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Rev. v. 11, 12. Angels round about the throne said, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

They are not to be worshipped. See Col. ii. 18. Rev. xix. 10.-xxii. 8, 9.

DEVILS.

XXX. Of the angels some sinned and are reserved unto punishment. 2 Pet. ii. 4. God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell; and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judg

ment.

Jude 6. The angels that kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, God hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.

Rev. xx. 10. The devil that deceived the nations, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Matt. xxv. 41. Everlasting fire is prepared for the devil and his angels.

They are called principalities and powers. Rom. viii. 38. Eph. vi. 12.

XXXIII. Devils are represented as enemies to all good, and promoters of sin and misery among mankind. Gen. iii. to 7. Satan I called the serpent. 2 Cor. xi. 3. And the old serpent, the devil. Rev. xii. 9.-xx. 2. Beguiled Eve.

2 Sam. xxiv. 1. He moved David to number the people.

Zech. iii. 1. Satan stood at Joshua's right hand to resist him.

Matt. xiii. 38, 39. The tares are the children of the wicked one. The enemy that sowed the tares is the devil.

Luke xxii. 31. Satan desired to have Peter to sift him.

John vi. 70. Jesus said [of Judas], One of you is a devil.

xiii. 27. Satan entered into Judas, and tempted him to betray his master. Luke xxii. 3.

xvii. 12. Judas was the son of perdition. 2 Thess. ii. 3. The man of sin is the son of perdition.

viii. 44. To his enemies, Jesus said, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do; he was a murderer from the

XXXI. What their sin is supposed to have | beginning, and abode not in the truth, because been. See above, Jude 6.

1 Tim. iii. 6. Pride is called the condemnation of the devil.

Job xxxviii. 7. Morning stars is the name of angels: this name is given to the proud king of Babylon, losing his power, as one of these morning stars falling.

Isa. xiv. 9. Hell from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at thy coming.-Ver. 12. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning.

Luke x. 18. Jesus said, I beheld Satan fall as lightning from heaven.

XXXII. Names given to these in Scripture. The god of this world, 2 Cor. iv. 4.-The prince of this world, John xiv. 30.-xvi. 11. Beelzebub the chief of the devils. Luke xi. 15. The prince of the power of the air, Eph. ii. 2.-Belial, who hath his sons and children of the wicked. See Deut. xiii. 13. Judg. xix. 22.-xx. 13. 1 Sam. ii. 12.—x. 27.-xxx. 22. 2 Sam. xx. 1. 1 Kings xxi. 10. 2 Chron. xiii. 7. 2 Cor. vi. 15.-The devil and his angels, Matt. xxv. 41.

The dragon and his angels, Rev. xii. 7. 9. The angel of the bottomless pit, Rev. ix. 11.

Rev. xii. 9. The great dragon, that old serpent the devil, and Satan, the deceiver, and his angels.-Ver 10. The accuser of the brethren. Compare Job i. 9.-ii. 5. Zech. iii. 1.

there is no truth in him.

Acts v. 3. He put it into the hearts of Ananias and Sapphira to lie to the Holy Ghost. Eph. ii. 2. Satan is the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience.

vi. 12. Devils are the rulers of the darkness of this world.

1 Thess. iii. 5. Satan is the tempter. 1 Tim. v. 15. Some turn aside after him.

Jam. iii. 15. Envy and strife is the wisdom that is earthly, sensual, devilish.

1 John iii. 8. He that committeth sin is of the devil. Ver. 10.

Ver. 12. Cain was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.

Rev. xii. 9. Satan deceiveth the whole world.

Satan's hurtfulness to the bodies and worldly interests of mankind: See Job i. 6 to 20, and ii. 7. Also devils are cast out by Christ: See Christ's Miracles.

XXXIV. The enmily and endeavours of Satan and his servants, to injure Christ and his servants. Matt. iv 1. Satan tempted Christ. Mark i. 13.

