the faith hope patience obedience constancy of his children or evill to an evill end and we pray in the Lords prayer that God will not let us be tempted with evill nor give us over into the hand of Satan to tempt us 557. Mat. 6. 13. For thine is the Kingdome the power and the glory Luk. 11. 4. That conclusion is not found in the Lords Prayer One Evangelist omitting what the other hath set down doth no wayes derogate from the truth of Gods Word David used the same 1 Chron. 29. 11. 2 Tim. 4. 18. thanksgiving Thine is the greatnesse and the power and the glory and the Victory and the Majesty And Paul useth the same words And the Lord shall deliver me from every evill work to whom be glory for ever Amen From whence is taken that of the Church Glory be c. 558. Mat. 6. 19. Lay not up for your selves treasures upon earth 1 Tim. 5. 8. But if any provide not for his own especially for those of his own house he hath denyed the faith Christ forbids no man to possesse wealth that comes as a blessing from God but to lay up treasures to the wrong of other men and to put our trust in them as the Gentiles doe nor Lev. 36. 14. Psal 112. 3. doth he condemn the care for a mans own family 559. Mat. 6. 31. Therefore take no thought saying What shall we eat or what shall we drink 1 Tim. 5. 8. If any man provide not for his own he hath denyed the faith Christ condemns here carnal care joyned with Heathenish distrust but not a Christian care to provide for our family with confidence in God 560. Mat. 7. 1. Judge not Joh. 7. 24. Judge righteous judgement Christ forbids rash judgement and defamation Mat. 18. 15. Jude v. 8 but not Politique or Ecclesiastical Judicature appointed by God under the Old-Testament nor yet domestick because all men are bound to judge of doctrine and manners and to call those to the right way that are wandring from it 561. Mat. 7. 8. Whosoever asketh receiveth Jam. 4. 3. Ye ask and receive not He that asketh as he ought to doe in faith receiveth what is convenient for him they that ask not as they should that is in faith nor for a good end receive not because they ask amiss 562. Mat. 7. 12. All things that you would that men should doe unto you doe you even so to them for this is the law and the Prophets c. 22. 4. On these two Commandements the love of God and our Neighbour hang all the Law and the Prophets The first place excludes not the love of God for he that loves his neighbour loves God the latter comprehends a moral rule of all things which are contained in the Books of Moses the Law and the Prophets 563. Mat. 7. 22. Many will say unto me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy Name and in thy Name have cast out Devils Then will I professe unto you I never knew you depart from me c. 10. 32. Whosoever shall confesse me before men him will I confesse before my Father which is in heaven Christ in the former place speaks of hypocrites who prophesied in his Name and teaching so did confesse him with their tongue In the latter place he speaks of those who professe his Name by faith openly and sincerely without hypocrisie they have both a promise and a large reward 564. Mat. 8. 4. Tell no man V. 4. Go thy way shew thy self to the Priest Christ forbad the Leper for a time but not for ever that he should tell no man that he was healed but that first he should make his comparition before the Priest 565. Mat. 8. 5. A centurion came to Jesus beseeching him and saying Luk. 7. 3. The Elders of the Jews were sent unto him beseeching him to come Theophylact reconciles these places thus first the Centurion sent Messengers to Christ then he came himself and met the Lord and beseeched him with his own mouth relating the businesse 566. Mat. 8. 19. A certain scribe came unto him and said Master I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest And Jesus said unto him The Foxes have holes Joh. 6. 37. Him that cometh to me will I in no wise cast out That Scribe would follow Christ out of vain boasting and promised to himself great wealth and dignities Christ did not reject this man but only admonished him of the poverty and misery of those that follow him in this life which is rewarded with salvation and eternal life 567. Mat. 8. 26. The Disciples were fearful and of little faith Jam. 1. 6. Ask in faith nothing wavering for he that wavereth is like a wave of the Sea driven with the wind and tossed The infirmity of the Disciples is to be distinguished from Heathenish distrust they that doubt receive nothing but believers receive what they ask in faith 568. Mat. 8. 28. Jesus came to the other side into the Countrey of the Gargasens Mark 5. 1. They came over to the other side of the Sea into the Countrey of the Gadarenes The City Gadara and Gergaza were neighbour places in the Tribe of Manasses having their several circuit in the borders whereof the possessed met our Saviour 569. Mat. 8. 28. There met him two possessed with Devils Mar. 5. 2. There met him out of the Tombes a man with an unclean spirit They were two in number Mark mentions one because the other was notably known August 570. Mat. 8. 29. The Devils cryed out saying What have we to doe with thee Jesus thou Son of God Joh. 8. 44. The Devil is a lyar and the Father thereof The Devils did not that for the glory of God and Christ but to cause distrust in mens hearts for the Devil though he doe speak truth yet he doth it not without fraud and a false end that he may draw men into errour 571. Mat. 9. 6. The Son of man hath power to forgive sins 23. 34. Father forgive them they know not what they doe The Father gives the Son hath merited and the holy Ghost confirms salvation and remission of sins 572. Mat. 9. 1. Jesus sat at meat in Matthews house Luk. 5. 28. Matthew left all rose up and followed Christ Matthew left all things which might hinder him from following Christ as the receipt of custome and his Office of a Publican but he left not his house nor did he wholly cast away his houshold affairs 573. Mat. 9. 18. My daughter saith Jairus to Christ is even now dead Luk. 8. 42. The daughter of Jairus lay a dying being about twelve years old She lay a dying when her Father went forth of his house she was dead before Christ came to her 574. Mat. 10. 2. The first Simon Peter Andrew James John Mar. 3. 17. Peter James John Andrew Gal. 2. James Cephas The Apostles were equal in dignity and office but unequal in order The Evangelists in naming the
5. Deuteronomie GENESIS THe Generation of the World is so called because of the Creation before the flood and the restoring of it after the flood and the administration of it by the Patriarchs unto the birth of Moses it containes the history of 2310. years The Places that are seemingly contradictory 1. Gen. 1. 22. And on the seventh day God ended his work Chap. 2. 4. All things were created in the day that the Lord God made the heavens and the earth Reconciling God created the world and all things therein contained in six days and not in one day altogether The first place therefore is meant of certain naturall and artificiall dayes The latter containes indefinitely the time of the Psal 95. 7. Heb. 3. 13. creation of things So this day is put for the time of grace 2. Gen. 1. 2. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters Joh. 7. 39. The Holy Ghost was not yet given In the first place the treaty is concerning the person and existence of the holy Ghost in the latter concerning the gifts of the holy Ghost and the miraculous powring forth thereof in the day of Pentecost after the resurrection of Christ 3. Gen. 1. 5. God called the light day before the Sun was Ecclus. 43. 2. The Sun when it appeareth declareth the day The light which first made the day was not an other light from the light of the Sun but that light which God had dispersed through the hemisphere which he collected afterwards into the body of the Sun 4. Gen 1. 27. 9. 6. God created man after his own image Chap. 5. 