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CHAP. III. GOD DOTH INSTRUCT-LEAD-STRENGTHEN.

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I am instructed.

2 Tim. iii. 16. All scripture is profitable for

instruction. See Deut. iv. 36.-xxxii. 10. Jer. vi. 8.

LVI. God doth direct. Ps. cxix. 5. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes.-Ver. 133. Order thou my steps in thy word.

Prov. iii. 6. In all thy ways acknowledge the Lord, and he shall direct thy paths.

xvi. 9. A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps.

Isa. xxx. 21. Thine ear shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

xlv. 13. I will direct all his ways. Ixi. 8. I will direct their work in truth. Jer. x. 23. O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps. Prov. xx. 24. Man's goings are of the Lord.

Ps. xxxvii. 23. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.

2 Thess. iii. 5. The Lord direct your hearts into the love of God.

LEAD.

LVII. God doth lead. Deut. xxxii. 12. The Lord alone did lead his people. Isa. lxiii. 14. Ps. v. 8. Lead me, O Lord, in thy right

eousness.

xxiii. 3. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness. Ps. cxliii. 10.

xxv. 5. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art the God of my salvation. Ps. xxxi. 3.-lx. 9.

xliii. 3. O send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me.

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lxi. 2. Lead me to the Rock that is higher than I.

cxxxix. 24. Lead me in the way everlasting. Rom. ii. 4. The goodness of God leadeth to repentance.

Isa. xlii. 16. I will bring the blind by a way Promises of God that he will lead his people. they knew not, I will lead them in paths they

have not known. See ch. xlviii. 17.-xlix. 10.-lvii. 18. Jer. xxxi. 9.

LVIII. Christ doth lead. Isa. xl. 11. He shall gently lead those that are with young. Isa. lv. 4. I have given him for a leader to the people. See John x. 3. Rev. vii. 17.

LIX. God doth guide. Ps. xxv. 9. The meek will he guide in judgment.

xxxi. 3. For thy name's sake, lead me and guide me.

xxxii. 8. I will instruct thee, and teach thee

in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

xlviii. 14. This is our God, he will be our guide even unto death.

lxxiii. 24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

John xvi. 13. The Spirit of truth will guide you into all truth. See Isa. Iviii. 11. Jer. iii. 4. Luke i. 79.

STRENGTHEN.

LX. God doth strengthen. Gen. xlix. 24. Joseph's bow abode in strength; the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.

1 Sam. ii. 4. The bows of the mighty are broken, and they that stumble are girt with strength.

xv. 29. The Strength of Israel will not lie. Ch. xxiii. 16. Josh. xiv. 11.

1 Chron. xvi. 27. Strength and gladness are in his place.

xxix. 14. Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. Neh. viii. 10. The joy of the Lord is your strength.

Job xxiii. 6. Will God plead against me with his great power? No, but he would put strength in me.

Ps. viii. 2. Out of the mouth of babes thou hast ordained strength.

Xxxvii. 39. The Lord is the strength of the righteous in the time of trouble.

Ixviii. 35. The God of Israel is he that giveth strength unto his people.

lxxxiv. 5. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee. Ver. 7.

Ixxxix. 17. Thou art the glory of their | strength.

xcix. 4. The king's strength loveth judg

ment.

cxlvii. 13. O Zion, he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates.

Prov. x. 29. The way of the Lord is strength to the upright.

Isa. xxv. 4. O Lord, thou hast been a strength to the poor, and to the needy in his distress.

xl. 29. He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Dan. ii. 37. The God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, and power, and strength, and glory. Ezek. xxx. 24, 25. Judg. iii. 12.

Hos. vii. 15. I bound and strengthened their

arms.

Amos v. 9. The Lord strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong.

2 Cor. xii. 9. My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Heb. xi. 11. Through faith, Sarah received strength to conceive.

Ver. 34. Many out of weakness were made strong.

1 Pet. iv. 11. If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability that God giveth.

Strength promised. 1 Sam. ii. 10. The Lord shall give strength to his king. Judg. vii. 11. Ps. xxi. 13.

tempted above what ye are able to bear. See Joel iii. 16. Zech. x. 6.-xii. 5.

Strength prayed for. 1 Chron. xvi. 11. Seek the Lord and his strength. Ps. cv. 4. Neh. vi. 9. O God, strengthen my hands. See Judg. xvi. 28.

