12.35 Christ is a help against darknesse of sin ignorance misery death Gods wrath He alludes here saith Grotius to Esay 9.2 Vers. 6. A man Mans Ministry Sent Must have a calling from God Rom. 10.15 John Iehochanan Preacher of the grace of God Luk. 1.13 This shews that Christ is author of the light in man Vers. 8. He was not that light Ob. Iohn 5.35 Ans. It speaks not of the same light Iohn Baptist was not the Sun of righteousnesse the Messias the light that brings light into the world but he was a light and gave a notable testimony to the light See Grotius Was sent Is not in the originall Mat. 5.15 Iohn 5.35 Vers. 9. True Truly heavenly See Iohn 6.32 and 15.1 Lighteth Luce rationis the soule of a man is called a Candle in Proverbs See Cameron Every man Jew and Gentile without respect of persons all that are enlightned cannot say they have light from any other commeth Viz. borne Mark 16.15 Mat. 20.19 The world was ignorant before his Incarnation Luk. 1.79 world is taken First for things created Secondly Per synecdochen integri for men in the world both are here meant Some understand this of the light of grace but it will be more universally and necessarily true of the light of Reason which is in Infants radically though not actually Vers. 11. His own Some say all men are here meant because he made all the Jews were his people in a speciall manner Psal. 85.1 Received him not Beleeved not Calvin That is they obeyed not his word they would not be taught and directed by him Iohn 3.32 Ver. 12. As many Either Jews or Gentiles Calvin Bond or free Chrysostome Power Therefore the Papists say power is in man See ver 13. The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 never signifies possibility but as in other places it is translated power or authority so here as also 1 Cor. 8.9 and 9.12 right or privilege or as Iansen Concord Evang. c. 1. interpreteth authoritatem dignitatem jus To become Viz. made Mat. 5.45 Sons Gal. 4.5 Ephes. 1.5 Rom. 8.17 His name Gospell preached Acts 4.12 Vers. 13. VVhich were borne not of bloud nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God Faith comes not by naturall generation Bloud Enallage numeri genitale semen The flesh Gal. 5. opposite to the Spirit Man The same with flesh Calvin Some by flesh would have the woman to be meant Augustine Not of the will of man Not by any naturall power vertue or strength which is naturally inherent in them But of God That is of the Spirit of God Vers. 14. The word was made flesh Viz. incarnate man by Synechdoche Heb 2.16 Flesh signifies contemptuous man And dwelt among us As in a tabernacle or tent that is for a short time The Evangelist in that phrase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 probably alludes to the feast of tabernacles in or near the time of which celebrated by consent of many Authors of best note he was conversant with us Zach. 2.10 Heavens are his home here was his pilgrimage Beheld his glory Saw it in his doctrine miracles life passions which agreed only to the only begotten Full Acts 6.8 All things in the Law were fulfilled in him Grace favour Ephes. 1.6 Truth All Christs were true and not fallacious true knowledge Col. 2.3 See Piscat Vers. 15. And cried Alia clara voce Esay 58. For he was before me So we read it but in Greek it is He was my first preferred before me for he was my first Vers. 16. Of his fulnesse The greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is sometimes taken for abundance Psal. 24.1 there is not only plenitudo abundantiae but plenitudo redundantiae an overflowing of fulnesse in Jesus Christ. Secondly for fulfilling and perfecting of a thing So love is said to be the fulfilling of the Law Properly it is given to vessells that are brim full of liquor and metaphorically here applyed unto Christ. Grace for grace Interpreters all agree in this that the scope of the words is to set out the abundance of grace we have from Christ a kind of Hebraisme say some and notes the cumulation of grace grace upon grace grace answerable to the grace in Christ say others or the grace in Christ which we partake of answers the grace in all Moses rites and Ceremonies See 14.17 verses and de Dieu in loc That is as one sweetly expounds it as a child in generation receiveth from his parents member for member or as the paper from the Presse receiveth Letter for Letter the waxe from the Seale print for print or as the glasse from the Image receiveth face for face so doe we from Jesus Christ receive grace for grace that is for every grace that is in Christ there is a grace in us in some measure and proportion answerable and agreeable to the same in him Grace for grace That is whatsoever Grace there is in Christ there is the like stamp upon the heart of every Christian like unto that expression Matth. 