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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 a new spirit within you, and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh.-Ver. 20. That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances 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 preparations 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 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 Thess. iii. 5.

1 Sam. x. 26. There went with Saul a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.

Acts xvi. 14. The Lord opened the heart of Lydia, that she attended to the things spoken by Paul.

xv. 9. God purifying their hearts by faith. Ps. cxix. 32. I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. 1 Kings iv. 29. God gave unto Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart.

xxxiii. 15. He fashioneth their hearts.

Ps. cv. 25. He turned their heart to hate his people.

Mal. iv. 6. He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, &c. Luke i. 17.

Ezra vii. 27. Ezra said, Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who hath put this in the king'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. Ch. xxxi. 33. I will put my law in their inward parts, and 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's judgments on the heart of the wicked. 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 thy heart.

Deut. ii. 30. The Lord hardened the spirit of Sihon, king of Heshbon, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into the hand of Israel.

xxviii. 28. The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart. Lev. xxvi. 16.

xxix. 4. The Lord hath not given you a heart to perceive.

Isa. xliv. 18. He hath shut their eyes that they cannot see, and their hearts that they cannot understand.

Job xvii. 4. Thou hast hid their heart from understanding; therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

1 Kings viii. 57, 58. The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not leave us nor forsake us; That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments. Ps. cxix. 36. In-heart. cline my heart unto thy statutes. Ver. 8. Ps. cxli. 4.

Ps. lxxxvi. 11. Unite my heart to fear thy

name.

Isa. lvii. 15. Thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, 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 thy heart. Ps. xxxi. 24.lxxiii. 26. Isa. xxxv. 4.

1 Thess. iii. 12, 13. The Lord establish your hearts unblameable in holiness, before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. 2 Thess. ii. 17.

Prov. xxi. 1. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, he turneth it, &c. Job xii. 24. Ezra vi. 22. The Lord turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto his people.

Eccl. iii. 11. He hath set the world in their

XLV. Satan's influences on the heart of the wicked. Instances thereof. See Satan's tempting Eve, Gen. iii. 1 to 6.-Tempting David to number the people, 1 Chron. xxi. 1. -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. An 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 desperately wicked, who can know it?

Matt, xv. 19, 20. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornication,

thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man. Mark vii. 21, 22, 23.

XLVII. In Scripture the hearts of the wicked are described-as wicked. Prov. xxvi. 23. Deut. xv. 9. 1 Kings ii. 44. Uncircumcised.

Hard.

Jer. ix. 26.

Heb. x. 22. Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.

xiii. 18. We trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. man for conscience toward God endure grief, 1 Pet. ii. 19. This is thank-worthy, if a suffering wrongfully.

iii. 15, 16. Sanctify the Lord God in your

1 Sam. vi. 6. Prov. xxviii. 14. hearts. Having a good conscience; a good Zech. vii. 12. Mark xvi. 14. conversation in Christ.

Stony. Ezek. xi. 19.—xxxvi. 26.

Set to do evil. Eccl. viii. 11. Full of evil.

Eccl. ix. 3.

Froward.

lvii. 17.

Prov. vi. 14.-xi. 20.

XLIX. A good conscience, how attained. Acts xxiv. 16. I exercise myself to have alIsa. ways a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men.

Perverse. Prov. xii. 8.-xxiii. 33. Eccl. xi. 9.

Backsliding. Prov. xiv. 14.

God. Isa. xxix. 13.

Far from

Departing from God. Jer. xvii. 5. Not right with God. Acts viii. 21.

Whorish, idolatrous. Ezek. vi. 9.-xi. 21. -xiv. 4.

19.

Rebellious. Jer. v. 23.

Full of iniquity. Ps. xli. 6. Isa. xxxii. 6. Full of evil imaginations. Deut. xxix. Ps. cxl. 2.

Full of hypocrisy. Job xxxvi. 13. ceit. Prov. xii. 20. Ps. xii. 2. Fretting against God. Prov. xix. 3.

penitent. Rom. ii. 5.

