blood, and be with us for ever. Lord. ed with thy them that were before us.] Psal. lxxix. 8. Rememmost precious ber not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Lot angry Psal. xxv. 7. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Psal. li. 9. O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach. Dan. ix. 16. If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, then will I remember my covenant. Lev. xxvi. 40. 42. Let Spare us,good the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord. Joel ii. 17. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. Ps. xxxix. 13. Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease. Ps. lxxxv. 4. Feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. Acts xx. 28. They [those that fear the Lord] shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels, and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Mal. iii. 17. Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. Mic. vii. 18. hast cast all my sins behind thy back. Isa. xxxviii. 17. See also, Ezra ix. 7.-Matt. xxiii. 31, 32. -Exod. xxxii. 11, 12. 6. From all chief; from crafts and as. Thou 6. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and evil and mis- my fortress; my God, in him will I trust. Because sin, from the thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even saults of the the Most High, thy habitation, there shall no evil devil; from befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Psal. xci. 2. 9, 10. Keep me from evil everlasting that it may not grieve me. 1 Chron. iv. 10. Deliver me from all my transgressions. Psal. xxxix. 8. God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thy wrath, and from damnation, 6 a. Good Lord, deliver as. heart; from pocrisy, from and malice, charitable ness, thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I 6 a. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. Lam. iii. 25. Our Father which art in heaven, deliver us from evil. Matt. vi. 9. 13. Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us. 2 Cor. i. 10. Jesus delivered us from the wrath to come. 1 Thess. i. 10. 7. From all 7. Their minds were blinded; for until this day blindness of remaineth the same vail untaken away in the readpride, vain- ing of the Old Testament, which vail is done away glory, and hy in Christ; but even unto this day, when Moses is envy, hatred, read, the vail is upon their heart. 2 Cor. iii. 14, 15. and all un- Henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart. Eph. iv. 17, 18. He that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. 1 John ii. 11. Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Prov. xvi. 18. Let us not be desirous of vain-glory, envying one and all other and from all the world, the flesh, and the devil, another. Gal. v. 26. Wherefore laying aside all 8. From 8. Flee fornication; he that committeth fornicafornication, tion sinneth against his own body. Now the body deadly sin; is not for fornication, but for the Lord; be not dethe deceits of ceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Cor. vi. 18. 13. 9, 10. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins, let them not have dominion over me. Psal. xix. 13. These are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. Mark iv. 18, 19. That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts. Eph. iv. 22. All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world and the world passeth away, and the lust thereof. 1 John ii. 16, 17. Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 1 Pet. ii. 11. Satan shall go out to deceive the nations. Rev. xx. 7. 8. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Eph. vi. 11.-See also, Acts xv. 29.-Prov. xiv. 8. 9. From lightning and tempest; 9. The Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground. And Moses went out from plague, of the city from and murder, and from suddendeath, Pharaoh, and spread abroad his Lord, and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth. Exod. ix. 23. 33. And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves; but he was asleep; he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm. Matt. viii. 24. 26. God is our hope and strength, a very present help in trouble; therefore will we not fear though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof rage and swell, and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same. Psal. xlvi. 1, 2, 3. There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. Psal. xci. 10. The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within; he that is in the field shall die with the sword, and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. Ezek. vii. 15. If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, whatsoever plague there be, then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive. 1 Kings viii. 37. 39. And Elias prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. James v. 18. Pekah the son of Remaliah, slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day. 2 Chron. xxviii. 6. And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was sore wounded of the archers. 1 Sam. xxxi. 3. Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. Gen. iv. 8. Man also knoweth not his time; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them. Eccl. ix. 12. Lord, let me know mine end, and the number of my days, that I may be certified how long I have to live. Psal. xxxix. 5. I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. Psal. cii. 24. And God smote him [Uzzah] there for his error, and there he died by the ark of God. 10. From privy conspi bellion; from and schism; from hard and con word and command ment, 2 Sam. vi. 7.-See also, Gen. xxxii. 11.-1 Kings viii.-Isa. xxxviii.-Matt. xxiv. 39 to 51.-xxv. 1 to 13. 10. The works of the flesh are, Hatred, variance, all sedition, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies. Gal. racy, and re- V. 19, 20. They encourage themselves in an evil all faise doc- matter; they commune of laying snares privily; trine, heresy, they say, Who shall see them? Psal. lxiv. 5. And there were more than forty which had made this Dess of heart, conspiracy. Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler tempt of thy of thy people. Acts xxiii. 13. 5. There is no power but of God; the powers that be, are ordained of God; whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. Rom. xiii. 1, 2. He saith unto them, Render unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's. Matt. xxii. 21. An evil man seeketh only rebellion. Prov. xvii. 11. Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. 1 Sam. xv. 23. In all thing shewing thyself a pattern of good works; in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity. Tit. ii. 7. It was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you, that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. Jude 3. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 2 Tim. i. 13. The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. 2 Tim. iv. 3. I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment. 1 Cor. i. 10. Whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 1 Cor. iii. 3. Mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them; for they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, and by good words and fair speeches, deceive the hearts of the |