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150. Threats. Pf. cxix. 21. Thou haft rebuked the Proud that are curfed, that do err from thy Commandments.

Ver. 118. Thou haft trodden down all them that do err, from thy Statutes.

Prov. xxviii. 10. Whofo caufeth the Righteous to go aftray, in an evil Way, fhall fall himself into his own Pit.

James v. 20. He that converteth a Sinner from the Error of his Way, fhall fave a Soul from Death, and shall hide a Multitude of Sins.

2 Pet. iii. 17. Beware left ye be led away with the Error of the Wicked. See Rom. 1. 27.

Worship.

151. Worship due to God only. See Commandment 1. 2 Kings xvii. 36. The Lord who brought you out of the Land of Egypt with great Power, and with a ftretched out Arm, him fhall ye fear, him shall ye worship, and to him fhall ye do Sacrifice. Neh. 9. 6.

Pf. xxii. 27. All the Ends of the World shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the Kindreds of the Nations fhall worship before him. Ver. 29. Pf. 86. 9. 10.

xcv. 6. O come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

Ver. 7. For he is God.

xcvii. 7. Worship him all ye Gods.

xcix. 5. Worship at his Foot-ftool for he is holy.

Ver. 9. Worship at his Holy Hill.

Ifa. lxvi. 23. All Flesh shall come and worship before me, faith the Lord.

Zeph. ii. 11. Men fhall worship him every one from his Place, even all the Ifles of the Heathen.

Rev. iv. 10. In Heaven the four and twenty Elders fell down before him, that fat on the Throne and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever. See Ch. 5. 14-7. 11.—11. 16.—14. 7.—19· 4·

Rev. xv. 4. All Nations fhall come and worship before thee for thy Judgments are made manifeft.

Heb. i. 6. Let all the Angels of God worship Chrift.-For the Worfhip due to Chrift, See Worship offered to him by the Church in Heaven, and on Earth. Chap. upon the Dignity and Offices of Jesus Christ.

Angels not to be Worshipped. See Col. 2. 18. Rev. 19. 10, 11-22. 8. 9. Againft worshipping Creatures for God. See Commandments, 1 ft and 2d.

152. How God is to be worshipped. 1 Chr. xvi. 29. Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness..

xxix. 9.With a perfect Heart the People offered willingly to the Lord. Pf, li. 6. Thou defireft Truth in the inward Parts.

Ver. 17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit, a broken and contrite Heart, O God, thou wilt not defpife.

John iv. 23. The true Worshippers fhall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth, for the Father feeketh fuch to worship him.

Acts xxiv. 14. After the Way which they (the Jews) call Herefy, fo worship I the God of my Fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law, and the Prophets.

Phil. iii. 3. We are the Circumcifion which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Chrift Jefus, and have no Confidence in the Flesh. See Mal. 1. 11~3. 4.

153. Worhip offered by the Wicked unacceptable to God. Ifa. i. 11. To what Purpose are the Multitude of your Sacrifices to me, faith the Lord. Ver. 12. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your Hands to tread my Courts?

Ver. 15. Your Hands are full of Blood, Ver.16. Wash you, make you Clean, See Ch. 66 3. 4. Jer. 7. 9, 10, 11. 21. 22.—6, 20. Am. 5. 21.

Pf. 1. 16. Unto the wicked God faith what haft thou to do, to declare my Statutes? or that thou shouldst take my Covenant in thy Mouth.

Ver. 17. Seeing thou hateft Inftruction, and cafteft my Words behind thee.

Prov, vii. 14. The whorish Woman faid, I have Peace-offerings with me this Day, I have paid my Vows.

Ver. 27. Her House is the Way to Hell, &c

Mal. i. 8. If ye offer the Blind, the Lame and the Sick for Sacrifice, is it not Evil? offer it up to thy Governor will he be pleased with thee?

Ver. 9.

Ver. 10. I have no Pleasure in you, faith the Lord of Hofts, neither will I accept an Offering at your Hands. See Ver. 13. 14.

Matt. xv. 8 This People draweth near me with their Mouth, and honoureth me with their Lips, but their Heart is far from me. Ifa. 29. 1 3. Ver. 9. In vain do they worship me, teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of Men. See Acts 17. 25.

Fafting.

154. Fafting appointed by God. Lev. xxiii. 27. The tenth Day of the feventh Month fhall be a Day of Atonement, an Holy Convocation unto you, ye shall afflict your Souls and Offer an Offering made by Fire unto the Lord.

Ver. 28. Ye fhall do no Work in that fame Day, See to Ver. 33. 155. Fafts Extraordinary and Miraculous kept by Mofes. Exod. xxxiv. 28. By Elijah, 1 Kings 19. 8. By Jefus Chrift. Matt. 4. 2.

