Let him who speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret c. I will pray with the spirit and will pray with understanding also 1 Cor. 14. 13 14 15. You also helping together by prayer for us 2 Cor. 1. 11. For this cause I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart frâ—…m me and he said unto me My grace is sufficient c. 2 Cor. 12. 7 8 9. Making mention of you in my prayers That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledg of him c. Ephes. 1. 16 17 18 19. For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus c. That he would grant unto you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith c. Ephes. 3. 14 15 16 17 18 19. Praying always with all manner of prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints and for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may c. Ephes. 6. 18 19. Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request c. And thus I pray that your love may abound c. Phil. 1. 4 9 10 11. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God c. Phil. 4. 6. For this cause we also c. do not cease to pray for you and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledg of his will c. Col. 1. 9 10 11. Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving withall praying also for us that God would open unto us a dore of utterance c. Labouring fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God Col. 4. 2 3 4 12. 1 Pet. 4. 7. Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way unto you and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love c. 1 Thes. 3. 10 11 12. Pray without ceasing c. And the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly c. Brethren pray for us 1 Thes. 5. 17 23 25. We pray always for you that our God would c. fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith 2 Thes. 1. 11. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our father who hath loved us comfort your hearts and stablish you in every good word and work ' 2 Thes. 2. 16 17. Finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course or may run and be glorified and that we may be delivered c. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God c. 2 Thes. 3. 1 2 5. Exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for kings and for all who are in authority or eminent place that we may lead a quiet c. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour c. I will therefore that men pray every where lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubting 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3 8. Every creature of God is good c. if it be received with thanksgiving c. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer 1 Tim. 4. 4 5. She that is a widow indeed c. and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day 1 Tim. 5. 5. I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day 2 Tim. 1. 3. Philemon vers 4. Seeing then that we have a great high-priest that is passed into the heavens Jesus c. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need Heb. 4. 14 15 16. Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cries and tears unto him who was able to save Heb. 5. 7. Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest c. and having an High Priest over the house of God Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith c. Heb. 10. 19 20 21 22. Pray for us c. Now the God of peace c. make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well pleasing c. Heb. 13. 18 20 21. If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth unto all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him but let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he who wavereth is like a wave of the Sea c. And let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord James 1. 5 6 7. Ye have not because ye ask not ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts or pleasures James 4. 2 3. Is any among you afflicted let him pray c. is any sick among you let him call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over him c. and the prayer of faith shall save the sicâ—… c. Pray one for another the effectual fervent prayer c. James 5. 13 14 15 16 17. And if ye call on the father who without respect of persons judgeth c. 1 Pet. 1. 17. Likewise ye husbands dwell with them c. that your prayers be not hindred â—… The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers 1 Pet. 3. 7 12. Be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight 1 John 3. 22. This is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask any thing according unto his will he heareth us and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we desire of him If any man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death There is a sin unto death I do not say that ye shall pray for it 1 John 5. 14 15 16. Praying in the holy Ghost Jude vers 20. The Elders c. having every one of them harps and golden viols full of odours or incense which are the prayers of the saints Rev. 5. 8. Another Angel came and stood at the Altar having a golden Censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it or add it to with the prayers of
but whoso trusteth in the Lord shall be safe Prov. 29. 25. Take heed and be quiet fear not neither be faint-hearted c. because Syria Ephraim c. have taken evil counsel against thee c. I shall not stand Isa. 7. 3 4 5 6 7. And I will wait upon the Lord who hideth his face from the house of Jacob and I will look for him Isa. 8. 17. It shall be said in that day Lo this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us Isa. 25. 9. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee Isa. 26. 3. The Egyptians shall help in vain c. therefore have I cryed c. their strength is to sit still c. Thus saith the Lord In returning and rest you shall be saved in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength c. Isa. 30. 7 15. Fear not for I am with thee be not dismayed for I am thy God c. Isa. 41. 10 13 14. Who is among you who feareth the Lord who obeyeth the voice of his servant who walketh in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Behold all ye who kindle a fire c. Isa. 50. 10 11. Fear ye not the reproach of men neither be ye afraid of their revilings c. I even I am he who comforteth you Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die c. and forgettest the Lord thy maker Isa. 51. 7 12 13. It is the Lords mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not c. It s good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord Lam. 3. 22 25 26. When my Soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord Jonah 2. 7. The Son dishonoured the father c. Therefore will I look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my salvation Micah 7. 6 7. The Lord is good a strong hold in the day of trouble and he knoweth them who trust in him Nahum 1. 7. Come unto me all ye who labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Mat. 11. 28. God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape 1 Cor. 10. 13. We should not trust in our selves but in God c. who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver 2 Cor. 1. 9 10. In nothing terrified by your adversaries Phil. 1. 28. Be careful for nothing but in every thing c. let your request be made known unto God Phil. 4. 6. We our selves glory in you c. for your patience and faith in all your persecutions 2 Thess. 1. 4. Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example c. when he suffered he threatned not but committed his cause to him who judgeth righteously 1 Pet. 2. 21 23. If ye suffer c. be not afraid of their terror c. But sanctifie the Lord c. 1 Pet. 3. 14 15. Wherefore let them who suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their soul to him in well-doing as unto a faithful Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. See more of trust in God Chap. 16. See of waiting for God Secondly The duties of saints and how they ought to behave themselves towards enemies and persecutors in a time of persecution and suffering from them 1st To be patient quiet and sober towards them not revenge or return evil for evil or reviling for reviling but forgive them Joseph instead of revenging upon his brethren for their injuring of him speaks kindly to his brethren and said Be not grieved nor angry with your selves that ye sold me hither for God did send me before you to preserve life c. So now it was not you who sent me hither but God Gen. 45. 6 7 8 Though Saul hunted for Davids life yet would not David avenge himself upon him 1 Sam. 24 ch 26. When Shimei cursed David he bore it quietly and would not avenge himself 2 Sam. 16. 7 8 9 10 11. And afterward Abishai said to David Shall not Shimei be put to death for this because he cursed the Lords anointed c. David said to Shimei Thou shalt not die 2 Sam. 19. 21 22 23. O God to whom vengeance belong c. shew thy self Psal. 94. 1. Envy thou not the oppressor or the man of violence Prov. 3. 31. Say not thou I will recompence evil wait on the Lord and he shall save Prov. 20. 22. Say not I will do so to him as he hath done to me I will render to the man c. Prov. 24. 29. He was oppressed c. yet he opened not his mouth c. as a sheep c. so he opened not his mouth Isa. 53. 7. Jeremy said As for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth good c. Jer. 26. 11 14. Resist not but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek turn to him the other Matth. 5. 38 39. If ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly father will also forgive you Matth. 6. 14 15. When one of Christs disciples drew his sword c. he bid him put it up c. Matth. 26. 51 52. James and John said Lord Wilt thou that we command fire down from heaven and consume them c but he turned and rebuked them and said Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of for the Son of man is not come to desttoy mens lives c. Luke 9. 53 54 55 56. Paul said to Festus when he had said He was besides himself I am not mad most noble Festus c. Acts 26. 24 25. Recompence to no man evil for evil c. Avenge not your selves but rather give place to wrath for it is written Vengeance is mine I will repay saith the Lord Rom. 12. 17 19. Being reviled we bless c. being defamed we intreat 1 Cor. 4. 12 13. See that none render evil for evil unto any man 1 Thess. 5. 15. Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you James 5. 6. So is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men c. Christ suffered c. leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps c. who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not 1 Pet. 2. 15 21 23. Not rendring evil for evil or railing c. 1 Pet. 3. 9. 2dly Not to desire or rejoyce in the hurt of enemies and persecutors David mourned and wept when Saul was slain although he had been his deadly enemy hated and pursued him several years 2 Sam. 1. 4 5 to the end Abner his great enemy who set up Ishbosheth in opposition to him being slain David said I and
c. but I will proceed no farther Job 40. 4 5. I have heard of thee c. but now mine eyes see thee wherefore I abhor my self c. Job 42. 5 6. Hath he smitten bim c By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin Isa. 27. 7 8 9. My fury and mine anger was poured out c. They are not humbled unto this day neither have they feared nor walked in my law Jer. 44. 6 10. I will cause you to pass under the rod c. and you shall remember your wayes c. and ye shall loath your selves in your own sight Ezek. 40. 37 38 43. Some of them of understanding shall fall c. to purge and to make them white Dan. 11. 35. I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver Zech. 13. 9. Lest I should be exalted above measure c. there was given to me a thorn in the flesh a messenger of Satan to buffet me 2 Cor. 12. 7. 3dly To make them to remember God and things above look to own them and close with them Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed and Jacob said O God of my father Abraham c. the Lord who saidst unto me Return c. Gen. 32. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. He suffered thee to hunger c. that thou mayst know that man lives not by bread alone but c. Deut. 8. 3. When Manasseh was in affliction he besought the Lord his God c. then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God 2 Chron. 33. 12 13. God hath overthrown me and hath encompassed me with his net c. for I know my redeemer liveth and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth c. in my flesh shall I see God Job 19. 6 25 26 27. When my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher than I for thou hast been a shelter Psal. 61. 2 3. When he slew them then they sought him and they returned and enquired early after God and they remembred that God was their rock c. Psal. 78. 34 35. It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes the law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold c. Psal. 119. 71 72. Such as escape of the house of Jacob shall no more again stay upon him who smote them but shall stay upon the Lord the holy one of Israel in truth Isa. 10. 20 21. In that day it shall come to pass that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin c. At that day shall a man look to his maker and his eyes shall have respect to the holy One of Israel and he shall not look to the altars c. Isa. 17. 4 5 6 7 8. Wherefore doth a living man complain c let us search and try our ways and turn again unto the Lord Lam. 3. 39 40. I will cause you to pass under the rod c. and ye shall know that I am the Lord Ezek. 20. 37 38. Behold I will hedg up thy way c. Then shall she say I will go and return to my first husband for then was it better with me than now c. Hos. 2. 6 7 8. chap. 5. 15. We had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God who raiseth the dead who delivered us c. 2 Cor. 1. 8 9 10. Our light affliction c. worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen c. 2 Cor. 4. 17 18. 4thly For Gods own glory and the furtherance of the Gospel I will harden Pharoahs heart that he shall follow after them and I will be honoured upon Pharoah and upon all his host that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord c. And the Egyptians pursued after them c. and the children of Israel were sore afraid c. Exod. 14. 4 9 10 17 18. He fed thee with Manna c. that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live Deut. 8. 3. Howbeit because by this deed thou hast given great cause to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die 2 Sam. 12. 14. Hast thou considered my servant Job c and still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movest me against him to destroy him without cause Job 2. 3. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain Psal. 76. 10. The three childrens sufferings made persecutors acknowledg and give honour to God Dan. 3. 27 28 29. So Daniels sufferings made Darius the king who had caused him to be cast into the lions den to acknowledg and honour God Dan. 6. 20 26 27. Master Who did sin this man or his parents that he was born blind Jesus answered Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents but that the work of God might be made manifest in him John 9. 1 2 3. Jesus said This sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God that the Son of God might be glorified thereby John 11. 3 4. This spake he signifying by what death he should glorifie God John 21. 18 19. We are troubled on every side c. that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body for we who live are always delivered unto death that the life of Jesus might be manifest in our mortal flesh 2 Cor. 4. 8 9 10 11. When Paul was buffeted c. he besought the Lord thrice that it might depart and it was said My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness most gladly will I therefore rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me c. 2 Cor. 12. 7 8 9 10. I would have you understand c. that the things which have happened to me have fallen out to the furtherance of the Gospel c. and many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear Phil. 1. 12 13 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ c. the spirit c. on your part he is glorified 1 Pet. 4. 14. 5thly For the effecting of great good and advantage to those who are exercised with trouble c. Josephs afflictions and sufferings his being sold by his brethren and after being imprisoned happened through God to his great honour and advantage He advanced to be next the king his brethren who sold him made to bow to him and honour him and are nourished by him His fathers sorrow also recompensed in that Joseph provided for
