CHAP. XIV. Looking to God, &c.-Meditation. pared with John xii. 40, 41. Acts xxviii. 26, 27. LOOKING TO GOD. XLIV. Look to God. Ps. xxxiv. 5. They looked unto God, and were lightened. Ps. v. 3.-cxxiii. 2. Isa. xvii. 7. At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the holy One of Israel. Chap. viii. 17. xlv. 22. Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else. Mic. vii. 7. I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. See Isa. xxxiii, 14. REMEMBERING GOD. XLV. Remembering God. Neh. iv. 14. Remember the Lord, which is great and terrible. Ps. xx. 7. 161 forgotten me, saith the Lord. Ver. 14. Jer. xxiv. 27. XLVII. Threatenings against those that forget God. Deut. xxxii. 18. Of the Rock that begat thee, thou art unmindful; and hast forgotten God that formed thee. -Ver. 19. The Lord abhorred them. See to ver. 26. Judg. iii. 7. The children of Israel forgat the Lord.-Ver. 8. Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, &c. 1 Sam. xii. 9. They forgat the Lord their God, and he sold them into the hand of their enemies. Ps. ix. 17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. Job viii. 11, 12, 13. 1. 21, 22. These things thou hast done and I kept silence; but I will reprove thee, saith the Lord. Consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, Job xxi. 6. When I remember him I and there be none to deliver. am afraid. Ps. xlii. 6. My God, my soul is cast down in me; therefore will I remember thee. Ps. xx. 7.—lxxvii. 10. Ixiii. 5, 6. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. Eccl. xii. 1. Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Isa. xxvi. 9. The desire of our soul is to thee, and to the remembrance of thy name. Jonah ii. 7. When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came unto thee, even unto thine holy temple. See Zech. x. 9. Not remembering God. Isa. lvii. 11. Of whom hast thou been afraid, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? Ch. li. 12, 13. Judg. viii. 34. Ps. Ixxviii. 42. FORGETTING GOD. XLVI. Forgetting God. Ps. cvi. 21. Israel forgat God their Saviour, which had done great things in Egypt for them. Isa. xvii. 10. Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, &c.-Ver. 11. But the harvest shall be an heap in the day of desperate sorrow. Ezek. xxiii. 35. Thou hast forgotten me; therefore bear thy lewdness. Hos. viii. 14. Israel hath forgotten his Maker. I will send a fire upon his cities. XLVIII. Warnings against forgetting God. Deut. vi. 12. Beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God. viii. 11-14. Beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes. Lest when thou hast eaten, and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and hast dwelt therein; and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; that then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God. See to ver. 20. Ps. xliv. 17. All this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten thee.-Ver. 20. If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god, shall not God search out Jer. ii. 32. My people have forgotten this? me days without number. Ch. xiii. 25. -xviii. 5. iii. 21. They have perverted their way, and have forgotten the Lord their God. Ezek. xxii. 12. Thou hast gained of thy neighbour by extortion, and hast MEDITATION. XLIX. Meditation upon God and his word. A good man meditates upon God's law day and night. Ps. i. 2.—xlix. 3.-cxix. 97. Josh. i. 8. Job xxii. 22. Lay up his words in thine heart. Ps. xvi. 8. I have set the Lord always before me. xl. 8. O my God, thy law is within my heart. Ps. xxxvii. 31.-cxix. 11. lxiii. 5, 6. My soul shall be satisfied -when I meditate on thee in the night watches. Ps. civ. 34. lxxvii. 12. I will meditate of all thy works, and talk of thy doings. Ps. cxliii. 5. cxix. 15. I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. Ver. 78. Ver. 23. Thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. Ver. 48. Ver. 99. Thy testimonies are my meditation.-Ver. 148. Mine eyes prevent the night-watches, that I might meditate in thy word. 1 Tim. iv. 15. Meditate upon these things. FEARING GOD. L. Fear due unio God. Exod. xv. 11. Who is like unto thee, O Lord! glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders! Ps. lxxvi. 7. Thou, even thou art to be feared; and who may stand when thou art angry? Ver. 11. lxxxix. 7. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints. xcvi. 4. The Lord is to be feared above all gods. Jer. x. 7. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? Rev. xv. 4. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy. LI. The excellency of fearing God. Job xxviii. 28. The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding. Ps. cxi. 10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Prov. ix. 10. -xv. 33. It is the instruction of wisdom. Prov. i. 7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Ps. xix. 9. It is clean, enduring for ever. LII. It is a commanded duty. Deut. vi. 24. The Lord our God commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always. 2 Kings xvii. 36. The Lord, him shall ye fear. Ver. 39. Ps. xxii. 23. Fear him all the seed of Israel. xxxiii. 8. Let all the earth fear the Lord. Ps. xxxiv. 9. Prov. xxiii. 17. Be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long. xxiv. 21. Fear the Lord and the king. 1 Pet. ii. 17. Isa. viii. 13. Sanctify the Lord God of hosts, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. Jer. v. 22. Will ye not fear me, saith the Lord? will ye not tremble at my presence? Ver.24. Mal. i. 6. If I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts. Matt. x. 28. Fear him that is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Rev. xiv. 7. Fear God, and give glory to him. LIII. God is to be feared on account of his perfections. Job xiii. 11. Shall not his excellency make you afraid? xxv. 2. Dominion and fear are with him. xxxvii. 