enemies of the cross of Christ c. who mind earthly things for our conversation is in heaven Phil. 3. 17 18 19 20. Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things honest whatsoever things just whatsoever things pure whatsoever things lovely whatsoever things of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think on these things Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do c. Phil. 4. 8 9. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work Col. 1. 10. If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above c. Set your affections on things above not on things on the earth c. Mortifie therefore your members which are upon earth fornication c. Col. 3. 1 2 5. Walk in wisdom towards them who are without redeeming the time c. That ye may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God c. Col. 4. 5 12. That ye would walk worthy of God who hâ—…h called you unto his kingdom 1 Thes. 2. 12. We exhort you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound more and more c. For this is the will of God your sanctification c. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour c. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness 1 Thes. 4. 1 3 4 7. Now the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly and your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord 1 Thes. 5. 23. Exercise thy self to godliness c. Godliness is profitable to all things have promise of this c. 1 Tim. 4. 7 8. Thou O man of God c. Follow after righteousness godliness c. 1 Tim. 6. 6 11. Flee also youthful lusts but follow righteousness c. 2 Tim. 2. 22. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation c. teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Titus 2. 11 12. Put them in mind c. to be ready to every good work c. A faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works Titus 3. 1 8. Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us c. Follow peace c. and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 1 14. Who is a wise man c Let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom James 3. 13. As obedient children not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance but as he who hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation because it is written Be ye holy for I am holy 1 Pet. 1. 14 15. Ye are a chosen generation c. that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you c. Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul having your conversation honest amongst the Gentiles that whereas or wherein they speak against you as evil doers they may by your good works which they behold glorifie God in the day of visitation c. We being dead unto sin should live unto righteousness Matt. 5. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 9 11 12 15 24. 1 Tim. 5. 14. Titus 2. 5 10. Let him eschew evil and do good c. Who is he who will harm you if you be followers of that which is good c Sanctifie the Lord in your hearts and he always ready to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil doers they may be ashamed who falsly accuse your good conversation in Christ 1 Pet. 3. 11 13 15 16. The time past of our life may â—…uffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles c. 1 Pet. 4. 2 3. Giving all dilligence add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledg and to knowledg temperance c. godliness c. Give dilligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 10. Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness c Wherefore beloved seeing ye loo for such things be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot or blemish 2 Pet. 3. 11 14. God is light c. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light c. 1 John 1. 5 6 7. He who saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked 1 John 2. 6. Every man who hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure c. He who doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous 1 Joh. 3. 7. Beloved follow not that which is evil but that which is good he who doth good is of God but he who doth evil hath not seen God 3 John v. 11. In Particular 1st To love God and the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. I' the Lord thy God c. shewing mercy unto thousands of them who love me Exod. 20. 6. The Lord our God one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy soul and with all thy might Deut. 6. 4 5. The Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth covenant and mercy with them who love him Deut. 7. 9. And now Israel what doth God require of thee but c. to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul Deut. 10. 12. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God c. If you shall hearken c. to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart c. that I will c. Deut. 11. 1 13. The Lord your God proveth you to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul Deut. 13. 3. And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 30. 6. Take diligent heed to do the commandment c. to love the Lord your God Joshua 22. 5. Take good heed therefore unto your selves or souls that ye love the Lord your God Joshua 23. 11. O love the Lord all ye his saints c. Psal. 31. 23. I love the
