me. If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.- Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.- Neither is there are 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. Ps. 139. 1-12. Acts 15. 18. Heb. 4. 13. || Ps. 17. 3. and 44. 21. Job 34. 21, 22. Prov. 15. 3. Jer. 23. 24.

Do you habitually realize, "Thou GOD SEEST ME?" Has this truth a purifying influence on your heart and on your life? Does not OMNISCIENCE behold You as now living,- now dying,- now buried,– now rising and receiving your FINAL DOOM?

10. Does God declare himself unchangeable in his nature, and immutable in his counsels ?

For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.- Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.- There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord that shall stand.- The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.- 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. Mal. 3. 6. Is. 46. 10. Prov. 19. 21. Ps. 33. 11. Jam. 1. 17. || Num. 23. 19. Acts 4. 27, 28. and 2. 23. Heb. 6. 17. Job 23. 13. Is. 46. 9, 10. Josh. 23. 14, 15.

Have you considered that the moral affections of GOD, toward holiness and sin, are unchangeable? Are your hearts reconciled to the eternal and immutable counsels of GOD?

11. Is God of purer eyes than to behold evil, or look upon inrquity but with abhorrerice?

Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? For thou art not a GOD that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. The foolish shall. not stand in thy sight, thou hatest all workers of iniquity.Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.- But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. And one cried unto another, and said, holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of

eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Ex. 15. 11. Ps. 5. 4, 5. Rev. 15. 4. Ps. 22. 3. Is. 6. 3. Rev. 4. 8. || Job 4. 17, 18. Is. 63. 15. Hab. 1. 12, 13.

Has infinite purity never beheld you with abhorrence? Do not the leper's cry, and the publican's prayer well become your lips? Without holiness what communion can you ever have with God?

12. Though clouds and darkness are sometimes round about Jehovah in the dispensations of his providence, are not justice and judgment forever the habitation of his throne?

The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. He is the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are judgment: a GoD of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is he. Yea surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict. For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness: his countenance doth behold the upright.- Righteous art thou, O Lord, and upright are thy judgments. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.- My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness. That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked; and that the righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee. Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?-Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Ps. 145. 17. Deut. 32. 4. Job 34. 12. and 37. 23. Ps. 11. 7. and 119. 137, 142, 172. Gen. 18. 25. Ps. 89. 14. || Dan. 9. 7. Neh. 9. 33. Ps. 36. 6. Is. 55. 8, 9.

Do you feel that GOD is wise and just and good in his dealings with you? Can you habitually confide in him?

13. What directions and examples enforce the duty of submis sion to God, and of entr. e resignation to his will?

Now be ye not stiffnecked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever: and serve the Lord your GOD, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.- Wo unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, what makest thou? or thy work, he hath no hands? Wherefore doth a living man complain a man for the punishment of his sins? Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our

hands unto God in the heavens.

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. 2 Ĉhron. 30. 8. Is. 45. 9. Lam. 3. 39-41. Ps. 39. 11, 9. Mat. 26. 36, 39. Jud. 10. 15. 1 Sam. 3. 18. 2 Sam. 15. 26. Job 1. 20, 21. Kings 20. 19. Acts 21. 13, 14.

How base, how criminal, how impotent the contest of worms with their Maker! Have your hearts submitted? Could you ever say, 66 NOT MY WILL"-but the will of the Lord be done?

14. How does God manifest his great power?

He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hang eth the earth upon nothing. He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasures. GOD thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. For he saith to the snow, be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. The Lord thundereth from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice. And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. Job 26. 7. Ps. 135. 7. Job 37. 5, 6. 2 Sam. 22. 14, 16. Ps. 50. 3. || 1 Kings 19. 11-13. Job 38. 8-11, 35. and 40. 9. Ps. 29. 3-8. Ex. 9. 28, 33. and 15. 1. 4—10. Is. 40. 15, 22-26. Luke 12. 4, 5.

Dare you contend with Omnipotence? How vain resistance to him! How safe are his friends!

15. What language sublimely describes an appearance of the Divine majesty?

GoD came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand, and there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood and measured the earth: he beheld and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his

ways are everlasting. The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the waters passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high. The sun and moon stood still in their habitations: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. Hab. 3. 3-6, 10-12. || Ps. 18. 7-15.

Have unmspired men ever written so sublimely? How mean is earthly majesty compared with divine!

16. What are we taught respecting the invisibility of the Godhead?

No man hath seen GOD at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. And the Father himself which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. John 1. 18. and 5. 37. || Col. 2. 9. Heb. 11. 27. 1 Tim. 6. 16. Deut. 4. 12, 15.

Will any visible, tangible form of the Deity ever be perceived? Can you see the spirit in man? What form-what dimensions has it? Is not its existence known by its operations? Is not the existence of an unseen God much more manifest?

17. Is there more than one God?

Hear, O Israel; the Lord our God is one Lord. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many and lords many.) But to us there is but one GOD, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. But the Lord is the true God, he is the living GOD, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. Deut. 6. 4. 1 Cor. 8. 5, 6. Jer. 10. 10. || Heb. 3. 4. Eph. 4. 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Deut. 4. 35. Is. 45. 5-7, 21, 22.

18 Is the doctrine of the Trinity clearly revealed in the Scrip tures? (c)

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these THREE are ONE. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of GOD, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. 1 John 5. 7. Mat. 28. 19. 2 Cor. 13. 14. || Gen. 1. 26. and 11.

(c) See Appendix, Note C.

7. Num. 6. 23-26. Ps, 110. 1. Is. 48. 16. Zech. 2. 8—11. Mat. 3. 16, 17. Luke 4. 18. John 10. 30. and 14. 26. and 15 26. and 16. 13-15.

Shall the doctrine of the adorable TRINITY be discredited because it cannot be comprehended?

19. What evidence do the Scriptures afford that Christ is the TRUE GOD?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with GOD, and the Word was Gou. The same was in the beginning with GOD. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is GOD.- And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the TRUE GOD, and eternal life. John 1. 1–3, 14. Col. 1. 16, 17. Heb. 3. 4. 1 John 5. 20. || Is. 9. 6. and 44. 24. Heb. 1. 8, 10-12. Rom. 9. 5. John 8. 58. Gen. 48. 15, 16. Ex. 3. 2-6. Jud. 2. 1. Rev. 1. 8. 17. and 2. 8. and 22. 13. Is. 43. 10. and 48. 12. Rev. 19. 1113, 16. Dan. 7. 13, 14. John 14. 6-11. 1 Tim. 3. 16.

Is there any danger in adoring, loving, and serving Christ as truly God? Have you done this?

20. Have we evidence from Scripture precepts and examples, that we ought to worship Christ as God?

For the Father judgeth no man; but hath committed all judgment to his Son: that all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father.- Again when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, Let all the angels of God worship him. With all that in every place, call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. To whom be glory forever and ever.And they stoned Stephen, calling upon GOD, and saying, Lord Jesus receive my spirit. John 5. 22, 23. Heb. 1. 6. 1 Cor. 1. 2. Gal. 1. 5. Acts 7. 59. || Ps. 2. 12. Mat. 2. 2. Phil. 2. 9. Rev. 7. 9, 10. and 5. 11, 12.

Can we possess the moral affections of apostles, martyrs, and glorified spirits, and not render Divine worship to Christ?