Gal. vi. 18. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Rev. xxii. 21.

Eph. vi. 24. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen. Col. iv. 18. Grace be with you. 2 Tim. iv. 22. Tit. iii. 15. Heb. xiii. 25.

1 Tim. i. 2. Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord. 2 Tim. i. 2. Tit. i. 4.

vi. 21. Grace be with thee.

1 Pet. i. 2. Grace to you, and peace be multiplied. 2 Pet. i. 2.

Rev. i. 4. Grace be unto you, and peace, from Him which is, and which was, and which is to come.

GOD'S FAVOUR.

CXXXVIII. God's favour. 2 Sam. xv. 25. David said, If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me again, and shew me both the ark and his habitation.

Job x. 12. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

xxxiii. 26. The penitent shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him, and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

Ps. v. 12. Thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

xxx. 5. In his favour is life.-Ver. 7. Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong.

xli. 11. By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph

over me.

xliv. 3. Thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance saved them, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

Ixxvii. 7. Will the Lord cast off for ever? Will he be favourable no more?

lxxxv. 1. Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land; thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

lxxxix. 17. Thou art the glory of their strength; and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

cii. 13. Thou wilt have mercy on Zion; for the time to favour her, yea, the set time is

come.

cvi. 4. Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people.

exix. 58. I entreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

Prov. iii. 3, 4. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: So shalt thou find favour, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

viii. 35. Whoso findeth wisdom findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

xii. 2. A good man obtaineth favour of the Lord: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

Song viii. 10. I was in his eyes as one that found favour.

Isa. Ix. 10. In my favour have I had mercy on thee.

Luke i. 28. The angel said to Mary, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.-Ver. 30. Thou hast found favour with God.

ii. 52. Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

Acts vii. 46. David found favour before God. See 1 Sam. ii. 26.

CXXXIX. God's favour denied to the wicked. Isa. xxvii. 11. It is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour. See Jer. xvi. 13.

CXL. God giveth or withholdeth the favour of men. Gen. xxxix. 21. The Lord was with Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. Acts vii. 10.

Exod. iii. 21. The Lord said, I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians. Ch. xi. 3.-xii. 36.

Dan. i. 9. God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.

CXLI. God withholdeth from man_ the favour of man. Deut. xxviii. 49, 50. Josh. xi. 20. Ps. cix. 12.

CXLII. God is bountiful. Ps. xiii. 6. The Lord hath dealt bountifully with me.

cxvi. 7. Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. cxix. 17. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. See Ps. cxlii. 7.

CXLIII. Man ought to be bountiful. Prov. xxii. 9. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. Ps. xli. 1.

2 Cor. ix. 6. He that soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully. Ver. 5. 11.

GOD'S BLESSING.

CXLIV. God blesseth his people. Exod. xx. 24. In all places where I record my name, I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.

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Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Luke vi. 20-22.

xi. 6. Jesus said, Blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me. Luke vii. 23. xxiv. 45, 46. Blessed is that faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord when he cometh shall find-giving his household their meat in due season. Luke xii. 43.

xxv. 34, 35. Christ will say, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungered and ye gave me meat, &c.-Ver. 40. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Compare Luke vi. 20 to 24. and Matt. xi. 6.

Luke xi. 28. Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it. James i. 25. Rev. xxii. 14. Deut. xi. 26.-xxx. 19.

xiv. 13. When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind: And thou shalt be blessed, &c. Deut. xv. 10. Ver. 15. Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

xii. 37. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching. Ver. 39.

John. xx. 29. Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. Matt. xvi. 17.xiii. 16. Blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear.

Gal. iii. 9. They which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

James i. 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life.

Rev. i. 3. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things that are written therein. xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.

xvi. 15. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments; lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

xix. 9. Blessed are they who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

xx. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection.

CXLVI. God's blessing promised by way of covenant; or covenant blessings. Deut. vii. 9. He keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him, and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.

2 Sam. xxiii. 5. David said, Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure.

them that fear him, and he will show them his covenant.

lxxxix. 3. I have made a covenant with my chosen.-Ver. 28. My covenant shall stand fast with him.-Ver. 34. My covenant will I not break.

Isa. xlii. 6. I will give thee (Christ) for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles. Ch. xlix. 8.-lv. 4.

liv. 10. The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee.

Iv. 3. Incline your ear and come unto me, hear and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Jer. xxxi. 33. This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Heb. viii. 10.

xxxii. 40. I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Ver. 38.

xxxiii. 20, 21. Thus saith the Lord, If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites, the priests my ministers. Ver. 25, 26.

Jer. 1. 5. They shall say, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord, in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

Ezek. xi. 19, 20. I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you: and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh; that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. Jer. xxiv. 7.

xvi. 8. When I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold thy time was the time of love, and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord, and thou becamest mine.-Ver. 60. I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.-Ver. 62 I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

xx. 37. I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the

Ezek. xxxvi. 25-28. I will sprinkle clean water upon you.-A new heart will I give unto you. I will put my Spirit within you.And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

xxxvii. 26, 27. I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle shall be with them; yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Ver. 23, 24. 2 Chron. xxxiv. 24, 25. 31.

