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A45630	Horæ consecratæ, or, Spiritual pastime. concerning divine meditations upon the great mysteries of our faith and salvation : occasional meditations and gratulatory reflexions upon particular providences and deliverances, vouchsafed to the author and his family : also a scripture-catechisme dedicated to the service of his wife and children, and now published, together with other treatises mentioned in the following page for common use / by Sir James Harrington ...	Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Meditations upon the creation, man's fall, and redemption by Christ.; Harrington, James, Sir, 1607-1680. Noah's dove.	1682 (1682)	Wing H803E_PARTIAL; Wing H815_PARTIAL; Wing H831_CANCELLED; ESTC R4540	368,029	493

thou shalt have praise of the same For he is the Minister of God to thee for good but if thou do that which is evil be afraid for he beareth not the Sword in vain for he is the Minister of God a Revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but for Conscience sake For this cause pay you Tribute also for they are Gods Ministers attending continually upon this very thing Render therefore to all their dues Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custome to whom Custome Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour The whole World lies in wickedness And this is the Condemnation that Light is come into the World and that Men love darkness rather than Light because their deeds are evil Jewes and Gentiles are all under sin as it is written There is none righteous no not one There is none that understandeth There is none that seeketh after God Take heed therefore that the Light which is in you be not darkness If the Light that is in you be darkness how great is that darkness Beloved believe not every Spirit but try the Spirits whether they are of God Because many false Prophets are gone out into the World If any Man shall say unto you Loe here is Christ or there believe it not For there shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signes and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they should deceive the very Elect Behold I have told you before such are false Apostles deceitful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ And no marvel for Sathan himself is transformed into an Angel of Light Therefore it is no great thing if his Ministers also be transformed as the Ministers of Righteousness whose end shall be according to their works To the Law and to the Testimony If they speak not according to this Word it is because there is no light in them This is that sure Word of Prophesie whereunto you do well that ye take heed as unto a Light that shineth in a dark place until the Day dawn and the Day-Star arise in your Hearts Knowing this first that all Scripture is given by Inspiration of God And that no Prophesie of the Scripture is of any private interpretation For the Prophesies came not in old time by the will of Man But holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost When I was upon Earth they brought young Children unto Me that I should touch them and my Disciples like some in these last days rebuked those that brought them But when I saw it I was much displeased and said unto them suffer little Children to come unto Me and forbid them not For of such is the Kingdome of God Verily I say unto you whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little Child he shall not enter therein And I took them up in my Armes and put my Hands upon them and blessed them Baptism is now the only way for little Children to come to the Lord Christ. The Promise is made to you and to your Children and to all that are afar of even as many as the Lord your God shall call The unbelieving Husband is Sanctified by the believing Wife and the unbelieving Wife is Sanctified by the believing Husband or else were your Children unclean but now they are holy The Examples of the Apostles Baptizing whole Families are of great force And the History of their practice and of the first Churches planted by them is to be believed with an Historical faith and looked upon with much reverence by all true Christians both in this point and in the change of the Jewish Sabbath to the Lord's Day As holding forth without doubt an Apostolical Institution The Lord spake to Moses saying The Land shall be divided for an Inheritance according to the number of Names to many thou shalt give more Inheritance and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Oxe nor his Ass nor any thing that is thy Neighbours Give to him that asketh and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away For the poor you have always with you I charge you that are Rich in this World that you trust not in uncertain Riches but in the living God who gives you all things richly to enjoy that you do good that you be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate When as many as were possessed of Lands or Houses sold them and brought the price of the things which were sold and laid them down at the Apostles Feet in that most sad time of Persecution and distribution was made unto every Man according as he had need Even then Peter said unto Ananias why hath Sathan filled thy heart to lye to the Holy Ghost and to keep back part of the price of the Land Whilst it remained Was it not thy own And after it was sold Was it not in thine own Power Let no Man therefore seek his own but every one anothers wealth For there are some that walk disorderly working not at all but are busie-bodies Now them that are such I command that with quietness they work and eat their own Bread that they may have to give to him that needeth Come out of Babylon my People but count not the blood