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2 Cor. ix. 7. Give to the poor, not grudg ingly.

James v. 9. Grudge not one against another, lest ye be condemned.

Isa. xi. 4. With righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity, for the meek of the earth.

xxix. 19. The meek shall increase their joy

1 Pet. iv. 9. Use hospitality one to another, in the Lord. without grudging.

MEEKNESS

XXX. The exercise of meekness required. Gal. vi. 1. If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness.

Eph. iv. 1, 2. Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called; with all lowliness and meekness, and long-suffering.

1 Tim. vi. 11. Follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

2 Tim. ii. 25. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves.

Tit. iii. 2. Shewing all meekness to all men. James iii. 13. Who is a wise man and endued with wisdom among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works, with meekness of wisdom.

1 Pet. iii. 15. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.

XXXI. How produced. Gal. v. 22, 23. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,

temperance.

XXXII. Examples of meekness. xii. 3. Moses was very meek.

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Matt. xxi. 5. Behold thy King [Jesus] cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass. Isa. Ixii. 11. Zech. ix. 9.

2 Cor. x. 1. I beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, &c.

Col. iii. 12. Put on (as the elect of God) bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering.

XXXIII. Promises to the meek. Ps. xxii. 26. The meek shall eat and be satisfied. xxv. 9. The meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way.

xxxvii. 11. The meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in abundance of peace.

lxi. 1. The Lord hath anointed me to preach glad tidings to the meek.

Zeph. ii. 3. Seek the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgments; seek righteousness, seek meekness, it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger. Matt. v. 5. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

1 Pet. iii. 4. The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit is in the sight of God of great price.

HUMILITY.

XXXIV. Humility toward God. Deut. viii. 2, 3. The Lord thy God led thee forty years in the wilderness to humble thee. He humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna.

Mic. vi. 8. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

James iv. 10. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall exalt you. 1 Pet. v. 6.

2. Humble thyself, make sure thy friend. XXXV. Humility toward men. Prov. vi.

xxv. 6, 7. Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men. For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither, than that thou shouldst be put lower. Luke xiv. 8. 10.

Jer. xlv. 5. Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not.

Matt. xx. 26-28. Whosoever will be great

among you, let him be your minister. Whosoever will be chief among you let him be your servant. Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.

Rom. xii. 3. I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.-Ver. 16. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.

xlv. 4. In thy majesty ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness, and righteous-other, in the fear of God.

Eph. v. 21. Submit yourselves one to an

ness.

lxxvi. 9. God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.

cxlvii. 6. The Lord lifteth up the meek, and casteth the wicked down to the ground.

exlix. 4. The Lord will beautify the meek with salvation.

1 Pet. v. 5. All of you be subject one to another; and be ye clothed with humility. Phil. ii. 3. In lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

XXXVI. Promises to the humble. Job xxii. 29. God shall save the humble person.

Ps. ix. 12. God forgetteth not the cry of the | bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet.— humble.

x. 17. O Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble; thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear.

cxxxviii. 6. Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect to the lowly.

Prov. xv. 33. Before honour is humility. Ch. xviii. 12.

xvi. 19. Better is it to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

xxii. 4. By humility and the fear of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life.

xxix. 23. Honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Isa. lvii. 15. The Lord saith, I dwell with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit. Ch. lxvi. 2.

Matt. v. 3. Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Ver. 12-15. After he had washed their feet, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done unto you? Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say well, for so I am: If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

Phil. ii. 5-8. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: yet made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, &c.

XXXIX. The Elect. Col. iii. 12. Put on, as mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekthe elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of

xviii. 4. Whosoever shall humble himselfness, long-suffering, forbearing one another in as this little child, the same shall be greatest in love. Eph. iv. 2. the kingdom of heaven.

XL. Humbled saints: their expressions.

xxiii. 12. Whosoever humbleth himself shall Gen. xviii. 27. Abraham said, Behold, now I be exalted. Luke xiv. 11.

James iv. 6. God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. Prov. iii. 34.

