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Job xv. 34. The congregation of hy. Ps. ix. 1. I will praise thee, O Lord, pocrites shall be desolate.

with my whole heart. Ps. lxxxvi. 12. I xvii. 8. The innocent shall stir up will praise thee, with all my heart. himself against the hypocrite.

cxix. 2. Blessed are they that keep the xx. 5. The joy of the hypocrite is but Lord's testimonies, and scek him with the for a moment.

whole heart. Ver. 10. xxvii. 8. What is the hope of the hypo- Ver. 34. Give me understanding and I crite, when God taketh away his soul? shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe

xxxvi. 13. The hypocrites heap up it with my whole heart. Ver. 69. wrath ; they cry not when God bindeth Ver. 58. I entreated thy favour with them.

my whole heart. Ver. 145. Isa. ix. 17. The Lord shall have no Prov. iii. 5. Trust in the Lord with all pleasure in their young men, neither thine heart, and lean not to thine own un. shall he have mercy on their fatherless derstanding. and widows; for every one is an hypocrite Jer. xxiv. 7. They shall return to me and an evil-doer.

with their whole heart. x. 6. An hypocritical nation, the peo- xxix. 13. Ye shall seek me, and find ple of God's wrath.

me (saith the Lord) when ye search for xxxiii. 14. Fearfulness hath surprised me with all your heart. 2 Chron. xv. 12. the hypocrites: who among us shall dwell --xxii. 9. with devouring fire? who among us shall Acts viii. 37. If thou believest with all dwell with everlasting burnings? thine heart, &c.

Matt. xxiii, 33. Ye serpents! ye gene. Col. ii. 23. Whatsoever ye do, do it ration of vipers! how can ye escape the heartily as unto the Lord. damnation of hell.

xxiv. 51. The Lord of the evil servant XXXV. Pure heart. Ps. xxiv. 3, 4. shall appoint him his portion with the Who shall ascend into the hill of God? hypocrites, there shall be weeping and and who shall stand in his holy place ? gnashing of teeth.

He that hath clean hands and a pure

heart. XXXIII. Hypocrites hurtful to men. Matt. v. 8. Blessed are the pure in Job xxxiv. 30. That the hypocrite reign heart, for they shall see God. See 1 Tim. not, lest the people be ensnared.

i. 5. 2 Tim. ii. 22. 1 Pet. i. 22. Prov. xi. 9. The hypocrite with his mouth devoureth his neighbour. See Isa. XXXVI. Perfect heart. 1 Kings viii. xxxii. 6. Mark xii. 14, 15. Prov. xxvii. 14. 61. Let your hearts be perfect with the

Lord your God, to walk in his statutes, THE HEART.

and keep his commandments. 1 Chron.

xxviii. 9. Serve God with a perfect heart XXXIV. The heart of the righteous is and with a willing mind; for the Lord toward God. Whole heart signifying sin- searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all cerity in duties. Deut. xi. 13. Love the the imaginations of the thoughts. Lord your God, and serve him with all 1 Chron. xxix. 9. With a perfect heart your heart, and with all your soul. C the people offered willingly. xiii. 3.-XXX. 6. Matt. xxii. 37. Jos. xxii. 2 Chron. xvi. 9. The eyes of the Lord 5. 1 Sam. xii. 20. 24.

run to and fro through the whole earth, xxvi. 16. Thou shalt keep and do these to show himself strong in behalf of those statutes and judgments, with all thine whose heart is perfect with him. heart and with all thy soul. 1 Kings ii. 4. Ps. ci. 2. I will walk within my house -viii. 23,

with a perfect heart. xxx. 2, 3. When thou shalt return to Luke viii. 15. But that on the good the Lord thy God, with all thine heart, ground, are they, which in an honest and and with all thy soul; then the Lord will good heart

, having heard the word, keep turn thy captivity, &c.

it, and bring forth fruit with patience. 2 Kings xxiii. 3. Josiah the king made See Instances. Asa, 1 Chron. xv. 14. a covenant before the Lord, to walk after 2 Chron. xv. 17.-Hezekiah, 2 Kings the Lord, and to keep his commandments, xx. 3. Isa. xxxviii. 3.—Want of a per. and his testimonies, and his statutes, with | fect heart in Solomon, 1 Kings xi. 4. all their heart, and all their soul. 2 Chron. -xv. 3. And in Amaziah, 2 Chron, .xxxiv. 31.-Xv. 12.

xxy. 2.

