xxviii. 1. The wicked flee when no man pursueth. Job xv. 21. Ver. 4. Such as keep the law contend with the wicked. Eccl. viii. 8. Wickedness shall not deliver those given to it. Ver. 10. I saw the wicked buried, and they were forgotten.-Ver. 13. It shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days. Isa. iii. 11. Woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him; the reward of his hands shall be given him. ix. 18. Wickedness burneth as the fire. xlvii. 10, 11. Thou hast trusted in thy wickedness. Therefore shall evil come upon thee. Ivii. 20. The wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Jer. ii. 19. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. iii. 2, 3. Thou hast polluted the land with thy wickedness: therefore there hath been no latter rain. iv. 18. Thy ways and thy doings have procured these things unto thee: this is thy wickedness because it is bitter. v. 25, 26. Your iniquities and your sins have withholden good things from you. For among my people are found wicked men. vi. 6, 7. This is the city to be visited: as a fountain casteth out her waters, so casteth out her wickedness. Nah. i. 19. There is no healing of thy bruise, for on whom hath not thy wickedness passed? Matt. xiii. 49, 50. At the end of the world, the angels shall sever the wicked from among the just; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing, and gnashing of teeth. SINNERS. CXXX. Sinners; God's threatenings against them. Exod. xxxii. 33, 34. The Lord said to Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. I will visit their sin upon them. xxxiv. 7. God will by no means clear the guilty. Josh. xxiv. 19. He is a jealous God, he will not forgive their transgressions nor their sins. 2 Chron. vi. 22, 23. If a man sin against his neighbour; then judge thy servants by requiting the wicked. Ps. xc. 7, 8. We are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath we are troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. Prov. viii. 36. He that sinneth against me, wrongeth his own soul. Numb. xvi. 38. Eccl. ii. 26. To the sinner God giveth travail. Isa. xiii. 9. The Lord shall destroy the sinforners of the land out of it. she xii. 1. Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? xxx. 1. Woe unto rebellious children, saith the Lord, &c. who add sin to sin. Jer. ii. 35. I will plead with thee, saith the Lord, because of thy sins. Ver. 4. How long shall the land mourn, and xv. 13. Thy substance will I give to thine the herbs of the field wither? for the wicked-enemies, because of thy sins. Ch. xvii. ness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are 3.-1. 14. consumed, &c. xliv. 2, 3. The cities are a desolation, be- will break the staff of bread. cause of their wickedness. Ezek. iii. 18. The wicked man shall die in his wickedness. Ver. 19. Ch. xxxiii. 8, 9. 13. xviii. 20. The wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.-Ver. 24. When the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? all his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sins that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. Ver. 26, 27. xxxiii. 8. O wicked man, thou shalt surely die. Ezek. xiv. 13. When the land sinneth, I xviii. 4. The soul that sinneth it shall die. Ver. 20. xxi. 24. In all your doings, your sins appear, &c.; ye shall be taken, &c. xxviii. 16. Thou hast sinned, therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God. Hos. iv. 7. They sinned against me, therefore will I change their glory into shame.— Ver. 9. I will punish them for their ways. ix. 9. I will visit their sin. Amos v. 12. I know your manifold transgressions, and your mighty sins. ix. 8. The eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful kingdom, and he will destroy it from Hos. x. 13, 14. Ye have ploughed wick-off the face of the earth.-Ver. 10. The sinedness, ye have reaped iniquity. Therefore ners of my people shall die by the sword. shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled. Mic. vi. 13. I will make thee desolate because of thy sins. John xvi. 8. The Spirit shall reprove the world of sin. 2 Pet. ii. 4. God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell. vi. 23. The wages of sin is death. vii. 5. The motions of sins did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. -Ver. 9. Sin revived and I died.-Ver. 11. Jude 15. The Lord cometh to execute judg-Sin slew me. ment, and to convince ungodly sinners of their ungodly deeds. CXXXI. Sinners threatened with various evils under the providence of God. Deut. xxiv. 16. Every one shall die for his own sin. Lev. xxii. 9. 2 Kings xiv. 6. 2 Chron. xxv. 4. Ezek. xviii. 20. Job xx. 11. His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 1 Cor. xv. 56. The sting of death is sin. 2 Thess. ii. 3. The man of sin is the son of perdition. 1 Tim. i. 9. The law is made for sinners. Heb. x. 26, 27. If we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin: but a certain fearful looking-for of judgment, and fiery indignation, that shall devour the adversaries. Ch. vi. 4-6. James i. 15. Sin when finished bringeth Ps. i. 5. Sinners shall not stand in the con- forth death. gregation of the righteous. xxxviii. 