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the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty; for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth, is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Matt. vi. 13. Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

Ver. 12. In thy hand is power and might, and in thy hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 2 Chron. xx. 6.

Ps. Ixii. 11. Power belongeth unto God. cxlvii. 5. Great is our Lord, and of great power, his understanding is infinite.

See Job xxvi. 14. and xxxvii. 23. The thunder of his power. Ps. xxix. 4, and lxviii. 33. His voice powerful. Hab. iii. 4. The hiding of his power.

LIX. Might ascribed to God.

Deut. iii. 24. What God is there in heaven, or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?

Jer. x. 6. Thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

Dan. ii. 20. Blessed be the name of God, for wisdom and might are his.

Mighty. Ps. lxxxix. 6. Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord!

Ps. xciii. 4. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Jer. xxxii. 18. The great, the mighty God, the Lord of hosts is his name.

Ver. 19. Great in counsel and mighty in work.

LX. He is the Almighty God. Gen. xvii. 1. The Lord said, I am the Almighty God. Rev. i. 8.

Exod. vi. 3. God appeared to Abraham, &c., by the name of God Almighty.

Rev. xix. 6. The Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

LXI. God's Strength, Job ix. 4. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who hath hardened himself against him and hath prospered? Ch. xxxvi. 5. 19.-ix. 19. If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong.

xii. 13. With him is wisdom, and strength; he hath counsel and understanding.

Ps. lxxxix. 8. O Lord of hosts, who is a strong Lord, like unto thee?

xciii. 1. The Lord is clothed with strength. Isa. xxvi. 4. In the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength,

I Cor. i, 25. The weakness of God is stronger than men.

LXII. God's Arm. Job xl. 9. Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Ps. lxxxix. 13. Thou hast a mighty arm; strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

LXIII. Hand of God. Exod. xv. 6. Thy right hand is glorious in power.

LXIV. Finger of God. Exod. viii. 19. The magicians said, This is the finger of God. xxxi. 18. The tables were written with the finger of God.

Ps. viii. 3. Thy heavens are the work of thy fingers.

Luke xi. 20. Jesus cast out devils with the finger of God.

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LXIX. God's power in his wonderful doings. Exod. xv. 11. Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Deut. iii. 24. What God is there in heaven, or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?

xxxii. 4. He is the Rock; his work is perfect. Job v. 9. He doeth great things, and unsearchable, marvellous things, without number. Ch. ix. 10.-xxxvii. 5. Ps. lxxii. 18.-lxxxvi. 10.-cxviii. 23.-cxxxvi. 4.

Ps. cxi. 7. The works of his hands are verity and judgment.

Eccl. iii. 14. Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it.

Dan. iv. 3. How great are his signs, and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is

an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion from generation to generation !—Ver. 35. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he doth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What dost thou? See Job ix. 12. Isa. xlv. 9.

LXX. The prosperity and adversity of mankind are in his hand. Job ii. 10. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

Job v. 18. He maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth and bis hands make whole.

xii. 10. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

xxiii. 13, 14. He is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me, and many such things are with him.

Isa. xlv. 7. I form the light, and I create darkness; I make peace and create evil; I the Lord do all these things. Amos iii. 6.

Eccl. ix. 1. The righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God.

Dan. v. 23. God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways. Acts xvii. 28. Jam. iv. 12. He is the one lawgiver, who is able to save, and to destroy. See Jer. xviii. 6. Isa. xlv. 9. As clay in the hand of the potter, so are we in his hand.

LXXI. God's power in the creation of heaven and earth. Job xxvi. 13. By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

Ps. xcv. 5. The sea is his and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

cii. 25. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. Heb. i. 10.

Isa. xl. 12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Prov. xxx. 4.

Isa. xl. 26. He calleth the creatures all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

xlviii. 13. My hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens.

Ixvi. 2. All those things hath my hand made.

Jer. x. 12. He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. Ch. li. 15.

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and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power, and by my out-stretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me. Ch. xxxii. 17.

Rom. i. 20. The invisible things of God, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.

LXXII. In the government of the heavens and the earth. Job xxvi. 12. He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud. See from ver. 5 to 14, and Ps. Ixxiv. 13.

xxviii. 9. He putteth forth his hand upon the rock, he overturneth the mountains by the

roots.

