to him c. My Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him c. The Comforter the holy Ghost whom my Father will send in my name he shall teach you John 14. 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 16 17 18 21 23 26. When the Spirit of truth is come c. he will shew you things to come he shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shew it unâ—o you All things which the Father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you c. Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it you c. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world again I leave the world and go to the Father c. John 16. 13 14 15 23 27 28 30. Now O Father glorifie thou me c. with the glory which I had with thee before the world was c. And all mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in them c. that they may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee John 17. 5 10 21. Thomas answered and said unto him My Lord and my God John 20. 28. Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lye to the Holy Ghost c. Thou hast not lied unto men but to God c. How is it that ye are agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord Acts 5. 3 4 9. Stephen calling and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit Acts 7. 59. Peter said to AEneas Jesus Christ maketh thee whole arise Acts 9. 34. The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Acts 23. 28. Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever Amen Rom. 9. 5. With all in every place who call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord 1 Cor. 1. 2. The Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God For what man knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of man which is in him even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2. 10 11. Know you not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you c. 1 Cor. 3. 16. He who is joyned unto the Lord is one spirit c. Know you not that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost who is in you which ye have of God c. 1 Cor. 6. 17 19. 2 Cor. 6. 17. To us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and one Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 8. 6. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed c. 1 Cor. 10. 9. Now the Lord is that Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty c. Even as by the Spirit of the Lord or of the Lord the Spirit 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all 2 Cor. 13. 14. God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts c. Gal. 4 6. Through him we both have an access by one Spirit unto the Father c. in whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit Ephes 2. 18 22. By him were all things created c. By him and for him and he is before all things and by him all things consist Col. 1. 16 17. Heb. 1. 2 3. The mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ in whom or wherein are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge c. for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily Col. 2. 2 3 9. Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way 1 Thes 3 11. Now our Lord Jesus himself and God even our Father c. comfort your hearts 2 Thes 2. 16 17. God our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ our hope grace mercy and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ c. I thank Jesus Christ our Lord who hath enabled me for that he counted me c. â— Tim. 1. 1 2 12. Rom. 1. 7. 1 Tim. 2. 3. 2 Epis John ver 3. Great is the mystery of godliness God was manifested in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of Angels c. received up into glory 1 Tim. 3. 16. According to the commandment of God our Saviour c. grace and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our saviour Titus 1. 3 4. Looking for c. the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Titus 2. 10 13. ch 3. 4. Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself Heb. 9. 14. Let all the Angels of God worship him c. Unto the Son he saith Thy throne O God c. Heb. 1. 6 8. The Prophets c. searching what c. the Spirit of Christ which was in them 1 Pet. 1. 10 11. God and our Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1. 1. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us 1 John 3. 16. Three who bare record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these thee are one c. His Son Jesus Christ this is the true God c. 1 John 5. 7 20. Denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus c. To the only wife God our Saviour c. Jude vers 4 25. All the Churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and hearts Rev. 2. 23. See more of Christ's Excellency Chap. 7. more of the Spirit Chap. 21. CHAP. IV. Of Man in his first Estate wherein he was Created and of his Fall Of his First State AND God said Let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over all the soul of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth So God created man in his own image in the image of God created him male and female created he them And God blessed them and God said unto them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea c. Gen. 1. 26 27 28 29. Psal 8. 5 6 7. Adam gave names to all the creatures which were brought to him Gen. 2. 19 20. God hath made man upright c. Eccles 7. 29. Of his Fall The Manner and Occasion of Man's Fall at 〈◊〉 Gen. 3. 2 Cor. 11. 3. 〈◊〉 made man upright but they have sought out any many inventions Eccles 7. 29. By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that or in whom all have sinned c. If through the the offence of one man many be dead
18 19. In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness Zech. 13. 1. Thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins Matth. 1. 21. Jesus said to the sick of the palsie Son be of good cheer thy sins be forgiven thee c. Ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins Matth. 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 speaks 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 Matth. 12. 31 32. This is my blood c. which was shed for many for the remission of sins Matth. 26. 28. To give knowledge 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 â—eceive forgiveness of sins c. through faith in me 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 remissiâ—n or or passing over of sins Rom. 3. 25. Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures c. If Christ be not raised c. ye are yet in your sins 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 17 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. Ephes 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 Titus 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 Hebr. 2. 17. I will be merciful unto their unrighteousnesses and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more Hebr. 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 Hebr. 9. 13 14 15 22 26 28. This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sate down c. moreover where is remission of those there is no more offering for sin c. Hebr. 10. 12 18. 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. 18. 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 John 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 MErcy and truth are met righteousness and peace have kissed c. Psalm 85. 10. 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 Mâ—tth â— 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
