them God can see as well in the Dark as in the Light When Dores and Windowes are shut and Curtains drawn Close at Midnight as well as at Noon Day on the House Top. Tell them God heareth what they say if they speak Never so Softly And knows what they Think if they think Never so Secretly And Tell them whatever they Think Speak and Act on Earth God writes in Heaven What is Good God looks upon with Love What is Evil God beholds with Hatred Thou art of Purer Eyes than to behold Evil †Hab. 2.13 God beholds NO Evil with an Eye of Approbation but ALL Evil with an eye of Observation in order to Damnation if speedy Repentance prevent it not How Dar'st thou Sin in Secret God doth See And Witnesse Jury Judge alone will Be. Fourteenth Doc 14. The uncertainty of Life Teach them to know the Brevity and Uncertainty of Life for Age and Youth Old and Insant Tell them in Golgotha are Sculls and in the Church Yard are Graves of All Sizes Solomon tells of a time to be Born and a time to Die but he tells us of no time to Live * Ecl. 3.2 Tell them Death is Most Certain and may be as Sudden as Certain One may be Alive Young Strong Well Sick Dead Damned and all in a Day or in an Hour 1 God the Donour and Preserver of Mans Life may Suddenly end it 2 The Devil the Envier of Mans Life may Suddenly end it as he did Job's Children †Job 1.10 3 The Wicked Satans Workmen may Suddenly end it he riseth up and No man is sure of his Life * Job 24.22 4 A mans own Relations may Suddenly end it as Cain who killed his Own Onely brother Abel †Gen. 4.8 5 A mans own Hand may Suddenly end his own Life Ahithophels councel to Others was as if a man had enquired at the Oracle of God * 2 Sa 16.23 but he could not councel Himself to keep from the Gallows It 's dangerous provoking GOD to displeasure God can make a man his Own Enemy his Worst Enemy his own Executioner here and his own Tormentor in Hell Fire for ever N B. Seeing Life is SO Uncertain and Short Preparation for Death is a Solemn Concern When men had Longer lives and Stronger limbs than Now men have they seemed to be more concerned with Death than Now men are The First purchase we read of in the Bible was a Burying Place not a Building Place viz Abraham for Sarah * Gen. 23.4 Lo I die in the Grave which I have Digged for me there thou shalt bury me said Jacob to Joseph †Ch. 50.5 Kings and Councellors built Desolate places for Themselves * Job 3.14 Joseph laid Jesus in his Own Tomb †Mat. 27.60 Few in our dayes dig their Graves before they are dead though the World it self be dying Fifteenth Doc 15. Teach them to know the Difference between Temporal Life and Eternal Life The Excellency of One above the Other e g. 1 Temporal Life is full of Corporal Labour * Eccl. 1.8 Eternal Life hath none of this There Remains a Rest †Heb. 4.9 it Ever Remains and Never Removes 2 Temporal Life is full of Mental Misery viz. Care Trouble Vexation Sorrow of Mind Man is Born to trouble * Job 5.7 He is of Few dayes and Full of trouble †Ch. 14.1 His dayes are Few and Evil * Gen. 47.9 Eternal Life is Full of Joy without Sorrow 3 Temporal Life is attended with the Misery of Penury Hunger Thirst Hunger without Bread Bread without Hunger are both Miseries Bread with Hunger is a Double Mercy which Many have and Few prize Eternal Life is free from both these Miseries of Hunger and Thirst They shall hunger NO more neither Thirst any more c †Rev. 7.16 4 Temporal Life is attended with many Diseases Eternal Life hath None All Diseases end at Death A Saints Funeral is the Funeral of All his Afflictions 5 Temporal Life is sometimes such that a man is Weary of it and wishes for Death Eternal Life will Never weary one to All Eternity 6 Temporal Life is but Temporal if it be the life of Methuselah it must Certainly end it may Suddenly end but Eternal Life is Eternal Not any thing in Heaven or Hell shall ever end it Sixteenth Doc 16. Of Heaven Teach them to know how Desireable Heaven is Tell them of its Titles viz The Kingdom of GOD The Kingdom of Heaven The Heaven of Heavens The Third Heaven A house Eternal in the Heavens That will never Decay or want Repair that the Inhabitant will never be Weary of or turned Out of Abrahams Rosom i e Sweet imbraces Eternal Glory Salvation with Eternal Glory An Eternal weight of Glory which will never weary to bear it but bare up above all weariness for ever A Crown of Life A Crown of Glory A City of pure Gold it's Streets pure Gold its Gates Pearl * Rev. 21.21 A City that hath NO need of Sun Moon or Candle †Ver. 23. For there shall be NO Night there * Ch. 22.5 Seventeenth Doc. 17. Of Hell Teach them to know how Dreadfull Hell is Tell them of it's Titles viz Destruction A Furnace Outer Darkness Damnation Everlasting Punishment Vnquenchable Fire A Place of