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A14721	Theologicall questions, dogmaticall observations, and evangelicall essays, vpon the Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew Wherein, about two thousand six hundred and fifty necessary, and profitable questions are discussed; and five hundred and eighty speciall points of doctrine noted; and five hundred and fifty errours confuted, or objections answered: together with divers arguments, whereby divers truths, and true tenents are confirmed. By Richard VVard, sometimes student in the famous vniversities of Cambridge in England: St. Andrews in Scotland: and Master of Arts of both the kingdoms; and now a preacher in the famous city of London.	Ward, Richard, 1601 or 2-1684.	1640 (1640)	STC 25024; ESTC S118017	1,792,298	907

Keyes pt 2. fol. 191 192. 221 a. and pt 1. fol. 492 a b. Exorcists See Magi. Magicke Experience Faith is encreased by the experience of Gods mercy pt 1. f. 343. Eye Divers properties of the Eye pt 2. fol. 65. F. FAith Beliefe Assurance Confidence Divers questions both utile and usefull concerning the nature nourishing act object kinds markes benefits and approbation of true justifying Faith pt 1. fol. 133 b. 343. 436. 445. 515 a.b. and fol. 514 b. pt 2. fol. 60 b. 173. 180. a. 201 b. 203. 272 b. 349 a. Divers questions concerning weake and strong Faith and the nature notes and kinds of Assurance and Confidence pt 1. fol. 348 349. 433 b. and 452 453. 570. and pt 2. fol. 117 b. 118. 156 a. 173 b. 326 b. and pt 1. fol. 474 475 476. Faith cannot be separated from works and Love pt 1. fol. 76 b. and pt 2. fol. 149. A man may Beleeve more then is promised and how pt 1. fol. 110 b. c. How Christ requires Faith of us before he workes it in us pt 2. fol. 119 a. Wherein our Faith and Adams differ pt 2. fol. 156 a. Faithfull See Beleevers Fame Reputation Questions concerning the sorts of Fame and Reputation and how they may bee sought for and why Christians should be so carefull of their name fame and credit pt 1. fol. 13. and pt 2. fol. 17. Familists See Anabaptists Fanne What is meant by the Fanne in Christs hand Pt. 1. fol. 77 a. Fasting Why Christ fasted pt 1. fol. 89. Whether a choyce of meates upon Fasting dayes be a matter of Religion Pt. 1. fol. 65 a. and Pt. 2. fol. 163. 167 b. Questions concerning the sorts of Fasts in generall and wherein the true and false Fast consist and the nature definition ends reasons and benefits of Fasting pt 1. fol. 89 90 91 92 93 94 95. and 322 b. 323 324. 326. and fol. 502 b. Pt. 2. fol. 163 164 165. 203 b. Fate What Stoicall Fate is Pt. 1. fol. 466 a. Fathers Parents The duty of Parents towards their Children and the danger of the neglect of their duty pt 1. fol. 21 a. 123 a. and 511 b. 512 a. and Pt. 2. 53 b. 54. 61. Some are good Parents and evill persons Pt. 2. fol. 402. Why the Lord is called our Father Pt. 1. fol. 179 b. 290. and Pt. 2. fol. 181 a. The happinesse of those who have God to their Father pt 1. fol. 292 b. Why the ancient Fathers of former times are not fit Foundations to build our Faith upon pt 1. fol. 190 191. 194 b. The Papists easily reject many Fathers at once when they speake not on their side pt 2. fol. 234. Feare How danger may be feared pt 1. fol. 41 b. and 474. Feasts Divers questions concerning Feasts pt 1. fol. 456 457. Felicity See Blessednesse Fever The nature of a Fever pt 1. fol. 461 462 463. Figures See Allegories Fire There is a threefold Fire pt 1. fol. 78 a. Fishes Fishers Questions concerning the signification of this word Fisher and what things are observeable in Fishers and wherein Ministers resemble them pt 1. fol. 120 121. Flaxe What is meant by Flaxe pt 2. fol. 117 b. Flight Questions concerning Iosephs fleeing with Christ into Egypt pt 1. fol. 37. 40 41. 49. When and how Flight is lawfull in the time of persecution and danger pt 1. fol. 115 a. pt 2. fol. 28 b. 29 30 31 32. Floore What is meant by the Barne Floore pt 1. fol. 76 b. To Follow Christ Divers questions concerning our following of Christ pt 2. fol. 55 a. and pt 1. fol. 468 469 b. 440 b. 441 a. Foole. Folly How it is lawfull to call one Foole. pt 1. fol. 200 b. and pt 2. fol. 297 b c. Forgivenesse Remission Reconciliation Divers profitable questions concerning our Reconciliation unto God and his gracious forgiving of us pt 1. fol. 82 a. 310 a. 312 b. 313 b. 314 a. 489 b. and pt 2. fol. 223 b. 225. Divers questions concerning our forgiving one another and Reconciliation one unto another pt 1. fol. 205 206 207 208 209. 