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that taketh vengeance? God forbid : for then how shall God judge the world ? Surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

! He is just in all that is brought upon us. He will not lay upon man more than right, that he should enter into judgment with God.

That be far from him, to slay the righteous with the wicked; and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from him. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

* Is it good that he should oppress, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked ? God forbid.

* There is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts. He regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.

• He accepteth not the persons of princes; nor regardeth the rich more than the poor : for they are all the work of his hands.

* God is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. And if he maketh them that have wrought but one hour, equal to those which have borne the burden and heat of the day, is it not lawful for him to do what he will with his own ?

Shall mortal man be more just than God? Is not my way equal, saith the Lord, Are not your ways unequal? Wilt thou disannul my judgment ? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous ?

* If one man sin against another, the judge shall

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I Neh. ix. 33. Job xxxiv. 23. 2 Gen. xviii. 25. X. 3. 4 2 Chron. xix. 7. Deut. x. 17.

5 Job xxxiv. 19. 6 Acts x. 34, 35. Matt. xx. 12. 15.

7 Job iv. 17. Ezek.

judge him ; but if a man sin against the Lord, who shall intreat for him?

HIS TRUTH AND FAITHFULNESS.

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i God is true. He is the God of truth.

? Just and true are thy ways, thou King of Saints. His words are true; and his counsels are faith

: fulness and truth. The word that he shall speak shall come to pass : he will say the word and will perform it.

He is the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him, and keep his commandments.

- He is faithful who has promised : for all his promises are yea and amen. • He keepeth truth for ever.

He hath remembered the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. Thy word, O Lord, is true from the beginning; and thy wrath endureth for ever. For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven; and thy faithfulness is unto all generations.

? The Lord hath done that which he had devised: he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old; there failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord had spoken; all came to pass.

* Heaven and earth shall pass away, but his words shall not pass away; neither shall there fail one word of all his good promise.

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1 2 Cor. i. 18. Isa. Ixv. 16.

2 Rev. xv. 3.

3 2 Sam. vii. 28. Isa. xxv. 1. Ezek. xii. 25. 4 Deut. vii. 2. xi. 11. Heb. x. 23. 2 Cor. i. 20.

6 Psal. cxlvi. 6. Psal. cv. 8. Psal. cxix. 160. Psal. cxvii. 2. Psal. cxix. 89, 90.

7 Lam. ii. 17. Josh. xxi. 45.

8 Matt. xxiv. 35. 1 Kings viii. 56.

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1 He also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words.

? His covenant will he not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of his lips.

* Our labour shall not be in vain in the Lord : for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

* The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness.

5 God is not a man that he should lie: neither the son of man that he should repent. Let God be true, but every man a liar.

6 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful; not deny himself. It is impossible for God to lie.

Hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? I have spoken it, (saith the Lord) I will also bring it to pass: I have purposed it, I will also do it: I will not repent; neither will I turn back from it.

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HIS HOLINESS.

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The Lord our God is holy. He is the Lord our
Holy One. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts.

'God is pure, and every word of God is pure.
10 Holy and reverend is his name.

1. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

12 The law of God is holy; and his commandments are holy, and just, and good.

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1 Isa. xxxi. 2.
2 Psal. lxxxix. 34.

3 1 Cor. xv. 58. Heb. xiii. 5. 4 2 Pet. iii. 9. 5 Numb. xxiii. 19. Rom, iii. 4.

6 2 Tim. ii. 13. Heb. vi. 18. 7 Numb. xxiii. 19. Isa. xlvi. 11. Jer. iv, 28.

8 Lev, xix. 2. Isa. xliii. 15. Isa. vi. 3. g 1 John iji. 3. Prov. xxx. 5.

10 Psal. cxi. 9. 11 Psal. cxlv. 17. i Rev. xv. 4.

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1 Thou only, O Lord, art holy.

There is none holy as the Lord. Who is like unto thee, O Lord, glorious in holiness ?

* Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

* Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.

Why say ye, every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them? He is not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness, neither shall evil dwell with him. He is of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity; the foolish shall not stand in his sight, he hateth all workers of iniquity.

6 The way of the wicked, the thoughts of the wicked, the sacrifice and prayer of the wicked, are an abomination to the Lord.

? The righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright. The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him; but to all those that work wickedness he saith, Depart from me, I know you not.

$ Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it; but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

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GOD IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE.

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Behold, God is great, and we know him not:

2 1 Sam. ii. 2. Exod. xv. 11. 3 Job xiii. 15. 4 Job xxiv. 10. James i. 13.

5 Mal. ii. 17. Psal. v. 4. Hab. i. 13. Psal. v. 5.

6 Prov. xv. 9. 26. 8. Prov. xxviii. 9. 7 Psal. xi. 7. Psal. cxlvii. 11. Luke xiii. 27. 8 Job xxxv. 13. Prov. xv. 8.

9 Job xxxvi. 26. Job xxxvii. 23. Psal. cxlv. 3.

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touching the Almighty; we cannot find him out. His greatness is unsearchable.

Can we by searching find out God? Can we find out the Almighty unto perfection? Such knowledge is too wonderful for us : it is high, we cannot attain unto it. And when we talk of him, we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

? What man kuoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of a man which is in him ? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

* Verily, O God, thou art a God that hidest thyself; dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto.

* O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! there is no searching of his understanding. We know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand we his counsel.

* Who knoweth the power of his anger? and the thunder of his power who can understand ?

How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! His judgments are a great deep.

'We are not able to comprehend what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of God, which passeth knowledge.

* Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? Who can shew forth all his praise ?

Many, O Lord, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done : they cannot be reckoned up in

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1 Job xi. 7. Psal. cxxxix. 6. Job xxxvii. 19.

2 1 Cor. ii. 11. 8 Isa. xlv. 15. 1 Tim. vi. 16.

4 Rom. xi. 33. Isa. xi. 28. Micah iv. 12. 5 Psal. xix. 11. Job xxxvi. 14. 6 Rom. xi. 33. Psal. xxxvi. 6. 7 Ephes. iii. 18.

8 Psal. cvi. 2.

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