and God in him c. It a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a lyar for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4. 6 7 16 20. ch 5. 1. Whsoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and whosoever loveth him c. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that c. Whosoever is born of God sinneth not but he who is begotten of God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not 1 John 5. 1 4 18. He who doth good is of God but he who doth evil hath not seen God 3 John Vers 11. He who abideth in the doctrine or Christ hath both the Father and the Son 2 John Vers 9. Those whose names are written in the book of life they will not subscribe to Antâ—christ Rev. 13. 8. ch 14. 4. ch 17. 8. ch 21. 27. See more in the Fruits of the Spirit Chap. 21. See more in the Fruits of Faith Chap. 11. See more in Duties Chap. 10. under each Duty And Chap. 22. under each Duty in Affliction And Chap. 24. Duties to Magistrates CHAP. XIII Saints Believers the Children of God themselves may be overtaken with Faults are not altogether free from sinful Dispositions and Inclinations in this Life and may be corrected of God for them I. In general it is affirmed FOR there is no man who sinneth not 1 Kings 8. 46. How should man be just with God or before God If he will contend with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand c. Whom though I were righteous yet would I not answer I would make supplication to my Judge c. If I justifie my self my own mouth shall condemn me If I say I am perfect it shall also prove me perverse Job 9. 1 2 3 15 20. Who can understand his errours Cleanse thou me from secret faults keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins let them not have dominion over me Psal 19. 12 13. If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquity O Lord who shall stand Psal 130. 3. The rod of the wicked shall not rest c. lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity Psal 125. 3. Who can say I have made my heart clean I am pure from my sins Prov. 20. 9. A just man falleth seven times a day and riseth up Prov. 24. 16. For that there is not a just man upon earth who doeth good and sinneth not Eccles 7. 20. The flesh lusteth against the spirit c. so that ye cannot do the things that ye would Gal. 5. 17. Rom. 7. 14 15 16 17 c. If any man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual restore such c. considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Gal. 6. 1 2. I have no man like-minded c. for all seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christ's Philip. 2. 20 21. Paul saith I count not my self to have apprehended but this one thing c. I press towards the mark c. Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded Philip. 3. 13 14 15. For in many things we offend all If any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man James 3. 2. If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us It we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins c. If we say that we have not sinned we make him a lyar and his word is not in us 1 John 1. 1 8 9 10. If any man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them who sin not unto death There is a sin unto death I do not say that he shall pray for it 1 John 5. 16. II. Particular Instances of the Saints Failings recorded NOah was a just man perfect in his generation Noan walked with God Gen. 6. 9. ch 7. 1. Noah drank of the wine and was drunken and was uncovered within his tent Gen. 9. 21. Abraham believed the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness c. Abraham my Friend He staggâ—red not through unbelief Gen. 15. 6. Isa 41. 8. Rom. 4. 16 18 19 20. They will kill me they will save thee alive Say I pray thee thou are my sister c. And when God had promised him to inherit the Land he said Lord God Whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it c. When the Promise was made to him of a Child he fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart Shall a child c. Oh that Ishmael might live before thee c. He said of his Wife She is my sister again at Gerer for fear of being slain Gen. 12. 12 13. ch 15. 8. ch 17. 16 17 18. ch 20. 2 11. Sarah laughed at the Promise and then denied that she had laughed Gen. 18. 12 13 15. Good Isaac said of his Wife also She is my sister for fear of the Men of the place lest they should kill him for her Gen. 26. 7. Just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man c. 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. He lingered the men laid hold upon his hand c. and said Go escape for thy life c. And Lot said unto him Oh not so my Lord c. I cannot escape to the mountains lest some evil take me and I die Behold this city is near to flee unto Is it not a little one c. He afterwards drinks Wine and then lay with his two Daughters Gen. 19. 16 17 18 19 20 33. 34 35 36. Jacob when he heard his Brother Esau was coming with four hundred men against him he was greatly afraid and distressed c. Gen. 32. 6 7. He was sore distressed when one of his Sons was kept by Joseph and another sent for Gen. 42. 36 37 c. Moses was very meek above all the men upon the face of the earth c. Moses my servant is dead c. Who is faithful to him in all his house c. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant Numb 12. 3 7. Jos 1. 2 13 Heb. 3. 2 5. When God was sending Moses he saith O my Lord I am not eloquent c. And the 〈…〉 unto him Who hath made man's mouth c. And he said O my Lord Send I pray thee by the hand thou wilt send or shouldest send And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses c. Moses returned unto the Lord and said Wherefore hast thou so evilly intreated this people Why is it that thou hast sent me c. Moses was very wrath c. Now ye rebels Must we fetch water out of the rock c. I am not able to bear this people c. If thou deal thus with me kill me I pray thee out of hand
his life c. If by one offence death reigned by one how much more they who received 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 4. In Christ c. in whom also we have obtained an inheritance Ephes 1. 11. God who is rich in mercy for the 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 in or amongst you the hope of glory Colos 1. 27. Ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God and Christ who is our life c. Col. 3. 3 4. Jesus who delivered us from the wrath to come 1 Thes 1. 10. God hath not appointed us unto wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him 1 Thes 5. 9 10. 2 Tim. 1. 9. ch 2. 10 11. Believe on him to life everlasting 1 Tim. 1. 16. Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel 2 Tim. 1. 10. Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he hath saved us c. Tit. 3. 5. He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them who obey him Heb. 5. 9. Ephes 5. 23. By his own blood he entred in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us c. that they who were called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance c. He shall appear c. unto salvation Heb. 9. 12 15 28. Receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls 1 Pet. 1. 9. The God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Jesus 1 Pet. 5. 10. 2 Tim. 2. 10. And this is the promise which he hath promised us eternal life 1 John 2. 25. 2 Tim. 1. 1. In this was manifest the love of God towards us because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him 1 Joh. 4. 9. This is the record that God hath given unto us eternal life and this life is in his Son he who hath the Son hath life c. 1 John 5. 10 11 12. Keep your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus unto eternal life Jude vers 21. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation Heb. 2. 3. ch 10. 26 27 28 29. See more in the next Chapter CHAP. XI How Men have the Benefit of this Salvation On by what Means it becomes theirs in particular By Faith 1 Tim. 6. 12. THE kingdom of God is at hand repent ye and believe the gospel Mark 1. 15. This is the commandment That we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ 1 John 3. 23. John 6. 29. Let us put on the breast-plate of faith 1 Thes 5. 8. The just shall live by his faith Habak 2. 4. Abram believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness Gen. 15. 6. Rom. 4. 3. He who believeth and is baptized shall be saved Mark 16. 16. Blessed is she who believeth that there or for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord Luke 1. 45. Acts. 27. 25. Jesus said to the woman Thy sins are forgiven c. Thy faith hath saved thee go c. Luke 7. 48 50. But to as many as received him to them he gave power or the right or privilege to become the sons of God to them who believe on his name John 1. 12. The Son of man must be lifted up that whosoever believeth on him should not perish but have eternal life c. He who believeth on him is not condemned c. He who believeth on the Son hath everlasting life John 3. 14 15 16 18 36. Whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst c. John 4. 14. He who heareth my word and believeth on him who sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life c. Whom he hath sent him ye believe not c. And ye will not come to me that ye might have life John 5. 24 38 40. What shall we do that we may work the works of God Jesus answered and said unto them This is the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent c. He who cometh to me shall never hunger and he who believeth on me shall never thirst 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 c. He who believeth on me hath everlasting life c. I am the living bread which caâ—e down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever c. Whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life c. he dwelleth in me and I in him c. I live by the Father so he who eateth me even he he shall live by me This is c. John 6. 28 29 35 40 47 51 54 56 57. He who believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever â—iveth and believeth in me shall never die c. John â— 25 26. Jesus said unto Thomas Reach hither thy finger c. Be not faithless but believing c. Jesus 〈◊〉 unto him Because thou hast seen thou 〈◊〉 believed Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed c. These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is Christ the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through his name John 20. 27 29 31. Through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins Acts 10. 43. By him all who believe are justified from all things c. Acts 13. 39. We believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus we shall be saved Acts 15. 11. Sirs What must I do to be saved And they said Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thine house Acts 16. 30 31. I kept back nothing which was profitable c. Testifying both to the Jews and also to
