Ifrael would none of me.

q Ifa. xliii. 22. But thou haft not called upon me, Jacob, but thou haft been weary of me, O Ifrael. v. 23. Thou haft not brought me the fmall cattle of thy burnt offerings, neither haft thos honoured me with thy facrifice. I have not caufed thee to ferve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incenfe: v. 24. Thou hast bought me no fweat cane with money, neither haft thou filled me with the fat of thy facrifices but thou haft made me to ferve with thy fins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

r Jer. iv, 22. For my people is foolish, they have not known me, they are fottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wife to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Hofea iv. I. Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Ifrael; for the Lord hath a controverfy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of cod in the land. v. 6. My people are deftroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected know'ledge, I alfo will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: feeing thou haft forgotten the law of thy God, I will alfo forget thy children. f Jer, 32. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Acts xvii. 23. For as I paffed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this infeription, TO

THE UNKNOWN GOD." Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. v. 29. Far as much then as we are the off-fpring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or filver, or ftone graven by art and man's device.

v Ifa. xl. 18. To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Pfal. 1. 21. These things haft thou done, and I kept filence; thou thoughteft that I was altogether fuch an one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and fet them in order before thine eyes.

x Deut. xxix. 29. The fecret things belong unto the Lord our God: but thofe things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

y Tit. i. 16. They profefs that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and difobedient, and unto every good work reprobate, Heb, xü, 16. Left there be any fornicator, or profane perfon, as Efau, who for one morfel of meat fold his birth-right.

x Rom. i 30. Backbiters, haters of God,defpiteful, proud, boasters,

a 2 Tim, iii. 2. For men fhall be

lovers of their own felves, covetous, boafters, proud, blafphemers, difobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy.

b Phil, ii, 21. For all feek their own, not the things which are jefus Chrift's,

1er John ii, 15, Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world, if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. v. 16. For all that is in the world, the luft of the flesh, and the luft of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 Sam. ii. 29. Where fore kick ye at my facrifice, and at mine offering which I have com manded in my habitation, and honoureft thy fons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefeft of all the offerings of Ifrael my people? Col. iii. 2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. v. 5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleannefs, inordinate affection, evil concupifcence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

di John iv. 1. Beloved, believe not ever fpirit, but try the fpirits whether they are of God: becaufe many falle prophets are gone out into the world.

e Heb, iii. 12. Take heed bre. thren, left there be in any of you an -evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

If Gal. v, 20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, frife, feditions, herefies. Tit. iii. 10. A man that is an here. tic, after the firft and fecond admonition, reject.

g acts xxvi. 9. I verily thought with myfelf, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jefus of Nazareth,

b Pfal. vii. 7. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his falvation.

Gen. iv. 13. And Cain faid unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

k Jer. v. 3. O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou haft ftricken them but they have not grieved; thou haft confumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock, they have refufed to return.

Ifa, xlii. 25. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the ftrength of battle; and it hath fet him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart,

m Rom. ii. 5. But after thy hardnefs and impenitent heart, treafureft up unto thyfelf wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of cod.

n Jer. xiii. 15. Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud; for the Lord hath spoken.

o Pfal. xix 13. Keep back thy fervant alfo from prefumptuous fias, let them not have dominion over me: then fhall I be upright, and fhall be innocent from the great tranfgreffion.

Zeph. i. 12. And hall come to pass at that time, that I will fearch Jerufalem with candles, and punish the mea that are fettled on their lees, that lay in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will

he do evil.

9 Mat. iv. 7. Jefus faith unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

r Rom. iii. 8. And not rather, as we be flanderously reported, and as fome affirm that we may fay, Let us do evil, that good may come ? whofe damnation is juf.

Jer. xvii. 5. Thus faith the Lord, Curfed be the man that trufleth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whofe heart departeth from the Lord.

2 Tim. iii. 4. Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God.

v Gal. iv, 17. They zealously af. fect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. John xvi. 2. They fhall put you out of the fynagogues; yea, the time cometh, that whofoever killeth you, will think that he doth God fervice. Rom. x, 2. For I bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to know ledge. Luke ix. 54. And when his difciples James and John faw this, they faid, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and confume them, even as Elias did? v. 55. But he turned, and rebuked them, and faid. Ye know not what manner of fpirit ye of.

are

Rev. ii. 16. So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold por hot, I will fpue thee out of my mouth.

x Rev. iii. 1. And unto the angel of the church in Sardis, write, These things faith he that hath the seven fpirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou liveft, and art dead.

y Ezek. xiv. 5. That I may take the house of Ifrael in their own heart, because they are all eftranged from me through their idols, Ifa, i. 4. Ah finful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a feed of evil doers, children that are corrupters, they have forfaken the Lord, they have provoked the holy One of 1frael unto anger, they are gone away backward. v. 5. Why should ye be fricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is fick, and the whole heart faint.

z Rom. x.13. For whofoever fhall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be faved. v. 14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how fhall they believe in him of whom they have pot heard? and how fhall they bear without a preacher? Hofea iv. 12. My people afk counfel at their stocks, and their ftaff declareth unto them: for the fpirit of whoredoms hath caufed them to err, and they have gone a whor-› ing from under their sed. A&ts x. 25. And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. v... 26. But Peter took him up, faying, Stand up; I myself alfo am a man. Rev. xix. 10. And I fell at his feet to worship him and he faid unto,,

me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow fervant, and of thy brethren that have the teftimony of Jefus; worship God for the teftimony of Jefus is the fpirit of prophecy. Mat. iv. 10. Then faid Jefus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan for it is written, Thou fhalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou ferve. Col. ii. 18. Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humility, and worshipping of angels, intruding into thofe things which he hath not feen, vainly puft up by his fleshly mind. Rom. i. 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and ferved the creature more than the Creator, who is bleffed for ever. Amen.

a Lev. xx. 5. And the foul that turneth after fuch as have familiar fpirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even fet my face against that foul, and will cut him off from among his people.. 1 Sam xxviii. 7. Then faid Saul unto his fervants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar fpirit, that I may go to her, and enquire of her. And his fervants faid to him, Behold, there is a woman, that hath a familiar spirit at En dor. V. 11. Then faid the woman, whom shall I bring up unto thee? and he faid, Bring me up Samuel. Compared with 1 Chron, x. 13. So Saul died for his tranfgreffion which he com mitted against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord which he kept not, and alfo for asking counfel of one that had a familiar fpi

any

rit, to enquire of it: v. 14. And enquired not of the Lord: therefore he flew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the fon of jeffe,"

b Acts v. 3. But Peter faid, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart, to lie to the Holy Ghoft, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

2 Cor. i. 24. Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy; for by faith ye ftand. Mat. xxiii. 9. And call no man your father upon earth; for one is your Father who is in hea

ven.

d Deut. xxxii. 15. But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick: thou art covered with fatnefs; then he forfook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the rock of his falvation. 2 Sam. xii 9. Wherefore haft thou defpifed the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his fight thou haft killed Uriah the Hittite with the fword, and haft taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast flain them with the fword of the. children of Ammon. Prov. xiii. 13. Whofo defpifeth the word, fhall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment, fhall be rewarded.

✔ Acts vii. 51. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcifed in heart and ears, ye do always refift the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, fo do ye. Eph, iv. 30. And grieve not the holy Spi rit of God, whereby ye are fealed unto the day of redemption.

Pfal. Ixxiii, 2. But as for me, my

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