Matt. xiii. 19. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. Mark iv. 15.

Luke viii. 12. The devil taketh away the| Matt. iv. 1. to 12. When Jesus was forty days word out of their hearts, lest they should be- tempted of the devil, the devil leaveth him lieve, and be saved. without succeeding.

Acts xiii. 10. They pervert the right ways of the Lord.

2 Cor. iv. 4. The god of this world hath blinded the minds of those who believe not.

xii. 7. A messenger of Satan buffeted Paul. 1 Thess. ii. 18. Satan hindered the apostles. Rev. ii. 10.

2 Thess. ii. 9. The coming of the man of sin, is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

1 Tim. iv. 1. Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.

Rev. iii. 9. They say they are Jews, and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan. See Rev. ii. 9, 10.-xii. 13.—xx. 10.

XXXV. Devils believe that there is a God. James ii. 19. The devils believe and tremble. They know Christ. Mark i. 24. They said to Jesus, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God. Luke iv. 41. Devils came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ, the Son of God.

John xii. 31. Jesus said, Now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

xiv. 30. Jesus said, The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

xvi. 11. The prince of this world is judged.

Col. ii. 15. He spoiled principalities and powers, triumphing over them.

Heb. i. 14. Christ destroyed him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.

1 John iii. 8. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Rev. xvii. 14. The Lamb shall overcome them, i. e. the servants of Satan. See Rev xii. 7. 9, 10, 11.

XXXIX. Satan is overcome by Christians, through divine power communicated. Matt. x. 1. Jesus gave his disciples power against unclean spirits, to cast them out. Mark iii.

15.-vi. 7.

Luke x. 17. The disciples returned with joy, saying to Jesus, Even the devils are subject to us through thy name.

Acts xxvi. 17, 18. Jesus said to Paul, I send thee to open men's eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God.

Rom. xvi. 20. The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet.

XXXVI. They knew Christ's servants. Acts xvi. 16, 17. A damsel possessed with a 2 Tim. ii. 25, 26. If God will give them respirit of divination, which brought her mas-pentance to the acknowledging of the truth; ters much gain by soothsaying, followed Paul that they may recover themselves out of the and other apostles, saying, These men are ser- snare of the devil, who are taken captive by vants of the most high God, which shew unto him at his will. Col. i. 13. us the way of salvation.-Ver. 18. Paul commanded the evil spirit to come out of her.

xix. 13. Certain vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits, the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth.-Ver. 15, 16. The evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leapt on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

XXXVII. They know the sacred Scriptures. Matt. iv. 6. They produce the words of Ps. xci. 11, saying, It is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

1 John ii. 14. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. Ver. 13. Eph. vi. 10, 11.

v. 18. He that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. Ch. iv. 4.

Rev. xii. 11. They overcame Satan by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. See Rom. viii. 37, 38, 39.

XL. Promises to them that overcome Satan, Rev. ii. 7. They shall eat of the tree of life.11. Shall not be hurt of the second death.-17. Shall have hidden manna.-26. Shall have power over the nations. Ch. iii. 5. Shall be clothed in white.-12. Shall be made a pillar in the temple of God.-21. Shall sit with Christ in his throne. Ch. xxi. 7. Shall inherit all things. 1 Cor. vi. 3. Shall judge

XXXVIII. Satan was overcome by Christ. fallen angels.

XLI. Duties exhorted to in opposition to Satan. 1 Cor. vii. 5. Let the husband and wife come together, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

2 Cor. ii. 11. Let us receive an offender, when become penitent, lest Satan get an advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.

xi. 2. Paul said, I am jealous over you, with a godly jealousy.-Ver. 3. I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve, through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Ver. 14, 15. For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed, as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. Eph. iv. 26, 27. Let not the sun go down

upon your wrath. Neither give place to the devil.

vi. 11, 12. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.-Ver. 16. Take the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.

James iv. 7. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 Pet. v. 8, 9. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist steadfast in the faith.

