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Gal. iv. 7. Thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God, through Christ.

did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

Rom. i. 25, 26. They served the creature Rev. vii. 3. Hurt not the earth, till we have more than the Creator. For this cause God sealed the servants of our God in their fore-gave them up to vile affections, &c. See heads. Omission of good works.

xix. 2. The Lord our God hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. Deut. xxviii. 1-14. 2 Kings ix. 7. Ps. lxxix. 10.-cxvi. 15.

LVII. Prayers for them. 2 Sam. vii. 29. With thy blessing, let the house of thy ser

vant be blessed for ever.

xxiv. 10. O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant.

Neh. i. 11. Let thine ear be attentive to the

prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy

name. Job xlii. 8. Dan. ix. 17.

Ps. xix. 13. Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sins.

xxvii. 9. Put not thy servant away in anger. xxxi. 16. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercy's sake.

lxix. 17. Hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. lxxxvi. 2. O my God, save thy servant, that trusteth in thee. Ver. 16. Dan. iii. 17. 28.vi. 16.

lxxxix. 50. Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants.

xc. 13. Let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Ps. cxxxv. 14. Deut. xxxii. 36.

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

NOT SERVING GOD.

LVIII. Not serving God. Threats. Deut. xxviii. 47, 48. Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with.joyfulness and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things: There

fore shalt thou serve thine enemies, in hunger and thirst, and nakedness and want of all things. Jer. xvii. 1 to 5. Neh. ix. 35, 36.

Mal. iii. 14. Ye have said, It is vain to serve

OBEDIENCE.

LIX. Commanded. Eccl. xii. 13. Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Jer. vii. 23. This thing commanded I your fathers, saying, Obey my voice; and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people. Lev.

xix. 37. 1 Sam. xv. 22. Jer. xi. 4. Deut. vi. 24, 25.-vii. 12.

walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, Ezek. xx. 19. I am the Lord your God;

and do them. Ch. xxxvii. 24.

1 Cor. vii. 19. Circumcision is nothing, and commandments of God. Ps. cxix. 4. uncircumcision is nothing,, but keeping the

LX. Universal obedience required. Deut. xxviii. 14. Thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left.

Josh. i. 7. Observe to do according to all the law; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left; that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

1 Chron. xxviii. 8. Keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God. Ps. cxix. 1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way.

Ver. 6. I shall not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

Matt. v. 19. Whosoever shall break one of

these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.

Gal. iii. 10. It is written in the law, Cursed

is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law to do

them. Deut. vii. 26. Jer. xi. 3.

Col. iv. 12. I pray that ye may stand perGod and what profit is it that we have kept fect and complete in all the will of God. 1 Pet.

his ordinance?-Ver. 18. Ye shall discern between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not. Job xxi. 15.

Matt. xxiv. 50, 51. The Lord of the wicked servant, shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour when he is not aware, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Ch. xxv. 30. Cast the wicked and unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. See ver. 26.

Luke xii. 47. That servant which knew his Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither

iv. 2.

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Ver. 97. O how I love thy law. Ver. 159. See Love to God.

Ver. 20. My soul breaketh for the longing it hath unto thy testimonies at all times. Ver. 40. See Longing for God and the things of God.

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Acts v. 32. The Holy Ghost God hath given to them that obey him.

2 Cor. xii. 9. The Lord said to Paul, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

Phil. ii. 13. God worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 1 Pet. iv.

Ver. 11. Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.-Ver. 15. I11. The ability God giveth. will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. See Meditation.

Ver. 83. I do not forget thy statutes. 55. 93. Ps. xviii. 22.

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Rom. vii. 22. I delight in the law of God after the inward man. Ps. i. 2.-xl. 8.-cxix. 16. 70. 72. 77. 92. 143. 174. See Delight. LXII. With resolution of heart. Josh. xxiv. 15. Joshua said, As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.-Ver. 24. The people said, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.

