Pf. xc. 13. Let it repent thee, concerning thy Servants, Pf. 135. 14. Deut. 32. 36. Ver. 16. Let thy Work appear unto thy Servants, and thy Glory unto their Children. Not ferving God. 58. Not ferving God. Threats. Deut, xxviii. 47. Because thou fervedit not the Lord thy God with Joyfulness and Gladness of Heart, for the Abundance of all Things. Ver 48. Therefore shall thou ferve thine Enemies, in Hunger and Thirft, and Nakedness and Want of all Things, Jer. 17. 1. to 5. Neh. 9. 35, 36. Mal iii. 14. Ye have faid, it is vain to ferve God: and what Profit is it that we have kept his Ordinances? Ver. 18.Ye fhall difcern between him that ferveth God, and him that serveth him not, Job 21. 15. Matt. xxiv. 40. The Lord of the wicked Servant fhall come in a Day when he looketh not for him, and in an Hour, when he is not aware. Ver. 41. And fhall cut him afunder, and appoint him his Portion, with Hypocrites, there fhall be Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth. XXV, 30. Caft the wicked and unprofitable Servant into utter Darkness, there fhall be Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth. Ver. 26. See Luke xii. 47. That Servant which knew his Lord's Will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his Will, fhall be beaten with many Stripes. Rom. i. 25. They ferved the Creature more than the Creator. Ver. 26. For this Caufe God gave them up to vile Affections, &c. See Omiffion of good Works. Obedience. 59. Commanded. Eccl. xii. 13. Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole Duty of Man. Jer. vii. 23. This Thing commanded I your Fathers, faying, obey my Voice, and I will be your God, and ye fhall be my People, Lev. 19.37. 1 Sam. 15. 22. Jer. 11. 4. Deut. 6. 24, 25.-7. 12. Ezek. xx. 19. I am the Lord your God, walk in my Statutes, and keep my Judgments and do them, Ch. 37. 24. 1 Cor. vii. 19. Circumcifion is Nothing, and Uncircumcifion is Nothing, but keeping the Commandments of God, Pf. 119. 4. 60. Univerfal Obedience required. Deut, xxviii. 14.Thou shalt not go afide, from any of the Words, which I commanded thee this Day, to the right Hand, or to the Left. Jof. i. 7. Obferve to do according to all the Law, turn not from it to the right Hand, or to the left, that thou mayeft profper whitherfoever thou goest. 1 Chron. xxviii. 8. Keep, and seek for all the Commandments of the Lord your God. Pf. cxix. 1. Bleffed are the Undefiled in the Way. Pf. cxix. 6, I shall not be ashamed when I have Respect unto all thy Commandments. Matt, v. 19. Whofoever fhall break one of thefe leaft Commandments, and shall teach Men fo, shall be called leaft in the Kingdom of Heaven. Gal. iii. 10. It is witten in the Law, curfed is every one that continueth not in all Things that are written in the Book of the Law to do them, Deut. 7. 26 Jer. 11. 3. Col iv. 12. I pray that ye may ftand perfect and complete in all the Will of God, I Pet 4. 2 James ii. 10. Whofoever fhall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one Point, is guilty of all. 61. With an high Esteem of God's Law. Pf. cxix. 128. I esteem all thy Precepts right (Prov. 3. 17.) Ways of Pleafantnefs and Paths of Peace, 1 John 3. 5. not grievous. Ver. 173. I have cholen thy Precepts. Ver. 111. Thy Teftimonies have I taken as an Heritage for ever, for they are the Rejoicing of my Heart. See rejoicing in God, in his Word. Ver. 97. O how I love thy Law, Ver. 159. See Love to God. cxix. 20. My Soul breaketh for the Longing it hath unto thy Teftimonies at all Times, Ver. 40. See Longing for God and the Things of God. Ver. 11. Thy Law have I hid in my Heart that I might not fin against thee Ver. 15. I will meditate on thy Precepts, and have Respect unto thy Ways. See Meditation. Ver. 83. I did not forget thy Statutes, Ver. 55. 93. Pf. 18. 22. Rom. vii. 22. I delight in the Law of God, after the inward Man, Pf. 1. 2.-40. 8.-119. 16. 70. 72. 77. 92. 147. 174. See Delight. 62. With Refolution of Heart. Jof. xxiv. 15. Jofhua faid, as for me and my Houfe we will ferve the Lord. Ver. 24. The People faid, the Lord our God will we serve, and his Voice will we obey. Pf. cxix. 57. O Lord, I have faid that I would keep thy Words. Ver. 106. I have fworn and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous Judgments. Ver. 112. I have inclined mine Heart to perform thy Statutes. Ver. 117. I will have Refpect unto thy Statutes continually, Ver. 145. See 2 Kings 23. 