Amos ix, 4.. Though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. Jonah iii, 10. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. . . . . Nahum i, 7. The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. Zech. xii, 4. . . . . . I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judal, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness. Mal. iii, 16. Then 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 upon his AND OF HUMAN ACTIONS AND Gen. xvi, 13. And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her. Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me. Gen. xxxi. 42. . . . . . God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee Jesternight. Exod. ii, 25. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them. Exod. iii, 7. And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, ... for I know their sorrows. .. Deut. il, 7. For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness. 1 Sam. ii, 3. Talk no more 80 exceeding proudly; let not out arrogancy come of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions | are before the eyes of the LORD, are weighed. and he pondereth all his goings. 2 Sam. xii, 9. Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 2 Sam. xvi, 12. It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day. Neh. ix, 9. And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea. Job xiii, 27..... And lookest narrowly unto all my paths, thou scttest a print upon the heels of my feet. Job xiv, 16. For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? Isa. xxvi, 7. The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just. Isa. xxxvii, 17. Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God. Isa. lix, 15. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. Jer. xvi,17. For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. Jer. xxxii, 19. . . . . . For thine eyes are open 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. Job xxxi, 4. Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? Jer. xlviii, 30. I know his wrath, Job xxxiii, 27, 28. He lookethsaith the LORD: but it shall not be upon men; and if any say, I have so; his lies shall not so effect it. sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; Ile will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Job xxxiv, 21, 25. For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed. Ps. xxxi, 7. Thou hast known my soul in adversities. P3. XXXV, 21, 22. Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aba, ala! our eye hath seen it. This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me. from heaven upon the children of Ps. liii, 2, 3. God looked down men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. Every one of them is gone back; they are altogether become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Ps. Ixix, 19. Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee. Ps. cii, 19, 20. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death. Lam. iii, 59, 60. O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong, judge thon my cause. Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all their imaginations against me. Hosea v, 3. I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me.... not in their hearts that I rememHosca vii, 2. And they consider ber all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. Matth. vi, 8, 31, 32. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things yo have need of before ye ask him. Rev. iii, 15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. IIIS IMMUTABILITY. Num. xxiii, 19. God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall be not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good. 1 Sam. xv, 29. And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent. Job xxiii, 13. But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. Ps. xxxiil, 11. The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. Ps. cxix, 89-91. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. Thy faithfulness is unto all generations; thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants. Isa. lix, 1. Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. Micah 11, 7. O thou that art named The house of Jacob, is the Spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? . Mal. iii, 6. For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. James 1, 17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no Variableness, neither shadow of turning. Lev. xi, 44, 45. For I am the LORD your God; ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: . . . . For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. Lev. xix, 2. Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, ye shall be holy: for I the LonD your God am holy. Lev. xx, 26. And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. Lev. xxi. 8. Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy. Josh. xxiv, 19. And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God, he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. 1 Sam. ii, 2. There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none besides thee; neither is there any rock like our God. 1 Sam. vi, 20. And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us? 2 Kings xix, 22. Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and agunst whom hest thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes Job xxxiv, 10. Therefore hear- Isa. xxxvii, 23. Whom hast thou ken unto me, ye men of under-reproached and blasphemed; and standing: Far be it from God, that against whom hast thou exalted he should do wickedness; and thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes from the Almighty, that he should on high? even against the Holy commit iniquity. Ps. xii, 6. The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, puri fied seven times. P8. lxxxix, 18. For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our King. Ps. xcvii, 12. Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. Ps. xcix, 3, 5. Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy. Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy. Ps. cxix, 140. Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth One of Israel. Hosea xi, 9. I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I P3. cxlv, 17. The LORD is right-will not enter into the city. eous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. it. Hab. i, 13. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity.. John xvii, 11. . . . Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. James 1, 13. Let no man say, when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. 1 Peter i, 15, 16. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be yo holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 John 1, 5..... God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. Rev. iv, 8. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Job vill. 3. Doth God pervert jagment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? Job xxxvi, 3. 1 will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribo righteousness to my Maker. Ps. ix, 4. For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right. Ps. xi, 7. For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. Ps. xxxvi, 6. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: 0 LORD, thou preservest man and beast. Pз. xlviii, 10. According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto hand is full of righteousness. the ends of the earth: thy right Ps. lxxi, 19. Thy righ cousness also, O God, is very high, who Luke 1, 72. God remembered his last done great things: O God, holy covenant. LAW Rom. vil, 12. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. SCRIPTURES. Rom. 1, 2. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures.) CALLING. 2 Tim. i, 9. Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling. ...... SABBATH. Exod. xxxi, 14. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you. . . . . . IIIS NAME. Ps. cxl, 9. He sent redemption with the saving strength of his into his people; he hath com right hand. PLACE. Ps. xxiv, 3. Who shall ascend Into the hill of the Lon? and who shall stand in his holy place. HILL. Ps. ill, 4. I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. HABITATION. Ps. lxviii, 5. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. manded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is his name. IIIS JUSTICE. Deut. x, 17. For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. Deut. xxxil, 4. . . . . . A God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is he. There is 2 Chron. xix, 7... no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts. Neh. ix, 33. Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but Isa. lxv, 25. . . . . . They shall we have done wickedly. MOUNTAIN. ..... who is like unto thee? Ps. lxxxix, 14. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Ps. xcii, 15. To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. Ps. xcix, 4. The king's strength also loveth judgment: thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. P3. cxix, 137, 142. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. Ps. cxxix, 4. The LORD is rightcous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked. no God else besides me; a just Isa. xlv, 21. . . . And there is God, and a Saviour; there is none besides me. Jer. ix, 24 But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD Jer. xii, 1. Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee; yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments. Jer. 1, 7. All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We offend not, be cause they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of jus tice...... Ezek. xviii, 29. Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? Zeph. iii, 5. The just LORD is in the midst thereof, he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame. Acts x, 34, 35. Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. •Rom. ii, 2, 3, 11. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? For there is no respect of persons with God. oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father. Gen. xxxii, 10, I am not wor hy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I am become two bands Exod. xxxiv, 6. And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth. the LORD thy God, he is God, the Deut. vii, 9. Know therefore that faithful God, which keepoth covenaut and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. eousness, or for the uprightness of Deut. ix, 5. Not for thy rightthine heart, dost thou go to possess their Lind; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may Rom. iii, 5, 6. But if our unright-perform the word which the LORD teousness commend the rightsware unto thy fathers, Abraham, eousness of God, what shall we Isaac, and Jacob. say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) God forbid; for then how shall God judge the world? Ephes. vi, 9... Neither is there respect of persons with him. Heb. vi, 10. For God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. .... 1 Peter 1, 17. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. 1 John i, 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Rev. xv, 3. And they sing the Song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying. Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. IIIS TRUTII. ASSERTED AND INSTANCED. Gen. xxiv, 7. The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee. . . . . . Gen. xxvi, 3. Soj urn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries; and I will perform the his work is perfect; for all his ways Deut. xxxii, 4. He is the Rock, are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. 1 Kings vill, 15, 20, 24. And he said. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake: and I am risen up in the room of Ps. lxxxv, 10. Mercy and truth are met together. . . . . art a God full of compassion. Ps. lxxxvi, 15. But thou, O Lord, and plenteous in mercy and truth .... sing of the mercies of the LORD P3. lxxxix, 1, 5, 14, 34. I will make known thy faithfulness to for ever: with my mouth will I all generations. And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD; thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. Justice and judgment are the habitation shall go before thy face. of thy throne: mercy and truth covenant will I not break, nor My alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. and there is no unrighteousness LORD is upright: he is my rock, P3. xcil, 15. To show that the in him. he cometh, for he cometh to judge Ps. xcvi, 13. Before the LORD; for world with righteousness, and the the earth: he shall judge the people with his truth. Ps. xcviii, 3. He hath rememward the house of Israel. bered his mercy and his truth to .... his mercy is everlasting, and his Ps. c, 5. For the LORD is good; truth endureth to all generations. Ps. evil, 4. For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds. kindness is great toward us; and P's. cxvii, 2. For his merciful the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD. David my father, and sit on the my God; I will exalt thee, I will throne of Israel, as the LORD pro-praise thy name: for thou hast Isa. xxv, 1. O LORD, thou art mised, and have built an house done wonderful things; thy counfor the name of the LORD God of sels of old are faithfulness and Israel. Who hast kept with thy truth. servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thon spakest also with thy mouth, and hast is this day. fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is clean, enduring for ever: the Ps. xix, 9. The fear of the LORD judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. P8. xxxiii, 4. For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth. Ps. xxxvi, 5. .... clouds. faithfulness reacheth And unto thy the righteousness within my heart; I 18. xl. 10. I have not hid thy lave declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation. Ps. Ivii, 8, 10. ... God shall send forth his inercy and his truth. For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. 245 Isa. xlix, 7. Thus saith the LORD the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One; to him whom man Jer. 1, 12. Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it. the oath which I have sworn unto Jer. xi, 5. That I may perform flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day, Then answered L, your fathers, to give them a land and said, So be it, O LORD. Jer. xxxix, 16. Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, bring my words upon this city the God of Israel, Behold, I will for evil, and not. for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee. Jer. li, 29. And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant. Lam. ii, 17. The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not THE DIVINE ANGER AGAINST SIN-THE RESULT OF HIS JUSTICE AND TRUTH. Exod. xx, 5. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Exod. xxxiv, 14. For thou shalt worship no other god: for the pitied; and he hath caused thine LORD, whose name is Jealous, is fill his belly. God shall cast the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. Lam. iii, 23. They are new every morning: great is thy faithful ness. Ezek. xii, 25. For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD. Dan. iv, 37. Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise, and extol, and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase. Micah vii, 20. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old. Acts ii, 18. But those things, which God before had showed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. Rom. iii, 3. 4. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar. as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. 1 Cor. i, 9. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto' the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Thess. v, 24. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. 2 Thess. iii, 3. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. 2 Tim. ii. 13. If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful; he cannot deny himself. Titus 1, 2. In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Heb. x, 23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, (for he is faithful that promised.) a jealous God. Deut. vii, 21. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. Deut. xxix, 19, 20. And it come words of this curse, that he bless to pass, when he heareth the himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst. The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. Deut. xxxii, 21, 22. 34, 35, 43. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in mine anger. Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? To me belongeth vengeance and in due time: for the day of their recompence; their foot shall slide calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people; for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. Josh, xxiv, 19. And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; .... Job xx, 23. When he is about to fury of his wrath upon him. . . . . Job xxi, 17, 20, 30. God distributeth sorrows in his anger. His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruc tion? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. Ps. ii, 5, 12. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Ps. xxi, 9. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger..... Ps. xxxviii, 3. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. Ps. lxxvi, 7. Thou, even thou, art to be feared; and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? Ps. lxxviil, 49, 58. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels him to anger with their high among them. For they provoked places, and moved him to jeal ousy with their graven images. Ps. lxxix, 5. How long. LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? sumed by thine anger, and by thy Ps. xc, 7, 11. For we are con wrath are we troubled. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. |