Part 2
73. And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein. But have walked after the _imagination_ of their own _heart_, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them. Jeremiah ix. 13, 14.
74. And ye have done worse than your fathers; (for behold ye walk every one after the imagination of his _evil heart_, that ye may not hearken unto me.) Jeremiah xvi. 12.
75. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee, _receive into thine heart_, and hear with thine ears. Ezek. iii. 10.
76. They shall walk after the Lord; he shall _roar like a lion_: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west. Hosea xi. 10.
77. The Lord your God, which goeth before you, he shall _fight_ for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes. Deut. i. 30.
78. The great God that formed all things, both _rewardeth the fool_, and rewardeth transgressors. Prov. xx vi. 10.
79. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, behold the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do. Go to, let us go down, and there _confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech_. Genesis xi. 5. 6, 7.
Also notes, 63, 121, 144, 147, 152, 153.
MUNIFICENCE.
He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. 1. John iv. 8.
The Lord is good, a strong-hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. Naham i. 7.
All the works of the Lord are good; and he will give every needful thing in due season. Eccles. xxxix. 83.
80. For the Lord thy God is _a consuming fire_, even a jealous God. Deut. iv. 24.
81. God is jealous and the Lord _revengeth_; the Lord revengeth and is _furious_; the Lord will take _vengeance_ on his adversaries; and he _reserveth wrath_ for his enemies. Nahum i. 2..
82. It is a _fearful thing_ to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews x. 31.
83. The Lord is a _man of war_; the Lord is his name. Exodus xv. 3.
84. The Lord shall go forth as a _mighty man_; he shall stir up jealousy like _a man of war_; he shall cry, yea roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. Isaiah xl. 11. 13.
85. The Lord hath opened his _armory_, and hath brought forth the _weapons of his indignation_; for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts, in the land of the Chaldeans. Jeremiah 1. 25.
86. And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, _and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor_. And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about _three thousand men_. Exodus xxxii. 27, 28.
87. For a fire is kindled in my anger, and shall burn unto the _lowest hell_ and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundation of the mountains. I will heap _mischiefs_ upon them, I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with anger, and devoured with burning heat? and with bitter destruction. I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust. The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the _young man_ and the _virgin_, the _suckling_ also, with the _man of gray hairs_, Pent, xxxii. 22 to 25.
88. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a _jealous God; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation_ of them that hate me. Exodus xx. 5.
89. The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, _even the wicked for the day of evil_. Prov. xvi. 4.
90. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace _and create evil_: I the Lord do all these things, Isaiah xiv. 7.
91. _And I will harden Pharaoh's heart_ and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh _shall not hearken unto you_, that _I may lay my hand upon Egypt_, and bring forth mine _armies_ and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of-Egypt, by great judgments. Exodus vii. 3, 4.
92. And it came to pass that at midnight _the Lord smote all the first-born of the land of Egypt_, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon and all the first-born of cattle. Exodus xii. 29.
93. And my _wrath_ shall wax hot, and _I will kill you with the sword_; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless. Exodus xxii. 24.
94. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, _"Vex_ the Midianites and _smite_ them." Numb. xxv. 17.
95. And the Lord's _anger_ was kindled the same time, and he sware saying, "Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upwards, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not _wholly_ followed me." Num. xxxii. 10, 11.
96. Now go, and smite Amalek, _and utterly destroy all that they have_, and spare them not; but slay both _man and woman, infant and suckling_, ox and sheep, camel and ass. 1. Samuel xv. 3.
97. Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land; therefore he hath sent lions among them, and behold, _they slay them_, because they know not the manner of the God of the land. 2nd Kings xvii. 26.
98. For the _indignation_ of the Lord is upon all nations, and his _fury_ upon all their armies; he hath _utterly destroyed_ them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. Isaiah xxxiv. 2.
99. Then the angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians _one hundred and fourscore and five thousand_; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. Isaiah xxxvii. 36.
100. Therefore, thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, _I will not hearken unto them_. Jer. xi. 11.
101. _The fierce anger_ of the Lord shall not return until he have done it, and until he have performed the _intents of his heart_: in the latter days ye shall consider it. Jeremiah xxx. 24.
102. For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword, "They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom _I have slain in mine anger and in my fury_, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city." Jer. xxxii. 4; 5.
103. And he hath _violently_ taken away his tabernacle as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his places of the assembly; the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised _in the indignation of his anger_ the king and the _priest_. Lament of Jer. ii. 6.
104. The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; _thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied_. Lam. of Jer, ii. 21.
105. Therefore _the fathers shall eat the sons_ in the midst of thee, and the _sons shall eat their fathers_; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds. "Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, surely because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee, _neither shall mine eye spare, neither will 1 have any pity._." Ezek. v. 10, 11.
