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Now, for a long season, Israel hath been without the true God.-2 Chron. xv. 3.

My heart and flesh crieth out for the living God.-Ps. lxxxiv. 2.

From everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.-Ps. xc. 2.

Know ye, that the Lord, he is God; he hath made us, and we are his, &c. -Ps. c. 3; 1 Kings viii. 60; xviii. 39; 2 Kings v. 15.

I am the Lord, That is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.-Isa. xlii. 8.

Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel, &c. I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me, there is no God, &c. Have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? Yea, no God, &c.-Isa. xliv. 6. 8; xlv. 5, 6. 18. 20-22; xlvi. 5. 9, 10; xlviii. 12; Joel ii. 27.

But the Lord he is the true God; he is the living God.-Jer. x. 10; xxiii. 36; Matt. xvi. 16; John vi. 57. 69.

Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles who can cause rain? &c. Art thou not he, O Lord our God? &c. Thou hast made all these things. Jer. xiv. 22.

Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: Is there any thing too hard for me?-Jer. xxxii. 27; Ps. xlvi. 10.

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus, &c.-John xvii. 3; 1 Thess. i. 9.

Turn from these vanities unto the living God, who made heaven, &c.Acts xiv. 15; 2 Cor. vi. 16; 1 Tim. iv. 10; 1 Thess. i. 9.

We know, &c. that there is none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, &c. but to us there is but one God, &c. of whom are all things.-1 Cor. viii. 4-6; 1 Tim. ii. 5; Eph. iv. 6.

Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light, &c.-1 Tim. vi. 16. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.-Heb. x. 31. Worshipped him who liveth for ever and ever. Rev. iv. 8-10; v. 14; x. 6; xv. 7.

The angel swore by him who liveth for ever and ever, &c.—Rev. x. 5, 6; iv. 9.

See more of Worshipping of God, CHAP. XIV.

See Idolatry, CHAP. XXXVIII.

CHAPTER III.

OF THE ONE God, father, Son, and SPIRIT; OR THE TRINITY. GoD said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, &c. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.-Gen. i. 26, 27; Col. i. 15-17; Heb. i. 2; Mal. ii. 10.

And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of Us, &c. -Gen. iii. 22; Hosea xii. 4, 5.

And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, &c. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language.-Gen. xi. 6, 7; Isa. vi. 8.

Not so, my Lord, &c. I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken, &c. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. -Gen. xix. 18. 21. 24.

As captain of the Lord's host am I now come, &c. And Joshua, &c. did worship, &c.-Josh. v. 14, 15.

Who changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, &c. who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever, Amen.-Rom. i. 23.-Zech. iii. 2. 25.

And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord who hath chosen Jerusalem, &c.

All things are delivered unto me of

my Father: and no man knoweth the | all men should honour the Son, even Son but the Father; neither knoweth as they honour the Father: he who any man the Father, save the Son, honoureth not the Son, honoureth not and he to whomsoever the Son will the Father which hath sent him.reveal him.-Matt. xi. 27. John v. 17, &c.

The woman of Canaan came to Jesus and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help.-Matt. xv. 22. 25; xiv. 33; xxviii. 9.

The eleven disciples went, &c. where Jesus had appointed them; and when they saw him, they worshipped him, &c. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven, and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.-Matt. xxviii. 16-20.

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Dost thou believe on the Son of God? and Jesus said, &c. Thou hast both seen him, and it is he who talketh with thee, &c. and he worshipped him. John ix. 35–38.

My Father, who gave them me, is greater than all: and none is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one, &c. Believe the works; that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in him.-John x. 29, 30. 33. 35, 36. 38.

Why doth this man thus speak blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God only? &c. But, that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, he saith unto the sick, &c. Arise.-Mark ii. 7. 9——John xi. 14. 11.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, &c. The world was made by him, &c. And the Word was made flesh, &c.—John i. 1, 2. 10. 14.

