Lord, than great treasure and trouble there- | greatness. Job ix. 6. He shaketh the earth with. xix. 23. The fear of the Lord tendeth to life; he that hath it shall abide satisfied. xxii. 4. By humility and the fear of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life. xxviii. 14. Happy is the man that feareth always. 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 well with them that fear God. out of her place; the pillars thereof tremble. xxvi. 11. The pillars of 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. lx. 2.-lxxvii. 18.xcvii. 4. civ. 32.-cxiv. 7. Jer. x. 10.-li. 29. Amos viii. 8. Quake. Nah. i. 7. The mountains quake at him: the hills melt, Heb. xii. 21. Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake. See Exod. xix. 18. Ezek. Isa. xxxiii. 6. The fear of the Lord is his xii. 18. 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 their dwelling should not be cut off. Mal. 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, 17. 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. 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 serveth him. iv. 2. Unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in 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 shouldest give a reward to them that fear thy name. See 1 Sam. xii. 14. 18. Ps. lii. 6.— Ixvi. 16.-cxviii. 4.-cxix. 74. 79. Eccl. vii. 18. Isa. lx. 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. lxvi. 2. 5. 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. 1. When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel. Joel ii. 1. Let all tremble, for the day of the Lord cometh. Ver. 10. See Ezra x. 9. Job iv. 14. xxxvii. 1. Isa. Ixiv. 2. Dan. vi. 26. Jer. xxxiii. 9. Hab. iii. 16. Acts vii. 32.xvi. 29.—xxiv. 25. Eph. vi. 5. Phil. ii. 12. Terror. Job vi. 4. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me. xxxi. 23. Destruction from God was a terror to me. Ps. lxxxviii. 15. While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Job Jer. xvii. 17. Be not a terror to me; thou art my hope in the day of evil. xxxiii. 7. 2 Cor. v. 11. Knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men. Reverence. Ps. lxxxix. 7. God is to be had in reverence of all that are about him. cxi. 9. Holy and reverend is his name.Heb. xii. 28. Serve God with reverence. iv. 4. Stand in awe, and sin not. Ps. xxxiii. 8.-cxix. 161. Afraid. Deut. ix. 19. I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure of the Lord. 2 Sam. vi. 9. David was afraid of the Lord. See 1 Chron. xiii. 12. Job xiii. 11.-xxi. 6. -xxiii. 15.—xxxiii. 7. Ps. cxix. 120.—lvi. 3. Hab. iii. 2. LXII. Threatenings against those that fear not God. Prov. i. 29. They hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.-Ver. 31. Therefore shall they eat the fruit of their own way. Ver. 25, &c. 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, 11. They are not humbled, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law. Therefore, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, &c. Mal. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, adulterers, false swearers, against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn LXI. Heaven and earth tremble at God's aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. See 2 Kings fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living xvii. 25. 40, 41. NOT FEARING GOD. LXIII. The wicked fear not God, with that fear which is a restraint from sin, and a motive to duty. Gen. xx. 11. Abraham said, I thought surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will slay me for my wife's sake. Exod. ix. 30. Moses said to Pharaoh, As for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the Lord God, to let Israel go. Deut. 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 nothing 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. lv. 19, 20. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.-He hath broken his covenant. Ixiv. 4. Suddenly do they shoot at the perfect, and fear not. Jer. iii. 8. Judah feared not, but played the harlot. v. 22. Fear ye not me? saith the Lord. Ver. 23, 24. This people hath a revolting heart. 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 12. LXIV. The wicked have a tormenting fear of God, which is their punishment. Job xv. 21. A dreadful sound is in his ears.-Ver. 24. Trouble and anguish shall make him 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 themselves to be but men. Ps. lxxxiii. 15. lxxiii. 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. 19. Hos. x. 5. Mic. vii. 17. Luke xxiii. 30. Rev. vi. 15, 16. Heb. x. 27. A fearful looking for of judg(Matt. xxv. 25.) Ver. 31. It is a ment. God. Isa. xxxiii. 14. The sinners in Zion are afraid, fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites: Who among us shall dwell with devouring fire with everlasting burnings? Heb. xii. 29. Our God is a consuming fire. See Isa. Ixvi. 4. LXV. God delivers the wicked up to their fears of their enemies. Exod. xv. 16. Fear and dread shall fall upon them, by the greatness of thine arm. Gen. xxxv. 5. Isa. xix. 17. Lev. xxvi. 16. I will appoint over you terror. Deut. xxviii. 66, 67. Ezek. xxi. 12. Lam. iii. 47. xxiii. 27. I will send my fear before thee, and make thine enemies turn their backs. Deut. xi. 25.—ii. 25. Josh. ii. 9. Deut. iv. 34. Hath God assayed to take a nation, &c. by great terrors, &c. Ch. xxvi. 8. xxxii. 25. The sword and terror shall destroy. Jer. vi. 24, 25.-xxx. 5. 2 Chron. 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. Deut. LXVI. Love to God commanded. vi. 5. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 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, 16. I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil; in that I command thee to love the Lord thy God. Ver. 19. Josh. xxii. 5. Take diligent heed to love the Lord your God, &c. Ps. xxxi. 23. O love the Lord, all ye his saints. LXVII. Promises to them that love God. Exod. xx. 5, 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. 4. Néh. i. 5. Ps. xci. 14-16. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him and honour him. I will shew him my salva tion. cxix. 132. Look upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto them that and love, with faith from God the Father, and love thy name. the Lord Jesus Christ. Phil. i. 9. I pray that your love may abound. 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 entered 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. 2. Heb. vi. 10. 1 John iv. 7. 16. 18. Jude 21. LXVIII. Prayers for them that love God. Judg. v. 31. Let them that love him be as the sun, when he goeth forth in his might. Ps. v. 11. Let them that love thy name be joyful in thee. 2 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. LXXIII. 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. 