Pf. cxix. 32. I will run the Way of thy Commandments, when thou haft enlarged my Heart. 1 Kings iv. 29. God gave unto Solomon Wisdom and Understanding exceeding much, and Largeness of Heart. Pf. xxxiii. 15. He fashioneth their Hearts. 1 Kings viii. 57. The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our Fathers, let him not leave us nor forfake us. Ver. 58. That he may incline our Hearts unto him, to walk in his Ways, and to keep his Commandments, and his Statutes and his Judg ments. Pf. cxix. 36. Incline my Heart unto thy Statutes, Ver. 8. Pf. 141. 4. lxxxvi. 11. Unite my Heart to fear thy Name, Ifa. lvii. 15. Thus faith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth Eternity, whofe Name is Holy, I dwell in the high and holy Place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble Spirit to revive the Spirit of the Humble, and to revive the Heart of the contrite ones. Pf. xxvii. 14. Wait on the Lord and he shall strengthen thine Heart, Pf. 31. 24-73. 26. Ifa. 35. 4. 1 Theff. iii. 12, 13. The Lord stablish your Hearts unblameable in Holiness, before God even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift with all his Saints, 1 Theff. 2. 17. Prov. xxi. 1. The King's Heart is in the Hand of the Lord, he turneth it, &c. Job 12. 24. Ezra vi. 22. The Lord turneth the Heart of the King of Affyria unto his People. Pf. cv. 25. He turned their Heart to hate his People. Mal. iv. 6. He shall turn the Heart of the Fathers unto the Children, &c. Luke 11. 17. Ezra vii. 27. Ezra faid, bleffed be the Lord God of our Fathers, who hath put this in the King's Heart, to beautify the Houfe of the Lord. Neh. ii. 12. I told no Man what God had put in my Heart to do at Jerufalem. Jer. xxxii. 40. I will put my Fear in their Hearts, &c. Jer. 31. 33. xxxi. 33. I will put my Law in their inward Parts, write it in their Hearts, Heb. 8. 10. 2 Cor. iii. 3. Ye are the Epiftle of Chrift, written with the Spirit of the living God in fleshly Tables of the Heart. 44. God's Judgments on the Hearts of the Wicked. Exod. vii. 13. The Lord hardened Pharaoh's Heart, Ch. 9. 12.-IC. I. 20. 27.-11. 10. 14. 8. Exod. ix. 14. I will fend my Plagues upon thine Heart. Deut. ii. 30. The Lord hardened the spirit of Sihon,King of Heshbon, and made his Heart obftinate, that he might deliver him into the Hand of Ifrael. xxviii. 28. The Lord fhall fmite thee with Madness, and Blindnefs, and Astonishment of Heart, Lev. 26. 16. xxix. 4. The Lord hath not given you an Heart to perceive. Ifa. xliv. 18. He hath fhut their Eyes that they cannot fee, and their Hearts that they cannot understand. Job xvii. 4. Thou haft fhut their Heart from Understanding, there fore fhalt thou not exalt them. Eccl. Eccl. iii. 11. He hath fet the World in their Heart. 45. Satan's Influences on the Hearts of the Wicked, Inftances thereof. See Satan's tempting Eve, Gen. 3. 1. to 6. Tempting David to Number the People, 1 Chron. 21. 1. He taketh away the Word out of the Heart, Matt. 13. 19. He put into the Heart of Judas to betray Christ, John 13. 2. Put into the Hearts of Ananias and Sapphira to lie, Acts 5. 3. He blinds the Minds of Unbelievers, 2 Cor. 4. 4. Eph. 4. 18: 46. An evil Heart defcribed. Gen. vi. 5. Every Imagination of the Thoughts of Man's Heart, was Evil continually. Prov. xx. 9. Who can fay I have made my Heart clean ? Jer. xvii. 9. The Heart is deceitful above all Things, and defperately Wicked, who can know it? Matt. xv. 19. Out of the Heart proceed evil Thoughts, Murders, Adulteries, Fornications. Thefts, falfe Witnefs, Blafphemies. Ver. 20. These are the Things which defile a Man, Mark 7. 21, 22, 23. 47. In Scripture the Hearts of the Wicked are defcribed as Wicked. Hard. 1 Sam. 6. 6. Prov. 28. 14. Zech. 7. 12. Set to do Evil. Eccl. 8. 11. Full of Evil, Eccl. 9. 3. Perverse. Prov. 12. 8.-23. 33. Eccl. 11. 9. Mark 16. 15. 29. 13. Departing from God. Jer. 17. 5. Not right with God, Acts 8. 21, Whorih, Idolatrous, Ezek, 6. 9.—11. 21.—14. 4. Rebellious. Jer. 5. 23. Full of iniquity. Pf. 41. 6. Ifa. 32. 6. Pf. 12. 2. Full of evil Imaginations. Deut. 29. 19. Pf. 140. 2. Full of Pride. 2 Chron. 26.16.Covetoufnefs, Ifa. 22. 17. 2 Pet. 2. 