6 7. ch 9. 16 17 c. Job saith I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7. 20. ch 9. 2 3. If any say I have sinned and perverted that which was right and it profiteth me not He will deliver his soul c. Job 33. 27 28. Job answered the Lord and said Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay mine hand upon my mouth Job 40. 3 4. I acknowledged my sins unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin Psalm 32. 5. I will declare mine iniquity I will be sorry for my sins Psalm 35. 18. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight c. Psalm 51. 3. 4 5. We have sinned with our fathers we have committed iniquity c. Psalm 106. 6 7. Horror hath taken hold of me because of the wicked who forsake thy law c. Rivers of water run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law c. I beheld the transgressions and was grieved because they keep not thy word Psalm 119. 53 126 136. 158. Nehem. 13. 7 8. Jer. 9. 1 2. Gen. 34. 7. Mark 3. 5. Jer. 13. 17. Psal 139. 21 22. If thou shouldst mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand Psalm 130. 3 He who covereth his sin shall not prosper but whose confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. Behold thou art wroth for we have sinned c. We are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousness as filthy rags c. Isa 64. 5 6 7. Yet thou sayest Because I am innocent surely his anger shall turn from me Behold I will plead with thee because thou sayest I have not â—nned Jer. 2. 35. Go and proclaim these words c. Return thou back-sliding Israel saith the Lord I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you c. Only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God and hast scattered thy ways c. Jer. 3. 12 23. 1 Sam. 12. 9 10. If ye will not hear it my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride and mine eyes shall weep sore Jer. 13. 17. O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us do thou for thy name's sake for our back-sltidings are many We have sinned against thee c. We acknowledge O Lord our wickness the iniquity of our fathers for we have sinned against thee Jer. 14. 7 20. The Lord is righteous for I have rebelled against his commandments c. My heart is turned within me for I have grievously rebelled Lam. 1. 18 20. ch 3. 42. The crown is fallen from our heads we unto us that we have sinned Lam. 5. 16. Set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh who cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof Ezek. 9. 4. Ye shall remember your ways c. and ye shall loath your selves in your own sight for all your evil which ye have commited Exek 20. 43. chap. 16. 63. I prayed unto the Lord my God and made my confession c. We have sinned and committed iniquity c. Dan. 9. 3 4 5 6 15. I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offences and seek my face Hosea 5. 15. Turn ye unto me with all your-heart with fasting with weeping and with mourning Rent your hearts and not your garments Joel 2. 12 13. Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted Matth. 5. 4. Peter remembred the words of Jesus which said unto him Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice and he went out and wept bitterly Matth. 26. 75. The prodigal Son said I will arise and go to my father and I will say unto him Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy son c. Luke 15. 18. 19 21. And many who believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds Acts 19. 18. Paul made confession of his being a persecutor of the Saints Acts 22. 4 5 19 20. I rejoice not that ye were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner or according to God c. for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation never to be be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death c. ye sorrowed after a godly sort What carefulness it wrought in you yea clearing of your selves yea indignation yea fear yea vehement desire yea zeal yea revenge 2 Cor. 7. 9 10 11. And lest when I come again my God will humble me among you and that I shall bewail many who have sinned already c. 2 Cor. 12. 21. Many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you weeping the enemies c. Phil. 3. 18. Delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling amongst them in seeing and hearing vèxed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness If we say we have not sinned we make him a lyar and his word is not in us 1 John 1. 8 9 10. Be afflicted mourn and weep humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up James 4. 9 10. See Confession of Sin in time of Affliction Chap. 22. In time of Common Calamity Chap. 23. See Prayer Chap. 16. Saints Duty confess one to another Chap. 17. Depart from Sin and all appearance of it hate it and avoid the Occasions of it The reasons thereof THere shall not be found among you c. who useth divination an observer of times an inchanter or a witch or a charmer or a consulter with a familiar spirit c. All who do so are an abomination to the Lord c. Deut. 18. 10 11 12 14. When Adam had sinned he hid himself was afraid because naked Gen. 3. 8 10. Exod. 32. 25. Abimelech said unto Isaac What is this thou hast done unto us one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife and thou shouldst have brought guiltiness upon us And Abimelech charged all his people saying He who toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death Gen. 26. 8 9 10. ch 20. 2 3 4 c. When Joseph had been tempted to sin by Potiphar's Wife he answered her How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God c. when she laid hold on him he fled from her Gen. 39. 7 8 9 10 11 12. See the Ten Commandments Exod. 20. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to