XXXVII. Promises to humbled sinners. Lev. xxvi. 41, 42. If their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they accept of the punishment of their iniquities, then will I remember my covenant. 2 Chron. vii. 14.

have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

xxxii. 9, 10. Jacob said, O God, I am not Worthy of the least of thy mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy

servant.

xli. 16. Joseph said, It is not in me to give an answer; God shall give an answer of peace. Dan. ii. 30.

Exod. iii. 11. Moses said unto God, Who am

2 Kings xxii. 19, 20. Because thy heart [Josiah] was tender, and thou hast humbled thy-I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I self before the Lord, and hast rent thy clothes, should bring forth the children of Israel out of and wept before me, I also have heard thee, Egypt? saith the Lord. Behold, therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place.

2 Chron. xxxii. 25. Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him, for his heart was lifted up; therefore there was wrath upon him.-Ver. 26. Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart; so the wrath of the Lord came not upon him. See Ahab, 1 Kings xxi. 29.-Rehoboam, 2 Chron. xii. 6, 7. 12.—Manasseh, 2 Chron. xxxiii. 12. 19.

Nebuchadnezzar, Dan. iv. 30 to 37.

XXXVIII. Examples of humility. Jesus Christ. Matt. xi. 29. Jesus said, Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

xx. 28. The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

John xiii. 5. Jesus poured water into a

and what is my people, that we should be able 1 Chron. xxix. 14. David said, Who am I, to offer so willingly after this sort? All things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. See 2 Sam. vii. 19. Thou hast spoken

of thy servant's house for a great while to

come, &c.

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cxv. 1. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory; for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.

cxliv. 3, 4. Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him? Man is like to vanity.

Matt. viii. 8. The centurion said to Jesus, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof.

Luke v. 8. Simon Peter said to Jesus, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

xviii. 13, 14. The publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. This man went down to his house justified rather than the other.

Acts iii. 12. The apostles said, Why look ye on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk ?-Ver. 16. The name of Jesus, through faith in his name, hath made this man strong.

xx. 19. Serving the Lord with all humility of mind.

Rom. vii. 18. I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing.

1 Cor. xv. 9. I am the least of the apostles, and am not worthy to be called an apostle. Eph. iii. 8. To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, is this grace given.

2 Cor. iii. 5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.

xii. 10. When I am weak, then am I strong. Gal. ii. 20. I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.

ments. Isa. xiv. 4 to 24. See the pride and fall of Babylon.

XLII. Pride against men. Ps. x. 2. The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor. xvii. 10. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Ver. 11. They have compassed us in our

steps.

lxxxvi. 14. O God, the proud are risen against me. Ver. 17.

cxix. 51. The proud have had me greatly in derision.-Ver. 69. They forged a lie against me. (Ver. 78. 122.) Ver. 85. They have digged pits for me. Ps. cxl. 5. cxxiii. 4. Our soul is filled with the contempt of the proud.

Prov. xxi. 24. He dealeth in proud wrath. xxviii. 25. The proud in heart stirreth up strife. Ch. xiii. 10.

XLIII. Spiritual pride-Such seem to be righteous. Deut. ix. 4. Speak not in thy heart, saying, For my righteousness the Lord brought me in to possess this land.

2 Kings x. 16. Come, see my zeal for the Lord, said Jehu.

Isa. lxv. 3. A people that provoketh me to anger continually.-Ver. 5. Say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

Luke xviii. 9. They trust in themselves that they are righteous, and despise others.-Ver. 11, 12. The Pharisee said, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers; or even as this publican: Phil. iii. 12-14. Not as though I had al-I fast twice in the week, I pay tithes of all ready attained, either were already perfect. I that I possess, &c. count not myself to have apprehended, I press toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

PRIDE.

XLI. Pride against God. Exod. xviii. 11. The Lord is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly, he was above them. Compare Exod. ix. 17.

Ps. x. 4. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. See Jer. xliii. 2.

