Ps. cxix. 11. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. See Gal. iii. 3. See the Spirit's influences upon all Christians.

XXVII. Also the ministry. Eph. iv. 11-13. He gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

Col. i. 28. We preach Christ, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

1 Thess. iii. 9, 10. We joy before God for your sakes; praying that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith. XXVIII. Promises to the perfect. Job viii. 20. God will not cast away a perfect man.

Ps. xxxvii. 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the latter end of that man is peace.

Prov. ii. 21. The upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

XXIX. Instances of persons called perfect. Noah, Gen. vi. 9.-Job, Job i. 1. 8. —ii. 3.-David, Ps. ci. 2. 6. Persons cal'ed righteous: Noah, Gen. vii. 1.-David, I Kings iii. 6.-Job, Job xxix. 14. -Zacharias and Elizabeth. Luke i. 6. -Abel, Heb. xi. 4.

HYPOCRISY.

XXX. Hypocrisy forbidden. Luke xii. 1. Jesus said, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

James iii. 17. The wisdom which is from above is without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

XXXI. Marks of hypocrites. 2 Kings x. 16. They say, Come and see my zeal for the Lord.

Job xii. 2. No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. xv. 8. They restrain wisdom to them selves. Jer. viii. 8.

Ps. xii. 2. They speak with a double

heart. Jer. xii. 2.

Prov. xx. 6. They proclaim their own goodness.

xxx. 12. They are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Isa. lxv. 5. They say, Stand by thyself,

come not near to me, for I am holier than thou. Luke xviii. 9. They trust in themselves that they are righteous, and despise others.

lxvi. 5. They hate their brethren, and cast them out, and say, Let the Lord be glorified. Matt. vii. 4. They say, Let me pull the mote out of thine eye, &c.

Matt. vi. 5. They pray standing in the synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Luke xviii. 11. In prayer they say, God, I thank thee, I am not as other men are, extortioners, &c. Ch. xxiii. 14. They devour widows' houses, and for a pretenee make long prayers.

Ver. 15. When they fast they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Luke xviii. 12. I fast twice in the week, said the Pharisee.

Ver. 2. When they give alms they glory of men. sound a trumpet, that they may have

Luke xvi. 18. They justify themselves before men.

John v. 44. They receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only.

Matt. xxiii. 25. They make clean the outside of the cup and platter, but within are full of extortion and excess.— Ver. 27. Like whited sepulchres, outwardly beautiful, but within are full of rottenness.-Ver. 18. Outwardly they appear righteous unto men, but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

xv. 8, 9. They honour God with their lips, but their heart is far from him. In vain they worship God, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

xxiii. 13. They shut up the kingdom of heaven against men, they neither go in themselves, nor suffer others to go in.

Ver. 15. They compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and make him two-fold more the child of hell than themselves.

Ver. 23. They pay tythe of mint, anis and cummin, (all manner of herbs, Luke xi. 42.) and omit the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy

and fath. Luke xviii. 12.

Ver. 24. They strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.

XXXII. Threats. Job viii. 13. The hypocrite's hope shall perish.

xiii. 16. An hypocrite shall not come before God. Ps. v. 5.

Job xv. 34. The congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate.

xvii. 8. The innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.

xx. 5. The joy of the hypocrite is

but for a moment.

xxvii. 8. What is the hope of the hypocrite, when God taketh away his soul? xxxvi. 13. The hypocrites heap up wrath; they cry not when God bindeth them.

Isa. ix. 17. The Lord shall have no pleasure in their young men, neither shall he have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for every one is an hypocrite and an evil doer.

x. 6. An hypocritical nation, the people of God's wrath.

xxxiii. 14. Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites: who among us shall dwell with devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings? Matt. xxiii. 33. Ye serpents! ye generation of vipers! how can ye escape the damnation of hell.

xxiv. 51. The Lord of the evil servant shall appoint him his portion with the hypocrites, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

XXXIII. Hypocrites hurtful to men. Job xxxiv. 30. That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

Prov. xi. 9. The hypocrite with his mouth devoureth his neighbour. See Isa. xxxii. 6. Mark xii. 14, 15. Prov. xxvii. 14.

THE HEART.

XXXIV. The heart of the righteous is toward God. Whole heart signifying sincerity in duties. Deut. xi. 13. Love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul. Ch. xiii. 3.-xxx. 6. Matt. xxii. 37. Jos. xxii. 5. 1 Sam. xii. 20. 24.

xxvi. 16. Thou shalt keep and do these statutes and judgments, with all thine heart and with all thy soul. 1 Kings ii. 4.-viii. 23.

xxx. 2, 3. When thou shalt return to the Lord thy God, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; then the Lord will turn thy captivity, &c.

2 Kings xxiii. 3. Josiah the king made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all their heart, and all their soul. 2 Chron. xxxiv. 31.-xv. 12.

Ps. ix. 1. I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart. Ps. lxxxvi. 12. I will praise thee, with all my heart.

cxix. 2, Blessed are they that keep the Lord's testimonies, and seek him with the whole heart. Ver. 10.

Ver. 34. Give me understanding and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Ver. 69.

Ver. 58. I entreated thy favour with my whole heart. Ver. 145.

Prov. iii. 5. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not to thine own understanding.

Jer. xxiv. 7. They shall return to me with their whole heart.

xxix. 13. Ye shall seek me, and find me (saith the Lord) when ye search for me with all your heart. 2 Chron. xv. 12.-xxii. 9.

Acts viii. 37. If thou believest with all thine heart, &c.

Col. iii. 23. Whatsoever ye do, do it heartly as unto the Lord.

Who shall ascend into the hill of God? XXXV. Pure heart. Ps. xxiv. 3, 4. and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure

heart.