of the Covenant by which ye were sanctified an unholy thing If ye have been once born again of Water and the Spirit Can a Man be so again born the second time The Pharisees and Lawyers rejected the counsel of God as being not Baptized of John against themselves Take heed lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the holy Ordinance of God Seeing you have been Baptized into the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost This only would I know of such Received you the spirit and your Convertion by and under the first Baptisme or your second Having begun in the Spirit are ye now made perfect in the Flesh Now the works of the Flesh are hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions envyings but the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace If ye bite and devour one another take heed that you be not consumed one of another And that it be not truly said of you by my Saints They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us But they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us But

Redemption finished upon this Day of the Lord's Resurrection was by no less than by Divine Authority because the keeping of one Day in Seven as a Sabboth to God was not only sanctified and set apart by God's own example in the Creation Gen. 2. Ver. 2 and accordingly observed by the Israelites many Weeks before the Law was given Exod. 16.23 But is One of the Ten Commandments delivered by God's own mouth in Mount Sinay written by his own Finger in Tables of Stone commanded by himself to be put into the Ark of the Covenant which Decalogue or Ten Commandments are also by our blessed Saviour in his Sermon upon the Mount declared to be the rule of his Peoples moral obedience unto the end of the World Math. 5.17 and in the following part of that Sermon wherein he vindicates the Law from the corrupt Glosses of the Scribes and Pharisees he instances only in moral duties and moral Laws From all which Divines generally infer that the Decalogue is to continue in force unto the Worlds end and therefore it seems most apparent that no Authority that is inferiour to that which appointed the Seventh Day from the Creation to be the Sabboth could abrogate that Day and appoint an other Day to be used instead of it because neither the Law of Nature nor the Holy Scripture doth any where give the least intimation that any humane Power may change any of the Commandments of God and indeed so many absurdities would follow upon such an assertion as I am confident your Majesty will not own it It remains therefore that the change of the Day must be the work of Christ himself or of his Apostles who were divinely inspired Acts 15. 21. And to prove that it was so Viz. That the Lords Day by Divine Institution now succeeds in the room of the Jewish Sabboth I shall use no other Arguments than these which I finde in ●●rned Bishop Andrews his Speech in the Star-Chamber at the ●●●sure of Mr. Traske who expresly saith that it hath ever been the Churches Doctrine That Christ made an end of all Sabboths by his Sabboth in the grave and that presently the Lords Day came in the place of it And that according to Austin's judgment the Lord's Day is declared to be the Christian Sabboth by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ which the said Bishop not only saith but proveth by these Arguments 1. Because he then began the new World Heb. 1.2 By whom ●e made the Worlds The first World which ended with his ●●rial The second World or new Creation which began with his Resurrection 2. Because all the four Evangelists say Christ rose Vna Sab●ttorum that is the first Day of the Week 3. The Apostles kept their holy Meetings on that Day to Preach and Pray and Celebrate the Lord's Supper Acts 20.7 4. The Day is called the Lord's Day not only in the Apostles times but by the Apostle John himself Rev. 1.10 And he further adds that this Epithite Dominicum in the Scripture is only applyed to these two The Lord's Day and the Lord's Supper To shew that they are both to be taken alike in Scripture 5. He saith we have not only example but express precept for it 1 Cor. 16.2 That upon the first Day of the Week which was the Day of their Assembly then Collections or Oblations would be made 6. And lastly He affirms that in all Ages of the Church this Day was observed To this I may add our Saviour's rest upon that Day from his Works Heb. 4.10 His often visiting the Apostles during the Forty Days after his Resurrection upon that Day speaking of the things appertaining to the Kingdom of God Acts 1.3 Now what more material thing was there to be declared to them than this The change of the Sabboth and the appointing a set time for his Worship he accordingly appearing thrice on the first Day of the Week besides his being seen of the Women to teach and instruct his Disciples First to the two Disciples that went to Emmaus Luke 24.15 c. to the Apostles when Thomas was absent John 20.19 And the third time when Thomas was present John 20.26 As also observe that those wonderful and extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost were poured out according to his promise upon the Apostles and Church then met together Acts 2.1 The Day of Penticost being the Morrow after the Seventh Sabboth to be accounted from the Day of the Sheaf-Offering Lev. 23.15 By all which he seems to have honoured and set apart that Day above others for his service Lastly this being a principal Institution might probably be one of those Decrees ordained by the Apostles as well as that concerning the Sacrament 1 Cor. 11.34 delivered by Paul to the Churches in all the Cities through which he passed Acts 16.4 But for the Observation of Easter to be an Annual Festival to Christians I find not any thing in