It is a fanning wind, whereby Faft to my peaceful refuge flee; 7 Does make me understand myself. 8 1 Ifa. xxvii. 7. 9. In measure when it fhooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it 1 he stayeth his rough wind in the day of his eaft-wind. By this therefore fhall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit, to take away his fin. 2 Mal. iii. 3. And he (viz. the Meffenger of the covenant) shall fit as a refiner and purifier of filver: and he fhall purify the fons of Levi, and purge them as gold and filver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. 3 Pfalm cxliii. 9. Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. 4 2 Cor. iv. 16, 17. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light afflic tion, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 5 Pfalm xxxiii. 10. The Lord bringeth the counfel of the Heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. 6 Gen. 1. 20. And Jofeph faid unto his brethren,-As for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pafs, as it is this day, to fave much people alive. 7 Pfalm lv. 23. But thou, O God, fhalt bring them down into the pit of deftruction: bloody and deceitful men fhall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee. 8 My fin; Ifa. xlii. 24. Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Ifrael to the rob bers? Did not the Lord, he against whom we have finned? For they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. My duty: 2 Sam. xvi. 11,12. And David said to Abithai, and to all his fervants, Behold, my fon, which came forth of my bowels, feeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? Let him alone, and let him curfe; for the Lord hath bidden him. It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for his curfing this day. Micah vii. 8, 9. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy when I fall, I fhall arife; when I fit in darkness, the Lord thall be a light unto me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have finned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I fhall behold his righteoufnefs. My fafety; Pfalm ix. 9, 10. The Lord alfo will be a refuge for the opprefled, a refuge in times of trouble. And they that know thy name, will put their truft in thee: for thou, Lord, haft not forfaken them that feek thee. Veife 16. The Lord is known by the judgment which be executeth; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion, Selah. Their flanders cannot work my shame, I My drudges, though they know it not: 8 3 1 Pfalm xxxi. 13, 14. For I have heard the flander of many; fear was on every fide, while they took counfel together against me, they devifed to take away my life. But I trufted in thee, O Lord: I faid, Thou art my God. 21 Pet. iv. 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Chrift, happy are ye: for the Spirit of glory and of God refteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 3 Numb xxiii. 7, 8. And Balaam took up his parable, and faid, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, faying, Come, curfe me Jacob, and come, defy Ifrael. How fhall I curfe, whom God hath not curfed? or how fhall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied? Verse 23. Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Ifrael: according to this time it thall be said of Jacob, and of Ifrael, What hath God wrought! 4 Prov. xxvi. 2. As the bird by wandering, as the fwallow by flying, fo the curfe caufelefs fhall not come. 51 Pet. ii. 8, 9. Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compaffion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous; not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwife, bleffing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye thould inherit a bleffing. 6 Pfalm lxix. 12, 13. They that fit in the gate fpeak against me; and I was the long of the drunkards. But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy falvation. : 7 Gen. 1. 20. See figure 6. p. 214. Efther ix. 20,-25. And Mordecai wrote thefe things, and fent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, to stablish this among them, "that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the fame yearly as the days wherein the Jews refted from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from forrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day that they should make them days of feaiting and joy, and of fending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor. And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them. Because Haman, the fon of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had advised against the Jews to deftroy them, and had caft Pur (that is, the lot) to confume them, and to deftroy them: but when Efther came before the king, he commanded by letters, that his wicked device which he devised againit the Jews, fhould return upon his own head, and that he and his fons should be hanged on the gallows. 8 Jer. xxv. 8, 9. Therefore thus faith the Lord of hofts, Because ye have not heard my words, Behold, I will fend and take all the families of the north, faith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon my fervant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and agamit all these nations round about, and will utterly deitroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hiffing, and perpetual detolations. Verte 12. And They act to me a kindly part, The Mystery of the BELIEVER'S Pardon and Security from revenging Wrath, notwithstanding bis Sin's Defert. I,Though from condemnation free, Find fuch condemnables in me, it fhall come to pafs, when feventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, faith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual defolations. Ifa. x. 5, 6. O Affyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. I will fend him against an hypocritical nation; and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the fpoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets Verse 12. Wherefore it fhall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion, and on Jerufalem, I will punish the fruit of the ftout heart of the king of Affyria, and the glory of his high looks. And xliv. 24. 