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am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. See 2 Sam. vii. 19. Thou hast spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, &c.

Job vii. 17. Job said, What is man that thou shouldest magnify him, and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

viii. 9. We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. Ch. iv. 19. Crushed before the moth.

me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given.

2 Cor. iii. 5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.

xii. 10. When I am weak, then am I strong.

Gal. ii. 20. I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.

Phil. iii. 12-14. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect. I count not myself to have apprehended, I press toward the mark,

xl. 4. Behold I am vile; I will lay for the prize of the high calling of God mine hand upon my mouth. in Christ Jesus.

xlii. 5, 6. Mine eye seeth thee: wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

Ps. viii. 3, 4. When I consider the

heavens, the work of thy fingers, the

moon and stars which thou hast made, I say, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

xxv. 13. I humbled my soul with fasting.

cxv. 1. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory; for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.

cxliv. 3, 4. Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? Man is like unto vanity.

Matt. viii. 8. The centurion said to Jesus, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof.

Luke v. 8. Simon Peter said to Jesus, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man,

O Lord.

xviii. 13, 14. The publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. This man went down to his house justified rather than the other.

Acts iii. 12. The apostles said, Why look ye upon us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk. Ver. 15. The name of Jesus, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong.

xx. 18. Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Ver. 19.

Rom. vii. 18. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing. 1 Cor. xv. 9. I am less than the least of all the apostles, and am not worthy to be called an apostle. Eph. iii. 3. To

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Ps. x. 4. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. See Jer. xliii. 2.

lxxiii. 6. The pride of the wicked compasseth them about as a chain.Ver. 9. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.-Ver. 11. They say,

How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?-Ver. 18.

Thou castedst them down.

cxix. 21. Thou hast rebuked the

proud that are cursed, which do err 24. See the pride and fall of Babylon. from thy commandments. Isa. xiv. 4 to

XLII. Pride against men. Ps. x. 2. The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor.

xvii. 10. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Ver. 11. They have compassed us in our steps.

lxxxvi. 4. O God, the proud are risen against me. Ver. 17.

exix. 51. The proud have had me greatly in derision.-Ver. 69. They forged a lie against me. (Ver. 78. 122.) Ver. 85. They have digged a pit for me. Ps. cxl. 5.

cxxiii. 4. Our soul is filled with the contempt of the proud.

Prov. xxi. 24. He dealeth in proud wrath.

xxviii. 25. The proud in heart stirreth up strife. Ch. xiii. 10.

XLIII. Spiritual pride-Such seem to be righteous. Deut. ix. 4. Speak not in thine heart, saying, For my righteousness the Lord brought me in to possess this land.

2 Kings x. 16. Come see my zeal for the Lord, said Jehu.

Isa. lxv. 3. A people that provoketh me to anger continually.-Ver. 5. Say, stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

Luke xviii. 9. They trust in themselves that they are righteous, and despise others.-Ver. 11, 12. The Pharisee said, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers; or even as this publican: I fast twice in the week, I pay tythes of all that I possess, &c.

Rom. x. 3. Being ignorant of God's righteousness, they go about to establish their own righteousness.

1 Cor. x. 12. They think they stand, but should take heed lest they fall.

XLIV. They are proud of their supposed wisdom and knowledge, Job xii. 2. No doubt ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

xv. 8. Dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself.

Jer. viii. 8. How say ye, We are wise, and the law of God is with us?

1 Cor. iii. 18. They deceive themselves; they seem to be wise.

iv. 6. They are puffed up.-Ver. 8. They are full, they are rich, they reign as kings without instructors.

vii. 1. Their knowledge puffed them up.-Ver. 2. If they think they know any thing, they know nothing as they ought to know.

2 Cor. x. 12, 13. They commend themselves; but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. They boast of things without

their measure.

1 Tim. vi. 4, 5. Proud, knowing nothing; doting about questions, &c. 2

Tim. iii. 2.

Rev. iii. 17. They know not that they are poor, and miserable, and wretched, and blind, and naked. See Korah and his company, Numb. xvi. 3.

XLV. The proud seek honour from men. Prov. xxv. 6, 7. They put themselves in the place of great men.

Matt. xxiii. 6. They choose the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues. Luke xiv. 7. Ver. 7. They love to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

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

xii. 43. They love the praise of men more than the praise of God. See instances: Haman, Esther iii. 5.-v. 5. &c. And Naaman the Assyrian, 2 Kings v.

11 to 15.