Ps. lxv. 6. By his strength he setteth fast the mountains.

xcv. 4. In his hand are the deep places of the earth, the strength of the hills is his.

Isa. xliii. 16, 17. The Lord maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters. He bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power.

1.2, 3. At my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering. Nah. i. 3, 4, 5.

Dan. iv. 35. He doth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth.

Heb. i. 3. Upholding all things by the word of his power.

LXXIII. Acts of his power towards his Church. Exod. vi. 6. I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm, and with great judgments. xiii. 3. By strength of hand, the Lord brought you out of Egypt. Ps. cxxxvi. 12.

Exod. xv. 13. Thou hast guided the people in thy strength, unto thy holy habitation.— Ver. 17. Thou shalt plant them in the mount of thine inheritance, in the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

Num. xiv. 13. Thou broughtest up this people, in thy might.

Deut. iv. 34. Hath God assayed to go and take him a nation, from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt? Ch. v. 15.—vii. 19.— xxvi. 8. Jer. xxxii. 21. Ezek. xx. 5, 6. 22. 28. 42.-xlvii. 14. Dan. ix. 15.

vi. 21. The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Ch. vii. 8, 9.-ix. 26.— xi. 2.—xxvi. 8.—xxxiv. 12.

Neh. i. 10. Thy people whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong xxvii. 5. I have made the earth, the man hand. Ch. ix. 32. Exod. xxxii. 11.

Ps. lxxix. 11. Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee, according to the greatness of thy power.

cvi. 8. He saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. Ps. cxi. 6.

Isa. xlix. 26. All flesh shall know that I the Lord, am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. Ch. 1x. 16.-lxiii. 16. Jer. xx. 11. The Lord is with me, as a mighty terrible one, therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and shall not prevail. Ps.

xlv. 3.

See Numb. xi. 23. Deut. xxxiii. 27. Ps. xliv. 3.—lxxvii. 10. 14.-lxxviii. 54.-lxxx. 15.-cxviii. 23. Isa. li. 9. 11. Jer. 1. 34.

LXXIV. God's power towards the righteous. 2 Chron. xvi. 9. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him.

Hand. 1 Chron. xxix. 12. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all and in thy hand is power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Ch. iv. 10.

Ezra viii. 22. The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him, but his power and wrath is against all them that forsake him. Ver. 31.

Ps. xvii. 7. Thou savest by thy right hand them that put their trust in thee. Ps. xviii. 35.-xxxvii. 24. Dan. iii. 17.

xx. 6. He will hear with the strength of his right hand. Ps. lx. 5.

xxxi. 5. Into thy hand I commit my spirit. (Luke xxiii. 46.) Ver. 15. My times are in thy hand.

Ixiii. 8. Thy right hand upholdeth me. Ps. cviii. 6.

ixxx. 17. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand. Ps. lxxxix. 21.

Isa. i. 25. The Lord saith, I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all the tin. See ver. 22.

LXXV. God's power in spiritual blessings to his people. Ps. xcv. 7. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Ps. cxxxviii. 8. Isa. xix. 25.-xxix. 23.-xlv. 11.-lx. 21.-lxiv. 8. Jer. xviii. 6. compare Matt. iii. 9, and Rom. xi. 23.

cx. 3. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. 2 Chron. xxx. 12.

Ixiii. 1, 2. My soul thirsteth for thee; to see thy power and thy glory, as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. Ps. xcvi. 6. 1 Chron. xvi. 27. Eph. i. 19. The exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe. 2 Cor. vi. 7. Eph. iii. 7.

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iii. 20. He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. 2 Pet. i. 3. His divine power hath given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness.

John x. 29. None is able to pluck his people out of his hand.

2 Tim. i. 12. He is able to keep that committed unto him.

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Rom. xvi. 25. 27. To him that is of power to stablish you, be glory for ever, amen. xiv. 4.

2 Cor. ix. 8. God is able to make all grace abound toward you.

Acts xx. 32. I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

Jude 24. He is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory, with exceeding joy.

