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His chief end-Rightful owner.

1 Tim. 6. 15. The blessed and only potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords: Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting.

Heb. 12. 29. Our God is a consuming fire.

205. For whom did God make, and for whom does he govern all things?

Pr. 16. 4.

The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Is. 43. 7. Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory; I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

Ezk. 20. 9. I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen.

Ezk. 36. 32. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.

Col. 1. 16.

him.

All things were created by him, and for

Heb. 2. 10. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Rev. 4. 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honor, and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

206. Is God the rightful owner and proprietor of all creatures and things?

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Ps. 50. 10. Every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.

Ps. 95, 5.

The sea is his, and he made it.

Greatness.

Ps. 100. 3. 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.

Ezk. 18. 4. Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine.

Rom. 14. 8. are the Lord's.

Whether we live, therefore, or die, we

207. Is God incomprehensibly great?

Job 5. 8. Unto God would I commit my cause: Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number.

Job 11. 7. Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Job 26. 14. Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Job 36. 26. Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Job 37. 23. Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice.

Ps. 145. 3. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

Is. 40. 15. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. To whom then will ye liken God? 28. There is no searching of his understanding.

Dan. 4. 35. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing.

Trinity in Unity.

Rom. 11. 33. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

208. How many persons are there in the Godhead?

Gen. 1. 26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

Gen. 3. 22. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. Gen. 11. 7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language.

Is. 6. 8. I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?

Dan. 4. 17. This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men. 25 and 26. Mat. 28. 19. Teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

2 Cor. 13. 14. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

Ep. 2. 18. For through him we both have an access by one Spirit unto the Father.

1 Pet. 1. 2. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.

1 Jn. 5. 7. There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

209. Are there more Gods than one?

Dt. 4. 35.

besides him. Dt. 6. 4.

The Lord he is God: there is none else

39.

The Lord our God is one Lord.

Dt. 32. 39. See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me.

Blessedness.

2 S. 7. 22. There is none like thee, neither is there God besides thee.

any

2 K. 19. 15.

Thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth.

Neh. 9. 6. Thou, even thou art Lord alone.

Is. 44. 6. Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts; I am the first and I am the last; and besides me there is no God. 8. Is there a God besides me? Yea, there is no God; I know not any.

Is. 45. 5. I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me.

Jn. 10. 30. I and my Father are one.

Jn. 17. 3. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

1 Cor. 8. 4. We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. 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.

Gal. 3. 20. God is one.

1 Tim. 1. 17. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever.

Jam. 2. 19. Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well.

210. Is God blessed?

Rom. 1. 25. Who is blessed forever.

Rom. 9. 5. Who is over all God blessed forever. 2 Cor. 11. 31. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed forevermore.

1 Tim. 1. 11. The glorious gospel of the blessed God.

1 Tim. 6. 15. The blessed and only Potentate.

Eternity.

211. Is the blessedness of God involved in his benevolent designs and works?

Ps. 104. 31. The glory of the Lord shall endure forever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.

Is. 62. 5. As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

ls. 65. 19. I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people.

Jer. 9. 24. I am the Lord, which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

Zep. 3. 17. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

212. Is God eternal?

Dt. 33. 27. The eternal God is thy refuge.

Ps. 90. 2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth or the world, even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is passed, and as a watch in the night.

Ps. 93. 2. Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

Ps. 102. 27. Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

Is. 57. 15. Thus saith the high and lofty one, that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy.

Dan. 12. 7. And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth forever. Rev. 10. 6.

my

Hab. 1. 12. Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord God my Holy One?

1 Tim. I. 17. Now unto the king eternal, immortal,

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