Future glory. 2 Cor. iii. 18. We behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord. Rom. v. 2. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. God's power called his glory. Rom. vi. 4. Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father. John xi. 4, 40. Lazarus, his sickness, and rising from the dead, is called the glory of God. 1 Cor. xi. 7. Man is the image and glory of God. Heb. i. 3. Christ is the brightness of the Father's glory. GOD'S KNOWLEDGE. XXXII. God's knowledge is perfect. 1 Sam. ii. 3. The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. Job xxxvii. 16. He is perfect in knowledge. Ch. xxxvi. 4. Ps. cxlvii. 5. His understanding is infinite. See Rom. xi. 33. Isai. xl. 28. There is no searching of his understanding. Prov. xxii. 12. xi. 2. The Spirit of the Lord is the Spirit of knowledge. XXXIII. God's knowledge is underived. Job xxi. 22. Shall any teach God knowledge. Ps. xciv. 9. He that planted the ear shall he not hear? he that formed the eye shall he not see? Ver. 10. He that teacheth man knowledge, shall himself not know? Isa. xl. 14. With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him ? and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding ? XXXIV. God's knowledge extendeth to all things. Job xxviii. 10. His eye seeth every precious thing. Ver. 24. He looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven. Ps. cxxxix. 12. Darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day, the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Dan. ii. 22. He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. Acts xv. 18. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. Heb. iv. 13. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 1 John iii. 20. God knoweth all things. XXXV. Things which God only knoweth. Gen. xl. 8. Joseph said, Do not interpretations belong to God? Deut. xxix. 29. Secret things belong to the Lord our God. 1 Kings viii. 39. Thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men. Job. xxiv. 1. Times are not hidden from the Almighty. Acts i. 7. Isai. xlii. 9. New things do I declare, before they spring forth, I tell you of them. xlvi. 9. I am God, and there is none like me. Ver. 10. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times, the things that are not yet done. Ch. xlviii. 3, 6, 16. Matt. xi. 27. No man knoweth the Son, but the Father. John x. 15. Mark xiii. 32. Of the day and hour of judgment knoweth no man, no not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son but the Father. 1Cor.ii. 11. The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. XXXVI. Secret things which God will discover. Job xx. 27. The heavens shall reveal the iniquity of the wicked, and the earth shall rise up against him. xxviii. 11. The thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. 1 Cor. iv. 5. God will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, will make manifest the counsels of the heart. Eph. iii. 9. The mystery (of redemption) hath been hid in God from the foundation of the world. Ver. 10. Now made known. Col. i. 26. XXXVII. The knowledge of God extendeth to man and all his ways. 2 Chron. xvi. 9. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro through the whole earth, to shew himself strong in behalf of those whose heart is perfect towards him. Job xxxiv. 21. His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. Chap. xiii. 27. xxxi. 4. Ps. xi. 4. His eyes behold, his eye-lids try the children of men. xxxiii. 13. The Lord looketh from heaven, he beholdeth all the sons of men. Ver. 14. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. Ixvi. 7. His eyes behold the nationis. ciii. 4. He knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust. cxiii. 6. He humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth. cxxxix. 1. O Lord thou hast searched me and known me. Ver. 2. Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising, thou understandeth my thought afar off. Ver. 3. Thou compassest my path, and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. Ver. 4. For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Ver. 6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, it is high, I cannot attain unto it. cxxxix. 11. If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Ver. 12, 13. Dan. ii. 22. Ver. 15. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Ver. 16. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect, and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them. Prov. v. 21. The ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings. xv. 3. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good. Jer. xxiii. 24. Can any hide himself in secret, that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Jer. xxxii. 19. Thine eyes are upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. XXXVIII. God knoweth the hearts of all men. 1 Sam. xvi. 7. The Lord seeth not as man seeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but God looketh on the heart. Job x. 4. Prov. xv. 11. 1 Kings viii. 39. Thou only knowest the hearts of all the chil dren of men. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts. Jer. xx. 12. O Lord of hosts that seest the reins and heart. Acts 1. 24. Thou Lord knowest the hearts of all men. XXXIX. God knoweth the hearts of the righteous. Gen. xx. 6. I know thou didst this in the integrity of thine heart. Ps. xix. 14. Let the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. cxxxix. 23. Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts; Ver. 24. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me In the way everlasting. Isa. lxvi. 2. To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. Jer. xii. 3. Thou, O Lord, knowest me, thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee. 1 Pet. iii. 4. The hidden man of the heart, even a meek and quiet spirit is in the sight of God of great price. See Acts xv. 8. XL. God knoweth the hearts of the wicked. Deut. xxxi. 20. They will provoke me: Ver. 21. For I know their imagination which they go about even now. Ps. xciv. 11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. Ezek. xi. 5. I know the things that come into your minds every one of you. them. Luke xvi. 15. Jesus said, ye are they that justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. Acts viii. 21. Thy heart is not right in the sight of God. XLI. God knoweth his people. Gen. vii. 1. The Lord said to Noah, thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. xviii. 