Ezek. xx. 37. I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. xxxvi. 25. I will sprinkle clean water upon you. Ver. 26. A new heart will I give unto you. Ver. 27. I will put my Spirit within you. Ver. 28. And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. xxxvii. 26. I will make a covenant of peace with them, it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. Ver. 27. My tabernacle shall be with them, yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Ver. 23, 24. Chr. xxxiv. 24, 25, 31. Hos. ii. 19. I will betroth thee unto me for ever, in righteousness, in judgment and in loving kindness, and in mercies. Ver. 20. I will betroth thee to me in faithfulness, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Isa. liv. 5. Thy Maker is thine husband, New Covenant. Heb. viii. 8. I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel. Jer. xxxi. 31, 32, 33, 34. xii. 24. Jesus the mediator of the new covenant. GOD'S ANGER. CXLVII. Anger ascribed to God. Neh. ix. 17. Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious, slow to anger, and of great kindness. See Ps. ciii. 8. Joel ii. 13. Nah. i. 3. CXLVIII. God's anger threatened against the wicked. Numb, xxxii. 14. Ye are risen up in your fathers stead, a race of sinful men to augment the fierce anger of the Lord. Deut. xxix. 19. If one say, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst. Ver. 20. The Lord will not spare him, but 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. xxxii. 21. They have moved me to jealousy, they have provoked me to anger. Ver. 22. A fire is kindled in mine anger, that shall burn to the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundation of the mountains. Job. xxi. 17. God distributeth sorrows in his anger. Ch. ix. 13. Ps. vii. 11. God is angry with the wicked every day. Ps. xxxviii. 3. lxxvi. 7. Who may stand in thy sight, when once thou art angry. Ps. xc. 7, 11. Nah. i. 6. lxxviii. 41. They tempted God, they remembered not his hand, Ver. 49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation. Ver. 50. He made a way for his anger, he spared not their soul from death. Isa. v. 24, 25. See Isa. x. 25. xiii. 9, 13.-xxx. 27, 30. -xlii. 24, 25.-lxvi. 15. Jer. xviii. 23, xxv. 38. xlix. 37.-li. 44. Lam. ii. 1. iii. 43. iv. 11. Ezek. v. 13. vii. 3. xiii. 13. xxii. 20, 21. Mic. v. 15. GOD'S WRATH. CXLIX. God's wrath threatened against sinners. Ezra viii. 22. His power and his wrath, is against all that forsake him. Job. xx. 23. God shall cast the fury of his wrath, upon the wicked. Ch. xxi. 20, 30. Ps. lxxviii. 49. Ps. ii. 12. When his wrath is kindled but a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Ps. xc. 7, 9, 11.-cii. 10. Prov. xi. 4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. Job xx. 28. Ezek. vii. 19. Zeph. i. 18. Isa. ix. 19. Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts, is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire. Jer. 1. 13. -vii. 29. Jer. x. 10. At his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Hos. v. 10. Nah. i. 2. The Lord reserveth wrath for his enemies. Rom. i. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven, against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. ii. 8. Indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, shall be upon every soul of man, that doth evil. Ver. 5. Ch. iv. 15. ix. 22. Eph. ii. 3. We were by nature children of wrath. v. 6. The wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience. Col. iii. 6. Rev. vi. 16. The wicked said to the mountains and rocks fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; Ver. 17. For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand? See Rev. xiv. 10. xvi 19. CL. God is wroth. Isa. xlvii. 6. I was wroth with my people, and polluted mine inheritance. Isa. Ixiv. 5. Behold thou art wroth, for we have sinned. Ps. lx. 1. O Lord thou hast cast us off, thou hast been displeased. Prayers. Ps. vi. 1. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Ps. xxxviii. 1. Isa. Ixiv. 9. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever, behold, we are all thy people. Promises. Isa. lvii. 16. I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth, for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls that I have made. CLI. God's indignation against sinners. Isa. Ixvi. 14. The hand of the Lord shall be known towards his servants, and his indignation towards his enemies. Ch. xxx. 30. Jer. x. 10. At his wrath, the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Job xxvi. 11. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof. Ch. ix. 6. He shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. See Nah. i. 5, 6, 8. Mic. vii. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him. Rom. ii. 8. To those that obey unrighteousness, God will render indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doth evil. : Heb. x. 27. A fearful looking for of judgment, and fiery indigna tion, which shall devour the adversaries. CLII. Fury. Lev. xxvi. 27. If ye will walk contrary to me, Job xx. 23. God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon the wicked, and shall rain it upon him. Isa. lix. 18. God will repay fury to his adversaries. Ch. Ixiii. 3. Jer. iv. 4. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your hearts, lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. Ezek. v. 15. I will execute judgments on thee in anger, and in fury, and in furious rebukes. Ch. vi. 12. xxxviii. 18. Nah. i. 2, 6. CLIII. Vengeance. Deut. xxxii. 35. To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence. Ps. xciv. 1. Heb. x. 30. Ver. 41. I will render vengeance to mine enemies. Ver. 43. 