rock, and my fortress, and my deliver; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Ps. xxviii, 7, 8. 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 soug will I praise him. The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

shall rejoice in him, because we P3. xxxiii, 21. For our heart have trusted in his holy name. Ps. xlii, 1, 2. As the hart panteth

Ps. lxxxix, 15, 16. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

Ps. cxix, 165. Great peace have they which love thy law: and no

thing shall offend them.

Ps. cxxxii, 16. I will also clothe her priests with salvation; and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

Isaiah Ivi, 14. And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and

your bones shall flourish like an

herb.

Micah vil, 8. Rejoice not against

me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I

shall arise; when I sit in dark ness, the LORD shall be a light

unto me.

of

Zeph. iii, 14. Sing, O daughter Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daugh

ter of Jerusalem.

Matt. xi, 28. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

John xv, 11. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

Phil. iii, 1. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is

safe.

Ps. Ixill, 5-9. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips; When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the nightwatches. Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. My thy right hand upholdeth me. soul followeth hard after thee: But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Ps. lxxiii, 25, 26. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire befaileth; but God is the strength of sides thee. My flesh and my heart my heart, and my portion for

ever.

ated the weary soul, and I have

Jer. xxxi, 25. For I have sati

replenished every sorrowful soul.

Hab. iii, 16, 18. When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rotteuness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. Although neither shall fruit be in the vines; the fig-tree shall not blossom, the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

1 Chron. xvi, 10. Glory ye in holy name: let the heart of de rejoice that seek the LORD.

Isa. xxviii, 5, 6. In that shall the LORD of hosts be a crown of glory, and for a dede of beauty, unto the reside i his people. And for a sports judgment to him that sit judgment, and for strengt them that turn the battle ta gate.

Jer. ix, 23, 24. Thus sa in his wisdom, neither LORD, Let not the wise mat mighty man glory in his let not the rich man glory in riches: But let him that g glory in this, that he underst eth and knoweth me, that the LORD, which exercise kindness, judgment, and

eousness, in the earth: for al things I delight, saith the L

1 Cor. 1, 81. That, acceria it is written, He that glor him glory in the Lord.

HOPE IN GOD. Ps. xxxi, 24. Be of good c and he shall strengthen LORD. heart, all ye that hope 13.

eye of the LORD is upon the Ps. xxxiii, 18, 19. Bebol fear him, upon them that in his mercy; To deliver soul from death, and to keep

alive in famine.

what wait I for? mỹ hoje thee.

Ps. xxxix, 7. And now

P3. xli, 11. Why art then thou disquieted within we down, O my soul? and * thou in God; for I shall yet him,, who is the health of countenance, and my Gol

thee will be glad when tr Ps. cxix, 74, 114. They is

me; because I have hope and my shield: I hope word. Thou art my hiding

word.

P3. cxxxi, 3. Let Israel the LORD from henceforth al ever.

Ps. cxlvii, 11. The Lo pleasure in them that be in those that hope in his me

portion, saith my soul, th
Lam. ili, 24, 26. The Los
will I hope in him.
that a man should both bi
quietly wait for the salva
the LORD.

Rom. vill, 24, 25. Fer saved by hope: bat hape seen is not hope; for what * seeth, why doth be yet *** But if we hope for that **** not, then do we with jan wait for it.

1.5. For the hope which is id up for you in heaven, whereof heard before in the word of the rth of the gospel.

Heb. vi, 18, 19. That by two imatable things, in which it was possible for God to lie, we ight have a strong consolation, ho have fled for refuge to lay Mupon the hope set before us: hich hope we have as an anchor the soul, both sure and stedfast, J which entereth into that with the vail.

Hope to

Peter 1, 13. . . . . head for the grace that is to be ught unto you at the revelation Jesus Christ.

John lii, 3. And every man thath this hope in him purifihimself, even as he is pure. RSEVERANCE; PROMISED ND SECURED ON GOD'S PART AS A BLESSING.

Sam. xii, 21, 22. And turn ye aside: for then should ye go rvain things which cannot proaor deliver; for they are vain: the LORD will not forsake his ple for his great name's sake: ause it hath pleased the LORD make you his people.

T.

xciv, 14. For the LORD will cast off his people, neither will forsake his inheritance.

