deceiver, and his angels.-Ver. 10. The accuser of the brethren, compare Job i, 9.-ii. 5. Zech. iii, 1. They are called principalities and powers. Rom. viii, 38. Eph. vi. 12. XXXIII. Devils are represented as enemies to all good, and promoters of sin and misery among mankind. Gen. iii. 1 to 7. Satan called the serpent, 2 Cor. xi. 3. And the old serpent, the devil. Rev. xii. 9.-xx. 2. Beguiled Eve. 2 Sam. xxiv. 1. He moved David to number the people. Zech. iii, 2. Satan stood at Joshua's right hand to resist him. Matt. xiii. 38, 39. The tares are the children of the wicked one. The enemy that sowed the tares is the devil, Luke xxii. 31, 32. Satan desired to have Peter to sift him. John vi. 70. Jesus said [of Judas], One of you is a devil. xiii. 27. Satan entered into Judas, and tempted him to betray his master, Luke xxii, 3. xvii, 12. Judas was the son of perdition. 2 Thess. iii. 5. The man of sin is the son of perdition. viii. 44. To his enemies Jesus said, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do; he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him, Acts v. 3. He put it into the hearts of Ananias and Sapphira to lie to the Holy Ghost. Eph. ii. 2. Satan is the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience. vi. 12. Devils are the rulers of the darkness of this world. 1 Thess. iii. 5. Satan is the tempter. 1 Tim. v. 15. Some turn aside after him. Jam. iii. 15. Envy and strife is the wisdom that is earthly, sensual, devilish. 1 John iii. 8. He that committeth sin is of the devil. Ver. 11. Ver. 12. Cain was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. Rev. xii. 9. Satan deceiveth the whole world. Satan's hurtfulness to the bodies and worldly interests of mankind: See Job i. 6 to 20. and ii. 7. Also devils are cast out by Christ: See Christ's miracles. XXXIV. The enmity and endeavours of Satan and his servants, to injure Christ and his servants. Matt. iv. 1. Satan tempted Christ. Mark i. 12. Mat. xiii. 19. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. Mark iv. 15. Luke viii. 12. The devil taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe, and be saved. Acts xiii. 10. They pervert the right ways of the Lord. 2 Cor. iv. 4. The god of this world hath blinded the minds of those who believe not. xii. 7. A messenger of Satan buffeted Paul. 1 Thess. ii. 18. Satan hindered the apostles. Rev. ii. 10. 2 Thess. ii. 9. The coming of the man of sin, is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 1 Tim. iv. 1. Some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. Rev. iii. 9. They say they are Jews, and of Satan. are not, but are of the synagogue See Rev. ii. 9, 10.—xii. 13.—xx. 9. XXXV. Devils believe that there is a God. James ii. 19. The devils believe and tremble, They know Christ. Mark i. 24. They said to Jesus, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? we know thee who thou art, the holy one of God. Luke iv. 41. Devils came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ, the Son of God. XXXVI. They knew Christ's servants. Acts xvi. 16, 17. A damsel possessed with a spirit of divination, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying, followed Paul and other apostles, saying, These men are servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.-Ver. 18. Paul commanded the evil spirit to come out of her. xix. 13. Certain vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits, the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth.— Ver. 15, 16. The evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was, leapt on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. XXXVII. They know the sacred scriptures. Matt. iv. 6. They produce the words of Ps. xci. 11. saying, It is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash they foot against a stone. XXXVIII. Satan was overcome by Christ. Matt. iv. 1 to 12. When Jesus was forty days tempted of the devil, the devil leaveth him without succeeding. John xiii. 31. Jesus said, Now shall the prince of this world be cast out. xiv. 30. Jesus said, The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. xvi. 11. The prince of this world is judged. Col. ii. 15. He spoiled principalities and powers, triumphing over them. Heb. ii. 14. Christ destroyed him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. 1 John iii. 8. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Rev. xvii. 14. The Lamb shall overcome them, i. e. the servants of Satan. See Rev. xii. 7. 9, 10, 11. XXXIX. Satan is overcome by Christians, through divine power communicated. Matt. x. 1. Jesus gave his disciples power against unclean spirits, to cast them out. Mark iii. 15.-vi. 7. Luke x. 17. The disciples returned with joy, saying to Jesus, Even the devils are subject to us through thy name. Acts xxvi. 17, 18. Jesus said to Paul, I send thee to open men's eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. Rom. xvi. 20. The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet. 2 Tim. ii. 25, 26. If God will give them repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth; that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. Col. i. 13. 