is peace long-suffering gentleness c. meekness temperance c. Gal. 5. 20 22 23. If any man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering c. Gal. 6. 1. Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness with long-suffering forbearing Be ye angry and sin not let not the Sun go down upon your wrath neither give place to the Devil c. let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice Eph. 4. 1 2 26 27 31. Let your moderation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand Phil. 4. 5. That ye walk worthy of the Lord c. strengthened with all might according unto his glorious power unto all patience and long-suffering Col. 1. 10 11. But now you also put off all these anger wrath malice c. Put on meekness long-suffering forbearing one another Col. 3. 8 12. Be patient towards all men 1 Thes. 5. 14. But thou O man of God c. follow after c. patience meekness 1 Tim. 6. 11. 2 Tim. 3. 10. The servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men c. patient or forbearing in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves if God c. 2 Tim. 2. 24 25. That aged men be sober grave temperate c. in patience Tit. 2. 2. Put them in mind c. to be no brawler gentle shewing all meekness unto all men Tit. 3. 1 2. Ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise Heb. 10. 36. Follow peace with all men Heb. 12. 14. The trial of your faith worketh patience But let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing c. let every man be c. slow to wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God c. receive with meekness the ingrafted word James 1. 3 4 19 20 21. Who is a wise man c let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envyings and strife in your heart c. for where envy and strife is there is confusion c. But the wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated c. James 3. 13 14 16 17. Gird up the loins of your mind be sober and hope c. 1 Pet. 1. 13. What glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye take it patiently but if when ye do well and suffer for it you take it patiently this is acceptable with God 1 Pet. 2. 20. Whose adorning let it not be that outward c. but the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price c. He who will love life c. let him seek peace and ensue it c. Be always ready to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear 1 Pet. 3. 3 4 10 11 15. The end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober 1 Pet. 4. 7. Add c. to knowledg temperance and to temperance patience 2 Pet. 1. 6. See more in Duties to brethren Chap. 17. In Duties towards all men Chap. 19. In Duties towards persecutors Chap. 22. In words Chap. 16. To take heed to our lips that our words be not rash but true seasonable well ordered and savoury Ye shall not c. lye one to another Levit. 19. 11. How forcible are right words But what doth your arguing reprove Job 6. 25. 26. Ye are forgers of lyes c. O that you would altogether hold your peace and it should be your wisdom c. Will you speak wickedly for God and talk deceitfully for him Job 13. 4 5 7. He who speaketh flattery to his friends even the eyes of his children shall fail Job 17. 5. My lips shall not speak wickedness nor my tongue utter deceit Job 27. 4. Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken because they were elder than he c. He said I am young and ye very old wherefore I was afraid and durst not shew my opinion Job 32. 4 6. I uttered that I understood not things two wonderful for me which I knew not c. wherefore I abhor c. Job 42. 3 6. Thou shalt destroy them who speak a lye Psal. 5. 6. They speak vanity every one with his neighbour with flattering lips with a double heart do they speak the Lord will cut off all flattering lips c. who have said With our tongue will we speak our lips are our own who is Lord over us Psal. 12. 2 3 4. Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle c he who speaketh the truth in his heart he who backbiteth not with his tongue Psal. 15. 1 2 3. I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress Psal. 17. 3. What man is he who desireth life c. Keep thy tongue from evil and thy lips from speaking guile Psal. 34. 12 13. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment Psal. 37. 30. I said I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me Psal. 39. 1. Thou gavest thy mouth to evil and thy tongue framed deceit thou sittest and speakest against thy brother c. Psal. 50. 19 20. The wicked c. go astray as soon as they are born speaking lyes Psal. 58. 3. The mouth of them who speak lyes shall be stopped Psal. 63. 11. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long Psal. 71. 24. It went ill with Moses for their sakes because they provoked his spirit so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips Psal. 106. 32 33. I hate and abhor lying Psal. 119. 163. Put away from thee a froward mouth and perverse lips put far from thee Prov. 4. 24. These six things doth the Lord hate c. a lying tongue c. a false witness speaking lyes Prov. 6. 16 17 19. A prating fool shall fall the mouth of a righteous man is a well of life c. in the lips of him who hath understanding wisdom is found c. He who hideth hatred with lying lips and he who uttereth a slander is a fool in the multitude of words there wanteth not sin but he who refraineth his lips is wise The tongue of the just is as choice silver c. The lips of the righteous feed many c. the mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom c. the lips of the righteous knows what is acceptable Prov. 10. 10 11 13 18 19 20 21 31 32. He who speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness c.