$2. xliv, 21. Remember these, acob and Israel; for thou art servant: I have formed thee; art my servant: O Israel, a shalt not be forgotten of me. xlix, 14-17. But Zion said, LORD hath forsaken me, and Lord hath forgotten me. Can oman forget her sucking child, tshe should not have comalon on the son of her womb? they may forget, yet will forget thee. Behold, I have en thee upon the palms of hands; thy walls are continuy before me. Thy children ill make haste; thy destroyers, they that made thee waste, ill go forth of thee. Isa. liv, 8-10. In a little wrath I I my face from thee for a ment; but with everlasting

tness will I have mercy on ve, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. r this is as the waters of Noah to me: for as I have sworn that #waters of Noah should no re go over the earth; so have I rn that I would not be wroth ith thee, nor rebuke thee. For e mountains shall depart, and

PERSEVERANCE ON MAN'S PART ENFORCED AS A DUTY.

Deut. iv, 9. Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons.

Josh. xxiii, 8. But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.

1 Sam. xii, 21. And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

John xv, 9, 10. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye

shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Acts xi, 23, 24. Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord. For he was a good man, and full of the

Acts xii, 43. Now, when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

1 Cor. xv, 58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Phil. iv, 1. Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly be loved.

Col. ii, 6, 7. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him; Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

be not weary in well-doing. 2 Thess. iii, 13. But ye, brethren,

2 Tim. i, 14. That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

in the things which thou hast 2 Tim. iii, 14. But continue thou learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learn ed them.

Heb. iv, 1. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you

should seem to come short of it.

2 Pet. ii, 17. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

2 John 8. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Rev. ii, 24, 25. But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, (as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak,) I will put upon you none other burden: But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

Rev. xxii, 11. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

ITS NOBLENESS AND BENEFIT. Matth. xxiv, 13. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Luke xxil, 28, 29. Ye are they which have continued with me in

my temptations: And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me. John vill, 31. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed,

John xv, 10. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide

in his love.

Rom. viii, 35-39. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Cor. xv, 1, 2. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel, which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand: By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

Gal. vi, 9. And let us not be weary in well-doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint

not.

2 Tim. 1, 12, 13. For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Hold fast the form of sound words,

which thou hast heard of me, in

faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Tim. iv, 18. And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Heb. iii, 14. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end.

Heb. x, 39. But we are not of

1 Pet. 1, 5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 John ii, 19, 24. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

Rev. iii, 21. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my

Father in his throne.

Rev. xxi, 7. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my

son.

NO PERFECTION ON EARTH.

Job ix, 14, 15. How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

Job ix, 20, 21, 27-31. If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me, if I say I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off I am afraid of all my sorrows, i my heaviness, and comfort myself; know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall

abhor me.

Ps. cxliii, 2. And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

Prov. xx, 9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Eccles. vii, 20. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Isa. Ixiv, 6, 7. But we are all as

Gal. iil, 22. But the scripture, hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Phil. iii, 12-14. Not as though 1, had already attained, either wers already perfect; but I follow after if that I may apprehend that fo which also I am apprehended af Christ Jesus. Brethren, I cal not myself to have apprehenb but this one thing I do, forgeng those things which are bein and reaching forth unto the things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

1 John I, 8, 10. If we say th we have no sin, we deceive s selves, and the truth is not in If we say that we have not sinne we make him a liar, and his we is not in us.

undefiled in the way, who wal the law of the LORD. Blessed a they that keep his testimon and that seek him with the whe heart. They also do no iniq they walk in his ways. The hast commanded us to keep u precepts diligently.

P8. cxix, 1-4. Blessed art

Luke vi, 40. The disciple is above his master, but every s that is perfect shall be as h master.

chosen us in him before the Eph. 1, 4. According as he hath dation of the world, that should be holy and without bias before him in love.

Col. i, 21, 22. And you, tha were sometime alienated, and

enemies in your mind by wicks works, yet now hath he reco ed. In the body of his fles through death, to present y holy and unblameable and Bproveable in his sight.

Col. iv, 12. Epaphras, who a one of you, a servant of Chrst saluteth you, always labearms

the saving of the soul.

James i, 25. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

ye may stand perfect and plete in all the will of God.

1 John ii, 5. But whoso kee his word, in him verily is bel of God perfected: hereby £*** that we are in him.

1 John II, 6-9. Whose abideth in him sinneth not whe

her known him. Little chiln, let no man deceive you: he doeth righteousness is right, even as he is righteous. He committeth sin is of the for the devil sinneth from beginning. For this purpose Son of God was manifested, he might destroy the works e devil. Whosoever is born od doth not commit sin; for eed remaineth in him: and he of sin, because he is born of

John v, 18. We know that

ever is born of God sinneth

but he that is begotten of God eth himself, and that wicked

oucheth him not.

xvili, 13. Thou shalt be et with the LORD thy God. . xxvii, 26. Cursed be he confirmeth not all the words s law to do them: and all the le shall say, Amen.

