Thinking, Meditating, Remembring, highly Efteeming, Honouring, Adoring ", Choofing' Loving, Defiring, Fearing of him; Believing him ; Trufting, Hoping, Hoping, Delighting, Rejoicing before the Lord our maker. v.7. not return, that unto me every knee For he is our God, and we are the fhall bow, every tongue fhall fwear. people of his pafture, and the sheep of his hand. Mat. 4.10. Then faid Jefus unto him, Ge: thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou ferve. Pfalm 29.2. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. 9 Mal. 3. 16. Then they that feared the Lord, fpake often one to another, and the Lord hearkned, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. Pfalm 63. 6. When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night-watch. f Eccl. 12.1. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt fay, I have no pleasure in them. Pfalm 71.19. Thy righteousness alfo, O God, is very high, who haft done great things: O God, who is like unto thee? ▾ Mal. 1. 6. A fon honoureth his father, and a fervant his mafter: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I bea mafter, where is my fear faith the Lord of hofts unto you, O priests, that despise my * Fok, 24.15. And ifit feem evil unto you to ferve the Lord, chooft you this day whom ye will ferve. whether the gods which your fathers ferved, that were on the other fide of the flood, or the gods of the Amo rites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my houfe, we will ferve the Lord. v. 22. And Jofhus faid unto the people, Ye are witneffes against your selves, that ye have chofen the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. y Deut. 6.5. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thing heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy might. z Pfalm 73. 25. Whom havelin heaven but thee? and there is none up on earth that I defire besides thee. Ifai. 8. 13. Sanctify the Lord of hofts himself, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. b Exod. 14. 31. And Ifrael faw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians: and the peo ple feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his fervant Mofes. Ifai. 26.4. Truft ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength. d Pfalm 130. 7. Let Ifrael hope in the Lord: for with the Lord then is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. e Pfalm 37. 4. Delight thy felf alfo in the Lord, and he fhall give thee the defires of thine heart. joicing in him; being Zealous for him ; Calling apon him; giving all Praise and Thanks", and yielding all Obedience and Submiffion to him with he whole Man; being careful in all things to please him, and forrowful when in any thing he is offended'; and walking humbly with him m 105. Quest. What are the Sins forbidden in the First Commandment? Anfw. The Sins forbidden in the First Commandment, are Athcifm in denying or not having a God "; Idolatry in having or worshipping more Gods than One, or any with or inftead of the true God ; the f Pfalm 32. 11. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice ye righteous: and hout for joy all ye that are upright in heart. & Rom. 12. 11. Not flothful in bufinefs; fervent in spirit; ferving the Lord. Compared with Numb, 25. 11. Phineas the fon of Eleazar, the fon of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Ifrael (while he was zealous for my fake among them) that I confumed not the children of Ifrael in my jealoufy. h Phil. 4. 6. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and fupplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. i fer. 7.23. But this thing commanded I them, faying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye fhall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. James 4. 7. Submit your felves therefore to God; refift the devil, and he will flee from you. * 1 John 3. 22. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and not do those things that are pleasing in his fight. 1 Jer. 31. 18. I have furely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou haft chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; thou art the Lord my God. Pfal. 119. 136. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes: because they keep not thy law. m Mic. 6. 8. He hath fhewed thee, Oman,what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do juftly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? 105. Pfalm 14. 1. The fool hath faid in his heart, There is no God: they are corrupt, they have done abominable works,there is none that doth good. Eph. 2. 12. That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Ifrael, and strangers from the covenants of promife, having no hope, and without God in the world. Jer. 2. 27. Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou haft brought me forth: for they not having and avouching him for God, and our God P; the Omiffion or Neglect of any Thing duc to him required in this Commandment ; Ignorance, Forgetfulness, Mifapprehenfions, falle Opinions, unworthy and wicked Thoughts of him "; bold and curious Searching into his Se they have turned their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us. v. 28. But where are thy gods that thou haft made thee? let them arise if they can fave thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities, are thy gods, O Judah. Compared with Thef. 1.9. For they themselves fhew of us, what manner of entring in we had unto you, and how ye returned to God from idols, to ferve the living and true God. PPfalm 81. 11. But my people would not hearken to my voice: and Ifrael would none of me. 9 Ifa. 43. 22. But thou haft not called upon me, O Jacob, but thou haft been weary of me, O Ifrael. v. 23. Thou haft not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt-offerings, neither haft thou honoured me with thy facrifices. I have not caufed thee to ferve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incenfe: v. 24. Thou haft bought me no fweet cane with money, neither haft thou filled me with the fat of thy facrifices: but thou haft made me to ferve with thy fins, thou haft wearied me with thine iniquities. Fer. 4. 