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Jer. x. 7. Who would not fear thee, O King up the waters of Jordan as he did the Red Sea, of nations?

Rev. xv. 4. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy.

LI. The excellency of fearing God. Job xxviii. 28. The fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding. Ps. cxi. 10. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Prov. ix. 10.-xv. 33. It is the instruction of wisdom.

Prov. i. 7. The fear of the Lord is the be

that all people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty; that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever.

Eccl. iii. 14. What God doth shall be for ever; nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it; and God doth it, that men may fear before him. See Jer. xxxiii. 9. Rev. xiv. 7. Exod. xiv. 31.

Examples. Instances.

1 Sam. xii. 18.

LV. The fear of the Lord is promised and ginning of knowledge. Ps. xix. 9. It is clean, prayed for. Ps. lxxxvi. 11. Unite my heart enduring for ever.

LII. It is a commanded duty. Deut. vi. 24. The Lord our God commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always.

2 Kings xvii. 36. The Lord, him shall ye fear. Ver. 39.

1 Chron. xvi. 30. Fear before him all the earth. Ps. xcvi. 9.

Ps. xxii. 23. Fear him all the seed of Israel. xxxiii. 8. Let all the earth fear the Lord. Ps. xxxiv. 9.

Prov. xxiii. 17. Be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.

xxiv. 21. Fear the Lord and the king. 1 Pet. ii. 17.

Isa. viii. 13. Sanctify the Lord God of hosts, and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

Jer. v. 22. Will ye not fear me, saith the Lord will ye not tremble at my presence? Ver. 24.

Mal. i. 6. If I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts.

Matt. x. 28. Fear him that is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Rev. xiv. 7. Fear God, and give glory to him.

LIII. God is to be feared on account of his perfections. Job xiii. 11. Shall not his excellency make you afraid?

xxv. 2. Dominion and fear are with him. xxxvii. 23, 24. The Almighty is excellent

to fear thy name.

Isa. lix. 19. They shall fear the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. See ch. xxix. 23. Prov. ii. 5. Jer. xxxiii. 9. Hos. iii. 5.

Jer. xxxii. 39. I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever; for the good of them and of their children. I will put my fear into their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

Isa. xi. 2. The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord shall rest upon him.

LVI. The fear of God joined with obedience toward God. Deut. vi. 2, 3. Fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments: that it may be well with thee.-Ver. 13. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him.

x. 12. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul?-Ver. 20. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.

xiii. 4. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him and cleave unto him.

Josh. xxiv. 14. Now, therefore, fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and truth. 1 Sam. xii. 24. Fear the Lord, and serve him with all your heart.

Eccl. xii. 13. Fear God, and keep his com

mandments: for this is the whole duty of | xviii. 3, 4. 12, 13. Obadiah, 2 Kings iv. 1.

man.

LVII. Joined with the worship of God. Ps. ii. 11. Serve the Lord with fear.

v. 7. In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

xxii. 23. Ye that fear the Lord, praise him. cxxxv. 20. Ye that fear the Lord, bless the Lord.

Acts x. 2. Cornelius feared God, and prayed to God always.

Heb. xii. 28. Serve God with reverence and godly fear.

LVIII. It is a motive to duty in general toward God and man, and a restraint from sin. Gen. xxii. 12. God said to Abraham, Thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

xlii. 18. Joseph said, This do, and live; for I fear God.

Exod. i. 17. The midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them.

ix. 20. He that feared God among the servants of Pharaoh, made his cattle and servants flee into the houses.

xx. 20. That his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Lev. xix. 14. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but shalt fear thy God. Ver. 32.

Deut. xiii. 11. All Israel shall hear and fear the Lord, and do no more such wickedness as this among you. Ch. xiv. 23.-xvii. 13. 19. -xix. 20.-xxi. 21.—xxxi. 12, 13.

Hanani, Neh. vii. 2.-Ps. xl. 3.-lii. 6.-exix. 63. See the Qualifications of the civil magistrate, Commandment 5th.

LIX. Promises to them that fear God. Deut. vi. 24. The Lord commanded us to fear the Lord our God, for our good always.

2 Kings xvii. 39. The Lord your God ye shall fear, and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.

Neh. i. 11. Let thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, who desires to fear thy

name.

