most parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

(m) Can it be said of the Lord, that he is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys?

(7) Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

THE HAPPINESS OF GOD.

(o) He is the blessed God, who is for ever happy.

(p) In his presence is fulness of joy, and at his right hand there are pleasures for ever more.

(9) Can a man be profitable unto God? Or is it gain to him that thou makest thy way perfect? Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art, and thy righteousness may profit the son of man; but if thou sinnest, what dost thou against him? Or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what dost thou unto him? And if thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hand?

(r) Thy goodness extendeth not to him.

HIS KNOWLEDGE.

() The Lord is a God of knowledge and judg.

ment.

(m) 1 Kings 20. 28.

(p) Psal. 16. 11. 35.6, 7, 8. (†) Peal. 16. 2.

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(*) Jer. 23. 23, 24. (g) Job. 22. 2,,3. Job Sam. 2. 3. Isa. 30. 18.

(t) He is perfect in knowledge, and knowet all things; his understanding is infinite.

all.

(u) God is light, and in him is no darkness at

(w) The Spirit of God knoweth the deep things

of God.

(x) Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world; neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight; but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

(y) He looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

(x) Hell and destruction are before the Lord: He seeth in secret; and the darkness hideth not from him.

(a) He declareth the former things, and he sheweth things which must be hereafter: He declareth the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done. He revealeth secrets, and maketh known what shall be in the latter days. Times are not hidden from the Almighty.

(b) Behold, saith the Lord, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare. Before they spring forth, I tell you of them. (c).Interpretations belong to God.

Prov. 15 3. (z) Prov. 15. II.
(a) Isa. 48 3 Rev. 4. I.

Mat. 6 18.

Isa. 46. ro.

Dan. 2. 28. Job. 24. I. (6) Isa. 42. 9. (c) Gen. 40.

8.

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(d) The Lord beholdeth all the sons of men; from the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth; be considereth all their works.

(e) The eyes of the Lord are always upon us, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

(f) The Lord hearkneth and heareth, and' a book of rememberance is written before him.

(g) He knoweth our down-sitting and our uprising: He com passeth our path: He counteth all our steps: He is acquainted with all our ways; and when we enter into our closet, and shut our door, he seeth us.

(b) By him are actions weighed; he pondereth all our goings; neither is there a word in our tongues but he knoweth it altogether.

(i) The Lord knoweth the hearts of all men; he searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: He knoweth the things that come into our mind, every one of them; and no thought can be withholden from him.

(k) He discerneth the thoughts and intents of the heart; he understandeth our thoughts afar off. (1) Thou, even thou only, O God, knowest the hearts of all the children of men.

(m) Thus saith the Lord, concerning idols; let them shew us what shall happen; let them shew

(d) Psal. 33. 13, 14, 15. (e) Deut. 11. 12. (f) Mal. 3 16.

(g) Psal. 139. 2, 3..
(b) 1 Sam. 2. 3.
1 Chron. 28. 9.
Psal. 139.2.

Job. 31. 4.

Prov. 5. 21.
Ezek. 11.5.

Peal. 139. 3.

Mat. 6. 6.

Psal. 139.4. (i) Acts 1. 24. Job. 42. 2. (k) Heb. 4. 12. (m) Isa. 41. 22.

(1) 1 Kings 8. 39.

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the former things, what they be, or declare us things for to come: Let them shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that they are God's; yea, there is none that sheweth; yea, there is none that declareth; yea, there is none that heareth their words.

(") Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say thus in his heart? How doth God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High? Can he judge through the dark cloud? The Lord shall not see, neither shall God regard us: Or why doth be say, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see it? For surely the Lord beholdeth mischief and spite to requite it; and whoever committeth villany or adultery, or speaketh lying words in my name, even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord.

(a) The Lord knoweth the manifold transgressions of the wicked, and their mighty sins: He will never forget any of their works; for his eyes are upon the ways of man, and there is no darkness or shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

(p) Shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, he hath no understanding? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know ?

(9) God hath not eyes of flesh.

The Lord seeth not as man seeth: For man looketh on the out

ward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

(r) Neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot

hear.

Shall any teach God knowledge?

(s) Shall

IIIS WISDOM.

(t) God is wise in heart: his thoughts are very deep. He is mighty in wisdom; he is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

(u) The Lord possessed wisdom in the beginning of his way, before his works of old; while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

(w) The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens; by his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew: He hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all.

(x) And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold it was very good. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time.

(y) He is the only wise God.

(*) Who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor? Who hatla directed the Spirit of the Lord? Or being his

1 Sam. 16. 7. (r) Isa. 59. 1. Psal. 92.5.

Job 26. 5.

(s) Job 21. 22. (1) Job. 9. 4. Isa. 28. 29. (u) Prov. 8. 22, 26.

(w) Prov. 3. 19, 20. Jer. 10. 12. Psal. 104. 24. (x) Gen.

1. 31.

Eccles. 3. 11.

Isa. 40. 13.

(y) 1 Tim. 1.17. (z) Rom. 11. 34..