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of all their troubics. Ps. x. 24.-xv. 29. , righteousness shall be a sure reward. James v. 16. 1 Pet. iii. 12.

Righteousness tendeth to life: he that Ps. xxxvii. 17. The Lord upholdeth the pursueth evil, pursueth it to his own hurt. righteous. Ps. lv. 22. He shall never suf. Ch. xii. 28. fer the righteous to be moved. Ps. xv. 2. Ver. 30, 31. The fruit of righteousness

Ver. 39. The salvation of the righte. is a tree of life. The righteous shall be ous is of the Lord. Gen. vii. 1. Prov. recompensed in the earth. xviii. 10. Isa. xxxiii. 15, 16.-Ixiv. 5. xii. 3. A man shall not be established 2 Pet. ii. 5.

by wickedness: but the root of the righte. Prov. ii. 7. The Lord layeth up sound ous shall not be moved. Ch. x. 25. wisdom for the righteous. Jer. xx. 12. Ver. 7. The wicked are overthrown,

ii. 32. The secret of the Lord is with and are not; but the house of the righte. the righteous. Ps. xxv. 14.

ous shall stand. Ch. xi. 21. Job xxxiii. 26. God will render unto Ver. 26. The righteous is more ex. every man his righteousness. 1 Sam. cellent than his neighbour.–Ver. 28. xxvi. 23. 1 Kings viii. 32.

In the way of righteousness is life; and Ps. vii. 8. Judge me according to my in the path-way thereof is no death. Ch. righteousness. Ps. xviii. 20. 24. 2 Sam. xii. 6. xxii. 21.

xiii. 9. The light of the righteous re. Ver. 11. God judgeth the righteous : joiceth; but the lamp of the wicked shall God is angry with the wicked every day. be put out.—Ver. 21. Evil pursueth xxxvii

. 6. He shall bring forth thy sinners; but to the righteous good shall righteousness.

be repaid. lviii. 11. Verily there is a reward for xiv. 34. Righteousness exalteth a nathe righteous : verily he is a God that tion, but sin is a reproach to any people. judgeth in the earth.

xvi. 12. The throne is exalted by

righteousness. IX. Promises of blessings to the righte. Ver. 31. The hoary head is a crown ous, as the consequence of righteousness, of glory, if it be found in the way of by the appointment of God. Job iv. 7. righteousness. Who ever perished being innocent? or xxi. 21 He that followeth aft rightewhere were the righteous cut off? ousness and mercy, findeth life, righte.

xvii. 9. The righteous shall hold on ousness and honour. his way, and he that hath clean hands xxviii. 1. The wicked flee when no shall wax stronger and stronger. man pursueth; but the righteous is bold

Ps. xxxvii. 29. The righteous shall in as a lion. herit the land, and dwell in it for ever. Eccl. ix. 1. The righteous and the

lxxii. 7. In his (the good King's] days wise, and their works, are in the hand of the righteous shall flourish.

God. Ixxv. 10. The horn of the righteous Isa. iii. 10. Say ye to the righteous, It shall be exalted.

shall be well with him, for they shall eat xcii. 12. The righteous shall flourish the fruit of their doings. like the palm tree, and grow like the xxiv. 16. From the uttermost part of cedar in Lebanon. Ps. i. 3.-lii. 8. Prov. the earth have we heard songs, even glory xi. 28.

to the righteous. xcvii. 11. Light is sown for the righ- xxxii. 17. The work of righteousness teous, and gladness for the upright in shall be peace; and the effect of righteheart.

ousness, quietness and assurance for cvi. 3. Blessed is he that doeth righte- ever. ousness at all times.

xxxiii. 15, 16. He that walketh righteProv. x. 2. Righteousness delivereth ously, &c. he shall dwell on high, his from death. Ch. xi. 4. 6.

place of defence shall be the munition of Ver. 24. The desire of the righteous rocks; bread shall be given him, his water shall be granted.-Ver.28. The hope of shall be sure. the righteous shall be gladness; but the lxiv. 5. Thou meetest him that rejoiceth expectation of the wicked shall perish. and worketh righteousness, those that re.

xi. 8. The righteous is delivered out member thee in thy ways. of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his Ezek. xiv. 14. Though Noah, Daniel stead. Ch. x. 30.-xii. 3.

and Job were in the city, (devoted to Ver. 18, 19.' To him that soweth destruction for iniquity) they should de

ousness.

liver but their own souls by their righte.

UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. See Gen. vii. 1.xviii. 23. Ezek. xviii. 20. The righteousness of XIII. Unrighteousness forbidden. Rom. the righteous shall be upon him.- Ver. 22. vi. 13. Neither yield ye your members In his righteousness that he hath done he as instruments of unrighteousness unto shall live.

sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as Mal. iii. 18. Ye shall discern between those that are alive from the dead, and the righteous and the wicked.

your members as instruments of righte.

ousness unto God. X. The righteous shall be delivered from 2 Cor. vi. 14. What fellowship hath righenemies. Ps. xxxiv. 21. They that hate teousness with unrighteousness ? What the righteous shall be desolate.

communion hath light with darkness? lii. 6. The righteous shall see the destruction of the wicked) and fear, and XIV. Threats against the unrighteous. shall laugh at him.

Deut. xxvi. 16. All that do unrighteously lviii. 10. The righteous shall rejoice are an abomination to the Lord. when he seeth the vengeance, and shall Job xxvii. 7. Let mine enemy be as wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. the wicked, and he that riscth up against

cxxv. 3. The rod of the wicked shall me as the unrighteous. not rest on the lot of the righteous.

Rom. i. 18. The wrath of God is reProv. xiv. 19. The evil bow before the vealed from heaven against all ungod. good, and the wicked at the gate of the liness and unrighteousness of men.- Ver. righteous.

29. Being filled with all unrighteous. xxi. 18. The wicked shall be a ransom ness, fornication, wickedness, &c.- Ver. for the righteous.

34. They who commit such things are Zech. xiv. 12. This shall be the plague worthy of death. wherewith the Lord will smite all the peo- ii. 8, 9. Unto them that obey unrighte. ple who have fought against Jerusalem; ousness, God will render indignation and Their flesh shall consume away while they wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall soul of man that doeth evil. consume away in their holes, and their 1 Cor. vi. 9. Know ye not, that the tongues shall consume away in their mouth. unrighteous shall not inherit the king

dom of God? XI. The death of the righteous blessed. 2 Thess. ii. 10. The Wicked [man of Numb. xxiii. 10. Let me die the death sin) is filled with all deceivableness of of the righteous, and let my last end be unrighteousness in them that perish.like his.

Ver. 12. That they all might be damned Prov. xiv. 32. The righteous hath hope who believed not the truth, but had pleain his death.

sure in unrighteousness. Isa. lvii. 1. The righteous is taken 2 Pet. ii. 13. They shall receive the reaway from the evil to come.

ward of unrighteousness.-Ver. 14. Curs

ed children.-Ver. 17. To whom is reXII. The righteous blessed after death. served the mist of darkness for ever. Ps. xv. 1. Lord, who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that worketh righteous- XV. Pardon promised to those that for. ness. Ps. xxiv. 4.

sake unrighteousness. Isa. lv. 7. Let the cxii. 6. The righteous shall be in ever- wicked forsake his way, and the unrigh. lasting remembrance.

teous man his thoughts, and let him reIsa. lvii. 2. He shall enter into peace; turn unto the Lord, and he will have they shall rest in their beds, each one mercy upon him, and to our God, for he walking in his uprightness.

will abundantly pardon. Dan. xii. 3. They that be wise shall Heb. viii. 12. I will be merciful to their shine as the brightness of the firmament, unrighteousness, and their sins and their and they that turn many to righteousness, iniquities will I remember no more. as the stars for ever and ever.

Matt. xiii. 43. The righteous shall shine forth as the sun, in the kingdom of

ZEAL. their Father.

xxv. 46. The righteous shall go into XVI. Zeal a duty. Gal. iv. 18. It is good life eternal.

to be zealously affected in a good thing.