2 Thess. i. 8. The Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. CLIV. God abhorreth. Ps. v. 6. The Lord will abhor the bloody man. x. 3. The covetous man the Lord abhorreth. CLV. Loatheth. Zech. xi. 8. My soul loathed them. God despiseth. Amos v. 21. I hate, I despise your feast-days. quity. Ps. xi. 5. Jer. xliv. 8. Do not the abominable thing I hate. (viz.) Sin. CLVII. The Lord is a terrible God. Deut. vii. 21. The Lord your God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. Jer. xx. 11. Ps. xlvii. 2. The Lord most high is terrible. Ps. Ixviii. 35. Deut. x, 21. He hath done terrible things. 1 Chron xvii. 21. See Ps. lxv. 5. lxvi. 3, 5.-cvi. 22. cxlv. 6. Isa. lxiv. 3. Joel ii. 11. CLVIII. Dreadful. Dan. ix. 7. O Lord the great and dreadful God. Heb. x. 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. See Job xiii. 11. Isa. viii. 13. Mal. i. 14. GOD'S JEALOUSY. CLIX. God is jealous for his people. Promises. Ezek. xxxix. 25. Thus saith the Lord, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name. Joel ii. 18. The Lord will be jealous for his land, and pity his people. Zech. i. 14. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I am jealous for Jerusalem, and for Zion, with a great jealousy. Ch. viii. 2. God's jealousy in threats against sinners. Exod. xx. 5. I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Ch. xxxiv. 14. Deut. iv. 24. v. 9.-vi. 15. Jos. xxiv. 19. Numb. xxv. 11. Phineas turned away my wrath, I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy. Deut. xxix. 20. The anger of the Lord and his jealousy, shall smoke against the man that promiseth himself peace in his wickedness. Ps. lxxix. 5. Wilt thou be angry for ever, shall thy jealousy burn like a fire? Ezek. xvi. 38. I will judge thee, and give thee blood in fury and jealousy. Ver. 41, 42. Ch. xxiii. 25.-xxxvi. 5, 6. xxxviii. 19. Nah. i. 2. Zeph. i. 18. iii. 8. The wicked provoke God to jealousy. See Deut. xxxii. 16. Ps. lxxviii. 58. CLX. Zeal ascribed to God. Isa. ix. 7. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this (viz.) to exalt Christ and promote his kingdom. xxxvii. 32. The zeal of the Lord will defend Jerusalem. lix. 17. He was clad with zeal, as a cloke. See Isa. Ixiii. 15. Ezek τ. 13 CHAP. II. 1. GOD created all things. See the Wisdom of God. Also, Power of God in creation. Prov. xxvi. 10. The great God that formed all things. Eccl. iii. 11. xi. 5. Isa. xliv. 24. I am the Lord that maketh all things. Jer. x. 16. Rev. iv. 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour, and power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. II. God created the heavens and the earth. Gen. i. 1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Ch. ii. 4. Exod. xx. 11. -xxxi. 17. 2 Kings xix. 15. 1 Chron. xvi. 26. Ps. xcvi. 5. Isa. xxxvii. 16. Heb. i. 10. Neh. ix. 6. Thou hast made heaven, and the heaven of heavens, with all their hosts, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all, and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. Job ix. 8. He alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea. xxxviii. 4. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Ver. 5. Who hath laid the measures thereof, or who hath stretched the line upon it? Ver. 6. Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened, or who laid the corner stone thereof? Ver. 7. When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Ps. xxiv. 2. He hath founded the earth upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Ps. Ixxviii. 69. civ. 5,-cxix. 90, 91.cxxxvi. 6. 58 Ps. xxxiii. 6. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them, by the breath of his mouth. Ixxxix. 11. The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine, as for the world, and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. civ. 2. Thou stretchest out the heavens like a curtain. Job xxxvii. 18. Like a molten looking-glass. Isa. xl. 28. He is the Creator of the ends of the earth. Isa. xlii. 5. The Lord created the heavens and stretched them out, he spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it. li. 13. The Lord hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth. Ver. 16. Rev. xiv. 7. Worship him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. Acts xiv. 15. xvii. 24. Ps. cxlvi. 6. See wisdom of God in creation. See also power of Godin creation. III. Sun and moon created. Gen. i. 16. God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, he made the stars also. Job xxxviii. 12, 19, 24. Gen. i. 3. God said let there be light, and there was light. Ps. lxxiv. 16, 17. Job ix. 9. Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south. Ver. 7. Amos v. 8. Ps. viii. 3. When I consider the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained. Ver. 4. What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him. xix. 4. In the heavens hath he set a tabernacle for the sun. Ps. civ. 19. He hath appointed the moon for seasons, and the sun knoweth his going down. cxlviii. 3. Praise ye him sun, moon and stars, praise him all ye stars of light. Ver. 5. For he commanded, and they were created. Ver. 6. Jer. xxxi. 35. He giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea, when the waves thereof do roar, the Lord of hosts is his name. IV. The sea. Gen. i. 9. God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. Ver. 10. And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters called he seas, and God saw that it was good. Job xxvi. 10. He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. xxxviii. 8. Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb. Ver. 9. I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it. Ver. 10. And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors. Ver. 11. And said hitherto shalt thou come and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. See ver. 16, 22, 25, 28. Ps. xxxiii. 7. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap, and layeth up the depth in store-houses. |