the Holy Scriptures And your Majesty is pleased to place it only upon the Churches Authority And although I will not contend about the Churches Power in the Institution of such things as are simply indifferent yet I suppose I may boldly assert that such things as are only Instituted by Ecclesiastical Authority having no footstep in the Scripture may by Ecclesiastical Authority be laid aside Your Majesties most Loyal Subject and Humble Servant H. J. AN EPISTLE DEDICATORY To the the truly Noble Paire and my most Religious Parents MOst Honoured and best beloved Parents Three Sabbaths of Years the third part of Mans life is already Cyphered in my Youths Accompts and who knows how soon the Divine number of our dayes after my times last addition may conclude the Numeration of my life thus Haec summa totalis Wherefore lest Death should proclaime me Bankrupt before I had paid the due Debt of gratefulness which I owe you next to my Heavenly Father for my Life Education and Preservation I here presume to present you with this disordered and weak Meditations the Fruits of some few hours destinated for the Lord's dayes Preparation as a testimonial of my thankfulness for those your numberless Merits which are as far beyond requital as expression Let them I beseech you obtain a favorable Acceptance a patient Perusal and a Fatherly Censure glorifying God who with his Grace hath assisted my Weakness and shall supply the deficiency of all our Meditations with the fruition of himself till which Imperfection of Happiness I rest Yours in the Lord and in all filial Obedience J. H. To the Worthy AUTHOR OF THIS Divine Meditation The Unworthy Peruser wisheth all Health and Happiness ON Worthy Sir and live to view The like done by your Heire to you There 's one will bless With Int'rests this your gratefulness Sweetning your Budd Both to your own and Parents good Blessing the feet which I suppose Would highly grace a full-blown Rose Oft have I seen those Budds that prove Worm-eaten by that Canker Love Spending their

toward Zoar that Type of Heaven But no sooner did the Angel leave her but her eyes reversion discover her minds aversion Which her self would have seconded had not the Almighty in Favour to her Husband and in Mercy to Us made her an examplary Monument in a Pillar of Salt Next under the Law behold Saul not only a Member but chosen of God to be the Captain over his Church A man every way well qualified first for his Body his Proportion was so excellent that there was none like him amongst all the people And for his Mind it was endowed it seem'd both with Divine and Moral Vertues witness his joyning in Prophesie his performance of many Pious Duties as his Sacrifices at his Coronation his asking Counsel of God and inquiry after Sin confession and humiliation after Samuels Reproof his humility at his Election his patience and mercy at his Rejection and Defamation his Fortitude against the general and open Enemies of the Church the Ammonite his Zeal against the private and secret Enemies of Religion viz. all Witches and Wizzards Here then is a spring of Piety a profession and expression of Religion a Gourd whose glory may not only serve as a Canopy of state to Saul but as a shade to one of the Prophets A gourd indeed and so it faded For the eave of his last day ruined that frontispiece of Vertue which his whole lifes best Actions had raised towards Heaven For had he been with the Prophets and joyn'd with them in Prophesie His ignorance and wants now send him to enquire of the Devil Did he Sacrifice before to God Now behold the reward of Divination and Witchcraft are in his hand He whose custom was to ask counsel of God now seeks after a Witch and he whose seeming Zeal condemns his Righteous Son for tasting of an Honey-comb although ignorant of any restraint now contrary to his Oath and Covenant made with God without humiliation and judging of himself or confession of his fault willingly and wilfully swallows down the very gall of Sin His Humility did not more grace him when he lay buried in the peoples Stuff than his Pride did debase him when he presumed to be one of Gods Council That patience fortitude and mercy which abounded yea was extended towards others is now deficient to himself For he falls all along upon the Earth becomes sore afraid no strength is left in him and yet he refuses to Eat For having no conscience towards God no wonder if his Body wants the charity of Nature When the Creature abuses the Mercy of the Creator he must expect to taste of his Justice And when he ceases to know Himself he shall be made to know his Punishment Saul hath forgotten both his God and himself and therefore justly is he now forgotten and hears his Funeral censure pronunced by him who never spoke nor wished better to man To morrow shalt thou be with me Forewarning fore-armes not Sinners he that doubted of his Choise though from the mouth of Gods Prophet credits his refusal and death from the Devils Oracle Extraordinary Blessings are the free and voluntary gift of God and not believed of Sinners before enjoyed But his punishments are the due Burden of sins desert and therefore are expected before divulged The Soul being often-times aforehand sensible of that which the Body afterwards endures None but a false or temporary Faith hath a final cessation but such is this of Saul he now beleeves onely that he might dispair The first degree of a true Faith being usually the false ones last step God lifting up the one from the sense of judgement to the faith and sight of Mercy Sin dragging the other from the belief of punishment into the gulf of Despairation Though Saul hath his last day marked out even the morrow yet neither the love towards his Sons whose Lives bore the same date with his