LXV. Ability from God acknowledged. 1 Kings xiv. 8.-Jehoshaphat, 1 Kings xxii. 1 Cor. xv. 10. Paul said, By the grace of God 43.-Hezekiah, 2 Kings xviii. 6.-Josiah, I am what I am; and his grace which was 2 Kings xxiii. 3. Ps. lxxviii. 7. bestowed on me was not in vain: but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God, which was with me. 2 Cor. iii. 5. Our sufficiency is of God. Ch. xii. 10. Joel iii. 10. Isa. xxxv. 4. Phil. iv. 13. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Eph. vi. 10. Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 2 Tim. ii. 1. Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. See God doth leud, guide, strengthen, and uphold, &c. LXVI. Instances of obedience. Ps. cxix. 22. I have kept thy testimonies.-Ver. 60. I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments. Ver. 63. I am a companion of them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. -Ver. 87. I forsook not thy precepts. Ver. 101. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. Ver. 102. I have not departed from thy judgments, for thou hast taught me. Ver. 129. Ver. 110. I erred not from thy precepts.Ver. 168. I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies, for all my ways are before thee. John iv. 34. Jesus said, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. viii. 29. I do always the things that please him. xv. 10. I have kept my Father's command ments. LXVII. Promises to the obedient. Exod. xix. 5. If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people; for all the earth is mine. xx. 6. I am the Lord, shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Deut. v. 10.—vii. 9. Neh. i. 5. Jer. xxxii. 18. Dan. ix. 4. Lev. xviii. 5. Ye shall keep my statutes and my judgments; which if a man do he shall live in them. Neh. ix. 29. Prov. iv. 4.vii. 2. Ezek. xx. 11. 13. 21. Rom. x. 5. Gal. iii. 12. xxvi. 3-7. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, then will I give rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase. Ye shall eat bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down and none shall make you afraid. (Isa. i. 19.) And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. See to ver. 12, and Chap. xxv. 18, 19. Deut. iv. 1. Hearken, O Israel, to the statutes and judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land.-Ver. 6. Keep and do them, for this is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations. Ver. 7, 8. 30. Ver. 40. Thou shalt keep his statutes, that it may go well with thee, and with thy childdren after thee. Ch. vi. 1, 2. 17, 18. 25. xvii. 4. I have finished the work which xii. 28. thou gavest me to do. v. 29. O that there were such a heart in Phil. ii. 8. He became obedient unto death. them, &c. Ver. 33. Heb. v. 8. Heb. x. 7. I come to do thy will. Ps. xl. 7, 8. John xiii. 15. Jesus said, I have given you an example. 1 John ii. 6. He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself to walk even as he walked. Rom. vi. 17. Ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine delivered unto you. Rev. iii. 8. I know thy works: thou hast kept my word. Ver. 10. xii. 17. The dragon went to make war with them which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus. xiv. 12. Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Examples. Abraham, Gen. xviii. 19.xxii. 18.-The children of Levi, Deut. xxxiii. 9. 11.-Noah, Daniel, and Job, Ezek. xiv. 14. 20. Job i. 8.-xxiii. 11.--Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Dan. iii. 26.—David, xiii. 4. Ye shall keep his commandments, and obey his voice.-Ver. 17. That the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers. xxviii. 1. If thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments, the Lord thy God will set thee on high, above all nations of the earth. See various blessings promised to ver. 14th of this chapter, and in Lev. xxvi. 3 to 14, and Deut. vii. 12, 13, 14, 15.-xi. 9. 13, 14, 15.-xxx. 8, 9. xxix. 9. Keep the words of this covenant and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 1 Kings ii. 3, 4. Jer. xxxviii. 20. xxx. 19, 20. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and 202 DISOBEDIENCE-OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST. that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him, (for he is thy life and the length of thy days.) Ver. 16. Ch. v. 1. 10. viii. 2. 6. 11. 20.-xii. 1. 25.-xxx. 8 to 16. 1 Sam. xii. 14. 1 Kings iii. 14. Prov. iii. 2. Ps. xix. 8. The statutes of the Lord are right. Ver. 11. In keeping them there is a great reward. xxv. 10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. xxxvii. 34. Keep his way, and he shall exalt thee. 1. 