Joel iii. 16. The Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

2 Tim. i. 7. God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

XIII. FRUITFULNESS, and INCREASE of GRACE.

Fruitfulness.-Ps. i. 3. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season: his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Jer. xxxi. 12. They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock, and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Hos. xiv. 5. I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 8. I am like a green fir-tree, from me is thy fruit found.

John xv. 2. Every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 5. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing.

2 Pet. i. 8. If these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren, nor unfruitful, in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus

Christ.

In Old Age.-Ps. xcii. 14. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age: they shall be fat and flourishing.

Increase of Grace.-Job xvii. 9. The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Ps. lxxxiv. 7. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

Ps. xcii. 12. The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Prov. iv. 18. The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Mal. iv. 2. But unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

Mat. xiii. 12. Whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance.

Jam. iv. 6. But he giveth more grace; wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

The Grace of Meekness.-Is. xi. 6. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling, together, and a little child shall lead them. 7. The cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters

cover the sea.

XIV. GRACE to PERSEVERE.

John x. 28. And I will give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29. My Father which gave them me is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand

John xvii. 11. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

Rom. viii. 38. I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Cor. i. 8. Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Cor. i. 21. He which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God.

Phil. i. 6. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ

1 Thess. v. 23. I pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

2 Thess. iii. 3. The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

2 Pet. i. 10. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

1 Pet. i. 5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.

Prov. x. 25. The righteous is an everlasting foundation.

Jude 24. Unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.

1 John v. 18. We know, that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not: but he that is begotten of God

keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him

not.

Ps. cxxxviii. 8. The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever forsake not the works of thine own hands. Ps. xciv. 18. When I said, my foot slippeth, thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.

XV. Sanctified AFFLICTIONS.

Deut. viii. 5. As a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.

Job xxxvi. 8. And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; 9. Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, that they have exceeded. 10. He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

Job v. 17. Happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. 18. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

Ps. xciv. 12. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law. 13. That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

Ps. cxix. 67. Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I have kept thy word. 71. It is good for me, that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 75. I know, O Lord, that thy judg ments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

Prov. iii. 12. Whom the Lord loveth, he correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Is. i. 25. I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin.

Is. xxvii. 9. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit to take away his sin.

Is. xlviii. 10. Behold I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Hos. ii. 6. I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths. 7. And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me than now.

Rom. v. 3. We glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, 4. And patience experience, and experience hope.

1 Cor. xi. 32. When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

2 Cor. iv. 16. For which cause we faint not, but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.

Phil. i. 19. I know that this shall turn to my salvation, through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

Heb. xii. 6. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. 7. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons: for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 10. They, verily, for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holi11. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless,

ness.