nor care for himself begets the least endeavour by delay or otherwise to out-live the fore-going Prophesie inevitable are the Judgements of God nay rather he hastens it shortning his flight that he might shorten his life And that sin according to its nature might have a companion he moves his Armour-bearer to be a traitour to his own Soul by example whom his precept could not force to be a traitour to his Prince For he falls upon his Sword which instead of Defence becomes a weapon of Offence So often-times God deals with the Wicked who as in life themselves are their worst Enemies so in death they prove their own Executioners Thus the Sacred Annals before and since Moses hath by the Deads example given most lively arguments to prove this falshood of the deadness of this seeming life of faith O admire here the infinite extent of the Mercy of God! who out of the carcase of this Lyon Sin this Eater Death brings forth both meat and sweetness for his Sampsons his Nazarites making the Downfal of the Fathers the Rises of the Children their Ignorance our Knowledge their faults and blindness apt spectacles to help the weakness of our sight It now remains that the holy Records of the faithful and powerful Gospel as the Eccho of the Old Testament consort in the like precedents that by so consonant an Harmony the dissonant and ungrounded judgement of the most hypocritical and temporary Believer may be convinced if not converted The purest Gold hath its Dross the best Wheat its Tares Yea the Moon is then most full of Spots when least empty of Light The Church of God in the Primitive times in its Infant Age had many who although they were deemed Members of Christ had not yet put off the Old man The Old Adam Many whose Image and outward Superscription seemed to be our Cesars yet proved to be false and unvaluable Coyn when they came to their test or exchange Witness Ananias and Sapphira a pair doubly united by Sin and Wedlock who before their trial were esteemed as Members of the True Church as Beleevers of the Apostles Doctrine and no doubt baptised in that Faith the effects of which seemed to lead them on to forsake the world for they sold their possessions to works of Charity and Piety And laid it at the Apostles feet Who would not here have parallel'd these with sincere Joses since both parties did the same duty though not with the same heart the one acting truly that Christians part which the other only play'd Mans natural light is comparatively darkness and the height of his Knowledge advantageth him only with a larger prospect of his ignorance he knowing most that confesses to know nothing The conscience of our want being the perfection of our science Only thou O Lord art the Fountain of Knowledge and Wisdom thou triest the Heart and the Reins and seest not as man seeth Shalt not thou who planted the Ear hear Thou that formed the Eye see Thou that teachest man Knowledge know Thou O

be unto God who gives us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Blessed Saviour and Soveraign Now I am assured that thou art a Rock upon which Man being built by faith becomes impregnable so high that he is far above Honours battery so strong as not to be taken by the assaults of bloody Persecutions so firm as not to be betrayed by covetousness nor undermined by voluptuousness The Siege of Troy one of the longest we read of continued but ten years and then she was buryed in her ashes whereas the Christians lasts a life an age and even then ascends a tryumphant Throne of Glory upon the Necks of his Enemies Every Christians life is a Book of the Battels of the Lord thou being as well nay more the Lord of Hosts in respect of our spiritual Fights and Victories as of our corporal those Enemies fl●shly these spiritual those weak and mortal their Principalities Powers immortal those below and numerable these from above and innumerable O thy mercy in thy assistance O thy power in thy resistance Divine Monarch as it is thy sole act and gift our victory so let it be ours to retribute to thee alone the Glory The last Enemy that is to be destroyed is Death saith the Apostle so in these Meditations But why a double death to death Hath not the Martyrs Sword mortally wounded this Serpent Yes but yet he hisses still And therefore lest he may fright the fearfull we will add more wounds that so the weakest Christian may with Moses take this Serpent into his hand Yea more which is the Miracle it shall become a Staff an assistant in his Heavenly Journey As there is a violent and enforced death such is Martyrdome so there is a natural and timely dissolution In the one we dye in and for the Lord as hath been shewed in this other we dye in and to the Lord the one is ordinary the other is extraordinary the one common the other particular with both these Heads our Enemy Death playes the Tyrant and Sin the Executioner The Sting of Death is Sin 'T is an Observation that things common and universal are less admired or feared But what more general and frequent than Death what more frightfull and astonishing This is the Coloquintida that imbitters all humane pleasures So that oft-times the burthen of Man's sweetest Song is that dolefull complaint of the Children of the Prophet Mors in olla There 's Death in the Pot. This is the Water of Marach which the Children of Men murmur to taste of which will they nill they they must drink and dye But O my Soul behold a City of refuge for thee and all that are Children of the Prophets the Israel of God behold thy true Moses hast cast Lignum Vitae into this Spring of Sin to sweeten thy draught Thy spiritual Elisha hath cast Meat into this boyling Pot even himself broken and grownd by Gods justice that so he might correct the cursed effects of this wilde Wine which