3. There is no rest in my bones because of my sins. Prov. xiii. 21, 22. Evil pursueth sinners. Their wealth is laid up for the just. xiv. 34. Sin is a reproach to any people. xxiv. 9. The scorner is an abomination among men. Isa. i. 28. The destruction of the transgressors, and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed. xxxiii. 14. The sinners in Zion are afraid who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? Ixv. 20. The sinner being an hundred years old, shall be accursed. Jer. xl. 3. Because ye have sinned against the Lord, this is come upon you. Ch. xliv. 23. 1. 7. Their enemies prevailed, and said, We offend not, because they have sinned. Zeph. i. 17. Lam. i. 8. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore she is removed, all that honoured her despise her. Ezek. xvi. 52. v. 7. Our fathers have sinned and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.-Ver. 16. Woe unto us that we have sinned. Ezek. xxxiii. 10. If our sins be upon us, &c. how should we live?-Ver. 12. The righteous shall not be able to live in the day that he sinneth. Hos. xiii. 2, 3. They sin more and more. They shall be as the morning cloud, and the early dew that passeth away; as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney. Mic. i. 5. For the sins of the house of Israel is all this evil. Rom. ii. 12. As many as have sinned without law shall perish without law. v. 14. Death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgressions.-Ver. 12. 21. Sin reigned unto death. 1 John v. 16. There is a sin unto death. Matt. xii. 31. TRANSGRESSORS. CXXXII. Transgressors; threatening against them. Prov. xi. 3. The perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. Ver. 6. xiii. 2. The soul of the transgressors shall eat violence. Ver. 15. xxvi. 10. The great God that formed all things, rewardeth transgressors. Isa. xxiv. 5, 6. The earth is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, because they have transgressed: Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth.-Ver. 20. The transgression of the earth shall be heavy upon it. Ixvi. 24. The men that have transgressed against me, their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh. Jer. xxxiv. 18. 20. I will give the men that have transgressed into the hand of their enemies. Ezek. xiv. 10, 11. They shall bear the punishment of their iniquity; that they may no more go astray, nor be polluted with their transgressions. xx. 38. I will purge from among you the rebels, and them that transgress. xxxix. 24. According to their uncleanness, and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them. Hos. vii. 13. Woe unto them, for they have fled from me; destruction unto them, for they have transgressed against me. Matt. xv. 3. Why do ye transgress the commandments of God by your tradition? Acts i. 25. Judas by transgression fell from the ministry. Heb. ii. 2, 3. If the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression received a just recompense of reward; how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? 1 John iii. 4. Sin is the transgression of | the law. 2 John 9. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. See particular calamities threatened against transgressors in the civil state, Prov. xxviii. 2. In the church, Isa. xliii. 27.-Destruction by wild beasts, Ezek. v. 17.-From famine and pestilence, Amos iv. 2 to ver. 10. INIQUITY. CXXXIII. Iniquity forbidden. Job xxii. 23. Put iniquity far from thy tabernacles. xxxvi. 10. God commanded that they return from iniquity. may Jer. xxxvi. 3. It may be that they will rethat I turn every one from his evil way, forgive their iniquity. Ezek. xviii. 8. 17. He that hath withdrawn his hands from iniquity, he shall not die for the iniquity of his father. Dan. iv. 27. Break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquity by shewing mercy to the poor. Zeph. iii. 13. The remnant shall not do iniquity. Acts iii. 26. God sent his Son to bless you, in turning every one from his iniquity. Rom. vi. 19. Yield your members servants to righteousness. 2 Tim. ii. 19. Let every one that nameth the name of Christ, depart from iniquity. Tit. ii. 14. Christ gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity. Heb. i. 9. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity. CXXXIV. God's threatenings against the workers thereof. Gen. xliv. 16. Judah said unto Joseph, God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants. Lev. xviii. 25. The land is defiled, therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it; the land doth vomit out her inhabitants. 2 Sam. vii. 14. If he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men. Ps.lxxxix.32. Job xiii. 26. Thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquity of my youth. xiv. 17. My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. Ps. v. 5. Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. xc. 8. Thou settest our iniquities before thec, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. Job x. 6. 14.-xxxiv. 22. xciv. 16. Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity ?-Ver. 23. God shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness. cxxv. 5. Such as turn aside, God shall lead forth with the workers of iniquity. Isa. xiii. 11. I will punish the wicked for their iniquity. xxii. 14. This iniquity shall not be purged from you, till ye die, saith the Lord of hosts. xxvi. 21. The Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. xxxi. 2. God will arise against the house of evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity. lix. 2. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you. Ixiv. 7. Thou hast consumed us because of our iniquities. me, Jer. ii. 22. Thine iniquity is marked before saith the Lord. ix. 5. They weary themselves to commit iniquity.-Ver. 9. Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation? xi. 10, 11. They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers. I will bring evil upon them that they shall not escape. xiv. 10. I will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. Hos. viii. 13.—ix. 9. xvi. 10. Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us?-Ver. 17, 18. Mine eyes are upon all their ways, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. I will recompense their iniquity. xxv. 12. I will punish that nation for their iniquity, and make it a desolation. xxx. 14, 15. I have wounded thee for the multitude of thine iniquity, and because thy sins are increased. For the multitude of thine iniquity, I have done these things unto thee. Hos. ix. 7. xxxvi. 31. I will punish him [Jehoiachim] and his seed, and his servants, for their iniquity. li. 6. Flee out of Babylon; be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance. Gen. xix. 15. Ezek. ix. 9, 10. The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great. Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity. xvi. 49, 50. This was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, idleness, fulness of bread, &c. Therefore I took them away as I saw good. Ver. 52. xxi. 23. God will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken. Ver. 24, 25. 29. Chap. xxix. 16. xxviii. 18. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities; therefore I will bring forth a fire, and it shall devour thee, and bring thee to ashes. Amos iii. 2. I will punish you for all your iniquities. Hab. i. 3. Why dost thou shew me iniqui- | ty? Ver. 13. The Lord cannot look on iniquity. Matt. vii. 23. Christ will say in the day of judgment, Depart from me, ye that work iniquity. xiii. 41, 42. He shall cast them who do iniquity into a furnace of fire. Jer. v. 25. Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. xiii. 22. For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, &c. xxxi. 30. Every one shall die for his own iniquity. Ezek. iii. 18, 19, &c. Lam. iv. 6. The punishment of the iniquiof my people is greater than the sin of Sodom. Rev. xviii. 5, 6. Babylon's sins have reach-ty ed unto heaven, God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double. CXXXV. The punishment of iniquity threatened under the providential government of God, intermixed with instances thereof. Gen. iv. 13. Cain said, My punishment (or iniquity) is greater than I can bear. xv. 16. The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. Lev. xxvi. 39. They shall pine away in their iniquity, in your enemies' lands, and the iniquities of their fathers. Ezek. xxiv. 23. Job xx. 27. The heaven shall reveal the wicked man's iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.-Ver. 22. Every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. xxi. 19. God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Ezek. iv. 16, 17. They shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment. They shall want bread and water and consume away for their iniquity. xxxii. 27. Their iniquity shall be upon their bones. xxxiii. 6. He is taken away in his iniquity. -Ver. 8. He shall die in his iniquity. Ver. 9. 13. 18. xxxjx. 23. The house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity. Dan. ix. 16. For our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, we are become a reproach. Hos. xiv. 1. Israel, return unto the Lord; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Mic. ii. 1. Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds. Hab. ii. 12. Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by ini Ps. vii. 14. The wicked travaileth with ini-quity. Mic. iii. 10. quity. xxxi. 10. My life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth because of mine iniquity. xxxvii. 1, 2. The workers of iniquity shall be cut down. Ps. xxxvi. 12. xcii. 7. When the wicked spring as the grass, and the workers of iniquity do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. Ver. 9. cvi. 43. They were brought low for their iniquity. cvii. 17. Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities are af flicted. Prov. v. 22. His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. x. 29. Destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. Isa. v. 18. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart-rope. xxix. 20. All that watch for iniquity are cut off. xxx. 13. Iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall. 1. 1. For your iniquities ye have sold yourselves. lxiv. 6. Our iniquities like the wind have taken us away. Matt. xxiii. 28. Ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.-Ver. 30. Woe unto you. COMMANDMENT FIRST. CXXXVI. Idolatry forbidden. Exod. xx. 3. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Ch. xxxiv. 14. Ps. lxxxi. 9. Hos. xiii. 4. 1 Cor. viii. 4, 5. xxiii. 