See 2 Chron. from their Labours, and their Works do follow them. 15.7-31. 20, 21. Ifa. 49. 4. Jer. 31. 16. Rev. 2. 2.-9. 13. 19. 26. 28.-3. I. 8. 15. 77. Examples of good Works. Acts x. 28. Jefus went about doing good. John 10. 32. See Examples of Obedience in the above 2d. or 3d Ch. of Rev. 78. Omiffion of good Works, Threats. Luke xii. 47. That Servant which knew his Lord's Will and did it not, shall be beaten with many Stripes. James i. 22. Be ye Doers of the Word, and not Hearers only, deceiving yourselves. See the Parable of the Talent hid in the Earth. Matt. 25. 25, 26. 30. And Chrift's Sentence against the Wicked, for omitting Duty, Matt 25. 41, 42. The unfruitful Tree cut down. Matt. 3. 10.-7. 19. Luke 3. 9.-13. 6, 10. John 5. 2. The barren Fig-Tree curfed, Matt. 21. 19. The Parable of the Seed fown, not bearing Fruit. Matt. 13.23. Mark 4. 4. Luke 8. 8. The Servants profeffing but not working, Matt. 21. 30. Not being rich toward God, Luke 12. 20, 21. Is being like a Fool, James 4. 17. Jude 12: Deut. 32. 32. Heb. 6. 8. Doing Good. 79. Shunning Evil, and doing Good commanded. Pf. xxxiv. 14. Depart from Evil, and do Good. Pf. 37. 3. 8. 27. Ifa. 56. 2. Ifa. 1. 16. i Pet. 3. 11. Pf. xcvii. 10. Ye that love the Lord, hate Evil. Matt. xii, 12. It is lawful to do well on the Sabbath Day. 2 Cor. xiii. 7. I pray God, that ye do no Evil. 1 Pet. ii. 15. It is the Will of God, that with Well-doing ye may put to filence the Ignorance of foolish Men. iii. 11. Efchew Evil and do good. Ver. 17. iv. 15. Let none of you fuffer as an evil Doer. 1 John Ver. 11. Follow not that which is Evil, but that which is good. Examples. Job i. 1. Job feared God and efchewed Evil. Ch 2, 3. Pf. cxix. 10 I have refrained my Feet from every evil Way. Ver. 8. 80. Promifes to them that do Good, that do well. Gen. iv. 7. If thou doft well, fhalt thou not be accepted? Matt. xxvi. 44. Bleffed is that Servant whom his Lord fhall find fo doing. Rom. ii. 7. To thofe who feek for Glory, Honour, and Immortality by a patient Continuance in well-doing, God will give eternal Life. Ver. 1o. Glory, Honour and Peace to every Man that worketh Good. Gal. vi. 9. Let us not be weary in Well-doing, for in due Season we fhall reap if we faint not. Eph. vi. 8. Whatfoever good Thing any Man doth, the fame fhall he receive of the Lord. 1 Pet. iv. 19. Let them that fuffer according to the Will of God, commit the keeping of their Souls to him in Well-doing Evit Evil Doers. 81. Evil Doers and their Works to be avoided. Exod. xxiii. 2. Thou fhalt not follow a Multitude to do Evil. Ver. 24. Thou shalt not do after their Works, Lev. 18. 3. Pf. xxvi. 5. I have hated the Congregation of evil Doers, I will not fit with the Wicked. ci 3. I hate the Works of them that turn aside, it shall not cleave to me. Ver. 8. cxix. 115. Depart from me, ye evil Doers, for I will keep the Commandments of my God. cxli. 4. Incline not my Heart to any evil Thing, to practice wicked Works with Men that work Iniquity. Ifa. Ivi. 2. Bleffed is the Man that keepeth his Hand from doing Evil. Matt. xxiii. 3. Do ye not after the Works of the Scribes and Pharifees, for they fay and do not. Rom. xii. 2. Be not conformed to this World. Eph. iv. 17. Walk not as other Gentiles. 1 Pet. iv. 3. The time paft of our Life may suffice us, to have wrought the Will of the Gentiles. Rev. xviii. 4. I heard a Voice, faying, come out, my People, that ye be not Partakers of her Sins, and that ye receive not of her Plagues, Ifa. 51. 11. 2 Cor. 6. 17. Evil Company is to be avoided, befides fome of the above Scriptures. See Pf. 1. 1, 2.—125. 11. —4. 14.—16. 29.-22. 25. Prov. 1. 15. 82. Doing Evil the Character of the Wicked Pf. xxxvi. 3. The Wicked hath left off to be wife and to do Good, Pf. 14. 3.—53. 1. 3. 12. 3. Rom. Prov. ii. 14. The Wicked rejoice to do Evil (Mic. 7. 3.) they do Evil with both Hands. Eccl. viii. 11. Because Sentence againft an evil Work is not executed fpeedily; therefore the Hearts of the Sons of Men is fully fet in them to do Evil. Jer. iv. 22. My People are wife to do Evil, but to do good they have no Knowledge. xiii. 23. Čan the Ethiopian change his Skin, or the Leopard his Spots, then may ye alfo do Good, that are accustomed to do Evil. Rom. vii. 19. The Good that I would I do not, but the Evil which I would not, that I do. Ver. 21. I find a Law in my Members that when I would do Good, Evil is prefent with me. 83. Threats against evil Doers. 