God created not For He is the Bread which cometh down from Heaven that a Man may eat thereof and not dye Wouldst thou have this more illustrated and proved Hear then thy Champions challenge to this all●conquering Enemy O Death I will be thy death view also his courage before and in the conflict I thirst The Cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it Again I have a Baptisme to be baptized with and how am I streightned untill it be accomplisht Farther concerning the conflict it self hear the Psalmist in the Person of our Saviour The sorrows of Death compast me and the pains of Hell gat hold upon me I found trouble and sorrow Lastly in the conclusion of this truth that thou mayest know that Christ being raised from the Dead dyeth no more Death hath no more dominion over him that he hath abolished Death and hath brought life and immortality to light for thee and all believers through the Gospel according to the Apostle Hear his Conquest and tryumph first Proclaimed by St. Paul Death is swallowed up in victory O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Victory Then published and revealed by himself I am he that liveth and was dead behold I am alive for ever more Amen and have the Keys of Hell and Death Lastly view his right conveighed to thee in that large and royal Pattent of his Word Whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the World or Life or Death or things present or things to come all are yours and yee are Christs and Christ is Gods Again God shall wipe away all tears from your Eyes and there shall be no more Death neither sorrows nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away Having thus strongly under the royal Standard of Christ Jesus entrencht thy self O my Soul against this mortal and heart-torturing adversary Let thy faith placed even upon the Platform of sanctified reason wait for to make a challenge to the stoutest assailants of the Enemy The van-curriers of whom is fear and its concomitants Pompa mortis saith one well magis terret quam mors ipsa Against these Light-Horsemen discharge this murdering piece of the Apostles Forasmuch as the Children are partakers of flesh and blood Christ also himself took part of the same that through Death he might destroy him that had the power of Death that is the Devil And deliver them who through fear of Death were all their life time subject unto bondage Examples of worthies invisibly conveighs courage into magnanimous mindes wherefore if fear renew its force and re-assault thee interpose as a strong Barracado the ejaculation of dying Jacob. O Lord I wait for thy salvation The Meditation of patient Job All the days of my appointed time will I wait untill my change come The fervent supplication of devout Paul whose desire was to depart and to be with Christ. The next assaylant and assistant of Death is grief to part with things of this life The beauty goodness and love of a Wife The youth numerousness and hopefulness of Children The fidelity affection and society of friends The hundreds thousands yea Ingots of treasure now to be left together with all the pleasures honours and pomp of the World being as so many arrowes to pierce thorow with sorrow the heart of the natural Man so many racks to his distracted Soul yea so many deaths in Death if we respect its inforc'd disunion But the devout Soul having not only a natural but a supernatural affection hath if ever then the spirit of Heavenly wisdome and spiritual discerning concerning things that differ And therefore willingly chearfully and resolutely with Mary chooseth the better part forsaking her earthly Spouse for a Heavenly the Impes of nature for the Fruits of Grace for her works follow her She voluntarily

how to walk holily righteously circumspectly and unblameably in your life and conversation together with the holy means and Ordinances ordained by him for the obtaining and strengthning his graces in you which is concluded with his Prayer and mine to our Heavenly Father for a blessing O let not then much beloved Child This Letter should you neglect the counsel given you therein after my decease bear witness against you But let it be a Record and lasting Legacy read and practised by you and your Childrens Children which is the fervent Prayer of your Most affectioned Father J. H. Antwerpe this first of January 1665. An INDEX of the CONTENTS of this EPISTLE And of the Scripture-Catechisme materially contained in it THe Salutation and Exhortation of the Father to his Wife and Children Page 259. The Praise and Commendation of the Lord Jesus Christ under the Name and Title of Wisdome as being and that essentially the Wisdome of God Eadem The danger of neglecting to hear and obey the Voice and Counsel of Christ. P. 260. B. An Exhortation of the Father to his Wife and Children to hearken to the Word and Counsel of Christ. Ead. C. The Speech of the Lord Jesus Christ as speaking in his own Person to those to whom this Epistle is directed and is applicable to all other Christians P. 261. A. The Danger of Rejecting Christ. Ead. B. The Confession of Faith commonly called the Apostles Creed held forth by Christ in Scripture Expressions Ead. C. 1. Article The Doctrine of the Trinity Eadem 2. Article That Jesus Christ is the Eternal Son of God and our Lord. 3. Article As to the Incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ who was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary P. 262. A 4. Article Concerning Christ's Condemnation by Pontius Pilate his Crucifixion Death and Burial and all other Sufferings in Soul and Body Eadem 5. Article Of Christ's Resurrection 6. Article Of Christ's Ascention 7. Article Of Christ's coming to Judgment 8. Art Concerning the Holy Ghost is proved in the first Article concerning the Trinity Pag. 263. 