1.7. Only be thou strong, very courageous, that thou est observe to do according to e law which Moses my sercommanded thee: turn not it to the right hand or to the

Phil. i, 10. That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ.

Phil. ii, 15. That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

Çol. i, 28, 29. Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus; Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

1 Thess. ill, 13. To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

1 Tim. v, 7. And these things give in charge, that they may be

blameless.

John 1. 47. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!

VII. DUTIES ON THE PART OF THE REDEEMED.

To LOVE GOD.

the LORD thy God with all thine Deut. vi, 5. And thou shalt love heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might

Deut. x, 12, 13. And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

Deut. xi, 1. Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judginents, and his commandments alway.

Josh. xxii, 5, 6. But take diligent beed to do the commandment, and the law, which Moses, the servant of the LORD, charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart, and with all

your soul.

So Joshua blessed

them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.

Josh. xxiii, 11. Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.

P3. xviii, 1. I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

Ps. xxxi, 23. O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

Ps. xci, 14. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I

hersoever thou goest. sh. xxiii, 6. Be ye therefore courageons to keep and to that is written in the book he law of Moses, that ye turn aside therefrom to the right

ior to the left.

high, because he hath known my

name.

Ps. cxlv, 20. The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

Matth. x, 37. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.

Matth. xxii, 37, 38. Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.

Mark xil, 33, 34. And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neigh

of hosts himself; and let him be your fear and let him be your dread.

tion.

1 Cor. viii, 3. But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

AND AT THE SAME TIME TO FEAR HIM.

Exod. xx, 20. And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Deut. viii, 6. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

1 Sam. xii, 24. Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how

Luke xii, 4, 5. And I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do:

But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: fear him, which, after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

Heb. xil, 28. Wherefore, we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God ac

est fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandi ments, which 1 command the thou, and thy son, and thy so son, all the days of thy life, and that thy days may be prolonged And the LORD commanded us do all these statutes, to fear th LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve t alive, as it is at this day.

Ps. XXV, 12-14. What man is that feareth the Loan? him stad he teach in the way that be call choose. His soul shall dre ease; and bis seed shall inherit the earth. The secret of the Losa with them that fear him; and will show them his covenant.

ye his saints: for there is no w Ps. xxxiv, 9, 10. O fear the Los to them that fear him. The yo lions do lack, and suffer bung but they that seek the Loan SİZ not want any good thing.

Ps. ciil, 11, 12. For as the bra

1 Kings viii, 40. That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

2 Kings xvii, 36, 37, 39. But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power, and a stretched-out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods. But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

1 Chron. xvi, 30. Fear before bim, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.

2 Chron. vi, 31. That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

Ps. xxxiii, 7, 8. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap; he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth

fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of

him.

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

Ps. lxxxix, 7. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints and to be had in reverence

of all them that are about him.

Ps. xcix, 1. The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble. he sitteth between the cherubins; let the earth be moved.

Isa. viii, 13. Sanctify the Lond

fear.

Gen. xlii, 18. And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God."

word of the LORD among the serExod. ix, 20. He that feared the

vants of Pharaoh made his ser

vants and his cattle flee into the houses.

1 Kings xvill, 3. And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house: (now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly.)

Ezra ix, 4. Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.

Job xiii, 11. Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

Job xxiii, 15. Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when 1 consider, I am afraid of him.

Ps. cxix, 120. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

Jonah i, 9. And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.

Hab. iii, 16. When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness en

tered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.

BLESSINGS ATTACHED TO SUCH
REVERENCE.
Deut. vi, 2, 24. That thou might-

is his mercy toward them fear him. As far as the nest from the west, so far bath be moved our transgressions

us.

P3. cxv, 13. He will bless the that fear the LORD, both smali great.

Ps. cxxviil, 1. Blessed is eve one that feareth the LORD, walketh in his ways.

Prov. ill, 7, 8. Be not wis thine own eyes: fear the L and depart from evil. It shall health to thy navel and mar to thy bones

Prov. ix, 10, 11. The fear of LORD is the beginning of wis and the knowledge of the H understanding: For by me days shall be multiplied, and years of thy life shall be increas ed.

Prov. xiv, 26, 27. In the fear the LORD is strong conde and his children shall haveapof refuge. The fear of the L is a fountain of life, to den from the snares of death.

Prov. xvi, 6, 7. By mercy truth iniquity is purget; and the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. When a man's w please the LORD, he maseth end his enemies to be at peace wi him.

Prov. xix, 23. The fear of the LORD tendeth to life: and d hath it shall abide satisf-t shall not be visited with evàn

Isa. xxxiil, 6. And wisden ri knowledge shall be the stabil of thy times, and strength of vation: the feat of the Loan S treasure.

Luke i 50. And his mercy is