22. For my people is foolish, they have not known me, they are fottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wife to do evil, but to do good they crets have no knowledge. Hofea 4.1 Hear the word of the Lord, ye chil dren of Ifrael; for the Lord hath a controverfy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. v. 6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou haft rejected know ledge, I alfo will reject thee, that thou shalt be no prieft to me: fecing thou haft forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy chil dren. Jer. 2. 32. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire! yet my people have forgotten me. days without number. Acts 17.23. For as I paffed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this infcription, To THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. v. 29. For as much then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, of filver, or ftone graven by art and mans device. * Ifaiah 40. 18. To whom then will ye liken God or what likenefs will ye compare unto him. W Pfalm 50.21. These things haft thou done, and I kept filence: thos thoughteft that I was altogetherfac a one as thy felf; but I will reprove thee, and fet them in order before thine eyes, & Dest. crets; all Profanenefs, Hatred of God; Selfove, Self-feeking, and all other inordinate and immoderate Setting of our Mind, Will, or Affetions upon other Things, and taking them off from im in Whole or in Part; vain Credulity d, Un-. elief, Herefy, Misbeliefs, Diftruft", Despair '; incorrigibleness and Infenfibleness under Judg * Deut. 29. 29. The fecret things elong unto the Lord our God: but hofe things which are revealed begunto us, and to our children for wer, that we may do all the words of this law. Tit. 1. 16. They profess that hey know God; but in works they leny him, being abominable, and lifobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. Heb. 12.16. Left there be any fornicator, or profane perfon, as Efau, who for one morfel of meat fold his birth-right. Rom. 1. 30. Backbiters, haters of God, defpightful, proud, boafters,-- 2 Tim. 3. 2. For men fhall be lovers of their own felves, covetous, boaters. proud, blafphemers, difobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy. Phil. 2. 21. For all feek their own, not the things which are Jefus Chrifts. ments', your felves fat with the chiefeft of all the offerings of Ifrael my people: Col. 3.2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. v. 5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness,inordinate affection, evil concupifcence, and covetoufness, which is idolatry. d I John 4. I. Beloved, believe not every fpirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many falfe prophets are gone out into the world. • Heb. 3. 12. Take heed, brethren, left there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Gal. 5. 20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations,wrath, ftrife, feditions, herefies. Titus 3.10. A man that is an heretick, after the first and second admonition, reje&. % Alts 26. 9. I verily thought with my felf, that 1 ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jefus of Nazareth. Pfalm 78. 22. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his falvation. 1 John 2.15. Love not the world, peither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. v. 16. For all that is in the world, the luft of the flesh, and the i Gen. 4. 13. And Cain faid unto luft of the eyes, and the pride of the Lord, My punishment is greater life, is not of the Father, but is of than I can bear. the world. 1 Sam. 2. 29. Where- k Jer. 5.3. O Lord, are not thine fore kick ye at my facrifice, and at eyes upon the truth? thou haft mine offering which I have com- ftricken them, but they have not manded in my habitation, and ho- grieved; thou hast consumed them, noureft thy fons above me, to makę but ments', Hardness of Heart", Pride", Prefump tion, carnal Security P, tempting of God, ufing unlawful Means', and trusting in lawful Means carnal Delights and Joys, corrupt, blind, and in difcreet Zeal, Lukewarmnefs w. and Deadnefs in the Things of God, eftranging our felves, and аро but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock, they have refufed to return. Ifa. 42. 25. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the ftrength of battle; and it hath fet him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart. Rom. 2. 5. But after thy hardnefs and impenitent heart, treafureft up unto thy felf wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God. Jer. 13. 15. Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken. • Pfalm 19. 13. Keep back thy fervant alfo from prefumptuous fins, let them not have dominion over me: then fhall I be upright, and fhall be innocent from the great tranfgreffion. P Žephan. 1. 12. And it fhall come to pass at that time, that I will fearch Jerufalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil. ↑ Mat. 4. 7. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Rom. 3, 8. And not rather, as we be flanderously reported, and as Come affirm that we say, Let us do evil, that good may come? whole damnation is just. Jer. 17. s. Thus faith the Lord Curfed be the man that truftethi man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whofe heart departeth from the Lord. 2 Tim. 3. 4. Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. Gal. 4. 17. They zealously fect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. John 16. 2. They thall put you out of the fynagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whofoever killeth you, will think that he doth God fervice. Rom. 10. 2. For l bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to know ledge. Luke 9. 54. And when his difciples James and John fawthis, they faid, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and confume them, even as Elias did? v.ss. But he turned, and rebuked them, and faid, Te know not what manner of spirit ye are of. w Rev. 3. 16. So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. * Rev. 3. 1. And unto the angel in the church in Sardis, write, Thele things faith he that hath the feven fpirits of God, and the feven frais; I know thy works, that thou hafta датс |