Lots; his Works; and whatsoever elfe there is whereby he makes himself known, be holily and reverently used in Thought, Meditation, Word w and Writing; by an holy Profeffion, and answerable Conversation, to the Glory of God, and the Good of our felves and others c. b angry at thy voice, and deftroy the work of thine hand? Acts 1. 24. And they prayed, and faid, Thou Lord, which knoweft the hearts of all men, fhew whe ther of these two thou haft chosen. v.26. And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbred with the eleven apo Ales. Job 36. 24. Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. Mal. 3.16. Then they that feared the Lord, fpake often one to and ther, and the Lord hearkned, and heard it,and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. Pfalm & throughout. v. r. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who haft fet thy glory above the heavens. v. 3. When I confider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the ftars which thou haft or dained; v. 4. What is man, that thou art mindful of him?--- v. 9. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! 113. Quest. works. v. s. Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth. Pfalm 102. 18. This fhall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created, fhall praise the Lord. 1 Pet. 3. 15. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an anfwer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meeknefs and fear. Micah 4 5. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. Phil. I, 27. Only let your converfation be fuch as becometh the gofpel of Chrift: * I Cor. 1o. 3r. Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatfoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Jer. 32. 39. And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, forthe good of them, and of their chil dren after them. - Pet. 2. 12. Having your conw Col.3.17. And whatsoever ye do verfation honeft among the Genin word or deed all in the name tiles that whereas they speak aof the Lord Jefus, giving thanks to gainft you as evil doers, they may God and the Father by him. Pfalm by your good works which they fhall tos. 2. Sing unto him, fing pfalms behold, glorify God in the day of anto him talk ye of all his wondrous vifitation, 113. Mala 113. Queft. What are the Sins forbidden in the Third Commandment? Aufw. The Sins forbidden in the Third Com mandment are, the not ufing of God's Name as is required and the Abuse of it in an ignorante, vain, irreverent, prophane 8, fuperftitious ", or wicked 113. Mal. 2. 2. If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, faith the Lord of hofts, I will even fend a curfe upon you, and 1 will curfe your bleffings: yea, I have curfed them already, because you do not lay it to heart. Acts 17,23. For as I paffed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this infcription, To THE UNKNOWN GO D. Whom therefore mye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Prov. 30.9. Left I be full, and deny thee, and fay, Who is the Lord? or left I be poor, and fteal, and take the name of my God in vain. 8 Mal. 1. 6. A fon honoureth his father, and a fervant his mafter: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and ifI be a mafter, where my fear? faith the Lord of hofts unto you, O priéfts, that defpife my name and ye fay, Wherein have we defpifed thy name? v.7. Ye of fer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye fay, Wherein have we polluted thee in that ye fay, The table of the Lord is contemptible. v. 12. But ye have profaned it, in that ye fay, The table of the Lord is pollut ed, and the fruit thereof, even his meat is contemptible. Mal. 3. 14. Ye have faid, it is vain to ferve God; and what profit is it, that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hofts? 1 Sam. 4. 3. And when the peo+ ple were come into the camp, the elders of Ifrael faid, Wherefore hath the Lord fmitten us to day before the Philiftines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that when it cometh among us, it may fave us out of the hand of our enemy. v.4. Sa the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hofts, which dwelleth between the cheru bims and the two fans of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there, with the ark of the covenant of God v. s. And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came in. to the camp, all Ifrael fhouted with a great fhout, fo that the earth rang again. Jer. 74. Truft ye not in lying words, faying, The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, are thefe v.9. Will ye fteal, murder, and commit adultery, and fwear falfly; and burn incenfe unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom yề know not; v. 1o. And come and ftand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and fay, We are delivered to do all these abominations? v. 14. Therefore will I do unto this houfe which is called by my name, wherein ye truft, and unto the place which I gave to you, and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh. v. 31. And they have built wicked Mentioning or otherwife Ufing his Titles, Attributes, Ordinances, or Works', by Blafphe my", Perjury ; all finful Curfings, Oaths P, Vows, : built the high places of Tophet reproached and blafphemed and which is in the valley of the son of against whom haft thou exalted thy Hinnom, to burn their fons and voice,and lift up thine eyes on high? daughters in the fire, which I com- even against the holy One of Ifrael. manded them not, neither came it Lev. 24. 11. And the Ifraelitish wointo my heart! Col 2.20. Where- mans fon blasphemed the name of fore if ye be dead with Chrift from the Lord, and curfed and they the rudiments of the world; why, brought him unto Moses.: as though living in the world, are ye fubject to ordinances? v. 21. (Touch not, tafte not, handle not: 22. Which all are to perish with the ufing) after the commandments and doctrines of men. V 2 Kings 18. 30. Neither let Hezekiah make you truft in the Lord, faying, The Lordwill furely deliver us, and this city fhall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Af fyria. v. 35. Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord fhould deliver Jerufalem out of mine hand? Exod. s. 2. And Pharaoh faid, Who is the Lord, that I fhould obey his voice to let Ifrael go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Ifrael go. Pfalm 139. 