Jer. iv. 22. My people are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

xiii. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Rom. vii. 19. The good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. -Ver. 21. I find a law in my members, that when I would do good evil is present with me.

LXXXIII. Threats against evil-doers. 2 Sam. iii. 39. The Lord shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.

Job viii. 20. God will not help evil-doers. Ps. xxxiv. 16. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 1 Pet. iii. 12. Mic. iii. 4.

xxxvii. 9. Evil-doers shall be cut off. Isa. i. 4. A seed of evil-doers, children that are corrupters.

Ver. 15. When ye make many prayers I will not hear. See threats from ver. 5 to 16. xiv. 20. The seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned.

xxxi. 2. God will arise against the house of evil-doers. Ps. xciv. 16.

Jer. iv. 4. Thus saith the Lord, Circumcise yourself to the Lord, lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. Ch. xxi. Ezek. xxxvi. 17. Jer. xxvi. 3.-xliv.

12.

22. 2 Kings xxii. 17.

xviii. 10. If a nation do evil in my sight, I will repent me of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them.

Ezek. xxxvi. 19. According to their way, and according to their doings, I judged them. Hos. iv. 9.-xii. 2. Zech. i. 6.

Hos. vii. 2. Their own doings have beset them about. Jer. iv. 18.

Rom. ii. 9. Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every soul of man that doeth evil. See Deut. iv. 25, 26.-xxxi. 29. Isa. i. 4. 18. 20. 22.-lix. 6.-lxvi. 18. Jer. vii. 13. 20.xxxii. 30.-xliv. 8. Ezek. xxi. 24.-xxxiii.

26. 29.

WORKS OF DARKNESS. LXXXIV. Darkness and the works thereof. Ps. lxxxii. 5. The wicked walk in darkness. Prov. ii. 13. Evil men leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness. iv. 19. The way of the wicked is as dark

ness.

John iii. 19. Men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.

Rom. i. 21, 22. Their foolish heart was darkened. They became fools.

Eph. iv. 18. Having the understanding darkened. Matt. vi. 23.

1 John ii. 9. 11. He that hateth his brother is in darkness.

Rev. xvi. 10. The kingdom of the beast was full of darkness.

LXXXV. Threats. Isa. v. 20. Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness. xxix. 15. Woe to them whose works are in the dark.

1 Cor. iv. 5. The Lord will bring to light the hidden things of darkness.

NOT IN DARKNESS.

LXXXVI. The righteous walk_not_in darkness. John viii. 12. He that followeth Christ shall not walk in darkness. Ch. xii. 35.

Acts xxvi. 18. The Lord said to Paul, I send thee to open men's eyes, and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God.

Rom. xiii. 12. Let us cast off the works of darkness.

2 Cor. vi. 14. What communion hath light with darkness?

Eph. v. 11. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.

vi. 12. We wrestle against the rulers of the darkness of this world.

Col. i. 13. God hath delivered us from the 1 Pet. ii. 9. power of darkness. 1 Thess. v. 4, 5. Ye are not in darkness. Ye are all the children of light, and of the day. 1 John i. 6. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie,

and do not the truth.

DEAD WORKS.

LXXXVII. The wicked, and their works, called dead; the righteous are alive from the dead. Rom. vi. 13. Yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead.

Eph. ii. 1. You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins.

v. 14. Awake, thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Col. ii. 13. You being dead in your sins, hath he quickened.

1 Tim. v. 6. She that liveth in pleasure is Idead while she liveth.

Heb. vi. 1. Repentance from dead works. ix. 14. The blood of Christ shall purge your conscience from dead works, to serve the living God.

Jude 12. The wicked are as trees twice

dead.

Rev. iii. 1. Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

1 John iii. 8. He that committeth sin is of the devil. Ver. 10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God.

LXXXIX. The righteous have no fellowship with the children of the devil. 1 Cor. x. 20. I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ver. 21.

Eph. iv. 27. Neither give place to the devil. James iv. 7. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

WORKS OF THE FLESH.

