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A SCRIPTURE ACCOUNT, &c.

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CHAPTER I.

CONCERNING THE BEING AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.

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HAT there is a God, asserted, and] proved by his works. Exod. iii. 14. The Lord said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM.

Ps. ix. 16. The Lord is known by the judgments he executeth.

xix. 1. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth sheweth his handywork. Ver. 2. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. Job xii. 7, 8, 9.

lviii. 11. Verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. c. 3.

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The Lord he is God, he made

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V. There is none else. Deut. iv. 35. The Lord he is God, there is none else. Isa. xlv. 5, 6. 14. 18. 22.-xlvi. 9.

VI. None besides him. 2 Sam. vii. 22.

Neither is there any God besides thee. xxii. 32. Who is God save the Lord? 2 Kings v. 15.

Isa. xliv. 6. 8. Beside me there is no God; I know not any. Ch. xlv. 5. 14. 21.

Hos. xiii. 4. Thou shalt know no God but me. Exod. xx. 3.

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VII. None with him. Deut. xxxii. 39.

am God, there is no God with me.

VIII. None before him. Isa. xliii. 10. Before me was no God formed.

IX. None like him. Exod. viii. 10. There is none like unto the Lord our God. liash 10:18. 1 Tim. 61115

XV. 11. Who is like unto thee, O Lord, amongst the gods? who is like unto thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Ps. xxxv. 10. Mic. vii. 18.

Kings viii. 23. O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart. Exod. ix. 14. Deut. xxxiii. 26. 2 Sam. vii. 22. 1 Chron. xvii. 10.

Ps. lxxxvi. 8. Isa. xlvi. 9. Jer. x. 6, 7. 10.

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X. None to be compared unto him. Ps.

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vi. 26. He is the living God, and steadfast for ever. Acts xiv. 15. 1 Thess.

i. 9. Heb. ix. 14.-x. 31.

XIII. He is the true God. Jer. x. 10. The Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting King Ver. 11. The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, shall perish from the earth, and from under the

heavens. See John xvii. 3. 1 Thess. i. 9. 1 John v. 20.

XIV. God is a Spirit. John iv. 24. God is a Spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in

truth. 2 Cor. iii. 17.

XV. God is invisible. Exod. xxxiii.

20. There shall no man see my face and

live.

Johni. 18. No man hath seen God at any time. 1 John iv. 12.

v. 37. Ye have neither heard his voice nor seen his shape. Rom. i. 20. The invisible things of God, are his eternal power and Godhead.

Col. i. 15. Christ is the image of the invisible God.

Heb. xi. 27. Moses endured as seeing him who is invisible.

1 Tim. vi. 16. God, whom no man hath seen, nor can see. Ch. i. 17. Job

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Nah. i. 3. The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind, and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

XVI. God is unsearchable. Job xi. 7. Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection. Ver. 8, 9. Ps. cxlv. 3. His greatness is unsearchable.

Job v. 9. He doth great things, and unsearchable, and marvellous things without number. Ch. ix. 10.

Eccl. iii. 11. No man can find out the

work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

Rom. xi. 33. How unsearchable are

his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Ps. xxxvi. 6. Thy judgments are a great deep.

heard of him? the thunder of his power Job xxvi. 14. How little a portion is who can understand?

Xxxvii. 23. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out.

XVII. God is eternal. Isa. lvii. 15. The high and lofty one, that inhabiteth eternity.

1 Tim. i. 17.

immortal, invisible, the only wise God, To the King eternal, be honour and glory for ever and ever.

See Deut. xxxiii. 27. The eternal God.

Rom. i. 20. Eternal Godhead. 2 Cor. iv. 8.
Things not seen are eternal.

XVIII. Everlasting. Isa. xl. 28. The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary: there is no searching of his understanding.

lxiii. 16. Thy name is from everlasting. Gen.22:93

Ps. xc. 2. From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

xciii. 2. Thy throne is of old, and thou art from everlasting. Hab. i. 12. Ps. cxl 13. Thy kingdom is an 5 everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth through all generations.

Jer. x. 10. He is an everlasting King.

Dan. iv. 3. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and his dominion is from generation to generation. Ch. vii. 27. Lam. v. 19. 2 Pet. i. 11.

XIX. He is for ever. Ps. ix. 7. The Lord shall endure for ever.

xc. 4. A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 2 Pet. iii. 8.

cii. 12. Thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all

generations.-Ver. 24. Thy years are throughout all generations.-Ver. 27. Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. Job x. 5. xxxvi. 26.

CXXXV. 13. Thy name, O Lord, endureth for ever; and thy memorial throughout all generations.

Lam. v. 19. Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. Deut. 12:40

Ps. civ. 31. The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever.

XX. The First and the Last. Isa. xliv. 6. Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer the Lord of hosts: I am the First, and I am the Last; and besides me there is no god. Ch. xli. 4.-xlviii. 12.

Rev. i. 8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Ver. 4. 17.

XXI. He is immortal. 1 Tim. i. 17. The King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God.

vi. 16. Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light, which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath

nor can see.

seen,

XXII. Incorruptible. Rom. i. 23. The incorruptible God.

XXIII. Blessed. Ps. cxix. 12. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes. Rom. i. 25. The Creator is blessed for evermore. 1 Tim. i. 11. The blessed

God.

1 Tim. vi. 15. The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

XXIV. Unchangeable. Mal. iii. 6. I am the Lord, I change not. Heb

James i. 17. With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Numb. xxiii. 19. God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent.

XXV. Present every where. 1 Kings viii. 27. Behold the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee.

Ps. cxxxix. 3. Thou compassest my path, and my lying down.

Ver. 7-10. Whither shall I go from shy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even

there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

Jer. xxiii. 23. Am I a God at hand? saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?Ver. 24. Do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord.

Eph. i. 23. He filleth all in all.

GOD'S GREATNESS.

XXVI. God's Greatness. Deut. x. 17. The Lord your God, is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.

xxxii. 3. Ascribe ye greatness to our God.

2 Sam. vii. 22. Thou art great, O Lord, and there is none like thee.

1 Kings viii. 42. They shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand. 2 Chron. vi. 12.

1 Chron. xvi. 25. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he also is to be feared above all gods. 2 Chron. ii. 5.

Exod. xviii. 11.

xvii. 12. Thou didst make thyself a Deut. v. 24. name of greatness and terribleness.

xxix. 11. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory.

and the terrible God, that keepeth coNeh. ix. 32. The great, the mighty

venant and mercy. Ch. iv. 14.

Job xxxiii. 12. God is greater than man. John x. 29. Greater than all. 1 Ch. iv. 4. Greater than he that is in the John iii. 20. Greater than our heart.

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xcix. 2. The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high above all people.

civ. 1. O Lord, my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.

cxlv. 3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; his greatness is unsearchable. Ps. xlviii. 1.-xcvi. 4.

cl. 2. Praise him according to his excellent greatness.

Jer. xxxii. 18. The great, the mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name. Isa, xli. 6.

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