the faith as ye have been taught Col. 2. 5 6 7. For we live if ye stand fast in the Lord c. 1 Thess. 3. 8. We exhort you c. that as you have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound more and more 1 Thess. 4. 1. 〈◊〉 things hold fast that which is good 1 Thess. 5. 21. Therefore brethren stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught whether by word or our Epistle c. Now our Lord Jesus himself and God even our father c. stablish you in every good word and work 2 Thess. 2. 15 17. Brethren be not weary or faint not in well doing 2 Thess. 3. 13. Holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith hath made shipwrack of whom is Hymeneus c. 1 Tim. 1. 19 20. They shall be saved in Child bearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety 1 Tim. 2. 15. In the latter times some shall depart from the faith c. Some are already turned aside after Satan 1 Tim. 4. 1. ch 5. 15. If we deny him he also will deny us 2 Tim. 2. 12. But continue thou in the things thou hast learned and hast been assured of c. 2 Tim. 3. 14 15 16. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown c. 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. A Bishop must be blameless c. holding fast the faithful word c. Tit. 1. 9. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should let them slip c. Heb. 2. 1 2 3. Whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firmly unto the end c. We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end Heb. 3. 6 14. Seeing that we have a great High-priest c. Let us hold fast our profession For we have not an High-priest who cannot be touched with c. Heb. 4. 14 15. For it is impossible for those who are once enlightened c if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance c. We desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end That ye be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises Heb. 6. 4 5 6 11 12. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful who promised c. For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledg of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful looking for of judgment c. Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward for ye have need of patience c. If any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him we are not of them who draw back unto perdition Heb. 10. 23 26 27 35 36 37 38 39. Let us run with patience the race set before us looking unto Jesus c. lest ye be weary and faint in your minds c. Heb. 12. 1 2 3 15. Jesus Christ the same c. Be not carryed about c. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace Heb. 13. 8 9. Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty c. and continueth c. 〈◊〉 To him who knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sâ—… James 4. 17. Gird up the loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end 1 Pet. 1. 13. The devil c. whom resist stedfast in the faith 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world c. they are again entangled therein and overcome the latter end is worse with them than the beginning For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them 2. Pet. 2. 20 21. They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us no doubt they c. Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning if that c. remain in you ye also shall continue in the son c. And now little children abide in him that when he shall appear c. 1 Joh. 2. 19 24 28. Look to your selves that ye lose not these things which we have wrought but that we c. 2 Joh. ver 8 9. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth 3 Joh. ver 4. Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints c. The Angels who kept not their first state c. he hath reserved in chains c. Build up your selves in your most holy faith c. keep your selves in the love of God c. Jude ver 3 6 20 21. I know thy works c. thou hast laboured and hast not fainted c. To him who overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life c. he shall not be hurt by the second death c. I will give to eat of the hidden Manna and will give him a white stone c. Hold fast till I come and he who overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end to him will I give power over the nations Rev. 2. 3 7 10 11 17 25 26. He who overcometh shall be clothed with white raiment c. I will confess his name c. Hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy crown c. I will make him a pillar c. I will grant him to sit in my Throne c. Rev. 3. 5 11 12 21. He shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son Rev. 21. 7. He who is righteous let him be righteous still and he who is holy let him be holy still Rev. 22. 11. See holding â—…st to God in time of affliction c. Chap. 22. That the saints believers shall be kept Have power given them to persevere and abide in the faith c. Christ will uphold them The steps of a good man are ordered or established by the Lord c. Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth with his hand c. Psal. 37. 23 24. I will bring the blind by a way they know not I will lead them in paths they have not known I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight these things will I do unto them and not forsake them Isa. 42. 16. I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee Jer. 31. 3. I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn
glory of the Lord c. are changed into the same image c. by the spirit 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. We having the same spirit of faith according as it is written I believed and therefore have I spoken we also believe and therefore speak 2 Cor. 4. 13. In this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house from heaven c. that mortallity might be swallowed up of life We are willing to be absent from the body that we may be present with the Lord wherefore we labour that whether present c. we may be accepted of him c. knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men c. The love of Christ constraineth us c. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are past away behold all things as become new 2 Cor. 5. 2 4 8 9 11 14 17. Jesus Christ is in you except you be reprobates c. We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth 2 Cor. 13. 5 8. When it pleased God c. to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him c. immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood Gal. 1. 15 16. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Gal. 2. 