XLVI. Threats and prayers against the proud. 1 Sam. ii. 3. Talk no more so exceeding proudly: let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Job ix. 13. If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

xxvi. 12. By his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

Ps. xii. 3. The Lord shall cut off the tongue that speaketh proud things. Ps. xxxi. 18.-xl. 4.-xvii. 13.

xxxi. 23. The Lord plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

xxxvi. 11. Let not the foot of pride come against me.

lix. 12. Let them be taken in their pride.

xciv. 2. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud. Luke i. 51.

cxxxviii. 6. knoweth afar off.

The proud the Lord

Prov. viii. 13. Wisdom saith, Pride and arrogancy do I hate. Ch. vi. 16, 17.

xvi. 5. Every one that is proud is an abomination to the Lord. Ver. 18.

Pride goeth before destruction; and an Ch, xi. haughty spirit before a fall. 2. When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.

xxi. 4. An high look, a proud heart, and the ploughing of the wicked is sin. xxix. 23. A man's pride shall bring him low.

shall be humbled, and the haughtiness Isa. ii. 11, 12. The lofty looks of man Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. of men shall be bowed down; and the For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low. Ch. v. 15, 16.—xxvi. 5.

xiii. 11. I will cause the arrogancy of

CHAP. XVII.

Arrogancy.-Loftiness.-Haughty.

the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Isa. xxiii. 9. The Lord hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory.

xxv. 11,

pride.

He shall bring down their

xxviii. 1. Woe to the crown of pride. Jer. xiii. 15, 16. Hear ye; and give ear; be not proud; for the Lord hath spoken: Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains. Ver. 18.

Dan. iv. 37. Those that walk in pride, he is able to abase.

Zeph. ii. 10, 11. This shall they have for their pride: The Lord will be ter

rible unto them.

Mark vii. 22. Out of the heart proceed pride, foolishness; and these de

file the man. Ver. 23.

Rom i. 28-30. God gave them over to a reprobate mind who did not like to retain God in their knowledge: Being filled with all unrighteousness; proud, boasters, &c.

1 John ii. 16. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

ARROGANCY.

XLVII. Arrogancy. 1 Sam. ii. 3. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth. Prov. viii. 13. Pride and arrogancy, and the evil way, do I hate, saith Wisdom.

Isa. xiii. 11. I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, saith the Lord.

LOFTINESS.

XLVIII. Loftiness. Ps. lxxiii. 8. The wicked speak loftily. (Prov. xxx. 13.) Ver. 18. Thou castedst them down to destruction.

cxxxi. 1. Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty.

HAUGHTY.

XLIX. Haughty. 2 Sam. xxii. 28. Thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. Ezek.

xvi. 50.

Prov. xviii. 12. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty. Ch. xvi. 8.

Isa. iii. 16, 17. Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks, the Lord will smite them with a scab, &c.

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Isa. xiii. 11. I will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Zeph iii. 11. Thou shalt no more be haughty. Mic. ii. 3.

L. Exalting one's self. Ps. lxvi. 7. Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Ps. cxl. 8.

Prov. xvii. 19. He that exalteth his gate, seeketh destruction.

Matt. xxiii. 12. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. 11. 2 Thess. ii. 4. The man of sin and son of perdition opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or is worshipped.-Ver. 8. Whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.

11. 14. Beware that thine heart be not LI. Lifting up one's self. Deut. viii. God. Ver. 11, 12. 17. lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy

him a copy of the law. He shall read xvii. 18-20. The king shall write therein, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren.

2 Chron. xxvi. 16. When Uzziah was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction; for he transgressed against the Lord his God. Ch. xxv. 19, 20.

Ps. lxxxiii. 2. They that hate thee have lifted up the head.

1 Tim. iii. 16. A bishop must not be a novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. See Prov. xxx. 32.

LII. Magnifying one's self. Ps. xXXXV. 26. Let them be clothed with shame that magnify themselves. Ps. xxxviii. 16.-lv. 12. Lam. i. 9.

LIII.

Wherefore gloriest thou, O backsliding Glorying. Jer. xlix. 4, 5. daughter, that trusted in her treasures? Behold I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord of hosts, from all that are

about thee.

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Boasting-Scorning.—Of Marriage.

1 Cor. iv. 7. Who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it.

2 Cor. v. 12. Some glory in appear

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CHAP. XVII.

Ver. 12. If thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

xiii. 1. A scorner heareth not rebuke. xiv. 6. A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not.

xv. 12. A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him.

xix. 25. Smite a scorner and the simple will beware.

Ver. 29. Judgments are prepared for

Gal. v. 26. Let us not be desirous of scorners. vain-glory.

Phil. ii. 3. Let nothing be done through strife and vain glory.

iii. 19. Some glory, whose glory is

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LV. Scorning. Ps. i. 1. Blessed is he that sitteth not in the seat of the scornful.

cxxiii. 4. Our soul is filled with the scorning of those that are at ease.