3. And Adam begat a son in his own likenesse after his image The Image of God after which God created man at the beginning was depraved by the fall of Adam and so he begat such a son as himself a corrupt sinner and blind in spirituall things 5. Gen. 1. 27. God created man c. in the image of God male and female created he them 1 Cor. 11. 7. The man is the image and glory of God but the woman is the glory of the man The woman was created in the beginning 1 Pet. 3. 6. Gen. 24. 9. after the image of God so well as the man Paul considering the distinction of sex saith that the man came nearer to the image of God in respect of his dominion and the end because the woman wes made out of the man and for the man 6. Gen. 1. 2. 9. 1. Be fruitfull and multiplie and replenish the earth Luk. 23. 29. Blessed are the barren and the wombes that never bare Children before and since the fall are a blessing from God absolutely Barrennesse is commended by Christ not simply but by reason of a judgement was to fall upon the Jews and of that heavy calamity to ensue wherein the flight would be easier for one alone then for a mother and her little ones so Woe be to them that are with childe and to them which give Mat. 24. 19. suck in those days 7. Gen. 1. 28. Multiply and replenish the earth 1 Cor. 7. 7. For I would that all men were even as I my self Whether Paul were then a Batchelor or a maried man is uncertain that he was maried his words imply where he saith Have not we power to lead about a Sister or a woman a wife as well as the other Apostles otherwise he had not been sure of a wife If he were a Batchelor he speaks conditionally unlesse the propagation of mankind and of the Church should be hindred 8. Gen. 1. 31. And God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good Eccles 1. 2. Vanity of vanities all is vanity All the Creatures are good in respect of the creation and their nature but Ecclesiastes condemns their vain and evill inclination which is not naturall to them but came upon them by the fall of man 9. Gen. 1. 31. All that God made was very good Rom. 8. 20. For the Creature was made subject to vanity not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope Before the fall every creature was in a better condition then after the fall for contrary to nature they are become subject to the lust of wicked men and so to many afflictions by reason of him who hath subjected the creature that is God under this hope that it shall be at last delivered from the tyranny of the wicked 10. Gen. 1. 31. God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good Mal. 1. 3. I hated Esau Every creature of God is good and so is Quaest ex Epist ad Rom. Man as he is a creature but not as a sinner saith August God therefore hated Esau for his sin and set him after his brother Jacob. 11. Gen. 2. 2. God rested from all his works Exod. 20. 11. Deut. 14. that he had made Joh. 5. 17. 14. 10. My Father worketh hitherto God rested from all the works of creation and of things that should be in nature but not from his works of Providence care and sustentation for without that all would return to Psal 104. Act. 17. nothing and perish 12. Gen. 2. 15. God put man into the garden of Eden to dresse it Chap. 3. 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread If Adam had continued in innocency labour should have been pleasant unto him but because he sinned therefore must we labour with much sorrow and trouble 13. Gen. 2. 18. It is not good that the man should be alone Mat. 19. 10. It is not good to marry 1 Cor. 7. To touch a woman In the first place God speaks of the good and profit of the whole Species and the Church which cannot be propagated by one person alone In the latter the Apostle speaks of the personall good and the more commodious kind of life in the time of persecution 14. Gen. 2. 24. Therefore shall a man leave his Father and Mother Exod. 20. 12. Honour thy Father and thy Mother To leave Father and Mother here is not to denie them the honour love and help that is due to them but to leave the house of his parents and to live with his wife and to set up a new family with her 15. Gen. 2. 24. A man shall cleave to his wife Exod. 21. 4. The servant going forth shall leave his wife to his master c. The generall Law pertains to all that is the first but the speciall law was granted to the Jews for the hardnesse of their hearts and so we understand the latter place 16. Gen. 2. 24. Mat. 19. 5. And they shall be one flesh 1 Cor. 6. 16. He that is joyned to a harlot is one body Married people are one body really and indeed by divine institution but carnall copulation with a whore without marriage though it be actually one body yet it is impure because it is not of divine
prophesied in the year 3110. 492. Jon. 1. 3. Jonas rose up to flee unto Tharsis from the presence of the Lord. Vers 9. I fear the Lord the God of heaven who hath made the sea and the dry land Jonas would not flee from God so much as to escape his office by flying Vers 9. In the midst of the tempest he gives the Mariners an account of his Religion and of his flight confessing that for his disobedience that great tempest was sent 493. Jon. 1. 10. Jonas fleeth to Tharsis from the presence of the Lord. Psal 139. 7. Whither shall I goe from thy spirit or whither shall I flee from thy presence Jonas was not ignorant that no man could so flee from the face of the Lord but he thought that if he forsook the holy land then all divine apparitions to him would cease and that God would then call some other man to the office he had laid upon him 494. Jon. 2. 6. The earth with her bars was about me for ever Vers 10. The fish cast Jonas on the dry land Jonas thought in the belly of the Whale that he should remain there but God brought him forth and shewed thereby that he had power over life and death 495. Jon. 3. 4. Yet 40. dayes and Nineveh shall be overthrown Vers 10. God spared them The divine commination was conditionall if they repented not but because they did embrace the word of God and detesting their wickednesse they did turn to the Lord with all their hearts God spared them Of such 〈◊〉 10. 7 〈◊〉 10. God means speaking thus If I speak against a Kingdom or a Nation that I will root it out and that Nation repents of their evill ways I will repent that I thought to doe so to them 496. Jon. 3. 4. Jonas foretold the overthrow of Nineveh and it was not performed Duet 28. 22. If a Prophet speak in the name of the Lord and that thing cometh not to passe the Lord hath not spoken it but the Prophet hath spoken it presumptuously That Sermon of Jonas was not so much a prophesie as a commination Moses speaks not of comminations and Prophesies which have a condition included but of such Prophesies as are absolute as Samuel foresaid to Saul that two men should meet him 497. Jon. 3. 9. Who knows whether God will return and repent Mal. 3 6. I the Lord change not Num. 23. 19. Jon. 1. 7. Repentance and passions of men are attributed to God not properly but figuratively and by way of comparison and by Anthropopathy whilst God shews himself as a man repenting otherwise with God there Jam. 1. 17. is no change 498. Jon. 4. 11. In Nineveh were more then 120000 persons which partly by want of age and partly by simplicity did not know their right hand from their left Gen. 8. 21. The imagination of mans heart is prone to evill from his youth Between the right and the left hand they did not know the difference who were yet so young as to be free from actuall sinnes and others in years that were simple and sincere MICHAS Prophesie THe Morasihite against the Kings the Judges the Priests and false prophets in Judah and Israel He threatens perdition to impenitent sinners and promiseth salvation to the Saints which remained He prophesied in the year 3197. 499. Mich. 1. 2. And thou Bethlehem Ephrata though thou be little amongst the thousands of Judah out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel Mat. 2. 