XXXVII. Upright heart. Ps. vii. 10. Job xi. 13. 15. If thou prepare thine God saveth the upright in heart. heart, and stretch out thine hands to

xxxii. 11. Be glad in the Lord, and rewards him, then shalt thou lift up thy joice, ye righteous; and shout for joy all face with joy. ye that are upright in heart. Ps. lxiv. 10. Ps. lxxvii. 6. I commune with mine

xxxvi. 10. O continue thy loving kind- own heart. Ps. iv. 4. ness to them that know thee, and thy Prov. iv. 23. Keep thine heart. Ch. righteousness to the upright in heart. xxiii. 19. Guide thine heart, &c.

xcvii. 11. Light is sown for the right- Jer. iv. 4. Circumcise yourselves to eous, and gladness for the upright in heart. the Lord, and take away the foreskins of

cxix. 7. I will praise thee with upright- your heart.- Ver. 14. Wash thine heart ness of heart, when I shall have learned from wickedness, that thou mayest be thy righteous judgments. See Job xxxiii. clean. Isa. i. 16. 3.

xxx. 21. Who is this that engageth

his heart to approach unto me, saith the XXXVIII. Șingle heart. Acts ii. 46. Lord ?—Ver. 22. Ye shall be my people, Eph. vi. 5. Col. iii. 22.

and I will be your God.

Ezek. xviii. 31. Make you a new heart, XXXIX. Clean heart. Ps li. 10. and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O Create in me a clean heart, O God. house of Israel ?

Lxxiii. 1. God is good to such as are of Joel ii. 13. Rend your heart and not a clean heart.

your garments, and turn again to the Lord. Prov. xx. 9. Who can say I have made See James iv. 13. Purify your hearts. my heart clean.

Ch. v. 8. Stablish your hearts.

Apply the heart—Ps. xc. 12. To wis. XL. Broken and contrite heart. Ps. dom. Eccl. vii. 25. Prov. ii. 2. To underxxxiv. 18. The Lord is nigh unto them standing. Prov. xxii. 17. To knowledge. that are of a broken heart and saveth such Prov. xxiii. 12. To instruction. as be of a contrite spirit.

li. 17. The sacrifices of God are a XLII. God taketh notice of the heart. broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, This is to be considered as a motive to the O God, thou wilt not despise.

foregoing duties. Jer. xx. 12. O Lord cix. 16. See prayers against those who of hosts, that trieth the righteous, and . would slay the broken in heart.

seest the reins and heart cxlvii. 3. The Lord healeth the broken

1 Kings viii. 39. Lord thou only knowin heart, and bindeth up their wounds. est the hearts of all the children of men.

Isa. lvii. 15. Thus saith the Lord, I 2 Chron. vi. 36. dwell with him that is of a contrite and

Ps. xliv. 21. God knoweth the secrets humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the of the heart. humble, and to revive the heart of the

Prov. x. 11. Hell and destruction are contrite ones.

before the Lord; how much more the lxi. 1. The Lord hath sent me to bind hearts of the children of men. up the broken-hearted. Luke iv. 18.

Luke xvi. 15.

God knoweth your Ixvi. 2. To this man will I look, even hearts. to him that is poor, and of a contrite spi- Acts i. 24. Thou, Lord, knowest the rit, and trembleth at my word.

hearts of all men.

Heb. iv. 12. The word of God is a XLI. Duties respecting the heart. Deut. discerner of the thoughts and intents of xxxii. 46. Set your heart unto all the the heart. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. The Lord words which I command you.

seeth all hearts, and understandeth all the Jos. xxiv. 23. Incline your heart unto imaginations of the thoughts. the Lord God of Israel.

Jer. xvii. 10. I the Lord search the 1 Sam, vii. 3. Prepare your hearts un- heart and try the reins. Rom. viii. 27. to the Lord, and serve him only. Job xi. He that searcheth the hearts knoweth 13.

what is the mind of the Spirit. Rev. ii. 2 Chron. xxx. 18, 19. Lord, pardon 23. I am he which searcheth the reins every one that prepareth his heart to seek and heart. the Lord God of his fathers.

1 Chron. xxix. 17. I know, my God, Ezra vii. 10. Ezra prepared his heart that thou triest the heart, and hast pleato seek the law of the Lord, and to do it. I sure in uprightness, Ver, 18, 19,

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Ps. vii. 9. The righteous God trieth the to him, to walk in his ways, and to keep hearts and reins.

his commandments, and his statutes, and xxvi. 2. Examine me, O Lord, and his judgments. Ps. cxix. 36. Incline prove me, try my reins and my heart. my heart unto thy statutes. Ver. 8. Ps.

