c. And Moses said c. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them c. He believed not God to sanctifie him He spake unadvisedly with his lips being provoked in his spirit Exod. 4. 10 11 12 13 14 ch 5. 22 23. Numb 11. 11 12 14 15 21 22 23. ch 16. 15. ch 20. 10 11 12. Psal 106. 32 33. Numb 27. 14. Joshua also erred and wished they had not come over Jordan Josh 7. 7. Aaron made a Molten Calf for Israel c. He built an Altar before it and Aaron made Proclamation and said To morrow a feast to the Lord c. And Moses saw that the people were naked for Aaron had made them naked to their shame amongst their enemies Exad 32. 1 2 3 4 5 6 25. When God had told Gideon Surely I will be with thee and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man He said unto him c. Shew me a sign that thou talkest with me c. If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand as thou hast said behold I will put a fleece of wool in the floor c. Let not thine anger be hot against me and I will speak but this once Let me prove I pray thee but this once with the fleece c. Heb. 11. 32. Judges 6. 16 17 36 37 38 39 40. 1 Kings 12. 28. Eli is charged with iniquity in not restraining his Sons from violence 1 Sam. 3. 13. My servant David who kept my commandments and who followed me with all his heart to do that only which is right in mine eyes c 1 Kings 4. 18. Acts 13. 22. David hastily resolved to have avenged himself on Nabal by cutting off him and his of the Males c. And David c. was fore afraid of Achish 〈◊〉 king of Gath And he changed his behaviour before them and seigned himself mad in their hands c. David said in his heart I shall now perish one day by the harâ—â—â—â— of Saul c. He went on with the Philistines against Israel c. He sent Messengers to fetch Uriah's Wite and he lay with her c. To cover it made Uriah drunk and then sent to Joab to put Uriab into the hottest Battel and then retire from him that he might be smitten and die c. O my son Absalom my son my son Absalom Would God I had died for thee c. He caused the Children of Israel to be numbred c. I said in my haste I am 〈◊〉 off from before thine eyes c. I said 〈◊〉 my haste that all men are lyars c. 1 Sam 11. 12 13 14. ch 25. 5 6 7 8 c. ch â— 1. ch 29. 2. 2 Sam. 11. 2 3 4 13 14 15. ch 18. 33. ch 24. 1 2 3 4 c. Psal 31. 22. Psal 116. 11. 1 Sam. 20. 6 29. When God bid Samuel go he said How can I go if Saul hear he will kill me 1 Sam. 16. 1 2. And Asa did thaâ— which was right in the eyes of the Lord as did David his father c. Asa's heart was perfect with the Lord all his days 1 Kin. 15. 11 14. He removed not the High Places 1 Kings 15. 14. He took out Silver and Gold out of the Treasures of the House of the Lord c. made a League with the King of Assyria And Hanani the Seer came to him and said Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria and not relied on the Lord thy God c. Then Asa was wroth with the Seer and put him in a prison-house for he was in a rage with him because of this thing And Asa oppressed or crushed some of the people at that time c. In his Disease he sought not to the Lord but to the Physicians 2 Chron. 16. 1 2 3 4 7 10 12. Solomon failed very greatly 1 Kings 11. 1 2 3 4 c. When Elijah the Prophet was in trouble he said enough Now O Lord take away my life for I am not better than my fathers 1 Kings 19. 4. And Jehoshaphat walked c. doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord 2 Chron. 20 32. 1 Kings 22. 42 43. The Seer meets him after he had gone out with the wicked King of Israel and said unto him Shouldst thou help the ungodly and love them who hate the Lord Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord 2 Chron. 19. 1 2. ch 20. 33. ch 17. Hezekiah did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. He removed the high places c. He trusted in the Lord God of Israel so that after him was none like him c. for he clave to the Lord departed not from following him c. 2 Kings 18. 1 3 4 5 6. 2 Chron. 31. 21. When Isaiah had told Hezekiah being sick that he should be healed c. he said unto Isaiah What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me c. He shewed his treasures to the Messenger of the King of Babylon's Son For which God was angry c. Hezekiah rendred not again according to the benefit done unto him for his heart was lift up Therefore there was Wrath upon him c. In the business of the Ambassadors of the King of Babylon c. God left him to try him that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Kings 20. 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 2 Chron. 32. 25 31. Good Josiah though warned to the contrary followed Pharo Necho and was slain 2 Chron. 35. 20 21 22 23. Job that man was perfect and upright one who feared God and eschewed evil Hast thou considered my servant Job that there is none like him in the earth a perfect and upright man c. Ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right like my servant Job c. Ye have heard of the patience of Job Job 1. 1 8. ch 42. 8. James 5. 11. After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day c. See at large Job 3. 1 2 c. O that I might have my request and that God would grant me the thing which I long for even that it would please God to destroy me that he would let loose his hand and cut me off c. so that my soul chuseth strangling death rather than my life c. He confessed thus I have uttered that I understood not things too wonderful for me which I knew not wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Job 6. 8 9. ch 7. 15. ch 42. 3 6. As for me my feet were almost gone c. for I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked c. Verily I have cleansed my hands in vain c. so foolish was I and ignorant as a beast c. Psalm 73. 2 3 13 22. Jer. 12. 1 2. Will the Lord cast off for ever will he be favourable no more is his mercy clean gone
the audience of the people and they said All that the Lord hath said will we do and be obedient Exod. 24. 2 4 7. And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them according unto all that I shew thee after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof even so shall ye make c. Exod. 25. 8 9. In the tabernacle without the vail which is before the testimony Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening till morning before the Lord c. Exod. 27. 21. And these are the garments which they shall make a breast plate c. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy Brother and his sons that they may minister unto me in the Priest's office c. Exod. 28. 4 5 6 c. They made the holy garments for Aaron as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 39. 1. Thus did Moses according to all that the Lord commanded him so did he c. He spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle c. as the Lord commanded Moses c. And he lighted the lamps before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses c. When they came near unto the Altar they washed as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 40. 16 19 21 23 25 27 29. Levit. 8. 4 5 36. So did David in all he did as he received from God 1 Chron. 28. 12 13 19. 2 Chron. 29. 25. Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron c. offered strange fire which he commanded them not and there went out fire from the Lord and devoured them and they died before the Lord. And Moses said unto Aaron This is that the Lord spake I will be sanctified in them who come nigh me and before all the people c. Levit. 10. 1 2 3. After the doings of the land of Egypt c. and after the doings of the land of Canaan c. shall ye not do neither shall ye walk in their ordinances Ye shall do my judgments and keep my ordinances to walk therein I am the Lord your God Levit. 18. 3 4. And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai according to all that the Lord commanded Moses so did the children of Israel c. They shall leave none of it c. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it Moses enquired of God in an unrevealed Case about the Passover Numb 9. 5 6 7 8 9 10 12. Levit. 19. 5 6. ch 22. 30 31 32. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you neither shall you c. Deut. 4. 2. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods c. ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God but unto the place the Lord your God shall chuse out of all your tribes to put his name there unto his habitation shall ye seek and thither shalt thou come and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings c. and ye shall not do c. every man what is right in his own eyes c. When you go over Jordan c. then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall chuse to cause his name to dwell there thither shall ye bring all that I command you your burnt-offerings c. Take heed to thy self that thou be not snared by following them c. And that thou enquire not after their gods saying How did these nations serve their gods Even so will I do likewise Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God c. Whatsoever thing I command you observe to do it thou shalt not add thereunto nor diminish from it Deut. 12. 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 11 13 14 30 31 32. Numb 15. 39 40. Secret things belong unto the Lord our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever that we may do all the words of this law Deut. 29. 29. Rebel not c. in building an altar besides the altar of the Lord our God Josh 22. 19 29. Jeroboam ordained a feast c. like unto the feast in Judah c. upon the month which he had devised in his own heart 1 Kings 12. 32 33. 2 Kings 17. 8. Israel sinned c. in walking in the Statutes of the Heathen c. and of the kings of Israel which they had made c. 2 Kings 17. 7 8 19. Be not righteous overmuch neither make thy self overwise Eccles 7. 16. To the law and to the testimony If they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isa 8. 20. Jer. 8. 9. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws changed the ordinances c. Isa 24. 5. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed c. Wherefore the Lord said Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me with their mouth c. and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men therefore behold I will proceed to do a marvellous work c. The wisdom of the wise men shall perish c. Isa 29. 11 12 13 14. I have spread out my hand all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way that is not good after their own thoughts c. who sacrificeth in gardens and burneth incense upon altars of brick c. Isa 65. 2 3. Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest c. Jer. 6. 16. I spake not to your fathers nor commanded them c. concerning burnt-offerings c. Jer. 7. 22 23 31. The place of my throne c. shall the house of Israel no more defile neither they nor their kings by their whoredom c. in their setting of their threshold by my threshold and their posts by my posts c. Ezek. 43. 7 8. Son of man mark well c. all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord and all the laws thereof c. And thou shalt say to the rebellious c. Ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers uncircumcised in heart c. to pollute it even my house when ye offer my bread c. And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things but ye have set keepers of my charge or ordinance in my sanctuary for your selves Ezek. 44. 5 6 7 8 9. If ye offer the blind c. offer it to your governor c. I am a great King c. Mal. 1. 6 8 13 14. Why do you transgress the commandments of God by your traditions For God commanded saying c. But ye say c. Thus have ye made the commandments of God of none effect by your traditions c. In
was made by him c. And the Word was made flesh and dwelled amongst us and we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father full of grace and truth c. Is preferred before me for he was before me John 1. 3 9 10 14 15 18 27 30. ch 3. 16. 1 John 1. 1 2. 1 Cor. 10. 4. 9. Hebr. 3. 3 4. Jesus c. knew all men and needed not that any man should testifie of man for he knew what was in man John 2. 24 25. Luke 9. 47. No man hath ascended up to heaven but he who came down from heaven even the Son of man who is in heaven c. He who cometh from above is above all c. The Father loved the Son and hath given all things into his hands John 3. 13 31 34 35. Whatsoever things the Father doth those also doth the Son likewise c. For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them even so the Son quickeneth whom he will c. He hath committed all judgment to the Son that all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father c. As the Father hath life in himself so hath he given the Son to have life in himself and hath given him authority to execute judgment also because c. John 5. 19 21 22 23 26 27. Him hath God the Father sealed c. I came down from heaven c. If ye see the Son of man ascend up where he was before c. Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not and who should betray him c. We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the Son of the living God John 6. 27 38 51 62 64 69. Jesus said I am the light of the world c. Jesus said unto them Verily verily I say unto you before Abram was I am John 8. 12 38. ch 9. 5. 1 Cor. 10. 4 9. Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he was come from God and went to God c. Ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well for so I am John 13. 3 13. Philip said unto him Lord shew us the Father and Jesus said c. He who hath seen me hath seen the Father c. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me c. The Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me John 14. 8 9 11 30. When the Spirit of truth comes c. he shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you All things which the Father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine c. We are sure that thou camest forth from God c. John 16 13 14 15 28 30. O Father glorifie thou me c. with the glory which I had with thee before the world was John 17. 5. When Jesus said I am he those who came to take him went backward and fell to the ground John 18. 5 6. Thomas said unto Jesus My Lord and my God John 20. 28. ch 21. 12. Jesus c. a man approved of God c. he hath made the same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Acts 2. 22 36. But ye denied the holy One and killed the Prince of life c. Acts 3. 14 15. ch 7. 52. Against the holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed c. Acts 4. 27 30. Jesus Christ he is Lord of all c. God anointed Jesus c. with the Holy Ghost and power Acts 10. 36 38. 2 Cor. 4. 5. Feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Acts 20. 28. Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord c. and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of Holiness c. Rom. 1. â— 4. Christ who is over all God blessed for ever Amen Rom. 9. 5. Christ both died and rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the dead and living Rom. 14. 9. There is one Lord Jesus by whom are all things and we by him 1 Cor. 8. 6. When he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet 1 Cor. 14. 24 25. He hath made him c. who knew no sin c. 2 Cor. 5. 21. Hebr. 4. 15. He raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all principalities and powers might and dominion and every name which is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come and hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the Church c. who filleth all in all Ephes 1. 20 21 22 23. The unsearchable riches of Christ c. God who created all things by Jesus Christ c. or whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named Ephes 3. 8 9 15. He descended first into the lower parts of the earth he who descended is the same who ascended up far above all heavens Ephes 4. 9 10. Jesus who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God c. God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord c. Phil. 2. 5 6 9 10 11. John 5. 17 18. ch 10. 33. Jesus Christ who shall c. according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things to himself Phil. 3. 21. Who is the image of the invisible God the first-born of every creature For by him were all things created that are in heaven and which are in earth visible and invisible whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers all things were created by him and for him and he is before all things and by him all things consist and he is the head c. That in or amongst all things he might have the pre-eminency for it pleased the Father that in him all fulness c. Col. 1. 15 16 17 18 19. 2 Cor. 4. 4. Heb. 3. 3 4 6. Christ for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily c. The Head of all principalities and powers c. Having spoiled principalities c. Col. 2. 9 10 15. God was manifested in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of Angels c. received up c. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Jesus Christ who in his times he shall shew 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 which no man hath seen c. To whom honour c. 1 Tim. 6. 14 15 16.
this thy day the things which belong to thy peace c. Luke 19. 10 41 42. Mark 3. 5. And the word was made flesh c. full of grace and truth John 1. 14. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping c. 〈◊〉 groaned in the spirit and was troubled c. Jesus wept Then said the Jews Behold how he loved him John 11. 33 35 36. Luke 7. 12 13 14. Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God c. Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you c. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid John 14. 1 27. Matth. 14. 27. I have many things to say unto you but ye cannot hear them now howbeit c. John 16. 12 13. When Mary sought Jesus weeping he appeared to her to comfort her c. He shewed himself also to his Disciples his hands and feet and the second time to Thomas when he would not believe the report of the rest John 20. 11 14 15 16 19 25 27. Christ gives charge three times to Peter that if he loved him he should feed his Lambs and his Sheep John 21. 15 16 17. Ye denied the holy and just One Acts 3. 14. I obtained mercy for this cause that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them who should hereafter believe on him 1 Tim. 1. 16. In that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them who are tempted Heb. 2. 18. ch 4. 15. Who is holy harmless undefiled c. Heb. 7. 26. Christ as of a Lamb without spot and blemish 1 Pet. 1. 19. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us c. 1 John 3. 16. Behold I stand at the door and knock If any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and sup with him and he with me Rev. 3. 20. CHAP. VIII How Christ wrought this Salvation for Sinners and what he was made and is what he undertook and did in order to it 1. He is Mediator THere is one God one Mediator between God and man the man Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 2. 5. By so much was Jesus made a Surety of a better testament Heb. 7. 22. He is made the Mediator of a better testament which was established upon better promises Heb. 8. 6. And for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament that c. Heb. 9. 15. And to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant or testament Heb. 12. 24. II. He took upon him the Nature of Man a Body of Flesh and humbled himself GOD said to the serpent c. I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel Gen. 3. 15. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call his name Immanuel Isa 7. 14. And there shall come forth a Rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him c. Isa 11. 1 2. Acts 13. 22 23. His visage was so marred more than any man and his form more than the sons of men Isa 52. 14. He hath no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him he is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows c. We hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not Isa 53. 2 3. The Lord hath created a new thing in the earth a woman shall compass a man Jer. 31. 22. They shall smite the Judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek Micah 5. 1. The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise c. Mary was sound with child of the Holy Ghost c. She had brought forth her first-born Son and he called his name Jesus Matth. 1. 18 20 23 25. Thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son and shall call his name Jesus the holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God Luke 1. 31 35. He was tempted of the devil Matth. 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. And Jesus said unto them The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head Matth. 8. 20. Is not this the Carpenter's Son Is not his mother called Mary and his brethren James c. And they were offended in him Matth. 13. 55 56 57. He rode upon an Ass into the city of Jerusalem Matth. 21. 2 4 7. She brought forth her first-born Son and wrapped him in swadling-clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn c. He went down with them c. and was subject to them But his mother kept c. Luke 2. 7 51. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among 〈◊〉 John 1. 14. Jesus therefore being weary with his journey sate thus on the well John 4. 6. The bread which I give is my flesh which I give for the life of the world John 6. 51. The high priest prophesied that Jesus should die c. and gather the dispersed sons of God into one John 11. 49 50 c. David c. knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh he would raise up Christ c. Acts 2. 29 30. Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord who was made of the seed of David according to the flesh Rom. 2. 3. 2 Tim. 2. 8. Reâ— 22. 16. God sending his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh Rom. 8. 3. Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came Rom. 9. 5. Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor c. 2 Cor. 8 â— Though he was cruâ—ified through weakness yet he lived 2 Cor. 13. 4. God sent forth his Son made of a woman made under the law Gal. 4. 4. But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient c. Phil. 2. 7 8. Hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death c. Col. 1. 21 22. Great is the mystery of godliness God was manifested in the flesh 1 Tim. 3. 16. Jesus who was made a little lower than the Angels for the suffering of death c. He who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren c. As the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death c. Verily he took not on him the nature of Angels but he
in my God Isa 61. 10. Hath a nation changed their gods which yet are no gods But my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit c. My people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the Fountain of living waters and have hewed them out cisterns broken cisterns c. Have I been a barren wilderness unto Israel c. Can a maid forget her ornaments a bride her attire yet my people have forgotten me days without number Jer. 2. 11 13 31 32. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might c. But let him who glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord who exerciseth loving-kindness c. Jerem. 9. 23 24. 2 Cor. 10. 17. 1. Cor. 1. 29. 31. The portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the Former of all things c. The Lord of hosts is his name Jer. 10. 16. ch 51. 19. O the hope of Israel the Saviour thereof in time of trouble why shouldst thou be as a stranger in the land and as a way-faring man turneth aside to tarry for a night Why shouldst thou be as a man astonied c. Yet thou O Lord in the midst of us and we are called by thy name c. Jer. 14. 8 9. ch 17. 13. The Lord is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope in him Lam. 3. 24. Woe also unto them when I depart from them Hos 9. 12. Fear not O land be glad and rejoyce for the Lord will do great things c. Be glad then ye children of Zion and rejoyce in the Lord your God Joel 2. 21 23. But the Lord the hope or harbour of his people and the strength of the children of Israel Joel 3. 16. Arise and depart ye for this is not your rest because it is polluted Micha 2. 10. Although the fig-tree shall not blossom neither fruit in the vine c. yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation The Lord God is my strength c. Habbak 3. 17 18 19. Rejoyce because your names are written in heaven Luke 10. 20. Zacheus came down and received Christ joyfully Luke 19. 5 6. Lord to whom shall we go Thou hast the words of eternal life c. Thou art that Christ the Son of the living God John 6. 68 69. Philip said unto him Shew us the Father and it sufficeth John 14. 8. These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full John 15. 11. Peter said Lord thou knowest I love thee John 21. 17. The Eunuch went on his way rejoycing Acts 8. 38 39. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoyce in hope of the glory of God c. We also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 5. 2 11. Rejoycing in hope Rom. 12. 12. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing Rom. 15. 13. Our consolation also aboundeth by Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 1. 5. Now thanks be to God who always causeth us to triumph in Christ 2 Cor. 2. 14. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ Gal. 6. 14. My brethren rejoyce in the Lord c. We are the circumcision c. who rejoyce in Christ c. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord Philip. 3. 1 3 8. Rejoyce in the Lord alway and again I say rejoyce c. And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your heart and mind c. Philip. 4. 4 7. Rejoyce evermore 1 Thes 5. 16. That by two immutable things wherein it is impossible for God to lye we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Heb. 6. 18. In whom though now ye see not yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1. 8. 1 John 1. 4. II. To obey and hearken to the Laws and Word of God in Christ THere is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy James 4. 12. Now the Lord had said unto Abram Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land I will shew thee c. So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him Gen. 12. 1 4 5. Heb. 11. 8. So in putting away Ishmael and Hagar Gen. 21. 11 11 13 14. God said unto Abraham Take now thy son thine only Isaac whom thou lovest c. and offer him there for a burnt-offering c. And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took Isaac c. He stretched forth his hand and took his knife to slay his son c. In blessing I will bless thee c. because thou hast obeyed my voice Gen. 22. 1 2 3 10 17 18. In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my commandments my statutes and my laws Gen. 26. 4 5. God bid Moses go and said he would be with his mouth c. He refused God was angry Exod. 4. 13 14. Thus did the children of Israel as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron so did they Exod. 12. 50. If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God and wilt do that which is right in his sight and will give ear unto his commandments and keep all his statutes I will put none of these diseases upon thee Exod. 15. 26. Deut. 28. 1 2 3 c. I will rain bread c. that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no c. How long refuse ye to keep my commandments c. Exod. 16. 4 28. Now therefore if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people c. And all the people answered together and said All that the Lord hath spoken we will do Exod. 19. 5 7 8. chap. 24. 3 7. Deut. 26. 16 17 18. Shewing mercy unto thousands of them who love me and keep my commandments Exod. 20. 6. Behold I will send an Angel before thee c. Beware of him and obey his voice provoke him not for he will not pardon you c. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice and do all that I spake then c. Exod. 23. 21 22. That ye seek not after your own heart c. Do all my commandments and be holy Numb 15. 39 40. We will hear it and do it And the Lord said c. They have well said all that they have spoken Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always that it might be well with them and
