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Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again en. XCIII. Lusting after meats and drinks. tangled therein and overcome, the lat- Sec instances in the Jews punished. ter end is worse with them than the be- Numb. xi. 4. 34. Ps. lxxviii. 18. 30.ginning

Ixxxi. 12.--cvi. 14. 1 Cor. x. 6. 1 John ii. 16. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, is XCIV. The evil of lusts. John viji. not of the Father.

44. They are of the devil. 1 John ii. 26.

They are of the world. Mark iv. 19. XCI. Lusts of the flesh forbidden to They choke the word. Christians. Rom. vi, 12. Let not sin Eph. ii. 3. They prevail in the chil. reign in your mortal body, that ye should dren of disobedience and wrath. obey it in the lusts thereof. Ver. 13. 1 Thess. iv, 5. In those who know not

xiii. 14. Put ye on the Lord Jesus, and God. Tit. iii. 3. make not provision for the flesh to fulfil James i. 14. By them men are drawn the lusts thereof.

away to sin, and enticed. Ver. 15. 2 Pet. Gal. v. 16, 17. Walk in the Spirit, and ii. 18. ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. iv. 1. From them proceed wars and For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit. fightings among men. Ver. 2, 3. 5. BoVer. 24. They that are Christ's have cause of them prayers are not answered. crucified the flesh with the affections and 2 Tim. iv. 3. Through them men per. lusts.

vert the gospel. Ch. iii. 6. 2 Pet. iii. 3. Eph. iv. 22. Put off the old man, Jude 16. 18. which is corrupt according to the deceit- 1 Tim. vi. 9. They drown men in deful lusts.

struction and perdition. 2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful lusts; but follow righteousness, faith, &c.

CORRUPTION OF SIN. Tit. ii. 12. Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, XCV. Corruption prevailing. Gen. vi. righteously and godly, in this present 11. The earth was corrupt before God.world.

Ver. 12. For all flesh had corrupted their 1 Pet. i. 14. As obedient children, not way upon the earth. fashioning yourselves according to the Exod. xxxii. 7, 8. The Lord said unto former lusts in your ignorance.

Moses, Thy people have corrupted them. ii. 11. I beseech you, as strangers and selves. (Deut. ix. 12.) They have turn. pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts, which ed aside quickly out of the way. D ut. war against the soul.

xxxi. 29. iv. 2. Live no longer to the lusts of Deut. xxxii

. 5. They have corrupted men, but to the will of God.-Ver. 3. The themselves; their spot is not the spot of time past of our life may suffice us to God's children; they are a perverse and have wrought the will of the Gentiles, wicked generation.-Ver. 6." Do ye thus when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, requite the Lord ? O foolish people, and excess of wine, revelling, banquetings, unwise. Judges ii. 19. and abominable idolatries.

Matt. vii. 17. A corrupt tree bringeth 2 Pet. i. 4. There are given to us ex- forth evil fruit. Ver. 18. Ch. xii. 23. ceeding great and precious promises ; Rev. xix. 2. The great wbore did cor. that by these ye might be partakers of rupt the earth, with her fornications. See the divine nature, having escaped the Isa. i. 4. Hos. ix. 9. Zeph. iii. 38. corruption that is in the world through lust.

XCVI. Confession of corruption. Neh. 1 John ii. 16. All that is in the world, i. 7. We have dealt very corruptly against the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, thee, and have not kept thy commandments, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, &c. Ezek. xx. 44. Pardon promised. but is of the world.Ver. 17. The world passeth away and the lust thereof.

THE RIGHTEOUS NOT CORRUPT., XCII. Lusting after women. Prov. vi. XCVII. The righteous not corrupt. Eph. 25. Lust not after beauty in thine heart. iv. 22. Put off the old man, which is cor.

