Ps. xxxii. 1, 2. Blesssd is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. (Rom. iv. 7.) Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. Rom. iv. 7, 8.

xxxiii. 12. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.

xxxiv. 8. Blessed is the man who trusteth in the Lord. Ps. lxxxiv. 12.

xl. 4. Blessed is the man who maketh the Lord his trust.

xli. 1, 2. Blessed is he that considereth the poor. Prov. xxii. 9.

lxv. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy

courts.

lxxxiv. 4, 5. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee.

lxxxix. 15. Blessed is the people who know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy counte

nance.

xciv. 12. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law.

cvi. 3. Blessed are they that keep judgment; and he that doth righteousness at all times.

Isa. xxx. 18. Blessed are all they that wait for the Lord.

xxxii. 20. Blessed are they that sow beside all waters.

Ivi. 2. Blessed is the man that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing evil.

Matt. v. 3-11. Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for their's is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake. Luke vi. 22.

xi. 26. Jesus said, Blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me. Luke vii. 23.

cxix. 1, 2. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep God's testimonies, and that seek him with their whole heart.

cxxviii. 1. Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord, and walketh in his ways. Ver. 4. Ps. cxv. 13.

Prov. iii. 23. The Lord blesseth the habitation of the just.

viii. 32. Wisdom saith, Blessed are they that keep my ways.-Ver. 34. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates.

x. 6, 7. Blessings are upon the head of the just. (Isa. xix. 25.) The memory of the just is blessed.

xi. 26. Blessings shall be upon the head of him that selleth corn, (that is, on him who is good to the poor.)

xxii. 9. He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

xx. 7. The just man's children are blessed after him.

xxviii. 20. A faithful man shall abound with blessings.

xxv. 34, 35. Christ will say, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungered and ye gave me meat, &c.-Ver. 40. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Compare Luke vi. 20 to 24. and Matt. xiii. 6.

Luke xi. 28. Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it. James i. 25. Rev. xxii. 14. Deut. xi. 26.-xxx. 19.

xiv. 13. When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame and the blind: And thou shalt be blessed,

&c. Deut. xv. 10.

Ver. 15. Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

xii. 37. Blessed are those servants whom their Lord when he cometh shall find watching. Ver. 38.

John xx. 29. Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. Matt. xvi. 17.-xiii. 16. Blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear.

Gal. iii. 9. They which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

James i. 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive a crown of life.

Rev. i. 3. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things that are written therein.

xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.

xvi. 15. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments; lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

xix. 9. Blessed are they who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. xx. 6. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection.

CXLVI. God's blessing promised by way of covenant; or covenant blessings. Deut. vii. 9. He keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him, and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.

2 Sam. xxiii. 5. David said, Although my house be not so with God, yet hath he made with me an everlasting cove nant, ordered in all things and sure.

Ps. xxv. 14. The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will show them his covenant.

Ixxxix. 3. I have made a covenant with my chosen.-Ver. 28. My covenant shall stand fast with him.-Ver. 34. My covenant will I not break.

Isa. xlii. 6. I will give thee (Christ) for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles. Ch. xlix. 8.-lv. 4.

liv. 10. The mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall never depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee.

Iv. 3. Incline your ear and come unto me, hear and your souls shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Jer. xxxi. 33. This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. Heb. viii. 10.

xxxii. 40. I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Ver. 38. xxxiii. 20, 21. Thus saith the Lord,

If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, and that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne, and with the Levites, the priests my ministers. Ver. 25, 26.

Jer. 1. 5. They shall say, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord, in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

Ezek. xi. 19, 20. I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you: and I will take the stony heart out of your flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh; 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. Jer. xxiv. 7.

xvi. 8. When I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold thy time was a time of love, and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord, and thou becamest mine.-Ver. 60. I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. -Ver. 62. I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

xx. 37. I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

xxxvi. 25-28. I will sprinkle clean water upon you.-A new heart will I give unto you.-I will put my Spirit within you. And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God,

xxxvii. 26, 27. I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle shall be with them; yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Ver. 23, 24. Chron. xxxiv. 24, 25. 31.

