&c. and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my Spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.Prov. i. 20. 22, 23.

If thou criest after knowledge, &c. then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God for the Lord giveth wisdom; out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.-Prov. ii. 3-6. In all thy ways acknowledge him; and he shall direct thy paths.-Prov. iii. 6.

I have taught thee in the way of wisdom I have led thee in right paths. Prov. iv. 11.

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The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.-Isa. xi. 9; Hab. ii. 14.

And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness, &c. They also that erred in spirit, shall come to understand, &c. they shall learn doctrine. Isa. xxix. 18. 24.

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.-Isa. xxx. 21.

And the eyes of them that see, shall not be dim, &c. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly, (or elegantly.)-Isa. xxxii. 3, 4.

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And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord : for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them.-Jer. xxxi. 34; Heb. viii. 11; Isa. liv. 13.

Jesus said, I thank thee, O Father, &c. because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.-Matt. xi. 25, 27.

It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven; but to them it is not given.-Matt. xiii. 11. 13; Mark iv. 11, 12.

Peter said, Thou art Christ, &c. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.-Matt. xvi. 16, 17.

The day-spring from on high hath visited us; to give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death: to guide our feet into the way of peace.-Luke i. 78, 79.

I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay, nor resist.— Luke xxi. 15.

These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, &c. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures.-Luke xxiv. 44, 45.

I the Lord have called thee, &c. for a light to the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, &c. And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; and I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight.-Isa. xlii. 6, 16.

I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord.-Jer. xxiv.7.

As it is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.-John vi. 45; Isa. liv. 13.

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether

turned unto the Lord.- Acts xi. 18-21.

When Paul preached, &c. a certain woman named Lydia, heard: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul: and when she was baptized, &c.-Acts xvi. 13–15.

I say to every man, &c. not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith, &c. Let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith.-Rom. xii. 3. 6.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost, &c. I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed.-Rom. xv. 13. 18.

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus.1 Cor. i. 30.

My preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, &c. that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.-1 Cor. ii. 4, 5.

I have planted, &c. but God gave the increase, &c. God that giveth the increase.-1 Cor. iii. 6, 7.

We, having the same spirit of faith, &c. we also believe, and therefore speak.-2 Cor. iv. 13.

That ye may know, &c. what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead.-Eph. i. 18-20.

Ye are saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.-Eph. ii. 8.

That he would grant, &c. that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.-Eph. iii. 16, 17.

Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, &c.-Phil. i. 29.

Through the faith of the operation of God, &c.-Col. ii. 12.

We pray, &c. that our God would, &c. fulfil the work of faith with power.-2 Thess. i. 11.

Looking unto Jesus, the author (or beginner) and finisher of our faith.Heb. xii. 2.

Every good gift, &c. cometh down from the Father of lights, &c. of his own will begat he us, with the word of truth.-James i. 17, 18. To them that have obtained like precious faith with us.-2 Pet. i. 1.

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God, &c. Whosoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, even our faith.-1 John v. 1. 4.

SECT. 4.-To make us fruitful, enable us to subdue Sin, and profit in Grace.

THEN rose up the chief of the fathers, &c. whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem.-Ezra i. 5.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, &c. he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season: his leaf also shall not wither, &c.-Ps. i. 1—3.

Thou wilt prepare their heart, and thou wilt cause thine ear to hear.Ps. x. 17.

Wait on the Lord, &c. and he shall strengthen thine heart.-Ps. xxvii. 14.

I will go in the strength of the Lord God.—Ps. lxxi. 16.

Quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.-Ps. lxxx. 18.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, &c. The Lord will give grace.-Ps. lxxxiv. 5. 11.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree, he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord, shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age: they

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shall be fat, (or green,) and flourishing.-Ps. xcii. 12-14.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.-Ps. cx. 3.

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart, &c. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments, &c. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies. -Ps. cxix. 32. 35, 36.

The preparations of the heart, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.-Prov. xvi. 1.