Ps. xx. 2. The Lord strengthen thee out of Zion.

lxviii. 28. Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

lxxxvi. 16. Give thy strength unto thy ser

vant.

cxix. 28. Strengthen thou me according to thy word.

Eph. iii. 16. We pray that God would grant you to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. Col. i. 11.

1 Pet. v. 10. The God of all grace, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Strength obtained. Exod. xv. 2. The Lord is my strength and song: he is become my salvation. 2 Sam. xxii. 33. Ps. xviii. 2.— xxvii. 1.-cxviii. 14. Isa. xii. 2.

2 Sam. xxii. 40. Thou hast girded me with strength. Ps. xviii. 39.

Ezra vii. 28. I was strengthened as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me.

Ps. xviii. 32. It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. xix. 14. O Lord, my strength, and my Redeemer. Ps. xviii. 1.-xxviii. 7.

xxvii. 1. The Lord is the strength of my

Job xvii. 9. He that hath clean hands shall life; of whom shall I be afraid? Ps. xliii. 2.

be stronger and stronger.

Ps. xx. 6. God will hear with the saving strength of his right hand.

xxvii. 14. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart.

xxix. 11. The Lord will give strength unto his people.

xli. 3. The Lord will strengthen him [that considereth the case of the poor,] upon the bed of languishing.

cx. 2. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion.

Isa. xxvii. 5. Let him take hold of my strength, and he shall make peace with me. xl. 31. They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.

xli. 10. Fear not, for I am with thee; I am thy God, I will strengthen thee.

xlv. 24. Surely shall one say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength. Mic. v. 4. Isa. lii. 1. Put on thy strength, O Zion. liv. 2, 3. Lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left.

Ezek. xxxiv. 16. I will strengthen that which was sick.

1 Cor. x. 13. God will not suffer you to be

xlvi. 1. God is our refuge and strength. lxii. 7. The rock of my strength, and my refuge is in God.

lxxi. 16. I will go in the strength of the Lord God.

Ixxiii. 26. God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Ixxxi. 1. Sing aloud unto God our strength. cxxxviii. 3. Thou strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

cxl. 7. O God, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. Ps. cxliv. 1.

Jer. xvi. 19. O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction. Hab. iii. 19. The Lord is my strength.

2 Cor. iii. 5. Our sufficiency is of God. xii. 10. When I am weak, then am I strong. 1 Tim. i. 12. Jesus Christ our Lord hath enabled me.

2 Tim. iv. 17. The Lord stood with me, and strengthened me.

UPHOLD.

LXI. God doth uphold. Ps. xvii. 5. Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

xviii. 35. Thy right hand hath holden me up. Ps. lxiii. 8.

Xxxvii. 17. The Lord upholdeth the right

eous.

xli. 12. Thou upholdest me in mine integrity.

li. 12. Uphold me with thy free Spirit. lxvi. 9. The Lord holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved. lxxi. 6. By thee have I been holden up from the womb.

cxix. 117. Hold thou me ip, and I shall be safe.

cxlv. 14. The Lord upholdeth all that fall; he raiseth all that are bowed down.

Isa. xli. 13. I the Lord will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee. Ps. lxxiii. 23.

xlii. 6. I the Lord will hold thy hand, and will keep thee.

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Hos. xi. 3. I taught Ephraim to go, taking them by their arms, but they knew not that healed them. Ch. vii. 15.

Rom. xiv. 4. He shall be holden up; for God is able to make him stand.

Rev. ii. 1. He holdeth the seven stars in his right hand.

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Job v. 11. The Lord doth set on high those that be low, that those that mourn may be exalted to safety. Ch. xi. 14. 18.

Ps. iv. 8. Thou, Lord, makest me to dwell in safety. Ps. cxix. 117. 1 Sam. xii. 11.

Ps. xii. 5. I will set the poor in safety from him that puffeth at him. Isa. xiv. 30. The needy shall lie down in safety.

Prov. i. 33. Whoso hearkeneth to wisdom shall dwell safely. Ch. iii. 21. 23.

xviii. 10. The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe. Ch. xxi. 31. Safety is of the Lord.

xxix. 25. Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord, shall be safe. See safety promised to God's church and people. Jer. xxiii. 6.— xxxii. 37. Ezek. xxviii. 26.—xxxiv. 25. 28. -xxxviii. 11. Zech. xiv. 11.