the kingdom of heaven but he who doth the will of my father which is in heaven c. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doth them I will liken him unto a wise man who built his house upon a rock c. and every one who heareth these sayings of mine and doth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand c. Matth. 7. 21 24 25 26 27. James 1. 23 24 25. Matth. 5. 18 19 20. John 9. 31. Whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words when ye depart c. shake off the dust of your feet It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom Matth. 10. 14. 15. Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven the same is my brother and sister and mother Matth. 12. 15. Zacharias c. walking in all the ordinances and commandments of the Lord blameless Luke 1. 5 6. Why call ye me Lord and do not the things which I say Luke 6. 46 47 c. But the pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against or within themselves Luke 7. 30. Yea rather blessed are they who hear the words of God and keep it Luke 11. 28. Rom. 2. 13. James 1. 25. And that servant which knew his master's will and did it not shall be beaten with stripes Luke 12 47. James 4. 17. If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God c. John 7. 17. He who is of God heareth my word but ye hear not my word because ye are not of God c. Verily verily I say unto you If a man keep my sayings he shall never see death John 8. 51. If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them John 13. 17. James 1. 22 23 25. If ye love me keep my commandments c. He who hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is who loveth me c. Jesus said If any man love me he will keep my words c. He who loveth me not keepeth not my words John 14. 15 21 23 24. If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love c Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I have commanded you John 15. 10 14. Now therefore are we all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God Acts 10. 33 Yet have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered unto you Rom. 6. 17. The law is holy and the commandment holy just and good Rom. 7. 12. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing but the keeping of the commandments of God 1 Cor. 7. 19. To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts Heb. 4. 7. Psalm 95. 7 8. Therefore to him who knoweth to go good and doth it not to him it is sin James 4. 17. That righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with unlawful deeds 2 Pet. 2. 8. Hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments He who saith I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a lyar and the truth is not in him and whose keepeth his word in him verily is the love or God perfected Hereby know we that we are in him c. He who doth the will of God abideth for ever 1 John 2. 3 4 5 17. Love not in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth c. And whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments c. This is his commandment That we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another c. And he who who keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him and he in him 1 John 3. 18 22 23 24. By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his commandments For this is the love of God That we keep his commandments and his commandments are not grievous 1 John 5. 2 3. And this is love that ye walk after his commandments 2 John ver 6. Blessed are they who do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in thorow the gates into the city Rev. 22. 14. See that ye refuse not him who speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him who spake on earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him who speaketh from heaven whose voice then shook c. Heb. 12. 25 26. See God's threatnings of and Judgments for disobedience after in this same Chap. See the great Day of Judgment Chap. 36. Worship God and sanctifie him therein GOD had respect to Abel and to his offering but not unto Cain's Gen. 4. 3 5 7. Hebr. 11. 4. Thou shalt have no other God before me Thou shalt not make any graven image c. thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God a jealous God c. In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will bless thee Exod. 20. 3 4 5 24. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods nor serve them c. ye shall serve the Lord your God c. Exod. 23. 25. There will I meet with thee and commune with thee above the mercy seat At the door of the tabernacle of the congregation c. where I will meet you to speak there unto thee And there will I meet with the children of Israel and the tabernacle or Israel shall be sanctified by my glory c. Exod. 25. 22. chap. 29. 42 43. chap. 20. 24. Thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see my face and live Exod. 33. 20. Thou shalt worship no other God for the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous God Exod. 34. 14. Deut. 6. 15. When the tabernacle was set up the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle Exod 40. 33 34 35. When Aaron's sons were consumed for offering strange fire Moses said unto Aaron This that the Lord spake saying I will be sanctified in them who come nigh me and before all the people I will be glorified Levit. 10. 1 2 3. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and him serve c. Thou shalt not go after other gods c. The Lord our God is one Lord c. Deut. 6. 4 13 14. And now Israel what doth the Lord require of thee but to fear the Lord c. and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul c. Behold the heavens and heaven of heavens is the Lord 's thy God the earth with all that therein is c. For the Lord your God is God of Gods and Lord of Lords a great God a mighty and a terrible who regardeth not persons c. worship him Deut. 10. 12
sanctuary Zeph. 3. 4. Wo to the idol-shepherd who leaveth the flock the sword shall be upon his c. Zech. 11. 17. O priests who despise my name c. ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar c. If ye offer the blind and the lame ye say It is not evil c. Mal. 1. 6 7 8. The priests lips should keep knowledge c. But ye are departed out of the way ye have caused many to stumble at the law ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi c. therefore have I also made you contemptible c. before the people Mal. 2. 7 8 9. He who is an hireling c. seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and fleeth and the wolf catcheth them and scattereth the sheep c. John 10. 12 13. III. The Church's Duty towards their Officers and such other who labour among them PRovide neither gold nor silver c. for the work-man is worthy of his meat Matth. 10. 9 10. They all wept sore c. sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more Acts 20. 37 38. If the Gentiles are made partakers of their spiritual things their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things Rom. 15. 27. Have we no power to eat and drink c. to forbear working c. Who goeth to warfare at any time at his own charges c. Say I these things as a man or faith not the law the same also Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox which treadeth out the corn c. Doth God take care for oxen or saith he it not altogether for our sakes For our sakes no doubt c. If we have sown unto you in spiritual things is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things c. Nevertheless we have not used this power c. lest we should hinder the gospel Do ye not know that they who minister about holy things live or feed of the things of the temple c. Even so hath the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel should live of the gosple 1 Cor. 9. 4 5 6 to 15. Know the house of Stephanus c. that you submit your selves unto such and to every one who hespeth with us and laboureth 1 Cor. 16. 15 16. Ye received me as an Angel c. Am I therefore become your enemy because I told you the truth Gal. 4. 14 15 16. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him who teacheth in all good things Gal. 6. 6. Praying always c. and for me that utterance may be given unto me c. Ephes 6. 18 19. 1 Thes 5. 25. 2 Thes 3. 1 2. I suppose it necessary to send unto you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labour c. but your messenger c. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and hold such in reputation or honour such because for the work of Christ c. Philip. 2. 25 21 29 30. Ye sent once and again unto my necessity not because I desire a gift but I desire â—â—uit that may abound to your account c. I received the things sent from you an odour of a sweet-smelling sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God Philip. 4. 15 to 19. We beseech you brethren to know them who labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and esteem them very highly in love for their work-sake 1 Thes 5. 12 13. Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honour especially they who labour in the word and doctrine For the scripture saith Thou shalt not muzzle the ox c. The labourer is worthy of his hire Against an elder receive not an acculation but before two or three witnesses 1 Tim. 5. 17 18 19. Remember them who have the rule over you who have spoken to you the word of God whose faith follow c. Obey them who have the rule over you or guide you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls c. Pray for such c. Salute all them who have the rule over you Heb. 13. 7 17 18 24. Is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the Church and let them pray over them James 5. 14 15. Likewise ye younger submit your selves to the elder 1 Pet. 5. 5. IV. Of the Election and Ordination of Officers in Churches AND the Lord spake unto Moses saying Take Aaron and his sons with him c. and gather thou all the congregation together c. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him c. and said unto the congregation This is the thing which the Lord commanded to be done And Moses brought Aaron and his son and washed them c. Levit. 8. â— 2 3 4 5 6 â— 8 9 c. Thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabâ—râ—â—cle of the congregation and thou shalt gather 〈◊〉 whole assembly of the children of Israel together and thou shalt bring the Levâ—tes before the 〈◊〉 and the children of 〈◊〉 shall put their hands Numb 8. 9 11. Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said the number about an hundred and twenty c. Wherefore of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us c. must one be ordained to be a witness with us c. And they appointed two c. And they prayed and said Lord who knowest the hearts of all men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen c. And they gave forth their lots and the lot fell upon Matthias and he was numbred with the eleven Acts 1. 15 21 27. Then the twelve called the multitude c. and said c. Brethren look ye out among you seven men of honest report c. whom we may appoint over this business c. And the saying pleased the multitude and they chose Stephen c. Acts 6. 2 3 5 6. And when they had ordained them elders by suffrage in every Church and had prayed with fasting they commended them to the Lord Acts 14. 22 23. For this cause left I thee in Crete c. And ordain elders in every city as I had appointed Titus 1. 5. Twelfthly Of Laying on of Hands upon the several Occasions and to the several Ends in Scripture mentioned BRing forth him who hath cursed c. let all who heard him lay their hands on his head Levit. 24. 14. Thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord and the children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites Numb 8. 9 10. Moses set Joshua before the congregation and he laid his hands upon him and c. Numb 27. 18 19 22 23. Joshua c. was full of the spirit of wisdom for Moses had laid his hands upon him Deut. 34. 9. They chose Stephen c. whom they set before the aposties and when they had prayed they laid their hands upon
unto them Break off the ear-rings c. and bring them unto me c. And he received them at their hands and fashioned it with a graving-tool after he had made it a molten calf And they said These be thy gods O Israel which brought thee up c. Aaron saw it he built an altar before it c. And they rose up early in the morning and offered burnt-offerings c. And the Lord said unto Moses c. Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them c. Moses caused the calf to be broken into powder and scattered c. Exod. 32. 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 20. Psal 106. 19 20. Acts 7. 38 39 40 c. Ye shall destroy their altars break their images and cut down their groves for thou shalt worship no other god for the Lord whose name is Jealous c. Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they go a whoring after their gods and do sacrifice to their gods c. Thou shalt make thee no molten-gods Exod. 34. 12 13 14 15 16 17. Numb 33. 51 52. Turn you not to idols nor make your selves molten-gods for I am the Lord your God Levit. 19. 4. Ye shall make you no idols nor graven-images neither rear you up a standing image or pillar nor set you up any image or figure of stone in your land to bow down to it for I am the Lord c. Levit. 26. 1. They called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods and the people did eat and bowed down to their gods and Israel joined himself to Baal-peor and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel Numb 25. 1 2 3. Psal 106. 28. Upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments c. Numb 33. 4. Take heed c. for ye saw no manner of similitude c. lest ye c. make you a graven-image the similitude of any figure Deut. 4. 15 16 17 18 23 25. Ye shall not go after other gods of the gods of the people which are round about you for the Lord thy God c. Deut. 6. 14 15. ch 11. 16. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them c. for they will turn away thy son from following me that they may serve other gods so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you c. Ye shall destroy their altars c. Deut. 7. 3 4 5 16 25. Take heed lest your souls be seduced to worship strange gods c. and the wrath of God be kindled c. Deut. 11. 16 17. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods c. you shall overthrow their altars c. Do not enquire concerning their gods saying How did they worship their gods c. Deut. 12. 2 3 30 31. Such who should endeavour to draw others to Idolatry were to be put to death Deut. 13. Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God which thou shalt make thee neither shalt thou set up any image or statue which the Lord thy God hateth Deut. 16. 21 22. If any hath gone and served other gods and worshipped them either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven which I have not commanded he shall be stoned c. Deut. 17. 2 3 5. That they teach you not to do after all their abominations which they have done unto their gods so should you sin c. Deut. 20. 18. Cursed be the man who maketh any graven-image or molten-image c. the work of the hands c. Deut. 27. 15. Ye have seen their abominations and their idol-gods or dung hill-gods wood stone c. Deut. 29. 17 18 24 25 c. God said Israel would go after strange gods and that he would leave them and much evil should come c. Deut. 30. 16 17 18. They provoked him to jealousie with strange gods c. They sacrificed to devils not to God to gods whom they knew not c. Deut. 32. 17 21. Psal 106. 37. Neither make mention of the names of their gods neither cause to swear by them neither serve them nor bow your selves to them Josh 23. 7 16. ch 24. 14 23. When Joshua and that generation were dead and there arose a new generation who knew not the Lord they forsook the Lord and followed strange gods Judges 2. 10 12 13 14 19. Deut. 31. 16 29. Judges 10. 6. 13. ch 3. 6 7. Will ye plead for Baal c. If he be a god let him plead for himself Judges 6. 31 32. Gideon made an Ephod and put it in his city c. and all Israel went thither a whoring after it which thing became a snare to Gideon and his house And when Gideon was dead the children of Israel turned again and went a whoring after Baalim and made Baal-berith their god Judges 8. 26 27 33 34. ch 10. 6 7 13 14. The Philistins praise and offer Sacrifice to Dagon their god for delivering Sampson to them Judges 16. 23 24. Micah's Mother said I had wholly dedicated the silver to the Lord to make a graven-image c. And she made an image c. Micah consecrated the Levite c. The Danites take away the Idol and the Priest c. Then Micah cried out Ye have taken away my gods which I made and the priest and ye are gone away and what have I more c. And the children of Dan set up the graven-image Judges 17. 3 4 5 12. ch 18. 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24. The Philistins when the God Dagon fell before the A k they would not tread on the Threshold on which it fell and broke 1 Sam. 5. 2 3 4 c. Solomon in his old age was drawn away to commit idolatry 1 Kings 11. 4 to 10. Israel in Ahab's time worshipped Baal as a God and called on him 1 Kings 18. 26. Jeroboam lest Israel by going up to Jerusalem to worship should revolt to Rehoboam made two calves of gold and set one in Dan and the other in Bethel and said Behold thy gods O Israel So Israel went and worshipped And he made an house of high-places and made priests of the lowest of the people c. ordained a feast c. which he had devised c. 1 Kings 12. 26 to 34. ch 14. 9 10. 2 Chron. 11. 15. They built them high-places and images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree 1 Kings 14. 23. 2 Kings 17. 9 10 11 12 16. Asa king of Judah removed the idols c. but the high-places were not removed 1 Kings 15. 11 to 15. Elijah mocked the Worshippers of Baal 〈◊〉 said Cry c. He a god either talking pursuing a journey sleepeth c. 1 Kings 1. 18 27. All the Kings of Israel after Jeroboam did continue in the same Idolatry till Ahab and he served Baal and worshipped him
Kings 14. 7 1 20 3â— Abijam died and Asa his son reigned over Judah Asa died and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead over Judah Baasha conspired against Nadab king of Israel and smote him and reigned in his stead over Israel 1 Kings 15. 8 24 26 27 28. The word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hananiah against Baasha saying Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of thee dust and made thee Prince over my people Israel and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam Behold I will take away the posterity of Baasha c. Baasha died Elah his son reigned in his stead Zimri one of Elah his servants conspired against him and smote him and killed him and reigned in his stead over Israel But when Israel being in the Camp heard of it they made Omri the Captain of the Host king that day in the Camp of Israel Zimri is burnt Then half the people followed Tibni to make him King and half followed Omri Tibni died and Omri prevailed and reigned he died and Ahab his son reigned in his stead 1 Kings 16. 1 2 3 6 9 10 16 18 21 22 28. God appointed Elijah to anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel Ahab being alive 1 Kings 19. 16. Ahab the king of Israel was slain in the battel and Ahazâ—ah his son reigned in his stead over Israel Jehoshaphat king of Judah died and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead over Judah 1 Cings 22. 34 35 40 50. Ahaziah the king of Israel died and Jehoram reigned in his stead over Israel because he had no son 2 Kings 1. 17. Joram otherwise Jehoram the king of Judah died and Anaziah his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 8. 24 25. Elisha sent one of the children of the Prophets to Jehu the captain of the host of Israel to anoint him king over Israel Jehoram the king being yet living in Jezerel and wounded when the young man anointed him he said Thus faith the Lord God of Israel I have anointed thee king over the people of the Lord even over Israel and thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master that I may avenge c. Then the army proclaimed him king then Jehu killed Jehoram king of Israel c. and also Ahaziah the king of Judah was slain by Jehu 2 Kings 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 14 24 27. And the Lord said unto Jehu Because thou hast done well in executing that which was right in mine eyes and hast done unto the house of Ahab according unto all which was in my heart thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel Jehu died and Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead over Israel 2 Kings 10. 30 35. Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw her son was dead she killed the blood-royal except Joash who was hid and reigned over Judah Jehojada caused Jehoash or Joash to be made king and sit upon the throne and Athaliah to be slain 2 Kings 11. Jehoash was slain by two of his servants who conspired against him and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 12. 20 21. Jehoahaz dyed and Joash his son reigned in his stead over Israel Joash died and Jeroboam sat upon his throne over Israel 2 Kings 3. 13. 9 1. ch 14. 16. They made a conspiracy against Amaziah and slew him And the people of Judah took Azariah his son and made him king over Judah Jeroboam king of Israel died and Zachariah his son reigned over Israel 2 Kings 14. 19 20 21 29. Azariah king of Judah died and Jotham his son reigned in his stead Shallum conspired against Zachariah king of Israel and flew him before the people and reigned in his stead 2 Kings 15. 7 8 9 12. Menahem smote Shallum king of Israel and flew him and reigned in his stead Menahem died and Pekaliah his son reigned in his stead over Israel Pekah one of his Captains conspired against him smote him killed him and others and reigned in his room over Israel Hoshea made a conspiracy against Pekah king of Israel and smote him and slew him and reigned in his stead Jotham the king of Judah died and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead 2 Kings 15. 13 14 22 25 30 38. Ahaz king of Judah died Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 16. 20. And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and Manasleth his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 20. 21. Manasseth the king of Judah died and Amon his son reigned in his stead The servants of Amon king of Judah conspired against him and slew the king in his own house The people of the land slew the Conspirators and made Josiah the son of Amon king in his stead he reigned over Judah 2 Kings 21. 18 23 24 26. Josiah is slain by Pharaoh king of Egypt the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in his fathers stead Pharaoh puts Jehoahaz out and set up Eliakim Jehoahaz his son in his stead and called him Jehoiakim 2 Kings 23 29 30 33 34. Jehoiakim died and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead over Judah Jehoiachin is carryed away captive to Babylon and the king of Babylon made Mattaniah king in his stead and called him Zedekiah 2 Kings 24. 6 15 17. Zedekiah the king and all carryed captives 2 Kings 25. See Magistrates Chap. 24. CHAP. XLV Of Sacrifices and Altars and calling upon the Name of the Lord before the giving of the Law CAin brought of the fruits of the ground an offering unto the Lord and Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof and the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering but unto Cain and his offering he had not respect c. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord Gen. 4. 2 3 4 5 26. Noah builded an Altar unto the Lord and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl and offered burnt-offerings on the altar and the Lord smelled a sweet savour or a savour of rest Gen. 8. 20 21. And the Lord appeared unto Abram and said Unto thy seed will I give this land and there builded he an altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him c. and he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent c. and there builded an altar unto the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord Gen. 12. 7 8. Afterwards when Abram came again to the place on the east of Bethel unto the place of the altar which he had made there at first and there Abram called upon the name of the Lord c. Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre c. and builded there an altar to the Lord Gen. 13. 3 4 18. Abram planted a grove or a tree in Beersheba 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.
