graven thee on the palms of my hands; thy | my covenant be not with day and night, and walls are continually before me. liv. 7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. Ver. 8, 9, 10. 2 Cor. iv. 9. We are persecuted, but not forsaken. Heb. xiii. 5. Be content, for he hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. XXXI. Prayers that God would not forsake his people. 1 Kings viii. 57. The Lord be with us: let him not leave us nor forsake us. Ps. xxvii. 9. Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. See Ps. xxxviii. 21. lxxi. 9. 18.-cxix. 8.-cxxxviii. 8. XXXII. God forsaketh the wicked. Deut. xxxi. 16, 17. The Lord said, This people will forsake me, and break my covenant. Then mine anger shall be kindled against them, and I will forsake them. Judg. vi. 13. The Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of enemies. 2 Kings xxi. 14. Thus saith the Lord, I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because of their sins. 2 Chron. xii. 5. Thus saith the Lord, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I left you in the hand of your enemies. xv. 2. If ye forsake the Lord, he will forsake you. Ch. xxiv. 20. if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth, then will I cast away the seed of Jacob; for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them. Ver. 20. Ch. xxxi. 37. Lam. iii. 31, 32. Zech. x. 6. They shall be as though I had not cast them off; for I am the Lord their God. Ezek. xi. 19. Mic. iv. 7. Rom. xi. 2. God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew. Ver. 4. XXXIV. Prayers against being cast off Ps. xlii. 2, 3. Why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning? O send out thy light and truth: let them lead me, &c. xliv. 23. O Lord cast us not off for ever. Ps. lxxiv. 1. Ps. lxxvii. 7. Jer. xiv. 19. 21. li. 11. Cast me not away from thy presence. lxxi. 9. Cast me not off in the time of old age. XXXV. God casteth off and rejecteth the wicked. 2 Kings xvii. 20. Because of their wickedness the Lord rejected the seed of Israel, and afflicted them. Ch. xxiii. 27. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. If thou forsake the Lord he will cast thee off for ever. Ps. xliv. 9. Thou hast cast off and put us to shame. Ps. lx. 1. 10.—lxxxix. 38.—cviii. 11. Ixxiii. 18. Thou castedst the wicked down to destruction. Ps. v. 10. Ixxxix. 44. Thou hast made his glory to Ps. lxxviii. 60. He forsook the tabernacle cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. of Shiloh. Ver. 61. Jer. xii. 7. I have forsaken my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. xxiii. 39. I will utterly forget you, and forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers. Ver. 33. XXXIII. God doth not cast off nor reject his people. Lev. xxvi. 43, 44. When they accept the punishment of their iniquity, I will not cast them away, neither abhor them, to destroy them utterly. 2 Kings xiii. 23. The Lord had compassion on his people, and would not destroy them, neither cast them off. Neh. i. 9. If ye turn unto me and keep my commandments, though ye were cast out, I will gather you. Job viii. 20. God will not cast away a perfect man. Ps. cxlvii. 6. Jer. vi. 30. Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them. vii. 15. Because ye have done these evil works, saith the Lord, I will cast you out of my sight. Ver. 20. Ch. xv. 1, 2.—xxiii. 39.-lii. 3. xvi. 12, 13. Ye have done evil. Therefore I will cast you out of this land, into another land, where I will show you no favour. Ch. xxii. 26. Lam. v. 22. Thou hast utterly rejected us, and art wroth against us. Ezek. xxviii. 16. I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God. xxxii. 4. I will cast thee forth upon the open field.-Ver. 8. The bright lights of hea ven will I make dark over thee. Hos. ix. 17. God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him. Matt. iii. 10. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit, is hewn down and cast into Ps. xciv. 14. The Lord will not cast off his the fire. people. Lam. iii. 31. viii. 12. The children of the kingdom shall Isa, xli. 9. I have chosen thee, and not cast be cast into outer darkness. thee away. xiii. 47. See the parable of the net and Jer. xxxiii. 25, 26. Thus saith the Lord, If fishers casting the bad fish away. Luke ix. 25. What is a man advantaged if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? come the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the John xv. 6. If a man abide not in me, he is will of man, but of God. cast forth as a branch, and is withered. 1 Cor. ix. 27. I keep my body under, lest I be cast away. Heb. vi. 8. That ground which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned. xii. 17. Esau was rejected. GOD A FATHER, XXXVI. God a father to his people. Exod. iv. 22. Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my first-born. Jer. xxxi. 9. Rom. ix. 4. Exod. iv, 23. Let my son go. Hos. xi. 1. Deut. xiv. 1. Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Isa. xliii. 6. Bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. Ch. xlv. 11. lxiii. 16. Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our Father, our Redeemer. Ver. 8. Ixiv. 8. Thou, Lord, art our Father: we are the clay, and thou our potter; we are all the work of thy hand. Jer. xxxi. 20. Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? Hos. i. 10. In the place where it was said, Ye are not my people, there shall it be said unto you, Ye are the sons of the living God. Mal. ii. 10. Have we not all one Father? hath not one God created us? iii. 3. Jesus said, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.— Ver. 5, 6. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (Tit. iii. 5, 6.) That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Ver. 7, 8. Marvel not that I said, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Gal. iii. 26. Ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus Christ. iv. 4, 5. God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law; that we might receive the adoption of sons. Eph. i. 4, 5, 6. God hath chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will; to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. 