Jer. xi. 3. Thou hast tried mine heart cxli. 4. toward thee. 1 Thess. ii. 4. God trieth Ps. lxxxvi. 11. Unite my heart to fear the hearts.

thy name. Ps. xvii. 3. Thou hast proved mine Isa. lvii. 15. Thus saith the high and heart, thou hast tried me.

lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity, whose Prov. xxi. 2. The Lord pondereth the name is Holy; I dwell in the high and hearts. Ch. xxiv. 12.

holy place, with him also that is of a con

trite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit XLIII. God_influenceth the hearts of of the humble, and to revive the heart of the righteous. Ps. li. 10. Create in me the contrite ones. a clean heart, O God, &c.

Ps. xxvii. 14. Wait on the Lord, and Jer. xxiv. 7. I will give them an heart he shall strengthen thine heart. Ps. xxxi. to know me, that I am the Lord. 24.-xxin. 26. Isa. xxxv. 4.

xxxii. 39. I will give them one heart, 1 Thess. iii. 12, 13. The Lord stab. and one way, that they may fear me for lish your hearts unblameable in holiness,

before God even our Father, at the comEzek. xi. 19. I will give them one ing of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his heart, and I will put a new Spirit with saints. 1 Thess. ii. 17. in you, and I will take the stony heart Prov. xxi. 1. The king's heart is in out of their flesh, and will give them an the hand of the Lord, he turneth it, &c. heart of flesh.-Ver. 20. That they may Job xii. 24. Ezra vi. 22. The Lord walk in my statutes, and keep mine turned the heart of the king of Assyria ordinances and do them; and they shall unto his people. be my people, and I will be their God. Ps. cv. 25. He turned their heart to Ch. xxxvi. 26. See 1 Sam. X. 9. 2 Chron. hate his people. Xxx. 12.

Mal. iv. 6. He shall turn the heart of 1 Chron. xxix. 18. O Lord prepare the fathers unto the children, &c. Luke their heart unto thee. Ps. x. 17. Thou xi. 17. Lord wilt prepare their heart. Prov. xvi. Ezra vii. 27. Ezra said, Blessed be the 1. The preparation of the heart in man, Lord God of our fathers, who hath put and the answer of the tongue is from the this in the king's heart, to beautify the Lord. Ver. 9. Ch. xix. 21.

house of the Lord. Neh. ii. 12. I told Deut. xxx. 6. The Lord thy God will no man what God had put in my heart circumcise thine heart, and the heart of to do at Jerusalem. thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with Jer. xxxii. 40. I will put my fear in all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that their hearts, &c. Ch. xxxi. 33. I will thou mayest live. 2 Thess. iii. 5. put my law in their inward parts, and

1 Sam. x. 26. There went with Saul write it in their hearts. Heb. viii. 10. a band of men, whose hearts God had 2 Cor. iii. 3. Ye are the epistle of touched.

Christ, written with the Spirit of the liv. Acts xvi. 14. The Lord opened the ing God in the fleshly tables of the heart. heart of Lydia, that she attended to the things spoken by Paul.

XLIV. God's judgments on the heart xv. 9. God purifying their hearts by of the wicked. Exod. vii. 13. The Lord faith.

hardened Pharaoh's heart. Ch. ix. 12.-3. Ps. cxix. 32. I will run the way of thy 1. 20.27.-xi. 10.-xiv. 8. Exod. ix. 14. I commandments, when thou hast enlarged will send my plagues upon thine heart. my heart. 1 Kings iv. 29. God gave Deut. ii. 30. The Lord hardened the unto Solomon wisdom and understanding spirit of Sihon, king of Heshbon, and exceeding much, and largeness of heart." made his heart obstinate, that he might

Pe. xxxiii. 15. He fashioneth their deliver him into the hand of Israel. hearts.

xxviii. 28. The Lord shall smite thee 1 Kings viii. 57, 58. The Lord our with madness, and blindness, and astonGod be with us, as he was with our fa- ishment of heart. Lev. xxvi. 16. thers; let him not leave us nor forsake xxix. 4. The Lord hath not given you us; That he may incline our hearts un. an heart to perceive,

Isa. xliv. 18. He hath shut their eyes Fretting against God. Prov. xix. 3. that they cannot see, and their hearts that Impenitent. Rom. ii. 4. they cannot understand.