106. So the Lord sent _pestilence_ upon Israel; and there fell of Israel _seventy thousand men_. 1st. Chron. xxi. 14.
107. He that is far off shall die of the _pestilence_, and he that is near shall fall by the _sword,_ and he that remaineth and is besieged shall die by the _famine_; thus will I accomplish my _fury_ upon them. Ezek. vi. 12.
108. Samaria shall become desolate, for she hath rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; _their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ript up._ Hosea xiii. 16.
Also notes 79, 56, 119, 121, 126, 143, 149.
IMPARTIALITY.
Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I perceive that _God is no respecter of persons_. Acts x.
For there is _no respect of persons with God_. Romans ii. 11.
109. Therefore I endure all things for the _elect's_ sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory. 2 Tim. ii. 10.
110. For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God; the Lord thy God hath _chosen_ thee, to be a _special people unto himself_ above all the people that are upon the face of the earth. Deut. vii. 6.
111. And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be _their_ God. Exodus xxix, 45.
112. I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will _plead_ with them there for _my_ people, and for _my heritage_ Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. Joel iii. 2.
113. Behold, I have done according to thy words; lo, I have given thee a wise and understanding heart, so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. 1 Kings iii. 12.
114. I have loved you, saith the Lord; yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us! Was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith the Lord; yet I _loved_ Jacob. And I _hated_ Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste, for the dragons of the wilderness. Malachi i, 2, 3.
115. As it is written, Jacob have I _loved_, but Esau have I _hated_. Romans ix. 13.
116. Now God had brought Daniel into _favor_ and _tender love_ with the prince of the eunuchs. Dan. i. 9.
117. For God loveth _none but him that dweleth with wisdom_. Wisdom of Solomon vii. 28.
118. The Lord maketh _poor_ and maketh _rich_, he bringeth low, and lifteth up. 1 Sam. ii. 7.
119. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the _maker of them all_. Prov. xxii. 2.
120. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy _on whom 1 will have mercy_, and I will have compassion on whom I _will_ have compassion. Romans ix. 15.
Also notes 91 and 132.
IMMUTABILITY.
For I am the Lord, _I change not_; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Malachi iii. 6.
Every good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the father of lights, _with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning_. James i. 17.
God is not a man, that he should lie, _neither the son of man, that he should repent_; hath he said, _and shall he not do it?_ or hath he spoken, _and shall he not make it good?_ Numbers xxiii. 19.
121. And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping, things, and the fowls of the air: for it _repenteth_ me that I have made them. Genesis vi. 7.
122. And the Lord _repented_ of the evil which he had thought to do unto his people. Exodus xxxii. 14.
123 It _repenteth_ me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments, and it grieved Samuel, and he cried unto the Lord all night. 1 Samuel xv. 11.
124. And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord _repented_ him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, it is enough; stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing-place of Araunah the Jebusite. 2 Sam. xxiv. 16.
125. If that nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil. I will _repent_ of the evil that I thought to do unto them. If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will _repent of the good_ wherewith I said I would benefit them. Jer. xviii. 8; 10.
126. For thus saith the Lord, like as I have brought all this great _evil_ upon this people, so will I bring upon them the _good_ which I have promised them. Jeremiah xxxii. 42.
127. And rend your heart and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and _repenteth_ him of the evil. Joel ii. 13.
128. And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God _repented of the evil_ that he had said he would do unto them; and he did it not. Jonah iii. 10.
129. Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward; therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; _I am weary with repenting_. Jeremiah xv. 6.
Also notes 14, 26 and 167.
INCOMPREHENSIBILITY.
Who is the image of the _invisible_ God, the first born of every creature. Coloss. i. W.
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! _how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out_. Romans xi. 33.
For _my thoughts_ are not _your thoughts_, neither are _your ways my ways_ saith the Lord. Isaiah iv. 8.
130. And the Lord spake unto Moses _face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend_. Exodus xxxiii. 11.
131. Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and _seventy_ of the elders of Israel. _And they saw the God of Israel_; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire-stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. Exodus xxiv. 9. 10.
132. And Jacob called the name of the place. Peniel; _for I have seen God face to face_, and my life is preserved. Genesis xxxii. 30.
133. _I saw the Lord_ standing upon the altar. Amos ix. 1.
134. And Jesus when he was baptised went up straightway out of the water; and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and _he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove_, and lighting upon him. Mat. iii. 16.
135 And the Lord _appeared_ unto him (Isaac,) and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. Gen. xxvi. 2.
138. And the Lord _appeared_ in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud; and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle. Deut. xxxi. 15.
137. Seek ye the Lord while he may be _found_, call ye upon him while he is near. Isaiah lv. 6.
138. And ye shall seek me, and _find_ me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. Jer. xxix. 13.
139. Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and _knoweth_ God. 1 John iv. 7.