6. And thou Bethlehem in the land of Judah art not the least amongst the Princes of Judah for out of thee shall come a Governour that shall rule my people Israel The Prophet cals it Bethlehem Ephrata and Matthew Bethlehem Judah for a difference from an other city so called in the Tribe of Zabulon It was indeed a little Towne before Christs coming before Christ was born but afterwards it became a most noble City because the Messias was born there Matthew cites the place of the Prophet faithfully which the Pharisees had corrupted and sets down the words which the Pharisees speak unto Herod 500. Mich. 5. 2. And thou Bethlehem Ephrata out of thee shall he come forth unto me that shall be Ruler in Israel Joh. 7. 27. Whence Christ is no man knows The Prophet expresly names the place of Christs nativity the Jewes not knowing Christ to be the true God did mingle his temporall generation with his eternall contending amongst themselves Doth not the Scripture say that being of the seed of David Christ should come from the City of David 501. Mich. 7. 5. Trust ye not in a friend 1 Cor. 13. 7. Charity believeth all things The first place is a rule of Prudence needfull for Charity The Prophet bids us not to suspect ill of all men but he complains of the corrupt manners of his times when men could believe no man therefore he saith we must deal circumspectly which is agreeing to Charity lest we be defrauded by craft or malice Christ himself did not trust himself with Joh. 2. 25 26. the Jews because he knew all men and knew what was in man 502. Mich. 7. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned Vers 9. He will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousnesse The people of Israel being miserably afflicted could not boast in the sight of God of their innocence therefore they ought patiently to endure Gods corrections but before their enemies being innocent they did rise up by divine help The Babylonians were formerly to the Israelites as the Turks and Tartars are now adayes to the Christians afflicting us without cause though in the sight of God we are not without fault NAHUMS Prophesie the Elkoshite HE Prophesieth against the Assyrians He denounceth destruction to the Ninivites 100 years after Jonas he comforts the Jews preaching unto them the message of peace 503. Nah. 1. 2. The Lord avengeth and is furious Psal 103. 8. The Lord is very pitifull long suffering and full of mercy God is jealous a severe Judge and revenger not pardoning the sins and wickednesse of impenitent sinners but he is most mercifull as a tender Father to the godly and such as be penitent 504 Nah. 1. 9. Affliction shall not rise up the second time Rom. 1. 28. The wicked shall be punished in this world when they are delivered up to a a reprobate sense to do those things which are not convenient and in the world to come with eternall destruction Justice doth not punish twice sufficiently for the same fault but it is not disagreeing to justice to inflict divers degrees of punishments for the same sault so temporall punishments to the wicked are but the beginning of eternall punishments But the Prophet teacheth here that God will so deal with the Assyrians in the Land of Judah that there shall be no need of a second judgement 505. Nah. 1. 15. For the wicked
shall no more passe through thee 2 King 24. 1. Chap. 25. 1. Nebuchadnezzar invaded the land of Judah and spoyled it The Prophet speaks of Senacherib that he should come no more into the land of Judah for he was killed by his own sons Also the words of the Prophet may be understood concerning the perfect blessednesse of the next world HABAKKUKS Prophesie HE foretels to the Jews when they sinned their destruction by the Caldeans He comforts the faithfull with the coming of the Messias and the destruction of the Babylonians He prays for the ignorant He prophesied in the year 3290. 506. Heb. 1. 5. Behold you amongst the heathen and regard for I will work a worke in your dayes which you will not believe though it be told you Act. 13. 41. Paul refers these words to the resurrection of Christ. The Apostle compares the resurrection of Christ with the wonderfull deliverance of the Jews from the bondage of Babylon which though their forefathers would not believe yet they found it to be true so their posterity must needs acknowledge that Christ was raised from the dead 507. Hab. 2. 4. The just shall live by his faith Mat. 9. 2. Jesus seeing their faith Every one shall live by his own faith to eternall life but an other mans faith or prayers may obtain from God for us temporall benefits or deliverance In the latter place Christ speaks not only of their faith who brought the man to him that was sick of the Palsie but of his faith also 508. Hab. 2. 4. The just shall live by his faith Luk. 10. 28. Do this and live We live and are justified by faith not for our faith but because by faith we lay hold on Christ Do this saith Christ to the Lawyer that from the Law he might learn to know his own weaknesse and not that by observing the Law he might deserve life for by the law no man is justified in the sight of Rom. 3. 9. Gal. 3. 24. God ZEPHANIAHS Prophesie THe son of Chushi he prophesieth to the unbelieving Jews their destruction by their neighbour Nations and to those Nations their extermination by other Nations But deliverance to believers He prophesied about the year 3451. 509. Zeph. 1. 5. He prophesied in the days of Josiah of the evills which should come upon Judah 2 King 23. 3. Josias and all the people made a covenant with the Lord that they should walk after God with all their heart The Prophesie by a legall commination moved both King and people to manifest their zeal But he frighted the wicked Hypocrites and such as were averse from God by threatning them that so they might forsake their sinnes 510. Zeph. 1. 7. The day of the Lord is at hand 2 Thess 2. 3. Be not terrified as though the day of the Lord were at hand In the former place by the day of the Lord is understood the neernesse of the Babylonish captivity In the latter the coming of the Lord to Judgement the time whereof is not for us to know 511. Zeph. 3. 7. I said surely thou wilt fear me Vers 7. But they corrupted their own doing I said the Lord useth that word after the manner of men not as though he had failed of his hope for all things are known to him before they be but as if he should say Who would thing you should be so hardned that my very threatnings should not move you HAGGIES Prophesie HE upbraids the Jews for that they did not rebuild the Temple and exhorts them to build it and he describes the magnificence of the second Temple He prophesied after the captivity of Babylon under Darius Hystaspes in the year 3444. 512. Hagg. 1. 8. Bring wood and build the house Isai 66. 1. Thus saith the Lord Heaven is my seat and the earth is my footstoole what house is that you will build unto me The rebuilding of the Temple was accepted with God for the holy convocation and the worship in it to Gods glory that was with the Priesthood and Leviticall rites a type of Christ unto whose coming onely it was to endure 513. Hagg. 2. 3. You that saw this house in its firstglory and how do you see it now Is it not in comparison of it as nothing Vers 9. The glory of this latter house shall be greater then that of the former house saith the Lord of hosts The structure indeed of this house did not answer the Majesty of the first house built by Solomon Yet the spiritual glory of this latter house shall be greater then the former house because the Lord himself came into it and preached in it disputed and wrought great miracles there 514. Hagg. 2. 4. Do so for I am with you saith the Lord of hosts Zach. 1. 12. O Lord of hosts how long will it be ere thou have pity on Jerusalem In the first place the Prophet comforts the people by the hope of promises in Christ promising that God would be present there with his people after the captivity of Babylon In the latter Christ intercedes for his Church which hath sinned against God and was punished by a just judgement of God with a Babylonian captivity for 70. years 515. Hag. 2. 6. Yet a little while and I will shake the heaven and the earth and the desire of all Nations shall come This Prophesie was fulfilled after 500 years under Augustus Caesar Luk. 2. 