and offered burnt-offerings c. And the Lord said to Moses c. Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them c. Exod 32. 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 10. Psal. 106. 19 20. Ye shall destroy their Altars break their Images and cut down their groves for thou shalt worship no other god for the Lord whose name is Jealous c. lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they go a whoring after their gods and do sacrifice to their gods c. Thou shalt make thee no molten-gods Exod. 34. 12 13 14 15 16 17. Numb 33. 51 52. Turn you not to Idols nor make your selves molten-gods for I am the Lord your God Levit. 19. 4. Ye shall make you no Idols nor graven-Image neither rear you up a standing Image or Pillar nor set you up any Image or figure of stone in your land to bow down to it for I am the Lord c. Levit. 26. 1. They called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods and the people did eat and bowed down to their gods and Israel joyned himself to Baal-peor and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel Numb 25. 1 2 3. Psal. 106. 28. Upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments c. Numb 33. 4. Ye shall not go after other gods of the gods of the people which are round about you for the Lord thy God c. Deut. 6. 14 15. Deut. 11. 16. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them c. for they will turn away thy son from following me that they may serve other gods so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you c. Ye shall destroy their altars c. Deut. 7. 3 4 5 16 25. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods c. you shall overthrow their altars Deut. 12. 2 3. Such who should endeavour to draw others to Idolatry were to be put to death Deut. 13. Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God which thou shalt make thee neither shalt thou set up any Image or statue which the Lord thy God hateth Deut. 16. 21 22. If any hath gone and served other gods and worshipped them either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven which I have not commanded he shall be stoned c. Deut. 17. 2 3 5. That they teach you not to do after all their abominations which they have done unto their gods so should you sin c. Deut. 20. 18. Ye have seen their abominations and their Idol-gods or dunghil-gods wood stone c. Deut. 29. 17 18. They provoked him to jealousie with strange gods c. they sacrificed to devils not to God to gods whom they knew not c. Deut. 32. 17 21. Psal. 106 37. Neither make mention of the names of their gods neither cause to swear by them neither serve them nor bow your selves to them Josh. 23. 7 16. Josh. 24. 14 23. When Joshua and that generation were dead and there arose a new generation who knew not the Lord they forsook the Lord and followed strange gods Judges 2. 10 12 13 14. Gideon made an Ephod and put it in his City c. and all Israel went thither a whoring after it which thing became a snare to Gideon and his house And when Gideon was dead the children of Israel turned again and went a whoring after Baalim and made Baal-berith their god Judges 8. 26 27 33 34. chap. 10. 6 7. Micahs mother sâ—…id I had wholly dedicated the silver to the Lord to make a graven-image c. And she made an Image c. Micah consecrated the Levite c. The Danites take away the Idol and the Priest c. Then Micah cryed out Ye have taken away my gods which I made and the Priest and yâ—… are gone away and what have I more c and the children of Dan set up the graven Image Judges 17. 3 4 5 12. chap. 18. 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24. Solomon in his old age was drawn away to commit idolatry 1 Kings 11. 4 5 6 7 8 9. Jeroboam lest Israel by going up to Jerusalem to worship should revolt to Rehoboam made two calves of gold and set one in Dan and the other in Bethel said Behold thy gods O Israel so Israel went and worshipped and he made a house of High-places and made priests of the lowest of the people c. ordained a feast c. which he had devised c. 1 Kings 12. 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33. chap. 14. 9 10. They built them High-places and Images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree 1 Kings 14. 23. 2 Kings 17. 9 10 11 12. Asa king of Judah removed the Idols c. but the High-places were not removed 1 Kings 15. 11 12 13 14. All the kings of Israel after Jeroboam did continue in thr same idolatry till Ahab and he served Baal and worshipped him 1 Kings 16. chap. 22. 51 52 53. Hezekiah destroyed Idolatry removed the High-places brake the Images cut down the groves and brake in pieces the brazen-serpent which Moses made for in those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it and called it Nehushtan c. so did Josiah the king 2 Kings 18. 4. chap. 23. 4 5 c. King Ahaz his Idolatry 2 Chron. 28. 23 25. If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god shall not God search this out for he knoweth the secrets of the heart Psal. 44. 20 21. Confounded be all they who serve graven-images who boast themselves of Idols worship him all ye gods Psal. 97. 7. Our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleased their Idols are silver and gold the works of mens hands they have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not they have ears but they hear not noses have they but they smell not c. they who make them are like unto them so is every one who trusteth in them Psal. 115. 3 4 5 6 7 8. Psal. 135. 15 16 c. Their land also is full of Idols they worship the work of their own hands that which their own fingers have made and the mean man boweth down and the great man humbleth himself c. The Idols shall utterly pass away and they shall go into the holes of the rocks c. for fear of the Lord c. In that day a man shall cast his Idols of silver and his Idols of gold which they made each one for himself to worship to the moles and to the bats c. Isa. 2. 8 9 18 19 20. chap. 31. 7. In that day shall a man look to his maker c. and he shall not look to the altars the work of his hands neither shall respect that which his fingers
to a Virgin c. Luke 1. 11 12 13 19 26 27 28 30 35. There were shepherds abiding in the field c. and lo the Angel of the Lord came upon them c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto them Fear not for behold I bring you good tidings c. and suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly Host praising God and saying Glory to God in the Highest Luke 2. 8 9 10 13 14. There is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over one sinner that repenteth Luke 15. 10. Ye shall see heaven open and the Angels of God afcending and descending upon the Son of man John 1. 51. The people c. said That it thundered Others said An Angel spake to him c. John 12. 29. The Angel of the Lord by night opened the Prison-doors and brought them forth Acts 8. 19. Who hath received the law by the disposition of Angels and have not c. Acts 7. 53. And the Angel of the Lord spake unto Philip saying Arise and go towards c. Acts 3. 26 27. An Angel of God appeared to Cornelius Acts 10. 3 7. The Angel of the Lord came upon Peter in prison and led him out c. Then said they It is his Angel c. The Angel of God smote Herod Acts 12. 7 8 9 11 15 23. The Sadduces say there is no resurrection Angel nor spirit Acts 23. 8 9. Know ye not that we shall judg Angels 1 Cor. 6. 3. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the Angels 1 Cor. 11. 10. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thess. 1. 7. I charge thee before God c. and the elect Angels 1 Tim. 5. 21. Of the Angels he saith Who maketh his Angels spirits c. Are they not all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation Heb. 1. 7 14. Ye are come unto mount Sion c. to an innumerable company of Angels Heb. 12. 22. Which things the Angels desire to look into 1 Pet. 1. 12. If God spared not the Angels who sinned but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment c. whereas Angels who are greater in power and might bring not railing c. 2 Pet. 2. 4 11. The revelation of Jesus Christ c. He sent and signified by his Angel to his servant John Rev. 1. 1. The Angels sealing of the servants of God The Angel sounding c. Rev. 7. chap. 8. chap. 9. chap. 10. CHAP. XLII Of the Parables and the Similitudes which Christ spake CHrist likened those who did hear the word and do it to a man who built his house upon a rock c. and those who heard and did not do unto a man who built his house on the sands c. Matth. 7. 24 25 26 27 28 29. Luke 6. 47 48 c. The Parable of the sower and the seed Of the tares sowed amongst the good seed Of the mustard-seed Of the leaven hid in the meal Of the hidden treasure Of the precious pearl Of the net cast into the sea and gathering all kinds Matth. 13. 18 24 31 33 44 45. Mark 4. Luke 8. 5. chap. 13. 18. The kingdom of heaven is like unto a man who is an housholder who sent labourers into his vineyard at several hours and paid them all alike Matth. 20. 1 2 3 to the 17. A certain man had two sons he said to one Go work in my vineyard and he said I will not but afterwards repented and went and he came to the second and said likewise and he said I go Sir and went not Whether of these two did the will of his father The Parable of the man who planted a vineyard and hedged it c. expect fruit but the husbandmen beat the servants and killed some and at last his son c. Matth. 21. 28 29 30 31 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40. Luke 20. 9. The Parable of the marriage of the kings son those who were bidden made light went to their farms c. The king sent his servants into the high-ways and bid The man without a wedding-garment Matth. 22. 1 2 3 to the 14. Luke 14. 16 17 c. The Parable of the ten Virgins Of the talents delivered unto the servants to be improved Matth. 25. 1 2 3 4 to the 30. Luke 19. 12. Can the children of the Bridechamber fast while the Bridegroom is with them c No man also seweth a new piece of cloth into an old garment c. No man putteth new wine into old bottles Mark 2. 19 20 21 22. Luke 5. 34 35 36 37 38 39. Why beholdest thou the mote in thy brothers eye c A good tree bringeth forth good fruit c. Luke 6. 41 42 43 44. A certain Creditor had two debtors the one ought 500 pence the other 50 and when they had nothing to pay he freely forgave them both c. Which will love most c He to whom he forgave most c. Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little c. Luke 7. 41 42 43 44 45 46 47. No man lighteth a candle to put it under a bushel Luke 8. 16. The similitude of the man going to Jericho fell among thieves was wounded the Priest and Levite pass by helped not the Samaritan had compassion and took care of him this was his neighbour Luke 10. 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37. When the strong man armed keepeth his palace his goods are in peace but when a stronger than he shall come upon him c. Luke 11. 21 22. The rich man said I have no room c. I will pull down my barns and build greater c. Take thy ease c. This night thy soul shall be taken c. Luke 12. 16 17 18 19 20 21. The Parable of the fig-tree planted in the vineyard which brought no fruit c. Cut it down c. let it alone this year also c. Luke 13. 6 7 8 9. Who goeth about to build a Tower and considereth not what it will cost or What king goeth out to war and considereth not c Luke 14. 28 29 30 31 32. The Parable of the lost sheep Of the lost piece of silver Of the prodigal son Luke 15. 3 8 11 12 c. The Parable of the unjust steward Of the rich glutton and poor Lazarus Luke 16. 1 2 c. 19 20 c. The Parable of the importunate Widow with the unjust Judg. Of the Pharisee and the Publican going into the temple to pray Luke 18. 1 2 9 10 11 c. CHAP. XLIII Of the Miracles and the wonderful things which were done by Christ and his Apostles HE healed all diseases and such as were possessed with devils Matth. 4. 24. Christ cured the leprous man healed the
