 6. God is a Rewarder of them that diligently feek him. See Job 8. 5. 6. Pf. 22. 26. 137. Prayers for them that feek God. 2 Chron. xxx. 18. Hezekiah prayed, faying, good Lord, pardon every one, Ver. 19. That prepareth his Heart to feek God, the Lord God of his Fathers, though he be not cleanfed according to the Purification of the Sanctuary. Ver. 20. And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the People. Pf. Ixix. 6. Let none of those that seek thee be confounded. lxx. 4. Let all thofe that feek thee, rejoice and be glad in thee, and let fuch as love thy Salvation fay, continually, the Lord be magnified. cv. 3. Let the Heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord, 1 Chron. 16. 10. 138. Examples of God's People, Jeeking him. 2 Chron. xi. 16. Out of all the Tribes of Ifrael, such as fet their Hearts to seek the Lord God of Ifrael, came to Jerufalem to facrifice unto the Lord God of their Fathers, and would not worship Calves fet up by Jeroboam. 2 Chron. 2 Chron. xiv. 4. Afa commanded Judah to feek the Lord God of their Fathers, and to do the Law and the Commandments, Ver. 7. XV. 12. Ifrael entered into a Covenant to feek the Lord God of their Fathers with all their Heart and with all their Soul. Ver. 13. And that whofoever would not feek the Lord God of Ifrael should be put to Death. 2 Kings 23. 3. Neh. 10. 29. 2 Chron. 24. 31 xvii. 3. The Lord was with Jehofaphat, Ver. 4. Because he fought the Lord God of his Fathers, and walked in his Commandments, Ch. 19. 3. 20. 3.-22.9. xxvi. 5. Uzziah fought God, and as long as he fought the Lord; God made him profper, Ver. 7. 2 Chron. xxxi. 21. In every Work that Hezekiah began in the Service of the Houfe of God, and in the Law, and in the Commandments, to feek God, he did it with all his Heart and profpered. Ezra vi. 21. The Children of Ifrael feparated themfelves from the Filthiness of the Heathen of the Land, to feek the Lord God of Ifrael. vii. 10. Ezra prepared his Heart to feek the Law of the Lord and to do it, and to teach in Ifrael Statutes and Judgments. Job v. 8. I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my Cause. ́Pf. xxiv. 6. This is the Generation of them that feek him. xxxiv. 4. I fought the Lord, he heard and delivered me from all my Fears, Ch. 77. 2. Song iii. 2. I will seek him whom my Soul loveth, Ch. 6. 1. Ifa. xxvi. 9. With my Spirit within me, will I feek thee early. Dan. ix. 3. I fet my Face unto the Lord God, to seek by Prayer and Supplications, with Faftings and Sackcloth and Ashes. Mal. iii. 1. The Lord, (who is Chrift) whom &c. Ifa. 50. 4. 5. Hof. 3. 5. Zech. 8. 21. 22. Not seeking God. ye feek shall cme, 139. The Wicked feek not God. 2 Chron. xvi. 2. Áfa in his Difeafe; fought not to the Lord but to the Physicians. Pf. x. 14. The wicked through the Pride of his Countenance, will not feek after God, God is not in all his Thoughts. xiv. 2. The Lord looked down from Heaven upon the Children of Men, to fee if there were any that did understand and feek God. Ver. 3. They are all gone afide, Pf. 53. 2. Rom. 3. 11. 140. The Wicked feek not God aright. 2 Chron. xii. 14. Rehoboam prepared not his Heart to feek the Lord. Ifa. lviii. 2. They feek me daily, and delight to know my Ways, as a Nation that did Righteoufnefs, and forfook not the Ordinances of their God; they feek of me, the Ordinances of Juftice, they take delight in approaching unto God. Ver. 3. In the Day of your Faft, ye exact all your Labours, yề faft for Strife, John 6. 26. Threats against the Wicked, who feek not God aright. Pf. lxxxiii. 16. Fill their Faces with Shame, O Lord, that they may seek thy Name. F f Pf. cxix. 155. Salvation is far from the Wicked, for they seek not thy Statutes. Prov. i. 8. They shall feek me early, but fhall not find me. Ifa. ix. 13. The People turneth not to them that fmiteth them, neither do they feek the Lord of Hofts. Ver. 14. Therefore the Lord will cut off from Ifrael Head and Tail, &c. Hof, 7. 10. 13. 14. 16. xxxi. I. Wo to them that go down to Egypt, that stay on Horfes, that truft in Chariots, but look not to the holy one of Ifrael, neither feek the Lord, Ch. 22. 21. Jer. x. 21. The Paftors are become brutish, and have not fought the Lord, therefore they shall not profper and all their Flock shall be scattered. Hof. v. 5. The Pride of Ifrael doth testify to his Face, therefore fhall Ifrael and Ephraim fall in their Iniquity. Ver. 6. They shall go with their Flocks and their Herds, to feek the Lord, but they fhall not find him, he hath withdrawn himself from them. Ver. 15. I will go and return to my Place, faith the Lord, till they acknowledge their Offence, and feek my Face, in their Affliction they will feek me early. Zeph. 1. 6. John vii. 34. Jefus faid, ye shall seek me, and shall not find me. viii. 21. Ye fhall feek me, and die in your Sins. Drawing near to God. 141. Drawing near to God. Lev. x. 3. The Lord fpake faying,, will be fanctified in all them that come nigh me, and before all the People will I be glorified. 1 Sam. xiv. 36. The Priest said, let us draw near to God. Pf. lxv. 4. Blessed is the Man whom thou caufeft to approach thee. I unto Ixxiii. 