Isa. lvi. 6,7. The sons of the stranger LVII. Prayers for them. 2 Sam. vii. that join themselves to the Lord, to serve 29. With thy blessing, let the house of him, &c. even them will I bring to my thy servant be blessed for ever. holy mountain, and make them joyful in xxiv. 10. O Lord, take away the ini. my house of prayer.

quity of thy servant. Ixv. 8, 9. Thus saith the Lord, As the Neh. i. 11. Let thine ear be attentive new wine is found in the cluster, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing to fear thy name. Job xlii. 8. Dan. ix. 17. is in it: so will I do for my servants' Ps. xix. 13. Keep back thy servant sakes, that I may not destroy them all. from presumptuous sin. And mine elect shall inherit my holy xxvii. 9. Put not thy servant away in mountain, and my servants shall dwell anger. there.

xxxi. 16. Make thy face to shine upon Ver. 13, 14. Thus saith the Lord God, thy servant: save me for thy mercy's sake. Behold, my servants shall eat, drink, Ixix. 17. Hide not thy face from thy and rejoice. They shall sing for joy of servant, for I am in trouble: hear me heart.

speedily. Ixvi. 13, 14. I will comfort you, and lxxxvi. 2. O my God, save thy servant, ye shall be comforted. And when you that trusteth in thee. Ver. 16. Dan. iii. see this, your heart shall rejoice, and 17. 28.-vi. 16. your bones shall flourish like an herb; Ixxxix. 50. Remember, Lord, the reand the hand of the Lord shall be known proach of thy servants. toward his servants, and his indignation xc. 13, Let it repent thee concern. toward his enemies.

ing thy servants. Ps. cxxxv. 14. Deut. Jer. xxx. 10, 11. Fear thou not, O my xxxii. 36. servant Jacob, saith the Lord, neither be Ver. 16. Let thy work appear unto dismayed, O Israel; for I will save thee thy servants, and thy glory unto their from afar, and thy seed from the land of children. their captivity; and Jacob shall return and be in rest and quiet, and none shall make him afraid. For I am with thee,

NOT SERVING GOD. saith the Lord, to save thee. Ch. xxix. 10.-xlvi. 27, 28.

LVIII. Not serving God. Threats. Joel ii. 29. Upon my servants and upon Deut. xxviii. 47, 48. Because thou ser. my hand-maids, will I pour out my Spirit

. vedst not the Lord thy God with joy. Isa. xliv. 3. Acts ii. 17.

fulness and gladness of heart, for the Zeph. iii. 9. I will turn to the people abundance of all things: Therefore a pure language, that they may all call shalt thou serve thine enemies, in hun. upon the name of the Lord, to serve him ger and thirst, and nakedness and want with one consent.

of all things. Jer. xvii. 1 to 5. Neh. ix. Matt. xxiv. 45. Blessed is the faithful 35, 36. and wise servant. Ver. 46. 48. 50.

Mal. iii. 14. Ye have said, It is in xxv. 21. Well done, thou good and vain to serve God: and what profit is it faithful scrvant, enter thou into the joy of that we have kept his ordinances ? - Ver. thy Lord. Ver. 23. 26. 30.

18. Ye shall discern between him that Luke xii. 37. Blessed are those ser. serveth God, and him that serveth him vants, whom the Lord when he cometh, not. Job xxi. 15. shall find watching.

Matt. xxiv. 50, 51. The Lord of the Gal. iv. 7. Thou art no more a servant, wicked servant, shall come in a day but a son; and if a son, then an heir of when he looketh not for him, and in an God, through Christ.

hour when he is not aware, and shall Rev, vii. 3. Hurt not the earth, till we cut him asunder, and appoint him his have sealed the servants of our God in portion with hypocrites: there shall be their foreheads.

weeping and gnashing of teeth. Ch. xix. 2. The Lord our God hath judged xxv. 30. Cast the wicked and unprofitthe great whore, which did corrupt the able servant into outer darkness: there earth with her fornication, and hath shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. avenged the blood of his servants at her See ver. 26. hand. Deut. xxviii. 43. 2 Kings ix. 7. Luke xii. 47. That servant which Ps. lxxix. 10.-cxvi. 15.

knew his Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, | pleasantness and paths of peace. 1 John shall be beaten with many stripes. iii. 5. Not grievous.