Matt. v. 28. Whosoever looketh on a rupt according to the deceitful lusts, and woman to lust after her, hath committed put on the new man, which after God is adultery with her already in his heart. created in righteousness and true holiness.

ness,

2 Pet. i. 4. God hath given to us ex. / chiefly them that walk after the flesh, in eeeding great and precious promises, that the lusts of uncleanness. by these ye might be partakers of the

CI. Confession of uncleanness. Isa. Ixiv. divine nature, having escaped the cor. 6. We are all as an unclean thing, and our ruption that is in the world through lust. righteousness as filthy rags. Ch. i. 5, 6. See 1 Pet. i. 22, 23.

CII. Promises against uncleanness of DEFILEMENT OF SIN.

sin. Isa. xxxv. 8. An highway shall be

in the land, called the way of holiness, the XCVIII. Defilement of sin. Matt. xv. unclean shall not pass over it. 18. Those things which proceed out of

iii. 1. Put on thy beautiful garments, the mouth, come forth from the heart, and O Jerusalem, the holy city; there shall defile the man. Ver. 11.

no more come into thee, the uncircumVer. 19, 20. For out of the heart pro- cised and the unclean. ceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, Ezek. xxxvi. 29. I will save you from fornications, thefts, false witness, blas- all your uncleanness. phemies. These are the things which

Zech. xiii. 1. There shall be a fountain defile a man.

opened for sin and uncleanness.

CIII. Directions. Eph. v. 3. UncleanXCIX. Threats. Lev. xviii. 25. The

let it not be named amongst you. land is defiled, therefore I do visit the

Col. iii. 5. Mortify fornication, unclean. iniquity thereof upon it.—Ver. 28. The

ness. 1 Thess. v. 7. land shall spue you out, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations before you. CIV. Threats. Ezek. xxxix. 24. Ac.

Numb. xxxv. 34. Defile not the land cording to their uncleanness have I done wherein I dwell, for I the Lord dwell among unto them. the children of Israel. Ch. xliii. 7, 8. Eph. v. 5. No whoremonger, nor un

Isa. xxiv. 5, 6. The earth is defiled clean person, nor covetous man who is under the inhabitants thereof, because an idolater hath any inheritance in the they have transgressed the law, changed kingdom of Christ and of God. the ordinances, &c. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth.

POLLUTION. Rev. xxi. 27. There shall in no wise

CV. Pollution. Ezek. xvi. 6. 22. I enter into the kingdom of heaven any saw thee polluted in thine own blood, and thing that defileth, &c. See Ezek. xxxvi. said unto thee, Live. 17, 18. Hos. v. 3. 6. Tit. i. 15. Heb. xii. 15. Rev. iii. 4. Thou hast a few

Zeph. iii. 1. Woe to the city that is

names, which have not defiled their garments.

filthy and polluted.

2 Pet. ii. 20. If after they have escap

ed the pollutions of the world, through UNCLEANNESS.

the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour C. Uncleanness of sin. Isa. vi. 5. I dwell therein and overcome, the latter end is

Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Ezek. xliv. 23. Cause them to discern worse with them than the beginning.

The wicked pollute God's name. See between the clean and unclean. Ch.

Isa. xx. 9.-xlviii. ll. Jer. xxxiv. 16. xxii. 26.

Ezek. xiii. 19.-xxxix. 7. Mal. i. 7.Matt. xxiii. 2. Ye are full of all un. cleanness.

They polluted God's house. See 2 Chron. Rom. vi. 19. Ye yielded your members They polluted God's Sabbaths. See Isa.

xxxvi. 14. Ezek. xliv. 7. Zeph. iii. 4.servants to uncleanness.

lyi. 2. ' Ezek. xx. 13 to 24. Gal. v. 19. The works of the flesh are, uncleanness.

FILTHINESS. Eph. iv. 19. Who being past feeling, have given themselves over to lascivious- CVI. Filthiness. Ezra ix. 11. The ness, to work all uncleanness with greedi- land is unclean, with the filthiness of the Rom. i. 24.

people. Lam. i. 9. 2 Pet. ii. 9, 10. The Lord knoweth Prov. xxx. 12. There is a generation how to deliver the godly out of temp- that are pure in their own eyes, and yet tations, and to reserve the unjust unto is not washed from their own filthiness. the day of judgment to be punished. But Rev. xvii. 4.

ness.