9. Article Concerning the Catholick Church and the Communion of Saints Ead. C. 10. Article Concerning forgiveness of Sins 11. Article Concerning the Resurrection of the Body Ead. 12. Article Concerning Life everlasting P. 264. A. Ead. C. The Preface to the Decalogue or Ten Commandments Ead. B. C. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Commandments The Conclusion of the Ten Commandments Note That the Promises c. are omitted for brevity 265 A The Exhortation of the Lord Jesus to the use of Gospel-Ordinances Viz. 1. To Baptism 2. To the Lord's Supper Ead. C Page 266 A B C 3. To the reading of the Scriptures 4. To the hearing of the Word of God preached 5. To Meditation of the Word of God and of his works 6. To Prayer in publick and private 7. To Obedience to Church-Governors and Discipline P 267 B C The Exhortation of the Lord Jesus to Gospel-saving Graces Viz. 1. To Repentance 2. To Faith P 268 C Page 270 A B C 3. To Hope 4. To Charity 5. To holy Courage or Fortitude 6. To Christian Temperance 7. To holy Patience 8. To Divine Wisdome Page 271 A B Ead. C 9. To Christian Humility 10. The Exhortation of the Lord Jesus to several saving Graces commonly called the Beatitudes 11. To Religious Chastity P 272 C P 273 A 12. To Christian Justice and Righteousness 13. To Gospel sincerity uprightness and truth P. Ead. C. 14. To godly thankfulness and praising of God Ead. C. P. 274 The Exhortation of the Lord Jesus to Divine affections Viz. 1. To holy joy and delight 2. To filial fear of God 3. To holy zeal and anger 4. To holy hatred P 275 A The Preface to the Dehortations of the Lord Jesus from several principal vices Ead. 275 276 The Dehortation 1. From Vnbelief 2. From Atheisme 3. From Polutheisme 4. From Idolatry 5. From Blasphemy 6. From Prophaness 7. From Sacriledge 8. From Hypocrisie 9. From Sabbath-breaking 10. From Superstition 11. From Lukewarmness Page 277 A B 12. From hard-heartedness 13. From presumptuous sinning 14. From sinful swearing 15. From incorrigibleness A Preface to the Dehortation against despair 16. From Despair A Dehortation from Vncharitableness P 278 A B 1. General Branch of Vncharitableness as to the Souls of others 1. By tempting 2. By evil example Ead. B 3. By not reproving 4. By Flattering 5. By not Instructing 6. By persecuting for Conscience Ead. C P 279 A 2d General Branch of Vncharitableness as to the Persons of others 1. By Murder 2. By Maiming 3. By unjust Imprisonment 4. By not relieving Ead. B P 180 A 3d. General Branch of Vncharitableness as to the estates of others 1. By oppression 2. By stealing 3. By defrauding 4. By contentiousness 5. By usury or extortion Ead. A. B 6. By Depopulation 7. By false witnessing 8. By cursing or evil Imprecations 4. General Branch of Vncharitableness as to the good name of others 1. By slandering and back-biting and tale-bearing Ead. C A Dehortation from Intemperance 1. From Drunkenness 2. From Gluttony 3. F●om Insobriety P 281 B C A Dehortation from sinful fear A Dehortation from Ignorance 1. Affected 2. Natural 3. Wilful P 282 A B A Dehortation from Injustice 1 In Magistrates 2 In private Persons 3 By not giving obedience justly due to Superiors 1 As Magistrates 2 As Ministers of the Gospel 3 As natural Parents Ead. C. A General Dehortation from fleshly uncleanness 1 From Buggery 2 From Sodomy 3 From Whoredome 4 From Incest 5 From Polygamy 6 From Adultery 7 From Fornication P 283 C P 284 A B A Dehortation from Lasciviousness 1 In wanton thoughts 2 In wanton words 3 In wanton looks 4 In wanton actions Ead. C. P 285 C A Dehortation from Lying 1 By denying the truth 2 By breach of Covenant to God 2 Of vows to God 3 Of promises and Covenants to Men. Ead. B C and P 286 A Dehortation from Covetousness 1 In the heart 2 In action 3 From worldliness and carking cares 4. From Nigardliness P 286 C P 287 A A Dehortation from Idleness 1 By having no Calling or by neglecting a Calling P 287 C 288 A 2. Idleness in private Persons 3 Idleness in publick Persons Ead. B. The Dehortation of the Lord Jesus from sinful passions 1. From rash anger 2 From causless anger Ead. C. Ead. C A Dehortation from sinful hatred 1 Of Persons 2 Of good things Eadem C A Dehortation from Malice Ead. C A Dehortation from strife and contention P 289 A A Dehortation from envy A Dehortation from revenge Ead. C A Dehortation from Pride 1 Branch from spiritual Pride 2 Branch from Worldly pride 3 Branch from Ambition Ead. C Ead. C P 290 A Dehortation from Ingratitude 1 Towards God 2 Towards Men. Ead. C. A Dehortation from sensuality or voluptuousness P 291 A A Dehortation from inconstancy 1 Branch

Acts 3.21 Math. 17.11 Gen. 1.31 Isay. 65 17. 2 Pet. 3.13 Acts 3.21 Revel 20.4 Soliloquium Colos. 2.21 Rom. 8.13 Prov. 5.20 Prov. 6.29 Prov. 5.5 Prov. 23.27 Isai. 5.20 2 Thes. 1.8 2 Pet. 3.7 12. Ejaculation John 17.17 Revel 21.5 Jerem 8.22 Hebr. 12.2 Rom. 11.29 Zach. 13.1 1 John 1.7 Jerem. 50.5 2 Sam. 23.5 Isay. 55.3 Cant. 2.16 Cant. 1.2 Cant. 2.4 Cant. ● 4 Cant. 8.6 7. 10. Gal. 5.10 Rev. 22.15 Of the Tongue Glorified Psal. 30.12 Psal. 108.1 Rev. 19.16 1 John 1.3 Rev. 5.10 Rev. 20.6 Heb. 12. 22 23. Psal. 7.5 6 7. 8. Psal. 44.8 Psal. 115.18 Heb. 13.15 Genes 18.1 2. Genes 19.1 2. Gen. 32.1 2. Joshua 5.13 Judg. 6.12 Judg. 13.13 2 Sam. 24.17 2 King 6.17 18. 1 King 19.5 7 Dan. 9.21 Luke 1.28 Luke 2.9 Revel 1.7 Mark 12.25 Revel 21.22 Revel 19 10. the 22. chap. verse 9. matth 28.28 Math. 28.28 Luke 13.28 1 Thes. 4.17 1 Tim. 3.16 Ephes. 3.18 19. Ephes. 3.16 Jude 9. 1 Thes. 4.16 Revel 5.11 Philip. 1.16 Colos. 1.16 1 Pet. 3.22 Ezek. 10.1 3 20. Isay. 6.2 6. Gen. 2.15 1 Cor. 15.41 Revel 5.10 Luke 12.32 Luke 22.29 Luke 19.19 Isay. 54.13 1 Cor. 12.12 to vers 27. 