comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the soa of mau which shall be made as grass.

Isa. Ivil, 11. And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me

not?

Luke 1, 77. To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the

remission of their sins.

Luke xil, 32. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Col. ii, 2. That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in lovo, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ.

Heb. vi, 11. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope unto the end.

Ileb. x. 35. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.

Heb. xiii, 6. So that we may boldly say. The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

1 John ii, 28. And now, little children, abide in him, that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

1 John iii, 19, 21. And hereby we know we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confi

dence toward God.

1 John iii, 16-18. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to ns. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of Judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath

torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

FORMS OF SELF-RIGHTEOUS

Jacob.

Job xi, 4-6. For thou hast said, My doctrine is puro, and I am clean in thine eyes. But Oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee; And that he would shew thee the secrets of that which is! Know therefore wisdom, that they are double to that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

Job xxix, 18. Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

Job xxxiii, 8, 9. Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

Job xxxv, 2. Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

Ps. x, 5, 6. His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

Prov. xxx, 12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

Isa. xxviii, 15. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us:for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves.

Isa. xliii, 26. Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

shall be a lady for ever: so that Isa. xlvii, 7. And thou saidst, I thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remem

ber the latter end of it.

Isa. Ivii, 10. Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not

grieved.

I

Jer. ii, 35. Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me: behold,

Jer. xlix, 4, 16. Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me? Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock,that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle,

will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

away the evil day, and cause the Amos vi, 3. Ye that put far seat of violence to come near.

Luke xvi, 15. And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

glorieth, let him glory in the 2 Cor. x, 17, 18. But he that Lord. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

Gal. vi, 3. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Rev. ill, 17. Because thou say est, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked

1 Sam. xv, 13. And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said unto him,

Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

Job xxxii, 1, 2. So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram; against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

Mal. iii, 7. Even from the days from mine ordinances, and have of your fathers ye are gone away not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?

saith unto him, All these things Matth. xix, 20. The young man have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

the commandments, Do not comMark x, 19, 20. Thou knowest mit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother. And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.

Luke xvill, 21. And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.

Rev. xvill, 7, 8. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in THREATENINGS AGAINST IT. her heart, I sit a queen, and am Isa. xxviii, 17, 18. Judgment also no widow, and shall see no sorrow. will I lay to the line, and righteous-Therefore shall her plagnes come ness to the plummet: and the hail in one day, death, and mourning, shall sweep away the refuge of and famine; and she shall be utlies, and the waters shall overflow terly burnt with fire: for strong is the hiding place. And your cove- the Lord God who judgeth her. nant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

Isa. xlvii, 8, 9. Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly; that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection, for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. Isa. xlvii, 10, 11. For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else besides me. Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou

GENUINE CONFIDENCE. 2 Sam. xxii, 20-25. He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he deUghted in me. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For all his judgments were before me; and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity. Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness: according to my cleanness in his eyesight.

Job vi, 29. Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

Job x, 7. Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand. Job xiii, 18. Behold now, I have

upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me. I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

Ps. xviii, 19--23. He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands bath he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God. For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me. I was also upright before him; and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

Ps. xliv, 17, 18. All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way.

Ps. cxix, 168. I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

COMMUNION WITH GOD. Ps. xlii, 8. Yet the LORD will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

John xiv, 20-23. At that day yo shall know that I am in my Fa

riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come

upon thee suddenly, which thou

shalt not know.

Jer. xxi, 13. Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall

enter into our habitations?

Ezek. xxxix, 6. And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Amos vi, 1. Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

Amos ix, 10. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

shall be justifled.

Job xxiii, 3-5, 11. Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! Would order my cause before him, I would know the words which and fill my mouth with arguments. he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. My foot hath held his steps; his way have I kept, and not declined.