Rom. i. 25, 26. They served the crea- Ver. 173. I have chosen thy precepts. ture more than the Creator. For this cause – Ver. 111. Thy testimonies have I taGod gave them up to vile affections, &c. ken as an heritage for ever; for they are See Omission of good works.

the rejoicing of my heart. See Rejoicing

in God, in his word. OBEDIENCE.

Ver. 97. O how I love thy law. Ver.

159. See Love to God. LIX. Commanded. Eccl. xii. 13. Fear Ver. 20. My soul breaketh for the God, and keep his commandments: for longing it hath unto thy testimonies at all this is the whole duty of man.

times. Ver. 40. See Longing for God, Jer. vii. 23. This thing commanded I and the things of God. your fathers, saying, Obey my voice; and Ver. 11. Thy law have I hid in my I will be your God, and ye shall be my heart, that I might not sin against thee. people. Lev. xix. 37. 1 Sam. xv. 22. Jer. - Ver. 15. I will meditate on thy prexi. 4. Deut. vi. 24, 25.-vii. 12.

cepts, and have respect unto thy ways. Ezek. xx. 19. I am the Lord your God; See Meditation. walk in my statutes, and keep my judg. Ver. 83. I did not forget thy statates. ments, and do them. Ch. xxxvii. 24. Ver. 55. 93. Ps. xviii. 22.

1 Cor. vii. 19. Circumcision is no- Rom. vii. 22. I delight in the law of thing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but God after the inward man. Ps. i. 2.-xl. keeping the commandments of God. Ps. 8.-cxix. 16. 70. 72. 77. 92. 147. 174. cxix. 4.

See Delight. LX. Universal obedience required. LXII. With resolution of heart. Jos. Deut. xxviii. 14. Thou shalt not go aside xxiv. 15. Joshua said, As for me and from any of the words which I com. my house, we will serve the Lord. Ver. manded thee this day, to the right hand 24. The people said, The Lord our or to the left.

God will we serve, and his voice will we Jos. i. 7. Observe to do according to obey. all the law; turn not from it to the right Ps. cxix. 57. O Lord, I have said that hand or to the left; that thou mayest I would keep thy word. Ver. 69. I will prosper whithersoever thou goest. keep thy prccepts with my whole heart.

1 Chron. xxviii. 8. Keep and seek for Ver. 106. I have sworn, and I will all the commandments of the Lord your perform it, that I will keep thy righteous God.

judgments. Ps. cxix. 1. Blessed are the unde filed Ver. 112. I have inclined mine heart

to perform thy statutes.-Ver. 117. I Ver. 6. I shall not be ashamed when I will have respect unto thy statutes conhave respect unto all thy commandments. tinually. . Ver. 145. See 2 Kings xxiii.

Matt. v. 19. Whosoever shall break 3. 2 Chron. xv. 12. 15.—xxxiv. 31. one of these least commandments, and Where the king and the people enter shall teach men so, shall be called least in into a covenant, an oath and ourse, to the kingdom of heaven.

seck God. Gal. iii. 10. It is written in the law, Cursed is every one that continueth not LXIII. Ability for obedience promised. in all things that are written in the book Deut. xxx. 6. The Lord thy God will of the law to do them. Deut. vii. 26. circumcise thine heart, and the heart of Jer. xi. 3.

thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with Col. iv. 12. I pray that ye may stand all thine heart and with all thy soul.perfect and complete in all the will of Ver. 8. And thou shalt obey the voice of God. 1 Pet. iv, 2.

the Lord, to do all his commandments. James ii. 10. Whosoever shall keep 2 Chron. xxx. 12. The hand of God the whole law, and yet offend in one point, was to give them one heart, to do the is guilty of all.

commandment by the word of the Lord.

