the people rescued Jonathan that he died not 1 Sam. 14. 43 44 45. Hezekiah the Lord was with him c. and he rebelled against the king of Asiyria 2 Kings 18. 7. Mordecai bowed not to Haman notwithstanding the King's Commandment Esther 3. 1 2 3. ch 5. 9. When King Nebuchadnezzar had commanded the Worshipping of an Image Shadrach Meshach and Abednego refused to obey and said Be it known unto thee O king that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the image c. Dan. 3. 15. to 18. When Darius had established a Decree that none should ask any Petition of any God or Man for thirty Days Daniel went into his house after his wonted manner and prayed three times a day Dan. 6. 7 to 10. When the Apostles were forbid to preach in the name of Christ they answered c. Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge you Acts 4. 18 19 20. When the Council charged them with preaching contrary to their Commands c. Peter c. said We ought to obey God father than man Acts 5 27 28 29. Moses was hid by his parents c. and they feared not the king's edict c. He feared not the wrath of the king Heb. 11. 23 27. Secondly What they ought to do or wherein they 〈◊〉 should acknowledge and obey them 1. Submit to and obey them in all Lawful Things MIriam and Aaron spoke against Moses and God smote Miriam with a Leprosie Numb 12 1 9 10 11. The Lord destroyed Korah and his Company for their Rebellion against Moses c. Numb 16. 1 c. Keep the king's commandment and that in regard of the oath of God c. Eccles 8. 2 3 4. God threatned the Jews for revolting from the King of Babylon and breaking their Oath and Covenant with him Ezek. 17. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. Though there was no Tribute due from Christ yet he said to Peter Lest we should offend them go thou c. give unto them for me and thee Matth. 17. 24 to 27. Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesar's Matth. 22. 21. Let every soul be subject to the higher power c. Whosoever therefore resisteth the powers resisteth the ordinance of God c. shall receive to themselves damnation c. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the powers Do that which is good c. Ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience-sake c. For this cause pay you tribute c. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers to obey magistrates c. Titus 3. 1. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the king as supream or unto Governors as unto them who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers c For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye shall put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 15. 2. Give them due Honour and Respect Not contemn their Persons or speak Evil of them THou shalt not revile the gods or Judges nor curse the ruler of thy people Exod. 22. 28. David said to Saul My Lord the King And when Saul looked behind him David stooped with his face to the earth and bowed himself c. He said I will not put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed 1 Sam. 24. 6 8 10. ch 26. 9 11. Nathan the prophet when he was come in before the king he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground and said My Lord O king c. 1 Kings 1. 23 24. Is it fit to say to a king Thou art wicked To princes Ye are ungodly Job 34. 18. The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion c. Prov. 19. 12. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul Prov. 20. 2. ch 16. 14 15. Put not forth thy self in the presence of a king c. Prov. 25. 6 7. Where the word of a king is there is power And who may say unto him What doest thou Eccles 8. 4. Curse not the king no not in thy thoughts Eccles 10. 20. Daniel said to Darius the King O king live for ever Dan. 6. 21. When the Apostle had spoken sharply to the High-Priest and some who stood by had said Revilest thou God's high-priest Then said Paul I wist not brethren that he was the high-priest for it is written Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people Acts 23. 2 3 4 5. Paul said I think my self happy king Agrippa because I shall answer for my self this day before thee c. Festus said c. Paul Thou art beside thy self much learning doth make thee mad But he said I am not mad most noble Festus but speak forth the words of truth and soberness c. Acts 26. 1 2 3 24 25. ch 24. 10. Render therefore to all their dues c. fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Rom. 13. 7. Honour the king 1 Pet. 2. 17. But chiefly them who walk in the lust of uncleanness and despise government c. a dominion c. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignities whereas Angels who are greater in power and might bring not railing accusations against them before the Lord 2 Pet. 2. 10 11 Jude vers 8 9. 3. To pray for them EXhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for kings and for all who are in authority or eminent place that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godliness and honesty For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. 4. To endeavour to get good Magistrates WHen Adonijah exalted himself saying I will be king and preparation was made for it Then Bathsheba the Queen and Nathan the prophet made application to David to set up Solomon to be King and accordingly prevailed 1 Kings 1. 5. To discover Treasons MOrdecai discovered the Design of the King 's two Servants against him Esther 2. 21 22 23. 6. To be content with such Magistrates which God hath set over us although they be not such as they should be WHen Samuel was old he made his sons judges over Israel c. and his sons walked not in or followed not his ways but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and perverted judgment Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel c. and said unto him Behold thou art old and thy sons walk not in thy ways Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations
bringeth forth evil things Matth. 12. 33 34 35. John 3. 6. Luke 6. 43 44 45. Ye cannot serve God and mammon c. That which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination c. Luke 16. 13 15. Some have not the knowledge of God I speak this to your shame 1 Cor. 15. 34. Examine your selves whether ye be in the faith prove your own selves know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates 2 Cor. 13. 5. Gal. 6. 4. Psalm 4. 4. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. 8. 9. If a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself Gal. 6. 3 7. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter Can the fig-tree my brethren bear olive-berries either a vine figs So no fountain both yields salt-water and fresh Who is a wise man and indued with knowledge among you let him shew out of a good conversation his work with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envying c. this wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual c. James 3. 11 12 13 14. Be ready always to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear 1 Pet. 3. 15. Let every man prove his own works and then shall he have rejoycing in himself alone c. Gal. 6. 4. II. Of the particular Fruits of the Spirit in them or good things appearing or neccssary to be in such who are real Saints A Good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good c. Luke 6. 45. And Enoch walked with God c. three hundred years c. and Enoch walked with God and was not c. or walked according to God continually Gen. 5. 22 24. Noah was a just man perfect in his generation Noah walked with God Gan. 6. 9. And the Lord said unto Noah Come c. for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation c. And Noah did according to all that God commanded him Gen. 7. 1 5. Abraham went into a strange place out of his own country when God bid him Gen. 12. 1 2 3 4. And Abraham said unto Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee c. for we be brethren Is not the whole land before thee c. If thou go to the left hand then will I go to the right or if thou to the right hand then will I go to the left Gen. 13. 8 9. And the Angel of the Lord said c. Abraham c. for now I know that thon fearest God seeing thou hast not with-held thy son thine only begotten son from me Gen. 22. 11 12 ch 18 19. The saints are grieved at the wickedness of men Gen 34. 7. Nehem. 13. 8. Jer. 9. 1 2. ch 13. 17. Mark 3. 50. When Joseph's Mistress tempted him to sin hesaid How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God Gen. 39. 9. When Pharoah said to Joseph I have heard say of thee thou canst understand a dream to interpret it And Joseph answered Pharoah saying It is not in me God shall give Pharoah an answer of peace Gen. 41. 15 16. ch 40. 8. The midwives feared God and obeyed not the king's command to kill the male children Exod. 1. 16 17. And the Lord said unto Moses I have seen this people c. now let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and I will make of thee a great nation And Moses besought the Lord c. saying Wherefore should the Egyptians say For mischief did he bring them out to stay them in the mountains c. Remember Abraham Isaac c. to whom thou swearest by thine own self c. Now if thou wâ—t forgive their sins and if not I pray thee blot me out of thy book which thou hast written Exod. 32. 9 10 11 12 31 32. When Moses was told that Eldad and Medad did prophesie in the camp and his servant had said to him My Lord Moses forbid them Moses said unto them Enviest thou for my sake Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them Numb 11. 26 27 28 29. God said to Moses I will smite them c. and make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they And Moses said unto the Lord Then the Egyptians shall hear for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from amongst them and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land they have heard that thou Lord art among this people c. Now it thou shalt kill all this people as one man then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak saying Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness c. Numb 14. 12 13 14 15 16 c. Deut. 9. 26 27 28. When God had told Moses that he must die Moses prays for Israel Let the Lord the God of the Spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation who may go out before them c. that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd c. And he appointed Joshus Numb 27. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. He exhorts Israel at large to cleave to the Lord when he was to die Deut. 4. 22 23 c. When Israel fell before Ai c. Joshua said O Lord what shall I say when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear c and what wilt thou do unto thy great name Joshua 7. 4 5 6 8 9. Joel 2 17. Chuse c. whom you will serve c. 〈◊〉 as for me and my house we will serve the Lord Joshua 24. 15. Eli when he heard the Ark of the Lord was taken he fell backward and died and his daughter-in-law cried out The glory is departed from Israel for the Ark of God is taken Yet she was noâ— so much concerned with the news of her Husband's death and her own being near death at the same time 1 Sam. 4. 17 18 19 20 21 22. David's heart smote him when he cut off Saul's skirt 1 Sam. 24. 5. When David's Wife had blamed him for dancing before the Ark he told her It was before the Lord c. I will play before the Lord and I will yet be more vile than than thus and will be base in mine own sight 2 Sam. 6. 20 21 22. When King David sate in his house and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies that the King said to Nathan the Propâ—et See now I dwell in an house of Cedar but the Ark of God dwelleth within curtains c. 2 Sam.