Jude 9. Michael the archangel said, The Lord rebuke thee, Satan. Zech. iii. 2.

CHAPTER III.

GOD'S GOVERNMENT.

I. HE is the King, Ruler, and Governor of the world; having a throne, kingdom, dominion, government. 2 Kings xix. 15. Thou art the God of all the kingdoms of the earth.

1 Chron. xxix. 11. Thine is the power, and the glory, and the kingdom; and thou art exalted as head above all. Matt. vi. 13.

xcv. 3. The Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

xcvii. 2. Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

ciii. 19. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. cxlv. 13. Thy kingdom is an everlasting hea-kingdom, and thy dominion endureth through

2 Chron. xx. 6. Art thou not God in ven and rulest not thou over all the king-out all generations. doms of the heathen? and in thy hand is there not power, and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

Job xxv. 2. Dominion and fear are with him he maketh peace in his high places. Ps. x. 16. The Lord is King for ever and

ever.

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xi. 4. The Lord's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men. xxii. 28. The kingdom is the Lord's; and he is the governor among the nations.

xlv. 6. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

xlvii. 2. The Lord most high, is a great King over all the earth.-Ver. 8. God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth on the throne of his holiness.

Ixvi. 7. He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations.

lxxxix. 14. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne.

Prov. viii. 16. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

Isa. xxxvii. 16. Thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. Ch. vi. 5. The King, the Lord of hosts.

lxvi. 1. The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.

Jer. x. 10. The Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

Dan. iv. 3. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation. Ver. 34.

vi. 26. He is the living God, and steadfast for ever; and his kingdom is that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end. Ch. vii. 14. 27.

1 Tim. vi. 15. He is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords.

II. God is the lawgiver. Isa. xxxiii. 22.

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COUNSELS-WILL-ORDINATIONS OF GOD.

The Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king.

James iv. 12. He is the one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy.

III. God is the judge of the earth. Gen. xviii. 25. The judge of all the earth. Ps. xciv. 2. Heb. xii. 23.

Deut. xxxii. 36. The Lord shall judge his people. Eccl. iii. 17. He shall judge the righteous and the wicked.

1 Sam. ii. 10. The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth.

Ps. ix. 4. Thou satest in the throne judging right.

1. 6. God is judge himself. Ps. lxxvi. 8. xcvi. 13. He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

COUNSELS OF GOD.

IV. God has his counsels. Ps. xxxiii. 11. The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever; the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Prov. xix. 21.

CHAP. III.

cording to election might stand, it was said, The elder [brother] shall serve the younger.Ver. 17. Concerning Pharaoh, God said, For this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee.

Eph. i. 11. In Christ we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.

iii. 11. According to the eternal purpose, which God purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Tim. i. 9. God hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling; not according to our works, but according to his own purpose, and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.

WILL OF GOD.

VI. God doth will. Job xxiii. 13. He is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth that he doeth. Ps. xxxiii. 11.

Dan. iv. 35. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he doeth according to his will, in the army of heaven, and

Prov. viii. 14. Counsel is mine, and sound among the inhabitants of the earth; and none wisdom; I am understanding.

can stay his hand, or say unto him, What

Isa. xxv. 1. Thy counsels of old are faith- dost thou ? Job xxxiii. 13. fulness and truth.

xxviii. 29. The Lord of hosts is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. Jer. xxxii. 19.

xl. 14. With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him?-Ver. 17. All nations before him are as nothing.

Isa. xlvi. 10. My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.

iv. 11. My word shall accomplish that which I please.

VII. Determinations of God. Job xiv. 5. Man's days are determined, the number of his

xlvi. 10. My counsel shall stand, and I will months are with thee; thou hast appointed do all my pleasure.

his bounds that he cannot pass. Ver. 14.

Jer. xxxii. 19. The Lord of hosts, great in Acts xvii. 26. counsel and mighty in work.

