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
garments c. He cryed with a loud voice saying My God my God why hast thou forsaken me c. Jesus when he had cryed again with a loud voice yeelded up the Ghost Mat. 27. 27 28 29 30 34 35 46 50. See John 19. 23 24 c. The Son of man came to give his life for a ransome for many Mar. 10. 45. I have a baptism to be baptized with and how am I straitned till it be accomplished Luke 12. 50. And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground Luke 22. 44. Thus it is written and thus it behooveth Christ to suffer Luke 24. 46. My flesh which I will give for the life of the world John 6. 51. I lay down my life for the sheep c. I lay down my life that I may take it up c. no man taketh it from me but I lay it down of my self c. John 10. 15 17 18. It is expedient for us that one man should dye for the people c. He prophesied That Jesus should dye for that Nation and not for that Nation only but c. John 11. 50 51 52. Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends John 15. 13. The cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it Joh. 18. 11. Those things which God spake before by the mouth of all his Prophets that Christ should suffer he hath so fulfilled Acts 3. 18. The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Acts 20. 28. Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation for sin through faith in his blood Rom. 3. 24 25. Jesus who was delivered for our offences Rom. 4. 25. Christ dyed for the ungodly c. While we were yet sinners Christ dyed for us c. We were reconciled to God by the death of his Son Rom. 5. 6 8 10. God sent his Son c. and for sin or by a sacrifice for sins condemned sin in the flesh c. Who is he who condemneth it is Christ that dyed Rom. 8. 3 34. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5. 7. Ye are bought with a price 1 Cor. 6. 20. Christ dyed for our sins according to the Scripture 1 Cor. 15. 3. He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin 2 Cor. 5. 21. Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins c. Gal. 1. 4. The Son of God c. who gave himself for me Gal. 2. 20. Christ hath loved us and given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour c. Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it Ephes. 5. 2 25. He became obedient unto the death even the death of the Cross Phil. 2. 8. We have redemption through his blood c. having made peace through the blood of his Cross c. hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death Col. 1. 14 20 21 22. The Man Jesus Christ who gave himself a ransome for all c. 1 Tim. 2. 5 6. His Son who c. when he had by himself purged our sins c. Heb. 1. 3. Jesus made c. for the suffering of death c. that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man for it became him c. to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings c. that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death that is the Devil Heb. 2. 9 10 14. Though he were a Son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered Heb. 5. 8. Who needed not daily as those High-Priests to offer up sacrifice c. for this he did once when he offered up himself Heb. 7. 27. Christ being come c. by his own blood he entered in once into the Holy Place c. How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered up himself without spot to God purge your consciences c that by the means of death for the redemption of transgressions c. Where a Testament is there must also of necessity be the death of the Testator c. Neither was the first Testament dedicated without blood c. And without shedding of blood is no remission c. Nor yet that he should offer himself often c. But now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself c. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many c. Heb. 9. 11 14 15 16 18 22 24 25 26 28. We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once for all c. This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sate down c. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them who are sanctified c. To the blood of sprinkling which speaks better things than that of Abel Heb. 10. 10 12 14. Heb. 12. 24. Jesus also that he might sanctifie the people with his own blood suffered without the gate Heb. 13. 12. The spirit of Christ c. When it testified before-hand the sufferings of Christ c. The precious blood of Christ 1 Pet. 1. 11 19. Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example c. Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on or to the tree 1 Pet. 2. 21 24. Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust c. Being put to death in the flesh c. 1 Pet. 3. 18. Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh let us c. 1 Pet. 4. 1. Jesus Christ who gave himself a ransom for all c. 1 John 2. 6. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us 1 John 3. 16. Unto him who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood Rev. 1. 5. Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us unto God by thy blood c. Rev. 5. 9. The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world Rev. 13. 8. He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God Rev. 19. 15. 5thly He fulfilled all righteousness of the Law bare the Curse took away the hand-Writing of Ordinances is our righteousness I will make mention of thy name of thine only Psal. 71. 16. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted Psal. 89. 16. Surely shall one say in the Lord have I righteousness c. In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory Isa. 45. 24 25. The servants of the Lord and their righteousness is of me saith the Lord Isa. 54. 17. I will cause the branch of righteousness to grow up unto David c. And this is the name wherewith he shall be called the Lord
of man hath power on earth to forgive sins Mat. 9. 2 6. All manner of sins and blasphemies shall be forgiven to men but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaks against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him in this world neither in the world to come Mat. 12. 31 32. To give knowledg of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins through the tender mercies of our God whereby the day spring from on high hath visited us Luke 1. 77 78. I say unto thee Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little And he said unto her Thy sins are forgiven thee Luke 7. 48 49. It behoveth Christ to suffer c. and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name Luke 24. 46 47. Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world John 1. 29. Repent c. that your sins may be blotted out when the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord and he shall send Jesus c. Acts 3. 19 20. Jesus c. hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins Acts 5. 30 31. To him gave all the prophets witness That through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins Acts 10. 43. Be it known unto you c. that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins Acts 13. 38. To open the eyes c. that they may receive forgiveness of sins c. Acts 26. 18. Whom God hath set forth or fore-ordained to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission or passing over of sins Rom. 3. 25. Christ dyed for our sins according to the Scriptures c. The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the Law but thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15. 3 56 57. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself not imputing their trespasses unto them c. For he hath made him to be sin for us 2 Cor. 5. 19 21. Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins Gal. 1. 3 4. In whom ye have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded c. Eph. 1. 7 8. Col. 1. 14. And you c. hath he quickned together with him having forgiven you all trespasses Col. 2. 13. Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity Tit. 2. 13 14. His Son c. when he had by himself purged our sins sate down Hebr. 1. 2 3. Wherefore it behoveth him to be made like unto his brethren c. to make reconciliation for the sins of the people Heb. 2. 