Torment Wrath to Come A Prison Everlasting Chains Everlasting Burnings The Vengeance of Eternal Fire The Second Death A Lake of Fire The Bottomless Pit OH How do Persons Play with Scripture Thunder The Word Printed is like Fire Painted which they can See and Feel without Fear But could they Stand at the Gates of Hell and Hear the Damned Howl it would make their Hair stand an End and Fill their Hearts with Horrour But what shall we say of an Eternal BEING in that place of Torment The Damnation of Hell is beyond All Definition much harder to Define than the Spanish Inquisition Which a Painter despairing to do Did not picture One man with a Knife in his his Throat a Second with a Sword in his Heart a Third with his Arms Torn Off. But took a Table and Covered it all over with Blood crying out BLOOD BLOOD So may a Minister cry concerning Hell FIRE FIRE for a Definition of Damnation Eighteenth Doc. 18. Of temporal Judgements Teach them to know what Temporal Judgments God hath sent to Men Women and Children for Sin against God Tell them how God drowned the World with Water from Heaven * Gen. 7. And burned Sodom with Fire from Heaven †Ch. 19. And Drowned the Egyptians in the Red Sea And clave the Ground asunder to Swallow up Korah and his Company And slew a hundred fourscore and five Thousand in One Night by One Angel * 2 K. 19.35 And slew of Israel Five Hundred Thousand chosen men in One day †Ch. 13.17 Chap. 36.16 And gave All Israel into the
hand of the King of the Caldees that bitter and hasty Nation who slew their Young men with the Sword had NO compassion on Young Man or Maiden Old man or him that Stooped for age * Ch. 36.16 Because they mocked the messengers which God in Mercy had sent among them Death came in at their Windows for their Wicked Children Bares tare them in Pieces The Mother was dashed in Pieces upon her Children †Ho. 10.14 The strength of Populous NO was Infinite Yet she was carried away into Captivity her Young Children were dashed in Pieces at the top of all the streets * Na. 3.8 9 10. Tell them also of Judgments threatned viz I will Kill you with the Sword your Wives shall be Widdows and your Children fatherless †Exo. 22.24 I will send wild beasts among you which shall Rob you of your Children * Lev. 26.22 Papists are coming to Rob our houses of Children and Parents both Their Children shall be dashed to pieces before their Eyes †Isa 13.16 I will bereave them of Children * Jer. 15.7 The Fathers shall eat the Sons and the Sons shall eat the Fathers †Ezek. 5.10 And I saith Christ will Kill her Children with Death * Rev. 2.23 Nineteenth Doc 19. Of Eternal Judgment Teach them to know the Eternal Judgment Tell them Jesus Christ the Judge shall come from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming Fire With a Shout with the voice of the Arch-Angel with the Trump of GOD to found and raise the Dead That the Godly shall rise in Glory and all Christians Quick and Dead be made like Christ That the Wicked shall rise Roaring amazed one at another their Faces Flames †Isa 13.8 That all Men Women Children from Adam to the end of the World must Stand before GOD. * Rev. 20.12 And give account of their Works Words Thoughts all which God will bring into Judgment And whet his glittering Sword which is now made Bright and Wrapt up for the Slaughter †Ezek. 21.15 and fill it with the Blood of the Wicked And heap Mischiefs upon them And spend his Arrows upon them * Deu. 32.23 And make them drunk with Blood †Ver. 42. And shoot his great Hail which he hath reserved for the Battel of that Great Day of GOD Almighty * Job 38.23 When the Sun and Moon and Stars shall be Drakened †Joel 3.15 And the Heavens pass away with a Great Noise and the Elements melt with Fervent Heat the Earth and the Works therein burnt up * 2 Pet. 3.10 With a fire kindled in Gods Anger which shall burn to the Lowest Hell †Deu. 32.22 When God shall Roar like a Lion and Rend the Caul of their Heart * Ho. 13.8 And they Groan with the Groanings of a Deadly Wounded Man †Ezek. 30.24 Alas Who shall live when GOD doth This * Nu. 24.23 Tell some of this Day OH take You no care for Me every Tub must Stand on its own Bottom But how if it have no Bottom to stand on OH HO we will do well enough What will ye do in the day of Visitation †Isa 10.3 It 's a Scaring question If we cannot obtain mercy by Entreaty nor victory by Fight we will Flee for it To whom will ye Flee for Help A fearful question These are the men that must cry Mountains fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne Who will close this Day with Come ye Blessed and Go ye Cursed Then shall the King say unto them on his Right Hand Come ye Blessed of My Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for You from the Foundation