and seek not the honour which cometh from God only John 5. 44. Labour not for the meat which perisheth but for that which endureth c. John 6. 27. He is of age ask him c. These words spake his parents because they feared the Jews for the Jews had agreed already That if any man did confess that he was Christ he should be put out of the Synagogue therefore said his parents c. John 9. 21 22 23. Judas displeased at the use of the ointment upon pretence of the poor but 't was because he bare the purse c. Among the chief rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the Synagogue for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God John 12. 4 5 6 42 43. In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good chear I have overcome the world John 16. 33. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil John 17. 15. Jesus answered My kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not c. John 18. 36. Pilate â—ought to release â—esus but the Jews cried out saying If thou let this man go thou art not Caesar's friend c. When Pilate therefore heard that saying he brought Jesus forth c. John 19. 12 13 15 16. Mark 15. 15. What house will ye build for me saith the Lord c. Hath not my hand made all these things c. Acts 7. 48 49 50. ch 14. 15 17. When Paul had cast out the evil Spirit out of the damsel and her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone they caught Paul and Silas c. and said That they did exceedingly trouble the City c. Acts 16. 18 to 22. God who made the world c. he is Lord of heaven and earth c. He giveth to all life c. and all things Acts 17. 24 25. So Demetrius a Silver-smith and others of the same trade who made silver Shrines for Diana c. complained against Paul for Preaching the Gospel cried up Diana because they were like to lose their gain if men esteemed not of Diana as a Goddess Acts 19. 24 to 28. Your selves know that these hands of mine have ministred to my necessities and them who were with me I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said If is more blessed to give than to receive Acts. 20. 33 34 35. The carnal mind is enmity against God It is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be Rom. 8. 7. Make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Rom. 13. 14. Ye see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wife c. that no flesh should glory c. 1 Cor. 1. 26 27 28 29. I will not be brought under the power of any meats for the belly c. but God shall destroy both c. 1 Cor. 6. 12 13. The time is short it remaineth that both they who have wives be as though they had none and they who weep as though they wept not and they who rejoice as if they rejoiced not and they who buy as though they possessed not and they who use this world as not abusing it for the fashion of this world passeth away c. He who is married careth for the things which are of this world how he may please his wife 1 Cor. 7. 29 to 34. I keep under my body and bring it in subjection lest that by any means c. 1 Cor. 9. 27. The Devil is called the God of this world 2 Cor 4. 4. The sorrow of the world worketh death 2 Cor. 7. 10. You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich 2 Cor. 8. 9. God is able to make all grace abound towards you that ye always having all sufficiency c. 2 Cor. 9. 8. Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God c. Gal. 1. 4. The flesh lusteth against the spirit c. so that ye cannot do the thing that ye would Gal. 5. 17. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom or whereby the world is crucified to me and I unto the world Gal. 6. 14. Covetousness let it not be once named among you as becometh Saints c. for this ye know that no whoremonger c. nor covetous man who is an idolâ—er hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God Ephes 5. 3 5. 2. Cor 6. 10. Whose end is destruction whose God is their belly whose glory is in their shame who mind earthly things Phil. 3. 15. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication c. let your request be made known to God c. I have learned that in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content I know how to be abased and how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and suffer need c. but my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Jesus Christ Psal 4. 6 12 19. Set your affections or mind on things above not things on the earth c. Mortifie therefore your members c. inordinate affections evil concupiscence and covetousness which is idolatry Col. 3. 2 5. Meats which God hath created to be received c. for every creature of God is good and nothing to c. 1 Tim. 4. 3 4. 1 Cor. 10. 25 26 27. She who liveth in pleasure or delicately is dead while she liveth 1 Tim. 5. 6. Godliness with contentment is great gain for we brought nothing into the world it is certain we can carry nothing out and having food and raiment let us be therewith content but them who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition for the love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after have erred from the faith and pierced themselves thorow with many sorrows but thou O man flee these things c. Charge them who be rich in this world that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living God who giveth all things richly to enjoy that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute c. laying
