ware Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were

v, & Howbeit then, when hew not God, ye did service to them which by nature are no

Thess. 1, 9. For they themshew of us what manner entering in we had unto you, how ye turned to God from to serve the living and true

Zota v, 21. Little children, Jourselves from idols.

DESTINATE AND ALMOST COUNTABLE ATTACHENT TO IDOLATRY. xxxi, 19. . . . And Rachel en the images that were father's.

xxl, 21-24. And Moses to Aaron, What did this anto thee, that thou hast so great a sin upon them? ron said, Let not the anger

nd wax hot; thou knowpeople, that they are set ief. For they said unto eus gode, which shall as: for as for this Moses, that brought us up out of of Egypt, we wot not become of him. And I them, Whosoever hath

, let them break it off. are & me: then I cast the fire, and there came decalf.

i. 16-19. Nevertheless raised up judges, which red them out of the hand of that spoiled them. And ey would not hearken unto dges, but they went a after other gods, and

themselves unto them: tened quickly out of the Which their fathers walked beying the commandments Lozo, but they did not so. When the LORD raised them , then the LORD was the judge, and delivered

et of the hand of their es all the days of the judge: pented the LORD because ir groanings, by reason of fat oppressed them, and them. And it came to When the judge was dead, they returned, and corrupted eres more than their fathers, Moving other gods to serve and to bow down unto & they ceased not from their cigs, nor from their stub

iway.

odge xvill, 14, 23, 24. Then *red the five men that went V out the country of Laish,

1 Sam. v, 7. And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god."

1 Kings xii, 26-28. And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David: If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

1 Kings xx, 23. And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.

2 Kings v, 18. In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.

2 Kings xvii, 29, 40, 41. Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner. So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so did they unto this day.

2 Chron. xxviii, 23. For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus which smote him; and he said,

isles of Chittim and see; and send Jer. ii, 10, 11. For pass over the unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing: Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Jer. xl, 10. They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant, which I made with their fathers.

Jer. xxxv, 15. I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them,

but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

Jer. xliv, 4, 5. Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness,

to burn no incense unto other gods.

Jer. 1, 38. A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

Ezek. xx, 8. But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt; then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Micah iv, 5. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.

4.-REMARKABLE EXCEP

TIONS.

2 Kings v, 17. And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy servant

will henceforth offer neither burnt-offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.

Ps. xvi, 4. Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after

another god: their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips. Ps. xliv, 20, 21. If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god, Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Isaiah ii, 20, 21. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the

at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. They spake, and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image: And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. There are certain Jews, whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: these men, O king, have not regarded thee; they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which 284

thou hast set up. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, 0 Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be 80, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and be will deliver us out of thine hand O king. But if not, be it know! unto thee, O king, that we wil not serve thy gods, nor worshij the golden image which thou has set up.

Hosea xiv, 3, 8. Asshur shall not save us.... neither will we say any more to the work of ou hands, Ye are our gods. Ephrain shall say, What have I to do any more with idols.

1.

HIS DIVINITY.

1-NAMES OF GOD GIVEN TO HIM.

1. The LORD said unto Lard, Sit thou at my right

Buntil I make thine enemies stool.

vi. 1. In the year that king

ah died I saw also the LORD upon a throne, high and up, and his train filled the

ll, 41. These things said as when he saw his glory, Isake of him.

ix. 6..... His name shall be Wonderful, Counsellor, The by God, The everlasting The Prince of Peace.

preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour.

Titus ii, 13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearance of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.

Heb. i, 8. But unto the Son he

saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of right

eousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

1 John v, 20. And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Rev. xix, 16. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

ill, 6. In his days Judah be saved, and Israel shall safely; and this is his name by he shall be called, THE 2.-HIS RELATION TO THE OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. FATHER IMPLIES DIVINITY. I, 1. Behold, I will send Ps. ii, 7, 12. I will declare the senger, and he shall pre-decree: the LORD hath said unto he way before me: and theme, Thou art my Son; this day ahom ye seek, shall sud-have I begotten thee. Kiss the y come to his temple, even the Son, lest he be angry, and ye enger of the covenant, whom perish from the way...... delight in: behold, he shall , saith the LORD of hosts. An 1, 1, 2. In the beginning the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was God. same was in the beginning

1God.

Maxx, 28. And Thomas anred and said unto him, My and my God.

xx, 28. Take heed thereunto yourselves, and to all Bock over the which the Holy st hath made you overseers, bed the church of God, which hath purchased with his own

Tim, fil, 16. And, without conversy, great is the mystery of liness: God was manifest in the

res 1, 3. But hath in due times nifested his word through

God.

unto them, How say they that Christ is David's son? And David himself saith in the book of

Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy

footstool. David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?