5.38 Grace The word Grace is sometimes taken for the love and favour of God Ephes. 2.5 2. For holinesse Col. 3.16 3. For excellency or ability as Ephes. 4.7 In all these respects there is a fulnesse of grace in Christ. Vers. 17. Grace In opposition to the curse of the Morall Law truth in opposition to the figures of the Ceremoniall Law Dr. Reynolds Grace comprehends all the perfections of the will truth all the vertues of the understanding Dr. Preston Vide Fulleri Miscell sac lib. 1. c. 8. de Dieu in loc Vers. 18. Seen Known fully as he is or now shall be revealed by Christ. Exod. 33.20 The bosome of the Father That is the seat of love and secrecy Who is intirely loved with such affection as is due only to her who is to be laid in the bosome Deut. 13.6 Men admit those into their bosomes with whom they impart all their secrets the breast is the place of counsells Calv. That is Christ revealeth the secret and mysterious Counsels and the tender and compassionate affections of the Father unto the world Dr. Reynolds declared exposuit discovered a secret 41. Gen. 25. Matth. 11.27 The originall word signifies to conduct and direct and lead a man as it were by the hand to the finding out of something that was hid before No man by the naturall force of his wit can know God with a saving knowledge necessary to eternall salvation Vers. 20. And he confessed and denyed not See third verse It is familiar with the Hebrews by affirming and denying to expresse the same thing for the greater confirmation Esay 39.4 Ier. 42.4 See 1 Iohn 1.5 Vers. 21. And they asked him What then Art thou Elias And he saith I am not Art thou that Prophet And he answered no. Iohn so denyed that he was Eliah as he denyed he was
tales They doe not believe their words they hear them as a pleasant fable they think that these foolish women dreame the sense is that they said that a false vision was offered to the women as those that doate imagine many things to themselves Vers. 12. Stouping downe Iohn useth the same Greek word both of himself and of Mary Magdalene in this historie Vers. 13. And behold two of them went to a village called Emmaus c. Although Marke doth only briefly touch this history and Matthew and Iohn mention it not yet because it was very profitable to be knowne and worthy to be remembred Luke doth not in vaine prosecute it so exactly so many visions which Iohn mentions the other three Evangelists speak not of Calvin Vers. 16. But their eyes were held that they should not know him The Evangelist expressely witnesseth this lest any should think that the figure of Christs body was changed Therefore although Christ remained like himself he was not acknowledged because the eyes of the seers were taken by which the suspicion of a Ghost or false imagination is taken away Vers. 19. A Prophet mighty in deed and word He excelled as well in the gift of teaching as in holinesse of life and excellent gifts Vers. 25. Oh fooles So also Paul stiles the Galatians 3.1 therefore 5. Matth. 22. such words are not forbidden but anger casting out such a word imprudently is forbidden saith Grotius Sometimes it is for the profit of the hearers that they should be sharply dealt with Crudelem medicum intemperans aeger facit Vers. 28. And he made as though he would have gone farther Equivocaters abuse this place he did not pretend one thing and intend another but as he made an offer to depart so without question he would have gone further if the importunity of the Disciples had not staid him See ver 29. Vers. 36. Peace be unto you This was the ordinary way and manner of salutation as if he should say thus much unto them that they should find him every way as curteous and loving towards them now being risen as he was before he dyed Vers. 44. In the Law of Moses the Prophets and in the Psalmes concerning me By the name of which he comprehends all the Scriptures as it appeares from this verse compared with the 27. where Christ is said to interpret concerning himself the things written in all the Scriptures and that which he first called all the Scriptures that here he sheweth is to be understood of Moses the Psalmes and Prophets Rainold de lib. Apoc. Praelect 160. Vers. 47. Beginning at Ierusalem Peter sheweth that Christs preaching began in Galilee Acts 10.37 Therefore not at Ierusalem 1. This place here is meant of the preaching of Christs Apostles and not of his own as that in the Acts is 2. This is meant of their preaching of him after his death and resurrection that in the Acts of his own and in his life time 3. This