in Christ c. Chosen us predestinated us to the adoption of sons by Jesus c. made us accepted in the Beloved in whom we have c. the remission of sins of the riches of his grace Ephes 1. 3 4 5 6 c. God c. hath quickned us with Christ c. raised us and set us in heaven in Christ Jesus and made us nigh c. Jesus himself being the chief corner-stone in whom all the building c. Ephes 2. 5 6 13 14 20 21. Christ is the Head of the Church and the Saviour of the body Ephes 5. 23. We look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Phil. 3. 20. It pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell c. By him to reconcile all things to himself c. Christ in or among you the hope of glory Col. 1. 19 20 27. Your life is hid with Christ in God When Christ who is our life shall c. Col. 3. 3 4. His Son Jesus who delivered us from the wrath to come 1 Thes 1. 10. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I chief 1 Tim. 1. 15. One Mediator between God and man the Man Christ Jesus who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time 1 Tim. 2. 5 6. Is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light 2 Tim. 1. 10. Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie unto himself a peculiar people c. Titus 2. 14. Ephes 5. 2. His Son c. when he had by himself purgeâ— our sins â—ate down c. Heb. 1. 3. Christ c. He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them c. Heb. 5. 5. 9. 2 Tim. â— 10. He remains for ever c. therefore able to save perfectly or for ever those who come to God by him Hebr. 7. 24 25. Christ now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself c. Unto them who look for him he shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation Hebr. 9. 24 26 28. We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once for all c. By one offering he he hath perfected for ever them who are sanctified c. Heb. 10. 10 14. Looking to Jesus the Author and finisher of our saith Heb. 12. 2. Who hath begotten us again to a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ c. The Prophets c. who prophesied of the grace c. searching what c. the spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie before hand the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow c. Ye were not redeemed with silver and gold c. but with the precious blood of Christ c. who verily was ordained before the foundation of the world c. 1 Pet. 1. 3 10 11 18 19 20. We did not by art c. make known the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ c. but as those who had seen his majesty with our eyes c. He received from God the Father honour and glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased and this voice we heard from heaven declared when we were with him c. 2 Pet. 1. 16 17 18. Jesus Christ c. he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world c. Who is a lyer but he who denieth that Jesus is the Christ 1 John 2. 2 22. And ye know that he was made manifest to take away our sins and in him is no sin c. For this purpose was the Son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil 1 John 3. 5 8. God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him c. We c. testifie that the Father sent the Son the Saviour of the world 1 John 4. 9 14. God hath given us eternal life and this life is in his Son 1 John 5. 11 12. Unto him who hath loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood Rev. 1. 5. Col. 1. 14. They fell down before the Lamb c. saying Thou art worthy c. for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation and hast made us unto God c. Rev. 5. 8 9 10. The Lamb slain from the foundation of the World c. Rev. 13. 8. I Jesus have sent mine Angel to testifie unto you these things c. I am the root and the off-spring of David and the bright and morning star Rev. 22. 16. See Pardon and Reconsiliation by Christ only Chap. 10. The Excellency of this Saviour and his Fulness and Dignity In his Person and Authority YET have I set my King or anointed upon my holy hill of Sion c. The Lord hath said Thou my Son this day have I begotten thee c. I will give thee the heathen for thy inheritance c. thou shalt break them with a rod of iron c. Psalm 2. 6 7 8 9. Psalm 18. 43 44. Thou art fairer than the children of men grace is poured into thy lips c. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh O Mighty with thy glory and thy majesty and in thy majesty ride c. Thine arrows sharp in the hearts of the kings enemies whereby the people shall fall under thee Thy throne O God for ever and ever The scepter of thy kingdom a right scepter c. God thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows c. The King c. he is thy Lord and worship thou him Psalm 45. 1 2 3 4 5 6 11. Isa 49. 2. Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts Psalm 68. 18. Ephes 4. 8. He shall have dominion also from sea to sea and from the river unto the ends of the earth they c. shall bow down before him and his enemies shall lick the dust c. All kings shall fall down before him all nations shall serve him c. His name shall endure for ever his name shall be continued as long as the sun or shall be as a Son to continue his Father's name for ever c. And all nations shall call him blessed Psalm 72. 8 9 11 17 18. I will set his hand also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers c. Also I will make him first-born higher than the kings of the earth c. His throne as the days of heaven c. as the sun before me Psalm 89. 25 27 29 36.
convince the world c. of righteousness because I go to my Father c. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world Again I leave the world and go to the Father John 16. 7 8 10 16 28. Christ prays for his at large John 17. Psal 69. 7 8 9 10. Jesus said unto her Touch me not for I am not yet ascended to my Father but go unto my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and unto your Father and to my God and your God John 20. 17. All that Jesus began both to do and teach until the day in which he was taken up c. To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion c. When he had spoken these things while they beheld he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their fight and while they looked stedfastly towards heaven as he went up behold two men c. said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into heaven This same Jesus who is taken up from you into heaven shall c. Acts 1. 1 2 3 9 10 11. This Jesus c. being by the right hand of God exalted c. For David is not ascended into the heavens but he faith himself The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand c. God hath made the same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Acts 2. 33 34 36. Jesus c. whom the heavens must receive untâ— the times of restitutions c. Acts 3. 21. Behold said Stephen I see the heavens open and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God Acts 7. 56. Reconciled to God by the death of his Son c. Much more c. we shall be saved by his life Rom. 5. 10. Who is he who condemneth It is Christ who died c. who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us Rom. 8. 34. He raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places c. Ephes 1. 20. But now in Christ Jesus ye who were sometimes far off are made nigh c. Through him we both have an access by one spirit unto the Father Now therefore ye are no more strangers but fellow-citizens c. of the houshold of God Ephes 2. 13 18 19. Jesus our Lord in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith Ephes 3. 11 12. Christ sitteth at the right hand of God c. Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Col. 3. 1. 17. Heb. 13. 13. 1 Pet. 2. 5. God was manifest in the flesh c. received up into glory 1 Tim. 3. 16. When he had by himself purged our sins sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 1. 3. ch 12. 2. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who is passed into the heavens Jesus the Son of God c. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace c. Heb. 4. 14 15 16. Within the vail whither the Fore-runner is for us entred Jesus made an High Priest for ever Heb. 6. 19 20. He is able also to save them for evermore or to the uttermost who come unto God by him seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them For such an High Priest became us who is c. made higher than the heavens Heb. 7. 25 26. We have such an High Priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens Heb. 8. 1. But Christ being become an High Priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands c. By his own blood he entred in once into the holy place c. For Christ is not entred into the holy places made with hands c. but into heaven it self now to appear before God for us Heb. 9. 11 12 24. Ephes 4. 8. After he had offered one sacrifice c. sate down on the right hand of God c. Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus by a new and living way which he hath consecrated or new made for us c. let us draw nigh Heb. 10. 12 19 20 21 22. Ye are come to the heavenly Jerusalem c. and â—o Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel Heb. 12. 22 24. Christ c. once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God c. Christ who is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God 1 Pet. 3. 18 22. If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous 1 John 2. 1 2. IX He is made our King and Head to encounter and conquer our-Enemies to rule for us and in us THere shall come a Star out of Jacob and a Sceptre shall arise out of Israel Numb 24. 17. Gen. 49. 10. Yet have I set my King or mine Anointed upon my holy hill of Sâ—on I have given thee the Heathen for thine inheritance c. Psal 2. 6 8. Thine arrows are sharp in the hearts of the king's enemies whereby the people fall under thee Thy throne O God is for ever and ever the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre c. The Lord thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl c. Psal 45. 5 6 7. Heb. 1. 8. Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts for men Psal 68. 18. Isa 53. 12. He shall judge c. He shall save the children of the needy and shall break in pieces the oppresser Psal 72. 2 4 12 13 14. Unto us a Son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders c. Of the increase of his government shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it c. Isa 9. 6 7. ch 32. 1. The days come saith the Lord that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch and a King shall reign and prosper c. in his days shall Judah be saved and Israel shall dwell safely Jer. 23. 5 6. ch 33. 17. Zech. 6. 12 13. I will set up one shepherd over them and he shall feed them even my servant David c. I will be their God and my servant David a Prince among them Ezek. 34. 23 24. The Messah the Prince Dan. 9. 25. Thou Bethlehem c. out of thee shall he come forth unto me to be ruler in Israel Micah 5. 2. Rejoyce greatly O daughter of Zion c. Behold c. Zech. 9. 9. Jesus he shall be great c. And the Lord shall give him the throne of his father David and he shall reign c. for ever and of his kingdom no end Luke 1. 31 32 33. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace his goods are
quaked greatly Exod. 19. 18. ch 20. 18 19. And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai c. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount c. Exod. 24. 16 17. Ezek. 3. 23. chap. 8. 4. chap. 9. 3. There will I meet with the children of Israel and they shall be sanctified by my glory Exod. 29. 43. I beseech thee shew me thy glory c. Thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see me and live c. And it shall come to pass while my glory passeth by that I will put thee in a clift c. Exod. 33. 18 19 20 22. I will do marvails such as have not been done in all the earth c. And all the people c. shall see the work of the Lord for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee Exod. 34. 10. The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle Exod. 40. 34 35. Levit. 9. 23. Numb 14. 10. chap. 16. 42. As truly as I live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord because all those men who have seen my glory and my miracles c. Numb 14. 21 22. Balaam said c. All that the Lord speaketh that I must do Numb 23. 26. Let the Lord God of the spirits of all flesh set a man Numb 27. 16. ch 16. 22. O Lord God thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hands For what God is there in heaven or in earth that can do according to thy work and according to thy might Deut. 3. 24. The Lord thy God is a consuming fire a jealous God c. Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and live c. The Lord he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is none else Deut. 4. 24 33 39. ch 5. 24 25 26. The Lord thy God is among you a mighty God and terrible Deut. 7. 21. Nehem. 1. 5. ch 4. 14. The Lord thy God he who goeth before thee is a consuming fire c. Thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness c. Deut. 9. 3 26. Isa 60. 16. Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord thy God's the earth also with all that therein is c. For the Lord your God is God of of gods and Lord of lords a great God mighty and terrible who regardeth not persons nor taketh rewards Deut. 10. 14 17. Josh 22. 22. And know you c. The Lord your God his greatness his mighty hand and his stretched-out arm and his miracles and his acts which he did c. Deut. 11. 2 3. Thou maist fear this glorious and fearful name the Lord thy God Deut. 28. 58. Ascribe ye greatness unto our God the Rock his work is perfect all his ways are judgment c. When the Most High divided c. See now that I I am he and there is no God with me I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any who can deliver out of my hands For if I lift up my hand to heaven c. Deut. 32. 3 4 8 39 41 42 c. There is none like unto the God of Jesurun who rideth upon the heavens in thy help and in his excellency on the sky The eternal God thy refuge and underneath are everlasting arms and he shall thrust out c. Deut. 33. 