My heav'n and glory's fure to me, the health of my countenance, and my God. p Col. iii. r, 2. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ fitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. Pfal. xliv. 25. Our foul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. 2. 7. q Hof. xiv. 5. I will be as the dew unto Ifrael; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return, they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon. Phil. iii. 12, 13, 14. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Rom. vii. 23, 24. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, which is in my members. O wretched man that Lam, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? r John xiv. 2, 3. In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you: I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also. 2 Pet. i. 10. Wherefore the rather brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election fure. Heb. iv. I. Let us therefore fear, left a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. Plal. iii. 3. But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. Ifa. Ix. 19. The fun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee, but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 5 Ifa. xlvi. 13. I will place falvation in Zion for Ifrael My life's expos'd to open view t, I live in earth, which is not odd ; But lo, I alfo live in God w A Spirit without flesh and blood, I leave what others live upon, 3 But food adapted to my mind, Bare words, yet not on empty wind y. my glory. 2 Cor. viii. 23. Whether do any enquire of Titus, he is my partner, and fellow-helper concerning you: or our brethren be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ. + Pfal. xliv. 13. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. u Col. iii. 3. Your life is hid with Christ in God. v John iii. 9, 10. Nicodemus answered and faid unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Ifrael, and knowest not these things? Prov. xiv. 10. The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. 1 John iv. 16. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him. w Gal. ii. 20. I am crucified with Christ: Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. * John iv. 24. God is a Spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in Spirit and in truth. And vi. 53, 54, 55. Then Jesus said unto them, [the Jews], Verily, verily I fay unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my Blood is drink indeed, I'm no Anthropopagite rude, My food's all spirit, all divine z. y Matth. iv. 4. But Jesus answered and said [unto the tempter], It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Jer. xv. 16. Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart, for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. z John vi. 57, 58. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. v. 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. a Ifa. xxv. 6. And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. Pfal. i. 2. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. : 6 Ifa. xli. 17. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, 1 the Lord will hear them, I the God of Ifrael will not forsake them. Pfal. xl. 17. But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer, make no tarryîng, O my God. c Ifa. xxiv. 16. From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard fongs, even glory to the righteous: but I faid, My Jeanness, my leanness, wo unto me: the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously. d Pfal. xcii. 13, 14. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall U As all amphibious creatures do, While fome men who on earth are gods i, still bring forth fruit in old age: they shall be fat and flourishing. And civ. 16. The trees of the Lord are full of fap: the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted. e Pfal. cxvi. 9. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. And Ixix. 1, 2. Save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my foul. I fink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me. And lxxxviii. 17. Thy terrors come round ar ⚫bout me daily like water, they compassed me about together. f Rom. vii. 21. I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me. g John vi. 70. Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? And viii. 44. Ye are of your father the devil, and the lust of your Father ye will do. James iii. 15. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. h1 Cor. vi. tt. And fuch were some of you; but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. i Pfal. lxxxii. 6. I have faid, Ye are gods: and all of you ate children of the Most High. k Pfal. lxxxii. 1, 2. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty: he judgeth among the Gods. How long will ye judge urjustly, and accept the perfons of the wicked? Selah. 2.5. They know not, neither will they understand: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. Matth. xv. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witness, blafphe mies. Luke viii. 30. And Jesus asked him, faying, What is thy name? and he said, Legion; because many devils were entered into him..... My will fulfils what's hard to tell, To duty seldom I adhere r, Yet to the end I perseveress. : m Eph. vi. 12. For we wrestle not against slesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness, in high places. n Rev. xvii. 17. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. o Eph. ii. 3. Among whom also we all had our converfation in times past, in the lufts of our flesh, fulfilling the defires of the flesh, and of the mind; and were by nature the children of I wrath, even as others. p James i. 13 "Let no man say when he is tempted, I an tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. Acts i. 15, 16. And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and faid, Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. And ii. 23. Jesus of Nazareth, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and flain. And iv. 27, 23. For of a truth, against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou haft anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Ifrael were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. q Hof. v. tt Ephraim is oppressed, and broken in judg. ment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. 2 Cor. viii. 11, 12. Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which you have. For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. D Pfal. cxix. 176. I have gone astray like a lost sheep, feek |