LXIII. God called a shield, rock, fortress, refuge, &c. Gen. xv. 1. The Lord said to

| Abram, Fear not, I am thy shield and exceeding great reward.

Deut. xxxii. 4. The Lord, he is the rock, his work is perfect; all his ways are judg ment: a God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is he.-Ver. 31. Their rock is not as our rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 1 Sam. ii. 2.

xxxiii. 27. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.Ver. 29. The Lord, the shield of thy help, and the sword of thine excellency.

2 Sam. xxii. 2, 3. David said, the Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; the God of my rock, in him will I trust: he is my shield and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower, and my refuge, and my Saviour. Ver. 32. 47. 51. Ps. xviii. 2. 31. 35. 46.-iii. 3.-cxliv. 2.

Ps. v. 12. Thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour thou wilt compass him as with a shield.

ix. 9. The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed; a refuge in times of trouble.

xxviii. 7. The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth, and with my song will I praise him.

xxxi. 3. Thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me. Ps. xi. 2.-lxxi. 3. 7.

xxxiii. 20. Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and shield. Ps. lix. 11.— lxxxiv. 9.

xlii. 9. I will say unto God, my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?

xlvi. 1. God is our refuge and strength; a very present help in trouble. Ver. 7. 11. xlvii. 9. The shields that defend the earth are the Lord's.

xlviii. 3. God is known in the palaces of Zion for a refuge.

lvii. 1. In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. Ps. lxi. 4.

lix. 16. I will sing aloud of thy power, and of thy mercy: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of trouble.

Ixi. 3. Thou hast been a tower from the enemy.

lxii. 7. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Ver. 6. 8.

lxxxiv. 11. The Lord is a sun and shield. lxxxix. 26. Thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. Ps. xcv. 1.

xci. 2. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge, and my fortress; my God; in him will I trust. Ver. 4. Ps. xciv. 22.-cxv. 9, 10, 11.

cxix. 114. Thou art my hiding-place, and my shield: I hope in thy word.

cxlii. 4, 5. Refuge failed me, no man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge, and my portion in the land of the living.

Prov. xiv. 26. In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence; and his children shall have a place of refuge.

xviii. 10. The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

Isa. iv. 6. There shall be a place of refuge, and covert from the storm.

xxv. 4. Thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress; a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

Jer. xvi. 19. O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, my refuge in the day of affliction. Nah. i. 7. The Lord is a strong hold in the day of trouble.

Heb. vi. 18. We have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us [i. e. Christ.]

HELP.

LXIV. God is a helper to his people. Deut. xxxiii. 26. Who rideth' upon the heaven in thy help.

1 Chron. xii. 18. Thy God helpeth thee. 2 Chron. xxv. 8. God hath power to help and to cast down.

xxxii. 8. With us is the Lord our God, to help us.

Ps. x. 14. Thou art the helper of the fatherless.

xlvi. 1. God is a very present help in

trouble.

lxxii. 12. He delivereth him that hath no helper.

lxxxix. 19. I have laid help upon one that is mighty.

xlvi. 5. God shall help, and that right early. Isa. xli. 10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Ver. 13, 14. Ch. xliv: 2. 1. 7. The Lord will help me; therefore will I not be confounded. Ch. xlix. 8. Ps. xliv. 5. Help prayed for. Deut. xxxiii. 7. Be thou a help to Judah from his enemies.

Ps. xii. 1. Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth.

xx. 2. Send help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee.

xxxv. 2. Lord stand up for my help. Ps. cix. 26.

xxxviii. 22. Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation. Ps. xxii. 1. 19.-xl. 13 -lxx. 1.-lxxi. 12.

lix. 4. Awake to help me.

lx. 11. Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man. Ps. cviii. 12.

lxxix. 9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name.

cxix. 173. Let thy hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.-Ver. 175. Let thy judgments help me. See 2 Chron. xiv. 11.xx. 4. 9.

Exod.

Help from God acknowledged. xviii. 4. Moses said, The God of my father was my help.

1 Sam. vii. 12. Samuel said, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.

Ps. xxvii. 9. David said, Thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

xxviii. 7. The Lord is my strength and my shield: my heart trusted in him, and I am helped. Ps. xxxiii. 20.

xl. 17. Thou art my help, and my deliverer. Ps. liv. 4.—lxx. 5.

lxiii. 7. Thou hast been my help; therefore

cxv. 9. O Israel, trust thou in the Lord: he in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. is their help and shield. Ver. 10, 11.

cxlvi. 5. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help.