CVII. Directions. 2 Cor. vii. 1. Let , abominable thing that I hate. (Ezek. us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of xxiii. 36.) Ver. 7. Wherefore commit ye flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the this great evil against your own souls ? fear of God.

Ezek. xviii. 24. When the righteous Eph. v. 4. Let not filthiness be once doeth according to the abominations that named amongst you.

the wicked man doeth, he shall die. Col. iii. 8. Put off all filthy communica- xxxiii. 29. They shall know that I am - tions. James i. 21.

the Lord, when I have laid the land deso2 Pet. ii. 7. Lot was vexed with the late for all their abominations. filthy conversation of the wicked.

Rev. xxi. 8. The fearful and unbelievEzra vi. 21. The children of Israel se ing, and the abominable, &c. shall have parated themselves from the filthiness of their part in the lake that burneth with the heathen, to seek the Lord God of Israel. fire and brimstone.--Ver. 27. There shall

in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaCVIII. Promises. Isa. iv. 3, 4. Every ven, anything that defileth or worketh an one in Zion shall be called holy, when abomination. the Lord shall have washed away the filth These things are an abomination in the of the daughters of Zion.

sight of God, viz. The sacrifice, the way, Ezek. xxxvi. 5. From all your filthiness the thoughts of the wicked, Prov. xv. 8, will I cleanse you. Ch. xxii. 15.—xxiv. 13. 9. 26.—He that justifieth the wicked

Prov. xvii. 15.-The froward, Prov. iii. 32. CIX. Threats. Rev. xxii. 11. He that -xi. 28.—He that turneth away his car is filthy let him be filthy still.

from hearing the law, Ch. xxviii. 9.Ezek. xxiv. 13. Thou shalt not be Those that deny God in works, Tit. i. 16. purged from thy filthiness.

THE JUST.
VILENESS.

CXIII. Promises to the just, and pray
CX. Vileness of sin. 1 Sam. iii. 13. I ers for them. Ps. vii. 9. O let the wicked-
will judge Eli's house for ever, for the ness of the wicked come to an end, but
iniquity which he knoweth; because his establish the just.
sons made themselves vile, and he re- Prov. iii. 33. The curse of the Lord is
strained them not.

in the house of the wicked, but he blessPs. xii. 8. The wicked walk on every side eth the habitation of the just. when vile men are exalted. Ps. cxiv. 20. iv. 18. The path of the just, is as the

xv. 4. In the eyes of the righteous, a shining light, that shineth more and more vile person is despised.

unto the perfect day. Jer. xv. 19. Take forth the precious x. 6, 7. Blessings are upon the head of from the vile.

the just, but violence covereth the mouth Rom. i. 26, 27. They did not like to of the wicked. The memory of the just retain God in their knowledge, wherefore is blessed, but the name of the wicked God gave them over to vile affections. He shall rot. gave them over to a reprobate mind. xi. 9. Through knowledge shall the just

be delivered. CXI. Confession of vileness. Job xl. 4. xii. 13. The just shall come out of Behold I am vile, what shall I answer trouble.- Ver. 21. There shall no evil thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. happen to the just. Gen. xxxii. 10. Ezra ix. 6.

xiii. 22. The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. Job xxvii. 16, 17.

xvii. 15. He that justifieth the wicked, ABOMINABLENESS.

and he that condemneth the just, even they

are both an abomination to the Lord. CXII. Abominableness of sin. Job xv. Ver. 26. To punish the just is not good. 16. How abominable and filthy is man, xxiv. 16. A just man falleth seven that drinketh iniquity like water ? times, and riseth up again : but the wick

Ps. xiv. 1. They have done abominable ed shall fall into mischief. works: none doeth good. Ps. liii. 1. Isa. xxvi. 7. Thou dost weigh the path

Jer, xliv. 4. I sent unto you my ser- of the just. vants, the prophets, saying, Do not this Ezek. xviii. 5. 9. If a man be just,

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and do that which is lawful and right, he Eph. vi. 6. He doeth God's will from shall surely live.

the heart. Hab. ii. 4. The just shall live by faith. Col. iv. 12. He stands complete and Rom. i. 17. Gal. iii. 11. Heb. x. 38. perfect in the will of God.

