Rev. xv, 4. Who shall not fear, not hurt nor destroy in all my thee, O Lord, and glorify thy holy mountain, saith the Lord. name? for thou only art holy....

THINGS PERTAINING

TO GOD-HOLY.

1. PERSONS.

THE SPIRIT.

Isa. Ixiii, 10. But they rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit...

JESUS

Acts iv, 30. By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.

ANGELS.

Mark viii, 38. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father, with the holy angels.

PRIESTS.

Exod. xxii, 31.. Ye priests shall be holy men unto me.

PROPHETS.

Luke 1, 70. As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began.

PEOPLE.

Deut. vii, 6. For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God..

2. PLACES.
THRONE.

Ps. xlvii, 8. God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

HEAVEN.

Ps. xx, 6. Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed: he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

PLACE.

Ps. xxiv, 3. Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? and who shall stand in his holy place.

HILL.

Ps. iii, 4. I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

ΠΑΒΙΤΑΤΙΟΝ.

Ps. lxviii, 5. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

MOUNTAIN. Isa. lxv, 25. . . . . .

HOUSE.

1 Chron. xxix, 3. Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house.

3. THINGS.
ORACLE.

Ps. xxviii, 2. Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

PROMISE.

Ps. cv, 42. For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

COVENANT.

Job viii, 3. Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Job xxxvi, 3. I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Ps. ix, 4. For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

Ps. xi, 7. For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

Ps. xxxvi, 6. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: Ó

LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

Ps. xlviii, 10. According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right

hand is full of righteousness.

Ps. lxxi, 19. Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God,

Luke 1, 72. God remembered his who is like unto thee? holy covenant.

2 Chron. xix, 7...
no iniquity with the LORD our
God, nor respect of persons, nor
taking of gifts.

Neh. ix, 33. Howbeit thou art
just in all that is brought upon
us; for thou hast done right, but
They shall we have done wickedly.

Ps. lxxxix, 14. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

Ps. xcil, 15. To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Ps. xcix, 4. The king's strength also loveth judgment: thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

Ps. cxix, 137, 142. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

Ps. cxxix, 4. The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Isa. xlv, 21. . . . And there is no God else besides me; a just God, and a Saviour, there is none besides me.

Jer. ix, 24 But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD

Jer. xii, 1. Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments. .

Jer. 1, 7. All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice.....

Ezek. xviii, 29. Yet saith the

house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

Zeph. iii, 5. The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

Acts x, 34, 35. Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with

him.

Rom. ii, 2, 3, 11. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God? For there is no respect of persons with God.

oath which I sware unto Abraham
thy father.

Gen. xxxii, 10, I am not wor hy
of the least of all the mercies, and
of all the truth, which thou hast
showed unto thy servant; for with
my staff I passed over this Jordan,
and now I am become two bands

Exod. xxxiv, 6. And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.

Deut. vii, 9. Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.

Deut. ix, 5. Not for thy rightcousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may Rom. iii, 5, 6. But if our unright-perform the word which the LORD teousness commend the right-sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, eousness of God, what shall we Isaac, and Jacob. say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) God forbid; for then how shall God judge the world?

Ephes. vi, 9. ..... Neither is there respect of persons with him. Heb. vi, 10. For God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

1 Peter i, 17. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.

1 John i, 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Rev. xv, 3. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

HIS TRUTH.

ASSERTED AND INSTANCED.

Gen. xxiv, 7. The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee. . . . . .

Gen. xxvi, 3. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries; and I will perform the

Deut. xxxii, 4. He is the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

1 Kings viii, 15, 20, 24. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying, And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake; and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel. Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

Ps. xix, 9. The fear of the LORD
is clean, enduring for ever: the
judgments of the LORD are true
and righteous altogether.

Ps. xxxiii, 4. For the word of the
LORD is right; and all his works
are done in truth.
And
Ps. xxxvi, 5.
faithfulness reacheth unto
clouds.

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thy
the

Ps. xl, 10. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

Ps. lvii, 3, 10. ... God shall send forth his mercy and his truth. For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.

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Ps. lxxxv, 10. Mercy and truth are met together.

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Ps. lxxxvi, 15. But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Ps. lxxxix, 1, 5, 14, 34. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD; thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth My shall go before thy face. covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

Ps. xcii, 15. To show that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Ps. xcvi, 13. Before the LORD; for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

P3. xcviii, 3. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel. . . . .

Ps. c, 5. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endureth to all generations.

Ps. cviil, 4. For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.

Ps. cxvii, 2. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.

Isa. XXV, 1. O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name: for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

Isa. xlix, 7. Thus saith the LORD the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One; to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

Jer. i, 12. Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

Jer. xi, 5. That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day, Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.