was a ministeriall publishing of Christ that in the Acts speaketh only of a voice fame and good report in the mouths of the common people Dr. Tailor Vers. 49. The promise of my Father Our Saviour cals the gifts of the Holy Ghost the promise of the Father either because it was promised of the Father by the Prophets Esay 44.3 Ezek. 36.24 25 26. Ioel 2.18 Or else because it was the Spirit of the Father promised by Christ but to be obtained of the Father Iohn 14.26 and 15.26 and 16.7 Vers. 53. Continually in the Temple Not that they spent daies and nights there but because they frequented all the meetings and at set and solemne houres were present to give thanks unto God This cheerefulnesse is opposed to the feare which first held them shut up and lurking at home ANNOTATIONS UPON S. IOHN CHAP. I. IOhn in the Hebrew signifieth the grace of God he wrote the last of all the Foure Jerome When he returned from the Isle of Patmos Eusebius Therefore there is something more in every Chapter of Iohn than any other of the Evangelists John in his Epistles was an Apostle in his Apocalypse a Prophet in his Gospell an Evangelist Jerome In this Gospell is declared 1. Christs Person chap. 1. 2. His Office chap. 2. to the 12. 3. His Death chap. 12. to the end He begins not with words but wonders yea thunders saith Ardens Iunius was converted by reading this Chapter He begins his history with Christs eternall generation Christs Divinity is described to the 14. verse His humanity verse 14. Many in his time questioning Christs Deity he writes this Gospell to prove the Divinity of Christ and because he begins with that is therefore say some called Iohn the Divine Vers. 1. In the beginning was the word Not because he is the internall word of the Father but because he is the subject of the word 1 Iohn 45. 1. The substantiall word whereby God created all things 2. As a word is begot of the mind so is he of God 3. God spake to us by him See Brugensis Before creation in the beginning of the world Christ is in the beginning Creatures from the beginning Here is a distinction of the Persons in the Trinity Christ is God and equall with God Word Or speech rather Estey Not Son lest we should look for a carnall generation Theophylact. Was Fuit imports a thing that once was and is not now Erat was and is Chrysost. Cyril Theophylact. Rev. 1.4 With God Not a locall but personall distinction The word was with God there word is taken personally And the word was God there it is taken essentially Vers. 2. The same was in the beginning with God A repetition of the former to imprint it in our minds proves he was not only from eternity but God from eternity Vers. 3. All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made This verse proves Christ to be God Here we have the creation of Angels with other things Beza Sin is nothing but a privation of good therefore not made by him for an Idoll is nothing Not of him but of the Father by him Heb. 1.2 This shews the distinction and order between the Father and the Son Without him Not by him alone all works ad extra are equall in the Trinity Here is the being of things verse 3. Life and reason verse 4. Vers. 4. In him was life As in the fountaine Act. 17.28 not as an accident in the subject Exemplariter intellectualiter Light Lux rationis ver 9. All men may see Christ if they be not wilfully blind Vers. 5. And the light shined in darknesse c. Minds are made ignorant by mans fall Calvin understands by light reliques of conscience left in man and by darkenesse mans corruption and the light reformes not corruption Others say that the word was little respected before Christs comming Ephes. 5.8 Rom. 1.21 John
whole Crop so is the small number of true Beleevers reserved by grace to the whole field and crop of the world CHAP. XIII IF we compare this description of the Beast in this Chapter with that in the 17. we shall easily perceive that by both Beasts the Romane State is represented but yet not of the same time This designes old Rome or the Romane State as it was especially under the heathen Emperors although Antichrist be not excluded from that description For the perfect Beast is propounded having seven heads the last of which is Antichrist The 17th Chapter describes Rome as it was after The first Beast representeth the persecuting Emperours and is described in the beginning of the Chapter The second Antichrist and begins at ver 11. and so forward to the end of the Chapter Vers. 1. And I saw a Beast arise up out of the Sea having seven heads and ten hornes and upon his heads ten Crownes Rise up Signifyeth to get strength Dan 4.8 and 8.8 Out of the Sea That is of many and divers peoples