26 27. There is none besides thee neither is there any rock like our God c. The Lord is a God of knowledge and by him are actions weighed c. The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up the Lord maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up he raiseth up the poor c. So the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he hath set the world upon them He will keep the feet of his saints c. 1 Sam. 2. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 c. Job 9. 5 6 7 8 9. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God 1 Sam. 6. 20. Thou art great O Lord God for none is like thee neither is there any God beside thee 2 Sam. 7. 22. 1 Chron. 17. 20. The earth shook and trembled the foundations of heaven moved and shook because he was wroth There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured c. 2 Sam. 22. 8 9 10 11 12. Psal 18. 7 8 c. The glory of the Lord hath filled the house 1 King 8. 11. Thou art the God thou alone of all the kingdoms of the earth thou hast made heaven and earth 2 King 19. 15. The heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him 2 Chron. 2. 6. ch 6. 18. Declare his glory c. For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised to be feared above all gods For all the gods of the people are idols but the Lord made the heavens Glory and honour are in his presence strength and gladness in his place c. Give unto the Lord the glory due to his Name 1 Chron. 16. 24 25 26 27 28 c. Psal 96. 4 5. Thine O Lord is the greatness and the glory and the victory and the majesty for all in heaven and earth is thine Thine the kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted above all Both riches and honour come of thee and thou reignest over all and in thine hand is power and might and in thine hand to make great and to give strength unto all 1 Chron. 29. 11 12. Blessed be thy glorious name who art exalted above all blessing and praises thou thou art Lord alone thou hast made heaven c. And thou preservest them all Nehem. 9. 5 6. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Job 1. 21. God c. who doeth great things and unsearchable without number Who giveth rain upon the earth and sendeth waters upon the fields to set up on high those who are low c. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform c. Job 5. 8 9 10 11 12 c. Canst thou by searching find out God Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection c. It he cut off or make a change and shut up or gather together then who can hinder him c. Job 11. 7 8 9 10. ch 9. 10 11 12 13 c. ch 23. 13 14. ch 37. 23. Psal 77. 19. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this in whose hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all mankind c. With him is wisdom and strength he hath counsel and understanding Behold he breaketh down and it cannot be built up again he shutteth up a man and there can be no opening he withholdeth the waters and
they dry up c. he leadeth counsellors away spoiled and maketh the judges fools he looseth the bonds of kings c. he leadeth princes away spoiled and overthroweth the mighty c. Job 12. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 c. Shall not his excellency make you afraid and his dread fall upon you Job 13. 11. Jer. 5. 22. Job 23. 15. Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those who are high Job 21. 22. He stretcheth out the north over the empty places and hangeth the earth upon nothing he bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds c. he hath compassed the waters with bounds until the day and night come to an end the pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof He divideth the sea c. By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens c. Lo these are parts of his ways but how little a portion is heard of him But the thunder of his power who can understand Job 26. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Psal 19. 1 2 3 4 c. Jer. 5. 22. Psal 74. 12 13 14 c. Psal 77. 17 18. Psal 104. 2 3 4 c. Destruction from God was a terrour to me and by reason of his highness I could not endure Job 31. 23. Isa 13. 3. ch 28. toto God is greater than man Why dost thou strive against him For he giveth not account of any of his matters Job 33. 12 13. ch 49. 19. Jer. 49. 19. Job 21. 22. When he gives quietness who can give trouble And when he hideth who can behold him Job 34. 29. He thundereth with the voice of his excellency c. God thundereth marvellously with his voice great things doth he which we cannot comprehend For he faith to the snow Be thou on the earth Likewise to the small rain c. He sealeth up the hand of every man that all men may know his works c. With God is terrible majesty c. Job 37. 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. 22 23. The Lord said unto Job c. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth c. Who hath laid the measures thereof c. Job 38. toto Psal 104. 2 3 4 5 c. Who is able to stand before me Who hath prevented me that I should repay Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine Job 41. 10 11. Jer. 49. 19. Psal 50. 9 10 11 12. The kings of the earth set themselves c. He that fitteth in heaven shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision Then shall he speak unto him in his wrath c. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill Sion Psal 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the earth Who hast set thy glory above the heavens Psal 8. 1 9. The Lord is in his holy temple the Lord's throne is in heaven Psal 11. 4. The heavens declare the glory of God the firmament sheweth his handy-work Psal 19. 1 2. The kingdom is the Lord's and he is the Governor among the nations Psal 22. 28. Psal 47. 2 7. Who is the King of Glory The Lord of hosts he is the King of Glory Psal 24. 10. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters The God of glory thundereth the Lord is upon many waters The voice of the Lord is powerful â—x power the voice of the Lord is full of majesty The voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedars c. The Lord sitteth upon the floods yea the Lord sitteth King for ever Psal 29. 3 4 5 6 7 8 10. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made c. He spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever the thoughts of his heart to all generations Psal 33. 6 7 8 9 10 11. Isa 14. 27. Psal 104. 2 3 4 c. Zech. 12. 1. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised Psal 48. 1. Psal 50. 1. Verily he is a God who judgeth in the earth Psal 58. 11. Let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth Selah Psal 59. 13. Isa 60. 16. Psal 47. 2 7. Psal 66. 7. He visiteth the earth and watereth it c. enricheth it c. Thou preparest them com c. Psal 65. 9 10. 11. He that is our God is the God of salvation and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death c. To him who rideth upon the heaven of heavens c. His excellency is over Israel and his strength in the heavens O God thou art terrible out of thy holy places c. Psal 68. 20 33 34 35. Promotion cometh not from the east c. but God the Judge he putteth down one and setteth up another Psal 75. 6 7. In Judah is God known his name great in Israel c. Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey c. At thy rebuke O God of Jacob the chariot and horses are cast into a deep sleep Thou thou art to be scared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry c. He shall cut off the spirit of princes he is terrible to the kings of the earth c. Psal 76. 1 4 6 7 12. Nahum 1. 5 6. Who is so great a God as our God Thou the God that doest wonders c. The waters saw thee O God c. they were afraid the depths also were troubled c. Psal 77. 13 14 16. Job 9. 10. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods Psal 82. 1. That men may know that thou whose Name alone is Jehovah art the Most High over all the earth Psal 83. 18. Psal 91. 1. Among the gods none like unto thee O Lord neither is there any works like unto thy works All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee c. for thou art great and doest wondrous things thou art God alone Psal 86. 8 9 10. Psal 87. 5. Psal 111. 2 3 4 6 7. Who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord God is greatly to be feared c. Who is a strong lord like unto thee c. Psal 89. 6 7 8 9 11. Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest Return ye children of men c. Psal 90. 2 3. Job 9. 13. The Lord reigneth he is cloathed with majesty c. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters yea than the mighty waves of the sea Psal 93. 1 4. Psal 97. 1. Psal 99. 1. Psal 104. 1 2 3 4 c. The Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods in his hands are the deep places of the earth c. Psal 95.
3 4 5. Psal 96. 4. Psal 97. 9. Psal 135. 5 6 c. The Lord made the heavens honour and majesty are before him strength and beauty in his sanctuary c. Psal 96. 5 6. Fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about him c. The hills melt like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth c. Psal 97. 3 4 5. Psal 114. 7. Nahum 1. 4 5. Know ye that the Lord he is God he hath made us and not we our selves or his we are Psal 100. 3. 4. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens and his kingdom ruleth over all Psal 103. 19. The Lord is high above all nations his glory above the heavens Who like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high c. He raiseth the poor out of the dust c. that he may set him with princes c. he maketh the barren woman to keep house c. Psal 113. 4 5 7 8 9. Our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleased c. The heaven the heavens are the Lord's but the earth hath he given to the children of men Psal 115. 3 16. Psal 135. 6. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and I will declare thy greatness c. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and thy dominion throughout all generations c. Psal 145. 5 6 13. Let them praise the name of the Lord for his name alone is excellent his glory is above the earth and heaven Psal 148. 13. The lot is cast into the lap but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord Prov. 16. 33. There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord Prov. 21. 30. The building of Babel Gen. 11. Joseph's dream brought to pass Gen. from ch 37. to ch 48. I know that whatsoever God doeth it shall be for ever nothing can be put to it nor any thing taken from it and God doth it that men should fear before him Eccles 3. 14. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth Isa 2. 10 19 21. Job 37. 22 23. Holy holy holy the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of thy glory Woe is me c. I have seen the king the Lord of hosts Isa 6. 3. The Lord of hosts hath purposed and who shall disanul and his hand stretcheth out who shall turn it back Isa 14. 27. Great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee Isa 12. 6. Rev. 19. 17. Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not c. behold the majesty of the Lord Isa 26. 10. The Lord of hosts wonderful in counsel and excellent in working Isa 28. 29. The Lord God c. who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out heaven with the span and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a ballance Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord or being his counsellor hath taught him With whom took he counsel c. Behold the nations are as the drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the ballance Behold he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing c. All nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity To whom then will ye liken God or what likeness will ye compare unto him c. He who sitteth upon the circle of the earth c. that bringeth the princes to nothing c. To whom will ye liken me or shall I be equal saith the Holy One Lift up your eyes on high and behold who hath created these things Isa 40. 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 22 23 24 25 26. ch 42. 5. ch 46. 5 9 10. Jer. 5. 22. Job 9. 7 8 9. Yea before the day was I am he and there is none that can deliver out of my hand I will work and who shall let c. I the Lord your Holy One the Creator of Israel your King c. who maketh a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters c. I have given Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproaches Isa 43. 13 15 16 28. I the Lord who maketh all things who stretcheth forth the heavens alone who spreadeth abroad the earth by my self who frustrateth the tokens of the lyars and maketh diviners mad who turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish c. who saith to the deep Be dry and I will dry Isa 44. 24 25 27. Rev. 10. 6. ch 14. 7. I form light and create darkness I make peace and create evil I the Lord do all these things c. Woe to him who striveth with his Maker Let the potsheard strive with the potsheards of the earth c. I have made the earth and created man upon it I even my hands have stretched out the heavens c. Every knee shall bow to me every tongue shall swear c. Isa 45. 7 9 12 18 23. To whom will ye liken me c. I am God my Counsel shall stand I will do all my pleasure Isa 46. 5 9 10. Behold at my rebuke I dry up the sea c. I cloath the heavens with blackness c. Isa 50. 2 3. Nahum 1. 4. My word shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper Isa 55. 11. Thus saith the high and lofty One who inhabiteth eternity whose Name is Holy I dwell in the high and holy place c. Isa 57. 15. Thus saith the Lord The heaven is my throne and the earth my foot-stool where is the house ye build unto me and where is the place of my rest for all these things hath mine hand made c. Isa 66. 1 2. 2 Chron. 2. 6. ch 6. 18. Hath a nation changed their gods which are yet no gods but my people have changed their glory c. Jer. 2. 11. The Lord our God who giveth rain both the former and the latter in its season he reserveth unto us the appointed week of the harvest Jer. 5. 24. There is none like unto thee O Lord thou art great and thy name is great in might Who would not fear thee O King of nations For to thee doth it appertain forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms are none like unto thee c. At his wrath the earth shall tremble and the nations c. He hath made the earth by his power c. The Portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the Former of all things Jer. 10. 6 7 10 11 12 13 16. ch 51. 15 16 19. Job 9. 5.