Jer. xxxix, 16. Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will for evil, and not for good; and bring my words upon this city

they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.

Jer. li, 29. And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation

without an inhabitant.

Lam. ii, 17. The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied; and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

Lam. iii, 23. They are new every morning: great is thy faithful

ness.

Ezek. xii, 25. For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

Dan. iv, 37. Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise, and extol, and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

Micah vii, 20. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

Acts ill, 18. But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

Rom. iii, 3, 4. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

1 Cor. 1, 9. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Thess. v, 24. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. 2 Thess. iii, 3. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

2 Tim. ii, 13. If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful; he cannot deny himself.

Titus i, 2. In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Heb. x, 23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised.)

THE DIVINE ANGER
AGAINST SIN-THE RESULT
OF HIS JUSTICE AND
TRUTH.

Exod. xx, 5. Thou shalt not bow
down thyself to them, nor serve
them: for I the LORD thy God am
a jealous God, visiting the iniquity
of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth genera-
tion of them that hate me.

Exod. xxxiv, 14. For thou shalt
Worship no other god: for the
LORD, whose name is Jealous, is
a jealous God.

Lev. xxvi, 27, 28. And if ye will
but walk contrary unto me; Then
not for all this hearken unto me,
I will walk contrary unto you also
in fury.

the LORD was kindled against
Num. xii, 9. And the anger of
them, and he departed.

Num. xxv, 11. Phinehas, the son
of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, hath turned my wrath
away from the children of Israel,
among them, that I consumed
while he was zealous for my sake
not the children of Israel in my
jealousy.

Deut. vii, 21. Thou shalt not be
affrighted at them: for the LORD
God and terrible.
thy God is among you, a mighty

Deut. xxix, 19, 20. And it come
to pass, when he heareth the
words of this curse, that he bless
himself in his heart, saying, I shall
have peace, though I walk in the
imagination of mine heart, to add
drunkenness to thirst. The LORD
will not spare him, but then the
anger of the LORD and his jealousy
shall smoke against that man, and
all the curses that are written in
this book shall lie upon him, and
the LORD shall blot out his name

from under heaven.

Deut. xxxii, 21, 22, 34, 35, 43. They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. For a fire is kindled in mine anger. Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? To me belongeth vengeance and in due time: for the day of their recompence; their foot shall slide things that shall come upon them calamity is at hand, and the make haste. Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people; for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will saries, and will be merciful unto render vengeance to his adverhis land, and to his people.

Josh. xxiv, 19. And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God;

Job xx, 23. When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him. . . . . Job xxi, 17, 20, 30. God disHis eyes shall see his destruction, tributeth sorrows in his anger. and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. That the wicked to the day of wrath. is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth

Ps. ii, 5, 12. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye wrath is kindled but a little. perish from the way, when his Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Ps. v, 5, 6. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Ps. vii, 11. God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

P3. xi, 5. The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul

hateth.

Ps. xxi, 9. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger.....

Ps. xxxviii, 3. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

Ps. lxxvi, 7. Thou, even thou, art to be feared; and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

them the fierceness of his anger, Ps. lxxviii, 49, 5S. He cast upon wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels him to anger with their high among them. For they provoked ousy with their graven images. places, and moved him to jeal

wilt thou be angry for ever? shall
Ps. lxxix, 5. How long, LORD?
thy jealousy burn like fire?

sumed by thine anger, and by thy
Ps. xc, 7, 11. For we are con-
wrath are
we troubled. Who
knoweth the power of thine anger?
even according to thy fear, so is
thy wrath.

Jer. x, 10. ... At his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

Jer. xviii. 23. Yet, Lond, thou
knowest all their counsel against
me to slay me: forgive not their
iniquity, neither blot out their
sin from thy sight; but let them
be overthrown before thee: deal

thus with them in the time of
thine anger.

Jer. xxx, 24. The fierce anger of
the LORD shall not return, until
he have done it, and until he have
performed the intents of his
heart: in the latter days ye shall

consider it.

Jer. xlvi, 10. For this is the day of the Lord GoD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries. ...

Jer. li, 45. My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD

Lam. ii, 3. He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about."

Lam. iii, 43. Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

Lam. iv, 11. The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

Ezek. v, 13, 15. Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted; and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them. So it shall be a reproach and a instruction and taunt, an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee, in anger and in fury, and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

ers cere as one, to make one praise the LORD for his goodness, passed by before him and pro

Isa. Ixiii, 7. I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according on us, and the great goodness to to all that the LORD hath bestowed ward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kind-art a God ready to pardon, gracinesses.