which it had vanquished Crownes for dignity hornes for power and heads for subtilty The seven Heads are seven Hills and ten Hornes are ten Governments Mr Dod. The hornes of the Beast are crowned and not his heads because the Romane Empire hath alwaies more prevailed by power than by policy but the Dragon hath his heads crowned and not his hornes therefore he hath alwaies done more by policy subtiltie than by power and strength Vers. 2. And the Dragon gave him his power viz. That Dragon mentioned 12.3 the Devill that old Serpent 12.9 whom Moses also set forth by the Serpent Gen. 3.1 The Dragon hath something of the Serpent but flying is added to it that is swiftnesse of moving Vers. 8. Whose names are not written in the Booke of the life of the Lambe slaine from the foundation of the world Some thinke this is not spoken of Election since Christ as Mediatour was elected but of those which the Father gave to Christ in the Covenant before the world Others refer this from the beginning of the world to the book of life as Apoc. 17.8 rather than to the Lambe slaine not as though there were any absurdity or incongruity in the speech as Ribera being so justifiable by the parrallell places of Scripture Weemes and other learned men say from the beginning not from eternity in reference to that promise Gen. 3.15 the death of Christ being then publisht that is slaine as well then as now not only in the Counsell and Decree of God whereby he is borne and slaine in all times and places nor only in regard of the eternall power efficacy and merit of his death but also in respect of the heart of the Beleever whose faith makes that which is locally absent after a sort truly and really present Mr Perkins In regard of Gods acceptation of it for Belleevers in the types and shaddows of it whereof the Ceremoniall Law was full Dr Tailor Vers. 9. If any man have an eare let him heare A solemne preface before some great matter and diligently to be observed Mat. 11.15 and 13.9.43 Mark 4.9.27 and 7.16 and 8.18 Luk. 8.8 and 14.35 See afore Ch. 11.7.11.29 that is let him heare with his eare let the eare do its work and not be idle Vers. 10. He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity Rome which had led captive the Christians is become a Captive to the Goths and Vandales For lead and goe there is an elegant para nomasia in the Greek He that killeth with the Sword must be killed with the Sword Domitian which had slaine so many Christians with the Sword he also was slaine by the sword and 17 of his own Servants So Grotius Here is the patience and faith of the Saints That is by this the patience and faith of the Christians is confirmed because they knew that God would revenge their injuries Ver. 11. This Beast can be no other but the Pope of Rome who riseth out of the earth that is out of most base beginnings and steppeth or riseth above the earth and all earthly power he hath hornes like the Lambe that is professeth the meeknesse and innocency of Christ which the Turke never did but speakes like the Dragon which is to be understood partly of his blasphemous speeches which he doth utter partly of the Doctrines of Devills which he doth teach partly of those hellish Curses which he thundereth against the true professors of the faith partly of those great promises which like the Prince of the world he maketh to those that do adore him Down of Ant. l. 1. c. 4. The Pope of Rome with his Clergy for the Pope by himselfe and alone though he may be tearmed a false Prophet yet he maketh not up the Beast except his Clergy be joyned with him since the Beast doth signifie a company of men composed of a certaine order of members Vers. 12. Whose deadly wound was healed All the Papists almost say that Antichrist is understood by that Head which was wounded who shall feigne himselfe dead and shall rise againe by the devills helpe And that they say is the common and received opinion of the Fathers Vers. 13. He maketh fire come downe from heaven on the earth The Pope say the Papists doth not cause fire to come down from heaven therefore he is not Antichrist This cannot be taken litterally because the whole Chapter is mysticall it is an allusion unto 1 King 18.24 that is Antichrist shall make his false Religion appeare to men to be the truth as effectually as if like Elias he should cause fire to come from heaven for a confirmation of his Doctrine Squire on 2d of Thes. Mr. Mede saith Excommunication is meant which is saith he not unaptly resembled to fire from heaven or lightening For what is it in the name of God to deliver any one over to that eternall fire other than to call for fire from heaven especially since that