Heb. vi. 13. God could swear by no greater, he sware by himself.

See God's perfections of knowledge, wisdom, power, goodness, mercy, &c. all called great.

GOD EXALTED.

XXVII. God is exalted. 1 Chron. xxix. 11. Thou art exalted as head above all. Ps. xxi. 13.-xlvii. 9.-cxviii. 6.

Neh. ix. 5. His glorious name is exalted above all blessing and praise.

Ps. xlvi. 10. I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

lvii. 5. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth. Ver. 11. Ps. cviii. 5.

xcvii. 9. Thou art high above all the earth, thou art exalted far above all gods.

Isa. xii. 4. Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make known that his name is exalted.

xxxiii. 5. The Lord is exalted, for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

See Isa. ii. 11. 17.- -v. 16.-xxx. 18.. xxxiii. 10.--xlix. 11.

GOD'S EXCELLENCY AND MAJESTY.

XXVIII. God's Excellency. Job xiii. 11. Shall not his excellency make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you? xxxvii. 23. The Almighty is excellent in power, and judgment.

Ps. viii. 1. & 9. How excellent in all the earth is thy name. Ps. cxlviii. 13.

cl. 2. Praise him according to his excellent greatness. Isa. xii. 5.

Isa. xxviii. 29. The Lord of hosts is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working. See Exod. xv.7. Deut. xxxiii. 26. Job xxxvii. 4. Ps. lxviii. 34.

XXIX. God's Majesty. 1 Chron. xxix. 11. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.

Job xxxvii. 22. With God is terrible majesty. Ps. xcvi. 6.

Ps. xxix. 4. The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

xciii. 1. He is clothed with majesty. Ps. civ. 1.

Isa. xxiv. 14. They shall sing for the majesty of the Lord. Ps. cxlv. 5. 12. Jude 25. To the only wise God, be glory and majesty. See Isa. ii. 10.

GOD'S GLORY.

XXX. God is glorious. Exod. xv. 11. Who is like unto thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises?

1 Chron. xxix. 11. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory. Matt. vi. 13.

Ps. viii. 1. Thou hast set thy glory above the heavens. Ps. xix. 1.—xcvii. 6. -cxiii. 4.-cxlviii. 13.

Ivii. 5. Let thy glory be above all the earth. Ver. 11. Ps. lxxii. 19.

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

cxxxviii. 5. Great is the glory of the Lord. Ps. cxlv. 5. 11, 12.

Isa. vi. 3. The whole earth is full of his glory.

He is the God of glory. Ps. xxix. 3. Acts vii. 2.-In his name. Deut. xxviii. 58. 1 Chron. xxix. 13. Neh. ix. 5.—In his work. Ps. cxi. 3. His work is honourable and glorious.-In deliverances of his people. Isa. Ixiii. 12. 14. He led his people with his glorious arm.-In the overthrow of his enemies. Exod. xv. 1. He hath triumphed gloriously. (Ps. lxxvi. 4.) Ver. 6. Thy right hand is become glorious in power.-Ps. xlv. 3. thy glory and thy majesty. See Isa. Gird thy sword, O most Mighty, with XXX. 30. and 2 Thess. i. 9.

XXXI. God is glorious in favours spiritual and temporal, conferred on his people, and in the advancement of religion among them. Numb. xvi. 22. These men have seen my glory and my miracles.

Deut. v. 24. The Lord hath shewed us his glory and his greatness.

Ps. Ixiii. 2. My soul thirsteth to see thy power and thy glory, as I have seen thee in thy sanctuary.

lxxix. 9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name.

xc. 16. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

cii. 16. When the Lord shall build up Jerusalem, he shall appear in his glory. Zech. ii. 5. I will be the glory in the midst of her.

Isa. xxiv. 23. The Lord shall reign in Jerusalem gloriously.

Isa. xxxv. 2. They shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.

xl. 5. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it. Ch. lix. 19.

xliii. 7. I have created him for my glory.

lviii. 8. The glory of the Lord shall be thy rear-ward.

Ix. 1. The glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

Ixii. 2. The Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory. Ch. lxvi. 18, 19.

Hab. ii. 14. The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Luke ii. 14. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and goodwill to men.

2 Cor. iv. 6. God hath shined into our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.

Col. i. 11. Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power. Eph. iii. 16.

1 Pet. iv. 14. The Spirit of glory and of God, resteth upon you. See Isa. xxxiii. 21.-xlvi. 13.-Hag. ii. 7. Hence the Gospel is called the glorious Gospel. 1 Tim. i. 11.

Future glory. 2 Cor. iii. 18. We behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord.

Rom. v. 2. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

God's power called his glory. Rom. v. 4. Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father.

John xi. 4. 40. Lazarus, his sickness, and rising from the dead, is called the glory of God.