321 b. 322 a. and pt 2. fol. 223 b. 224 225 a. Questions concerning the power of the Church in pardoning of sinners Pt. 1. fol. 492 a.b. Forsaking See Dereliction Forswearing Swearing Perjury Oathes Divers usefull questions concerning Swearing and Oathes Pt. 1. fol. 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244. and pt 2. fol. 152. 273. 297 a. 299 a. Divers profitable questions concerning Perjury Pt. 1. folio 232. 233. Foundation Three things required in a sure Foundation Pt. 1. fol. 440 a. Free-will Objections for Free will answered Pt. 1. fol. 329 b. and pt 2. 128. Fruit. God requires Fruit of us and why Pt. 1. fol. 426 b. a. 428 b. Questions concerning the sorts of Fruit and who are fruitlesse in the Church and our duty towards these who are Fruitfull Pt. 1. fol. 423 424 425 b. Fruition See Dispossesse Function See Calling Funerals See Buriall G. GAlilee Why Christ returned into Galilee and what things are observeable in Galilee Pt. 1. fol. 50. b. 51. Garments See Apparell Genealogies Differences concerning Christs Genealogie reconciled and divers questions concerning Genealogies answered Pt. 1. fol. 7 8 9. 12. Gentiles Heathens Infidels Vnbeleevers Questions concerning the Apostles preaching unto the Gentiles and of salvation offered unto them thereby Pt. 2. fol. 5. 9 a. How it is lawfull to inhabit amongst Infidels and Heathens Pt. 1. fol. 51 b. Whether Unbeleevers may performe good workes Pt. 1. fol. 262 a. Ghost See Spirit Gifts Divers necessary and profitable questions concerning the corporall externall and spirituall Gifts which are given us by God Pt. 1. fol. 399 a. 437 a. and pt 2. fol. 12 b. 13 a. 328 329 330. Glory Why and how we must seeke the Glory of our God in all things pt 1. fol. 178 b. 179 a. 294 b. 295. Whether there shall be any degrees of Glory in heaven pt 1. fol. 329. a. and pt 2. fol. 136. b. 146 b. 253 b. 259 a. Questions concerning Vaine-glory Pt. 1. fol. 467 b. God Controverted questions concerning the attributes of God as his immutability invisibility omnisciencie power subsistence goodnesse bounty and long suffering pt 1. fol. 83 b. 101 b. 128 b. 129 a. 164 b. 165 a. 241 b. 320. 321 a. 452 a. 527 a. and pt 2. fol. 1. 12. 33 a. 96 b. 214 215. 246. 277 a. 280 a. 290 b. 295 b. 327. 359 a. There is a God although wicked men have Atheisticall thoughts of him pt 1. fol. 300 b. and pt 2. fol. 33. And in what Bookes God is read pt 1. fol. 344. a. We must not demand a reason of Gods actions Pt. 2. fol. 95 a. 96 a. Where God dwels and how manifold his habitation is pt 1. fol. 241 b. 293 294 a. God loves man better then the other creatures part 1. folio 347 b. 348. Godly Godlinesse Piety Pious Holy Holinesse Holy things Purity Sanctity Holy men

his praise out of infants and sucklings who can neither speake nor understand how much more then out of these who can speake and have some understanding Fulke Vers 19 VERS 19. And when he saw a Figtree in the way he came to it and found nothing thereon but leaves onely and said unto it Let no fruit grow on thee hence forward for ever And presently the fig-tree withered away Wee say that although the Jewish Church be now but like a withered tree yet it shall flourish againe hereafter Object Now against this it is objected CHRIST here cursed this fig-tree which represented the Church of the Jewes and said Never fruit grow upon thee henceforth And therefore it seemes that this tree and that Church shall never flourish againe Answ That Fig-tree which was here accursed by Christ never to beare fruit againe represented the Jewes who lived then and those who shall live till the conversion of the Jewes but when the wrath of God is come upon them to the full as the Apostles speakes then the Lord shall call them and their rod shall flourish againe VERS 22. And all things whatsoever yee shall aske in Prayer Verse 22 beleeving yee shall receive § 1. And all things whatsoever ye shall aske Sect. 1 in prayer Our Saviour in these words doth plainly point out this Observation unto us Observ namely That true and Lawfull prayer never wants his effect How doth the trueth hereof appeare Quest 1 Most evidently from these particulars to wit First from these places of Scripture Answ Psalm 22.24 and 50.15 Iohn 16.24 Iames. 5.16 and Ierem. 29.13 Amos. 5.4 6. Secondly from the trueth of God who is faithfull in all his Promises 1. Thes 5.24 Hebr. 6.10 Thirdly from the ordinance of God it being the meanes appointed by GOD for the obtaining of what wee want Iohn 14.13 and 16 24. and in this verse Fourthly from the mercy of God who is alwayes ready to supply our wants and onely waites untill wee pray Iames. 