Full of pride. 2 Chron. xxvi. 16. Co. Job xvii. 4. Thou hast shut their hearts vetousness. Isa. xxii. 17. 2 Pet. ii. 14. from understanding; therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

CONSCIENCE. Eccl. iii. 11. He hath set the world in their heart.

XLVIII. Keeping a good conscience.

Acts xxiii. 1. Paul said, I have lived in all XLV. Satan's influences on the heart good conscience before God until this day. of the wicked. Instances thereof. Sce Rom. ix. 1. I say the truth in Christ, Šatan's tempting Eve, Gen. iii. 1 to 6.— I lie not, my conscience also bearing me

Tempting David to number the people, 1 witness in the Holy Ghost. Chron. xxi. 1.-He taketh away the word xiii. 5. Ye must needs be subject (to out of their heart, Matt. xiii. 19.—He put magistrates) not only for wrath, but also into the heart of Judas to betray Christ, for conscience sake. John xiii. 2.-Put into the hearts of Ana- 2 Cor. i. 12. Our rejoicing is this, the nias and Sapphira to lie, Acts v. 3.—He testimony of our conscience, that in sim. blinds the minds of unbelievers, 2 Cor. iv. plicity and godly sincerity, not with flesh. 4. Eph. iv. 18.

ly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we

have had our conversation in the world. XLVI. An evil heart described. Gen. iv. 2. By manifestation of the truth, vi. 5. Every imagination of the thoughts commending ourselves to every man's conof man's heart, was evil continually. science, in the sight of God. Ch. v. 11.

Prov. xx. 9. Who can say, I have made 1 Tim. i. 5. The end of the commandmy heart clean ?

ment is charity, out of a pure heart, and Jer. xvii. 9. The heart is deceitful of a good conscience, and of faith unfeign. above all things, and desperately wicked, ed. Ver. 19. War a good warfare, hold. who can know it ?

ing faith and a good conscience. Ch. iii. Matt. xv. 19, 20. Out of the heart pro- 9. Holding the mystery of faith in a pure ceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, conscience. fornication, thefts, false witness, blasphe

2 Tim. i. 3. I serve God with a pure mies. These are the things which defile conscience. Mark vii. 21, 22, 23.

Heb. x. 22. Having our hearts sprinkled

from an evil conscience. XLVII. In Scripture the hearts of the xiii. 18. We trust we have a good con. wicked are describedas wicked. Prov. science, in all things willing to live ho. xxvi. 23. Deut. xv. 9. 1 Kings ii. 44. nestly. Uncircumcised. Jer. ix. 26.

1 Pet. ii. 19. This is thank-worthy, if Hard. 1 Sam. vi. 6. Prov. xxviii. 14. a man for conscience toward God endure Zech. vii. 12. Mark xvi. 15.

grief, suffering wrongfully. Stony. Ezek. xi. 19.—xxxvi. 26. iii. 15, 16. Sanctify the Lord God in

Set to do evil. Eccl. viii. 11. Full of your hearts. Having a good conscience ; evil. Eccl. ix. 3.

a good conversation in Christ. Froward. Prov. vi. 15.-xi. 20. Isa. lvii. 17.

XLIX. A good conscience, how attained. Perverse. Prov. xii. 8.-xxii. 33. Eccl. Acts xxiv. 18. I exercise myself to have xi. 9.

always a conscience void of offence toBacksliding. Prov. xiv. 14. Far from ward God and toward men. God. Isa. xxix. 13.

Heb. ix. 2. Gifts and sacrifices were Departing from God. Jer. xvii. 5. Not offered (under the law) which could not right with God. Acts viii. 21.

make him that did the service perfect, as Whorish, idolatrous. Ezek. vi. 9.-xi. pertaining to the conscience. (Ch. x. 2.) 21.-siv. 4.

Ver. 14. How much more shall the blood Rebellious. Jer. v. 23.

of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit Full of iniquity. Ps. xli. 6. Isa. xxxii. 6. offered himself without spot unto God,

Full of evil imaginations. Deut. xxix. purge your conscience from dead works, 19. Ps. cxl. 2.

to serve the living God. 1 Pet, iï. 21. Full of hypocrisy. Job xxxvi. 3. Deceit. x. 22. Having the heart sprinkled from Prov, xii. 20. Ps. xii. 2.

an evil conscience.

a man.