28. It is Good for me, that I draw near to God. anto me. Ver. 22. And ye fhall be my People, and I will be your God. Heb. x. 22. Let us draw near with a true Heart, in full Affurance of Faith, having our Hearts fprinkled from an evil Confcience, Ch. 7. 19. James iv. 8. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Ifa. xxix. 13. The Wicked draw nigh with their Lips only, Matt 15. 8. Ezek. 33. 31. Coming to God. 142. Coming to God. Pf. Ixv. 2. O thou that heareft Prayer, unt thee fhall all Flesh come. Ifa. xlv. 24. In the Lord have I Righteoufnefs and Strength, eve to him fhall all Men come. Iv. 3. Incline your Ear, and come unto me, hear and all live, and I will make an everlafting Covenant with you. your Sol J Jer. iii. 22. Return, ye backfliding Children, and I will heal your Backflidings, behold we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our God, Ch. 30. 21. Come to God through Chrift. Heb. vii. 25. Chrift is able to fave them to the uttermoft, that come to God by him, Heb. 4. 16.- -11. 6. Come to Chrift. Matt. 11. 28. Jefus faid, come unto me all ye that labour, and are heavy laden, and I will give you Reft, Ifa. 55. 1.60. 3. Rev. 22. 17. John vi. 37. Jefus faid, all that the Father hath given me, fhall come unto me, and he that cometh unto me, I will in no wife caft out. John vi. 44. No Man can come unto me, except the Father draw him. Following God. 143. Following God. 1 Sam. xii. 14. Continue following the Lord your God, Ver. 20, 21. 15. 1 Kings 9. 6, 7, 8. If ye will not, then fhall the Hand of the Lord be against you. Kings. xviii. 21. Elijah faid, if the Lord be God, follow him, Deut. 13. 4. Pf. lxiii. 8. My Soul followeth hard after thee. Eph. v. 1. Be ye Followers of God as dear Children. 144. Following Chrift. Matt. xvi. 24. Jefus faid, if any Man will come after me, let him take up his Crofs and follow me, John 12. 26. John viii 12. He that followeth me fhall not walk in Darkness. x. 27. My Sheep hear my Voice and they follow me. Ver 28. And I give unto them eternal Life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my Hand. Forfaking God. 145. Forfaking God. Threats. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. If thou forfake God he will caft thee off for ever. if 2 Chron. xv. 2. The Lord is with you, while ye be with him, and ye feek him, he will be found of you, if you forfake him, he will caft you off for ever. xxiv. 20. Because ye have forfaken the Lord, he hath forfaken you. Ezra viii. 2. God's Power and Wrath is against all that forfake him. Ifa. i. 4. They have forfaken the Lord, they have provoked the holy One of Ifrael to Anger. Ver. 28. They that forfake the Lord fhall be confumed. Jer. ii. 13. My People have forfaken me the Fountain of living Waters, and hewed them out Cifterns, broken Cisterns that can hold no Water. See Threats to Ver. 19. Ver. 19. Thine own Wickedness fhall correct thee, and thy Backflidings fhall reprove thee, know therefore, and fee that it is an evil Thing and bitter, that thou haft forfaken the Lord thy God. xvii. 13. O Lord, the hope of Ifrael, all that forfake thee shall be afhamed. See Deut. 8. 20.-31. 16, 17.-32. 15. to 32. 2. Chron. 12. 15. lfa. 65. 11 Ff2 Depart Departing from God. 146. Departing from God. Jer. xvii. 5. Curfed be the Man that trusteth in Man, and maketh Flesh his Arm, and whofe Heart departeth from the Lord, Ver. 13. See Ezek. 18. 24.—33. 12. See this Sin confeffed. Dan. 9. 5. 11. Ifa. 59. 12, 13. Not departing from God. Inftances. 2 Sam. 22. 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 Pf. 18. 21.—PL. 119. 3. 8. 10. II. 102. Backfliding. 147. Backfliding from God. Prov. xiv. 14. The Backflider in Heart fhall be filled with his own Ways. Ifa. i. 4. They are gone away backward, Jer. 7. 24. Jer. ii. 19. Thy Backflidings shall reprove thee. v. 6. Their Tranfgreffions are many, their Backflidings are increased. Ver. 7. How fhall I pardon thee, Ch. 8. 5. 13.-14. 2. to 7. xv. 6. Thou haft forfaken me, and art gone away backward, therefore will I deftroy thee. xlix. 4: O Backfliding Daughter, I will bring a Fear upon thee. Hof. iv. 16. Ifrael flideth back, as a backfliding Heifer. xi. 6. The Sword fhall abide on his Cities. Ver. 7. For my People are bent to Backfliding. x. 38. 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 to them that believe to the faving of the Soul. Promife. Hof. xiv. 1. Return unto the Lord thy God, for thou haft fallen by thine Iniquity. Ver. 4. I will heal your Backlidings, Jer. 3. 12. 22. Going aftray. 148. The Wicked go afide, go aftray, err, wander, turn away from God. Pf. xiv. 3. They are all gone afide, &c. Iviii. 3. The Wicked are eftranged from the very Womb, they go afray as foon 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 fhall die without Inftruction, and in the Greatnefs of his Folly he fhall go aftray. xiv. 22. Do they not err that devife Evil, but Mercy and Truth fhall be to them that devife Good. Ifa. xliv. 20. A deceived Heart hath turned him afide, he cannot deliver his Soul, nor fay, is there not a Lie in my right Hand? Jer. 1. 27. They have turned their Back unto me, and not their Face. viii. 6. Every one turned to his Courfe, as the Horse rufheth into the Battle. 149. Confeffion. Ifa. liii. 6. All we like loft Sheep have gone aftray, we have turned every one to his own Way. 150. Threats. |