156. Fafting accceptably. Ifa. 58. 6. Is not this the Faft that I have chofen, to loofe the Bands of Wickednefs, to undo the heavy Burdens, and to let the oppreffed go free and to break every Yoke.

Ver. 7. To deal thy Bread to the Hungry, and to bring the Poor that are caft out into thine House, when thou feest the Wicked that thou cover him, &c. Zech. 8. 19.

Matt. vi. 16. When ye faft be not as the Hypocrites of a fad Coun

tenance.

Ver. 17. When thou fastest anoint thine Head and wash thy Face. Ver. 18. That thou appear not unto Men to faft, but unto thy Father which is in Secret.

157. Fafts of the Wicked. Ifa. Iviii. 3. In the Days of your Faft you exalt all your Labours.

Ver. 4. Ye faft for Strife and Debate, Ver. 5.

Jer. xiv. 12. When they faft I will not hear their Cry. Zech. 7. 5

Matt.

Matt. vi. 16. Hypocrites fast with a fad Countenance to appear unto

Men.

Luke xviii. 12. The Pharifee faid I faft twice in the Week, yet was not justified. See an hypocritical Faft appointed by Jefebel, 1 Kings

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158. Occafions of Fafts obferved by God's People before, War, or an expected Attack from an Enemy. 2 Chron. xx. 3. At the Approach of Enenemies, King Jehoshaphat proclaims a Faft.

Ver. 15. He and his People are delivered from their Enemies. See 1 Sam. 7. 6.

Efther xiv. 3. The Jews threatened with Deftruction in Babylon, faft. Ver. 16. And are delivered.

159. After being defeated by Enemies. See Jof. 7. 6. Judges 20. 26. 1 Sam. 31. 13. 2 Sam. 1. 12. At Calamities from the Hand of God, upon Man or Beast, or the Fruits of the Earth, Joel 1. 14—2. 12. 15,

16. 17.

160. Judgments threatened by the Almighty against Sinners.

1 Kings xxi. 27. Ahab terrified at God's Threatnings against him, fafted.

Ver. 29. God brought not the Evil threatned in his Day.

Jonah iii. 5. 7. The King and People of Nineveh terrified at God's Threatenings against them by Jonah, proclaim a Fast, and keep it with great Strictnefs.

Jonah iii. 10. They are faved from Destruction. Daniel Fafts and prays for the Jews Return from Captivity. Dan. 9. 3. The Jews held a Faft fetting out on their Return from Captivity. Ezra 8. 21. 23.The Jews having returned from Captivity, and reftoring the publick Worship of God hold a Faft and read the Law. Neh. 9. 1. Alfo, fee Jer. 36. 6. The Apostles fafted and prayed with the Church before they ordained Elders and Preachers of the Gospel. A&s 14. 23.—13. 2. 3.

Devils caft out by Fafting and Prayer. Matt. 17. 21.

161. Fafis of particular Perfons held at their own Discretion. 2 Sam. xii. 16. David fafted when his Child was fick.

Pf. xxxv. 13. When they were fick, I humbled my Soul with Fasting.

Ixix. 10. I wept and chaftened my Soul with fafting.

cix. 24. My Knees are weak through Fafting.

Matt. ix. 14. John's Disciples and the Pharifees fafted often. Mark

2. 18.

Chrift's Difciples fafted, after he was taken from them, 2 Cor. 6. 5.

11. 27.

Luke ii. 37. Anna ferved God with fafting Night and Day.

Acts x. 30. Cornelius while he fafted and prayed, was directed by an Angel to fend for Peter to preach the Gospel

1 Cor. vii. 3. Husband and Wife ought not to feparate except for a Time, to give themselves to Fafting and Prayer.

N. B. Religious Fafting is always to be accompanied with Prayer, and with all the Requifites in Prayer, which fee in the Chapter upon Prayer.

Prayer.

Prayer.

162. Perfons whofe Prayer fhall be heard. Pf. iv. 3. The Lord hath fet apart him that is godly for himself, the Lord will hear when I call unto him.

xxvi. 6. I will wash mine Hands in Innocency, fo will I compass thine Altar.

xxxiv. 15. The Eyes of the Lord are upon the Righteous, and his Ears are open to their Cry. 1 Pet. 3. 12. His Ears are open to their Prayers.

Ver. 17. The Righteous Cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their Troubles

Prov. xv. 8. The Sacrifice of the Wicked is an Abomination to the Lord, but the Prayer of the upright is his Delight.

Ver. 29. The Lord is far from the Wicked, but he heareth the Prayer of the righteous.

1 Tim. ii. 8. I will that Men pray every where lifting up holy Hands without Wrath and Doubting.

James v. 16. The Prayer of a righteous Man availeth much.

