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against him. And when the wicked have thought evil against them, God meaneth it for good.

1 When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

2 The Lord forsaketh not his saints, neither will he leave them destitute of his mercy and truth. None of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

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The Lord is plenteous and rich in mercy; the Lord is very pitiful and of tender MERCY. mercy.

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The mercy of the Lord is everlasting, and his compassions fail not.

The Lord is long-suffering, full of compassion, slow to anger, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

"Good and upright is the Lord; therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

7 He waiteth that he may be gracious; saying to the children of men, will ye not be made clean? when shall it once be?

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He draweth them with cords of a man, with bands of love.

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Fury is not in him; but he deferreth his anger, and refraineth for the transgressor, that he cut him not off. 10 He endureth with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction.

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Though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies :

1 Prov. xvi. 7. xxxiv. 22.

C. V. iii. 9.

Lam. iii. 22.

8 Hosea xi. 4. ix. 22.

2 Psal. xxxvii. 28.

Gen. xxiv. 27.

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3 Psal. ciii. 8. Eph. ii. 4. James v. 11.
5 Psal. lxxxvi. 15. Joel ii. 13.
7 Isa. xxx. 18.
Isa. xlviii. 9. 8.

9 Isa. xxvii. 4.

6 Psal. xxv. 8.

11 Lam. iii. 32, 33.

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Jer. xiii. 27. 10 Rom.

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for he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

? As a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord our God chasteneth us, that he may humble us, and prove us, to do us good at our latter end.

? As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live.

Many a time hath he turned his anger away; and did not stir up all his wrath; and in wrath he oftentimes remembereth mercy.

* His anger endureth but a moment, and in his favour is life. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord.

* He will not always chide: he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy: for he knoweth our frame: he remembereth that we are but dust.

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed ; because he hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

God exacteth of us less than our iniquity deserveth.

Thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him.

10 The Lord is merciful and gracious, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin. There is forgiveness with him, that he may be feared.

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1 Deut. viii. 5. 16. 2 Ezek. xxxiii. 11. 3 Psal. lxxviii. 38. Hab. iii. 22. 4 Psal. xxx. 5. Isa. liv. 8.

5 Psal. ciii. 9. Micah vii. 18. Psal. cii. 14.

6 Lam. iii. 22. Psal. ciii. 10. 7 Job xi. 6. 8 Psal. Ixxxvi. 5. 9 Dan. ix. 9.

10 Exod. 1 Isa. lv. 7. 2 2 Chron. xxx. 9. Micah vii. 19. 3 Luke v. 21.

1 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

? He will not turn away his face from them that return unto him; but he will turn again, and have compassion upon them: he will subdue their iniquities, and he will cast all their sins into the depths of the

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Who can forgive sins but God alone?

Who is a God like unto thee, O Lord, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by transgression?

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HIS JUSTICE.

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The Lord is righteous. He is a just God. He loveth righteousness; and exerciseth judgment in the earth.

* He is excellent in judgment, and in plenty of justice.

The statutes of the Lord are right. Just and true are his ways. And we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth.

* The Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doth.

• Thy righteousness, O Lord, is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth; every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

Righteous is the Lord, and upright are his judgments. For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

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4 Micah vii. 18. 5 Psal. cxxix. 4. Isa. xlv. 21. Psal. xi. 7. Jer. ix. 24. 6 Job xxxvii. 23. 7 Psal. xix. 8. Rev. xv. 3. Rom. ii. 2. 8 Dan. ix. 14.

9 Psal. cxix. 142. 160. 10 Psal. cxix. 137. Job xxxiv. 11.

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1 Whatsoever good thing any man doth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or frée; but he that doeth wrong, shall receive for the wrong he hath done: for God will render to every man according to his deeds. And according to their deserts will he judge them; condemning the wicked to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness : so that men will say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous, verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

? Though there be often one event to the righteous and to the wicked; though the tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure, into whose hand God bringeth abundantly: behold, the day cometh, when ye shall discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God; but it shall not be well with the wicked, because he feareth not before God.

God hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness : and minister judgment unto the people in uprightness. * To me (saith the Lord) belongeth vengeance and

Το recompence: I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and reward them that hate me.

6 The Lord our God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. His power and his wrath is against

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1 Eph. vi. 8. Col. iii. 25. Rom. ii. 6. Ezek. vii. 27.

1 Kings viii. 32. Psal. lviii. 11.

2 Eccles. ix. 2. Job xii. 6. Mal. iv. 1. Mal. jii. 18. 3 Eccles. viji. 12, 13.

4 Acts xvii. 31. Psal. ix. 8. 5 Deut. xxxii. 35. 41.

6 Deut. iv. 24. Ezra

all them that forsake him; and though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished.

1 Wherefore then do the wicked contemn God, and say in their heart, The Lord will not require it? he seeth vain men; he seeth wickedness also ; will he not then consider it? He will not at all acquit the wicked; he will by no means clear the guilty.

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He will not be slack to him that hateth him; he will repay him to his face.

3 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a nation, marvel not at the matter, for he that is higher than the highest regardeth, and there be higher than' they.

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The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

5 The servant which knew his Lord's will, and did not according to it, shall be beaten with many stripes; but he that knew it not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.

It shall be more tolerable in the day of judgment for some than for others; and they that have been more corrupted in all their ways than others, shall receive greater damnation.

7 What shall we say then? Is God unrighteous

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