Pf. xxxviii. 12. They that feek my Hurt, fpeak mischievous Things, and imagine Deceit all the Day long.

lv. 10, Michief and Sorrow are in the Midft of the Wicked. Prov. iv. 16. The Wicked fleep not, except they do Mischief. vi. 14. A wicked Man devifeth Mifchief continually.

x. 23. It is a Sport to a Fool to do Mischief.

xvii. 20. He that hath a perverfe Tongue falleth into Mischief, Ch. 13. 17.- -24. 2. 8. 16—28. 14.

Eccl. x. 13. The End of a Fool's talk, is mifchievous Madness.. Ifa. lix. 4. They conceive Mischief, and bring forth Folly. See Ezek. II. 2. Dan. 11. 27. Mic. 7. 3. Acts 13. 10.

Threats. Pf. vii. 14. The Wicked hath conceived Mischief and brought forth Falfhood.

Ver. 16. His Mischief fhall return upon his own Head.

x. 14. Thou beholdest Mischief and Spite to requite it. xxi. 11. They imagine a mischievous Device against me; Ver. 12. Therefore fhalt thou make them turn their Back,

lii. 2. Thy Tongue devifeth Mischief: God fhall deftroy thee, Ver. 5. Pf. 62. 3.

xciv. 20. Shall the Throne of Iniquity have Fellowship with thee, which frameth Mischief by a Law?

cxl. 1. Deliver me from the evil Man.

Ver. 2. They imagine Mifchief in their Heart continually.

Ver. 9. Let the Mischief of their own Lips cover them.

Prov. xi. 27. He that diligently feeketh Good procureth Favour, but he that feeketh Mischief it shall come upon him.

Harmless,

41. Of being harmless Matt. x. 16. Be wife as Serpents and harmlefs as Doves, Rom. 16. 19.

Phil. ii. 15. Be blameless and harmlefs, the Sons of God, without Rebuke in the Midft of a crooked and perverfe Nation, among whom ye fhine as Lights in the World.

Blamelefs.

42. Blameless. Cor. i. 8. God fhall confirm you unto the End, that ye may be blameless in the Day of the Lord Jefus.

Eph. i. 4. God hath chofen us in Chrift, that we should be holy and without Blame before him in Love.

1 Theff. v. 3. The very God of Peace fanctify you wholly, and I pray God that your whole Spirit, Soul and Body be preferved blameiefs unto the Coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

1 Tim. v. 7. Thefe Things give in Charge, that they may be blame. lefs.

2 Pet. iii. 14. Be diligent that ye may be found of him without. Spot, and blameless, See Luke 1. 6.

Mercy.

43. Promifes to the Merciful. Pf, xviii. 25. With the Merciful thou wilt fhew thyfelf merciful.

xxxvii. 21. The Righteous fheweth Mercy, Ver. 26. He is ever merciful.

Prov. iii. 3. Let not Mercy and Truth forfake thee, bind them about thy Neck, write them upon the Table of thine Heart.

xi. 17. The merciful Man doth Good to his own Soul, but he that is cruel troubleth his own Flesh.

xvi. 6. By Mercy and Truth Iniquity is purged.

xxi. 21. He that followeth after Righteousness and Mercy findeth Life, Righteoufnefs and Honour.

Dan. iv. 27. Break off thy Sins by Righteoufnefs, and thine Ini- · quities by fhewing Mercy.

Hof. vi. 6. 1 defired Mercy and not Sacrifice, and the Knowledge of God more than burnt Offerings, Matt. 9. 13.-12.7.

xii. 6. Keep Mercy and Judginent.

Mic. vi. 8. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do juftly and love Mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.

Zech. vii. 9. Thus fpake the Lord of Hofts, faying, execute true Judgment and fhew Mercy and Compaffions every one to his Brother. Matt. v. 7. Bleffed are the Merciful, for they shall obtain Mercy. Luke vi. 36. Be ye merciful as your Father is merciful.

Rom. xii. 8. He that fheweth Mercy, let him do it with Chearfulnefs.

Phil. ii. 1. If there are any Bowels and Mercies, fulfil ye my Joy, Ver. 2.

Col. iii. 12. Put on (as the Elect of God holy and beloved) Bowels of Mercies.

James iii. 17. The Wisdom that is from above is full of Mercy.

Unmerciful.

44. Unmerciful. Threats. Pf. cix. 12. Let there be none to extend Mercy unto him,

Ver. 16. Because he remembred not to fhew Mercy.

Hof. iv. 1. The Lord hath a Controversy with the Inhabitants of the Land, because there is no Truth, nor Mercy, nor Knowledge of God in the Land.

