Deut. xxvi. 11. Thou shalt rejoice in every good Thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine Houfe. Joel ii. 23. Be glad, ye Children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he hath given you the former Rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the Rain, the former Rain, and the latter Rain, in the first Month. Ver. 24. And the Floors shall be full of Wheat, and the Fats fhall overflow with Wine and Oyl. Ver. 26. And ye fhall eat in Plenty and be fatisfy'd, and praise the Name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wonderously with you. 111. Rejoicing in God in Time of worldly Adverfity. Hab. iii. 17. Although the Fig tree fhall not bloffom, neither fhall Fruit be in the Vines, the Labour of the Olive shall fail, and the Fields fhall yield no Meat, the Flocks fhall be cut off from the Fold, and there shall be no Herd in the Stalls. Ver 18. Yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my Salvation. See Pf. 46. 1. to 5. Comfort in God. 112. God giveth Comfort and Confolation. Job xv. 11. Are the Confolations of God fmall with thee? Pf. xxiii. 4. Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no Evil, for thou art with me, thy Rod and thy Staff, they comfort me. Ixxi. 20. O God thou haft fhewed me great and fore Troubles. Ver. 21. Thou fhalt increase my Greatnefs, and comfort me on every Side. lxxxvi. 17. The Lord hath holpen me and comforted me. xciv. 19 In the Multitude of my Thoughts within me, thy Comforts delight my Soul. cxix. 52. I remembred thy Judgments of old, O Lord, and have comforted my felf. Ver. 76. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful Kindness be for my Comfort, according to thy Word unto thy Servant. Ver 82. Mine Eyes fail for thy Word, faying. When wilt thou comfort me? Ifa. xii. 1. O Lord I will praise thee, though thou waft angry with me, thine Anger is turned away and thou comfortedst me. xl. 1. Comfort ye, comfort ye my People, faith your God, Ver. 2. Speak ye comfortably to Jerufalem and cry that her Warfare is accomplished, that her Iniquity is pardoned xlix. 13. The Lord hath comforted his People, and will have Mercy on his afflicted, Ch. 52. 9. li. 3 The Lord fhall comfort Zion, Joy and Gladness shall be found therein, Thanksgiving and the Voice of Melody. Ver. 12 I, even I (faith the Lord) am he that comforteth you; who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a Man that shall die, and of the Son of Man that shall be made as Grafs. Ivii. 18. I have feen his Ways and will heal him, I will lead him, and restore Comforts to him and to his Mourners.. Ixi. 2. I appoint, to comfort all that mourn in Zion. D d Ifa. Ifa. Ixvi. 13. As one whom his Mother comforteth, fo will I comfort you. Jer. xxxi. 13. I will turn their Mourning into Joy, and will comfort them. Hof. ii. 14. I will fpeak comfortably unto her. Zech. i. 13. The Lord anfwered with comfortable Words. Ver. 17. The Lord fhall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerufalem. Matt. v. 4. Bleffed are they that mourn, for they fhall be comforted. Luke xvi. 25. Lazarus is comforted in Heaven. John xiv. 18. Jefus faid, I will not leave you comfortless. Acts ix. 31. The Churches walking in the Fear of the Lord, and in the Comforts of the Holy Ghoft, were multiplied. Rom. xv. 4. Whatsoever Things were written aforetime were written for our Learning, that we through Patience and Comfort of the Scriptures might have Hope. Ver. 5. Now the God of Patience and Confolation grant you to be like minded one toward another, according to Chrift Jefus. 2 Cor. i. 3. Bleffed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Father of Mercies and the God of all Comfort. Ver. 4. Who comforteth us in all our Tribulations, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any Trouble, by the Comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. Ver. 5. Our Confolation aboundeth by Christ, Phil. 2. 1. 1. 8. I Pet. vii. 6. God that comforteth those that are caft down, comforted us. 2 Theff. ii. 16. Now our Lord Jefus Chrift himself, and God even our Father, which hath loved us and given us everlasting Confolation and good Hope through Grace, Heb. 6. 