from before you but they shall be in your sides and their gods shall be a snare unto you Judges 2. 2 3. Jephthah concerning his vow said I have opened my mouth unto the Lord and I cannot go back c. Judges 11. 31 35 39. Psal 116. 14 18. The Lord is a God of knowledge and by him all actions are weighed 1 Sam. 2. 3. God had said to Saul Go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all which they have c. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep c. Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel saying It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king for he is turned back from following me and hath not performed my commandment 1 Sam. 15. 3 8 9 10 11. The Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart 1 Sam. 16. 7. I was also upright before him c. With the upright thou wilt shew thy self upright 2 Sam. 22. 24 26. Psal 18. 23. Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercies according as he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee 1 Kings 3. 6. Thou thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men c. Let your hearts therefore be perfect with the Lord your God 1 Kings 8. 39 61. Psal 44. 21. If thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked in integrity of heart and in uprightness to do according to all c. Then I will establish c. 1 Kings 9. 4 5. It came to pass that when Solomâ—n was old c. his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of David c. he went not fully after the Lord c. 1 Kings 11. 4 6. Asa did that which was right c. but the high places were not removed nevertheless Asa his heart was perfect with the Lord all his days 1 Kings 15. 11 14. How long halt ye between two opinions If the Lord be God follow him 1 Kings 18. 21. Elijah and Micaiah the prophets both faithful to God in a bad time 1 Kings 19. 10. chap. 22. 13 14. Thy servant will not offer c. to any other gods but the Lord In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant When my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship c. and I bow my self c. 2 Kings 5. 11. 18. Many kings of Israel did that which was right c. but yet did not take away the high places 2 Kings 14. ch 15. Josiah turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his might according to all the Law of Moses c. 2 Kings 23. 25. ch 18. 3 4 5 6. Set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God 1 Chron. 22. 10. 2 Chron. 11. 16. ch 15. 12 15. Know thou the God of thy fathers and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth c. 1 Chron. 28. 9. I know also my God that thou triest the heart and hast pleasure in uprightness As for me in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things 1 Chron. 29. 17. Prov. 17. 3. Rom. 8. 27. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of or strongly to hold with them whose heart is perfect towards him 2 Chron. 16. 9. Amaziah did that which is right in the sight of the Lord but not with a perfect heart 2 Chron. 25. 2. Hezekiah c. wrought that which was good and right c. he did it with all his heart and prospered 2 Chron. 31. 20 21. Job was a perfect and upright man and one who feared God c. Job 1. 1 8. Still be holdeth his integrity although thou movest me against him c. Job 2. 3. Behold God will not cast away a perfect man Job 8. 20. My foot hath held his steps his way have I kept and not declined c. Job 23. 11. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Job 27. 6. Psal 26. 11. Doth not he see all my ways and count all my steps Job 31. 4. ch 34. 21. No darkness c. where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves Job 34. 22. God who saveth the upright in heart Psal 7. 10. The Lords throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eye-â—â—ds try the children of men Psal 11. 4 5 Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle c. he who walketh uprightly Psal 15. 1 2. I have set the Lord always before me Psal 16. 8. The Lord preserveth the faithful Psal 31. 23. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Psal 37. 37. Forget all thine own people and thy fathers house so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty Psal 45. 10 11. Like sheep they are laid in the grave c. and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning Psal 49. 14. Behold thou desirest truth in the inner parts Psal 51. 6. My soul followeth hard after thee thy right hand c. Psal 63. 8. Psal 119. 60. All the upright in heart shall glory Psal 64. 10. Psal 97. 11. I will pay my vows which my mouth hath uttered c. when I was in trouble Psal 66. 13 14. Psal 116. 14 18. The Lord God c. will give grace and glory no good thing will he withhold from them who walk uprightly Psal 84. 11. They say the Lord shall not see c. He who planteth the ear shall he not hear He who formed the eye shall he not see c. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man Psal 94. 7 8 9 11 15. It is a people who do err in their hearts c. Psal 95. 10. Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart Psal 97. 11. I will behave my self wisely in a perfect way c. I will walk within my house with a perfect heart Psal 101. 2. Psal 26. 11. Unto the upright there shall arise a light in the darkness Psal 112. 4. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments I will praise thee with uprightness of heart c. My zeal hath consumed me c. Psal 119. 6 7 139. Do good O Lord unto c. them who are upright in their hearts as for such who turn aside to their crooked ways the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal 125. 4 5. O Lord thou hast searched me and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and up-rising thou understandest my thoughts afar off thou compassest my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways for there is not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether Psal 139. 1 2 3 4.