4.2 Fifthly from the force and efficacy of prayer whereof we spake before Chap. 6. Sixthly from an absurdity which otherwise would follow for if we have no certainty of the hearing of our prayers then we can have no confidence at all For I. Wee have none in heaven or earth to trust unto but onely unto God Psalm 73.25 II. Wee cannot see him for none hath seene him at any time III. Our onely way unto him is by prayer and therefore of all men wee are the most miserable if wee be unsure of his Love to helpe us or that hee will heare us and grant our requests But the contrary that is the assurance of the faithfull to be heard is evident from these places 2. Chronic. 14.7 and 15.2 15. Psalm 118.5 and. 120.1 Esa 38.5 Whence comes it that the prayers of many are Quest 2 not heard Jf we be not heard we must know Answ the reason is because wee pray not lawfully For God is neare unto all those who call upon him faithfully Psal 145.18 But more particularly if our prayers be not heard the reason thereof is one of these either First because wee are wicked and vnbeleevers for the prayers of such are abominable unto him but the prayers of the Righteous are his delight Prov. 15.29 Psalm 145.19 Or Secondly because our requests are not lawfull that is when either I. Wee desire those things which are not good as when we pray for revenge Or II. When we desire those things which stand not with Gods glory neither suite with our good Or III. When we desire those things which are not necessary but superfluous serving for the satisfying of our lusts Psal 50.15 and 120.1 and 116.3 4. and 18.6 Or Thirdly because we are not aright prepared to pray that i● when either I. Wee pray without any meditation and examination at all not considering and pondering either how we must pray or for what Or II. When we pray with our sinnes upon us and in us as the people did Iosh 7. and. 1. Tim. 28. Or III. When we are not fit to receive such a grace as we pray for as for example we pray for a sight and assurance of the blessed Spirit in our hearts but we must not expect the assurance and apprehension thereof untill we have seriously undertaken to worke out the worke of our salvation yea vntill renovation holy affections zeale and the like graces be wrought in our hearts Or Fourthly because our prayers are not faithfull Here observe that unto a faithfull prayer these things are necessarily required namely I. Selfe-deniall and all selfe-confidence praying onely in the name of Christ Iohn 14 13. And II. A sure confidence and affiance in God that if we aske those things which are agreeable unto his will he will heare us Mark 11.24 Hebr. 10.22 And III. The aide and assistance of the holy Spirit for if we pray in the holy Ghost our prayers shall be heard Iude. 20. Or Fifthly because we begge things peremptorily and not with a subordination to the will of God Or Sixthly because we doe not persevere in our prayers but quickly grow weary And therefore if we desire that our prayers may be alwayes efficacious and fruitfull let us labour I. That our persons may be holy and pure And II. That our requests may be lawfull that is Let us desire First alwayes those things which are good in themselves And Secondly onely those things which may stand with Gods glory and our good And Thirdly onely necessary things And III. That we may be rightly prepared before we pray that is we must First meditate of our wants and the nature of him to whom we pray And Secondly wee must remove from us the Love guilt and pollution of sinne by repentance And Thirdly labour that we may be made vessels of honour that so we may be capable to receive those graces which we crave And IV. Wee must labour that our prayers be faithfull that is not offered up with any hope to bee heard for any merit or worthinesse that is in us but powred forth unto God by the assistance of the Spirit and with a sure confidence to be heard through the merits and mercies of Christ our Lord. And V. Wee must alwayes conclude our requests with a willing submission unto Gods will And VI. We must continue asking till we have received and persevere in prayer untill we have obtained what we want § 2. Beleeving Our Saviour here by shewing that Prayer is to Sect. 2 be offered up in faith may move this quaere What is the proper act of a true lively Quest and justifying faith The proper and principall act of justifying faith is a particular apprehension Answ and application of the free and gracious promises of God in the Gospell which are offered unto the faithfull in Christ the Mediator Now this particular and justifying faith includes in it a generall faith for if a man should doubt in generall of the truth of

