vi. 33. Seek first the kingdom of God, and | troubles. Ps. xviii. 24.-xv. 1, 2. James v. his righteousness. 16. 1 Pet. iii. 12. Luke i. 75. Serve God in holiness and righteousness. xxxvii. 17. The Lord upholdeth the righteous. Ps. lv. 22. He shall never suffer the Acts xxiv. 25. Paul reasoned of righteous-righteous to be moved. Ps. xv. 2. ness, temperance, and judgment to come. Rom. vi. 13. Yield your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Ver. 19. 1 Cor. xv. 34. Awake unto righteousness. 2 Cor. vi. 4. 7. Approving ourselves by the armour of righteousness. Ver. 14. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Eph. iv. 24. Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness. v. 9. The fruit of the Spirit is in all righteousness, goodness and truth. vi. 14. Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness. Phil. i. 10, 11. Approving things that are excellent, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. 1 Tim. vi. 11. Follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 2 Tim. ii. 22. 2 Tim. iii. 16. The Scripture is profitable for instruction in righteousness. Tit. ii. 11, 12. The grace of God that bringeth salvation, hath appeared to all men; teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. Heb. xi. 33. The prophets through faith wrought righteousness. 1 Pet. ii. 24. We being dead to sin, should live unto righteousness. 1 John ii. 29. Every one that doeth righteousness is born of God. iii. 7. He that doeth righteousness is righteous.-Ver. 10. Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God. VIII. Promises to the righteous of peculiar favour from God. Ps. i. 6. The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous. Ps. cxlvi. 8. The Lord loveth the righteous. Ps. xi. 7. -xxxiii. 5. v. 12. Thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour thou wilt compass him as with a shield. Ps. cvi. 3. Matt. v. 6. xi. 5. The Lord trieth the righteous. xiv. 5. God is in the generation of the righteous. Isa. lxiv. 5. xxxiv. 15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. Job xxxvi. 7. Ps. xxxiii. 18. 1 Pet. ii. 12. Ver. 17. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their Ver. 39. The salvation of the righteous is of the Lord. Gen. vii. 1. Prov. xviii. 10. Isa. xxxiii. 15, 16.-lxiv. 5. 2 Pet. ii. 5. Prov. ii. 7. The Lord layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous. Jer. xx. 12. iii. 32. The secret of the Lord is with the righteous. Ps. xxv. 14. Job xxxiii. 26. God will render unto man his righteousness. 1 Sam. xxvi. 23. 1 Kings viii.32. Ps. vii. 8. Judge me according to my righteousness. Ps. xviii. 20. 24. 2 Sam. xxii. 21. Ver. 11. God judgeth the righteous: God is angry with the wicked every day. xxxvii. 6. He shall bring forth thy right eousness. Iviii. 11. Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth. IX. Promises of blessings to the righteous, as the consequence of righteousness, by the appointment of God. Job iv. 7. Who ever perished being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off? xvii. 9. The righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger. Ps. xxxvii. 29. The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in it for ever. lxxii. 7. In his [the good King's] days the righteous shall flourish. lxxv. 10. The horns of the righteous shall be exalted. xcii. 12. The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Ps. i. 3.-lii. 8. Prov. xi. 28. xcvii. 11. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. cvi. 3. Blessed is he that doeth righteousness at all times. Prov. x. 2. Righteousness delivereth from death. Ch. xi. 4. 6. Ver. 24. The desire of the righteous shall be granted.-Ver. 28. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness; but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. xi. 8. The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead. Ch. x. 30.-xii. 3. Ver. 18, 19. To him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. Righteousness tendeth to life: he that pursueth evil, pursueth it to his own hurt. Ch. xii. 28. Ver. 30, 31. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. The righteous shall be recompensed in the earth. xii. 3. A man shall not be established by wickedness but the root of the righteous shall not be moved. Ch. x. 25. Ver. 7. The wicked are overthrown, and are not; but the house of the righteous shall stand. Ch. xi. 21. Ver. 26. The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour.-Ver. 28. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. Ch. xiii. 6. xiii. 9. The light of the righteous rejoiceth; but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. -Ver. 21. Evil pursueth sinners; but to the righteous good shall be repaid. xiv. 34. Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. xvi. 12. The throne is established by right eousness. lviii. 10. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance, and shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. cxxv. 3. The rod of the wicked shall not rest on the lot of the righteous. Prov. xiv. 19. The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. xxi. 18. The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous. Zech. xiv. 12. This shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people who have fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongues shall consume away in their mouth. XI. The death of the righteous blessed. Ver. 31. The hoary head is a crown of Numb. xxiii. 10. Let me die the death of the glory, if it be found in the way of righteous-righteous, and let my last end be like his. Prov. xiv. 32. The righteous hath hope in his death. ness. xxi. 21. He that followeth after righteousness and mercy, findeth life, righteousness and honour. xxviii. 1. The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion. Eccl. ix. 1. The righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. Isa. iii. 10. Say ye to the righteous, It shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. xxiv. 16. From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. xxxii. 17. The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness, and assurance for ever. xxxiii. 15, 16. He that walketh righteously, &c. he shall dwell on high, his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; bread shall be given him, his waters shall be sure. Ixiv. 5. Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways. Ezek. xiv. 14. Though Noah, Daniel and Job were in the city, [devoted to destruction for iniquity] they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness. See Gen. vii. 1.-xviii. 23. Isa. lvii. 1. The righteous is taken away from the evil to come. XII. The righteous blessed after death. Ps. xv. 1, 2. Lord, who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that worketh righteousness. Ps. xxiv. 4. cxii. 6. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. Isa. Ivii. 2. He shall enter into peace; they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. Dan. xii. 3. They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever. Matt. xiii. 43. The righteous shall shine forth as the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. xxv. 46. The righteous shall go into life eternal. UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. XIII. Unrighteousness forbidden. Rom. vi. 13. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are xviii. 20. The righteousness of the right- alive from the dead, and your members as ineous shall be upon him.-Ver. 22. In his right-struments of righteousness unto God. eousness that he hath done he shall live. 2 Cor. vi. 14. What fellowship hath rightMal. iii. 18. Ye shall discern between the eousness with unrighteousness? What comrighteous and the wicked. munion hath light with darkness? X. The righteous shall be delivered from enemies. Ps. xxxiv. 21. They that hate the righteous shall be desolate. lii. 6. The righteous shall see [the destruc XIV. Threats against the unrighteous. Deut. xxv. 16. All that do unrighteously are an abomination to the Lord. Job xxvii. 7. Let mine enemy be as the tion of the wicked] and fear, and shall laugh | wicked, and he that riseth up against me as at him. the unrighteous. Rom. i. 18. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.-Ver. 29. Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, &c.-Ver. 32. They who commit such things are worthy of death. ii. 8, 9. Unto them that obey unrighteousness, God will render indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil. 1 Cor. vi. 9. Know ye not, that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? 2 Thess. ii. 10. The Wicked [man of sin] is filled with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish.-Ver. 12. That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Pet. ii. 13. They shall receive the reward of unrighteousness.-Ver. 14. Cursed children. -Ver. 17. To whom is reserved the mist of darkness for ever. XV. Pardon promised to those that forsake unrighteousness. Isa. lv. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Heb. viii. 12, I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. ZEAL. XVI. Zeal a duty. Gal. iv. 18. It is good to be zealously affected in a good thing. Tit. ii. 14. Christ gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. Rev. iii. 19. Be zealous and repent. Instances. In Phinehas, Num. xxv. 11. 13. -In Christ, Isa. lix. 17. Ps. lxix. 9.-In David, Ps. cxix. 139.-In the Corinthians, 1 Cor. xiv. 12. 2 Cor. vii. 11.—ix. 2.—In Epaphras, Col. iv. 13. Erroneous Zeal. Instances: In Saul's slaying the Gibeonites, 2 Sam. xxi. 1, 2.-In Paul for the law of Moses, before his conversion. Acts xxii. 3. Gal. i. 14. Phil. iii. 6.— In the Jews, Acts xxi. 20. Rom. x. 2.