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Ezek. 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. 2 Chron. xxxiv. 24, 25. 31.

Hos. ii. 19, 20. I will betroth thee unto me for ever, in righteousness, and 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.

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. 45. 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 their trust in him. Ps. xc. 7. 9. 11.-cii. 10.

Prov. xi. 4. Riches profit not in the day of

Heb. xii. 24. Jesus the Mediator of the wrath. Job xx. 28. Ezek. vii. 19. Zeph. i. 18.

new covenant.

GOD'S ANGER.

CXLVII. Anger ascribed to God. Neh. ix. 17. Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, 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 fathers' stead, an increase 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 my 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, and shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Job xxi. 17. God distributeth sorrows in his anger. Ch. ix. 13.

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.

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 of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? See Rev. xiv. 10.-xvi. 19.

CL. God is wroth. Isa. xlvii. 6. I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance.

Isa. lxiv. 5. Behold thou art wroth; for we have sinned.

Ps. lx. 1. O Lord, thou hast cast us off; thou hast been displeased.

Prayers deprecating his wrath. Ps. vi. 1. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger; neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

lxxviii. 41, 42. They tempted God; they remembered not his hand.-Ver. 49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, | Ps. xxxviii. 1.

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 me, and the souls that I have made.

CLI. God's indignation against sinners. Isa. lxvi. 14. The hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward 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, 9. 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 I will 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 heart, 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 shall 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.

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

Job xxxvii. 22. With God is terrible majesty.

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

Deut. x. 21. He hath done terrible things. 1 Chron. xvii. 21. See Ps. lxv. 5.-lxvi. 3. 5.-cvi. 22.-cxlv. 6. Isa. lxiv. 3. Joel ii. 11.

CLVIII. Dreadful. Dan. ix. 4. O Lord, the great and dreadful God.

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

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 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 thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Ch. xxxiv. 14. Deut. iv. 24.—v. 9.-vi. 15. Josh.

Deut. xxxii. 41. I will render vengeance to xxiv. 19. mine enemies. Ver. 43.

Numb. xxv. 11. Phinehas turned away my

Rom. iii. 5. God taketh vengeance. Ch. wrath, that I consumed not the children of Isxii. 19.

2 Thess. i. 7, 8. The Lord Jesus 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.

CLIV. God abhorreth. Ps. v. 6. The Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. 1.3. The covetous man the Lord abhorreth.

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

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

Ezek. xvi. 38. I will judge thee, and give thee blood in fury and jealousy. Ver. 41, 42. Ch. xxiii. 25.-xxxvi. 5, 6.-xxxviii. 19.

Nah. i. 2. Zeph. i. 18.-iii. 8. The wicked this. (viz. to exalt Christ and promote his provoke God to jealousy. See Deut. xxxii. kingdom.) 16. Ps. lxxviii. 58.

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

CLX. Zeal ascribed to God. Isa. ix. 7.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform See Isa. lxiii. 15. Ezek. v. 13.

lix. 17. He was clad with zeal as a cloak.

CHAPTER II.

CREATION.

I. God created all things. See the Wisdom of God. Also, Power of God in creation.

Prov. xxvi. 10. The great God that formed all things. Eccl. iii. 11.-xi. 5.

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,

Isa. xliv. 24. I am the Lord that maketh all and that which cometh out of it. 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 heaven 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, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, 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 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.

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 thy 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?

Ps. xix. 4. In the heavens hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.

civ. 19. He appointeth the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down.

cxlviii. 3. Praise ye him sun and moon; praise him all ye stars of light.-Ver. 5. For he commanded, and they were created. Ver. 6.

Jer. xxxi. 35. He giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night; which divideth the sea, when the waves thereof roar: the Lord of hosts is his name.

IV. The sea. Gen. i. 9, 10. God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the

dry land earth, and the gathering together of Job xxviii. 25. He maketh the weight for the waters called he seas: and God saw that the winds; and he weigheth the waters by it was good. measure. Ch. xxxvii. 16. The balancing of Job xxvi. 10. He hath compassed the wa- the clouds. Prov. xxx. 4. ters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

xxxviii. 8-11. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb? I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it; and brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors; and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. See Ver. 16. 22. 25. 28.

Ps. xxxiii. 7. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap, and layeth up the depth in store-houses.

xcv. 5. The sea is his, and he made it: his hands formed the dry land.

Amos iv. 13.

VIII. Rain. Job xxviii. 26. He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the light ning of the thunder.

Ps. cxxxv. 7. He maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth the wind out of his treasures. Jer. li. 16.