his voice at any time nor seen his shape John 5. 37. Not that any man hath seen the Father save he which is of God he hath seen the Father c. John 6. 46. The invisible things of him even his eternal Power and Godhead Rom. 1. 20. Who is the Image of the Invisible God Col. 1. 15. Who c. dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see 1 Tim. 6. 16. Now to the King eternal immortal invisible c. 1 Tim. 1. 17. V. Incorruptible WHO changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image c. Rom. 1. 23. To the King c. immortal c. 1 Tim. 1. 17. ch 6. 16. VI. He is the most Strong Almighty and Omnipotent God a Rock THE Lord appeared to Abraham and said c. I am the Almighty God c. Gen. 17. 1. ch 28. 3. ch 35. 11. And the Lord said c. Is any thing too hard for the Lord Gen. 18. 13 14. Jer. 32. 27. His hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob c. By the Almighty c. Gen. 49 24 25. I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm Exod. 6. 6. Jer. 30. 54. The Lord is a Man of War c. Thy right hand O Lord is become glorious c. Exod. 15. 3 6. He who saw the vision of the Almighty c. Numb 24. 4 16. Thou hast shewed thy servant c. thy mighty hand For what god is there c. who can do according to thy works and according to thy might Deut. 3. 24. Thou shalt not fear c. for the Lord thy God is among you a mighty God Deut. 7. 21. The Lord thy God c. he is a consuming fire Deut. 9. 3. Jehovah c. is the God of gods c. the most strong the greatest and the most powerful c. Deut. 10. 17. He is the Rock his work is perfect c. Jesurun c. forsook God c. and lightly esteemed of the Rock of his salvation c. Of the Rock who begat thee thou art unmindful c. Their rock is not as our Rock the enemies themselves being judges c. neither is there any who can deliver out of my hand Deut. 32. 4 15 18 31 39. 1 Sam. 2. 2. 2 Sam. 22. 3. 32. Psal 3. 3. That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty that ye may fear c. Josh 4. 24. ch 5. 14. The Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me c. And the Almighty hath afflicted me Ruth 1. 20 21. John 8. 3. There is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few 1 Sam. 14. 6. The Strength of Israel will not lie c. 1 Sam. 15. 29. Behold God is mighty c. mighty in strength c. Job 36. 5. Isa 28. 2. Shall he who contendeth with the Almighty instruct c. Hast thou an arm like God or canst thou thunder c. Job 40. 2. 9. ch 9. 13. I know that thou canst do every thing and that no thought can be with-holden Job 42. 2. Luke 1. 37. Matt. 19. 26. Who is a strong Lord like unto thee c. Thou hast a mighty arm strong is thine hand high is thy right hand Psal 89. 8 9 13. Isa 63. 1. Psal 24. 8. Rev. 18. 8. The Lord is cloathed with strength Psal 93. 1. They shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee for I am with thee saith the Lord Jer. 1. 19. James 4. 12. The everlasting God never faints neither is weary c. He giveth power to the faint c. Isa 40. 28 29. The Lord is c. a strong-hold in the day of trouble Nahum 1. 7. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty Zephan 3. 17. 2 Cor. 6. 18. Isa 50. 2. ch 59. 1. With God all things are 〈◊〉 Mark 10. 27. Luke 1. 37. Do we provoke the Lord c. are we stronger than he 1 Cor. 10. 22. To him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us Ephes 3. 20. Rom. â—4 4. Strengthened c. according to his glorious power c. Col. 1. 11. Ephes 1. 19 20 c. Our God is a consuming 〈◊〉 Hâ—b 12. 29. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God c. 1 Pet. 5. 6. Lord God Almighty Rev. 4. 8. ch 11. 17. ch 15. 3. ch 21. 22. The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth Rev. 19. 6. VII He is Omniscient Omnipresent Immense THou Lord seest me for she said Have I here looked after him that seeth me Gen. 16. 13. The Lord is a God of knowledge and by him actions are weighed 1 Sam. 2. 3. Job 37. 16. ch 21. 22. The Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart 1 Sam. 16. 7. Luke 16. 15. Thou thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men 1 Kings 8. 39. The Lord searcheth all hearts and understandall the imaginations of the thoughts If thou seek him he c. 1 Chron. 28. 9. Deut. 31. 21. Psal 147. 5. Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee c. 2 Chron. 6. 18. Jer. 23. 24. Hell is naked before him and destruction hath no covering Job 26. 6. God understandeth the way thereof and he knoweth the place thereof for he looketh to the ends of the earth and seeth under the whole heaven Job 28. 10 23 24. Isa 40. 28. His eyes are upon the ways of man and he seeth all his goings c. No darkness where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves Job 34. 21 22. Psal 11. 4 5. Job 31. 4. The righteous God trieth the hearts and reins Psal 7. 9. Jer. 11. 20. The Lord looketh from heaven and beholdeth all the sons of men c. Psal 33. 13 14 15. Heaven is thy throne earth is thy foot-stool Psal Understand ye brutish c. He that planteth the ear shall he not hear He that formeth the eye shall he not see c. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanity Psal 94. 8 9 11. 1 Cor. 3. 20. Thou c. understandest my thoughts afar off thou c. art acquainted with all my ways For not a word in my tongue but loe O Lord thou knowest it altogether c. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me c. Whither shall I go from thy spirit or whither shall I flee from thy presence If I ascend up into heaven thou art there c. Psal 139. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. Prov. 5. 21. Jer. 23. 23 24. Job 9. 11. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the good and the bad c. Hell and destruction are before the Lord how much more then the hearts of the children of men
c. for thou art a gracious and merciful God Nehem. 9. 17 31. Psal 145. 8. Lam. 3 21 22 23. Joel 2. 13. Thy mercy O God is in the heavens c. Psal 36. Psal 57. 10. Thou a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercy c. Psal 86. 15. Psal 111. 4. Psal 145. 8. Psal 78. 38 39. Mercy c. shall go before thy face Psal 89. 14. The Lord is God his mercy is everlasting Psal 100. 5. The Lord is merciful c. he will not alway chide c. As the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercy towards them who fear him c. Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them who fear him for he knoweth our frame he remembreth that we are dust Psal 103. 8 9 11 13 14 c. Hos 11. 8 9. James 5. 11. His mercy endureth for ever c. Psal 136. 1 2 c. Luke 1. 50. Where c. is the founding of thy bowels and of thy mercies Isa 63. 15. I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you for I am merciful saith the Lord I will not keep anger for ever c. Jer. 3. 12. Judges 10. 15 16. Ephraim my dear son c. my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him c. Jer. 31. 20. 2 Chron. 36. 15. To the Lord our God belongs mercy c. Dan. 9. 9. I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful flow to anger and of great kindness and repentest thee of the evil c. Jonah 4. 2. Joel 2. 13. Hos 11. 8 9. Judg. 2. 18. Who is a God like unto thee who pardoneth iniquity c. He retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy Micah 7. 18. I am the Lord who change not therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed Mal. 3. 6. Lam. 3. 22. Remission of their sins Through the tender mercies or bowels of mercy of our God whereby the day-spring from on high c. Luke 1. 50 77 78. Blessed be God c. Father of mercies and God of all comfort 2 Cor. 1. 3. But God who is rich in mercy for his great love c. Ephes 2. 4. See Chap. 33. XII He is Long-suffering and Patient MY Spirit shall not always strive c. yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years Gen. 6. 3. The Lord c. long-suffering c. Exod. 34. 6. Psal 86. 15. The Lord is long-suffering c. Num. 14. 18. Thou art a God c. slow to anger c. Neh. 9. 17. Psal 104. 8. Joel 2. 13. Jonah 4. 2. Despisest thou the c. forbearance and long-suffering c. Rom. 2. 4. The Lord is not slack c. but his long-suffering to usward c. 2 Pet. 3. 9 15. XIII He is Gracious Good Kind and Bountiful I Am gracious Exod. 22. 27. The Lord God merciful and gracious c. abundant in goodness c. Exod. 34. 6. Psal 33. 5. Thou a God c. gracious c. and of great kindness Nem. 9. 17. 31. For the Lord God is a sun and shield no good thing will he withhold from them who walk uprightly Psal 84. 11. For the Lord is good c. Psal 100. 5. Psal 86. 5. Psal 136. 1 2 3 c. Great is thy bounty above the heavens Psal 108. 4. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness c. The Lord is gracious c. The Lord is good to all c. Psal 145. 7 8 9. Therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious to you c. and that he may have mercy c. Isa 30. 18. Let him who glorieth glory in this That c. he knoweth me that I am the Lord who exerciseth loving-kindness c. in the earth For in these things I delight saith the Lord c. Jer. 9. 2â— Matt. 5. 45. The Lord your God for he is c. of great kindness c. Joel 2. 13. Jonah 4. 2. Not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance Rom. 2. 4. The forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded towards us c. Ephes 1. 7. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Jesus Christ Ephes 2. 7. God who giveth unto all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given c. James 1. 5. The God of all grace who hath called us c. 1 Pet. 5. 10. XIV He is Faithfulness and Truth THE Lord c. abundant in goodness and truth Exod. 34. 6. God is not a man that he should lye c. Hath he said and shall not he do it or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good Numb 23. 19. Heb. 6. 18. 1 Sam. 15. 29. Tit. 1. 2. Rom. 3. 4. Know therefore that the Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth covenant c. to a thousand generations c. Deut. 7. 9 1 Cor. 1. 9. 2 Tim. 2. 13. Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you all are c. Josh 23. 14. ch 21. 45. Thou art that God and thy words be true and thou hast promised 2 Sam. 7. 28. Heb. 10. 23. 1 Kings 8. 56. Thy faithfulness reacheth to the clouds Psal 36. 5. Psal 108. 4. The heavens shall praise thy wonders O Lord thy faithfulness also in the congregation of thy saints c. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face c. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail Psal 89. 5 14 33. Psal 36. 5. Deut. 32. 4. Psal 108. 4. The Lord is good c. his truth endureth to all generations Psal 100. 5. Psal 117. 2. Psal 119. 89 90. He will ever be mindful of his covenant c. The works of his hands are verity c. are done in truth and uprightness Psal 111. 5 7 8. Happy is he c. whose hope is in the Lord his God c. who keepeth truth for ever Psal 146. 5 6. Heb. 10. 23. He who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth and he who sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth Isa 65. 16. Great is thy faithfulness c. Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good c. Lam. 3. 23 38. God is faithful and will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able c. 1 Cor. 10. 13. 1 Thes 5. 24. 1 Cor. 1. 9. Two immutable things wherein it is impossible for God to lye c. Heb. 6. 18. Commit the keeping of their souls c. as unto a faithful Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge c. Rev. 6. 10. XV.
He is Unchangeable I Am the Lord I change not therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed c. Mal. 3. 6. God willing c. to shew the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lye c. Heb. 6. 17 18. The Father of lights with whom is no variableness or shadow of turning James 1. 17. XVI He is Infinite and Unsearchable UNto God would I commit my cause who doth great things and unsearchable c. Job 5. 9. ch 37. 5 23. Who doth great things past finding out c. Loe he goeth by me and I see him not he passeth on also but I perceive him not Job 9. 10 11. ch 33. 12 13. Canst thou by searching find out God canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection Job 11. 7. By his Spirit he hath garnished the heavens c. Loe these are part of his ways but how little a portion is heard of him Job 26. 14. Behold God is great and we know him not neither can the number of his years be searched out Job 36. 26. Great things doth he which we cannot apprehend c. Touching the Almighty we cannot find him out he is excellent in power c. Job 37 5 23. Thy way is in the sea and thy path in the great waters and thy foot-steps are not known Psal 77. 19. O Lord how great are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep Psal 92. 5. Great is the Lord c. and his greatness is unsearchable Psal 145. 3. Great is our Lord c. his understanding is unsearchable Psal 147. 5. Who hath ascended up into heaven c. what his name or what his Son's name if thou canâ—t tell Prov. 30. 4. As thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit nor how the bones do grow in the womb c. even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all Eccles 11. 5. Hast thou not known hast thou not heard the everlasting God c. There is no searching of his understanding Isa 40. 48. Neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him Matth. 11. 27. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out For who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his counsellor c. Rom. 11. 33 34 35. XVII He is Eternal AND Abraham c. called there on the name of the Lord the everlasting God Gen. 22. 23. The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms Deut. 33. 27. And also the Strength or Eternity of Israel will not lye 1 Sam. 15. 29. The Lord shall endure for ever c. Psal 9. 7. Psal 104. 31. Before the mountains were brought forth c. even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God c. For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night Psal 90. 2 4. 2 Pet. 3. 8. Thou Lord art high for evermore Psal 92. 8. The Lord reigneth c. Thy throne is established of old thou art from everlasting Psal 93. 1 2. Psal 146. 10. Thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations c. They shall perish but thou shalt endure c. Thou art the same and thy years shall have no end Psal 102. 12 26 27. Lam. 5. 19. Thy name O Lord endureth for ever and thy memorial throughout all generations Psal 135. 13. Isa 63. 16. Hast thou not known c. that the everlasting God the Lord c. Isa 40. 28. Yea before the day was I am he c. Isa 43. 13. Thus saith the Lord c. I the first and I the last and besides me there is no God Isa 44. 6 7. ch 48. 12. ch 41. 4. Thus saith the high and lofty One who inhabiteth eternity c. Isa 57. 15. The Lord the true God he is c. an everlasting King Jer. 10. 10. Dan. 4. 3 34. Thou Lord remainest for ever thy throne from generation to generation Lam. 5. 19. For the invisible things of him c. even his eternal power and Godhead Rom. 1. 20. Now is made manifest c. according to the commandment of the everlasting God Rom. 16. 26. Christ c. who through the eternal Spirit offered himself c. Heb. 9. 14. Now unto the King eternal c. the only wise God c. 1 Tim. 1. 17. I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending faith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty c. Rev. 1. 8 11 17. ch 11. 17. ch 2. 8. ch 22. 13. Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come Rev. 4. 8. Worshipped him who liveth for ever and ever Rev. 5. 14. ch 15. 7. XVIII He only is the True and Living God UNto thee it was shewed that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God there is none else besides him c. Know therefore this day and consider it in thine heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is none else Deut. 4. 35 39. ch 7. 9. 1 Sam. 2. 2. The Lord our God is one Lord Deut. 6. 4. Mark 12. 29 32. 1 Corin. 8. 4 5 6. Galat. 3. 20. Mal. 2. 10. 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 c. Deut. 32. 39. Isa 43. 10 11 12. And Joshua said Hereby shall ye know that the living God is among you and that he will c Josh 3. 10. Ruth 3. 13. 1 Sam. 20. 3. 2 Sam. 22. 47 1 Kings 17. 1. Job 27. 2. Deut. 32. 40. Who is God save the Lord And who is a rock save our God 3 Sam. 22. 32. Psal 18. 31. Exod. 9. 14. 1 Sam. 2. 2. O Lord God of Israel c. thou art the God thou alone of all c. 2 Kings 19. 15 19. Nehem 9. 6. Psal 86. 10. Now for a long season Israel had been without the true God 2 Caron 15. 3. My heart and flesh crieth out for the living God Psal 84. 2. Jer. 44. 26. From everlasting to everlasting thou art God Psal 98. 2. Know ye that the Lord he is God he hath made us and his we are c. Psal 100. 3. 1 Kings 8. 60. ch 18. 39. 2 Kings 5. 15. I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give to another neither my praise to graven images Isa 42. 8. Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel c. I am the first and I the last and besides me there is no God c. Have not I told you from that time and have declared ye are my witnesses Is there a God besides me Yea no God
c. Isa 44. 6. 8 ch 45. 5 6 18 20 21 22. ch 46. 5 9 10. ch 48. 12. Joel 2. 27. But the Lord is the true God he is the living God Jer. 10. 10. ch 23. 36. Matth. 16. 16. John 6. 57 69. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles who can cause rain c. Art not thou he O Lord our God c. Thou hast made all Jer 14. 22. Behold I the Lord the God of all flesh Is there any thing too hard for me Jer. 32. 27. Psal 46. 10. And this is life eternal that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus c. Johâ— 1 7. 3. 1 Thes 1. 9. Turn from these vanities unto the living God who made heaven c. Acts 14. 15. 2 Cor. 6. 16. 1 Tim. 4. 10. 1 Thes 1. 9. Who changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the image of corruptible man c. and changed the truth of God into a lye and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed for ever Amen Rom. 1. 23 25. We know c. that there is none other God but one For though there be that are called gods c. but to us there is but one God c. of whom are all things 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Who only hath immortality dwelling in the light c. 1 Tim. 6. 16. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10. 31. Worshipped him who liveth for ever and ever Rev. 4. 8 9 10. ch 5. 14. ch 10. 6. ch 15. 7. The Angel swore by him who liveth for ever and ever c. Rev. 10. 6. ch 4. 7. See more of Worshipping of God Chap. 16. See Idolatry Chap. 40. CHAP. III Of the one God Father Son and Spirit or the Trinity GOD said Let us make man in our image after our likeness c. So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him Gen. 1. 26 27. Col. 1. 15 16 17. Heb. 1. 2. Malach. 2. 10. And the Lord God said Behold the man is become one of us c. Gen. 3. 22. Hosea 12. 4 5. And the Lord said Behold the people is one c. Go to let us go down and there confound their language Gen. 11. 6 7. Isa 6. 8. Not so my Lord c. I have accepted thee concerning this thing that I will overthrow this city for the which thou hast spoken c. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven Gen. 19. 18 21 24. As a captain of the Lords host am I now come c. And Joshua c. did worship c. Joshua 5. 13 14 15. And the Lord said unto Satan The Lord rebuke thee O Satan even the Lord who hath chosen Jerusalem c. Zechar. 3. 2. All things are delivered unto me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him Matth. 11. 27. The woman of Canaan came to Jesus and worshipped him saying Lord help Matth. 15. 25. ch 14. 33. ch 28. 9. The Eleven disciples went c. where Jesus had appointed them and when they saw him they worshipped him c. And Jesus came and spake unto them saying All power is given to me in heaven and earth Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Matth. 28. 16 17 18 19 20. Why doth this man speak blasphemy Who can forgive sins but God only c. But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sin he saith unto the â—ick c. Arise Mark 2. 7 9 10 11. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God c. The world was made by him c. And the Word was made flesh c. John 1. 1 2 10 14. Jesus c. knew all men and needed not that any should testifie of man for he knew what was in man John 2. 24 25. Matth. 12. 25. No man hath ascended c. but he who came down c. even the Son of man who is in heaven John 3. 13. Jesus answered them My Father worketh hitherto and I work c. The Jews sought the more to kill him c. because c. he said God was his Father making himself equal with God c. The Son can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the Father do for whatsoever things he doth these also doth the Son likewise c. As the Father raised up the dead and quickned them even so the Son quickeneth whom he will c. That all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father he who honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who sent him John 5. 17 18 19 21 22 23. What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before John 6. 62. Jesus said unto them Verily verily I say unto you Before Abraham was I am John 8. 58. Dost thou believe on the Son of God and Jesus said c. Thou hast both seen him and it is he who talketh with thee c. and he worshipped him John 9. 35 36 37 38. My Father who gave them me is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand I and my Father are one c. Believe the work that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in him John 10. 29 30 33 35 36 38. Jesus knew Lazarus was dead John 11. 14. He who believeth on me believeth not on me but him who sent me And 〈◊〉 who seeth me seeth him who sent me John 12 44 45. Jesus knowing c. that he was come from God and went to God John 33. 3. It ye had known me ye should have known my Father also and from henceforth ye know him and have seen him Philip saith unto him Lord shew us the Father and it sufficeth us Jesus saith unto him Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me Philip He who hath seen me hath seen the Father and how sayest thou shew us the Father believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me The words I speak unto you I speak not of my self but the Father who dwelleth in me he doth the works Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me c. Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name that will I do c. I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of truth c. I will come to you c. He who loveth me I will love him and manifest my self
to him c. My Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him c. The Comforter the holy Ghost whom my Father will send in my name he shall teach you John 14. 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 16 17 18 21 23 26. When the Spirit of truth is come c. he will shew you things to come he shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shew it unâ—o you All things which the Father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you c. Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it you c. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world again I leave the world and go to the Father c. John 16. 13 14 15 23 27 28 30. Now O Father glorifie thou me c. with the glory which I had with thee before the world was c. And all mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in them c. that they may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee John 17. 5 10 21. Thomas answered and said unto him My Lord and my God John 20. 28. Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lye to the Holy Ghost c. Thou hast not lied unto men but to God c. How is it that ye are agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord Acts 5. 3 4 9. Stephen calling and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit Acts 7. 59. Peter said to AEneas Jesus Christ maketh thee whole arise Acts 9. 34. The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Acts 23. 28. Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever Amen Rom. 9. 5. With all in every place who call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord 1 Cor. 1. 2. The Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God For what man knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of man which is in him even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2. 10 11. Know you not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you c. 1 Cor. 3. 16. He who is joyned unto the Lord is one spirit c. Know you not that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost who is in you which ye have of God c. 1 Cor. 6. 17 19. 2 Cor. 6. 17. To us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and one Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 8. 6. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed c. 1 Cor. 10. 9. Now the Lord is that Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty c. Even as by the Spirit of the Lord or of the Lord the Spirit 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all 2 Cor. 13. 14. God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts c. Gal. 4 6. Through him we both have an access by one Spirit unto the Father c. in whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit Ephes 2. 18 22. By him were all things created c. By him and for him and he is before all things and by him all things consist Col. 1. 16 17. Heb. 1. 2 3. The mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ in whom or wherein are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge c. for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily Col. 2. 2 3 9. Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way 1 Thes 3 11. Now our Lord Jesus himself and God even our Father c. comfort your hearts 2 Thes 2. 16 17. God our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ our hope grace mercy and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ c. I thank Jesus Christ our Lord who hath enabled me for that he counted me c. â— Tim. 1. 1 2 12. Rom. 1. 7. 1 Tim. 2. 3. 2 Epis John ver 3. Great is the mystery of godliness God was manifested in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of Angels c. received up into glory 1 Tim. 3. 16. According to the commandment of God our Saviour c. grace and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our saviour Titus 1. 3 4. Looking for c. the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Titus 2. 10 13. ch 3. 4. Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself Heb. 9. 14. Let all the Angels of God worship him c. Unto the Son he saith Thy throne O God c. Heb. 1. 6 8. The Prophets c. searching what c. the Spirit of Christ which was in them 1 Pet. 1. 10 11. God and our Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1. 1. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us 1 John 3. 16. Three who bare record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these thee are one c. His Son Jesus Christ this is the true God c. 1 John 5. 7 20. Denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus c. To the only wife God our Saviour c. Jude vers 4 25. All the Churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and hearts Rev. 2. 23. See more of Christ's Excellency Chap. 7. more of the Spirit Chap. 21. CHAP. IV. Of Man in his first Estate wherein he was Created and of his Fall Of his First State AND God said Let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over all the soul of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth So God created man in his own image in the image of God created him male and female created he them And God blessed them and God said unto them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea c. Gen. 1. 26 27 28 29. Psal 8. 5 6 7. Adam gave names to all the creatures which were brought to him Gen. 2. 19 20. God hath made man upright c. Eccles 7. 29. Of his Fall The Manner and Occasion of Man's Fall at 〈◊〉 Gen. 3. 2 Cor. 11. 3. 〈◊〉 made man upright but they have sought out any many inventions Eccles 7. 29. By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that or in whom all have sinned c. If through the the offence of one man many be dead