-See Jehu boasting of his zeal, 2 Kings x. 16. Want of zeal. Rev. iii. 15. Because thou art neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. UPRIGHTNESS. xvi. 17. The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. xxi. 29. As for the upright, he directeth his way. See ch. xiv. 2. XVIII. Promises to the upright. 1 Chron. xxix. 17. I know, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. Ps. vii. 10. God saveth the upright in heart. xi. 7. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. xv. 2. He that walketh uprightly shall abide in thy tabernacle. xviii. 25. With an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. xxxvii. 18. The Lord knoweth the days of the upright, and their inheritance shall be for ever.-Ver. 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the latter end of that man is peace. xlix. 14. The upright shall have dominion over the wicked. lxxxiv. 11. The Lord will withhold no good from them that walk uprightly. xcvii. 11. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. cxii. 2. The generation of the upright shall be blessed.-Ver. 4. Unto the upright there ariseth light in darkness. cxl. 13. Lord, the upright shall dwell in thy presence. Prov. ii. 7. The Lord is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.-Ver. 21. The upright shall dwell in the land, &c. x. 9. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely.-Ver. 29. The way of the Lord is strength to the upright. xi. 3. The integrity of the upright shall preserve them.-Ver. 6. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them.-Ver. 11. By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted. Ch. xxix. 8. Gen. xviii. 23 to 28. Ver. 20. The upright in their way are God's delight. xii. 6. The mouth of the upright shall deliver them. Ver. 22. They that deal truly are God's delight. xiii. 6. Righteousness keepeth the upright in the way. xiv. 11. The tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. xv. 8. The prayer of the upright is God's delight. xxi. 18. The wicked shall be a ransom for the righteous, and the transgressor for the upright. xxviii. 6. Better is the poor that walketh in XVII. Upright. Prov. xv. 21. A man of his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his understanding walketh uprightly. ways, though he be rich.-Ver. 10. The Ver. 18. Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved; but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. Ver. 20. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Isa. lvii. 2. The righteous shall enter into peace; they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness. Mic. ii. 7. My words do good to him that walketh uprightly. See Rom. xiv. 22. John iii. 21. XIX. The upright prayed for,—and prayer for uprightness. Ps. xxv. 21. Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait on thee. cxliii. 10. Lead me unto the land of uprightness. cxxv. 4. Do good to them that are upright in heart. xxxvi. 10. Continue thy righteousness to the upright in heart. xli. 12. Thou upholdest me in mine integrity. Prov, xix. 1. Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Ch. xxviii. 6. xx. 7. The just man walketh in his integrity. Job xxvii. 6. My heart shall not reproach me. XXI. Particular instances of integrity. Gen. xx. 6. God said to Abimelech, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart, for I withheld thee from sinning against me. Job ii. 3. Job holdeth fast his integrity. Ver. 9. Ch. xxvii. 5.-xxxi. 6. 1 Kings ix. 4. Ps. xxvi. 1. David said, I walked in mine integrity. Ver. 11. Ps. lxxviii. 72. SINCERITY. XXII. Sincerity. Josh. xxiv. 14. Fear and serve the Lord in sincerity. 1 Cor. v. 8. Keep the feast with the unleavened bread of sincerity. 2 Cor. i. 12. In simplicity and godly sincerity we have had our conversation. ii. 17. As of sincerity in the sight of God speak we. Phil. i. 10. I pray that ye may be sincere, and without offence, until the day of Christ. Eph. vi. 24. Grace be with them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Tit. ii. 7. In doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity. 1 Pet. ii. 2. Desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. PERFECTION. XXIII. Perfection a commanded duty. Gen. xvii. 1. The Lord said unto Abraham, I am the Almighty God: walk before me and be thou perfect. Deut. xviii. 13. Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. Matt. v. 48. Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Rom. xii. 2. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 2 Cor. vii. 1. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. xiii. 11. Be perfect, be of one mind. Col. iii. 14. Put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. Heb. vi. 1. Let us go on unto perfection. XXIV. Directions for attaining perfection. Matt. xix. 21. If thou wilt be perfect, keep the commandments. 1 John ii. 5.-iv. 12. Luke vi. 40. Every one that is perfect shall be as his master. Phil. iii. 12. Not as though I were already perfect, or had already attained.-Ver. 14, 15. I press forward toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let as many as be perfect, be thus minded. James i. 4. Let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. iii. 2. If any offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. XXV. Perfection from God and Christ. 2 Sam. xxii. 33. God maketh my way perfect. Ps. xviii. 32. Ps. cxxxviii. 8. The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me. Ezek. xvi. 14. Thy beauty was perfect through my comeliness which I put upon thee. 1 Cor. iv. 7. Who maketh thee to differ? John xvii. 23. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one. 2 Cor. xii. 9. My grace is sufficient for thee, my strength is made perfect in weakness, Col. ii. 10. Ye are complete in him, (viz. Christ.) iv. 12. Praying fervently for you, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. HYPOCRISY. Heb. x. 14. By one offering Christ hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. xiii. 21. God make you perfect, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight. 1 Pet. v. 10. The God of all grace make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you. See Heb. xi. 40.-xii. 23. XXVI. The holy Scriptures a mean of perfection. 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and instruction in righteousness. That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished to all good works. Ps. cxix. 11. Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee. See Gal. iii. 3. See the Spirit's influences upon all Christians. XXVII. Also the ministry. Eph. iv. 1113. He gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. Col. i. 28. We preach Christ, warning every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. 1 Thess. iii. 9, 10. We joy before God for your sakes; praying that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith. XXVIII. Promises to the perfect. Job viii. 20. God will not cast away a perfect man. Ps. xxxvii. 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace. Prov. ii. 21. The upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. XXIX. Instances of persons called perfect. Noah, Gen. vi. 9.-Job, Job i. 1. 8.-ii. 3.David, Ps. ci. 2. 6. Persons called righteous: Noah, Gen. vii. 1.—David, 1 Kings iii. 6.Job, Job xxix. 14.-Zacharias and Elisabeth, Luke i. 6.-Abel, Heb. xi. 4. HYPOCRISY. XXX. Hypocrisy forbidden. Luke xii. 1. Jesus said, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. James iii. 17. The wisdom which is from above is without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 193 16. They say, come and see my zeal for the Lord. Job xii. 2. No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. xv. 8. They restrain wisdom to themselves. Jer. viii. 8. Ps. xii. 2. They speak with a double heart. Jer. xii. 2. Prov. xx. 6. They proclaim their own goodness. xxx. 12. They are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness. Isa. lxv. 5. They say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou. Luke xviii. 9. They trust in themselves that they are righteous, and despise others. lxvi. 5. They hate their brethren, and cast them out, and say, Let the Lord be glorified. Matt. vii. 4. They say, Let me pull the mote out of thine eye, &c. Matt. vi. 5. They pray standing in the synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Luke xviii. 11. In prayer they say, God, I thank thee, I am not as other men are, extortioners, &c. Matt. xxiii. 14. They devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers. Ver. 16. When they fast they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Luke xviii. 12. I fast twice in the week, said the Pharisee. Ver. 2. When they give alms they sound a trumpet, that they may have glory of men. Luke xvi. 15. They justify themselves before men. John v. 44. They receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only. Matt. xxiii. 25. They make clean the outside of the cup and platter, but within are full of extortion and excess.-Ver. 27. Like whited sepulchres, outwardly beautiful, but within are full of rottenness.-Ver. 28. Outwardly they appear righteous unto men, but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. xv. 8, 9. They honour God with their lips, but their heart is far from him. In vain they worship God, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. xxiii. 13. They shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; they neither go in themselves nor suffer others to go in. Ver. 15. They compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and make him two-fold more the child of hell than themselves. Ver. 23. They pay tithe of mint, anise and cummin, (all manner of herbs, Luke xi. 42,) and omit the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith. Luke xviii. 42. Ver. 24. They strain at a gnat and swallow XXXI. Marks of hypocrites. 2 Kings x. | a camel. |