Ps. cxix. 57. O Lord, I have said that I would keep thy words.-Ver. 69. I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

Ver. 106. I have sworn and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. Ver. 112. I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes.—Ver. 117. Í will have respect unto thy statutes continually. Ver. 145. See 2 Kings xxiii. 3. 2 Chron. xv. 12. 15.xxxiv. 31. Where the king and the people enter into a covenant, an oath and curse, to seek God.

LXIII. Ability for obedience promised. Deut. xxx. 6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.-Ver. 8. And thou shalt obey the voice of the Lord, to do all his commandments.

2 Chron. xxx. 12. The hand of God was to give them one heart, to do the commandment by the word of the Lord. Ps. cx. 3. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.

Isa. ii. 3. He will teach us of his ways, and we shall walk in his paths. Mic. iv. 2.

Ezek. xi. 19, 20. I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments and do them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. Ch. xxxvi. 26, 27. Jer. xxiv. 7.—xxxi. 33. -xxxii. 39.

Zeph. iii. 9. I will turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one

LXIV. Ability prayed for. 1 Kings viii. 57, 58. Solomon prayed, The Lord our God be with us; That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep all his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments. Ver. 61.

Lord be with thee, my son. 1 Chron. xxii. 11, 12. David prayed, The And give thee wisdom and understanding, (Ch. xxix. 19.) that thou mayest keep the law of the Lord. 1 Kings iii. 9.

thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. For xxix. 13, 14. David said, Our God, we all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. See ver. 11, 12.

Ver. 18, 19. Keep this for ever in the imapeople, and prepare their heart unto thee, to gination of the thoughts of the heart of thy keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes.

liantly. Ps. cviii. 13. Ps. Ix. 12. Through God we shall do va

cxix. 5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes.-Ver. 32. I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Ver. 33. Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it.-Ver. 34. Give me understanding, so shall I keep thy law.

Ver. 36. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies. Ver. 43, 44. 80. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes.

Ver. 88. Quicken me, so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

cxliii. 10. Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God.

2 Thess. ii. 16, 17. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, who hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation, and good hope through grace; comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work. Col. i. 9. 2 Thess. i. 11.

Heb. xiii. 20, 21. Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will; working in you that which is well John xv. 5. Jesus said, Without me ye can pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; do nothing.

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to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

LXV. Ability from God acknowledged. 1 Kings xiv. 8.—Jehoshaphat, 1 Kings xxii. 1 Cor. xv. 10. Paul said, By the grace of God 43.-Hezekiah, 2 Kings xviii. 6.-Josiah, I am what I am; and his grace which was 2 Kings xxiii. 3. Ps. lxxviii. 7. bestowed on me was not in vain: but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God, which was with

me.

2 Cor. iii. 5. Our sufficiency is of God. Ch. xii. 10. Joel iii. 10. Isa. xxxv. 4.

Phil. iv. 13. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Exod.

LXVII. Promises to the obedient. xix. 5. If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then shall ye be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people; for all the earth is mine.

xx. 6. I am the Lord, shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my

Eph. vi. 10. Be strong in the Lord, and in commandments. Deut. v. 10.-vii. 9. Neh. the power of his might. i. 5. Jer. xxxii. 18. Dan. ix. 4.

2 Tim. ii. 1. Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. See God doth lead, guide, strengthen, and uphold, &c.

LXVI. Instances of obedience. Ps. cxix. 22. I have kept thy testimonies.-Ver. 60. I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

Ver. 63. I am a companion of them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts. -Ver. 87. I forsook not thy precepts.

Lev. xviii. 5. Ye shall keep my statutes and my judgments; which if a man do he shall live in them. Neh. ix. 29. Prov. iv. 4.vii. 2. Ezek. xx. 11. 13. 21. Rom. x. 5. Gal. iii. 12.

xxvi. 3-7. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, then I will I give rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase. Ye shall eat bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie Ver. 101. I have refrained my feet from down and none shall make you afraid. (Isa. every evil way, that I might keep thy word.-i. 19.) And ye shall chase your enemies, and Ver. 102. I have not departed from thy judgments, for thou hast taught me. Ver. 129.

Ver. 110. I erred not from thy precepts.Ver. 168. I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies, for all my ways are before thee. John iv. 34. Jesus said, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me.

viii. 29. I do always the things that please him.