the Woman and a Curse on the Earth denounced Gen. 3. 8 10 16 17. Sin made Cain cry out and say his Punishment was greater than he could bear So Lamech Gen. 4. 13 23 24. Aaron made Israel naked by Sin Exod. 32. 25. If there be any among you c. That he bless himself in his heart saying I will have peace though I walk in the imagination or stabbornness of my heart to add drunkenness to thirst the Lord will not spare him but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousie shall smoke against that man and all the curses which are written in this book shall lie upon him and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven Deut. 29. 19 20. If a man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him They who despise me saith the Lord shall be lightly esteemed 1 Sam. 2. 25 30. Saul's Sin made him cry out in his distress That God had departed from him 1 Sam. 28. 15. The triumph of the wicked is but short c. Though his excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach unto the clouds he shall perish for ever like his own dung c. Job 20. 5 6 c. ch 11. 20. How often is the candle of the wicked put out and cometh their destruction upon them God distributeth sorrows in his anger they are as stubble c. His eyes shall see his destruction he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty c. The wicked is reserved unto the day of destruction they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath Job 21. 17 18 19 30. ch 27. 13 14 c. ch 31. 2 3. The ungodly are like the chaff which the wind driveth away c. They shall not stand in judgment c. The way of the ungodly shall perish Psal 1. 4 6. Thou not a God who hath pleasure in wickedness c. Thou hatest all workers of iniquity Psal 5. 4 5. The wicked his soul hateth Upon the wicked he shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible or burning tempest this the portion of their cup Psal 11. 5. 6. Isa 33. 14. Because they regard not the works of the Lord c. he shall destroy them and not build c. Psal 28. 5. Psal 119. 155. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil to cut off the remembrance c. Psal 34. 16. 1 Pet. 3. 12. The transgressors shall be destroyed together The end of the wicked shall be cut off Psal 37. 1 2 38. Unto the wicked God saith What hast thou to do to declare my statutes or that thou shouldst take my c. Consider ye who forget God lest I tear you in pieces and none to deliver Psal 50. 16 22. Prov. 11. 21. Psal 9. 18. Who knoweth the power of thine anger Even according to thy fear is thy wrath Psal 90. 11. When the wicked spring as the grass and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish That they should be destroyed for ever Psal 92. 7 10. Psal 49. 17 19. Such who turn aside unto their wicked ways the Lord will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal 125. 5. They shall eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices Prov. 1. 30 31. ch 5. 22 23. The name of the wicked shall rot c. The expectation of the wicked shall perish Prov. 1. 7 28. ch 11. 7. There is a way which seemeth right unto a man but the end thereof the ways of death Prov. 14. 12. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord c. so his thoughts are Prov. 15. 8 26. ch 21. 27. Isa 66. 3 4. Gen. 4. 3 4 5 6 7. The woman whose heart is snares and nets c. the sinner shall be taken by her Eccles 7. 26. But it shall not be well with the wicked c. because he feareth not before God Eccles 8. 13. Isa 3. 11. Woe unto them who draw iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as it were with a Cart rope c. Isa 5. 18 19 c. Michah 2. 1 2 3. No peace saith my God to the wicked Isa 48. 22. ch 57. 20. Against whom do you sport your selves c. when thou cryest Let thy Companions deliver thee c. Isa 57. 4 13. They shall look on the carkases of men who have tansgressed against me for their worm shall not die neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh Isa 66. 24. ch 33. 14. Every one shall die for his own iniquity Jer. 31. 30. The soul who sinneth shall dâ—e Ezek. 18. 4 20. ch 3. 19. Can thine heart endure can thine hands be strong in the day that I shall deal with thee I the Lord have spoken and will do Ezekiel 22. 14. Many shall awake some c. to everlasting shame and contempt Dan. 12. 2. Behold the day cometh which shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all who do wickedly shall be stubble and the day which cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Host and it shall leave them neither root hor c. Mal. 4. 1. Jude vers 7. The Axe is laid to the root of the tree therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire Matth. 3. 10. ch 7. 19. The children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outward darkness there shall be weeping c. Matth. 8. 12. ch 24. 51. The Angels shall gather out of the kingdom c. them which do iniquity and shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth c. At the end of the world the Angel shall come forth and fever the wicked from the just And shall cast them into the furnace of fire c. Matth. 13. 30 41 42 49 50. See Mark 9. 45 46. Every plant that my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be plucked up c. both fall into the ditch Matth. 15. 13 14. Cast the unprofitable servants into outer darkness there shall be weeping c. When the son of man comes c. then shall he say unto them on the left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil c. for I was an hungred and ye gave me not meat c. these shall go into everlasting punishment Matth. 25. 3â— 31 41 45. ch 23. 33. ch 8. 11 12. Judas sin made him to go out and hanged himself Matth. 27. 3 4 5. The chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire Luke 3. 17. Matth. 3. 12. The Parable of the Rich in dying and being in Hell in the flames Luke 16. 22 23 24 25 c. Those mine enemies who would not that I should reign over them c. slay them before me Luke 19. 27. Except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God c. He
2. 4 5 6 7 8 ch 3. 9 10. Titus 3. 4 5. 6. God c. who hath saved us c. by grace which he hath given us in Christ c. 2 Tim. 1. 8 9 10. What is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man that thou visitest him Heb. 2. 6. Psal 8. 4. 〈◊〉 this was manifest the love of God towards us 〈…〉 that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him Hereâ—n is love 〈◊〉 that we loved God but that he 〈…〉 and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins c. And we have seen and do testifie that the Father sent the Son the Saviour c. 1 John 4. 9 10 14 19. ch 3. 1. And this is the record that God hath given us eternal life and this life is in his Son 1 John 5. 11. God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an Oath that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lye we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us Heb. 6. 17 18. Who is he in and by whom this Salvation is conveyed and wrought John 1. 17. Ephes 3. 8. It is Jesus Christ THE Law was given by Moses but grace and truth by Jesus Christ c. John 1. 17. Of which salvation the prophets have enquired c. the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow 1 Pet. 1. 10. 11. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel Geâ— 3. 15. The Lord said unto Abram c. And in thee shall all the families in the earth be blessed Gen. 12. 3. Abraham shall c. And all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him Gen. 18. 18. The Lord said to Isaac c. In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed Gen. 26. 4. The Lord said to Jacob c. And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed Gen. 26. 14. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah nor a law-giver from between his feet until Shiloe come and unto him shall the gathering of the nations be binding his foal to the vine and his Ass's colt c. Gen. 49. 10 11. I know my Redeemer lives c. Job 19. 25. He keepeth all his bones not one of them is broken Psal 34. 20. John 19. 33 34 36 37. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire c. Then said I Loe I come c. Psal 40. 6 7 8. Heb. 10. 5 6 7. Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted c. hath lift up his heel against me Psal 41. 9. Matth. 26. 14 15 47 c. Psal 55. 12 13 14. Thou hast ascended on high led captivity captive received gifts for men c. Psal 68. 18. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand upon the Son of man whom thou madest strong for thy self Psalm 80. 17. The Stone which the builders refused is become the Head of the corner Psalm 118. 22. Acts 4. 10 11 12. Isa 28. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 6. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works were old I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the earth was c. then I was by him one brought up and I was daily his delight rejoycing always before him rejoycing in the habitable parts of his earth and my delight with the sons of men Prov. 8. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light They who dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined c. For unto us a Child is born unto us a Son is given c. Isa 9. 2 3 6. Matt. 4. 15 16. There shall be a root of Jesse who shall stand for an Ensign of the people to it shall the Gentiles c. Isa 11. 1 2 10. Isa 60. 1 2 3 c. Behold a King shall reign c. a man shall be a hiding-place from the wind c. Isa 32. 1 2 3. O Zion who bringeth good tidings c Behold the Lord shall come c. His arm shall rule for him his reward is with him he shall feed his flock like c. Isa 40. 10. Behold my servant whom I uphold c. he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles he shall not cry nor lift up c. I will give thee for a Covenant to the people for a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners Isa 42. 1 2 6 7. ch 49. 6 8 9. Acts 13. 47. Matth. 12. 18 19. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season c. I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks c. Isa 50. 46. Matth. 26. 67. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings c. to bind up the broken heart to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison unto them who are bound c. Isa 61. 1 2 3 c. Luke 4. 17 18 19 20 21. Isa 45. 13. Who is this that cometh from Edom with dyed garments c. Mighty to save Why art thou red in apparel and thy garment like him who treadeth c. Isa 63. 1 2 3. I will raise unto David a righteous branch c. and in his days Judah shall be saved c. He shall be called the Lord our Righteousness Jer. 23. 5 6. John 1. 45. I called my Son out of Egypt c. Thou Bethâ—â—hem c. Out of thee shall he come Hos 11. 1. Micah 5. 2. Matth. 2. 6 15. I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come c. Haggai 2. 7. Behold the man whose name is the Branch and he shall grow up out of his place and he shall build the temple of the Lord c. Zech. 6. 12 13. Behold thy King cometh he is just and having salvation lowly and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the sole of an ass c. Zech. 9. 9. Matt. 21. 5 7 8. They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver c. Zech. 11. 12 13. Matth. 26. 15. That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost and she shall bring forth a Son and thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins Matth. 1. 21. ch 1â— 11. The Star directed the Wise Men unto Jesus Matth. 2. 9 10 11. The Spirit of God like a Dove lighted upon Jesus and loe a voice from heaven saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Matth. 3. 16 17. John
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.
The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool c. Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies Psalm 110. 1 2 5 6. Isa 11. 4. The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner Psalm 118. 22. Acts 4. 11 12. Matth. 21. 42. Wisdom is better than rubies and all the things which may be desired are not to be compared unto it c. Counsel is mine and sound wisdom I Understanding I Strength by me kings reign and princes decree justice By me princes rule and nobles yea all the judges of the earth c. Riches and honour are with me yea durable riches and righteousness My fruit better than gold c. I may cause those who love me to inherit substance and I will fill their treasures c. the Lord possessed me in the beginning c. when he appointed the foundation or the earth then was I by him c. His delight whoso findeth me findeth life c. Prov. 8. 11 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 29 30 35. Thy name is as ointment poured out c. Cant. 1. 3. The beauty of his person described by the parts thereof and said in the close to be altogether lovely Cant. 4. 10 11 12 13 14 1â— 16. Rev. 1. 14 14 15. A Virgin shall c. bear a son and shall call his name Emanuel God with us c. Isa 7. 14. Matth. 1. 23. Unto us a child is born c. his name shall be called Wonderful Counseller the mighty God the Everlasting Father the Prince of Peace of the increase of his government and peace no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it Isa 9. 6 7. There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of 〈◊〉 and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding the Spirit of Counsel and Might c. Isa 11. 1 2. And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his Shoulder So he shall open and none shall shut and he shall shut and none shall open Isa 22. 22. Rev. 3. 7. I lay in Zion c. a stone a tried stone a precious corner-stone a sure foundation Isa 28 16. Him whom man despiseth c. kings shall see and arise Princes also shall worship c. Isa 49. 7. ch 60. 3 10 12. Behold my servant shall prosper or deal prudently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high c. the kings shall shut their mouths at him Isa 52. 13 15. Behold I have given him c. a leader and commander to the people Isa 55. 4. I will overturn overturn c. until he come whose right it is and I will give it him Ezek. 21. 27. I will raise up for them a plant of renown c. Ezek. 34. 29. And my servant David their Prince for ever Ezek. 37. 25. From the going forth of the commandment c. unto the Meâ—iah the Prince c. Dan. 9. 25. They shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon his cheek c. Beth-lehem ephratah c. Out of thee shall come forth unto me to be ruler in Israel whose goings forth have been from of old or the days of eternity Micah 5. 1 2. The Deure of all nations shall come Haggai 2. 7. He shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon his throne c. Zech. 6. 13. Rejoice greatly c. behold thy King cometh unto thee c. Zech. 9. 9. Awake O Sword c. against the man my fellow Zech. 13. 7. Psalm 80. 17. And the Lord shall be King over all the earth Zech. 14. 9. Who may abide the day of his coming and who may 〈◊〉 when he appeareth For he is like a refiners 〈◊〉 c. Malachi 3. 1 2 3. Mary c. was found with child of the Holy Ghost c. That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost c. his name shall be called Emanuel which is God with us c. Matth. 1. 18 20 23. Luke 1. 35. He taught as one having authority and not as the scribes Matth. 7. 29. Luke 4. 32. The devil cryed out saying c. Jesus thou Son of God c. Matth. 8. 29. Jesus knowing their thoughts c. that ye may know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins Matth. 9. 4 6. All things are delivered unto me of my Father and no man knoweth the Son but the Father Neither knoweth any man the Father but the Son and he to whom c. Matth. 11. 27. John 10. 15. Behold a greater than Jonas is here c. a greater than Solomon is here Matth. 12. 41 42. Mark 1. 7. The woman of Canaan came and worshipped him and said Lord help me Matth. 15. 25. ch 14. 33. ch 28. 9 17. Luke 24. 52. Why callest thou me good there is none good but one God Matth. 19. 17. The mother of Zebedee's children with her sons came to him and worshipped Matth. 20. 20. When Christ was riding c. the multitude cryed Hosanna to the Son of David blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest Matth. 21. 9. Jesus said All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth c. Matth. 28. 18. The unclean spirit said I know thee who thou art the holy one of God c. with authority commanded he even the unclean spiritt and they obey him c. He cast out many devils and suffered not the devils to speak because they knew him or to say that they knew him Mark 1. 24 27 34. ch 5. 7. Christ said to the man sick of the palsie Son thy sins are forgiven thee c. Who can forgive sins but God only c. The Son of man hath power c. to forgive sins Mark 2. 5 6 7 9 10. Luke 5. 20 21 22 23 24. Jesus he shall be great and shall be called the Son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his Father David and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdom there shall be no end c. The holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God Luke 1. 31 32 33 35. At twelve years old he fate in the midst of the Doctors in the Temple both hearing them and asking them questions And all who heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers Luke 2. 46 47. John 7. 46. Then opened he their understandings that they might understand the scriptures Luke 22. 45. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God c. All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made which was made c. He the true light who enlightneth every man coming into the world He was in the world and the world
The doctrine of God our Saviour c. Titus 2. 10 13. His Son whom he hath appointed Heir of all things by whom also he made the worlds who being the Brightness of his Glory and the express Image of his Person and upholding all things by the word of his power when he had by himself purged our sins fate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high being made so much better than the Angels c. As he hath a more excellent name c. Unto which of the Angels said he at any time Thou art my Son c. He saith And let all the Angels of God worship him c. Thy God O God hath anointed thee c. Heb. 1. 2 3 4 5 6 c. ch 8. 1. ch 10. 12. ch 12. 2. Col. 3. 1. We see Jesus c. crowned with glory and honour c. Heb. 2. 9. Having neither beginning of days nor end of life but made like unto the Son of God c. Such an High Priest became us holy c. and made higher than the heavens Heb. 7. 3 26. Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever Heb. 13. 8. Our glorious Lord Jesus Christ or our Lord Jesus Christ of Glory c. That worthy name by which we are called James 2. 1 7. The precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without spot or blemish 1 Pet. 1. 19. 1 John 2. 1. A living stone c. chosen of God and precious c. who did no sin 1 Pet. 2. 4 22. Jesus Christ who is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God Angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him 1 Pet. 3. 22. The power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ were eye-witnesses of his majesty for 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 2 Pet. 1. 16 17. 1 Pet. 1. 21. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to him be glory both now and for ever 2 Pet. 3. 18. Jude vers 25. In him is no sin c. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he said down his life for us 1 John 3. 5 16. 1 Pet. 3. 18. His Son Jesus Christ This is the true God and eternal life 1 John 5. 20. Jesus Christ c. the Prince of the kings of the earth c. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending faith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty c. I am the first and the last I am he who liveth and was dead and behold I am alive for evermore Amen and have the keys of hell and death Rev. 1. 5 6 8 11 17 18. ch 2. 8. I am he who searcheth the reins and hearts Rev. 2. 23. Those things saith he who hath the seven spirits of God c. who is holy c. who hath the key of David he who openeth and no man shutteth c. Rev. 3. 1 7. The Lion of the Tribe of Judah the Rock of David c. Thou art worthy to take the book and open it c. Worthy is the Lamb which was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing c. Blessing honour and glory and power be unto him who sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever c. The elders fell down and worshipped him who liveth for ever Rev. 5. 5 9 12 13 14. ch 15. 3 4. And the kings of the earth and the great men c. said to the mountains c. Hide us from the face of him who fitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. 15 16 17. The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign Rev. 11. 15. The Lamb shâll overcome them for he is the Lord of lords and King of kings Rev. 17. 14. ch 19. 16. I am the Root c. of David and the bright and Morning-star Rev. 22. 16. See more of the One God Father Son and Spirit or the Trinity Chap. 3. In his Nature HE shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arms and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those who are with young or give suck Isa 40. 11. He shall not cry nor lift up nor cause his voice to be heard in the street A bruised râ—ed shall he not break smoaking or daily burning flax shall he not quench Isa 42. 2 3. Matth. 12. 18 19 20. I gave my back to the imiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting Isa 50. 6. Matth. 26. 67. He was oppressed c. he opened not his mouth He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so opened he not his mouth c. He had done no violence neither was guile found in his mouth Isa 53. 7 9. Mal. 2. 6. Thy King cometh unto thee he is just c. lowly and riding upon an ass c. Zech. 9. 9. The Sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings Mal. 4. 4. Jesus fate at meat c. Many Publicans and sinners came c. The Pharisees said Why eateth your Master with Publicans and sinners c. Jesus said unto them They who are whole need not a Physician but they that are sick But go and learn what that meant I will have mercy and not sacrifice for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance c. When he saw the multitude he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted or were tired and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd c. He healed their sick c. would not send them away fasting c. Matth. 9. 10 11 12 13 36. ch 14. 14. ch 15. 33 32. ch 20. 34. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly of heart Matth. 11. 29. When Peter was sinking and cried out Lord save me c. Immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him and said unto him c. Wherefore didst c. Matth. 14. 30 31. O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou who killest the prophets c. How often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chicken under her wings but ye would not Mat. 23. 37. Christ excused his disciples when they siept c. He said The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak Matth. 26. 41. The Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost c. When he came near the city he wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in
stricken smitten of God and afflicted he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes or bruises we are healed c. We have turned every one to his own way and the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all upon him or he hath made the Iniquity of us all to meet upon him He was oppressed he was afflicted c. he was taken from prison and from judgment c. he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken or was the stroke upon him He made his grave with the wicked c. It pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering or when his Soul shall make an offering for sin c. he shall bear their iniquities c. he hath poured out his soul unto death and he was numbred with the transgressors and he bare the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors Isa 53. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. Psal 116. 3. Luke 22 37. Matth. 27. 38. Who is this who cometh from Edom with dyed garments from Bosrah c. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel c. I have trodden the Wine-press alone and of the people there was none with me Isa 63. 1 2 3. Gen. 49. 11. Shall Messiah be cut off but not for himself c. and he shall confirm the covenant with many c. He shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease Dan. 9. 26 27. By the blood of thy covenant or whose Covenant is by Blood I have sent forth thy prisoners Zech. 9. 11. What are these wounds in thine hands then shall he answer Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends Awake O Sword against my shepherd and against the man my fellow saith the Lord of Hosts smite the shepherd c. Zechar. 13. 6 7 Matth. 26. 31 47 48 49. From that time forth began Jesus to shew c. how that he must suffer many things of the Elders c. and be killed c. When Peter had said Be it far from thee Lord he turned and said to Peter Get thee behind me Satan c. thou savourest not the things of God c. Matth. 16. 21 22 23. Luke 17. 25. Likewise also shall the Son of man suffer of them c. the Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men and they shall kill him Matth. 17. 12 22 23. Acts 3. 13 15. The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of the chief priests c. and they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucifie him Matth. 20. 17 18 19. Luke 18. 31 32 33. and Acts 10. 39. The chief priests c. assembled and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty and kill him c. Jesus c. began to be sorrowful and very heavy then said he unto them My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death c. Put up thy sword thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of Angels But how then shall the Scripture be fulfilled that thus it must be They spit in his face and buffeted him Matth. 26. 2. 37 38 52 53 54 67. John 12. 27. Mark 14. 33 34. The soldiers mocked him they spit upon him and smote him on the head c. they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall c. they crucified him between two thieves c. they parted his garments c. He cried with a loud voice saying My God my God Why hast thou forsaken me c. Jesus when he had cried again with a loud voice yielded up the Ghost Matth. 27. 27 28 29 30 34 35 46 50. John 19. 23 24 c. Psal 69. 21. The Son of man came to give his life for a ransom for many Mark 10 45. I have a baptism to be baptized with and how am I straitned till it be accomplished Luke 12. 50. And being in an Agony he prayed more earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground Luke 22. 44. Thus it is written and thus it behoveth Christ to suffer Luke 24. 46. My flesh which I will give for the life of the world John 6. 51. I lay down my life for the sheep c. I lay down my life that I may take it up c. no man taketh it from me but I lay it down of my self c. John 10. 15 17 18. It is expedient for us that one should die for the people c. He prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation and not for that nation only but c. John 11. 50 51 52. Greater love hath no man than this That a man lay down his life for his friends John 15. 13. The cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink John 18. 11. Those things which God spake before by the mouth of all his prophets that Christ should suffer he hath so fulfilled Acts 3. 18. ch 10. 38 39. ch 13. 29. Gal. 3. 13. The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Acts 20. 28. Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation for sin through faith in his blood Rom. 3. 24 25. Jesus who was delivered for our offences Rom. 4. 25. Christ died for the ungodly c. While we were yet sinners Christ died for us c. We were reconciled to God by the death of his Son Rom. 5. 6 8 10. 1 Thes 5. 10. God sent his Son c. and for sin or by a sacrifice for sins condemned sin in the flesh c. Who is he who condemneth It is Christ that died Rom. 8. 3 34. We preach Christ crucified Unto the Jews a stumbling-block c. 1 Cor. 1. 23. ch 2. 2. Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5. 7. Ye are bought with a price 1 Cor. 6. 20. Christ died for our sins according to the scripture 1 Cor. 15. 3. He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin 2 Cor. 5. 21. Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins c. Gal. 1. 4. The Son of God c. who gave himself for me Gal. 2. 20. Christ hath loved us and given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling favour c. Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it Ephes 5. 2 25. He became obedient unto the death even the death of the cross Phil. 2. 8. Heb. 12. 2 3. We have redemption through his blood c. having made peace through the blood of his cross c. hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death Col. 1. 14 20 21 22. The Man Jesus Christ who gave