18. Ver. 17. Comfort your Hearts, and stablish you in every good Word and Work. Obferve, the foregoing Scriptures reprefent a Chriftian's Comfort, as proceeding from God the Father, from Chrift, the Holy Ghoft, and from the Holy Scriptures. Satisfaction. 113. God fatisfeth. Pf. xvii. 15. I will behold thy Face in Righteoufnefs, I fhall be fatisfied when I awake with thy Likeness. xxxvi. 8. They fhall be abundantly fatisfied with the Fatnefs of thy House, and thou wilt make them drink of the River of thy Pleasures. Ver. 9. For with thee is the Fountain of Life. Ixiii. 5. My Soul shall be satisfied as with Marrow and Fatness. Ver. 6. When I remember thee upon my Bed, and meditate on thee in the Night Watches. lxv. 4. We shall be satisfied with the Goodness of thy House, even of thy holy Place. ciii. 2. 5. Blefs the Lord, O my Soul, who fatisfieth thy Mouth with good Things. cvii. 9. The Lord fatisfieth the longing Soul, and filleth the hungry Soul with Goodness. Pf Pf. cxxxii. 15. I will abundantly bless Zion's Provision, I will fatisfy her Poor with Bread. Ifa. Iv. 2. Wherefore do ye spend your Money for that which is not Bread, and your Labour for that which fatisfieth not; hearken diligently unto me, and eat that which is good, and let your Soul delight itself in Fatnefs. Jer. xxxi. 14. I will fatiate the Soul of the Priefts with Fatnefs, and my People shall be satisfied with my Goodness, faith the Lord. Ver. 25. I have fatiated the weary Soul. Delight in God. 114. Delight in God. Job xxii. 21. Acquaint thyfelf with God. Ver. 26. Then shall thou have thy Delight in the Almighty, and lift up thy Face unto God. Pf. xxxvii. 4. Delight thyself in the Lord, and he shall give thee the Defires of thine Heart. Ifa Iviii. 14. Keep the Sabbath, &c. Then fhalt thou delight thyfelf in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high Places of the Earth, and feed thee with the Heritage of Jacob thy Father. 115. Things of God delighted in by his People. Neh. ix. 25. Thy People delighted themselves in thy great Goodness. Pf. i. 2. A good Man's Delight is in the Law of the Lord, Pf. 119. 70. 77. 92. Rom. 7. 22. xciv. 19. Thy Comforts delight my Soul. cxii. 1. Bleffed is the Man that delighteth in God's Commandments. cxix. 16. I will delight myself in thy Statutes, Ver. 47. 143. . Ifa. lviii. 13. Call the Sabbath a Delight. 116. Delight in Chrift. Song ii. 3. I fat under his Shadow with great Delight. Mal. iii. 1. The Lord whom ye feek fhall fuddenly come to his Temple, even the Messenger of the Covenant whom ye delight in. Glorying in God. 117. Glorying in God. Ifa. xli. 16. Thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the holy one of Ifrael, Ch. 44. 25. Jer. 4. 2. Jer. ix. 24. Let him that glorieth glory in the Lord, Pf. 63. 11.64. 10.-105. 3.—106. 4, 5. I Cor. i. 31. 2 Cor. 10. 17. Gal. vi. 14. God forbid that I fhould glory, fave in the Cross of our Lord Jefus Chrift, by whom the World is crucified unto me and I unto the World. 118. Sinful glorying forbidden. Jer. ix. 23. Let not the wife Man glory in his Wisdom, neither let the mighty Man glory in his Might, let not the rich Man glory in his Riches. 1 Cor. i. 29. No Man should glory in God's Sight, Rom. 4. 2. iii. 21. Let no Man glory in Man. iv. 7. Who maketh thee to differ? and what haft thou that thou didft not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why doft thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? ix. 16. Though I preach the Gospel I have nothing to glory of, for a Neceffity is laid upon me, yea Woe is unto me if I preach not the Gospel. D d 2 2 Cor. 2 Cor. xi. 18. Many glory after the Flesh, 1 Cor. 5. 6. James I. 14. xii. 5. Of myself will I not glory, but of mine Infirmities, Ver. 9. Ch. 11. 30. Boafting in God. 119. Boafing in God. Pf. xxxiv. 2. My Soul fhall make her Boaft in the Lord. xliv. 8. In God we boast all the Day long. Sinful Boasting. 120. Sinful boafting of the Wicked. Pf. x. 3. The Wicked boasteth of his Heart's Defire. Ver. 4. God is not in all his Thoughts. xlix. 6. They boat themselves of the Multitude of their Riches. lii. 1. Why boafteft thou thyself of Mischief? xciv. 4. How long shall the Workers of Iniquity boast themselves? Ver. 7. They fay the Lord fhall not fee nor regard it. Prov. xxvii. 