2 Cor. i. 20. All the Promises of God in Chrift are yea and in him, Amen, unto the glory of God.

iv. 6. God hath fhined in our Hearts to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Chrift Jefus.

See

Eph. i. 6. God having predeftinated us to the Adoption of Children, by Jefus Chrift, to the Praife of the glory of his Grace. Ver. 12. Chrift's Glory before his Incarnation, on Earth and after his Refurrection.

God glorified by thefe who far Miracles wrought by his Power, as when the Pally was cured. Matt. 9. 8. The Dumb made to Speak. Matt. 15. 31. The Dead raised to Life. Luke 7. 16. The Lame healed. Luke 13. 13. Acts 4. 21. The Leper cleanfed. Luke 17. 15. Sight given to the Blind. Luke 18. 43. The Appearances at Chrift's Birth. Luke 2. 20. At his Death. Luke 23. 47.

241. The Wicked glorify not God, and are punished. haft not humbled thine Heart.

Dan. v. 22. Thou

Ver. 23. Daniel faid to Balfhazzar, thou haft lifted up thyself against the Lord of Heaven, &c. and the God in whofe Hand thy Breath is, and whofe are all thy Ways, haft thou not glorified.

Ver. 25. God hath numbered thy Kingdom.

Ver. 27. Thou art weighed in the Ballances and art found wanting. Ver. 28. Thy Kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and PerLians.

Mal. ii. 2. If you will not lay it to Heart, to give Glory to my Name, faid the Lord of Hofts, I will even fend a Curfe upon you, and I will curfe your Bleffings. Jer. 13. 26.

Acts xii. 23. An Angel fmote Herod, because he gave not God the Glory, and he was eaten of Worms.

Rom. i. 21. When they knew God, they glorified him not as God,

neither were thankful.

Ver. 24. Wherefore God gave them up, &c.

iii. 23. All have finned and come short of the Glory of God.

Rev. xvi. 9. The Men that were fcorched with Fire repented not to give glory to God.

Exod. xiv. 4. I

Ver. 17, 18.

242. God is glorified in the Deftruction of the Wicked. will be honoured upon Pharaoh and his Hoft. Lev. x. 2. There went out Fire from the Lord, and devoured Nadab, and Abihu.

Ver. 3. The Lord spake faying, before all the People will I be glorified.

Ifa. xxvi. 14. Thou haft vifited and deftroyed them, and made al! their Memory to perish.

Ver. 15. O Lord, thou art glorified.

Ezek. xxviii. 22. Thus faith the Lord God, behold I am against thee, O Zidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of thee. Ch. 39. 11. 13. 243. Sanctifying God. Lev. x. 3. The Lord fpake, faying, I will be fanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the People, I will be glorified.

Ifa. v. 16. God that his Holy fhall be fanctified in Righteousness. viii. 13. Sanctify the Lord of Hofts himself, and let him be your Fear, and let him be your Dread.

Ifa. xxix. 23. They shall sanctify my Name, and shall fanctify the holy one of Jacob.

Ézek. xx. 41. I will be fanctified in you before the Heathen. Ch. 36. 23. Ch. 28. 25-39. 21.

1 Pet. iii. 15. Sanctify the Lord God in your Hearts. See Ezek. 28. 22.-38. 16.

The

Numb. xx. 12. believed me not, to therefore ye fhall not

244 Threats against those that fan&tify not God. Lord ipake unto Mofes and Aaron, because ye fanctify me in the Eyes of the Children of Ifrael, bring this Congregation into the Land which I have given them. Ch. 27.14. Deut. 32. 51.

I.

CHA P. XV.

Characters good and bad, with Promises and Threats.

G

ODLINESS in Heart and Life. Pf. xxxii. 6. For this fhall every godly one pray unto thee.

2 Cor. i. 12. Our rejoicing is this, the Teftimony of our Confcience, that in Simplicity and godly Sincerity, not by fleshly Wisdom, but by the Grace of God we have had our Converfation in the World.

vii. 9. Ye were made forry [for Sin] after a godly Manner. Ver:

10, 11.

xi. 2. Paul faid, I am jealous over you with a godly Jealousy.

1 Tim. ii. 2. Pray that we may lead a quiet and peaceable Life in all Godliness and Honesty.

Ver. 10. Good Works become Women profeffing Godliness. iv. 7. Exercise thyfelf unto Godliness.

vi. 11. O Man of God, follow after Righteoufnefs, Godliness, Faith, Love, Patience, Meeknefs, fight the good Fight of Faith.

Tit. ii. 12. Denying Ungodliness and worldly Lufts, live foberly, righteously and godly in this prefent World.

Heb. xii. 28. Let us ferve God with Reverence and godly Fear. 2 Pet. i. 16. Add to Patience, Godliness, &c. Ver. 7.

iii. 11. What manner of Perfons ought ye to be in all holy Converfation and Godliness?