of faith and labour of love c. knowing beloved your election of God For our gospel came not unto you in word only but also in power c. and ye became followers of us and of the Lord having received the word in much affection c. ye turned to God c. to serve the living and true God and to wait for his Son 1 Thes 1. 3 4 5 6 9 10. The word of God which effectually worketh also in you who believe for ye brethren became followers of the Churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus for ye also have suffered like things of your own country-men 1 Thes 2. 13 14. Ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief ye are the children of the light c. 1 Thes 5. 4 5. I thank Jesus Christ our Lord who hath enabled me c. who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercy c. Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the chief 1 Tim. 1. 12 13 15. Let every one who nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2. 19. A peculiar people zealous of good works Titus 2. 14. Ephes 2. 10. He who hath entred into his rest hath ceased from his own works Heb. 4. 10. They who believe desire a better country that is an heavenly c. Moses c. chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt c. Heb. 11. 16 24 25 26. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. John 13. 8. We trust we have a good conscience in all things as those who count in all things to live honestly Heb. 13. 8. If any among you seem to be religious and bridle not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this man's religion is vain Pure religion and undefiled between God and the Father is this To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction to keep himself unspotted from the world James 1. 26 27. What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and have not works c. Faith if it have not works is dead c. I will shew thee my faith by my works c. Faith without works is dead 〈◊〉 James 2. 14 18 26. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge amongst you let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envying c. this wisdom desceadeth not from above c. But the wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and eaâ—â—â— to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace c. James 3. 13 14 15 16 17 18. Jesus 〈◊〉 whom having not seen ye love c. Seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth c. unto unfeigned love of the breâ—men 1 Pet. 1. 8 22. Cant. 1. 3 4. As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word of God that ye may grow thereby if so be ye have tasted c. Ye are a chosen generation c. that ye should shew forth the vertues or 〈◊〉 of him who hath called you c. 1 Pet. 2. 2 3 9. Luke 10. 39 42. The time of our life may suffice c. when we waâ—ked in lasâ— viousness c. wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot 1 Pet. 4. 3 4. Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust Add to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge c. for if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus but he who lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off c. 2 Pet. 1. 4 5 6 7 8 9. Just 〈◊〉 vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with unlawful deeds 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. Psal 119. 53 126 136 158. Jer. 9. 1 2. ch 13. 17. God is â—ight c. If we say we have 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 and walk in darkness we lye c. But if we walk in the light c. If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves 〈◊〉 1. 6 7 3. 〈◊〉 we know that we know him if we keep his commandments He who faith I know him and keepeth not hâ—s commandments is a lyar and the truth is not â—n him c. He who abideth in 〈…〉 himself also to walk even as he walked c. He who â—aith he is in the light and 〈◊〉 hâ—s Brother is in darkness even until now 〈◊〉 who loveâ—â— his brother abideth in the light c. If any man loveth the world the love of the 〈◊〉 is not in him c. If ye know that he is 〈◊〉 ye know or know ye that every one 〈◊〉 righteousness is born of God 1 John 2. â— 4 6 â— 10 11 15 29. We shall see him as he is And every man who hath this hope in him 〈◊〉 himself as he is pure c. Whâ—soever abideth in him sinneth not c. He who committeth sin or giveth his labour to sin is of the devil c. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil Whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither is he who loveth not his brother c. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren c. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murtherer and ye know that no murtherer hath eternal life abiding in him c. Whosoever hath this world's goods and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up the bowels of his compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him c. Let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth And hereby we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before God c. For if our hearts condemn us he is greater c. And hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he hath given us 1 John 3. 2 3 5 6 8 9 10 14 15 17 18 19 24. ch 4. 12 13. ch 5. 18. Whoso knoweth God heareth us those who are not of God hear us not By this we know the spirit c. Love is of God and every one who loveth is born of God and knoweth God c. God is love he who dwelleth in love dwelleth in God
born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot c. 1 John 3. 9. Ye are of God c. and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world 1 John 4. 3 4. There is a sin unto death c. We know that every one who is born of God sinneth not but c. keepeth himself c. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world 1 John 5. 4 17 18. The truth which dwelleth in us and shall be in us for ever 2 John ver 2. Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to preserve you faultless before the presence of his glory c. to the only wise God c. Jude ver 24 25. Rom. 16. 25. Those whose names were not writen in the book of life they worshipped and wondred at the beastâ— Rev. 13. 8. ch 17. 8. See more of God's giving Power to Persevers Chap. 20. See more of God's upholding his in time of Trouble and Persecution Chap. 22. To take heed to observe and watch diligently over our selves with a holy jealousie and fear left we should Apostatize and Depart from God hiâ— Truth and Ways into any Error or Sin Thâ—â— Reasons Our Danger HEzekiah was left of God that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32. 31. Take heed to thy self lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee 〈◊〉 but ye shall destroy their altars c. lest c. they 〈◊〉 go a whering after their gods and do sacrince c. 〈◊〉 Exod. 34. 12 13 15 16. What nation so great who hath God so nighâ— unto them c. Only take heed to thy self and 〈◊〉 keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the thingsâ—â— which thine eyes have seen and left they depart from thine heart all the days of thy life c. Take ye therefore good heed unto your selves c. lest ye corrupt your selves and make you a graven image c. Deut. 4. 7 8 9 15 33. When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land c. When thou shalt have eaten and be full beware lest thou forget the Lord c. Deut. 6. 10 11 12. ch 8. 10 11 12 13 14. I will give rain c. that thou maist eat and be full take heed to your selves that your hearts be not deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods Deut. 11. 14 15 16. Solomon whom God so much honoured sinned greatly in old age 1 Kings 11. If thy brother c. intice thee secretly saying Come let us go and serve other gods c. thou shalt not consent to him nor hearken unto him c. Deut. 13. 6 7 8 9. Take good heed therefore unto your selves that ye love the Lord your God c. Joshua 23. 11 12 c. There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan or the Adversary among or in the midst of them Job 1. 