3. 2 Chron. 15, 12. 15-34. 31. Where the King and the People enter into a Covenant, an Oath and Curfe to feek God. 63. Ability for Obedience promised. Deut. xxx. 6. The Lord thy God will circumcife thine Heart, and the Heart of thy Seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine Heart and with all thy Soul. Ver. 8. And thou fhalt obey the Voice of the Lord to do all his Commandments. 2 Chron. xxx. 12. The Hand of God was to give them one Heart to do the Commandment by the Word of the Lord Pf. cx. 3. Thy People shall be willing in the Day of thy Power. Ifa. ii. 3. He will teach us of his Ways, and we fhall walk in his Paths, Mic. 4. 2. Ezek. Ezek. xi. 19. I will give them one Heart, and I will put a new Spirit within them, and I will take the ftony Heart out of their Flesh, and I will give them an Heart of Flesh. Ver. 20. That they may walk in my Statutes, and keep my Commandments and do them, and they fhall be my People, and I will be their God, Ch. 36. 26, 27. Jer. 24. 7.-31. 33-32. 39. Zeph. iii. 9. I will turn to the People a pure Language, that they may all call upon the Name of the Lord, to ferve him with one Confent A John xv. 5. Jefus faid without me ye can do Nothing. Acts v. 32. The Holy Ghoft God hath given to them that obey him. 2 Cor. xii. 9. The Lord faid to Paul, my Grace is fuficient for thee, for my Strength is made perfect in Weakness. Phil. ii. 13. God worketh in you, both to will, and to do of his good Pleasure, 1 Pet. 4. 1. The Ability God giveth. 64. Ability prayed for. 1. Kings viii. 57. Solomon prayed the Lord our God be with us. Ver. 58. That he may incline our Hearts unto him, to walk in all his Ways, and to keep all his Cominandments, and his Statutes, and his Judgments, Ver. 61. 1 Chron. xxii. 11. David prayed, the Lord be with thee, my Son, Ch. 29. 19. Ver. 12. And give thee Wisdom and Understanding, that thou mayit keep the Law of the Lord, 1 Kings 3. 9. xxix. 13. David faid, our God we thank thee and praise thy glorious Name. Ver. 14. For all Things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee, See Ver. 11, 12. Ver. 18. Keep this for ever in the Imagination of the Thoughts of the Hear of thy People, and prepare their Heart unto thee. Ver. 19. To keep thy Commandments, thy Teftimonies, and thy Sta tutes. Pf. lx. 12. Through God we shall do valiantly, Pf. 108. 15. cxix. 5. O that my Ways were directed to keep thy Statutes. Ver. 32. I will run the Ways of thy Commandments, when thou fhalt enlarge my Heart. Ver. 33. Teach me, O Lord, the Way of thy Statutes and I shall keep it. Ver. 34. Give me Understanding, fo fhall I keep thy Law. Ver. 36. Incline my Heart unto thy Teftimonies, Ver. 43, 44 Ver. 88. Quicken me, fo fhall I keep the Teftimonies of thy Mouth. cxliii. 10. Teach me to do thy Will, for thou art my God.. 2 Theff. ii. 16. Now our Lord Jefus Chrift himself, and God even our Father, who hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting Confolation and good Hope through Grace. Ver. 17. Comfort your Hearts, and stablish you in every good Word and Work, Col. 1. 9. 2 Theff. 1. 11. Heb. xiii. 20. Now the God of Peace that brought again from the Dead our Lord Jefus Chrift, that great Shepherd of the Sheep, through the Blood of the everlasting Covenant, n א Heb. Heb. xiii. 21. Make you perfect in every good Work, working in you that which is well-pleafing in his Sight through Jefus Chrift, to whom be Glory for ever and ever, Amen. I Cor. xv. 10. Paul faid, by 65. Ability from God acknowledged, the Grace of God I am what I am, and his Grace which was bestowed on me was not in vain, I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me. 2 Cor. iii. 5. Our Sufficiency is of God, Ch. 12. 10. Joel 3. 10. Ifa. 35. 4. Phil. iv. 13. I can do all Things through Chrift which strengtheneth me. Eph. vi. 10. Be ftrong in the Lord, and in the Power of his Might. 2 Tim. ii. 1. Be ftrong in the Grace that is in Christ Jesus. See God doth lead, guide, ftrengthen, and uphold, &c. 66. Inftances of Obedience. Pf. cxix. 22. I have kept thy Teftimo nies. Ver. 60. I made Hafte and delay'd not to keep thy Commandments. Ver. 63. I am a Companion of them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy Precepts. Ver. 87. I forfook not thy Precepts. Ver. 101. I have refrained Feet from every my keep thy Word. evil Way, that I might Ver. 102. I have not departed from thy Judgments, for thou haft taught me, Ver. 129. Ver. 110. I erred not from thy Precepts. Ver. 168. I have kept thy Precepts and thy Teftimonies, for all my Ways are before thee. John iv. 34. Jefus faid, my Meat is to do the Will of him that fent me. viii. 29. I do always the Things that please him. xii. 17. I have kept my Father's Commandments. xvii. 4. I have finished the Work which thou gaveft me to do. Phil. ii. 8. He became obedient unto Death, Heb. 5. 