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they shall fall before you by the sword. See to ver. 12, and Chap. xxv. 18, 19.

Deut. iv. 1. Hearken, O Israel, to the statutes and judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land.-Ver. 6. Keep and do them, for this is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations. Ver. 7, 8. 30.

Ver. 40. Thou shalt keep his statutes, that it may go well with thee, and with thy childdren after thee. Ch. vi. 1, 2. 17, 18. 25.

xvii. 4. I have finished the work which xii. 28. thou gavest me to do.

v. 29. O that there were such a heart in

Phil. ii. 8. He became obedient unto death. them, &c. Ver. 33. Heb. v. 8.

Heb. x. 7. I come to do thy will. Ps. xl. 7, 8.

John xiii. 15. Jesus said, I have given you an example.

1 John ii. 6. He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself to walk even as he walked. Rom. vi. 17. Ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine delivered unto you.

Rev. iii. 8. I know thy works: thou hast kept my word. Ver. 10.

xii. 17. The dragon went to make war with them which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus.

xiv. 12. Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

xiii. 4. Ye shall keep his commandments, and obey his voice.-Ver. 17. That the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers.

xxviii. 1. If thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments, the Lord thy God will set thee on high, above all nations of the earth. See various blessings promised to ver. 14th of this chapter, and in Lev. xxvi. 3 to 14, and Deut. vii. 12, 13, 14, 15.-xi. 9. 13, 14, 15.-xxx. 8, 9.

xxix. 9. Keep the words of this covenant and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 1 Kings ii. 3, 4. Jer. xxxviii. 20.

Examples. Abraham, Gen. xviii. 19.xxii. 18.-The children of Levi, Deut. xxxiii. xxx. 19, 20. I have set before you life and 9. 11.-Noah, Daniel, and Job, Ezek. xiv. 14. death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose 20. Job i. 8.-xxiii. 11.-Shadrach, Me- life, that both thou and thy seed may live. shach, and Abednego, Dan. iii. 26.-David, That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and

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DISOBEDIENCE-OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST.

that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him, (for he is thy life and the length of thy days.) Ver. 16. Ch. v. 1. 10.-viii. 2. 6. 11. 20.-xii. 1. 25.-xxx. 8 to 16. 1 Sam. xii. 14. 1 Kings iii. 14. Prov. iii. 2.

Ps. xix. 8. The statutes of the Lord are right. Ver. 11. In keeping them there is a great reward.

xxv. 10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

xxxvii. 34. Keep his way, and he shall exalt thee.

1. 23. To him that ordereth his conversation aright, I will shew the salvation of God. cxix. 2. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies.

Prov. iii. 1, 2. Let thy heart keep my commandments, for long life and peace shall they add to thee.

viii. 32. Blessed are they that keep my

ways.

xix. 16. He that keepeth the commandment, keepeth his own soul.

xxix. 18 He that keepeth the law, happy

is he.

Isa. xlviii. 18. Thus saith the Lord, O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.

Jer. vi. 16. Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein; and ye shall find rest for your souls.

vii. 23. This thing commanded I your fathers, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; walk ye in all my ways, that it may be well unto you. xxvi. 13. Obey the voice of the Lord your God, and he will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

Ezek. xviii. 5. 9. If a man be just, and do that which is right, and hath walked in my statutes, and kept my judgments, he shall surely live. Ver. 18, 19. Ch. xxxvii. 24.

Matt. vii. 21. Jesus said, Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

xii. 50. Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

xix. 17. If thou wilt enter into life, keep

the commandments.

Luke xi. 28. Blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it.

John ix. 31. If any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. xiii. 17. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

CHAP. XV.

Rom. ii. 13. Not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

i John ii. 17. He that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

iii. 22. Whatsoever things we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Rev. xxii. 14. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

DISOBEDIENCE.

LXVIII. Threats against the disobedient. Deut. xxviii. 15-19. If thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments, and his staand overtake thee: Cursed shalt thou be in tutes, all these curses shall come upon thee the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. fruit of thy land, and the increase of thy kine, Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the and the flocks of thy sheep. Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt

thou be when thou goest out.