Matt. xxiii. 23. Woe to you, ye have omitted the weightier Matters of the Law, Judgment, Mercy and Faith.

Rom. i. 28. 29. The reprobate Mind is filled with all Unrighteoufnefs, implacable, unmerciful.

James ii. 13. He shall have Judgment without Mercy that shewed no Mercy, Matt. 7. 22.

Compaffion and Pity.

45. Compaffion and Pity. Zech. vii. 9. Thus fpake the Lord of Hofts, faying, execute true Judgment, and fhew Mercy and Compaffions every Man to his Brother.

Matt. xvii. 33. Shouldst thou not have had Compaffion on thy fellow Servant even as I had Pity on thee.

Luke x. 33. A Samaritan had Compaffion on him that fell among Thieves.

Ver. 37. Jefus faid, go thou and do likewise.

1 Pet. iii. 8. Brethren, be all of one Mind, having Compaffion one of another.

1 John iii. 15. Whofoever hath this World's Good, and feeth his Brother have Need, and fhutteth up his Bowels of Compaffion toward him, how dwelleth the Love of God in that Man? See Heb. 13- 3.10. 32, 33, 34. Phil. 4. 14. Job. 30. 25. Pf. 35. 13, 14

Rom. xii. 15. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with those that weep.

Gal. vi. 2. Bear ye one another's Burdens, and fo fulfil the Law of Christ.

Job vi. 14. To the Afflicted Pity should be fhewed.

xix. 22. Have Pity upon me, O`ye my Friends, for the Hand of God hath touched me.

1 Pet. iii. 8. Be pitiful, be courteous, Eph. 4. 32.

Matt. xxv. 34. to 16. See there Chrift's Sentences, at the last Day to the Compaffionate and Uncompaffionate, Am. 1. 11.

See Perfons not to be pitied, Deut. 7. 16.-13. 8.-19. 13. 21. Ezek. 9. 5, 6.

Cruelty of the Wicked.

46. Cruelty of the Wicked. Gen. xlix. 5. Inftruments of Cruelty are in their Habitations, Ver. 7.

Deut. xxxii. 33. Their Wine is the Poifon of Dragons and the cruel Venom of Afps.

Prov. xii. io. The tender Mercies of the Wicked are cruel.

Pf lxxiv. 20. Earth's dark Places are full of the Habitations of Cruelty.

Lam. iv. 3. The Daughter of my People is become cruel.

Prayers. Pf. lxxi. 4. Deliver me, O my God, out of the Hand of the wicked and out of the Hand of the unrighteous and cruel Man, Pf. 25, 19.-27. 12.

Threats. Zech. 1. 15. Thus faith the Lord, I am very fore difpleased with the Heathen, that are at Eafe, for I was but a little dif pleafed and they helped forward the Affliction, Am. 1. 11. Obad. 1. Am. 6. 1. 3. 6. Ifa. 47. 6. Judg. 9. 24. Ezek.

15.

Gen. 42. 21. 18. 18-34. 4.

Forgiveness.

47. Forgiveness. Matt. vi. 9. After this Manner pray ye, Our Father which art in Heaven.

Ver. 12. Forgive us our Debts as we forgive our Debtors.

Ver. 14. If ye forgive Men their Trefpaffes, your heavenly Father will alfo forgive you.

Ver. 15. But if ye forgive not Men their Trefpaffes, neither will your Father forgive you your Trefpaffes.

xviii. 15. If thy Brother fhall trefpafs against thee, go and tell him his Fault between thee and him alone, if he fhall hear thee, thou haft gained thy Brother,

Ver. 21. Peter faid, how oft fhall my Brother offend and I forgive him? Till feven Times?

22. Jefus faith unto him, I fay not unto thee till feven Times, but until feventy Times feven.

Matt.

Ch. 16. Matt. xviii. 27. The Lord of that Servant (who could not pay) forgave him all the Debt

Ver. 35. So likewife fhall my heavenly Father do alfo to you, if ye from your Hearts forgive every one his Brother their Trefpaffes.

Mark xi. 25. When ye ftand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any, that your Father alfo which is in Heaven may forgive you your Trefpaffes.

Ver. 26. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in Heaven forgive you your Trefpaffes.

Luke vi. 37. Forgive and ye fhall be forgiven.

Ver. 38. For with what Meafure ye mete it fhall be measured to you again.

xvii. 3. Take heed to yourselves, if thy Brother trefpass against thee rebuke him, and if he repent, forgive him.

Ver. 4. And if he trefpafs againft thee feven Times in a Day, and feven Times in a Day turn again to thee, faying I repent, thou fhalt forgive him.

Eph. iv. 32. Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Chrift's Sake hath forgiven you.

