16. In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways...

20. That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days.

Jos. xxii. 5. But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Jos. xxiii. 11. Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.

Jud. v. 31....Let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.

1 Ki. iii. 3. And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father.

Ps. v. 11. Let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee.

Ps. xviii. 1. I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. P8. xxxi. 23. O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful.

P8. xxxvii. 4. Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Ps. xlv. 11.... He is thy Lord; and worship thou him. P8. lxix. 35. For God will save Zion...that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

36....And they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Ps. lxxiii. 25. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

Ps. xci. 14. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

Ps. xcvii. 10. Ye that love the Lord, hate evil.

Ps. cxvi. 1. I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.

Ps. cxxii. 6. They shall prosper that love thee.

Ps. cxlv. 20. The Lord preserveth all them that love him.

Pro. viii. 17. I love them that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.

Pro. xxiii. 26. My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

Isa. lvi. 6. Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants,...

7. Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer.

GOD OUR FATHER AND

PROTECTOR.

Ex. iv. 22. Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

23. And I say unto thee, let my son go, that he may serve me.

Ex. xix. 4. Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

Deu. i, 31. And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

Deu. viii. 5. Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.

Deu. xiv. 1. Ye are the children of the Lord your God. Deu. xxxii. 5. They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children :.....

6. Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee ? hath he not made thee and established thee ?

9. For the Lord's portion is his people...

10. He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

12. So the Lord alone did lead him.

Deu. xxxiii. 27. The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

2 Sa. vii. 14. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men.

1 Ch. xxviii. 6. ... I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

1 Ch. xxix. 10. Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.

Ps. ii. 7. The Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Ps. xxiii. 1. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

P8. xxvii. 10. When my father and mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.

Ps. lxviii. 5. A father of the fatherless, ... is God in his holy habitation.

Ps. lxxvii. 20. Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Ps. lxxxix. 26. He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

27. Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

Ps. c. 3. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Ps. ciii. 13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.

Ps. cxxi. 3. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

4. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

Ps. cxxxv. 4. For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure.

Pro. iii. 12. Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth ; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Pro. viii. 32. Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children for blessed are they that keep my ways.

Pro. xiv. 26. In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Isa. xli. 8. But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

9. Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.