Nah. i. 2. Zeph. i. 18.-iii. 8. The wicked this. (viz. to exalt Christ and promote his provoke God to jealousy. See Deut. xxxii. kingdom.) 16. Ps. lxxviii. 58. Isa. xxxvii. 32. The zeal of the Lord will defend Jerusalem. CLX. Zeal ascribed to God. Isa. ix. 7. lix. 17. He was clad with zeal as a cloak. CHAPTER II. CREATION. I. God created all things. See the Wisdom of God. Also, Power of God in creation. Prov. xxvi. 10. The great God that formed all things. Eccl. iii. 11.-xi. 5. Isa. xl. 28. He is the Creator of the ends of the earth. xlii. 5. The Lord created the heavens, and stretched them out: he spread forth the earth, Isa. xliv. 24. I am the Lord that maketh all and that which cometh out of it. things. Jer. x. 16. Heb. iii. 4. He that built all things is God. 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. II. God created the heavens and the earth. Gen. i. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Ch. ii. 4. Exod. xx. 11.-xxxi. 17. 2 Kings xix. 15. 1 Chron. xvi. 26. Ps. xcvi. 5. Isa. xxxvii. 16. Heb. i. 10. Neh. ix. 6. Thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. Job ix. 8. He alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. xxxviii. 4-7. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Who hath laid the measures thereof, or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened, or who laid the corner stone thereof? When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Ps. xxiv. 2. He hath founded the earth upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Ps. lxxviii. 69.-civ. 5.-cxix. 90, 91.cxxxvi. 6. Ps. xxxiii. 6. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. lxxxix. 11. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine; as for the world, and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. civ. 2. Thou stretchest out the heavens like a curtain. Job xxxvii. 18. Like a molten looking-glass. li. 13. The Lord hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth. Ver. 16. Rev. xiv. 7. Worship him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. Acts xiv. 15.-xvii. 24. Ps. cxlvi. 6. See Wisdom of God in Creation. See also Power of God in Creation. III. Sun and moon created. Gen. i. 16. God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. Job xxxviii. 12. 19. 24. Gen. i. 3. God said, Let there be light, and there was light. Ps. lxxiv. 16, 17. Job ix. 9. Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. Ver. 7. Amos v. 8. Ps. viii. 3, 4. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? Ps. xix. 4. In the heavens hath he set a tabernacle for the sun. civ. 19. He appointeth the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down. cxlviii. 3. Praise ye him sun and moon; praise him all ye stars of light.-Ver. 5. For he commanded, and they were created. Ver. 6. Jer. xxxi. 35. He giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night; which divideth the sea, when the waves thereof roar: the Lord of hosts is his name. IV. The sea. Gen. i. 9, 10. God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he seas: and God saw that it was good. Job xxviii. 25. He maketh the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. Ch. xxxvii. 16. The balancing of Amos iv. 13. Job xxvi. 10. He hath compassed the wa- the clouds. Prov. xxx. 4. ters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. xxxviii. 8-11. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb? I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it; and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors; and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. See Ver. 16. 22. 25. 28. Ps. xxxiii. 7. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap, and layeth up the depth in store-houses. xcv. 5. The sea is his, and he made it: his hands formed the dry land. civ. 10. He sendeth the springs into the valleys. Prov. viii. 27-29. He prepared the heavens: he set a compass upon the face of the depth: He established the clouds above: he strengthened the fountains of the deep: he gave the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment. Isa. xl. 12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand. xliii. 16. The Lord maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.-Ver. 20. I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. Ch. xlviii. 21. Jonah i. 9. I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land. Nah. i. 3, 4. The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind, and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers. V. Summer and winter. Ps. lxxiv. 16, 17. The day is thine: the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. VI. North and south. Job xxvi. 7. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. Ps. lxxxix. 12. The north and south thou hast created them. VII. Clouds and wind. Job xxvi. 8. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them. Ver. 9. xxxvi. 29. Can any understand the spreadings of the clouds? Ver. 30. 32. See Ps. iv. 3.-cxlvii. 8. Prov. viii. 28. VIII. Rain. Job xxviii. 26. He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the light ning of the thunder. Ps. cxxxv. 7. He maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth the wind out of his treasures. Jer. li. 16. Jer. x. 13. When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. Ch. xiv. 22.-li. 16. and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. Ps. cxxxix. 14-16. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written: which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Acts xvii. 26. He made of one blood all nations that divell on the face of the earth. Job xxxi. 15. XIII. His soul. Gen. ii. 7. The Lord breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Job x. 12. Job xxxiii. 