XC. Works of the flesh, living after the flesh. Rom. vii. 5. When we were in the flesh, the motions of sin did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Ver. 18. In my flesh dwelleth no good thing.-Ver. 25. With the flesh I serve the law of sin.

viii. 6. To be carnally minded is death.Ver. 7. The carnal mind is enmity against God.-Ver. 13. If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die.

xiii. 14. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Ver. 18. Let no man beguile you, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.

1 Pet. ii. 11. Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.

iv. 2. Live not in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

2 Pet. ii. 20. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

1 John ii. 16. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, is not of the Father.

XCI. Lusts of the flesh forbidden to Christians. Rom. vi. 12. Let not sin reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Ver. 13.

xiii. 14. Put ye on the Lord Jesus, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Gal. v. 16, 17. Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit. Ver. 24. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Eph. iv. 22. Put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts.

2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful lusts; but follow righteousness, faith, &c.

Tit. ii. 12. Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly, in this present world.

1 Pet. i. 14. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance.

ii. 11. I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

Gal. v. 17. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit. Ver. 19. The works of the flesh are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, &c.-Ver. 24. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh.

vi. 8. He that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption.

Eph. ii. 1-3. Ye were dead in trespasses and sins, wherein in time past ye walked, according to the course of this world, in the lusts of your flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature children of wrath. Ver. 11.

Col. ii. 11. Putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ.Ver. 13. You being dead in your sins hath he quickened.

past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelling, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.

2 Pet. i. 4. There are given to us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

1 John ii. 16. All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.-Ver. 17. The world passeth away and the lust thereof.

XCII. Lusting after women. Prov. vi. 25. Lust not after beauty in thy heart. Matt. v. 28. Whosoever looketh on a wo

XCIII. Lusting after meats and drinks. See instances in the Jews punished. Numb.

xi. 4. 34.

Ps. lxxviii. 18. 30.-lxxxi. 12.

James i. 14. By them men are drawn away to sin, and enticed. Ver. 15. 2 Pet. ii. 18.

iv. 1. From them proceed wars and fightings among men. Ver. 2, 3. 5. Because of them prayers are not answered.

2 Tim. iv. 3. Through them men pervert the gospel. Ch. iii. 6. 2 Pet. iii. 3. 16. 18.

Jude

DEFILEMENT OF SIN.

XCVIII. Defilement of sin. Matt. xv. 18. Those things which proceed out of the mouth, come forth from the heart, and defile the man. Ver. 11.

Ver. 19, 20. For out of the heart proceed tions, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornicaare the things which defile a man.

XCIX. Threats. Lev. xviii. 25. The land is defiled, therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it.-Ver. 28. The land shall spue you out, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations before you.

CORRUPTION OF SIN.

XCV. Corruption prevailing. Gen. vi. 11. The earth was corrupt before God.-Ver. 12. For all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

Exod. xxxii. 7, 8. The Lord said unto Moses, Thy people have corrupted themselves. (Deut. ix. 12.) They have turned aside quickly out of the way. Deut. xxxi. 29.

Deut. xxxii. 5. They have corrupted themselves; their spot is not the spot of God's children; they are a perverse and crooked generation.-Ver. 6. Do ye thus requite the Lord? O foolish people, and unwise. Judg. ii. 19.

Matt. vii. 17. A corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. Ver. 18. Ch. xii. 33.

Rev. xix. 2. The great whore did corrupt the earth, with her fornication. See Isa. i. 4. Hos. ix. 9. Zeph. iii. 7.

XCVI. Confession of corruption. Neh. i. 7. We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept thy commandments, &c. Ezek. xx. 44. Pardon promised.

THE RIGHTEOUS NOT CORRUPT.

XCVII. The righteous not corrupt. Eph. iv. 22-24. Put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

2 Pet. i. 4. God hath given to us exceeding

Isa. xxiv. 5, 6. The earth is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, because they have transgressed the law, changed the ordinance, &c. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth.

