I'm poor, yet stock'd with untold rent ; e I, feeing him I never faw, m Serve without fear, and yet with awe. n e Rev. iii. 17, Becaufe thou fayeft, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knoweft not that thou art wretched, and miferable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counfel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayeft be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayeft be clothed, and that the fhame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye-falve, that thou mayeft fee. Eph. iii. 8, Unto me who am lefs than the least of all faints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unfearchable riches of Chrift. f John xv. 5, Without me ye can do nothing. Phil. iv. 13, I can do all things, through Christ which strengthened me. Pfalm xvi. 3, But to the faints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight. Ifa. xliii. 4, Since thou waft precious in my fight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Eph. iii. 8, See letter e. 1 Tim. i. 15, This is a faithful faying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Chrift Jefus came into the world to fave finners; of whom I am the chief. i Pfalm lxxiii. 22, So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee. Prov. xxx. 2, 3, Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I neither learned wifdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. 1 Cor. i. 30, But of him are ye in Chrift Jefus, who of God is made unto us wifdom, &c. Matth. xi. 25, 26, At that time Jefus anfwered and faid, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou haft hid these things from the wife and prudent, and haft revealed them unto babes. Even fo, Father, for fo it feemed good in thy fight. Chap. xiii. 11, Jefus anfwered and faid unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the myste ries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. / Prov. xxiv. 16, A just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. m 1 Pet. i. 8, Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom though now ye fee him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory. Heb. xi. 1, Now faith is the fubftance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not feen. n Luke i. 74, That he would grant unto us, that we being de P Though love, when perfect, fear remove, o I am oblig'd to hate my foes, v Yet bound to love and pray for those. w livered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear. Heb. xii. 28, Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. 1 John iv. 18, There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment; he that feareth is not made perfect in love. Jer. xxxiii. 9, And it shall be to me a name and joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which fhall hear all the good that I do unto them; and they fhall fear and tremble for all the goodness, and for all the prosperity that I can procure unto it. Hof. iii. 5, Afterwards fhall the children of Ifrael return, and feek the Lord their God, and David their king, and fhall fear the Lord, and his goodness in the latter days. q 1 Cor. vi. 12, All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. r Exod. xx. 1, 2, 3, &c. And God fpake all these words, faying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the houfe of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, &c. Pfalm cxxxix. 21, 22, Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rife up against thee? I hate them with a perfect hatred, I count them mine enemies. s 2 Chron. xix. 2, And Jehu the fou of Hanani the feer, went out to meet him, and faid to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldft thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord; therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord. Lev. xix. 18, Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge, against the children of thy people, but thou fhalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord. Luke xiv. 26, If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and fifters, yea, and his own life alfo, he cannot be my disciple. As they are the foes of God. Judges v. 31, So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord; but let them that love him be as the E Heart love to men I'm call'd ť' impart, By nature love, y by nature lothe. z SECT. V. Myfteries about flesh and spirit, liberty and bondage, life and death. MUCH like my heart both falfe and true, a fun when he goeth forth in his might. Pfalm xvii. 13, 14, Arife, O Lord, disappoint him, caft him down: deliver my foul from the wicked which is thy fword; from men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou filleft with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their fubftance to their babes. w Matth. v. 44, But I fay unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curfe you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which defpitefully ufe you, and perfecute you. x Matth. xix. 19, Jefus faid uuto him, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyfelf. Chap. xxii. 37, Thou fhalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy mind. y 1 John v. 2, By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. z Rom. viii. 7, The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Col. i. 21, And you that were fometimes alienated, and enemies in your minds by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled. a Jer. xvii. 9, The heart is deceitful above all things, and defperately wicked, who can know it? Heb. x. 22, Let us draw near with a true heart, in full affurance of faith, having our hearts fprinkled from an evil confcience, and our bodies washed with pure water. 6 Rom. ix. 25, 26, As he faith alfo in Ofee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her, beloved, which was not my beloved. And it fhall come to pafs, that in the place where it was faid unto them, Ye are not my people; there fhall they be called, The children of the living God. Rev. ii. 17, He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit faith unto the churches. To him that overcometh, will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white ftone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, saving he that receiveth it. Chap. iii. 12, Him that overcometh will I make a pilJar in the temple of my God, and he fhall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the No new thing is beneath the fun ;c Sin I confefs, and I deny ; For though I fin, it is not I.g I fin against, and with my will; b city of my God, which is New Jerufalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and I will write upon him my new name. Eccl. i. 9, The thing that hath been, it is that which fhall be: and that which is done, is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the fun. d 2 Cor. v. 17, If any man be in Chrift he is a new creature ; old things are paffed away, behold all things are become new. Rev. xxi. 5, And he that fat upon the throne, faid, Behold, I make all things new. e Rom. vii. 28, For I know, that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing; for to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. f Col. i. 27, To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory. in me. g Rom. vii. 14,-20, For we know that the law is fpiritual; but I am carnal, fold under fin. For that which I do, I allow not; for what I would, that I do not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I confent unto the law that it is good. Now then, it is no more I that do it, but fin that dwelleth For I know, that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing; for to will is prefent with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now, if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but fin that dwelleth in me. I John iii. 9, Whofoever is born of God, doth not commit fin; for his feed remaineth in him; and he cannot fin, because he is born of God. Rom. vii. 21,-25, I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God, after the inward man. But I fee another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, which is in my members. O wretched man that I am, who fhall deliver me from the body of this death! I thank God, through Jefus Christ our Lord. So then, with the mind I myself ferve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of fin. i Pfalm xix. 13, Keep back thy fervant alfo from prefumptuous Though fain I'd be the greatest faint, k fins, let them not have dominion over me, then shall I be upright, and I fhall be innocent from the great tranfgreffion. And cxx. 3, If thou, Lord, shouldft mark iniquity; O Lord, who shall ftand? Pfalm xxvii. 4, One thing have I defired of the Lord, that will I feek after, that I may dwell in the houfe of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. / Pfalm lxxxiv. 10, For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather be a door keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 22 Job v. 11, To fet up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to fafety. nr Sam. ii. 8, The Lord raiseth the poor out of the duft, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory; for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath fet the world upon them. Gen. xxxii. 28, And the angel faid, Thy name fhall be called no more Jacob, but Ifrael; for as a prince thou haft power with God and with men, and haft prevailed. Rev. i. 5, 6, Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our fins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. o Phil. ii. 10, That at the name of Jefus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. Heb. i. 6, And again when he bringeth in the first: begotten into the world, he faith, and let all the Angels of God worship him. p Rev. ii. 26, 27, And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations::: (and he shall rule them as with a rod of iron: as the veffels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers) even as I received of my Father. q Pfalm cxvi. 16, Oh Lord, truly I am thy fervant; I am thy fervant, and the son of thy handmaid: thou haft loosed my bonds. Rom. vii. 23, But I fee another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, which is in my members. r 1 John iii, 20, For if our heart condemn us, God is greater |