Ixxiii. 6. The pride of the wicked compasseth them about as a chain.-Ver. 9. They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. Ver. 11. They say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High ?Ver. 18. Thou castedst them down.

cxix. 21. Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy command

Rom. x. 3. Being ignorant of God's righteousness, they go about to establish their own righteousness.

1 Cor. x. 12. They think they stand, but should take heed lest they fall.

XLIV. They are proud of their supposea wisdom and knowledge. Job xii. 2. No doubt ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

xv. 8. Dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself? Jer. viii. 8. How say ye, We are wise, and the law of God is with us?

1 Cor. iii. 18. They deceive themselves; they seem to be wise.

iv. 6. They are puffed up.-Ver. 8. They are full, they are rich, they reign as kings without instructors.

viii. 1. Their knowledge puffeth them up.Ver. 2. If they think they know any thing, they know nothing as they ought to know.

2 Cor. x. 12, 13. They commend them

selves but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. They boast of things without their measure.

1 Tim. vi. 4, 5. Proud, knowing nothing; doting about questions, &c. 2 Tim. iii. 2.

Rev. iii. 17. They know not that they are poor, and miserable, and wretched, and blind, and naked. See Korah and his company, Numb. xvi. 3.

XLV. The proud seek honour from men. Prov. xxv. 6, 7. They put themselves in the place of great men.

Matt. xxiii. 6. They choose the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues. Luke xiv. 7.

Ver. 7. They love to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

John v. 44. They seek honour of men, and not the honour that cometh from God only. xii. 43. They love the praise of men more than the praise of God. See instances: Haman, Esther iii. 5.-v. 5, &c. And Naaman the Syrian, 2 Kings v. 11 to 15.

XLVI. Threats and prayers against the proud. 1 Sam. ii. 3. Talk no more so exceeding proudly: let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Job ix. 13. If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. xxvi. 12. By his understanding he smiteth through the proud.

Ps. xii. 3. The Lord shall cut off the tongue that speaketh proud things. Ps. xxxi. 18.xl. 4.-xvii. 10.

xxxi. 23. The Lord plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

xxxvi. 11. Let not the foot of pride come against me.

lix. 12. Let them be taken in their pride. xciv. 2. Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud. Luke i. 51.

cxxxviii. 6. The proud the Lord knoweth afar off.

Prov. viii. 13. Wisdom saith, Pride and arrogancy do I hate. Ch. vi. 16, 17.

xvi. 5. Every one that is proud is an abomination to the Lord.-Ver. 18. Pride goeth before destruction; and a haughty spirit before a fall. Ch. xi. 2. When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.

xxi. 4. A high look, a proud heart, and the ploughing of the wicked is sin.

xxix. 23. A man's pride shall bring him low.

Isa. ii. 11, 12. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall

be bowed down; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low. Ch. v. 15, 16.-xxvi. 5.

xiii. 11. I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

xxiii. 9. The Lord hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory.

xxv. 11. He shall bring down their pride. xxviii. 1. Woe to the crown of pride. Jer. xiii. 15, 16. Hear ye; and give ear; be not proud; for the Lord hath spoken: Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause dark mountains. Ver. 18. darkness, and before your feet stumble on the

Dan. iv. 37. Those that walk in pride, he is able to abase.

their pride: The Lord will be terrible unto Zeph. ii. 10, 11. This shall they have for

them.

Mark vii. 22. Out of the heart proceed pride, foolishness; and these defile the man. Ver. 23.

Rom. i. 28-30. God gave them over to a reprobate mind who did not like to retain God in their knowledge: Being filled with all unrighteousness; proud, boasters, &c.

1 John ii. 16. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

ARROGANCY.

XLVII. Arrogancy. 1 Sam. ii. 3. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth.

Prov. viii. 13. Pride and arrogancy, and the evil way, do I hate, saith Wisdom.

Isa. xiii. 11. I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, saith the Lord.

LOFTINESS.

XLVIII. Loftiness. Ps. lxxiii. 8. The wicked speak loftily. (Prov. xxx. 13.) Ver. 18. Thou castedst them down to destruction. cxxxi. 1. Lord, my heart is not haughty nor mine eyes lofty.