the word of God he could not in particular confidently beleeve the promises of the word made unto him in CHRIST Yet faith doth not justifie as in generall it assents to the truth of the word of God but as it is applied to this his principall and proper object to wit the promises of grace made unto us in CHRIST the Mediator Now this appeares thus First because Iustificatio peccatoris pertinet ad bonitatem misericordiam Dei c. Thom. Aqu. 1. qu. Artic. 6. 45. The justification of a Sinner doth belong unto the goodnesse and mercy of God abundantly diffusing it selfe But wee neither can nor ought apprehend or seeke the goodnesse and mercy of GOD beyond and without the promises of grace which are made unto us in CHRIST our Mediator And therefore in these onely as in the proper object is exercised the act of justifying Faith when and as it justifies Secondly this is evident also from the distribution of the word which is divided into the Law and the Gospell Now in the Doctrine of the Law wee neither must seeke nor can have Justification because the conscience of every man who hath any in-sight into himselfe will tell him that he can never be Justified by that legall covenant hee not being able to fulfill the Law And therefore it remaines that Justification is to be sought onely in the Gospell that is in the promises of grace and that the act of faith as it justifies is principally to be directed unto these promises Thirdly this is manifest from these two cleare testimonies of Scripture namely I. Acts 13.38 39. For by Christ is preached unto you the forgivenesse of sinnes and by him all that beleeve are justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the Law of Moses II. Romans 3.21 But now the righteousnesse of God without the Law is manifested being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets Bp. Davenant in Colos 1.4 Page 32. Sect. 3 § 3. Ye shall receive Observ Our Saviour by saying that we shall receive whatsoever we aske would teach us That if we desire to receive we must aske if we would have our wants supplied or our evils redressed and removed we must pray Read Matth. 7.7 and 1. Thessal 5.17 and 1. Timoth. 2.1 8. and James 5.13 and 1. Peter 3.7 Quest What necessity is there of praying Answ 1 First wee cannot honour and glorifie our God as we ought except we pray For I. Jt is a principall part of his worship And II. Thereby we testifie that we depend vpon God 2. Corinth 5.7 And therefore if we desire to glorifie and honour our good God there is great reason that we should pray Answ 2 Secondly we cannot be sure to be freed from any evill except we pray Answ 3 Thirdly we cannot be sure of the remission of our sinnes without prayer Answ 4 Fourthly we cannot hope for either furthering or preventing grace from God without wee pray unto him Answ 5 Fifthly we cannot be sure to obtaine or comfortably enjoy any good thing without prayer For I. By prayer we receive those things which we want And II. By prayer wee have liberty to use those things which we have And III. By prayer the good gifts of God are confirmed yea blessed unto us 1 Timoth. 4.5 And therefore if we desire preservation from evill and remission of our sinnes and the grace of God and the possession of those things which are necessary for us we must pray Vers 31.32 VERS 31.32 Whether of them twaine did the will of his Father They said unto him the first JESVS saith unto them verily I say unto you that the Publicanes and the harlots goe into the Kingdome of God before you For Iohn came unto you in the way of righteousnesse and ye beleeved him not But the Publicanes and the Harlots beleeved him And ye when ye had seene it repented not afterward that ye might beleeve him Sect. 1 § 1. Verily I say unto you Observ Wee see that CHRIST here affirmes what he speakes but sweares not To teach us That wee must not sweare Matth. 