Cannot I do with you as this Potter saith the Lord Behold as the clay in the Potter's hand so are ye in my hand O house of Israel At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up aud to pull down and to destroy c. Jer. 18. 6 7 8 9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts c. I have made the earth the man and the beast that are upon the ground by my great power and by my out-stretched arm and have given it unto whom it seemeth meet unto me And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar c. Jer. 27. 4 5 6. c. ch 32. 17. The great the mighty God the Lord of hosts is his name great in counsel and mighty in works c. I the Lord the God of all flesh Is any thing too hard for me Jer. 32. 18 19 27. Who is like me Who will appoint me the time or convince me in judgment Who is that Shepherd Who will stand before me Jer. 49. 19. Behold all souls are mine as the soul of the father so also the soul of the son is mine Ezek. 18. 4. Psal 24. 1. Behold the glory of the God of Israel c. And his voice was like a voice of many waters and the earth shined with his glory c. The glory of the Lord filled the house Ezek. 43. 2 4 5. ch 8. 4. ch 9. 3. Wisdom and might are his and he changeth the times and the seasons he removeth kings and setteth up kings c. The God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom power and glory c. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed c. He is a God of gods and Lord of kings Dan. 2. 20 21 37 38 44 47. Ye servants of the most high God come forth c. Dan. 3. 26. Mark 5. 7. Luke 1. 32 35 76. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and his dominion from generation to generation c. The Most High ruleth in the kingdoms and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth up over it the basest of men c. The Most High c. whose dominion is an everlasting dominion c. And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing and he doth according to his will in the army of heaven and the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him What doest thou c. Those who walk in pride he is able to abase Dan. 4. 3 17 25 32 34 35 37. Jer. 49. 19. Luke 1. 53. The God in whose hands thy breath is and whose are all thy ways hast thou not glorified Dan. 5. 23. Thy God he who formeth the mountains and createth the wind or spirit c. Amos 4. 13. The Lord hath sworn by the Excellency of Jacob Amos 8. 7. Who can stand before his indignation and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger c. Nahum 1. 6. I am a great King saith the Lord of hosts and my Name is dreadful among the heathen Mâ—l 1. 14. Thine is the kingdom and the power c. Maâ— 6. 13. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he will send sorth labourers into the harvest Matt. 9. 38. I thank thee O Father Lord of heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Even so Father for it seemed good in thy sight All things are delivered to me of my Father With God all things are possible Matt. 11. 25. 26 27. ch 19. 26. Luke 1. 37. The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham c. Howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands as saith the prophet Heaven is my throne c. He looked up c. and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing c. Acts 7. 2 48 55. Turn from these vanities unto the living God who made heaven and earth and the sea and all things therein c. He gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons c. Acts 14. 15 17. Rev. 14. 7. God who made the world and all things therein seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands neither is worshipped with men's hands as though he needed any thing seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things and hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on the face of the earth and hath determined the times before-appointed and the bounds of their habitations c. For in him we live and move and have our being c. Acts 17. 24 25 26 28 29. Psal 50. 10 11 12. For the invisible things of him c. are clearly seen c. his eternal power and Godhead c. They glorified him not as God c. and changed the glory of the incorruptible God Rom. 1. 20 21 23. For of him and through him and to him are all things c. Rom. 11. 3 6. Who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will c. The God of our Lord Jesus the Father of glory Ephes 1. 11 17. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his saints 2 Thes 1. 9 10. God who quickeneth all things c. who is the blessed and only Potentate the king of kings and lord of lords who only hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see to whom be honour and power everlasting 1 Tim. 6. 13 15 16. Ephes 4. 6. Who being the brightness of his glory c. sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 1. 3. ch 8. 1. He who buildeth all things is God Heb. 3. 4. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10. 31. For our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12. 29. There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy James 4. 12. The God of all grace who hath called us unto hâ—s eternal glory c. 1 Pet. 5. 10. Jude ver 24. There came such a voice to him from the excellent Glory c. 2 Pet. 1. 17. Thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created Rev. 4. 11. The city had no need of the sun c. for the glory of God did lighten it c. Rev. 21. 23. IV. He is Invisible AND he said Thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see my face and live Exod. 33. 20. Lo he goeth-by me and I see him not he passeth on also but I perceive him not Job 9. 11. ch 23. 8 9. No man hath seen God at any time c. John 1. 18. 1 John 4. 12. Ye have neither heard
7. 1 2 3 4 5. Uriah said unto David The Ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents and my Lord Joab and the servants are encamped in the open field shall I then go into mine house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife c. I will not do this thing 2 Sam. 11. 11. I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God for all his judgments were before and as for his statutes I did not depart from them I was also upright before or to him I have also kept me from mine iniquity 2 Sam. 22. 22 23 24. And David's heart smote him after that he had numbred the people And David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly c. And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel for it c. And David said Lo I have sinned I have done wickedly but these sheep what have they done let thine hand be against me and against my father's house 2 Sam. 24. 10 15 17. 1 Sam. 24. 5. When Josiah heard the book of the law he rent his clothes c. was tender c. 2 Kings 22. 11 13 13 19. Ezra 9. 4. Esther when the Jews were in danger by Haman ventured her life and all for their security she said Go fast for me c. I also and my maidens will fast likewise and so will I go unto the King which is not according to the law and if I perish I perish Esther 4. 16. Job a man perfect and upright fearing God and departing from all evil Job 1. 1 8. chap. 31. 13 14 c. His delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water Psalm 1. 2 3. Psalm 92. 12 13 14. Joh. 23. 12. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in his holy place He who 〈◊〉 clean hands and a pure heart who hath not 〈◊〉 up soul unto vanâ—y nor sworn deceitfully c. This is the generation of them who seek him that seek thy face c. Psalm 24. 3 4 5 6. Psalm 15. 1 2. I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwefleth Psalm 26. ◠〈◊〉 ye my face my heart said unto thee Thy face Lord will I seek Psalm 27. 8. The righeous sheweth mercy and giveth c. is over 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 c. the 〈◊〉 of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment the law of his God is in his heart Psalm 37. 21 26 31 32. Psalm 112. 5. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long Psalm 71. 24. Psalm 119. 46. Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion c. for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof Psalm 102. 13 14. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord Psalm 112. 7. I have rejoyced in the ways of thy testimonies as in all riches c. I will delight my self in thy statutes c. Thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellor c. I am a companion to all who fear thee and keep thy statutes c. O how love I thy law it is my meditation all the day c. Better to me than thousands of gold c. How sweet are thy words c. Psalm 119. 14 16 20 24 63 72 97 103 172 174. I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the house of the Lord Psalm 122. 1. If I forget thee O Jerusalem c. If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy Psalm 137. 5 6. Psalm 74. 1 2 3 4 c. I hate them who hate thee am not I grieved when men rise up against thee Psalm 139. 21 22. Psalm 119. 53 126 136 158. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works and shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and will declare thy greaness They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness c. Thy saints shall bless thee they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power to make known unto the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of thy kingdom Psalm 145 5 6 7 10 11 12. The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day Prov. 4. 18. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil pride and arrogancy and the evil way Prov. 8. 13. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast Prov. 12. 10. He who walks righteously and speaketh uprightly he who despiseth the gain of oppression who snaketh his hands from holding of bribes who stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing of evil he shall dwell on high c. Isa 33. 15 16. I remember c. the love of thine espousal when thou wentest after me in the wilderness c. Jer. 2. 2. When the King asked Daniel thus Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen and the interpretation thereof Daniel answered in the presence of the King and said The secret which the King hath commanded cannot the wise-men c. shew unto the King But there is a God in heaven who revealeth secrets and maketh known to the king c. Dan. 2. 26 27 28. Then they who feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened and heard c. Mal. 3. 16. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted Blessed are the meek c. Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Matth. 5. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. John 16. 20. Prov. 27. 7. He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he who loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me and he who taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me Matth. 10. 36 37 38. ch 16. 24. Luke 14. 33. He who is not with me is against me and he who gathereth not with me scattereth abroad Matth. 12. 30. The kingdom of heaven is like to a treasure hid in a field the which when a man hath found he hideth and for joy thereof he goeth and selleth all he hath and buyeth that field Matth. 13. 44. Luke 10. 39 42. Verily I say unto you
c. then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them and this house which I have hallowed for my Name will I cast out of my sight and Israel shall be a proverb and a by-word c. 1 Kings 9. 6 7 8. And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel who had appeared unto him twice c. Therefore the Lord said unto Solomon Forasmuch as this is done of thee and thou hast not kept my covenant c. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee and will give it to thy servant 1 Kings 11. 9 10 11. It was charged me by the word of the Lord saying Eat no bread c. Thus saith the Lord Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord c. and hast eaten bread and drank water c. thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers c. A Lion met him by the way and slew him c. It is the man of God 1 Kings 13. 8 9 21 22 24 25 26. Tell Jeroboam c. Forasmuch as I have exalted thee from among the people and made thee prince c. yet thou hast done evil above all that were before thee for thou hast gone and made thee other gods c. Therefore behold I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam him who pisseth against the wall c. Him who dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall dogs eat and him who dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat for the Lord hath spoken it 1 Kings 14. 7 to 11. Baasha smote all the house of Jeroboam he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed until he had destroyed him according to the saying of the Lord c. Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he had sinned and which he made Israel to sin 1 Kings 15. 27 29 30. 2 Chron. 12. 1 2 4 5. The very like threatning did God send to Baasha for his Sins c. and acordingly executed by Zimri his Servant 1 Kings 16. 1 2 3 4 9 10 11 12 13. God threatens and sends a Famine in Israel for the Sins of Ahab c. 1 Kings 17. He killed Naboth and possessed his Vineyard c. Thus saith the Lord Hast thou killed and taken possession also c. In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood even thine c. All this executed against him Jezebel and Ahab's House 1 Kings 21. 14 19 21 22 23 24. ch 22. 38. 2 Kings 9. 33. Ahaziah fell down c. He sent to enquire of the God of Ekron c. And the Lord by Elijah sends thus Is it not because there is not a God in Israel ye go to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron Now therefore thus saith the Lord Thou shalt not come down from thy bed c. but shalt surely die c. So he died according to the word of the Lord 2 Kings 1. 2 3 4 6 16 17. God punished Gehazi for his Covetousness with Leprosie 2 Kings 5. 20 21 22 c. So it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God c. and walked in the statutes of the heathen c. The Lord testified against them by the hand of all the prophets all the seers saying Turn ye from your ways c. Notwithstanding they would not hear but hardned their necks c. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight c. And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of the spoilers until he had cast them out of his sight 2 Kings 17. 7 8 9 13 14 15 18 19 20. Senacherib and his Army smitten for his Blasphemy and Pride 2 Kings 19. 21 22 23 35 37. Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did c. and hath made Judah also to sin c. therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel Behold I am bringing evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that whosoever heareth of it both his ears shall tingle c. I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies c. because they have done c. 2 Kings 21. 9 11 12 13 14 15. The Lord turned not from the fierceness of his wrath wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked withal And the Lord said I will remove Judah also out of my sight as I have removed Israel and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen and the house of which I have said my Name shall be there 2 Kings 23. 26 27. God accordingly gives them up wholly to their Enemies 2 Kings 24. ch 25. Jehoram's Wickedness surely punished by the Lord 2 Chron. 21. 4 6 11 13 14 15 c. Uzzia the king when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction c. He went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense and when the priests withstood him he was wroth and while he was yet wroth with the priests the leprosie even rose up in his forehead c. The Lord had smitten him And Uzzia the king was a leper unto the day of his death 2 Chron. 26. 16 to 22. The Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz c. for he made Judah naked and transgressed c. 2 Chron. 28. 19. Moreover all the chief of the priests and the people transgressed very much c. And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers c. But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his word and misused his prophets until the wrath of God arose against his people till there was no remedy therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees c. 2 Chron. 36. 13 14 15 16 17. Jer. 32. 31 32 34 35 36. ch 44. 2 3 4 c. The Psalmist reckons up the several Rebellions of Israel and God's Judgments against them for Sin Psal 78. My people would not hearken to my voice and Israel would none of me so I gave them up to their own hearts c. O that my people had hearkned unto me c. Psal 81. 11 12 13. Deut. 5. 29. ch 32. 28 29 30. Israel's Behaviour and Rebellions together with God's Dealings with them summed up by the Psalmist Psal 106. Psal 95. 9 10 11. Ezek. 20. Because they rebelled against the the words of God and contemned the counsel of the Most High therefore he brought down their heart with labour they fell down and none to help Psal 107. 11 12. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity c. Turn you at my reproof c. Because I called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and
1. 13 14. Ye also have suffered like things of your own countrey-men even as they have of the Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us c. forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles 1 Thess 2. 14 15 16. Alexander the copper-smith did me much evil c. of whom be thou also aware for he hath greatly withstood our words 2 Tim. 4. 14 15. The dragon persecuted the woman Rev. 12. 13 15 16 17. See more Chap. 28. of Hypoeritet in this matter II. For what Ends doth God Chastise his Children and suffer them to be Persecuted 1. To Exercise and try their Faith and Obedience GOD tempted Abraham when he put him upon offering his son Isaac Gen. 22. 1 2 3 c. The Lord thy God led thee these forty years to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no Deut. 8. 2 16. I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died that through them I may prove Israel whether they will keep the way of the Lord c. or not Judges 2. 21 22 23 ch 3. 4. In the business of the Ambassadours God left Hezekiah to try him that he might know all that was in his heart c. 2 Chron. 32. 31. And the Lord said unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant Job c. still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movest me against him to destroy him without cause Job 2. 3. What is man c. that thou shouldst visit him every morning and try him every moment Job 7. 17 18. Thou O Lord hast proved us thou hast tried us as silver is tried thou broughtest us into the net thou laidst afflictions upon our loins Psal 66. 10 11 12. Some of them of understanding shall fall to try them c. Daniel 11. 35. I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refiued and will try them as Gold is tryed Zech. 13. 9. Others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings c. Heb. 11. 36 37. Count it all joy when ye fall into divers tentations knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience c. Blessed is the man who endureth temptations for when he is tryed he shall receive c. James 1. 2 3 12. Though now for a season it need be ye are in heaviness that the trial of your faith being much more precious c. 1 Pet. 1. 6 7. Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you But rejoyce in as much as ye are partakers of Christs suffering c. 1 Pet. 4. 12 13. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried Rev. 2. 10. I will keep thee from the hour of tentation which shall come upon all the world to try them who dwell upon the earth Rev. 3. 10. 2. To Humble and Purge them THE Lord thy God led thee forty years in the wilderness to humble thee c. Who sed thee in the wilderness with manna c. that he might humble thee c. c. Deut. 8. 2 16. So Manasseth made Judah c. to err to do worse than the heathen Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captain of the host of the King of Assyria who took Manassâ—h c. bound him with â—etters and carried him to Babylon And when he was afflicted he besought the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers c. And God brought him again into his kingdom c. He then took away the strange Gods c. 2 Chron. 33 9 10 11 12 13 15 16. Job complains of his afflictions then saith what is man that thou shouldst magnifie him c. I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7. 16 17 18 19 20. Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble for thou writest bitter things against me Job 13 25. If they be c. holden in cords of afflictions then he sheweth them their work and their transgressions that they have exceeded he openeth their ears to discipline and commandeth that they return from iniquity Job 36. 8 9 10. Behold I am vile What shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth once have I spoken but c. but I will proceed no farther Job 40. 4 5. I have heard of thee c. but now mine eyes see thee wherefore I abhor my self c. Job 42. 5 6. Hath he smitten him c. By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin Isa 27. 7 8 9. Ephraim by chastisement was humbled and instructed Jerem. 31. 18 19. My fury and mine anger was poured out c. They are not humbled unto this day neither have they feared nor walked in my law Jer. 44. 6 10. I will cause you to pass under the rod c. and you shall remember your ways c. and ye shall loath your selves in your own sight Ezek. 20. 37 38 43. Some of them of understanding shall fall c. to purge and to make them white Dan. 11. 35. I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver Zech. 13. 9. Leâ—t I should be exalted above measure c. there was given to me a thorn in the flesh a messenger of Satan to buffet me 2 Cor. 12 7. 3. To make them to remember God and things above to look to own them and close with them JAcob was greatly afraid and distressed and Jacob said O God of my father Abraham c. the Lord who saidst unto me Return c. Gen 32. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. When Josephs brethren were dealt roughly with they remembred their sin against Joseph Gen. 42. 21. He suffered thee to hunger c. that thou mayst know that man lives not by bread alone but c. Deut. 8. 3. But when they in their trouble did turn to the Lord God of Israel and sought him c. 2 Chron. 15. 4. When Manasseh was in affliction he besought the Lord his God c. then manassethâ—knew that the Lord he was God 2 Chron. 33. 12 13. Job 36 9 10. God hath overthrown me and hath encompassed me with his net c. For I know my redeemer I veth and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth c. in my flesh shall I see God Job 19. 6 25 26 27. When my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher than I for thou hast been a shelter Psal 61. 2 3. When he slew them then they sought him and returned and enquired early after God and they
the kingdoms of the earth Ezra 1. 2. The kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins also they have dominion over our bodies c. our cattel c. Nehem. 9. 37. Promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west c. but God is the judge he putteth down one and setteth up another Psal 75. 5 6 7. God c. judgeth among the gods c. I have said Ye are gods c. Psal 82. 1 6. By me kings reign and princes decree justice by me princes rule and nobles even all the judges of the earth Prov. 8. 15 16. For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof Prov. 28. 2. And that day shall the Lord of hosts be c. for a spirit of judgment unto him who sitteth in judgment Isa 28. 5 6. I have made the earth c. and have given it unto whom it seemeth meet unto me And now have I given c. to Nebuchadnezzar Jer 27. 5 6 7. Blessed be the name of God c. he changeth the times and seasons he removeth kings and setteth up kings c. For the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom power strength and glory c. he is a God of Gods and Lord of kings Dan. 2. 20 21 37 38 47. To the intent thaâ— the living may know that the mâ—st High râ—â—leth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth up over it the bafest of men c. And they shall drive thee from men c. until thou know that the 〈◊〉 High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whom he will Dan. 4. 17 32. O thou king the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom and majesty and glory and honour and for the majesty he â—gave him all c. trembled c. Dan. 5. 18 19. ch 2. 37 38. There is no power but of God the powers which be are ordaineâ— or ordered of God whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God Rulers are not a terror c. for he is the minister of God to thee for good Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4. II. What they are in the sight of God and considered as Men. AGainst all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment I am the Lord Exod. 12. 12. He leadeth away counsellors spoiled and maketh the Judges fools he looseth the bonds of kings and girdeth their loins with a girdle he leadeth princes away spoiled and overthroweth the mighty c. he poureth contempt upon princes and weakneth the strength c. Job 12. 17 18 19 20 21. Psal 107. 40. Let me not accept of any mans person nor give flattering titles to man c. my maker c. Job 32. 21 22. Accepteth not the person of princes nor regardeth the rich c. for they are all the work of his hands in a moment shall they dye Job 34. 18 19 20. Be wise now therefore O ye kings be instructed ye Judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling kiss the son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled Psal 2. 2 10 11 12. He shall cut off the spirits he is terrible to the kings of earth Psal 76. 12. I have said Ye are Gods c. but ye shall dye like men and fall like one of the princes Psal 82. 6 7. The kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water he turneth it whither he will Prov. 21. 1. If thou seest the oppression of the poor and violent perverting of judgment and justice c. he who is higher than the highest regardeth and there is a higher than they Eccles 5. 8. The Lord will enter into Judgment with the ancients of his people and the princes c. Isa 3. 14. Ye scornful men who rule this people c. because ye have said We have made a covenant with death c. thus saith the Lord c. Your covenant with death shall be disanulled c. when the overflowing scourge shall pass thorow then ye shall be trodden down by it Isa 28. 14 15 16 18. He who sitteth upon the circle of the earth c. who bringeth the princes of the earth to nothing he maketh the Judges of the earth as vanity Isa 40. 22 23. Say to the prince of Tyrus Thus saith the Lord God because thine heart is lifted up and thou hast said I am a god I sit in the seat of God c. yet thou art a man and not God though thou set thine heart as the heart of God c. therefore thus saith the Lord God c. I will bring strangers upon thee c. and they shall bring thee down to the pit and thou shalt die the death of them c. but thou shalt be a man and no God in the hand of him who slayeth thee Ezek. 28. 2 6 7 8 9. Nebuchadnezzar the king in the height of his pride driven out among the beasts Dan. 4. 30 31 32 33. There is no respect of persons with God Rom. 2. 11. The spirit of devils which worketh miracles go forth unto the kings of the earth to gather them c. Rev 16. 13 14 15 16. The Kings of the earth committed fornication with the whore Rev. 17. 1 2. III. What are the Duties of Magistrates and what they should be Negatively and Affirmatively I considered all the oppressions under the sun and behold the tears of them who were oppressed and no comforter and on the side of the oppressors power but they no comforter Eccles 4. 1. Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men such as fear God men of truth hating covetousness and place over them to be rulers Exod. 18. 16 20 21. Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the poor in his cause c. and thou shalt take no gift for gifts blindeth the wise c. Exod. 23. 6 8. Deut. 16. 19. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment thou shalt not respect the person of the poor nor honour the person of the mighty in righteousness thou shalt judge thy neighbour Levit. 19. 15. Prov. 31. 9. Moses when the people had sinned prayed earnestly for them c. Numb 14. 13 c. Deut. 9. 25 26 c. Joshua 7. 7 8 c. Take ye wise men and understanding and known among your tribes and I will make them rulers over you c. And I charged your Judges at that time saying Hear between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger with him ye shall not respect persons in judgment you shall hear the small as well as the great you shall not be afraid of the face of a man for the judgment is God's and the cause which is too hard for you bring it unto me c. Deut. 1. 13 15 16 17. The Lord your God is a God of Gods c.
