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A42584	Gell's remaines, or, Several select scriptures of the New Testament opened and explained wherein Jesus Christ, as yesterday, to day, and the same for ever, is illustrated, in sundry pious and learned notes and observations thereupon, in two volumes / by the learned and judicious Dr. Robert Gell ; collected and set in order by R. Bacon.	Gell, Robert, 1595-1665.; Bacon, Robert, b. 1611 or 12.	1676 (1676)	Wing G472; ESTC R17300	2,657,678	1,606

the evil that it is good and say of good that it is evil who put darkness for light and light for darkness who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter and do we not find the same false judgement and justice among us What 's more ordinary then to say of evil that 't is good and of good that 't is evil 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it 's a common fallacy wherewith wise men suffer themselves to be befooled when we call things evil by good names As Jehu exceeding his Commission which was to cut off Ahabs house he invites Jehonadab to go with him 2 King 10.16 Come with me saith he and see my zeal for the Lord he was exceedingly zealous with a bloody zeal against more than he had Authority to destroy yet mean time allowed himself in Jeroboam's idolatry v. 31. as many now-a-dayes are extreme rigorous and zelotical against the sins of others yet as extreme indulgent toward themselves and allow themselves in debaucht and sinful courses Most terrible is the judgment of God against such unrighteous judgment Rom. 2.1 2 3. And therefore though Jehu had a good cause God's warrant yet whereas he judged others yet did the same things the Lord denounceth the like judgment against Jehu's house that he had against Ahab's by Jehu Hos 1.4 A just ground of reproof of those who set up a judgment and righteousness of their own as did the Pharisees of old Rom. 10.3 They went about to establish their own righteousness This is the Religion of every several Sect as Mirandula speaks of Sects of Philosophy magnum est aliquid in omni Secta Some propound unto themselves a bravery of Religion outward pomp and ostentation of Ceremonies and if that can be obtained and the Pope acknowledged the Infallible Judge of it they have their Judgment and Righteousness that they care for Others think Christ's Judgment and Righteousness erected if they have no Ceremonies at all Others would have somewhat they have not but what I know not nor I am perswaded do they themselves but if they had not something they have and had some new thing instead of it then they were in their Kingdom but all this while Christ is not in his for while every man strives to set up his own way his own justice and judgment God's way and Christ's way of judgment and justice must be trodden under foot Put away lying thus saith the Lord Keep ye judgment or equity and do justice Esay 56.1 He hath shewn thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God Mich. 6.8 Zach. 8.16 These are the things that ye shall do speak ye every man truth to his neighbour execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates and let none of ye imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour and love no false oath Are these the things that we should do Alas these are poor things Without these no salvation Esay 56.1 This was the old way of the Lord wherein our Father Abraham the Father of the Faithful walked and taught his Children Gen. 18.19 and teacheth us if we be his Children to walk in it If any man have found a shorter cut than this to salvation let him have it but I wish he be not believed upon his own bare word but that he shew plain Scripture for what he saith this is the true knowledge see Jer. 22.15 This reproves those who sit in place of Judicature and judge unrighteous judgment who turn judgment into gall Amos 6.12 what a fearful aggravation is that of the Apostle Act. 23.3 Sittest thou to judge me according to the Law and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the Law God shall smite thee unto such Jer. 21.12 Execute judgment in the morning and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor lest my fury go forth like fire and burn that none can quench it because of the evil of your doings Potentes potentèr tormenta patientur Mighty men that are wicked shall be mightily tormented for if he shall have judgment without mercy that shewed no mercy what judgment shall he have who shewed no justice Mercy it self in some cases must not be shewn Exod. 23.3 Thou shalt not countenance a poor man in his cause but Justice is alwayes to be done that which is altogether just shalt thou follow Deut. 16.20 what a fearful judgment then must they