Jer. x. 13. When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures. Ch. xiv. 22.-li. 16.

IX. The inhabitants of the sea. Gen. i. 20, 21. God said, Let the waters bring forth

civ. 10. He sendeth the springs into the abundantly, the moving creature that hath valleys.

Prov. viii. 27-29. He prepared the heavens: he set a compass upon the face of the depth: He established the clouds above: he strengthened the fountains of the deep: he gave the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment.

Isa. xl. 12. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand.

xliii. 16. The Lord maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.-Ver. 20. I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. Ch. xlviii. 21.

Jonah i. 9. I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.

Nah. i. 3, 4. The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind, and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers.

V. Summer and winter. Ps. lxxiv. 16, 17. The day is thine: the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

VI. North and south. Job xxvi. 7. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Ps. lxxxix. 12. The north and south thou hast created them.

VII. Clouds and wind. Job xxvi. 8. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them. Ver. 9.

life; and fowl that may fly above the earth, in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind; and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Ps. viii. 8.

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XII. Creation of Man's body. Gen. ii. 7. God formed man of the dust of the ground. Job xxxiii. 6.

iii. 19. Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return. Job x. 9.

Job x. 8. Thy hands have made me, and xxxvi. 29. Can any understand the spread-fashioned me together round about. Ps. cxix. ings of the clouds? Ver. 30. 32. See Ps. 73.-cxxxviii. 8.

iv. 3. cxlvii. 8. Prov. viii. 28.

Ver. 11. Thou hast clothed me with skin

and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

Ps. cxxxix. 14-16. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 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.

Acts xvii. 26. He made of one blood all nations that divell on the face of the earth. Job xxxi. 15.

XIII. His soul. Gen. ii. 7. The Lord breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. Job x. 12.

Job xxxiii. 4. The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. Isa. xlii. 5.

Isa. lvii. 16. I will not contend for ever, (saith the Lord,) for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Jer. xxxviii. 16. The Lord made us this soul.

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XVIII. Their names. Eph. i. 21. Angels, authorities, principalities, powers, mights, Zech. xii. 1. He formed the spirit of man thrones, dominions. 1 Pet. iii. 22. Col. i. 16, within him.

1 Cor. xv. 45. Adam was made a living soul.

XIV. Man's spiritual state after his creation. Gen. i. 27. God created man in his own image. Ch. ix. 6.

v. 1. In the likeness of God made be him. Ps. viii. 5, 6. Thou madest man a little lower than the angels, and crownedst him with glory and honour. (Heb. ii. 7.) Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands.

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Cherubim. 1 Sam. iv. 4. 2 Sam. vi. 2. 2 Kings xix. 15. Ps. xviii. 10.—lxxx. 1.— xcix. 1. Seraphim. Isa, vi. 2. 6.

Angels of God. Gen. xxviii. 12. Matt. xxii. 30. Sons of God. Job i. 6.—ii. 1.— xxxviii. 7. Christ's angels. Rev. xxii. 16. Michael's angels. Rev. xii. 7.

XIX. Their nature; they are superior to men. Ps. viii. 5. Heb. ii. 7. 9. They are spirits. Ps. civ. 4. Heb. i. 7. Holy. Rev. xiv. 10. Elect. 1 Tim. v. 21.

Eccl. vii. 29. God made man upright. James iii. 9. Men are made after the simili-2 tude of God.

Col. iii. 10. The new man is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him that created him.

XV. Man's first disobedience, or fall from his happy state. Gen. ii. 16, 17. The Lord God commanded the man saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, chou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.

iii. 6. The woman took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. 2 Cor. xi. 3. See sentence pronounced against the offenders, ver. 14 to 20.

They excel in wisdom and knowledge. Sam. xiv. 20.

They excel in utterance, or speaking tongues. 1 Cor. xiii. 1.

XX. They excel in strength. Ps. ciii. 20. They were created by Christ. Col. i. 16.

They are fellow-servants to the prophets and apostles, and are not to be worshipped. Judges xiii. 16. Col. ii. 18. Rev. xix. 10.— xxii. 9.

They look into gospel mysteries concerning Christ. Eph. iii. 10.

They are present in Christian assemblies. 1 Cor. xi. 10.

They see the behaviour of Christians. 1 Tim. v. 21.

They see the treatment Christians receive in the world. 1 Cor. iv. 9.

They behold the face of God, for Christians.

XVI. See the above sin and its consequences | Matt. xviii. 10.

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