Rom. ii. 6. God will render to every man according to his deeds. 2 Cor. v. 10. We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Gal. vi. 7. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. Eph. vi. 8. Whatsoever good things any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord. 1 Pet. i. 17. God, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every man's work. Rev. ii. 23. All the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts; and I will give unto every one of you according unto your works. xx. 12. I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. xxii. 12. Behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. See this reward prayed for against the wicked, Neh. vi. 14. Ps. xxviii. 4. 2 Tim. iv. 14. Threatened against the wicked, Jer. xxi. 14.-xxv. 14. Ezek. vii. 27.—xxiv. 14. Mic. vii. 13. 2 Cor. xi. 15. Col. i. 10. Walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work. John xv. 8. Herein, saith Christ, is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 1 Tim. ii. 8-10. I will that women adorn themselves with good works. v. 10. Let a widow be taken into the number, having followed every good work. Heb. x. 24. Let us consider one another, to provoke unto love and to good works. See James iii. 13. LXXV. Ability for performing good works, promised. Isa. xxvi. 12. Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us, for thou hast wrough all our works in us. 2 Cor. v. 5. lxi. 8. I will direct their work in truth, saith the Lord. 2 Cor. ix. 8. God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye always, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. Eph. ii. 10. We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, walk in them. which God hath before ordained that we should iii. 20. His power worketh in us. Eph. i. 19. Heb. ix. 14. The blood of Christ shall purge your conscience from dead works, to serve the living God. xiii. 20, 21. Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, 2 Tim. ii. 21. If a man purge himself from blood of the everlasting covenant, make you that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the these sins, he shall be a vessel sanctified unto perfect in every good work to do his will, honour, and meet for the master's use, and pre-working in you that which is well-pleasing in pared unto every good work. Tit. ii. 7. In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works. iii. 1. Put them in mind to be ready to every good work. Ver. 8. These things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they who have believed in God, might be careful to maintain good works: these things are good and profitable unto men.-Ver. 14. Let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses. his sight, through Jesus Christ: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. See Ability lead, guide, &c. for obedience. Also see, God doth strengthen, LXXVI. Promises to the performance of good works. Heb. vi. 10. God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of love. Rom. ii. 10. Glory, honour and peace, to every one that worketh good. Gal. vi. 4. Let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself, and not in another. James i. 25. A doer of the work shall be blessed in his deed. ii. 17. Faith without works is dead. See ver. 14 to 24. Rev. xiv. 13. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord; they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them. See 2 Chron. xv. 7.-xxxi. 20. 21. Isa. xlix. 4. Jer. xxxi. 16. Rev. ii. 2. 9. 13. 19. 26. 28.-iii. 1. 8. 15. LXXVII. Examples of good works. Acts x. 38. Jesus went about doing good. John x. 32. See examples of obedience in Ch. 2d and 3d of Rev. LXXVIII. Omission of good works. Threats. Luke xii. 47. That servant which knew his Lord's will and did it not, shall be beaten with many stripes. James i. 22. Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your ownselves. See the parable of the talent hid in the earth, Matt. xxv. 25, 26. 30.—Christ's sentence against the wicked, for omitting duty, Matt. xxv. 41, 42.-The unfruitful tree cut down, Matt. iii. 10.-vii. 19. Luke iii. 9.-xiii. 6, 7. John xv. 2.-The barren fig-tree cursed, Matt. xxi. 19.—The parable of the seed sown not bearing fruit, Matt. xiii. 19. Mark iv. 4. Luke viii. 5.-The servant's professing obedience, but not working, Matt. xxi. 30.-The sin and folly of not being rich toward God, Luke xii. 20, 21. James iv. 17. Jude 12. Deut. xxxii. 32. Heb. vi. 8. DOING GOOD. LXXIX. Shunning evil and doing good commanded. Ps. xxxiv. 14. Depart from evil, and do good. Ps. xxxvii. 3. 8. 27. Isa. lvi. 2.-i. 16. 1 Pet. iii. 11. Ps. xcvii. 10. Ye that love the Lord hate evil. Matt. xii. 12. It is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. 2 Cor. xiii. 7. I pray God that ye do no evil. 1 Pet. ii. 15. It is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men. iii. 11. Eschew evil and do good. Ver. 17. iv. 15. Let none of you suffer as an evildoer. LXXX. Promises to them that do good, that do well. Gen. iv. 7. If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? Matt. xxiv. 46. Blessed is that servant, whom his Lord shall find so doing. Rom. ii. 7. To those who seek for glory, honour, and immortality, by a patient continuance in well-doing, God will give eternal life. Ver. 10. Glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good. Gal. vi. 9. Let us not be weary in welldoing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord. Eph. vi. 8. Whatsoever good thing any man 1 Pet. iv. 19. Let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-doing. EVIL-DOERS. LXXXI. Evil-doers and their works to be avoided. Exod. xxiii. 