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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 have had our conversation in the world.

iv. 2. By manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God. Ch. v. 11.

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. 18, 19. War a good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience. Ch. iii. 9. Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.

2 Tim. i. 3. I serve God with a pure conscience.

Heb. ix. 9. Gifts and sacrifices were offered [under the law] which could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience. (Ch. x. 2.) Ver. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot unto 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 weak conscience not to be wounded. 1 Cor. viii. 12. When ye sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. See ver. 7 to 10. Ch. x. 28, 29.

2. Some shall depart from the faith; speaking LII. Of an evil conscience. 1 Tim. iv. 1, lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience

seared.

unbelieving there is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Tit. i. 15. Unto them that are defiled and

SERVING GOD.

LIII. Commanded. Deut. vi. 13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him.

x. 12. O Israel, 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. 13.

Ver. 20. The Lord thy God, him shalt 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 willing mind.

Eph. vi. 6. Doing the will of God from the heart.-Ver. 5. In singleness of heart, as unto Christ.

Ver. 7. With good will doing service, as to the Lord. See Deut. xi. 13, 14.-xiii. 4.xxvi. 16.-xxxii. 46. 14, 15. 1 Sam. vii. 1 Kings xi. 4.-xiv. 8.

Josh. xxii. 5.-xxiv. 3.-xii. 14. 20. 24. Ps. cxix. 69.

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LVI. 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. 26. Deut. xi. 13, 14.

1 Kings viii. 23. Thou keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, that walk before thee with all their heart. Gen. xxxii. 10.

Job xxxvi. 11. If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasure. Ps. cxix. 165. Prov. iii. 17.

Ps. xxxv. 27. Let the Lord be magnified, that hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servants. Ps. cxlvii. 11.-cxlix. 4.

cii. 28. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee. Ps. lxix. 36.

cv. 6, 7. O ye seed of Abraham, his servant; ye children of Jacob, his chosen: He is the Lord your God. Ver. 42. Isa. xli. 8, 9.

Isa. xliv. 1, 2. Fear not, O Jacob, my servant. 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 glorified.

liv. 17. 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.

lvi. 6, 7. The sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, &c. even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer.

lxv. 8, 9. Thus saith the Lord, as 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 servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all. And mine elect shall inherit my holy mountain, and my servants shall

dwell there.

Ver. 13, 14. Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat, drink, and rejoice. They shall sing for joy of heart.

lxvi. 13, 14. I will comfort you, and ye shall be comforted. And when ye 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, 11. 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. For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee. Ch. xxix. 10.-xlvi. 27, 28.

Joel ii. 29. Upon the servants and upon the 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 may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.

Matt. xxiv. 45. Blessed is the faithful and wise servant. Ver. 46. 48. 50.

xxv. 21. Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou 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 watching.

Gal. iv. 7. Thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God, through Christ.

did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Rom. i. 25, 26. They served the creature Rev. vii. 3. Hurt not the earth, till we have more than the Creator. For this cause God sealed the servants of our God in their fore-gave them up to vile affections, &c. See heads. Omission of good works.

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. 1-14. 2 Kings ix. 7. Ps. lxxix. 10.-cxvi. 15.

LVII. Prayers for them. 2 Sam. vii. 29. With thy blessing, let the house of thy ser

vant be 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 servants, who desire to fear thy

name. Job xlii. 8. Dan. ix. 17.

Ps. xix. 13. Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sins.

xxvii. 9. Put not thy servant away in anger. xxxi. 16. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercy's sake.

Ixix. 17. Hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

lxxxvi. 2. O my God, save thy servant, that trusteth in thee. Ver. 16. Dan. iii. 17. 28.— vi. 16.

lxxxix. 50. Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants.

xc. 13. Let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Ps. cxxxv. 14. Deut. xxxii. 36.

Ver. 16. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

NOT SERVING GOD.

LVIII. Not serving God. Threats. Deut. xxviii. 47, 48. Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with.joyfulness and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things: There

fore shalt thou serve thine enemies, in hunger and thirst, and nakedness and want of all things. Jer. xvii. 1 to 5. Neh. ix. 35, 36.

