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he shall sustain thee; he shall never suffer the he trusteth in thee. Trust in the Lord for righteous to be moved. Ver. 23. ever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.

Ivi. 3, 4. What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. In God I have put my trust, I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. Ps. cxviii. 6.

lvii. 1. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me, for my soul trusteth in thee; yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.

ixi. 4. I will trust in the covert of thy wings. lxii. 8. Trust in him at all times: God is a refuge for us.

Ixiv. 10. The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and shall trust in him.

Ixxiii. 28. It is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God. lxxxvi. 2. O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

xci. 2. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in him will I

trust.

cxii. 7. A good man shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. Ver. 8.

1. 10. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, and obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

li. 5. The isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. Matt. xii. 21.

Ivii. 13. He that putteth his trust in the Lord, shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

Jer. xvii. 7, 8. Blessed is the man who trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river.

xlix. 11. Let thy widows trust in me. Dan. iii. 28. The Lord sent his angels and delivered his servants that trusted in him.

Nah. i. 7, 8. The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him. But darkness shall pursue his enemies.

Zeph. iii. 12. An afflicted and poor people,

cxv. 9. Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he is shall trust in the name of the Lord. their help and shield. Ver. 10, 11.

exviii. 8, 9. It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in princes. Ps. cxlvi. 3.

cxix. 41, 42. Let thy mercies come unto me, O Lord, even thy salvation, according to thy word. For I trust in thy word.

exxv. 1. They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed. cxli. 8. Mine eyes are unto thee, O God, the Lord; in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

Matt. xii. 21. In his [Christ's] name shall the Gentiles trust.

Rom. xv. 12. In him shall the Gentiles trust. Isa. xi. 10.—li. 5.

2 Cor. i. 9, 10. We had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead. Who delivered us; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.

iii. 4, 5. Such trust have we through Christ to Godward. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.

Eph. i. 12, 13. That we should be to the cxliii. 8. Cause me to hear thy loving-kind-praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. ness in the morning, for in thee do I trust: In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard cause me to know the way wherein I should the word of truth, the gospel of your salvawalk, for I lift my soul to thee.

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1 Tim. iv. 10. We both labour and suffer

Prov. iii. 5. Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not unto thine own under-reproach, because we trust in the living God; standing.

xvi. 3. Commit thy works unto the Lord. Ver. 20. Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.

xxii. 19. That thy trust may be in the Lord, I have made known to thee, &c.

xxviii. 25. He that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

xxix. 25. Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.

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, he is also become my salvation.

xxvi. 3, 4. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because

who is the Saviour of all men, especially of them that believe.

v. 5. She that is a widow indeed and desolate, trusteth in God. 1 Pet. iii. 5.

CONFIDENCE.

CXXX. Confidence in God. Ps. lxv. 5. 0 God of our salvation, who art the confidence of the ends of the earth.

Prov. iii. 25, 26. Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh. For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

xiv. 26. In the fear of the Lord is strong | confidence.

Isa. xxx. 15. Thus saith the Lord, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength.

2 Cor. v. 8. We are confident and willing rather to be absent from the body.

Eph. iii. 12. In Christ Jesus our Lord, we have boldness and access with confidence, by the faith of him.

Phil. i. 6. Being confident of this, that he that hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

2 Thess. iii. 4. We have confidence in the Lord touching you. Gal. v. 10. Philem. ver. 21.

Heb. iii. 6. We are Christ's house, if we hold fast the confidence, and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.-Ver. 14. We are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.

lvi. 3, 4. In God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. Heb xiii. 6.

xci. 5, 6. Thou shalt not be afraid for terror by night, nor for the arrow by day; nor for the pestilence, nor for destruction.

cxii. 7. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. Ver. 8. cxviii. 6. The Lord is on my side, I shall not fear.

Prov. i. 33. Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

xxix. 25. The fear of man bringeth a snare, but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Ch. iii. 21 to 25.

Isa. xii. 2. God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid.

xli. 10. Fear not thou, I am with thee, saith the Lord. Ver. 13, 14. Ch. xxxv. 4. Ch. xliii. 1. 5.-li. 7. 12.-liv. 4. 14. Jer. i. 8.x. 35. Cast not away your confidence, which xxiii. 4.-xxx. 10.-xxxix. 17.—xlvi. 27, 28. hath great recompense of reward.

1 John ii. 28. Little children, abide in Christ that when he shall appear we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

iii. 21. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

v. 14. This is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us.

CXXXI. Confidence in God a security against the fear of evil from man. Gen. xv. 1. God said to Abram, Fear not, I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

xxvi. 24. The Lord said to Isaac, Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee.

Lev. xxvi. 3. If ye walk in my statutes. Ver. 6. None shall make you afraid. Job xi. 14, 15. 19. Ezek. xxxiv. 28.-xxxix. 26.

Deut. i. 17. Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man.-Ver. 21. The Lord your God shall fight for you. Ver. 30.

2 Kings vi. 16. The man of God said, Fear not, for they that be with us be more than they that be with them.

Job. v. 21. Neither shalt thou be afraid for destruction when it cometh. Ver. 22. Ch. xi. 14, 15.