Ps. xxv. 12. 14. What man is he that feareth the Lord? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

xxxi. 19. How great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! xxxiii. 18. Behold the eye of the Lord is on them that fear him.

xxxiv. 7. The angel of the Lord encampeth round them that fear him, and delivereth them.-Ver. 9. There is no want to them that fear him.

lx. 4. Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee.

lxxxv. 9. His salvation is nigh them that fear him.

ciii. 11. As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.-Ver. 13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.-Ver. 17. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him.

cxi. 5. He hath given meat unto them that

Job i. 1. Job feared God, and eschewed evil. fear him. Ver. 8. Ch. ii. 3.

Prov. iii. 7. Fear the Lord and depart from evil.

viii. 13. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil. Ch. xiv. 16.

xvi. 6. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.

2 Cor. vii. 1. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Ver. 11.

Eph. v. 21. Submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

Phil. ii. 12. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

Heb. xi. 7. Noah, moved with fear, prepared an ark.

cxii. 1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord.

cxv. 11. Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord: he is their help and shield.-Ver. 13. The Lord will bless them that fear him.

cxix. 38. Stablish thy word unto thy servant, who is devoted to thy fear.

cxxviii. 1. Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord.-Ver. 4. Thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord.

cxlv. 19. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him; he will hear their cry, and will save them.

cxlvii. 11. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him.

Prov. x. 27. The fear of the Lord prolongeth

1 Pet. i. 17. Pass the time of your sojourn-days. ing here in fear.

iii. 2. Your chaste conversation, coupled with fear.

Col. iii. 22. Servants, obey your masters in singleness of heart, fearing God. Eph. vi. 5. Instances. Isaac, Gen. xxxi. 42. 1 Kings

xiv. 26, 27. In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence; and his children shall have a place of refuge. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

xv. 16. Better is little with the fear of the

Lord, than great treasure and trouble there- | greatness. Job ix. 6. He shaketh the earth

with.

xix. 23. The fear of the Lord tendeth to life; he that hath it shall abide satisfied.

xxii. 4. By humility and the fear of the Lord, are riches, and honour, and life. xxviii. 14. Happy is the man that feareth always.

xxxi. 30. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised.

Eccl. viii. 12. It shall be well with them that fear God.

out of her place; the pillars thereof tremble. xxvi. 11. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof.

Ps. xviii. 7. The earth shook and trembled, the foundations of the hills moved, because he was wroth. See Ps. Ix. 2.-lxxvii. 18.xcvii. 4. civ. 32.-cxiv. 7. Jer. x. 10.-li. 29. Amos viii. 8.

Quake. Nah. i. 7. The mountains quake at him: the hills melt.

Heb. xii. 21. Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake. See Exod. xix. 18. Ezek.

Isa. xxxiii. 6. The fear of the Lord is his xii. 18. treasure.

1. 10. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, and obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light! let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

Zeph. iii. 7. I said, Surely thou wilt fear me; so their dwelling should not be cut off.

Mal. ii. 5. My covenant was with Levi of life and peace; and I gave them to him, for the fear wherewith he feared me.

iii. 16, 17. They that feared the Lord, spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened and heard; and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord, in the day that I make up my jewels: and I will spare them as a man spareth his son that serveth him.

Terror. Job vi. 4. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

xxxi. 23. Destruction from God was a terror to me.

Ps. lxxxviii. 15. While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

Job

Jer. xvii. 17. Be not a terror to me; thou art my hope in the day of evil. xxxiii. 7.

2 Cor. v. 11. Knowing the terror of the Lord we persuade men.

Reverence. Ps. lxxxix. 7. God is to be had in reverence of all that are about him.

cxi. 9. Holy and reverend is his name.Heb. xii. 28. Serve God with reverence. iv. 4. Stand in awe, and sin not. Ps. xxxiii. 8.-cxix. 161.

Afraid. Deut. ix. 19. I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure of the Lord.

2 Sam. vi. 9. David was afraid of the Lord. iv. 2. Unto you that fear my name, shall See 1 Chron. xiii. 12. Job xiii. 11.-xxi. 6. the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in-xxiii. 15.—xxxiii. 7. Ps. cxix. 120.—lvi. 3. his wings.

Luke i. 50. His mercy is on them that fear him, from generation to generation.

Rev. xi. 18. The time is come, that thou shouldest give a reward to them that fear thy See 1 Sam. xii. 14. 18. Ps. lii. 6..— Ixvi. 16.-cxviii. 4.-cxix. 74. 79. Eccl. vii. 18. Isa. lx. 5. Jer. xxxii. 39, 40. Acts ix. 31.

name.