6 7. ch 2. 1 2. Stand in awe and sin not commune with your 〈◊〉 heart c Psalm 4. 4. Psalm 16. 8. 〈◊〉 I will take heed to my ways that I sin 〈◊〉 tongue c. Psalm 39. 1. 〈…〉 shall a young man cleanse his 〈…〉 taking heed thereto according to thy word Psalm 119. 9. Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keep the door of my lips Psalm 141. 3. Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it the issues of life Prov. 4. 23. A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself c. Prov. 27. 12. Happy is the man who feareth always but he who hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief Prov. 28. 14. Blessed is the man who observes his hand lest he do any evil Isa 56. 2. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Jerem. 17. 9. And my people are bent to backsliding from me Hosea 11. 7. Jesus said Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of c. Matth. 16. 6. Luke 12 1 2. Jesus said Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many Matth. 24. 4 5. Watch and pray that ye enter not into tentations Matth. 26. 41. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness Luke 12. 35. Take ye heed Behold I have foretold you all things c. The day and hour knoweth no man c. Take ye heed watch and pray for ye know not c. Mark 13 23 32 33 35 36 37. Take heed and beware of covetousness c. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching Luke 12. 15 36 37 38. Take heed to your selves left at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life c. Watch ye therefore Luke 21. 34 36. Peter was confident and so denied Christ Luke 22. 32 34 59 60. Matth. 26. 69 70 c. Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to them who are weak for if any man see thee c. 1 Cor. 8. 8 9 10. These things happened unto them for ensamples and they were written for our admonition c. Wherefore let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 11 12. Watch ye stand ye fast c. 1 Cor. 16. 13. I fear c. as the Serpent c. so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ 2 Cor. 11. 3. See that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise Ephes 5. 15. Praying always c. and watching thereunto with all perseverance Ephes 6. 18. Beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of the concision Phil. 3. 2. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men c. not after Christ Col. 2. 8. Continue in praying and watch in the same Col. 4. 2. We are not of the night nor of darkness therefore let us not sleep as others but let us watch and be sober for they who sleep sleep in the night c. 1 Thes 5. 5 6 7. Some snall depart from the faith c. some are already turned aside c. have erred concerning the faith 1 Tim. 4. 1. ch 5. 12 15. ch 6. 10 21. ch 1. 5 6 18 19. 2 Tim. 2. 17 18. They c. shall be turned unto fables But watch thou in all things 2 Tim. 4. 4 5. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God c. Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin Hebr. 3. 12 13. ch 12. 15. ch 2. 1. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entring into rest
any of you should seem to come short of it c. Lest any man fall c. Heb. 4. 1 11. Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear c. 1 Pet. 1. 17. The end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the Devil like a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour 1 Pet. 5 8 9. Seeing ye know before beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness 2 Pet. 3. 17. 1 Thes 3 5. James 5. 19. Look to your selves that we lose not those things which we have gained 2 John ver 8. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain c. If thou shalt not watch c. Rev. 3. 2 3. Behold I come as a thief blessed is he who watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walketh naked and they see his shame Rev. 16. 15. See the Saints aptness to fall into Sin Chap. 13. See the Devil and Deceivers ways to draw aside Chap. 30. CHAP. XVII Of the Duties of Saints Believers Brethren in the Lord each to other as such and as standing in that relation one to another 1. To Love one another the kinds of it THou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self I am the Lord Levit. 19. 18. My goodness extends not unto thee but to the saints who are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight Psalm 16. 2 3. I am a companion of all them who fear thee c. Psalm 119. 63. Love covers all sins Prov. 10. 12. 1 Pet. 4. 8. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a sâ—alled ox where hatred is Prov. 15. 17. Open rebuke is better than secret love Prov. 27. 5. Love is as strong as death c. many waters cannot quench love Cant. 8. 6 7. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets Matth. 22. 39 40. The love of many shall wax cold Matth. 24. 12. A new commandment I give unto you That ye love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye love one another John 13. 34 35. This is my commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you John 15. 12 13 17. We being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another c. Let love be without dissimulation c. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love or in the love of the Brethren Rom. 12 5 9 10. 1 Cor. 12. 13 25 27. Malachi 2. 10. 1 Cor. 10. 17. Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he who loveth another hath fulfilled the law c. It is briefly comprehended in this saying namely Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selâ— Love worketh no ill to his neighbour Rom. 13. 8 9 1. Gal. 5. 13 14. Love edifieth 1 Cor. 8. 1. Though I speak with the tongue of men or angels c. have the gift of prophesie c. have all faith c. Bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it proficeth me nothing charity suffereth long c. charity never faileth c. 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13. Follow after charity 1 Cor. 14. 1. Let all your things be done with charity 1 Cor. 16. 14. There is neither Jew nor Greek c. for ye are all one in Christ Jesus Gal. 3. 28. The fruit of the spirit is love c. Gal. 5. 22. Walk in love as Christ also hath loved us c. Ephes 5. 2. I pray that your love may abound more and more in knowledge c. Phil. 1. 9. Having the same love c. Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others Phil. 2. 2 3 4. 1 Cor. 8. 1. Gal. 5. 13. We give thanks c. since we heard c. of the love which ye have unto all saints Col. 1. 3 4. Ephes 1. 15. That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love Col. 2. 1 2. Above all these things put on charity which is the bond of perfectness Col. 3. 14. The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one towards another 1 Thes 3. 12. As touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you for ye your selves are taught of God to love one another c. that ye increase more 1 Thes 4. 9 10. We are bound to thank God c. because that your faith groweth exceedingly and the charity of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth 2 Thes 1. 3. Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart 1 Tim. 1. 5. Follow c. love 2 Tim. 2. 22. 1 Tim 6. 11. I thank my God c. hearing of thy love c. toward all saints Philem. ver 4 5. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed towards his name in that ye have ministred to the saints and do Heb. 6. 10. Let brotherly love continue Heb. 13. 1. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self ye do well James 2. 8. Gal. 5. 13 14 15. If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not c. This wisdom descendeth not from above c. James 3. 14 15 16. 1 P. t. 2. 1. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently 1 Pet. 1. 22. Love the brotherhood 1 Pet. 2. 17. Finally c. love as brethren or loving to Brethren 1 Pet. 3. 8. And above all things have servent charity among your selves for charity will cover a multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. Add c. brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity 2 Pet. 1. 7. He who saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now he who loveth his brother abideth in the light 1 John 2. 9 10 11. Is not of God neither he who loveth not brother for this is message that ye heard from the beginning that we should love one another c. We know that we are passed from death to life because we love the brethren c. We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth This is his commandment c. that we love one another 1 John 3. 10 11 12 14 16 18 19 23. Let us love one another for love is of God and every one who loveth is born of God and knoweth God He who loveth not knoweth not God
