XXI. He is immortal. 1 Tim. i. 17. The King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God.

vi. 16. Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light, which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see.

xxix. 11. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power, and the glory.

Neh. ix. 32. The great, the mighty and the terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy. Ch. iv. 14.

Job xxxiii. 12. God is greater than man. John x. 29. Greater than all. 1 John iii. 20.

XXIII. Blessed. Ps. cxix. 12. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes.

Rom. i. 25. The Creator who is blessed for ever. 1 Tim. i. 11. The blessed God.

1 Tim. vi. 15. The blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

Mal. iii. 6. I am

XXIV. Unchangeable. the Lord, I change not. James i. 17. With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Numb. xxiii. 19. God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent.

XXV. Present everywhere. 1 Kings viii. 27. Behold the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee.

Ps. cxxxix. 3. Thou compassest my path, and my lying down.

Ver. 7-10. Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

Jer. xxiii. 23. Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?-Ver. 24. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord. Eph. i. 23. He filleth all in all.

GOD'S GREATNESS.

XXVI. God's Greatness. Deut. x. 17. The Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.

xxxii. 3. Ascribe ye greatness to our God. 2 Sam. vii. 22. Thou art great, O Lord God, for there is none like thee.

1 Kings viii. 42. They shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand. 2 Chron. vi. 32.

1 Chron. xvi. 25. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he also is to be feared above all gods. 2 Chron. ii. 5. Exod. xviii. 11. xvii. 2 Thou didst make thee a name of greatness and terribleness. Deut. v. 24.

xxxvi. 26. God is great,and we know him not. Ps. lxxvii. 13. Who is so great a God as our God? Tit. ii. 13. Rev. xix. 17.

lxxxvi. 10. Thou art great, and doest wondrous thin

xcv. 3. The Lord is a great God and a great King, above all gods. Ps. cxxxv. 5. xcix. 2. The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high above all people.

civ. 1. O Lord, my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.

cxlv. 3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable. Ps. xlviii. 1.-xcvi. 4.

cl. 2. Praise him according to his excellent greatness.

Jer. xxxii. 18. The great, the mighty God, the Lord of hosts, is his name. Isa. xliv. 6. Heb. vi. 13. God could swear by no greater, he sware by himself.

See God's perfections of knowledge, wisdom, power, goodness, mercy, &c., all called great.

GOD EXALTED.

XXVII. God is exalted. 1 Chron. xxix. 11. Thou art exalted as head above all. Ps. xxi. 13.-xlvii. 9.-cxviii. 16.

Neh. ix. 5. His glorious name is exalted above all blessing and praise.

Ps. xlvi. 10. I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Ivii. 5. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth. Ver. 11. Ps. cviii. 5.

xcvii. 9. Thou art high above all the earth, thou art exalted far above all gods.

Isa. xii. 4. Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.

xxxiii. 5. The Lord is exalted, for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment and righteousness.

See Isa. ii. 11. 17.—v. 16.-xxx. 18.xxxiii. 10.-xlix. 11.

GOD'S EXCELLENCY AND MAJESTY.

XXVIII. God's Excellency. Job xiii. 11. Shall not his excellency make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?

XXX. God is glorious. Exod. xv. 11. Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises?

i Chron. xxix. 11. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory. Matt. vi. 13.

Ps. viii. 1. Thou hast set thy glory above the heavens. Ps. xix. 1.-xcvii. 6.-cxiii. 4.— cxlviii. 13.

lvii. 5. Let thy glory be above all the earth. Ver. 11. Ps. lxxii. 19.

civ. 31. The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever.

cxxxviii. 5. Great is the glory of the Lord. Ps. cxlv. 5. 11, 12.

Isa. vi. 3. The whole earth is full of his glory.

He is the God of Glory. Ps. xxix. 3. Acts vii. 2.-In his name. Deut. xxviii. 58. 1 Chron. xxix. 13. Neh. ix. 5.-In his work. Ps. cxi. 3. His work is honourable and glorious.-In deliverances of his people. Isa. lxiii. 12. 14. He led his people with his glorious arm. In the overthrow of his enemies. Exod. xv. 1. He hath triumphed gloriously. (Ps. lxxvi. 4.) Ver. 6. Thy right hand is become glorious in power.-Ps. xlv. 3. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. See Isa. xxx. 30, and

2 Thess. i. 9.

XXXI. God is glorious in favours spiritual and temporal, conferred on his people, and in

the advancement of religion among them. Numb. xiv. 22. Those men have seen my glory and my miracles.

Deut. v. 24. The Lord ha h shewed us his glory and his greatness.

Ps. Ixiii. 2. My soul thirsteth to see thy power and thy glory, as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

lxxix. 9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name.

xc. 16. Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

cii. 16. When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. Zech. ii. 5. I will be the glory in the midst of her.

Isa. xxiv. 23. The Lord shall reign in Jerusalem gloriously.

xxxv. 2. They shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God. xl. 5. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it. Ch. lix. 19. xliii. 7. I have created him for my glory. lviii. 8. The glory of the Lord shall be thy rear-ward.

lx. 1. The glory of the Lord is risen upon

thee.

lxii. 2. The Gentiles shall see thy righteous ness, and all kings thy glory. Ch. Ixvi. 18, 19.

Hab. ii. 14. The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Luke ii. 14. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will toward men.

2 Cor. iv. 6. God hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.

Col. i. 11. Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power. Eph. iii. 16.

1 Pet. iv. 14. The Spirit of glory and of God, resteth upon you. See Isa. xxxiii. 21.— xlvi. 13. Hag. ii. 7.

Hence, the Gospel is called the glorious Gospel. 1 Tim. i. 11.