1 Kings 16. ch 12. 51 52 53. Hezekiah destroyed Idolatry removed the High-places brake the Images cut down the Groves and brake in pieces the Brazen Serpent which Moses made for in those days the Children of Israel did burn Incense to it and called it Nehushtan c. So did Josiah the King 2 Kings 18. 4. chap. 23. 4 5 c. Manasseh's Idolatry setting up all his Father had pulled down 2 Kings 21. 3 to 7. King Ahaz's Idolatry 2 Chron. 20. 23 25. If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god shall not God search this out for he knoweth the secrets of the heart Psal 44. 20 21. All the gods of the people are idols Jehovah made the heavens c. Psal 96. 5. Confounded be all they who serve graven images who boast themselves of idols Worship him all ye gods Psal 97. 7. Our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleased Their idols are silver and gold the works of men's hands they have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not they have ears but they hear not noses have they but they smell not c. They who made them are like unto them so is every one who trusteth in them Psal 115. 3 to 9. Psal 135. 15 16 c. Deut. 4. 28. Habak 2. 18 19. Their land also is full of Idols they worship the work of their own hands that which their own fingers have made and the mean man boweth down and the great man humbleth himself c. The idols shall utterly pass away and they shall go into the holes of the rocks c. for fear of the Lord c. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold which they made each one for himself to worship to the moles and to the bats c. Isa 2. 8 9 18 19 20. ch 31. 7. In that day shall a man look to his Maker c. and he shall not look to the altars the work of his hands neither shall he respect that which his fingers have made either the groves or the images Isa 17. 7 8. Hosea 14. 8. To whom then will ye liken God What likeness will ye compare unto him The workman molteth a graven image c. Isa 40. 18 19 20 25. The Carpenter encouraged the Goldsmith or Fâ—under c. Shew the things to come hereafter that we may know that ye are gods Yea Do good or do evil c. Behold ye are nothing or worse than nothing and your works of nought an abomination c. Their molten-images are wind and confusions Isa 41. 7 23 24 29. I am the Lord that is my name my glory will I not give to another neither my praise to graven-images c. They shall be turned back they shall be greatly ashamed who trust in graven-images who say to the molten-images Ye are our gods Isa 42. 8 17. They who make graven-images are all of them vanity c. they see not nor know that they may be ashamed Who hath formed a god or molten a graven-image which is profitable for nothing Behold all his fellows shall be ashamed and the work-men c. they shall be ashamed together c. The Carpenter c. heweth down cedars c. he will take thereof and warm himself yea he kindleth it and baketh bread yea he maketh a god and worshippeth it he maketh it a graven-image and falleth down thereto he burneth part thereof in fire c. â—nd the residue thereof he maketh a god his graven-image he falleth down and worshippeth it â—and prayeth unto it and saith Deliver me for thou art my God c. None considereth in his heart neither is there knowledge or understanding to say I have burnt part of it in the fire c. and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination Shall I fall down to the stock of or that which comes from a tree Isa 44. 9 to 20. They shall be ashamed and also confounded all of them they shall go to confusion together who are makers of idols c. They have no knowledge who set up the wood of their graven-image and pray unto a god who cannot save Isa 45. 16 20. To whom will ye liken me c. They lavish gold out of the bag c. hire a goldsmith and he maketh it a god and they fall down yea they worship they bear him upon the shoulder they carry him and set him in his place and he standeth c. Yea one shall cry to him yet can he not answer nor save him out of his trouble Isa 46 5 6 7. I have even from the beginning declared c. lest thou shouldst say Mine idol hath done them and my graven-image and my molten-image hath commanded them Isa 48. 5. A people who provoke me to anger continually to my face who sacrificeth in gardens and burneth incense upon altars of brick c. Isa 65. 3 4. Jer. 1. 16. Hath a nation changed their gods which are yet no gods But my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit c. The house of Israel ashamed c. saying to a stock Thou art my father And to a stone Thou hast brought me forth c. But where are thy gods which thou hast made thee Let them arise if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods O Judah Jer. 2. 10 11 26 27 28. ch 11. 12 13. Israel is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree and there playeth the harlot c. Her treacherous sister Judah feared not but went and played the harlot also c. committed adultery with stones and with stocks Jer. 3. 6 8 9. Seest thou what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem The children gather wood and the fathers kindle a fire and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me to anger Jer. 7. 17 18. One cutteth a tree c. they are fasten'd with nails they speak not c. be not afraid of them for they can do neither evil nor good c. They are altogether brutish and foolish The stock is a doctrine of vanities silver spread into plate c. but the Lord is the true God c. The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens c. Every founder is confounded by the graven-image for his molten-image is falshood and there is no breath in them they are vanity and the work of errours Jer. 10. 3 4 5 8 9 10 11 14 15. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain Jer. 14. 22. The Gentiles shall come c. and say Surely our fathers have inhâ—riâ—â—d