Ps. cx. 3. Thy people shall be willing in LXI. With an high esteem of God's the day of thy power. law. Ps. cxix. 128. I esteem all thy Isa. ii. 3. He will teach us of his ways, precepts right. Prov. iii. 17. Ways of and we shall walk in his paths. Mic. iv. 2.

in the way:

Ezek. xi. 19, 20. I will give them one Ver. 88. Quicken me, so shall I keep heart, and I will put a new spirit within the testimonies of thy mouth. them; and I will take the stony heart cxliii. 10. Teach me to do thy will ; for out of their flesh, and I will give them an thou art my God. heart of flesh: That they may walk in 2 Thess, ii. 16, 17. Now our Lord Jesus my statutes, and keep my commandments Christ himself, and God even our Father, and do them; and they shall be my who hath loved us, and hath given us everpeople, and I will be their God. Ch. xxxvi. lasting consolation, and good hope through 26, 27. Jer. xxiv. 7.—xxxi. 33.—xxxii. grace; comfort your hearts, and stablish 39.

you in every good word and work. Col. Zeph. iii. 9. I will turn to the people a i. 9. 2 Thess. i. 11. pure language, that they may all call upon Heb. xiii. 20, 21. Now the God of peace, the name of the Lord, to serve him with that brought again from the dead our one consent.

Lord Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd of John xv. 5. Jesus said, Without me ye the sheep, through the blood of the ever. can do nothing.

lasting covenant, make you perfect in Acts v. 32. The Holy Ghost God hath every good work; working in you that given to them that obey bim.

which is well pleasing in his sight, 2 Cor. xii. I. The Lord said to Paul, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory My grace is sufficient for thee, for my for ever and ever. Amen. strength is made perfect in weakness.

Phil. ii. 13. God worketh in you, both LXV. Ability from God acknowledged. to will and to do of his good pleasure. 1 1 Cor. xv. 10. Paul said, By the grace of Pet. iv. 1. The ability God giveth.

God I am what I am; and his grace

which was bestowed on me was not in LXIV. Ability prayed for. 1 Kings viii. vain : but I laboured more abundantly 57, 58. Solomon prayed, The Lord our than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God be with us; That he may incline God, which was with me. our hearts unto him, to walk in all his 2 Cor. iii. 5. Our sufficiency is of God. ways, and to keep all his commandments, Ch. xii. 10. Joel iii. 10. Isa. xxxv. 4. and his statutes, and his judgments. Ver. Phil. iv. 13. I can do all things through 61.

Christ which strengtheneth me. 1 Chron. xxii. 11, 12. David prayed, Eph. vi. 10. Be strong in the Lord, and The Lord be with thee, my son. (Ch. in the power of his might. xxix. 19.) And give thee wisdom and un- 2 Tim. ii. 1. Be strong in the grace derstanding, that thou mayest keep the that is in Christ Jesus. See God doth law of the Lord. 1 Kings iii. 9. lead, guide, strengthen, and uphold, &c.

xxix. 13, 14. David said, Our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. LXVI. Instances of obedience. Ps. cxix. For all things come of thee, and of thine 22. I have kept thy testimonies.-Ver. 60. own have we given thee. See ver. 11, I made haste and delayed not to keep thy 12.

commandments. Ver. 18, 19. Keep this for ever in the Ver. 63. I am a companion of them that imagination of the thoughts of the hearts fear thee, and of them that keep thy preof thy people, and prepare their heart unto cepts.Ver.87. I forsook not thy precepts. thee, to keep thy commandments, thy tes- Ver. 101. I have refrained my feet from timonies, and thy statutes.

every evil way, that I might keep thy Ps. Ix. 12. Through God we shall do word. Ver. 102. I have not departed valiantly. Ps. cviii. 15.

from thy judgments, for thou hast taught cxix. 5. O that my ways were directed me.

Ver. 129. to keep thy statutes.-Ver. 32. I will run Ver. 110. I erred not from thy prethe ways of thy commandments, when cepts.-Ver. 168. I have kept thy prethou shalt enlarge my heart.

cepts and thy testimonies, for all my ways Ver. 33. Teach me, O Lord, the way are before thee. of thy statutes, and I shall keep it.--Ver. John iv. 34. Jesus said, My meat is to 34. Give me understanding, so shall I do the will of him that sent me. keep thy law.

viii. 29. I do always the things that Ver. 36. Incline my heart unto thy please him. testimonies. Ver. 43, 44. 80. Let my xii. 17. I have kept my Father's comheart be sound in thy statutes.

mandments.