14. Confcience. 48. Keeping a good Confcience. A&s xxiii. 1. Paul faid, I have lived in all good Confcience before God until this Day. Rom. ix. I. I fay the Truth in Chrift, I lie not, my Conscience alfo bearing me Witnefs in the Holy Ghoft. xiii. 5. Ye muft needs be fubject (to Magiftrates) not only for Wrath but alfo for Confcience Sake. 2 Cor. i. 12. Our Rejoicing is this, the Teftimony of our Confcience, that in Simplicity and godly Sincerity, not with Fleshly Wisdom, but by the Grace of God, we have had our Conversation in the World. iv. 2. By Manifeftation of the Truth, commending ourselves to every Man's Confcience, in the Sight of God, Ch. 5. 11. 1 Tim. i. 5. The End of the Commandment is Charity, out of a pure Heart and of good Confcience, and of Faith unfeigned. Ver. 19. War a good Warfare, holding Faith and a good Confcience: jii. 9. Holding the Mystery of Faith in a pure Conscience. 2 Tim. i. 3. I serve God with a pure Conscience. M m 2 Heb. Heb. x 22. Having our Hearts fprinkled from an evil Confcience. xiii. 18. We truft we have a good Confcience, in all Things willing to live honestly. 1 Pet. ii. 19. This is thank-worthy, if a Man for Confcience toward God, endure Grief, fuffering wrongfully. iii. 15. Sanctify the Lord God in your Hearts. Ver. 16. Having a good Confcience, a good Converfation in Christ. 49. A good Confcience, how attained Acts xxiv. 16. I exercife myself to have always a Confcience void of Offence, toward God and toward Men. Heb. ix. 9. Gifts and Sacrifices were offered (under the Law) which could not make him that did the Service perfect, as pertaining to the Confcience, Ch. 10. 2. Ver. 14. How much more fhall the Blood of Chrift, who through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without Spot to God: Purge your Confciences from dead Works to ferve the living God, 1 Pet. 3. 21. x. 22. Having the Heart sprinkled from an evil Confcience. 50. Natural Confcience, Inflances of the Force thereof. John viii. 9. In the Accufers of the Woman before Chrift. Rom. ii. 15. In the Gentiles, who have not the Law. Acts xxiv. 25. In Felix hearing Paul preach. Sam. xxiv. 5.2 Sam. 24. 10. David's Heart fmote him. 51. A weak Confcience not to be wounded, 1 Cor. viii. 12. When ye Sin against the Brethren and wound their weak Confcience ye Sin againft Chrift. See Ver. 7. to 25. 27. Ch. 10. 28 29. 52. Of an evil Confcience. 1 Tim. iv. 1. Some fhall depart from the Faith. Ver. 2. Speaking Lies in Hypocrify, having their Confcience feared. Tit. i. 5. Unto them that are defiled and unbelieving there is Nothing pure, but even their Mind and Confcience is defiled. Serving God. 53. Commanded. Deut. vi. 13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and fhalt ferve him. Deut. x. 12. O Ifrael, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, and to walk in all his Ways, and to love him, and to ferve the Lord thy God with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul, Ver. 13. Ver. 20. The Lord thy God, him fhalt thou ferve, and to him fhalt thou cleave, Matt. 4. 10. 54. With the Heart. See the laft quoted Text, Deut. 10. 12. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. Serve him with a perfect 'Heart, and with a willing Mind. Eph. vi. 6. Doing the Will of God from the Heart. Ver. 5. With Singlenefs of Heart, as unto Chrift. Ver. 7. With good Will doing Service to the Lord. See Deut. 11. 13, 14.-13. 4—26. 6.—32. 46. Jof. 22. 5-24, 14, 15. i Sam. 7. 3.12. 14. 20. 24. 1 Kings 11. 4.-14. 8. Pf. 119. 69. 55. With fuitable Difpofitions of Heart. Jof. xxiv. 4. Fear the Lord, and ferve him in Sincerity and Truth, Ver. 24. 31. A&ts Acts xx. 19. Serving the Lord with all Humility of Mind, Ch. 26. 7. Luke i. 74. Serve him in Holinefs, and Righteoufnefs. vii. 6. We are delivered from the Law, that we should ferve in Newness of Spirit. Rom. xii. i. Prefent your Bodies a living Sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable Service. xii. 11. Fervent in Spirit, ferving the Lord. 2 Tim i. 3, 1 ferve God with a pure Conscience. Heb. ix. 14. The Blood of Chrift, fhall purge your Confcience, from dead Works to ferve the living God. xii. 28. Let us have Grace, whereby we may serve God, with Reverence and godly Fear, Pf. 2. 