20. The works of the flesh are manifest which are adultery c. but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance and they who are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections or passions and lusts Gal. 5. 19 20 21 22 23 24. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom or whereby the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world for in Jesus Christ circumcision availeth nothing c. but a new creature Gal. 6. 14 15. This I say therefore and testifie in the Lord That ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds c. But ye have not so learned Christ. If so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus Ephes. 4. 17 18 19 20 21. For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness righteousness and truth Eph. 5. 9. Some preach Christ out of envy and strife c. what then notwithstanding in every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and therein do I rejoyce yea and I will rejoyce Phil. 1. 15 16 17 18. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh c. What things were gain to me those I count loss for Christ yea doubtless and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Christ Jesus my Lord c. that I might know him and the power of his resurrection c. and be made conformable unto his death if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead not as though I had already attained or were already perfect but I follow after c. but this one thing forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press towards the mark c. let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded c. Our conversation is in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour c. Phil. 3. 3. 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 20. I have learned in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content I know how to be abased and I know how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need I can do all things through Christ who strengthneth me Phil. 4. 11 12 13. And bringeth forth fruits as it doth also in you since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth Col. 1. 6. If ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above c. Set your affections on things above not on things on the earth c. seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledg after the image of him who created him Colos. 3. 1 2 9 10. Remembring without ceasing your work of faith and labour of love c. knowing beloved your election of God For our Gospel came not unto you in word only but also in power c. and ye became followers of us and of the Lord having received the word in much affliction c. ye turned to God c. to serve the living and true God and to wait for his Son 1 Thes. 1. 3 4 5 6 9 10. The word of God which effectually worketh also in you who believe for ye brethren became followers of the Churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus for ye also have suffered like things of your own Countrey-men 1. Thes. 2. 13 14. Ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief ye are the children of the light c. 1 Thes. 5. 4 5. I thank Jesus Christ our Lord who hath enabled me c. who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercy c. Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the chief 1 Tim. 1. 12 13 15. Let every one who nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2. 19. He who is entred into his rest hath ceased from his own works Hebr. 4. 10. They who believe desire a better countrey that is an heavenly c. Moses c. chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt c. Heb. 11. 16 24 25 26. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. If any among you seem to be religious and bridle not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this mans religion is vain Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction to keep himself unspotted from the world James 1. 26 27. What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and have not works c. faith if it hath not works is dead c. I will shew thee my faith by my works c. Faith without works is dead also James 2. 14 18 26. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledg amongst you let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envying c. this wisdom descendeth not from above c. but the wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated full of mercy and good fruits without
partiality and without hypocrisie and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace c. James 3. 13 14 15 16 17 18. Jesus Christ whom having not seen ye love c. seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth c. unto unfeigned love of the brethren 1 Pet. 1. 8 22. As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word of God that ye may grow thereby if so be ye have tasted c. Ye are a chosen generation c. that ye should shew forth the virtues or praises of him who hath called you c. 1 Pet. 2. 2 9. The time of our life may suffice c. when we walked in lasciviousness c. wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot 1 Pet. 4. 3 4. Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust Add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledg c. for if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren and unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus but he who lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off c. 2 Pet. 1. 4 5 6 7 8 9. Just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with unlawful deeds 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. God is light c. if we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye c. but if we walk in the light c. If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves 1 John 1. 6 7 8 Hereby we know that we know him if we keep his commandments He who faith I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a lyar and the truth is not in him c. he who abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked c. He who faith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now He who loveth his brother abideth in the light c. if any man loveth the world the love of the father is not in him c. if ye know that he is righteous ye know or know ye that every one who doth righteousness is born of God 1 John 2. 3 4 6 9 10 11 15 29. We shall see him as he is and every man who hath this hope in him purifieth himself as he is pure c. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not c. he who committeth sin or giveth his labour to sin is of the devil c. whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither is he who loveth not his brother c. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren c. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him c. Whosoever hath this worlds goods and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up the bowels of his compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him c. Let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth And hereby we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before God c. And hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he hath given us 1 John 3. 2 3 5 6 8 9 10 14 15 17 18 19 24. Chap. 4. 12. Love is God and every one who loveth is born of God and knoweth God If a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a lyar for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4. 7 16 20. chap. 5. 1. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that c. Whosoever is born of God sinneth not but he who is begotten of God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not 1 John 5. 4 18. He who doth good is of God but he who doth evil hath not seen God 3 John v. 11. See more in the fruits of the Spirit Chap. 21. See more in the fruits of Faith Chap. 11. See more in Duties Chap. 16 under each Duty And Chap. 22 under each Duty in Affliction And Chap. 24 Duties to Magistrates CHAP. XIII Saints Believers the Children of God themselves may be overtaken with faults are not altogether free from sinful dispositions and inclinations in this Life and may be corrected of God for them 1st In general it is affirmed FOR there is no man who sinneth not 1 Kings 8. 46. How should man be just with God or before God If he will contend with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand c. Whom though I were righteous yet would I not answer I would make supplication to my judge c. If I justifie my self my own mouth shall condemn me If I say I am perfect it shall also prove me perverse Job 9. 1 2 3 15 20. Who can understand his errours Cleanse thou me from secret faults keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins let them not have dominion over me Psal. 19. 12 13. If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquity O Lord who shall stand Psal. 130. 3. Who can say I have made my heart clean I am pure from my sins Prov. 20. 9. A just man falleth seven times and riseth up Prov. 24. 16. For that there is not a just man upon earth who doth good and sinneth not Eccles. 7. 20. The flesh lusteth against the spirit c. so that ye cannot do the things that ye would Gal. 5. 17. If any man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual restore such c. Considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Gal. 6. 1 2. I have no man like minded c. For all seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christs Phil. 2. 20 21. Paul saith I count not my self to have apprehended but this one thing c. I press towards the mark c. Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded Phil. 3. 13 14 15. For in many things we offend all if any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man James 3. 2. If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins c. If we say that we have not sinned we make him a lyar and his word is not in us John 1. 1 8 9 10. If any man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them who sin not unto death There is
strength c. Isa. 17. 10. They who wait upon the Lord shall renew strength they shall mount up c. they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint Isa. 40. 31. This people have I formed for my self c. but thou hast not called upon me O Jacob but thou hast been weary of me O Israel thou hast not c. Isa. 43. 21 22 23 He feedeth upon ashes and a deceived heart hath tuâ—…ned him aside that he cannot deliver his Soul nor say Is there not a lye in my right hand Isa. 44. 20. Thus saith the Lord What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are become vain c pass over the Isles c. Hath a nation changed their gods c but my people have changed their glory c. Be astonished O ye heavens c. for my people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters hewed them out Cisterns broken Cisterns which can hold no water c. Thy backsliding shall reprove thee know therefore and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God c. I had planted thee a noble vine c. How then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me c They have turned their back unto me and not their face c. Have I been a barren wilderness unto Israel a land of darkness Wherefore say my people we are lords We will come no more unto thee Can a maid forget her ornaments or a bride her attire yet my people have forgotten me days withour number Jer. 2. 5 6 10 11 12 13 19 21 27 31 32. How shall I pardon thee for this thy children hath forsaken me c. This people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart they are revolted and gone Jer. 5. 7 23. O Lord the hope of Israel all who forsake thee shall â—…e ashamed and they who depart from me shall be written in the earth because they have forsaken the Lord the fountain of living waters Jer. 17. 13. Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the kings meat Dan. 1. 8. Israel slideth back as a back-sliding Heyfer c. Ephraim is joyned to Idols let him alone Hos. 4. 16 17. Wo unto them for they have fled from me Hos. 7. 1â—… I will stretch out my hand upon Judah c. and them who are turned back from the Lord and those who have not sought the Lord nor enquired for him Zeph. 1. 4 6. I am the Lord I change not Mal. 3. 6. He who endureth unto the end shall be saved c. Whomsoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my father c. Mat. 10. 22 33. ch 24. 13. Whosoever will save his life shall lose it and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it Mat. 16. 25. Luk. 17. 32 33. Jesus said c. No man having put his hand to the Plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God Luk. 9. 62. Thou art made whole sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee Joh. 5. 14. ch 8. 11. From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him Joh. 6. 66. If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed Joh. 8. 31. Abide in me c. If any man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered c. If ye abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you c. continue ye in my love Joh. 15. 4 6 7 9. Whether is it right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judg ye for we cannot but speak c. Act. 4. 18 19. Barnabas exhorted them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord Act. 11. 