My way directs me in the way, I 'Tis ftraight 4, yet full of heights and depths; 5 enter into the holiest by the blood of Jefus, by a new and living way, which he hath confecrated for us, through the vail, that is to fay, his flesh. 12 1 Cor. xiii. 12. For now we fee through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as alfo I am known. 13 John xvi. 10. I go to my Father, and ye fee me no more. 1 John xiv. 6. Jefus faith unto him, I am the way :-no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 2 Ifaiah xlii. 16. And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things ftraight. These things will I do unto them, and not forfake them. Chap. Iv. 4. Behold, I have given him for a leader and commander to the people. 3 Ifaiah xxxv. 8. And an high way shall be there, and a way, and it fhall be called the way of holiness; the unclean fhall not pafs over it, but it shall be for those the wayfaring men, though fools, fhall not err therein. John xv. 4. Abide in me, and I in you. Chap. xvii. 23. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou Verse 26. And I haft fent me, and haft loved them, as thou haft loved me. have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou haft loved me, may be in them, and I in them. 4 Matth. iii. 3. This is he that was spoken of by the prophet Efaias, faying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make h's paths straight. ye the 5 Ifaiah xl. 3, 4. The voice; of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare way of the Lord, make ftraight in the defart a high way for our God. Every valley fhall be exalted, and every mountain and hill thall be made low: and the crooked. fhall be made straight, and the rough places plain. Chap. xlii. 16. See figure 2. Plalm lxxvii. 13. Thy way, O God, is in the fan&uary. Verse 19. Thy way is in the fea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. 6 Palm xxxvii. 34. Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he fhall exalt thee to inherit the laud. 7 Pfalm cxxi. 3, 4. He will not foffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee, will not flumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel, shall neither flumber nor fleep. 8 Heb. xii. 22, 23, 24. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerufalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general affembly and church of the firft-born, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the fpirits of juft men made perfect, and to Jefus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of 1 Thef. iv. 17. Thea fprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. we which are alive, and remain, fhall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and fo fhall we ever be with the Lord. 9 Song i. 7. Tell me, O thou whom my foul loveth, where thou feedeft, Yet, in my closeft fecrecy, I'm joyful in my company. 1 I'm heard afar 2, without a noife; I'm heard when anfwer'd foon or late, 6 where thou makeft thy flock to reft at noon: for why fhould I be as one that turneth afide by the flocks of thy companions? 1 Song vii. 11, 12. Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field: let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us fee if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth : there will I give thee my loves. 2 Pfalm xx. 6. Now know I, that the Lord faveth his anointed: he will hear him from his holy heaven, with the faving ftrength of his right hand. 31 Sam. i. 13,-15. Now Hannah, the fpake in her heart, only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. And Eli faid unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee. And Hannah anfwered and faid, No, my lord; I am a woman of a forrowful fpirit: I have drunk neither wine, nor ftrong drink, but have poured out my foul before the Lord. 41 Thef. v. 17. Pray without ceafing. 5 Hofea vi. 4. O Ephraim, what thall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew, it goeth away. 6 Ifaiah xlix. 8. Thus faith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of falvation have I helped thee. 7 Matth. xxvi. 39. And Jefus went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, faying, O my Father, if it be poffible, let this cup pafs from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. 8 Pfalm xxii. 1,-3. My God, my God, why hast thou forfaken me? why art thou fo far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou heareft not; and in the night-feafon, and am not filent. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabiteft the praises of Ifrael. 9 Heb. xii. 5.-10. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My fon, defpife not thou the chaftening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth, he chaf teneth, and scourgeth every fon whom he receiveth. If ye endure chaftening, God dealeth with you as with fons for what fon is he whom the father chalteneth not? But if ye be without chaitifement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not fons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our Alef, which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: fhall we not much rather be in fubjection unto the Father of fpirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chaftened us after their own pleafure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 10 Dan. ix. 18, 19. O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our defolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we I wrestle till my ftrength be fpent, I do not prefent our fupplications before thee for our righteoufneffes, but for thy great mercies. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own fake, O my God: for thy city, and thy people are called by thy name. 11 James v. 16 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 1 Gen. xxxii. 24 25 And Jacob was left alone: and there wrefiled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he faw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh: and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 2 Pfalm cxxxviii. 3 In the day when I cried, thou answeredft me and ftrengthenedft me with strength in my foul. Gen. xviii 32, 33 And he said, O let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten fhall be found there. And he faid, I will not destroy it for ten's fake. And the Lord went his way, as foon as he had left communing with Abraham : and Abraham returned unto his place. 3 Pfalm lxiii 2 My flesh longeth to fee thy power and thy glory, so as I have feen thee in the fanctuary. And xxvii 4 One thing have I defired of the Lord, that will I feek after, that I may dwell in the houfe of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. 4 Rev. i. 17 And when I faw him, I fell at his feet as dead: and he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first, and the last. 5 Song ii. 4, 5 He brought me to the banquetting-houfe, and his banner over me was love. Stay me with flaggons, comfort me with apples; for I am fick of love. 6 2 Cor. vii 10 For godly forrow worketh repentance unto falvation not to be repented of. Eccl. vii 3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the fadnefs of the countenance the heart is made better. 