Man's goings are of the Lord. Prov. xx. 24.

Draw me, we will run after thee.Cant. i. 4.

Awake, O north wind, and come thou south, blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out, &c.-Cant. iv. 16.

See the effect of Christ's voice and importunity with his spouse.-Cant. v. Lord, &c. thou also hast wrought all our works in us, (or for us,) &c. by thee only will we make mention of thy name.-Isa. xxvi. 12, 13.

A vineyard of red wine; I the Lord will water it every moment.Isa. xxvii. 2, 3.

Your God will come, &c. and save you. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing.-Isa. xxxv. 4. 6.

The everlasting God, the Lord, &c. He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might he increaseth strength, &c. but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with wings as eagles: they shall run, and not be weary: and they shall walk, and not be faint.-Isa. xl. 28-31.

I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, &c. I will pour my spirit, &c. and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses. Isa. xliv. 3, 4.

I am the Lord thy Redeemer, which teacheth thee to profit: which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.-Isa. xlviii. 17.

Blessed is the man that trusteth in

the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is: for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and which spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, (or restraint,) neither shall cease from yielding fruit.-Jer. xvii. 7, 8.

I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall grow (or blossom) as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon, &c. I am like a green fir-tree, and from me is thy fruit found.-Hosea xiv. 5, 6. 8.

Who is a God like unto thee? &c. He will subdue our iniquities.Micah vii. 18, 19.

The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, &c. and the spirit of all the remnant of the people: and they came and did work in the house of the Lord.-Hag. i. 14.

I will pour out upon the house of David, &c. the spirit of supplications. -Zech. xii. 10.

But unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings: and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.-Mal. iv. 2.

Jesus said unto her, If thou knewest, &c. who it is that said unto thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water, &c. The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life.-John iv. 10. 14.

He that believeth on me, (as the scripture hath said,) out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.— John vii. 38.

I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.-John x. 10.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Abide in me, and I in you: as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me,

and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without (or severed from) me, ye can do nothing.-John xv. 1. 4, 5.

Sin shall not have dominion over you for ye are not under the law, but under grace.—Rom. vi. 14.

Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us. -Rom. xii. 6.

I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase: so then, neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase, &c. we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.-1 Cor. iii. 5-7. 9.

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, &c. but our sufficiency is of God.-2 Cor. iii. 5.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God: and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.—2 Cor. x. 4, 5; xii. 9, 10.

I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God.-Gal. ii. 20.

For this cause I bow my knees to the Father, &c. that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, &c. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us.-Eph. iii. 14. 16, 17. 20.

But, &c. may grow up into Him in all things who is the head, even Christ from whom the whole body, fitly joined together, &c. according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, &c.-Eph. iv. 15, 16.

Brethren, be strong in the Lord,

and in the power of his might, &c. Put on the whole armour of God, that, &c.-Eph. vi. 10, &c.

I know how to be abased, &c. I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me. - Phil. iv. 12, 13.

We, &c. do not cease to pray for you, &c. that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, &c. strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, &c. And he is the head of the body, the church, &c. for it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell.—Col. i. 9-11. 18, 19.

The head from which all the body, &c. having nourishment, &c. increaseth with the increase of God.—Col.

ii. 19.

Ye received it as the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe: for ye, brethren, became followers of the churches, &c. 1 Thess. ii. 13, 14.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ, &c. establish you in every good word and work.-2 Thess. ii. 16, 17.

Now the God of peace, &c. make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working (or doing) in you that which is well pleasing in his sight.-Heb. xiii. 20, 21.

God giveth more grace to the humble.-James iv. 6.

SECT. 5.-To give Power to persevere in Faith and Obedience, through Straits and Temptations, to eternal Life.

THE Lord thy God, he will go over before thee, &c. Be strong, and of a good courage: fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee: he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.Deut. xxxi. 3. 6. 8; Heb. xiii. 5, 6.

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thy heart.-Ps. xxvii. 14.

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The steps of a good man ordered (or established) by the Lord,