expect who neither do judgment nor justice Consol To the people of God Christ executes judgment and justice in them He hath set up his Throne in them and in them he condemns 〈◊〉 for sin and justifies the righteous for righteous Hence is that security observable among the Subjects of Christ 1 Cor. 4.3 4. It 's a very small thing for me to be judged by you or of mans judgment He who judgeth me is the Lord Who art thou that judgest another we must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ when every man must be judged according to what he hath done in the flesh whether it be good or evil Exhort To yield unto the Government of the King Christ let him execute judgment and justice in us Prov. 21.3 There is much debate about an outward form of Government in the Church of Christ and some one seems to some more glorious than another yet surely the very best which most men aim at and desire and endeavour with the hazzard of many thousand souls their very great Diana they stir for yea what ever that outward form is which God himself hath appointed in his word for certainly he hath not left his Church without Government if men knew what it were yet even that form in respect of this inward Regiment and Government of Christ in the soul it 's but like a dead carcass without the soul but like an empty shell without a kernel yet extreme contention is for that outward for the inward little or none at all as our lives speak it plain enough Sign Habits are discern'd by affections which follow the actions Ethic. 2. as if water were forced upwards its contrary to the natural course of it but it flows downward with delight Amos 5.24 Prov. 21.15 Gods judgment is without respect of persons Esay 24.2 Every man doth what is good in his own eyes and therefore there is no King in our Israel Where Christ's Government is it is an easie matter to discern mitto te tibi where he executes judgment and justice He reproves the world by his spirit of their sins because they believe not in him who takes away the sins of the world also of righteousness false and pharisaical righteousness Mat. 5.16 and judgment false judgment which proceeded from the Prince of this world whom he judgeth and casts out Hence it was that the Scribes and Pharisees most of all opposed Christ in his Government with their false judgment and

yea the discourse is proper Our business is about Prisons and casting into prisons those extrema those ultima mala those extreme those uttermost evils in both Common-wealths That which happily may seem the most strange is the first kind of prison that rude and unmannerly persons should be put thereinto without any other demerit or cause but that they are such We all know the mischiefs which befall the Common-weal by such persons Robberies wasting Estates leaving their Families a burden unto others of these there hath been and yet is I fear a great number in this Common-wealth These if so informed and prevented the other two prisons might be spared I am not so well seen in the Lawes of this Nation as to affirm that there is no provision made to curb and give check to the exorbitant courses of such persons not so ill nurtured as to dispute with Laws already made but thus much I may boldly say that if there be no such Law as to restrain unnurtured men from prodigal and loose courses it 's Casus omissus and a business worthy the serious consideration of the Great Council of this Nation Assembled according to the end of their Meeting to deliberate upon the ardua negotia Regni And I pray God that they may do so Mysticé Answerable unto these three sorts of prisons and prisoners in God's Common-wealth on Earth are those other three in God's Common-wealth in Heaven 1. One for the restraint and nurture of rude persons that 's the prison of the Law Gal. 3.21 2. Is the prison of Christ wherein the Debtors are put 3. The third is Satans prison even the Hell it self This is no consolation unto those who are imprisoned for their crimes no though they bear their punishment 1 Pet. 2. 