Lev. xxvi. 11, 12. I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you. I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

Ps. xlviii. 14. This is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

Isa. xli. 10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismayed, I am thy God.

Jer. vii. 23. Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

Ch. xxx. 18. 22.

XXX. God forsaketh not his people. Deut. iv. 31. The Lord thy God is a merciful God; he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers. See Ch. xxxi. 6. 8. Josh. i. 5. 1 Chron. xxviii. 20. Neh. ix. 17. 19. 31.

1 Sam. xii. 22. The Lord will not forsake his people, for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.

Ezra ix. 9. God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia.

Ps. ix. 10. Thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

xxxvii. 28. He forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever. Ver. 25. xciv. 14. The Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Isa. xlii. 16. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight, &c. These things will I do, and not forsake them.

xliv. 21. Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant:

gotten of me.

Isa. xlix. 14, 15, 16. But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet I will not forget. Behold, I have graven thee on the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.

liv. 7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. Ver. 8, 9, 10. 2 Cor. iv. 9. We are persecuted, but not forsaken.

Heb. xiii. 5. Be content, for he hath said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.

XXXI. Prayers that God would not forsake his people. 1 Kings viii. 57. The Lord be with us: let him not leave us nor forsake us.

Ps. xxvii. 9. Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. See Ps. xxxviii. 21.-lxxi. 9. 18.-cxix. 8.-cxxxviii. 8.

XXXII. God forsaketh the wicked. Deut. xxxi. 16, 17. The Lord said, This people will forsake me, and break my covenant. Then mine anger shall be kindled against them, and I will forsake

them.

Judg. vi. 13. The Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of enemies.

2 Kings xxvi. 14. Thus saith the Lord, I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies, because of their sins.

2 Chron. xii. 5. Thus saith the Lord, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have left you in the hand of your enemies. xv. 2. If ye forsake the Lord, he will forsake you. Ch. xxiv. 20.

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Hos. i. 10. In the place where it was said, Ye are not my people, there shall it be said unto you, Ye are the sons of the living God. Mal. ii. 10. Have we not all one Father? hath not one God created us? Matt. vi. 9. Our Father which art in heaven.

xxiii. 9 One is your Father which is in heaven.

John xx. 17. Jesus said, I ascend to my Father, and your Father; to my God and your God.

Rom. ix. 25. To us there is but one God the Father, of whom are all things. 2 Cor. vi. 18. I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Jer. xxxi. 1. 9. Hos. i. 10:

Eph. iv. 6. There is one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

XXXVII. How any of mankind come into the relation of children, of sons and daughters unto God, besides that of being created by God. John i. 12, 13. To as many as received Christ, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John iii. 3. Jesus said, Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.-Ver. 5, 6. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (Tit. iii. 5, 6.) That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Ver. 7, 8. Marvel not that I said, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Gal. iii. 26. Ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus Christ. iv. 4, 5. God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law; that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Eph. i. 4, 5, 6. God hath chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ, to himself, according to the good pleasure of his

will; to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

1 Pet. i. 22, 23. Love one another with a pure heart fervently: Ye being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

James i. 8. Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

2 Pet. i. 3. God hath begotten us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Luke xx. 36. The children of the resurrection.

1 John iii. 1. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God!

XXXVIII. Blessings from God as a Father, to his people as his children. Matt. vi. 6. Thy Father shall reward thee openly.

Ver. 8. Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him.

Ver. 14. Your heavenly Father will forgive your trespasses.

x. 29, 30, 31. A sparrow shall not fall to the ground without your Father. The very hairs of your head are numbered. Fear ye not, therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

xiii. 43. The righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.

xviii. 14. It is not the will of your Father that one of these little ones should perish.

Luke xii. 32. Fear not little flock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

John xi. 51, 52. The high priest prophesied, that Jesus should die; and gather together in one the children of God.