Ps. iii. 5, 6. The Lord sustained me, I will not be afraid of thousands set against me. Ps. xxvii. 3.

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xxiii. 4. I will fear no evil, for thou art with

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Mic. iv. 4. They shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree, and none shall make them afraid. Zeph. iii. 13. 16.

Matt. x. 26. Fear them not. Luke i. 74.xxi. 9. John xii. 15.

Luke xii. 4. Be not afraid of them that kill the body. Ver. 32.

Acts xviii. 9. Then spake the Lord to Paul, Be not afraid, for I am with thee. Ver. 10.

Rom. viii. 15. We have not received the spirit of bondage, again to fear, but of adoption. 2 Tim. i. 7.

Phil. i. 14. The brethren spake the word without fear.

Heb. ii. 15. Christ took part of flesh and blood, that he might deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

1 Pet. iii. 14. If ye suffer for righteousness' sake, be not afraid of their terror. Matt. v. 10. 1 John iv. 18. There is no fear in love. Rev. i. 17. Fear not, for I am the first and the last. Ch. ii. 10. See Gen. xxi. 17. Exod. xx. 20. Numb. xiv. 9.-xxi. 34. Deut. vii. 18, 19. 21.-xx. 1. 3.—xxxi. 6. 8. Josh. xi. 6. 2 Kings i. 15. 2 Chron. xx. 17. Neh. iv. 14. Ps. xlix. 5. 16.-lxxviii. 53. Isa. vii. 4. 25. viii. 12. xiv. 3.-xl. 9. Dan. x. 12. Joel ii. 21. Matt. viii. 26. Mark iv. 40. Luke xxi. 9. John xii. 15. Zech. ix. 9. Acts xxvii. 24. Heb. xi. 23.

CXXXII. Confidence of the wicked. Job

xxxiv. 4. The Lord delivered me from all xxxi. 24. If I have made gold my hope, or have my fears.

xlvi. 2. We will not fear, though the earth be removed.-Ver. 7. The Lord of hosts is with us.

said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence -Ver. 28. This also were iniquity.

Ps. cxviii. 8, 9. It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man. It is

better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in princes.

Prov. xiv. 16. A wise man feareth and departeth from evil: but a fool rageth and is confident.

xxi. 22. A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the confidence thereof.

xxv. 19. Confidence in an unfaithful man, in time of trouble, is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

Jer. ii. 37. The Lord hath rejected thy confidence in Egypt and Assyria. Ezek. xxix. 16.

xlviii. 13. The house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence. 1 Kings xii. 29. Phil. iii. 3. Haye no confidence in the flesh.

CXXXIII. Assurance of the righteous. Isa. xxxii. 17. The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteous ness, quietness and assurance for ever. See 1 John iii. 19.

SEEKING GOD.

CXXXIV. Seeking God commanded. Ps. xxvii. 8. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.

cv. 4. Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his face evermore.

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Prov. viii. 17. Those that seek me early shall find me.

Isa. xlv. 19. I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain.

Lam. iii. 25. The Lord is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. Hos. x. 12. Seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Amos v. 4. Thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

Ver. 6. Seek the Lord, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

Ver. 8. Seek him that maketh the seven stars, and Orion; that turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night, &c. Ver. 9.

Zeph. ii. 3. Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment: seek righteousness, seek meekness, it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger.

Matt. vii. 7, 8. Seek and ye shall find. He that seeketh findeth. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. 2 Chron. xv. 2.

Heb. xi. 6. God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. See Job viii. 5, 6. Ps.

Isa. viii. 19. Should not a people seek to xxii. 26. their God?

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lv. 6. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near. Amos v. 4. Acts xv. 17.-xvii. 27.

CXXXVII. Prayers for them that seek God. 2 Chron. xxx. 18-20. Hezekiah prayed, saying, Good Lord, pardon every one xi. 10. There shall be a root of Jesse, [i. e. that prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord Christ,] to it shall the Gentiles seek.

CXXXV. God is to be sought with all the heart. Deut. iv. 29. Thou shalt find the Lord, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Jer. xxix. 13, 14.

Ps. cxix. 2. Blessed are they that seek the Lord with their whole heart.

1 Chron. xxii. 19. Set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God.

Isa. xxvi. 9. With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early. Ps. Ixiii. 8. My soul followeth hard after thee.

CXXXVI. Promises to them that seek God. See the first two texts in the last section.

Ezra viii. 22. The hand of God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. And the Lord hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

Ps. Ixix. 6. Let none of those that seek thee be confounded.

lxx. 4. Let all those that seek thee, rejoice and be glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation say continually, the Lord be magnified.

cv. 3. Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. 1 Chron. xvi. 10

CXXXVIII. Examples of God's people seeking him. 2 Chron. xi. 16. Out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their fathers, [and would not worship the calves set up by Jeroboam.]

xiv. 4. Asa commanded Judah to seek the Ps. ix. 10. Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken Lord God of their fathers, and to do the law them that seek thee. and the commandment. Ver. 7.

CHAP. XIV. NOT SEEKING GOD-DRAWING NEAR TO GOD.

