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True Friendship - Spurious Friendship.

trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. 4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

Ep. 4: 32 Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you.

Col. 3: 12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

[See 62, 539, 737.]

N. B.- For Divine Forgiveness, see 583.

FRIENDSHIP.

204. True friendship desirable

how to make friends.

2 S. 1: 26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

Pr. 17: 17 A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. 18: 24 A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. 19: 6 Many will entreat the favor of the prince and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts. 27: 9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. [See 737.] 205. Spurious friendship — Ingratitude.

Job 19: 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 19 All my inward friends abhorred me; and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Ps. 38: 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off. — 55: 12 It was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it; neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: 13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide and mine acquaintance. 14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

Mat. 26: 56 Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

2 Tim. 4: 16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. [See 701.]

How made known - a moral agent.

GOD.

206. Have mankind any intuitive knowledge of God?

Job 32: 8 There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

Ac. 17: 28 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. 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Rom. 1: 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them: for God hath shewed it unto them. - 2: 14 When the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these having not the law, are a law unto themselves. 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another. [See 394.]

207. God made known by his works.

Ps. 19: 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handy work. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.—75: 1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near, thy wondrous works declare.

Ac. 14: 17 He left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Rom. 1: 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. - 11: 36 Of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Heb. 3: 4 Every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. Ps. 9 16.

208. God, a moral agent, with affections and passions.

Gen. 6: 6 It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Ps. 7: 11 God is angry with the wicked every day. — 103: 13 As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that

His chief end. His regard for himself.

fear him. 147: 11 The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him.

Hos. 11: 8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

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.

Mat. 3: 17 This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

1 Jn. 4: 8 God is love. [See 223, 230, 238.]

209. God's chief end-his regard for himself.

Ps. 106: 8 He saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

Pr. 16: 4 The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Is. 42: 8 I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images. 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. 21 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. 48: 11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

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

1 Cor. 15: 28 When all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Col. 1: 16 All things were created by him and for him.

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 they created. [See 276-7, 570.] 150

His Unity Trinity of Persons.

GOD'S MODE OF EXISTENCE.

210. Divine unity, or only one true God.

Dt. 4: 35 The Lord he is God: there is none else beside him. [39.]-6: 4 The Lord our God is one Lord. 32: 39 See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me. 2 S. 7: 22 There is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee.

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

me.

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

1 Cor. 8: 6 To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him.

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

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

211. Are there more persons than one in the Godhead?

Gen. 1: 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Gen. 3: 22, and 11: 7, Is. 6: 8.

Dan. 4: 17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones.

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 Through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 1 Pet. 1: 2.

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. [See 75-6, 346.]

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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 and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 93: 2 Thy throne is

established of old: thou art from everlasting. art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

102: 27 Thou

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

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

1 Tim. 1: 17 Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever 6: 15 Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords; 16 Who only hath immortality. [See 76,(3.)]

213. Foreknowledge of God.

Is. 46: 9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, 10. 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.

Ac. 2: 23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.-15: 18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. [See 219.]

214. Greatness, majesty, and supremacy of God.

1 Ch. 29:11 Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. 12 Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thy hand is power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

Neh. 9: 6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein,

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