present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish Ephes 5. 25 26 27. Both he who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one c. Hebr. 2. 11. If the blood of bulls c. sanctifieth c. how much more shall the blood of Christ c. purge Hebr. 9. 13 14. We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all c. For by one offering or one only oblation he hath perfected for ever them who are sanctified c. and hath counted the blood of the Covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing c. Hebr. 10. 10 14 29. Jesus also that he might sanctifie the people with his own blood suffered without the gate c. Hebr. 13. 12. Jesus c. who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood Rev. 1. 5. These are they who came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb Rev. 7. 14. See more of Justification free Chap 10. VII He ariseth from the dead I Know my Redeemer liveth and he shall stand at the latter day on the earth Job 19. 25. My soul shall rest in hope or dwell confidently for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy One to see corruption Psalm 16. 10. Acts 2. 27. ch 13. 34 35 37. Jesus said he must go c. and be killed and be raised again the third day Matth. 16. 21. ch 20. 19. Tell the vision to no man until the Son of man be risen again from the dead c. they shall kill him and the third day he shall be raised again Matth. 17. 9 23. The Angel said c. he is not here for he is risen as he said c. The eleven Disciples saw him they worshiped him Matth. 28. 6 16 17. Luke 24. 5 6 15 30 31 38 39 40 46. The world seeth me no more but ye see me because I live ye shall live also John 14. 19. Mary saw Jesus after he was risen he said unto her Touch me not for I am not yet ascended c. John 20. 14 16 17. This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself c. after that he was risen from the dead John 21. 14. Whom God hath raised up having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible he should be holden of it c. This Jesus hath God raised up whereof we are all witnesses Acts 2. 24 31 32 Christ whom ye crucified whom God raised from the dead c. with great power gave the Apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Acts 4. 10 33. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew c. Acts 5. 30. Whom they slew and hanged on a tree him God raised up the third day and shewed him openly c. unto witnesses chosen before of God Acts 10. 40 41. God raised him from the dead c. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead no more to return to corruption he said on this wise I will give you the sure mercies of David c. He whom God raised again saw no corruption Acts 13. 30 33 34 37. He hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world c. by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Acts 17. 31. The Prophets and Moses did say c. that Christ should suffer and that he should be the first who should rise from the dead Acts 26. 22 23. Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord c. declared to be the Son of God with power c. by the resurrection from the dead Rom. 1. 4. Who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our Justification Rom. 4. 24 25. Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him Rom. 6. 9. And God hath both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by his own power 1 Cor. 6. 14. I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ died c. That he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures and that he was seen of Cephas c. If Christ be not risen then our preaching is vain and your faith is also vain c. ye are yet in your sins c. But now Christ is risen from the dead and become the first-fruits of them who slept 1 Cor. 15. 3 4 5 14 17 20. Though he was crucified through weakness yet he lived by the power of God 2 Cor. 13. 4. Ephes 1. 19 20. Rom. 6. 4. And you being dead c. hath he quicken'd together with him c. through the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him from the dead Col. 2. 12 13. Wait for his Son from heaven whom he raised from the dead 1 Thes 1. 10. Great is the mystery of godliness God manifested in the flesh justified in the spirit c. 1 Tim. 3. 16. Remember that Jesus Christ is of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel 2 Tim. 2. 8. Now the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus c. Heb. 13. 20. Blessed be God c. who hath begotten us again to a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus c. who by him do believe in God who raised him up from the dead that our c. 1 Pet. 1. 3 21. Christ c. being put to death in the flesh but quicken'd in the spirit by the which c. Not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 3. 18 21. Jesus Christ the first begotten of the dead Rev. 1. 5. VIII He ascended into Heaven is our Way to the Father our Advocate and Intercessor there THou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive c. Psal 68. 18. Ephes 4. 8. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them he was received up into heaven and sate on the right hand of God Mark 16. 19. Luke 24. 51. Simon behold Satan hath desired you that he might sift you as wheat but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not Luke 22. 31 32. I am the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture John 10. 9. Jesus saith unto him I am the way and the truth and the life no man cometh to the Father but by me John 14. 6. It is expedient for you that I go away c. If I depart I will send the Comforter unto you and when he is come he will
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
mayest be clothed that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve that thou mayest see Rev. 3. 18. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation Heb. 2. 3. CHAP. IX God's free Choice of his in Christ to Eternal Life and calling them according to his Purpose and Grace I Will be gracious to whom I will be gracious and I will be merciful to whom I will be merciful Exod. 33. 19. And ye shall be holy unto me for I the Lord am holy and have severed you from other people that ye should be mine Levit. 20. 26. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth the Lord did not set his love upon you nor chuse you because ye were more in number than any people for ye were the fewest of all people but because the Lord loved you c. Deut. 7. 6 7 8 ch 14. 2. Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them and he chose their seed after them even you above all people as at this day Deut. 10. 15. The Lord will not forsake his people for his names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people 1 Sam. 12. 22. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people like Israel whom God went to redeem for a people to himself and to make him a name and to do for you great things c. For thou hast confirmed to thy self thy people Israel a people unto thee for ever and thou Lord art become their God 2 Sam. 7. 23 24. Woe unto him who striveth with his maker let the Potsherd strive with the Potsherds of the earth Shall the clay say to him who fashioneth it What makest thou Woe unto him who saith unto his father What begettest thou c. Isa 45 9 10. I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction c. for mine own sake will I do c. Isa 48. 10 11. Zech. 13. 9. The Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit a wife of youth when thou wast refused saith thy God Isa 54. 5 6. I am found of them who sought me not I said Behold me behold me unto a nation which was not called by my name Isa 65. 1. Rom. 10. 20. ch 15. 21. Isa 55. 5. The Lord said to Jeremy Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and before thou camest out of the womb I sanctified thee I ordained thee a Prophet unto the nation Jer. 1. 5. I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee Jer. 31. 3. Hosea 14. 4. When God gives out the great promises of a new heart a new spirit c. he said Not for your sakes do I do this be it known unto you be ashamed c. Ezek. 36. 22 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32. ch 20. 43 44. When I c. saw thee polluted in thy blood I said unto thee in thy blood Live c. Ezekiel 16. 6 8. It shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them Ye are not my people there it shall be said unto them Ye are the sons of the living God Hosea 1. 10. I will have mercy upon her who had not obtained mercy and will say to them which were not my people Thou my people and they shall say Thou my God Hosea 2. 23. Zechar. 2. 10 11. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God c. and shall fear the Lord c. Hosea 3. 5. ch 2. 19 20. Zechar. 13. 9. When Israel a child then I loved him c. I taught Ephraim also to go taking them by their arms but they knew not that I healed them I drew them with cords of a man with bands of love c. Hosea 11. 1 2 3 4. O children of Israel c. You only have I known of all the families of the earth Amos 3. 2. I have loved you faith the Lord c. Is not Esau Jacob's brother c. yet I loved Jacob and hated Esau Malachi 1. 2 3. At that time Jesus answered and said 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 so it seemed good in thy sight Matth. 11. 25 26. Luke 10. 21. It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it is not given c. Therefore spake I to them in parables because they seeing not c. Blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear Matth. 13. 11 13 16. Mark 4. 12 34. I will give unto this last even as unto thee Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own Is thine eye evil because I am good So the last shall be first and the first last for many be called but few chosen c. To sit on my right hand or my left is not mine to give but to them for whom it is prepared of my Father Matth. 20. 14 15 16 21 23. Mark 10. 10. Jesus called Simon and Andrew and James and John to follow him and they did Mark 1. 16 17 18 19 20. Except that the Lord had shortned those days no flesh should be saved but for the Elects sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortned the days Mark 13. 20. Thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son and thou shalt call his name John He shall be great in the sight of the Lord c. He shall be filled with the holy Ghost even from his mother's womb Luke 1. 13 15. Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias c. when great famine was throughout all the land but unto none of them was Elias sent save unto Sarepta c. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elizeus the Prophet and none of them was cleansed saving Naaman c. Luke 4. 25 26 27. Christ called Zacheus to come down c. and he received him joyfully and Christ said to him This day is Salvation come to thy house for 〈◊〉 much as he also is the Son of Abraham For the Son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost Luke 19 5 6 8 9 10. All which the Father hath given me shall come to me and him who cometh to me I will in no wife cast out c. This is the Father's will c. That of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing c. There are some of you who believe not c. No man can come unto me except it were given him of my Father John 6. 37 â—9 64 65. Jesus called the blind man whom he had healed and discovers himself to him
18 19. In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness Zech. 13. 1. Thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins Matth. 1. 21. Jesus said to the sick of the palsie Son be of good cheer thy sins be forgiven thee c. Ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins Matth. 9. 2 6. All manner of sins and blasphemies shall be forgiven to men but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaks against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him in this world neither in the world to come Matth. 12. 31 32. This is my blood c. which was shed for many for the remission of sins Matth. 26. 28. To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins through the tender mercies of our God whereby the day spring from on high hath visited us Luke 1. 77 78. I say unto thee Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little And he said unto her Thy sins are forgiven thee Luke 7. 48 49. It behoveth Christ to suffer c. and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name Luke 24. 46 47. Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world John 1. 29. Repent c. that your sins may be blotted out when the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord and he shall send Jesus c. Acts 3. 19 20. Jesus c. hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins Acts 5. 30 31. To him gave all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins Acts 10. 43. Be it known unto you c. that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins Acts 13. 38. To open the eyes c. that they may â—eceive forgiveness of sins c. through faith in me c. Acts 26. 18. Whom God hath set forth or fore-ordained to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remissiâ—n or or passing over of sins Rom. 3. 25. Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures c. If Christ be not raised c. ye are yet in your sins c. The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15. 3 17 56 57. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself not imputing their trespasses unto them c. For he hath made him to be sin for us 2 Cor. 5. 19 21. Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins Gal. 1. 3 4. In whom ye have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded c. Ephes 1. 7 8. Col. 1. 14. And you c. hath he quickned together with him having forgiven you all trespasses Col. 2. 13. Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity Titus 2. 13 14. His Son c. when he had by himself purged our sins sate down Hebr. 1. 2 3. Wherefore it behoveth him to be made like unto his brethren c. to make reconciliation for the sins of the people Hebr. 2. 17. I will be merciful unto their unrighteousnesses and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more Hebr. 8. 12. If the blood of Bulls c. sanctifieth c. how much more shall the blood of Christ who offered himself c. purge our consciences c. by means of death for the redemption of the transgression Without shedding of blood no remission of sin c. Once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself c. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many Hebr. 9. 13 14 15 22 26 28. This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sate down c. moreover where is remission of those there is no more offering for sin c. Hebr. 10. 12 18. Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on or to the tree c. by whose stripes ye were healed 1 Pet. 2. 24. Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us unto God 1 Pet. 3. 18. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin c. If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 1 John 1. 7 9. If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world c. I write to you little children because your sins are forgiven you for his names sake 1 John 2. 1 2 12. He was manifested to take away our sins c. 1 John 3. 5. Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins 1 John 4. 10. Jesus Christ c. who hath loved us and washed us with his own blood from our sins Rev. 1. 5. Reconciliation to and Peace with God MErcy and truth are met righteousness and peace have kissed c. Psalm 85. 10. Fury is not in me c. Let him take hold of my strength he may make peace with me he shall make peace with me Isa 27. 4 5. The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake Isa 42. 21. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed Isa 53. 5. Seventy weeks are determined c. to make reconciliation for iniquity Dan. 9. 24. He shall be a Priest upon his throne and the counsel of peace shall be between them both Zech. 6. 12 13. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased Mâ—tth â— 17. Go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and unto your Father and unto my God and your God John 20. 17. The Word which God sent unto the children of Israel preaching peace by Jesus Christ Acts 10. 36. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ c. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled c. We say in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement Rom. 5. 1 10 11. God who hath reconciled us unto himself
by Jesus Christ and hath committed unto us the ministry of reconciliation to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses c. 2 Cor. 5. 18 19. The glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved Ephes 1. 6. But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ for he is our peace who hath made both one hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us hath abolished in his flesh the enmity the law of commandments in ordinances for to make in himself or twain one new man so making peace That he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby or in himself and came and preached peace to you who were far off and to them who are near c. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow-citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God Ephes 2. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19. And having made or making peace through the blood of his cross by him to reconcile all things to himself by him whether they be things c. And you who were sometimes alienated and enemies in your minds by wicked works yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death to present you holy and unblameable c. Col. 1. 20 21 22. It behoveth him to be made like unto his brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest c. to make reconciliation for the sins of the people Heb. 2. 17. Who his own self bare our sins c. by whose stripes ye were healed for ye were as sheep going altray but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls 1 Pet. 2. 24 25. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins the 〈◊〉 for the unjust that he might bring us to God 1 Pet. 3. 18. III. Justification and Sanctification before God LET not them who wait on thee O Lord God of hosts be ashamed for my sake Let not those who seek thee be confounded for my sake O God of Israel Because for thy sake I have born reproach shame hath covered my face I am become a stranger unto my brethren c. for the zeal of shine house c. and the reproaches of them who reproached thee have fallen upon me c. Psal 69. 6 7 8 9 10 c. Surely shall one say In the Lord have I righteousness and strength c. in the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified and shall glory Isa 45. 24 25. By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justifie many for he shall bear their iniquities Isa 53. 11. I will sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you c. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses c. Not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord God be it known unto you Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways O house of Israel Thus saith the Lord God In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities c. Ezek. 36. 22 25 29 32 33. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come c. for he is like a refiner's fire c. He shall purifie the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver c. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord Mal. 3. 1 2 3 4. The Pharisee prayed thus God I thank thee that I am not as other men are extortioners c. I fast twice a week c. And the Publican standing afar off would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven c. saying God be merciful unto me a sinner I tell you This man went down unto his house justified rather than the other Luke 18. 10 11 12 13 14. For their sakes I sanctifie my self that they also might be sanctified c. John 17. 19. And by him all who believe are justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses Acts 13. 39. Therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written The just shall live by faith Rom. 1. 17. The righteousness of God without the là w is manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ ùnto all and upon all them who believe c. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth c. to declare his righteousness c. to declare I say his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of them who believe in Jesus Where is boasting then c. Wherefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law Rom. 3. 2◠22 24 25 26 27 28. Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness Now to him who worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt But to him who worketh not but believeth on him who justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted unto him for righteousness even as David describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works c. He received the sign of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of the faith c. that he might be the father of them who believe though they be not circumcised that righteousness might be imputed unto them also c. for the promise c. not to Abraham or to his feed through the law but through the righteousness of faith c. It was imputed to him for righteousness Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed unto him but for us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him who raised up Jesus c. who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification Rom. 4. 3 4 5 6 11 13 22 23 24 25. Gen. 15. 6. Being justified by faith c. much more then being now justified by his blood we shall be saved c. The free gift of many offences unto justification c. As by one offence judgment came upon all to condemnation even so by the righteousness of one or by one righteousuess the free gift came upon all men to justification of life c. By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous Rom. 5. 1 9 16 17 18 19. There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus c. Whom he did foreknow them he also justified c. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect It is God who justifieth Who is he who condemneth It is Christ who died yea rather that is risen again c. Rom. 8. 1 29 30 33 34. The Gentiles who followed not after righteousness have attained
flesh c. 1 Tim. 3. 9 16. I. In its Nature and Objects Abram c. and he believed in the Lord and it was accounted c. Gen. 15. 6. I know my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body or after I shall awake this body shall be destroyed yet out or in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another c. Job 19. 25 26 27. Remember the word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope Psalm 119. 49 50. Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation stone c. He who believeth shall not make haste Isa 28. 16. The Centurion said Lord I am not worthy c. but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed for I am a man under authority c. And I say to this man Go and he goeth and unto another Come and he cometh c. When Jesus heard this he said c. I have not found so great faith no not in Israel c. Many shall come from east and west and shall sit down with Abraham c. Matth. 8. 8 9 10 11 13. Believe ye that I am able to do this They said to him Yea Lord Matth. 9. 28 29. ch 5. 12. The woman of Canaan would not be put off though Christ spake harsh to her whereupon Jesus said to her O woman great is thy faith be it unto thee as thou wilt Matth. 15. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. Simon Peter said Thou art Christ the Son of the living God And Jesus said unto him Blessed art thou c. for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father which is in heaven Matth. 16. 16 17. Mark 8. 29. Luke 9. 20. The woman of the bloody issue said If I may but touch his clothes I shall be whole c. Jesus said unto her Thy faith hath made thee whole go in peace Mark 5. 27 18 29 34. Matth. 9. 18 21. Jesus said unto them Have faith in God c. And shall not doubt in his heart Mark 11. 22 23. Matth. 21. 21. O fools and slow of heart to believe all which the prophets have spoken Luke 24. 21 22 24. Isa 66. 2. His own received him not but as many as received him to them he gave to become c. those who believe in his name c. John seeing Jesus coming unto him and saith Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world This is he of whom I said after me cometh a man who is preferred before me for he was before me c. And I saw and bare record that this is the Son of God c. Andrew said to his brother Simon We have found the Messias which is being interpreted the Christ c. Philip said to Nathaniel We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph c. Nathaniel said Thou art the Son of God Thou art the King of Israel Jesus said Because I said c. Believest thou thou shalt see greater c. John 1. 11 12 29 30 34 36 40 41 45 49 50. The Disciples c. believed the Scripture and the words which Jesus had said John 2. 22 23. He who hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true John 3. 3. The Samaritans believed on him for the saying of the woman c. and more believed because of his own word and said unto the woman Now we believe not because of thy saying for we have heard him our selves and know that this is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the world c. Jesus said to the Nobleman Go thy way thy son liveth and the man believed the word which Jesus had spoken and he went his way c. And himself believed and his whole house John 4. 39 41 42 50 53. He who believeth on him who sent me c. Had ye believed Moses c. But if ye believe not his writings c. John 5. 24 46 47. This is the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent c. Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the Son of the living God John 6. 29 68 69. For if ye believe not that I am he ye shall die in your sins c. Abram saw my days c. John 8. 24 56. The man who was born blind Christ cured and when the Jews had cast him out Jesus heard of it and when he had found him he said unto him Dost thou believe on the Son of God And he answered and said Who is he Lord that I might believe on him c. It is he who talketh with thee And he said Lord I believe and he worshipped him John 9. 33 36 37 38. Jesus c. whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die Believest thou this She said unto him Yea Lord I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God which should come into the world John 11. 25 26 27. ch 6. 14. He who believeth on me believeth not on me but on him who sent me John 12. 44. That when it is come to pass ye may believe that I am he John 13. 19. Acts 26. 18. Ye believe in God believe also in me John 14. 1. The Father himself loved you because yâ— harâ— loved me and believe that I came out from God c. Now we are sure that thou knowest aâ— things c. By this we believe that that thou camest forth from God John â—6 27 30. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest to me and they have received them and they have known surely that I came out from thee and they have believed that thou didst send me John 17. 8 25. ch 11. 44. 1 John 5. 10 11. Thomas c. said unto him My Lord and my God c. Jesus said c. Blessed are they who have not seen yet believed These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God John 20. 28 29 31. The Eunuch said What doth hinder me to be baptized And Philip said If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest And he answered and said I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God He baptized him Acts 8. 36 37 38. Paul preached Christ in the Synagogues that he is the Son of God c. Proving that this is very Christ Acts 9. 20 22. ch 17. 3. God gave them the like gifts c. Then hath God also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life Acts 11. 17 18. We believe that through the Grace of our Lord Jesus we shall be saved even as they Acts 15. 11. Testifying to the Jews c.