Hos. ii. 19, 20. I will betroth thee unto me for ever, in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies: I will even betroth thee to me in faithfulness, and thou shalt know [that I am] the Lord. Isa. liv. 5. Thy Maker is thine husband.

New Covenant. Heb. viii. 8. I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel. Jer. xxxi. 31, 32, 33, 34.

and indignation.-Ver. 50. He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death. Isa. v. 24, 25. See Isa. x. 25.-xiii. 9. 13.-xxx. 27. 30.-xlii. 24, 25.-lxvi. 15. Jer. xviii, 23.-xxv. 38.-xlix. 37.-li. 45. Lam. ii. 1.—iii. 43.—iv. 11. Ezek. v. 13.— vii. 3.-xiii. 13.-xxii. 20, 21. Mic. v. 15.

GOD'S WRATH.

CXLIX. God's wrath threatened against sinners. Ezra viii. 22. His power and his wrath, is against all that forsake him.

Job xx. 23. God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon the wicked. Ch. xxi. 20.30. Ps lxxviii. 49.

Ps. ii. 12. When his wrath is kindled but a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Ps. xc. 7. 9. 11.-cii. 10. Prov. xi. 4. Riches profit not in the day of Ezek. vii. 19. Zeph.

new covenant.

GOD'S ANGER.

CXLVII. Anger ascribed to God. Neh. ix. 17. Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. See Ps. ciii. 8. Joel ii. 13. Nah. i. 3.

CXLVIII. God's anger threatened against the wicked. Numb. xxxii. 14. Ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment the fierce anger of the Lord. Deut. xxix. 19, 20. If one say, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: The Lord will not spare him; but the anger of the Lord, and his jealousy, shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

xxxii. 21, 22. They have moved me to jealousy; they have provoked me to anger. A fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Job xxi. 17. God distributeth sorrows in his anger. Ch. ix. 13.

Ps. vii. 11. God is angry with the wicked every day. Ps. xxxviii. 3.

lxxvi. 7. Who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? Ps. xc. 7. 11. Nah. i, 6.

lxxviii. 41, 42. They tempted God; they remembered not his hand.-Ver. 49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath,

i. 18.

Isa. ix. 19. Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire. Jer. 1. 13.vii. 29.

Jer. x. 10. At his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Hos. v. 10.

Nah. i. 2. The Lord reserveth wrath for his enemies.

Rom. i. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven, against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.

ii. 8, 9. Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, shall be upon every soul of man that doeth evil. Ver. 5. Ch. iv. 15.-ix. 22. Eph. ii. 3. We were by nature children of wrath.

v. 6. The wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience. Col. iii. 6.

Rev. vi. 16, 17. The wicked said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? See Rev. xiv. 10.-xvi. 19.

CL. God is wroth. Isa. xlvii. 6. I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance.

Isa. Ixiv. 5. Behold thou art wroth; for we have sinned,

Ps. lx. 1. O Lord, thou hast cast us off; thou hast been displeased.

Prayers deprecating his wrath. Ps. vi. 1. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Ps. xxxviii, 1,

Isa. Ixiv. 9. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord; neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, we are all thy people.

Promises. Isa. lvii. 16. I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls that I have made.

CLI. God's indignation against sinners. Isa. lxvi. 14. The hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies. Ch. xxx. 30.

Jer. x. 10. At his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Job xxvi. 11. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof. Ch. ix. 6. He shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. See Nah. i. 5, 6. 8.

Mic. vii. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him. Rom. ii. 8, 9. To those that obey unrighteousness, God will render indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil.

Heb. x. 27. A fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.

CLII. God's Fury. Lev. xxvi. 27, 28. If ye will walk contrary to me, then I will walk contrary to you in fury.

Job xx. 23. God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon the wicked, and shall rain it upon him.

Isa. lix. 18. God will repay fury to his adversaries. Ch. Ixiii. 3.

Jer. iv. 4. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Ezek. v. 15. I shall execute judgments on thee in anger, and in fury, and in furious rebukes. Ch. vi. 12.-xxxviii. 18. Nah. i. 2. 6.

CLIII. His vengeance. Deut. xxxii. 35. To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Ps. xciv. 1. Heb. x. 30.

CLIX. God is jealous for his people. Promises. Ezek. xxxix. 25. Thus saith the Lord, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name.

Joel ii. 18. The Lord will be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

Zech. i. 14. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I am jealous for Jerusalem, and for Zion, with a great jealousy. Ch. viii. 2.

God's jealousy in threats against sinners. Exod. xx. 5. I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Ch. xxxiv. 14. Deut. iv. 24.-v. 9.—vi. 15, Josh.

Numb. xxv. 11. Phinehas turned away my

2 Thess. i. 7, 8. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

CLIV. God abhorreth. Ps. v. 6. The Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

x. 3. The covetous man the Lord abhorreth.

Deut. xxix. 20. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against the man that promiseth himself peace in his wickedness.

Ps. lxxix. 5. Wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like a fire? Ezek. xvi. 38. I will judge thee, and give thee blood in fury and jealousy. Ver. 41, 42. Ch. xxiii. 25.-xxxvi. 5, 6 xxxviii. 19.