2. Promifes to the Godly. Pf. iv. 3. The Lord hath fet apart him that is godly for himself.

Tim. iv. 8. Godliness is profitable unto all Things, having the Promife of the Life that now is, and of that which is to come.

vi. 6. Godliness with Contentment is

great Gain.

2 Pet. ii. 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of Temptations, and to referve the unjuft unto the Day of Judgment to be punished.

3. Means of Godliness given. Pf. xii. 1. Help Lord, for the godly

Man ceafeth.

Rom. xi 26. Chritt hall turn away Ungodlinefs from Jacob.

1 Tim. iii. 16. The Gospel contains the Mystery of Godliness.

1 Tim. vi. 3. Gospel contains the Doctrine which is according to Godliness.

Tit. i. . The Truth [in the Gofpel] is according to Godliness.

4. Godliness mifreprefented. 1 Tim. vi. 3. Corrupt Men suppose that Gain is Godliness.

2 Tim. iii. 5. Hypocrites have a Form of Godliness, but deny the

Power thereof.

5. Ungodly defcribed by their Practice. Pf. xviii. 4. Floods of ungodly Men made me afraid.

Prov. xvi. 27. An ungodly Man diggeth up Evil.

xix. 28. An ungodly Witnefs fcorneth Judgment.

2 Tim. ii. 16. Vain Bablings increase unto Ungodliness.

Jude Ver. 4. Ungodly Men turn the Grace of God into Lafcivioufnefs.

Ver. 18. They walk after their own ungodly Lufts.

6. Threats against the Ungodly. 2 Chron. xix. 2. Shouldst thou help the Ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is Wrath upon thee from the Lord.

Pf.i. 1. Bleffed is the Man that walketh not in the Counsel of the Ungodly.

Ver. 4. The Ungodly are like the Chaff which the Wind driveth

away.

Ver. 5. The Ungodly fhall not stand in Judgment.
Ver. 6. The Way of the Ungodly fhall perish.

iii. 7. Thou haft broken the Teeth of the Ungodly.
xliii. 1. Plead my Cause against an ungodly Nation.

lxxiii. 12. The Ungodly profper in the World, they increase in Riches.

Ver. 18. Thou didst fet them in flippery Places, thou caftedft them down into Destruction.

Rom. i. 18. The Wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all Ungodlinefs and Unrighteoufnefs of Men.

1 Pet. iv. 18. If the Righteous fcarcely be faved, where fhall the Ungodly and the Sinner appear?

2 Pet. ii. 5. God fpared not the old World, bringing in the Flood upon the World of the Ungodly.

Ver. 6. And turning the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into Ashes, condemned them with an Overthrow making them an Example unto those that after fhould live Ungodly.

iii. 7. The Heavens and the Earth which are now are referved into Fire against the Day of Judgment, and Perdition of ungodly Men.

Jude Ver. 14. 15. Behold the Lord cometh, to execute Judgment upon all, and to convince all that are Ungodly, of all their ungodly Deeds, which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard Speeches which ungodly Sinners have spoken against him.

Righteousness.

7. Righteoufness required. Deut. vi. 25. It fhall be our Righteousness if we obferve to do all thefe Commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

Dan. iv. 27. Break off thy Sins by Righteousness.

Amos

Amos v. 24. Let Judgment run down as Waters, and Righteousness as a mighty Stream.

Zeph. ii. 3. Seek the Lord, feek Righteousness, feek Meeknefs, &c.
Matt. iii. 15. Jefus faid, it becometh us to fulfil all Righteousness.

v. 20. Jefus faid, except your Righteoufnefs fhall exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharifees, ye fhall in no Cafe enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

vi. 33. Seek firft the Kingdom of God and his Righteoufnefs. Rom.

14. 17.

Luke i. 75. Serve God in Holinefs and Righteoufnefs,

Acts xxiv. 25. Paul reafoned of Righteoufnefs, Temperance and Judgment to come.

Rom. vi. 13. Yield your Members as Inftruments of Righteousness unto God. Ver. 19.

1 Cor. xv. 34. Awake unto Righteousness.

2 Cor. vi. 4. 7. Approving ourselves by the Armour of Righteousness. Ver. 14. What Fellowship hath Righteousness with Unrighteoufnels? Eph. iv. 24. Put on the new Man, which after God is created in Righteoufnefs.

v. 9. The Fruit of the Spirit is in all Righteoufaefs, Goodnefs and

Truth.

vi. 14. Stand therefore having your Loins girt about with Truth, and having on the Breaft-plate of Righteousness.

Phil. i. 11. Approving things that are excellent, being filled with the Fruits of Righteoufnefs, which are by Jefus Chrift, to the Praise and Glory of God.

