tent heart, thou treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath. Heb. vi. 4-6. It is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame. in Zion, beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Jer. xxxi. 13. I will turn their mourning into joy: I will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow. Ezek. vii. 16. They shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, mourning every one for his iniquity. Ver. 27. ix. 4. Set a mark on the foreheads of them that sigh and cry for the abominations. Rev. xii. 17. Esau found no place for repentance, | vii. 3. though he sought it carefully with tears. Matt. xxvii. 3. Gen. vi. 3. God saith, My Spirit shall not always strive with man. Ps. xcv. 8. Harden not your hearts. Heb. iii. 8. 15.—iv. 7. XVI. Sorrow for sin. Ps. xiii. 2. How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? xxxviii. 17. I am ready to halt; my sorrow is continually before me.-Ver. 18. I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. Ixix. 29. I am poor and sorrowful; let thy salvation, O God, set me on high. Ps. cxvi. 3, 4. Eccl. vii. 3. Sorrow is better than laughter. Prov. xiv. 13. Jer. xxxi. 25. I have satiated the weary soul; I have replenished every sorrowful soul. Zeph. iii. 18. I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly. John xvi. 20. Your sorrow shall be turned into joy. Rom. ix. 2. I have continual sorrow in my heart. 2 Cor. vi. 10. As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing. vii. 9 to 12. Ye sorrowed to repentance. XVII. Mourning for sin. Exod. xxxiii. 4. When the people heard God's threatenings against them, they mourned. Numb. xiv. 39. Ezra x. 6. Ezra mourned, because of the transgression of those that had been carried captive. Neh. i. 4. Nehemiah wept and mourned, fasted and prayed, and said, &c. Job v. 11. God doth great things, that those that mourn may be exalted. Ver. 8, 9. Ps. xxxviii. 6. I go mourning all the day. Ps. xlii. 9.-xliii. 2. Iv. 2. Attend unto me and hear me; I mourn in my complaint. Isa. xxxviii. 14. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter; I did mourn as a dove. Isa. lix. 11. lvii. 18. I will restore comforts unto him and to his mourners. lxi. 2, 3. The Lord hath sent me to comfort all that mourn. To give unto them that mourn Dan. x. 2. I Daniel was mourning three full weeks, &c. Joel i. 9. The priests, the Lord's ministers mourn. ii. 12. Turn ye unto me (saith the Lord) and mourning. with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping Ver. 13. Rend your heart and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God. Zech. xii. 10. They shall look on me whom they have pierced, and mourn. Ver. 12. The land shall mourn, every family apart. Matt. v. 4. Blessed are they that mourn; they shall be comforted. XVIII. Reproofs and threats for not mourning for sin. Isa. xxii. 12, 13. In that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping and mourning, and baldness, and to girding with sackcloth. But behold joy and gladness. Zech. vii. 5. When ye fasted and mourned, did ye at all fast to me, even to me? Luke vi. 25. Woe unto you that laugh; ye shall mourn. 1 Cor. v. 2. Ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned. James iv. 9. Be ye afflicted, and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned to mourning, your joy to heaviness. and XIX. Heaviness for sin. Ezra ix. 5. I arose from my heaviness. Ps. xxxviii. 4. Mine iniquities are as a heavy burden. cxix. 28. My soul melteth for heaviness. Matt. xi. 28. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you Isa. Ixi. 3. rest. XX. Grief for sin. 2 Chron. vi. 29, 30. When every one shall know his own sore, and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands and pray; Hear thou, and forgive. 1 Kings viii. 28, 39. When he shall know the plague of his own heart; Hear thou, and forgive. Neh. xiii. 8. Their profaning the house of God, grieved me sore. Ps. cxix. 158. I beheld transgressors and was grieved. Mark iii. 5. Jesus was grieved for the hardness of their hearts. XXI. Not being grieved for sin. Jer. v. 3. Thou hast stricken them; they have not grieved. Isa. lvii. 10. XXII. Weeping for sin. Judg. ii. 4. The Israelites being reproved by an angel for their sins, they lifted up their voice and wept. 2 Kings xxii. 19. Because thy heart was tender, and thou hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard thee, saith the Lord. 2 Chron. xxxiv. 27. Ezra x. 1. Ezra confessed, wee ping. XXIV. The heart affected for having sinned. 1 Sam. xxiv. 5. David's heart smote him. 1 Kings viii. 38. Know the plague of his own heart. 2 Chron. vi. 29. His own sore. 2 Kings xxii. 19. Because thy heart was tender. Isa. xlvii. 7. Lay to heart. Dan. v. 22. Humble the heart. Joel ii. 13. Rend the heart. Acts ii. 37. They were pricked in their hearts. Ch. ix. 6.-xvi. 30. Ps. cix. 22. Heart wounded. XXV. A broken and contrite heart. Ps. xxxiv. 