know that I am the Lord when I shall bring you into the land of Israel into the Countries for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers and there shall ye remember your ways c. Ezek. 20. 42. 43. ch 28. 24 25 26. Thus saith the Lord God Behold I will both search my sheep c. and deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered c. and will bring them to their own land c. and I will set up the shepherd over them c. Ezek. 34. 11. 12 13 23 24 c. Mountains of Israel ye shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people of Israel for they are at hand to come behold I am for you and I will turn unto you and ye shall be tilled and sowed c. and the city shall be inhabited and the wasts builded c. I will settle you after your old estates and will do better unto you then at your beginnings and ye shall know that I am the Lord c. I will take you from among the heathen and gather you from all countryes and will bring you into your own land c. and ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers and ye shall be my people c. then shall ye remember your own ways c. not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord God be it known to you c. then the heathen who are left round about you all know that I the Lord build the ruined places and plant that which was desolate I the Lord have spoken it and I will do it c. I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel Ezek. 36 8 9 10 11 19 23 24 28 31 32 33 Hosea 2. 14 15. Amos 9. 11 14 15. By the dry bones is typified the Israelites returned These bones are the whole house of Israel behold they say our bones are dryed and our hope is lost and we are cut off for our part therefore prophesy c. O my people I will open your graves cause you to come out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel c. I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen whither they be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel and one king shall be king to them all and they shall no more be divided into two nations c. and they shall dwell in the land which I have given unto Jacob c. 37. Hosea 1. 10 11. Joel 3. 6 7. Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel but I have gathered them in their own land c. and will hide my face no more Ezek. 39. 25 c. Jerusalem shall be inhabited c. Flee from the land of the north saith the Lord for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven c. Deliver thy self O Zion who dwellest with the daughters of Babylon c. for he who toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye Zech. 2. 4 5 6 7 8 12. Joel 3. Zeph. 3. 14 15 c. Thus saith the Lord I am returned unto Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem c. There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem c. and the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof c. Behold I will save my people from the east countries and from the west country and I will bring them and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and they shall be my people and I will be their God c. As I thought to punish you when your Fathers provoked me to wrath c. and I repented not so again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah Fear ye not c. Yea many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem and to pray c. Zech. 8. 3 4 5 7 8 13 14 15. ch 12. 7 8 9. ch 14. 10 11 20 21 22 23. In that day I will make Jerusalem a burthensom stone for all people c. They shall be cut off though the people of the earth gather c. Zech. 12. 3 4 c. I would not brethren that ye should be ignorant of this mystery lest ye should be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written There shall come out of Sion the deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob for this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sin c. they are beloved for the Father's sake c. Rom. 11. 25 26 27 28. See the Dignity and Blessings belonging to the Church of God as such Chap. 27. CHAP. LVIII Of the Seventh Day or Sabbath in Old Testament days and the Laws about it and of the Change to the First Day ON the seventh day God ended his work c. and rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested c. Gen. 2. 2 3. To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord bake that which you will bake to day c. for to morrow is a sabbath unto the Lord c. Six days ye shall gather it but on the seventh day the sabbath in it there shall be none c. Abide ye every man in his place let no man go out of his place on the sabbath day So the people rested on the sabbath day Exod. 16. 23 to the 30. Remember the sabbath-day to keep it holy Six days shall thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day the sabbath of the Lord thy God thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son c. for in six days the Lord made heaven c. and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it Exod. 20. 8 9 10 41. Deut. 5. 12 13 14. On the seventh day thou shalt rest that thine ox and thine ass may rest and the son of thine handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed Exod. 23. 12. ch 34. 21. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you every one who defileth it shall surely be put to death for whosoever doth work therein that soul shall be cut off from among his people and he shall surely be put to death Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath c. it is a sign between me and the children for ever for in six days the Lord made heaven c. Exod. 31.