punishment of the wicked proceeding from God is often in this Book set forth by the Lake of fire and brimstone or Asphaltites where Sodom and Gomorrah were burned with fire rained down from heaven If that fire which Antichrist shall cause to descend from heaven be litterally understood it agreeth to the Pope because in divers Popisth miracles there hath been as they say fire brought down from heaven But it is rather to be understood mystically and allegorically as well as other Prophecies of the Revelation Descending of fire from heaven in Scripture signifieth three things 1. Gods approving of the Religion and Sacrifices of his Servants 2. His sending down of the graces of the Spirit upon his children Act. 2.3 3. His vengeance executed from heaven upon his enemies Antichrist doth by such signes and wonders confirme that Doctrine and Religion which he professeth as though God answered him by fire
equivalent to the Hebrew word Chemah which one while signifieth anger another while poyson Vers. 10. The same shall drinke of the wine of the wrath of God which is powred out without mixture That notes summam poenae severitatem a punishment next to hell there is utter darknesse Philosophers say here non dantur purae tenebrae Vers. 13. Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord Beza renders it who dye for the Lord or for his sake They die in the Lord which either suffer death for Christ or end their life in firme faith in him that suffer Martyrdome or dye any way in the state of grace Ribera a great Jesuite though he confesse that the common current of Expositors runs with the latter sense yet is more earnest for the former that Martyrs be meant specially that In is put for Propter as oft in the old Testament and sometimes in the New he strives the more for that sence because the other puts out Purgatory fire for if all Beleevers dye in Christ and are blessed and that henceforth then none are to be purged Martyres potissimum intelligi concedimus solos verò intelligi negamus saith Gerhard in loc From henceforth That is say some that constantly hold out in these times of persecution presently say others from the very time of their death So Dr Rainolds and Gerhard That they may rest from their labours That is 1. Of a toilesome particular calling Jer. 16.29 2. Under afflictions from God and persecutions from men 3. Under sin their spirituall warfare 4. Under temptation 5. Desertion And their workes do follow them Go with them the words well weighed sound so workes are put metonymically for the wages and reward of their works as 2 Cor. 5.10 That every one may receive the things in his body That is the rewards of those things he hath done agreeably to that which he hath done whether good or evill Their workes here are their eternall rewards and that in foure things 1. In a consummation of grace 2. In a perfect communion with the Lord Christ. 3. In a perfect fruition of God 4. In the glorious imployment that the soule shall have in heaven CHAP. XV. IN this and the next Chapter is prophesied and declared the last ruine of the enemies of the Church this Chapter is the preparation to it and the next the execution of it Vers. 2. And I saw as it were a Sea of glasse mingled with fire Some say this is a lively embleme of this world whose glory is but glasse bright yet brittle and it is mingled with fire which signifieth the consumption of the world which as glasse is melted with fire 2 Pet. 3.12 Rather saith Brightman Gospell-ordinances and the fire signifieth contention Luke 22.45 Having the harpes of God That is divine most excellent and sweet after the manner of the Hebrewes who say all those things are of God which are chiefe and most excellent in their kind as Gen. 23.6 Psal. 36.7 Or because God sendeth the joy of his Spirit into their hearts wherewith they may be able to give God his due praises for this his notable kindnesse and goodnesse unto them Vers. 3. And they sing the song of Moses the Servant of God and the song of the Lambe saying Great and marvellous are thy workes c. Which expressions are taken out of Exod. 15. and Psal. 111.2 3. 7. verses Vers. 6. Clothed in pure and white linnen and having their breasts girded with golden girdles The Angels are described to be cloathed with pure and white linnen and to have their breasts girded with golden girdles that is all of them were cloathed with the righteousnesse of Christ which is pure linnen both justifying and sanctifying them the one imputed the other inherent and all of them were sincere professors of the truth of Christ their breasts girded with the golden girdles of truth CHAP. XVI Vers. 1. ANd I heard a great voyce out of the temple Great That is vehement terrible such a one as he heard ch 1. v. 10. 