Job xxvii, 5, 6. God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Job xxxi, 5-8, 35-37. If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. If my step hath turned out of the Ob. 3, 4. The pride of thine heart way, and mine heart walked after hath deceived thee, thou that mine eyes, and if any blot hath dwellest in the clefts of the rock, cleaved to mine hands; Then let whose habitation is high; that me sow, and let another eat; yea, saith in his heart, Who shall bring let my offspring be rooted out. me down to the ground? Though Oh that one would hear me! bethou exalt thyself as the eagle, hold, my desire is, that the Aland though thou set thy nest mighty would answer me, and that among the stars, thence will Imine adversary had written a bring thee down, saith the Lord. book. Surely I would take it

1 John i, 3, 6. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth.

Rev. iii, 20. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

REJOICING IN GOD. Job xxii, 26, 27. For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him and he shall hear

Col. i, 5. For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel.

Heb. vi, 18, 19. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible. for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that with in the vail.

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Peter i, 13. . . . . . . Hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 John iii, 3. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. PERSEVERANCE; PROMISED AND SECURED ON GOD'S

PART AS A BLESSING.

1 Sam. xii, 21. 22. And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain: For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

Ps. xii, 7. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

Ps. xli, 12. And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for

ever.

Ps. xciv, 14. For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Isa. xliv, 21. Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me. Isa. xlix, 14-17. But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child,

the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.

John x, 27-29. My sheep hear my voice, and I know thein, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and none is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

ance.

IIoly Ghost, and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

Acts xiii, 43. Now, when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Pani and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continuo in the grace of God.

1 Cor. xv, 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Cor. i, 8, 9. Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Phil. i 6. Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.

2 Thess. ill, 3. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

eth will' I make a pillar in the Rev. iii, 12. Him that overcomtemple of my God, and he shall

no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, from my God; and I will write which cometh down out of heaven upon him my new name.

PERSEVERANCE ON MAN'S PART ENFORCED AS A DUTY.

in the things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.

2 Tim. iii, 14. But continue thou

lest, a promise being left us of Heb. iv, 1. Let us therefore fear, should seem to come short of it. entering into his rest, any of you

2 Pet. iii, 17. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things led away with the error of the before, beware lest ye also, being wicked, fall from your own sted

Josh. xxiii, 8. But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.

Isa. liv, 8-10. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer. For this is as the waters of Noah

unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart, and

John xv, 9, 10. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. If shall abide in my love; even as I ye keep my commandments, ye have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Acts xi, 23, 24. Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord. For he was a good man, and full of the

which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Rev. ii, 24, 25. But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, (as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak,) I will put upon you none other burden: But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

Rev. xxii, 11. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that which is filthy, let him be filthy him pe righteous still: and he that still: and he that is righteous, let is holy, let him be holy still.

ITS NOBLENESS AND BENEFIT. Matth. xxiv, 13. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Luke xxii, 28, 29. Ye are they which have continued with me in

my temptations: And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me.

John vill, 31. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed.

John xv, 10. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide

in his love.

Rom. viii, 35-39. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Cor. xv, 1, 2. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel, which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand: By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

Gal. vi, 9. And let us not be weary in well-doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint

not.

2 Tim. 1, 12, 13. For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Tim. iv, 18. And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Heb. iii, 14. For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end.

Heb. x, 39. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

James 1, 25. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

1 Pet. 1, 5. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

1 John ii, 19, 24. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

Rev. ii, 21. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

Rev. xxi, 7. He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my

son.

NO PERFECTION ON EARTH.

Gal. ill, 22. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Phil. iii, 12-14. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect; but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

1 John 1, 8, 10. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

YET SECURED TO BE-
LIEVERS.

Ps. xxxvii, 31. The law of his God is in his heart, none of his steps shall slide.

Ps. ci, 2. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk

heart.

Ps. cxIx, 1-4. Blessed are the the law of the LORD. undefiled in the way, who walk in Blessed are

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? If I wash myself with snow water, and Yet shalt thou plunge me in the make my hands never so clean; ditch, and mine own clothes shall

abhor me.

Ps. cxliii, 2. And enter not into thy sight shall no man living be judgment with thy servant: for in justified.

Prov. xx, 9. Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Eccles. vil, 20. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

Isa. Ixiv, 6, 7. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

Luke vi, 40. The disciple is not above his master; but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.

chosen us in him before the founEph. 1, 4. According as he hath dation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.

were Col. i, 21, 22. And you, that sometime alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath be reconciled. In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight.

Col. iv, 12. Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

1 John 11, 5. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

1 John iii, 6-9. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: who