LX. Other expressions to the same effect. Trembling. Ezra ix. 4. They trembled at the word. Isa. lxvi. 2. 5.

x. 3. They trembled at the commandment. Job xxi. 6. When I remember, trembling taketh hold on my flesh. Ps. cxix. 120.

Ps. ii. 11. Rejoice with trembling. Hos. xiii. 1. When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel.

Joel ii. 1. Let all tremble, for the day of the Lord cometh. Ver. 10. See Ezra x. 9. Job iv. 14. xxxvii. 1. Isa. lxiv. 2. Dan. vi. 26. Jer. xxxiii. 9. Hab. iii. 16. Acts vii. 32. xvi. 29.-xxiv. 25. Eph. vi. 5. Phil. ii. 12.

Hab. iii. 2.

LXII. Threatenings against those that fear not God. Prov. i. 29. They hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.—Ver. 31. Therefore shall they eat the fruit of their own way. Ver. 25, &c.

Eccl. viii. 13. It shall not be well with the wicked, because they fear not God.

Jer. ii. 19. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see, that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of Hosts.

xliv. 10, 11. They are not humbled, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law. Therefore, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, &c.

Mal. iii. 5. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, adulterers, false swearers, against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn LXI. Heaven and earth tremble at God's aside the stranger from his right, and fear not

me, saith the Lord of hosts. See 2 Kings | fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living xvii. 25. 40, 41.

NOT FEARING GOD.

LXIII. The wicked fear not God, with that fear which is a restraint from sin, and a motive to duty. Gen. xx. 11. Abraham said, I thought surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they will slay me for my wife's

sake.

Exod. ix. 30. Moses said to Pharaoh, As for thee and thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the Lord God, to let Israel go. Deut. xxv. 18. Amalek smote Israel, and feared not God.

Job vi. 14. The wicked forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.-Ver. 18. The paths of their way are turned aside, they go to nothing and perish.

xv. 4. He casteth off fear, and restraineth prayer before God.

Ps. xxxvi. 1. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, That there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Iv. 19, 20. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.-He hath broken his covenant.

Ixiv. 4. Suddenly do they shoot at the perfect, and fear not.

Jer. iii. 8. Judah feared not, but played the harlot.

v. 22. Fear ye not me? saith the Lord. Ver. 23, 24. This people hath a revolting heart. Neither say they in their heart, Let us fear the Lord our God.

Luke xviii. 2. There was a judge which feared not God, neither regarded man. See Jer. xxxvi. 24. Hos. x. 3. Luke xxiii. 40. Jude 12.

LXIV. The wicked have a tormenting fear of God, which is their punishment. Job xv. 21. A dreadful sound is in his ears.-Ver. 24. Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid. xviii. 11. Terrors shall make him afraid on every side. Ver. 14. Ch. xxiv. 17.

Ps. ix. 20. Put them in fear, O Lord, that they may know themselves to be but men. Ps. lxxxiii. 15.

lxxiii. 19. They are utterly consumed with

terrors.

Prov. x. 24. The fear of the wicked shall come upon him.

Isa. ii. 10. Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty. Ver. 19. Hos. x. 5. Mic. vii. 17. Luke xxiii. 30. Rev. vi. 15, 16. Heb. x. 27. A fearful looking for of judgment. (Matt. xxv. 25.) Ver. 31. It is a

God.

Isa. xxxiii. 14. The sinners in Zion are afraid, fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites: Who among us shall dwell with devouring fire? with everlasting burnings?

Heb. xii. 29. Our God is a consuming fire. See Isa. Ixvi. 4.

LXV. God delivers the wicked up to their fears of their enemies. Exod. xv. 16. Fear and dread shall fall upon them, by the greatness of thine arm. Gen. xxxv. 5. Isa. xix. 17. Lev. xxvi. 16. I will appoint over you terror. Deut. xxviii. 66, 67. Ezek. xxi. 12. Lam. iii. 47.

xxiii. 27. I will send my fear before thee, and make thine enemies turn their backs. Deut. xi. 25.—ii. 25. Josh. ii. 9.

Deut. iv. 34. Hath God assayed to take a nation, &c. by great terrors, &c. Ch. xxvi. 8. xxxii. 25. The sword and terror shall destroy. Jer. vi. 24, 25.-xxx. 5.