2 Sam. iii. 39. The Lord fhall reward the Doer of Evil, according to his Wickedness. Job viii. 20. God will not help evil Doers. Pf. xxxiv. 16. The Face of the Lord is against them that do Evil, 1 Pet. 3. 12. Mic. 3, 4. xxxvii. 9. Evil Doers fhall be cut off. Ifa. i. 4. A Seed of evil Doers, Children that are Corrupters. Ver. 15. When ye make many Prayers I will not hear. See Threats from Ver. 5. to 16. xiv. 20. The Seed of evil Doers fhall never be renowned. The Righteous not in Darkness. 291 Ch. 15. Ifa. xxxi. 2. God will arise against the House of evil Doers, Pf. 94. 16. Jer. iv. 4. Thus faith the Lord, circumcife yourselves to the Lord, left my Fury come forth like Fire and burn that none can quench it, because of the Evil of your doings. Ch. 21. 12. Ezek. 36. 17. Jer. 26. 3.-44. 22. 2 Kings 22. 17. xviii. 10. If a Nation do evil in my Sight, I will repent me of the Good wherewith I faid I would benefit them. Ezek. xxxvi. 9. According to their Way, and according to their Doings, I judged them, Hof. 4. 9.-12. 2. Zech. 1.6. Hof. vii. 2. Their own Doings have befet them about, Jer. 4. 18. Rom. ii. 9. Tribulation and Anguish fhall be upon every Soul of Man that doth Evil. See Deut. 4. 25, 26.—31. 29.—Ifa. 4. 18. 20. 22.59.6.-66.18, Jer. 7. 13. 18.-32. 30-44.8. Ezek. 21. 24.—33. 25.29. Works of Darkness. 84. Darkness and the Works thereof. Pf. 82. 5. The Wicked walk in Darkness. Prov. ii. 13. Evil Men leave the Paths of Uprightness, to walk in the Paths of Darkness. iv. 19. The Way of the Wicked is as Darkness. John iii. 19. Men love Darknefs rather than Light, because their Deeds are Evil. Rom. i. 21. Their foolish Heart was darkned, Ver. 22. They became Fools. Eph. iv. 18. Having the Understanding darkned, Matt. 6. 23. 1 John ii. 9. 11. He that hateth his Brother is in Darkness. Rev. xvi. 10. The Kingdom of the Beast was full of Darkness. 85. Threats. Ifa. v. 20. Wo to them that call Evil Good, and Good Evil, that put Darkness for Light, and Light for Darkness. xxix. 15. Wo to them whofe Works are in the Dark. 1 Cor. iv. 5. The Lord will bring to Light the hidden Things of Darkness. Not in Darkness. He that 86. The Righteous walk not in Darkness. John viii. 12. followeth Chrift fhall not walk in Darkness, Ch. 13. 35. Acts xxvi. 18. The Lord faid to Paul, I fend thee to open Men's Eyes and turn them from Darkness to Light, and from the Power of Satan unto God. Rom. xiii. 12. Let us caft off the unfruitful Works of Darkness. 2 Cor. vi. 14. What Communion hath Light with Darkness. Eph. v. 11. Have no Fellowship with the unfruitful Works of Dark nefs. vi. 12. Wrestle against the Rulers of the Darkness of this World. Col. i. 13. God hath delivered us from the Power of Darkness, 1 Pet. 2. 9. Theff. v. 4. Ye are not in Darkness. Ver. 5. Ye are all the Children of Light, and of the Day. 1 John i. 6. If we fay that we have Fellowship with him and walk in Darkness, we lie and do not the Truth. 002 Dead Dead Works. 87. The Wicked, and their Works called Dead, the righteous are alive, from the Dead. Rom. vi. 13. Yield yourselves unto God as thofe that are alive from the Dead. Eph. ii. 1. You hath he quickened who were dead in Trefpaffes and Sins. Eph. v. 14. Awake thou that fleepest, arife from the Dead, and Chrift fhall give thee Light. Col. ii. 13. You being dead in your Sins hath he quickned. 1 Tim. v. 6. She that liveth in Pleatures is dead while the liveth. Heb. vi. 1. Repentance from dead Works. ix. 14. The Blood of Chrift fhall purge your Confcience from dead Works, to ferve the living God. Jude xii. The wicked are as Trees twice dead. Rev. iii. 1. Thou hast a Name that thou liveft and art Dead. Works of the Devil, Children of the Devil. 88. Works of the Devil, Children of the Devil. John viii. 44 To the wicked Jefus faid ye are of your Father the Devil, and the Lufts of your Father ye will do. Acts xiii. 1o. Paul faid, O thou Child of the Devil, thou Enemy of all Righteoufnefs. 