who regardeth not persons nor taketh reward he doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow Deut. 10. 17 18. Judges and officers c. and they shall judge the people with just judgment thou shalt not wrest judgment thou shalt not respect persons neither take a gift for a gift doth blind c. that which is altogether just shalt thou follow Deut. 16. 18 19 20. Thou shalt in any wise set a king over thee whom the Lord thy God shall chuse one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee thou mayest not set a stranger over thee who is not thy brother but he shall not multiply horses to himself c. And it shall be that when he shall sit upon the throne of the kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book c. and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God to keep all the words of this law c. that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren and that he turn not aside from the commandment Deut. 17. 15 to the end Joshua 1. 8. If there be any controversie between men and they shall come unto judgment that the Judges may judge them then they shall justifie the righteous and condemn the wicked Deut. 25. 1. Prov. 17. 15. Samuel his sons walked not in his ways but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and perverted judgment 1 Sam. 8. 1 3. Prov. 17. 23. Samuel said Whose ox have I taken Whom have I oppressed c. 1 Sam. 12. 3 4. And David executed judgment and justice unto all his people 2 Sam. 8. 15. He who ruleth over men must be or be thou ruler over men just ruling in the fear of God 2 Sam. 23. 3. When the plague was upon Israel for David's sins he said Lo I have sinned and done wickedly but these sheep what have they done Let thine hand be against me and against my father's house c. 2 Sam. 24. 17. Solomon said Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people that I may discern between good and bad c. And the speech pleased the Lord 1 Kings 3. 7 8 9 10. They set up false witnesses against Naboth so against Steven sought such against Christ 1 Kings 21. 10 13. Mat. 26. 59. Acts 6. 11 13. Rehoboam took the counsel of the young men and rejected the old men's advice and answered the people roughly and said He would add to their burdens and not ease them whereupon many of the tribes revolt and chuse them a king 2 Chron. 10. chap. 14. 7 8 9 c. He was going to fight against Israel but God forbid him 2 Chron. 11. 1 4. Jehoshaphat c. sent to his Princes to Benhail and to Obadiah c. to reach in the Cities of Judah and with them Levites even Shemajah c. and they taught in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them and went about throughout all the Cities of Judah and taught the people 2 Chron. 17. 7 8 9. Jehoshaphat said to the Judges Take heed what you do for ye judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgment wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts 2 Chron. 19. 6 7. Jehoshaphat in a time of danger stood in the congregation in the house of the Lord and prayed himself with them and for them there 2 Chron. 20. 2 to v. 13. 1 Sam. 12. 23. 2 Chron. 30. 18 19 20. Ezra 9. and ch 10. Hezekiah sent letters throughout Israel and Judah to invite them to return to the Lord 2 Chron. 30. 6 7 8 9. Nehemiah saith From the time that I was appointed to be their governour c. I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governour but the former governours c. were chargeable unto the people c. yea even their servants bear rule over their people but so did not I because of the fear of God c. Nehem. 5. 14 15 16 18. I gave my brother Hanani and Hanania c. charge over Jerusalem for he was a faithful man and feared God above many Nehem. 7. 2. Ahasuerus the king forbid any to compel another to drink but according to his pleasure Esthâ— 1. 8. I was a father to the poor and the cause which I knew not I searched out and I brake the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of his teeth Job 29. 16 17. Deut. 19. 18. The Almighty will not pervert judgment Job 34. 12. Be wise now therefore O ye kings be instructed ye judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Psal 2. 10 11. The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men or the vilest of the sons of men are exalted Psal 12. 10. Man in honour and understandeth not is like the beast who perisheth Psal 49. 20. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods How long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked Selah Defend the poor and fatherless do justice to the afflicted and needy deliver the poor and needy rid them out of the hands of the wicked Psal 82. 1 2 3 4. David said I will not know a wicked person whoso privily standereth his neighbour him will I cut off him who hath a high look and a proud heart him will I not suffer mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me he who walketh in a perfect way shall serve me c. I will early destroy all the wicked of the land c. Psal 101. 3 to the end Where no counsel is the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors is safety Prov. 11. 14. ch 24. 6. It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness for the throne is established by righteousness righteous lips are the delight of kings and they love him who speaketh right Prov. 16. 12 13. ch 29. 12. It is not good to accept the person of the wicked to overthrow the righteous in judgment Prov. 18. 5. A king who sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes c. A wise king scattereth the wicked and bringeth the wheel over them c. Mercy and truth preserve the king and his throne is upholden by mercy Prov. 20. 8 26 28. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice Prov. 21. 3. Isa 1. 17 18. It is the honour of a king to search out a matter c. Take away the wicked from before the king and his throne shall be established in righteousness Prov. 25. 2 5. As a roaring lion c. so is a wicked ruler over the poor
and there c. Deut. 32. 36. It repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them who oppressed them Judges 2. 18. It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king for he is turned back c. the Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee c. and also the strength or eternity of Israel will not lye nor repent for he is not a man that he shoul repent 1 Sam. 15. 11 28 29 35. When the Angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destory it the Lord repented him of the evil and said to the Angel c. It is enough stay c. 2 Sam. 24. 16. They have humbled themselves I will not destroy them but will grant them some deliverance 2 Chron. 12. 7. 1 Kings 21. 27 29. Return O Lord how long and let it repent thee concerning thy servants Psal 90. 13. He remembred c. and repented according to the multitude of his mercies Psal 106. 45. The Lord will judge his people and repent himself concerning his servants Psal 135. 14. For this shall the earth mourn c. because I have spoken I have purposed and will not repent neither will I turn back from it c. Jer. 4. 28. I will c. destroy thee I am weary with repentings Jer. 15. 6. Amend your ways c. and the Lord will repent him of the evil which he hath pronounced against you c. And the Lord repented him of the evil which c. Jer. 26. 3 13 19. ch 18. 7 8 9 10 11. I will plant you c. for I repent me of the evil I have done unto you Jer. 42. 10. chap. 18. 8 10. I the Lord have spoken c. I will not go back neither will I spare c. nor repent Ezek. 24. 14. How shall I give thee up Ephraim c. my heart is turned within me my repentings are kindled together I will not execute the fierceness c. Hosea 11. 8 9. O Grave c. repentance shall be hid from mine eyes Hosea 13. 14. By whom shall Jacob arise c. the Lord repented for this It shall not be saith the Lord Amos 7. 2 3 5 6. Who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger and we perish not c. And God saw their works that they turned from their evil way and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them and he did it not Jonah 3. 9 10. chap. 4. 20. Joel 2. 13 14. I thought to punish you c. and I repented not so again have I thought c. to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah fear ye not c. Zech. 8. 14 15. Secondly Repentance in Mâ—n in General and his turning c. GOD led the people not thorow the way of the land of the Philistines c. for God said Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war and they return Exod. 13. 17. And thou shalt call to mind c. and shall return c. with all thy heart c. Deut. 30. 1 2 3 8. 1 Kings 8. 47 48. Deut. 4. 30 31. And the children oâ— Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother Judges 21. 6 15. Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel saying if ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts put away the strange gods c. from among you and prepare your hearts unto the Lord c. then they did put away Balaam c. and served the Lord only 1 Sam. 7. 3 â— If they bethink themselves c. and repent c. and so return unto thee with aâ— their heart c. 1 Kings 8. 47 48. Ahab humbled himself c. and God brought not the threatned Judgments in his days 1 Kings 21. 27 29. For a long season Israel was without the true God c. But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel and sought him he was found 2 Chron. 15. 4. Turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham c. and he will return to the remnant of you c. and be not like your fathers c. If ye turn again unto the Lord your brethren c. shall find compassion for the Lord your God is gracious c. 2 Chron. 30. 6 7 9. Manasseh-repented c. when he had been in afliction 2 Chron. 33. 12 13 14 c. Jer. 4. 14. I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies Psal 119. 59. Wash ye make ye clean put away the evil of your goings c. Isa 1. 16 17. Jer. 4. 14. Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted for in that day every man shall cast away his Idols c. Isa 31. 6 7. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions c. return unto me Isa 44. 22. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon for my thoughts are not your thoughts c. Isa 55. 6 7 8 9. Is this the fast that I have chosen c. Loose the bonds of Iniquity to undo the heavy burthens c. Isa 58. 5 6 7. Thou hast played the harlot with many lovers yet return again to me saith the Lord c. but she turned not c. return thou backsliding Israel faith the Lord c. and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you for I am merciful c. only acknowledge tâ—â—e iniquity c. return c. I will heâ—l your backslidings Behold we come un to thee for thou art the Lord our God Jer. 3. 1 6 7 12 13 14 22. If thou wilt return O Israel faith the Lord return unto me and if thou wilt put away thy abomination out of my sight then c. Jer. 4. 1 4 14. Were they ashamed when they had committed c. nay they were not at all c. neither could they blush Jer. 6. 15. Amend your ways and your doings c. trust not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord c. for if ye thorowly amend your ways and your doings c. Jer. 7. 3 4 5 6 7. Isa 58. 5 6 7. No man repented of his wickedness saying What have I done every one turning to his course as the horse râ—â—hâ—th into the batter Jer. 8. 5 6. Return ye nâ—w every one from his evil way and make your ways and 〈◊〉 doings good And they said There is no hope but we will walk after c. Jer. 13. 11 12. I will give them an heart to know me c. for they shall return unto me with their whole heart Jer. 24. 7. Surely I have heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thou hast chastized me and I was chastized as a Bullock accustomed to the yoke turn thou me and I shall be turned
c. look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness 2 Pet. 3. 13. He who doeth the will of God abideth for ever 1 John 2. 17. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3. 2. They shall walk with me in white c. cloathed in white c. will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out c. will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and am set down c. Rev. 3. 4 5 11 12 21. ch 2. 26 27 28. I beheld and lo a great multitude c. stood before the throne c. cloathed with white robes and palms in their hands c. These are they who came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple and he who sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them they shall hunger no more nor thirst no more neither shall the sun light on them or any heat for the Lamb c. shall feed them c. and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Rev. 7. 9 13 to 18. Isa 25. 8. The souls of them who were beheaded and which had not worshipped the beast c. nor received his mark c. Rev. 20. 4. The New Jerusalem's Glory described at large c. Behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them c. and wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away Rev. 21. 1 to 5. ch 22. 1 to 6. 2 Pet. 3. 13. See more of Eternal Life Chap. 10. See the sad End of wicked Men Chap. 5. CHAP. XXXVIII Of Knowledge and Understanding in and about Divine Things and of the Want thereof Ignorance about such things and the Evil thereof WHen Abimelech had taken Sara Abram's Wife though in the Integrity of his Heart not knowing her to be Abram's Wife because he had said she was his Sister yet God said unto him Behold thou art a dead man for the woman thou hast taken for she is a man's wife Gen. 20. 2 to 10. Pharaoh said Who is the Lord that I should obey him Exod. 5. 2. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring forth the children of Israel from among them Exod. 7. 5. Ezek. 6. 7 10 13. Exod. 14. 4 18. According to thy word that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord Exod. 8. 10. I have hardned his heart and the heart of his servants that I might shew these my signs c. that ye may know how that I am the Lord Exod. 10. 1 2. Deut. 4. 35. Exod. 6. 7. Jethro said when Moses had told him what God had done Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he c. Exod. 18. 11. 2 Kings 5. 15. Under the Law they were to offer Sacrifices for Sins of Ignorance whether of a Person or of the Congregation Levit. 4. 2 3 4 13 14 15. ch 5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 17 18 19. Numb 15. 24 25 26. Ye have seen all that the Lord did c. yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day Deut. 20. 2 4. They sacrificed c. not to God to gods whom they knew not to new gods Deut. 32. 17. There arose another generation c. who knew not the Lord nor the works he had done c. Judges 2. 10. Sampson said to his father Get her for me c. but his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord that he sought an occasion against the Philistines Judges 14. 3 4. The sons of Eli wicked men knew not the Lord 1 Sam. 2. 12. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him 1 Sam. 3. 7. That all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel c. that the Lord saveth not by sword c. 1 Sam. 17. 46 47. Elijah prayed that God would by an extraordinary means let it be known that thou art a God in Israel c. that this people may know that thou art the Lord God 1 Kings 18. 36 37 38. Because the Syrians have said The Lord is God of the hills but he is not God of the Valleys therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hands and ye shall know that I am the Lord 1 Kings 20. 28. Solomon asked wisdom and knowledge and God gave it and riches also 2 Chron. 1. 9 10 11 12. Nevertheless they shall be his servants that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the Countreys 2 Chron. 12. 8. God left Hezekiah to try him that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32. 31. Canst thou by searching find out God Carst thou find out the Almighty to perfection c. Job 11. 7 8 12. ch 37. 5. Eccles 11. 5. I have understanding as well as you I am not inferiour to you Job 12. 3. ch 13. 2. Lo these are parts of his ways but how little a portion is heard of him Job 26. 14. There is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding great men are not always wise neither do the aged understand judgment Job 32. 8 9. ch 38. 36. I uttered that I understood not things too wonderful for me which I knew not I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee wherefore I abhor my self c. Job 42. 5 6. They who know thy name will put their trust in thee c. The Lord is known by the judgments he executeth Psal 9. 10 16. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people c. Psal 14. 4. Psal 53. 4. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shew his handy work day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night teacheth knowledge c. The testimonies of the Lord are sure making wise the simple c. The commandments of the Lord is pure inlightning the eyes Psal 19. 1 2 3 4 7 8. Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted c. Psal 46. 10. Consume them c. and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earthâ— Selah Psal 59. 13. Ps 99. 10. When I thought to know this it was too painful for me until I went into the Sanctuary of God then understood I their end c. so foolish and