find more favour than he who flattereth with the tongue Prov. 28. 23. If thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between him and thee alone c. If he will not hear thee then taken one or two more c. Matth. 18. 15 16 17. Luke 17. 3 4. Ye also are full of goodness filled with all knowledge able to admonish one another Rom. 15. 14. Paul rebuked Peter for not walking uprightly Gal. 2. 11 13 13 14. If a man be overtaken with a fault ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness Gal. 6. 1. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly c. teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3. 16. Comfort or exhort your selves together and edifie one another even as also ye do c. Warn them who are unruly or disorderly comfort the feeble-minded 1 Thes 5. 11 14. 1 Cor. 8. 1. If any man obey not c. have no company with him c. but admonish him as a brother 2 Thes 3. 14 15. Rebuke not an Elder but intreat him as a father and the younger men as brethren the elder women as mothers the younger as sisters c. Them that sin rebuke before all that others also may fear 1 Tim. 5. 1 2 20. Exhort one another daily c. lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin Heb. 3. 12 13. Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works not forsaking the assemblings of your selves c. but exhorting one anoother Heb. 10. 24 25. Brethren if any one of you do err from the truth and one convert him let him know that he c. shall save a soul from death and shall hide c. James 5. 19 20. Of some have compassion making a difference and others save with fear pulling them out of the fire hating even the garment spotted by the flesh Jude ver 20 22 23. See Discipline Chap. 27. To take Rebuke Admonition c. mell from each other WHen David had rashly resolved to cut off all Nabal's family and Abigail had met him and humbly and wisely admonished him David accepts of the advice and faith Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou who hast kept me this day from shedding of blood c. I have hearkned to thy voice 1 Sam. 25. 22 23 24 25 to v. 35. When Nathan had told David his sin in the matter of Uriah David said I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 12. 7 13 When Joab had told the King of his errour in mourning so for Absalom as to discourage his subjects who had fought for him David hearkned and arose and sate in the gate as Joab advised 2 Sam. 19. 5 6 7 8 Let the righteous smite me it shall be a kindness and let him reprove me it shall be as excellent oyl which shall not break my head Psal 141. 5. A wise man will hear and will increase learning Prov. 1. 5. He who rebuketh a scorner getteth to himself shame and he who rebuketh a wicked man getteth a blot Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser c. Prov. 9. 7 8 9. chap. 19. 25. He is in the way of life who keepeth instruction but he who refuseth reproof erreth or causeth to err Prov. 10. 17. Whosoever loveth instruction loveth knowledge but he who hateth reproof is brutish c. He who hearkneth unto counsel is wife Prov. 12. 1 15. A wise son heareth his father's instruction but a scorner heareth not rebuke c. Poverty and shame to him who refuseth instruction but he who regardeth reproof shall be honoured Prov. 13. 1 18. A fool despiseth his fathers instruction but he who regardeth reproof is prudent c. He who hateth reproof shall die c. A scorner loveth not one who reproveth c. The ear which heareth reproof of life abideth among the wise He who refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul c. Prov. 15. 5 10 12 31 32. A reproof entreth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool Prov. 17. 10. As an ear-ring of gold c. so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear Prov. 25. 12. He who being often reproved hardneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy c. The rod and reproof gives wisdom Prov. 29. 1 15. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than c. the song of fools Eccles 7. 5. Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. 4. 16. Submit your selves one to another in the fear of God Ephess 5. 21. Ye younger submit your selves unto the elder yea all of you be subject one to another and be clothed with humility 1 Pet. 5. 5. VII To Confess to and Pray each for other WHen a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit to do a trespass against the Lord c. then they shall confess their sin which they have done and he shall recompence his trespass c. and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed Numb 5. 6 7. And many who believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds c. Acts 19. 18 19. Paul confesseth that beyond measure he persecuted the Church of God and wasted it c. Gal. 1. 13. 1 Tim. 1. 12 13. Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed Jam. 5. 16. If a man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them who sinneth not unto death 1 John 5. 16. VIII To be of one mind BEhold how good and how pleasant is it for brethren to dwell together in Unity like the precious ointment upon the head c. Psal 133. 1 2. Christ prays that they may be kept that they may be one as we are c. John 17. 11 22. And the multitude of them who believed were of one heart and of one soul c. Acts 4. 32. We being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another c. Be of the same mind one towards another Rom. 12. 5 16. Now the God c. grant you to be like-minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God even the father Rom. 15. 5 6. I beseech you brethren c. that ye all speak the same things and that there be no division but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgment 1 Cor. 1. 10 12. Whereas there is among you c. divisions Are ye not carnal c. One saith I am of Paul c. 1 Cor. 3. 3 4. When ye come together in the Church I hear there
the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried captives and pray unto the Lord for it Jer. 29. 7. I say unto you Love your enemies bless them who curse you do good to them who hate you and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you that you may be the children of your Father c. For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil c. If you love them who love you c. do not even the Publicans the same Matth. 5. 44 45 46 47 48. Christ said when upon the Cross Father forgive them for they know not what they do Luke 23. 34. They stoned Stephen and he c. cried with a loud voice Lord lay not this sin to their charge Acts 7. 59 60. Paul prayed for Agrippa that he were not only almost but altogether as he except his bonds Acts 26. 28 29. Bless them who persecute you c. Wherefore if thine enemy hunger feed him c. be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good Rom. 12. 14 20 21. Being reviled we bless 1 Cor. 4. 12. 4. To use lawful and honest Means for avoiding and tasing of and delivering themselves from Afflictions and Persecutions Matth. 4. 5 6 7. WHen there was a Famine in the Land where Abram was he removed to Egypt Gen. When Abram had heard that Lot was taken c. he pursues the Enemy and rescues him Gen. 14. 14 15 c. When Jacob heard of his brother Esau his coming against him he was greatly afraid and distressed and he divided the people that was with him and the flocks c. and said It Esau come to the one company and smite it then the other company which is left shall escape c. And he took of that which came to his hand a present for his brother Esau c. for he said I will appease him with the present which goeth before me c. Gen. 32. 6 7 8 13 20. ch 33. 3 8 13 14. Joseph in the Prison desired the King's Cup-bearer to speak to the King on his behalf Gen. 4. 14 15 c. Saul sought to smite David c. but he slipt away out of Saul's Presence c. and escaped that night Saul also sent messengers unto David's House to watch him and to slay him c. His Wife let him down through a Window and he went and fled and escaped 1 Sam. 19. 10 11 12. David consulted with Jonathan about his safety from Saul 1 Sam. 20. Elijah being threatned by Jezebel arose and went for his life c. 1 Kings 19. 2 3. Hezekiah laid figs to his sore by the Prophet's direction and recovered 2 Kings 20. 7. Sanbaliat c. conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem and to hinder the work nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God and set a watch against them day and night because of them Nehem. 4. 7 8. Sanballat sent often to Nehemiah to come unto him but he refused because he knew they thought to do him some mischief Nehem. 6. 2 3 4. Esther and Mordecai did many things to procure the Jews escape Esther 8. ch 9. Prov. 24. 11. Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish c. and wine to those of a heavy heart Prov. 31. 6. Jeremy intreated the King that he might not return to the prison lest he should die there Jer. 37. 