2 Tim. i. 7. v. 6. Faith worketh by love. LXXIV. Love to God is evidenced by keeping his 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, &c.Ps. Ver. 7. Them will I bring to my holy mountain, &c. LXIX. Exhortations to love God. xxxi. 23. O love the Lord, all ye saints. 1 Thess. v. 8. Putting on the breastplate of faith and love. 1 Tim. vi. 11. O man of God, follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, and love. Jude 21. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. LXX. Instances of persons loving God. Ps. xviii. 1. I will love the Lord my strength. Song i. 4. 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. Eph. iv. 15. Speaking the truth in love. Ver. 16. 1 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. That we walk after his commandments: iv. 20, 21. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. 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 promises. Luke vii. 47. Jesus said, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved 1 John iv. 19. We love him because he much. first loved us. Ps. cxvi. 1. LXXI. How love to God is produced in Christians. Deut. xxx. 6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 2 Cor. xiii. 11. God is the God of love. LXXII. It is prayed for as a gift from God. Eph. vi. 23. Peace be to the brethren, John xiv. 21. He that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him. Ver 23. And we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Ch. xvi. 27. 1 Tim. i. 14. The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, with 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 love him. LXXVI. Prayers for them that love Christ. Eph. vi. 24. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. LXXVII. 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 Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha. Rev. ii. 4. I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. LXXVIII. Enforced by the example of God the Father, who loveth Christ. Prov. viii. 30. I was daily his delight. Isa. xlii. 1. Mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. Matt. xii. 18. Matt. iii. 17. 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. HATING GOD. LXXXII. Threatenings against the haters of God. 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 me. Deut. vii. 10. God repayeth 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 es teemed the Rock of his salvation.-Ver. 19. The Lord abhorred them. Ver. 22. A fire is kindled in mine 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. 41. 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 viii. 42. Jesus said, If God were your Fa-honour me I will honour; and they that dether, ye would love me. LXXIX. Enforced by the example of the church and people of God, who 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. 10.—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 for it. LXXXI. Obedience to Christ the evidence of love to him. Matt. xii. 33. The tree is known by its 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 my commandments ye shall abide in my love. spise me shall be lightly esteemed. 2 Chron. xix. 2. Shouldest 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, &c. are worthy of death. Ver. 32. LXXXIII. Hating Christ. John xv. 23. Jesus said, He that hateth me hateth my Father also. Ver. 24. See Ps. xxi. 8.-lxviii. 1. Prov. viii. 36. DESIRING GOD, THIRSTING, &c. LXXXIV. Desiring God. Ps. lxxiii. 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, and to the remembrance of thee. Ver. 9. With my soul have I desired thee in the night; with my Spirit within me will I seek thee early. Hag. ii. 7. Christ is the desire of all nations. LXXXV. Thirsting, longing for God, and the things of God. Ps. xlii. 2. My soul xxi. 15. Simon, lovest thou me? Feed thirsteth for God. Ps. Ixiii. 1. 6.—cxliii. 6. my lambs. Ver. 16. lxxxiv. 2. My soul longeth for the courts 2 Cor. v. 14. The love of Christ constrain- of the Lord. eth us. Phil. i. 17. Some of love preach Christ. cxix. 20. My soul breaketh for the longing it hath unto thy judgments at all times. Ver. 131. I longed for thy commandments. Ver. 54. 94. Ver. 174. I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight. Promises. Ps. lxxxi. 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 dry ground. Ps. cvii. 9. Jer. xxxi. 12. lv. 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 iv. 13, 14.—vi. 35.—vii. 37, 38. JOY IN GOD. 1 Pet. i. 3. God hath begotten us to a lively hope, &c.-Ver. 6. Wherein ye greatly rejoice. Luke x. 20. Rejoice that your names are written in heaven. XCIII. Those who have faith, or believe. Acts xvi. 34. The jailor rejoiced, believing in God, with all his house. Rom. xv. 13. Now the God of peace fill you with all joy and peace in believing. Phil. i. 25. 1 Pet. i. 8. Believing in Christ, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. John xiv. 1. Thou XCIV. Joy promised. Ps. iv. 7. hast put gladness in my heart, more than in LXXXVI. Joy in God. Phil. iii. 1. Fi- the time that their corn and wine increased. nally, brethren, rejoice in the Lord. iv. 4. Rejoice in the Lord always. 1 Thess. v. 16. Rejoice evermore. LXXXVII. Through Christ. Rom. v. 11. We joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. LXXXVII. Persons encouraged to rejoice in God. The righteous. Ps. xxxii. 11. 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 righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and all the upright in heart shall glory. Ps. lxviii. 3. xcvii. 11. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Ver. 12. Job viii. 20, 21. Matt. xxv. 21. Thou good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of thy Lord. xxxiii. 26. Job 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 rejoice and be glad in thee. 1 Chron. xvi. 10. 27. Ps. Ixx. 4.cv. 3. XCI. Those that trust in God. Ps. v. 11. Let all those that put their 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. XCII. Those that hope in God. Rom. v. 2. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Heb. iii. 6. Rom. xii. 12. Ps. xvi. 11. John xvi. 20. Your sorrow shall be turned into joy. Ch. xvi. 1. XCV. Things rejoiced in are, God.-See the first section. In Christ. John viii. 56. Jesus said, Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad. xv. 11. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. Ch. xvii. 13. 1 John i. 4. xvi. 22. I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice. 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. Rev. xix. 7. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, XCVI. In the Holy Ghost. Rom. xiv. 17. but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Gal. v. 22. Col. i. 11. XCVII. In God's worship. Ps. ii. 11. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. |