13. Make no mention of the name of other gods. (Josh. xxiii. 7.)-Ver. 24. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them. Deut. iv. 15. Take good heed unto yourselves. Ver. 19. Lest when thou seest the sun and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou shouldst be driven to worship and serve them. vi. 14. Ye shall not go after the gods of the people which are round about you. Judg. vi. 10. xii. 30. Inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Jer. v. 7. CXXXVII. Enforced by threatenings as preventives. Exod. xxii. 20. He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Lev. xx. 5. Deut. viii. 19. If thou at all do forsake the Lord your God, and walk after other gods and serve them, and worship them, I testify against | Baal-peor.-Ver. 29. The plague brake in you this day, that ye shall surely perish. upon them. not yours. Jer. v. 19. As ye have served other gods in 1 Kings ix. 6, 7. If you or your children shall turn aside, and serve other gods, and wor-your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land ship them, then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them. Ver. 9. See vii. 9, 10. Will ye walk after other gods, Deut. xxviii. 15. 36. 64.-xxix. 18 to 28.- and come and stand before me in this house? xxx. 17, 18.-xxxi. 16, 17. Josh. xxiii. 16.- |-Ver. 15. I will cast you of my sight.-Ver. xxiv. 20. 2 Chron. vii. 19, 20. Ps. xvi. 4.-20. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Behold mine anger and my fury shall be poured xliv. 20, 21. Jer. xvi. 13.-xxii. 9. out upon this place, &c. Ver. 30 to 34. Ch. viii. 2.-xix. 3 to 14. CXXXVIII. Judgments inflicted upon transgressors of this command. Deut. xxxii. 15. Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked; he forsook God that made him. Deut. xxxii. 16, 17. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods. They sacrificed to devils, to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up. xi. 10. They went after other gods to serve Thus saith the Lord, I will them.-Ver. 11. bring evil upon this place.-Ver. 14. Therefore pray not for this people. Isa. lvii. 3. 5. 13. Jer. xliv. 21, 22, 23.—iii. 3. 6. 8. 20. Ezek. xx. 32, 33. Ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries. Ver. 19, 20. And the Lord abhorred them, As I live, saith the Lord, surely with a stretchand said, I will hide my face from them.-ed-out arm, and with fury poured out, will I Ver. 22, 23. A fire is kindled in mine anger. rule over you. Ch. viii. 16-18. Zeph. i. I will heap mischiefs upon them. Ver. 24, 3, 4, 5. 25, 26. 35. Judg. ii. 11, 12. The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. They followed other gods, of the gods of the people round about them, and bowed themselves unto them. Ver. 14. And the anger of the Lord was against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of the spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.-Ver. 15. Whithersoever they went out the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, and they were greatly distressed. Ver. 17. 20. 23. Ch. iii. 7, 8.—x. 6, 7. 13, 14. Jer. xi. 10.-xiii. 10. v. 8. They chose new gods; then was war in the gates. x. 6, 7. The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the gods of the Philistines. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines. Ver. 10. They cried unto the Lord.-Ver. 13, 14. The Lord said, Ye have forsaken me, and served other gods. Let the gods which ye have chosen deliver you in the time of your tribulation. 2 Kings xvii. 7, 8. The children of Israel feared other gods, and walked in the statutes of the heathen. (Jer. xliv. 3 to 28.) Ver. 18. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight. xxii. 17. Because they have forsaken me, and have burnt incense to other gods, therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched. Jer, i. 16. -xix. 4. Ps. cvi. 28. They joined themselves to On CXXXIX. God's judgments upon particular transgressors of this command. Solomon, 1 Kings xi. 1. 9. 11. 33.-Jeroboam, 1 Kings xii. 28.-xiv. 2. 17.—Baasha, 1 Kings xvi. 3. 12.-Ahab, 1 Kings xvi. 30. xxi. 21.—xxii. 34. 38. 2 Kings x. 11.Jehoram, Ahaziah, 2 Kings i. 2. 16, 17. 2 Chron. xxi. 11. 14. 19.—Manasseh, 2 Kings 2 Chron. xxxiii. 2 to 15.xxi. 3, 4, 5, 6. Amaziah, 2 Chron. xxv. 14 to 20. CXL. Covenants and intermarriages with the heathen inhabitants of Canaan forbidden to the Jews, lest they should thereby be ensnared to their idolatry. Exod. xxiii. 32. Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. Ver. 33. Deut. vii. 2. Numb. xxxiii. 55. xxxiv. 12. Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest it be a snare unto thee.-Ver. 15. And go a-whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice.-Ver. 16. And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a-whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a-whoring after their gods. Deut. vii. 3, 4. Ch. xx. 17, 18. Josh. xxiii. 12, 13. Judg. ii. 1, 2.-iii. 5. to 8. Transgressed in making a covenant with the Gibeonites, Josh. ix. 14, 15. This covenant confirmed for their punishment. 2 Sam. xxi. 1. CXLI. Making covenants and intermarriages with the transgressors of this command punished. Numb. xxv. 2, 3, 4. They called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods, |