afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness, unto them which are exercised thereby. Rev. iii. 19. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.

James i. 3. The trying of your faith worketh patience. 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

1 Pet. i. 7. That the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, and honour, and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

Dan. xi. 35. Some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end.

Dan. xii. 10. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried.

Zech. xiii. 9. I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, The Lord is my God. XVI. GRACE to the CHILDREN of BELIEVERS.

Gen. xvii. 7. I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. 9. Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore; thou, and thy seed after thee, in their generations.

Deut. xxx. 6. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul that thou mayest live.

Isa. xliv. 3. I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thy offspring. 4. And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses. 5. One shall say, I am the Lord's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

Isa liv. 13. All thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children. Acts ii. 39. The promise is unto you, and to your

children. Acts xvi. 31. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Mark x. 14. Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 16. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them. 1 Cor. vii. 14. Now are they (your children) holy.

XVII. Promises of an INTEREST in GOD. As our God.-Gen. xvii. 7. I will establish my covenant-to be a God unto thee.

Lev. xxvi. 12. And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

Ps. xlviii. 14. This God is our God for ever and ever he will be our guide, even unto death.

Isa. xli. 10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismayed, for I am thy God.

Ezek. xxxiv. 24. I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them. 31. Ye, my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God saith the Lord.

2 Cor. vi. 16. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Heb. viii. 10. shall be to me Rev. xxi. 3. be their God. Heb. xi. 16. God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city.

I will be to them a God, and they a people.

God himself shall be with them, and

Isa. liv. 5. For thy Maker is thine husband (the Lord of Hosts is his name) and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel: the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

Jer. xxx. 22. Ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

Our Portion.-Ps. xvi. 5. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup.

Ps. lxxiii. 26. My flesh and my heart faileth, but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Lam. iii. 24. The Lord is my portion, saith iny soul, therefore will I hope in him.

Gen. xv. 1. I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Our Glory.-Isa. xxviii. 5. In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people.

Of his Presence with us.-Exod. xxxiii. 14. My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. Ps. cxl. 13. The upright shall dwell in thy

presence.

Numb. xxiii. 21. The Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a King is among them.

Isa. xli. 10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee. John xiv. 23. If a man love me, he will keep my words and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Deut. xxxi. 8. The Lord, he it is that doth go

before thee, he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee.

2 Chron. xv. 2. The Lord is with you while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found

of you.
Joel ii. 27.
midst of Israel,

and none else:
ashamed.

And ye shall know that I am in the and that I am the Lord your God, and my people shall never be

Ezek. xxxiv. 30.

Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them.

His Love.-Deut. vii. 13. He will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee.

Ps. iv. 3. The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself.

Ps. xlii. 8. He shall command his loving kindness in the day time.

Ps. cxlvi. 8. Prov. xv. 9. righteousness. Isa. xliii. 4.

The Lord loveth the righteous.
He loveth him that followeth after

Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee.

Isa. lxii. 5. As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

Jer. xxxi. 3. I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.

Jer. xxxii. 41. I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly, with my whole heart, and with my whole soul.

Hos. xiv. 4. I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely.

Zeph. iii. 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.

Isa. lxii. 4. Thou shalt be called Hephzibah-for the Lord delighteth in thee.

John xvi. 27. For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me.

John xvii. 23. That the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 26. That the love wherewith thou hast loved me, may be in them, and I in them. Rom. ix. 25. I will call her beloved, that was not beloved.

us.

Eph. ii. 4. For his great love wherewith he loved

2 Thess. ii. 16. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us.

1 John iv. 10. Herein is love, not that we loved him, but that he loved us. 16. We have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him. 19. We love him, because he first loved us.

Ps. ciii. 4. Who crowneth thee with loving kindness, and tender mercies.

His mercy.-Ps. ciii. 13. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. 17. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, upon them that fear him.

Deut. iv. 31. The Lord thy God is a merciful God. He will not destroy thee.

Isa. xxx. 18. Therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you. Is. xlviii. 9. For my name's sake will I defer