Universal.

and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

Ps. 99. 1. The Lord reigneth; let the people tremble.

Ps. 146. 10. The Lord shall reign forever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations.

Is. 33. 22.

our king.

The Lord is our Law-giver, the Lord is

Dan. 4. 34. Whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation.

Rev. 19. 6. The Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 16. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

250. Is the government of God universal?

Ps. 103. 19. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

Pr. 16. 33. The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.

Is. 26. 12. Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.

Is. 45. 7. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

Dan. 4. 35. He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

Am. 3. 6. Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?

Ac. 17. 28. In him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Rom. 11. 36. For of him, and through him, and to him are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen. 1 Cor. 12. 6. There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

Dependence of creatures upon-Preservation by.

Ep. 1. 11. Who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.

Ph. 2. 13. It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

251. Are all creatures dependent upon divine agency? Job 12. 10. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Dan. 5. 23. Ps. 87. 7. All my springs are in thee.

Jer. 10. 23. O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. Pr. 16. 1.

Jer. 18. 6. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

Jn. 15. 5. Without me ye can do nothing.

Ac. 17. 28. For in him we live, and move, and have our being.

2 Cor. 3. 5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.

252. Are all creatures preserved by divine agency?

Neh. 9. 6. Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all.

Job 7. 20. What shall I do unto thee, O thou Preserver of men?

Job 10. 12. Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. Job 34. 14. If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; All flesh shall perish together, and man turn again unto dust

Ps. 36. 6. O Lord, thou preservest man and beast. Ps. 63. 8. Thy right hand upholdeth me.

Ps. 66. 8. O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

The heart governed.

Ps. 21. 7. The Lord shall preserve thee from evil: he shall preserve thy soul.

Heb. 1. 3. Upholding all things by the word of his power.

253. Does God fashion and govern the hearts of his

creatures?

Ezra 27. 2. Blessed be the Lord God of our Fathers, which hath put such a thing as this into the king's heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.

Ps. 33. 14. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. He fashioneth their hearts alike.

Ps. 51. 10. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Pr. 16. 1. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord. 9. A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps.

Pr. 21. 1. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water; he turneth it whithersover he will.

Is. 57. 19. I create the fruit of the lips.

Is. 64. 8. O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

Zec. 12. 1. The Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

Rom. 9. 20. Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

Rom. 10. 3. According as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Ep. 2. 10. We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works.

Sanctification-Agency in regeneration.

Ep. 4. 24. Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Col. 3. 10.

254. Is God able to sanctify whom he pleases?

Ps. 110. 3. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.

Jer. 32. 17. There is nothing too hard for thee.

Ep. 1. 18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead.

Ph. 2. 13. It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

255. Does God regenerate and sanctify any of mankind?

Dt. 30. 6. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Jer. 24. 7. And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Jer. 31. 33. This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Ezk. 11. 19. I will put a new spirit within you, and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezk. 36. 26. A new heart also will I give you, and

Sanctification not extended to all.

a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Jn. 1. 13. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Rom. 9. 16. It is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.

1 Cor. 3. 6. I have planted, Apollos watered: but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth: but God who giveth the increase.

1 Cor. 4. 7. Who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive?

Ep. 2. 4. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ. 8. For by grace are ye saved, through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. 10. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Col. 1. 13. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.

Jam. 1. 18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth.

256. Does God do all he can to sanctify all persons ?

Dt. 29. 4. The Lord hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

Jer. 5. 14. Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.