Tit. ii. 14. Christ gave himself for us, Prov. ii. 7. The Lord is a buckler to that he might redeem us from all iniqui. them that walk uprightly.–Ver. 21. The ty, and purify unto himself a peculiar upright shall dwell in the land, &c. people, zealous of good works.

x. 9. He that walketh uprightly walkRev. iii. 19. Be zealous and repent. eth surely.–Ver. 29. The way of the

Instances. In Phineas, Num. xxv. 11. Lord is strength to the upright. 13.-In Christ, Isa. lix. 17. Ps. Ixix. 9.- xi. 3. The integrity of the upright In David, Ps. cxix. 139.-In the Corin- shall preserve them.-Ver. 5, 6. The thians, 1 Cor. xiv. 12. 2 Cor. vii. 11.— righteousness of the upright shall deliv. ix. 2.-In Epaphras, Col. iv. 13.

er them.- Ver. 11. By the blessing of Erroneous Zeal. Instances : In Saul's the upright the city is preserved. Ch. xxix. slaying the Gibeonites.-In Paul for the 8. Gen. xviii. 23 to 28. law of Moses, before his conversion. Acts Ver. 20. The upright in their way are xxii. 3. Gal. i. 14. Phil. iii. 6.—In the God's delight. Jews, Acts xxi. 20. Rom. xvi. 2.-See xii. 6. The mouth of the upright shall Jehu boasting of his zeal, 2 Kings x. 16. deliver them.

Want of Zeul. Rev. iii. 15. Because Ver. 22. They that deal truly are God's thou art neither cold nor hot, I will spue delight. thee out of my mouth.

xiii. 6. Righteousness keepeth the upright in the way.

xiv. 11. The tabernacle of the upright UPRIGHTNESS.

shall flourish.

xv. 8. The prayer of the upright is XVII. Upright. Prov. xv. 21. A man God's delight. of understanding walketh uprightly. xxi. 18. The wicked shall be a ransom

xvi. 17. The high-way of the upright is for the righteous, and the transgressor to depart from evil.

for the upright. xxi. 29. As for the upright, he direct. xxviii. 6. Better is the poor that walk. eth his way. See Ch. xiv. 2.

eth in his uprightness, than he that is

perverse in his ways, though he be rich. XVIII. Promises to the upright. 1 -Ver. 10. The upright shall have good Chron. xxix. 17. I know, my God, that things in possession. thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in Ver. 18. Whoso walketh uprightly shall uprightness.

be saved; but he that is perverse in his Ps. vü. 10. God saveth the upright in ways shall fall at once. heart.

Ver. 20. A faithful man shall abound xi. 7. The righteous Lord loveth right with blessings. eousness, and his countenance doth be- Isa. lvii. 2. The righteous shall enter hold the upright.

into peace; they shall rest in their beds, xv. 2. He that walketh uprightly shall each one walking in his uprightness. abide in thy tabernacle.

Mic. ii. 7. My words do good to him xviii. 25. With an upright man thou that walketh uprightly. See Rom. xiv. wilt shew thyself upright.

22. John iii. 21. xxxvii. 18. The Lord knoweth the

XIX. The upright prayed for,-and days of the upright, and their inheritance shall be for ever.-Ver. 37. Mark the per prayer for uprightness. Ps. xxv. 21. Let fect man, and behold the upright, for the integrity, and uprightness preserve me, latter end of that man is peace.

for I wait on thee.

cxliii. 10. Lead me unto the land of xlix. 14. The upright shall have dominion over the wicked.

uprightness. Ixxxiv. 11. The Lord will withhold

cxxv. 4. Do good to them that are no good from them that walk uprightly.

upright in heart. xcvii. 11. Light is sown for the right.

xxxvi. 10. Continue thy righteousness eous, and gladness for the upright in

to the upright in heart. heart.

INTEGRITY, cxii. 2. The generation of the upright shall be blessed. Ver. 5. Unto the up- XX. Integrity. Ps. vii. 8. Judge me right there ariseth light in darkness. O Lord, according to my integrity.

cxl. 13. Lord, the upright shall dwell xxv. 11. Let integrity and uprightness in thy presence.

preserve me.