140. This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that _God is light_, and in him is _no darkness_ at all. 1 John i. 5.
Also notes 1, 17, 34, 80, 83.
PASSAGES IMMORAL AND OBSCENE.
GOD.
141. And Jacob begat Joseph the _husband_ of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this _wise:_ When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was _found with child of the Holy Ghost_. Then Joseph her _husband_ being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy _wife_: for that which is conceived in her _is of the Holy Ghost_. Mat. i. 16--20.
[Here God is represented as committing --------.]
142. And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall come to pass, that when ye go ye shall not go empty: But every woman shall borrow of her neighbor, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment; and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians. Exodus iii. 21, 22.
[Here he is represented as commanding the Israelites to rob the Egyptians, under the _pretence of borrowing of them_; thus encouraging them to steal.]
143. So Jehu _slew all that remained of the house of Ahab_ in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his kinsfolks, and his priests, until he left him none remaining. And the Lord said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart, _thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel_. 2 Kings x. 11--30.
[Here he is represented not only as pronouncing the most heinous of all crimes, _murder_, to be _right,_ but actually rewarding Jehu for committing it.]
144. And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons. And Samuel said, how can I go? If Saul hear me he will kill me. And the Lord said, take an heifer with thee, _and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord_. 1. Samuel xvi. 1,2.
[Here he is represented as commanding Samuel to act the most _consummate hypocrite_.]
145. Wherefore 1 gave them also statutes _that were not good_, and judgments _whereby they should not live_. Ezek. xx. 25.
146. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause, _God shall send them strong delusion_, that they should _believe a lie_. 2. Thes. ii. 10. 11.
147. And the Lord said, Who shall entice Ahab, king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake, saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner. Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go out and be a _lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets_. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail; go out _and do even so_. 2 Chron. xviii. 19, 20, 21.
148. And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, _I the Lord God have deceived that prophet_, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. Ezek. xiv. 9.
149. And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, _till the thousand years should be fulfilled_; and after that he must be loosed a little season. And _shall go out to deceive the nations_ which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. Kevel. xx. 1, 2, 3, 8..
150. He is a merchant, the balances of _deceit_ are in his hand _he loveth to oppress_. Hosea xii. 7.
151. The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea; and the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee _a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms_; for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord. Hosea i. 2.
152. And I will _make drunk_ her princes, and her wise men, her captains and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the king, whose name is the Lord of hosts. Jer. li. 57.
153. Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, _Drink ye and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more_, because of the sword which I will send among you, Jeremiah xxv. 27.
MOSES.
154. And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, _he slew the Egyptian_, and hid him in the sand. Exodus ii. 11. 12.
155. Now therefore (says Moses) kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known man by lying with him, _keep alive for yourselves_. Numbers xxxi. 17, 18.
156. And Moses spake unto the people, saying, _Arm some of yourselves unto the war_, and let them go against the Midianites, and _avenge_ the Lord of Midian. And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, _with the holy instruments_, and the trumpets to blow in his hand. Num. xxxi. 3--6.
DAVID.
And it came to pass in an evening tide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a young woman washing herself, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and enquired after the woman: and one said, Is not this Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, _the wife of Uriah the Hittite_. And David sent messengers and took her; and she came in unto him _and he lay with her_, (for she was purified from her uncleanness,) and she returned unto her house. And the woman conceived and sent and told David, and said, _I am with child_. And David sent to Jacob, saying. Send me Uriah the Hittite, And Joab sent Uriah to David. 2 Sam. xi. 2 to 6.
[The story then proceeds to represent David, _the man after God's own heart_, as endeavoring to cajole the poor cuckold Uriah. But he returns to the war without visiting his wife, and David sends a letter with him to Joab, in which letter he orders Joab to place Uriah in the front of the battle, _and then leave him so that he might he killed_. Joab obeys his orders Uriah is slaughtered, and he then takes Bathsheba his wife and marries her in order that he might continue to gratify his lust upon her!]
158. And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath. And he changed his behavior before them, _and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard_. 1 Sam. xxi. 12, 13.
159. Wherefore David arose, and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and _David brought their foreskins_, and they gave them in full tale to the king, _that he might be the king's son-in-law_; and Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. 1 Samuel xviii. 27.
160. Now King David was old, and stricken in years, and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king, _a young virgin, and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom_, that my lord the king may get heat. So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunamite, and brought her to the king. And the damsel was very fair, _and cherished the king, and ministered to him_, but the king _knew her not_. 1 King i. 1 to 4.
161. And David gathered all the people together and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it. And he took their king's crown from off his head, (the weight whereof was a talent of gold, with the precious stones.) and it was set on David's head, and he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance. And he brought forth the people that were therein, _and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln; and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon_. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem. 2 Samuel xii. 29 to 31.