22 23. Many of the Jews followed Paul and Barnabas who speaking unto them perswaded them to continue in the grace of God Act. 13. 43. They exhorted them to continue in the faith Act. 14. 22. Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledg God gave them over to a reprobate mind or to a mind void of judgment Rom. 1. 28. To them who by patient continuing in well doing seek for glory c. eternal life Rom. 2. 6 7. Behold then the goodness and severity of God on them which fell severity but towards thee goodness if thou continue in his goodness otherwise thou also shalt be cut off Rom. 11. 22. Let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God 1 Cor. 7. 24. I praise you c. that you keep the ordinances as I delivered them unto you 1 Cor. 11. 2. Be ye stedfast unmoveable alway abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord 1 Cor. 15. 58. Stand fast in the faith quit you like men and be strong 1 Cor. 16. 13. Having therefore these promises c. let us cleanse our selves c. perfecting holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7. 1. I am jealous over you c. lest by any means as the Serpent beguiled Eve c. so your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ 2 Cor. 11. 2 3. I marvel that you are so soon removed from him who called you c. But though we or c. Gal. 1. 6 7 8. Paul blames the Galatians for turning back to circumcision and beggerly rudiments and exhorts them to stick to the faith and stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free Gal. 3. ch 4. ch 5. Let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not Gal. 6. 9. That ye henceforth be no more children tossed to and sro c. Let him who stole steal no more Eph. 4. 14 28. Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil For we wrestle not with flesh c. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand c. Praying and watching with all perseverance Eph. 6. 11 12 13 18. Nevertheless whereunto we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing Phil. 3. 16. Stand fast in the Lord my dearly beloved Phil. 4. 1. If ye continue in the faith grounded and setled and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel which ye have heard c. Col. 1. 23. I am with you in the spirit joying and beholding your order and the sted-fastness of your faith in Christ. As ye therefore received Christ the Lord walk ye in him Rooted and built up in him and stablished in
17 18 19 20 21. Acts 13. 14 15 16 17 18. chap. 17. 1 2 3. There was a great persecution against the Church which was at Jerusalem and they were all scattered abroad c. except the Apostles c. therefore they who were scattered abroad went every-where preaching the word Acts 8. 1 4. Now they who were scattered c. when they were come to Antioch spake unto the Grecians preaching the Lord Jesus and the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord Acts 11. 19 20 21. Apollos an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures c. he taught diligently the things of the Lord knowing only the baptism of John c. who when Aquilla and Priscilla had taught the way of God more perfectly did mightily convince the Jews and that publickly shewing by the Scriptures that Jesus was Christ Acts 18. 24 25 26 27 28. Think soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith For as we have many members in one body and all members have not the same office So we being many c. Having then gifts differing according to the grace which is given to us whether prophecy let us prophesie according to the proportion of faith c. Or he that teacheth on teaching or he who exhorteth on exhortation c. he who ruleth with diligence Rom. 12. 3 4 5 6 7 8. I my self am also perswaded of you my brethren that ye also are full of goodness filled with knowledg able also to admonish one another Rom. 15. 14. I thank my God c. that in every thing ye are inriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledg 1 Cor. 1. 4 5. Now there are diversity of gifts but the same spirit c. But the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal For to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom to another the word of knowledg c. To another faith c. to another prophecy c. But all these worketh that one and the self-same spirit dividing to every man severally as he will c. If the foot shall say Because I am not the hand I am not of the body c. God hath set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him c. Are all Apostles c Have all the gift of healing do all speak with tongues c But covet earnestly the best gifts 1 Cor. 12. 4 7 8 9 11 15 18 28 29 30 31. Desire spiritual gifts but rather that ye may prophesie c. He who prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification and exhortation and comfort c. He edifieth the Church c. Forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the Church c. If all prophesie and there come in one that believeth not c. he is convinced of all c. will report that God is in you of a truth How is it brethren that when ye come together every one of you hath a psalm c. let all things be done to edifying c. Let the prophets speak two or three and let the other judg If any thing be revealed to another who sitteth by let the first hold his peace For ye may all prophesie one by one that all may learn and all may be comforted And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets For God c. Let your women keep silence in the Churches c. Wherefore brethren covet to prophesie c. Let all things be done decently and in order 1 Cor. 14. 1 3 4 5 12 23 24 25 26 29 30 31 32 33 34 39 40. We also believe therefore speak 2 Cor. 4. 13. As ye abound in every thing in faith and utterance and knowledg 2 Cor. 8. 7. Many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word c. Some preach Christ out of envy c. What then c Christ is preached and I therein do rejoyce c. Phil. 1. 14 15 16 17 18. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3. 16. Comfort or exhort one another with these words 1 Thess. 4. 18. Wherefore comfort your selves together and edifie one another even as also ye do 1 Thess. 5. 11. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief c. But exhort one another daily c. lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin Heb. 3. 12 13. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God Heb. 5. 12. Let us consider one another c. not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as-the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the c. Heb. 10. 