John xvii. 4. I have finished the work statutes and judgments which I teach which thou gavest me to do.

you, for to do them, that ye may live, and Phil. ji. 8. He became obedient unto go in and possess the land. Ver. 6. Keep death. Heb. v. 8.

and do them, for this is your wisdom and Heb. x. 7. I came to do thy will. Ps. understanding in the sight of the nations. xl. 6.

Ver. 7, 8. 30. John xiii. 15. Jesus said, I have given Ver. 40. Thou shalt keep his statutes, you an example.

that it may go well with thee, and with 1 John ii. 6. He that saith he abideth thy children after thee. Ch. vi. 1, 2. 17, in him, ought himself to walk oven as he 18. 25.—xii. 28. walked.

v. 29. O that there were such an heart Rom. vi. 17. Ye have obeyed from the in them, &c. Ver. 33. heart that form of doctrine delivered unto xiii. 4. Thou shalt keep his command. you,

ments, and obey his voice.-Ver. 17. That Rev. iii. 8. I know thy works: thou the Lord may turn from the fierceness hast kept my word. Ver. 10.

of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and xii. 17. The dragon went to make war have compassion upon thee, and multiwith them which kept the commandments ply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fa. of God, and have the testimony of Jesus. thers.

xiv. 12. Here are they that keep the xxviii. 1. If thou shalt hearken dili. commandments of God and the faith of gently unto the voice of the Lord thy Jesus.

God, to observe and to do all his comExamples. Abraham, Gen. xviii. 19.— mandments, the Lord thy God will set xxii. 18.—The children of Levi, Deut. thee on high, above all nations of the xxxiii. 9. 11.–Noah, Daniel, and Job, earth. See various blessings promised Ezek. xiv. 4. Job i. 8.-xiii. 11.-Sha- to ver. 14th of this chapter, and in drach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, Dan. Lev. xxvi. 3 to 14. and Deut. vii. 12, iii. 26.—David, 1 Kings xiv. 8.— Jehosha- 13, 14, 15.-xi. 9. 13, 14, 15.-XXX. phat, 1 Kings xxii. 43.—Hezekiah, 2 8, 9. Kings xviii. 6. -Josiah, 2 Kings xxiii. 3. xxix. 9. Keep the words of this covePs. lxxviii. 7.

nant and do them, that ye may prosper

in all that ye do. 1 Kings ii. 3, 4. Jer. LXVII. Promises to the obedient. Exod. xxxviii. 20. xix. 5. If ye will obey my voice indeed, xxx. 19, 20. I have set before you life and keep my covenant, then shall ye be and death, blessing and cursing: therea peculiar treasure unto me above all peo- fore choose life, that both thou and thy ple; for all the carth is mine.

seed may live. That thou mayest love Exod. xx. 6. I am the Lord, shewing the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest mercy unto thousands of them that love obey his voice, and that thou mayest me, and keep my commandments. Deut. cleave unto him, (for he is thy life and v. 10.-vii. 9. Neh. i. 5. Jer. xxxii. 18. the length of thy days.) Ver. 16. Ch. Dan. ix. 4.

v. 1. 10.-viu. 2. 6. 11. 20.-xii. 1. 25. Lev. xviii. 5. Ye shall keep my statutes -xxx. 8 to 16. 1 Sam. xii. 14. 2 Kings and my judgments; which if a man do he iii. 14. Prov. iii. 2. shall live in them. Neh. ix. 29. Prov. Ps. xix. 8. The statutes of the Lord are iv. 4.-vii. 2. Ezek. xx. 11. 13. 21. Rom. right.— Ver. 11. In keeping them there X. 5. Gal. iii. 12.

is a great reward. xxvi. 3—7. If ye will walk in my xxv. 10. All the paths of the Lord statutes, and keep my commandments, are mercy and truth, to such as keep his and do them, then will I give rain in due covenant and his testimonies. season, and the land shall yield her in: xxxvii. 34. Keep his way, and he shall crease. Ye shall eat bread to the full, exalt thee. and dwell in your land safely. I will give 1. 23. To him that ordereth his converpeace in the land, and ye shall lie down sation aright, I will shew the salvation of and none shall make you afraid. (Isa. i. God. 19.) And ye shall chase your enemies, cxix. 2. Blessed are they that keep his and they shall fall before you by the testimonies. sword. See to ver. 12. and Chap. xxv. 18, Prov. i. 3. Let thine heart keep my 19.

commandments, for long life and peace Deut. iv. 1. Hearken, O Israel, to the shall they add to thee.