2 Chron. xv. 12, 13. Israel entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul: And that whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel, should be put to death. 2 Kings xxiii. 3. Neh. x. 29. 2 Chron. xx. 4.

xvii. 3, 4. The Lord was with Jehoshaphat; because he sought the Lord God of his fathers, and walked in his commandments. Ch. xix. 3.-xx. 3.-xxii. 9.

xxvi. 5. Uzziah sought God; and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper. Ver. 7.

xxxi. 21. In every work that Hezekiah began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

Ezra vi. 21. The children of Israel separated themselves from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel. vii. 10. Ezra prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.

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light to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God; they seek of me the ordinances of justice, they take delight in approaching to God. In the day of your fast, ye exact all your labours; ye fast for strife. John vi. 26.

Threats against the wicked, who seek not God aright. Ps. lxxxiii. 16. Fill their faces with shame, O Lord, that they may seek thy

name.

cxix. 155. Salvation is far from the wicked, for they seek not thy statutes.

Prov. i. 28. They shall seek me early, but shall not find me.

Isa. ix. 13, 14. The people turn not to him that smiteth them; neither do they seek the Lord of hosts. Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel, head and tail, &c. Hos. vii. 10. 13, 14. 16.

xxxi. 1. Wo to them that go down to Egypt, and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, but look not to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord. Ch. xxx. 1, 2.

Jer. x. 21. The pastors are become brutish,

Job v. 8. I would seek unto God, and unto and have not sought the Lord; therefore they God would I commit my cause.

shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be

Ps. xxiv. 6. This is the generation of them scattered. that seek him.

xxxiv. 4. I sought the Lord; he heard, and delivered me from all my fears. Ps. lxxvii. 2.

Song iii. 2. I will seek him whom my soul loveth. Ch. vi. 1.

Isa. xxvi. 9. With my spirit within me will I seek thee early.

Dan. ix. 3. I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth and ashes.

Mal. iii. 1. The Lord [Christ] whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple. Jer. i. 4, 5. Hos. iii. 5. Zech. viii. 21, 22.

NOT SEEKING GOD.

CXXXIX. The wicked seek not God. 2 Chron. xvi. 12. Asa in his disease, sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

Ps. x. 4. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

xiv. 2, 3. The Lord looketh down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand and seek God. They are all gone aside. Ps. liii. 2. Rom. iii. 11.

CXL. They seek not God aright. 2 Chron. xii. 14. Rehoboam prepared not his heart to seek the Lord.

Isa. lviii. 2, 3. They seek me daily, and de

Hos. v. 5, 6. The pride of Israel doth testify to his face, therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity. They shall go with their flocks and their herds, to seek the Lord, but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.

Ver. 15. I will go and return to my place, saith the Lord, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early. Zeph. i. 6.

John vii. 34. Jesus said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me.

viii. 21. Ye shall seek me, and die in your sins.

DRAWING NEAR TO GOD.

CXLI. Drawing near to God. Lev. x. 3. The Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified, in them that come nigh me, and before all the people will I be glorified.

1 Sam. xiv. 36. The priest said, Let us draw near to God.

Ps. lxv. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou
causest to approach unto thee.
Ixxiii. 28. It is good for me to draw near to
God.

Jer. xxx. 21, 22. I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me. And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Heb. x. 22. Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Ch. vii. 19.

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FORSAKING GOD.

CXLV. Forsaking God. Threats. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. If thou forsake God he will cast thee off for ever.

2 Chron. xv. 2. The Lord is with you while ye be with him, and if ye seek him he will be found of you: if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

xxiv. 20. Because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath forsaken you.

against all that forsake him. Ezra viii. 22. God's power and wrath is

Isa. i. 4. They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger-Ver. 28. They that forsake the Lord

shall be consumed.

fountain of living waters, and hewed them out Jer. ii. 13. My people have forsaken me, the cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no

water.

Ver. 19. Thine own wickedness shall cor

rect thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee; know therefore, and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. See ver. 14-18.

xvii. 13. O Lord, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed. See Deut. viii. 20.-xxxi. 16, 17.-xxxii. 15 to 32. 2 Chron.

xii. 1. 5. Isa. lxv. 11.

DEPARTING FROM GOD.

CXLVI. Departing from God. Jer. xvii. 5. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from God. Ver. 13. Ezek. xviii. 24.-xxxiii. 12. See this sin confessed. Dan. ix. 5. 11. Isa. lix. 12, 13.

Not departing from God. Instances. 2 Sam. xxii. 22, 23. I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God: For all his judgments were before me; and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. See Ps. xviii. 21. Ps. cxix. 3. 8. 10, 11. 102.

BACKSLIDING.

CXLVII. Backsliding from God. Prov. xiv. 14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways.

Isa. i. 4. They are gone away backward.

John viii. 12. He that followeth me shall Jer. vii. 24. not walk in darkness.

x. 27, 28. My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall any pluck them out of my hand.

Jer. ii. 19. Thy backslidings shall reprove thee.

v. 6, 7. Their transgressions are many, their backslidings are increased. How shall I pardon thee? Ch. viii. 5. 13.-xiv. 2 to 7.

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