Rom. i. 7. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father.

viii. 15. Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father. Gal. iv. 6. Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Ver. 16, 17. The Spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. Gal. iv. 7. If a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Rom. viii. 19. The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. (1 John iii. 2.) Ver. 21. The creature shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

2 Cor. i. 3. God is to us the Father of mercies, a God of all comfort.

Eph. ii. 8. Through Christ we have access, by the Spirit, unto the Father. 2 Thess. ii. 16. Our Father hath loved us, and given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace.

Heb. ii. 10. Bringing many sons unto glory.

James i. 17. Every good and perfect gift, cometh from the Father of lights.

1 John i. 3. Our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

ii. 1. We have an advocate with the Father.

iii. 2. Beloved, now are we the sons of God; and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Jude 1. Sanctified by God the Father, preserved in Jesus Christ, and called.

XXXIX. Marks and characters of God's children, in the exercise of the graces, and practice of the duties of religion. Mal. i. 6. If I be a Father, where is mine honour? saith the Lord of hosts. Matt. v. 9. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Ver. 16. Let your light so shine before men, that they, seeing your good works, may glorify your Father which is

in heaven.

shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.

Rom. viii. 14. As many as are led by the Spirit, are the sons of God. Ver. 16. Eph. v. 1. Be ye followers of God as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us. Ver. 2.

Ver. 20. Giving thanks always for all things unto God the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. James iii. 9. With the tongue bless we God, even the Father. Phil. iv. 20. Unto God our Father, be glory for ever and ever.

Phil. ii. 14, 15. Do all things without murmurings, and disputings; that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

Heb. xii. 5, 6. The exhortation speaketh unto you as unto children, My son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, neither faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Ver. 7, 8. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons: for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? If ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons.

Ver. 9. Shall we not be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?

Ver. 10. He chasteneth us for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness,

1 Pet. i. 14, 15. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.

Ver. 17. Call on the Father, and pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.

Ver. 22, 23. Love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

1 John ii. 29. Every one that doth righteousness is born of God.

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Luke vi. 36. Be ye merciful as your Father also is merciful.

Ver. 48. Be ye perfect as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

John iv. 23. The true worshippers

1 John iv. 7. Every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

1 Cor. vi. 5. Is there not one among you able to judge between his bre

and so are called

Children of the devil. John viii. 44. Acts xiii. 10. 1 John iii. 10.

Children of Belial. Deut. xiii. 13.

viii. 12. When ye sin against the brethren, ye sin against Christ. Ver. 11. 13.

1 Thess. iv. 6. Let no man go beyond, and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such.

v. 25. Brethren, pray for us. 2 Thess.

iii. 1.

brethren, in the name of our Lord Je2 Thess. iii. 6. We command you, sus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly.

xxi. 10.

Lying children. Jer. xxx. 9.
Children of wrath. Eph. ii. 3.
Cursed children. 2 Pet. ii. 14.

XLI. Under God, their heavenly Father, Christians are brethren and sisters, and owe to each other the duties of that relation.

Matt. xviii. 35. Forgive every one his brother's trespass.

Rom. xii. 10. With brotherly love preferring one another.

xiv. 13. Let no man put a stumblingblock, or an occasion to fall, in his brother's way.

xvi. 17. I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences, and avoid them.

1 Cor. vi. 11. If any one that is called a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard or an extortioner, with such a one do not eat.

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James ii. 15, 16. If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body, what doth it profit?

1 Pet. i. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls, in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto the unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.

ii. 17. Love the brotherhood.

1 John ii. 9. He that hateth his brother is in darkness. Ch. iii. 15. He is a murderer.

1 John iii. 15. 16. We know that we

have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Rev. xii. 10. Satan, the accuser of the brethren, is cast out.

XLII. Christ is the elder brother. John xx. 17. Jesus said, Go unto my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.

Rom. viii. 29. Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

Heb. ii. 11, 12. He is not ashamed to call them brethren; saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren.

Ver. 17. It behoved him to be made like unto his brethren.

SALVATION.

XLIII. God is a Saviour. 2 Sam. xxii. 3. The God of my rock; my Saviour.