18 20. Daniel applied himself to the Captain of the King's Guard and to the King himself for himself and friends Dan. 2. 13 14 15 16. When Herod sought Christ to kill him the Angel said to Joseph c. Arise and take the young child c. flee into Egypt and be thou there c. for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him Matth. 2. 13 14 15. Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves c. But when they persecute you in this city flee ye into another Matth. 10. 16 23. The Pharisees c. held a council against him how they might destroy him but when Jesus knew it he withdrew himself from thence c. he charged the multitude not to make him known Matth. 12. 14 15 16. When Jesus heard that John was beheaded hedeparted thence into a desert-place apart Matth. 14. 12 13. Though Christ was free and ought not to be charged with Tribute-money yet he said to Peter Notwithstanding lest we should offend them go c. take and give unto them for thee and me Matth. 17. 24 25 26 27. When Christ had raised the Ruler's Daughter from the dead he commanded that something should be given her to eat Mark 5. 41 42 43. Jesus walked in Galilee for he would not walk in Jury because the Jews sought to kill him John 7. 1 They took up stones to cast at him but Jesus hid himself and went out c. and so passed by John 8. 59. From that day forth they took counsel together to out him to death Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews but went thence into a country near the wilderness John 11. 35 54. The doors were shut where the Disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews John 20. 19. When Saul persecuted the Church at Jerusalem the brethren were scattered abroad Acts 8. 1 3 4. ch 11. 19. The Jews laid wait to kill Paul but their laying wait was known unto Saul and they watched the gates day and night to kill him then the Disciples took him by night and let him down by the wall in a basket c. The Grecians went about to slay him which when the brethren knew they brought him down to Cesaria and sent him forth to Tarsus Acts 9. 23. 24 25 29 30. ch 19. 30 31. ch 17. 10 14 15. 2 Cor. 11. 32 33. Paul and Barnabas being at Iconium the Jews and Gentiles made an assault to use them despitefully and to stone them they were aware of it and fled into Listra and Derbe c. Acts 14. 1 5 6. When the Magistrates sent to let the Apostles out Paul said Let them come themselves c. Acts 16. 36 37. When Paul was in danger the brethren often sent him and others away from the place Acts 17. 5 10 13. ch 19. 30 31. The Captain commanded that Paul should be examined by scourging c. Paul said Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned which prevented his being scourged Acts 22. 24 25 26 29. ch 16. 37 38. Paul said to Ananias Sittest thou to judge me after the law and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law c. But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadduces and the other Pharisees he cried out in the Council Men and Brethren I am a Pharisee the son of a Pharisee of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question whereupon the Council
he spake of them but when they sought to lay hands on him c. Mat. 21. 15 23 33 34 35 36 37 45 46. Then went the Pharisees and took counsel how they might intangle him in his talk c. asked himâ— Is it lawful to give tribute to Cesar or not c. Jesus said Why tempt ye me ye hypocrites c. Matth. 22. 15 16 17 18. John 8 3 4 5 c. Luke 6. 7. ch 11. 53 54. ch 20. 20 21 22. The Scribes and Pharisees c. they say and do not for they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be born and lay them on men's shoulders but will not move them with one of their fingers but all their works they do for to be seen of men they make broad their phylacteries and inlarge the borders of their garments and love the upper most rooms at feaâ—ts and the chief seats in the Synagogues and greetings in the markets and to be called of men Rabbi Rabbi c. But wo unto you Scribes Pharisees hypocrites ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men for ye neither go in your selves neither suffer ye them who are entring to go in c. Ye devour widows houses and for a pretence make long prayers c. Ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte and when he is made ye make him two-fold more the child of hell c. Blind guides who say Whosoever shall swear by the temple it is nothing but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple he is a debtor c. Ye pay ty the of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted the weightier matters of the law judgment mercy and faith c. strain at a great and swallow a camel c. Ye make clean the outside of the cup c. but within they are full of extortion and excess ye outwardly appear righteous unto men but within ye are full of hypocriâ—ie Mat. 23. 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 14 15 16 17 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31. The chief Priest and the Scribes c. consulted that they might take Jesus and kill him c. Judas betrayed Christ with a kiss c. The chief Priests c. sought false witnesâ—es against Jesus to put him to death Matth. 26. 3 4 49 59. Luke 4. 28 29. Judas said to the high Priests c. I have sinned in betraying innocent blood and they said What is that to us look thou to that c. they perswade the multitude to ask Barabbas and destroy Jesus when the governour would have â—â—leased Jesus they said Let his blood be upon us and our children c. They mocked him and said He trusted in God let him deliver him now c. and norwithstanding all the wonders aâ— his death which made the Centurion 〈◊〉 Truly this was the Son of God yet the chief priests c. came to Pilate and said c. That deceiver said c. desired and set a watch upon the sepulchre Matth. 27 3 4 17 18 19 20 24 25 41 42 43 53 54 62 63 64 66. Mark 15. 10 11 14 29 31 32. When they were convinced that Christ was risen they gave large money to the soldiers to hide it with a lie and promised the soldiers to secure them Maâ—th 28. 11 to 15. Herâ—d heard John gradly and did many things Mark 6. 20. But the Pharisees and Lawyers rejected the counsel of God against or â—ithin themselves being not baptized of him Luke 7. 30. Then shall ye begin to say We have eaten and 〈◊〉 in thy presence and thou hast taught in our streets But he shall say c. Depart from me ye workerâ— of iniquity Luke 13. 26 27. ch 15. 7. Ye are those who justifie your selves before men but God knows your hearts that which is highly c. Luke 16. 15. And he spake this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were or as being righteous and despised others Two went up into the temple to pray the one a Pharisee and the other a Publican the Pharisee stood and prayed thâ—s with himself God I thank thee that I am not as as other men are extortioners c. I fast 〈◊〉 in the 〈◊〉 I give â—ythes c. Luke 18. 9 10 11 12. When Jesus went unto Zacheus's house the Jews 〈◊〉 saying That he was gone to be guest with a man 〈◊〉 is a 〈◊〉 his citizens hated him and said They would not have this man râ—â—gn over them Luke 19. 6 7 14. The chief Priests and Scribes would kill Jesus c. Jâ—das offered to betray him they were glad and covâ—nanted with him c. Luke 22. 〈◊〉 They 〈…〉 before Pilate saying We have 〈…〉 perveâ—â—ing the nation and 〈…〉 to Cesar saying That 〈…〉 〈…〉 one of 〈…〉 〈…〉 ye 〈…〉 or the lâ—â—ves and were 〈◊〉 c. 〈…〉 c. No man can 〈◊〉 to me except it were given him of my Father From that time many of his 〈◊〉 went back and walked no more with him John 6. 2â— 65. 66. Some 〈…〉 He 〈◊〉 the people how 〈…〉 man 〈◊〉 openly of him 〈◊〉 â—ear of the Jews c. The chieâ— Priests and Pharisees said 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Why have ye not brought him the officers answered Never man spake like this man theâ— answered them the Pharisees are ye also 〈…〉 any of the Rulers or Pharisees believed on him but this people who knoweth not the law are 〈◊〉 Nicodemus said c. â—word 〈◊〉 â—udge any man before it hear him and know what he doth And they said unto him Art thou also of Galâ—â—â—ce John 7. 12 13 45 46 47 48 50 51 52. This woman was taken in adultery c. what sayest thou This they said c. that they might have to accuse him c. We be Abraham's â—eed and were never in bondage to any to man c. Jesus said c. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin c. Ye seek to kill me a man who hath told you the truth c. this did not Abraham ye do the deeds of your father c. The Jews say Say we not well thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil John 8. 3 4 5 6 33 34 40 41 48. The Pharises said This man is not of God because he keepeth not the Sabbath-day c. The Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was Christ he should be put oâ—t of the Synagogue c. They say of Christ he is a sinner we are Moses disciples as for this fellow we know not whence he is c. When they were convinced by the man who had been blind that Christ must be of God they say to him Thou wast altogether born in sin and dost thou teach us and they excommunicated him c. Christ said to the Pharisees Ye say you see c. John 9. 16 22 23 24 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 40 41. Some said of Christ he hath a devil and is mad why
