before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and agaiust the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation, and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heird thee, saith the LORD. Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace, and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again. 2.Chron. Xxx, 9. For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him. Job iv, 7. Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? Job v, 19, 21. He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. Thou shalt be hid from the Scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thon be afraid of destruction when it cometh. Job xxii, 30. He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. Ps. xxxvii, 19, 20, 23, 24. 31-33. They shall not be ashamed in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD; and he delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide, The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condetan him when be is judged. Ps. cxii, 4. Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness, he is gracious and full of compassion, and righteous. Prov. i, 33. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. Prov. xll, 28. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death. Eccles. vill, 5. Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no shalt thou be established: thou to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, Ezek. xviii, 5, 9. But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right. Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD. IN SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS. the LORD, and serve him, and obey 2 Chron. xv, 7. Be ye strong Job xxii, 21. Acquaint now thy- bless the righteous; with favour shield. Ps. xviii, 24. Therefore hath the the blessing from the LORD, and Ps. xxv, 10. All the paths of the 699 testimonies. Ps. xxxi, 19, 20. Oh how great is Ps. xxxiii, 12. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LouD; chosen for his own inheritance. and the people whom he hath from evil, and do good; and dwell whom thou choosest, and causest Ps. lxxxiv, 11. For the LORD will give grace and glory: no good God is a sun and shield: the LORD thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Ps. xcvii, 11. Light is sown for the upright in heart. the righteous, and gladness for keep judgment, and he that doeth Ps. cvi, 3. Blessed are they that righteousness at all times. Prov. xxi, 21. He that followeth after righteousness and mercy flndeth life, righteousness, and honour. bring it health and cure, and I Jer. xxxiii, 6. Behold, I will will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth. Zech iii, 6, 7. And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, hosts, If thou wilt walk in my saying, Thus saith the LORD of ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by. John xii, 26. If any man serve be: if any man serve me, him will me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant my Father honour. ASPECTS OF PROVIDENCE PERSONAL PUNISHMENT Num. xiv, 41-43. And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgross the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper. Go not up. for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies. For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you. 2 Sam. iii, 39..... The LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness. Job xxi, 28, 29, 31. 32, 34. For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling-places of the wicked? Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens. Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? Job xxxi, 2 3. For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? Job xxxiv, 26, 27. IIe striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others; Because they turned back from hin, and would not consider any of his ways. Job xxxvi, 17. But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: julginent and justice take hold on thee. Ps. i 4. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Ps. i, 5. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. Ps ix. 16 The LORD is known by the jugm nt which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgalon. Selali. Ps. xxxiv, 21. Evil shall slay the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. Ps. xxxvii, 20 33. But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away. But the transgressors shall be destroyed together, the end of the wicked shall be cut of. Ps. xviii, 21. But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy se dp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses. Ps. esix, 118-120. Thou hast trodden down all them that err Prov. iv, 19. The way of the Prov. xxi, 10-12. The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes. When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge. The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked; but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness. Isa, xlviii, 22. There is no peace, saith the LORD unto the wicked. Isa. Ivii, 20, 21. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace, saith my God, to-the wicked. Jer. xxiii, 19, 20. Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked. The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly. Jer. xxx, 14, 15, 22, 23. All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were inCreased, I have done these things unto thee. And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind; it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. Jonah ii, 8. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare, Ezek. vii, 3, 4.8 9. Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations. And mine will I have pity: but I will receineye shall not spare thee neither Pense thy ways upon thee, and midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee; and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations. And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth. thine abominations shall be in the Ezek. ix, 10. 11. And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head. man And, behold, the clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded ine. Ezek. xxiv, 13, 14. In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it; it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will f repent: according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD. Micah vi, 16. For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ve shall bear the reproach of my people. NATIONAL Disaster. Deut. xxviii, 45-47. Moreover, all and shall pursue thee, and overthese curses shall come upon thee, take thee, till thou be destroyed; b cause thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee: And they shall be upon thee for a sign, and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever. Because thou servecst not the Loan thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abund- I have called unto them, but they ance of all things. 1 Sam. xii, 15. But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the command ment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers. Isaiah i. 20. But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured by the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. Isaiah xxx, 1. Woe to the rebel Hous children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin. Jer xi. 8. Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do; but they did them not. Jer. xi, 17. But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD. Jer. xxv, 20. 31. For, lo. I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call have not answered. Ezek. xxi, 24. Therefore thus Hosea viii, 1. Set the trumpet to Hosea ix. 9, 17. They have in the days of Gibeah: therefore he deeply corrupted themselves. as will remember their intquity, he will visit their sins. My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations. AND DEATH IN EVERY SENSE. Gen. vi. 13. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them: and, behold I will destroy them with the earth. Num. xxvli, 13,14. And when thou shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD they shall inherit the earth. For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. Ps. Ixil, 3. How long will yo imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies Ps. xcii, 9. For, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. shall be cut off from the earth, Prov. ii, 22. But the wicked rooted out of it. and the transgressors shall be Isaiah i, 28. And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed. Isaiah v, 23, 24. Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Therefore and the flame consumeth the as the fire devoureth the stubble, chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have Cast away the law of the LORD of the Holy One of Israel. for a sword upon all the inhabi-hast seen it, thoualso shalt be gath-hosts, and despised the word of tants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.. He will plead with all flesh he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saitu the LORD. Jer xxvi 4-7. And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you. To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened; Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. So the priests and the prophets, and all the people, heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD. Jer. xxxv, 16, 17. Because the sons of Jonadab the son o. Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which ne commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me: Therefore, thus saith the LORD God of hests, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and i] ered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered. rebelled against my commandFor yo ment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctity me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribih in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. Belial shall be all of them as 2 Sam xxiii, 6.7. But the sons of thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands. But the man that shall touch thei must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place. Job iv, 8, 9. Even as I have seen they that plow iniquity, and sow the blast of God they perish, and wickedness. reap the same. By by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. not, they shall perish by the Job xxxvi, 12. But if they obey sword, and they shall die without knowledge. Ps. xi, 6. Upon the wicked he shall reign snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup. Ps. xxxvii, 9, 10. For evil-doers burneth as the fire: it shall devour Isaiah ix, 18. For wickedness the briers and thorns, and shall forest; and they shall mount up kindle in the thickets of the like the litting up smoke. Jer. xxi, 14. But I will punish kindle a fire in the forest thereof, you according to the fruit of your and it shall devour all things doings, saith the LORD: and I will round about it. because he poured out mine indignation upon Mal. iv, 1. For, behold, the day and all the proud, yea, and all cometh that shall burn as an oven; that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. Rom. vi, 18. 22. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. John xvii, 13, 19. And now come I to thee; and these things I speik in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 1 Cor. i, 4-6, 30. I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. 1 Cor. i, 30, 31. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is male unto us wisdom, and right-of eousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Gal. 1, 4. Who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father. Gal. ii, 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Gal. iv, 1. Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all. 1 Tim. 1, 15. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptalion, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. Titus il, 14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. 1 John iv. 9.14, In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that 2 Cor. xii, 9. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Eph. ii, 18, 19. May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he wul give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your jy may These things have I be full. spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in prooverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you; For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have belived that I came out from God, John xvii, 11, 20. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word. Rom. viii, 34. Who is he that condemnetu? It is Christ tilat died, yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who als maketh intercession for us. boldness and acess with confidEph. iii, 12. In whom we have ence by the faith of him. do in word or deed, do all in the Col. ii, 17. And whatsoever ye name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. 1 Tim. i, 5. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Chirist Jesus. Heb. vil, 25. Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Phil. iv, 13. I can do all things Heb. ix, 15, 24. And for this through Christ which strengthen-cause he is the mediator of the eth me. Col. ii, 3. In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. MEDIATOR AND INTERCESSOR. John xiv, 6. Jesus saith unto me, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. John xvi, 23-27. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands arhich are the figures of the true but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. Heb. xii, 24. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of spriukling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. 1 John ii, 1. My little children, these things write I unto you that ye sin not. And if any man Bin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the right ous. MAINTAINS COMMUNION WITH John xiv, 18-20. I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye sce me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. John xv, 1, 2, 4, 5. I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away; and every branch that bearetii fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit, Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. John xvi, 33. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. world ye shall have tribulation: In the but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Rom. viil, 8--10. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteous ness. Rom, xil, 5. So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. 1 Cor. ii, 16. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? have the mind of Christ. But we 1 Cor. xii, 12 27. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. are the body of Christ, and memNow ye bers in particular. 2 Cor. xiii 3. Since ye seck a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. Eph. 1, 9, 10. 21--23. Having made known unto us the mystery of his will. according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed In himself; That in the dispensa tion of the fulness of times he the truth in love, may grow up Eph. v, 29, 30. For no man ever the body, the church: who is the in him, which is the head of all sanctifieth and they (On the Offices of PROPHET and Sec under JESUS CHRIST.) 3rd. more perfect tabernacle, not made with bands, that is to say, not of blood of goats and calves, but by this building Neither by the his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot from dead works, to serve the to God, purge your conscience living God? ye know that ye were not redeem1 Peter 1, 18--20. Forasmuch as ed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and withordained before the foundation of out spot: Who verily was forethe world, but was manifest in these last times for you. Rev. v, 9. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to seals thereof: for thou wast slain, take the book, and to open the and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. with a price: therefore glorify God 1 Cor. vi, 20. For ye are bought in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. with a price: be not ye the ser1 Cor. vii, 23. Ye are bought vants of men. THE DEATH OF CHRIST PRE DETERMINED. Luke ix, 30, 31. And, behold, which were Moses and Elias: Who there talked with him two men, appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. John xviii, 31, 32. Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, THE PRICE. and judge him according to your law. fore unto yourselves, and to all to put any man to death: That Acts xx, 28. Take heed there- unto him, It is not lawful for us The Jews therefore said the flock, over the which the the saying of Jesus might be fulHoly Ghost hath made you over-filled, which he spake, signifying which he hath purchased with his seers, to feed the church of God, what death he should die. own blood. redemption through his blood, the come 693 John xix, 11. Jesus answered, given thee from above: therefore all against me, except it were Thou couldest have no power at be that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin. Acts ill, 18. But those things, the mouth of all his prophets, that which God before had shewed by fulfilled. Christ should suffer, he hath so |