2. Reprehension of those who as if there were not prisons enough both outward and inward go about to imprison the Consciences of men which the Great Judge of all the world leaves free When he saith even unto Cain Gen. 4. If thou do well shalt thou not be accepted yea he leaves his own people Free after a long exhortation to obedience Deut. 28. I have set before you life and death Deut. 29. and Ecclus. Deus reliquit hominem in manu Consilii sui He sets fire and water before thee put thy hand to which thou wilt And the Apostle 2 Cor. 1. vers 12 17. And therefore much are they to blame who go about to imprison the Consciences of men within their own private tenets They forget that prisons are Publici Juris insomuch that he who detains another in his own private house or elsewhere he doth him a great injury how much more when under pretence of the Great Judge his words Compel them to come in whereby he invites men by strong and forcible perswasions to a feast these men not heeding the decorum use the words and pretend Christs Authority to force men to the prison of their own private opinions Repreh 3. Who will not be cast into prison but cast themselves into it a voluntary imprisonment who commit or yield themselves to prison to defraud their creditors Observ The free estate of those who have agreed with their adversaries and are of one mind with God the Father and his Law and Prophets What though they be cast into prison Paul reports of himself That he was in prisons often but he carried no guilt with him it is guilt that makes a prison Paul and Silas sung in the stocks Acts 16. The word of God is not bound Christ appeared to his Disciples twice when they were shut up and said peace unto them Observ 2. Here is a pattern for Christian Judges though they ought to be as a most just and even ballance whence they say that Just Judges are born under Libra so that they ought not to favour no not a poor man in his Cause yet in which scale the right lies that must incline and sway the Judge He therefore who suffers injury may justly expect favour from a Righteous Judge Observ 3. The Lord hath his Polity his Common-wealth on Earth in this outward world conformable unto his Common-wealth in Heaven where Christ is the Judge the Officers are the Angels the Prison is Hell The Great Judge executes this judgement upon obstinate men either 1. by himself as Gen. 19. The Lord from the Lord rained judgement is committed by the Father to the Son or 2. by his Officers the Angels 1. Good as Psal 103.20 22. 2. Evil Zach. 6.8 3. By Men also he delivers c. Observ 4. A prison is no restraint at all where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty 2 Cor. 3. What to do what we list No to do what is just and lawful and right I shall walk at liberty when I keep thy Commandments Observ 5. Note hence the free estate of all those who agree with their Adversary who consent unto the Law who are obedient unto the Law I shall walk at liberty when I keep thy Commandments Howbeit this estate we come not unto upon a suddain it is no extempore business to be a Christian we meet with temptations from the flesh under these were the Galathians Gal. 3.17 and temptations from the evil spirit under these were the Ephesians Eph. 6.1 we come to Esech then Sitnah after that to Rehoboth then we walk at liberty indeed when we have neither adversary nor evil occurrent as Solomon saith of himself 1 Kings 5.4 His Kingdom figured the Kingdom of the Spirit whose fruits are Love Joy Peace c. Gal. 5. against these there is no Law The Father hath his prison the Law the Son his self-denial the Spirit hath no adversary Repreh Those who refuse to walk in that good and right way of Gods Commandments and turn aside into the way of sinners and though they be followed by the Law that therefore becomes their adversary they yield not nor agree with him but contumaciously run on until the adversary deliver them to the Judge and the Judge deliver them to the Officer yet although all this be their own perverse doing yet they murmur and repine against God Why doth the living man complain the man for the punishment of his sin Lam. 3.39 Dost thou consider against whom thou liftest up thy self even against the Lord of Heaven and Earth even the Judge of the world That God in whose hand thy breath is even he to whom the Father hath committed all judgement John 5. Cons This must needs be great comfort unto the Disciples of Jesus Christ who walk at liberty and enjoy their freedom which Satans Captive's want But alas I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth It was the Psalmist's complaint and it may be thine and such may thy case be that it 's happy for thee that thou art so imprisoned There is nothing that men in their corrupt natural estate desire more than their own Will I doubt not therefore but to be