11. With God 1000 years are but as one day or one watch in the night ZECHARIAS Prophesie THe son of Barachiah He warns the Jews to repent to build the Temple he makes mention of his visions and explains them by the effusion of the Spirit of grace and prayers He prophesied after the return from Babylon in the year of the world 3456. 516. Zech. 1. 3. Turn unto me and I will turn unto you Joh. 6. 44. No man comes unto me unlesse my Father draw him The first place is legall requiring of us what we ought and not what we can do The latter is evangelicall for no man comes unto God unlesse God draw him by his Spirit Therefore we must pray diligently Convert me O Lord that I may be converted because Jer. 31. 18. thou O Lord art my God 517. Zech. 1. 17. Chap. 2. 10. The Lord shall yet comfort Zion and shall yet choose Jerusalem Eph. 1. 4. God the Father chose us in Christ before the foundations of the world The election of a certain people to be a visible Church in the first place is taken metonymically for by that deed God sheweth that he hath confirmed the election of Jerusalem In the latter God speaks of our election unto eternall life 518. Zech. 2. 8. He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of mine eye Isai 3. 1. Behold the Lord of hosts doth take away from Jerusalem the whole stay of bread In the first place is contained the promise of God to the faithfull that keep his Covenant In the latter is the pronouncing
of judgement against the obstinate Jews God is said to have kept his people as the apple of his eye so long Deut. 32. 10. Psal 17. 8. as they were obedient But temporall punishments inflicted on the wicked do not infringe the truth of his promise and of divine performance 519. Zech. 3. 9. I will remove the iniquity of his land in one day Revel 13. 8. Christ is slain from the beginning of the world In one day is the performance of Christs passion who dying for our sins restored us unto life But he was slain from the beginning of the world in Gods determinations by election virtue efficacy and acceptation and in respect of the fruits of it which redounded to the Church under the old Testament 520. Zech. 6. 13. He shall sit and rule upon his throne Isai 9. 7. He shall sit upon the throne of Daaid and upon his Kingdome Luk. 1. 33. Christ in respect of his divine nature hath his throne from everlasting to everlasting But in respect of his humanity being he is born of the seed of David according to the flesh the Lord God hath given him a throne that he may reign over the house of Jacob forever 521. Zech. 11. 12. They weighed for my price 30 pieces of silver Mat. 27. 9. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet they took 30 pieces of silver the price of him that was valued whom they did value Eusebius saith that Jeremiahs name was put De Demonstraâ—â— l. 10. c. 4. for Zecharias name by the errour of the Scrivener Out of Jeremiah some make the computation where he makes mention of 17 shekels which make 30 pieces of silver Jer. 32. 9. 522. Zech. 13. 7. Awake O sword against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow saith the Lord of hosts smite the shepherd and the sheep shall be scattered Joh. 10. 10. No man takes away my life from me The Prophet mentioneth God the Father commanding in the name of the whole Trinity whose words outwardly are common to the three Persons and undivided that his shepheard namely Christ should be slaine that contradicts not Christs words who willingly laid down his life for us 523. Zech. 13. 7. The sheep shall be scattered Joh. 17. 12. Those that thou gavest unto me I have kept them Chap. 18. 9 10. I have not lost one God the Father speaks of the scattering Christ of the keeping That scattering takes not away Christs keeping because none of the Apostles which his Father gave to him perished but the son of perdition MALACHIES Prophesie HE complains of the wickednesse of the people of the Jewes and the Priests He comforts the godly Threatens the wicked Exhorts all to repentance and faith in Christ He was the last that prophesied before Christs incarnation In the year of the world 3513. 524. Mal. 1. 2. Was not Esau Jacobs brother saith the Lord yet I loved Jacob and hated Esau 2 Chron. 19. 7. There is no accepting of persons with God God is a most free agent and doth all things that he doth according to his own good pleasure he respects not the externall quality of the person nor his condition nation sex riches poverty hatred c. so he loved Jacob revealed himself unto him gave to his posterity the land of Canaan He neglected Esau who was Isaacs eldest son and most beloved of his Father nor was he bound by any laws to do otherwise unto him 525. Mal. 1. 8. If you offer the blind the lame the sick for sacrifice is it not evill Psal 50. 8. I will not reprove thee for thy burnt sacrifices The Prophet speaks of sacrifices the Psalmist of the sacrificers Sacrifices were to be offered unto God without spot or fault not blind or lame but without scars scabs or blisters for Christ of whom they were but types was an Lev. 22. 22 25. oblation most pure and absolute and free from all spots for our sins 526. Mal. 2. 7. The Priests lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth Mat. 22. 29. You erre not knowing the Scriptures of God The first place is concerning the office of the Priests who were bound to keep knowledge that the people might seek for knowledge at their mouth and they were to answer the people Lev. 10. 11 that inquired concerning the law The latter is concerning the ignorance of the Priests who fit upon Moses chair contrary to Gods commandement and their own duty which was the cause that the people together with the Priests and the Scribes ran to errour Hitherto we have described the Reconciliations of appearing contrarieties in the Canon of the old Testament for the space of 4000 years from the creation of the world from Adam Noah Abraham and Solomon untill the time that Christ came Now follow those of the new Testament from Christs Nativity to the end of the world RECONCILING Of Places of the NEW-TESTAMENT THe Scripture of the New-Testament is the Word of God written after Christ was revealed by the Apostles and Evangelists in the Greek tongue some few things were written in Hebrew namely St. Matthews Gospel and the Epistle to the Hebrews It is divided Euseb l. 3. c. 26. l. 6. c. 11. 19. Jeron in Catal. Scriptorum into Evangelical and Epistolical books Those are the Evangelical books which contain a part of the glad tidings or the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ with the History from his Nativity to his Ascension into Heaven at the thirty fourth year of his age The Gospel of St. MATTHEW IT contains the Genealogy of Jesus Christ his birth education his Prophetical Office in Preaching Miracles his Priestly Office in the oblation of himself for our sins and his Kingly Office in his rising from the dead and the government of his Church 527. Mat. 1. 1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 1. 4. Tit. 3. 9. Avoid foolish and endlesse genealogies The knowledge of Christs genealogie is more profitable that we may know Jesus to be the true Messias promised of the seed of Abraham and David Paul condemns the madnesse of those who tell mens fortunes by their Nativities and such as move unprofitable questions concerning genealogies which the Jews addicted themselves much to neglecting the study of godlinesse those he bids us to avoid as vain and idle and Heathenish fancies 528. Mat. 1. 1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ the son of David the son of Abraham Luk. 3. 23 38. Who was the son of Heli Nagge Matthat c. of Adam of God Matthew and Luke differ not Matthew describes the genealogie of Christ by the line of Solomon to Joseph Luke by Nathan another son of David from Josephs Father in law who was called Eli to David and so far as Adam the father of mankind 529. Mat. 1. 6. David the King begat Solomon Luk. 3. 31. Who was the son of Nathan who was the son