6.1 11.12 Without doubt of the Lambe or of God sitting in the throne as the chiefe disposer of these punishments Pareus There is a two fold voice mentioned in this booke 1. From the throne ch 19. v. 5. that is from God immediately 2. From the Temple as here that is obtained by the prayers of the Saints Go your wayes and poure out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth The vials are vessels of large content but of narrow mouths they poure out slowly but drench deeply and distill effectually the wrath of God they are vessels of full and just measure as all these judgments are dispensed in weight and measure Of the wrath of God That argueth that upon what subject soever these vials fell the wrath of God fell together with them upon the same therefore that is a dangerous interpretation v. 8. to expound the Sun to be the Scriptures Vpon the earth That is the common sort of Catholiques Vers. 2. Them which worshipped his image They which worshipped the Image of the Beast are such as are devoted to the Canons of Popish Churches and receive them as articles of their faith these are all afflicted with a noysome and grievous sore by the powring out of this first viall For those who did powre it out were such as did convince them of the damnable estate of a Catholicke this was the common practice of the Martyrs of Jesus Christ in Q. M. Edw. the sixths and H. the eights time who discovered unto them that all their Religion was but the worship of God after the devices of men even will-worship such as they were led unto by the man of sinne upon this discovery there fell a noysome and grievous sore upon their Catholicke Priests it is an allusion to Exod. 9.11 Vers. 3. And the second Angell poured out his viall upon the sea and it became as the blood of a dead man and every living soule died in the sea This verse describes the powring out of the viall of the second Angell He poures it on the sea and it became as the bloud of a dead man The allusion is to a like plague upon Egypt Exod 7.20.21 The Sea of the Antichristian world is here meant a distinct world from that heavenly State wherin other reformed Churches stand The confluence of all their ordinances as they doe administer the worship of God The Sea is become blood That is this Religion of theirs is convinced and discovered to be such as holds forth a dead Christ and dead ordinances to any spirituall life And every thing living in that Sea dyed that is every soul that had no other life but what was bred and fed in that Religon had no other Christian life but what he sucked and derived from that Religion they all perished everlastingly The Angell who powred out this viall
by Christ 564 In the Bowels of Jesus Christ I have you in my heart 292 Our daily Bread what 16 why called ours ib. Christ the Bread of life 148 Bread after consecration 246 C CAjetans errour 258 A twofold call 231 Came together Mat. 1.18 what it signifies 3 It is easier for a Camel c. 51 52 131 The Word compared to a Candle 116 Lead Captivity captive 284 Arguments against the immoderate cares of this world 17 18 Everlasting Chaines 576 Charity believeth all things 249 The greatest of these is Charity ib. Children who 568 Children of wrath what it signifieth 281 Children must obey their parents how why 289 Christ annointed the word comprehends his Kingly Priestly and Propheticall Offices 2 He is the anointed ib. The first-born 4 And I of Christ opened 230 To confesse Christ what 128 We are Christs how 234 Three Cities of Christ 23 The Church called the Kingdom of Heaven why 47 Two things required of those who would enter into this Kingdom ib. True Church compared to a woman why 596 Tell it unto the Church 48 Circumcision and uncircumcision what 268 273 Circumcised debtors to the Law ib. Why Paul circumcised Timothy 197 Inward circumcision in what it consists 304 To heap coales of fire on ones head what 225 The Epistle to the Colossians when written 301 The occasion of the writing with the sum and substance thereof ib. Commandement the sixt interpreted 12 Three degrees besides actuall murther of the breach thereof ib. The punishment due to each degree ib. Commandement 7. interpreted 13 First and great Commandement which why so called 60 90 The second thou shall love thy Neighbour c. how like unto it 60 Why the fifth Commandement Rom. 13.9 omitted 226 Communion what 241 He that believeth not is condemned already 145 Continence a gift of God 50 Corban what 85 Corinth where seated notable for wisdom infamous for lust 230 The Epistle to the Corinthians written before that to the Romans ib. A covetous man