thing due to him, required in this commandment q; igno Israel would none of me. q Ifa. xliii. 22. But thou hast not called upon me, () Jacob, but thou haft been weary of me, O Ifrael. v. 23. Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings, neither haft thos honoured me with thy facrifice. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering. nor wearied thee with incense: v. 24. Thou hast bought me no sweat cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy facrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy fins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. r Jer. iv. 22. For my people is foolish, they have not known me, they are fottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wife to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Hofea iv. 1. Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Ifrael; for the Lord hath a controverfy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. v. 6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected know'ledge, I alfo will reject thee, that zhou shalt be no priest to me: feeing thou haft forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. f Jer. ii. 32. Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet iny people have forgotten me days without number. Acts xvii. 23. For as I paffed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this infcription, TO derate THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. v. 20. Far as much then as we are the off-fpring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone graven by art and man's device. v Ifa. xl. 18. To whom then will ye liken God? or whar likeness will ye compare unto him ? w Plal. 1. 21. These things haft thou done, and I kept filence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. x Deut. xxix. 29. The fecret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. y Tit. i. 16. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate, Heb, xii. 16. Left there be any fornicator, or profane perfon, as Efau, who for one morfel of meat fold his birth-right. x Rom. i. 30. Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, a 2 Tim, iii. 2. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boafters, proud, blafphemers, difobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy. b Phil, ii, 21. For all feek their own, not the things which are Jefus Chrift's, John i derate setting of our mind, will or affections upon other things, and taking them off from him in whole or in part c; vain credulity d, unbelief e, heresy f, misbelief g, distrust b, despair i; incorrigibleness k, and insensibleness under judgments 1, hard. nefs of heart m, pride n, presumption o, carnal security p, tempting et John ii, 15, Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world, if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, v. 16. For all that is in the world, the luft of the flesh, and the luft of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 1 Sam. ii. 29. Where. fore kick ye at my facrifice, and at mine offering which I have com manded in my habitation, and honourest thy fons above me, to make yourseives fat with the thiefest of all the offerings of Ifrael my people? Col. iii. 2. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. v. 5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. di John iv. 1. Beloved, believe not ever spirit, but try the fpirits whether they are of God: because many falfe prophets are gone out into the world. e Heb, iii. 12. Take heed bre. thren, left there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. f Gal. v. 20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies. Tit. iii. 10. A man that is an here. tic, after the first and second admonition, reject. gals xxvi. 9. I verily thought with myfelf, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth, :: b Pfal. vii. 7. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation. i Gen. iv. 13. And Cain faid unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear. k Jer. v. 3. O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved; thou hast confumed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than a rock, they have refufed to return. Isa, xlii. 25. Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart, in Rom. ii. 5. But after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treafureft up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of cod. n Jer. xiii. 15. Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud; for the Lord hath spoken. • Plal. xixi 13. Keep back thy fervant also from presumptuous fios, let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and shall be innocent from the great tranfgreffion. p Zeph. i. 12. And shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerufalem with candles, and punish the men that are fettled on their lees, that lay in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil. 1 tempting of God g; using unlawful means r, andtrusting in lawful means; carnal delights and joys t, corrupt, blind, and indifcreet zeal v; lukewarmness w, and deadness in the things of God; estranging ourselves, and apoftatizing from God y; praying, or giving any religious worship, to faints, angels, or any other creatures z; all compacts and confulting with the devil, q Mat. iv. 7. Jesus faith unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Rom. iii. 8. And not rather, as we be slanderoufly reported, and as Some affirm that we may fay, Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is juß. Jer, xvii. 5. Thus faith the Lord, Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. 1 2 Tim. ii. 4. Traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. v Gal, iv. 17. They zealously af. fect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. John xvi. 2. They shall put you out of the syragogues; yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he doth God service. Rom. x. 2. For 1 bear them record, that they have a zeal of God, but not according to know ledge, Lukę ix. 54. And when his difciples James and John faw this, they faid, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and confume them, even as Elias did? v. 55. But he turned, and rebuked them, and faid, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. w Rev. iii. 16. So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold por hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. x Rev. iii. 1. And unto the angel: of the church in Sardis, write, These things faith he that hath the seven fpirits of God, and the seven stars know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livell, and art dead. a ferd of evil do- d y Ezek. xiv. 5. That I may take. the house of Ifrael in their own. heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. Ifa. i. 4. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, ers, children that are corrupters, they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the holy One of 1frael unto anger, they are gone away. backward. v. 5. Why should ye be ftricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is fick, and the whole heart faint. z Rom. x.1 3. For whosoever shal call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved. v. 14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they bear without a preacher? Hofea iv. 12. My people, afk counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto the): for the spirit of whoredoms hathcaused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their Ged. Acts x. 25. And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him. ve 26. But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man. Rev. xix. 10. And I fell at his feet to worship him and he faid unto devil a, and hearkening to his suggestions b; making men the lords of our faith and confcience c; flighting and despising God, and his commands d; refifting and grieving of his Spirit e, difcontent and impatience at his dispensations, charging him foolishly for the evils he inflicts on us f; and ascribing the praise of any me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow fervant, and of thy brethren that have the teftimony of Jesus; worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Mat. iv 10. Then faid Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou ferve. Col. ii. 18. Let no man beguile you of your reward, in a voluntary humility, and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puft up by his fleshly mind. Rom. i. 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. a Lev. xx. 5. And the soul that tarneth after fuch as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that foul, and will cut him off from among his people.. 1 Sam xxviii. 7. Then faid Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may ge to her, and enquire of her, And his fervants faid to him, Behold, there is a woman, that hath a familiar spirit at En dor. v. 11. Then faid the woman, whom shall I bring up unto thee? and he said, Bring me up Samuel. Compared with 1 Chron, x. 13. So Saul died for his tranfgreffion which he com mitted against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord which he kept not, and alfo for asking counfel of one that had a familiar spi rit, to enquire of it: v. 14. And enquired not of the Lord: therefore he flew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jeffe, b Acts v. 3. But Peter faid, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart, to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? C2 Cor. i. 24. Not for that we.have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand. Mat. xxiii. 9. And call no man your father upon earth; for one is your Father who is in hea ven. d Deut. xxxii. 15. But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick : thou art covered with fatness; then he forfook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the rock of his falvation. 2 Sam. xii 9. Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his fight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and haft taken his wife to be thy wife, and haft fiain them with the sword of the children of Ammon. Prov. xiii. 13. Whoso despiseth the word, shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment, shall be rewarded. • Acts vii. 51. Ye stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghoft: as your fathers did, so do ye. Eph, iv. 30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are fealed unto the day of redemption. /Pfal. Ixxiii, 2. But as for me, my feer : any god we either are, have, or can do, to fortune g, idols ourselves i, or any other creature k. : Q. 106. What are we efpecially taught by these words (Before Me) in the first commandment? : A. These words (Before Me) or before my face, in the first commandment, teach us, that God, who feeth all things, taketh special notice of, and is much displeased with the fin of having any other god: that so it may be an argument to diffuade from it, and to aggravate it as a most impudent provocation 1: as also feet were almost gone: mysteps had well nigh flipt. v. 3. For I was envious at the foolish; when I saw the profperity of the wicked. v. 13. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. v. 14. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. v. 15. If I say I will speak thus: behold, I should offend against the generation of thy chil. dren. v. 22. So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. Job i. 22. In all this Job finned not, nor charged God foolishly. g2Sam. vi. 7. Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch-kine on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them: va. 8. And take the ark of the Lord, and lay it upon the cart, and put the jewels of gold which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the fide thereof, and send it away, that it may go. v. 9. And fee if it goeth up by the way of his own coaft to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that finote us; it was a chance that happened to us. h Dan. v. 23. But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven, and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and to thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines have drunk wine in them, and thou hast praised the gods of filver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God, in whose hand thy breath is and whose are all thy ways, haft thou not glorified. ¡Deut. viii. 17. And thou fay in thine heart, my power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth. Dan. iv. 30. The king spake, and faid, Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majelty? : Hab. i. 16. Therefore they facrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. 1066 / Ezek. viii. 5, Then faid he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way towards the north: so I lift up mine eyes the way towards the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar, this image of jealousy in the entry. v. 6. He faid furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Ifrael committeth here, that I should go far off from my fanctuary? but rurn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abo |