Luke i. 17. He shall turn the disobe- 1 Pet. iv. 2. He lives to the will of God. dient to the wisdom of the just.

Exod. xvi. 4. He walked in God's law. xiv. 13. When thou makest a feast, call Ezek. xi. 20. In God's command. the poor, &c. Thou shalt be recompensed ments, statutes and judgments. Ps. at the resurrection of the just.

Ixxxix. 30. Ezek. xviii. 9.-18. 19.Heb. xii. 23. The spirits of just men xxxvii. 24. Zech. x. 12. Luke i. 6. Gal. made perfect.

vi. 10. 2 Pet. ii. 3. God delivered just Lot, Ps. cxxviii. 1. In God's ways. Ps. vexed with the filthy conversation of the cxix. 3.-cxliii. 8. Isa. ii. 3. Jer. vi. 16. wicked.

Hos. xiv. 9.

xxvi. 3. In God's truth. Ps. Lxxxvi. 11.

Isa. ii. 5.-xxxviii. 3. 2 John 4. 6. THE UNJUST.

3 John 3, 4.

Col. i. 10. Worthy of God, to please CXIV. Threatenings against the unjust. him. 1 Thess. iv. 1. Prov. xi. 7. When a wicked man dieth ii. 6. Walk in Christ. 1 John ii. 6. his expectation shall perish; and the hope Walk as Christ walked. of the unjust man perisheth.

Gal. v. 16. Walk after the Spirit. Rom. xxix. 27. An unjust man is an abomi. viii. 12. Led by the Spirit. nation to the just.

Eph. v. 8. In the light. John viii. 12. 2 Pet. ii. 9, 10. The Lord knoweth how -xii. 35. 1 John i. 7. to deliver the godly out of temptations, iv. 1. Worthy of his vocation. 1 Cor. and to reserve the unjust unto the day of vii. 17. judgment to be punished. But chiefly Rom. vi. 14. Walketh in newness of them that walk after the lusts of the flesh. life. Gal. vi. 16.

Prov. xxviii. 26. Walketh wisely. Eph. CXV. The unjust hurtful in the earth. v. 15. Col. iv. 5. Ps. xliii. 1. O God, deliver me from the Rom. xiii. 13. Honestly, or honourably.' unjust man.

1 Thess. iv. 12. İsa. xxvi. 10. In the land of unright- To which may be added the several diseousness will he deal unjustly.

positions of the heart, and duties of life Zeph. iii. 7. The unjust knoweth no toward God and man, to which promises shame.

are made. Luke xvi. 10. He that is unjust in that which is least, is unjust also in much. CXVII. Promises to the good. 2 Chron.

1 Cor. vi. 1. Dare any of you go to law xix. 11. The Lord shall be with the good before the unjust.

man. Ps. i. 3. Whatsoever he doth shall N. B. Just and unjust in the above prosper. mentioned passages, are taken from a xxxvii. 23. The steps of a good man more universal character, than merely acts are ordered by the Lord. of civil justice between man and man. cxii. 5, 6. Å good man sheweth favour,

and lendeth; he will guide his affairs with

discretion. He shall not be moved for GOOD MEN.

Prov. ii. 20, 21. Walk in the way of CXVI. The general character of a good good men, and keep the paths of the man's walk or life. Gen. v. 22. He righteous. For the upright shall dwell walketh with God. Gen. vi. 9.

in the land, and the perfect shall remain xvii. 1. Walketh before God. Ch. xxiv. in it. 40.-xlviii. 15. 1 Sam. ii. 35. 1 Kings xii. 2. A good man obtaineth favour of m. 6.-viii. 25.-ix. 4. Ps. lvi. 13.--cxvi. the Lord, but a man of wicked devices 9. Isa. Xxxviii. 3.

will he condemn. Matt. vi. 10. He doeth the will of God. xiii. 22. A good man leaveth an inhe. Heb. x. 36.

ritance to his children's children, and Ps. xl. 8. He delighteth to do God's the woalth of the sinner is laid up for the will.

just.

ever.

eous.

men.