bringeth forth evil things Matth. 12. 33 34 35. John 3. 6. Luke 6. 43 44 45. Ye cannot serve God and mammon c. That which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination c. Luke 16. 13 15. Some have not the knowledge of God I speak this to your shame 1 Cor. 15. 34. Examine your selves whether ye be in the faith prove your own selves know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates 2 Cor. 13. 5. Gal. 6. 4. Psalm 4. 4. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. 8. 9. If a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself Gal. 6. 3 7. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter Can the fig-tree my brethren bear olive-berries either a vine figs So no fountain both yields salt-water and fresh Who is a wise man and indued with knowledge among you let him shew out of a good conversation his work with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envying c. this wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual c. James 3. 11 12 13 14. Be ready always to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear 1 Pet. 3. 15. Let every man prove his own works and then shall he have rejoycing in himself alone c. Gal. 6. 4. II. Of the particular Fruits of the Spirit in them or good things appearing or neccssary to be in such who are real Saints A Good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good c. Luke 6. 45. And Enoch walked with God c. three hundred years c. and Enoch walked with God and was not c. or walked according to God continually Gen. 5. 22 24. Noah was a just man perfect in his generation Noah walked with God Gan. 6. 9. And the Lord said unto Noah Come c. for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation c. And Noah did according to all that God commanded him Gen. 7. 1 5. Abraham went into a strange place out of his own country when God bid him Gen. 12. 1 2 3 4. And Abraham said unto Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee c. for we be brethren Is not the whole land before thee c. If thou go to the left hand then will I go to the right or if thou to the right hand then will I go to the left Gen. 13. 8 9. And the Angel of the Lord said c. Abraham c. for now I know that thon fearest God seeing thou hast not with-held thy son thine only begotten son from me Gen. 22. 11 12 ch 18 19. The saints are grieved at the wickedness of men Gen 34. 7. Nehem. 13. 8. Jer. 9. 1 2. ch 13. 17. Mark 3. 50. When Joseph's Mistress tempted him to sin hesaid How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God Gen. 39. 9. When Pharoah said to Joseph I have heard say of thee thou canst understand a dream to interpret it And Joseph answered Pharoah saying It is not in me God shall give Pharoah an answer of peace Gen. 41. 15 16. ch 40. 8. The midwives feared God and obeyed not the king's command to kill the male children Exod. 1. 16 17. And the Lord said unto Moses I have seen this people c. now let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and I will make of thee a great nation And Moses besought the Lord c. saying Wherefore should the Egyptians say For mischief did he bring them out to stay them in the mountains c. Remember Abraham Isaac c. to whom thou swearest by thine own self c. Now if thou wâ—t forgive their sins and if not I pray thee blot me out of thy book which thou hast written Exod. 32. 9 10 11 12 31 32. When Moses was told that Eldad and Medad did prophesie in the camp and his servant had said to him My Lord Moses forbid them Moses said unto them Enviest thou for my sake Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them Numb 11. 26 27 28 29. God said to Moses I will smite them c. and make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they And Moses said unto the Lord Then the Egyptians shall hear for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from amongst them and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land they have heard that thou Lord art among this people c. Now it thou shalt kill all this people as one man then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak saying Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness c. Numb 14. 12 13 14 15 16 c. Deut. 9. 26 27 28. When God had told Moses that he must die Moses prays for Israel Let the Lord the God of the Spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation who may go out before them c. that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd c. And he appointed Joshus Numb 27. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. He exhorts Israel at large to cleave to the Lord when he was to die Deut. 4. 22 23 c. When Israel fell before Ai c. Joshua said O Lord what shall I say when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear c and what wilt thou do unto thy great name Joshua 7. 4 5 6 8 9. Joel 2 17. Chuse c. whom you will serve c. 〈◊〉 as for me and my house we will serve the Lord Joshua 24. 15. Eli when he heard the Ark of the Lord was taken he fell backward and died and his daughter-in-law cried out The glory is departed from Israel for the Ark of God is taken Yet she was noâ— so much concerned with the news of her Husband's death and her own being near death at the same time 1 Sam. 4. 17 18 19 20 21 22. David's heart smote him when he cut off Saul's skirt 1 Sam. 24. 5. When David's Wife had blamed him for dancing before the Ark he told her It was before the Lord c. I will play before the Lord and I will yet be more vile than than thus and will be base in mine own sight 2 Sam. 6. 20 21 22. When King David sate in his house and the Lord had given him rest round about from all his enemies that the King said to Nathan the Propâ—et See now I dwell in an house of Cedar but the Ark of God dwelleth within curtains c. 2 Sam.
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 affection 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 country-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. A peculiar people zealous of good works Titus 2. 14. Ephes 2. 10. He who hath entred into his rest hath ceased from his own works Heb. 4. 10. They who believe desire a better country 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. John 13. 8. We trust we have a good conscience in all things as those who count in all things to live honestly Heb. 13. 8. If any among you seem to be religious and bridle not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this man's religion is vain Pure religion and undefiled between 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 have not works is dead c. I will shew thee my faith by my works c. Faith without works is dead 〈◊〉 James 2. 14 18 26. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge 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 desceadeth not from above c. But the wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and eaâ—â—â— to be intreated 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 〈◊〉 whom having not seen ye love c. Seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth c. unto unfeigned love of the breâ—men 1 Pet. 1. 8 22. Cant. 1. 3 4. 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 vertues or 〈◊〉 of him who hath called you c. 1 Pet. 2. 2 3 9. Luke 10. 39 42. The time of our life may suffice c. when we waâ—ked in lasâ— viousness c. wherein they think it strange that ye 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 vertue and to vertue knowledge c. for if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge 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 〈◊〉 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. Psal 119. 53 126 136 158. Jer. 9. 1 2. ch 13. 17. God is â—ight c. If we say we have 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 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. 6 7 3. 〈◊〉 we know that we know him if we keep his commandments He who faith I know him and keepeth not hâ—s commandments is a lyar and the truth is not â—n him c. He who abideth in 〈…〉 himself also to walk even as he walked c. He who â—aith he is in the light and 〈◊〉 hâ—s Brother is in darkness even until now 〈◊〉 who loveâ—â— his brother abideth in the light c. If any man loveth the world the love of the 〈◊〉 is not in him c. If ye know that he is 〈◊〉 ye know or know ye that every one 〈◊〉 righteousness is born of God 1 John 2. â— 4 6 â— 10 11 15 29. We shall see him as he is And every man who hath this hope in him 〈◊〉 himself as he is pure c. Whâ—soever 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 murtherer and ye know that no murtherer hath eternal life abiding in him c. Whosoever hath this world's 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. For if our hearts condemn us he is greater 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. ch 4. 12 13. ch 5. 18. Whoso knoweth God heareth us those who are not of God hear us not By this we know the spirit c. Love is of God and every one who loveth is born of God and knoweth God c. God is love he who dwelleth in love dwelleth in God
c. I have seen God face to face Gen. 32. 28 30. When Jacob and his family were journying the terrors of God were upon the cities round about them God appeared unto Jacob again c. and blessed him c. Gen. 35. 5 9 13. The Lord was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man c. and his master saw that the Lord was with him c. and made all that he did to prosper in his hand c. The Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's fake c. The Lord was with Joseph c. and gave him favour in the fight of the keeper c. When Joseph had the custody of the prisoners that which he did the Lord made it to proâ—per Gen. 39. 2 3 5 21 22 23. Joseph said unto his brethren c. As for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good to bring to pass as at this day c. Gen. 50. 20. God gave Israel favour in the fight of the Egyptians and Pharoah's servants and so Moses c. There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt such as there was none like it c. But against any of the children oâ— Israel shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast that ye may know how that the Lord dâ—th put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel Exod. 11. 3 6 7. I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the first-born c. and the blood shall be to you for a token c. when I see the blood I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you c. Exod. 12. 12 13. I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God c. Exod. 29. 45. When God had said to Moses Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them that I may consume them c. Moses prayed for Israel and prevailed often for them And the Lord said I have pardoned according to thy word Exod. 32. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. Numb 14. 11 12 13 19 20. And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend c. When Moses had said I beseech thee shew me thy glory He said I will make all my goodness pass before thee c. Exod. 33. 11 17 18 19. ch 19. 19 20. ch 34. 2 3 5 6. My servant Moses is not so who is faithful in all mine house with him will I speak mouth to mouth apparently and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold Numb 72. 7 8. He hath blessed and I cannot reverse it He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob neither hath he seen perversness in Israel The Lord his God is with him and the shout of a King is among them c. Surely there is no inchantment against Jacob neither is there any divination against Israel Numb 23. 20 21 23. Deut. 23. 5. For what nation so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God in all things which we call upon him for And what nation so great which hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law c. Did ever people hear the voice of God c. as thou hast heard and live Deut. 4. 7 8 33. Rom. 3. 1 2. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself above all the nations which are upon the earth Deut. 14. 1. ch 26. 17 18. 19. For the Lord's portion is his people Jacob the lot of his inheritance c. He led him about he instructed him he kept him as the apple of his eye Deut. 32. 9 10. 1 Pet. 5. 3. Jer. 12. 7 8 9 10. The eternal God thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms c. Happy thou O Israel Who is like unto thee O people saved by the Lord the Shield of thy help and who is the Sword of thine exceliency Deut. 33. 27 29. At the Word of Jeshua the Sun stood still and the Moon staid Josh 10. 12 13 14. When Gidâ—on asked signs of God he gave them to him Judg. 6. 17 21 36 37 38 39 40. Manoah inâ—eated the Lord c. and God hearkned c. And the Angel came again c. Judges 13. 8 9 23. He will keep the feet of his saints 1 Sam. 2. 9. she Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people 1 Sam. 12. 22. David went on and grew great and the Lord God of hosts was with him 2 Sam. 5. 10. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee c. Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake c. I will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen 1 Kings 11. 11 12 13. ch 15. 4. He only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave because in him is found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel 1 Kings 14. 13. The Prophet Elijah was taken up into Heaven 2 Kings 2. 12. When the King of Israel and Jehoshaphat the King of Judah went together and wanted Water Elisha the Prophet said c. Were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah I would not look towards thee not see thee But now c. 2 Kings 3. 6 7 9 10 14 15 c. God hearkened to Hezekiah and gave him a Sign that God would heal him he brought the Shadow ten Degrees backward 2 Kings 20. 9 10. Isa 38. 7 8. Behold God will not cast away a perfect man c. Job 11. 20. Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly c. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water which bringeth forth his fruit in his season his fruit shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth it shall prosper Psal 1. 1 3. Know that the Lord hath set apart him who is godly for himself Psal 4. 3. A seed shall serve him it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation c. Psal 22. 30. The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want he maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me besides the still waters c. Psal 23. 1 2. All the paths of the Lord are goodness and truth unto such who keep his covenant c. What man is he who fearêth the Lord him shall he teach in the way which he shall chuse his soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the earth The secret of the Lord is with them who fear him and he will shew them his covenant or make them know it Psal 25. 10 12 13 14. Oh! how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them who fear thee thou hast wrought
works of my hands Command ye me c. Israel shall be saved with an everlasting salvation c. Isa 45. 11 17. Zion said The Lord hath forsaken me c. Can a woman forsake her sucking-child c. Yet will I not forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands thy walls are continually before me Isa 49. 14 15 16. Thy Maker is thy Husband c. and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel the God of the whole earth c. With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord No weapon which is formed against thee shall prosper c. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness of me saith the Lord Isa 54. 5 8 10 17. Unto them will I give in my house c. a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off c. Them will I bring unto my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer and their burnt-offerings accepted upon my altar Isa 56. 3 4 5 6 7. In all their afflictions he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them c. Doubtless thou art our Father c. Return for thy servants sake the tribes of thine inheritance the people of thy holiness c. Isa 63. 9 16 17 18 ch 64. 9. Since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear neither hath the eye seen O God besides thee what he hath prepared for him who waiteth for him or a God besides thee who doth so for him who waiteth c. Isa 64. 4. 1 Cor. 2. 9. Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem c. if ye can find a man if there be any who executeth judgment who seeketh the truth and I will pardon it Jer. 5. 1. Gen. 18. 26 32. Is Ephraim my dear son he a pleasant child Since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him saith the Lord c. If the ordinances of heaven cease then the seed of Israel shall cease from being a nation before me Jer. 31. 20 36 37. When Jerusalem was taken and Jeremiah the Prophet the King of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah c. Look well to him and do him no harm but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee Jer. 39. 11 12. Numb 14. 37 38. The precious Sons of Zion comparable to fine Gold how are they esteemed c. Lam. 4. 2. God ordered the Mark of Salvation to be upon his when all others were to be smitten Ezek. 9. 4 5 6. Though I have scattered them c. yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the Countries where they shall come Ezek. 11. 16. Though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it they should deliver their own souls by their righteousness saith the Lord c. they only shall be delivered themselves Ezek. 14. 14 16 18 20. I sought for a man amongst them who should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none therefore c. Ezek. 22. 30 31. Because thou hast said c. These two Countries shall be â—hine and we will possess it whereas the Lord was there or though the Lord was there Therefore c. Ezek. 35. 10 11. Psal 14. 5. O Daniel a man greatly beloved c. O man greatly beloved fear not c. Dan. 10. 11. 19. ch 9. 23. Jacob. c. by his staength he had power with God yea he had power over the Angel and prevailed he wept c. There he spake with us even the Lord God of hosts Hos 12. 2 3 4 5. Gen. 32. 24 25. Hos 11. 12. I will be as the dew unto Israel he shall grow as the lilly c. Hos 14. 5 6. And my people shall never be ashamed Joâ—l 2. 26 27. For he who toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eyes Zech. 2. 8. We will go with you for we have heard God is with you Zech. 8. 23. Ezra 8. 22. The Lord harkned and heard and a book of remembrance was written before him for them who feared the Lord and that thought upon his name And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts in that day when I make up my jewels or special treasure and I will spare them as a man spareth his son who serveth him Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him who serveth God and him who serveth him not Mal. 3. 16 17 18. Unto you who fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves in the stall Mal. 4. 2. They are pronounced blessed and many privileges mentioned by Christ They are the salt of the earth the light of the world c. Matth. 5. 3 4 5 to 14. The very hairs of your head are all numbred c. Ye are of more value than many sparrows Matth. 10. 30 31. Among them who are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist Notwithstanding he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he Matth. 11. 11. It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven c. Blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear c. Matth. 13. 11 16. Mark 4. 11 12 34. When Peter began to sink Christ helped him Matth. 14. 30 31. Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me it were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck c. Woe unto the world because of offences c. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones for I say unto you that in heaven their Angels do always behold the face of my Father c. Matth. 18. 6 7 10. That they should deceive the elect if it were possible Matth. 24 24. For the elect's sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortned the days c. Mark 13. 20. Matth. 24. 22. To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom Christ opened the parable to them Rejoyce not that the spirits are subject to you but rather rejoyce because your names are written in the book of life Luke 10. 20. The hairs of your head are numbred c. Fear not little flock it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luke 12. 7 32. Joy in heaven over one sinner who repenteth more than over ninety nine just persons c. There is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over him c. Luke 15. 7 10. To as many as received him to them he gave power or the right or privilege to become the sons of
The mystery which hath been hid from ages c. but now is made manifest unto his saints to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery c. Col. 1. 12 13 26 27. Your life is hid with Christ in God c. The elect of God holy and beloved Col. 3. 3 12. That ye would walk worthy of God who hath called you into his kingdom and glory 1 Thes 2. 12. God hath not appointed us unto wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us that whether we wake or skep we should live together with him 1 Thes 5. 9 10. Brethren beloved of the Lord c. He called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ c. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father who hath loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace 2 Thes 2. 13 14 16. Godliness is profitable unto all things having the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come c. We trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men especially of those who believe 1 Tim. 4. 8 10. Godliness with contentment is great gain 1 Tim. 6. 6. Unto the pure all things are pure Tit. 1. 15. Being justified c. we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life Tit. 3. 7. The angels c. are they not all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation Heb. 1. 13 14. Matth. 18. 10. There remaineth therefore a rest or keeping of a Sabbath unto the people of God c. Heb. 4. 9. ch 6. 19. God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed towards his name c. wherein God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath hat by two immutable things wherein it was impossible for God to lye we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Heb. 6. 10 17 18. The Excellency of the New Covenant and the Saints Privileges under it Heb. 8. 7 8 9 10 11. ch 10. 16 17 18 19. Others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings c. of whom the world was not worthy Heb. 11. 36 37 38. Ye are come unto mount Sion and unto the city of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of angels to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are written or enrolled in heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus c. and to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh c. Heb. 12. 22 23 24. Be content c. for he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee So that c. Heb. 13. 5 6. A crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them who love him James 1. 12. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised unto them who love him James 2. 5. The effectual servent prayer of a righteous man availeth much Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained not c. And he prayed again and the heavens gave rain and the earth brought forth her fruit James 5. 16 17 18. Blessed be God c. who c. hath begotten us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus c. 1 Pet. 1. 3. Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house an holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifice acceptable to God by Jesus Christ c. ye are a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy nation a peculiar or a purchased people that ye should shew forth the praise or virtues c. 1 Pet. 2. 5 9. Rom. 1. 6. Rev. 5. 10. Ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing c. The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayer 1 Pet. 3. 9 12. Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5. 7. According to his divine power hath given us all things which pertain to life and godliness c. whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might be partakers of the divine Nature c. So an entrance shall be administred unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1. 3 4 11. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation 2 Pet. 2. 9. Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ 1 John 1. 3. 1 Cor. 1. 9. We have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous c. he who doth the will of God abideth for ever c. Ye have an unction from the holy one and ye know all things 1 John 2. 1 17 20. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God c. Beloved now we are the sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be c. Whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we observe his precepts and do what is pleasing to him 1 John 3. 1 2 22. Ye are of God c. greater is he who is in you than he who is the world 1 John 4. 4. I have written these things to you who believe that ye may know that ye have eternal life c. This is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us c. We know that we are of God 1 John 5. 13 14 19. The revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave unto him to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass c. He hath made us kings c. Rev. 1. 1 6. Hurt not the earth till we have sealed the servants of God in their foreheads Rev. 7. 2 3. And it it was commanded them they should not hurt c. but only those men who have not the seal of God in their foreheads Rev. 9. 4. All shall worship the beast whose names are not written in the book of life Rev. 13. 8. chap. 17. 8. The Lamb shall overcome them c. and they who are with him are called and chosen and faithful Rev. 17. 14. ch 20. 8 9. And I saw them who had gotten the victory over the beast and over his image and over his mark c. Having the harps of God and they sang the song of Moses c. Rev. 15. 2 3 4. ch 20. 4. See the Advantage of Faith Chap. 11. See more of their Priviledges in Afflictions and Persecutions Chap. 22. In Common