Jesus, &c. knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.--John ii. 24, 25; Matt. xii. 25.

No man hath ascended, &c. but he who came down from heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven. John iii. 13.

Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work, &c. The Jews sought the more to kill him, because, &c. he said, God was bis Father; making himself equal with God, &c. The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for whatsoever things he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise, &c. As the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth whom he will, &c. That |

Jesus knew that Lazarus was dead.

He who believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him who sent me. And he who seeth me, seeth him who sent me.-John xii. 44, 45.

Jesus knowing, &c. that he was come from God, and went to God.John xiii. 3.

If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He who hath seen me, hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself: but the Father who dwelleth in me, He doeth the works. Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me, &c. Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, &c. I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another

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With all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord.-1 Cor. i. 2,

Comforter, that he may abide with | Christ came, who is over all, God, you for ever, even the Spirit of truth, blessed for ever, Amen.- Rom. &c. I will come to you, &c. He ix. 5. who loveth me, &c. I will love him, and manifest myself to him, &c. And my Father will love him; and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him, &c. The Comforter, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you. -John xiv. 7-11. 13, 14, 16-18. 21. 23. 26.

When the Spirit of truth is come, &c. he will shew you things to come: He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine, and shew it unto you. All things which the Father hath are mine : therefore said I, that he shall | take of mine, and shall shew it unto you, &c. Whatsoever ye shall ask | the Father in my name, he will give it you, &c. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world ; again I leave the world, and go to the Father, &c.-John xvi. 13-15. 23. 27, 28. 30.

Now, O Father, glorify thou me, &c. with the glory which I had with thee before the world was! &c. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them, &c. that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee.-John xvii. 5. 10. 21.

Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God!-John

xx. 28.

Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost? &c. Thou hast not lied unto men but unto God, &c. How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord ?-Acts v. 3, 4.9.

Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus receive my spirit! &c. Acts vii. 59.

Peter saith to Æneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise.-Acts ix. 34.

The Church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.-Acts xx. 28.

Of whom as concerning the flesh

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The Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.-1 Cor. ii. 10, 11.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?-1 Cor. iii. 16.

He who is joined unto the Lord is one spirit, &c. Know you not_that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, who is in you, which ye have of God? &c.-1 ̊ Cor. vi. 17. 19; 2 Cor. vi. 16.

To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things; and one Lord Jesus.-1 Cor. viii. 6.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed, &c.-1 Cor. x. 9.

Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, &c. Even as by the Spirit of the Lord (or of the Lord the Spirit.) -2 Cor. iii. 17, 18.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all.-2 Cor. xiii. 14.

God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, &c.-Gal. iv. 6.

Through him, we both have an access by one Spirit unto the Father, &c. in whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.-Ephes. ii. 18. 22.

All things were created by him and for him; and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.-Col. i. 16, 17; Heb. i. 2, 3.

The mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; in whom (or wherein) are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, &c. for in

him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.-Col. ii. 2, 3. 9.

Now God himself, and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way.-1 Thess. iii. 11.

Now our Lord Jesus himself, and God, even our Father, &c. comfort your hearts.-2 Thess. ii. 16, 17.

wise God our Saviour, &c.-Jude 4. 25.

All the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts.-Rev. ii. 23.

See more of Christ's Excellency, CHAP. v; more of the Spirit, CHAP.

XIX.

God our Saviour, and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope: grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, &c. I thank OF Jesus Christ our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me, &c.-1 Tim. i. 1, 2. 12; Rom. i. 7; 1 Tim. ii. 3; 2 John 3.

Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, &c. received up into glory.-1 Tim. iii. 16.

According to the commandment of God our Saviour, &c. grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. -Titus i. 3, 4.

Looking for, &c. the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus.-Titus ii. 13; iii. 4.

Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself.-Heb. ix. 14. Let all the angels of God worship him. Unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, &c.-Heb. i. 6. 8.