18. The Lord is nigh unto them that Ps. vi. 8. The Lord hath heard the voice of are of a broken heart, and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. my weeping. cii. 9. I have mingled my drink with weep ing. cxxvi. 6. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall come again with rejoicing. Jer. xiii. 17. My soul shall weep in secret for your pride. xxxi. 9. They shall come with weeping and supplications. 1. 4. The children of Israel shall go together weeping, to seek the Lord their God. Joel ii. 12. Turn ye unto me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping and mourning. Ver. 17. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar; and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord. Luke vi. 21. Blessed are ye that weep. Ver. 25. vii. 38. A woman stood weeping, and began to wash Jesus' feet with tears. xxiii. 28. Jesus said, Weep not for me, but weep for yourselves. James iv. 9.—v. 1. XXIII. Tears for sin. 2 Kings xx. 5. I have seen thy tears; behold I will heal thee. Isa. xxxviii. 5. Job xvi. 20. Mine eye poureth out tears unto God. Ps. vi. 6. I water my couch with my tears. xxxix. 12. Hold not thy peace at my tears. xlii. 3. My tears have been my meat day and night. lvi. 8. Put my tears in thy bottle. cxxvi. 5. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Jer. ix. 1. O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears. Ver. 18. xiii. 17. Mine eye shall run down with tears. Lam. ii. 11. Mine eyes do fail with tears. Ver. 18. Let tears run down like a river day and night; give thyself no rest. Jer. xiv. 17. Acts xx. 19. Serving the Lord with many tears. Rev. vii. 17. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. li. 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. cix. 16. See prayers against those who would slay the broken in heart. Ver. 17, &c. cxlvii. 3. The Lord healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds. Isa. lvii. 15. Thus saith the Lord, I dwell with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit; to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. the broken-hearted. Luke iv. 18. Ixi. 1. The Lord hath sent me to bind up lxvi. 2. To this man will I look, even to him that is poor, and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. XXVI. Shame the portion of sinners. Prov. iii. 35. Shame shall be the promotion of fools. xiii. 5. A wicked man cometh to shame. xiv. 34. Sin is a reproach to any people. Dan. xii. 2. Some (at the last day) shall awake to shame, &c. XXVII. Shame enjoined as a mark of true penitents. Jer. xxii. 22. Thou shalt be ashamed and confounded, for all thy wicked ness. Ezek. xliii. 10. Show the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities. Ver. 11. Hos. iv. 19. Rom. vi. 21. What fruit had ye in these things whereof ye are now ashamed? Jer. xxxi. 19.—iii. 25. Ps. cxix. 6. Then shall I not be ashamed XXVIII. Avoiding sin is avoiding shame. when I have respect unto all thy commandments. See Rev. iii. 18.-xvi. 15. Compare Gen. iii. 7, 8. Job xi. 14, 15. If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away; and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. For then thou shalt lift up thy face without spot, &c. XXIX. Reproofs for not being ashamed of sin. Jer. vi. 15. When they had commit- | ted abomination they were not ashamed, neither could they blush. Ch. viii. 12. Zeph. iii. 5. The unjust knoweth no shame. Phil. iii. 19. The wicked glory in their shame. Jude 13. Foaming out their own shame. XXX. Abhorring and loathing one's self for sin. Job xlii. 6. Job said, I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Ezek. vi. 9. They shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed, in all their abominations. Ch. xx. 43.—xxxvi. 31. XXXI. Confession and acknowledgment of sin required of penitents. XXXII. Promises to confessing and acknowledging sin. Lev. xxvi. 40-42. If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers; if their uncircumcised hearts be humbled; then will I remember my covenant. 1 Kings viii. 33. 35. Ps. xxxii. 5. I said, I will confess my transgressions; thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Prov. xxviii. 13. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them, shall have mercy. Job xxxi. 33. 1 John i. 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Ver. 35. They have not served thee in thy great goodness, neither turned they from their wicked works. Job xiii. 23. How many are my iniquities and my sins: make me to know my transgression and my sin. xiv. 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? xv. 14. What is man that he should be clean? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 1 Kings viii. 46. saints, and the heavens are not clean in his Ver. 15. Behold he putteth no trust in his sight. xl. 4. Behold I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. Ps. xxxviii. 18. I will declare mine iniquity; will be sorry for my sin. Ps. xxxii. 