Prov. i. 22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scornings, and fools hate knowledge?

iii. 34. The Lord scorneth the scorners; but he giveth grace to the lowly.

ix. 7. He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself a blot.-Ver. 8. Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee.

xxi. 11. When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise.

Ver. 24. Proud and haughty scorner is his name, that dealeth in proud

wrath.

xxii. 10. Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

xxiv. 9. The scorner is an abomination to men.

xxix. 8. Scornful men bring a city into a snare.

Isa. xxviii. 14. Hear the word of the Lord ye scornful men, that rule this people. Ver. 15, 16.

Hos. vii. 5. The king stretched out his hand with scorners.

LVI. Threats against kings and nations, for their pride, haughtiness, &c. Pharaoh, Exod. ix. 17. Ch. x. 11. 14. 27. Neh. ix. 10, 11. Ezek. xxix. 15. Isa. xix. 11.

Assyria, 2 Kings xix. 22 to 36. Compare Isa. xxxvii. 23.-x. 5 to 17.—xiv.

4 to 24. Jer. 1. 29. 31. Ezek. xxxi. 3 to 4 to 12. Zech. x. 11. 18. Dan. iv. 30, 31, 32.—v. 20. Hab. ii.

8 to 10. Hos. v. 5. 13.—vi. 7. Israel, Neh. ix. 16, 17. 27. 29. Isa. ix.

Judah, Jer. xiii. 9 to 27.

Tyre, Isa. xxiii. 8, 9. Ezek. xxviii. 2 to 18. Zech. ix. 3, 4.

Moab, Isa. xvi. 6 to 16. Jer. xlviii. 26 to 42. Zeph. ii. 8 to 15.

15.

Ammon, Jer. xlix. 16.

Edom, Ezek. xxxv. 13. Obad. 4. 12.

OF MARRIAGE.

LVII. Of Marriage. Gen. i. 27. God created man, male and female. Matt. xix. 45.

ii. 18. The Lord said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will create him an help-mate for him.

Ver. 23, 24. Adam said of the woman, This is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave

unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh. 1 Cor. xi. 12.

John ii. 1, 2. There was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.

1 Cor. vii. 2. To avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband. See ver. 9. 28. 36.

ix. 5. Have we not power to lead about a wife as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

1 Tim. iv. 1. In the latter times some shall depart from the faith.-Ver. 3. Forbidding to marry.

v. 14. I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, &c.

Heb. xiii. 4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled; but whoremongers, and adulterers, God will judge.

LVIII. Divorce was permitted by the law of Moses. Deut. xxiv. 1 to 4.

LIX. Divorce was disapproved. Mal.

ii. 15.

LX. Divorce is expressly forbidden in the New Testament. Matt. xix. 4-6. Jesus said, He which made them at the beginning, made them male and female: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. (Gen. ii. 24. 1 Cor. vi. 16. Eph. v. 31.) What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Ver. 8, 9. Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so. I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery. And whoso marrieth her that is put away, doth commit adultery. Ch. v. 32. Whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery.

Rom. vii. 2, 3. The woman which hath an husband, is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth. If while her husband liveth she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband be dead, she is no adulteress though she be married to another man.

1 Cor. vii. 10, 11. Let not the wife depart from her husband: or if she depart, let her remain unmarrried, or let

her be reconciled to her husband: And let not the husband put away his wife. Ver. 34.

LXI. Of marriage with unbelievers. 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?-Ver. 17. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord.

LXII. The Jews were forbidden to make marriages with the heathen inhabitants of Canaan, lest they should be thereby enticed to idolatry. Exod. xxxiv. 16. Take heed, lest thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

Deut. vii. 3, 4. Thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me. Josh. xxiii. 12, 13. See instances of such unhappy marriages, Judg. iii. 5 to 8. 1 Kings xi. 1 to 12. Ezra ix. 2. 12.

This sin reformed. Neh. xiii. 23 to 27. Ezra 2, 3. 11.

LXIII. The embracing of Christianity did not dissolve marriage already contracted with unbelievers. 1 Cor. vii. 12, 13. If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. The women that hath a husband that believeth not, if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away. See to ver. 17.

LXIV. The husband, his duties. Prov. v. 18, 19. Rejoice with the wife of thy youth. (Eccl. ix. 9.) Be thou ravished always with her love. Ch. xix. 14.xviii. 22.

1 Cor. vii. 3-5. Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence; likewise also the wife to the husband. The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband; likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife. Defraud not one another.

Eph. v. 23. The husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church.-Ver. 25. Husbands love your wives, even as Christ loved the church.

Ver. 28. So ought men to love their wives, even as their own bodies-Ver. 33. Let every one of you love his wife, even as himself.

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