The prophets, &c. searching what, &c. the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify.-1 Pet. i. 10, 11. God, and our Saviour, Jesus Christ.-2 Pet. i. 1.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us.-1 John iii. 16.

There are three who bear record in heaven; the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one, &c. His Son Jesus Christ: this is the true God, &c.-1 John v. 7. 20.

Peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father.-2 John 3.

Denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus, &c. To the only

CHAP. IV.

MAN, IN HIS FIRST ESTATE, WHEREIN HE WAS CREATED; AND OF HIS FALL.

FIRST, Of his first State. AND God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them. And God blessed them; and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, &c.-Gen. i. 26— 29; Ps. viii. 5—7.

Adam gave names to all the creatures which were brought to him.— Gen. ii. 19, 20.

God hath made man upright, &c.Eccles. vii. 29.

SECONDLY, Of his Fall. THE manner and occasion of man's fall, at large.-Gen. iii; 2 Cor. xi. 3.

God made man upright: but they have sought out many inventions.— Eccles. vii. 29.

By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin: and so death passed upon all men, for that (or in whom) all have sinned, &c. If through the offence of one man many be dead, &c. The judgment was by one to condemnation, &c. For if by one man's offence (or one offence) death reigned by one man, &c. by one man's dis

obedience, many were made sinners. -Rom. v. 12. 15-19.

I fear, lest as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted, &c.-2 Cor. xi. 3.

THIRDLY, Of Man's State by Nature, since Sin entered.

SECT. 1.-Corrupt, Unclean, and

desperately Wicked.

ADAM, ready to excuse his sin, laid it upon Eve; and Eve laid it upon the serpent.-Gen. iii. 12, 13.

Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell, because God had not respect unto his offering, as unto Abel's; and he rose up against his brother, and slew him.-Gen. iv. 5. 8.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart (or the whole imagination, purposes, and desires) was only evil continually, &c. The earth also was corrupt before God: and the earth was filled with violence, &c. for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth, &c.-Gen. vi. 5. 11, 12.

The imaginations of man's heart are evil from his youth.-Gen. viii. 21; xi. 4—6.

The wickedness of Sodom, at the time when God came to destroy it.— Gen. xix.

Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage.-Gen. xxv. 30-33.

Esau hated his brother, because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him and Esau said in his heart, &c. then will I slay my brother Jacob.-Gen. xxvii. 41.

Joseph's brethren hated him, could not speak peaceably to him, and envied him; they conspired against him to slay him, and covered it with a lie. —Gen. xxxvii. 4. 11. 18-20. 23, 24. And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.-Exod.

v. 2.

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Saul's cruelty, in causing Ahimelech and above fourscore priests to be slain without cause.-1 Sam. xxii. 14-18.

Absalom had a tent spread upon the top of the house, and went in unto his father's concubines, in the sight of all Israel.-2 Sam. xvi. 22.

Ahab had sold himself to work evil in the sight of the Lord, &c. None like unto Ahab, who did set himself to work wickedness in the sight_of the Lord.-1 Kings xxi. 20. 26; Ps. cxli. 4. 9; 1 Kings xxii.

Ahaziah, being sick, sent to an idol to inquire; and after sent a captain with his fifty to take the prophet, whom God destroyed with fire; yet he sent again and again.-2 Kings i. 2. 9-13.

The King of Israel said, This evil is of the Lord: what should I wait for the Lord any longer?-2 Kings vi. 33.

Hazael, when the prophet had told him how wicked he should be, said, Is thy servant a dog? &c.-2 Kings viii. 11-13.

Rabshakeh said, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest, &c. Let not Hezekiah deceive you, &c. neither make your trust in the Lord, &c. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land? &c. Who, &c. hath delivered, &c. that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand? &c.-2 Kings xviii. 19. 29, 30. 32, 33. 35; Isa. xxxvi; xxxvii.

The words of Sennacherib, who hath sent him to reproach the living God, &c. Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed, and against whom hast

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