163. Of the Divine Influence in Prayer, the Spirit's Affiftance Pf.x. 17. Lord, thou wilt prepare their Heart, thou wilt caufe thine Ear to hear. lxxx. 18. Quicken us, and we will call on thy Name.

Zech. xii. 10. I will pour upon the House of David, and upon the Inhabitants of Jerufalem, the Spirit of Grace and of Supplication, &c. xiii. 9. I will refine them as Silver is refined, and I will try them as Gold is tried, and they fhall call on my Name and I will hear them, I will fay it is my People, and they fhall fay the Lord is my God.

Rom. viii. 15. Ye have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry, Abba Father.

Ver. 26. The Spirit helpeth our Infirmities, for we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit maketh Interceffion for us with Groanings which cannot be uttered.

Ver. 27.

Spirit.

. And he that fearcheth the Heart knoweth the Mind of the

Gal. iv. 6. Because ye are Sons, God hath fent forth the Spirit of his Son into your Hearts crying, Abba Father.

Eph. vi. 18. Praying with all Prayer and Supplication in the Spirit. Jude Ver. 20. Praying in the Holy Ghoft. 1 Cor. 14. 15. 164. Prayer is to be made in the Name of Chrift. John xiv. 13. Jefus faid, whatfoever ye shall ask in my Name, that will I do unto you. Ver. 14. That the Father may be glorified in the Son.

xvi. 23. Whatsoever ye fhall afk the Father in my Name he will give

it you.

Ver. 24. Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my Name, ask and receive that your Joy may be full.

Col. iii. 17. Whatsoever ye do in Word or in Deed, do all in the Name of the Lord Jefus. See Heb 4. 14. 16. Dan. 9. 18.

165. Prayer must be made in Faith. Matt. xxi. 22. All Things whatfoever ye fhall ask in Prayer believing, ye fhall receive. Matt. 11. 24, 25.

John

John xv. 7. If ye abide in me, and my Words abide in you, ye fhall afk what ye will, and it fhall be done unto you.

Eph. iii. 12. In whom (Chrift) we have Boldness and Access by the Faith of him, Heb. 4. 16.

Heb. x. 22. Let us draw near with a true Heart in full Affurance of Faith.

xi. 6. He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him,

James i 6. Afk in Faith Nothing wavering. Ve.. Luke 12. 29. v. 15. The Prayer of Faith fhall fave the Sick. Jude Ver. 20.

166. With Sincerity of Heart. Pf. xvii. 1. Give Ear unto my Prayer that goeth not out of feigned Lips.

XXV. I. Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my Soul.

lxii. 8. Pour out your Heart before God, he is a Refuge for us. cxlv. 18. The Lord is nigh unto all that call upon him in Truth. Jer. xxix 13. The Lord faid ye shall find me when ye fhall search for me with all your Heart, Ver. 14. 2 Chron. 15. 15:

Lam. iii. 41. Let us lift up our Heart, with our Hands to God in the Heavens.

2 Tim. ii. 22. Call on the Lord out of a pure Heart.

Heb. x 22. Let us draw near with a true Heart, &c. Job 11.13. 167. With Love to God. Pf. xci. 14. The Lord faid, because he hath fet his Love upon me, therefore will I deliver him.

Ver. 15. He fhall call upon me and I will anfwer him. Pf. 37. 4.

168. With the Fear of God. PL. cxlv. 19. The Lord will fulfil the Defire of them that fear him, he alfo will hear their Cry, and will fave them.

169. With Obedience to God. Ifa. lvi. 6. The Sons of the Stranger that join themselves to the Lord, to ferve him, and to love the Name of the Lord, and to be his Servants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it and taketh hold of my Covenant.

Ver. 7. Even them will I bring to my holy Mountain, and will make them joyful in my House of Prayer, their Burnt-Offerings and their Sacrifices shall be accepted on mine Altar.

John ix. 31. If any Man be a Worshipper of God and doth his Wil',

him he heareth.

1 John iii. 22. Whatsoever we afk, we receive of him, because we keep his Commandments and do thofe Things that are pleasing in his Sight.

Prov. xxviii. 9. He that turneth away his Ear from hearing the Law, even his Prayer fhall be an Abomination.

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170. With Humility, Confeffion and turning from Sin.

2 Chron. vii.

If my People shall humble theinfelves and pray and feek my Face, and turn from their wicked Ways, then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their Sin and will heal their Land. Ch. 6. 26. to Ver.40. 1 Kings 8. 37. to Ver. 50.

xxxiii. 12. Manaffeh humbled himself and prayed, and God was intreated. Ver. 13.

Pf. ix. 12. God forgetteth not the Cry of the Humble.

x. 17, Lord thou haft heard the Defire of the Humble.

Jer. xxxvi. 6. Go read the Words of the Lord, in the Ears of the People.

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