Ver. 20. The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thy hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly, because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereSee to the end of by thou hast forsaken me. this chap.; also the parallel place, Lev. xxvi. 14 to 40., containing threatenings of many dreadful calamities. See also the following scriptures, wherein the disobedient are threatened with the evils of war, famine, pestilence, sickness, death, &c. &c. Neh. ix. 26. xxiv. 1 to 13.-xliii. 27, 28.—lxv. 12. Jer. vi. 19. 22, 23.-xxv. 4 to 9.-xxvi. 4, 6.—

xxix. 17.

Isa.

Eph. ii. 2. The prince of the power of the air worketh in the children of disobedience.

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

1 Tim. i. 9. The law is made for the lawless and disobedient.

dient, Christ is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence. See the threatenings against the wicked, ungodly, and other sins mentioned.

1 Pet. ii. 7, 8. To them which be disobe

OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST.

LXIX. Obedience to Christ's commands. Matt. xxviii. 19, 20. Go ye and teach all nations, to observe all things whatsoever I have

commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, unto the end of the world.

John xiv. 15. If ye love me, keep my commandments.-Ver. 24. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings. Ver. 21. 23.

xv. 14. Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I command you. Ver. 10.

| house upon the sand, and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell; and great was the fall thereof.

Luke vi. 46. Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I

say? xix. 27. Those mine enemies that would

1 Cor. ix. 21. Being under the law to not that I should reign over them, bring hither Christ.

James i. 22. Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only. Ch. ii. 8. 12. 17.

1 John ii. 3-5. Hereby do we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a Mar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, verily in him is the love of God perfected. John viii. 31. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed.

LXX. Promises to them that obey Christ. Matt. vii. 24, 25. Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and

the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat

upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock.

John viii. 51. If a man keep my sayings he shall never see death.

xii. 26. If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall also my servant be. If any man serve me, him will my Father honour.

Heb. v. 9. Christ became the author of eternal salvation to them that obey him.

Rev. ii. 26. He that keepeth my words unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations.-Ver. 28. I will give him the morning star. Ver. 17.

xi. 18. The time is come that thou shouldst give a reward unto thy servants the prophets, &c.

LXXI. Promises to them that overcome temptations in their obedience to Christ. Rev. ii. 7. He shall eat of the tree of life.Ver. 11. Shall not be hurt of the second death. Ver. 17. Hidden manna, and a white stone, and a new name, shall be given him.-Ver. 26. Power over the nations given to him.

iii. 5. He shall be clothed in white.-Ver. 12. Shall be a pillar in the temple of God.Ver. 21. Shall sit with Christ in his throne. xxi. 7. Shall inherit all things.

DISOBEDIENCE TO CHRIST. LXXII. Disobedience to Christ. Threats. Matt. vii. 26, 27. Every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his

and slay before me.

Rom. x. 16. They have not all obeyed the gospel. Isa. liii. 1.

xvi. 18. Some serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly.

Gal. iii. 1. Who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth?

2 Thess. i. 7-10. The Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not shall be punished with everlasting destruction the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired in all them

that believe.

1 Pet. iv. 17. What shall be the end of them See Ps. ii. 12. Deut. xviii. 18, 19. Rev. xii. 5.-xix. 15. See Christ's kingly office.

that obey not the gospel?

WORKS.

LXXIII. God will render to mankind ac

cording to their works, good or bad. Job xxxiv. 10, 11. Far be it from God that he should do wickedness. For the work of a man will he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

Ps. lxii. 12. The Lord rendereth unto every man according to his work.

Eccl. xii. 14. God will bring every man's work into judgment.

1 Cor. iii. 13. Every man's works shall be made manifest.

Isa. iii. 10, 11. Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Jer. xvii. 10. I the Lord search the heart and try the reins; even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Prov. xxiv. 12.

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.

Matt. xvi. 27. The Son of man shall come in his glory, with his angels; and then shall he reward every man according to his works.

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