Elias the Thishbite who lived in the dayes of Ahab for the Jews were of that opinion as some now adayes look for Enoch and Elias 589. Mat. 11. 18. John came neither eating nor drinking cap. 3. 4. His meat was Locusts and wild Honey Christ commends Johns austere life sobriety and temperance in the former place because he used not ordinary meat and drink Yet he did not exceed Christ in his austere life For bodily exercise 1 Tim 4. 8. profiteth but little 590. Mat. 11. 25. O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Jam. 3. 13. Who so is a wise man and endued with knowledge amongst you let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meeknesse of wisedome Christ speaks of the wisdome of this world and Diabolical wisdome which is contrary to divine wisdome James speaks of both divine and humane wisdome 591. Mat. 11. 28. Christ saith Come unto me all 1 Cor. 1. 26. You see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many noble are called The general vocation extends to all there is one general call of all men to the great Supper and another special cal of believers onely who Luk. 14. obey Christ and his Gospel 592. Mat. 11. 30. My yoak is easie and my burden is light Mar. 10. 25. It is easier for a Camel to goe through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the Kingdome of God The yoke of Christ is easie and his burden light to the spirit not to the flesh to those that are mild and humble by Christs example or the Gospel yoke is easie by the holy Ghost and in comparison of the unsupportable yoke of the law It is a hard matter for a rich covetous man to enter into the Kingdome of God not for that riches are evil but because he doth wickedly abuse them 593. Mat. 12. 10. The Pharises ask Christ if it be lawful to heal on the Sabbath days Mar. 3. 4. Christ asketh the Pharisees whether it were lawful to doe good on the Sahbath dayes To the question of the Pharisees Christ answered by inversion intimating that God was more pleased to help a miserable man then to Mat. 12 8. forsake him 594. Mat. 12. 32. Whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaketh against the holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him Rom. 5. 20. Where sin hath abounded grace doth much more abound The unpardonable sin against the holy Ghost is not so in it self that it cannot be forgiven but for the malicious obstinacy of those that will not come to Christ by repentance and doe proudly seduce others 595. Mat. 12. 49. He stretched forth his hand towards his Disciples and said Behold my Mother and my Brethren Mat. 1. 10. Luk. 2. The Virgin was Christs Mother Christ denyeth not his kindred according to the flesh but prefers spiritual kindred before them and that speech depends on his Office who receives the faithful into the first degree of honour as though they were his neerest kindred 596. Mat. 13. 12. Hee that hath not Ver. 12. From him shall be taken away even that he hath He is said not to have who is more careful to seek after novelties then to believe Gods Word or look after his own salvation such a one because he thinks he hath the knowledge of God and disdains his Word shall fall away at last by his boasting and shall by his own Luk. 8. 18. Rom. 2. 17. Ap. 3. destruction understand how miserable naked and poor he is 597. Mat. 13. 16. Blessed are your eyes that see Joh. 20. 29. Blessed are they that have not seen and yet believed In the first place is understood the temporal blessednesse and felicity of those who conversed with Christ In the latter the heavenly and eternal felicity of believers 598. Mat. 13. 33. The kingdome of heaven is like to leaven 1 Cor. 5. 7. Purge out the old leaven The doctrine of the Apostles was like to leaven because of its sudden piercing into the whole world as the doctrine of the Pharisees was like to leaven which was to be avoided or all iniquity and filthinesse of nature and Mat. 16. 22. carnal desires of wicked men may be so compared therefore we may interpret this either for good or evill leaven in the first place is taken in a good sense in the second in an evill sense 599. Mat. 15. 22. A woman of Canaan Mar. 7. 26. A Greek a Syrophenissian She was of the posterity of the Cananites by kind a Syrophenissian in the borders of Tyre and Sydon she dwelt in the Countrey of Syria and Phenicia 600. Mat. 15. 24. I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel 1 Tim. 2. 5. There is one Mediator between God and man who gave himself a ransome for all In the former place Christ speaks of his Prophetical Office that is of teaching and working Miracles In his second of his Mediatorship of salvation and redemption that belongs and is extended to all believers 601. Mat. 16. 6. Take heed of the Leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadduces c. 23. 2 3. The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat All therefore whatsoever they bid you that observe and doe By the leaven of the Pharisees is here understood their perverse doctrine corrupting the purity of Gods Word Christ commands them to beware of this and their hypocrisie infecting the sincerity of manners for like leaven it penetrates puffs up and corrupts but the eyes of God respect sincerity only yet he bids them observe what they taught that sit in Moses Jer. 5. 5. chair out of the law of God For truth whosoever preacheth it must be received for it self but we must not depend on their false hypocritical glosses for God is worshipped in vain after the commandements of men 602. Mat. 17. 15. Lord have mercy on my son for he is lunatick Mar. 9. 17. I have brought unto thee my son who hath a dumb spirit He is lunatick who upon the wane of the Moon is sick of the Falling-sicknesse or a Vertigo which happens to many by imperfection of nature This man was said to be dumb and deaf not by nature but because Satan possessed his tongue and ears so that he added more diseases to his natural Infirmity 603. Mat. 18 8. If thy hand or thy foot offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee Ephes 5. 29. No man hateth his own flesh Christs speaks figuratively that we should crucifie the old man with his evill affections that bear rule in the members of our bodies that we must cast away the most dear and profitable things from us which set our sins on fire and foster them and offend us 604. Mat. 18. 15. If thy brother trespasse against thee
were crucified with him cast the same in his teeth Luk. 23. 39. And one of the malefactors which were hanged rayled on him Matthew ascribes to both that which was proper to one as the murmuring before amongst the Apostles or if both at first did rayl on him one of them at last confessed his sin and acknowledged Jesus to be the Messias 635. Mat. 28. 8. The Maries departed from the Sepulchre with fear and great joy Mar. 16. 8. They fled from the Sepulchre for they trembled and were amazed That fear and amazement was joyn'd with joy as it fals out in sudden accidents 636. Mat. 28. 9. The women came and held him by the feet Joh. 20. 17. He saith to Mary Magdalen Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my Father Christ suffered the women to touch him to confirm the certainty of his Resurrection that they might be more sure witnesses to his Disciples and others he forbad Mary Magdalen to touch him because she rejoyced too much with carnal affection and therefore he would have her rather touch him by faith that is believe in him to be the Son of God the Lord of glory salvation life and death 637. Mat. 28. 18. All power is given to me both in heaven and in earth Mar. 13. 32. But of that day knoweth no man no not the Son but the Father onely All power is given unto Christ the Mediator because he is made Lord in the glory of God the Father In the day of his humiliation he knew not as man the day of Judgement or not for himself that he knew not but for us saith Augustine because it behoved not us to know 638. Mat. 28. 18. All power is given to me in heaven and in earth Rom. 9. 