5.34 and Iames 5.12 Quest 1 Js not swearing commanded Answ There is a fourefold use of swearing to wit First a Religious use in vowing vowes unto God Secondly a Civill use when men are enjoyned by the Magistrates to sweare or examined vpon oath for the finding out of some truth and this I. Sometimes concernes a mans selfe when he is compelled to sweare for the purging and acquitting of himselfe of some crime whereof he is accused And II. Sometimes this concernes a mans Brother when he sweares onely as a witnesse or to testifie something of or for or against his brother Thirdly there is a private use of swearing in the binding of bargaines and confirming of contracts in stead of bonds This is lawfull if reverently and religiously undertaken and seemes to be warranted from Psalm 15.4 Fourthly there is an ordinary and customary use of swearing which is unlawfull and wicked and therefore our communication must be y●● yea nay nay because whatsoever is more comes of evill that is from sinne Matth. 5.36 How many kind of unlawfull swearers are Quest there First there are ignorant swearers who use certaine Answ 1 formes of words which they know not to be oathes or evill as by this bread and the like Secondly there are inconsiderate swearers who Answ 2 take the sacred name of God in vaine when they would not sweare or meant not to sweare but the oath breakes forth suddainly Thirdly there are foolish and unwary swearers Answ 3 who mourne when they sweare and resolve they will not sweare but by and by fall with the Dog to his vomit Fourthly there are erroneous swearers who Answ 4 thinke that it is lawfull to sweare if so be they sweare nothing but truth But wee see that Christ will not doe it but saith it comes from evill even to sweare truthes Matth. 5.36 And therefore he will be a swift witnesse against all such Fifthly there are hasty swearers who as soone Answ 5 as ever they are provoked and angred breake forth into rage cursing swearing and all manner of uncharitable and unchristian speeches Sixthly there are generous and gentile swearers Answ 6 who thinke it a point of generosity to sweare now and then and to confirme with an oath what they affirme Seventhly there are envious and malicious Answ 7 swearers who blaspheme sweare and curse onely out of a contempt of the Children of God and that they may vexe them thereby These should all marke the Counsell of the Apostle Galath 6.7 and take heed that they doe not deceive their owne soules for they cannot deceive the Lord who will reward them according to their wicked workes § 2. The Publicanes and the harlots goe into Sect. 2 the Kingdome of God before you By what meanes the Publicanes and harlots were converted our Saviour expresseth in the next words namely by the preaching of Iohn

or envie Fifthly blind hearers who understand no more then Davids Idols Who had eyes but saw not eares but heard not c. Psalm 115.6 and 1 Corinthians 2.14 Sixthly proud hear●rs who are puft up with their owne wisedome Iohn 7.4.7 like the Pharisees who thought they knew so much that Christ could teach them no more then they knew Seventhly sinfull hearers who are so hindered and intangled by their sinnes that they cannot heare any thing which crosseth or opposeth their sinnes Eighthly sluggish hearers who heare but neither I. Remember what they heare as Matth. 13.52 and 1 Cor. 15.2 Nor II. Practise what they heare but are inconstant in the duties of Religion Iames 1.5.7 Quest 4 How must wee heare aright and profitably Answ 1 First before wee heare wee must prepare our selves as was shewed in the former Section Quest 3. Answ 2 Secondly in our hearing many things are required of us viz. I. Wee must begin to heare betimes in our youth Eccles 12.1 That is let us learne to love the preaching of the Word in our young yeers II. Wee must heare it attentively when we doe heare it Constantine being desired to sit downe when hee stood to heare a Sermon answered Nesas verlum Dei negligemèr andire It was no small wickednesse to heare the word of God negligently Euseb in vità Constant III. Wee must heare the Word humbly that is with feare and trembling Esay 66.2.5 IV. Wee must heare the Word with a desire to learne thereby as was shevved in the former Section Quest 3. V. Wee must heare seriously that is so as that vvee may gaine by our hearing The house of God is like to a shop full of precious drugs or rich merchandise or like a costly sumptuous and well furnished Banquet And therefore wee should never come thither and goe away againe empty but still gaine some spirituall grace and profit Non convenimus ut unus loquatur alius plausibus excipiat sic digrediamur sed ut nos utilia-vos lucremini Chrysost s Genes hom 1. We doe not meet together in the house of God to talke or conferre or to applaud what is spoken and so goe away but Ministers must labour to preach profitable things and people must