24 25. As every man hath received the gift even so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God giveth that God in all things may be glorified 1 Pet. 4. 10 11. Of other acts done in and by these particular Churches in sending out messengers to other churches and upon occasions determining of controversies in religious matters writing and sending Epistles and ordering other affairs Of their meeting together in order hereto and receiving and hearing such Epistles the Epistles directed to the whole body and they concerned in it When tidings of the gentiles receiving the Gospel came unto the ears of the Church which was in Jerusalem they sent forth Barnabas that he should go as far as Antioch c. When the dearth was prophesied of the Disciples every man according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren who dwelt in Judea Which also they did and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul Acts 11. 20 21 22 28 29 30. Paul and Barnabas coming to Antioch gathered the church together and rehearsed all that God had done with them and how c. Acts 14. 26 27. When the matter of circumcision was in dispute in the Church at Antioch they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the Apostles and the Elders about this question And being brought on their way by the Church c. when they were come to Jerusalem they were received by the Church and of the Apostles c. All the multitude kept silence and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul c. Then James spake c. Then pleased it the Apostles and elders with the whole Church to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch c. and wrote letters by them after this manner
c. Among the chief rulers also many believed on him but because of the pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the Synagogue for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God John 12. 5 6 10 11 19 42 43. The time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God good service c. These things they will do c. because they have not known the father John 16. 2 3. Pilate sought to release Jesus but the Jews cryed out saying If thou let this man go thou art not Cesars friend whosoever maketh himself a King speaketh against Cesar c. Pilate said Shall I crucifie your king the chief priests answered We have no king but Cesar John 19. 12 15. As the Apostles spake unto the people the priests and the Captain of the temple and the Sadduces came upon them being grieved that they taught the people c. and they laid hands on them c. said By what power or by what name do ye this c They said What shall we do with these men for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all c. and we cannot deny it but that it spread no further among the people let us straitly threaten them that they speak henceforth to no man in this name and they called them and commanded them not to speak at all c. Acts 4. 1 2 3 14 15 16 17 18. Ananias and Saphira brought part of the price and would have deceived the holy Ghost c. multitudes were added to the Lord then the high priests c. were filled with indignation and laid theirhands on them and put them in the common prison c. they doubted whither these things would grow c. said to the Apostles Ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring this mans blood upon us c. When the Apostles had said That God had exalted that Jesus whom they slew they were cut to the heart and took counsel to slay them Acts 5. 1 2 3 14 15 16 17 18 24 28 30 31 33. chap. 7. 54 55. When they could not resist the spirit and wisdom by which Stephen spake then they suborned men who said We have heard c. and they stirred up the people c. and they came upon him and caught him c. And they set up false witnesses Acts 6. 10 11 12 13. Simon when he saw the Apostles through laying on of hands conferred the holy Ghost he offered them money for the like power c. was in the gall of bitterness Acts 8. 18 19 23. The next Sabbath-day came almost the whole City together to hear the word of God but when the Jews saw the multitude they were filled with envy and spake against the things which were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming c. but the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women and the chief men of the City and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them c. Acts 13. 44 45 49 50. The unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds evilly affected against the brethren c. perswaded the people to stone them Acts 14. 2 19. When Paul had preached and many believed the Jews who believed not moved with envy took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company and set all the City in an uproar c. they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the City crying These have turned the world upside down c. these do all contrary to the decrees of Cesar saying That there is another King one Jesus the Jews came also to Berea and stirred up the people Acts 17. 2 3 4 5 6 7 13. The Jews made an insurrection with one accord against Paul and brought him to the judgment-seat saying This fellow perswaded men to worship God contrary to the law Acts 18. 12 13. Paul said I was zealous towards God as ye all are at this day and I persecuted this way unto the death c. Acts 22. 3 4 5 6. Certain Jews bound themselves under a curse to kill Paul c. the chief Priests and Elders agree to help it forward Acts 23. 12 13 14. chap. 25. 2 3. They get an Orator to accuse Paul thus We found this man a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarens who also hath gone about to profane the temple c. When Paul reasoned of righteousness c. Felix trembled and answered Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient time I will call for thee c. Acts 24. 1 2 5 6 15. Paul said I verily thought with my self that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus c. which thing I also did c. exceeding mad Acts 26. 9 10 11. The Jews told Paul that concerning this sect it was every where spoken against Acts 28. 21. Behold thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God and knowest his will c. and art confident that thou thy self art a guide to the blind c. Thou therefore who teachest another teachest thou not thy self Thou who preachest a man shall not steal dost thou steal c He is not a Jew who is one outwardly neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh c. Rom. 2. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 28. Israel who followed after the law of rigteousness hath not attained to the law of righteousness wherefore because they sought it not by faith but as it were by the works of the law for they stumble at that stumbling-stone Rom. 9. 