20. For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Pfal. 50.16. But unto the wicked God faith, What haft thou to do to declare my ftatutes? or that thou fhouldst take my covenant in thy mouth v. 17. Seeing thou hateft inftruction, and cafteft my words: behind thee. ر Zech 5.4. I will bring it forth, faith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that weareth falfly by my name: and it fhall remain in the midft of his houfe, and fhall confume it, with the timber thereof, and the ftones thereof. Zech 817. And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against your neighbour, and love no falle oath a for all these are things that I hate, faith the Lord. 11 Sam. 17, 43. And the Phili ftine faid unto David, Am Ia dog, that thou comeft to me with ftaves? and the Philiftine curfed David by his gods. 2 Sam. 16, 5. And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the houfe of Saul, whose name was Shimei the fon of Gerar, he came forth, and curfed ftill as he came, sk Pfer. 5. 7. How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forfaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and affembled themselves by troops Ifa. s. 12. And the harp and the in the harlots houses. Jer. 23.10. viol, the tabret and pipe, and wine. For the land is full of adulterers, for are in their feafts: but they regard because of swearing the land mourn— not the work of the Lord, neither eth: the pleafant places of the wilconfider the operation of his hands, derness are dried up, and their 2 Kings 19. 22. Whom haft thou courfe Vows,and Lots; Violating of our Oaths and Vows if lawful; and fulfilling them if of Things unlaw ful; Murmuring and quarrelling at, curious Pry course is evil, and their force is not right. Deut. 23. 18. Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God. Acts 23. 12. Ánd when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themfelves under a curfe, faying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. v. 14. And they came to the chief priests and elders, and faid, We have bound our selves under a great curfe, that we will eat nothing until we have flain Paul. Efth. 3. 7. In the first month (that is the month Nifan) in the twelfth year of king Ahafuerus,they caft Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman, from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is the month Adar. Efth. 9.24. Because Haman the son of Hamedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to deftroy them, and had caft Pur, that is the lot) to confume them, and to deftroy them. Pfalm 22. 18. They part my garments among them, and caft lots upon my vesture. Pfalm 24. 4. He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lift up his foul unto vanity, nor fworn deceitfully. Ezek. 17.16. As I live, faith the Lord God, furely in the place where the king dwelleth, that made him king, whofe oath he defpifed, and whofe covenant he brake, even with him, in the midft of Babylon he shall die. v.18. See ing ing he despised the oath, by breaking the covenant, (when lo, he had given his hand) and hath done all these things, he thall not escape. v. 19. Therefore thus faith the Lord God, As I live, furely mine oath that he hath defpifed, and my cove nant that he hath broken,even it will I recompenfe upon his own head. i Mark 6. 26. And the king was exceeding forry, yet for his oaths fake, and for their fakes which fat with him, he would not reject her. 1 8am. 25. 22. So and more alfo do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him, by the morning light, any that piffeth against the wall. v. 32. And David faid to Abigail, Bleffed be the Lord God of lfrael, which sent thee this day to meet me: V. 33. And bleffed be thy advice, and bleffed be thou, which has kept me this day from coming to hed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand. v. 34. For in very deed, as the Lord God of Ifrael liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hafted and come to meet me, furely there had not been left unto Nabal, by the morning light, any that pisseth against the wall. Rom. 9. 14. What' fhall we fay then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. v. 19. Thos wilt fay then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? for who hath refifted his will? v. zo. Nay, but O man, who art thou that replieft against God? fhall the thing formed fay to him that formed it, Why haft thou made me thus? ing into, and Mifapplying of God's Decrees and Providences; Mifinterpreting, Mifapplying, or any way perverting the Word or any Part of it b to profane Jefts, curious or unprofitable Queftions, vain Janglings, or the Maintaining of falfe' Do Deut. 29. 29. The fecret things epiftles, speaking in them of these belong unto the Lord our God: but things: in which are fome things those things which are revealed belong hard to be understood, which they unto us and to our children for ever, that are unlearned and unstable that we may do all the words of this wreft, as they do alfo the other fcrilaw. ptures, unto their own destruction. Rom. 3. 5. But if our unrighte- Mat. 22. 24. to the 31. Saying, Maoufnefs commend the righteousness fter, Mofes faid, If a man die, haof God, what fhall we fay? is God ving no children, his brother shall unrighteous who taketh vengeance? marry his wife, and raise up feed I speak as a man. v. 7. For if the unto his brother. v. 25. Now there truth of God hath more abounded were with us feven brethren, and through my lie unto his glory; why the firft,--- v. 28. Therefore in the yet am I alfo judged as a finner? refurrection, whose wife shall the be Rom. 6. 1. What fhall we fay then? of the feven? for they all had her. fhall we continue in fin, that grace v. 29. Jefus answered and faid unto may abound: God forbid. them, Ye do err, not knowing the fcriptures, nor the power of God. v. 30. For in the refurrection-- y Eccl. 8. 11. Because fentence agamft an evil work is not executed fpeedily; therefore the heart of the fons of men is fully fet in them to do evil. Eccl. 9. 3. This is an evil among all things that are done under the fun, that there is one event unto all Yea, alfo the heart of the fons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that, they go to the dead. Pfalm 39.throughout. I faid, I will take heed to my ways, that fin not with my tongue :-- I Mat. 5. 21. to the end. [See Queft. 99. letter °.} a. Ezek. 13. 22. Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous fad, whom I have not made fad; and ftrengthned the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promifing him life. 2 Pet. 3. 16. As alfo in all his for Ifa. 22. 13. And behold, joy and gladnefs, flaying oxen, and killing theep,eating flesh, and drinking wine; let us eat and drink, for to morrow we fhall die. Jer. 43.34. And as for the prophet, and the prieft, and the people that fhall fay, The burden of the Lord, I will even punish that man and his house. v. 36. And the burden of the Lord fhall ye mention no more every mans word fhall be his burden;for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hofts our God. v. 38. But fith ye say, The burden of the Lord; therefore thus faith the Lord, Because you fay this word, The burden of the Lord, and I have fent unto you, faying, Ye shall not fay, The burden of the Lord, d¡ Tim |