their children for ever c. You shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you you shall not turn aside to the right and or to the left you shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you Deut. 5. 27 28 29 32 33. Levit. 18. 3 4 26. Hear therefore O Israel and observe to do that it may be well with thee Deut. 6. 3. The Lord thy God is a faithful God who keepeth covenant and mercy with them who love and keep his commandments to a thousand generations Deut. 7. 9. Levit. 20. 22. 1 Kings 6. 12. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his judgments and his commandments alway c. And it shall come to pass if you will hearken diligently unto my commandments c. then will I give you c. Deut. 11. 7 8 13 14. ch 10. 12 13. Levit. 26. 3 4 5 c. God commanded thee that thou do these statutes c. and that with all thy heart and from thy whole soul Deut. 26. 16. See I have set before you this day life and good and death and evil c. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore chuse life c. that thou mayest love the Lord thy God that thou mayest obey his voice and that thou mayest cleave unto him for he is thy life c. Deut. 30. 15 16 19 20. ch 13. 4. ch 32. 46 47. Prov. 19. 16. Isa 1. 19 20. Take diligent heed to do the commandments and laws c. to love the Lord your God and to walk in all his ways and to keep all his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart c. Josh 22. 5. Deut. 10. 12 13. If ye will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord then shall both ye and the king who reigneth over you continue c. 1 Sam. 12. 14. Behold to obey is better than sacrifice to hearken than the fat of rams for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft c. 1 Sam. 15. 22. David charged Solomon to keep the Charge of the Lord his Statutes his Commandments c. as it is written in the Law of Moses 1 Kings 2. 1 2 3. ch 9. 4 5. Hear O my people and I will testifie unto thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me c. But my people would not hearken unto me and Israel would none of me so I gave them up unto their own hearts lust and they walked in their own counsels Oh that my people had hearkned unto me and Israel had walked in my ways I should soon have subdued their enemies c. Psal 81 8 11 12 13 14 16. 2 Kings 21. 8 9. Because they rebelled against the word of God and contemned the counsel of the Most High therefore he brought down their heart with labour Psal 107. 11 12. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently c. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments c. I will run the ways of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart c. Oh how love I thy law c. I love thy testimonies c. It is time for thee O Lord to work they have made void thy law therefore I love thy commandments above gold c. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law c. My soul hath kept thy restimonies and I love them exceedingly Psal 119. 4 6 32 97 119 120 127 136 158 167. Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but ye have set at nought my counsel and would none of my reproof I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh c. Prov. 1. 24 25 26 30 31. My son forget not my law but let thy heart keep my commandments Prov. 3. 1. Blessed is the man who heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors Prov. 8. 32 33 34. He who turneth away his ear from hearing the law even his prayer shall be abomination Prov. 28. 9. Thus saith the Lord Thy Redeemer c. Oh that thou hadst hearkned to my commandments then had thy peace been as the river c. Isa 48. 17 18. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way that is not good after their own thoughts Isa 65. 2. I will bring their fears upon them because when I called none did answer when I spake they did not hear but they did evil c. Isa 66. 4. Jer. 35. 17. Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee c. Their ear is uncircumcised they cannot hearken Jer. 6. 8 10. I speak not unto your fathers c. But this thing commanded I them saying Obey my voice and I will be your God and ye shall be my people and walk ye in all my ways which I have commanded you that it may be well unto you But they hearkned not nor inclined their ear but walked in the counsels and in the imaginations of their evil heart c. Jer. 22 23 24. chap. 11. 4 7 8. Cursed the man who obeyeth not the words of this covenant Jer. 11. 3 4. The Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the Prophets rising early and sending but ye have not hearkned nor inclined your ear c. Jer. 25. 4. ch 44. 4 5. Will ye not receive instruction to hearken unto my words faith the Lord The words of Jonab the son of Rechab that he command his sons not to drink wine are performed for unto this day they drink none but obey their fathers commandment notwithstanding I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye hearkned not unto me Jer. 35. 13 14 15. As for the word thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord we will not hearken unto thee Jer. 44. 16. Thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. ch 3. 11 27. For they hear thy words but they do them not Ezek. 33. 32. Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts saying 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 hearts as an adamant-stone lest they should hear the law and the words which the Lord of Hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets c. Therefore it is come to pass as he cryed and they would not hear so they cried and I would not hear c. Zech. 7. 9 10 11 12 13. Not every one who saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into
14 17 20. chap. 11. 13. Thou may not sacrifice the passover within any of the gates c. But at the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse to place his name in there thou shalt sacrifice Deut. 16. 5 6. Serve ye the Lord and if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord c. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. And the people answered and said God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods c. He is a holy God he a jealous God Joshua 24. 14 15 16 19. Elkanah went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts 1 Sam. 1. 1 3. Prepare your hearts unto the Lord and serve him only 1 Sam. 7. 3 4. Only fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart 1 Sam. 12. 24. And Elijah came unto all the people and said How long halt ye between opinions or thoughts if the Lord be God follow him but if Baal follow him 1 Kings 18. 21. That the heart be prepared to serve God is expected commended and the contrary taken notice of 2 Chron. 12. 14. ch 19. 3. ch 29. 36. ch 30. 18 19. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling Psalm 2. 11. But as for me I will come unto thy house c. and in thy fear will I worship towards thy holy holy temple or the Temple of thy holiness Psalm 5. 7. Who is God save the Lord Psalm 18. 31. All the ends of the world shall remember and return unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee for the kingdom is the Lords and he the governor among the nations All they who are fat on earth shall eat and worship c. A seed shall serve him Psalm 22. 27 28 29 30. I will wash my hands in innocency so will I compass thine altar O Lord c. I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth Psalm 26. 6 8. Isa 1. 11 12 c. ch 66. 3. Jer. 6. 19 20. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto or the honour of his name worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness or in his glorious sanctuary Psalm 29. 2. Psalm 96. 4 6 7 8 9. 1 Chron. 16. 29. For he is thy Lord and worship thou him Psalm 45. 11. All the earth shall worship thee and shall sing unto thee c. Psalm 66. 4. Psalm 63. 1 2 3 c. Neither shalt thou worship any strange God I the Lord thy God Psalm 81. 9 10. How amiable are thy tabernacles c. my soul longeth c. A day in thy courts is better c. Psalm 84. 1 2 c. Psalm 63. 1 2. Psalm 65. 4. I will call upon thee among the Gods none like unto thee O Lord neither are there any works like unto thy works All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy name For thou art great and dost wonderful things thou art God alone Psalm 86. 7 8 9 10. Rev. 15. 4. For who in 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 in the assembly of the saints and to be had in reverence of all them about him Psalm 89. 6 7 Before the mountains were c. even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God Psalm 90. 2. The Lord is great and a great King above all gods c. O come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our Maker for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture Psalm 95. 3 6 7. The Lord reigneth c. worship him all ye gods c. for thou Lord art high above all the earth thou art exalted far above all gods Psalm 97. 1 7 9. Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at his footstool he is holy Psalm 99. 5 9. Psalm 13. 2 7. Serve the Lord with gladness come before his presence with singing c. He is God Psalm 100 2 3. Holy and Reverend is his name Psal 111. 9. I will worship toward his holy Temple Psalm 138. 2. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools c. Be not rash with thy mouth and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing or word before God for God is in heaven and thou upon earth therefore let thy words be few Eccles 5. 1 2. Be not righteous overmuch neither make thy self over wise c. Eccles 7. 16. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand c. to whom then will ye liken God or what c. Isa 40. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give unto another Isa 42. 8. That ye may know and believe me and understand that I am he before me there was no god formed or nothing formed of God neither shall there be after me I the Lord and besides me no Saviour I have declared and have saved and I shewed when there no God among you Therefore ye my witnesses saith the Lord that I am God yea before the day I am he and there is none who can deliver out of my hand I will work and who shall let it Thus saith the Lord your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel c. But thou hast not called upon me O Jacob Isa 43 10 11 12 13 14 15 22. Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel and his redeemer the Lord of Hosts I am the first and I the last and besides me no God c. Ye are my witnesses is there a God besides me yea no God I know not any c. Thus saith the Lord c. I am the Lord who maketh all things who stretcheth forth the heavens alone who spreadeth abroad the earth by my self c. Isa 44. 6 8 24. Psalm 96. 5. I am the Lord and none else no God besides me I girded thee though thou hast not known me That they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me I am the Lord and none else I form the light and create darkness I make peace and create evil I the Lord do all these things c. Thus saith the Lord who created the heavens God himself who formed the earth and made it he hath established it c. I am the Lord and there is none else Isa 45. 5 6 7 18 21 22. I am God and there is none besides me I am God and none like me declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things which are not done saying My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure Isa 46. 9 10. ch 41. 4. But the Lord is the
vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men Matth. 15. 3 4 5 6 8 9. Mark 7. 3. 4 5 7 8. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them Matth. 18. 20. That which is highly esteemed with men is an abomination in the sight of God Luke 16. 15. Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you Matth. 28. 20. Acts 10. 33. When Paul according to Advice had observed some Jewish Ceremonies the Jews came upon him and laid hold on him the very thing his Advisers proposed to prevent by it Acts 21. 20 21. 22 23 c. After the way which they call Heresie so worship I the God of my fathers believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets Acts 24. 14. That ye may prove what is that good that acceptable will of God Rom. 12. 2. Ephes 5. 10 17. He who doubteth is damned if he eat because not of faith for whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14. 23. Now I praise you brethren that you c. keep the ordinances or traditions as I delivered them unto you c. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you That the Lord Jesus the same night c. 1 Cor. 11. 1 2 23. If we or an angel from heaven preach unto you other than that which we have preached c. let him be accursed Gal. 1. 8. Ye did run well Who did hinder you or turn you back This persuasion cometh not of him who called you Gal. 5. 7 8. That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness c. Ephes 4. 14. Those things which ye have learned and received and heard and seen in me do Philp. 4. 9. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world c. If ye be dead with Christ why as though living in the world are ye subject to ordinances Touch not taste not handle not which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrine of men which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will-worship Col. 2. 8 20 21 22 23. We beseech you brethren and 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 c. 1 Thes 4. 1. Prove all things held fast that which is good 1 Thes 5. 21. Therefore brethren stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught whether by word or our epistle 2 Thes 2. 15. Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me 2 Tim. 1. 13. Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures c. 2 Tim. 3. 14 15. Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth Titus 1. 14. 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 Heb. 2. 1. Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning 1 John 2. 24. It was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints for there are certain men crept in c. Jude Vers 3 4. The children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God c. and had walked in the statutes of the heathen whom c. and of the kings of Israel which they had made c. Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made 2 Kings 17. 7 8 18 19. That which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God Luke 16. 15. Some affirm that we say Let us do evil that good may come whose damnation is just Rom. 3. 8. To pray unto God Of Prayer at large ABraham prayed for Abimelech unto God and God healed him and his Gen. 20. 17. O Lord God of master Abraham I pray thee send me good speed this day c. Let it come to pass that the damosel to whom I shall say c. Gen. 24. 12 13 14 15. And Isaac intreated the Lord for his wise because she was barren and the Lord was intreated of him and Rebeccah his wife conceived Gen. 25. 21. Jacob prayed unto God in his distress about Esau and prevailed Gen. 32. 9 10 11 12 24 25 26 28. ch 33. 4. Hos 12. 4 5. Moses prayed unto God for Pharaoh to remove their plagues Exod. 8. 12 13. ch 9 33. ch 10. 18. Moses prayed hard and often for Israel and prevailed Exod. 32. 11 12 13 14 31 32. Numb 14. 13 to 20. The Forms Moses and Aaron and his Sons used in blessing the people and in their march Numb 6. 23 24 25 26. ch 10. 35 36. I besought the Lord at that time saying O Lord God thou hast begun to shew thy servant c. Deut. 3. 23 24 c. It from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thy heart c. Deut. 4. 29. Joshua prayed when Israel had fled before the men of Aâ— Josh 7. 6 7 8 9. Go and cry unto the god ye have chosen let them deliver c. Deliver us only we pray thee this day Judges 10. 14 15. Then Manoah intreated the Lord and said O my Lord let the man of God whom thou didst send come again unto us and teach us what we shall do unto the child c. And God hearkned unto the voice of Manoah Judges 13. 8 9. Sampson called on the Lord and said Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hands of thy servant and now shall I die for thirst And God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw and there came water thereout Judges 15. 18 19. And Sampson called unto the Lord and said O Lord God remember me I pray thee and strengthen me I pray thee only this once O God c. Judges 16. 28. Hannah prayed unto the Lord and wept sore c. She spake in her heart only her lips moved but her voice was not heard 1 Sam. 1. 10 11 12 13. As for me God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you 1 Sam. 12. 23. David prays that it might be with him and his House as God had said to him by Nathan the Prophet 2 Sam. 7. 17 to 29. While the child was alive I fasted and I said Who can tell whether God will be gracious 2 Sam. 12. 22. Jonah 3. 8 9. Exod. 32. 30 Acts 8 20. God
said to Solomon Ask what I shall give thee And Solomon asked Wisdom to govern And God was pleased so with that and in that he had not asked long Life and Riches that God gave him Wisdom and Understanding and Riches and Honour also 1 Kings 3. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. King Solomon prayed at large at the Dedicacation of the Temple and God heard him 1 Kings 8. 22 23 24 c. ch 9. 2 3. 2 Chron. 1. 7 8 c. Elijah the Prophet prayed that it migh be made known that God was God in Israel when others were for Baal And God be heard him and caused Fire to come down and consume the Sacrifice 1 Kings 18. 36 37 38. ch 17. 21 22. Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face continually 1 Chron. 16. 11. If thou seek him he will be found of thee 1 Chron. 28. 9. Judah c. sought him with their whole desire and he was found of them 2 Chron. 15. 15. There are good things found in thee Thou hast taken away c. and hast prepared thine heart to seek God 2 Chron. 19. 3. Asa prayed for Help against the Ethiopian Army of an Hundred Thousand Men and prevailed 2 Chron. 14. 10 11 12. When Moah c. came against Jehosaphat he stood in the Congregation in the House of the Lord and prayed for help And God heard and answered 2 Chron. 20. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 24. Hezekiah being sick prayed 2 Chron. 32. 24. Nehemiah when he heard of the Affliction of the Jews he wept and mourned and fasted and prayed Nehem. 1. 4 5 6 7 8 c. So again when Israel were building and in danger of enemies Nehem. 4. 4 5 9. Ezra 8. 21. chap. 9. I would make supplication to my Judge Job 9. 15. My God for unto thee will I pray my voice shalt thou hear in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct unto thee and look up Psal 5. 2 3. Our fathers c. prayed and thou didst deliver Psal 22. 4 5. He forgetteth not the cry of the humble Psal 9. 12. Psal 10. 17. I acknowledged my sin c. For this shall every one who is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found Psal 32. 5 6. They who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing c. His ears are open to their cry Psal 34. 10. Call upon me in the time of trouble I will deliver thee c. Psal 50. 15. Though Nathan had told David his Sin was forgiven him yet he prays earnestly to be delivered from Blood-guiltiness c. Psal 51. 1 2 3 4 to 15. As for me I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me Evening and morning at noon will I pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice Psal 55. 16 17. I will cry unto God most high unto him who performeth all things for me Psal 57. 2 3 c. O thou who hearest prayer unto thee shall all flesh come Psal 65. 2. If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me But verily God hath heard Psal 66. 18 19. Isa 58. 6 7 8 9. ch 59. 1 2 3. ch 1. 11 12 13 c. The Saints have pleaded with God their own Relation to him and the enemy's Non-relation Psal 79. Isa 63. 15 16 c. ch 64. 8 9 c. Thou Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee Give ear O Lord unto my prayer c. In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou wilt answer me Psal 86. 5 6 7. He will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayers Psal 102. 17. Psal 10. 17. I am thine save me I am thy servant give me understanding that I may know c. I cried with my whole heart c. I prevented the dawning of the morning and cried Psal 119. 94 125 145 147. In my distress I cried unto the Lord and he heard me Psal 120. 1. 2 Sam. 22. 7. Psal 34. 4 6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper who love thee Psal 122. 6. The Lord is nigh unto all who call upon him to all who call upon him in truth He will fulfil the desire of them who fear him he also will hear their cry and will save them Psal 145. 18 19. Nehem. 1. 11. Because I have called and ye refused c. they shall call upon me but I will not answer Prov. 1. 24 25 c The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord but the prayer of the upright is his delight c. He heareth the prayer of the righteous Prov. 15. 8 29. He who turneth away his ear from hearing the law even his prayer shall be an abomination Prov. 28. 9. Be not rash with thy mouth and be not hasty to utter any thing before God for God is in heaven and thou upon earth therefore let thy words be few Eccless 5. 2. My Dove let me hear thy voice c. for sweet is thy voice Cant. 2. 14. When ye spread forth your hands I will hide my eyes from you yea when ye make many prayers or multiply prayers I will not hear Your hands are full of blood wash ye c. Isa 1. 13 15 16. ch 59. 1 2 3. ch 66. 3. In trouble have they visited thee they poured out a prayer or secret speech when thy chastening was upon them Isa 26. 16. Thou hast not called upon me O Jacob Isa 43. 21. Thus saith the Lord c. Ask me of things to come concerning my sons and concerning the works of my hands command ye me c. I said not unto the seed of Jacob Seek ye me in vain Isa 45. 11 19. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found call ye upon him while he is near Isa 55. 6. When thou criest let thy companions deliver thee Isa 57. 13. Loose the bonds of wickedness c. then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answer thou shalt cry c. Isa 58. 6 7 9. For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until the righteousness thereof goeth forth c. I have set watch-men upon thy walls O Jerusalem who shall never hold then peace day nor night Ye who make mention of the Lord or are the Lord's remembrancers keep not silence and give him no rest till he establish and till he make Jerusalem a praise on the earth Isa 62. 1 6 7. The Church's Prayer for the Lord's Return unto them Isa 63. 15 16 17 18 19. ch 64. I am found of them who sought me not Isa 65. 1. Therefore pray not thou for this people neither lift up cry nor prayer for them neither make intercession to me for I will not hear thee Seest thou not what they do c. Jer. 7. 16 17. Pour our thy fury upon the
13 14 15. Let thy companions deliver thee but the wind shall carry them all away vanity shall take them Isa 57. 13. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitudes of mountains c. Jer. 3. 23. Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord c. Jer. 7. 4. Trust ye not in any brother for every brother will utterly supplant Jer. 9. 4 5. This is thy portion c. because thou hast forgotten me and trusted in falshood Therefore still I discover thy skirts upon thy face c. Jer. 13. 25 26. Thus saith the Lord Cursed be the man who who trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from God for he shall be like the heath in the desert c. Jer. 17. 5 6. For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures thou shalt also be taken c. Jer. 48. 7. Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys c. O back-sliding daughter who trustest in her treasures saying Who shall come unto me Behold I will bring fear upon thee saith the Lord of host Jer. 49. 4 5 16. As for us our eyes as yet failed for our vain hope in our watching we have watched for a nation which could not save us Lam. 4. 17. Egypt shall know c. because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel When they took hold of thee by thy hand thou didst break and rent all their shoulders And when they leaned upon thee thou breakest all their loins c. Ezek. 29. 6 7. Isa 20. 5 6. They shall know that I am the Lord when I have set a fire in Egypt and when all her helpers shall be destroyed Ezek. 30. 8. Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart they call to Egypt they go to Assyria when they shall go I will spread my net upon them I will bring them down c. Wo unto them for they have fled from me Hosea 7. 11 12 13. Jer. 2. 36 37. Ephraim feedeth upon wind c. they do make a covenant with the Assyrians c. Hosea 12. 1. Wo unto them who are at ease or secure in Zion and trust in the mountains of Samaria Amos 6. 1. Trust ye not in a friend put ye not confidence in a guide keep the door of thy mouth from her who lyeth in thy bosom For the son dishonoureth the father c. Micah 7. 5 6. Charge them who are rich c. that they trust not in uncertain riches c. 1 Tim. 6. 17. We had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves 2 Corin. 1. 9. II. In God alone a suitable Object GOD said Let their be light and there was light c. Gen. 1. 3 6 9 c. When Sarah doubted of the promise because of her age The Lord said to Abraham Wherefore did Sarah laugh saying Shall I of surety bear a child which am old Is any thing too hard for the Lord Gen. 18. 12 13 14. Luke 1. 37. When Hagar was fainting and thought there was no way but death with her child God shewed her a well of water c. Gen. 21. 15 16 17 18 19. When Joseph's Brethren had conspired to kill him God works for his deliverance Gen. 37. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 c. When God was sending Moses upon a great Work Moses said unto the Lord O my Lord I am not eloquent c. but I am slow of speech c. And the Lord said unto him Who hath made man's mouth Or who maketh the dumb or the deaf or the seeing or the blind Have not I the Lord Now therefore go and I will be with thy mouth c. Exod. 4. 10 11 12. And Moses said unto the people Fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will shew to you to day c. the Lord shall fight for you c. And the Angel of God which went before the camp removed and went behind them between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel c. Led them through the Red-sea Exod. 14. 13 14 19 20 21 22. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever Exod. 15. 18. The Lord c. proclaimed the name of the Lord The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression and sin c. Exod. 34. 5 6 7. And Moses said The people amongst whom I am are six hundred thousand c. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them c. And the Lord said unto Moses Is the Lord's hand waxed short Thou shalt see c. Numb 11. 21 22 23. God is not a man that he should lye neither the son of man that he should repent Hath he said and shall he not do Or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good Behold c. he hath blessed and I cannot reverse it Heb. 6. 18. Numb 23. 19 20. Tit. 1. 2. What god is there in heaven or earth that can do according to thy works and according to thy might Deut. 3. 24. Unto thee it was shewed that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God there is none else besides him c. Deut. 4. 35 39. Know therefore that the Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth covenant and mercy with them who love him c. Deut. 7. 9. Understand therefore this day that the Lord thy God he who goeth before thee as a consuming fire he shall destroy them and he shall bring them down before thy â—ace so shalt thou drive them out c. Deut. 9. 3. ch 31. 6. There shall be no man able to stand before you for the Lord your God shall lay the sear of you c. Deut. 11. 25. Josh 5. 1. 2 Chron. 14. 14. chap. 17. 10. Their rock is not as our Rock the enemies themselves being judges 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 hand for I lift up my hand to heaven and say I live for ever Deut. 32. 31 39 40. There is none like unto the God of Jesurun who rideth upon the heaven for thy help and in his excellency on the sky The eternal God thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee c. Deut. 33. 26 27. Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you c. Josh 3. 10. Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you all are come to pass unto you and not one thing hath failed thereof c. Josh 23. 14. chap. 21.