31 32. They have a zeal of God but not according to knowledg for they being ignorant of Gods righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God Rom. 10. 1 2 3. As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh they constrain you to be circumcised only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ for neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law but desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh Galat. 6. 12 13. The Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us or chased us out they please not God and are contrary unto all men forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins alway 1 Thess. 2. 14 15 16. Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof c. These also resist the truth c. 2 Tim. 3. 5 8. They profess they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate or void of judgment Titus 1. 16. They went out from us but
knowledg 1 Cor. 8. 1 2 4 7. I would not that ye should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud 1 Cor. 10. 1 2. To another the word of knowledg by the same spirit 1 Cor. 12. 8. Though I c. understand all mysteries and all knowledg c. and have no charity I am nothing c. Whether there be knowledg it shall vanish away for we know in part c. now we see through a glass darkly or in a riddle but then face to face now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known 1 Cor. 13. 2 8 9 10 12. If a man be ignorant let him be ignorant 1 Cor. 14. 38. Some have not the knowledg of God I speak this to your shame 1 Cor. 15. 34. Lest Satan should get an advantage of us for we are not ignorant of his devices 2 Cor. 2. 11. But their minds were blinded for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old Testament c. When Moses is read the vail is upon their heart 2 Cor. 3. 14 15. If our Gospel be hid it is hid to them who are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel c. should shine into them c. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts the light of the knowledg of the glory of God in the c. 2 Cor. 4. 3 4 6. We know that if our earthly house c. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men c. Henceforth know we no man after the flesh yea though we have known Christ after the flesh yet now henceforth know we him no more 2 Cor. 5. 1 11 16. Therefore as ye abound in every thing c. in knowledg 2 Cor. 8. 7. Howbeit then when ye knew not God ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods but now after that ye have known God or rather are known of God c. Gal. 4. 8 9. Having made known unto us the mystery of his will c. That God c. may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledg of him the eyes of your understanding being enlightned that ye may know what is the hope c. Ephes. 1. 9 17 18 19. The mystery of Christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as it is that ye may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth c. and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledg Ephes. 3. 4 5 18 19. He gave some Apostles c. till we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledg of the Son of God c. Walk not as other Gentiles c. having the understanding darkned being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the blindness or hardness of their hearts Ephes. 4. 11 12 13 17 18. 1 Thess. 4. 5. Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord c. understanding what the will of the Lord is Ephes. 5. 10 17. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Jesus c. that I may know him and the power of his resurrection c. Phil. 3. 8 10. Since c. ye knew the grace of God in truth we desire that ye may be filled with the knowledg of his will in all wisdom and understanding c. increasing in the knowledg of God c. the Saints to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ c. Col. 1. 6 9 10 26 27. Unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God and of the father and of Christ in whom or wherein are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledg Col. 2. 2 3. The new man which is renewed in knowledg after the image of him who created c Col. 3. 10. Knowing brethren c. your election of God for our Gospel came not to you in word only but also in power c. 1 Thess. 1. 4 5. I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them who are asleep 1 Thess. 4. 13. Taking vengeance upon them who know not God 2 Thess. 1. 8. Desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm but we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully c. but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief c. 1 Tim. 1. 6 7 8 9 13. Who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledg of the truth 1 Tim. 2. 4. If any man teach otherwise c. he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions c. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4. They profess that they know God but in works they deny him Titus 1. 16. They do err in their hearts not having known my ways Heb. 3. 10. Every high-priest taken from among men c. who can have compassion on the ignorant Heb. 5. 1 2. If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledg of the truth c. Heb. 10. 26. 2 Pet. 2. 20 21. If any man lack wisdom let him ask it of God who giveth to all men liberally c. James 1. 5. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledg among you let him shew out of a good c. James 3. 13. To him who knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin James 4. 17. Not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance c. 1 Pet. 1. 14. With well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 1 Pet. 2. 15. Grace c. be multiplied unto you through the knowledg of God and of Jesus our Lord c. Add c. to vertue knowledg c. If these things be in you c. ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus c. but he who lacketh these c. is blind c. knowing this first that no Scripture is of private interpretation 2 Pet. 1. 2 3 5 8 9 20. But these c. speak evil of things they understand not c. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the World through the knowledg of the Lord c. it had been better c. not to have known c. 2 Pet. 2. 12 20 21. Jude verse 1. This they are willingly ignorant of c. Paul in all his Epistles c. in which are some things hard to be understood which they who are unlearned wrest c. seeing ye know c. 2 Pet. 3. 5 15 16 17 18. Hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments he that saith I know him