Prov. viii. 32. Blessed are they that|

DISOBEDIENCE. keep my ways.

xix. 16. He that keepeth the command. LXVIII. Threats against the disobe. ment, keepeth his own soul.

dient. Deut. xxviii. 15–19. If thou wilt xxix. 18. He that keepeth the law, not hearken unto the voice of the Lord happy is he.

thy God, to observe and to do all his comIsa. xlviii. 18. Thus saith the Lord, o mandments, and his statutes, all these that thou hadst hearkened to my com- curses shall come upon thee and overtake mandments, then had thy peace been as a thee: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, river, and thy righteousness as the waves and cursed shalt thou be in the field. of the sea.

Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. Jer. vi. 16. Thus saith the Lord, Stand Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and ye in the ways and see, and ask for the the fruit of thy land, and the increase of old paths, where is the good way ? and thy kine and the flocks of thy sheep. walk therein; and ye shall find rest for Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest your souls.

in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou vii. 23. This thing commanded I your goest out. fathers, saying, Obey my voice, and I Ver. 20. The Lord shall send upon will be your God, and ye shall be my thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all people ; walk ye in all my ways, that it that thou settest thine hand unto for to may be well with you.

do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou xxvi. 13. Obey the voice of the Lord perish quickly, because of the wickedness your God, and he will repent him of of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken the evil that he hath pronounced against me. See to the end of this Chap.; also you.

the parallel place, Lev. xxvi. 14 to 40. Ezek. xviii. 5. 9. If a man be just, and containing threatenings of many dreadful do that which is right, and hath walked calamities. See also the following scripin my statutes, and kept my judgments, tures, wherein the disobedient are threat. he shall surely live. Ver. 18, 19. Ch. ened with the evils of war, famine, pestiXxxvii. 24.

lence, sickness, death, &c. &c. Neh. ix. Matt. vii. 22. Jesus said, Not every 26. Isa. xxiv. 1 to 13.-xliii. 27, 28.one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall lxv. 12. Jer. vi. 19. 22, 23.-xxy. 4 to 9. enter into the kingdom of heaven, but —xxvi. 4. 6.-xxix. 17. he that doeth the will of my Father which Eph. ii. 2. The prince of the power of is in heaven.

the air worketh in the children of dis. xii. 52. Whosoever shall do the will of obedience. my Father which is in heaven, the same v. 6. The wrath of God cometh upon is my brother, and sister, and mother. the children of disobedience. Col. ii. 6.

xix. 17. If thou wilt enter into life, 1 Tim. i. 9. * The law is made for the keep the commandments.

lawless and disobedient. Luke xi. 28. Blessed are they that hear 1 Pet. ii. 7. To them which be diso. the word of God and keep it.

bedient, Christ is a stone of stumbling and John ix. 31. If any man be a worship- a rock of offence. See the threatenings per of God, and doeth his will, him he against the wicked, ungodly, and other heareth.

sins mentioned. xiii. 17. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST. Rom. ii. 13. Not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of LXIX. Obedience to Christ's commands. the law shall be justified.

Matt. xxviii. 19, 20. Go ye and teach all 1 John ii. 17. He that doeth the will nations, to observe all things whatsoever of God abideth for ever.

I have commanded you: and, lo, I am iii. 22. Whatsoever things we ask we with you alway, unto the end of the receive of him, because we keep his com. world, mandments, and do those things that are

John xiv. 15. If ye love me keep my pleasing in his sight.

commandments.Ver. 24. He that lov. Rev. xxii. 14. Blessed are they that eth me not keepeth not my sayings. Ver. do his commandments, that they may 21. 23. have a right to the tree of life, and may xv. 14. Ye are my friends if ye do enter in through the gates into the city. whatsoever I command you. Ver. 10.