Col. iii. 12. Put on (as the Elect of God, holy and beloved) Bowels of Mercies, Kindnefs, Humblenefs of Mind, Meeknefs, Long-fuffering. Ver. 13. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any Man have a Quarrel against any, even as Chrift forgave you, so do ye, See 2 Cor. 2. 7. 10. Gal. 6. i.

Revenge.

48. Revenge. Lev. xix. 18. Thou fhalt not avenge nor bear any Grudge against the Children of thy People.

Prov. xx. 22. Say not thou, I will recompence Evil.

xxiv. 29. Say not I will do to him as he hath done to me, I will render to the Man according to his Work, i Theff. 5. 15. 1 Pet. 3. 9.

xii. 20. Deceit is in the Heart of them that imagine Evil, Pf. 38. 12. Zech. vii. 10. Let none of you imagine Evil against his Brother in his Heart, Ch. 8. 17.

Rom. xii. 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give Place to Wrath, for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay,

faith the Lord.

Ver. 20. Therefore if thine Enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirft, give him Drink, for in fo doing, thou shalt heap Coals of Fire on his Head.

Ver. 21. Be not overcome of Evil, but overcome Evil with Good. Prayers and Complaints. Pf. cxl. 1, 2. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil Men, which imagine Mischief in their Heart, Hof. 7. 15. Lam. 3. 60. Pf. 10. 2.-21. 10. See Revenge punished, Ezek. 25. 12. to 18.

Good Counfel.

49. The Duty of giving and receiving good Counsel. Pf. Iv. 14. We took sweet Counsel together and walked to the Houfe of God in Com

pany.

Prov. i 5. A wife Man will hear and will increase in Learning, and a Man of Understanding will attain unto wife Counsel.

xi. 14. Where no Counsel is the People fall, but in the Multitude of Counsellors there is Safety, Ch. 15, 22—20. 18.-24. 6.

xii. 5. He that hearkeneth to Counfel is wife.

xiii. 10. With the Well-advised is Wisdom.

xix. 20. Hear Counsel and receive Inftruction, that thou mayeft be wife in thy latter End.

xxvii. 9. Ointment and Perfume rejoice the Heart, fo doth the Sweetness of a Man's Friend by hearty Counsel.

Inftances of good Counfel received by Mofes. Exod. 18. 19.-by Bathsheba, 1 Kings 1. 12.-by the King of Ifrael, 2 Kings 6. 9, 10.-by the King of Judah, 2 Chron. 30. 2. 23-by the Princes of Judah, Ézek. 10. 3. 8.

50. Rejecting evil Counsel, the Duty and Safety thereof. Pf. i. 1. Bleffed is the Man that walketh not in the Counsel of the Ungodly, Job 21. 16-22. 18.

Prov. i. 10. If Sinners entice thee confent thou not.

xii. 5. The Counfel of the Wicked is Deceit.

xix. 27. Cease to hear the Inftruction that causeth to err from the Words of Knowledge.

Followers of evil Counsel punished. Inflances thereof, those who followed the Counsel of Balaam, Numb. 31. 16.-Rehoboam for following the Counsel of the young Men, 1 Kings 12. 8. 14.-Ahaziah for following the evil Counsel of his Mother, 2 Chron. 22. 3, 4, 5.

51. The mutual Obligations to giving and receiving Inftruction from one another. Prov. iv. 13. Take faft Hold of Instruction, let her not go, keep her for fhe is thy Life, Ch. 1. 2. 3.-5, 1.-6.23.

viii. 10. Receive my Instructions and not Silver; and Knowledge ra

ther than choice Gold.

Ver. 33 Hear Inftruction and be wife and refuse it not.

ix. 9. Give Inftruction to a wife Man and he will be yet wifer, teach a juft Man and he will increase in Learning.

x. 17 He is in the Way of Life that keepeth Inftruction, but he that refuseth Reproof erreth.

xii. 1. Whofo loveth Inftruction loveth Knowledge, but he that hateth Reproof is brutish.

xv. 32. He that refuseth Inftruction defpifeth his own Soul, but he that heareth Reproof getteth Understanding

xix. 20. Hear Counsel and receive Inftruction, that thou mayeft be wife in thy latter End.

Ver. 27. Cease, my Son, to hear the Inftruction that causeth to err from the Words of Knowledge.

xxi. 11. When a Scorner is punifhed the Simple is made wife, but when the Wife is inftructed he receiveth Knowledge.

xxiii. 2. Apply thine Heart unto Inftruction, and thine Ears to the Words of Knowledge.

Ver. 23. Buy the Truth and fell it not; alfo, Wisdom, and Inftruction, and Understanding.

Job iv. 3. Thou haft inftructed many, and haft ftrengthened the weak Hands.