1. Boast not thyfelf of To-morrow, for thou knowest not what a Day may bring forth. Ifa. x. 15. Shall the Ax boaft itself against him that heweth therewith? Ezek. xxxv. 13. With your Mouth ye have boasted against me. Ver. 14. Thus faith the Lord, I will make you defolate. ii. 17, 18. Thou makeft thy Boaft of God, and knowest his Will. Ver. 23. Thou makeft thy boast of the Law, through breaking the Law dishonoureft thou God? iii. 27. Boafting is excluded by the Law of Faith. James iii. 5. The Tongue boafteth great Things. iv. 16. Ye rejoice in your boafting, all fuch rejoicing is Evil. Hope in God. 121. Hope in God and Chrift. Ezra. x. 2. We have trespassed against our God, yet now is there Hope concerning this. Job v. 15. God faveth the Poor from the Sword, and from the Hand of the Mighty. Ver. 16. The Poor hath Hope, and Iniquity stoppeth her Mouth. xi. 14. Put Iniquity far from thee. Ver. 18. Then thou fhalt be fecure, because there is Hope. Pf. xvi. 9. My Flefh fhall reft in Hope. Ver. 10. For thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell, Acts 2. 26. xxii. 9. Thou didft make me to hope when I was upon my Mother's Breafts. xxxi. 24. Be of good Courage and he fhall ftrengthen your Heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. xxxiii. 18. The Eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his Mercy, Ver. 22. Pf. 147. 11. Let thy Mercy Lord be upon us, according as we hope in thee. xxxviii. 15. For thee, O Lord, do I hope, thou wilt hear, O Lord, my God. Pf. Pf. xxxix. 7. Lord, what wait I for, wy Hope is in thee. xlii. 5. Why art thou caft down, O my Soul? Why art thou difquieted in me? hope thou in God, for I fhall yet praise him, for the Help of his Countenance, Ver. 1. Pf. 71. 4. 5. 14. lxxviii. 5. He commanded our Fathers, that they should make known to their Children his Testimony and his Law. Ver. 7. That they might fet their Hope in God, and not forget the Works of God, but keep his Commandments. cxix. 43. I have hoped in thy Judgments. Ver. 49. Remember the Word on which thou haft caufed me to hope. Ver. 74 I have hoped in thy Word, Ver. 81. 114. 116. Ver. 166. Lord I have hoped for thy Salvation, and done thy Commandments. cxxxi. 3. Let Ifrael hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is Mercy, and plenteous Redemption. cxlvi. 5. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his Help, and whofe Hope is in the Lord his God. Prov. x. 28. The Hope of the Righteous fhall be Gladnefs, but the Expectation of the Wicked shall perish. xiv. 32 The Wicked is driven away in his Wickedness, but the Righteous hath Hope in his Death. Jer. iii. 23. In vain is Salvation hoped for from the Hills and from the Multitude of Mountains, truly in the Lord our God is the Salvation of Ifrael. xiv. 8. O Lord, the Hope of Ifrael, the Saviour thereof in Time of Trouble. xvii. 7. Bleffed is the Man that trufteth in the Lord, and whose Hope the Lord is. Ver. 13. O Lord, the Hope of Ifrael. Ver. 17. Thou art my Hope in the Day of Evil. xxxi. 17. There is Hope, faith the Lord, that thy Children shall come again from Captivity. 1. 7. They finned against the Lord, the Hope of their Fathers. Lam. 3. 24. The Lord is my Portion, faith my Soul, therefore will I hope in him. Ver. 26. It is good that a Man should both hope and quietly wait for the Salvation of the Lord. Ver. 29. He putteth his Mouth in the Duft, if so be there may be Hope. Ver. 31. For the Lord will not caft off for ever. Hof. ii. 15. The Lord faith, I will give her (the Church) the Valley of Achor for a Door of Hope. Joel iii. 16. The Lord will be the Hope of his People. Zech. ix. 12. Turn ye to the strong Hold, ye Prifoners of Hope. Acts xxiii. 6. Of the Hope and Resurrection of the Dead am I called in Question, said Paul. xxiv. 15. I have Hope toward God, that there fhall be a Refurrection of the Dead, Ch. 26. 6, 7.-28. 20. Rom. iv, 18. Abraham believed in Hope. v. 2. We rejoice in hope of the Glory of God. Ver. 4. Experience worketh Hope. Rom. |