Hos. ii. 19, 20. I will betroth thee unto me for ever, in righteousness, in judgment, and in loving-kindness, and in mercies: I will even betroth thee to me in faithfulness, and thou shalt know [that I am] the Lord. Isa. liv. 5. Thy Maker is thine husband.

New Covenant. Heb. viii. 8. I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel. Jer. xxxi. 31, 32, 33, 34.

GOD'S ANGER. CXLVII. Anger ascribed to God. Neh. ix. 17. Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious, slow to anger, and of great kindness. See Ps. ciii. 8. Joel ii. 13. Nah. i. 3.

CXLVIII. God's anger threatened against the wicked. Numb. xxxii. 14. Ye are risen up in your father's stead, a race of sinful men, to augment the fierce anger of the Lord.

Deut. xxix. 19, 20. If one say, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: The Lord will not spare him; but the anger of the Lord, and his jealousy, shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

xxxii. 21, 22. They have moved me to jealousy; they have provoked me to anger. A fire is kindled in mine anger, that shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundation of the mountains.

cii. 10.

Prov. xi. 4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. Job xx. 28. Ezek. vii. 19. Zeph. i. 18.

Isa. ix. 19. Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire. Jer. 1. 13.-vii. 29.

Jer. x. 10. At his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Hos. v. 10.

Nah. i. 2. The Lord reserveth wrath for his enemies.

Rom. i. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven, against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.

ii. 8, 9. Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, shall be upon every soul of man that doeth evil. Ver. 5. Ch. iv. 15.—ix. 22.

Eph. ii. 3. We were by nature children of wrath.

v. 6. The wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience. Col. iii. 6.

Rev. vi. 16, 17. The wicked said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day

Ps. vii. 11. God is angry with the wicked every day. Ps. xxxviii. 3.

lxxvi. 7. Who may stand in thy sight, when once thou art angry. Ps. xc. 7. 11. Nah. i. 6.

lxxviii. 41. They tempted God; they remembered not his hand.-Ver. 49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation.-Ver. 50. He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death. Isa. v. 24, 25. See Isa. x. 25.—xiii. 9. 13. -xxx. 27. 30.-xlii. 24, 25.-lxvi. 15. Jer. xviii. 23.-xxv. 38.-xlix. 37.-li. 44. Lam. ii. 1.-iii. 43.-iv. 11. Ezek.

v. 13.—vii. 3.—xiii. 13.-xxii. 20, 21.

Mic. v. 15.

GOD'S WRATH.

CXLIX. God's wrath threatened against sinners. Ezra viii. 22. His power, and his wrath, is against all that forsake him. Job xx. 23. God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon the wicked. Ch. xxi. 20. 30. Ps. lxxviii. 49.

Ps. ii. 12. When his wrath is kindled but a little, blessed are all they that put

able to stand? See Rev. xiv. 10.xvi. 19.

wroth with my people, and polluted

CL. God is wroth. Isa. xlvii. 6. I was

mine inheritance.

Isa. lxiv. 9. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord; neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, we are all thy people.

Promises. Isa. lvii. 16. I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit should fail before be, and the souls that I have made.

CLI. God's indignation against sinners. Isa. lxvi. 14. The hand of the Lord shall be known towards his servants, and his indignation towards his enemies. Ch. xxx. 30.

Jer. x. 10. At his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not

be able to abide his indignation. Job xxvi. 11. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof. Ch. ix. 6. He shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. See Nah. i. 5, 6.8.

Mic. vii. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him.

Rom. ii. 8. To those that obey unrighteousness, God will render indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil.

Heb. x. 27. A fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation, which

shall devour the adversaries.

CLII. God's fury. Lev. xxvi. 27, 28. If ye will walk contrary to me, then will I walk contrary to you in fury.

Job xx. 23. God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon the wicked, and shall rain it upon him.

Isa. lix. 18. God will repay fury to his adversaries. Ch. lxiii. 3.

Jer. iv. 4. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Ezek. v. 15. I will execute judgments on thee in anger, and in fury, and in furious rebukes. Ch. vi. 12.-xxxviii, 18. Nah. i. 2. 6.

CLIII. His vengeance. Deut. xxxii. 35. To me belongeth vengeance and recompense. Ps. xciv. 1. Heb. x. 30.

Deut. xxxii. 41. I will render vengeance to mine enemies. Ver. 43.