of the World * Mat. 25.34 Then shall he say also unto them on the Left Hand Depart from me ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels †Ver. 41. And these shall go away into Everlasting Punishment but the Righteous into Life Eternal * Ver. 46. Last Doc. 20. Of Eterninity Teach them to think upon Eternity Tell them that after this Final Sentence is Passed viz Come ye Blessed and Go ye Cursed the Godly must dwell in Heaven and the Wicked must dwell in Hell for Ever and Ever The Eternity of GOD hath neither Beginning nor End The Eternity of Man hath a Beginning but NO End This EVER is as near its End at its Beginning as EVER it will be When the Wicked have been Howling in Hell as many Thousand Years as the Number of the Stars of Heaven and the Drops and Sands of the Sea they are then NO nearer to the End of their Torment than when it First Began Thus much for Instruction by Doctrine ¶ But Sir you are not to Terminate in These Twenty Lessons For I lay them not down to Limit you but to Lead you into the Scriptures to Search for Twenty times so many More Every word of God in the Blessed Bible hath something in it for the Use of Man The words of Wicked Men and DEVILS which God hath pleased to Record for our Profit To discover the Pride Wickedness Madness Folly Enmity of the Wicked and the Devil their Father against GOD their Creatour a few of which I leave you to consider at leasure 1 Words of the Wicked Gen. 4.9 Ch. 11.4 Exo. 1.10 Ch. 5.2 Ch. 14.25 Ch. 15.9 Job 21.14 Ch. 22.17 Psal 14.1 Ps 83.4 Ps 94. 7. Ps 137.7 Isai 10.13 14. Dan. 3.15 Ch. 6.5 20. Mat. 12.24 Ch. 27.40 42 43 63 64. Job 10.20 Act. 28.4 6. 2 Words of the Devil Gen. 3.1 4 5. Job 1.7 9 10 11. Ch. 2.4 5. Mat. 4.3 6 9. Ch. 8.29 Mar. 1.24 Luk. 8.28 Act. 19. 15. And the Proper Names of Persons which many think not worth the nameing are Profitable more wayes than one 1 To shew that God fulfilled his Promise of such a Numerous Seed so incredible to Reason when Abram and Sarai were both Dead q d See what a number of their names I have recorded in the Chronicles and other places to testifie the Truth of my Promise 2 The Signification of the Proper Names of Persons and Places of both take a few Instances ¶ 1 Persons Adam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Earth Red Bloody of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To be red Male and Female created he them and called their Name Adam †Gen. 5.2 To tell Proud man what a Material and Mettal man is made of Noah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rest of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To take rest He called his name Noah saying this Same shall Comfort us * Gen. 5.29 Noah was a Preacher of Righteousness it Signifies what a Stay such shall be to a Tossed Church Abram 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A High Father Abraham A Father of a multitude i e A Publick President by his FAITH for Jew and Gentile to follow for Justification Believers are
Honourable They have a High Father Abram And GOD is their Father who is Higher than the Highest Isaac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Laughter of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To laugh Sarah said God hath made me Laugh so that all that hear will Laught with me †Gen 21.6 Isaac was the promised Son but both Father and Mother must be Dead before the Son is Born N B. If God once Promise if Never so great a Death fall in before the Performance Never fear it * Ver. 7. Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah should have given Children suck for I q d OLD Sarah have born him a Son in his OLD Age. Solomon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Peaceable †Mic. 5.5 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To compleat Peace A Type of Christ the Great peace-maker and our Peace * Eph. 2.19 Delilah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Poverty a consumer of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To draw out As Delilah to Samson so Sin Delilah a beloved lust will Impoverish Consume and Conquer a Samson like Soul for Strength Ishi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My husband of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A husband Thou shalt call me Ishi Ho. 2.16 To shew the Sweet Affection and Near Relation of God to a Christian truly betrothed to Christ Amos 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A burden of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To load The land is not able to bear all his words †Am. 7.10 Thus is a faithful Prophet to the Prophane Zerubabel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Repugnant to or a dispersion of confusion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To