1 Tim. iv. 1. Some will depart from the Faith giving heed to seducing Spirits, and Doctrines of Devils. John iii 8. He that committeth Sin is of the Devil. Ver. 10. In this the Children of God are manifeft and the Children of the Devil, whofoever doth not Righteousness is not of God. 89. The righteous have no Fellowship with the Children of the Devil. 1 Cor. x. 20. I would not that ye should have Fellowship with Devils, Ver. 21. Eph. iv. 27. Neither give place to the Devil. James iv. 7. Refift the Devil, and he will flee from you. Works of the Flesh. 90. Works of the Flesh, living after the Flesh. Rom. vii. 5. When we were in the Flesh, the Motions of Sin did work in our Members to bring forth Fruit unto Death Ver. 18. In my Flesh dwelleth no good Thing. Ver. 25. With the Flesh I ferve the Law of Sin. Ver. 7. The carnal Mind is enmity against God. xiii. 14. Put on the Lord Jefus Chrift, and make no Provifion for the Flesh to fulfil the Lufts thereof. 2 Cor. vii. 1. Let us cleanfe ourselves from all Filthinefs of Flesh and Spirit. Gal v. 17. The Flefh lufteth against the Spirit. Ver. 19. The Works of the Flesh are Adultery, Fornication, Uncleanncfs, Lafciviousness, &c, Gal. Gal. v. 24. They that are Chrift's have crucified the Flesh. vi 8. He that foweth to the Flefh fhall of the Flesh reap Corruption. Eph. ii. 1. Ye were dead in Trefpaffes and Sins. Eph. ii. 2. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the Course of this World. Ver. 3. In the Lufts of your Flesh fulfilling the Defires of Flesh and of the Mind, and were by Nature Children of Wrath. Ver. 11. Col. ii. 11. Putting off the Body of the Sins of the Flesh by the Circumcifion of Christ. Ver. 13. You being dead in your Sins hath he quickened. Ver. 18. Let no Man beguile you vainly puffed up by his fleshly Mind. 1 Pet. ii. 11. Abftain from fleshly Lufts which war against the Soul. iv. 2. Live not in the Flesh, to the Lufts of Men, but to the Will of God. 2 Pet. ii. 20. If after they have escaped the Pollutions of the World through the Knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, they are again intangled therein and overcome, the latter End is worfe with them than the Beginning. 1 John ii. 16. The Luft of the Flesh, the Luft of the Eye, and the pride of Life, is not of the Father. 91. Lufts of the Flesh forbidden to Chriftians. Rom. vi, 12. Let not Sin reign in your mortal Body, that ye should obey it in the Lufts thereof, Ver. 13. xiii. 14. Put ye on the Lord Jefus, and make not Provifion for the Flesh to fulfil the Lufts thereof. Gal.v.16.Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the Lufts of the Flesh. Ver. 17. For the Flesh lufteth against the Spirit. Ver. 24. They that are Chrift's have crucified the Flesh with the Affections and Lufts. Eph. iv. 22. Put off the old Man which is corrupt according to the deceitful Lufts. 2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful Lufts, but follow Righteousness, Faith, &c. Tit. ii. 12. Denying Ungodliness and worldly Lufts, we should live foberly, righteoufly and godly in this present World. 1 Pet. i. 14 As obedient Children not fashioning yourselves according to the former Lufts in your Ignorance. ii. 11. I beseech you as Strangers and Pilgrims abftain from fleshly Lufts which war against the Soul. iv. 2. Live no longer to the Lufts of Men, but to the Will of God. Ver. 3.The Time paft of our Life may fuffice us to have wrought the Will of the Gentiles, when we walked in Lafcivioufnefs, Lufts, Excels of Wine, Revellings, Banquettings, and abominable Idolatries. 2 Pet. i. 4. There are given to us exceeding great and precious Promifes, that by thefe ye might be Partakers of a divine Nature, having escaped the Corruption that is in the World through Luft. 1 John ii. 6. All that is in the World, the Lufts of the Flefh, the Luft of the Eye, and the Pride of Life is not of the Father, but is of the World. Ver. 17. The World paffeth away and the Luft thereof. 92. Lufting after Women. Prov. vi. 25. Luft not after her Beauty, in thine Heart. Matt. |