Prov. 28. 8. I have neither sent on usury nor men have lent to me on usury yet every one of them do curse me Jer. 15. 10. If a man be just c. and hath not opprest any c. hath given his bread to the hungry c. hath not given forth upon usury or taken increase Ezek. 18. 7 8 12 13. Thou hast taken usury and increase and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbour by extortion c. Ezek. 22. 12. CHAP. LX. Of Envy Wrath Hatred Malice Bitterness Emulation Discontent and Strife A Bram said unto Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee and between my Herdsmen and thine c. for we be brethren c. If thou go to the left hand then I will go to the right it thou to the right then I will go to the left c. Gen. 13. 7. When Rebekah saw that she bare Jacob no children Rachel envied her sister and said unto Jacob c. Gen. 30. 1 2. When Joseph's Brethren saw that their Father loved him more than all his Brethren they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him c. They hated him yet the more for his dream c. His Brethren envied him but his Father observed the sayings They conspire to slay him Gen. 37. 4 8 11 18. Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thy heart c. Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people c. Levit. 19. 17. 18. When Eldad and Medad had prophesied in the Camp Joshua desired Moses to forbid them Moses said unto him Enviest thou for my sake would all the Lord's people were Prophets c. Numb 29. 27 28 29. When the Women in their Song had ascribed to Saul his one thousand and to David his ten thousand Saul was very wroth and said c. What can he have more but the Kingdom And Saul eyed David from that day and forward c. became his enemy continually c. would have killed him 1 Sam. 18. 6 7 8 9 10 11. ch 19. 1. Ahab so sorely discontented and displeased with Naboth that he would eat no bread c. and that because he could not have the vineyard 1 Kings 21. 1 2 3 4. Haman went out joyful and with a glad heart but when Haman saw Mordecai in the King's gate that he stood not up nor moved for him he was full of Indignation against Mordecai c. And having told his Friends of his Glory c. yet said he all these avail me nothing so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the King's gate Esther 5. 9 10 11 12 13. Fret not thy self because of evil doers neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity for they shall soon be cut down c. fret not because of him who prospereth in his way c. who bringeth wicked devices to pass c. Fret not thy self to do evil c. Psalm 37. 1 2 7 8 9. As for me my feet are almost gone c. for I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked Psalm 73. 2 3 4. They envied Moses also in the Camp c. Aron the Saint of the Lord Psalm 106. 16. Strive not with a man without cause c. Envy thou not the oppressor or Man of Violence and chuse none of his ways c. Prov. 3. 30 31 32. Hatred stirreth up strife Prov. 10. 12. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith Prov. 15. 17. Let not thine heart envy sinners but be in the fear of the Lord all the day long Prov. 23. 17. Be not thou envious against evil men neither desire to be with them Fret not thy self because of evil men neither be thou envious at the wicked Prov. 24. 19 20. Wrath is cruel and anger cutragious but who is able to stand before envy or jealousie Prov. 27. 4. The forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife Prov. 30. 33. I consider c. every right work that for this a man is envied of his neighbour Eccles 4. 4. Lord thy hand is lifted up they will not see they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at or towards thy people yea the fire of thine enemies shall destroy them Isa 26. 11. Therefore c. saith the Lord God I will even do according to thine anger and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of hatred to them or against them Ezek. 35. 11. Pilate said to the Jews Will ye that I deliver Barabbas or Jesus who is Christ for he knew that for envy they had delivered him Matth. 27 17 13. The Patriarchs moved with Envy sold Joseph into Egypt Acts 7. 9. And when the Jews saw the multitude they were filled with envy and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming Acts 13. 49. Being filled with all c. maliciousness full of envy murder c. Rom. 1. 29. If by any means I might provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and might save some of them Rom. 11. 14. Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting c. not in strife and envying c. Rom. 13. 13. It hath been declared c. that there are contentions among you c. 1 Cor. 1. 11. Ye are yet carnal for whereas there is among you envying and strife and divisions or factions are ye not carnal 1 Cor. 3. 3. Charity envieth not 1 Cor. 13. 14. In malice be ye children but in understanding be ye men 1 Cor. 14. 20. The sorrow of the world worketh death 2 Cor. 7. 10. I fear lest when I come among you I shall find c. lest there be debates envyings wraths strifes c. swelling tumults 2 Cor. 12 20. Now the works of the fieth are c. hatred variance emulations wrath strifes seditions envies murders c. Let us not be desirous of vain glory provoking one another envying one another Gal. 5. 19 20 21 26. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour c. be put away from you with all malice Ephes 4. 31. Some preach Christ even out of envy and strife c. Of contention not sincerely supposing to add afflictions to my bonds Phil. 1. 15 16. Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than himself Phil. 2. 3. Let your moderation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand c. I have learned in what state soever I am therewith to be content c. Phil. 4. 5 11. But now you also put off all these anger wrath malice c. Husbands love your wives be not bitter against them Colos 3. 8 19. Doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railing evil surmising c. Godliness with contentment is great gain 1 Tim. 6. 4 5 6. Titus 3. 9. For we our selves also were