Repreh 2. Such as honour the house of God unduely put all the Honour upon the Porch beautifie the body and neglect the Soul and Spirit See Notes on Luke 12. and 1 John 5.4 principio And those who think to please God in building outward houses to him I dwell saith David in a cieled house c. God approved of David's good will But alas saith the poor Soul if I be an house of God of Christ's making an honourable house whence is it that an inmate is gotten in Whence is it that I am assaulted by the unclean Spirit with fleshly Lusts Whence is it that Leviathan the King of the children of pride tempts me with high thoughts Whence is it that Mammon assails me with covetous projects How comes it to pass that there is an enemy in God's habitation 1 Sam. 2. And canst thou hope to be without temptations When thou wast an house first dedicated as houses are wont to be by Baptism unto the Lord thy God wert thou not baptized to be a Soldier and a Servant of Jesus Christ And are not Soldiers and Servants as such under authority and under command and all exposed to danger And must not thou go when thy Commander bids thee go and come when he bids thee come do this when he bids thee do it Is a house at its own disposing or the Lord's Yea doth not the Lord himself go out and in before thee Is he not the Captain of our Salvation Hebr. 2. Yea when he himself was first dedicated unto the Lord by Baptism presently the Holy Ghost drove him into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil Matth. 4 And was not he tempted in all things like uto us and yet without sin Wherefore to be tempted is no sin In that he was tempted he is able also to succour those who are tempted Thou hearest and knowest all this well enough and why dost thou not go unto the Lord Jesus and pray that thou mayst obtain Grace to help in time of need if thou only hear and obey not canst thou think to dispossess the Merchants with hearing only the tribe of Simeon hearing alone what wicked Housholds it had in it Josh 19. Here was Bethlebaoth the house of Lions wrath anger impatience roaring Here was Siceleg effusio Sextarii the pouring out of the pint yea the quart pot a tipling house Here was Molad● Generatio a Brothel house Here was Haser Shual atrium vulpium a court of Foxes crafty subtil spirits In Simeon's Tribe where hearing only is there is Haser Susa a Court a Stable of Horses yea Bethmarchaboth an house of chariots Horses and Chariots for war no peace there In a word there 's Bala Oldness of the Letter and the old man and Horma the curse What marvel is it if thou be an hearer only that thou hast these Inmates lodging in thee but I hope better things of thee The Ancients tell us that the house of Simeon the Leper was a figure of the obedient Soul cured by Christ of spiritual Leprosie and the house was in Bethany the house of affliction Matth. 26. If Christ be in his own house he will cut off the chariots and the horse from Jerusalem Zach. 9.10 He will cleanse his house They tell a tale of Augeae stabulum the stall of Augeas wherein there were three thousand Oxen which had dung'd there thirty years and that Hercules cleansed that stall of all the dung by bringing the river Alpheus through it and hath not the Lord promised that in these days there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David Them that love God and their Neighbour for sin and for uncleanness c. Zach. 13.1 2. yea the Lord himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he makes the purging of our sins Hebr. 1. Exhort Receive the Lord into his own house to dwell with us The exhortation is most reasonable it is his own house he made it Psalm 95.1 for himself to dwell in but he brings what will make him welcom for Ecclus. 4.13 as the Ark he blesseth with all what ever is good See Notes on Esay 3.10 He makes of Luz 1. Beth●l he makes it 2. Bethlehem 3. Bethbarah Judge 7.24 An house of purity Acts 15.9 4. Bethesdah John 5.2 5 Beth-chanah 1 Kings 4.9 and because men love Festivals he makes the house 6. Beth-hoglah Josh 15.6 An house of Feasting Means 1. Admit no Inmate Eccl●s 11.10 2. Remove envy Ezech. 8. 3. Hearken to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those Tent-makers who prepare Tents and Tabernacles for the Lord Jesus to dwell in John 1.14 Psal 68.18 They say of ●enelope that she continued chast unto her Husband and yielded not to the many wooers in his absence whereupon he came poor and despicable and destroyed them all and so do thou chast Soul entertain thou him who for our sakes became poor into thy heart and he will destroy all the Paramours there 4. Make the house ready for him Psalm 101. Sapientia 6 12-20 5. Vow with David I will not go up c. Psal 132. 