5. Christ who is over all God blessed for ever Power is given to Christ as man for nothing can be given to him as God for as God he had al things before in his power but the humanity of Christ hath not that power of it self but from the Divine Nature with which the humane nature is personally united 939. Mat. 28. 19. Teach all Nations Mar. 16. 15. Preach the Gospel to every creature Mat. 7. 6. Psal 19. 5. Rom. 10. 5. Give not that which is holy to the Dogs nor Pearls to Swine In the first place by the Nations and the Creatures are understood the Jews and Gentiles for the sweet voyce of the Gospel was to sound to all through the whole earth and the seed of the Word to be sowen that Infidels might be left unexcuseable In the latter holy and Pearls signifie the same It must not be given to Dogs and Swine that is to persecutors scoffers despisers profane For he that reproveth a scorner Prov. 9. 7. getteth himself shame and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blet St. MARKS Gospel IT containeth briefly the sayings and deeds of Christ in Galilee Judea and Jerusalem which Matthew wrote more at large some will Nicephor l. 2. c. 48. Eus l. 2. c. 15. have it dictated and approved by Peter whose Scholar Mark was Irenaeus saith it was written after the death of Peter and Paul 640. Mar. 1. 1. The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ v. 3. The voyce of one crying in the Wildernesse Mat. 1. 1. Luk 1. 2. In the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ his Conception and Nativity are described Mark understands the beginning of the Gospel to be the time of the promulgation Matthew begins the Evangelical History thirty years before the Preaching of John Baptist but Mark begins from his preaching because the Law and the Prophets prophesied until John Matth. 11. 15. 641. Mar. 1. 2. As it is written in the Prophets Luk. 3. 4. In the Book of the words of Isaiah the Prophet Mark understands Malachi and Isaiah the Prophets Isa 40. 3. Mat. 3. 1. Isa 43 4. Luke means Isaiah only 642. Mar. 2. 7. Who can forgive sins but God only Joh. 20. 23. Whose sins you remit they are remitted unto them God above remits sins by his own authority The Apostles and Pastors of the Churches only testifie in the Name of Christ that upon condition of faith they are remitted But God speaks to us by his Ministers that we should be sure of his grace and should have the Sacred Function in honour since it is confirmed in Heaven what the Ministers declare on Earth 643. Mar. 5. 20. The man that was possessed with the Devil published in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him Luk. 3. 39. He went through the City publishing He published it first in the City of the Gadarens and afterwards in other parts of Decapolis 644. Mar. 5. 30. Vertue went forth of Christ to cure the woman v. 34. He said unto her Daughter thy faith hath made thee whole By vertue from Christ was the woman restored to her health which she applyed to her self by faith and so her issue of bloud staid 645. Mar. 6. 5. Christ could doe no mighty works in his own countrey Mat. 28. 18. All power is given to me in heaven and in earth Christ was not destitute of vertue but for their incredulity for faith is the hand that receives Christs benefits and to those that believe all things are possible that he could not is meant here he would not for that is Gods will to be able saith Tertullian 646. Mar. 9. 2. After six dayes Jesus taketh with him Peter James and John Luk. 9 28. And it came to passe about eight dayes The first place must be understood exclusively in respect of the day in which Christ speaks and was transformed The latter includes both those dayes and he numbereth not precisely but about eight there were not so many whole dayes 647. Mar. 9. 35. And he sate down and called the twelve Mat. 18. 1. The Disciples came unto him saying The Disciples on the way disputed who should be the greatest of them Christ therefore at home called the twelve and they being called came unto him 648. Mar. 10. 19. Christ answereth him that asked of him about eternal life Thou knowest the Commandements Doe not commit adultery doe not kill doe not steal Rom. 3. 20. By the deeds of the Law shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God Gal. 2. 16 c. 3. 10. To him that asked What shall I doe Christ answering his question that he might make him know his weaknesse he sends him back to the rule of works or the law of God and so would have him to seek salvation in Christ and not in his own works 649. Mar. 11. 7. They brought the Colt to Jesus Mat. 21. 7. They brought the Asse and the Colt Matthew is an eye witnesse that the Asse and Zach. 9. 9. the Colt were both brought according to the prophesie Fear not O Daughter of Sion behold thy King cometh sitting upon an Asse and the foal of an Asse Some make this an embleme of the
Jews and Gentiles by the Jew to be meant the Asse which our Saviour rid first on but because she went untowardly he left her and road on the Foal which was an embleme of the Gentiles who received the Gospel willingly which the Jews rejected 650. Mar. 14. 12. And the first day of unleavened bread when they killed the Passeover Joh. 13. 1. Now before the Feast of the Passeover when Jesus knew that his hour was come The Iews began their day from the evening and they were to celebrate the Passeover on the 14. day of the month Nisan according to the law as Christ did But the Iews referred that solemnity to the Sabbath day and called it the Lev. 23. great day of the Sabbath 651. Mar. 14. 32. They came to a place which was named Gethsemani Luk. 22. 39. And he went as he was wont to the Mount of Olives Gethsemani that is the Valley of fatnesse it was so called from the fruitfulnesse of the place or otherwise the Garden in which the Mount of Olives was Therefore the Evangelists here set the same place by divers names 652. Mar. 15. 25. And it was the third hour and they crucified him Joh. 19. 14. About the sixt hour Pilate said to the Iews Behold your King In the former place the hour of the day was reckoned according to the manner of the Iews from Sun rising to Sun setting twelve hours to a day in the latter from midnight after the custome of the Romans Christ was condemned and cruificed the third hour after Sun-rising at the sixt hour he was exposed to scorns at the ninth hour after three hours darknesse he was dead and the remainder of the day was spent in his burial 653. Mar. 16. 1. When the Sabbath day was Job 20. 12. â— past the Maries brought spices Luk. 23. 56. The day of the Passeover the women prepared Spices and Oyntments On the day of the Passeover they bought spices and began to make Oyntments on the Sabbath day after Sun-set they continued it and when the Sabbath was past they came very early in the morning to Christs Sepulcher 654. Mar. 16. 5. In the Sepulcher they saw a young man sitting on the right side Luk. 24. 4. Behold two men stood by them in shining garments Mark makes mention of one Angel which spake to the women Luke speaks of two that were witnesses of our Saviours Resurrection 655. Mar. 16. 6. He is risen he is not here Behold the place where they laid him Joh. 20. 14. Mary turned her self back and saw Iesus standing The Angel speaketh concerning him dead such a one as the women sought for that they might anoynt his body but Christ witnessed himself that he was alive not only by testimony of Angel but by manifesting himself at the monument and speaking unto Mary 656. Mar. 16. 9. When Iesus was risen early the first day of the week he appeared first to Mary Magdalen Mat. 28 9. Iesus met the women which were Mary Magdalen and Ioanna and Mary the Mother of Iames and the rest Mary Magdalen is first named because she in a peculiar manner saw Christ then the other women after her saw him in their order 657. Mar. 16. 15. Preach the Gospel to every creature Mat. 10. 