23. To him that ordereth his conversation aright, I will shew the salvation of God. cxix. 2. Blessed are they that keep his tes timonies. Prov. iii. 1, 2. Let thy heart keep my commandments, for long life and peace shall they add to thee. viii. 32. Blessed are they that keep my is he. Isa. xlviii. 18. Thus saith the Lord, O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. Jer. vi. 16. Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein; and ye shall find rest for your souls. vii. 23. This thing commanded I your fathers, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; walk ye in all my ways, that it may be well unto you. xxvi. 13. Obey the voice of the Lord your God, and he will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you. Ezek. xviii. 5. 9. If a man be just, and do that which is right, and hath walked in my statutes, and kept my judgments, he shall surely live. Ver. 18, 19. Ch. xxxvii. 24. Matt. vii. 21. Jesus said, Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. xii. 50. Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. xix. 17. If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. Luke xi. 28. Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it. John ix. 31. If any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. xiii. 17. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. CHAP. XV. Rom. ii. 13. Not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 1 John ii. 17. He that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. iii. 22. Whatsoever things we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight. Rev. xxii. 14. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. DISOBEDIENCE LXVIII. Threats against the disobedient. Deut. xxviii. 15-19. If thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments, and his staand overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in tutes, all these curses shall come upon thee the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, and the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out. Ver. 20. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thy hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly, because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereSee to the end of by thou hast forsaken me. this chap.; also the parallel place, Lev. xxvi. 14 to 40., containing threatenings of many dreadful calamities. See also the following scriptures, wherein the disobedient are threatened with the evils of war, famine, pestilence, sickness, death, &c. &c. Neh. ix. 26. Isa. xxiv. 1 to 13.-xliii. 27, 28.-lxv. 12. Jer. vi. 19. 22, 23.-xxv. 4 to 9.—xxvi. 4, 6.— xxix. 17. Eph. ii. 2. The prince of the power of the air worketh in the children of disobedience. v. 6. The wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience. Col. iii. 6. 1 Tim. i. 9. The law is made for the lawless and disobedient. dient, Christ is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence. See the threatenings against the wicked, ungodly, and other sins mentioned. 1 Pet. ii. 7, 8. To them which be disobe OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST. LXIX. Obedience to Christ's commands. Matt. xxviii. 19, 20. Go ye and teach all nations, to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, unto the end of the world. John xiv. 15. If ye love me, keep my commandments.-Ver. 24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings. Ver. 21. 23. xv. 14. Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever. I command you. Ver. 10. 1 Cor. ix. 21. Being under the law to Christ. James i. 22. Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only. Ch. ii. 8. 12. 17. 1 John ii. 3-5. Hereby do we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, verily in him is the love of God perfected. John viii. 31. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. LXX. Promises to them that obey Christ. Matt. vii. 24, 25. Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock. John viii. 51. If a man keep my sayings he shall never see death. xii. 26. If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall also my servant be. If any man serve me, him will my Father honour. Heb. v. 9. Christ became the author of eternal salvation to them that obey him. Rev. ii. 26. He that keepeth my words unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations.-Ver. 28. I will give him the morning star. Ver. 17. xi. 18. The time is come that thou shouldst give a reward unto thy servants the prophets, &c. LXXI. Promises to them that overcome temptations in their obedience to Christ. Rev. ii. 7. He shall eat of the tree of life.Ver. 11. Shall not be hurt of the second death. Ver. 17. Hidden manna, and a white stone, and a new name, shall be given him.