17. I will be merciful unto their unrighteousnesses and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more Heb. 8. 12. If the blood of bulls c. sanctifieth c. how much more shall the blood of Christ who offered himself c. purge our consciences c. by means of death for the redemption of the transgression Without shedding of blood no remission of sin c. Once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself c. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many Heb. 9. 13 14 15 22 26 28. This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sate down Heb. 10. 12. Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on or to the tree c. by whose stripes ye were healed 1 Pet. 2. 24. Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us unto God 1 Pet. 3. 13. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin c. If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 1 Joh. 1. 7 9. If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world c. I write to you little children because your sins are forgiven you for his names sake 1 John 2. 1 2 12. He was manifested to take away our sins c. 1 John 3. 5. Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins 1 John 4. 10. Jesus Christ c. who hath loved us and washed us with his own blood from our sins Rev. 1. 5. Reconciliation to and peace with God Fury is not in me c. Let him take hold of my strength he may make peace with me he shall make peace with me Isa. 27. 4 5. The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake Isa. 42. 21. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed Isa. 53. 5. Seventy weeks are determined c. to make reconciliation for iniquity Dan. 9. 24. He shall be a Priest upon his throne and the counsel of peace shall be between them both Zech. 6. 12 13. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Mat. 3. 17. Go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and unto your Father and unto my God and your God John 20. 17. The word which God sent unto the children of Israel preaching peace by Jesus Christ Acts 10. 36. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ c. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled c. We say in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the Atonement Rom. 5. 1 10 11. God who hath reconciled us unto himself by Jesus Christ and hath committed unto us the ministry of reconciliation to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses c. 2 Cor. 5. 18 19. The glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved Eph. 1. 6. But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by he blood of Christ for he is our peace who hath made both one hath broken down the middle-wall of partition between us hath abolished in his flesh the enmity the law of commandments in ordinances for to maâ—…e in himself of twain one new man so making peaâ—… That he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby or in himself and came and preached peace to you who were
Christ reconciling the world to himself not imputing their trespasses to them He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him 2 Cor. 5. 19 21. A man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ. Even we believe c. that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not c. Gal. 2. 19. Paul to the Galatians doth argue this at large Gal. 3. We through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith c. Gal. 5. 5. Christ gave himself c. that he might sanctifie and cleanse it c. that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish Ephes. 5. 25 26 27. When Paul above any others had whereof to boast for his exactness in keeping the Law he said But what things were gain to me them or those I counted loss for Christ c. that I may win Christ and be found in him not having mine own righteousness which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith Phil. 3. 4 5 6 7 8 9. And you c. hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight Colos. 1. 21 22. And ye are compleat in him who is the head of all principalities c. Col. 2. 10. Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people Tit. 2. 14. After that the loving-kindness of God appeared c. not by works of righteousness which we have done c. that being justified by his grace we should be made heirs c. Tit. 3. 4 5 7. Who c. when he had by himself purged our sins sate down c. Heb. 1. 3. If the blood of bulls c. sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ who c. purge your consciences from dead works c. Heb. 9. 13 14. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all c. by one offering he hath for ever perfected them who are sanctified c. Heb. 10. 10 14. Wherefore Jesus also that he might sanctifie the people with his own blood suffered without the gate c. Heb. 13. 12. Who his own self bare our sins c. by whose stripes we were healed 1 Pet. 2. 24. Isa. 53. 5. Jesus c. who hath loved us and washed us with his own blood c. Rev. 1. 5. These were redeemed or bought from among men c. they were without fault before the throne of God Rev. 14. 4 5. Eternal life and Salvation The just shall live by his faith Hab. 2. 4. Christ said unto Zacheus This day is salvation come to this house c. for the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost Luk. 19. 9 10. So must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have everlasting life c. He who believeth on the Son hath everlasting life c. John 3. 14 15 16 36. Ye will not come unto me that ye may have life John 5. 40. The bread of God is he who cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world c I am the bread of life c. This is the will of him who sent me that every one who seeth the Son and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day c. This is the bread which came down from heaven that a man may eat thereof and not dye I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever and the bread that I will give is my flesh which I will give for the life of the world c. Whoso eateth my flesh c. hath eternal life c. As c. I live by the Father so he who eateth me even he shall live by me c. Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life John 6. 33 35 40 50 51 54 57 58 68. John 5. 24. I am the dore by me if any man enter in he shall be saved c. I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly My sheep hear my voice c. and I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand John 10. 9 10 27 28. Because I live ye shall live also John 14. 19. As thou hast given him power over all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him John 17. 2. These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through his name John 20. 31. Why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of his disciples c. But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they Acts 15. 10 11. I send thee said Christ to Paul to open their eyes c. that they might receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among them who are sanctified through faith that is in me Acts 26. 17 18. Being justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him c. much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life c. If by one offence death reigned by one much more they who receive abundance of grace c. shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ c. that as sin hath reigned unto death even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 5. 9 10 17 21. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 6. 23. Whom he justifies them also he glorifies What shall we say c. Rom. 8. 30 31. I declare unto you the Gospel c. by which also ye are saved if c. 1 Cor. 15. 1 2 3. In Christ c. in whom also we have obtained an inheritance Ephes. 1. 11. God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he hath loved us even when we were dead in sins hath quickned us together with Christ. By grace are ye saved that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace c. for by grace are ye saved through faith c. not by works lest any man should boast Ephes. 2. 4 5 7 8 9. Christ