1 Cor. xi. 7. Man is the image and glory of God.

Heb. i. 3. Christ is the brightness of the Father's glory.

GOD'S KNOWLEDGE. XXXII. God's knowledge is perfect. 1 Sam. ii. 3. The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. Job xxxvii. 16. He is perfect in knowledge. Ch. xxxvi. 4.

Ps. cxlvii. 5. His understanding is infinite. See Rom. xi. 33.

Isa. xl. 28. There is no searching of his understanding. Prov. xxii. 12.

xi. 2. The Spirit of the Lord is the Spirit of knowledge.

XXXIII. God's knowledge is underived. Job xxi. 22. Shall any teach God knowledge?

Ps. xciv. 9, 10. He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?-He that teacheth man knowledge, shall himself not know?

Isa. xl. 14. With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

XXXIV. Extendeth to all things. Job xxviii. 10. His eye seeth every precious thing.-Ver. 24. He looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven?

Ps. cxxxix. 12. Darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Dan. ii. 22. He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

Acts xv. 18. Known unto God are all

his works from the beginning of the

world.

Heb. iv. 13. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

1 John iii. 20. God knoweth all things.

XXXV. Things which God only knoweth. Gen. xl. 8. Joseph said, Do not interpretations belong to God?

Deut. xxix. 29. Secret things belong to the Lord our God.

1 Kings viii. 39. Thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men. Job xxiv. 1. Times are not hidden from the Almighty. Acts i. 7.

Isa. xlii. 9. New things do I declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them.

xlvi. 9, 10. I amy God, and there is none like me. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times, the things that are not yet done. Ch. xlviii. 3. 6. 16.

Matt. xi. 27. No man knoweth the Son, but the Father. John x. 15.

Mark xiii. 32. Of the day and hour of judgment knoweth no man, no not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

1 Cor. ii. 11. The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

XXXVI. Secret things which God will discover. Job xx. 27. The heavens shall reveal the iniquity of the wicked, and the earth shall rise up against him. xxviii. 11. The thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

Eccl. xii. 14. God will bring into judgment every secret thing.

Dan. ii. 22. God revealeth deep and secret things. Ver. 28, 29. 47.

Matt. x. 26. There is nothing hid that shall not be known.

Rom. ii. 16. God will judge the secrets of men.

1 Cor. iv. 5. God will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the heart.

Eph. iii. 9. The mystery (of redemp tion) hath been hid in God from the foundation of the world.-Ver. 10. Now made known. Col. i. 26.

XXXVII. The knowledge of God extendeth to man and all his ways.

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

Job xxxiv. 21. His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. Chap. xiii. 27.—xxxi. 4.

Ps. xi. 4. His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

Xxxiii. 13, 14. The Lord looketh from heaven, he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

lxvi. 7. His eyes behold the nations. ciii. 4. He knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust.

cxiii. 6. He humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth.

cxxxix. 1-4. O Lord, thou hast searched me and known me. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thoughts afar off. Thou compassest my path, and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether-Ver. 6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. -Ver. 11. If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Ver. 12, 13. Dan. ii. 22.

Ver. 15, 16. 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.

Prov. v. 21. The ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

xv. 3. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Jer. xxiii. 24. Can any hide himself in secret, that I shall not see him? saith the Lord.

Jer. xxxii. 19. Thine eyes are upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

XXXVIII. God knoweth the hearts of all men. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. The Lord seeth not as man seeth: for man looketh on the outward appearance, but God looketh on the heart. Job x. 4. Prov. xv. 11.

1 Kings viii. 39. Thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men.

1 Chron. xxviii. 9. The Lord search

eth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.

Jer. xx. 12. O Lord of hosts, that seest the reins and heart.

Acts i. 24. Thou, Lord, knowest the hearts of all men.

XXXIX. He knoweth the hearts of the righteous. Gen. xx. 6. I Know thou didst this in the integrity of thine heart.

Ps. xix. 14. Let the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

Cxxxix. 23,24. Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Isa. lxvi. 2. To this man will I look, even to him that is poor, and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Jer. xii. 3. Thou, O Lord, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward me.

1 Pet. iii. 4. The hidden man of the heart, even a meek and quiet spirit, is in the sight of God of great price. See Acts xv. 8.

provoke me for I know their imagination which they go about, even now.

Ps. xciv. 11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. Ezek. xi. 5. I know the things that come into your minds every one of you.

Luke xvi. 15. Jesus said, Ye are they that justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts.

Acts viii. 21. Thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

God knoweth his people. Gen. XLI. vii. 1. The Lord said to Noah, Thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

xviii. 19. I know Abraham that he

will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord.

2 Sam. vii. 20. Thou, Lord, knowest thy servant.

1 Chron. xvii. 18. Ps. i. 6. The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous. Ps. xxxvii. 18.

xxxiv. 15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.