termed an Idolater why 287 Take up his Crosse 44 45 The preaching of the Crosse why so called 230 To glory in the Crosse of Christ what 275 A Crown of life what why so called 581 A Cubit what 18 Cup signifies afflictions 53 54. why 75 This Cup is the New testament in my blood 245 D WHy the Tribe of Dan Rev. 7. omitted 589 Darknesse over all the earth at Christs death 138 Not naturall ib. What it denoted ib. Day divided into four quarters 53 Daily bread what 16 why called ours ib. Ill translated supersubstantiall ib. The Dead shall heare his voyce 147 Pains of Death Act. 2.24 signifie not the torments of Hell 187 Not lawfull for us to put any man to Death 166 We cannot satisfie for our own debts 49 Who will render to every man according to his deeds Rom. 2.6 infers not merit of works 208 Deity of Christ proved 561 Self deniall what 44 45 112 Depths of Satan what 582 Destroy this Temple 144 Devill called a Dragon why 596 The Devill bounded by God 581 Why Christ suffered not the Devils to speak 79 Diligence implies both speed and seriousnesse 562 The Disciple known to the High-priest who 165 No prerequisite disposition in us 68 Dogs who 19 296 why Seducers so called ib. Dove its nature 27 Saw the Spirit descending like a Dove 8 Shaking off the dust what meant thereby 27 114 195 Reciprocall duties of Wives and Husbands 288 306 of Children and Parents 289 707 of Servants and Masters ib. The Spirit of God to dwell in us what 217 E THere will the Eagles be gathered together 128 To eat Christs flesh and drink his blood what 148 The Elect may fall into fundamentall errours but not persist in them 65 Emanuel God with us 4 Ephesus 277 Equivocation not grounded on Luke 24.28 the place opened 140 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what it signifies 1 The Evil one who and why the devil so called 14 36 Resist not Evil but c. opened 14 Excommunication termed a delivery unto Satan why 236 To whom it pertaineth 235 Eye Matth. 6.22 c. taken for the understanding 17 A single eye what ib. F FAith what it signifies 226 Faith preserveth a man to salvation 554 One not saved by anothers faith 197 Faith overcomes the world 572 Faith as a grain of Mustard-seed what 128 Faith obtaines more then it wishes 132 It worketh by love 273 The Faith of the Elect but one 284 If I had all faith expounded 248 The excellency of faith 23 Four things requisite to justifying faith 42 All great in the woman of Canaan ib. God faithfull and just in forgiving sins 567 Whose Fan is in his hand 8 Farthing how much 13.28 To pay the utmost Farthing 13 Christ fasted 40 daies and 40 nights why 8 My Father is greater then I 162 Call no man father 61 Father mother wife must be hated how 123 The Father judgeth no man 147 Fellowship with God and Christ brings full joy why 567 Filled with the Holy ghost 96 A threefold fulnesse of the Holy Ghost 189 Fulnesse in Christ 142 The fulnesse of him that filleth all in all 280 To finish ones course with joy what 200 Tried with fire what 554 Maketh fire come down from Heaven 601 First born who 4 100 302 Christ the First born and why so called 4 Christ the First born of the dead 302 The First fruits of those that slept 252 To be in the Flesh what 217 Flesh and Spirit what 274 The Spirit lusteth against the Flesh ib. Flesh and blood what 254 Pray that your flight be not in the Winter or on the Sabbath day why 64 To follow Christ what 150 Christ compared to food why 148 Foolishnesse of preaching 231 For implies not meritoriousnesse of works 110 God onely forgiveth sinnes 169 How Ministers remit or retain them ib. Fornication to be eschewed for six reasons 238 Fornication forbidden amongst things indifferent Acts 15.29 why 196 How Christ was forsaken and what it shews 76 Who so forsaketh not all cannot be my disciple 123 Four beasts with wings full of eyes 585 Four and twenty Elders 584 Fruits of the Spirit 274 A Furlong how much 156 G GAbriel what it signifies 96 Why the Angel says I am Gabriel ib Galatia where 267. Of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with their Sacrifices 120 To gather together in one 278 VVhere two or three are gathered together c. 49 It makes not a generall councell ib. Nor that they cannot erre ib. Severall doubts in Christs Genealogie according to Matthew cleared as 1. The sonne of David the sonne Abraham the words explained why Christ so called and why David promised before Abraham 2 2. All women in Christs Genealogie except the blessed Virgin have a mark of infamy upon them and why ib. 3. Those words Joram begat Ozias explained and why Ahaziah Joaz and Amaziah are pretermitted 2 3 4. The 11 and 12 Verses concerning Jechonias cleared 3 5. VVhy the