1 Tim. 6.15 Revel 19.16 Psal. 58.5 Heb. 1.2 Rom. 8.17 Revel 20.4 Revel 20.6 Rom. 8.21 Gen. 2.19 20. Revel 20.6 Soliloquium Psal. 141 3. Matth. 12.37 Matth. 12.36 matth 12.34 James 3.2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. James 1.26 Titus 3.2 Ephes. 4.29 Ephes. 5.4 1 Cor. 15.33 Nehe. 13.24 Ephes. 5.19 Psal. 14.7 Psal. 103.1 2 3 4 5. Psal. 66.16 Psal. 108.1 Psal. 45.2 Psal. 49.3 Psal. 143.5 Psal. 145.5 6 7. Psal. 146.2 Acts 13.36 matth 25.25 Mark 4.21 Math. 7.6 1 Cor. 14.3 1 Cor. 14.12 1 Cor. 12.28 31. 1 Cor. 12.4 7 8 9 10 11 12 19 21 27. matth 10.8 Prov. 1● 10 Exod. 23.12 Rom. 8.21 Read Job chap. 38. chap. 39. chap. the 40. Cant. 4. throughout Ejaculation Psal. 22.6 Ephes. 2.4 5 6. 1 Pet. 1 2. Ephes. 2.10 〈…〉 Ephes. 2.1 4 5. Rom. 1.6 Rom. 8.15 Rom. 15.16 Rom. 8.9 Rom. 3.24 25 26. Jerem. 13.6 〈…〉 John 6.54 Luke 14.14 Psal. 116.12.108.1 2. Jerem. 17.10 Rom. 7. ●● John ● ●6 Phil. 2.13 Luke 16.14 Rev. 4.8 11. Revel ● 8 10 12 13. Rev. 15.3 4. Twelve wonderfull actings or works of God to be fulfilled Revel 11 3 4 5 6 7. 1. The raising of the witnesses Rev. 11.11 13. Rev. 13.1 2. Rev. 17.5 2. The ruine of Rome Revel 11.8 Revel 1● 10 Revel 13.11 Revel 19.20 Revel 16.19 Revel 1● 〈…〉 3. The ruine of the Papacy Revel 17.11 Rev. 13.12 13. Revel 19.20 Revel 19.16 Revel 14.1 2 3 4. Revel 14.7.8 Read Rom 9. Verse 25 26 27 28 29. 4. Israels Conversion Read Rom. 11. v. 25. to v. 33. Read Ezekiel chap. 37. unto chap. the 40. 5 ly The Destruction of the great Turk 6 ly The binding of the Devil for 1000. Years Rev. 20.23 7 ly The Conversion of the World Psal. 22.27 Rev. 11.15 Joel 2.28 29. Isay 54.13 Isay 32.15 16 17 18. Isay 44.3 Psal. 72 11 17. Psal. 82.8 Psal. 86.9 Isay 60.3 Isay 2.2 Jerem. 27.7 Dan. 7.14 Hag. 2.7 Isay. 2.4 Psal. 29.11 Psal. 27.11 Psal. 72.3 7. Isay. 9.7 Isay. 65.20 22. Isay 54.13 Isay 66.12 Jerem. 31.12 13 14. Isay. 2.18 60 17 20. Read for further proof of this peaceable Kingdome of Christ. Isay. cap. 60.65 from the beginning to the end Zeph. 3.9 Zach. 14.9 Isay. 11.6 Zach. 12.8 Psal. 51.15 Read these Psalms being a clear Prophesie of the victorious and peaceable Kingdome of Christ. 8 ly The Destruction of all Christs enemies under his victorious Kingdom Dan. 7.22 Isay. 11.5 Isay 1.26 Isay. 60.17 Dan. 7.26 27. Psal. 2.9 Psal. 110.5 6. Psal. 149.6 7 8 9. Rev. 20.4 Revel 19. Verse 11. to the end Psal. 47.1 2 3 4 7 8 9. Deut. 18.15 18 19. Revel 22.6 Revel 20.1 2 3. Heb. 4.9 9 ly The Saints peaceable raign for 1000 years Gen. 2.1 2 3. Exod. 20.8 9 10 11. Psal. 72.18 19 Gen. 18.25 Heb. 9.28 1 Thes. 1.8 10 ly The Destruction of Gog and Magog and the VVorld by Fire at Christs second coming Revel 20.7 8 9 10. Rev 20.4 5. compared with Luke 14.14 1 Cor. 15.23 1 Thes. 4.16 Rev. 20.6 Rev. 5.10 Isai. 65.17 2 Pet. 3.13 1 Cor. 15.23 1 Thes 4.16 Rev. 20.5 1 Cor. 15.42 43 44. Phil. 3.21 1 Joh. 3.2 Vid. my Chronology of the Age of this World taken out of the Scripture which will shortly be published Dan. 12.13 Heb. 11.1 2 Tim. 1.10 Hos. 13.14 1 Cor. 15.54 55 56 57. 11 ly The Day of Judgment beginning with the rewarding the Saints And ending with the Judging the wicked and Devils Rev. 19.13 16. 1 Tim. 6.15 John 5.22 Acts 10.42 2 Cor. 5.10 Psal. 37.6 Mat. 16.27 Mat. 25.33 Isai. 53.11 Rom. 3.26 Isai. 44.22 Acts 3.19 Rom. 4.25 1 Cor. 15.3 Rom. 5.17 Rom. 12.6 Rom. 2.6 Revel 2 23. Rom. 2.7 10. Mat. 25.34 Revel 20.4 Mat. 25.33 Revel 20.5 1 Cor. 6.3 Revel 20.12 Luke 12.2 mat 25 41. Rev. 20.14 15. Luk. 21.26 28. mat 25.30 Heb. 9.27 Psal. 58.11 Rom. 1.17 Revel 19.1 2 5 6 7 8 9. 12 ly The end of Christs Mediatory Kingdome and the translation of the Saints to Heaven there to be for ever Revel 15.3 Rom. 8.4 Rom. 5 9. John 16.33 Rom 6.6 Colos. 2.15 Luke 14.14 Rom 8.23 1 Cor. 15.26 Psal. 68.18 Joh. 17.22 24. 1 Pet. 1.4 1 Thes. 4.17 1 Cor. 13.12 1 Cor. 15.24 1 Cor. 15.24 25 26. 1 Cor. 15.28 mat 1.18 Luke 1.32 1 Cor. 15.28 Ephes. 1.20 21 22 23. Colos. 1.10 Ephe. 2.18 22. 1 John 1.3 1 Cor. 6.17 1 Cor. 12.13 Joh. 11.25 26. John 8.12 Colos. 3.3 Rom. 5.17 John 6.57 Joh. 14.19 Psal. 24.6 Numb 23.14 2 Cor. 12.2 Psal. 47.5 6 Psal. 24.7 8 9 10. 1 Cor. 13.9 12. Colos. 1.12 Revel 10.6 Psal. 25.8 John 14.6 1 Cor. 3.12 Job 14.14 Phil. 1.23 Rev. 22.17 20 21. 3 Joh. 1. 2 Cor. 6.14 1 Pet. 1.14 3 Joh. 1. The Salutation 〈◊〉 Exhortation of the Father to his Wife and Children pro. 4.1 The Praise and Commendation of the Lord Jesus Christ under the Name and Title of Wisdome as being the Wisdome of God Mat. 6.33 pro. 4.7 Luk. 10.42 pro. 4.6 8 9 10 12. 13. Act. 16.31 1 Cor. 1.24 Heb. 1.1 2. The danger of neglecting to hear and obey the voice and Counsel of Christ. Heb. 2.1 2 3. Heb. 10.28 Heb. 12.25 An Exhortation of the Father to his Wife and Children to hearken to the word and counsel of Christ. Jer. 10.1 Heb. 1.1 Rev. 22.6 2 Tim. 3.16 Rev. 19.13 2 Tim. 3.17 Prov. 8.14 17. Here begins the speech of the Lord Jesus Christ as speaking in his own Person to those to whom this Epistle 〈◊〉 directed and 〈◊〉 applicable to all other Christians Joh. 1.14 Heb. 1.3 Prov. 8.30 31 34 35 36. The danger of rejecting Christ. prov 1.25 26 27 28 29 31 33. The Confession of faith commonly

