dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he seas: and God saw that it was good.

Job xxvi. 10. He hath compassed the waters 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. civ. 3.-cxlvii. 8. Prov. viii. 28.

Job xxviii. 25. He maketh the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure. Ch. xxxvii. 16. The balancing of the clouds. Prov. xxx. 4. Amos iv. 13.

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.

IX. The inhabitants of the sea. Gen. i. 20, 21. God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly, the moving creature that hath life; and fowl that may fly above the earth, in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind; and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Ps. viii. 8.

X. The inferior creatures of the dry land. Gen. i. 24, 25. God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind: and every thing that creepeth upon the earth, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

XI. Grass, herbs, and trees. Gen. i. 11, 12. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass and herb, yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Gen. ii. 4, 5.

CREATION OF MAN.

XII. Creation of Man's body. Gen. ii. 7. God formed man of the dust of the ground. Job xxxiii. 6.

iii. 19. Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return. Job x. 9.

Job x. 8. Thy hands have made me, and fashioned me together round about. Ps.cxix. 73.-cxxxviii. 8.

Ver. 11. Thou hast clothed me with skin

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. Ivii. 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.

Zech. xii. 1. He formed the spirit of man 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.

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, thrones, dominions. 1 Pet. iii. 22. Col. i. 16,

&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.

They excel in wisdom and knowledge.

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.

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 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,

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. Isa. xxxvii. 36.

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

sepulchre, and directs them where to publish it. Ver. 7. Luke xxiv. 5, 6, 7. John xx. 12, 13.

Acts i. 10, 11. At Christ's ascension, angels declare to the apostles his coming again.

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 judgment. Matt. xiii. 39. The harvest is the end of the world; the reapers are the angels.

xxiv. 31. The son of man shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to 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 know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall be punished 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.

there appeared an angel unto him from heaven strengthening him.

Matt. xxvi. 51, 52. When Jesus was appre

hended, 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 shall 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

ters of his that do his pleasure. Ps.cxlviii. 2. Isa. vi. 3. The seraphim cried one to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

Dan. vii. 10. Thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand 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.

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. 1 to 7. Satan 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

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.-х. 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 enmity 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.