labour to heare profitably VI. Wee must heare prudently and wisely not imprinting all things without difference in the memory which are delivered but by separating the lesse profitable things from the more profitable and retaining these the more surely Vt apes mel è floribus sic doctrinas tibi aptas Chrysost As Bees gather honey out of flowers so must wee apply and lay hold principally upon those doctrines and truths which are most fit for us that so wee may bee bettered thereby that is wee must chiefly attend unto and learne those things vvhich doe most avvaken the conscience and shake off security and comfort the heart and refresh the spirits and direct the life And VII These things vve must deeply imprint in our memories Mat. 13.52 that they may stand us instead in the time of need As for example sometimes vve heare instructions hovv to behave our selves in the times of temptation tribulation sicknesse losses crosses and the like Sometimes wee heare consolations for all these severall estates and conditions Now although wee be when wee heare these neither tempted nor tried nor afflicted nor weakned with sicknesse nor in any imminent danger of death yet we should carefully lay them up in our hearts and memories that wee may make use of them when wee are in such case for all these doe attend those who belong unto God at one time or other VIII Wee must heare for this end that wee may obey for to obey what wee heare from the Lord is to follow the Lord. Thirdly after our hearing of the word of God these things are required of us namely I. In the Church and there three duties are enjoyned viz. First prayer and this is not to be neglected for as before Sermon wee must pray both for the Minister and our selves that the Lord would assist both him in speaking and us in hearing and so direct him by his Spirit that he may speake home to our soules and consciences So after Sermon wee must pray for our selves and all the faithfull of the Congregation that the Lord would give a blessing to that which wee have heard that what we have heard we may remember and what wee remember we may understand and what wee understand to be good wee may practise and be enabled to continue in the practise thereof unto the end And as wee must thus pray unto God for our selves so wee must also praise him for enabling his servant the Minister to deliver his message unto us Thirdly the blessing is not to bee neglected as many doe who goe out of the Church before the blessing be given II. When wee are gone from the Church we must ruminate and meditate of what wee have heard It is not good as soone as ever wee goe from the Word to busie or imploy our selves about something or other but to recollect what wee have heard and to conferre with our families about it that so it may take the deeper root in our hearts Blessed are they that thus heare that is who First reverence honour and esteeme the Word And Secondly convene quickly and come betimes to the Lords house upon the Lords day And Thirdly labour to heare unto profit and edification And Fourthly pray for a blessing from God upon that which they have heard And Fifthly doe not neglect but stay for the blessing of the Minister And Sixthly meditate and ruminate after they are gone of that which they have heard Object The Papists to prove that justifying faith may bee separated from love urge this place where wee have a Parable of good and bad fish in one and the same not Now because they who are in the Church are faithfull it will follow that if they prove wicked then that faith from whence they are called faithfull may bee conjoyned with sinne from whence they are called sinfull and consequently may be separated from love Answ It is one thing for a man to be in the Church by an outward profession of faith and from thence only to be called faithfull it is another thing for a man to be a true member of Christ and from thence to bee called just or a justified man for that faith which is common both to the good and bad doth state a difference betweene Christians and no Christians but not betweene those who are justified not justified And therefore that faith is absurdly and ridiculously called justifying faith which while it remaines such hath neither the act nor power of justifying B● Davenant Determin quest 38. pag. 172. VERS 52. Then said hee unto them Therefore every Scribe which is instructed unto the Kingdome of heaven is like unto a man which is an housholder Verse 52 that bringeth forth out of his treasure things new