scatter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Confusion He was to lay the foundation and to finish God hath had his Zerubabels Magistrates and Ministers called Saviours Magistrates to save the Body Ministers to save the Soul These were but Instruments and the best but a Type of Christ THE Saviour Alpha and Omega of the Work of Redemption Author and Finisher from the Foot to the Head Stone with Shouting Grace grace to it †Zech. 4.7 ¶ 2 Proper names of Places and Cities Babel Babilon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Confusion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To confound Let us go down and there confound their language * Gen. 11.7 So the Lord scattered them Therefore is the name of it called Babel †They cry of Babilon against Jerusalem is Rase Rase it even to the Foundation of it But God will Confound all Babilons Cries and Consultations Rehoboth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Room of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To enlarge Isaac called the well Rehoboth for which the Philistins strove not for Now saith he the Lord hath made Room for us * Gen. 26.22 Considering how Contentious Philistins and Heathens are Christians should call Every quiet place for Meeting and Dwelling Rehoboth Bethel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The house of God so Jacob called the Place where God appeared to him †Gen. 28.17 So precious is Gods appearance that it makes the place to Spangle and that place must have a memorable Title And precious is the Humble Person To whom God appears I dwell with him that is humble * Isa 57.15 He is Gods House in what place soever he be its Bethel Bochim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Weeping of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To weep The people lift up their voice and wept And they called the name of that place Bochim †Jud. 2.4 5. God will mark the place of Mourning and put the tears into his Bottle Achor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Trouble of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To trouble Achor is a name Joshua gave to a Valley where they met with much Trouble * Jos 7.26 I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak Comfortably 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon her Heart †Ho. 2.14 N B. If God do bring into the Wilderness that leads to the land of Canaan he will bring Safe Out to the Desired Haven And turn Sorrow into Joy yea give Joy in Sorrow and Life at the Point of Death at the Dead Sea For saith God I will give her the Valley of Achor for a Door of Hope and she shall sing THERE * Hos 2.15 Capernaum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A field of Repentance i e where the Seed of it is Sown and not Received Upon which account Christ does utter that Dreadful Thunder Thou Capernaum which art exalted to Heaven shalt be brought down to Hell †Mat. 11.23 Bethesda 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The house of Mercy of effusion i e Pouring forth plentifully It 's the name of a Pool at Jerusalem which cured Any Disease whatever †Job 5.2 A type of Christ who hath for Every Disease an Infallible Remedy and calls the Sick to come and buy All without Mony ¶ I will add no more of these Instances left I Weary you But again I desire you to Search the Scriptures which to do one had need out-live the Dayes of Methuselah Tertullian hath this Expression Adoro plentitudinem Scripturarum I adore the fulnesse of the Scriptures Let me say There is a Mountain of Sense in a Sentence of Scripture Into which let not the Least refuse to Look for the Lamb may Wade though the Elephant Swim Learn your Lambs to wade into the Scriptures by a Daily course of Reading Chapters And by a Custom of asking you Scriptural Questions When your Children shall ask in time to come Heb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To morrow What means these Stones Then ye shall Answer them * Jos 4.6 and with a Blessing God will Answer both ¶ To all which Instruction by Doctrine I adde this Exhortation Take your Children with you to hear Sermons Stick not at a little trouble but bring thy Sons in Arms and thy Daughters upon Shoulders †Isa 49.22 Simile And what you hear preached Improve for their Profit As from a Garden Orchard Banquet Parents bring home Flowers Cherries Biskets for their childrens Bodies So do you from Sermons in Spirituals for your Childrens Souls And as a Compassionate Parent will give a Part to a Child that stands By having no Parent present to Pity it So I pray do You to Any Child as you have Opportunity But especially to Those under your Roof Care and Conduct whose Parents are Absent out of the World or at a Distance Give them even the Same Instruction with your Own And let not Such a One be as a Sheep that NO Man takes up * Isa 13.14 Caution And do not Deceive your self by thinking you are only Drawn to this Duty or deed of Charity by my Desire but See your self Solemnly bound to it by Christs Command As ye would that men should do to You do you Even So to them †Mat. 7.12 Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy Self * Ch. 22.39 Dread to be like the Dragon which saith My River is My Own I have made