28. Thus faith the Lord thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that faith of Cyrus, He is my fhepherd, and thall perform all my pleafure, even faying to Jerufalem, Thou fhalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundations fhall be laid. And xlv. 1. Thus faith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whole right-hand I have holden, to fubdue nations before him: and I will loofe the loins of kings to open before him the two-leaved gates, and the gates fhall not be fhut. Verfe 4. For Jacob my fervant's fake, and Ifrael mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have fir-named thee, though thou haft not known me. 1 Matth. v. 10,-12. Bleffed are they which are perfecuted for righteoufnefs-fake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Bleffed are ye when men fhall revile you, and perfecute you, and fhall fay all manner of evil against you fallely for my fake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for fo perfecuted they the prophets which were before you. Luke vi. 22, 23. Bleffed are ye when men fhall hate you, and when they fhall feparate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and caft out your name as evil, for the Son of man's fake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy for behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets, : 2 Ifa. iv. 3.-5. And it fhall come to pa's, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerufalem, fhall he called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerufalem: when the Lord thall have wathed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and fhall have purged the blood of Jerufalem from the midfl thereof, by the Spirit of judgment, and by the fpirit of burning. And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her affemblies a cloud, and fmeke by day, and the fhining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory fhall be a defence. And xxvii. 9. By this therefore thall the iniquity of Jacob be purged, and this is all the fruit To take away his fin; when he maketh all the tones of the altar as chalkones that are beaten in funder, the groves and images shall not stand up. 3 Pfalm Ix. 8. Moab is my wash-pot, &c. As make more heavy wrath my due With flavifh fear and hellifh dread: 4 * about. 1 Rom. viii. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Chrift Jefus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. And vü. 18. For I know, that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is prefent with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. 1 Tim. i, 15, 16. This is a faithful faying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jefus came into the world to fave finners; of whom I am chief. How. beit, for this caufe I obtained mercy, that in me firft Jefus Chrift might fhew forth all long-fuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to everlasting life. 2 Gal. iii. 13. Chrift hath redeemed us from the curfe of the law, being made a curfe for us: for it is written, Curfed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Rom. v. 9. Much more then being now juftified by his blood, we shall be faved from wrath through him. Eph. i. 7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of fius, according to the riches of his grace. 31 Thef. i. 16. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jefus which delivered us from the wrath to come. Ifa. liv. 9, 10. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah fhould no more go over the earth; so have I fworn, that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains fhall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness fhall not depart from thee, neither fhall the conant of my peace be removed, faith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee. Pfalm lxxxix. 30,-33. If his children forfake my law, and walk not in my judgments; if they break my ftatutes, and keep not my commandments: then will I vifit their tranfgreflion with the rod, and their iniquity with ftripes. Nevertheless, my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor fuffer my faithfulness to fail. 4 Mat. xiv. 26. And when the difciples faw Jefus walking on the fea, they were troubled, faying, It is a fpirit; and they cried out for fear. 5 Mark iv. 40. And Jefus faid unto his difciples, Why are ye fo fearful? How is it that ye have no faith? 6 Rom. vii. 6. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we fhould ferve in newnefs of fpirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. Chap. viii. 3, 4. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God DID, fending his own Son in the likeness Some hidden wonders hence refult; That binds to wrath and vengeance hot; z of finful flesh, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 1 Rom. vii. 14. For we know that the law is fpiritual; but I am carnal, fold under fin. Chap. viii. 33, 34. Who fhall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth: who is he that condemneth! It is Chrift that died, yea, rather, that is rifen again, who is even at the right-hand of God, who also maketh interceffion for us. 2 Deut. xxvii. 26. Curfed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law, to do them and all the people fhall fay, Amen. Rom. i. 18. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness, and unrighteoufnefs of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness. 3 Ifa. liii. 6. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Heb. vii. 26. For fuch an High-priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from finners. 4 Rom. vii. 24. O wretched man that I am! who fhall deliver me from the body of this death? Acts xiii. 38, 39. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of fins and by him all that believe, are juftified from all things, from which ye could not be juftified by the law of Moles. 5 Rom. iii. 19. Now we know, that what things foever the law faith, it faith to them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Being juftified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jefus Chrift. 6 Rom. iv. 6,-8. Even as David also describeth the bleffednefs of the man unto whom the Lord imputeth righteoufnefs without works, faying, Bleffed are they whofe iniquities are forgiven, and whole fins are covered. Bleffed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute fin. Pfalm li. 3, 4. For I acknowledge my tranfgreffions: and my fin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only have I finned, and done this evil in thy fight that thou mightit be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgeft. And cxiii. 2. O Lord, enter not into judgment with thy fervant: for in thy fight fhall no man living be justified. : |