19. I know Abraham that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. 2 Sam. vii. 20. Thou Lord knowest thy servant. 1 Chr. xvii. 18. Ps. i. 6. The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous. Ps. xxxvii. 18. xxxiv. 15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry. lxxx. 14. Look down from heaven and behold, and visit this thy vine. Ps. cxix. 132. xxv. 18. Deut. xxvi. 15. Isai. lxiii. 15. Isa. Įvii. 18. I have seen his ways, and will heal him, saith the Lord. Jer. xxiv. 6. I will set mine eyes upon them for good. Zech. xii. 4. 2 Tim. ii. 19. The Lord knoweth them that are his. Gal. iv. 9. XLII. God knoweth the religious principles and practices of his freople. Rev. ii. 19. I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and patience. B 1 Cor. viii. 3. If any man love God, the same is known of God. Ps. xxxiii. 18. The eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy. See Gen. xxii. 12. Nah. i. 7. The Lord knoweth them that trust in him. 1 Pet. iii. 4. A meek and quiet spirit is in the sight of God of great price. 2 Chron. xii. 7. The Lord saw that they humbled themselves. Col. 1. 22. Present you holy and unblameable, and unreproveable in his sight. Mat. vi. 18. Appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father which seeth in secret, and thy Father shall reward thee openly. Ver. 6. When thou prayest enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret, himself shall reward thee openly. Ver. 4. That thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. See Acts x. 4, 31. Job xxxiii. 27. He looketh upon man, and if any say I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; Ver. 28. He shall deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. See Jonah iii. 10. Jer. xvii. 16. Thou knowest that which came out of my lifis was right before thee. Mal. iii. 16. They that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought on his name. See Ps. cxxxix. 4. Jer. v. 3. Ps. xl. 9. 2 Cor. xi. 31. XLIII. Their works. 2 Cor. viii. 21. Provide things honest not only in the sight of God, but also of men. Rev. ii. 2. I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience; and how thou canst not bear them that are evil. Ver. 9.. I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, ver. 13, 19. Ch. iii. 8. Heb. xiii. 21. 1 John iii. 22. Their wants. Matt. vi. 8. Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. Mat. vi. 31. Take no thought, saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewithal shall we be clothed. Ver. 32. For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. Luke xii. 30. Their sorrows. Exod. iii. 7. The Lord said of his people, I know their sorrows. Ch. xiv. 24. Neh. ix. 9. Act. vii. 34. Deut. ii. 7. The Lord thy God knoweth thy walking through the wilderness. Their afflictions. Ps. xxxi. 7. Thou hast known my soul in adversity. Ps. cii. 19. He hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary: from heaven, did the Lord behold the earth : Ver. 20. To hear the groaning of the prisoner. Ps. xxxviii. 9. 2 Sam. xvi. 12. Job x. 15. Ps. xxxix. 11, 12. Their wrongs from oppressors. Gen. xxxi. 12. The Lord said to Jacob, I have seen all that Laban doth to thee. Ver. 42. Exod. ii. 25. God looked upon the children of Israel, and had respect unto them, under oppression. Ver. 24. Ch. iv. 31. 1 Sam. ix. 16. I have looked upon my people because their cry is come up unto me. See 2 Kings xiii. 4. xiv. 26. Ps. x. 14. Thou beholdest mischief and spite to requite it. lxix. 16. 1 hou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour, mine adversaries are all before thee. Jer. lix. 15. The Lord saw it and it displeased him that there was no judgment. Lam. iii. 59. Lord thou hast seen my wrong, judge thou my cause. Dan. ix. 18. O my God incline thine ear and hear, open thine eyes, and behold our desolations. Isa. xxxvii. 17. Jer. xlviii. 30. God saw in affliction Hagar, Gen. xvi. 13.-Leah, Gen. xxix. 31, Hannah, 1 Sam. i. 11. XLIV. God's knowledge of the wicked and their sins. Gen. vi. 5. God saw the wickedness of man, that it was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Exod. xxxii. 9. The Lord said I have seen this people, and behold it is a stiff-necked people. Deut. xxxii. 19. Job xi. 11. He knoweth vain man, he seeth wickedness also, will he not then consider it? xxxiv. 22. There is no darkness nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Amos ix. 2, 3, 4. Ps. xiv. 2. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. Ver. 3. They are all gone aside. Ps. liii. 2. lxix. 5. My sins are not hid from thee. xc. 8. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret'sins in the light of thy countenance. Isa. xlviii 8. I knew that thou wouldst deal treacherously. Jer. xvi. 17. Mine eyes are upon all their ways, neither is their iniquity hid from, mine eyes. Amos v. 11. I know their manifold transgressions, and their migh ty sins. Ch. ix. 8. I will set mine eyes upon them for evil. Hab. i. 13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look upon iniquity. Luke xv. 21. I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight. XLV. God knoweth the proud. 2 Sam. xxii. 28. Thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. See Job iv. 12. Ps. cxxxviii. 6. The proud he knoweth afar off. XLVI. God knoweth the impenitent. Jer. viii. 6. I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright, no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, what have I done, every one turneth to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. XLVII. Hypocritical professors. Matt. xxii. 11. The King came in to see the guests, and saw there a man not having a wedding gar ment on. Rev. ii. 9. I know the blasphemy of them which say, they are Jews and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan. iii. 1. I know thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. XLVIII. Liars and uncharitable persons. Prov. xxiv. 11. if thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn to death. |