1 Pet. i. 5. We are kept by the power of God, through faith unto salvation.

Duty. Eph. vi. 10. Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

LXXVI. God's power against the wicked. Ezra viii. 22. God's power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. Nah. i. 6.

Ps. xc. 11. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? Heb. x. 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Nah. i. 3. The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked.

2 Thess. i. 9. The wicked shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. See Ps. lix. 11.—lxvi. 3. Rom. ix. 17.

Almighty. Job xxi. 20. The eyes of the wicked shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. Ch. xxvii. 13, &c.

Job xl. 2. Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God let him answer it.

Isa. xiii. 6. The day of the Lord shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Joel i 15.-ii. 11.

Might. Ps. xxiv. 8. The Lord, strong and mighty in battle.

Isa. i. 24. Thus saith the Lord, the mighty one of Israel, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies.

Jer. xvi. 21. I will cause them to know my hand and my might, and they shall know that my name is the Lord.

Strength. Jer. xxi. 5. I will fight against you, with an outstretched hand, and with a strong arm; even in anger and in fury, and in great wrath.

Rev. xviii. 8. Strong is the Lord who thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to th judges Babylon.

Hand. Exod. ix. 3. To Pharaoh Moses said, The hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle, upon the horses, the asses, the camels, the oxen, and the sheep.

Exod. ix. 15. I will stretch out my hand that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence. Ch. iii. 20.

Ver. 16. For this cause have I raised thee up, to shew in thee my power.

xv. 16. Fear and dread shall fall upon them, by the greatness of thine arm. Ch. vii. 5.

Deut. ii. 15. The hand of the Lord was against those that murmured, to destroy them until they were consumed.

xxxii. 20 to 44. How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

Judges ii. 15. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil 1 Sam. v. 9.-vi. 3.-vii. 13.

1 Sam. xii. 15. If ye rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be against you.

heathen. Ver. 13. 16.-xxxv. 3.

Amos ix. 2. Though they dig into hell, thence shall my hand take them.

Zeph. i. 4. I will stretch out my hand upon Judah. Ch. ii. 13.

Acts xiii. 11. The hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind for a season.

LXXVII. Sins against the power of God. Ps. xxviii. 5. Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Isa. v. 12. They regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands. Ch. xxvi. 11.—liii. 1.—lxv. 2.

v. 25. His anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. Ch. ix. 12. 17. 21.-x. 4.-xiv. 27.

Matt. xxii. 29. Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

Duties resulting from or founded upon the doctrine of God's power. Isa. xxxiii. 13. Ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

Ps. xviii. 1. I will love thee, O Lord my

Job x. 7. There is none that can deliver out strength. See Love to God. of thy hand. Ps. 1. 22. Hos. ii. 10.

xxvii. 22. God shall cast upon the wicked man, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

Ps. xxi. 8. Thy hand shall find out all thine enemies. Ps. xcviii. 1.-cxviii. 15.

Ixvi. 5. The Lord is terrible in his doing toward the children of men. Ver. 3.

lxxv. 8. In the band of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. Jer. xxv. 15. 17.li. 7. Hab. ii. 16.

cvi. 26. He lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness. XX. 22, 23. 33.-xxii. 13, 14, 15.

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Isa. x. 32. He shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion. Ch. xix. 16.-xxv. 11. Jer. vi. 12.—xv. 6.

xxxi. 3. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth, and he that is helped, shall fail together.

1. 11. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

lii. 10. The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations.

Ezek. xiv. 13. When the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it. Ch. vi. 14.

xxv. 7. I will stretch out my hand upon

Luke xii. 5. Fear him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. See Fear of God.

Isa. xxvi. 4. Trust ye in the Lord for ever; for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. See Trust in God.

1 Chron. xvi. 11. Seek the Lord and his strength. Ps. cv. 4. See Seek God. Ps. xxi. 1. The king shall joy in thy strength. See Joy in God.

lix. 17. To thee, O my strength, will I sing. See Praising God.

Ixviii. 34. Ascribe ye strength unto God. xcvi. 7. Give unto the Lord glory and strength.

cxlv. 6. Men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts. Ver. 11.

cl. 1. Praise God in the firmament of his power.

Jude 25. To the only wise God, our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.