-Ver. 26. Power over the nations given to him. iii. 5. He shall be clothed in white.-Ver. 12. Shall be a pillar in the temple of God.Ver. 21. Shall sit with Christ in his throne. xxi. 7. Shall inherit all things. house upon the sand, and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell; and great was the fall thereof. Luke vi. 46. Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say? xix. 27. Those mine enemies that would not that I should reign over them, bring hither and slay before me. Rom. x. 16. They have not all obeyed the gospel. Isa. liii. 1. xvi. 18. Some serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. Gal. iii. 1. Who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth? 2 Thess. i. 7-10. The Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not shall be punished with everlasting destruction the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them that believe. that obey not the gospel? WORKS. LXXIII. God will render to mankind according to their works, good or bad. Job xxxiv. 10, 11. Far be it from God that he should do wickedness. For the work of a man will he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways. Ps. lxii. 12. The Lord rendereth unto every man according to his work. work into judgment. 1 Cor. iii. 13. Every man's works shall be made manifest. Isa. iii. 10, 11. Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for the reward of his hands shall be given him. Jer. xvii. 10. I the Lord search the heart and try the reins; even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Prov. xxiv. 12. xxxii. 19. Thine eyes are upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Matt. xvi. 27. The Son of man shall come in his glory, with his angels; and then shall he reward every man according to his works. Rom. ii. 6. God will render to every man according to his deeds. 2 Cor. v. 10. We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Gal. vi. 7. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. Eph. vi. 8. Whatsoever good things any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord. 1 Pet. i. 17. God, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every man's work. Rev. ii. 23. All the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts; and I will give unto every one of you according unto your works. xx. 12. I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. xxii. 12. Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. See this reward prayed for against the wicked, Neh. vi. 14 Ps. xxviii. 4. 2 Tim. iv. 14. Threatened against the wicked, Jer. xxi. 14.-xxv. 14. Ezek. vii. 27.—xxiv. 14. Mic. vii. 13. 2 Cor. xi. 15. Col. i. 10. Walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work. John xv. 8. Herein, saith Christ, is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 1 Tim. ii. 8-10. I will that women adorn themselves with good works. v. 10. Let a widow be taken into the number, having followed every good work. Heb. x. 24. Let us consider one another, to See provoke unto love and to good works. James iii. 13. LXXV. Ability for performing good works, promised. Isa. xxvi. 12. Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us, for thou hast wrough all our works in us. 2 Cor. v. 5. Ixi. 8. I will direct their work in truth, saith the Lord. 2 Cor. ix. 8. God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye always, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. Eph. ii. 10. We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. iii. 20. His power worketh in us. Eph. i. 19. Phil. i. 6. He that hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Christ. ii. 12, 13. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good plea sure. 2 Thess. ii. 16, 17. Our Lord Jesus Christ, and God, even our Father, comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work. 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17. The Scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction and instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. iv. 18. The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and preserve me to his heavenly kingdom. Tit. ii. 14. Christ gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Heb. ix. 14. The blood of Christ shall purge your conscience from dead works, to serve the living God. xiii. 20, 21. Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the 2 Tim. ii. 21. If a man purge himself from blood of the everlasting covenant, make you these sins, he shall be a vessel sanctified unto perfect in every good work to do his will, honour, and meet for the master's use, and pre-working in you that which is well-pleasing in pared unto every good work. Tit. ii. 7. In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works. his sight, through Jesus Christ: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. See Ability for obedience. Also see, God doth strengthen, lead, guide, &c. iii. 1. Put them in mind to be ready to every good work.