Ps.

lxxx. 14. Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this thy vine. cxix. 132.-xxv. 18. Deut. xxvi. 15. Isa. lxiii. 15.

Isa. Ivii. 18. I have seen his ways, and will heal him.

Jer. xxiv. 6. I will set mine eyes upon them for good. Zech. xii. 4. 2 Tim. ii. 19. The Lord knoweth

them that are his. Gal. iv. 9.

XLII. God knoweth the religious principles and practices of his people. Rev. ii. 19. I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and patience.

1 Cor. viii. 3. If any man love God, the same is known of God.

Ps. xxxiii. 18. The eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy. See Gen. xxii. 12. Nah. i. 7. The Lord knoweth them that trust in him.

1 Pet. iii. 4. A meek and quiet spirit is in the sight of God of great price.

2 Chron. xii. 7. The Lord saw that they humbled themselves.

thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, himself shall reward thee openly.

Ver. 4. That thine alms may be in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. See Acts x. 4.31.

Job xxxiii. 27, 28. He looketh upon man, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; he shall deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. See Jonah iii. 10.

Jer. xvii. 16. Thou knowest that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

Lord spake often one to another; and Mal. iii. 16. They that feared the the Lord hearkened and heard it; and a book of remembrance was written be

fore him, for them that feared the Lord, cxxxix. 4. Jer. v. 3. Ps. xl. 9. 2 Cor. xi. and that thought on his name. See Ps.

31.

XLIII. He knoweth their works. 2 Cor. viii. 21. Provide things honest, not only in the sight of God, but also of

men.

Rev. ii. 2. I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience; and how thou canst not bear them that are evil. Ver. 9. I know thy works, and tribulation, and xiii. 21. 1 John iii. 22. poverty. Ver. 13. 19. Ch. iii. 8. Heb.

Their wants.

ther knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him.

Matt. vi. 8. Your Fa

Matt. vi. 31, 32. Take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. Luke xii. 30.

Their sorrows. Exod. iii. 7. The Lord said of his people, I know their sorrows. Ch. xiv. 24. Neh. ix. 9. Acts vii. 34.

Deut. ii. 7. The Lord thy God knoweth thy walking through the wilderness. Their afflictions. Ps. xxxi. 7. Thou hast known my soul in adversity.

Ps. cii. 19, 20. He hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth; to hear the groaning of the prisoner. Ps. xxxviii. 9. 2 Sam. xvi. 12. Job x. 15. Ps. xxxix. 11, 12.

Gen.

ment.

Lam. iii. 59. Lord, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

Dan. ix. 18. O my God, incline thine ear and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations. Isa. xxxvii. 17. Jer. xlviii. 30.

God saw, in affliction, Hagar, Gen. xvi. 13.-Leah, Gen. xxix. 31.—Hannah, 1 Sam. i. 11.

XLIV. God's knowledge of the wicked and their sins. Gen. vi. 5. God saw the wickedness of man, that it was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Exod. xxxii. 9. The Lord said, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people. Deut. xxxii. 19.

Job xi. 11. He knoweth vain man: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

xxxiv. 22. There is no darkness nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Amos ix. 2, 3, 4.

Ps. xiv. 2, 3. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside. Ps. liii. 2.

Ixix. 5. My sins are not hid from thee. xc. 8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

Isa. xlviii. 8. I knew that thou wouldst deal treacherously.

Jer. xi. 17. Mine eyes are upon all their ways; neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

Amos v. 11. I know their manifold

transgressions, and their mighty sins.Ch. ix. 8. I will set mine eyes upon them for evil.

Hab. i. 13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look upon iniquity.

Luke xv. 21. I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight.

XLV. God knoweth the proud. 2 Sam. xxii. 28. Thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them

down. See Job iv. 12.

Ps. cxxxviii. 6. The proud he knoweth afar off.

XLVI. God knoweth the impenitent. Jer. viii. 6. I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as the horse rusheth into

the battle.

XLVII. He knoweth hypocritical professors. Matt. xxii. 11. The King came in to see the guests, and saw there a man not having on a wedding-garment.

Rev. ii. 9. I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan. iii. 1. I know thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

XLVIII. Liars and uncharitable perProv. xxiv. 11. If thou forbear to sons. deliver them that are drawn to death. Prov. xxiv. 12. If thou sayest, We knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it; and he that keepeth thy soul, doth he not know it? and shall he not render to every man according to his works?

XLIX. Envious persons. Prov. xxiv. 17, 18. Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

L. He knoweth wicked works. Job xxxiv. 25. He knoweth their works, and overthroweth them. Ch. xxiv. 23. Isa. lxvi. 18. I know their works, and their thoughts.

Rev. iii. 15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.

LI. Whoredom, natural and spiritual. Jer. xxix. 23. Because they havecommitted villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours wives, and have spoken lying words;