Rev. iv. 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure, they are, and were created. See Ch. v. 13.— vii. 12.-xix. 1.

OLD TESTAMENT MIRACLES. As Miracles may be considered as uncommon effects, produced by the interposal and exertion of divine power, it is thought proper to give the following miracles a place under

this article.-(See Miracles, Ch. iv. Sect. | land of Goshen; to the end thou mayest know 50 to 58.)

LXXVIII. 1. Miracles affecting nations and particular persons. Gen. 7th and 8th chapters. The flood, with all its circumstances: the design thereof, 2 Pet. ii. 5, to destroy the ungodly.

that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

Exod. ix. 16. For this cause have I raised thee up, that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

Ver. 27, 28. At the plague of hail, Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Gen. xxi. 2. The birth of Isaac. xxii. 13. He is miraculously delivered from Entreat the Lord, and I will let you go.death.

xix. 24. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, &c. Deut. xxix. 23. Isa. xiii. 19. Jer. xlix. 18.-1. 40.

Exod. iii. 2. An angel appears to Moses in a flame of fire, in a bush.

iv. 3. Moses's rod is changed into a serpent. -Ver. 6. His hand becometh leprous, and is restored.

vii. 10. Aaron's rod is turned into a serpent before Pharaoh.-Ver. 12. It swallows up the magicians' rods, turned serpents also.-Ver. 20. The waters of Egypt are turned into blood.

viii. 6. The plague of frogs.-Ver. 17. The plague of lice.-Ver. 24. The plague of flies. ix. 6. A plague upon cattle.-Ver. 10. Plague of boils.-Ver. 23. Thunder, hail, and fire. x. 13. The plague of locusts.-Ver. 22. Darkness sent as a plague.

xii. 29. The death of the first-born.-Ver. 31. Israel leaves Egypt.

xiii. 21. Israel is guided by a pillar of a cloud and fire.

xiv. 20. The pillar is dark toward the Egyptians, and bright toward the Israelites.

Ver. 21. The sea is divided.-Ver. 22. Israel passeth through safely.-Ver. 26. The sea returns and overwhelms the Egyptians.

2. These miracles wrought by the power of God. Exod. iii. 20. I will smite Egypt with all my wonders. Ch. iv. 9. 17. 28.-vii. 3.xi. 9. Deut. vi. 22.-vii. 19.-xxvi. 8.xxxiv. 11.

Neh. ix. 10. Thou shewedst wonders on Pharaoh. Jer. xxxii. 20, 21.

3. The design of these miracles. Exod. vi. 6, 7. I will redeem you with great judgments, and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.

vii. 5. The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt. Ch. xiv. 4. 18.

Ver. 17. The waters turned into blood. In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

viii. 10. By the plague of frogs, that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God. Ch. ix. 14.

Ver. 19. Of the plague of lice: The magicians said, This is the finger of God.

Ver. 22. No swarms of flies shall be in the

Ver. 29. Moses said, I will spread abroad my hands unto the Lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is the Lord's.

x. 16, 17. At the plague of locusts, Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have sinned against the Lord your God. Entreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me, this death only.

Ver. 24. At the plague of darkness, Pharaoh said to Moses, Go serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed; let your little ones also go with you.

xi. 7. Against any of the children of Israel, shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast; that ye may know, how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

xiv. 4. 17. Concerning the overthrow of Pharaoh and his army, God said, I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host.-Ver. 18. The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

xii. 32. Upon the death of the first-born of Egypt, Pharaoh said, Take your flocks and your herds, and be gone, and bless me also.

4. After the overthrow of Pharaoh. Exod. xiv. 31. Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians; and the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord.

xv. 1. They sang this song to the Lord, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea, &c.

xxix. 46. Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God, that brought them out of the land of Egypt.

5. Miracles in the wilderness and the borders thereof. Exod. xvi. 12, 13. Quails and manna sent for food. Numb. xi. 31.

xvii. 6. Water brought from a rock, for drink. Numb. xx. 11,

Deut. xxix. 5, 6. Israelites' clothes waxed not old, &c. That ye might know that I am the Lord thy God.

Exod. xix. 16. Thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud appear upon Mount Sinai, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud is

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