spittle Mark 8. 22 23. The miraculous number of fish taken by Peter and his company when Christ had commanded them to take their net and cast it into the sea Luke 5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. He healed the Centurions servant raised the widows only son from the dead when they were carrying him to be buried Luke 7. 2 3 c. 11 12 13 c. He made the woman straight who had by reason of an infirmity been bowed and could not stand up Luke 13. 11 12 13. He cured a man of a dropsie Luke 14. 2 3 4. Christ healed the ear with a touch which the disciples had cut off Luke 22. 51. Christ healed ten lepers Luke 17. 12 13 14 15 16. He restored sight to another blind man Luke 18. 41 42 43. Christ cured the High Priests servants ear Luke 22. 51. He turned water into wine at the marriage faest in Cana John 2. 7 8 9. He healed the noble-mans son by his word which the noble man believed and found that his child mended the same hour Christ spake John 4. 47 49 50 51 52 53. He cured the man who had had an infirmity 36 years and had waited long at the pool and could not get in John 5. 5 6 7 8 9. He restored sight to the man who was born blind he anointed his eyes with clay and spittle and bid him wash c. John 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. He raised Lazarus from the dead after he had been laid in his grave John 11. 43 44. He caused Peter and other disciples to cast their net into the sea and they took a miraculous number of fishes John 21. 6 7 8. Many wonders and signs were done by the Apostles Acts 2. 43. ch 14. 3. Peter raised up the lame man who had lain at the temple-gate Acts 3. 2 6 7. Ananias and Saphira both at the Apostles word fell down dead c. And by the hands of the Apostles were many signs and wonders wrought c. they brought sick folks and them who were vexed with unclean spirits and they were healed every one Acts. 5. 9 10 12 15 16. Philip did many miracles cast out unclean spirits healed palsies and lame Acts 8 6. 7. Peter healed Aeneas of the palsie and raised Dorcas from the dead Acts 9. 34 40 41. Paul cured the cripple at Lystra who had been lame from his mothers womb Acts 14. 8 9 10. Paul cast out the spirit of divination out of the maid Acts 16. 16 17 18. And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul so that from his body were brought to the sick handkerchiefs c. and the diseases departed from them and the evil spirits went out of them Acts 19. 11 12. Paul raised Eutichus from the dead when he had fallen down from the window Acts 20. 9 10. Paul healed the father of Publius of his fever and bloody-flux and others Acts 28. 8 9. So grâ—at salvation which first began to be spoken by the Lord c. God also bearing them witness both with signs and wonders and with divers miracles c. Hebr. 2. 3 4. Mighty signs and wonders by the power of the spirit of God Rom. 15. 19. CHAP. XLIV Of the Kings of Israel and Judah How they came to their Power and Office GIdeon hath judged Israel he had seventy sons Abimilech one of the sons of Gideon by his servant by subtilty with the men of Shechem that it was better one should reign than all the seventy sons procures money hires vain and light persons and kills all his brethren except Jotham the youngest who hid himself Abimelech by the men of Shechem and the house of Millo made King After a few years he was slain by a piece of mill-stone a woman threw down on him after whom Judges governed a lâ—ng time till Samuel Judges 9. Israel by the Elders came to Samuel and said Make us a king to judge us lâ—ke all the nations and though God was displeased at it and said They had rejected not Samuel but God himself that he should not reign over them yet he bids Samuel hearken unto them and make them a king 1 Sam. 8. Samuel before Saul came was told of God of his coming and that he should be the man whom he should anoint king Samuel anoints him king â—ccordingly 1 Sam. 9. ch 10. According to this afterwards all the people went to Gilgal and here they made Saul king before the Lord 1 Sam. 11. 14 15. Samuel said to Saul When thou wast little in thine own fight wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel c. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord he hath rejected thee from being king 1 Sam. 15. 17 23. Samuel by Gods special direction anointed David the son of Jesse to be king although Saul was yet living and the spirit left Saul and came upon David 1 Sam. 16. 1 12 13 14. And after Sauls death the men of Judah came to Hebron and there they anointed David king over Judah but Abner made Ishbosheth the son of Saul king over all Israel 2 Sam. 2. 1 2 3 4 8 9. After the death of Ishbosheth being slain came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron c. And all the Elders of Israel came c. and king David made a league with them and they anointed David 〈◊〉 over Israel 2 Sam. 5. 1 2 3. Adonijah David his son being about to set up himself David sets up Solomon 1 Kings 1. 5 6 c. God said to Solomon Thou hast not kept my covenant c. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee and will give it to thy servant c. Abijâ—h the Prophet told Jeroboam That God would give ten tribes unto him and take the kingdom out of the hands of Solomons son and give ten tribes unto him Solomon died Rehoboam rigned in his stead 1 Kings 11. 9 10 11 12 29 30 31 35 36 37 43. All Israel came to Shethem to make Rehoboam king the people proposing ease and Rehoboam refusing to grant it the cause was from the Lord that he might perform what he had said ten tribes fell off from him And when all Israel had heard that Jeroboam was come again they sent and called him to the Congregation and made him king over all Israel When Rehoboam intended by force to reduce them God forbid it and said This thing is from me only Judah subjected to Rehoboam 1 Kings 12. 1 7 3 4 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24. Go tell Jeroboam thus faith the Lord God of Israel Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people and made thee Prince over my people Israel and rent the kingdom from the house of David and gave it unto thee c. Jeroboam died and Nadab his son reigned in his stead over Israel Rehoboam died and Abijam his son reigned in his stead over Judah 1
they sinned still and believed not for his wondrous work Psal 78. 30 31 32 56 57 58. They frame mischief by a law they gather themselves together against the Soul of the Righteous and condemn the innocent blood Psal 94. 20 21. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people c. they have consulted together with one consent or heart they are confederate against thee Psal 83. 3 5. The tender mercy of the wicked is cruel Prov. 12. 10. Fools make a mock at sin Prov 14. 9. Not a just man upon the earth who doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7. 20. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil Eccles 8. 11. Psal 55. 19. Woe to them who draw iniquity c. who say Let him make speed hasten his work that we may may see c. Isa 5. 18 19 20. The King of Assyria lifted up in pride said Shall not I do to Jerusalem as to Samaria c. By the strength of my hand have I done it and by my wisdom for I am prudent Isa 10. 10 11 13. Ye have said We have made a covenant with death and with hell c. the scourge shall not come upon us c. Isa 28. 15. Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learn righteousness c. Deal unjustly in the land of uprightness and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord c. Thy hand is lifted up they will not see c. Isa 26. 10 11. They make a man an offender for a word and lay a snare for him who reproveth in the gate c. Isa 29. 20 21. Thou hast trusted in thy wickedness thou hast said none-seeth me c. and thou hast said in thine heart I and none else beside me Isa 47. 10. All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way Isa 53. 6. The wicked like the troubled sea which cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt Isa 57. 20. Thou saidâ—t There is no hope no for I have loved strangers and after them will I go Jer. 2. 25. ch 22. 21. Thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou qast consumed them they have refused to receive correction they have made their faces harder than a rock they have refused to return Jer. 5. 3. Were they ashamed c. They were not at all ashamed neither could they blush therefore c. Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the way and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein c. But they said We will not walk therein Jer. 6. 15 16. They spake not aright no man repented of his wickedness saying What have I done Every one turned to his course as the horse rusneth into the battel Jer. 8. 6. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron with the point of a diamond it is graven upon the table of their heart c. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked c. Jer. 17. 1 9. Thus faith the Lord Return ye c. And they said There is no hope but we will walk after our own devices and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart c. Let us devise devices against Jeremiah c. and let us not give heed to any of his words Jer. 18. 11 12 18. The King cut and burned the Roll wherein was written Jeremy's Prophesie and would have taken the Prophet himself Jer. 36. 21 23 24 26. The people told Jeremiah We will not hearken unto thee but we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth out of our own mouth to burn incense to the queen of heaven c. Jer. 44. 15 16 17. They are stiff-hearted c. they are rebellious c. they are impudent Ezek. 2. 4 7. ch 3. 7. Hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark every man in the chambers of his imagery For they say The Lord seeth not us the Lord hath forsaken the earth c. Ezekâ— 8. 12. When they had slain their children to their idols then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it c. Ezek. 23. 39. Nebuchadnezzar said Who is that God who can deliver out of my hands Dan. 3. 15. The king said Is not this great Babylon which I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honour of my majesty While the word was in his mouth c. a voice said The kingdom is departed Dan. 4. 30 31. Though Belshazzar knew all which God had done to his father for his pride yet he humbled not his heart But thou hast lifted up thy self against the Lord of heaven c. Thou hast praised the gods of silver c. Dan. 5. 21 22 23. Their mother hath played the harlot c. For she said I will go after my lovers who gave me my bread c. Hos 2. 5. They set their heart on their iniquity Hos 4. 8. God repeats many Judgments he hath brought upon Israel and saith Yet they have not returned unto me c. Amos. 4. 6 7 8 9 10. They hate him who rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him who speaketh uprightly Amoâ— 5. 10. Isa 29. 21. None upright amongst men and the best of them as a briar c. Micah 7. 2 3 4. Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts Execute true judgment c. But they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear yea they made their heart as an Adamant-stone lest they should hear the law c. Zech. 7. 9 10 11 12. I will punish the men c. who say in their hearts that the Lord will not do good neither will he do evil Zeph. 1. 12. Psal 2. 17. Your words have been stout against me saith the Lord Yet ye say What have we spoken against thee Ye have said It is vain to serve God and what profit that we have kept his ordinances c. Mal. 3. 13 14. Job 21. 14 15. O Jerusalem c. How often would I have gathered you c. and ye would not Matth. 23. 37. John 5. 40. Luke 14. 17 18 19 c. When Pilate had said I am innocent of the blood of this just person see ye to it Then answered all the people and said His blood be on us and our children Matth. 27. 24 25. See the desperate wickedness of the Priests and Elders Matth. 27 ch 28. The World hate Christ and all that are good Matth. 10. 22. John 15. 18 19 c. 1 John 3. 13. John 17. 14. That which cometh out of them and defileth the man For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts adulteries fornications thefts covetousness wickedness deceit lasciviousness an evil eye blasphemy pride foolishness