a father may be a Motive to duty The Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A father comes of the Root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he willed desired of the fathers affection to his children which doth Naturally descend to them with desire after their welfare If not Thus a man deserves not the Name of a father They who have been instruments to bring children into a State of Condemnation and care not to bring them into a State of Salvation are these Parents shall Paul travail in birth till Christ be formed in Christians * Gal. 4.19 and be so concerned as to wish himself accursed from Christ for his Kindred †Rom. 9.3 shall Ministers do their utmost to Save children shall the Devil do his utmost to Damn them and shall their own father that Begat them and their mother that Bare them carry it as if they care not whether they are brought forth for a Saviour or a Murderer and are these Parents Monstrum Horrendum NB. Neglect of duty to a Child to humour an angry Wife had like to cost Moses his Life for the Lord sought to Kill him * Exo. 4.24 Let carelesse parents have a Care God do not kill them Quite And let Parents hear themselves spoken to in these Texts Keep this man if by any means he be missing then thy Life shall be for his Life †I K. 20.39 If he Die in his iniquity his Blood will I require at thy hand * Ezek. 3.18 They that are under Such words abroad without Shelter and do not hear it Thunder are very Dull of hearing Second The childs tears at it's Birth Coroll 2. Childs Tears may he a Motive for parents to Pity and Duty These tears seem to Presage its Sorrow The poor child seems to cry to see into what a Stormy Sea it is Lanched in danger to be Swallowed up Soul and Body at once Or to see upon what a Shore of trouble it's Landed to wander in a wildernesse of Wo among wild beasts of Prey Yea so Cruel are the Devils Creatures that poor children are in danger of their Death before their Birth Cruel cruelty The cruel Claws of these wild Beasts sometimes tare the Young out of the Womb before they are Born * Am. 1.13 and the Old out of the Tomb after they are Buried †Ch. 2.1 Third Coroll 3. Childs Dead state The dead condemned State children are Born in and are in till Born again It is a Dead Life between the first and second Birth One passing by the house of a Sinful Sluggard said Here lies not lives Such a One. A natural life is a kind of a Lifelesse Worthlesse life The old youngman A strange Epitaph An old man converted a little before his Death would have this Epitaph on his Tomb Here lies a very Old Man of 3 years old Barlaam being asked how old he was said 45. Said the other Thou seemest to be 70. Yea said Barlaam if you reckon ever since I was Born but I do not Count the time I spent in Sin Lay this Dead Life to Heart Suppose you had a child condemned to Die yet so as there remains a possibility to procure a Pardon The execution hour is concealed in the Kings own breast It may be the child hath Ten Dayes to live it may be not Two Hours How would you bestir you in Such Case how restlesse Night and Day till your poor childs Pardon is procured except Jehoram-like you were bereav'd of Bowels †2 Chron. 21.19 and had not the least Pity left in you This is your childrens Case if unconverted As after the Sentence a malefactor is a Dead man so before the Second birth a child is a Dead child i e Sentenced and Condemned to be Hanged and Burned and Racked in Hell And peradventure you are driving on designs to procure Portions and not Pardons OH Miserable man to morrow may be thy Son or thy Daughters Damning day And if Once the secret set time be Out the poor child is Haled away into Endlesse Wo. Fourth Your condemned child Coroll 4. Supposed sad sense is also to be supposed under a Sad Sense of it's condemned condition Suppose you should Act as if as Insensible of it as a parent is of a childs Soul condemned state And at your Return in the evening after all the trifling Turns you take in a day your poor child should Quaere with a Sad Countenance Father where have you Been to day Here and There about This and That OH Father what have you not been with the King to day and do not know but I may be Hanged to morrow And as you sit