L. Natural conscience ; instances of the vii. 6. We are delivered from the law, force thereof. Jolin viii. 9. In the accusers that we should serve in newness of spirit. of the woman before Christ.

xii. 1. Present your bodies a living Rom, ii. 15. In the Gentiles, who have sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, not the law.

which is your reasonable service. Acts xxiv. 25. In Felix, hearing Paul Ver. 11. Fervent in spirit, serving the preach.

Lord. 1 Sam. xxiv. 5. 2 Sam. xxiv. 10. David's 2 Tim. i. 3. I serve God with a pure heart smote him.

conscience.

Heb. ix. 14. The blood of Christ shall LI. A weak conscience not to be wound. ed. 1 Cor. viii. 12. When ye sin against to serve the living God.

purge your conscience from dead works, the brethren, and wound their weak con. xii. 28. Let us have grace, whereby we science, ye sin against Christ. See ver. 7) may serve God with reverence and godly to 25. 27. Ch. x. 28, 29.

fear. Ps. ii. 11. LII. Of an evil conscience. 1 Tim. iv. Eccl. ix. 10. With all thy might.

Ps. c. 2. Serve the Lord with gladness. 1, 2. Some shall depart from the faith; speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their

Acts xxvi. 7. Serving God instantly. conscience seared.

Rev. vii. 15. In heaven they serve God Tit. i. 5. Unto them that are defiled day and night. and unbelieving there is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is de.

GOD'S SERVANTS. filed.

LVI. God's servants. Promises to them. SERVING GOD.

Exod. xxiii. 25. Ye shall serve the Lord,

and he will bless thy bread, and thy waLIII. Commanded, Deut. vi. 13. Thou ter. Ch. xv, 26. Deut. xi. 13, 14. shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt 1 Kings viii. 23. Thou keepest covenant serve him.

and mercy with thy servants, that walk bex. 12. O Israel, what doth the Lord fore thee with all their heart. Gen. xxxii. 10. thy God require of thee? but to fear the Job xxxvi. 11. If they obey and serve Lord thy God, and to walk in all his ways, him, they shall spend their days in prosand to love him; and to serve the Lord perity, and their years in pleasure. Ps. thy God with all thy heart, and with all cxix. 165. Prov. iii. 17. thy soul. Ver. 13.

Ps. xxxv. 27. Let the Lord be magni. Ver. 20. The Lord thy God, him shalt fied, that hath pleasure in the prosperity thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave. of his servants. Ps. cxlvii. 11.-cxlix. 4. Matt. iv. 10.

cii. 28. The children of thy servants LIV. With the heart. See the last shall continue, and their seed shall be quoted text. Deut. x. 12.

established before thee. Ps. lxix. 36. 1 Chron. xxxiii. 9. Serve him with a

cv. 6, 7. O ye seed of Abraham, his perfect heart, and with a willing mind.

servant; ye children of Jacob his chosen: Eph. vi. 6. Doing the will of God from He is the Lord your God. Ver. 42. Isa. the heart.—Ver. 5. With singleness of xli, 8, 9, heart, as unto Christ.

Isa. xliv. 1, 2. Fear not, O Jacob, my Ver. 7. With good will doing service servant. For I will pour water upon him to the Lord. See Deut. xi. 13, 14.-xiii. that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry 4.-xxvi. 6.—xxxii. 46. Josh. xxii. 5.- ground. Ver. 26. xxiv. 14, 15. 1 Sam. vii. 3.-xii. 14. 20.

xlv. 4. For Jacob my servant's sake 24. 1 Kings xi. 4.-xiv. 8. Ps. cxix. 69 I have called thee by name.

xlviii. 20. The Lord hath redeemed his LV. With suitable dispositions of heart. servant Jacob. Josh. xxiv. 4. Fear the Lord, and serve xlix. 3. Thou art my servant, O Israel, him in sincerity and truth. Ver. 24. 31. in whom I will be glorified.

Acts xx. 19. Serving the Lord with all liv. 17. No weapon formed against thee humility of mind. Ch. xxvi. 7. Luke i. 74. Serve him in holiness, and against thee in judgment thou shalt con.

shall prosper ; every tongue that shall rise righteousness.

demn: this is the heritage of the servants Rom. i. 9. I serve God with my spirit of the Lord, and their righteousness is of in the gospel of his Son.

saith the Lord.

me,

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