heard, so that all the people trembled. Ch. hear his voice, that he might instruct thee; xx. 18. and upon earth, he shewed thee his great fire; xx. 1. The law is delivered.-Ver. 22. The and thou heardest his words out of the midst Lord talked with them from heaven. of the fire.-Ver. 39. Know, therefore, this day, xxiv. 18. Moses tarries forty days on the and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God, in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath; there is none else. mount. xxxiv. 28. Moses fasts forty days.-Ver. 29. His face shines so that the Israelites could not look upon it. Lev. ix. 24. Fire from the Lord consumes the burnt-offering. x. 2. Fire from the Lord consumes Nadab and Abihu, for offering with strange fire unto the Lord. Josh. iv. 23, 24. The Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan before you, as he did the Red sea: That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty; that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever. Ch. iii. 10. xxiv. 31. Israel served the Lord all the days Numb. xiv. 37. Men who brought an evil of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that report die by the plague. outlived Joshua, which had known all the works of the Lord which he had done for Israel. Judg. ii. 7. xvi. 1. The rebellion of Korah and his company. Ver. 32. The earth opens and swallows them up. Ver. 49. Fourteen thousand die by the plague, for murmuring. xvii. 8. Aaron's rod budded, as a decisive token of the priesthood being fixed in the house of Levi. xi. 25. The spirit of prophecy given to the elders of Israel. xxi. 4. The people for murmuring are bitten by fiery serpents.-Ver. 6. And healed by looking on a brazen serpent.-Ver. 9. On a pole. xxii. 28. Balaam reproved by an ass speaking, and terrified at the sight of an angel, as he went to curse Israel.-xxiii. 8. 20. Is forced to bless Israel. Ch. xxiv. 4. 13. Josh. iii. 7. Jordan stops until Israel passeth over. 6. The design and use to be made of these miracles is thus set forth. Exod. x. 2. Tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the Lord. Deut. iv. 32, 33. Ask now of the days that are past, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it: Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? Deut. iv. 34, 35. Or 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, before your eyes? Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else besides him. 7. Other miracles and remarkable providences in the land of Israel, wrought for promoting the faith and worship of the one living and true God. Josh. vi. 20. Jericho taken, the walls thereof falling down at the sound of rams' horns. x. 11. Israel's enemies destroyed by hail. Ver. 13. The sun stands still. Judg. vi. 38. A sign given to Gideon by a fleece. vii. 13. Another sign, a Midianitish host miraculously discomfited. xiii. 3. An angel foretells the birth of Samson. Samson's works. Ch. xiv. 6.-xv. 14, 15. 19.-xvi. 3. 12. 14. 30. 1 Sam. v. 3. Dagon falls before the ark. vi. 12. The ark carried to the land of Israel by cattle without a guide.-Ver. 14. vii. 10. God thundereth upon the Philistines. xii. 18. Thunder and rain sent at Samuel's prayer. xiv. 15. Enemies struck with groundless fear.-Ver. 20. They kill one another. xvii. 49. David kills Goliath.-Ver. 46 Saying, the Lord will deliver thee into my hand, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. xix. 20. The spirit of prophecy comes upon Saul's messengers.-Ver. 21. And upon Saul. Ver. 24. 1 Kings xiii. 5. The altar rent, and ashes poured out as a sign foretold by the prophet. Ver. 6. Jeroboam's withered hand restored at the prayer of the prophet. Ver. 28. An ass and lion stand by the carcass of a disobedient prophet, slain by the lion. xvii. 1. Elijah's miracles, viz. A great drought.-Ver. 6. He is fed by ravens.—Ver. 16. Multiplies a barrel of meal, and cruse of oil in famine.-Ver. 22. Brings a dead child Ver. 36. Out of heaven he made thee to to life, xviii. 38. In a contest with the priests of Baal, to decide whether the God of Israel, or Baal, was the true God, fire consumes Elijah's sacrifice, though much water was poured on it. Ver. 37. Elijah prayed and said, hear me, O Lord, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God.-Ver. 39. When the fire consumed the sacrifice, the people fell on their faces and cried, The Lord he is the God, the Lord he is the God. quire of him concerning me, I will set my face against that man. xv. 7. I will set my face against them. Ver. 8. xx. 37. I will cause you to pass under the rod. Ver. 12. 44. Ver. 38. I will purge out the rebels from among you. xxi. 3. 5. Thus saith the Lord, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword: 1 Kings xx. 13. A remarkable victory. it shall not return any more. Ver. 28. 2 Kings i. 10. Officers sent to lay hold on Elijah, are consumed by fire from heaven. Ver. 12. ii. 8. Jordan struck with Elijah's mantle, divides.