Mal. iii. 14. Ye have said, It is vain to serve

God: and what profit is it that we have kept

his ordinance?-Ver. 18. Ye shall discern between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not. Job xxi. 15.

Matt. xxiv. 50, 51. 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, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Ch. xxv. 30. Cast the wicked and unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. See ver. 26.

Luke xii. 47. That servant which knew his Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither

OBEDIENCE.

LIX. Commanded. Eccl. xii. 13. Fear God, and keep his commandments: 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 people. Lev.

xix. 37. 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, and keep my judgments,

and do them. Ch. xxxvii. 24.

1 Cor. vii. 19. Circumcision is nothing, and commandments of God. Ps. cxix. 4. uncircumcision is nothing,, but keeping the

LX. Universal obedience required. Deut. xxviii. 14. Thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left.

Josh. i. 7. Observe to do according to all the law; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left; that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

1 Chron. xxviii. 8. Keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God. Ps. cxix. 1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way.

Ver. 6. I shall not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

Matt. v. 19. Whosoever shall break one of

these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.

Gal. iii. 10. It is written in the law, Cursed

is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law to do

them. Deut. vii. 26. Jer. xi. 3.

Col. iv. 12. I pray that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. 1 Pet.

iv. 2.

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Ver. 97. O how I love thy law. Ver. 159. | See Love to God.

Ver. 20. My soul breaketh for the longing it hath unto thy testimonies at all times. Ver. 40. See Longing for God and the things of God.

Ver. 11. Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.-Ver. 15. I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. See Meditation.

Ver. 83. I do not forget thy statutes. 55. 93. Ps. xviii. 22.

Ver.

Rom. vii. 22. I delight in the law of God after the inward man. Ps. i. 2.-xl. 8.-cxix. 16. 70. 72. 77. 92. 143. 174. See Delight. LXII. With resolution of heart. Josh. xxiv. 15. Joshua said, As for me 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 Lord, I have said that I would keep thy words. Ver. 69. I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

Ver. 106. I have sworn and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

Acts v. 32. The Holy Ghost God hath given to them that obey 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. 1 Pet. iv. 11. The ability God giveth.

LXIV. Ability prayed for. 1 Kings viii. 57, 58. Solomon prayed, The Lord our God be with us; That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep all his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments. Ver. 61.

Lord be with thee, my son.
1 Chron. xxii. 11, 12. David prayed, The
And give thee wisdom and understanding,
(Ch. xxix. 19.)
that thou mayest keep the law of the Lord.

1 Kings iii. 9.

thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. For xxix. 13, 14. David said, Our God, we all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. See ver. 11, 12.

Ver. 18, 19. Keep this for ever in the imaVer. 112. I have inclined my heart to per-people, and prepare their heart unto thee, to gination of the thoughts of the heart of thy form thy statutes.-Ver. 117. I will have respect unto thy statutes continually. Ver. 145. keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes. See 2 Kings xxiii. 3. 2 Chron. xv. 12. 15.xxxiv. 31. Where the king and the people enter into a covenant, an oath and curse, to seek God.

liantly. Ps. cviii. 13.
Ps. lx. 12. Through God we shall do va-

cxix. 5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes.-Ver. 32. I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt

LXIII. Ability for obedience promised. Deut. xxx. 6. The Lord thy God will circum-enlarge my heart. cise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy 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 to give them one heart, to do the commandment by the word of the Lord. Ps. cx. 3. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.

Isa. ii. 3. He will teach us of his ways, and we shall walk in his paths. Mic. iv. 2.

Ezek. xi. 19, 20. I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh: That they inay walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will 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 they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.

John xv. 5. Jesus said, Without me ye can do nothing.

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. 43, 44. 80. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes.

Ver. 88. Quicken me, so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

cxliii. 10. Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God.

2 Thess. ii. 16, 17. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace; comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work. Col. i. 9. 2 Thess. i. 11.

Heb. xiii. 20, 21. 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, make 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.

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