23, 24. The Almighty is excellent in power, and judgment, and in plenty of justice. Men do therefore fear him. Ps. cxxx. 4. There is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared. Rev. XV. 4. LIV. God is to be feared on account of his words and works. Deut. iv. 10. I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth. 1 Kings viii. 40. 43. 2 Chron. vi. 30. 33. Josh. iv. 23. The Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan as he did the Red Sea, that all people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty; that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever. Eccl. iii. 14. What God doth shall be for ever; nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it; and God doth it, that men may fear before him. See Jer. xxxiii. 9. Rev. xiv. 7. Isa. lxv. 8. Examples. Instances. Exod. xiv. 31. 1 Sam. xii. 18. LV. The fear af the Lord is promised and prayed for. Ps. xxxvi. 11. Ünite my heart to fear thy name. Isa. lix. 11. They shall fear the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. See Ch. xxix. 23. 1 Chron. xvi. 30. Fear before him all Prov. ii. 5. Jer. xxxiii. the earth. Ps. xcvi. 9, Jer. xxxii. 39. I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever; for the good of them and of their children. I will put my fear into their hearts, and they shall not depart from me. Isa. xi. 2. The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord shall rest upon him. LVI. The fear of God joined with obedience toward God. Deut. vi. 2, 3. Fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments: that it may be well with thee.-Ver. 13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him. x. 12. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul?-Ver. 20. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name. xiii. 4. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him and cleave unto him. Josh. xxiv. 14. Now, therefore, fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and truth. 1 Sam. xii. 24. Fear the Lord, and serve him with all your heart. Eccl. xii. 13. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. LVII. Joined with the worship of God. Ps. ii. 11. Serve the Lord with fear. v. 7. In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple. xxii. 23. Ye that fear the Lord, praise him. cxxxv. 20. Ye that fear the Lord, bless the Lord. Acts x. 2. Cornelius feared God, and prayed to God alway. Heb. xii. 28. Serve God with reverence and godly fear. LVIII. It is a motive to duty in general toward God and man, and a restraint from sin. Gen. xxii. 12. God said to Abraham, Thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. xlii. 18. Joseph said, This do, and live; for I fear God. Exod. i. 17. The midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them. Exod. ix. 20. He that feared God among the servants of Pharaoh, made his cattle and servants go into the houses. xx. 20. That his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. Lev. xix. 14. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God. Ver. 32. Deut. xiii. 11. All Israel shall hear and fear the Lord, and do no more such wickedness as this among you. Ch. xiv. 23.-xvij. 13. 19.-xix. 20.-xxi. 21.— xxxi. 12, 13. Job i. 1. Job feared God, and eschewed evil. Ver. 8. Ch. ii. 3. Prov. iii. 7. The fear of the Lord is to depart from evil. viii. 13. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. Ch. xiv. 16. xvi. 6. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil. 2 Cor. vii. 1. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Ver. 11. Eph. v. 21. Submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of God. Phil. ii. 12. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling. Heb. xi. 7. Noah, moved with fear, prepared an ark. 1 Pet. i. 7. Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. iii. 2. Your chaste conversation, cou pled with fear. Col. iii. 22. Servants, obey your masters, with singleness of heart, fearing God. Eph. vi. 5. 1 Kings xviii. 3, 4. 12, 13. 2 Kings. Obadiah iv. 1. Neh. vii. 2.-Hanani, Ps. xl. 3.-lii. 6.-cxix. 63. See the Qualifications of the civil magistrate, Command Instances. Isaac, Gen. xxxi. 42, 43. ment 5th. Deut. vi. 24. The Lord commanded us LIX. Promises to them that fear God. to fear the Lord our God, for our good alway. 2 Kings xvii. 39. The Lord your God ye shall fear, and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies. Neh. i. 11. Let thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, who desires to fear thy name. Ps. xxv. 12. 14. What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach the way that he shall choose. xxxi, 19. How great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! Ps. xxxiii. 18. Behold, the eye of the Lord is on them that fear him. xxxiv. 7. The angel of the Lord encampeth round them that fear him, and delivereth them.-Ver. 9. There is no want to them that fear him. lx. 4. Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee. lxxxv. 9. His salvation is nigh them that fear him. ciii. 11. As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.-Ver. 13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.-Ver. 17. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him. cxi. 5. He hath given meat unto them that fear him. cxii. 1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord. cxv. 11. Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord: he is their help and shield. -Ver. 13. The Lord will bless them that fear him. cxix. 38. Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear. cxxviii. 1. Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord,-Ver. 4. Thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord. cxlv. 19. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him; he will hear their cry, and will save them. Eccl. viii. 12. It shall be well with them that fear God. Isa. xxxiii. 6. The fear of the Lord is his treasure. 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. Zeph. iii. 7. I said, Surely thou wilt fear me; so thy dwelling should not be cut off. Mal. ii. 5. My covenant was with Levi of life and peace; and I gave them to him, for the fear wherewith he feared me. iii. 16, 17. They that feared the Lord, spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened and heard; and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord, in the day that I make up my jewels: and I will spare them as a man spareth his son that serveth him. iv. 2. Unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing under his wings. Luke i. 50. His mercy is on them that fear him, from generation to generation. Rev. xi. 18. The time is come, that thou shouldst give a reward to them that fear thy name. See 1 Sam. xii. 14. 18. Ps. lii. 6.-lxvi. 16.-cxviii. 4.-cxix. 74. 79. Eccl. vii. 18. Isa. lx. 5. Jer. cxlvii. 11. The Lord taketh pleasure xxxii. 39, 40. Acts ix. 31. in them that fear him. Prov. x. 27. The fear of the Lord prolongeth days. xiv. 26, 27. In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence; and his children shall have a place of refuge. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. xv. 16. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasures and trouble therewith. xix. 23. The fear of the Lord tendeth to life; he that hath it shall abide satisfied. xxii. 24. By humility and the fear of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life. xxviii. 14. Happy is the man that feareth alway. xxxi. 30. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised. LX. Other expressions to the same ef- fect. bled at the word. Isa. lxvi. 2, 5. Job xxi. 6. When I remember, trembling taketh hold on my flesh. Ps. cxix, 120. Ps. ii. 11. Rejoice with trembling. Hos. xiii. 11. When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel. day of the Lord cometh. Ver. 10. See Joel ii. 11. Let all tremble, for the lxiv. 2. Dan. vi. 26. Jer. xxxiii. 9. Hab. iii. 16. Acts vii. 32.-xvi. 29.—xxiv. 25. Eph. vi. 5. Phil. ii. 12. Ezra x. 10. Job iv. 14.-xxxvii. 1. Isa. LXI. Heaven and earth tremble at God's greatness. Job ix. 6. He shaketh the earth out of her place; the pillars thereof tremble. xxvi. 11. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof. Ps. xviii. 7. The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the hills moved, because he was wroth. See Ps. lx. 2. lxxvii. 18.-xcvii. 4.-civ. 32. -cxiv. 7. Jer. x. 10.-li. 29. Amos viii. 8. Quake. Neh. i. 7. The mountains quake at him; the hills melt. Heb. xii. 21. Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake. See Exod. xviii. 9. Ezek. xii. 18. Terror. Job vi. 4. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me. xxxi. 23. Destruction from the Almighty was a terror to me. Ps. lxxxviii. 15. While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Jer. xvii. 17. Be not a terror to me; for thou art my hope in the day of evil. Job xxxiii. 7. 2 Cor. v. 11. Knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men. Reverence. Ps. lxxxix. 7. God is to be had in reverence of all that are about him. 2 Sam. vi. 9. David was afraid of the Lord. See 1 Chron. xiii. 12. Job xiii. 11.-xxi. 6.-xxiii. 15.-xxxiii. 7. Ps. cxix. 120.-lvi. 3. Hab. iii. 2. LXII. Threatenings against those that fear not God. Prov. i. 29. They hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord. Ver. 31. Therefore shall they eat the fruit of their own way. Ver. 25, &c. Eccl. viii. 13. It shall not be well with the wicked, because they fear not God. Jer. ii. 19. Thine own wickedness shall correct 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, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts. xliv. 10, 11. They are not humbled, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law. Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, &c. Mal. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, adulterers, false swearers, against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. See 2 Kings xvii. 25. 40, 41. NOT FEARING GOD. that fear which is a restraint from sin, and LXIII. The wicked fear not God, with a motive to duty. Gen. xx. 11. Abraham said, I thought surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will slay me for my wife's sake. As for thee and thy servants, I know that Exod. ix. 30. Moses said to Pharoh, let Israel go. ye will not yet fear the Lord God, to Deut. xxv. 18. Amalek smote Israel, and feared not God. Job vi. 14. The wicked forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.-Ver. 18. The paths of their way are turned aside, they go to nothing and perish. xv. 4. He casteth off fear, and restraineth prayer before God. Ps. xxxvi. 1. The transgression of the is no fear of God before his eyes. wicked saith within my heart, That there lv. 19, 20. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.-He hath broken his covenant. Ixiv. 4. Suddenly do they shoot at the perfect, and fear not. Jer. iii. 8. Judah feared not, but played the harlot. v. 22. Fear ye not me? saith the Lord. Ver. 23, 24. This people hath a revolting heart. Neither say they in their heart, Let us fear the Lord our God. |