—Ver. 11. Elijah is carried to heaven. -Ver. 22. Waters healed by Elisha. iii. 22. Waters appear like blood to the enemy. Ver. 24. A great slaughter of them. iv. 5. Elisha multiplies a widow's oil.-Ver. 35. Restores a dead child to life.-Ver. 42. Sons of the prophet miraculously fed. v. 14. Naaman cured of leprosy.-Ver. 27. Leprosy entailed upon Gehazi and his off spring. 2 Kings vi. 6. Iron swims. vi. 12. Elisha discovereth secret counsels. -Ver. 18. At his prayer the enemy is smitten with blindness.-Ver. 20. Their eyes opened. xiii. 21. A dead man is restored to life, on touching the bones of Elisha. xix. 35. An angel smites the host of the Assyrians. Isa. xxxvii. 36. xx. 10. The shadow returns ten degrees on the dial, as a sign to Hezekiah. 1 Chron. xxi. 26. An angel slaying the Israelites is stopped at David's prayer. 2 Chron. vii. 1. Fire consumes the sacrifice at Solomon's prayer. xx. 23. Enemies destroy one another. Neh. ix. 21. During forty years' travel in the wilderness, the clothes of the Israelites waxed not old, nor did their feet swell. Deut. viii. 4.-xxix. 5. 8. Miraculous judgments by the hand of enemies upon the wicked; the end and design of every one of which is expressly said to be, that God might be known by them. Ezek. vi. 6, 7. Your cities shall be laid waste. Ver. 10. 14. Ch. xxxiii. 29. vii. 4. I will recompense thy ways upon thee. Ver. 9. 27. xi. 10. Ye shall fall by the sword. Ver. 12. xii. 15. I will scatter them among the nations. Ver. 16, 20. xiii. 9. Mine hand shall be upon the prophets that divine lies. Ver. 14. 21. 23. xiv. 8. Every one that setteth up his idols in his heart, and cometh to a prophet to in xxii. 15. And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee. Ver. 22. As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the Lord have poured out my fury upon you. xxiii. 46. I will give them to be removed and spoiled. Ver. 49. xxv. 7. I will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen. See Ch. xxiv. 21. 24. 27. 9. Judgments upon other nations for the same end. Ezek. xxv. 16. I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines. Ver. 5. 7. 11. 14. 17. xxvi. 3. I am against thee, O Tyrus. Ver. 6. xxviii. 22. Against thee, O Židon. Ver. 23, 24. 26. xxix. 3. Against thee, O Pharaoh. Ver. 9. 16. 21. Ch. xxx.-xxxii. xxxv. 2. Mount Seir, I will lay thy cities waste. Ver. 4. 9. 15. xxxviii. 16. Thou Gog shall come against my people. Ver. 23. 10. The same is asserted to be the end of the following merciful providences, as the | reader will find by consulting at large the places quoted. Isa. xlix. 23. And kings shall be thy nurs ing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: They shall bow down to thee, with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: For they shall not be ashamed that wait for me. Ezek. xxxiv. 27. The tree shall yield her fruit, the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe. xxxvi. 37. I will increase them with men like a flock.-Ver. 38. So shall the waste cities be filled with men. Ver. 11. 23. xxxvii. 6. I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Ver. 13. Ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves. xxxix. 27. When I have brought them from captivity, then shall they know that I am the Lord, which caused them to be led into cap from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the tivity. Ver. 7. 22. 28. earth do right? See Isa. xliii. 9, 10, 11, 12.-xlv. 3.-lx. 6.lxvi. 14. Ezek. xvi, 62. 11. Miracls in Babylon. Dan. ii. 31. Daniel tells the king his dream, and the interpretation thereof.-Ver. 47. The king answered, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets. iii. 25. Three men in the fiery furnace unhurt by it.-Ver. 29. The king made a decree, that whosoever should speak against God who delivered them, should be cut in pieces. iv. 19. Daniel explains the king's dream, which being accomplished, the king praised and honoured the King of heaven. Ver. 34. 37. v. 25. Daniel explains the writing upon the wall, concerning Belshazzar. See also Daniel's visions. RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. LXXIX. Righteousness ascribed to God. Deut. xxxii. 4. All his ways are judgment: a God of truth, and without iniquity; just and right is he. Job xxxvi. 3. Elihu said, I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker. Ps. xi. 7. For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness. Ps. xxxiii. 5. xxxvi. 6. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep. xlviii. 10. Thy right hand is full of right eousness. lxxi. 19. Thy righteousness, O God, is very high. xcii. 15. There is no unrighteousness in the Lord. xcvii. 2. Righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. cxi. 3. His righteousness endureth for ever. Ps. cxii. 3. 9. cxix. 137. Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments. (Jer. xii. 1.) Ver. 142. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. cxlv. 17. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. Jer. ix. 24. I am the Lord, which exercise loving-kindness, judgment and righteousness in the earth. LXXX. God is righteous in punishing the wicked. Gen. xviii. 23. Abraham said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked-Ver. 25. That be far from thee, to slay the righteous with the wicked; and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far Exod. ix. 27. Pharaoh said, The Lord is righteous; I and my people are wicked. Neh. ix. 33. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly.-Lam. i. 18. Dan. ix. 14. Job xxxiv. 23. He will not lay upon man more than right. Ps. xcviii. 2. His righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. cxxix. 4. The Lord is righteous; he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. Isa. xxviii. 17. Judgment will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet. Dan. ix. 7. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day. Ver. 14. Mic. vi. 5. Rev. xvi. 5. The angel said, Thou art righteous, O Lord, because thou hast judged thus. Ch. xviii. 6. LXXXI. Men shall reap as they sow. For this see the following texts: Job iv. 8. Prov. xxii. 8. Jer. ii. 19. Hos. x. 13. Gal. vi. 7, 8. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. LXXXII. In rewards to the righteous. 1 Sam. xxvi. 23. The Lord render to every man his righteousness, and his faithfulness. 2 Sam. xxii. 21. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness. Ps. xviii. 20. See 1 Kings viii. 32. Job xxxiii. 26. Matt. xx. 4. Whatsoever is right, I will give you. LXXXIII. Things of God declared to be right. Righteous are his judgments. Neh. ix. 13. Thou gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments. See Deut. iv. 8. Ps. xix. 9.-cxix. 62. 106. 137. 160. 164. Jer. xii. 1. Statutes. Ps. xix. 8. The statutes of the Lord are right. Precepts. Ps. cxix. 128. I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right. Testimonies. Ps. cxix. 138. Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous. Ver. 144. Commands. Ps. cxix. 172. All thy commandments are righteousness. Word. Ps. xxxiii. 4. The word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done in truth. Isa. xlv. 19. Ways. Hos. xiv. 9. The ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them. Acts xiii. 10. JUSTICE OF GOD. LXXXIV. Justice ascribed to God. Deut. xxxii. 4. A God of truth, and without iniquity just and right is he. : Neh. ix. 33. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us. Lam. i. 18. Job iv. 17. Shall mortal man be more just than God? viii. 3. Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty pervert justice? Xxxvii. 23. He is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice. Ps. lxxxix. 14. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne; mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Ps. xcvii. 2. Isa. xlv. 21. I the Lord, a just God, and a Saviour. Jer. 1. 7. They have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice. Zeph. iii. 5. The just Lord is in the midst thereof. 1 John i. 9. He is just to forgive us our sins. Rev. xv. 3. Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. LXXXV. Injustice and iniquity denied concerning God. Deut. xxxii. 4. See above. 2 Chron. xix. 7. There is no iniquity with the Lord. Job xxxiv. 12. Surely God will not do wickedly; neither will the Almighty pervert judgment. See Jer. ii. 5. Zeph. iii. 5. GOD'S TRUTH. Exod. LXXXVI. Truth ascribed to God. xxxiv. 6. The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth. xcviii. 3. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel. c. 5. The Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations. Ps. cxvii. 2. cxlvi. 6. He keepeth truth for ever. See Gen. xxiv. 27.-xxxii. 10. Ps. xxxi. 5.-cxv. 1.-cxxxviii. 2. Numb. xxiii. 19. John vii. 28.—viii. 26. 2 Cor. i. 18. Rev. iii. 7.—vi. 10. LXXXVII. Things of God called truth. Ps. xxxiii. 4. The word of the Lord is right; and all his works are done in truth. Ps. cxi. 8. Dan. iv. 37. All his works are truth, and his ways judgment. Ps. cxix. 142. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. Ps. xix. 9.-cxix. 160. Isa. xxv. 1. Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. Rev. xv. 3. Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. LXXXVIII. Lying denied of God. Numb. xxiii. 19. God is not a man that he should lie. 1 Sam. xv. 29. The strength of Israel will not lie. Ps. lxxxix. 35. Tit. i. 2. God cannot lie. Heb. vi. 18. GOD'S FAITHFULNESS. LXXXIX. The faithfulness of God. Deut. vii. 9. He is the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. Ps. xxxvi. 5. Thy mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. lxxxix. 8. O Lord God of hosts, who is a Deut. xxxii. 4. A God of truth, and without strong Lord like unto thee, or to thy faithfuliniquity; just and right is he. Ps. xxv. 10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. lvii. 3. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.-Ver. 10. Thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. lxxxv. 10. Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace, &c. lxxxvi. 15. Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. lxxxix. 14. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. xci. 4. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Ps. xcvi. 13. He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth. ness round about thee? Ver. 2. Ver. 33. My loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. Ver. 24. exix. 90. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations. Ver. 75. exliii. 1. In thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness. Isa. xlix. 7. The Lord is faithful. 1 Cor. i. 9. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ. Ch. x. 13. 1Thess. v. 24. Faithful is he that calleth you. 2 Thess. iii. 3. The Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil. 2 Tim. ii. 13. He abideth faithful. Heb. x. 23. He is faithful that promised. 1 Pet. iv. 19. A faithful Creator. 1 John i. 9. He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. XC. Things of God called faithful. Commands and testimonies. Ps. cxix. 138. Thy commandments are righteous, and very faithful. Ver. 86. Ps. xix. 8. His commandment is pure. Ps. xii. 6. Ps. cxix. 140. Prov. xxx. 5. His word is pure. GOD'S HOLINESS XCIV. Holiness of God. Exod. xv. 11. Word. Tit. i. 9. The scriptures are his Who is like unto thee, O Lord, glorious in faithful word. Rev. xxi. 5.-xxii. 6. holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Lev. xix. 2. Ye shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. Ch. xi. 44.-xx. 26.— Counsels. Isa. xxv. 1. Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. Christ. Rev. i. 5. He is the faithful witness. xxi. 8. Ch. xix. 11. God to be praised for his faithfulness. Ps. xl. 10. I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation. lxxxix. 1. With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness.-Ver. 5. The heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. Josh. xxiv. 19. He is an holy God, a jealous God. 1 Sam. ii. 2. There is none holy as the Lord. Ps. xxii. 3. Thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. xcix. 5. Worship at his footstool, for he is holy. Ver. 9. cxlv. 17. The Lord is holy in all his works. Isa. v. 16. God that is holy shall be sancti xcii. 2. It is a good thing to show forth thy loving-kindness in the morning, and thy faith-fied in righteousness. fulness every night. Ps. lxxxviii. 11. XCI. God's faithfulness in fulfilling his promises. Josh. xxi. 45. There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel: all came to pass. Ch. xxiii. 14, 15. 1 Kings viii. 15. 20. 24. Mic. vii. 20. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and thy mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old. Jer. xi. 5. Compare Gen. xxvi. 3. Deut. ix. 5. Acts iii. 18. These things which God showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath fulfilled. Ch. xiii. 32, 33. Luke i. 72, 73. Ps. lxxxix. 34. XCII. In fulfilling threatenings. Lam. ii. 17. The Lord hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; he hath thrown down and hath not pitied, he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, &c. See Isa. Ixvi. 14. Jer. i. 12.-xxxix. 16.-li. 29. Ezek. xii. 25. GOD'S PURITY. XCIII. God is pure. Job iv. 17. Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Ver. 18. xv. 15. Behold he putteth no trust in his saints; yea the heavens are not clean in his sight. xxv. 5. Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not, yea the stars are not pure in his sight. Hab. i. 13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity. 1 John iii. 3. God is pure. vi. 3. Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory. Rev. iv. 8. Ixiii. 15. Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness, and of thy glory. Amos iv. 2. The Lord hath sworn by his holiness. John xvii. 11. Holy Father, keep through thine own name, those whom thou hast given me. Rev. iii. 7. These things saith he that is holy. vi. 10. How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth. xv. 4. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name, for thou only art holy; for all nations shall come and worship before thee. XCV. The same otherwise expressed. Job iv. 17. Shall a man be more pure than his Maker? Ch. ix. 2. Ver. 18. Behold he put no trust in his servants, and his angels he charged with folly. xv. 15. He putteth no trust in his saints, yea the heavens are not clean in his sight. xxv. 5. Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not, yea the stars are not pure in his sight. xxxiv. 10. Far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should commit iniquity. Ps. v. 4, 5. Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness, neither shall evil dwell with thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Lam. iii. 38. Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good. Hab. i. 13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity. |