2. Every man hath a right to bear rule in his own house This was a Decree made by Ahasuerus Esth 1.22 Ahasuerus is a Prince and Head and the Lord Jesus is figured by him as being the Head and Prince of his Church Eph. 5.23 He makes his Decree that every one bear rule in his own house and thus the Lord bare rule in Moses every thing that Moses did was according to the rule of the Master of the house as the Lord commanded Moses The head of every man is Christ 1 Cor. 11.3 3. A man is most secure in his own house it 's a Rule in the Civil Law Ibi unusquisque habitat ubi dormit there he sleeps securely the wise man describes the Church of Christ by the character of a good wife Prov. 31.11 The heart of her Husband doth trust in her 4. A man is best acquainted in his own house N●●a domus nulli magis est sua quam mihi lucus Mar●s So well the Lord knows his house even the obedient Soul Psal 139.1 5. A man delights in his own dwelling house here will I dwell and so well he knew Moses Exod. 33.12 6. The house of God is the house of Prayer not only the publick Temple but many other 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 74.8 And thus Moses was God's house wherein he dwelt and ruled wherein he was secure where he was well acquainted 2. But thus every faithful and obedient Soul may be said to be God's house was Moses no otherwise God's house 1. Know we therefore that every man is by creation designed for an house of God Esay 45.18 He made it to be inhabited but though many yea the most fall short of that glorious end Moses did not he was really and truly God's house 2. The younger Saints who have the work of regeneration only begun in them and are not yet fully wrought and finished even these

are God's house so our Apostle calls the Corinthians Babes in Christ such as had need of Milk not of strong meat because not able to bear it 1 Cor. 3.1 2. yet even these he calls the Temple of God vers 16. of the same Chapter But Moses was a complete house in whom the work of God was consummated and made perfect And therefore the Lord prefers him not only before ordinary men but before his Prophets themselves Numb 12.7.8 Observ 1. The transcendent dignity of Moses and all such as Moses was all believing faithful meek and obedient souls they are Gods house he dwells in them they are Gods habitation Eph. 2. And Christ dwells in their hearts by faith Eph. 4.3 This is their high honour both in regard of design and intention they were created and chosen to no less dignity than to be the temple of God and in regard of inchoation in all Observ 2. If Moses and every faithful and meek man and woman be Gods house then are we not our own it is the Apostles inference 1 Cor. 6.19 for ye are bought with a price we have more or less all of us in some degree or other alienated our selves from our God and the holy use for which he had made us Eph. 4. and the Lord purchased us anew to be his house We have hereby to answer all messengers of Satan who sollicite us and tempt us e. I am not mine own I am bought with a price what authority have I to lend or alien what is anothers So the Apostle makes use of it 1 Cor. 6.18 19. Observ 3. A neer and intimate union between God and the Faithful meek and obedient man Such an one as Moses here is an house of God wherein he dwells his mansion house But this seems not an intimate union for he that dwells in an house is not cloathed with his house though the Apostle use that Metaphor he is not one with his house yet the faithful soul is cloathed with its house from heaven 2 Cor. and one with the Lord whose house it is 1 Cor. 6. yea that the union may be thorough and intire as the Apostle here saith Moses is Gods and Christs house So Moses saith to the Lord that he is his and our house Psal 90.1 O Lord thou hast been our dwelling place from one generation to another thou hast been always such an house and thou hast been our house from the generation of the Father under the Law as we are his children begotten of the Father to the generation of the Son who is pater futuri saeculi the father of the generation to come Hence it is that he is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the indwelling Deity Emmanuel Observ 4. Note here what open injury is done to the Lord our God and Jesus Christ the man is the house and he expels the Lord Jesus the true owner of it We read of Jephtah See Notes on Jer. 23.5 Then when Jephtah is expelled the children of Ammon prevail All the while Jephtah rules in his own house the Ammonites the secret sins are kept under when he is cast out of his house then they prevail against us O let us make a Covenant with him as the Gileadites did to bring him home that he may be our head and rule in his own house Repreh 1. Those who own not nor acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ so near them as to dwell in them Gal. 3.1 among you Col. 1.27 amongst you Luk. 17.21 among you God is in this place and we are not aware of it There is one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stands in the midst of you whom ye know not Joh. 1.26 See Notes on Matth. 