Matt. v. 8. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. See 1 Tim. i. 5. 2 Tim. ii. 22. 1 Pet. i. 22.

XXXVI. Perfect heart. 1 Kings viii. 61. Let your hearts be perfect with the Lord your God, to walk in his statutes, and keep his commandments. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. Serve God with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.

1 Chron. xxix. 9. With a perfect heart the people offered willingly.

2 Chron. xvi. 9. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the whole earth, to shew himself strong in behalf of those whose heart is perfect with him.

Ps. ci. 2. I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

Luke viii. 15. But that on the good ground, are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

See Instances. Asa, 1 Chron. xv. 14. 2 Chron. xv. 17.—Hezekiah, 2 Kings xx. 3. Isa. xxxviii. 3.—Want of a perfect heart in Solomon, 1 Kings xi. 4. -xv. 3. And in Amaziah, 2 Chron. xxv. 2.

Ps. vii. 9. The righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

xxvi. 2. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me, try my reins and my heart. Jer. xi. 3. Thou hast tried mine heart toward thee. 1 Thess. ii. 4. God trieth the hearts.

Ps. xvii. 3. Thou hast proved mine heart, thou hast tried me.

Prov. xxi. 2. The Lord pondereth the hearts. Ch. xxiv. 12.

XLIII. God influenceth the hearts of the righteous. Ps. li. 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God, &c.

Jer. xxiv. 7. I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord.

to him, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments. Ps. cxix. 36. Incline my heart unto thy statutes. Ver. 8. Ps. cxli. 4.

Ps. lxxxvi. 11. Unite my heart to fear thy name.

Isa. lvii. 15. Thus saith the high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

ever.

Ezek. xi. 19. I will give them one heart, and I will put a new Spirit within you, and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh.-Ver. 20. That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. Ch. xxxvi. 26. See 1 Sam. x. 9. 2 Chron. xxx. 12.

Prov.

1 Chron. xxix. 18. O Lord prepare their heart unto thee. Ps. x. 17. Thou Lord wilt prepare their heart. xvi. 1. The preparation of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. Ver. 9. Ch. xix. 21.

Deut. xxx. 6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 2 Thess. iii. 5. 1 Sam. x. 26. There went with Saul a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.

Acts xvi. 14. The Lord opened the heart of Lydia, that she attended to the things spoken by Paul.

xv. 9. God purifying their hearts by faith.

1 Thess. iii. 12, 13. The Lord stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness, before God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints. 1 Thess. ii. 17.

Prov. xxi. 1. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, he turneth it, &c. Job xii. 24. Ezra vi. 22. The Lord turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto his people.

Ps. cv. 25. He turned their heart to hate his people.

Mal. iv. 6. He shall turn the heart of the fathers unto the children, &c. Luke xi. 17.

Ezra vii. 27. Ezra said, Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who hath put this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the Lord. Neh. ii. 12. I told no man what God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem.

Jer. xxxii. 40. I will put my fear in their hearts, &c. Ch. xxxi. 33. I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts. Heb. viii. 10.

2 Cor. iii. 3. Ye are the epistle of Christ, written with the Spirit of the living God in fleshly tables of the heart.

Ps. xxxiii. 15. He fashioneth their hearts.

Deut. ii. 30. The Lord hardened the spirit of Sihon, king of Heshbon, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into the hand of Israel.

xxix. 4. The Lord hath not given you

XLV. Satan's influences on the heart of the wicked. Instances thereof. See Satan's tempting Eve, Gen. iii. 1 to 6. -Tempting David to number the people, 1 Chron. xxi. 1.—He taketh away the word out of their heart, Matt. xiii. 19. He put into the heart of Judas to betray Christ, John xiii. 2.-Put into the hearts of Ananias and Sapphira to lie, Acts v. 3.-He blinds the minds of unbelievers, 2 Cor. iv. 4. Eph. iv. 18.

XLVI. An evil heart described. Gen. vi. 5. Every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart, was evil continually. Prov. xx. 9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean?

Jer. xvii. 9. The heart is deceitful

above all things, and desperately ed, who can know it?

pro

Full of pride. 2 Chron. xxvi. 16. Coveteousness. Isa. xxii. 17. 2 Pet. ii. 14.

CONSCIENCE.

XLVIII. Keeping a good conscience. Acts xxiii. 1. Paul said, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

Rom. ix. 1. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost.

xiii. 5. Ye must needs be subject [to magistrates] not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

2 Cor. i. 12. Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world.

iv. 2. By manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God. Ch.

v. 11.

1 Tim. i. 5. The end of the command

XLVII. In Scripture the hearts of the wicked are described-as wicked. Prov. xxvi. 23. Deut. xv. 9. 1 Kings ii. 44. Uncircumcised. Jer. ix. 26.

Hard. 1 Sam. vi. 6. Prov. xxviii. 14. Zech. vii. 12. Mark xvi. 15.

Stony. Ezek. xi. 19.—xxxvi. 26.

Set to do evil. Eccl. viii. 11. Full of evil. Eccl. ix. 3.

Froward. Prov. vi. 15.-xi. 20. lvii. 17.

Perverse. Eccl. xi. 9.

Isa.

Prov. xii. 8.-xxiii. 33.

2 Tim. i. 3. I serve God with a pure conscience.

Heb. x. 22. Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.

xiii. 18. We trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly.

1 Pet. ii. 19. This is thank-worthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

iii. 15, 16. Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Having a good conscience; a good conversation in Christ.

XLIX. A good conscience, how attained. Acts xxiv. 16. I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men.

Heb. ix. 2. Gifts and sacrifices were offered [under the law] which could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience. (Ch. x. 2.) Ver. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot unto God, purge your conscience from dead works, to serve the living God.

1 Pet. iii. 21.

x. 22. Having the heart sprinkled from an evil conscience,