Acts ii. 23. Jesus was delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. iv. 27, 28. Against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together; for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

Heb. vi. 17. God, willing to shew the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [his promise] by an oath.

V. Purpose of God. Jer. li. 29. Every purpose of God shall be performed. See purposes of God concerning particular nations. Isa. xiv. 24. 27.—xix. 12.-xxiii. 9.-xlvi. 11. Jer. xlix. 20.

Rom. viii. 28. All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

ix. 11, 12. That the purpose of God ac

Isa. x. 23. The Lord God of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land. Ch. xxviii. 22. Zeph. iii. 8.

Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. Ver. 26, 27.

xi. 36. That that is determined shall be done.

Zeph. iii. 8. My determination is to gather the nations, to pour upon them mine indignation.

Matt. xxvi. 24. The Son of man goeth as it is written [determined] of him. Acts iv. 28.

ORDINATIONS OF GOD.

VIII. Things ordained of God. Ps.

cxxxii. 17. I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

Jer. i. 5. I ordained thee a prophet to the nations. 1 Tim. ii. 7.

Hab. i. 12. Thou hast ordained them, [the enemy,] for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast ordained them for correction.

John xv. 16. Jesus said, I have ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit. Eph. ii. 10.

Acts i. 21, 22. Of those men must one be ordained, a witness with us of Christ's resurrection.

Ver. 23-26. And the apostles appointed two, Joseph and Matthias. And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two

thou hast chosen; that he may take part of this ministry and apostleship. And they gave forth their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. Jude 4. There are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, &c.

DECREES OF GOD.

IX. Things decreed of God. Job xxviii. 26. He made a decree for the rain. Ps. cxlviii. 6.

xxxviii. 10. He broke up for the sea his decreed place, and set bars and doors. Prov. viii. 29. Jer. v. 22.

1 Pet. ii. 8. Christ is a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient; whereunto also they were appointed. Jude 4.

PREDESTINATION.

XI. Things predestinated of God. Rom. viii. 29, 30. Whom God did foreknow he did

predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Eph. i. 5. God having predestinated us to the adoption of children, by Jesus Christ, ac

cording to the good pleasure of his will. inheritance, being predestinated according to Ver. 11, 12. In him we have obtained an the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will; that we should be to the praise of his glory.

ELECTION.

XII. Election of the Jews. Neh. ix. 7, 8. Thou art the Lord, the God who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham And madest a covenant with him. Compare Gen. xi. 31.-xii. 1, 2, 3. Acts xiii. 17.

Deut. iv. 37. Because the Lord loved thy Dan. iv. 24. This is the decree of the most fathers, therefore he chose their seed after high God, that is come upon the king. them, and brought thee out of Egypt.

Zeph. ii. 2. Before the decree bring forth," before the day of the Lord's anger come upon you.

X. Things appointed of God. 2 Sam. xvii. 14. The Lord had appointed to defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.

Job vii. 1. Is there not an appointed time for man upon the earth? are not his days like the days of an hireling? Ch. xiv. 5. 14. Prov. viii. 29. He appointed the foundations of the earth.

Dan. viii. 19. At the time appointed, the end shall be. Ch. xi. 27. 35.

Mic. vi. 9. He hath appointed the rod. Hab. ii. 3. The vision is for an appointed time.

Luke xxii. 29. He appointed unto Christ a kingdom.

Acts xvii. 31. He hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world by Jesus Christ. Gal. iv. 4. When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a wo

man.

vii. 6. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. Ch. xiv. 2.

Ver. 7, 8. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you because ye were more in number than any people, (for ye were the fewest of all people :) But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers. Ch. x. 15.

1 Kings iii. 8. Thy servant is in the midst of thy people, whom thou hast chosen.

1 Chron. xvi. 13, 14. O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen ones: He is the Lord our God. Ps. cv. 6, 7.

Ps. xxxiii. 12. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

lxv. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts.

cv. 43. The Lord brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness.

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