5. I sin li. 3. I acknowledge my transgressions; my is ever before me. and in sin did my mother conceive me. Ver. 5. Behold I was shapen in iniquity, Ixix. 5. O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my sins are not hid from thee. Ps. cxxx. 3. If thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Prov. xx. 9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? 1 John i. 8. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. Eccl. vii. 20. There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not. Isa. lix. 12. Our transgressions are multi XXXIII. Exhortations to confession. Josh. vii. 19. Give glory to God, and make confes-plied before thee, and our sins testify against us. sion. Jer. iii. 13. Acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God. Ezra x. 11. Hos. v. 15. Rom. xiv. 11. Every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess to God. XXXIV. Instances. Matt. iii. 6. They were baptized, confessing their sins. Acts xix. 18. Many that believed, confessed and shewed their deeds. XXXV. Confessions made in Scripture expressions. Ezra ix. 6. O my God, I am ashamed, and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our heads, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. Ver. 7. 13. 15. Ps. xxxviii. 4. -xl. 12. Jer. xiv. 20. Neh. i. 6, 7. Both I and my father's house have sinned. (Ps. cvi. 6.) We have dealt very corruptly against thee. ix. 16. They dealt proudly and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments. Ver. 26. They were disobedient and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs. lxiv. 6. We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away. Jer. xiv. 7. Our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. Ver. 20. Luke xv. 21. Dan. ix. 5. We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly and have rebelled; even by departing from thy precepts, and from thy judgments.-Ver. 8. O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers; because we have sinned against thee. Rom. vii. 18. In my flesh dwelleth no good thing.-Ver. 21. I find a law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me.-Ver. 23. I see a law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members. XXXVI. Amendment. Deut. x. 16. Circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked. Jer. iv. 4. Job xxxiv. 32. If I have done iniquity, I will do no more. + Isa. i. 16, 17. Cease to do evil, learn to do well. Jer. vii. 3. Amend your ways and your doings. Ver. 5. Ch. xxvi. 13.—xxxv. 15. Matt. iii. 8. Bring forth fruits meet for repentance. Luke iii. 8. Ver. 17. Every good tree bringeth furth good fruit. Ch. xiii. 23. Mark xii. 2. John xv. 2. Every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth, that it may bring forth more fruit. Matt. xiii. 12. Ver. 5. I am the vine, ye are the branches: John v. 14. Sin no more. Ch. viii. 11. Ps. he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same iv. 4. Stand in awe, and sin not. bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye Rom. vi. 1. Shall we continue in sin, &c. can do nothing. God forbid. Eph. v. 14. Awake, thou that sleepest, arise from the dead. See Dead works. James iv. 8. Cleanse your hands, purify your hearts. FRUITFULNESS. XXXVII. Fruitfulness in religion. Ps. i. 3. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. xcii. 14. They shall bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing. See ver. 12, 13. Ps. lxxxiv. 7. Ver. 8. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. Ver. 16. I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit. Rom. vi. 22. Being made free from sin, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. Ch. vii. 4. Eph. iv. 15. Grow up unto Christ in all things. v. 9. The fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth. Phil. i. 11. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. Col. i. 10. Walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work. Prov. iv. 18. The path of the just is as the Ch. ii. 6, 7. shining light, that shineth, &c. Isa. v. 4. What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it, to make it fruitful? Jer. xxxi. 12. Their soul shall be as a watered garden. Mal. iv. 2. Hos. xiv. 5. I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.-Ver. 8. I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found. Matt. vii. 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Ver. 20. Ch. xii. 33. James iii. 17. The wisdom from above is full of good fruits. 1 Pet. ii. 2. Desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. 2 Pet. i. 8. If these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. iii. 18. Grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Jude 20. Building yourselves up in your most holy faith. CHAPTER XIX. OF DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION. the prey. I. THE shortness of human life. Gen. | swift ships, and as the eagle that hasteth to xlvii. 