1 Tim. vi. 11. Follow after Righteoufnefs, Godliness, Faith, Love, Patience, Meekness,

2 Tim. 2. 22.

2 Tim. iii. 16. The Scripture is profitable for Inftruction in Righteoufness.

Tit. ii. 11. The Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all Men.

Ver. 12. Teaching us, that denying Ungodlinefs and worldly Lufts, we should live foberly, righteoufly and godly, in this prefent World. Heb. xi. 13. The Prophets through Faith wrought Righteoufnefs. 1 Pet. ii 24. We being dead to Sin, fhould live unto Righteoufnefs. 1 John ii. 29. Every one that doth Righteoufnefs is born of God. iii. 7. He that doth Righteoufnefs is righteous.

Ver. 10. Whofoever doth not Righteousness is not of God.

8. Promifes to the Righteous of peculiar Favour from God. Pf. i. 6. The Lord knoweth the Way of the Righteous.

cxlvi. 8. The Lord loveth the Righteous. Pf. 11. 7. 33. 5. Prov. 15.9. V. 12. Thou Lord wilt blefs the Righteous, with Favour thou wilt compafs him as with a Shield. Pf. 106. 3. Matt. 5, 6.

xxxiv. 15. The Eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his Ears are open unto their cry. Job 36. 7. Pf. 33. 18. 1 Pet. 3. 11, Ver. 17. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their Troubles. Pf. 10. 24.-15. 29. Jam. 5. 16.

1 Pet. 3. 12.

xiv. 5. God is in the Generation of the Righteous. Ifa. 64. 5. xxxvii. 17. The Lord upholdeth the Righteous. Pf. 55. 22. fhall never fuffer the Righteous to be moved. Pf. 15, 2,

Pf. xxxvii. 39. The Salvation of the Righteous is of the Lord, Gen. 7. 1. Prov. 18. 10. Ifa. 33. 15, 16.—64. 5. 2 Pet. 2. 5. xi. 5. The Lord trieth the Righteous.

Prov. ii. 7. The Lord layeth up found Wisdom for the Righteous, Jer. 20. 12.

iii. 32. The Secret of the Lord is with the Righteous, Pf. 25. 14. Job xxxiii. 26. God will render unto every Man his Righteousness, I Sam. 26. 23. 1 Kings 8. 32.

Pf. vii. 8. Judge me according to my Righteousness, Pf. 18. 20. 242 Sam. 22. 21.

Ver. 11. God judgeth the Righteous, God is angry with the Wicked every Day.

xxxvii. 6. He shall bring forth thy Righteousness.

lviii. 11. Verily there is a Reward for the Righteous, verily he is a God that judgeth in the Earth.

9. Promifes of Bleffings to the Righteous, as the Confequence of Righteousnefs by the Appointment of God.

Job iv. 7. Whoever perished being innocent, or where were the Righteous cut off?

xvii. 9. The Righteous fhall hold in his Way, and he that hath clean Hands fhall wax ftronger and stronger.

Pf. xxxvii. 29. The Righteous fhall inherit the Land, and dwell in it for ever.

lxxii. 7. In his [the good Kings Days] the Righteous fhall flourish. lxxv. 10. The Horn of the Righteous fhall be exalted.

xcii. 12. The Righteous fhall flourish like the Palm Tree, and grow like the Cedar in Lebanon, Pf. 1. 3.-52. 8. Prov. 11. 28. Jer. 17. 8. xcvii. 1. Light is fown for the Righteous, and Gladness for the Upright in Heart.

cvi. 3. Bleffed is he that doth Righteoufnefs at all Times.

Prov. x. ii. Righteousness delivereth from Death, Ch. 11. 4. 6.
Ver. 24. The Defire of the Righteous fhall be granted.

Ver. 28. The Hope of the Righteous fhall be Gradness, but the Expectation of the Wicked fhall perish.

xi. 8. The Righteous is delivered out of Trouble, and the Wicked cometh in his Stead, Ch. 10. 30.-12. 3.

Ver. 18. To him that foweth Righteousness fhall be a fure Reward. Ver. 19. Righteousness tendeth to Life, he that purfueth Evil, purfueth it to his own Hurt. Ch. 12. 28.

Ver. 30. The Fruit of Righteousness is a Tree of Life.

Ver. 31. The Righteous fhall be recompenfed in the Earth, Pf. 37. 29. xii. 3. A Man fhall not be established by Wickedness, but the Root of the Righteous fhall not be moved, Ch. 10. 25.

Ver. 7. The Wicked are overthrown and are not, but the House of the Righteous fhall stand, Ch. 11. 21.

Ver. 26. The Righteous is more excellent than his Neighbour. Ver. 28. In the Way of Righteoufnefs is Life, and in the Path-way thereof is no Death, Ch. 13. 6.

xiii. 9. The Light of the Righteous rejoiceth, but the Lamp of the Wicked shall be put out.

Prov. xiii. 21. Evil purfueth Sinners, but to the Righteous Good shall be repaid.