-Ver. 8. These things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they who have be- LXXVI. Promises to the performance of lieved in God, might be careful to maintain good works. Heb. vi. 10. God is not ungood works: these things are good and pro-righteous, to forget your work and labour of fitable unto men.-Ver. 14. Let ours also love. learn to maintain good works for necessary Rom. ii. 10. Glory, honour and peace, to every one that worketh good. uses. Gal. vi. 4. Let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself, and not in another. James i. 25. A doer of the work shall be blessed in his deed. ii. 17. Faith without works is dead. See ver. 14 to 24. Rev. xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord; they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them. See 2 Chron. xv. 7.-xxxi. 20. 21. Isa. xlix. 4. Jer. xxxi. 16. Rev. ii. 2. 9. 13. 19. 26. 28.—iii. 1. 8. 15. LXXVII. Examples of good works. Acts x. 38. Jesus went about doing good. John x. 32. See examples of obedience in Ch. 2d and 3d of Rev. LXXVIII. Omission of good works. Threats. Luke xii. 47. That servant which knew his Lord's will and did it not, shall be beaten with many stripes. LXXX. Promises to them that do good, that do well. Gen. iv. 7. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? Matt. xxiv. 46. Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord shall find so doing. Rom. ii. 7. To those who seek for glory, honour, and immortality, by a patient continuance in well-doing, God will give eternal life. Ver. 10. Glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good. Gal. vi. 9. Let us not be weary in welldoing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord. Eph. vi. 8. Whatsoever good thing any man 1 Pet. iv. 19. Let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-doing. EVIL-DOERS. LXXXI. Evil-doers and their works to be avoided. Exod. xxiii. 2. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.-Ver. 24. Thou shalt not do after their works. Lev. xviii. 3. Ps. xxvi. 5. I have hated the congregation of evil-doers; I will not sit with the wicked. ci. 3. I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.-Ver. 8. James i. 22. Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your ownselves. See the parable of the talent hid in the earth, Matt. xxv. 25, 26. 30.-Christ's sentence against the wicked, for omitting duty, Matt. xxv. 41, 42.-The unfruitful tree cut down, Matt. iii. 10.-vii. 19. Luke iii. 9.-xiii. 6. 7. John xv. 2.-The barren fig-tree cursed, Matt. xxi. 19.—The parable of the seed sown not will keep the commandments of my God. cxix. 115. Depart from me, ye evil-doers, for bearing fruit, Matt. xiii. 19. Mark iv. 4. Luke viii. 5.-The servant's professing obe-thing, to practise wicked works with men that cxli. 4. Incline not my heart to any evil dience, but not working, Matt. xxi. 30.-The sin and folly of not being rich toward God, Luke xii. 20, 21. James iv. 17. Jude 12. Deut. xxxii. 32. Heb. vi. 8. DOING GOOD. LXXIX. Shunning evil and doing good commanded. Ps. xxxiv. 14. Depart from evil, and do good. Ps. xxxvii. 3. 8. 27. Isa. Ivi. 2.-i. 16. 1 Pet. iii. 11. Ps. xcvii. 10. Ye that love the Lord hate evil. Matt. xii. 12. It is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. 2 Cor. xiii. 7. I pray God that ye do no evil. 1 Pet. ii. 15. It is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. iii. 11. Eschew evil and do good. Ver. 17. iv. 15. Let none of you suffer as an evildoer. I work iniquity. his hands from doing evil. Matt. xxiii. 3. Do ye not after the works of the Scribes and Pharisees, for they say and do not. Rev. xviii. 4. I heard a voice, saying, Come out, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. See Isa. lii. 11. 2 Cor. vi. 17. Where we are Ps. i. 1, 2.-cxxv. 5. Prov. i. 15.—iv. 14.— commanded to avoid evil company. See also xvi. 29.-xxii. 25. LXXXII. Doing evil, the character of the wicked. Ps. xxxvi. 3. The wicked hath left off to be wise, and to do good. Ps. xiv. 3.— 3 John ver. 11. Follow not that which is liii. 1. 3. Rom. iii. 12. evil, but that which is good. Examples. Job i. 1. Job feared God and eschewed evil. Ver. 8. Ch. ii. 3. Ps. cxix. 101. I have refrained my feet from every evil way. Acts x. 39. Jesus went about doing good. Prov. ii. 14. The wicked rejoice to do evil. Mic. vii. 3. They do evil with both hands. Eccl. viii. 11. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily; therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. S |