with the proud Prov. 16. 2 5. 18 19. ch 18. 12. Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his maker Prov. 17. 5. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness or bounty Prov. 20. 6. Every way of man is right in his own eyes but the Lord pondereth the heart Prov. 21. 2. Put not forth thy self in the presence of the King and stand not in the place of great men For better it is that it be said unto thee Come up hither than that thou shouldst be put lower in the presence of the Prince Prov. 25. 6 7. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit there is more hope of a fool than of him Prov. 26. 12. Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth a stranger and not thine own lips The full soul loatheth the honey-comb but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet Prov. 27. 2 7. He who is of a proud heart stirreth up strife Prov. 28. 25. A man's pride shall bring him low but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit Prov. 29. 23. Surely I am more brutish than man and have not the understanding of a man c. There is a generation pure in their own eyes and yet not washed from their filthiness c. how lofty are c. Prov. 30. 2 12 13. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of man shall be brought down c. for the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one who is proud and lofty and upon every one who is lifted up and he shall be brought low c. Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of Isaiah 2. 11 12 13 17 22. ch 5. 15. Job 9. 13. Wo unto them who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight Isa 5. 21. Wo is me c. I am of unclean lips c. for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts Isa 6. 5. I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks for he saith By the strength of my hand I have done it c. Shall the ax boast it self against him that heweth therewith c. Therefore shall the Lord the Lord of Hosts send among his fat ones leanness and under his glory he shall kindle a fire c. The high ones of stature shall be hewn down and the haughty shall be humbled Isa 10. 12 13 15 16 33. ch 14. 11 12 13 14 15. The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it to stain or pollute the pride of all glory to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth Isa 23. 9. Hear you scornful men c. because you say we have made a covenant with death c. it shall be broken c. Isa 28. 14 15 18. Thus saith the high and lofty One c. I dwell in the high and holy place with him also who is of an humble and contrite spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite Isa 57. 15. Thus faith the Lord The heaven is my throne c. but to this man will I look to him who is pure and contrite in spirit and trembleth at my word Isa 66. 1 2. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom nor the mighty man in his might c. Jer. 9. 23. I will mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem c. who shall refuse to hear my word c. Jer. 13. 9 10 15 17 18. O house of Israel cannot I do with you as this potter faith the Lord behold as the clay is in the potters hands so ye in mine hand O house of Israel Jer. 18. 6. When the prophet Jeremiah had spoken the words of the Lord to the people then spake Azariah c. and all the proud men saying unto Jeremiah Thou speakest falsly The Lord our God hath not sent thee to say c. Jer. 42. 1 2. Behold I am against thee O thou most proud or pride faith the Lord God of Hosts c. And the most proud shall stumble and fall c. Jer. 50. â—1 32. Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom pride c. and the more haughty c. Ezek. 16. 49 50. Thus faith the Lord c. exalt him that is low and abase him who is high Ezek. 21. 26. God threatens the Prince of Tyrus for his sacrilegious Pride Ezek. 28. 1 c. When the King said unto Daniel Art thou able to make known unto me the dream c. Daniel answered c. There is a God in heaven who revealeth secrets c. but as to me this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living Dan. 2. 25 26 27 28 30. Is not this great Babylon which I have built by the might of my power and for the honour of my Majesty While the word was in the king's mouth there fell a voice c. saying c. The kingdom is departed from thee c. He was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen c. Those who walk in pride he is able to abase Dan. 4. 29 30 31 32 33 37. Isa 27. 4. When his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened in pride or to deal proudly he was deposed from his kingly throne and took his glory from him c. and thou his son Belshazzar hast not humbled thine heart although thou knewest all this but hast lifted up thy self against the Lord of heaven c. Dan. 5. 20 21 22 23. Their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten me Hosea 13. 6. He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly c. and walk humbly with thy God Micah 6. 8. Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him Habbak 2. 4. Moab shall be as Sodom c. This shall they have for their pride because they reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of Hosts Zephan 2. 9 10 Jerem. 48. 26 27 29. Behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just c. lowly Zech. 9. 9. The day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud c. shall be stubble Mal. 4. 1. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Matth. 5. 3. The Centurion answered and said Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof Matth. 8. 7 8 Luke 7. 6 7. Thou Capernaum which art exalted unto heaven shall be brought down to hell For if the c. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest Matth. 11. 23 29. Whosever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven Matth. 18. 4. Luke 9. 46 47 48. Mark 10. 15. When the ten heard it
observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee Cursed thou in the city and cursed thou in the field c. Deut. 28. 15 16 17 18 19 20 to the end chap. 29. 19 20. chap. 3. 17 18 19. Do ye thus requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father c. Deut. 32. 6 32 33 c. Achan sinned in taking the cursed thing and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel c. and the men of Aâ— smote them c. The Lord said c. neither will I be with you any more except ye destroy the accursed thing from among you Up c. And God said He who is taken with this accursed thing shall be burned with fire he and all that he hath because he hath transgressed c. And accordingly Achan and his was stoned and burned Josh 7. 1 4 5 10 12 13 15 24 25 26. If ye forsake the Lord and serve strange gods then he will turn and do you hurt and consume you after he hath done you good Josh 24. 20. Judges 2. 13 14 15. ch 10. 6 13. God rendred the Wickedness of Abimelech c. in slaying his seventy Brethren And all the Evil of the Men of Shechem c. upon their heads c. Judges 9. 56 57. God said Did not I deliver you c. yet have ye forsaken me c. Wherefore I will deliver you no more Go and cry unto the gods ye have chosen let them deliver you c. Judges 10. 11 12 13 14. Sampson's Deiilah was his ruin Judges 16. 15 to 21. The Benjamites cut off and destroyed for the great Sin in abusing the Levite's Concubine to death Judges 18. ch 19. God threatens Eli for his suffering his Sons to sin so in the Priesthood 1 Sam. 2. 22 23 24 to the end The Lord said I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house c. for I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not and therefore have I sworn unto the house of Eli That the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor burnt-offerings for ever 1 Sam. 3. 11 12 13 14. ch 4. 17 18. God's Judgments upon the Philistines while they kept the Ark of God amongst them 1 Sam. 5. 6 7 8 c. He smote the men of Bethshemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord c. fifty thousand and seventy men 1 Sam. 6. 19. The elders of Israel came to Samuel and said Make us a king to judge us like all the nations c. And the Lord said unto Samuel c. They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them c. And God said You shall cry out because of your king c. and the Lord will not hear you in that day 1 Sam. 8. 4 5 7 18 19. ch 10. 19. The Lord sent thunder and rain in wheat-harvest and all the people feared the Lord and Samuel We have added unto all our sins this eviâ— to ask us a king c. If ye will still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your king 1 Sam. 12. 12 16 17 18 19 25. Saul offered sacrifice himself c. Samuel said to him Thou hast done foolishly c. but now the kingdom shall not continue I Sam. 13. 9 10 13 14. Samuel said to Saul Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord he hath also rejected thee from being king 1 Sam. 15. 9 11 17 22 23 26. The Lord also takes away his Spirit from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him 1 Sam. 16. 1 14. And when Saul enquired of the Lord the Lord answered him not neither by dreams nor by Uriâ— nor by prophets c. Then he goes to a familiar spirit c. Samuel said Why hast thou disquieted me c. Saul said God is departed from me and answereth me no more c. The Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand Because thou obeyed not the voice of the Lord nor executed his fierce wrath upon Amalek c. therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day c. 1 Sam. 28. 6 7 15 16 17 18 19. 2 Chron. 10. 13 14. Uzzah put forth his hand unto the ark of God and took hold of it c. and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah and God smote him there for his errour or rashness and there he died c. Michal David's wife despised David for his dancing before the ark c. therefore sâ—e had no child unto the day of her death c. 2 Sam. 6. 16 23. David's Sin in the matter of Uriah's Wife c. displeased the Lord 2 Sam. 11. 27. And Nathan said unto David c. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel I anointed thee king over Israel c. and if that had been too little I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight that thou hast killed Uriah c. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house c. Behold I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house and I will take thy wives before thine eyes and give them unto thy neighbour and he shall lie with thy wife in the right of this sun c. The child also shall surely die c. And the child died 2 Sam. 12. 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 18. Then Amnon his Son forceth Tamar Sister of Absalom c. And Absalom killeth Amnon 2 Sam. 13. 11 12 13 14 28 29. Absalom conspireth against David and rebels 2 Sam. 15. Absalom went in to his Father's Concubines in the â—â—ght of all Israel 2 Sam. 16. 21 22. Absalom is sâ—ain himself 2 Sam. 18. 14 15. There was a famine c. And David enquired of the Lord and the Lord answered It is for Saul and his bloody house because he slew the Gibeonites c. The Children of Israel had sworn unto them and Saul sought to slay them in his Zeal c. 2 Sam. 21. 1. Josh 9. 15. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel c. David said Go number the people c. So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel c. and there died seventy thousand men 2 Sam. 24. 1 2 15. Adonijah put to death by Solomon's Order and Joab for his Sin killing of Abner and Amasa also put to death and Shâ—mei also put to death for his cursing of David 1 Kings 2. 24 25 28 31 32 33 34. If you shall at all turn from following of me you or your children and will not keep my commandments
and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this Go ye up upon her walls and destroy c. Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withholden good things from you c. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land the prophets prophesie falâ—ly and the priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof Jer. 5. 7 8 9 10 25 29 30 31. ch 9. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ezek 20. 15 16. Thus hath the Lord of hosts said c. Cast a mount against Jerusalem this is the city to be visited she is wholly oppression in the midst of her c. Be then instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee c. I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land saith the Lord for from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given unto covetousness and from the prophet even unto the priests every one dealeth falsly c. Hear O earth Behold I will bring evil upon this people c. Jer. 6. 6 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 18 19. ch 7. 8 9 c. They were not ashamed nor could they blush therefore shall they fall c. Jer. 8. 12 13 14 c. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Cursed be the man who obeyeth not the words of this covenant They are turned back unto the iniquity of their fathers who refuse to hear my words c. Therefore thus saith the Lord Behold I will bring evil upon them which they shall not be able to escape and though they shall cry unto me I will not hearken unto them c. Therefore pray not thou for this people for I will not hearken c. Jer 11. 3 10 11 12 14. ch 35 17. ch 14. 11 12. ch 18. 17. Their tongue is as an arrow c. Shall I not visit them for these things saith the Lord Jer. 9. 8 9. What wilt thou say when I shall punish thee c. Shall not sorrow take thee as a woman in travail c. For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered c. Wo c. Wilt thou not be made clean c. Jer. 13. 10 14 21 22 27. ch 14. 11 12. Though Moses and Samuel stood before me yet my mind could not be towards this people cast them out of my sight c. such as are for death to death c. Who shall have pity upon thee O Jerusalem who shall bemoan thee c. Thou hast forsaken me saith the Lord Jer. 15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 c. Ye have done worse than your fathers for behold ye walk every one after the imaginations of his own heart that ye may not hearken unto me therefore will I cast you out of this land c. Jer. 16. 9 11 12 13 c. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron and with the point of a diamond is graven upon the tables of their heart c. Jer. 17. 1 23 27. Return ye c. And they said There is no hope but we will walk after our own doings c. Jer. 18. 11 12 15 16 c. The land is full of adulterers for because of swearing or cursing the land mourneth the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up Jer. 23. 10 39 40. As the evil figs c. so will I give the king and the princes and the residue of Jerusalem which remain in this land and them who dwell in the land of Egypt I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt to be a reproach c. And I will send the sword the famine and the pestilence among them till they be consumed from off the land Jer. 24. 8 9 10. ch 25 7 8 9 10 11. Thus saith the Lord If they will hearken and turn every man from his evil way that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do because of the evil of their doings c. If ye will not c. then will I make this house like Shilo and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth Jer. 26. 2 3 4 5 6. God threatned and punished many for Prophesying falsly and lyes to Israel Jer. 28. 15 16 17. ch 29. 21 31 32. Thus saith the Lord Thy bruise is incurable c. for the multitude of thine iniquity thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee Jer. 30. 12 13 14 15. Because of all the evil of the children of Israel c. this city c. shall be delivered into the hand c. Jer. 32. 32 c. Ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty every man unto his brother and every man to his neighbour Behold I proclaim a liberty for you saith the Lord to the sword and to the pestilence c. Jer. 34. 1 17. This Jerusalem c. hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations c. Therefore thus saith the Lord I even I am against thee c. therefore the fathers shall eat the sons c. Ezek. 5. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. When God had shewed Ezekiel Judah's abominations he saith unto him Therefore will I also deal in fury mine eyes shall not spare neither will I have pity And though they cry c. will I not hear them Ezek. 8. 18. ch 9. 8 9 10. ch 7. 3 4 8 9. But as for them whose heart walketh c. I will recompence their way upon their own head The glory of the Lord left in the City Ezek. 11. 21 22 23. When the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously then will I stretch out my hand upon it and will break the staff of bread thereof and will send famine upon it and will cut off man and beast c. Though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it they should deliver but their own souls c. Ezek. 14. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. Pride fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was Sodom's sins for which God took her away Ezek. 16. 49 50. Thus saith the Lord God Are ye come to enquire of me As I live saith the Lord God I will not be enquired of by you c. Ezek. 20. 1 2 3 4. God reckons up many sins of Jerusalem and then says Can thine heart endure Can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee I the Lord have spoken and will do it and will scatter thee c. Ezek. 22. 1 2 to the 15. When the righteous man turneth from his righteousness and committeth iniquity he shall even die thereby Ezek. 33. 12 13 18. The heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity because they trespassed against me therefore c. Ezek. 29. 23 24. The Kings of Babylon
c. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds c. But of the day and hour knoweth no man no not the angels in heaven but my Father only But as the days of Noah were so shall also the coming of the Son of man be c. They were eating and drinking c. Watch therefore c. be ye therefore ready also for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh c. Matth. 24. 27 30 31 36 37 38 39 42 43 c. Luke 12. 35 36. ch 17. 24. 1 Tim. 6. 14. When the Son of man shall come in his glory and all his holy angels with him then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory and before him shall â—e gathered all nations and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats and he shall set the sheep on the right hand but the goats on the left hand Then shall the king say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world for I was an hungred c. Then shall he say unto them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels for I was an hungred c. and these shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into everlasting life Matth. 25 31 32 33 35 41 42 46. Luke 3. 17. Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven Matth. 26. 64. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me c. in this adulterous and sinful generation of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father with his holy Angels Mark 8. 38. The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgment to the Son that all men should honour the Son c. and hath given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of man c. As I hear I judge and my judgment is just because I seek not mine own will c. John 5. 22 23 27 30. He who rejecteth me c. hath one who judgeth him the word I have spoken the same shall judge him in the last day John 12. 48. I will come again and receive you John 14. 3. Ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice c. John 16. 22. This same Jesus who is taken from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven Acts 1. 11. He commanded us to preach unto the people c. That it is he who was ordained of God to be the judge of quick and dead Acts 10. 42. He hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given an assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Acts 17. 31. And as he reasoned of righteousness temperance and judgment to come Felix trembled Acts 24. 25. Thinkest thou this O man who judgest c. that thou shalt escape the judgment of God or despisest c. After thy hardness c. treasurest up unto thy self wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God who will render to every man according to his deeds to them who by patient continuing in well-doing c. eternal life but unto them who are contentious c. indignation and wrath c. upon every soul of man who doth evil c. but glory honour and peace to every man who worketh good c. For there is no respect of persons with God c. in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel Rom. 2. 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 16. Is God unrighteous c. God forbid for then how shall God judge the world Rom. 3. 5 6. Why dost thou judge thy brother c. we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ for it is written As I live saith the Lord every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confess to God So then every one or us shall give an account of himself to God Rom. 14. 10 11 12. Isa 45. 23. If any man build on this foundation gold silver c. every man's work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man's work of what fort it is c. 1 Cor. 3. 12 13 14 15. He who judgeth me is the Lord therefore judge nothing before the time untâ— the Lord come who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness c. 1 Cor. 4. 4 5. Ephes 5. 12 13 14. Do ye not know that the Saints shall judge the world c. that we shall judge Angels 1 Cor. 6. 2 3. We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad knowing therefore the terror of the Lord c. 2 Cor. 5. 9 10 11. 1 Cor. 3. 8. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him c. Col. 3. 4. To the end he may establish your hearts c. before God even our Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his Saints 1 Thes 3. 13. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thes 4. 16 17. For your selves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night for when they shall say Peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travel upon a woman with child and they shall not escape c. I pray God your whole spirit soul and body may be preserved plameless unto the coming of our Lord 1 Thes 5. 2 3 23. It is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them who trouble you And to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance of them who know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thes 1. 6 7 8 9. We beseech you by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye be
see God Matth. 5. 8. Lay up for your selves treasure in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal c. Matth. 6. 20. Many shall come c. and shall sit down with Abraham c. in the kingdom of heaven Matth. 8. 11. Luke 16. 22 25. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of the Father Matth. 13. 43. Jesus was transfigured c. his face did shine as the sun and his raiment white Matth. 17. 2 3. In the resurrection they shall neither marry c. but are as the Angels of God in heaven Matth. 22. 30. Then shall the King say c. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you c. The righteous into life eternal Matth. 25. 34 46. Little flock it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luke 12. 32. James 2. 5. Thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the just Luke 14. 14. And the resurrection c. Neither can they die any more for they are equal unto the Angels and are the children of God Luke 20. 36. John 5. 29. Isa 25. 8. Lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh Luke 21. 28. I appoint unto you a kingdom c. that ye may eat and drink at my table and in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel Luke 22. 29 30. To day thou shalt be with me in Paradise Luke 23. 43. I give to them eternal life and they shall never perish John 10. 28. Rom. 2. 7. Whither I go thou canst not follow me now but thou shalt follow me afterwards John 13. 36. In my Father's house are many mansions if it were not c. I go to prepare a place for you c. I will come again and receive you unto my self that where I am there ye may be also John 14. 2 3 19. ch 12. 26. I will see you c. and your hearts shall rejoyce and your joy shall no man take from you John 16. 22. The glory which thou gavest me I have given them c. Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me John 17. 22 24. Glory honour and peace to every one who worketh good Rom. 2. 7 10. We stand and rejoyce in the hope of the glory of God Rom. 5. 2. The end everlasting life c. The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus c. Rom. 6. 22 23 31. Gal. 6. 8. 2 Tim. 1. 10. Heirs of God joint heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together c. The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us for the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God c. We our selves c. waiting for the adoption the redemption of our body c. Whom he justified them he also glorified Rom. 8. 17 18 19 23 30. Heb. 1. 14. ch 2. 10. They to obtain a corruptible crown but we an incorruptible 1 Cor. 9. 25. We know in part c. But when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away c. Now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known 1 Cor. 13. 10 12. As we have born the image of the earthly we shall also bear the image of the heavenly c. The dead shall be raised incorruptible c. This corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality c. 1 Cor. 15. 19 49 52 to 56. 2 Cor. 5. 4. Our light affliction c. worketh for us a â—ar more exceeding and eternal weight of glory c. The things which are not seen are eternal 2 Cor. 4. 17 18. Matth. 5. 11 12. We have a building of God an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens 2 Cor. 5. 1. Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body Philip. 3. 20 21. For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven Col. 1. 5. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Col. 3. 4. Then we c. shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one c. 1 Thes 14. 17 18. You who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed c. when he shall come to be glorified in his saints and admired in all them who believe 2 Thes 1. 7 10. He called you unto the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ 2 Thes 2. 14. That they may obtain the salvation which is in Jesus Christ with eternal glory 2 Tim. 2. 10. There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord c. shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto them also who love his appearing 2 Tim. 4. 8. There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God Heb. 4. 9. Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward Heb. 10. 31 35. Prov. 8. 21. Abraham looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God c. They desire a better country that is an heavenly wherefore God c. for he hath prepared for them a city c. Others were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Heb. 11. 10 16 35. ch 13. 14. Ye are come to mount Sion unto the city of the living God the heavenly Jerasalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general assembly c. unto God the Judge of all and to she spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the mediator c. Heb. 12. 22 23 24. Blessed be God c. who hath begotten us again unto a lively hope c. to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and which fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you c. The sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow c. Hope to the end for the grace which is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 3 4 9 11 13. ch 5. 10. Ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing 1 Pet. 3. 9. When the chief Shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a crown of glory which fadeth not away c. The God of all grace who hath called us unto his eternal glory oy Jesus Christ c. 1 Pet. 5. 1 4 10. We
thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it and it would be sin in thee But if thou shalt forbear to vow it shall be no sin in thee That which is gone out of thy lips a free wilt offering according as thou hast vowed c. Deut. 23. 21 22 23. Eccles 5. 4 5. Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand then c. Numb 21. 2 3. Jepthah's Vow to dedicate to God whatever came out of his house to meet him after his Victory his Daughter met him he performed the Vow Judges 11. 30 31 32. Hannah vowed to give her Child unto the Lord and she performed it 1 Sam. 1. 11 27 28. Offer to God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the Most High Psal 50. 14. Thy vows are upon me O God I will render praises unto thee Psal 56. 12. Thou O God hast heard my vows thou hast given me the heritage c. So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever that I may daily perform my vows Psal 61. 5 8. I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings I will pay thee my vows which my lips have uttered c. when I was in trouble Psal 66. 13 14. Vow and pay unto the Lord your God Psal 76. 11. I will pay my Vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people Psal 116. 14. It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy and after vows to make enquiry Prov. 20. 25. When thou vowest unto God defer not to pay c. Better thou shouldst not vow than c. not perform Eccles 5. 4 5. God threatens Judah for saying they would performe their Vows which they had made to burn Incense to the Queen of Heaven c. Jer. 44. 25 26 27 c. I will pay that which I have vowed Jonah 2 9. Paul having shorn his head at Cenchrea for he had a Vow Acts 18. 18. We have four men who have a vow on them them take and purifie thy self with them c. And all may know c. that thou thy self also walkest orderly and keepest the law Touching the Gentiles we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing c. Acts 21. 20 21 22 23 24 c. The Law about the Vows of a Daughter in her Father's House And of a married Person Numb 30. CHAP LII Of Blasphemy AND the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord and cursed and they brought him to Moses c. and they they put him in ward that the mind of the Lord might be shewed unto them And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Bring forth him who hath cursed without the camp and let all who heard him lay their hands upon him and let all the congregation stone him c. Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin and he who blasphemeth the name of the Lord shall be put to death Levit. 24. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 23. Jezebel King Ahab's Wife commanded the Nobles to set up False Witnesses against Naboth to testifie that he did blaspheme God and the King and so stone him to death Which accordingly they did 1 Kings 21. 8 9 10 11 12 13. Acts 6. 11 13. Senacherib King of Assyria by his Servants said Who among all the gods c. could deliver his people out of mine hand that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand c. No god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver c. how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hands And his servants spake yet more against the Lord God c. He wrote also a Letter to rail on the Lord God of Israel and to speak against him c. And they spake against the God of Jerusalem as against the gods of the people of the earth the work of the hands of men 2 Chron. 32. 9 to 20. The shame of my face hath covered me for the voice of him who reproacheth and blasphemeth Psal 44. 16. O God how long shall the adversaries reproach shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever c. Remember this the enemy hath reproached O Lord and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy name Psal 74. 10 18 22. Render unto our neighbours seven-fold c. their reproach wherewith they have reproached thee O Lord Psal 79. 12. What have I here saith the Lord that my people is taken away for nought c. and my name continually every day is blasphemed Isa 52. 5. In this your fathers have blasphemed me in that they have committed a trespass against me when I had brought them into the land c. Then they saw every high Hill and all the thick trees and then they offered sacrifices there c. Ezek. 20. 27 28. Thou shalt know that I am the Lord. I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountain of Israel saying They are laid desolate c. Thus with your mouth you have boasted against me and have multiplied your words against me c. Ezek. 35. 12 13. When Christ had said to a man Thy sins are forgiven thee c. certain Scribes said within themselves This man blasphemeth c. The Pharisees said He casteth out devils by the prince of devils Matth. 9. 2 3 34. Luke 5. 21. The Pharisees said This fellow doth not cast out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils c. Jesus said c. If I cast out devils by the spirit of God then the kingdom of God is come amongst you c. Wherefore I say unto you All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but the blaspemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever shall speak a word against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world neither in the world to come Matth. 12. 24 28 31 32. Luke 12. 10. Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of Power and coming in the clouds of heaven Then the high Priest rent his clothes saying he hath spoken blasphemy what need have we of farther witnesses behold now ye have heard his blasphemy Matth. 26. 64 65. He who shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness c. because they said He hath an unclean spirit Mark 3. 29 30. From within out of the heart of men proceedeth evil thoughts blasphemes Mark 7. 21 22. They c. asked hâ—m saying Prophesie who is iâ— who smote thee And many other things blasphemously spake they against him Luke 22. 64 65. For a good work we stone thee not but for blasphemy because that thou being a man makest thy self God c. Say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world Thou