is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble he cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not c. seeing his days are determined the number of his months are with thee thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass c. man dieth and wasteth away yea man giveth up the ghost and where is he c. Man lieth down and riseth not till the heavens be no more c. If a man die shall he live again all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come And he passeth thou changest his countenance and sendeth him away c. Job 14. 1 2 5 7 10 12 14 20. Acts 17. 26. 2 Sam. 7. 12. 1 Chron. 17. 11. When a few years are come then I shall go the way whence I shall not return Job 16. 22. The grave is mine house c. I have said to corruption thou art my father to the worm thou art my mother and my sister Job 17. 13 14. Shall any teach God knowledge c one dieth in his full strength or very perfection being wholly at ease and quiet his breast full of milk c. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul and never eateth with pleasure they shall lie down alike in the dust Job 21. 22 23 24 25 26. I know that thou wilt bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living Job 30. 23. If he set his heart upon man if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath all flesh shall perish together and man shall turn again unto dust Job 34. 14 15. In death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee thanks Psal 6. 5. Isa 38. 18. Psal 88. 10 11 12. Psal 115. 17. Psal 30. 9. Lord make me to know mine end and the measure of my days what it is that I may know how frail I am behold thou hast made my days an hand-breadth and mine age as nothing before thee c. Spare me c. before I go hence and be no more Psal 39. 4 5 11 13. They who trust in their wealth c. none can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him c. that he should also live for ever and not see corruption for he seeth wise men die likewise the fool c. when he dieth he shall carry nothing away Psal 49. 6 7 8 9 10 14 16 17. The terrors of death are fallen upon me c. bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days Psal 55. 4 23. Psa 116. 3. And unto God the Lord belong the issues from death Psal 68. 20. I have said Ye are gods c. but ye shall die like men Psal 82. 6 7. What man is he who liveth and shall not see death c shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave Selah Psal 89. 48. Thou turnest man to destruction c. they are like grass which groweth up in the morning it flourisheth c. in the evening it is cut down and withered c. the days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore c. it is soon cut off c. so teach us to number our days c. Psal 90. 3 5 6 10 12. He remembreth that we are dust as for man his days are as grass as the flower of the field so he flourisheth for the wind passeth over it and it is gone c. Psal 103. 14 15 16. Thou takest away their breath they die and return to their dust Psal 104. 29. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116. 15. Man is like to vanity his days are as a shadow which passeth away Psal 144. 4. 1 Chron. 29. 15. Psal 102. 11. Put not your trust in Princes c. his breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish Psal 146. 3 4. When a wicked man dyeth his expectation shall perish Prov. 11. 7. The righteous hath hope in his death Prov. 14. 32. Boast not thy self of to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth Prov. 27. 1. How dieth the wise man as the fool Eccles 2. 16. A time to be born and a time to die c. all go to one place all are of the dust and all turn to dust again who knoweth the spirit of a man which goeth upward and the spirit of the beast which goeth downward to the earth Eccles 3. 1 2 20 21. As he came forth of his mothers womb naked shall he return to go as he came and take nothing c. Eccles 5. 15 16. Job 1. 21. The day of death is better then the day of ones birth it is better to go to the house c. Eccles 7. 1 2. ch 4. 1 2. No man c. hath c. power in the day of death and no discharge in that war Eccles 8. 8. A living dog is better than a dead Lion c. there is no work c. in the grave whither thou goest Eccles 9. 3 4 5 10. Then shall the dust return unto the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it Eccles 12. 1 2 3 4 6 7. He will swallow up death in victory and the Lord God will wipe away tears c. Isa 25. 8. Set thine house in order for thou must die c. I said in the cutting off of my days I shall go to the gates of the grave c. The grave cannot praise thee c. the living the living he shall praise thee as I do this day Isa 38. 1 2 10 11 18 19. All flesh is grass and the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field the grass withereth the flower fadeth because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it Isa 40. 6 7 8. James 1. 10 11. 1 Pet. 1. 24. That thou shouldst be afraid of man who shall dye c and be made as grass Isa 51. 12. The righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come Isa 57. 1 2. 2 Kings 22. 19 20. Lamentation and bitter weeping Rachel weeping for her children because they were not Jer. 31. 15. Matth. 2. 16 17 18. Son of man I will take away from thee the desire of thine eyes at a stroke yet neither shall thou mourn nor weep neither shall thy tears run down c. My wife died c. this was for a sign Ezek. 24. 16 17 18 24. Go thou thy way till the end for thou shalt rest and stand in the lot at the end Dan. 12. 13. Your fathers where are they and the prophets do they live for ever Zechar. 1. 5. I will ransom them from the power of the grave I will redeem them
his resurrection c. Phil. 3. 8 10. Since c. ye knew the grace of God in truth we desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and understanding c. increasing in the knowledge of God c. the Saints to whom God would-make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ c. Col. 1. 6 9 10 26 27. Unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ in whom or wherein are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge Col. 2. 2 3. The new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him who created c. Col. 3. 10. Knowing brethren c. your election of God for our Gospel came not to you in word only but also in power c. 1 Thes 1. 4 5. I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them who are asleep 1 Thes 4. 13. Taking vengeance upon them who know not God 2 Thes 1. 8. Desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm but we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully c. but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief c. 1 Tim. 1. 6 7 8 9 13. Who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth 1 Tim. 2. 4. If any man teach otherwise c. he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions c. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4. They profess that they know God but in works they deny him Titus 1. 16. They do err in their hearts not having known my ways Heb. 3. 10. Every high Priest taken from among men c. who can have compassion on the ignorant c. concerning whom I have many things to say and hard to be unfolded seeing ye are dull of hearing c. Heb. 5. 1 2 11 12. If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth c. Hebr. 10. 26. 2 Pet. 2. 20 21. If any man lack wisdom let him ask it of God who giveth to all men liberally c. James 1. 5. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you let him shew out of a good c. James 3. 13. To him who knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin James 4. 17. Not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance c. 1 Pet. 1. 14. With well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 1 Pet. 2. 15. Grace c. be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord c. Add c. to vertue knowledge c. If these things be in you c. ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus c. but he who lacketh these c. is blind c. knowing this first that no Scripture is of private interpretation 2 Pet. 1. 2 3 5 8 9 20. But these c. speak evil of things they understand not c. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord c. it had been better c. not to have known c. 2 Pet. 2. 12. 