Rom. iii. 5. The Lord taketh vengeance. Ch. xii. 19.

2 Thess. i. 8. The Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our

Lord Jesus Christ.

Prov. xiii. 5. A wicked man is loathsome.

Despiseth. Amos v. 21. I hate, I despise your feast-days.

Jer. xliv. 8. Do not the abominable thing I hate. (viz. Sin.)

Hos. ix. 15. I hate them for their wickedness.

CLVII. The Lord is a terrible God. among you, a mighty God and terrible. Deut. vii, 21. The Lord your God is Jer. xx. 11.

Job xxxvii. 22. With God is terrible majesty.

Ps. xlvii. 2. The Lord most high is terrible. Ps. lxviii. 35.

Deut. x. 21. He hath done terrible. 5.—Ixvi. 3. 5.—cvi. 22.—cxlv. 6. Isa. things. 1 Chron. xvii. 21. See Ps. lxv. Ixiv. 5. Joel ii, 11.

Lord, the great and dreadful God. CLVIII. Dreadful. Dan. ix. 7. 0

Heb. x. 31. It is a fearful thing to fall Job xiii. 11. Isa. viii. 13. Mal. i. 14. into the hands of the living God. See

GOD'S JEALOUSY.

CLIX. God is jealous for his people. Promises. Ezek. xxxix. 25. Thus saith the Lord, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name.

Joel ii. 18. The Lord will be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

Zech. i. 14. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I am jealous for Jerusalem, and for Zion, with a great jealousy. Ch. viii. 2.

God's jealousy in threats against sinners. Exod. xx. 5. I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the chiltion of them that hate me. dren, unto the third and fourth generaCh. xxxiv. 14. Deut. iv. 24.-v. 9.-vi. 15. Josh.

xxiv. 19.

Numb. xxv. 11. Phineas turned away my wrath, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

Deut. xxix. 20. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against the man that promiseth himself peace in his wickedness.

ever, shall thy jealousy burn like a Ps. lxxix. 5. Wilt thou be angry for

fire?

xi. 5.

Ixxviii. 58.

CLX. Zeal ascribed to God, Isa. ix. 7. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this, (viz. to exalt Christ and promote his kingdom.)

Isa. xxxvii. 32. The zeal of the Lord will defend Jerusalem.

lix. 17. He was clad with zeal as a cloak. See Isa. lxiii. 15. Ezek. v. 13.

Prov. xxvi. 10. The great God that formed all things. Eccl. iii. 11.—xi. 5. Isa. xliv. 24. I am the Lord that maketh all things. Jer. x. 16.

Heb. iii. 4. He that built all things is God.

Rev. iv. 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

II. God created the heavens and the earth. Gen. i. 1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Ch. ii. 4. Exod. xx. 11.-xxxi. 17. 2 Kings xix. 15. 1 Chron. xvi. 26. Ps. xcvi. 5. Isa. xxxvii. 16. Heb. i. 10.

Neh. ix. 6. Thou hast made heaven, and the heaven of heavens, with all their hosts, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

Job ix. 8. He alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

Xxxviii. 4-7. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Who hath laid the measures thereof, or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened, or who laid the corner stone thereof? When all the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.

Ps. xxiv. 2. He hath founded the earth upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Ps. lxxviii. 69.-civ. 5.-cxix. 90, 91.-cxxxvi. 6.

Ps. xxxiii. 6. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

lxxxix. 11. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine; as for the world, and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

civ. 2. Thou stretchest out the heavens like a curtain. Job xxxvii. 18. Like a molten looking-glass.

Isa. xl. 28. He is the Creator of the ends of the earth.

xlii. 5. The Lord created the heavens, and stretched them out: he spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it.

li. 13. The Lord hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth. Ver. 16.

Rev. xiv. 7. Worship him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. Acts xiv. 15.-xvii. 24. Ps. cxlvi. 6.

See Wisdom of God in Creation. See also Power of God in Creation.

III. Sun and moon created. Gen. i. 16. God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. Job xxxviii. 12. 19. 24.

Gen. i. 3. God said, Let there be light, and there was light. Ps. lxxiv. 16, 17.

Job ix. 9. Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. Ver. 7. Amos. v. 8.

Ps. viii. 3, 4. When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?.