8. Heb. x. 7. I came to do thy Will, Pf. 40. 6. John xiii. 15. Jefus faid I have given you an Example. 1 John ii. 6. He that faith he abideth in him, ought himself to walk even as he walked. Rom. vi. 17. Ye have obeyed from the Heart that Form of Doctrine delivered unto you Rev. iii. 8. I know thy Works, thou haft kept my Words, Ver. 10. xii. 17. The Dragon went to make War with them which kept the Commandments of God, and have the Teftimony of Jefus. xiv. 12. Here are they that keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jefus. Abraham, Gen. 18. 19.-22. 18.-The Children of Levi, Deut. 33. 9. 11.-Noah, Daniel, and Job, Ezek. 14. 4, Job 1. 8.-23. 11.Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, Dan. 3. 26.—David, 1 Kings 14. 8.-Jehoshaphat, 1 Kings. 22. 43.-Hezekiah, 2 Kings 18. 6.—Jofiah, 2 Kings 23. 3. Pf. 78. 7. ye Voice 67. Promifes to the Obedient. Exod. xix. If 5. will obey my indeed, and keep my Covenant, then fhall ye be a peculiar Treasure unto me above all People, for all the Earth is mine. Exod. xx. 6. I am the Lord, fhewing Mercy unto Thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments, Deut. 5. 10.-7. 9, Neh. 1. 5. Jer. 32. 18. Dan. 9. 4. Lev. xviii. 5. Ye fhall keep my Statutes and my Judgments, which if a Man do he shall live in them, Neh. 9. 29. Prov. 4. 4.—7. 2. Ezek. 20. 11. 13. 21. Rom. 10. 5. Gal. 3. 12. xxvi. 3. If ye will walk in my Statutes, and keep my Command ments and do them. Ver. 4, Then will I give Rain in due Season, and the Land shall yield her Increase. Ver. 5. Ye fhall eat Bread to the full, and dwell in your Land safely. Ver. 6. I will give Peace in the Land, and ye shall lie down and none fhall make you afraid, Ifa. i. 19. ' Ver. 7. And ye fhall chafe your Enemies, and they shall fall before you by the Sword. See to Ver. 12. and Ch. 25. 18, 19. Deut. iv. 1. Hearken, O Ifrael, to the Statutes and Judgments which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and poffefs the Land. Ver. 6. Keep and do them, for this is your Wisdom and Understanding in the Sight of the Nations, Ver. 7, 8. 30. Ver. 40. Thou fhalt keep his Statutes, that it may go well with thee, and with thy Children after thee, Ch. 6. 1, 2. 17, 18. 25.-12. 28. v. 29. O that there were such an Heart in them, &c. Ver. 33. xiii. 4. Thou fhalt keep his Commandments and obey his Voice. Ver. 17. That the Lord may turn from the Fiercenefs of his Anger, and fhew thee Mercy, and have Compaffion upon thee and multiply thee, as he hath fworn unto thy Fathers. Deut. 28. 1. If thou fhalt hearken diligently unto the Voice of the Lord thy God, to obferve and to do all his Commandments, the Lord thy God will fet thee on high, above all Nations of the Earth. See various Bleffings promifed to Ver. 14th of this Chapter, and in Lev. 26. from Ver. 3. to 14. and Deut. 7. 12, 13, 14, 15-11. 9. 13, 14, 15. -30. 8, 9. xxix. 9. Keep the Words of this Covenant and do them, that ye may profper in all that ye do, 1 Kings 2. 3, 4. Jer. 38. 20. XXX. 19. I have fet before you Life and Death, Bleffing and Curfing, therefore chufe Life that both thou and thy Seed may live, Ver. 16. Ver. 20. That thou mayeft love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayeft obey his Voice, and that thou mayeft cleave unto him, (for he is thy Life and the Length of thy Days) Ch. 5. 1. 10.-8. 2. 6. 11. 20.— 12. 1. 25.-30. 8. to 16. 1 Sam. 12. 14.-1 Kings 3. 14. Pro. 3. 2. Pf. xix. 8. The Statutes of the Lord are right. Ver. 11. In keeping them there is a great Reward. XXV. 10. All the Paths of the Lord are Mercy and Truth, to fuch as keep his Covenant and his Teftimonies. Xxxvii. 34. Keep his Way and he shall exalt thee. 1. 23. To him that ordereth his Converfation aright, I will fhew the Salvation of God. cxix. 2. Bleffed are they that keep his Teftimonies. Prov. i. 3. Let thine Heart keep my Commandments, for long Life and Peace fhall they add to thee. viii. 32. Bleffed are they that keep thy Ways. Nn 2 Prov. |