John 1, 14. ..... And we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father...

John v, 17-21. But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. Then answered Jesus, and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

John viii, 19, 38. Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. I speak that which I have seen with my Father; and ye do that which yo have seen with your father.

John x, 30-36. I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods unto whom the word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken; the Father hath sanctified, and Say ye of him, whom sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the

Son of God?

John xii, 44, 45. Jesus cried, and

said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me.

John xiv, 7-11. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thon not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself: but the Father, that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

John xv, 23, 24. He that hateth me, hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

John xvii, 10, 21-23. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thon in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Phil. ii, 6. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.

Col. 1, 15. Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.

Col. il, 9. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

Heb. i, 5. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

Heb. iii, 5, 6. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after, But Christ as a Son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Heb. v, 5, 8. So also Christ glorified not himself to be made

3.-ATTRIBUTES OF GOD POSSESSED BY HIM. ETERNITY OR PRE-EXISTENCE

IMPLYING ETERNITY.

John vi, 61, 62. When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

John vili, 56-58. Your father

Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

John xiii, 3. Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God.

John xvi, 28. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

John xvii, 5, 24. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou last given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.

Heb. i, 10. And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth.

Rev. i, 17, 18. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of heli and of death.

Rev. xxii, 13. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Luke xx, 23. But he perceivi their craftiness, and said un them, Why tempt ye me?

John 1, 48-50. Nathanael ** unto him, Whence knowest th me? Jesus answered and said up him, Before that Philip call thee, when thou wast under fig-tree, I saw thee. Nathana answered and saith unto hi Rabbi, thou art the Son of Go thou art the King of Israel. Jes answered and said unto him, B cause I said unto thee, I saw the under the fig-tree, believest th thou shalt see greater things tha these.

John 1, 24, 25. But Jesus not commit himself unto thes because he knew all men, Ax needed not that any should test of man: for he knew what was i man.

John v, 42. But I know y that ye have not the love of Gok in you.

John vi, 64. But there are soORY A of you that believe not. Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed Int and who should betray him.

Jn xil, 1. Now, before the fast of the passover, when Jesus Lea that his hour was come that be should depart out of this World unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the rid, he loved them unto the John xvi, 30. Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and dest not that any man should thee: by this we believe that camest forth from God. Jos xxl, 17. He saith unto the third time, Simon, son of as, lovest thou me? Peter was ered because he said unto him third time, Lovest thou me? he said unto him, Lord, thou sest all things; thou knowest I love thee. Jesus saith unto Feed my sheep.

OMNIPOTENCE.
(See under next Head.)

UNCHANGEABLENESS.

i, 12.....

Thou art the

and thy years shall not

xili, 8. Jesus Christ the yesterday, and to-day, and

Heb. 1, 3. Who, being the bright- I say unto thee, Her sins, which are ness of his glory, and the express many are forgiven; for she loved image of his person, and uphold- much: but, to whom little is foring all things by the word of his given the same loveth little. And power, when he had by himself he said unto her, Thy sins are purged our sins, sat down on the forgiven. And they that sat at right hand of the Majesty on high. meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?

RESURRECTION.

John v, 21, 25, 28, 29. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

John vi, 40. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have ever lasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

JUDGMENT.

Matth. xxiv, 30. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

judgeth no man, but hath comJohn v, 22, 27. For the Father mitted all judgment unto the Son; And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

Rom xiv, 10. But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of Christ.

5. DIVINE PREROGATIVES WIELDED BY HIM.

FORGIVENESS OF SIN. Mark ii, 5-7. When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?

Col. iii, 13. ...... Even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

GIFT OF HOLY SPIRIT AND
HEAVEN.

Luke xxiii, 43. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Luke xxiv, 49. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.

house are many mansions: if it John xiv, 2, 3. In my Father's were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

John xvi, 7, 14. Nevertheless I I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.

Heb. v, 9. And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.

Rev. ii, 26, 27. And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works power over the nations; And he unto the end, to him will I give shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

Rev. fil, 7. And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shut

teth, and no man openeth.

6-WORSHIP DUE TO GOD OFFERED TO CHRIST AND NEVER REFUSED BY HIM. live, and to him shall be given of Ps. lxxii, 15, 17. And he shall the gold of Sheba: prayer also and daily shall he be praised. Who shall be made for him continually; His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun; and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

Luke v, 21, 22. And the Scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? can forgive sins but God alone? But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering, said unto them, What reason ye in your

Luke vii, 47-49. Wherefore, I