Idleing Sleeping or Smoking in the house GOOD Lord father will you sit Thus and let me be Hanged What a Cutting consideration is This OH how Common is it for children to be in a Soul-condemned condition and will parents who professe to believe it Pipe and Pot and Prate away their time while their children stand on the brink of Everlasting Burnings will they take their Recreation while their children are under Condemnation near that execution and End to perish for Ever the Plague of Pharoh is upon such parents hearts WHAT Faith have such in Gods word what Life is in their faith the faith of DEVILS exceeds a Dead faith * Jam. 2.19 Fath. It is very Sad to consider a child in such Case Min. Very SAD in so saying you say Nothing It 's most Deplorable and Lamentable enough to make a mercifull man wish his head Waters and his eyes a fountain of Tears to weep Day and Night for children so Dismally miserable †Jer. 9.1 And its matter of mourning to think how Few Tears fall into Gods Bottle upon this account Fift Coroll 5. The inhumanity and cruelty of such carelesse parents Cruelty They are said to be more Savage than Sea-Monsters for even They draw out the breast and give such to their Young * Lam. 4.3 but these Men-Monsters are like the Ostriches in the wildernesse with a 7-fold Similitude 1 The Ostrich is between an unclean hatefull Bird and a Beast hath part of Both Ostrich defined but No part of Man as the Meraid hath A sad Character for a father 2 Faith outwardly with feathers †Job 39.13 So is a foul Pharisaical father 3 She is Proud What time she lifteth up her self on High she Scorneth the Horse and his Rider * Ver. 18. 4 She is Foolish because God hath deprived her of wisdom †Ver. 17. In danger she hides her Head and then thinks No body sees Her because She sees no body Man thinks he is Safe because he sees not God Man Cannot see he Will not see and then sayes God Shall not see * Psal 94.7 5 She is forgetfull of the great concern She leaveth her egges in the earth and forgetteth that the foot may Crush them or that the wild
die Spiritually in Soul who do not die Eternally in both Fath. That Israel were under a C W is hard to beat out of my Head Object 6 Min. A covenant between God and man is not Made except GOD require and Man consent 1 God did not Require it is contrary to his purpose of Salvation by Grace and if by Grace then is it no more of Works †Rom. 11.6 2 Man did not Consent If in saying All that the Lord hath spoken we will do †Exo. 19.8 they counted to comply with a C W they said they knew not what nor are they Commended for it But when they said to Moses Speak thou with us and we will hear but let not God speak with us lest we die †Ch. 20.19 then said Moses Fear not * Ver. 20. and said God They have Well said †Den. 5.28 i e to desire a Mediatour these are no signs of a C W. Nor did they Consent to a C W when they said Amen to the curses pronounced against him that confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them †Deu. 27.26 but did acquiesce in the pronunciation of the Curse for him to whom it did belong Nor did Paul in saying As many as are of the works of the Law are under the curse * Gal. 3.10 say They were all so Nor doth Moses in describing the righteousnesse of the Law viz The man which doth those things shall live by them * Rom. 10 5. say They were so to live or that it was Possible for them The man that Doth shall Live is q d The man that emptieth the Ocean with a Spoon shall go into the depth of it and not be Drowned for to fulfill the Law and to empty the Sea are Parallel impossibilities Fath. But God speaks of a New Covenant Object 7 †Jer. 31.31 and this at Sinai is called Old * Heb. 8.13 so that it seems Not to be a C G as you call it nor that they were saved Before Christs death as we are since Min. There is some Circumstantial difference 1 The Old as it 's called comprehended the Promise of Canaan containing many Temporal blessings 2 The Jews were by it Obliged to Ceremonial service 3 Some few excepted it was confined to the Jews only 4 It was Sealed with the blood of Sacrifices Typical of Christ to Come These things being Transitory it is said to wax Old and vanish away †Heb. 8.13 yet the covenant is One and the Same in Substance AT Christ's death it was Sealed by his own blood Actively Before it was Sealed by his blood Virtually Since Christ's death it is Signified by the Sacrament of the Lords Supper which is Permanent till Christ come so was the Ceremonial Sacrifice till he came to Die the blood of which signified Christ's blood Was to be shed as well as the Element of Wine signifieth it Is shed N B. Covenants are Certainly the Same if they accord in these 3 Substantials Subject End Condition Jesus Christ as Head of the