Rev. xxi. 27. There shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven any thing that defileth, &c. See Ezek. xxxvi. 17, 18. Hos. v. 3. 6. Tit. i. 15. Heb. xii. 15. Rev. iii. 4. Thou hast a few names, which have not defiled their garments.

These things are an abomination in the sight of God, viz. The sacrifice, the way, the thoughts of the wicked, Prov. xv. 8, 9. 26.He that justifieth the wicked, Prov. xvii. 15.The froward, Prov. iii. 32.-xi. 20.-He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Prov. xxviii. 9.-Those that deny God in works, Tit. i. 16.

THE JUST.

CXIII. Promises to the just, and prayers for them. Ps. vii. 9. O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just.

Prov. iii. 33. The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked, but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

iv. 18. The path of the just, is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

x. 6, 7. Blessings are upon the head of the just, but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.

xi. 9. Through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

xii. 13. The just shall come out of trouble. -Ver. 21. There shall no evil happen to the just.

xiii. 22. The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. Job xxvii. 16, 17.

xvii. 15. He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are an abomination to the Lord.-Ver. 26. To punish the just is not good.

xxiv. 16. A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

Isa. xxvi. 7. Thou dost weigh the path of the just.

Ezek. xviii. 5. 9. If a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live.

Hab. ii. 4. The just shall live by faith.

Rom. i. 17. Gal. iii. 11. Heb. x. 38.

pectation shall perish; and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

xxix. 27. An unjust man is an abomination to the just.

2 Pet. ii. 9, 10. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished. But chiefly them that walk after the lusts of the flesh.

CXV. The unjust hurtful in the earth. Ps. xliii. 1. O God, deliver me from the unjust man.

Isa. xxvi. 10. In the land of unrighteousness will he deal unjustly.

Zeph. iii. 5. The unjust knoweth no shame. Luke xvi. 10. He that is unjust in that which is least, is unjust also in much.

1 Cor. vi. 1. Dare any of you go to law before the unjust?

N. B. Just and unjust, in the above-mentioned passages, are taken from a more universal character than merely acts of civil justice between man and man.

GOOD MEN.

CXVI. The general character of a good Gen. v. 22. He walketh man's walk or life. with God. Gen. vi. 9.

xvii. 1. Walketh before God. 40. xlviii. 15. 1 Sam. ii. 35.

6.-viii. 25.-ix. 4.

Isa. xxxviii. 3.

Ch. xxiv. 1 Kings iii.

Ps. lvi. 13.-cxvi. 9.

Matt. vi. 10. He doeth the will of God. Heb. x. 36.

Ps. xl. 8. He delighteth to do God's will. Eph. vi. 6. He doeth God's will from the heart.

Col. iv. 12. He stands complete and perfect in the will of God.

1 Pet. iv. 2. He lives to the will of God. Exod. xvi. 4. He walked in God's law. Ezek. xi. 20. In God's commandments, statutes and judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30. Ezek. Zech. x. 12. xviii. 9.-xx. 19.—xxxvii. 24.

Luke i. 6. Gal. vi. 16.

THE UNJUST.

CXIV. Threatenings against the unjust. Prov. xi. 7. When a wicked man dieth his ex

Hos. xiv. 9. Ps. cxix. 3.

xxvi. 3. In God's truth. Ps. lxxxvi. 11.

Isa. ii. 5.-xxxviii. 3. 2 John 4. 6. 3 John 3, 4. Col. i. 10. Worthy of God, to please him. 1 Thess. iv. 1.

ii. 6. Walk in Christ. 1 John ii. 6. Walk

as Christ walked.

Gal. v. 16. Walk after the Spirit. Rom. viii. 14. Led by the Spirit.

Eph. v. 8. In the light. John viii. 12.xii. 35. 1 John i. 7.

iv. 1. Worthy of his vocation. 1 Cor. vii. 17. Rom. vi. 4. Walketh in newness of life. Gal. vi. 16.