Ps. xli. 12. Thou upholdest me in xiii. 11. Be perfect, be of one mind. mine integrity.

Col. iii 14. Put on charity, which is Prov. xix. i. Better is the poor that the bond of perfectness. walketh in his integrity, than he that is Heb. vi. l. Let us go on unto perfecperverse in his lips and is a fool. Ch. tion. xxvii. 6.

xx. 7. The just man walketh in his XXIV. Directions for attaining perfecintegrity.

tion. Matt. xix. 21. If thou wilt be perJob xxvii. 7. My heart shall not re- fect keep the commandments. 1 John ii. proach me.

5.-iv. 12.

Luke vi. 40. Every one that is perfect XXI. Particular instances of integrity, shall be as his master. Gen. xx. 6. God said to Abimelech, I Phil. iii. 12. Not as though I were alknow that thou didst this in the integrity ready perfect, or had already attainedof thine heart, for I withheld thee from Ver. 14, 15. I press forward toward the sinning against me.

mark, for the prize of the high calling of Job ii. 3. Job holdest fast his integ. God in Christ Jesus. Let as many as rity. Ver. 9. Ch. xxvii. 5.—xxxi. 6. 1 be perfect, be thus minded. Kings ix. 4.

James i. 4. Let patience have her per. Ps. xxvi. 1. David said, I walked in fect work, that ye may be perfect and enmine integrity. Ver. 11. Ps. lxxviii. 72. tire, wanting nothing.

iii. 2. If any offend not in word, the SINCERITY.

same is a perfect man. XXII. Sincerity. Josh. xxiv. 14. Fear

XXV. Perfection from God and Christ. and serve the Lord in sincerity.

2 Sam. xxii. 33. God maketh my way 1 Cor. v. 8. Keep the feast with the perfect. Ps. xviii. 32. unleavened bread of sincerity.

Ps. cxxxviii. 8. The Lord will perfect

that which concerneth me. 2 Cor. i. 12. In simplicity and godly

Ezek. xvi. 4. Thy beauty was perfect sincerity we have had our conversation.

ii. 17. As of sincerity in the sight of through my comeliness which I put upon God speak we.

thee. 1 Cor. iv. 7. Who maketh thee Phil. i. 9. 1

to differ? cere, and without öffence, until the day me, that they may be made perfect in one.

John xvii. 23. I in them, and thou in of Christ. Eph. vi. 24. Grace be with them that

2 Cor. xii. 9. My grace is sufficient love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.

for thee, my strength is made perfect in Tit. ii. 7. In doctrine shewing uncor

weakness. ruptness, gravity, sincerity.

Col. ii. 10. Ye are complete in him, 1 Pet. ii. 2. Desire the sincere milk of

(viz. Christ.) the word, that ye may grow thereby.

iv. 12. Praying fervently for you, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all

the will of God. PERFECTION.

Heb. x. 14. By one offering Christ hath

perfected for ever them that are sanctified. XXIII. Perfection a commanded duty. xiii. 21. God make you perfect, workGen. xvii. 1. T'he Lord said unto Abra- ing in you that which is well-pleasing in ham, I am the Almighty God: walk be- his sight. fore me and be thou perfect.

1 Pet. v. 10. The God of all grace Deut. xviii. 13. Thou shalt be perfect make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, with the Lord thy God.

settle you. See Heb. xi. 40.—xii. 22. Matt. v. 48. Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. XXVI. The holy Scriptures a mean of

Rom. xii. 2. Be ye transformed by the perfection. 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17. All scriprenewing of your minds, that ye may ture is given by inspiration of God, and prove what is that good and acceptable is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for and perfect will of God.

correction, and instruction in righteous. 2 Cor. vii. 1. Let us cleanse ourselves ness. That the man of God may be per. from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, fect, thoroughly furnished to all good perfecting holiness in the fear of God. works.

pray that

ye may be sin.

man.

