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§ 18. Justice is that quality by which all things are ordered according to the fixed and immutable Law of Right, by which God binds himself to follow and fulfil whatever rules and conditions his will has established and decreed. Endowed with perfect knowledge, wisdom, holiness, and power, his Justice must be infallible.

§ 14. The Truth of God is evinced by perfect sincerity in his declarations, and perfect fidelity in his promises. Falsehood arises from such sources alone as are incompatible with the Divine Nature. Perfect holiness implies perfect truth, and omnipotence needs no deceit or sinister means. His word is, therefore, to be implicitly relied on, although the execution of his promises be not always perceptible to us.

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§ 15. The Glory of God consists in that excellence by which He so far surpasses all other beings, and which is manifested in the operation of his Attributes. It is that for which all things were called into existence, and to which all events and dispensations shall ultimately tend.

§ 16. When we speak or read of the affections or passions of the Deity, we are not to understand such expressions literally, but only as denoting acts of the Divine Will, which bear some analogy or resemblance to the effects of certain human dispositions;-90, likewise, when bodily form or members are ascribed to God, it is to be understood figuratively: his eye, for example, is his boundless knowledge; his righthand, his absolute power.

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SECTION J.

JEREMIAH ix. 24. But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth. Job xi. 7, 8. 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? Job xxxvii. 5. God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. Deut. iv. 39. Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath there is none else. John xvii. 3. And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

SECTION II.

Exod. iii. 14. And God said unto Moses, I Am that I AM: and he said, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. Psalm lxxxiii. 18. That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth. 1 Cor. viii. 4. We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. 1 Tim. i. 17. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

SECTION III.

Deut. vi. 4. Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is One Lord. Gal. iii. 20. Now a mediator is not a mediator of

one; but God is one. Deut. xxxii. 39. See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no God with me. Exod. viii. 10. And he said, Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.

SECTION IV.

John iv. 24. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Luke xxiv. 39. A Spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. Heb. xii. 9. Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of Spirits, and live? Numb. xvi. 22. And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh. Acts xvii. 29. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. John i. 18. No man hath seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. Heb. xi, 27. He endured as seeing him who is invisible. 1 Kings viii. 10, 11. And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord. Gen. xviii. 1, 2. And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent-door in the heat of the day: And he lift up his eyes, and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him. Gen. xxxii. 24. 30. And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day: And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Exod, iii. 2. 4. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a bush and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. Gen. xxviii, 10. 12, 13. And

Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went towards Haran. And he dreamed, and, behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and, behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac.

SECTION V.

Isaiah lvii. 15. For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. Rev. i. 8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Isaiah xxvi. 4. Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength. Psalm cii. 27. But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. Mal. iii. 6. For I am the Lord I change not. Rom. xi. 36. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things; to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

SECTION VI.

1 Kings viii. 27. But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens, cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded. Jer. xxiii, 23, 24. Am I a God ut hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord. Psalm cxxxix. 7, 8, 9, 10. Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, Isaiah lxvi. 1, 2. Thus

and thy right-hand shall hold me.

saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my

footstool: Where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord.

SECTION VII.

Dan. vi. 26. I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom, men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end. Acts xiv. 15. We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you, that ye should turn from these vanities, unto the living God, which made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein. Jer. x. 10. 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. Rom. i. 23. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Acts xvii. For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

SECTION VIII.

1 John iii. 20. For if our hearts condemn us, God is greater than our hearts, and knoweth all things. 1 Sam. ii. 3. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. Acts xv. 18. Known unto God are all his works, from the beginning of the world. Prov. xv. 3. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Rom. ii. 16. In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. Acts i. 24. And they prayed and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen. Deut. xxix. 29, The secret things belong unto the

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