4. The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. Isa. xlii. 5. Isa. lvii. 16. I will not contend for ever, (saith the Lord,) for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made. Jer. xxxviii. 16. The Lord made us this soul. referred to, Rom. v. 12. By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin. v. 15. Through the offence of one many be dead.-Ver. 17. By one man's offence death reigned.-Ver. 18. By the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation.-Ver. 19. By one man's disobedience many were made sinners. ANGELS. XVII. Number of the Angels. Gen. xxxii. 1, 2. They are God's host. 1 Kings xxii. 19. 2 Chron. xviii. 18. Heavenly host. Luke ii. 13. Ps. lxviii. 17. The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels. Dan. vii. 10. Thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. Heb. xii. 22. An innumerable company of angels. XVIII. Their names. Eph. i. 21. Angels, authorities, principalities, powers, mights, Zech. xii. 1. He formed the spirit of man thrones, dominions. 1 Pet. iii. 22. Col. i. 16, within him. 1 Cor. xv. 45. Adam was made a living soul. XIV. Man's spiritual state after his creation. Gen. i. 27. God created man in his own image. Ch. ix. 6. v. 1. In the likeness of God made he him. Ps. viii. 5, 6. Thou madest man a little lower than the angels, and crownedst him with glory and honour. (Heb. ii. 7.) Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands. &c. Cherubim. 1 Sam. iv. 4. 2 Sam. vi. 2. 2 Kings xix. 15. Ps. xviii. 10.-lxxx. 1.xcix. 1. Seraphim. Isa. vi. 2. 6. Angels of God. Gen. xxviii. 12. Matt. xxii. 30. Sons of God. Job i. 6.—ii. 1.— xxxviii. 7. Christ's angels. Rev. xxii. 16. Michael's angels. Rev. xii. 7. XIX. Their nature; they are superior to men. Ps. viii. 5. Heb. ii. 7. 9. They are spirits. Ps. civ. 4. Heb. i. 7. Holy. Rev. xiv. 10. Elect. 1 Tim. v. 21. Eccl. vii. 29. God made man upright. James iii. 9. Men are made after the simili-2 tude of God. Col. iii. 10. The new man is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him. XV. Man's first disobedience, or fall from his happy state. Gen. ii. 16, 17. The Lord God commanded the man saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. iii. 6. The woman took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. 2 Cor. xi. 3. See sentence pronounced against the offenders, ver. 14 to 20. They excel in wisdom and knowledge. They excel in utterance, or speaking tongues. 1 Cor. xiii. 1. XX. They excel in strength. Ps. ciii. 20. They were created by Christ. Col. i. 16. They are fellow-servants to the prophets and apostles, and are not to be worshipped. Judges xiii. 16. Col. ii. 18. Rev. xix. 10.— xxii. 9. They look into gospel mysteries concerning Christ. Eph. iii. 10. They are present in Christian assemblies. 1 Cor. xi. 10. They see 1 Tim. v. 21. the behaviour of Christians. They see the treatment Christians receive in the world. 1 Cor. iv. 9. They behold the face of God, for Christians. XVI. See the above sin and its consequences | Matt. xviii. 10. They rejoice at the conversion of sinners. Luke xv. 10. XXI. Their employment for the good of God's people, in various instances. Gen. xix. 15. Angels hastened Lot out of Sodom. Ver. 29. xxii. 11. An angel saved Isaac from being slain. Ver. 12. xxiv. 40. Abraham said to his servant, The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way. Ver. 7. xxviii. 12. Jacob dreamed, and beheld a ladder, and the angels of God ascending and descending. Heb. i. 14. Are they not ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? xlviii. 16. The angel redeemed Jacob from all evil. Ch. xxxi. 11. XXII. Instances of the care and service of angels for God's people, coming from Egypt. Exod. xiv. 19. An angel of God went before the camp of Israel. Ch. xiii. 21.-xxiii. 20. 23. xxxii. 34.—xxxiii. 2. Numb. xx. 16. God sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. Zech. xii. 8. Isa. Ixiii. 9. The Angel of his presence saved them. 1 Kings xix. 5. 7. An angel feeds and refreshes Elijah when persecuted. 2 Kings vi. 17. Angels deliver Elisha from enemies. Ps. xxxiv. 7. The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. xci. 11, 12. He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Dan. iii. 25. 28. The angel saved three Jews, viz. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, from being burned in the fiery furnace. vi. 22. An angel saved Daniel from being hurt in the lion's den. Matt. xviii. 10. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my father which is in heaven. Luke xvi. 22. The beggar died, and was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom. John v. 4. An angel went down at a certain season, and troubled the water, and whosoever stepped in first was healed. xviii. 2. 10. 17. Angels foretell to Abraham the birth of a son, and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. xxii. 15. An angel informs Abraham of the future greatness of his posterity. xxxi. 11. An angel directs Jacob to return to his country. Exod. iii. 2. 10. The angel directs Moses to deliver Israel. Deut. xxxiii. 16. Acts vii. 30. 35. 38. Judges vi. 11 to 22. An angel directs Gideon to deliver Israel from enemies. xiii. 3 to 21. An angel foretells the birth of Samson. to deliver a message full of reproof to the king 2 Kings i. 3. 15, 16. An angel directs Elijah of Samaria, for consulting heathen gods about his recovery. Dan. viii. 17. 19. The angel Gabriel explains to Daniel a vision, concerning the delivery of the Jews. Ch. ix. 21, 22. Dan. x. 11 to 21. An angel expounds to Daniel, and encourages him. Zech. i. 9 to 21. An angel expounds to the prophets. See Ch. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. Ver. 1 to 9. Acts vii. 53. The law was delivered on Mount Sinai by angels. Ver. 38. Gal. iii. 19. Heb. ii. 2. viii. 26. By direction of an angel, Philip joins the eunuch, and instructs and baptizes him. See from verse 30 to 39. x. 3. By direction of an angel Cornelius sends for Peter, to receive from him the knowledge of Christ. Ver. 4. 6. 22. 30. Ch. xi. 13, 14. xxvii. 23. By information from an angel, Paul declares the safety of himself, and those who sailed with him. Rev. i. 1. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John. Ch. xxii. 16. xxii. 9. The angel said, I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren, the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book. See other revelations by angels: Rev. x. 1. 5, 6, 7. xi. 15.-xiv. 6 to 19.-xvii. 1.— xviii. 1. 21. XXIV. Angels inflict God's judgments on the wicked. Gen. iii. 24. When Adam and Eve had been turned out of paradise, God Acts v. 19, 20, An angel delivered the planted cherubim and a flaming sword to keep apostles from prison. Ch. xii. 7. 11. XXIII. Revelations of God's will and directions given by angels. Gen. xvi. 7. An angel directs Hagar to return home, and informs her of the future greatness of her son's posterity. Ch. xxi. 17, 18. the way of the tree of life. xix. 1 to 29. Sodom is destroyed by angels. Exod. xii. 29. The first-born in Egypt slain by a destroying angel. Ver. 23. Numb. xxii. 22. The angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against Balaam. See to ver. 36. Judg. ii. 1. 4. An angel is sent to reprove Christ's resurrection to those who came to the Israel for disobedience. sepulchre, and directs them where to publish Ver. 7. Luke xxiv. 5, 6, 7. John xx. 2 Sam. xxiv. 16. An angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, after he had slain in other parts seventy thousand men by pestilence. Ver. 15. 2 Kings xix. 35. An angel of the Lord smote in the camp of the Assyrians, an hundred four score and five thousand. xxxvii. 36. Isa. Ps. xxxv. 5, 6. Let the angel of the Lord chase the wicked. Let the angel of the Lord persecute them. lxxviii. 49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. Acts xii. 23. An angel of the Lord smote Herod because he gave not God the glory, and he was eaten of worms. Rev. vii. 2. To four angels it was given to hurt the earth and the sea. See chapters 8th and 9th. xv. 1. Seven angels, having the seven last plagues. Ver. 6. See these plagues through the whole 16th chapter. xx. 1. An angel binds Satan. See also Ch. xix. 17. XXV. Their attendance on, and services to Christ. Luke i. 11 to 21. The angel Gabriel foretells the birth, manner of life, and ministry of John, the forerunner of Christ.-Ver. 26. The same angel foretells to the virgin Mary, the conception and birth of Jesus Christ, and his greatness. See to ver. 35. Matt. i. 20. An angel informs Joseph of Christ's conception, by the power of the Holy Ghost. Luke ii. 9 to 14. Angels publish the birth of Christ to shepherds, and praise God on that occasion. Matt. ii. 13. An angel warns Joseph to carry Jesus and his mother into Egypt for safety.-Ver. 19. An angel directs Joseph and Mary to return with Jesus from Egypt. iv. 11. Angels ministered unto Jesus when he was tempted of the devil. Mark i. 13. John i. 51. Luke xxii. 43. When Christ was in an agony, before he was apprehended by enemies, there appeared an angel unto him from heaven strengthening him. it. XXVI. They shall attend Christ at his coming to judgment. Matt. xvi. 27. The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his work. Ch. xxv. 31, 32. Mark viii, 38. Luke ix. 26. Luke xii. 8, 9. Jesus said, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God. He that denieth me before men, shall be denied before the angels of God. Rev. iii. 5. 1 Thess. iv. 16. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 1 Cor. xv. 52. XXVII. Their employment at the day of end of the world; the reapers are the angels. judgment. Matt. xiii. 39. The harvest is the xxiv. 31. The son of man shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and four winds, from one end of heaven to the they shall gather together his elect from the other. Mark xiii. 27. xiii. 41, 42. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them that do iniquity. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Ver. 49, 50. 2 Thess. i. 7-9. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that Lord Jesus Christ; who shall be punished know not God, and obey not the gospel of our with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. XXVIII. They are worshippers of God the Father. Ps. ciii. 20, 21. Bless the Lord all ye his angels. (Rev. vii. 11.-xix. 10.-xxii. 9.) Bless the Lord all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his that do his pleasure. Ps. cxlviii. 2. Isa. vi. 3. The seraphim cried one to anof hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. other, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Dan. vii. 10. Thousand thousands minister Matt. xxvi. 51, 52. When Jesus was apprehended, Peter drew his sword to fight for him. Jesus said, Put up thy sword; thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he ed unto him, and ten thousand times ten thoushall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? xxviii. 2. At Christ's resurrection, an angel rolls back the stone from the door of the sepulchre, and sat on it.-Ver. 5. He declares sand stood before him. XXIX. They worship Christ, and are subject to him. Heb. i. 4. Christ was made better than the angels.-Ver. 6. God said, Let all the angels of God worship him. |