Prov. xiv. 14. The backslider in heart Jer. iii. 21. They have perverted their shall be filled with his own ways, but a way, and have forgotten the Lord their good man shall be satisfied from himself. God. -Ver. 19. The evil bow before the good,

xxiii. 36. They have perverted the and the wicked at the gates of the right words of the living God.

Ezek. ix. 9. The city is full of per. Eccl. ii. 26. God giveth to a man that verseness, for they say, The Lord hath is good in his sight, wisdom and know. forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth ledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giv- not. eth travel, to gather and to heap up, that Matt. xvii. 17. Jesus said, O faithless he may give to him that is good before God. and perverse generation. Mait. xxv. 21. Christ will say, Well

CXX. Threat. Numb. xxii. 33. The done, good and faithful servant, enter into angel said to Balaam, I went out to withthe joy of thy Lord.

stand thee, because thy way is perverse. Rom. v. 7. For a good man some

Prov. x. 9. He that is perverse in his would even dare to die.

ways shall be known.

xi. 3. The perverseness of transgresEVIL MEN.

sors shall destroy them. CXVIII. Evil men. Ps. x. 15. O Lord, xii. 8. He that is of a perverse heart break thou the arm of the evil man. shall be despised.

cxl. 1. Deliver me, O Lord, from the xxviii. 6. Better is the poor that walk. evil man.

eth in his uprightness, than he that is Prov. ii. 10–12. When wisdom enter- perverse in his ways, though he be rich. eth into thine heart, discretion shall pre

Ver. 18. He that is perverse in his serve thee; to deliver thee from the way ways shall fall at once. of the evil man.

Mic. iii. 9. Hear, ye that pervert all iv. 14, 15. Enter not in the path of the equity.–Ver. 12. Zion for your sakes wicked, and go not in the way of evil shall be ploughed as a field.

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn away Perverse lips. Prov. iv, 24.--viii. 8.from it, and pass away.

xv. 4.-xix. 1.-xvii, 20, Isa, lix. 3. xvii. 11. An evil man seeketh only rebellion.

FROWARDNESS. xxiv. 1. Be not thou envious against

CXXI. evil men, neither desire to be with them. Deut. xxxii. 20. I will hide my face from

Threats against the froward. Ver. 19, 20.

them; they are a very froward generaxxviii. 5. Evil men understand not

tion, children in whom is no faith. judgment.

Job v. 13. The counsel of the froward xxix. 6. In the transgression of an evil

is carried headlong. man is a snare.

Ps. xviii. 26. With the pure thou wilt Matt. xii. 35. An evil man out of the shew thyself pure, and with the froward evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth

thou wilt shew thyself froward. 2 Sam. evil things.

xxii. 27. 2 Tim. iii. 9. Evil men shall wax worse

Prov. iii. 32. The froward is an abomiand worse.

nation to the Lord. Ch. xi. 20.

xvii. 20. He that hath a froward heart PERVERSENESS.

findeth no good. CXIX. Perverseness charged upon sin- xxi. 8. The way of the froward is

Deut. xxxii. 5. They have cor- strange; but as for the pure his work is rupted themselves, their spot is not the right. spot of God's children: they are a per. xxii. 5. Thorns and snares are in the verse and crooked generation.

way of the froward; but he that doth 1 Kings viii. 47. We have sinned and keep his soul shall be far from them. done perversely, we have committed wick. Isa. Ivii. 7. I smote him, he went on edness.

frowardly in the way of his heart, Job ix. 20. If I say I am perfect, my mouth shall prove me perverse.

CXXII. The righteous not froward, xxxiii. 27.' I have sinned and pervert- Ps. ci. 4. A froward heart shall depart ed that which was right, and it profited from me. me nothing.

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