2 Chron. xx. 29. The fear of God was on all the kingdoms. Ps. xviii. 45. See Ps. xiv. 5.-xlviii. 6.-liii. 5. Isa. xxiv. 17. Jer. xlviii. 43.—xlix. 5. 24. 29. Ezek. xxx. 13.

LOVE TO GOD.

Deut.

LXVI. Love to God commanded. vi. 5. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. Ch. x. 12. Matt. xxii. 37.

xi. 1. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments. Ch. xiii. 3.

xxx. 15, 16. I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil; in that I command thee to love the Lord thy God. Ver. 19.

Josh. xxii. 5. Take diligent heed to love the Lord your God, &c.

Ps. xxxi. 23. O love the Lord, all ye his saints.

LXVII. Promises to them that love God. Exod. xx. 5, 6. I the Lord thy God am a jealous God; shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Deut. v. 10.

Deut. vii. 9. Know the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations. Dan. ix. 4. Neh. i. 5.

Ps. xci. 14-16. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him and honour him. I will shew him my salvation.

cxix. 132. Look upon me, and be merciful

love thy name.

unto me, as thou usest to do unto them that and love, with faith from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Phil. i. 9. I pray that cxlv. 20. The Lord preserveth them that your love may abound. love him.

2 Thess. iii. 5. The Lord direct your hearts

Rom. viii. 28. All things work together for into the love of God, and into the patient waitgood to them that love God. ing for Christ. See Eph. iii. 14. 17.

1 Cor. ii. 9. Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

viii. 3. If any man love God, the same is known of him.

James ii. 5. A kingdom God hath promised to them that love him. See also Deut. xi. 13, 14, 15. 22, 23.-xix. 9.-xxx. 16. 19, 20. Ps. lxix. 36. Isa. lvi. 6, 7. Jer. ii. 2, 3. Col. ii. 2. Heb. vi. 10. 1 John iv. 7. 16. 18. Jude 21.

LXVIII. Prayers for them that love God. Judg. v. 31. Let them that love him be as the sun, when he goeth forth in his might.

Ps. v. 11. Let them that love thy name be joyful in thee.

LXXIII. It is a work of the Spirit. Rom. v. 5. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.

Gal. v. 22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, &c. Col. i. 8. 2 Tim. i. 7. v. 6. Faith worketh by love.

LXXIV. Love to God is evidenced by keeping his commandments, and loving his servants. Deut. xi. 13. Love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul. Ver. 22. Ch. xix. 9.

xxx. 20. Love the Lord thy God, obey his voice, cleave unto him, for he is thy life, and the length of thy days.

Isa. lvi. 6. The sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, &c.Ps. Ver. 7. Them will I bring to my holy mountain, &c.

LXIX. Exhortations to love God. xxxi. 23. O love the Lord, all ye saints. 1 Thess. v. 8. Putting on the breastplate of faith and love.

1 Tim. vi. 11. O man of God, follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, and love.

Jude 21. Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

LXX. Instances of persons loving God. Ps. xviii. 1. I will love the Lord my strength. Song i. 4. The upright love thee. 1 Kings iii. 3.

Rom. viii. 38. Neither death nor life, &c. nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Ver. 39.

2 Cor. vi. 4. Approving ourselves by love unfeigned. Ver. 6.

Eph. i. 4. He hath chosen us in Christ, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love.

Eph. iv. 15. Speaking the truth in love. Ver. 16.

1 Thess. i. 3. We give thanks to God, remembering your work of faith and labour of love, &c. Heb. vi. 10.

1 John ii. 5. Whoso keepeth God's word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. Ch. v. 2.

v. 3. This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.-2 John 6. That we walk after his commandments.

iv. 20, 21. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. For this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God, love his brother also. Ch. iii. 17.

LOVE TO CHRIST.

LXXV. Love to Christ enforced by promises. Luke vii. 47. Jesus said, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved

1 John iv. 19. We love him because he much. first loved us. Ps. cxvi. 1.

LXXI. How love to God is produced in Christians. Deut. xxx. 6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. 2 Cor. xiii. 11. God is the God of love.

LXXII. It is prayed for as a gift from God. Eph. vi. 23. Peace be to the brethren,

John xiv. 21. He that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him. Ver 23. And we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Ch. xvi. 27.

1 Tim. i. 14. The grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant, with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Tim. iv. 8. A crown of righteousness the Lord the righteous Judge will give to them that love him.

James i. 12. A crown of life the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

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