11. Pf. c. 2. Serve the Lord with Gladness. Acts xxvi. 7. Serving God inftantly. Rev. vii. 15. In Heaven they ferve God Day and Night. 56. God's Servants, God's Servants. Promises to them. Exod. xxiii. 25. Ye shall serve blefs thy Bread, and thy Water, Ch. the Lord and he will 15. 26. Deut. 11. 13, 14. 1 Kings viii. 23. Thou keepest Covenant and Mercy with thy Servants, that walk before thee with all their Heart, Gen. 32. 10. Job xxxvi. 11. If they obey and ferve him, they shall spend their Days in Profperity, and their Years in Pleasure, Pf. 119. 165. Prov. 3. 17. xxxv. 27. Let the Lord be magnified that hath Pleasure in the Profperity of his Servants, Pf. 147. 11-149. 4. Pf. cii. 28. The Children of thy Servants fhall continue, and their Seed fhall be established before thee, Pf. 69. 36. cv, 6. O ye Seed of Abraham his Servants, ye Children of Jacob his Chofen. Ver. 7. He is the Lord your God, Ver. 42. Ifa. 41. 8, 9. Ver. 2. For I will pour Water upon him that is thirsty, and Floods upon the dry Ground, Ver. 26. xlv. 4. For Jacob my Servant's Sake I have called thee by Name. xlviii. 29. The Lord hath redeemed his Servant Jacob. xlix. 3. Thou art my Servant, O Ifrael, in whom I will be glorified. liv. 17. No Weapon formed against thee fhall profper, every Tongue that fhall rife against thee in Judgment thou shalt condemn, this is the Heritage of the Servants of the Lord, and their Righteousness is of me, faith the Lord. Ivi. 6. The Sons of the Stranger that join themselves to the Lord to ferve him, &c. Ver. 7. Even them will I bring to my holy Mountain, and make them joyful in my Houfe of Prayer. Ifa. lxv. 8. Thus faith the Lord, as the new Wine is found in the Clufter, and one faith, deftroy it not, for a Bleffing is in it: fo will I do for my Servant's Sake, that I may not destroy them all. Ver. 9. Mine Elect fhall inherit my holy Mountain, and my Servants fhall dwell there. Ver. 13. Thus faith the Lord God, behold my Servants fhall eat, drink and rejoice. Ver. 14. They fhall fing for Joy of Heart. Ixvi. 13. I will comfort you, and ye fhall be comforted. Ver 14. And when you fee this, your Heart fhall rejoice, and your Bones fhall flourish like an Herb, and the Hand of the Lord fhall be known toward his Servants, and his Indignation toward his Enemies. Jer. xxx. 10. Fear thou not, O my Servant Jacob, faith the Lord, neither be dismayed, O Ifrael, for I will fave thee from afar, and thy Seed from the Land of their Captivity, and Jacob shall return and be in Reft and Quiet, and none shall make him afraid. Ver. 11. For I am with thee, faith the Lord, to fave thee, Ch. 29. 10.-46. 27, 28. Joel ii. 29. Upon my Servants pour out my Spirit. Ifa. 44. 3. and upon my Hand-maids, will I Acts 2. 17. Zeph. iii. 9. I will turn to the People a pure Language, that they may all call upon the Name of the Lord, to ferve him with one Confent. Matt. xxiv. 45. Bleffed is the faithful and wife Servant, Ver. 46. 48. 50. XXV. 21. Well done, thou good and faithful Servant, enter thou into the Joy of thy Lord, Ver. 23. 26. 30. Luke xii. 37. Bleffed are thofe Servants, whom their Lord when he cometh, fhall find Watching. Gal. iv. 7. Thou art no more a Servant but a Son, and if a Son, then an Heir of God, through Christ. Rev. vii. 3. Hurt not the Earth, till we have fealed the Servants of our God in their Fore-heads. 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. 28. 43. 2 Kings 9 7. PL. 79. 10.-116. 15. 57. God's Servants, Prayers for them. 2 Sam. vii. 29. With thy Bleffing, let the House of thy Servant be bleffed for ever, Gen 26. 24. 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 defire to fear thy Name, Job 42. 8. Dan. 9. 17. Pf. xix. 13. Keep back thy Servant from prefumptuous Sin. xxvii. 9. Put not thy Servant away in Anger. xxxi. 16. Make thy Face to fhine upon thy Servants, save me for thy Mercies Sake. Ixix. 17. Hide not thy Face from thy Servant, for I am in Trouble, hear me fpeedily. lxxxvi. 2. O my God, fave thy Servant that trusteth in thee, Ver_ 16. Dan. 3. 17. 28.-6. 16. lxxxix. 50. Remember Lord, the Reproach of thy Servants. |