Elect is the Subject Salvation is the End Faith is the Condition of Both and so is the way of Salvation the Same Before Christ's death the Jews were said to be under a yoke they were not able to bear †Act. 15.10 what then but we beleeve that by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved Even as they * Ver. 11. Identity or the Samenesse of Salvation We Jews even as they Gentiles for Christ and Salvation and the Way to it are the Same Jew and Gentile saved the Same way Before and After Christs death Before it they were under the Gospel clouded with the Law Since we are under the Gospel more clearly dispensed They that God taught saw it Then no more see it Now and from the Rest it is hid Fath. If the law was not delivered as a C W what signified the dreadfull delivery of it with Thunder and Lightning Object 8 and breaking the Tables when Israel Sinned Min. God by delivering the Law on Mount Sinai at first with his own mouth did signifie he had made a C W with Adam and in him with all Men and what he might justly require of men The thunder signified the dreadfull effects of the breach of that Covenant It 's being written on Tables signified it was written on Adam's Heart I will give thee Tables of stone and a Law which I have written †Exo. 24.12 they were the work of God without Moses i e without a Mediatour 2 The tables being broken when Israel sinned signified the C W was broken when Adam sinned and was never to be made with Man more God doth not say Moses mend the Tables thou hast broken but Hew thee two new Tables * Ch. 34.1 3 The law written on the Tables a second time signified or was an Embleme of the law written on the Heart of Christians according to the C G. 4 God by proclaiming his gracious name on Mount Sinai and giving the law there the second time to Moses alone †Ver. 3.5 6 signified he had made a C G with Christ for Christians and had given the law by Christ by Angels in the hand of a Mediatour N B This M L thus written not as a C W The Law the Rule but as it is the law of Christ IS a Christians rule of Life The Saviour is the Law-giver and Ruler * Isa 33.22 the Decalogue is the Sum it 's branched through the Bible for a rule of righteousnesse and Gospel obedience for all Christians in all Nations throughout all Generations Fath. But some say Object 9 The law as written in the Bible is not a Christians rule of life but as it is written in the Heart they act from a principle of Love are led by the Spirit of God and delight to do his Will Min. That a true Christian hath the law written in his Heart acts from a principle of Love is led by the Spirit of God delights to do his Will is True but the law as written in the Bible is not a Christians rule of life is not only False but Prefixt to the Rest makes all to be a piece of ridiculous Non-sense Pestilent Opinion This pestilent opinion hath 5 parts 1 The law as written in the Bible is not a Christians rule of life A. As the Gospel teacheth how to Beleeve and is a rule of Faith so the Law teacheth how to Live and is a rule of Life As the Gospel is an everlasting rule for Faith so is the Law an everlasting rule for Life As the Civil law is a rule of Civil life so is Gods Divine law a rule of Godly life Simile The law is as a Touch-stone Simile to try if gold be Good The law is as a Line to shew what is Straight and what is Crooked Simile A good work-man will have his Rule
will it being so Fashionable the world cannot hate you * Ver. 7. for it they will love their won 2 Jesus refused to go with Them because the Jews sought to kill him †Ver. 1. not at the feast for fear of an uprore * Mat. 26.5 but to Way-lay him q d He will come with his kindred as other people use to do and so we shall Snap him by the way Therefore said Jesus I go not up Yet to this feast q d till Ye are gone for my time is not yet fully come †Job 7.8 q d my Meet time to go or my time to be Taken when it is I shall not seek to Save my self But when his brethren were gone up then went he also up unto the feast not openly * Ver. 10. i e by the way for at Jerusalem about the Midst of the feast Jesus went up into the Temple and taught * Ver. 14. And in the last day that Great day of the feast Jesus stood and cryed saying If any man thirst let him come to me and drink * Ver. 37. So you see Jesus did not refuse to go up to this feast Fath. But you have said Hezekiah changed the Passeover in case of necessity †Pag 253. Min. Hezekiah's Salvation did not depend upon his perfect obedience to the Law if it had he had never been Saved but upon Christs perfect obedience without which He nor We shall never be Saved Fath. If Christ kept the Passeover a Day before the Right day he kept it Min. Suppose you say to a Servant Do such a work to Morrow