1 John ii. 14. I have written unto you young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. Ver. 13. Eph. vi. 10, 11. v. 18. He that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. Ch. iv. 4. Rev. xii. 11. They overcame Satan by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. See Rom. viii. 37, 38. XL. Promises to them that overcome Satan. Rev. ii. 7. They shall eat of the tree of life.-11. Shall not be hurt of the second death.-17. Shall have hidden manna.-26. Shall have power over the nations. Ch. iii. 5. Shall be clothed in white.-12. Shall be made a pillar in the temple of God.-21. Shall sit with Christ in his throne. Ch. xxi. 7. Shall inherit all things. 1 Cor. vi. 3. Shall judge fallen angels. XLI. Duties exhorted to in opposition to Satan. 1 Cor. vii. 5. Let the husband and wife come together, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. 2 Cor. ii. 11. Let us receive an of fender, when become penitent, lest Satan get an advantage of us; for we are not ignornst of his devices. xi. 2. Paul said, I am jealous over you, with a godly jealousy.-Ver. 3. I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve, through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. Ver. 14, 15. For Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed, as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. Eph. iv. 26, 27. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. Neither give place to the devil. vi. 11, 12. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.-Ver. 16. Take the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. James iv. 7. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 1 Pet. v. 8, 9. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist steadfast in the faith. Jude 9. Michael the archangel said, The Lord rebuke thee, Satan. Zech. iii. 2. CHAPTER III. GOD'S GOVERNMENT. Isa. xxxvii. 16. Thou art God, even I. HE is the King, Ruler, and Governor of the world; having a throne, king-thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the dom, dominion, government. 2 Kings xix. earth, Ch. vi. 5. The King, the Lord 15. Thou art the God of all the king- of hosts. doms of the earth. lxvi. 1. The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. 2 Chron. xxix. 11. Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory; and Jer. x. 10. The Lord, he is the true thou art exalted as head above all. God, he is the living God, and an everMatt. vi. 13. lasting King: at his wrath the earth xx. 6. Art thou not God in heaven? shall tremble, and the nations shall not and rulest not thou over all the king-be able to abide his indignation. doms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power, and might, so that none is able to withstand thee? Job xxv. 2. Dominion and fear are with him: he maketh peace in his high places. Ps. x. 16. The Lord is King for ever and ever. xi. 4. The Lord's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eye-lids try the children of men. xxii. 28. The kingdom is the Lord's; Dan. iv. 3. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation. Ver. 34. vi. 26. He is the living God, and steadfast for ever; and his kingdom is that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be ever unto the end. Ch. vii. 14. 27. 1 Tim. vi. 15. He is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords. and he is the governor among the na-The Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is II. God is the lawgiver. Isa. xxxiii. 22. tions. our king. who is able to save and to destroy. James iv. 12. He is the one lawgiver, III. God is the judge of the earth. Gen. xviii. 25. The judge of all the earth. Ps. xciv. 2. Heb. xii. 23. Deut. xxii. 16. The Lord shall judge his people. Eccl. iii. 17. He shall judge the righteous and the wicked. 1 Sam. ii. 10. The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth. Ps. ix. 4. Thou sittest in the throne judging right. 1. 6. God is judge himself. Ps. lxxvi. 8. xcvi. 13. He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth. COUNSELS OF GOD. IV. God has his counsels. Ps. xxxiii. 11. The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, and the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Prov. xix. 21. Prov. viii. 14. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding. Isa. xxv. 1. Thy counsels of old are and what his soul desireth that he doeth. faithfulness and truth. Ps. xxxiii. 11. xxviii. 29. The Lord of hosts is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. Jer. xxxii. 19. xl. 14. With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him?-Ver. 17. All nations before him are as nothing. xlvi. 10. My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure. Jer. xxxii. 19. The Lord of hosts, great in counsel, and mighty in work. Acts ii. 23. Jesus was delivered by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledge of God. iv. 27, 28. Against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together; for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. Heb. vi. 17. God, willing to shew the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [his promise] by an oath. V. Purpose of God. Jer. li. 29. Every purpose of God shall be performed. See purposes of God concerning particular nations. Isa. xiv. 24. 27.-xix. 12. -xxiii. 9.-xlvi. 11.-xlix. 20. Rom. viii. 28. All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. ix. 11, 12. That the purpose of God according to election might stand, it was said, The elder [brother] should serve the younger.