called the Apostles Creed held forth 〈◊〉 Christ in Scripture Expressions Joh. 14.1 Joh. 10.30 1 Joh. 5.7 1 Cor. 8.5 6. verse 1. The Doctrine of the Trinity Mark 12.29 Gen. 1.1 1 Joh. 4.14 Eph 4.4 1 pet 1.2 2. Article that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God and our Lord. Joh. 14.6 Rev. 19.13 1 Joh. 1.4 3. Article as to the Incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ who was conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary Joh. 12.36 Joh. 1.14 mat 1.20 Gal. 4.4 mat 1.23.18.25 1. ver Ro 1.3 Heb. 2.16 mat 3.17 Joh. 1.14 4. Article concerning Christ's Condemnation by Pontius Pilate his Crucifixion Death and Burial and all other sufferings in Soul and Body Joh. 6.29 mat 27.2 Luke 23.24 mat 27.26 Heb. 13.12 phil 3.8 1 Cor. 15.3 4. Rom. 4.25 Zac. 12.10 Lam. 1.12 Mat. 26.38 Luke 22.43 Mat. 27.46 Isa. 53.10 2 Cor. 5.21 Isa. 53.6 Psal. 16.10 5. Article as to Christ's Resurrection Joh. 1.12 Luke 24.34 Joh. 20.17 Psal. 68.18 Col. 2.15 6. Article Of Christs Ascention Mark 16.19 Act. 1.9 mat 28.18 Heb. 7.25 Rev. 1.7 Act. 1.11 Heb. 9.28 Act. 10.42 Joh. 5.22 Eph. 1.22 23. 7. Article Of Christ's coming to Judgment 8. Article Concerning the Holy Ghost is proved in the 1 st Article concerning the Trinity 1 Tim. 3.15 1 Cor. 12.12 13. 9. Article Concerning the Catholick Church and Communion of Saints 1 Cor. 10.16 17. 1 Cor. 12.25 Eph. 4.16 10. Article Concerning forgiveness of sins Act. 13.38 39. Act. 5.31 Eph. 1.7 Col. 1.14 11. Article Concerning the Resurrection of the body Joh. 11.25 26. Joh. 5.28 29. 12. Article Concerning life everlasting Joh. 10.27 28 29 Joh. 3.16 The Preface to the Decalogue or Ten Commandements Joh. 14.23 Ja. 2.20 Heb. 12.14 Jam. 1.22 Mar. 10.19 1. Commandment Exod. 20.2 3. 2. Commandment 4 5 3. Commandment 7 4. Commandment 8 9 10 5. Commandment 12 6. Commandment 13 7. Commandment 14 8. Commandment 15 9. Commandment 16 10. Commandment 17. The Conclusion of the Ten Commandments mar 12.29 30 Note that the promises and reasons annexed to some of the Commandments are omitted for brevity sake 31. mat 7 1● The Exhortation of the Lord Jesus to the use of Gospel-Ordinances viz. mar 16.16 Joh. 3.3 1. To Baptisme 5 6. 2. To the Lord's Supper Joh. 6.54 55 56 57 35. 58. 62 63. mat 26.26 27. 28. Luke 22.19 1 Cor. 11.26 3 ly To the reading of the Scriptures Deut. 11.18.19 20 21. Rev. 1.3 Joh. 10.27 Luke 11.28 4 ly To the hearing of the Word of God preached Ja. 1.19 Rev. 3.20 Luke 8.8.22 13. 5 ly To the Meditations of the Word of God and of his works Jos. 1.8 Psal. 77.12 6 ly To Prayer in publick and private Eph. 5.17 Luke 11.2 mat 6.9 mat 7.7 Joh. 15.16 1 Joh. 5.14 phil 4.6 Jam. 1.6 mat 6.6 7 ly To Obedience to Church-Governors and Discipline Heb. 13.17 Mat. 18.15 16. 17. 18. Eph. 4.11 12. 1 Tim. 5.17 1 Tim. 3.13 The Exhortation of the Lord Jesus to Gospel-saving Graces viz. Act. 3 19· Jam. 4.9 Job 25.4 1. To Repentance Psal. 51.5 Eph. 2.3 Gen. 6.5 Rom. 7.1 Isa. 1.6 Dan. 9.5 Ezra 9.6 Rom. 3.13 Isa. 1.16 17 18. Pro. 28.13 1 Joh. 1.9 7. 1 Joh. 1.7 Mat. 11.28 Joh. 6.37 1 Sam. 12.25 Psal. 11.6 Psal 68.21 Psal. 50.22 Deut. 30.15 2. To Faith Joh. 3.33 35 36. 1 Cor. 1.30 2 Cor. 5.21 Rom. 10.4 Gal 3.13 14. Rom. 10.17 Eph. 2.8 Col. 1.23 3. To Hope 27. 1 Thes. 5.8 Heb. 6.9 Heb. 3.6 1 Joh. 3.3 1 Pet. 4 8. 1 Cor. 16 14. 4. To Charity 1 Cor. 13.1 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8 Col. 3.14 1 Tim. 1.5 Rom. 13.10 Jam. 2.8 Mat. 5.44 45. 5. To holy courage or fortitude Eph. 6.11 12. Mat. 10.28 Mar. 10.21 29. 30. 6. To Christian-Temperance 1 Cor. 9.25 26. 27. 2 Pet. 1.6 Gal. 5.22 23. 2 Pet. 1.6 7. To Holy Patience Luke 21.19 Luke 8.15 Jam. 1.4 Heb. 6.12 Jam. ● ●● Jam. ● 10 Heb. 12.1 8. To Divine-Wisdome Mat. 16.16 Col. 1.9 10. Eph. 5.11 16. 17. Rom. 16.19 1 Cor. 3 19. Jam. ● 15 17. Jam. 1.5 6. 9. To Christian ●umility Col. 3.12 13. Prov. 15.33 Luke 14.11 Mic. 6.8 Jam. 4.6 Psal. 10.17 Job 22.29 Isa. 57.15 Mat. 11.29 10. The Exhor●●tion of the Lord 〈◊〉 to several 〈◊〉 graces com●●nly called the ●atitudes Mat. 5.3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. Heb. 13.4 11. To Religious ●●astity 1 Cor. 6.18 19 20 1 Cor. 6.15 16 17 1 Thes. 4.3 4 5. Mat. 5.27 2● Prov. 6.29 Hos. 4.11 Prov. 6.26 Prov. 23.27 Prov. 2.18 Prov. 7.25 26 27 Prov. 3.19 Eph. 5.5 12. To Christian Justice and Righteousness Psal. 106.3 Psal. 4.5 Psal 11.7 Isa. 32.17 Prov. 21.21 Rom. 6.13 1 Joh. 3.7 10 2 Pet. 2.12 13. 1 Cor. 6.9 Mat. 13.43 Dan. 12.3 ● To Gospel-●●●●rity upright●● and truth Mat. 5.48 Prov. 10.9 Pro 28.18 Psal. 11.7 Jeh 24.14 Pro. 11.3 Psal. 97.11 Job 8.13 Psal 119.29 Eph. 4.25 Psal. 31.5 4 ly To Holy ●●●●kfulness and 〈◊〉 of God Eph. 5.20 Psal. 50.23 Heb. 13.15 1 Tim. 4.4 Psal. 147.10 ● The Exhortation 〈◊〉 the Lord Jesus 〈◊〉 Divine affecti●●s viz. Joh. 15.11 Joh. 16.20 22 1. To Holy Joy and delight Rom. 14.17 Gal. 5.22 23. Neh. 8.10 Psal. 33.1 Phil. 4.4 Psal. 37.4 119.143 Rom. 15.13 2. To filial fear of God I●a 8.13 14. Pro. 23.17 Pro. 1.7 Prov. 10 27. Prov. 22.4 Phil. 2.12 2 Cor. 78 1. Rom. 8.15 Isa. 8.12 1 Joh. 4.18 Rom. 8.15 Phil. 4.18 3. To holy zeal and anger Tit. 2.14 Psal. 69.9 Joh. 2.17 Psal. 119.139 Num. 25.17 Eph. 4.26 Gen. 30.2 Mat. 5.22 4. To holy hatred Psal. 97.10 Psal. 139.21 22. Pro. 8.36 Note the Exhortation to godly love and sorrow are to be found in the foregoing Exhortations to repentance and charity The Preface to the Dehortations of the Lord Jesus from several prin●ipal Vices Gal. 5.16 17 18 19 20 21. The Dehortations ●●rst from unbelief Heb. 3.12 Mat. 16.16 Heb. 2.1 2. 3. 4. Luke 12.46 2. From Atheisme ●he first branch ●f unbelief Psal 14.1 Zeph. 1.12 3. From Polutheims or having more Gods than one the 2 d. Br. unbelief Exod. 22.20 Exod. 20.3 4. From Idolatry the 3 d. Br. of unbelief Lev. 26.1 5. From Blasphemy the 4. Br. of unbelief Lev. 24.16 6. From Prophaneness the 5. B. Lev. 18.21 7. From Sacriledge the 6. Br. Prov. 22.25 8. From hypocrisie the 7. Br. Job 13.16 Job 8.13 Job 15.34 Job 27.8 9. From Sabbath-breaking the 8. Bra. Isa. 58.13 14. Lev. 19.13 10. From Superstition the 9 th Br. of unbelief Act. 17.22 Joh. 15.14 Deut. 4.2 Psal. 119.104 11. From Lukewarmness the 10 th Branch Rev. 3.15 16 12. From hard-heartedness the 11. Branch Pro. 28.13 14. Num. 15.30 13. From presumptuous sinning the 12. Branch Deut. 17.12 Psal. 19.13 14. From sinful swearing the 13. Branch Exo. 20.7 Mat. 5.37 15. From Incorrigibleness the 14. Branch A Preface to the dehortation against despair Prov. 29.10