HAUGHTY,

XLIX. Haughty. 2 Sam. xxii. 28. Thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. Ezek. xvi. 50.

Prov. xviii. 12. Before destruction the heart of man is haughty. Ch. xvi. 18.

Isa. iii. 16, 17. Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched. forth necks, the Lord will smite them with a scab, &c.

xiii. 11. I will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Zeph.iii. 11. Thou shalt no more be haughty. Mic. ii. 3.

L. Exalting one's self. Ps. Ixvi. 7. Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Ps. cxl. 8. Prov. xvii. 19. He that exalteth his gate, seeketh destruction.

Matt. xxiii. 12. Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased. Luke xiv. 11.

2 Thess. ii. 4. The man of sin and son of perdition opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or is worshipped.-Ver. 8. Whom the Lord will consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.

LI. Lifting up one's self. Deut. viii. 11. 14. Beware that thy heart be not lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God. Ver. 11,

12. 17.

xii. 5. Of myself will I not glory, but in mine infirmities.

Gal. v. 26. Let us not be desirous of vainglory.

Phil. ii. 3. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory.

iii. 19. Some glory in their shame. James iii. 14. Glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Prov. xxvii. 2. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. Ch. xxv. 27. 2 Cor. xii. 5.

BOASTING.

LIV. Boasting. 1 Kings xx. 11. Let not him that girdeth on his armour boast himself as he that putteth it off.

desire. James iii. 5.
Ps. x. 3. The wicked boasteth of his heart's

xlix. 6. They boast themselves of the mul titude of their riches. Luke xii. 16 to 20.

lii. 1. They boast of mischief. Ps. xciv. 4 Prov. xxvii. 1. Boast not thyself of to-mor row. James iv. 14, 15, 16.

xvii. 18-20. The king shall write him a copy of the law. He shall read therein, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren. 2 Chron. xxvi. 16. When Uzziah was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruc-ers, tion; for he transgressed against the Lord his God. Ch. xxv. 19, 20.

Ps. lxxxiii. 2. They that hate thee have lifted up the head.

1 Tim. iii. 6. A bishop must not be a novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. See Prov. xxx. 32.

Rom. i. 30. The wicked are proud, boast&c.

iii. 27. Boasting [against God] is excluded by the law of faith.

Eph. ii. 8, 9. Ye are saved through faith, not of works, lest any man should boast.

SCORNING

LV. Scorning. Ps. i. 1. Blessed is he that sitteth not in the seat of the scornful. exxiii. 4. Our soul is filled with the scorn

LII. Magnifying one's self. Ps. xxxv. 26. Let them be clothed with shame that magnifying of those that are at ease. themselves. Ps. xxxviii. 16.-lv. 12. Lam. i. 9.

LIII. Glorying. Jer. xlix. 4, 5. Wherefore gloriest thou, O backsliding daughter, that trusted in her treasures? Behold I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord of hosts, from all that are about thee.

Prov. xxv. 27. For men to search their own glory, is not glory.

1 Cor. i. 27-29. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and weak things to confound the mighty; and base things, and things that are despised, and things that are not, hath God chosen to bring to naught things that are; that no flesh should glory in his presence.

iii. 21. Let no man glory in men. Ch. v. 2. 6. iv. 7. Who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

2 Cor. v. 12. Some glory in appearance. xi. 18. Many glory after the flesh.

Prov. i. 22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

iii. 34. The Lord scorneth the scorners; but he giveth grace to the lowly.

ix. 7. He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame.-Ver. 8. Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee.-Ver. 12. If thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

xiii. 1. A scorner heareth not rebuke.

xiv. 6. A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not.

xv. 12. A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him.

xix. 25. Smite a scorner and the simple will beware.

Ver. 29. Judgments are prepared for scorners.

xxi. 11. When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise.

Ver. 24. Proud and haughty scorner is his name, that dealeth in proud wrath.

xxii. 10. Cast out the scorner, and conten

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