I travel, t yet ftand firm and fast ; u then would I fly away and be at reft. And exx. 5, Wo is me that I fojourn in Mefech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar. Rom. viii. 20, 22, 23, For he (the creature) was made fubject to vanity, not willingly, but by reafon of him who hath subjected the fame in hope; because the creature itself alfo fhall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God: For we know the whole creation groaneth, and travailleth in pain, together until now. and not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. t Heb. xi. 13, And confeffed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. u I Cor. xvi. 13, Watch ye, stand fast in the faith; quit you like men, be strong. ~ Heb. xii. 1, Let us run with patience the race that is fet before us. w Ifa. xxviii. 16, He that believeth, shall not make haste. x Jer. vi. 16, Thus faith the Lord, ftand ye in the ways and fee, and afk ye for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye fhall find reft for your fouls. Heb. x. 19, 20, Having, therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holieft by the blood of Jefus, by a new and living way, which he hath confecrated for us, through the vail, that is to fay, his flesh. y 1 Cor. xiii. 12, For we now fee through a glass, darkly; buṭ then face to face: now I know in part; but then fhall I know, even as alfo am known. John xvi. 10, I go to my Father and ye fee me no more. John xiv. 6, Jefus faith unto him, I am the way :-no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. a b Ifa. xlii. 16, And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forfake them. Chap. v. 4, Behold, I have given him to be a leader and commander to the people. Ifa. xxxv. 8, And an highway fhall be there, and a way, and it fhall be called the way of holinefs; the unclean fhall not pafs over it, but it shall be for those; the wayfaring men, though fools, 'Tis ftraight,d yet full of heights and depths ;e I'm joyful in my company. 9 fhall not err therein. John xv. 14, Abide in me, and I in you. Chap. xvii. 23, I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou haft fent me, and hast loved them, as thou haft loved me. v. 26, And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it; that the love wherewith thou haft loved me, may be in them, and I in them. d Matth. iii. 3, This is he that was fpoken of by the prophet' Efaias, faying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. e Ifa. xl. 3, 4, The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the defert a highway for our God. Every valley fhall be exalted, and every mountain and hill be made low: and the crooked fhall be made flraight, and the rough places plain. Chap. xlii. 16, See letter b. Pfalm lxxvii. 13, Thy way, O God, is in the fanctuary. v. 19, Thy way is in the fea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy foot-steps are not known. f Pfalm xxxvii. 34, Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, he fhall exalt thee to inherit the land. and g Pfalm cxxi. 3, 4, He will not fuffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not flumber. Behold, he that keepeth Ifracl, fhall neither flumber nor fleep. b Heb. xii. 22, 23, 24, But ye are come unto mount Sion, and ' unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerufalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general affembly and church of the first born, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the fpirits of just men made perfect, and to Jefus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of fprinkling, that fpeaketh better things than the blood of Abel. I Theff. iv. 17, Then we which are alive and remain, fhall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and fo fhall we ever be with the Lord. Song i. 3, Tell me, O thou whom my foul loveth, where thou fecdeft, where thou makest thy flock to reft at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth afide by the flocks of thy companions? Song vii. 11, 12, Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vine I'm heard afar, I without a noise; I'm heard when answer'd foon or late ;p yards, let us fee if the vines flourish, whether the tender grapes appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: for there will I give thee my loves. 7 Pfalm xx. 6, Now know I, that the Lord faveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand. m 1 Sam. i. 13, 14, 15, Now Hannah, the fpake in her heart, only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard; therefore Eli thought fhe had been drunken. And Eli faid unto her, how long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee. And Hannah anfwered and faid, No, my lord, I am a woman of a forrowful fpirit; I have drunken neither wine nor ftrong drink, but have poured out my foul before the Lord. n I Theff. v. 13, Pray without ceafing. • Hof. vi. 4, O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what fhall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. p Ifa. xlix. 8, Thus faith the Lord, in an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of falvation have I helped thee. Matth. xxvi. 39, And Jefus went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, faying, O my Father, if it be poffible, let this cup pafs from me, nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. r Pfalm xxii. 1, 2, 3, My God, my God, why haft thou forfaken me? why art thou fo far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night feafon, and am not filent. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Ifrael. Heb. xii. 5-10, And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as children, My fon, defpife not thou the chaftening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him : For whom the Lord loveth he chafteneth, and fcourgeth every fon whom he receiveth. If ye endure chaftening, God dealeth with you as with fons; for what fon is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye baftards, and not fons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh, which corrected us, and we gave them reverence; fhall we not much rather be in fubjection to the My fervent prayers ne'er did prevail,s I wrestle till my ftrength be fpent,u Father of fpirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chaftened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Dan. ix. 8, 19, O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our defolations, and the city which is called by thy name; for we do not present our fupplications before thee for our righteoufnefs, but for thy great mercies. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not for thine own fake, O my God; for thy city, and thy people are called by thy name. t James v. 16, The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. u Gen. xxxii. 24, 25, And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. Pfaim cxxxviii. 3, In the day when I cried, thou answeredst me; and ftrengthenedft me with ftrength in my foul. Gen. xviii. 32, 33, And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will fpeak but this once; Peradventure ten fhall be found there. And the Lord went his way as foon as he had left communing with Abraham; and Abraham returned unto his place. 20 Pram Ìxiii. 2, My flesh longeth to fee thy power and thy glory, fo as I have seen thee in the fanctuary. And xxvii. 4, One thing have I defired of the Lord, that will I feek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. * Rev. i. 17, And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead: and he laid his right hand upon me, faying unto me, Fear not; 1 am the first and the laft. y Song ii. 4, 5, He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples; for I am fick of love." z 1 Cor. vii. 10, For godly forrow worketh repentance unto falvation, not to be repented of. Eccl. vii. 3, Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Moft precious when I am most vile,b My base and honourable birth Excites my mourning and my mirth,d a Prov. xiv. 13, Even in laughter the heart is forrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. b Job xl. 4, Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will Jay my hand upon my mouth. Chap. xlii. 5, 6, I have heard of thee by the hearing of the car; but now mine eye feeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in duft and athes. Jer. xxxi. 18, 19, 20, I have furely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou haft chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccuftomed to the yoke; turn thou me, and I fhall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented, and after that I was inftructed, I fmote upon my thigh: I was afhamed; yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my dear fon, is he a pleasant child? for fince fpake against him, I do earnestly remember him still : therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will furely have mercy upon him, faith the Lord. c Ezek. i. 1, Now it came to pafs in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, (as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar,) that the heavens were opened, and I faw vifions of God. Rev. i. 9, 10, I John, who also am your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jefus Chrift, was in the ifle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the teftimony of Jefus Chrift, I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, &c. John xvi. 32, Echold, the hour cometh, yea is now come, that ye fhall be feattered, every man to his own, and fhall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. d Ezek. xvi. 3, 4, Thus faith the Lord God unto Jerufalem, Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. And as for thy nativity in the day thou waft born, thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to fupple thee: thou waft not falted at all, nor fwaddled at all. John i. 13, which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Pfalm li. 5, Behold I was fhapen in iniquity; and in fin did my mother conceive me. 2 Pet. i. 3, Bleffed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the refurrection of Jefus Chrift from the dead. |