Tit. iii. 5. Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he faved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

Ezek. xx. 43. And there fhall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled, and ye fhall lothe yourselves in your own fight, for all the evils that ye have committed.

Ezek. xxxvi. 31. Then fhall ye remember your own evil way, and your doings that were not good, and fhall lothe yourselves in your own fight, for your iniquities, and for your abominations.

Matt. ix. 13. I am not come to call the righteous, but finners to repentance.

Acts v. 31. Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be a Prince and Saviour, for to give repentance to Ifrael, and forgivenefs of fins. .

As iii. 26. Unto you first, God having raised up his Son Jefus, fent him to blefs you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

Hof. ii. 6. Behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall that the fhall not find her paths.

The Grace of Repentance.

Ver. 7. And fhe fhall follow after her lovers, but fhe fhall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then fhall fhe fay, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me than now.

The Grace of
Faith.

Zech. xii. 10. They shall look upon me whom they have pierced.

John vi. 45. It is written in the prophets, And they fhall be all taught of GOD. Every man therefore that hath heard and learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

Unto you it is given to believe in

Eph. ii. 8. For by grace ye are faved, through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of GOD. Jer. xxxii. 40. I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever.

Phil. i. 29. Christ.

Grace to fear
God.

IX. KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, &c.

Knowledge.

Prov. ii. 5. Then shalt thou underftand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of GOD.

Ver. 9. Then fhalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

Proy. xxviii. 5. Evil men understand not judgment: But they that feek the LORD, understand all things.

Ifa. ii. 3. He will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: For out of Zion fhall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerufalem.

Ifa. xxix. 18. And in that day fhall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall fee out of obfcurity, and out of darkness.

Ver. 24. They also that erred in spirit fhall come to understanding, and they that murmured fhall learn doctrine.

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Ifa. xxxv. 8. And an highway fhall be there, and a way, and it fhall be called the way of holinefs: The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those : The way-faring men, though fools, fhall not err therein.

Ifa. lii. 6. My people shall know my name: Therefore they fhall know in that day, that I am he that fpeaketh.

Ifa. xxxii. 3. And the eyes of them that see, shall

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not be dim; and the ears of them that hear, fhall hearken.

Ifa. xlii. 7. To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prifoners from the prison, and them that fit in darkness out of the prifon-house. Jer. xxxi. 34. And they fhall teach no mor more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, faying, Know the LORD: For they fhall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, faith the LORD.

Hof. vi. 3. Then fhall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD.

Matth. xi. 25. I thank thee, O Father, LORD of heaven and earth, because thou haft hid these things from the wife and prudent, and haft revealed them unto babes.

2 Cor. iv. 6. GOD who commanded the light to fhine out of darkness, hath fhined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jefus Chrift.

1 John v. 20. And we know that the Son of GOD is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jefus Chrift.

Luke iv. 18. He hath fent me to preach-Sight to the blind.

Luke i. 77. To give knowledge of falvation unto his people, by the remiffion of their fins.

Ver. 78. Through the tender mercy of our GOD; whereby the day-ipring from on high hath vifited

us.

Ver. 79. To give light to them that fit in darkness, and in the fhadow of death to guide our feet into the way of peace.

John viii. 12. Then spake Jefus again unto them, faying, I am the light of the world: He that follow

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eth me, fhall not walk in darkness, but fhall have the light of life.

I Cor. ii. 14. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of GOD, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are fpiritually difcerned.

Ver. 15. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things

Wisdom.

Prov. ii. 6. The LORD giveth wifdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and underftanding.

Ver. 7. He layeth up found wifdom for the righteous.

P. xvi. 7. I will blefs the LORD, who hath given me counfel: My reins alfo inftruct me in the night feafons.

Pf. ii. 6. Behold, thou defireft truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part thou fhalt make me to know wifdom.

Fam. i. 5. If any of you lack wifdom, let him afk of GOD, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it fhall be given him.

Eccl. ii. 26. For GOD giveth to man that is good in his fight, wisdom and knowledge.

ance.

Pf. xxxii. 8. I will inftruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go I will guide thee with mine eye.

P. xxv. 8. Good and upright is the LORD; therefore will he teach finners in the way.

Ver. 12. What man is he that feareth the LORD? Him fhall he teach in the way that he fhall choose.

John vii. 17. If any man will do his will, he fhall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I fpeak of myself.

Divine Guid

Pf. xxiii. 3. He restoreth my foul :: He leadeth me in the paths of right-eoufnefs for his name's fake.

PS. Ixxiii. 24. Thou shalt guide me with thy coun

fel.

Ifa. xlix. 10. He that hath mercy on them fhall lead them; even by the fprings of water fhall he guide them.

Ifa. lviii. 11. And the LORD fhall guide thee continually.

Ifa. Ixi. 8. I will direct their work in truth.

Deut. xxxii. 10. He led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Ver. 11. As an eagle stirreth up her neft, fluttereth over her young ones, fpreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, fo the LORD alone did lead him,

Ifa. XXX. 21. Thine ears hall hear a word behind thee, faying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

Prov. x. 31. The mouth of the Ability for good just bringeth forth wisdom. Difcourfe.

Ver. 32. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable. Ifa. xxxii. 4. The heart of the rafh fhall underftand knowledge, and the tongue of the ftammerers fhall be ready to fpeak plainly.

Prov. xvi. 1. The preparations of the heart in man, and the anfwer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

1 Cor. xii. 8. To one is given by the Spirit, the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge, by the fame Spirit.

Luke xxi. 15. I will give you a mouth, and wifdom, which all your adverfaries fhall not be able to gainfay or refift.