2. Thou shalt not fol low a multitude to do evil.-Ver. 24. Thou shalt not do after their works. Lev. xviii. 3. Ps. xxvi. 5. I have hated the congregation of evil-doers; I will not sit with the wicked. ci. 3. I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.—Ver. 8. cxli. 4. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity. his hands from doing evil. Matt. xxiii. 3. Do ye not after the works of the Scribes and Pharisees, for they say and do LXXXII. Doing evil, the character of the wicked. Ps. xxxvi. 3. The wicked hath left off to be wise, and to do good. Ps. xiv. 3. 3 John ver. 11. Follow not that which is liii. 1. 3. Rom. iii. 12. evil, but that which is good. Examples. Job i. 1. Job feared God and eschewed evil. Ver. 8. Ch. ii. 3. Ps. cxix. 101. I have refrained my feet from every evil way. Acts x. 38. Jesus went about doing good. Prov. ii. 14. The wicked rejoice to do evil. Mic. vii. 3. They do evil with both hands. Eccl. viii. 11. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily; therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. S Jer. iv. 22. My people are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. xiii. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Rom. vii. 19. The good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. -Ver. 21. I find a law in my members, that when I would do good evil is present with me. LXXXIII. Threats against evil-doers. 2 Sam. iii. 39. The Lord shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness. Job viii. 20. God will not help evil-doers. Ps. xxxiv. 16. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 1 Pet. iii. 12. Mic. iii. 4. 1 John ii. 9. 11. He that hateth his brother is in darkness. Rev. xvi. 10. The kingdom of the beast was full of darkness. LXXXV. Threats. Isa. v. 20. Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness. xxix. 15. Woe to them whose works are in the dark. the hidden things of darkness. 1 Cor. iv. 5. The Lord will bring to light NOT IN DARKNESS. LXXXVI. The righteous walk not in darkness. John viii. 12. He that followeth xxxvii. 9. Evil-doers shall be cut off. Isa. i. 4. A seed of evil-doers, children that Christ shall not walk in darkness. Ch. xii. 35. are corrupters. Ver. 15. When ye make many prayers I will not hear. See threats from ver. 5 to 16. xiv. 20. The seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned. xxxi. 2. God will arise against the house of evil-doers. Ps. xciv. 16. Jer. iv. 4. Thus saith the Lord, Circumcise yourself to the Lord, lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings. Ch. xxi. 12. Ezek. xxxvi. 17. Jer. xxvi. 3.-xliv. 22. 2 Kings xxii. 17. xviii. 10. If a nation do evil in my sight, I will repent me of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them. Ezek. xxxvi. 19. According to their way, and according to their doings, I judged them. Hos. iv. 9.-xii. 2. Zech. i. 6. Hos. vii. 2. Their own doings have beset them about. Jer. iv. 18. Rom. ii. 9. Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every soul of man that doeth evil. See Deut. iv. 25, 26.-xxxi. 29. Isa. i. 4. 18. 20. 22.—lix. 6.—lxvi. 18. Jer. vii. 13. 20.xxxii. 30.-xliv. 8. Ezek. xxi. 24.-xxxiii. 26. 29. WORKS OF DARKNESS. LXXXIV. Darkness and the works thereof. Ps. lxxxii. 5. The wicked walk in darkness. Prov. ii. 13. Evil men leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness. iv. 19. The way of the wicked is as dark ness. Acts xxvi. 18. The Lord said to Paul, I send thee to open men's eyes, and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. Rom. xiii. 12. Let us cast off the works of darkness. 2 Cor. vi. 14. What communion hath light with darkness? Eph. v. 11. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. vi. 12. We wrestle against the rulers of the darkness of this world. Col. i. 13. God hath delivered us from the power of darkness. 1 Pet. ii. 9. 1 Thess. v. 4, 5. Ye are not in darkness. Ye are all the children of light, and of the day. 1 John i. 6. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. DEAD WORKS. called dead; the righteous are alive from the LXXXVII. The wicked, and their works, dead. Rom. vi. 13. Yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead. Eph. ii. 1. You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins. v. 14. Awake, thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Col. ii. 13. You being dead in your sins, hath he quickened. 1 Tim. v. 6. She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. Heb. vi. 1. Repentance from dead works. John iii. 19. Men love darkness rather than conscience from dead works, to serve the living light, because their deeds are evil. Rom. 21, 22. Their foolish heart was darkened. They became fools. Eph. iv. 18. Having the understanding darkened. Matt. vi. 23. God. Jude 12. The wicked are as trees twice dead. Rev. iii. 1. Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. WORKS OF THE DEVIL, CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL. LXXXVIII. Works of the devil, children of the devil. John viii. 44. To the wicked Jesus said, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. Acts xiii. 10. Paul said, O thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness. 1 Tim. iv. 1. Some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. 1 John iii. 8. He that committeth sin is of the devil.-Ver. 10. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil; whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God. LXXXIX. The righteous have no fellowship with the children of the devil. 1 Cor. x. 20. I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ver. 21. Eph. iv. 27. Neither give place to the devil. James iv. 7. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. WORKS OF THE FLESH. XC. Works of the flesh, living after the flesh. Rom. vii. 5. When we were in the flesh, the motions of sin did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. Ver. 18. In my flesh dwelleth no good thing.-Ver. 25. With the flesh I serve the law of sin. viii. 6. To be carnally minded is death.— Ver. 7. The carnal mind is enmity against God.-Ver. 13. If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. xiii. 14. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof. Ver. 18. Let no man beguile you, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. 1 Pet. ii. 11. Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul. iv. 2. Live not in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 2 Pet. ii. 20. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 1 John ii. 16. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, is not of the Father. XCI. Lusts of the flesh forbidden to Christians. Rom. vi. 12. Let not sin reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Ver. 13. xiii. 14. Put ye on the Lord Jesus, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof. Gal. v. 16, 17. Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit. Ver. 24. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Eph. iv. 22. Put off the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts. 2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee youthful lusts; but follow righteousness, faith, &c. Tit. ii. 12. Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly, in this present world. 1 Pet. i. 14. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance. ii. 11. I beseech you, as strangers and pil grims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which wa against the soul. iv. 2. Live no longer to the lusts of men 2 Cor. vii. 1. Let us cleanse ourselves from but to the will of God.-Ver. 3. The time all filthiness of flesh and spirit. Gal. v. 17. The flesh lusteth against the Spirit. Ver. 19. The works of the flesh are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, &c.-Ver. 24. They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh. vi. 8. He that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption. Eph. ii. 1-3. Ye were dead in trespasses and sins, wherein in time past ye walked, according to the course of this world, in the lusts of your flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature children of wrath. Ver. 11. Col. ii. 11. Putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ.Ver. 13. You being dead in your sins hath he quickened. past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelling, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. 2 Pet. i. 4. There are given to us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 1 John ii. 16. All that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.-Ver. 17. The world passeth away and the lust thereof. XCII. Lusting after women. Prov. vi. 25. Lust not after beauty in thy heart. Matt. v. 28. Whosoever looketh on a wo man to lust after her, hath committed adultery | great and precious promises, that by these ye with her already in his heart. might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. See 1 Pet. i. 22, 23. XCIII. Lusting after meats and drinks. See instances in the Jews punished. Numb. xi. 4. 34. Ps. lxxviii. 18. 30.-lxxxi. 12.— cvi. 14. 1 Cor. x. 6. XCIV. The evil of lusts. John viii. 44. They are of the devil. 1 John ii. 16. They are of the world. Mark iv. 19. They choke the word. Eph. ii. 2, 3. They prevail in the children of disobedience and wrath. 1 Thess. iv. 5. In those who know not God. Tit. iii. 3. James i. 14. By them men are drawn away to sin, and enticed. Ver. 15. 2 Pet. ii. 18. iv. 1. From them proceed wars and fightings among men. Ver. 2, 3. 5. Because of them prayers are not answered. 2 Tim. iv. 3. Through them men pervert the gospel. Ch. iii. 6. 2 Pet. iii. 3. Jude 16. 18. Num. xxxv. 34. Defile not the land wherein I dwell, for I the Lord dwell among the 1 Tim. vi. 9. They drown men in destruc- children of Israel. Ezek. xliii. 7, 8. tion and perdition. Isa. xxiv. 5, 6. The earth is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, because they have transgressed the law, changed the ordinance, &c. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth. Rev. xxi. 27. There shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven any thing that defileth, &c. See Ezek. xxxvi. 17, 18. Hos. v. 3. 6. Tit. i. 15. Heb. xii. 15. Rev. iii. 4. Thou hast a few names, which have not defiled their garments. |