-Ver. 17. Concerning Pharaoh God said, For this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee. Eph. i. 11. In Christ we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. iii. 11. According to the eternal purpose, which God purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. Dan. iv. 35. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he doeth according to his will, in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? Job xxxiii. 13. Isa. xlvi. 10. My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure. lv. 11. My word shall accomplish that which I please. VII. Determinations of God. Job xiv. ber of his months are with thee; thou 5. Man's days are determined, the numhast appointed his bounds that he can not pass. Ver. 14. Acts xvii. 26. Isa. x. 23. The Lord God of hosts shall Ch. xxviii. make a consumption, even determined Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are de. termined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy. Ver. 26, 27. xi. 36. That that is determined shall be done. Zeph. iii. 8. My determination is to gather the nations, to pour upon them mine indignation. Matt. xxvi. 24. The Son of man goeth as it is determined of him. Acts iv. 28. ORDINATIONS OF GOD. VIII. Things ordained of God. Ps. cxxxii. 17. I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed. Jer. i. 5. I ordained thee to be a prophet to the nations. 2 Tim. ii. 7. Hab. ii. 12. Thou hast ordained them, [the enemy,] for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast ordained them for correction. xv. 16. Jesus said, I have ordained you, that ye fruit. Eph. ii. 10. should go and bring forth Acts i. 21, 22. Of those men must one be ordained, a witness with us of Christ's resurrection. Ver. 23-26. And the apostles ap. pointed two, Joseph and Matthias. And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen ; 80 Decrees of God-Predestination-Election. that he may take part of this ministry. And they gave forth their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. Jude 14. There are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness, &c. DECREES OF GOD. IX. Things decreed of God. Job xxviii. 26. He made a decree for the rain. Ps. cxlviii. 6. xxxviii. 10. He broke up for the sea his decreed place, and set bars and doors. Prov. viii. 29. Jer. v. 22. Dan. iv. 24. This is the decree of the most high God, that is come upon the king. Zeph. ii. 2. Before the decree break forth, before the day of the Lord's anger come upon you. X. Things appointed of God. 2 Sam. xvii. 14. The Lord had appointed to defeat the counsel of Ahithophel. Job vii. 1. Is there not an appointed time for man upon the earth? are not his days like the days of an hireling? Ch. xiv. 5. 14. Prov. viii. 29. He appointed the foun dations of the earth. At the time appointed, Mic. vi. 9. He hath appointed the rod. Hab. ii. 3. The vision is for an appointed time. Luke xxii. 29. He appointed unto Christ a kingdom. Acts xvii. 31. He hath appointed a day, in which he will judge the world by Jesus Christ. Gal. iv. 4. When the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman. CHAP. III. them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified. Eph. i. 5. God having predestinated us to the adoption of children, by Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will. Ver. 11, 12. In him we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will; that we should be to the praise of his glory. ELECTION. XII. Election of the Jews. Neh. ix. 7, 8. Thou art the Lord, the God who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham : And madest a covenant with him. Compare Gen. xi. 31.-xii. 1, 2, 3. Acts xiii. 17. Deut. iv. 37. Because the Lord loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out of Egypt. vii. 6. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all the people that are upon the face of the earth. Ch. xiv. 2. Ver. 7, 8. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you because ye were more in number than any people, (for ye were the fewest of all the people:) But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the Ch. x. 15. oath which he had sworn to your fathers. midst of thy people, whom thou hast 1 Kings iii. 8. Thy servant is in the chosen. 1 Chron. xvi. 13, 14. O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen ones: He is the Lord your God. Ps. cv. 6, 7. Ps. xxxiii. 12. Blessed is the nation 1 Pet. ii. 8. Christ is a stone of stum-whose God is the Lord, and the people bling, and a rock of offence, to them whom he hath chosen for his own inhewhich stumble at the word, being disobedient; whereunto also they were appointed. Jude 4. PREDESTINATION. XI. Things predestinated of God. Rom viii. 29, 30. Whom God did foreknow he did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firt-born among many brethren. more over, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called ritance. thou choosest, and causest to approach lxv. 4. Blessed is the man whom unto thee, that he inay dwell in thy courts. cv. 43. The Lord brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness. cvi. 4, 5. Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation: That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy |