xv. 6. Thou hast forsaken me, and art gone away backward; therefore will I destroy

thee.

WORSHIP.

CLI. Worship due to God only. See Com

xlix. 4, 5. O backsliding daughter, I will mand. 1st. 2 Kings xvii. 36. The Lord, who bring a fear upon thee.

Hos. iv. 16. Israel slideth back, as a backsliding heifer.

xi. 6, 7. The sword shall abide on his cities; for my people are bent to backsliding.

Heb. x. 38, 39. If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them that draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

Promise. Hos. xiv. 1. Return unto the Lord thy God, for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.-Ver. 4. I will heal their backsliding. Jer. iii. 22.

GOING ASTRAY.

CXLVIII. The wicked go aside, go astray, err, wander, turn away from God. Ps. xiv. 3. They are all gone aside, &c.

brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a stretched-out arm, him shall ye fear, him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. Neh. ix. 6.

Ps. xxii. 27. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him. Ver. 29. Ps. lxxxvi. 9, 10.

xcv. 6, 7. O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For he is God.

xcvii. 7. Worship him, all ye gods.

xcix. 5. Worship at his footstool, for he is holy.-Ver. 9. Worship at his holy hill.

Isa. Ixvi. 23. All flesh shall come and worship before me, saith the Lord.

Zeph. ii. 11. Men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

Rev. iv. 10. In heaven the four-and-twenty elders fell down before him that sat on the

Iviii. 3. The wicked are estranged from the throne, and worshipped him that liveth for womb they go astray as soon as born.

ever and ever. See ch. v. 14.-vii. 11.-xi.

lxxviii. 57. They are turned aside like a 16.-xiv. 7.-xix. 4. deceitful bow. Ver. 62.

xcv. 10. It is a people that do err in heart. Prov. v. 23. The wicked shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

xiv. 22. Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Isa. xliv. 20. A deceived heart hath turned him aside he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Jer. ii. 27. They have turned their back unto me, and not their face.

xv. 4. All nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are made manifest.

Heb. i. 6. Let all the angels of God worship Christ.-For the worship due to Christ, see Worship offered to him by the church in heaven and on earth, Chap. upon the Dignity and Offices of Jesus Christ.

Angels not to be worshipped. See Col. ii. 18. Rev. xix. 10.-xxii. 8, 9. Against worshipping creatures for God, see Commandments I. and II.

CLII. How God is to be worshipped. viii. 6. Every one turned to his course, as 1 Chron. xvi. 29. Worship the Lord in the the horse rusheth into the battle.

CXLIX. Confession. Isa. liii. 6. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way.

CL. Threats. Ps. cxix. 21. Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, that do err from thy commandments.-Ver. 118. Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes.

Prov. xxviii. 10. Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, shall fall himself into his own pit.

James v. 20. He that converteth the sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. 2 Pet. iii. 17. Beware lest ye be led away with the error of the wicked. See Rom. i. 27.

beauty of holiness.

xxix. 9. With a perfect heart the people offered willingly to the Lord.

Ps. li. 6. Thou desirest truth in the inward parts.

Ver. 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

John iv. 23. The true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

Acts xxiv. 14. After the way which they (the Jews) call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers; believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets.

Phil. iii. 3. We are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. See Mal. i. 11.-iii. 4.

CLII. Worship offered by the wicked unacceptable to God. Isa. i. 11, 12. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the Lord. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hands, to tread my courts?

Ver. 15, 16. Your hands are full of blood Wash you, make you clean. See Ch. lxvi. 3, 4. Jer. vii. 9, 10, 11. 21, 22.—vi. 20.

Ps. 1. 16, 17. Unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes? or that thou shouldst take my covenant in thy mouth? seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

Prov. vii. 14. The whorish woman said, I have peace-offerings with me; this day I have paid my vows.-Ver. 27. Her house is the way to hell, &c

Mal. i. 8. If ye offer the blind, the lame and the sick for sacrifice, is it not evil? offer it up to thy governor, will he be pleased with thee?-Ver. 10. I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts; neither will I accept an offering at your hand. See Ver. 9. 13, 14. Matt. xv. 8, 9. This people draweth near me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. See Acts xvii. 25.

FASTING.

CLIV. Fasting appointed by God. Lev. xxiii. 27, 28. The tenth day of the seventh month shall be a day of atonement, an holy convocation unto you; ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Ye shall do no work in that same day. See to ver. 33.

CLVII. Fasts of the wicked. Isa. lviii. 3, 4. In the days of your fast ye exact all your labours. Ye fast for strife and debate. Ver. 5. Jer. xiv. 12. When they fast I will not hear their cry. Zech. vii. 5.

Matt. vi. 16. Hypocrites fast with a sad countenance, to appear unto men.

Luke xviii. 12. The Pharisee said, I fast twice in the week; yet he was not justified See a hypocritical fast appointed by Jezebel, 1 Kings xxi. 9.

CLVIII. Occasions of fasts observed by God's people before war, or an expected attack from an enemy. 2 Chron. xx. 3. At the approach of enemies, king Jehoshaphat proclaims a fast.-Ver. 15. He and his people are delivered from their enemies. See 1 Sam. vii. 6.

Esther iv. 3. The Jews, when threatened with destruction in Babylon, fast. Ver. 16. Are delivered.

CLIX. After being defeated by enemies. See Josh. vii. 6. Judg. xx. 26. 1 Sam. xxxi. 13. 2 Sam. i. 12. At calamities from the hand of God, upon man or beast, or the fruit of the earth. Joel i. 14.—ii. 12. 15, 16, 17.

CLX. Upon threatened judgments, and other critical occasions. 1 Kings xxi. 27. Ahab, terrified at God's threatenings against him, fasted.-Ver. 29. God brought not the evil threatened in his day.

Jonah iii. 5. 7. The king and people of Nineveh, terrified at God's threatenings against them by Jonah, proclaim a fast, and keep it with great strictness.-Ver. 10. They are saved from destruction.

Daniel fasts and prays for the Jews' return from captivity, Dan. ix. 3.-The Jews held a CLV. Fasts extraordinary and miracu-fast on setting out on their return from caplous.-Kept by Moses, Exod. xxxiv. 28.-By Elijah, 1 Kings xix. 8.-By Jesus Christ, Matt. iv. 2.

CLVI. Fasting acceptably. Isa. lviii. 6. Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?-Ver. 7. To deal thy bread to the hungry, and to bring the poor that are cast out into thy house; when thou seest the naked that thou cover him, &c. Zech. viii. 19.

tivity, Ezra viii. 21. 23.-The Jews having returned from captivity, and restoring the public worship of God, hold a fast, and read the law, Neh. ix. 1. Also, see Jer. xxxvi. 6.

The apostles fasted and prayed with the church, before they ordained elders and preachers of the gospel, Acts xiv. 23.—xiii. 2, 3.

Devils cast out by fasting and prayer, Matt. xvii. 21.

CLXI. Fasts of particular persons held at their own discretion. 2 Sam. xii. 16. David

Matt. vi. 16. When ye fast, be not as the fasted when his child was sick. hypocrites, of a sad countenance.

Ver. 17, 18. When thou fastest anoint thy head and wash thy face: that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret.

Ps. xxxv. 13. When they were sick, I humbled my soul with fasting.

Ixix. 10. I wept and chastened my soul with fasting.

cix. 24. My knees are weak through fasting.

Matt. ix. 14. John's disciples and the Pha-| risees fasted often. Mark ii. 18.

Christ's disciples fasted, after he was taken from them. 2 Cor. vi. 5.-xi. 27.

Luke ii. 37. Anna served God with fastings night and day.

Acts x. 30. Cornelius, while he fasted and prayed, was directed by an angel to send for Peter to preach the gospel.

1 Cor. vii. 5. Husband and wife ought not to separate except for a time, to give themselves to fasting and prayer.

N. B. Religious fasting is always to be accompanied with prayer, and with all the requisites in prayer; which see, in the following section.

PRAYER.

CLXII. Persons whose prayer shall be heard. Ps. iv. 3. The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the Lord will hear when I call unto him.

xxvi. 6. I will wash my hands in innocency, so will I compass thine altar.

xxxiv. 15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry: (1 Pet. iii. 12. His ears are open to their prayers.) Ver. 17. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Prov. xv. 8. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord; but the prayer of the upright is his delight.-Ver. 29. The Lord is far from the wicked, but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

Ver. 26, 27. The Spirit helpeth our infirmities for we know not what to pray for as we ought; but the Spirit maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the heart knoweth the mind of the Spirit.

Gal. iv. 6. Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Eph. vi. 18. Praying with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit.

Jude 20. Praying in the Holy Ghost. 1 Cor. xiv. 15.

CLXIV. Prayer is to be made in the name of Christ. John xiv. 13. Jesus said, Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do. That the Father may be glorified in the Son. Ver. 14.

xvi. 23, 24. Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name; ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.

Col. iii. 17. Whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. See Heb. iv. 14. 16. Dan. ix. 18.

CLXV. Prayer must be made in faith. Matt. xxi. 22. All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

John xv. 7. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Eph. iii. 12. In whom [Christ] we have boldness and access by the faith of him. Heb. iv. 16.

Heb. x. 22. Let us draw near with a true

1 Tim. ii. 8. I will that men pray every-heart, in full assurance of faith. where, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.

James v. 16. The prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

CLXIII. Of the divine influence, or the Spirit's assistance in prayer. Ps. x. 17. Lord, thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear.

lxxx. 18. Quicken us, and we will call on thy name.

Zech. xii. 10. I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplications.

xiii. 9. I will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will

xi. 6. He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

James i. 6. Ask in faith, nothing wavering. Ver. 7.. Luke xii. 29.

v. 15. The prayer of faith shall save the sick. Jude 20.

say, It is my people; and they shall say, Theme, when ye shall search for me with all your Lord is my God.

Rom. viii. 15. Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

heart. Ver. 14. 2 Chron. xv. 15.

Lam. iii. 41. Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

CLXXI. With forgiveness towards men. Matt. v. 24. Be reconciled to thy brother, and Heb. x. 22. Let us draw near with a true then come and offer thy gift. heart, &c. Job xi. 13.

Acts i. 14. The apostles continued with one accord in prayer and supplication.

a great while before day, went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. Luke v. 16. Jesus withdrew himself into

ii. 42. The primitive Christians continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellow-the wilderness, and prayed. Ch. ix. 18. ship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

Acts x. 9. Peter went up to the house top

vi. 4. The apostles said, We will give our-to pray. Ver. 30. selves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.

x. 2. Cornelius prayed to God always. Ver. 31.

xii. 5. Prayer was made without ceasing of the church for Peter.

Rom. xii, 12. Continue instant in prayer. 1 Thess. v. 17. Pray without ceasing.

1 Cor. vii. 5. Give yourselves to fasting and prayer.

Eph. vi. 18. Praying always, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

Col. iv. 2. Continue in prayer, and watch in the same.

1 Thess. iii. 10. Night and day praying exceedingly.

Heb. v. 7. In the days of his flesh Christ offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, and was heard.

1 Pet. iv. 7. The end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. Eph. vi. 18. See more instances, 1 Sam. i. 10, 12. Matt. xxvi. 44. 2 Cor. xii. 7, 8, 9.

CLXXIV. Prayers and tears. See Heb. v. 7, in the former section.

2 Kings xx. 2, 3. Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord and wept sore.-Ver. 5. Thus saith the Lord to Hezekiah, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold I will heal thee. Isa. xxxviii. 5.

Jer. xxxi. 9. They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born. Ver. 12. See Job xvi. 20. Ps. vi. 7, 8, 9.xxxix. 12.—xlii. 3, 4.-lvi. 8, 9. Acts xx. 19.

CLXXV. Private prayer. Matt. vi. 6. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. xiv. 23. Jesus, when he had sent the multitudes away, went up unto a mountain to pray, and was there alone. Luke vi. 12.

xxvi. 36. Jesus saith to his disciples, Sit ye here till I go and pray yonder.-Ver. 39. And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed. Ver. 42. 44.

Mark i. 35. In the morning, Jesus rising up

CLXXVI. Public prayer, being a part of public worship. 1 Kings viii. 27. But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold the heaven, and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee.

Ver. 28-30. Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant: that thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there. Hearken unto the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place; and hear thou in heaven, and forgive.

2 Chron. vii. 12. I have chosen this place to myself, for a house of sacrifice.-Ver. 15. Mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

Ps. lxxxvii. 2. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

cxvi. 18, 19. I will pay my vows unto the Lord in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem.

Isa. lvi. 7. I will make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar: for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.

Zech. viii. 21. Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord.

Joel i. 14. Call an assembly, gather the elders, and call the inhabitants of the land, unto the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord. Ver. 19. Neh. xi. 17.

ii. 15-17. Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children and those that suck the breasts. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord.

Matt. xviii. 19. If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. Ver. 20. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Heb. x. 25. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is. See instances, Luke i. 10. Acts i. 14.— ii. 4. 46.—iii. 1.—xvi. 13.

CLXXVII. Directions concerning the