9. Jacob said, Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been. Job xiv. 1. Man that is born of a woman, is of few days. 1 Sam. xx. 3. There is but a step between me and death. 1 Chron. xxix. 15. Our days on earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. Job viii. 9. Ps. cii. 11.-cxliv. 4. Zech. i. 5. Job vii. 6. Our days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. ix. 25, 26. Our days are swifter than a post, they fly away. They are passed away as the xvi. 22. When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. xvii. 1. My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Ps. xxxix. 4, 5. Lord, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is, that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best estate is altogether sanity.-Ver. 13. O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go hence and be no more. Ps. xc. 3. 5, 6. 10. 12. ciii. 15, 16. Man's days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. Isa. xl. 6, 7, 8. James i. 10. 1 Pet. i. 24. James iv. 14. Our life is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. Heb. xiii. 14. Here we have no continuing city. 1 Chron. xxix. 15. There is none abiding. II. Of the term or boundary of human life. Job vii. 1. Is there not an appointed time for man upon earth? Are not his days like the days of a hireling? xiv. 5. Man's days are determined; the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. -Ver. 14. All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Ps. xc. 10. The days of our years are threescore and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off and we fly away. Eccl. iii. 2. A time to be born, and a time to die. Matt. vi. 27. Which of you can add one cubit to his stature? [or age.] Acts xvii. 26. God hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth; and hath determined the times, before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation. III. The time of life is in God's hand. Job v. 18. The Lord maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole. 1 Sam. ii. 6. The Lord killeth, and he maketh alive; he bringeth down to the grave, and he raiseth up. Deut. xxxii. 39. Ps. lxviii. 20. Unto God the Lord belong the issues from death. Ps. ix. 13.-ciii. 4. Dan. v. 23. God, in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways. Acts xvii. 28. In him we live, and move, and have our being. Rev. i. 18. I have the keys of hell and of death, saith Christ. IV. Death prevailing over all mankind, of every character, rank and station. Josh. xxiii. 14. Joshua said, I am going the way of all the earth. 1 Kings ii. 2. Job iv. 19-21. Mortal men dwell in houses of clay; their foundation is in the dust, they are crushed before the moth. They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish for ever, without any regarding it. Doth not their excellency that is in them go away? they die without wisdom. vii. 9, 10. He that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. ix. 22. God destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. xiv. 2. Man cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down.-Ver. 10. Man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?-Ver. 12. Man lieth down, and riseth not till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of sleep. Ver. 19, 20. Thou destroyest the hope of man. Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. xvii. 13, 14. If I wait, the grave is my Thou art my father; and to the worm, Thou house. (Ver. 1.) I have said to corruption, art my mother and sister.-Ver. 15. And where is now my hope? xxi. 23-26. One dieth in his full strength, are full of milk, and his bones moistened with being wholly at ease and quiet. His breasts marrow. Another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. while, but are gone and brought low; they are xxiv. 24. The mighty are exalted for a little taken out of the way as all others, and cut off Neither shall wickedness deliver those that are as the tops of the ears of corn. Eccl. viii. 8. given to it. xxx. 23. I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. Eccl. viii. 8. There is no discharge in that war. xxxiv. 14. If he set his heart upon man, and if he gather unto him his spirit and his breath; all flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust. Ps. xlix. 6, 7. 9, 10. They that trust in their wealth, none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him; that he should live for ever, and not see corruption. Wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. Ver. 11 to 14. lxxxii. 6, 7. I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you children of the Most High. But ye shall die like men. Ps. cxlvi. 4. lxxxix. 48. What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? xc. 3. Thou turnest man to destruction.Ver. 5, 6. Thou carriest them away as with a flood: they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth. Eccl. i. 4. One generation cometh, and another goeth, |