Hos. xiii. 9. O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thy help.

Rom. viii. 26. The Spirit helpeth our infirmities.

Heb. iv. 16. Let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

xiii. 6. We may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man shall do

unto me.

Help from God promised. Gen. xlix. 25. The God of thy father shall help thee, and bless thee.

Ps. xxxvii. 40. The Lord shall help the aghteous, and deliver them.

xciv. 17. Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had dwelt in silence.

me.

cxvi. 6. I was brought low, and he helped Ps. cxviii. 13.

cxviii. 7. The Lord taketh my part with them that help me.

cxxi. 1, 2. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.

cxxiv. 8. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Acts xxvi. 22. Having obtained help of God, I continue unto this day. See 1 Chron. xv. 26. 2 Chron. xviii. 31.-xxvi. 7. 15. Ps. xliv. 26. Isa. xlix. 8.

LXV. Help from the creatures, vain.

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Job xxxiii. 25. His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth.-Ver. 28. God will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Ps. xci. 3, 5, 6. He shall deliver thee; thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flieth by day; nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.

ciii. 3. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases. Ps. xli. 3.cxvi. 6.

Jer. xxxiii. 6. Behold I will bring health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

LXVII. God delivereth from enemies, oppression, &c. Exod. iii. 8. The Lord said, I am come down to deliver my people out of the hand of the Egyptians.

xii. 27. The Lord smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. Ch. xviii. 4. 8. 10. Judges x. 11.

Deut. xxiii. 14. The Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee.

1 Sam. xvii. 37. David said, The Lord delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear.

2 Sam. xii. 7. The Lord said to David, I anointed thee king, and delivered thee out of the hand of Saul. Ch. xxii. 2. 18. 20. 49. 2 Kings xiii. 17. Elisha said, The arrow of the Lord's deliverance.

xvii. 39. The Lord your God ye shall fear, and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

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xx. 6. The Lord said to Hezekiah, I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of]

the king of Assyrią. Ch. xix. 34, 35. Mic. v. 6. Isa. xxxi. 5.

1 Chron. xi. 14. The Lord saved the Israelites from the Philistines, by a great deliverance.

2 Chron. xii. 7. The Lord said, I will not destroy them, but will grant them a deliver

ance.

Ezra ix. 13. Thou hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve; and hast given us a deliverance.

Neh. ix. 28. Many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies. Ps. cvi. 43. Job v. 19. He shall deliver thee in six troubles, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. Ps. liv. 7.-lxxxi. 7.

xxxiii. 24. He is gracious, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit. Ver. 28. Ps. xviii. 2. The Lord is my deliverer. Ver. 17. 43. 48. 50.

xxii. 4. Our fathers trusted in thee, and thou deliveredst them. Ver. 5.

xxxii. 7. Thou art my hiding-place; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliver

ance.

lv. 18. He hath delivered my soul in peace, from the battle that was against me.

Ivi. 13. Thou hast delivered my soul from death. Ps. lxxxvi. 13.-cxvi. 8.

lxxviii. 42. They remembered not the day, when he delivered them from the enemy.

Isa. xxxviii. 17. Thou hast, in love to my soul, delivered it from the pit of corruption. xlvi. 3, 4. O house of Jacob, I will carry you, and will deliver you.

Ezek. xiii. 21. I will deliver my people out of your hand: (viz. from the false prophets, ver. 16.) Ch. xxxiv. 12.

Dan. vi. 27. God delivereth and rescueth, and worketh signs and wonders in heaven and earth.

Acts vii. 10. God delivered Joseph out of all his afflictions.

Col. i. 13. The Father delivered us from the power of darkness.

2 Pet. ii. 7. God delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked.

LXVIII. Christ a deliverer. Rom. xi. 26. There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer.

Isa. lix. 20.

Gal. i. 4. The Lord Jesus gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world.

1 Thess. i. 10. Jesus delivered us from the wrath to come.

Heb. ii. 15. Jesus took part of flesh and blood, that he might deliver them who through fear of death were all their life-time subject to bondage.

Rom. vii. 6. By Christ we are delivered

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