7 Prov. xiv 13 Even in laughter the heart is forrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. 8 Job xl 4 Behold, I am vile! what fhall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth. Chap. xlii 5, 6 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eye feeth thee: Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in duft and afhes. Jer. xxxi. 18,-20. I have furely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou haft chastised me, and I was chaftifed, as a bullock unac customed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I fhall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was inftructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was afhamed, yea, even confounded, Because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my dear fon? Is he a pleasant child? For fince I fpake against him, I do earnestly remember him ftill: Therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will furely have mercy upon him, faith the Lord. 9 Ezek. i. 1. Now it came to pafs in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, My bafe and honourable birth On earth there's none fo great and high, 4 So often fall, fo often rife. 8 in the fifth day of the month (as I was among the captives by the river of Ch.bar) that the heavens were opened, and I faw vifions of God Rev. i. 9, 10. I John, who alfo am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jefus Chrift, was in the ifle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jefus Chrift. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trum pet, &c. John xvi. 32. Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and hall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 1 Ezek. xvi. 3, 4. Thus faith the Lord God unto Jerufalem. Thy birth. and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy Father was an Amorite, and thy mother an fiittite. And as for thy nativity in the day thou wait born, thy navel was not cut, neither walt thou wathed in water to fupple thee: thou waft not falted at all, nor fwaddled at all. John i 13. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. Pfalm li. 5. Behold, I was fhapen in iniquity: and in fin did my mother con ceive me. 1Pet. i. 3. Bleffed be the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope. by the refurre&tion of Jefus Chrift from the dead. 2 Rev. iii. 17. 18. Becaule thou fayett, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knoweft not that thou art wretched, and mis ferable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayit be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayst be clothed, and that the thame of thy nakednefs do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye-falve, that thou mayit fee. Eph. iii. 8. Unto me who am less than the least of all faints, is this grace given, that I fhould preach among the Gentiles the unfearchable riches of Christ. 3 John xv. 5. Without me ye can do nothing. thing, through Chrift which strengtheneth me. Phil. iv. 13. I can do all 4 Pfalm xvi. 3. But to the faints that are in the earth, and to the excellent in whɔm is all my delight. Haiah xliii. 4. Since thou wast precious in my sight, Thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. 5 Eph. iii. 8 Ser figure 2. 1 Tim. i. 15. This is a faithful faying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jefus came into the world to fave finners; of whom I am chief. 6 Palm lxxiii. 22. So foolish was I and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. Prov. xxx. 2, 3. Surely I an more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I neither learned wildom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. 7 1 Cor. i 30. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wifdom, &c. Matth. xi. 25, 26. At that time Jefus anfwered and faid, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou haft hid thefe things from the wife and prudent, and hait revealed them unto babes. Even fo, Father, for fo it feemed good in thy fight. Chap. xii. 11. Jefus anfwered and faid unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 8 Prov. xxiv. 16. A juit man falleth feven times, and rifeth up again, + Μ I feeing him I never faw, 1 Serve without fear, and yet with awe. 2 Though love, when perfect, fear remove; 3 I fin unless I do them hate: 10 I am oblig'd to hate my foes, II but yet Yet bound to love and pray for those. 12 T 1 Pet. i 8. Whom having not feen, ye love; in whom though now ye fee him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory. Heb. xi. 1. Now faith is the fubftance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not feen. 2 Luke i. 74. That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might ferve him without fear. Heb. xii. 28. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace whereby we may ferve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. 3 1 John iv. 18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love calleth out fear: becaufe fear hath torment: he that feareth, i- not made perfect in love. 4 Jer. xxxii. 9 And it fhall be to me a name of joy, of praife, and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodnets, and for all the profperity that I procure unto it. Hofea iii. 5. Afterwards shall the children of Ifrael return, and feck the Lord their God, and David their king; and thall fear the Lord, and his goodness in the latter days. 51 Cor. vi. 12. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 6 Exod. xx. 1,-17. And God spake all these words, faying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me, &c. 7 Plalm cxxxix. 21, 22. Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rife up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: i count them mine enemies. 8 2 Chron. xix 2. And Jehu, the son of Hanani the feer, went out to meet him, and faid to king Jehothaphat, Should thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord. 9 Lev. xix 18. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou that love thy neighbour as thylelf: I am the Lord. 10 Luke xiv. 26. If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, aid children, and brethren, and fillers, yea, and his own life alfo, he cannot be my difciple. 11 Viz. As they are the foes of God, Judg. v. 31. So let thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him, be as the fun when he goeth forth in his might. Palm xvii. 13. 15. Atile, O Lord; disappoint him, caft him down: deliver my foul from the wicked, which is thy fword: from men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life; and whole belly thou fiileit with thy hid treafure: they are full of children. and leave the reft of their fubftance to their babes. 12 Matth. v. 44. But I lay unto you, Love your enemies, blefs them that |