1 Pet. i. 22, 23. Love one another with a pure heart fervently: Ye being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. James i. 18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a Matt. vi. 9. Our Father which art in kind of first-fruits of his creatures. heaven. 1 Pet. i. 3. God hath begotten us to a lively xxiii. 9. One is your Father which is in hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. heaven, John xx. 17. Jesus said, I ascend to my Father, and your Father; to my God and your God. 1 Cor. viii. 6. To us there is but one God the Father, of whom are all things. 2 Cor. vi. 18. I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Jer. xxxi. 1. 9. Hos. i. 10. Eph. iv. 6. There is one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. XXXVII. How any of mankind come into the relation of children, of sons and daughters unto God, besides that of being created by God. John i. 12, 13. As many as received Christ, to them gave he power to be Luke xx. 36. The children of the resurrection. 1 John iii. 1. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God! XXXVIII. Blessings from God as a Father, to his people as his children. Matt, vi. 6. Thy Father shall reward thee openly Ver. 8. Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. Ver. 14. Your heavenly Father will forgive your trespasses. x. 29, 30, 31. A sparrow shall not fall on the ground without your Father. The very hairs of your head are numbered. Fear ye not, therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. xiii. 43. The righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. xviii. 14. It is not the will of your Father that one of these little ones should perish. Luke xii. 32. Fear not, little flock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. John xi. 51, 52. The high priest prophesied, that Jesus should die; and gather together in one the children of God. Rom. i. 7. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father. viii. 15. Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Gal. iv. 6. Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and he sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Luke vi. 35. vi. 14. If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Luke vi. 36. Be ye merciful as your Father also is merciful. Matt. v. 48. Be ye perfect as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. John iv. 23. The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. Rom. viii. 14. As many as are led by the Spirit, are the sons of God. Ver. 16. Eph. v. 1, 2. Be ye followers of God as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us. Ver. 20. Giving thanks always for all things unto God the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. James iii. 9. With the tongue bless we God, even the Father. Phil. iv. 20. Unto God our Father, be glory for ever and ever. Ver. 16, 17. The Spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. Gal. iv. 7. If a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Rom. viii. 19. The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. (1 John iii. 2.) Ver. 21. Phil. ii. 14, 15. Do all things without murThe creature shall be delivered from the bond-murings, and disputings; that ye may be age of corruption, into the glorious liberty of blameless and harmless, the sons of God withthe children of God. out rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world. 2 Cor. i. 3. God is to us the Father of mercies, the God of all comfort. Eph. ii. 18. Through Christ we have access, by the Spirit unto the Father. 2 Thess. ii. 16. Our Father hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace. Heb. ii. 10. Bringing many sons unto glory. James i. 17. Every good and perfect gift cometh from the Father of lights. 1 John i. 3. Our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. ii. 1. We have an advocate with the Father. iii. 2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. Jude 1. Sanctified by God the Father, preserved in Jesus Christ, and called. XXXIX. Marks and characters of God's children, in the exercise of the graces, and practice of the duties of religion. Mal. i. 6. If I be a Father, where is mine honour? saith the Lord of hosts. Matt. v. 9. Blessed are the peace-makers: for they shall be called the children of God. Ver. 16. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Ver. 44, 45. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he Heb. xii. 5, 6. The exhortation speaketh unto you as unto children, My son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. Ver. 7, 8. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons: for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? If ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons. Ver. 9. Shall we not be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? Ver. 10. He chasteneth us for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 1 Pet. i. 14, 15. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. Ver. 17. Call on the Father, and pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. Ver. 22, 23. Love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 1 John ii. 29. Every one that doeth righteousness is born of God. iii. 9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin because he is born of God. (Ch. v. 18.) Ver. 10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. iv. 7. Every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such. v. 25. Brethren, pray for us. 2 Thess. iii. 1. 2 Thess. iii. 6. We command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye v. 1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the withdraw yourselves from every brother that Christ, is born of God. walketh disorderly. Ver. 4. Whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world.-Ver. 18. He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. Heb. xiii. 1. Let brotherly love continue. 1 Pet. iii. 8. Love as brethren. James ii. 15, 16. If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of Rev. xxi. 7. He that overcometh, shall be you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye my son. XL. The wicked are styled the children of whatever evil principle reigns in them; and so are called Children of the devil. John viii. 44. Acts xiii. 10. 