No Sir faith he I will do it to day Nay say you I am resolved to have it done to Morrow Away goes he and does it to Day does this servant Obey or Disobey you Fath. I confesse he Disobeys me even in doing the work which I command him Min. How many times hath God plainly expressed his mind in this matter in the Law which Jesus was under viz That the Passeover should be killed the 14 day of the month by your Own confession Christ was disobedient if he changed the day N B Suppose you could prove Jesus did Anticipate the Passeover and not sin and that the Jews kept the 15 day yet except you prove the 15 day of the month to be the 7 day of the week you neither prove Jesus rose on the Wave-day nor Pentecost on the first day nor Jesus's death on the 6 day and so you are never the near But if Jesus had brake any Sabbath or Law of God in the Least he could not have been in the Least any Saviour †Ja. 2.10 And that Jesus failed in the least Jota Jod Point or Tittle is folly wickednesse madnesse in a man once to imagine Before Christ would have broken any Command he upholding the whole Creation would have let Heaven and Earth fall for had he failed a Tittle of fulfilling the whole Law Gods purpose of Salvation had fell ERGO this is an infallible Maxime A Maxime viz On the 14 day of the first month Nisan Christ killed the Passeover according to All the Rites of it * Nu. 9.3 and on the 15 day he was killed himself the 16 and Wave-day was the first day Jesus lay dead therefore he rose not That day nor could Pentecost fall on the first day So your Pentecost opinion is utterly overthrown and that for Jesus's death on the 6 day will follow and you shall never recover them again while the World stands Fath. I confesse I cannot at present tell what more to plead for One or Other But though you deny Jesus died on the 6 day you do not declare on what other day he died Min. Nor was it proper for me out of the place every thing beautifull in his time †Eccl. 3.11 I could easily have done that at first in few words but the work was to Answer your Objections against my Judgment and your Arguments for your Own Having done that I can shew my Opinion with pleasure but not with submission to better judgments as some finely phrase it When I speak my thoughts of what I am uncertain it shall be with such submission but when I am well assured of the truth of what I say I shall neither submit to better nor worse to Stand or Fall by this or that mans perswasion I desire a better foundation than mans Praise for my Opinion And what that is concerning the day of Christs death I will now declare and were it to the whole World with your Self I would declare it viz Week-day of Jesus's death declared The 15 day of the first month Nisan on which Christ was Crucified and Died fell that year on the Fourth day of the week i e Wednesday at end of which Day our Blessed Jesus was Buried from which time to the end of the 7 day Sabbath was 3 dayes and 3 nights N T proof the Term of time our Lord foretold he should lay in the grave * Mat. 12.40 So there was two dayes between the day of Jesus's death and the 7 day Sabbath And one day between that high Sabbath and the 7 day Sabbath had the Jews kept the right day there had been two dayes between their high Sabbath and the 7 day Sabbath which you say were both on a day The Reason of this Translation Reason of translation was because it fell on Wednesday for if this Sabbath fixt on the 15 day fell on Munday Wednesday or Fryday the Jews Custome was to translate it to the next day Godwyn by the Rule 172 Badu That year it fell on Wednesday they kept it on Thursday the 16 or Wave-day so now you may see your Wave-day and Pentecost were on Thrusday Fath. I begin to Stagger have you any more proof for the day of Jesus's death Min. What need of more proof than Christs Own words but this Old world being so full of Novelty I thought a New Opinion must have a New Proof too take one then out of the O T. O T proof And after 62 weeks shall Messiah be cut off but not for himself †Dan. 9.26 these are extraordinary weeks And he shall confirm the covenant with many for One week * Ver. 27. there is no Prefix in the Hebrew to render it for one week but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one week he shall confirm the covenant with or rather For many i e for all the Elect by being cut off according to the covenant †Zech. 9.11 And he shall cause the Sacrifice and Oblation to cease the Sacrifice was the yearly Passeover * Ex. 12.27 the Oblation was the daily Sacrifice †Num. 28.2 3 4. Dan. 9.21 these two viz the Yearly Type and the Daily Type of Christs death when he the Substantial Sacrifice was sacrificed for us then he caused them Shadows to cease But when in the Midst of