24.1 Rom. 8.11 Repreh 2. Those who disturb the Lord of the house in his own dwelling such as make Bethel Bethaven This is done either through the irascible or concupiscible Eccles 11.10 1. Such are all wrathful and impatient persons such as they are said to be 2 Sam. 23.20 two lion like men of Moab that is as the Ancients understand Moab of their father the Devil who is described to be as a roaring lion Such are they who are as lions in their own house Ecclus. 4.30 How unlike are these to Moses the house of God He was the meekest of men and so a fit house for the Lord to dwell in these are as roaring lions such are not Bethel the house of God but Bethlebaoth the house of lions Jos 19.5 They drive out the meek Spirit of Jesus and give place to the Devil Eph. 4. 2. They offend also in the concupiscible make the Lords house a tipling house by intemperancy an house of merchandize and den of thieves a brothel-house Repreh 3. Those who boast that they are the house of God when yet Satans lusts dwell in them what communion is or can be between Christ and Belial 2 Cor. 6. yet do these glory in a supposed liberty wherewithal Christ hath made them free But they remember not what the Apostle adviseth Gal. 1.13 Ye have been called to liberty only use not your liberty as an occasion to the flesh We read of two Towns said to be built but they were only repaired by Solomon Beth-horon the upper and Beth-horon the nether 2 Chron. 8.5 But indeed these Towns were built long before 1 Chron. 7.24 And Solomon is reported to have repaired the nether only 1 King 9.7 Beth horon is the house of liberty and there are two such 1. The upper Beth-horon is the house of liberty from the thraldom and captivity of sin and Satan that liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty 2. There is a nether Beth-horon an house of licence rather than liberty that wants reparation an house of liberty to the flesh an house of licentiousness such an house are those who pretend the upper Beth-horon the glorious liberty of the sons of God but are indeed the nether Beth-horon the house of licentious libertinism Eph 4.18 19. who give themselves over to lasciviousness c. dissolute and ungirt men and women they cannot live above the girdle And can Christ live in the Brothel house Elisha was entertained in an upper Chamber 2 King 4. And the Lord Jesus typified by him as for these they are below Prov. 7.27 2 Pet. 2.19 Consol To the meek minded ones Such was Moses Numb 12.3 as notable for his meekness as for his faithfulness and he was God's house wherein he dwelt If it be so why am I thus The Lord dwells in Salem But alass I am afflicted Thou lookest for an Indolentia an immunity and rest from trouble Doth not the Master of the house know the necessities of his house Esay 63.9 In all their afflictions he was afflicted he suffers with thee Ye find that the Lord Jesus was very frequent in Bethany it was the town where Lazarus and Mary and Martha dwelt John 11.1 And Jesus loved Martha and her Sister and Lazarus

but not Samuel in Christ's time who all these but not Christ and his Apostles these shall be rejected among the ungodly Ezech. 33.33 Then they shall know that a Prophet hath been among them 2. So we can allow Christ hereafter and for ever but not in our time It is not time yet that the Lords house should be built say they in Hagg. 1.2 Elias was to come that they all knew when he came they examine him by what Authority he baptized Joh. 1. The Messiah they knew was to come but when he came they must know by what Authority he did his Mighty Works They acknowledged neither John Baptist nor Christ present that they might take all the honour to themselves Tell us of sobriety spotlesness c. that must be in another world 1 Pet. 1.13 and 2 Pet. 3.14 Reproves the madness of the people who obtrude every new fangled Opinion of their own upon Christ Africa semper aliquid opportat novi Consol To the poor Soul frighted with the changeable condition wherein it is Jesus Christ is Jehovah he changeth not Mal. 3.6 That is the cause of my fear Nay that should be the cause of thy confidence in his Mercy though it be true of all the Divine Attributes that they are everlasting yet not any one of them is said so often to continue for ever as his Mercy his Mercy it endures for ever And therefore the Prophet having said I am the Lord I change not presently adds therefore ye Sons of Jacob are not consumed Sons of Jacob i. e. ye weaklings as Jacob is the type of the Church in the weakness nonage and minority of it as Isaac in the strength of it If Christ be mine enemy if he lay siege against us who can help us Our God is a consuming fire If Christ be for us who can be against us but if he be against us who can be for us Say unto the Righteous it shall be well with them Isai 3.10 When Joshuah besieged Jericho he gave special charge that Rahab the Harlot should live she that had gone a whoring from her God but had now returned with a large heart to entertain the messengers of Joshuah sent unto her yea and Joshuah himself The Jews have a tradition that she was married to Joshuah but Matt. 1. we read she was the Wife of Salmon however it will be true in the mystery But if mine iniquities be not consumed they will consume me it was the exception ye read the people made Ezech. 