Saints being compelled did blaspheme Acts. 26. 10 11. I brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual but as unto Carnal as unto babes in Christ I have fed you with milk and not with meat For hitherto ye were not able neither yet now are ye able for ye are yet carnal c. There is among you envying and strife and divisions or factions are ye not carnal and walk as men c. They were greatly disorderly in the Lords supper 1 Cor. 3. 1 2 3. 1 Cor. 11. Ye suffer fools gladly c. Ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man devour you if a man take of you if a man exalt himself if a man smite you on the face 2 Cor. 11. 19 20. I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I would c. Lest there be debates envyings wraths strifes backbitings whisperings swellings tumults Lest when I come again my God will humble me among you and that I shall bewail many who have sinned already and have not repented of the â—…anness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed 2 Cor. 12. 20 21. I marvel that you are so soon removed from him who called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel c. And now after that ye have known God or rather are known of God how turn ye back to the weak and beggerly elements or rudiments whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ye observe days and months and times and years c. Gal. 1. 6. Gal. 4. 9 10 11. Paul complains thus I have no man like minded who will naturally care for your state for all seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christs Phil. 2. 20 21. Ye are dull of hearing for when for the time ye ought to be teachers ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God and are become such as have need of milk c. Heb. 5. 11 12. Thou hast borne and hast patience and for my names sake hast laboured and hast not fainted nevertheless I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first love c. So the Church of Pergamos c. And the Church of Thiatira c. See Rev. 2. 3 4 12 13 14 15 18 19 20. 3dly That God will punish or correct his for sinning God was angry with Moses for his sin and would not suffer him to go into the good land Deut. 3. 25 26 27. chap. 4. 21 22. God said to Moses Dye in the Mount as Aaron thy brother died in Mount Hor because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel c. Because ye sanctified me not in the middest of the children of Israel Deut. 32. 48 50 51. Psalm 106. 32 33. Aaron shall be gathered unto his people he shall not enter into the land c. Because ye rebelled against my word c. Num. 20. 24. I will be his Father and he shall be my Son If he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men but my mercy shall not depart away from him 2 Sam. 7. 14 15. David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord and Nathan said unto David the Lord also hath put away thy sin thou shalt not dye how-be-it because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the child c. shall surely dye 2 Sam. 12. 13 14. If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments c. Then will I visit their transgressions with a rod and their iniquity with stripes Psal. 89. 30 31 32. Thou wast a God who forgavest them though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions Psal. 99. 8. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him I hid me and was wroth and he went on frowardly or turning away in the way of his heart I have seen his way and I will heal him Isa. 57. 17 18. I will correct thee in measure and will not leave thee altogether unpunished Jer. 30. 11. ch 46. 28. You only have I known of all the families in the earth Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities Amos 3. 2. When God sent Jonah to Nineveh he fled from Gods presence c. But the Lord sent out a great wind c. And Jonah was cast into the Sea for this Jonah 1. 1 4 10 11 12. Zacharias struck dumb for not believing Luk 1. 19 20. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep c. When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11. 30 31. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 19. Heb. 12. 6 7 8. See more of Gods Judgments for sin Chap. 16. CHAP. XIV Of the Priviledges of Saints and their excellency above others VVhat God hath done doth do and will do for and be unto them more than others and what they can do with God c. ENoch walked with God and was not for God took him Gen. 5. 24. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord Gen. 6. 8. And the Lord said unto Noah Come thou and all thy house into the Ark for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation Gen. 7. 1. 2 Pet. 2. 5. And the Lord plagued Pharoah and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abrams wife Gen. 12. 17. The word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision saying Fear not Abram I am thy shield thy exceeding great reward Gen. 15. 1. Abram interceded with God for Sodom and God granted him as much as he asked See at large Gen. 18. 23 24 25 26 27 28 c. When God had sent his Angels to destroy Sodom they said unto Lot Hast thou any here besides son-in-law and thy sons and thy daughters and whatsoever thou hast in the city bring out of this place c. They hastened Lot saying Arise take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here lest thou be consumed c. and while he lingered the men laid hold upon his hand and upon the hand of his wife and upon the hand of his two daughters the Lord being merciful unto him and they brought him forth c. He prevailed with God to spare Zoar c. Hast thee escape thither for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither c. God remembred Abram and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow c. Gen. 19. 12 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 29. 2 Pet. 2. 6 7. And God said unto Abram c. of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation because he is thy seed Gen. 21. 12 13. Laban said unto Jacob I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake c. Jacob said
all saints c. And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God out of the Angels hand Rev. 8. 3 4. See more of Prayer in Affliction Chap. 22. See more of Common Calamities Chap. 23. See more in Duty towards all Men Chap. 19. See Prayer for Magistrates Chap. 24 To take special notice of the Acts of Gods Goodness and Mercy keep memorials thereof celebrate his praises extol him and stir up others so to do Abraham's servant when God had heard his request he bowed down his head and worshipped the Lord. And he said Blessed be the Lord God of my Master Abraham who hath not left destitute my Master of his mercy and his truth c. When he heard their words he worshipped the Lord c. Gen. 24. 26 27 52. I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God that thou wast pleased with me Gen. 33. 10. Then Jacob said c. Let us arise and go unto Bethel and I will make there an Altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went c. And he built there an Altar and called the place El-Bethel because there God appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother Gen. 35. 2 3 7. Moses and Israel solemnly celebrated his praise for their deliverance at the red Sea in a song of praise Exod. 15. 2 3 to the 22. When Israel got victory over the Amalekites he built an Altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi that is the Lord my banner Exod. 17. 13 14 15. And Moses told unto Jethro his Father-in-law all that the Lord had done unto Pharoah and to the Egyptians for Israels sake c. and Jethro rejoyced for all the goodness which the Lord had done unto Israel c. and said Blessed be the Lord who hath delivered you c Now I know that the Lord is greater than all Gods c. Exod. 18. 8 9 10 11. When thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee Deut. 8. 10. Moses song Deut. 32. Joshua pitched stones in Gilgal in memory of Israels passing dry thorow Jordan that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty Josh. 4. 20 21 22 23 24. The song of Deborah and Barak which they sang after the victory against Sisera and his Army Judges 5. Hannah sang praise when she brought Samuel her son to the house of the Lord whom the Lord had given her upon her prayer 1 Sam. 2. 1 2 3 4 to the 11. When the Philistines were beaten Samuel set up a stone called the name thereof Eben-Ezer saying Hitherto hath the Lord helped us 1 Sam. 7. 10 11 12. When Abigail met David and prevented him in his hasty purpose concerning Nabals house he said unto Abigail Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice c. And when David heard that Nabal was dead he said Blessed be the Lord who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and hath kept his servant from evil c. 1 Sam. 25. 32 33 39. When God had promised many things unto David he saith set thy name be magnified for ever saying the Lord of Hosts is the God over Israel c. 2 Sam. 7. 26. And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hands of Saul And he said the Lord is my rock my fortress and my deliverer c. 2 Sam. 22. Upon the return of the Ark to the City of David he prepares a song and delivers it to be sang by way of thanksgiving unto God 1 Chron. 16. 8 9 to the 37. When the people had offered willingly towards the building of the house of the Lord David blessed the Lord before all the congregation and David said Blessed be thou Lord God of Israel our father for ever and ever c. Now therefore our God we thank thee and praise thy glorious name c. that we should be able to offer so willingly c. the congregation did so 1 Chron. 29. 9 10 11 12 13 14 to the 20. Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord and he spake unto him c. but Hezekiah rendred not again according to the benefit done unto him c. 2 Chron. 32. 24 25. Ezra takes notice of a little favour and acknowledgeth it to the praise of God Ezra 9. 8 9. Chap. 7. 27 28. Stand up bless the Lord your God for ever and ever and blessed by thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise c. Nehem. 9. 5 6 7 8 c. When Job had lost all than he said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken blessed be the name of the Lord Job 1. 20 28. I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness and will sing to the name of the Lord most high Psal. 7. 17. O Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast fet thy glory above the heavens c. Psal. 8. 1 9. I will praise thee O Lord with my whole heart I will shew forth all thy marvellous works I will sing praise to thy name O thou most high c. Sing to the Lord who dwelleth in Sion declare among the people his doings Psal. 9. 1 2 11. I will sing unto the Lord because he hath dealt bountifully with mâ—… Psal. 13. 6. Thou art holy who inhabiteth the praises of Israel c. ye who fear the Lord praise him all ye the seed of Jacob glorifie him Psal. 22. 3 23. That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works Psal. 26. 7. The Lord is my strength c. with my song will I praise him Psal. 28. 7. Sing unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance or to the memorial of his holy name c. thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing c. to the end that my glory may sing praise unto thee amd not be silent O Lord my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever Psal 30. 4 11 12. Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness Psal. 31. 21. Praise is comely for the upright Psal. 33. 1. Psal. 147. 1. I will bless the Lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth c. O magnifie the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together I sought the Lord and he heard me c. O taste and see that the Lord is good c. Psal. 34. 1 3 4 6 8. My tongue shall speak of thy righteousness of thy praise all the day Psal. 35. 28. Great is the
shall help in vain and to no purpose therefore have I cryed concerning this Their strength is to sit still c. For thus saith the Lord God the holy one of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength and ye would not c. Isa. 30. 7 15 16. Behold the Lord God will come c. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd c. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out heaven c. Isa. 40. 10 11 12. I the Lord the first and with the last I am he c. Isa. 41. 4. Chap. 44. 6. When thou passest thorow the waters c. they shall not overflow thee c. For I am the Lord thy God the holy one of Israel thy Saviour c. And besides me there is no Saviour c. I will work and who shall let it c. Isa. 43. 2 3 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. Chap. 45. 21. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer and he who formed thee from the womb I the Lord who maketh all things who stretched forth the heavens c. who confirmeth the word of his servant and performeth the counsel of his messengers c. who saith to the deep be dry Isa. 44. 24 25 26 27. I am the Lord and there is none else I formed the light and create darkness c. O God of Israel the saviour c. Isa. 45. 6 7 15 21. My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure Isa. 46. 10. Is my hand shortned at all that I cannot redeem or have I no power to deliver Behold at my rebuke I dry up the sea c. Who is among you who feareth the Lord c. who sit in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Isa. 50. 2 3 10. Isa. 8. 17. chap. 59. 1. Fear not c. for thy maker is thy husband the Lord of hosts is his name and thy redeemer the holy one of Israel the God of the whole earth Isa. 54. 4 5. But he who putteth his trust in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain Isa. 57. 13. Behold the Lords hand is not shortned that it cannot save neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear but your iniquities have separated Isa. 59. 1 2. chap. 50. 2. Blessed is the man who trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters c. O Lord the hope of Israel Jer. 17. 7 8 13. Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh is there any thing too hard for me Jer. 32. 27. I will surely deliver thee c. because thou hast put thy trust in me saith the Lord Jer. 39. 18. Leave thy fatherless c. and let the widows trust in me Jer. 49. 11. Their redeemer is strong the Lord of hosts the Lord of hosts is his name he shall throughly plead their cause c. Jer. 50. 34. I the Lord have spoken and will do Ezek. 22. 14. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us c. and he will deliver us Dan. 3. 17 28. Daniel was taken out of the den and no manner of hurt was found upon him because he believed in his God Dan. 6. 23. Blessed be God c. for wisdom and might are his he changeth the times c. removeth kings c. Dan. 2. 20 21 22 47. ch 4. 17 32. Thou shalt know no God but me for there is no saviour besides me c. O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self but in me is thine help Hosea 13. 4 9. Ashur shall not save us c. for in thee the fatherless find mercy Hosea 14. 3. When my soul fainted within me I remembred the Lord Jonah 2. 7. Trust ye not in a friend c. for the son dishonoureth the father c. Therefore I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my salvation Micah 7. 5 6 7. The Lord is good a strong hold or strength in the day of trouble and he knoweth them who trust in him Nahum 1. 7. Although the figtree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the vines the labour of the Olive shall fail and the field shall yield no meat c. yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation the Lord God is my strength Habbak 3. 17 18 19. Wo to her c. she trusted not in the Lord she drew not near to her God c. I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people and they shall trust in the name of the Lord Zephan 3. 1 2 12. Not by might not by power but by spirit saith the Lord of Hosts who thou O great mountain before Zerubbabel Zech. 4. 6 7. Take no thought for your life what you shall eat or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body what you shall put on c. behold the fowls of the air c. yet your heavenly father feedeth them are ye not much better than they c. Consider the Lillies c. If God so clothe the grass c. shall he not much more clothe you O ye of little faith c. your heavenly father knoweth that ye have need of these things Matth. 6. 25 26 28 29 30 32. There is one God and there is none other but he Mark 1. 2 32. Blessed is she who believes for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her c. Luke 1. 45. Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God believe also in me Joh. 14. 1. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world Act. 15. 18. God who made the world and all things therein seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth c. he giveth to all life and breath and all things Acts 17. 24 25. Let God be true but every man a lyar Rom. 3. 4. If God be for us who can be against us Rom. 8. 31. The foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men 1 Cor. 1. 25 27. God c. the father of mercies and the God of all comfort c. We had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God who raiseth the dead who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver 2 Cor. 1. 3 9 10. God who comforteth them who are cast down c. 2 Cor. 7. 6. Unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think c. Ephes. 3. 20. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer c. let your requests be made known unto God Phil. 4. 6. The living and the true God 1 Thes. 1. 9. 1 Pet. 1. 23.
Therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men specially of those who believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. In hope of eternal life which God who cannot lye promised before the world c. Titus 1. 2. Be content with such things as ye have for he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee so we may boldly say the Lord is my helper and I will not fear Hebr. 13. 5. 6. Every good gift and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lights with whom is no variableness c. James 1. 17. Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5. 7. See Faith Chap. 11. To look believingly unto hope in and patiently wait for God in all cases the Arguments hereto Fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will shew c. and the Lord shall fight for you c. Exod. 14. 13 14. The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth Exod. 34. 6. When the people complained or were as it were complainers it displeased the Lord c. Numb 11. 1. God is not man that he should lye neither the son of man that he should repent hath he said and shall he not do or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good Numb 23. 19. Heb. 6. 18. Titus 1. 2. Rom. 3. 4. The Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth Covenant Deut. 7. 9. Not one thing hath failed of all the good things the Lord your God spake c. Joshua 23. 14. The King of Israel said Behold this evil is of the Lord what should I wait for the Lord any longer 2 Kings 6. 33. We have no might c. neither know we what to do but our eyes are upon thee c. ye shall not need to fight in this set your selves stand ye and see the salvation of the Lord with you 2 Chron. 20. 12 17. I would seek unto God and unto God would I commit my cause who doth great things and unsearchable marvellous things without number Job 5. 8. 9. In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up Psal. 5. 3. Thou Lord hast not forsaken them who seek thee Psalm 9. 10. They shall praise the Lord who seek him Psalm 22. 26. Thou the God of my Salvation on thee do I wait all the day c. mine eyes are ever towards the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net Psalm 25. 5 15. Wait on the Lord and be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart wait I say on the Lord Psalm 27. 14. Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them c. who hope in his mercy to deliver their soul c. Our soul waiteth for the Lord he is our help Psalm 33. 18 19 20. Thy mercy O Lord in the Heavens thy faithfulness reacheth to the clouds Psalm 36. 5. Psalm 57. 10. Commit thy way unto the Lord c. and he shall bring it to pass c. rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him fret not thy self c. because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass c. Fret not thy self in any wise to do evil c. Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee c. Psalm 37. 5 7 8 34. I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me and heard my cry he brought me up out of an horrible pit out of the mire Psalm 40. 1 2. Why art thou cast down O my soul why art thou disquieted in me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him Psalm 42. 6 11. Psalm 43. 5. God our refuge c. a very present help in time of trouble Psalm 46. 1. O God thou my God early will I seek thee my soul thirsteth for thee Psalm 62. 1. I am weary of my crying my throat is dryed mine eyes fail while I wait for my God Psalm 69 3. But I will hope continually and will yet praise thee more and more Psalm 71. 14. Thou O Lord art a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercy and truth Psalm 86. 15. Psalm 111. 4. Even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest Return ye children ofmen Psalm 90. 2 3. The Lord will not cast off his people neither will he forsake his inheritance Psalm 94. 14. The Lord is merciful and gracious slow to anger plenteous in mercy he will not always chide neither will he keep anger for ever c. like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them who fear him c. the mercy of God is from everlasting to everlasting Psalm 103. 8 9. 13 17. These all wait on thee that thou mayst give them their meat in due season Psalm 104. 27. They soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel Psalm 106. 13. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion he hath given meat unto them who fear him he will ever be mindful of his Covenant Psalm 111 4 5. Psal 116. 5. Psalm 112. 4. My soul fainteth for thy salvation I hope in thy word Psalm 119. 81. Behold as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their Masters c. so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God until he have mercy upon us Psalm 123. 2. I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope c. my soul waiteth for the Lord more than they who watch for the morn let Israel hope in the Lord for with the Lord is mercy and plenteous redemption Psalm 130. 5 6 7. Our bones are scattered c. but mine eyes are unto thee O God the Lord Psalm 14â—… 7 8. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great mercy â—…he Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works c. the Lord upholdeth all that fall c. the eyes of all wait upon or look unto thee and thou givest them their meat in due season thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing Psalm 145. 8 9 14 15 16. The Lord taketh pleasure in them c. who hope in his mercy Psalm 147. 11. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick but when it cometh c. Prov. 13. 12. Say not thou I will recompence evil wait on the Lord and he shall save thee Prov. 20. 22. If thou saint in the day of adversity thy strength is small Prov. 24. 10. I will wait upon the Lord who hideth his face from the house of Jacob and I will look for him c. should not a people seek unto the Lord Isaiah 8. 17 19. At that day shall a man look to his Maker and his eyes shall have respect unto the holy One of Israel and he
shall not look to the altars Isaiah 17. 7 8. And it shall be said in that day So this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us this the Lord we have waited for him Isaiah 25. 9. In the way of thy Judgment O Lord have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to the remembrance of thy name with my soul have I desired thee in the night c. Isaiah 26. 8 9. He who believeth shall not make haste Isaiah 28. 16. Wo to the rebellious children who take counsel but not of me and who cover with a covering but not of my Spirit c. Their strength is to sit still c. For thus saith the Lord the holy One of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and confidence shall be your strength and ye would not c. therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you c. for the Lord is a God of judgment blessed are all they who wait for him Isaiah 30. 1 7 15 18. Wo to them who go down to Egypt for help c. but they look not to the holy One of Israel neither seek the Lord Isaiah 31. 1. O Lord be gracious to us we have waited for thee Isaiah 33. 2. Hast thou not known c. the everlasting God the Lord the Creator of the ends of the earth sainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding he giveth power c. But they who wait upon the Lord shall renew strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint Isaiah 40. 28 29 30 31. Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of the earth for I am God and there is none else Isaiah 45. 22. Thou shalt know that I am the Lord for they shall not be ashamed who wait for me Isaiah 49. 23. Who is among you who feareth the Lord c. and walks in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Isaiah 50. 10. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear neither hath the eye seen O God besides thee what he hath prepared for him who waiteth for him Isa. 64. 4. I am the Lord who exercise loving-kindness judgment and righteousness in the earth for in these things I delight saith the Lord Jer. 9. 24. O the hope of Israel the Saviour thereof in time of trouble c. Are there any among the vanities of the heathen who can cause rain c. Art not thou he O Lord our God therefore we will wait upon thee for thou hast made all these things Jer. 14. 8 22. Blessed is the man c. whose hope the Lord is Jer. 17. 7. The Lord is good unto them who wait for him to the soul which seeketh him It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord c. for the Lord will not cast off for ever for though he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies Lam. 3. 24 25 26 31 32. Wait on thy God continually Hosea 12. 6. The Lord your God he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil Who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him Joel 2. 13 14. Jonah 4. 2. The Lord is the hope of his people the strength of the children of Israel Joel 3. 16. Seek ye me and ye shall live but seek not Bethel c. seek the Lord and ye shall live Amos 5. 4 5 6. Then I said I am cast out of thy sight yet I will look again towards thy holy Temple c. When my soul fainted within me I remembred the Lord and my prayer came in unto him Jonah 2. 4 7. Thou hast had pity on or spared the gourd c. And should not I spare Nineveh that great City where are more than 120000 persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left Jonah 4. 10 11. A mans enemies are the men of his own house therefore I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my salvation c. Micah 7. 6 7. For the vision is yet for an appointed time but at the end it shall speak and shall not lye though it tarry wait for it because it will surely come it will not tarry Behold his soul which is lifted up is not right in him but the just shall live by his faith Habbak 2. 3 4. Though Christ put off the woman of Canaan by sharp words often yet she still waited on him and looks for good till she had it Mat. 15. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. So the two blind men would not be put off but called and waited till Christ heard and answered them Mat. 20. 30 31 32 33 34. The impotent man waited at the pool long to be cured John 5. 2 3 4 5 6 7. Tribulation worketh patience and patience experience and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God c. Rom. 5. 3 4 5. For we are saved by hope but hope which is seen is not hope for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for but if we hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for it Rom. 8. 24 25. Whatsoever things were written afore-time were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope c. Now the God of hope fill you c. that ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost Rom. 15. 4 13. God is faithful 1 Cor. 1. 9. 2 Thes. 3. 3. God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape 1 Cor. 10. 13. 1 Thes. 5. 24. Who delivered us c. and doth deliver us in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us 2 Cor. 1. 10. God who comforteth them who are cast down c. 2 Cor. 7. 6. God who is rich in mercy Eph. 2. 4. Be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel Col. 1. 23. Remembring c. your patience of hope 1 Thes. 1. 3. He abideth faithful he cannot deny himself 2 Tim. 2. 13. Heb. 10. 23. Be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises c. Abraham c. after he had patiently endured he obtained the promise c. God willing to shew c. the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath That by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lye c. Heb. 6. 12 15 17 18. Ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise For yet a little while
Israel O my people what have I done unto thee and wherein have I wearied thee testifie against me for I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt c. There are yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked c. the rich men thereof are full of violence c. therefore also will I make thee sick c. Micah 6. 2 3 4 10 11 12 13 14 15. Several woes pronounced against persons for divers sins Habbak 2. 9 12 15 19. I will punish the Princes and the kings children and all such who are clothed with strange apparel c. all those who leap on the threshold who fill their masters house with violence and deceit c. I will punish the men who are setled on their lees and say in their heart The Lord will not do good neither will he do evil c. and I will bring distress upon men c. because they have sinned c. He shall make a speedy riddance of all them who dwell in the land Zeph. 1. 8 9 12 17 18. Is this a time for you to dwell in your seiled houses and this house lye waste c because of mine house that is waste and ye run every man to his own house therefore the heavens over you is stayed from dew and the earth is stayed from fruit and I called for a drought upon the land Haggai 1. 4 9 10 11. Cursed be the deceiver who hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing Mal. 1. 13 14. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against adulterers and against false-swearing and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages the widow and the fatherless that turn aside the stranger c. Ye are gone away from mine ordinances c. ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me c. your words have been stout against me saith the Lord yet ye say What have we spoken so much against thee ye have said it is in vain to serve God c. Mal. 3. 5 9 10 13 14. Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all who do wickedly shall be stubble and the day which cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch Mal. 4. 1. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto your selves that ye are the children of them who killed the prophets fill ye up then the measure of your fathers Ye serpents ye generation of vipers how can ye escape the damnation of hell Wherefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucifie and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood Zacharias c. whom ye slew between the temple and the altar Verily I say unto you All these things shall come upon this generation O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou who killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thy children together c. and ye would not behold your house is left to you desolate Mat. 23. 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38. Annanias and Sapphira for their lying to the Holy Ghost and Herod for pride slain Acts 5. 5 10. Acts 12. 21 22 23. Because when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful c. wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonour their own bodies between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lye c. for this cause God gave them up to vile affections c. God gave them over to a reprobate mind Rom. 1. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep c. 1 Cor. 11. 29 30 31. The Apostle reckons up some of the sins and punishments of Israel and concludes Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Cor. 10. 5 6 7 8 9 10. Now the works of the flesh c. adultery c. they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God Gal. 5. 19 20 21. He who is unjust let him be unjust still and he who is filthy let him be filthy still c. behold I come quickly c. Rev. 22. 11. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them who commit such things c. who will render to every man according to his deeds Rom. 2. 2 3 4 5 6. See more of mans sin and corrupt nature Chap. 5. The sad affects of such a state See the same Chapter See more of Gods punishing his own for sin Chap. 13. See pardon of sin Chap. 10. To own and profess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ boldly before men and to wait for Christs second coming 1. To own and confess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ before mâ—…n I know my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth c. Job 19. 25. I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed c. I am a companion of all them who fear thee Psal. 119. 46 63. Psal. 16. 2 3. None call for justice nor any pleadeth for truth Isa. 59. 4. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O king but if not be it known unto thee O king that we will not serve thy gods Dan. 3. 17 18. When Daniel knew that the writing was signed he went into his house and his window being open in his chamber towards Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees c. and prayed and gave thanks before his God Daniel 6. 10. Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven but whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven Mat. 10 32 33. Luke 12. 8 9. A damsel came unto Peter saying Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee but he denyed before them all saying I know not what thou sayest c. and again he denyed with an oath faying I do not know the man c. then began he to curse and to swear saying I know not the man Mat. 26. 69 70 72. 74. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy Angels Mark 8. 38. The parenrs of the blind man durst not confess Christ but
who departeth from evil maketh himself a prey Isa. 59. 15. You only have I known of all the families of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Amos 3. 2. Beware of men for they will deliver you up to the councels and they will scourge you in their Synagogues and ye shall be brought before governours and kings for my sake c. and the brother shall deliver up brother to death and the father the child c. and ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake c. The desciple is not above his master c. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his Master and the servant as his Lord if they have called the master of the house Belzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold c Think not that I am come to send peace on earth c. A mans enemies shall be they of his own houshold Matth. 10. 17 18 21 22 24 25 34 35 36. chap. 24. 9 10. Then said Jesus unto his disciples If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me Matth. 16. 24. Wo to you who laugh now for ye shall mourn and weep wo unto you when all men shall speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets Luke 6. 25 26. Jesus said unto him Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head Luke 9. 58. If the world hate you ye know that it hated me before it hated you If ye were of the world the world would love its own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you Remember the word I said unto you The servant is not greater than his Lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you c. These things they will do unto you for my names sake because they know not him who sent me John 15. 18 19 20 21. 1 John 3. 13. These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended But they shall put you out of their Synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God service and these things will they do unto you because they have not known the father nor me c. Ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce ye shall be sorrowful c. In the world ye shall have tribulation John 16. 1 2 3 20 22 33. Of a truth against the holy child Jesus c. both Herod c. were gathered together to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Acts 4. 27 28. The Lord said of Paul I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my Name Acts 9. 15 16. Exhorting them to continue in the faith and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God Acts 14. 22. The holy Ghost witnesseth in evety city saying That bonds and afflictions abide me Acts 20. 23. But as then he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was born after the spirit so it is now Gal. 4. 29. Unto you it is given c. not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake Phil. 1. 29. That no man be moved by these afflictions for your selves know that we are appointed thereunto 1 Thess. 3. 3. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3. 12. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth c. for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not but if ye be without chastisements whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons Heb. 12. 6 7 8. Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial c. as though some strange thing happened to you but rejoyce in as much as ye are made partakers of Christs sufferings judgment must begin at the house of God 1 Pet. 4. 12 13 17. The devil c. whom resist c. that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. Behold the devil shall cast some of you in prison that ye may be tried and ye shall have tribulation ten days Rev. 2. 10. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Be zealous therefore c. Revel 3. 19. Secondly That the Saints have been so exercised with afflictions in soul and body from God and in their bodies and outward concerns from men by persecutions 1st From God more immediately Job greatly afflicted in his out-things and his body Job 1. 13 to the end Job 2. 5 6 7 8. O that my grief were thorowly weighed c. for now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea therefore my words are swallowed up or I want words to express my grief for the arrows of the Almighty are within me the poyson whereof drinketh up my spirit the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me Job 6. 1 2 3 4. My soul is sore vexed O Lord how long c I am weary with my groaning all the night or every night make I my bed to swim I water my couch with tears mine eye is consumed because of grief c. Psal 6. 3 7. I am desolate and afflicted the troubles of mine heart are enlarged c. Psal. 25. 16 17. Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones thou hast broken may rejoyce hide thy face from my sin Psal. 51. 8 9. Save me O God for the waters are come in unto my soul I sink in deep mire where is no standing I am come into deep waters or depth of waters where the floods over-flow me I am weary of my crying my throat is dry mine eyes fail while I wait for my God Psal. 69. 1 2 3. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran in the night and ceased not my soul refused to be comforted I remember'd God and was troubled I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed Selah Thou holdest mine eyes waking I am so troubled that I cannot speak c. Will the Lord cast off for ever will he be favourable no more Is his mercy clean gone for ever doth his promise fail Psal. 77. 1 2 3 4 7 8. My soul is full of troubles c. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in darkness in the depths thy wrath lyeth hard on me thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves c. I am afflicted and ready to die I suffer thy terrors I am distracted thy fierce wrath goeth over me thy terrors have cut me off Psal. 88. 3 6 7 9 14 15 16 17. Out of the depths have I cryed unto thee O Lord Psal. 130. 1. Jonah cast into the sea and in the belly of the fish Jonah 1. 15. chap. 2. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you c. We are chastened of the Lord
speak c. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds evil affected against the brethren c. and they fled unto Lystra c. And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch c. who perswaded the people and having stoned Paul drew him out of the city supposing he had been dead Act. 14. 1 2 6 19. When Paul had reasoned with them of Thessalonica that Christ had suffered c. the Jews who believed not moved with envy took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company and set all the city in an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason c. they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city crying These who have turned the world upside down are come hither also whom Jason hath received and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar saying That there is another King one Jesus c. When the Jews c. had knowledg that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea they came thither also and stirred up the people Act. 17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13. After Paul had preached at Corinth c. the Jews made an insurrection with one accord against Paul and brought him to the Judgment-seat saying This fellow perswadeth men to worship God contrary to the law Act. 18. 11 12 13. The Jews when they saw Paul in the Temple stirred up all the people and laid hands on him crying out Men of Israel help this is the man who teacheth all men every where against the people and the law and this place c. and hath polluted this holy place c. They took him and drew him out of the temple c. went about to kill him Act. 21. 27 28 29 30 31. They cryed out against Paul and said Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit he should live c. After they bind themselves under a curse to kill him Act. 22. 22 23. ch 23. 12. The high Priest and elders by Tertullus the orator said of Paul before the Governour We have found this man a pestilent fellow a mover of fedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarens who also have gone about to profane the temple c. Paul said Neither can they prove the things whereof they accuse me c. I confess after the way they call heresie so worship I c. Act. 24. 1 2 5 6 13 14. The high priest and chief of the Jews informed Festus against Paul and besought him c. that he would send him to Jerusalen laying wait in the way to kill him c. They laid many and grievous complaints against him which they could not prove Act. 25. 2 3 7. As concerning this sect we know that it is every where spoken against Act. 28. 22. Ye also have suffered like things of your own country-men even as they have of the Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us c. forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles 1 Thess. 2. 14 15 16. Alexander the copper-smith did me much evil c. of whom be thou also aware for he hath greatly withstood our words 2 Tim. 4. 14 15. Secondly For what ends doth God chastise his children and suffer them to be persecuted 1st To exercise and try their faith and obedience The Lord thy God led thee these forty years to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no Deut. 8. 2 16. I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died that through them I may prove Israel whether they will keep the way of the Lord c. or not Judg. 2. 21 22 23. ch 3. 4. And the Lord said unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant Job c still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movest me against him to destroy him without cause Job 2. 3. What is man c. that thou shouldst visit him every morning and try him every moment Job 7. 17 18. Thou O Lord hast proved us thou hast tried us as silver is tried thou broughtest us into the net thou laidst afflictions upon our loins Psal. 66. 10 11 12. Some of them of understanding shall fall to try them c. Daniel 11. 35. I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried Zech. 13. 9. Others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings c. Heb. 11. 36 37. Count it all joy when ye fall into divers tentations knowing that the trying of you faith worketh patience c. Blessed is the man who endureth temptations for when he is tryed he shall receive c. James 1. 2 3 12. Though now for a season if need be ye are in heaviness that the trial of your faith being much more precious c. 1 Pet. 1. 6 7. Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you But rejoyce in as much as ye are partakers of Christs suffering c. 1 Pet. 4. 12 13. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried Rev. 2. 10. I will keep thee from the hour of tentation which shall come upon all the world to try them who dwell upon the earth Rev. 3. 20. 2dly To humble and purge them The Lord thy God led thee forty years in the wilderness to humble thee c. Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna c. that he might humble thee c. Deut. 8. 2 16. So Manasseh made Judah c. to err to do worse than the heathen Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captain of the host of the king of Assyria who took Manasseh c. bound him with fetters and carried him to Babylon And when he was afflicted he besought the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers c. And God brought him again into his kingdom c. He then took away the strange gods c. 2 Chron. 33. 9 10 11 12 13 15 16. Job complains of his afflictions then saith What is man that thou shouldst magnifie him c I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7. 16 17 18 19 20. Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble for thou writest bitter things against me Job 13. 25. If they be c. holden in cords of afflictions then he sheweth them their work and their transgressions that they have exceeded Job 36. 8 9. Behold I am vile What shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth once have I spoken but
Lord Jer. 31. 10 13 20 28. For the Lord will not cast off for ever but though he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies for he doth not afflict willingly Lam. 3. 31 32. Therefore thus saith the Lord God Now will I bring again the Captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel and will be jealous for mine holy name after that they have born their shame c. Ezek. 39. 25 26. Come let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up c. Hos. 6. 1. Rejoyce not against me O mine enemy though I fall I shall arise c. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him until he plead my cause c. he will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousness c. Who is a God like unto thee who pardoneth iniquity c he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy he will turn again he will have compassion upon us Mic. 7. 8 9 18 19. Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted Mat. 5. 4. Verily verily I say unto you that ye shall weep and lament c. but your sorrow shall be turned into joy c. ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce Joh. 16. 20 22. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly Rom. 16. 20. God is faithful c. but will with the temptation also make a way to escape 1 Cor. 10. 13. God who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver 2 Cor. 1. 10. It is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them who trouble you and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jeus c. 2 Thes. 1. 6 7. What persecutions I endured but out of them all the Lord delivered me 2 Tim. 3. 11. The Lord stood with me c. and I was delivered out of the mouth of the Lion 2 Tim. 4. 17. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations 2 Pet. 2. 9. 11thly That afflictions and persecutions have been the lot of Christ himself and of the Saints in all ages The Disciple is not above his Lord nor the servant above his master it is enough for the disciple that he be as his Master c. If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold Fear them not therefore Mat. 10. 24 25 26. If the world hate you you know that it hated me before it hated you c. remember the word that I said unto you The servant is not greater than the Lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you Joh. 15. 18 20. We are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men c. even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffetted and have no certain dwelling-place c. being reviled c. persecuted c. we are made as the filth of the world and the off-scouring of all things unto this day 1 Cor. 4. 9 11 12 13. There hath no temptation taken you but what is common to man 1 Cor. 10. 13. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus sake 2 Corinth 4. 11. But as then he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was after the spirit even so it is now Gal. 4. 29. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of Witnesses c. let us run with patience the race which is set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of faith who for the joy which was set before him endured the Cross c. for consider him who endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest you be wearied and faint in your minds Heb. 12. 1 2 3. Take my Brethren the Prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience Jam. 5. 10. Hereunto also are ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps 1 Pet. 2. 21. Your adversary the Devil as a roaring Lion c. whom resist stedfast in the faith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. How long O Lord c. dost thou not judg and avenge our blood on them who dwell on the earth and it was said unto them That they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow-servants also and their brethren which should be killed as they were should be fulfilled Rev. 6. 10 11. Fourthly What are the Duties of the Saints and how they ought to behave themselves under their afflictions and sufferings both towards God and men 1st Towards God 1st To eye God in them afflictions being sent of him Joseph said to his Brethren it was not you who sent me hither but God Gen. 45. 5 8. I will harden Pharoahs heart that he shall follow after them c. Exod. 14. 4. When Israel wanted water in the desert they did not eye God in it but chide with Moses Numb 20. 2 3. But Sihon King of Heshbon would not let us pass by him for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate Deut. 2. 30. See now that I even I am he c. I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any who can deliver out of my hand Deut. 32. 39. When Samuel had told Eli what the Lord would do against his house he said It is the Lord 1 Sam. 3. 18. Shimei cursed David c. David said So let him curse because the Lord hath said unto him Curse David who then shall say wherefore 2 Sam. 16. 6 7 8 9 10. Satan said Put forth thine hand c. Job said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken Job 1. 11 21. Chap. 2. 5. Afflictions cometh not forth of the dust neither doth trouble come out of the ground c. the chastening of the Lord for he maketh sore and bindeth up he woundeth c. Job 5. 6 17 18. chap. 9. 12. I will say unto God c. wherefore contendest thou with me Job 10. 2. chap. 30. 11. God hath overthrown me c. he hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass c. Job 19. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. When he giveth quietness who then can make trouble and when he hideth his face who then can behold him Job 34. 29. I opened not my mouth because thou didst it c. when thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity thou makest his beauty to consume away c. Psal. 39. 9 11. Thou who hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken
God 1 Pet. 2. 20. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time 1 Pet. 5. 6. 3dly To confess their sins and justifie God If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their trespasses c. then will I remember my covenant c. Levit. 26. 40 41 42. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right but we have done wickedly c. Neh. 9. 33 34 c. I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7. 20. How should man be just with God if he will contend with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand c. If I justifie my self mine own mouth shall condemn me Job 9. 2 3 20. He looketh unto men and if any say I have sinned c. he will deliver his soul from going into the pit c. Job 33. 27 28. He will not lay upon man more than is right c. Job 34. 23. Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee c Job 40. 3 4. I uttered that I understood not things too wonderful for me which I knew not c. I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Job 42. 3 5 6. He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities Psal. 103. 10. The church in her affliction confesseth her sin Isaiah 59. 11 12 13 14 15. Thou sayest Because I am innocent surely his anger shall turn from me behold I will plead with thee because thou sayest I have not sinned Jer. 2. 35. Only acknowledg thine iniquity c. Jer. 3. 12 13. Daniel confesseth to God at large in the time of the captivity Dan. 9. 5 to the 16. Zion spreadeth forth her hands c. The Lord is righteous for I have rebelled Lam. 1 18 20. It is the Lords mercy we are not consumed c. wherefore doth the living man complain c Let us search and try our ways and turn again Lam. 3. 22 39 40. The crown is fallen from our head wo to us that we have sinned Lam. 5. 16. I will go and return to my place till they acknowledg their offence and seek my face in their afflictions they will seek me early Hosea 5. 15. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Micah 7. 9. Dost thou not fear God seeing thou art in the same condemnation and we indeed justly for we receive the due reward of our deeds c. Luk 23. 40 41. See more of confession at large Chap. 16. See more of confession of sins in time of common calamities Chap. 23. One to another Chap. 17. See prayer Chap. 16. 4thly To hold fast to God own the Lord Jesus his people and ways in the midst of trouble afflictions and persecutions Job his wife said unto him in his great affliction Dost thou still retain thy integrity Curse God and die But he said unto her Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh what c. In all this did not Job sin with his lips Job 2. 9 10. All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee neither have we dealt falsly in thy covenant Our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy way Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death If we have forgotten the name of our God c. Psal. 44. 17 18 19 20. The proud have had me greatly in derision yet have I not declined from thy law c. Many are my persecutors and mine enemies yet do I not decline from thy testimonies c. Princes have persecuted me without a cause yet doth my heart stand in awe of thy word Psal. 119. 51 157 161. The Lord spake unto me c. and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people saying Say ye not a confederacy to all them to whom this people shall say a confederacy neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid Sanctifie the Lord of host himself and let him be your fear and your dread and he shall be for a sanctuary Isa. 28. 11 12 13 14. When Jeremy had prophesied to Judah then spake the priest and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people saying This man is worthy to dye for he hath prophesied against this city c. Then spake Jeremy unto all the princes and to all the people saying The Lord sent me to prophesie against this house c. therefore now amend your ways c. But as for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth good c. Jer. 26. 11 12 13 14 15. Daniel when a captive in Babylon he purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the kings meat nor with the wine which he drank and therefore he requested c. that he might not defile himself c. desired pulse to eat and water to drink Dan. 1. 8 9 10 11 12 13. When a strict law had been made by the king that every one should fall down and worship the golden Image he had set up under pain of being cast into the fiery furnace Shadrach Meshach and Abednego refuse to do it and in the presence of the king said We are not careful to answer thee in this matter c. our God whom we serve is able to deliver us c. and he will c. But if not be it known unto thee O king that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up Dan. 3. 13 14 15 16 17 18. When a decree was passed that whosoever should ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days save of the king he should be cast into the Lions den And Daniel knew that the writing was signed He went into his house and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks as he did aforetime Dan. 6. 7 8 9 10. Ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake but he who endureth unto the end shall be saved c. He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me c. And he who taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me c. He who loseth his life for my sake shall find it Mat. 10. 22 37 38 39. ch 16. 24 25 26. He heareth the word and anon with joy receiveth it yet hath he not root in himself but dureth for a while for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word by and by he is offended Mat. 13. 20 21. When Christ was taken his disciples fled Peter denied him but afterwards wept bitterly for his so doing Mat. 26. 56 70 72 74 75. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and
to the wall and prayed unto the Lord saying I beseech thee O Lord c. he wept 2 Kings 20. 1 2 3. When there came an host of One thousand thousand against Judah Asa cryed unto the Lord his God and said Lord it is nothing unto thee to help c. 2 Chron. 14. 9 10 11 12. There came a great multitude against Jehosaphat c. he feared and set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast c. And Jehosaphat stood in the congregation and said O Lord God of our fathers art not thou God c 2 Chron. 20. 2 3 4 5 6 c. When Manasseh was in affliction he besought the Lord his God c. and prayed unto him and he was intreated of him 2 Chron. 33. 11 12 13. He heareth the cry of the afflicted Job 34. 23. O Lord save me from all them who persecute me and deliver me Psal. 7. 1. Our fathers c. they cryed to thee and were delivered c. He hath not despised nor abhorred the afflictions of the afflicted neither hath he hid his face from him but when he cryed unto him he heard Psal. 22. 4 5 24. Psal. 107. 6 13. I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears This poor man cryed and the Lord heard and saved him out of all his troubles Psal. 34. 4 6 17. Psal. 35. The Psalmist prays for help and salvation in such a time Psal. 38. 20 21 22. Psal. 39. 10 13. For thy sake are we killed all the day long c. Awake why sleepest thou O Lord arise c. Wherefore hidest thou thy face forgettest our affliction c Psal. 44. 22 23 24 25 26. Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me Psal. 50. 15. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran in the night Psal. 77. 2. In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou wilt answer me Psal. 86. 7. I called upon the Lord in distress the Lord answered me and set me in a large place Psal. 118. 5. Psal. 130. 1. The Church in her low condition prays earnestly Look down c. Isa. 63. 15 16 17 18 19. I called upon thy name O Lord out of the low dungeon c. Lam. 3. 55 59 c. I will go and return unto my place till they acknowledg their offence and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early Hosea 5. 15. When the mariners were in the tempest they called upon their gods and roused up Jonah to call upon his God if so be God will think upon us that we perish not Jonah 1. 4 5 6. Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fishes belly and said I try c. Jonah 2. 1 2 c. The Ninevites prayed c. who can tell if God will turn c Jonah 3. 8 9. 2 Sam. 12. 22. When Peter saw the wind boisterous he was afraid and beginning to sink he cryed saying Lord save me And immediately Jesus c. caught him Mat. 14. 30 31. When the Apostles had been imprisoned and convened before council they lift up their voice to God with one accord and said Lord thou art God c. Behold their threatnings and grant unto thy servants c. Act. 4. 24 29 30. Peter therefore was kept in prison but prayers was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him Act. 12. 5 12. Paul when he was under the buffeting of Satan saith For this thing I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from me 2 Cor. 12. 7 8. Is any among you afflicted let him pray c. Is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the Church and let them pray over him c. And the prayer of the faithul shall save the sick James 5. 13 14 15. See more of prayer Chap. 16. See more of duties in common calamities 7thly Not to fear but believing commit their case to God and quietly wait for his salvation He hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee So that we may boldly say The Lord is my helper I will not fear what man can do unto me Heb. 13. 5 6. Israels impatiency in waiting for God made them quarrel with Moses and Moses with God although God was in his way of delivering Exod. 5. 21 22 23. The children of Israel said unto Moses Because there were no graves in Egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness c. And Moses said unto the people Fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he shall shew to you this day c. The Lord shall fight for you Exod. 14. 10 11 12 13 14. Because of Israels unbelief and impatiency in waiting for God they were not suffered to enter Canaan only their children of whom they had said They should be a prey they did possess the land Deut. 1. 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39. As an incouragement we should remember what God hath done formerly Deut. 7. 17 18 19. And David was greatly distressed c. but David incouraged himself in the Lord his God 1 Sam. 30. 6. It may be the Lord will look on my affliction and that the Lord will requite good for his cursing this day 2 Sam. 16. 12. Elisha said when the city was invironed with enemies Fear not for they who be with us are more than they who be with them c. But when there was a famine in Samaria the king because deliverance hastened not said Behold this evil is from the Lord what should I wait for the Lord any longer 2 Kings 6. 14 15 16 33. 2 Chron. 32. 7 8. In the great famine of Samaria the great lord who would not believe the plenty the prophet had foretold was told by the prophet that he should see it but not eat thereof and so it fell out unto him c. 2 Kings 7. 1 2 17 18 19 20. Though Judah was beset by Israel yet Judah prevailed because they relied upon the Lord God c. 2 Chron. 13. 14 18. Be not afraid nor dismayed for the battel is not yours but Gods c. Stand ye and see the salvation of the Lord with you 2 Chron. 20. 15 16 17. To God I would commit my cause Job 5. 8. I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined to me c. He brought me out of an horrible pit Psal. 40. 1 2. Why art thou cast down O my soul why art thou disquieted in me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him Psal. 42. 5 11. Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee Psal. 55. 22. Our bones are scattered at the graves mouth c. But mine eyes are unto thee O Lord Psal. 141. 7 8. If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small Prov. 24. 10. The fear of man bringeth a snare
be trodden down by it Isa. 28. 14 15 16 18. He who sitteth upon the circle of the earth c. who bringeth the Princes of the earth to nothing he maketh the Judges of the earth as vanity Isa. 40. 22 3. Say to the Prince of Tyrus Thus saith the Lord God because thine heart is lifted up and thou hast said I am a god I sit in the seat of God c. yet thou art a man and not God though thou set thine heart as the heart of God c. therefore thus saith the Lord God c. I will bring strangers upon thee c. and they shall bring thee down to the pit and thou shalt die the death of them c. but thou shalt be a man and no God in the hand of him who slayeth thee Ezek. 28. 2 6 7 8 9. Nebuchadnezzar the king in the height of his pride driven out among the beasts Dan. 4. 30 31 32 33. There is no respect of persons with God Rom. 2. 11. 3dly What are the Duties of Magistrates and what they should be negatively and affirmatively Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men such as fear God men of truth hating covetousness and place over them to be rulers Exod. 18. 16 20 21. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the poor in his cause c. and thou shalt take no gift for gifts blindeth the wise c. Exod. 23. 6 8. Deut. 16. 19. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment thou shalt not respect the person of the poor nor honour the person of the mighty in righteousness thou shalt judg thy neghbour Levit. 19. 15. Moses when the people had sinned prayed earnestly for them c. Numb 14. 13 c. Deut. 9. 25 26 c. Joshua 7. 7 8 c. Take ye wise men and understanding and known among your tribes and I will make them rulers over you c. And I charged your Judges at that time saying Hear between your brethren and judg righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger with him ye shall not respect persons in judgment you shall hear the small as well as the great you shall not be afraid of the face of a man for the judgment is Gods and the cause which is too hard for you bring it unto me c. Deut. 1. 13 15 16 17. The Lord your God is a God of gods c. who regardeth not persons nor taketh reward he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow Deut. 10. 17 18. Judges and officers c. and they shall judg the people with just judgment thou shalt not wrest judgment thou shalt not respect persons neither take a gift for a gift doth blind c. that which is altogether just shalt thou follow Deut. 16. 18 19 20. Thou shalt in any wise set a king over thee whom the Lord thy God shall chuse one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee thou maist not set a stranger over thee who is not thy brother but he shall not multiply horses to himself c. And it shall be that when he shall sit upon the throne of the kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book c. and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God to keep all the words of this law c. that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turn not aside from the Commandment Deut. 17. 15 16 17 18 19 20. If there be a controversie between men and they shall come unto judgment that the Judges may judg them then they shall justifie the righteous and condemn the wicked Deut. 25. 1. Samuel his sons walked not in his ways but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and perverted judgment 1 Sam. 8. 1 3. And David executed judgment and justice unto all his people 2 Sam. 8. 15. He who ruleth over men must be or be thou ruler over men just ruling in the fear of God 2 Sam. 23. 3. When the plague was upon Israel for Davids sins he said Lo I have sinned and done wickedly but these sheep what have they done Let thine hand be against me and against my fathers house c. 2 Sam. 24. 17. Solomon said Give therefore thy servant an understanding-heart to judg thy people that I may discern between good and bad c. And the speech pleased the Lord 1 Kings 3. 7 8 9 10. Rehoboam took the counsel of the young men and rejected the old mens advice and answered the people roughly and said He would add to their burdens and not ease them whereupon many of the tribes revolt and chuse them a King 2 Chron. 10. He was going to fight against Israel but God forbid him 2 Chron. 11. 1 4. Jehoshaphat c. sent to his Princes to Benhail and to Obadiah c. to teach in the Cities of Judah and with them Levites even Shemajah c. and they taught in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them and went about throughout all the Cities of Judah and taught the people 2 Chron. 17. 7 8 9. Jehoshaphat said to the Judges Take heed what you do for ye judg not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgment wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts 2 Chron. 19. 6 7. Jehoshaphat in a time of danger stood in the congregation in the house of the Lord and prayed himself with them and for them there 2 Chron. 20. 2 3 to the 13. Nehemiah saith From the time that I was appointed to be their governour c. I and my brethren have eaten the bread of the governour but the former governours c. were chargeable unto the people c. yea even their servants bear rule over the people but so did not I because of the fear of God c. Nehem. 5. 14 15 16 18. I gave my brother Hanani and Hanania c. charge over Jerusalem for he was a faithful man and feared God above many Nehem. 7. 2. I was a father to the poor and the cause which I knew not I searched out and I brake the jaws of the wicked and pluckt the spoil out of his teeth Job 29. 16 17. Be wise now therefore O ye kings be instructed ye Judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Psal. 2. 10 11. The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men or the vilest of the sons of men are exalted Psal. 12. 10. Man in honour and understandeth not is like the beast who perisheth Psal. 49. 20. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods How long will ye judg unjustly and accept the
The Apostles Elders and Brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are c. It seems good to us being assembled with one accord to send chosen men unto you c. it seems good to the holy Ghost and to us c. They came to Antioch and when they had gathered the multitude together they delivered the Epistle Act. 15. 1 2 3 4 6 12 13 22 23 25 27 28 30. If then ye have judgment of things pertaining to this life set them to judg who are least esteemed in the Church 1 Cor. 6. 4. When I come whomsoever you shall aprrove by letters them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem 1 Cor. 16. 3. We have sent with him the brother c. who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace or gift c. Whether any do enquire c. of our brethren they are the messengers of the Churches 2 Cor. 8. 18 19 23. I suppose it necessary to send unto you Epaphroditus c. your messenger and he who ministred to my wants Phil. 2. 25. When this epistle is read among you cause that it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans and that ye likewise read the estpile from Laodicea And say to Archippus take heed to the ministry which thou hast received of the Lord that thou fulfil it Col. 4. 16 17. I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren 1 Thess. 5. 27. Salute all them who have the rule over you and all the Saints Heb. 13. 24. Peter having written at large to the Saints speaks distinctly to the elders thus To the elders which are among you I exhort c. to feed the flock of God c. 1 Pet. 5. 1 2 3. I wrote to the Church but Diotrephes who loved to have the pre-eminence among them received us not wherefore if I come I will remember his deeds c. Not content herewith neither doth he himself receive the brethren and forbiddeth them that would and casteth them out of the Church Beloved follow not that which is evil 3 Joh. vers 9 10 11. John wrote to the seven Churches in Asia distinctly though they were in one countrey and charges each Church with its own guilt and commends each Church by it self takes no notice of any power any had over other He directs his epistles to the Angel of the Church but the matter he speaks to the whole Church and concludes Hear what the spirit saith unto the Churches Rev. 1. 4. ch 2 ch 3. See more of Church-Acts in Discipline Of the ending of controversies arising between the members of the Churches to avoid going to law before others Dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the Saints do ye not know that the Saints shall judg the world and if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judg the smallest matters know ye not that we shall judg Angels how much more things which pertain to this life c Set them to judg who are least esteemed in the Church I speak to your shame Is it so that there is not a wise man among you no not one who shall be able to judg between his brethren but brother goeth to law with brother and that before the unbelievers Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because ye go to law one with another why do ye not rather take wrong c. 1 Cor. 6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Of the relief of the poor of the Churches and their contributions to the necessity of other Churches and the order of it And the multitude of them who believed were of one heart c. Neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own but they had all things common c. Neither was there any among them that lacked for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the prises c. and laid them down at the Apostles feet and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need Act. 4. 32 34 35. The price of thy land While it remained was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in thine own power why hast thou c Act. 5. 1 2 3 4. When the number of the disciples were multiplied there arose a murmuring against the Hebrews by the Grecians because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration Whereupon the Church chose Deacons to look to this matter Act. 6. 1 2 3 4 5 6. The Disciples every one according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren c. Act. 11. 28 29 30. These hands have administred to my necessities and to them who were with me I have shewed you all things how that ye so labouring ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive Act. 20. 34 35. It hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem Rom. 15. 25 26. Now concerning the collection for the Saints as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia so do ye upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gathering when c. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. By the occasion of the forwardness of others and to prove the sincerity of your love for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich c. Not that other men be eased and you burdened but by an equality c. 2 Cor. 8. 1 2 3 7 8 9 13 14. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver c. The administration of this Service not only supplieth the want of the Saints but it is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God c. They glorifie God for your professed subjection to Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 9. 7 12 13. If any would not work neither should he eat c. But ye brethren be not weary in well-doing c. 2 Thess. 3. 10 11 12 13. If any widow have children or nephews let them learn first to shew pity at home and to requite their parents c. If any provide not for his own c. If any man or woman who believeth have widows let them relieve them and let not the Church be charged that it may relieve them who are widows indeed 1 Tim. 5. 4 8 16. See the Duty of distributing to the Saints necessity at large Chap. 17. Of the Officers of particular Churches their Power Duty and Recompence how they should be qualified for the Office and of the Churches duty to them as such First Of Officers Power Duties c. I
ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do shew or shew ye the Lords death till he come wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord c. he who eateth c. unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the Lords body c. When ye come together to eat tarry one for another and if any man hunger let him eat at home 1 Cor. 11. 17 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 33 34. 5thly Discipline Church-censures or removing of Scandals If a soul fin and hear the voice of swearing and is a witness whether he hath seen or known of it if he do not utter it then shall he bear his iniquity Levit. 5. 1. If there were a leper in the camp of Israel he was to be pronounced unclean and his habitation without the camp alone Levit. 13. 44 46. When he was to be brought into the camp again he was first to be pronounced clean by the Priest after he had viewed him and offered sacrifices for him and performed other things so for other uncleannesses they were to be separated from the congregation c. and so brought in again Levit. 14. 1 2 3 4 5 c. chap. 15. Matth. 8. 4. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him or that thou bear not sin for him Levit. 19. 17. If the people of the land do any way hide their eyes from the man when he giveth of his seed unto Molech and kill him not then I will set my face against that man and against his family Levit. 20. 3 4 5. The Priests or people who were unclean c. by any uncleanness were not to eat or touch the holy things that they might not profane the holy name of the Lord if they did before they were cleansed they were to be cut off from the presence of God no stranger was to eat of the holy thing Levit. 22. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 14 15. Put out of the camp every leper and every one who hath an issue c. both male and female shall ye put out c. that they defile not their camp in the midst whereof I dwell and the children of Israel did so c. Numb 5. 1 2 3 4. Deut. 23. 14. Uzziah the king was a leper and being in the temple the Priests thrust him out from thence c. he dwelt in a several house being a leper for he was cut off from the house of the Lord 2 Chron. 26. 19 20 21. The people of Israel the Priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the land c. for they have taken of their daughters c. so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people c. yea the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass c. Ezra 9. 1 2. They read in the book of Moses c. that the Ammonite c. should not come into the congregation of God for ever c. Now it came to pass when they had heard the law that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude Nehem. 13. 1 3. He who spareth his rod hateth his son but he who loveth him c. Prov. 13. 24. Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself and discover not a secret to another or the secret of another Prov. 25. 9. Open rebuke is better than secret love Prov. 27. 5. If thou take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth Jer. 15. 19. Her priests have violated my law and have prophaned mine holy things they have put no difference between the holy and profane neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean Ezek. 22. 26. They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane and cause men to discern between the unclean and the clean Ezek. 44. 23. Ephraim hath mixed himself among the people c. a cake not turned Hosea 7. 8. Jesus said unto Peter c. I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven Matth. 16. 18 19. If thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between him and thee if he will hear thee thou shalt gain thy brother but if he will not hear thee then take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established and if he shall neglect to hear them tell it to the Church but if he neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican verily I say unto you Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth c. Matth. 18. 15 16 17 18. John 20. 21 22 23. If thy brother trespass c. rebuke him and if he repent forgive him c. if seven times a day Luke 17. 3 4. I beseech you brethren mark them who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye bave learned and avoid them for they are such who serve not our Lord Jesus but their own bellies c. Rom. 16. 17 18. It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you and such c. and ye are puffed up and have not rather mourned that he who hath done this deed might have been taken away from among you c. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when ye are gathered together and my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus c. know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump c I wrote to you in an Epistle not to keep company with fornicators yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world c. But if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator or covetous or an idolator c. with such a one no not to eat for what have I to do with them who are without do not ye judg them who are within c therefore put away from among your selves that wicked person 1 Cor. 5. Sufficient to such a man was this punishment or censure which was inflicted of many so that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him and comfort him c. wherefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love to him c. to whom ye forgive any thing I also forgive 2 Cor. 2. 6 7 8 9 10 11. Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers c. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness c Are ye not the temple of the living God
he rent his cloaths c. and he commanded c. Go and enquire of the Lord for me and for the people c. for great is the wrath of the Lord c. Tell the man that sent you to me c. I will bring evil upon this place c. But to the king c. because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy self c. thine eyes shall not see all the evil c. 2 Kings 22. 11 12 13 15 16 18 19 20. I will not remove mine integrity c. my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Job 27. 5 6. Now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart and said c. what shall we do Acts 2. 37. Paul said c. I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day Acts 23. 1. And herein do I exercise my self to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man Acts 24. 16. Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing them witness or the conscience witnessing with them and their thoughts the mean while or between themselves accusing or else excusing one another Rom. 2. 15 16. I say the truth in Christ I lye not my conscience also bearing me witness in the holy Ghost Rom. 9. 1. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but for conscience sake Rom. 13. 5. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles eat asking no question for conscience-sake for the earth is the Lords c. If any of them who believe not bid you c. whatsoever is before you eat asking no queston for conscience-sake but if any man say unto thee this is offered to idols eat not for his sake c. and for conscience-sake c. Conscience I say not thine own but of the others for why is my liberty judged of another mans conscience c Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God 1 Cor. 10. 25 26 27 28 29 32. chap. 8. 7. Our rejoycing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom c. 2 Cor. 1. 12. By manifestation of the truth commended our selves to every mans conscience in the sight of God 2 Cor. 4. 2. We are made manifest unto God and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences 2 Cor. 5. 11. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience c. holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwrack 1 Tim. 1. 5. 19. Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience 1 Tim. 3. 9. The Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith c. speaking lyes in hypocrisie having their conscience feared with a hot iron forbidding to marry c. 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3. I thank God whom I serve c. with pure conscience 2 Tim. 1 3. Unto them who are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled Titus 1. 15. In which were offered both gifts and sacrifices which could not make him who did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience c. If the blood of bulls and goats sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ c. purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God Heb. 9. 9 13 14. The law having a shadow of good things c. can never with those sacrifices they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect then would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins but in those sacrifices there is a remembrance c. Let us draw-near c. having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience c. Heb. 10. 1 2 3 22. We trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly Heb. 13. 18. This is thank-worthy if a man for conscience towards God endure grief suffering wrongfully 1 Pet. 2. 19. Having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you c. Baptism doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus 1 Pet. 3. 16 21. Let us not love in word c. Hereby we know c. for if our heart condemn us God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things beloved if our heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God 1 John 3. 13 19 20 21. CHAP. XXX Of the Devil of his subtilty wiles and ways by himself and in and by his instruments wicked men false-teachers deceivers and seducers The description of them and what concerns the Saints therein First Of Satan the Devil himself NOW the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made and he said unto the woman yea because or hath God said Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden the woman said c. We may eat c. but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden God hath said Ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it left ye die And the serpent said unto the woman Ye shall not surely die for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be open and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil and the woman saw that the tree was good Gen. 3. 1. 2 3 4 5 6. And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel 1 Chron. 21. 1. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan or the adversary came also among or in the midst of them c. The Lord said to Satan From whence comest thou then said he c. from going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it c. He said Doth Job serve God for nought hast thou not made a hedg about him c put forth thine hand and touch that which he hath and he will curse thee to thy face c. then Satan having leave given him destroyed all he had Job 1. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 to the end chap. 2. 1 2 3. Hast thou considered my servant Job c still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movedst me against him to destroy him without a cause And Satan answered the Lord and said Skin for skin yea and all that a man hath will he give for his life but put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face and the Lord said He is in thine hand but or only save his life So went Satan c. and smote Job
the devil about the body of Moses durst not bring against him a railing accusation but said The Lord rebuke thee Jude verse 9. The devil shall cast some of you into prison c. Thou dwellest where Satans seat is Rev. 2. 10 13. Them of the Synagogue of Satan c. Rev. 3. 9. There was war in heaven Michael and his Angels fought against the Dragon c. and the great Dragon was cast out that old serpent called the Devil and Satan who deceiveth the whole world he was cast out into the earth and his Angels c. with him c. The accuser of the brethren is cast down who accused them before our God day and night c. Wo unto the inhabiters of the earth c. for the devil is come down unto you having c. Rev. 12. 7 8 9 10 11 12. Satan laid hold on bound cast into the pit and sealed up from deceiving c. let loose again Rev. 20. 2dly The instruments of Satan Seducers Deceivers c. Saints Duty The Prophets prophesie lyes in my name I sent them not neither have I commanded them neither spake unto them they prophesie unto you a false vision and divination and a thing of nought and the deceit of their heart Jer. 14. 14 15. Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening wolves ye shall know them by their fruits c. Matth. 7. 15 16. Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name and say I am Christ and shall deceive many c. many false prophets shall arise and deceive many c. Then if any shall say unto you Lo here is Christ or there is Christ believe it not for there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect Behold I have told you before wherefore if they shall say unto you behold He is in the desert c. go not forth c. for as the lightning cometh out of the east c. so shall also the coming of the Son of man c. Matth. 24. 4 5 11 23 24 25 26 27. Ye receive me not if another shall come in his own name him ye will receive John 5. 43. Elymas c. seeking to turn away the Deputy from the faith c. Paul c. said O full of subtilty and all mischief thou child of the Devil thou enemy of all righteousness wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord c Acts 13. 7 8 9 10 11. After my departure shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse ' things to draw away disciples after them therefore watch Acts 20. 28 29 30 31. Mark them who cause divisions c. contrary to the doctrine c. and avoid them for they who are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Rom. 16. 17 18. There must be also heresies among you that they who are approved might be made c. 1 Cor. 11. 19. How say some among you That there is no resurrection from the dead 1 Cor. 15. 12. Them who desire occasion c. for such are false Apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ c. Satan himself is transformed into an Angel of light therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be transformed into the ministers of righteousness whose ends shall be according to their works c. Ye suffer fools gladly c. Ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man devour if a man take if a man exalt himself c. smite you on the face 2 Cor. 11. 12 13 14 15 19 20. There be some who trouble you and would pervert the Gospel of Christ though we or an Angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto you than that we have preached unto you let him be accursed as we have before so say I now again If any man preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received let him be accursed Gal. 1. 7 8 9. False brethren who came in privily to spy out our liberty c. that they might bring us into bondage to whom we gave place by subjection no not for an hour that the truth of the Gospel may continue with you but of these who seem to be c. Gal. 2. 3 4 5 6. They zealously affect you but not well yea they would exclude you that you might affect them Gal. 4. 17. As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh they constrain you to be circumcised only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ for neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law but desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh Gal. 6. 12 13. Be no more children tossed c. with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive Ephes. 4. 14. This I say lest any should beguile you with inticing words c. Beware lest any one spoil you through philosophy and vain deceits after the traditions of men after the rudiments of this world and not after Christ c. Let no man judg you in meat c or for eating c. intruding into those things which he hath not seen c. and not holding the head c. Why are ye subject to ordinances c touch not c. Col. 2. 4 8 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23. Let no man deceive you by any means c. that man of sin c. who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God shewing himself that he is God c. then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them who perish because they received not the love of the truth c. for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should believe a lye that they all might be damned c. 2 Thess. 2. 2 3 4 8 9 10 11 12. Charge some that they teach no other doctrine neither give heed to Jewish fables c. some have swerved having turned aside to vain janglings desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm 1 Tim. 1. 3 4 6 7 8. Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter days some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils speaking lyes in hypocrisie having their
Solomon died Rehoboam reigned in his stead 1 Kings 11. 9 10 11 12 29 30 31 35 36 37 43. All Israel came to Shechem to make Rehoboam king the people proposing ease and Rehoboam refusing to grant it the cause was from the Lord that he might perform what he had said ten tribes fell off from him And when all Israel had heard that Jeroboam was come again they sent and called him to the congregation and made him king over all Israel When Rehoboam intended by sorce to reduce them God forbid it and said This thing is from me only Judah subjected to Rehoboam 1 Kings 12. 1 2 3 4 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24. Go tell Jeroboam thus saith the Lord God of Israel Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people and made thee Prince over my people Israel and rent the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it unto thee c. Jeroboam died and Nadab his son reigned in his stead over Israel Rehoboam died and Abijam his son reigned in his stead over Judah 1 Kings 14. 7 8 20 31. Abijam died and Asa his son reigned over Judah Asa died and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead over Judah Baasha conspired against Nadab king of Israel and smote him and reigned in his stead over Israel 1 Kings 15. 8 24 26 27 28. The word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hananiah against Baasha saying Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust and made thee Prince over my people Israel and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam Behold I will take away the posterity of Baasha c. Baasha died Elah his son reigned in his stead Zimri one of Elah his servants conspired against him and smote him and killed him and reigned in his stead over Israel But when Israel being in the Camp heard of it they made Omri the Captain of the Host king that day in the Camp of Israel Zimri is burnt Then half the people followed Tibni to make him king and half followed Omri Tibni died and Omri prevailed and reigned he died and Ahab his son reigned in his stead 1 Kings 16. 1 2 3 6 9 10 16 18 21 22 28. God appointed Elijah to anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel Ahab being then alive 1 Kings 19. 16. Ahab the king of Israel was slain in the battel and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead over Israel Jehoshaphat king of Judah died and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead over Judah 1 Kings 22. 34 35 40 50. Ahaziah the king of Israel died and Jehoram reigned in his stead over Israel because he had no son 2 Kings 1. 17. Joram otherwise Jehoram the king of Judah died and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 8. 24 25. Elisha sent one of the children of the Prophets to Jehu the Captain of the host of Israel to anoint him king over Israel Jehoram the king being yet living in Jezreel and wounded when the young man anointed him he said Thus saith the Lord God of Israel I have anointed thee king over the people of the Lord even over Israel and thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master that I may avenge c. Then the army proclaimed him king then Jehu killed Jehoram king of Israel c. and also Ahaziah the king of Judah was slain by Jehu 2 Kings 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 14 24 27. And the Lord said unto Jehu Because thou hast done well in executing that which was right in mine eyes and hast done unto the house of Ahab according unto all which was in my heart thy children of the fourth generaration shall sit on the throne of Israel Jehu died and Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead over Israel 2 Kings 10. 30 35. Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw her son was dead she killed the blood-royal except Joash who was hid and reigned over Judah Jehojada caused Jehoash or Joash to be made king and sit upon the throne and Athaliah to be slain 2 Kings 11. Jehoash was slain by two of his servants who conspired against him and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 12. 20 21. Jehoahaz dyed and Joash his son reigned in his stead over Israel Joash dyed and Jeroboam sat upon his throne over Israel 2 Kings 13 9 13. chap. 14. 16. They made a conspiracy against Amaziah and slew him And the people of Judah took Azariah his son and made him king over Judah Jeroboam king of Israel dyed and Zachariah his son reigned over Israel 2 Kings 14. 19 20 21 29. Azariah king of Judah dyed and Jotham his son reigned in his stead Shallum conspired against Zachariah king of Israel and slew him before the people and reigned in his stead 2 Kings 15. 7 8 9 10. Menahem smote Shallum king of Israel and slew him and reigned in his stead Menahem dyed and Pekaliah his son reigned in his stead over Israel Pekah one of his Captains conspired against him smote him killed him and others and reigned in his room over Israel Hoshea made a conspiracy against Pekah king of Israel and smote him and slew him and reigned in his stead Jotham the king of Judah dyed and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead 2 Kings 15. 13 14 22 25 30 38. Ahaz king of Judah dyed Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 16. 20. And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 20. 21. Manasseh the king of Judah dyed and Amon his son reigned in his stead The servants of Amon king of Judah conspired against him and slew the king in his own house The people of the land slew the Conspirators and made Josiah the son of Amon king in his stead he reigned over Judah 2 Kings 21. 18 23 24 26. Josiah is slain by Pharaoh king of Egypt the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in his fathers stead Pharoah puts Jehoahaz out and set up Eliakim Jehoahaz his son in his stead and called him Jehoiakim 2 Kings 23. 29 30 33 34. Jehoiakim dyed and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead over Judah Jehoiachin is carryed away captive to Babylon and the king of Babylon made Mattaniah king in his stead and called him Zedekiah 2 Kings 24. 6 15 17. Zedekiah the King and all carryed captive 2 Kings 25. See Magistrates Chap. 24. CHAP. XLV Of Sacrifices and Altars and calling upon the name of the Lord before the giving of the Law CAin brought of the fruits of the ground an offering unto the Lord and Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof and the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering but unto Cain and his offering he had not respect c. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord Gen. 4. 2 3 4 5 26. Noah builded an altar unto the Lord and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl and offered burnt-offerings on the altar and the Lord smelled a sweet savour or a savour of rest Gen. 8. 20 21. And the Lord appeared unto Abram and said Unto thy seed will I give this land and there builded he an altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him c. and he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent c. and there builded an altar unto the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord Gen. 12. 7 8. Afterwards when Abram came again to the place on the east of Bethel unto the place of the altar which he had made there at first and there Abram called upon the name of the Lord c. Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre c. and builded there an altar to the Lord Gen. 13. 3 4 18. Abram planted a grove or a tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord the everlasting God Gen. 21. 33. Isaac said Here is the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering c Abram built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on the wood c. Then Abram took the ram and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son Gen. 22. 7 8 9 13. The Lord appeared unto Isaac at Beersheba and he builded an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there Gen. 26. 24 25. Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount when Laban came to him Gen. 31. 54. And Jacob came to Shalem and pitched his tent before the City and he erected there an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel that is God the God of Israel Gen. 33. 18 19 20. And God said unto Jacob Arise go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto God who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother Then Jacob said unto his houshold and unto all who were with him c. Let us arise and go up unto Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress c. And he built there an altar and called the place El-Bethel c. the God of Bethel Gen. 35 1 2 3 6 7. And Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Jacob Gen. 46. 1. Moses directed of God to say unto Pharoah Let us go we beseech thee three days journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God Exod. 3. 18. And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi that is the Lord my Banner for he said Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek c. Exod. 17. 14 15 16. And Jethro Moses father-in-law took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God Exod. 18. 12. God when he had given the law upon mount Sinai he then did command the building of an altar and the offering of sacrifices Exod. 20. 24 25 26. FINIS