Ps. cxix. 11. Thy word have I hid in Isa. Ixv. 5. They say, Stand by thyself mine heart, that I might not sin against come not near to me, for I am holier than thee. Sce Gal. iii. 3. See the Spirit's in- thou. Luke xviii. 9. They trust in them. fluences upon all Christians.

selves that they are righteous, and despise

others. XXVII. Also the ministry. Eph. iv. 11 lxvi. 5. They hate their brethren, and -13. He gave apostles, prophets, evange- cast them out, and say, Let the Lord be lists, pastors and teachers; for the perfect. glorified. Matt. vii. 4. They say, Let me ing of the saints: Till we all come in the pull the mote out of thine eye, &c. unity of the faith, and of the knowledge Matt. vi. 5. They pray standing in the of the Son of God, to a perfect man, unto synagogues, and in the corners of the the measure of the stature of the fulness streets, that they may be seen of men. of Christ.

Luke xviii. 11. In prayer they say, God, Col. i. 28. We preach Christ, warning I thank thee, I am not as other men are, every man, and teaching every man, in extortioners, &c. Ch. xxiii. 14. They all wisdom, that we may present every devour widows' houses, and for a pre. man perfect in Christ Jesus.

tence make long prayers. 1 Thess. iii. 9, 10. We joy before God Ver. 16. When they fast they disfigure for your sakes; praying that we might their faces, that they may appear unto see your face, and might perfect that men to fast. Luke xviii. 12. I fast twice which is lacking in your faith.

in the week, said the Pharisee. XXVIII. Promises to the perfect. Job

Ver. 2. When they give alms they viii. 20. God will not cast away a perfect

sound a trumpet, that they may have

glory of men. Ps. xxxvii. 37. Mark the perfect man, before men.

Luke xvi. 18. They justify themselves and behold the upright, for the latter end of that man is peace.

John v. 44. They receive honour one Prov. ii. 21. The upright shall dwell in of another, and seek not the honour that

cometh from God only. the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

Matt. xxiii. 25. They make clean the XXIX. Instances of persons called

outside of the cup and platter, but within

perfect. Noah, Gen. vi. 9.–Job, Job i. 1.8. Like whited sepulchres, outwardly beau

are full of extortion and excess.- Ver. 27. ii. 3.-David, Ps. ci. 2. 6. Persons called righteous: Noah, Gen. vii. 1.-David, 1 tiful, but within are full of rottenness. Kings iii. 6.—Job, Job xxix. 14.-Zacha.

Ver. 18. Outwardly they appear righteous rias and Elizabeth, Luke i. 6.--Abel, Heb.

unto men, but within are full of hypocrisy

and iniquity, xi. 4.

xv. 8, 9. They honour God with their

lips, but their heart is far from him, In HYPOCRISY.

vain they worship God, teaching for docXXX. Hypocrisy forbidden. Luke xii. trines the commandments of men. 1. Jesus said, Beware of the leaven of the xxii. 13. They shut up the kingdom Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

of heaven against men ; they neither go James ii. 17. The wisdom which is in themselves, nor suffer others to go in. from above is without partiality, and with. Ver. 15. They compass sea and land out hypocrisy.

to make one proselyte, and make him

two-fold more the child of hell than them. XXXI. Marks of hypocrites. 2 Kings x. selves. 16. They say, Come and see my zeal for Ver. 23. They pay tithe of mint, anis the Lord.

and cummin, (ali manner of herbs, Luke Job xii. 2. No doubt but ye are the xi. 42.) and omit the weightier matters of people, and wisdom shall die with you. the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.

xv. 8. They restrain wisdom to them. Luke xviii. 12. selves. Jer. vii. 8.

Ver. 24. They strain at a gnat and Ps. xii. 2. They speak with a double swallow a camel. heart. Jer. xii. 2.

Prov. xx. 6. They proclaim their own XXXII. Threats. Job viii. 13. The goodness,

hypocrite's hope shall perish. xxx. 12. They are pure in their own eyes, xiii. 16. An hypocrite shall not como yet are not washed from their filthiness. betore God. Ps. y. 5.

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