33.10 11. Thus ye speak saying if our transgression and our sins be upon us and we pine away in them how should we then live Say unto them thus saith the Lord Behold I even I will both search my sheep and seek them out as a Shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his Sheep that are scattered c. If therefore thou turn from thine evil way thou shalt live To such weak Sons of Jacob the Lord Jesus Christ is promised Esay 59.20 The Redeemer shall come to Zion and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob saith the Lord. O but mine iniquities pursue me and my sins lay fast hold on me c. Though I turn from mine iniquities mine iniquities will not turn from me But whether is the Lord Jesus Christ the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world Is he not said to be a Saviour Why is he called Jesus Is it not because be shall save his people from their sins And therefore mark how S. Paul read that very Text Esay 39.20 which he quotes Rom. 11.26 27. There shall come out of Sion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Saviour or Deliverer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He shall turn away iniquity from Jacob They turn from their sins saith the Prophet He turns their sins and iniquities from them Yea thus doing he is a true Jesus a true Saviour he presently adds This is my covenant with them when I shall take away their sins But the troubled soul oftentimes is not so quieted For when after the rebellion of Core Numb 17. The Rod of Aaron had budded a token unto them of the Priesthood of Christ that flourished and should flourish and the Lord had commanded it to be kept for a token against the Rebels vers 10. and this promise added Thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me that they dye not The children of Israel thereupon complain and speak to Moses Behold we dye we perish we all perish c. Doth the Lord so leave his poor weak people under their guilt and torment of conscience Look I beseech ye into chap. 18.1 There the Lord imposeth a task upon Aaron and his Sons That they should bear the iniquity of the Priesthood c. So Ezechiel the besieger bears the iniquity of Jerusalem besieged Ez●●h 4.5 And what is the end of all this vers 5. That there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel What is this to us Jesus Christ is the true Priest and the Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec and Jesus is made a surety of a better Testament than Aaron Hebr. 7.23 The Priesthood of Aaron was continued in Aaron's Sons and in conclusion that Priesthood had an end But this man because he continueth ever hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an unchangeable Priesthood or a Priesthood that descends not from one to another And what followeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Therefore he is able to save to the uttermost from his sin and that sin and that iniquity and all the degrees of sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for evermore Margin And he ever lives to make intercession for them NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS UPON JAMES I. 22. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But be ye doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving your own selves THey are the first words of the Epistle appointed for this day wherein S. James claims our best attention and audience unto the word of God Be ye hearers of the word which some would have the principal scope of this Text but it 's the less of the two Duties he requires and his illustration is à minori He requires rather our obedience and action than our audience and attention only and accordingly by reason enforceth the performance of it Be ye doers of the word not hearers only So that ye may perceive it is not my purpose to set hearing and doing at odds the one is never well performed without the other for we never do as we ought unless we first hear what we ought to do nor ever hear we as we ought unless we do also what we hear And therefore when as in those first and purest times of the Church the Serpent had corrupted their minds by subtilty and taught them to abstract one Duty from another or rather to perform one and the same Duty by halfs our Apostle discovers the deceit and urgeth the performance of both Duties