5. Goe not into the way of the Gentiles The first place is concerning the enlarging of Christs Kingdome amongst all Nations after Christs Resurrection The latter is concerning the first temporal mission of the Disciples to the Iews only for the mystery of our Redemption before Christs death was not to be preacht to the Gentiles therefore Christ was called Rom. 15. 8. the Minister of the Circumcision 658. Mar. 16. 16. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved Rom. 10. 10. With the heart man believeth unto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation Faith is the means of our salvation confession is required not that faith is unsufficient but because faith is not in the heart where confession is not in the mouth but where it is in the heart it ingenders all parts of outward confession 659. Mar. 16. 16. He that believeth not shall be damned Rom. 11. 32. God hath concluded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all Christ speaks of some unbelievers who were hardned that they should not believe the Gospel such shall be damned So they that are not moved by promises or threatnings to believe the Gospel to them is cursing judgement and death Paul speaks of all them both Jews and Gentiles and describes their state before the preaching of the Gospel for they are all by nature shut up in unbelief and those that are believers of the Gospel are freed from this state that by the Gospel they may be made partakers of Gods mercy in Christ 660. Mar. 16. 19. The Lord Jesus after he had spoken unto them was received up into heaven and sate at the right hand of God c. 14. 22. This is my body Christ ascending and sitting at the right hand of God doth not take away the presence of his body in the holy Supper but confessing it that he is exalted above all things into Phil. 2. 9. glory 661. Mar. 16. 19. Christ sits at the right hand of God Eph. 1. 20. Col. 3. 1. Heb. 1. 3. c. 8. 1. 1 Pet. 3. 22. Act. 7. 56. Steven saw Jesus standing at the right hand of God To sit is the part of the Judge to stand the part of him that fights and helps us saith Gregory Homil. de Ascens Domini Steven therefore being at the conflict with death saw him standing whom he had for to help him but Mark describes Christ sitting after his Resurrection for after the glory of his Ascension he shall come as Judge in the end of the world St. LUKES Gospel IT comprehends the Conception of John Baptist and Jesus Christ with their Nativity Life Vocation Sermons in special the Miracles of Christ his Passion Death Resurrection Apparition and Ascension into Heaven 662. Luk. 1. 13. Zacharias prayer is heard v. 18. He believed not Although he had a conflict through the weaknesse of his faith of the special gift of so wonderful a son yet he had a general faith concerning a Messias the Deliverer of the people from their disgrace and therefore his doubting did not exclude his prayers from being heard 663. Luk. 1. 32. The Lord God shall give unto him the Throne of his Father David Joh. 18. 36. My Kingdome is not of this world To sit in the Throne of David here is not to govern a temporal Kingdome as David did here on earth but a spiritual wherein Christ reigns by faith in the hearts of his followers and he rules over sin death and the Devil 664. Luk. 1. 33. And he shall reign over the House of Jacob for ever 1 Cor. 15. 24. He shall deliver up the Kingdome to God the Father v. 28. He shall be subject unto him Christs
or to sinne as if it were sinne to live in Wedlock but it signifies tranquillity of life especially in time of persecution The wife before the fall was given to man by God as a helper to his devotion society generation education oeconomy and much more after the fall is she a helper to him in his infirmity and is the remedy of unlawfull love 917. 1 Cor. 7. 6. I speak this by permission and not of commandment ver 5. Defraud you not one the other ver Let every man have his own wife The first place leaves it free to married people Gen. 2. 24. Mat 19. 6. to live continently if they can and are willing so to do In the later places the pious custom of married people by the Institution of God and the approbation of Christ is commended 918. 1 Cor. 7. 10. I command yet not I but Mat. 5. 32. ch 19. 3. the Lord. ver 12. Speak I not the Lord. First he saith not I but the Lord because it was a Law to forbid divorcements afterward I saith he not the Lord because by him without a commandment of God the holy Ghost did then teach 919. 1 Cor. 7. 14. Your children are holy Ephes 2. 3. We were the children of wrath The first place sheweth the honest procreation of Christian children who though they are by nature the children of wrath yet by reason of the Covenant and faith they are called holy 920. 1 Cor. 7. 21. Art thou called being a servant care not for it ver 21. but if thou maiest be made free use it rather The first place is to comfort servants against the troubles of servitude and he will not have them for that condition to forsake the faith of Christ whereunto they were called and lose their Christian liberty for their corporall service So that the instruction added to it makes no disagreement because servants ought with a willing minde to embrace lawfull freedom obtained by reason and a safe conscience 921. 1 Cor. 7. 23. Be not servants of men ch 9. 19. The Apostle makes himself a servant to all men It is indeed a most ignominious slavery and sad service to depend on the commands of other men besides the commandments of God but to be serviceable for the sacred Ministry is not ignominious but honourable 922. 1 Cor. 7. 23. Be not servants of men Eph. 6. 5. Servants obey your Masters Service is spirituall or carnall from that he disswades in the former place for we must not Gal. 5. 1. Eph. 6. 6. obey the wicked desires of men and dishonest commands but must so serve them that we may not offend God or wrong our consciences this he chargeth us to do which though it may be thought hard yet whilst we do it in the sincerity of our hearts for that God requires it it will be accepted 923. 1 Cor. 7. 25. Concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord yet I give my judgement Matth. 19. 12. There are some Eunuchs which have made themselves Eunuchs for the Kingdom of heavens sake There is no command of Virginity in both the Covenants Christ speaks of the Essens of the time past condemning them of rashnesse because they sought for the Kingdom of God in perpetuall continency which is a singular gift of God and given to very few Paul speaks for necessity setting down what is expedient for all by reason of time and place because it was not safe for Christians because of persecutions to stay alwaies in one place and because of the cares which ordinarily follow married people 624. 1 Cor. 7. 29. Let those that have wives be as though they had none ver 3 4 5. He approves conjugall custom In the first place he forbids not the use of Marriage but he would not have the husband too uxorious and he bids them to use the goods of this world moderately least we should be overcome with evils or suppose the good of this life to be perpetuall since if we lose not all here by some accidents yet in our doubts we must leave them all 925. 1 Cor. 7. 32. I would have you to be without carefulnesse 2 Thess 3. 10. He that will not labour let him not eat By carefulnesse here he means not to call men from their vocations and houshold cares but the inconveniences of Matrimony whereby we are often called from the service of God 926. 1 Corinth 8. 1. Knowledge puffeth up 1 Cor. 1. 5. Enriched in Christ with all knowledge The first place condemns vain knowledge adjoyned with pride Knowledge puffeth up nor of it self but by accident smatterers and boasters abusing it neglecting what is for their edification the later praiseth knowledge joyned with charity as it was a gift of God in Christ amongst the Corinthians 927. 1 Cor. 8. 11. Through thy knowledge shall thy weak brother perish for whom Christ died John 10. 