20 21. Jude v. 1. This they are willingly ignorant of c. Paul c. in all his Epistles c. in which are some things hard to be understood which they who are unlearned wrest c. seeing ye know c. Grow in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus c. 2 Pet. 3. 5 15 16 17 18. Hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments he that saith I know him and c. I write to you fathers because ye have known him c. ye know all things c. as the same anointing teacheth you all things c. 1 John 2. 3 4 13 20 21 27. Therefore the world knew us not because it knew him not c. whosoever sinneth hath not c. known him we know that we have passed from death to life c. hereby we know that we are of the truth c. 1 John 3. 1 6 14 19. ch 5. 2. Hereby know ye the spirit of God c. he who knoweth God heareth us c. hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of errour c. he that loveth God knoweth God he who loveth not knoweth not God we have known and believed the love that God hath to us 1 John 4. 2 6 7 8 16. That ye may know that ye have eternal life c. we know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not c. we know that we are of God c. we know that the son of God is come c. 1 John 5. 13 18 19 20. These speak evil of those things which they know not Jude v. 10. All the Churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and heart c. Rev. 2. 23. And knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind c. Rev. 3. 17. See the Ignorance of Natural Men Chap. 5. See the Giver of knowledge Chap. 20. CHAP. XXXIX Of this present World and the Riches Honours Pleasure and other Things in this World the use of them the Snares and Tentations in them and of the Saints Duty in Relation to them WHile the earth remaineth seed time and harvest cold and heat and summer and winter day and night shall not cease Gen. 8. 22. And Abraham was very rich in Cattel in Silver and in Gold c. Lot also went with Abraham c. their substance was great so that they could not dwell together Gen. 13. 2. Job 1. 3. Gen. 26. 12 13 14. If God will c. give me bread to eat and raiment to put on c. then c. Gen. 28. 20 21. When Rachel said Give me children c. Jacob said Am I in Gods stead who withheld c. Gen. 30. 1 2. ch 33. 5. All the earth is mine said the Lord to Moses Exod. 19. 5. God gave inventions to men to work of divers sorts Exod. 35. ch 36. ch 37 c. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours c. nor any thing that is thy neighbours Exod. 20. 17. Israel wept again and said Who shall give us flesh to eat c and God was angry Numb 11. 4. 10. 1 Cor. 10. 6 10. Balaam upon great news offers Balak went out being desired to curse Israel Numb 22. He sed thee with Manna c. that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only but c. thy raiment waxed not old c. The Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land c. wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness c. when thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the
c. The judgment was by one to condemnation c. For if by one mans offence or one offence death reigned by one man c. by one mans disobedience many were made sinners Rom. 5. 12 15 16 17 18 19. I fear c. as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility so your minds should be corrupted c. 2 Cor. 11. 3. CHAP. V. Of Man's State by Nature since Sin entred I. Corrupt unclean and desperately wicked ADam ready to excuse his Sin laying it upon Eve and Eve laid it upon the Serpent Gen. 3. 12 13. Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell because God had not respect unto his offering as unto Abels and he rose up against his brother and â—lew him Gen. 4. 8 9. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart or the whole imagination purposes and desires was only evil continually c. The earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence c. for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth c. Gen. 6. 5 11 12. The imaginations of man's heart are evil from his youth Gen. 8. 21. ch 11. 4. The wickedness of Sodom at the time when God came to destroy it Gen. 19. Esau sold his Birthright for a mess of pottage Gen. 25. 30 31 32 33. Esau hated his brother because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him and Esau said in his heart c. then will I slay my brother Jacob Gen. 27. 41. Joseph his brethren hated him could not speak peaceably to him envied him they conspired against him to slay him and to cover it with a lye Gen. 37. 4 18 19 20 23 24. And Pharaoh said Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go Exod. 5. 2. After all the wonders Moses wrought and the judgments against Aegypt his heart was still hardened against God and would not yield and the Magicians accounted that to be the â—inger of God Exod. 7. ch 8. ch 9. ch 10. Ahab hardened 〈◊〉 Kings 22. Saul excuseth his disobedience upon pretence that the people preserved the Cattle for Sacrifice I Sam. 15. 15 19 21. Absalom had a Tent spread upon the top of the House and went in unto his Father's Concubines in the sight of all Israel 2 Sam. 16. 22. Ahab had sold himself to work evil in the sight of the Lord c. None like to Ahab who did fell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord 1 Kings 21. 25 26. Psal 141. 4 9. 1 Kings 22. Ahaziah being sick sent to an Idol to enquire and after sent a Captain with his fifty to take the Propher whom God destroyed with fire yet he sent again and again 2 Kings 1. 2 9 10 11 12 13. The King of Israel said c. This evil is of the Lord what shall I wait for the Lord any longer Hazael when the Prophet had told him how wicked he should be said Is thy servant a Dog c. 2 Kings 8. 11 12 13. Rabshaketh said What confidence is this wherein thou trustest c. Let not Hezekiah deceive you c. neither make you trust in the Lord c. Have any of the gods of the Nations delivered at all his land c. Who c. hath delivered c. that the Lord should deliver out of my hand c. 2 Kings 18. 30 32 33 35. Isa 36. ch 37. The words of Sennacherib who hath sent him to reproach the living God c. Whom thou hast reproached and blasphemed and against whom thou hast exalted thy voice c. Against the holy One of Israel by thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord c. 2 Kings 19. 16 22 23. 2 Chron. 32. 9. 10 c. King Ahaz did wickedly and in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. This that King Ahaz 2 Chron. 28. 19 22. Israel laughed to scorn and mocked the Messengers of Hezekiah who exhorted them to repent 2 Chron. 30. 6 7 c. The chief Priests and the People transgressed very much after all the abominations of the Heathen c. And the Lord c. sent to them his Messengers c. but they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose c. till there was no remedy 2 Chron. 36. 14 15 16. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean thing Not one Job 14. 4. What is man that he should be clean or he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous c. Yea the Heavens are unclean in his sight how much more abominable and filthy is man who drinketh in iniquity like water Job 15. 14 15 16. ch 25. 4. The wicked say c. Depart from us for we delight not in the knowledge of this ways What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what can he do c. Job 21 14 15. ch 22. 17. ch 34. 9. The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us Psal 2. 2 3. Matth. 2. 16. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek God God is not in all his thoughts c. his mouth is full of curâ—ing and deceit and fraud c. He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see c. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God c. Psal 10. 4 7 11 13. Psal 50. 17 18 19 c. With our tongue will we prevail our lips are our own who is Lord over us Psal 12. 4. The fool hath said in his heart There is no God they are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none who doeth good c. They are all gone aside they are together become filthy or stinking there is none who doth good no not one Psal 14. 1 2 3. Psal 53. 1 2 3. Eccl. 9. 3. He deviseth mischief on his bed he setteth himself in a way not good Psal 36. 4. Prov. 4. 16. I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Psal 51 5. The wicked estranged from the womb they go astray as soon as they are born speaking lyes c. Psal 58. 3 4 5. Pride compasseth them about as a chain violence covereth them as a garment c. They are corrupt and speak wickedly c. they set their mouth against the Heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth c. They say How doth God know and is there knowledge in the most high Psal 73. 6 8 9 11. Psal 94. 4 7. Job 24. 14 15. The wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them c. For all this