II. Who are thefe wicked?

1. Wicked Actions.

2. Wicked Perfons, wicked in Life and Hearts.

III. Why is God angry at the wicked? Because Wickedness is against

1. His Nature.

2. His Law.

IV. How is he angry with them every day?
1. He is angry with them at all times.
In all Places.

2.

3.

USE I. Inf.

end.

1. 'Tis lawful to be angry, Epb. iv. 26.
2. Sin is to be the only Object of Anger.
3. Many honourable Perfons are miferable.
4. The wicked are the most miserable.

USE II. Terrour to the wicked, Pf. lxxvi. 7. and xc. 7. For,

1. They have nothing but in Anger, and fo curfed.

2. They do nothing but displease God, and encrease their Mifery, Ifa. i. 12. and

lxvi. 2.

3. They live in a continual Hell here.
4 They are in continual Danger of Hell
hereafter, Mark ix. 44.

USE

USE III. Examine whether we be wicked.

Signs.

1. Ignorance, Sam. i.

2. Impenitency.

3.

3. Conftant Delight in Sin.

4. Infenfibleness of our own Imperfections. 5. Unbelief, John xv. 5.

USE IV. Exhortation.

1. Envy not the wicked's Prosperity, Prov. xxiii. 17.

1. Tremble under God's Anger,Ifa.xxxiii. 14. 3. Labour to be righteous.

1. By imputed,

2. By inherent Righteousness.

1. By Self-Examination, Lam. iii. 40.
2. By Prayer, Jac. i. 5.

3. By hearing, Rom. x. 17.

4. Labour after an Affurance that you are so, 2 Pet. i. 10.

PSAL. X. iv.

The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not feek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

1. What is it to feek him?

1. To defire him, Psa. lxxiii. 25.

z To

2. To make use of all means to attain him, as praying, reading, hearing, receiving the Sacrament.

2. What muft we feck in God?

1. His Glory, 1 Cor. X. 31.

2. His Favour, Pfa. cxix. 58. Pfa.xxx. 5.
I. To pardon us.

2. To accept us, Pfa. xix. 14.

3. His Spirit.

1. To fanctify,

z. To comfort us, John xvi. 7. Pfa. xciv.19. 4. His Prefence.

1. To protect us, Ifa. xli. 10. and xliii. 1,2. 2. To direct us.

How muft we seek him?

1. With our whole Heart, 1 Chron. xxii. 19. 2. Early, Ifa. lv. 6. Hof. v. 15.

3. In the first place, Mat.vi. 33.

4. Conftantly, Chron, xvi. 11.

4. How doth it appear to be a Sin not to seek him?

1. God commands us to feek him, Ifa. lv. 6. 1 Chron. xvi. II.

2. He complains of it, Ifa. ix. 13.

3. It is from Pride that we do not.
4. It is an undervaluing God.

5. How may we know whether we be guilty of it.

All are guilty

1. That defire not God, Job 21. 14.

2. That defire any thing more than God
3. That do not make use of all means to find
God.

4. That feek for any thing more than God.

DOCTRINE II. It is a Sin not to have God in our Thoughts.

1. What

1. What is it to have God in our Thoughts? It implies,

1. Our habitual knowing him.

2. Our actual meditating upon him, Pfal.

lxiii. 6.

2. What is it in God we ought to think of? 1. His Properties, as,

1. His Omniprefence, Pfa. cxxxix.

2, His Wisdom and Knowledge, Eph. iii.
10. Heb. iv. 13.

3. His Power, Matth. xix. 26.
4. His Truth, Pfal. lxxxvi. 15.

5. His Goodness, Pf.cxix. 68. Luke xviii.

19.

6. His Mercy, PS. ixxxvi. 15.
7. His Juftice, Exod. xxxiv. 6.
8. His Fulness and All-fufficiency,
9. His Eternity, Rev. i. 8.

10. His Glory tranfcendent, Exod. xv. 11.
2. His Word, Pfa. i. 2. and cxix. 148.
1. The Commands, Pf. cxix. 15, 78.
2. The Prohibitions, 1 John ii. 15.
3. The Threatnings, Ifa. i. 11, 12, 15.
Pf. Ixviii. 18.

4. The Promises.

5. The Examples, David, Peter, especially
Christ, Mat. xi. 29. Acts x. 38.
6. The Divine Truths and Affertions, Prov,
xii. 26. Mat. xvi. 26.

3. His Works, Pf. lxxvii. 13.
I. Creation, Pf. viii. 3, 4,

2. Providence.

3. Redemption.

4. Judgment.

Heb.x. 31.

Pf. cxliii. 5.

and cxxxix. 14.

Promises to them that seek the Lord.

1. To want no good thing, Pf. xxxiv. 10.

2. To live, Amos v. 6.

Z 4

3. To

3. To turn every thing to good, Rom. viii.

28.

4. To pardon our Sins for his own fake, Isa. xliii. 25.

5. To fave us through Chrift, John iii. 16. Mat.xi. 28. Ats xvi. 31.

3. How must we think of God?

1. With Fear and Reverence.

2. With Love and Affection.

3. With Joy and Delight, Pf. civ. 34. and схххіх. 17.

4. With Defire and Longing.

3. Conftantly, Pf. xvi. 8. Pf.cxix. 97. 4. How appears it to be a Sin not to think of

God?

1. It is God's Command, Job. i. 8. Tim. iv. 15.

2. God fets it here as a Mark of a wicked Man, that God is not in all his Thoughts.

3. God punisheth it, Pf. ix. 17.

4. It is the occafion of moft other Sins. 5. How may we know whether we think aright of him?

1. By our Fear of him.

2. By our trufting on him.

3. By our Obedience to him. 6. Motives.

1. You can think of other things?
2. God thinks upon you.

3. It is our Privilege as well as Duty.
4. It is a great Sin not to think of him.

PSAL