28. Those that are Christs sheep shall never perish Infirm Christians may perish by reason of their infirmity Satans malice and the impudeney of the wicked who abusing their Christian Liberty are an offence to the faithfull they cannot perish in respect of the counsell of God and the merits of Christ and the efficacy of his intercession who by a mighty hand preserves them to salvation 928. 1 Cor. 9. 15. It were better for me to dye then that any man should make my glorying void ch 1. 29. That no flesh should glory in his presence The first place is of true and honest glory necessary for a good conscience that hath faithfully discharged it self in its office the later is concerning vain unjust boasting and unnecessary which must be avoided 929. 1 Cor. 9. 20. To the Jews I became as a Jew Acts 13. 46. We turn to the Gentiles The Apostle would have won both Jews and Gentiles unto Christ for the Jews cause he circumcised Timothy shore his head paid his vow in the Temple and observed other Ceremonies for a time in the later place he turns to the Gentiles from the Jews who were hardened and thrust away from them the Word of God 930. 1 Cor. 9. 22. I am made all things to all men Gal. 1. 10. If I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ In the first place as a wise Teacher he accommodates himself to strong and weak to edisie them in the Gospel not as flatterers and hypocrites do 931. 1 Cor. 9 24. So runne that ye may obtain Rom. 9. 16. It is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that sheweth mercy The first place is of those that are justified and heirs of eternall life that fight a good fight the later is concerning the efficient cause of our salvation which is the grace and mercy of God 932. 1 Cor. 10 2. They were all baptized unto Moses ch 1. 13. Were you baptized in the name of Paul To be baptized in the name is taken improperly unto Moses that is in the
Doctrine and Law delivered by him or by his Ministry as Acts 19. into John's Doctrine but in the later it is taken properly so we are baptized in the name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost for baptism cannot be performed in the name of any creature because to be baptized in the name of any one that is by his command and authority to be baptized for his worship faith and obedience 933. 1 Cor. 10. 23. No temptation hath befallen you but such as is common to men Matth. 4. 3. The devil is a tempter Temptation is the divine probation of our faith and obedience or a devilish tempting of us to sinne or when men tempt us to persevere in sinne or when the weaknesse of our nature draws us into faults and errours such were the temptations of the Saints and of the Corinthians here 934. 1 Cor. 10. 15. Judge ye your selves what I say Joh. 5. 39. Search the Scriptures The Apostle makes all men judges of his cause if any could not judge it was not imbecillity of the Law but the deed because all were bound to know things that concerned their faith for by the Word of God we may judge concerning things that belong to faith the knowledge whereof is necessary for all men and it is acquired by reading meditation invocation and searching the holy Scriptures 935. 1 Cor. 10. 15. I speak as to wise men ch 3. 1. As to carnall and babes The Corinthians were wise in respect of their doctrine but carnall in their affections by reason of their strife and contentions for the most learned have their carnall desires nor were they all wise or carnall for often what belongs to some is imputed to all 936. 1 Cor. 10. 21. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils ch 11. 29. He that cateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh his own damnation The first place is of right and so they cannot nor must not eat or drink though they do eat and drink the later is understood of the fact whereby they take it 937. 1 Cor. 10. 24. Let no man seek his own but every man anothers wealth 1 Tim. 5. 8. But if any man provide not for his own especially for his own house he hath denied the faith and is worse then an Infidel The first is to be understood with limitation that no man out of over-much love of himself should do his own occasions boastingly which is farre from Christian charity which teacheth that a man is not born for himself but to serve God and to do good to his neighbour 938. 1 Cor. 11. 24. Eat this is my Body Rom. 6. 9. The Body dieth no more In the Lords Supper the Body of Christ is not broken by a naturall or carnall manner the Body and the Blood the Bread and the Wine are received conjunctively in respect of the instrument but they are received disjunctively in respect of the manner for the bread and wine is received after one manner the Body and Blood after another manner 939. 1 Cor. 11. 24. Which is broken for you Luk. 22. 1. Which is given The Apostle received from the Lord what he delivered to the Corinthians concerning the sacred Supper without doubt in the first institution the Lord used both the words and because the Evangelists make mention of the name of giving the Apostle addes the other 940. 1 Cor. 12. 3. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost Matth. 7. 21. Isa 29 Mat. 7. â—â— Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven In the first place it is not only historically with outward lips to say that Jesus Christ is the Lord but with faith to beleeve that he is the Thâ—â— Lord which hypocrites and devils cannot do for though with their mouth they confesse him yet with works they deny him also no man can say for his own salvation that Jesus is the Lord unlesse he have the holy Ghost 941. 1 Cor. 12 6. God worketh all in all Phil. 2. 12. Work out your salvation God as the first cause works all good in all men we with God work 〈◊〉 our salvation subordinately we are called by God moving and helping us freely and by his grace we cooperate 942. 1 Cor. 13. 2. Though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains I am nothing Rom. 3. 28. We are justified by faith without the works of the Law In the first place by all faith is meant faith of Mat. 17 20. working all manner of miracles so that it can extend it self so farre as to remove mountains yet charity may be separated from such a 〈◊〉 but it can never be separated from a justifying Joh◠〈…〉 faith to subsist without it 943. 1 Cor. 13. 9. We know in part 1 John 2. 20. Ye know all things In this life our knowledge is in part and imperfect but in the next life it shall be perfected the later place is concerning necessary things to the knowledge of Antichrist that is done by the holy Ghost leading us into all truth by degrees and parts 944. 1 Cor. 13. 12. We see now through a glasse darkly but then face to face 2 Cor. 3. 18. But we all as with open face beholding the glory of the Lord. The face in Scripture is taken for Gods Essence Exod. 33. 23. for his generall presence Deut. 31. 17. for Gods grace Numb 6. 25. for his revenge Rev. 6. 16. for knowledge and internall vision Exod. 33. 11. of this in the first place but in the later is meant the sight of God in our Country that is in heaven as it is said through a glasse and in a riddle in respect of the Law for God is seen by us in part in the Word of God as he is 945. 1 Cor. 13. 13. Now abideth faith hope and charity but the greatest of these is charity Gal. 5. 6. Faith works by love Charity being the effect of faith is the inferiour for by faith we are justified and Christ Rom. 5. 1. dwelleth in us and we please God we are the sons of God and obtain eternall life Charity is not the greatest vertue but because it shall remain in the next life in its operations 946. 1 Cor. 14. 31. You may all prophesie one by one Heb. 5. 4. No man taketh this honour to himself but he that is called of God The Apostle understands all that are lawfully Jer. 28. 2. 1 Pet. 4. 11. called to the Office of Prophesying 947. 1 Cor. 15. 9 I am the least of the Apostles ver 10. I laboured more then they all He was the least in order because he was the last called to be an Apostle but he was greater in labouring because the charge of all the Churches was committed unto him In the first Rom. 15. 16 17. place he speaks lowly of himself according to Christs commandment When you have done all