1 John iii. 10. Children of Belial. Deut. xiii. 13. Judg. xx. 13. 1 Sam. x. 27. 1 Kings xxi. 10. Children of the wicked one. Matt. xiii. 38. Children of wickedness. 2 Sam. vii. 10. Children of transgression. Isa. lvii. 4. Children of iniquity. Hos. . 9. warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body, what doth it profit? 1 Pet. i. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls, in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. ii. 17. Love the brotherhood. 1 John ii. 9. He that hateth his brother is in darkness. Ch. iii. 15. He is a murderer. iii. 14. 16. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the bre Children of disobedience. Eph. ii. 2.—v. 6. | thren. We ought to lay down our lives for Col. iii. 6. XLI. Under God, their heavenly Father, Christians are brethren and sisters, and owe to each other the duties of that relation. Matt. xviii. 35. Forgive every one his brother's trespass. Rom. xii. 10. With brotherly love preferring one another. xiv. 13. Let no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall, in his brother's way. xvi. 17. I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences, and avoid them. the brethren. Rev. xii. 10. Satan, the accuser of the brethren, is cast down. XLII. Christ is the elder brother. John xx. 17. Jesus said, Go unto my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. Rom. viii. 29. Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Heb. ii. 11, 12. He is not ashamed to call them brethren; saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren. Ver. 17. It behoved him to be made like unto his brethren. SALVATION. XLIII. God is a Saviour. 2 Sam. xxii. 3. The God of my rock; my Saviour. Ps. cvi. 21. They forgot God their Saviour. Isa. xliii. 3. I am the Lord thy God, the holy One of Israel, thy Saviour. Isa. lx. 16. xlix. 26. I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be ex-drunken with their own blood: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour, 1 Cor. v. 11. If any one that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an tortioner, with such a one do not eat. vi. 5. Is there not one among you able to and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. judge between his brethren? Ver. 6. 8. Jer. xiv. 8. O the hope of Israel, the Sa viii. 12. When ye sin so against the bre-viour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land? thren, ye sin against Christ. Ver. 11. 13. 1 Thess. iv. 6. Let no man go beyond, and Hos. xiii. 4. There is no saviour besides me, saith the Lord. Isa. xliii. xlv. 21. 11.- for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Luke i. 47. My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. 1 Tim. ii. 3, 4. God our Saviour, who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. iv. 10. The living God is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe. Jude 25. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen. God saveth his people. Deut. xxxiii. 29. Who is like thee, O people saved by the Lord? Compare Exod. xiv. 13, 14. 30.-xv. 2. Numb. x. 9. Deut. xx. 4. 1 Sam. xi. 13.xix. 5. 1 Sam. xiv. 6. There is no restraint to the Lord, to save by many or by few. Ver. 39. 2 Chron. xiv. 11.-xx. 17. xvii. 47. The Lord saveth not with sword and spear. Ps. xx. 6. The Lord saveth with the saving strength of his right hand. cxxxviii. 7. Ps. 2 Sam. xxii. 2, 3. David said, The Lord is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; the God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my Saviour; thou savest me from violence. Ver. 36. Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation. Ver. 47. The Lord liveth, and blessed be my rock; exalted be the God of my salvation, Ps. xviii. 2.-xxxv. 9. Ps. iii. 8. Salvation belongeth unto the Lord. Isa. xliii. 11. Hos. xiii. 4. Jonah ii. 9. xxvii. 1. The Lord is my light, and my salvation. Ps. lxii. 6. Isa. xii. 2. Ixii. 7. In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength and my refuge is in God. Ps. xxv. 5.—xl. 2.—lxvii. 19, 20. xxvi. 1. Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Ch. xxxiii. 6. 22. XXXV. 4. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not; behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you. xliii. 1, 2. Thus saith the Lord, that created thee, O Jacob, and that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: I have redeemed thee. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. xliii. 3. I am the Lord thy God, the holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.-Ver. 11. I, eyen I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no saviour. Ch. xlv. 21. Hos. xiii. 4. xlv. 8. Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together: I the Lord have created it. Ver. 14, 15. xlix. 25, 26. Thus saith the Lord, I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. Zech. xiv. 11. lix. 1. The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save. Jer. iii. 23. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel. Ps. cxxi. 1. xv. 20. I am with thee, to save thee, and to deliver thee, saith the Lord. Ch. xxx. 11. 17. Ps. Ixix. 35. God will save Zion, and will —xlii. 11. build the cities of Judah. xxiii. 6. In those days Judah shall be saved, Ixxi. 3. Thou hast given commandment to and Israel shall dwell safely. save me. xxx. 7. It is the time of Jacob's trouble; lxxiv. 12. God is my King of old, working but he shall be saved out of it. Ver. 10. Ch. salvation in the earth. xcviii. 2, 3. The Lord hath made known his salvation: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. cxl. 7. O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. cxliv. 10. He giveth salvation unto kings. Ps. xci. 16. Isa. xii. 2. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song. XXV. 9 Lo, this is our God; we have waited xiv. 8, 9. xlvi. 27. Fear not thou, O my servant Jacob; and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. Zech. viii. 7.—x. 6.—xii. 7. Ezek. xxxiv. 22. I will save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey by the carelessness of their shepherds. xxxvi. 29. I will save you from all your uncleannesses. H |