Future glory. 2 Cor. iii. 18. We behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord.

Rom. v. 2. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

God's power called his glory. Rom. vi. 4 Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father.

John xi. 4. 40. The raising of Lazarus from the dead, is called the glory of God.

1 Cor. xi. 7. Man is the image and glory of God.

Heb. i. 3. Christ is the brightness of the Father's glory.

GOD'S KNOWLEDGE XXXII. God's knowledge is perfect. 1 Sam. ii. 3. The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Job xxxvi. 16. He is perfect in knowledge. Ch. xxxvi. 4.

Ps. cxlvii. 5. His understanding is infinite. See Rom. xi. 33.

Isa. xl. 28. There is no searching of his understanding. Prov. xxii. 12.

xi. 2. The Spirit of the Lord is the Spirit of knowledge.

XXXIII. God's knowledge is underived. Job xxi. 22. Shall any teach God knowledge? Ps. xciv. 9, 10. 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?

Isa. xl. 14. With whom took he counse, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?

XXXIV. Extendeth to all things. Job xxviii. 10. His eye seeth every precious thing.-Ver. 24. He looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven.

Ps. cxxxix. 12. The darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Dan. ii. 22. He knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

Acts xv. 18. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

Heb. iv. 13. 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.

1 John iii. 20. God knoweth all things.

XXXV. Things which God only knoweth. Gen. xl. 8. Joseph said, Do not interpretations belong to God?

Deut. xxix. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.

1 Kings viii. 39. Thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men.

Job xxiv. 1. Times are not hidden from the Almighty. Acts i. 7.

Isa. xlii. 9. New things do I declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them.

xlvi. 9, 10. I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times, the things that are not yet done. Ch. xlviii. 3. 6. 16.

Matt. xi. 27. No man knoweth the Son, but the Father. John x. 15.

Mark xiii. 32. Of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

1 Cor. ii. 11. The things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

XXXVI. Secret things which God will discorer. Job xx. 27. The heavens shall reveal the iniquity of the wicked, and the earth shall rise up against him.

xxviii. 11. The thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

Eccl. xii. 14. God will bring into judgment every secret thing.

Dan. ii. 22. He revealeth the deep and secret things. Ver. 28, 29. 47.

Matt. x. 26. There is nothing hid that shall not be known.

Rom. ii. 16. God shall judge the secrets of

men.

1 Cor. iv. 5. The Lord will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts.

Eph. iii. 9. The mystery (of redemption) hath been hid in God from the beginning of the world.-Ver. 10. Now made known. Col. i. 26.

XXXVII. The knowledge of God extendeth to man and all his ways.

2 Chron. xvi. 9. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

Job xxxiv. 21. His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. Chap. xiii. 27.-xxxi. 4.

Ps. xi. 4. His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

xxxiii. 13, 14. The Lord looketh from heaven, he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

Ixvi. 7. His eyes behold the nations.

ciii. 14. He knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust.

cxiii. 6. Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth.

cxxxix. 1-4. O Lord, thou hast searched me and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine up-rising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path, and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.-Ver. 6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.-Ver. 11. If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me. Ver. 12, 13. Dan. ii. 22.

Ver. 15, 16. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect, and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

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Prov. v. 21. The ways of man are before | the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

xv. 3. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Jer. xxiii. 24. Can any hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him? saith the Lord.

Jer. xxxii. 19. Thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

XLI. God knoweth his people. Gen. vii. 1. The Lord said to Noah, Thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

xviii. 19. I know Abraham, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord. 2 Sam. vii. 20. Thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant. 1 Chron. xvii. 18.

Ps. i. 6. The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous. Ps. xxxvii. 18.

xxxiv. 15. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry. lxxx. 14. Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine. Ps. cxix. 132.— xxv. 18. Deut. xxvi. 15. Isa. Ixiii. 15.

Isa. lvii. 18. I have seen his ways, and will heal him.

Jer. xxiv. 6. I will set mine eyes upon them

reins and the heart.

Acts i. 24. Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men.

XXXIX. He knoweth the hearts of the righteous. Gen. xx. 6. I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart.

Ps. xix. 14. Let the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

cxxxix. 23, 24. Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Isa. Ixvi. 2. To this man will I look, even to him that is poor, and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Jer. xii. 3. Thou, O Lord, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee.

1 Pet. iii. 4. The hidden man of the heart, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. See Acts xv. 8.

XL. He knoweth the hearts of the wicked. Deut. xxxi. 20, 21. They will provoke me: for I know their imagination which they go about,

even now.

2 Tim. ii. 19. The Lord knoweth them that are his. Gal. iv. 9.

XLII. God knoweth the religious principles and practices of his people. Rev. ii. 19. I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience.

1 Cor. viii. 3. If any man love God, the same is known of God.

Ps. xxxiii. 18. The eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy. See Gen. xxii. 12.

Nah. i. 7. The Lord knoweth them that trust in him.

1 Pet. iii. 4. A meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price.

2. Chron. xii. 7. The Lord saw that they humbled themselves.

Col. i. 22. Present you holy and unblameable, and unreprovable in his sight.

Matt. vi. 18. Appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father, which seeth in secret; and thy Father shall reward thee openly.

Ver. 6. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet; and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, himself shall reward thee openly.

Ver. 4. That thine alms may be in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, himself shall reward thee openly. See Acts x. 4. 31.

Ps. xciv. 11. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Luke xvi. 15. Jesus said, Ye are they that justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts.

Acts viii. 21. Thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

iii. 10.

Jer. xvii. 16. Thou knowest that which came out of my lips was right before thee.

Mal. iii. 16. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another; and the Lord hearkened and heard it; and a book of remem