47. ch 4. 17 32. Thou shalt know no God but me for there is no Saviour besides me c. O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self but in me is thine help Hâ—sea 13. 4 9. Ashur shall not save us c. for in thee the fatherless find mercy Hosea 14. 3. When my soul fainteth within me I remembred the Lord Jonah 2. 7. Trust ye not in a friend c. for the son dishonoureth the father c. Therefore I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my salvation Micah 7. 5 6 7. The Lord is good a strong hold or strength in the day of trouble and he knoweth them who trust in him Nahum 1. 7. Although the figtree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the vines the labour of the Olive shall fail and the field shall yield no meat c. yet I will rejoice in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation the Lord God is my strength Habbak 3. 17 18 19. Wo to her c. she trusted not in the Lord she drew not near to her God c. I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people and they shall trust in the name of the Lord Zeph. 3. 1 2 12. Not by might not by power but by spirit saith the Lord of Hosts who thou O great mountain before Zerubbabel Zech. 4. 6 7. Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink nor for your body what you shall put on c. Behold the fowls of the air c. yet your heavenly father feedeth them Are ye not much better than they c. Consider the lillies c. If God so cloth the grass c. shall he not much more clothe you O ye of little faith c. your heavenly father knoweth that ye have need of these things Matth. 6. 25 26 28 29 30 32. There is one God and there is none other but he Mark 12. 32. Blessed is she who believes for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her c. Luke 1. 45. Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God believe also in me John 14. 1. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world Acts 15. 18. God who made the world and all things therein seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth c. he giveth to all life and breath and all things Acts 17. 24 25. Let God be true but every man a lyar Rom. 3. 4. If God be for us who can be against us Rom. 8. 31. The foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men 1 Cor. 1. 25 27. God c. the father of mercies and the God of all comfort c. We had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God who raiseth the dead who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver 2 Cor. 1. 3 9 10. 1 Sam. 17. 24 35 36 c. 〈◊〉 who comforteth them who are cast down c. 2 Cor. 7. 6. Unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think c. Ephes 3. 20. Luke 1. 37. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer c. let your requests be made known unto God Phil. 4. 6. The living and the true God 1 Thes 1. 9. 1 Pet. 1. 23. Therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men specially of those who believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. Charge them who are rich c. that they trust not c. but in the living God who c. 1 Tim. 6. 17. In hope of eternal life which God who cannot lye promised before the world c. Titus 1. 2. Be content with such things as ye have for he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee so we may boldly say The Lord is my helper and I will not fear Hebr. 13. 5 6. Every good gift and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights with whom is no variableness c. James 1. 17. Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5. 7. See Faith Chap. II. To look believingly unto hope in and patiently wait for God in all cases The Arguments thereto ABram's servant looked if God had made his journey prosperous or not Gen. 24. 21. Fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will shew c. and the Lord shall fight for you c. Exod. 14. 13 14. Gen. 49. 18. The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth Exoa. 34. 6. When the people complained or were as it were Complainers it displeased the Lord c. Numb 11. 1. God is not man that he should lye neither the son of man that he should repent Hath he said and shall he not do or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good Numb 23. 19. Hebr. 6. 18. Titus 1. 2. Rom. 3. 4. 1 Sam. 15. 29. The Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth covenant Deut. 7. 9. Not one thing hath failed of all the good things the Lord your God spake c. Joshua 23. 14. ch 21. 45. 1 Kings 3. 56. The King of Israel said Behold this evil is of the Lord what should I wait for the Lord any longer 2 Kings 6. 33. We have no might c. neither know we what to do but our eyes are upon thee c. Ye shall not need to fight in this set your selves stand ye and see the salvation of the Lord with you 2 Chron. 20. 12 17. I would seek unto God and unto God would commit my cause who doth great things and unsearchable marvellous things without number Job 5. 8 9. In the morning will I direct my prayer to thee and will look up Psal 5. 3. Thou Lord hast not forsaken them who seek theâ— Psal 9. 10. They shall praise the Lord who seek him Psal 22. 26. Thou the God of my salvation on thee do I wait all the day c. mine eyes are ever towards the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net Psalm 25. 5 1â— 21. Wait on the Lord and be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart wait I say on the Lord Psalm 27. 14. Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them c. who hope in his mercy to deliver their soul c. Our soul waiteth for the Lord he is our help Psalm 33. 18 19 20. Thy mercy O Lord in the heavens thy faithfulness reacheth to the clouds Psal 36. 5. Psal 57. 10. Commit thy way unto the Lord c. and he shall bring it to pass c. rest in the Lord and wait patiently
Exod. 3. 11. Moses c. said c. Thus saith the Lord c. How long wilt thou refuse to humble thy self before me Exod. 10. 3. I know that the Lord is greater than all gods for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them Exod. 18. 11. Hath the Lord spoken only by Moses hath he not spoken also by us And the Lord heard c. and the anger of the Lord was kindled against them Numb 12. 1 2 9. Korah Dathan and Abiram and others gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron and said unto them Ye take too much upon you or it is much for you seeing all the Congregation are holy every one of them and the Lord is among them Wherefore then lift you up your selves above the Congregation of the Lord c. Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram c. who said We will not come up c. God was angry and the earth opened and swallowed them up Numb 16. 1 2 3 12 21 31 32. Israel warned that when they should be full they should not be lifted up in heart Deut. 8. 10 11 12 13 14. Speak not thou in thine heart after that the Lord thy God hath cast them cut from before thee saying For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land c. Understand therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness for thou a stiff-necked people c. Deut. 9. 4 5 6. Saul hath slain his thousands and David his ten thousands and Saul was very wrath and the saying displeased him and he said They have asscribed unto David ten thousands and to me they have ascribed one thousand and can he have more but the kingdom 1 Sam. 18. 7 8. I will yet be more vile than thus and will be base in my mine own sight 2 Sam. 6. 22. But thine eyes are upon the haughty that thou mayst bring them down 2 Sam. 22. 28. Obadiah vers 3 4. Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself c. because he humbleth himself before me I will not bring the evil in his days 1 Kings 21. 25 27 29. Naaman was wroth and went away and said Behold I thought he would surely have come out unto me c. Are not c. rivers of Damascus better than all the waters of Israel c. So he went away in a rage c. 2 Kings 5. 10. 11 12 13 14. Because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy self before the Lord c. behold therefore c. thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring c. 2 Kings 22. 19 20. What am I what is my people that we should be able to offer c. of thine own have we given thee 1 Chron. 29. 14. When Uzziah was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction 2 Chron. 26. 16. But Hezekiah rendred not again according to the benefit done unto him for his heart was lifted up therefore there was wrath upon him c. Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart or lifting up of his heart so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah God left them c. that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32 25 26 31. Isai 39. Haman his Pride put him upon Revenge and Blood and that proved his ruine Hester 3. 5 6. ch 5. 5 9 10 c. ch 7. What is man that thou shouldst magnifie him and that thou shouldst set thine heart upon him Job 7. 17. Psalm 144. 3. Psalm 90. 5 6. For vain or empty man would be wise though man be born like a wild Asses colt Job 11. 11 12. 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 26. Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble he cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not and dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one Job 14. 1 2 3 4. Psal 144. 3. When men are cast down then thou shalt say There is lifting up and he shall save the humble person Job 22. 29. The stars are not pure in his sight how much less man a worm Job 25. 5 6. ch 35. 5 6 7 8. Elihu being young would not speak before the old men had spoken Job 32. 4 5 6. Job said Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth Once have I spoken c. but I will proceed no farther Job 40. 2 3 4. Ezra 9. 10 13. Now mine eye seeth thee wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Job 42. 5 6. When I consider the heavens c. what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visitest him Psalm 8. 3 4. Hebr. 2. 6. Psal 144. 3 4. He forgetteth not the cry of the humble Psalm 9. 12. Psalm 10. 17. But I a worm and no man Psalm 22. 6. The Lord is nigh unto them who are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit Psalm 34. 18. Every man at his best estate is altogether vanity Psalm 39. 5 11. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God thou wilt not despise Psalm 51. 17. Surely men of low degree are vanity men of high degree a lye to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity Psalm 62. 9. Psalm 146. 3 4. So foolish and ignorant was I as a beast before thee Psalm 73. 22. If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand Psalm 130. 3. Lord my heart is not haughty nor mine eyes lofty c. Psalm 131. 1 2. Though the Lord be high yet hath he respect unto the lowly but the proud he knoweth afar off Psalm 138. 6. Lord what is man that thou takest knowledge of him c. that thou makest account of him Man's like vanity Psalm 144. 3 4. Be not wise in thine own eyes c. Surely he scorneth the scorners but he giveth grace unto the lowly Prov. 3. 7 34. These things doth the Lord hate a proud look or haughty eyes Prov. 6. 16 17. Pride cometh then cometh shame but with the lowly is wisdom Prov. 11. 2. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes Prov. 12. 15. Only by pride cometh contention Prov. 13. 10. Before honour is humility Prov. 15. 33. ch 18. 12. All the ways of man are clean in his own eyes c. every one who is proud in heart is an abomination unto the Lord c. Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty look before a fall better be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil
do evil Exod. 23. 2. And be sure your sins will find you out Numb 32. 23. Gen. 44. 16. Psalm 44. 20 21. Joshua 7. 1 5 11 12 24 25 26. Job 34. 22. Psalm 44. 20 21 Jonah 1. 4 5 6. 1 Kings 2. 24 25 28 31 32 c. If any man sin against another the Judge shall judge him but if a man sinneth against the Lord who shall entreat for him 1 Sam. 2. 25. Tamar Sister of Amnon being tempted said Commit not this wickedness 2 Sam. 13. 11 12 13. I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God c. I have kept my self from mine iniquity 2 Sam. 22. 22 25. The drinking was according to law none did compel but according to every man's pleasure Esther 1. 8. Job feared God and eschewed evil Job 1. 1 8. To depart from evil is understanding c. Job 28. 28. I made a covenant with mine eyes why then should I think upon a maid Job 31. 1. Stand in awe and sin not Psalm 4. 4. For thou art not a God who hath pleasure in wickedness neither shall evil dwell with thee c. thou hatest all workers of iniquity Psalm 5. 4 5. I kept my self from mine iniquity Psalm 18. 23. I have hated the congregation of evil doers c. I will wash mine hands in innocency and so will I compass thine altar O Lord Psalm 26. 5. Depart from evil and do good Psalm 34. 14. Psalm 37. 27. He prophesied of Christ thus Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness Psalm 45. 7. Heb. 1. 8 9. If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me Psalm 66. 18. John 9. 31. He will speak peace to his c. but let them not turn again to folly Psalm 85. 8. Holiness becomes thy house O Lord for ever Psalm 93. 5. Ye who love the Lord hate evil Psalm 97. 10. I will walk within my house with a perfect heart I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes Psalm 101. 2 3. Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee c. I have refrained my feet from every evil way c. I hate every false way Psalm 119. 11 101 104. Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up-rising thou understandest my thoughts afar off Thou c. art acquainted with all my ways for not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether c. Psalm 139. 2 3 4. My son if sinners intice thee consent thou not If they say Come with us c. walk thou not in the way with them Refrain thy foot from their path for their feet run to evil Prov. 1. 10 11 to 17. Enter not into the path of the wicked and go not into the way of evil men avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away for c. Prov. 4. 14 15 16. The lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb c. Remove thy way far from her and come not near the door of her house lest c. Prov. 5. 3 4 5 8 c. ch 6. 2 4 25 29 32 33. ch 7. 5 6 7 c. 25. ch 22. 14. ch 23. 27 28. ch 2. 16 17 18. ch 9. 13 14 c. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil Prov. 8. 13. ch 3. 7. Wickedness overthroweth the sinner Prov. 13. 6. Fools make a mock of sin c. A wise man feareth and departeth from evil c. Sin is a reproach to any people or nation Prov. 14. 9 16 34. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good Prov. 15. 3. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil Prov. 16. 6. With a furious man thou shalt not go lest thou learn his ways c. Prov. 22. 24 25. Whosoever confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me c. Bring no more oblations c. Wash ye make ye clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil Isa 1. 11 12 13 14 15 16. Jer. 6. 19 20. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts c. Isa 55. 7. Is not this the fast which I have chosen c. to loose the bands of wickedness c. Isa 58. 3 4 5 6. The Lord's hand is not shortned c. but your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear Isa 59. 1 2 3. Josh 7. 11 12 13. He who killeth an ox as if he slew a man c. they have chosen their own ways and their soul delighteth in their abomininations Isa 66. 3. Jer. 6. 19 20. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee c. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God Jer. 2. 19. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved how long shall vain thoughts lodge within thee c. Thy ways and thy doings have procured those things unto thee this thy wickedness because it is bitter because it reacheth unto thine heart Jer. 4. 14 18. Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have with-holden good things from you for among my people are found wicked men Jer. 5. 25. Thus saith the Lord Amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord c. for if ye throughly amend your ways c. then will I cause you c. Will you steal murther and commit adultery c. and come and stand before me in this house c. Jer. 7. 3 4 5 7 8 9 10. It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil that I purpose to do unto them that they may return every man from his evil way that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin Jer. 36. 2 3. Repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruine Cast away from you all your transgressions c. Ezek. 18. 30 31. Turn ye turn ye from your evil ways why will ye die c. Ezek. 33. 11 14 15 16 18 19. Seek good and not evil that ye may live c. hate the evil and love the good Amos 5. 14 15. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity Habbak 1. 13. Be ye not as your fathers unto whom the former Prophet have cryed c. Turn ye now from your evil ways and from your evil doings but they did not hear not hearken unto me saith the Lord Zechar. 1. 4. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart and if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast
our Saviour in all things Titus 2. 5. 10. See Repentance Chap. 33. See Subduing of Sin Chap. 20. IV. God's Reasonings with Complainings of and Threatnings and Judgments against Sinners for their several Sins Disobedience and Rebellions IT is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Hebr. 10. 31. For our God is a consuming fire Hebr. 12. 29. With Adam and Eve for eating of the forbidden fruit Gen. 3. 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19. Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him And the Lord said unto Cain c. Now art thou cursed from the earth c. Gen. 4. 8 9 10 11 12. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth c. and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at heart And the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth c. for it repenteth me that I have made them Gen. 6. 5 6 7. Accordingly he did destroy them by the Flood Gen. 7. 4 22 23. I will require of man the life of man He who sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed Gen. 9. 5 6. Sâ—dom and Gomorrah because their sin was very grievous and the cry of them waxed great before the Face of the Lord he rained upon them Brimstone and Fire from the Lord out of Heaven and he overthrew those Cities and all the Plain and all the Inhabitants of the Cities c. Lot's Wife for her disobedience in looking back was turned into a Pillar of Salt Gen. 18. 20. ch 19. 13 24 25 26. God slew Er and Onan for their wickedness Gen. 38. 7 10. God met with Joseph's Brethren for their Sin in selling Joseph Gen. 44. 16. ch 42. 21. Many Plagues and Judgments against and upon Pharaoh and the Egyptians for their sins in not letting Israel go Exod. 7. ch 8. ch 9. ch 10. ch 11. ch 12. God said he would send his angel before Israel but he would not go up because they had sinned Exod. 33. 2 3 c. And the Lord said unto Moses I have seen this people and behold it is a stiff-necked people now therefore let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them and that I may consume them c. Whosoever hath sinned against me him will I blot out of my book c. I visit their sin upon them And the Lord plagued the people because they made a calf Exod. 32. 9 10 33 34 35. God's Judgment upon Nadab and Abihu for offering strange Fire c. Levit. 10. 1 2. Defile not your selves in any of these things for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you c. therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it and the land it self vomiteth out her inhabitants c. Ye shall not commit any of these abominations c. that the land spue not you out also when ye defile it as it spued out the nations which were before you Levit. 18. 24 25 26 28. But if ye will not hearken unto me c. I will appoint over you terrour c. And if you will not for all this hearken c. then will I punish you seven times more for your sins Levit. 26. 14 15 to 39. The people murmured or complained and it displeased the Lord and his anger was kindled and the fire of the Lord burned amongst them and consumed in the uttermost parts of their camp c. And they fell a lusting c. and said Who shall give us flesh to eat c. And while the flesh was yet between their teeth ere it was chewed the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people and the Lord smote the people with a great plague Numb 11. 1 4 5 20 32 33. And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses c. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them c. And Miriaâ— became leprous Numb 12. 1 2 9 10. The children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron and said Would God we had died in the land of Egypt c. Wherefore hath the Lord brought us into this land to fall by the sword that our wives and children should be a prey c. Let us make us a captain and let us return c. And the Lord said c. How long will it be ere they believe me c. I will smite them with the pestilence and dis-inherit them c. Surely they shall not see the land c. Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness c. But your little ones which you said should be a prey them will I bring in and they shall know the land which ye have despised c. Those who brought up the evil report upon the land died of the plague c. Numb 14. 1 2 3 4 11 12 22 23 29 31 32 36 37. Korah and his Company for rebelling against Moses and against Aaron were swallowed up of the earth c. The People murmured against Moses for this And God sent the plague amongst them Numb 16. 1 2 3 30 31 32 33 41 45 46. Aaron and Moses both died and were not suffered to enter into the Land because they rebelled against God's Word at the Waters of Meribah Numb 20. 12 23 24. Deut. 3. 27. ch 32. 48 49 50 51. ch 4. 21 22. O that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me c. Deut. 5. 29. The people spake against God and against Moses Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the Wilderness for there is no bread neither is there any water and our soul loatheth this light bread And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people and much people of Israel died Numb 21. 4 5 6. The people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab c. and bowed down to their gods c. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel and there was a plague amongst them whereof twenty and four thousand died Numb 25. 1 2 3 8 9. All the men who followed Baal Peor the Lord thy God hath destroyed them Deut. 4. 3. If thou do at all forget the Lord thy God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them I testifie against you this day that you shall surely perish as the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face Deut. 8. 19 20. ch 31. 16 17 18. For the iniquity of the nations the Lord thy God hath cast them out c. Deut. 9. 5. ch 18. 9 10 11 c. If thy brother c. thy daughter or thy wife c. entice thee secretly saying Let us go and serve other gods c. thou shalt not spare him thou shalt surely kill him c. Deut. 13. 6 7 8 9 c. If thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to
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
and Herod for Pride slain Acts 5. 5 10. Acts 12. 21 22 23. Because when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful c. wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonour their own bodies between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lye c. for this cause God gave them up to vile affections c. God gave them over to a reprobate mind Rom. 1. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 c. Think this O man c. who do such things that thou shalt escape the judgment of God Rom. 2. 2 3 c. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep c. 1 Cor. 11. 29 30 31. The Apostle reckons up some of the Sins and Punishments of Israel and concludes Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Cor. 10. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 21 22. Now the works of the flesh c. adultery c. they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God Gal. 5. 19 20 21. 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Ephes 5. 5. If any shall worship the beast c. the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God c. Rev. 14. 9 10. He who is unjust let him be unjust still and he who filthy let him be filthy still c. Behold I come quickly c. Rev. 22. 11. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them who commit such things c. who will render to every man according to his deeds Rom. 2. 2 3 4 5 6. Gal. 6. 7 8. Ephes 5. 5 6. Colos 3. 5 6. Heb. 13. 4. The great Judgments denounced against Babylon for her great Sins and Persecutions Rev. 18. See more in the Duty of Obedience in this Chapter See more of Man's Sin and Corrupt Nature Chap. 5. The sad Effects of such a State See the same Chapter See more of God's punishing his own for Sin Chap. 13. See Pardon of Sin Chap. 10. To own and profess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ boldly before Men and to wait for Christ's second Coming I. To Own and Confess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ before Men. I Know my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth c. Job 19. 25. I will speak oh thy testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed c. I am a companion of all them who fear thee Psal 119. 46 63. Psal 16. 2 3. None call for justice nor any pleadeth for truth Isa 59. 4. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O king but if not be it known unto thee O king that we will not serve thy gods Dan. 3. 17 18. When Daniel knew that the Writing was signed he went into his house and his window being open in his Chamber towards Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees c. and prayed and gave thanks before his God Dan. 6. 10. Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven but whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven Matth. 10. 32 33. Luke 12. 8 9. A damsel came unto Peter saying Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee but he denied before them all saying I know not what thou sayest c. And again he denied with an oath saying I do not know the man c. Then began he to curse and to swear saying I know not the man Matth. 26. 69 70 72 74. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh into the glory of his Father with the holy angels Mark 8. 38. The parents of the blind man durst not confess Christ but answered He is of age ask him these words spake his parents because they feared the Jews for the Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was Christ that he should be put out of the Synagogue therefore said his parents He is of age ask him c. But the son confessed him John 9. 19 20 21 22 23 30 31 32 c. Nevertheless 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 Synngâ—gue for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God John 12. 42 43. Let the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Acts 2. 36. The God of our fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus whom ye delivered up c. but ye denied the holy and just One c. and killed the Prince of life c. Acts 3. 13 14 15. Be it known unto all c. that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye crucified c. even by him doth this man stand before you whole This is the stone that was set at nought by you builders c. We cannot but speak c. Acts 4. 10 11 20. Did not we straightly charge you that you should not teach in this name c. Then Peter and the other Apostles answered and said We ought to obey God rather than men The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew c. Him hath God exalted with his right hand c. Acts 5. 28 29 30. Be it known to you therefore men and brethren that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins Acts 13. 38. This I confess unto thee that after the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Acts 24. 14. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus c. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made to salvation Rom. 10. 9 10. As often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup shew ye or ye do shew the Lord's death till he come 1 Cor. 11. 26. And many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear Phil. 1. 14. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him c. that at the name of Jesus c. and that every tongue should confess that Jesus is the Lord to the glory of God the Father Phil. 2. 11. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner c. I am not ashamed for I know whom I believe 2 Tim. 1. 8 12. If we suffer we shall also reign with him If we deny him he will also deny us 2 Tim. 2.
12. They profess they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient c. Titus 1. 16. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach Heb. 13. 13. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God 1 John 4. 15. I know thy works and where thou dwellest where Satan's seat is and thou holdest fast my name and hast not denied my faith Rev. 2. 13. See more of owning Christ in Times of Persecution Chap. 22. See more of Perseverance Chap. 16. To wait for Christ's Second Coming WAtch ye therefore for you know not what hour your Lord will come c. Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man cometh Mat. 24. 42 44. ch 25. 13. Rev. 16. 15. The wise and foolish virgins slumbered and slept while the bridegroom tarried Mat. 25. 5. Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning and ye your selves like unto men who wait for the Lord c. Blessed are those c. whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching c. Luke 12. 35 36 37. Take heed your hearts be not overcharged c. and so that day come upon you unawares Luke 21. 34. I will come again and receive you unto my self John 14. 3. See that ye come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 1. 7. For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body c. Phil. 3. 20. 21. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Col. 3. 4. Ye turned to God c. and to wait for his Son from heaven 1 Thes 1. 10. To you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thes 1. 6 7. The Lord direct your hearts in the love of God and into the patient waiting for Christ 2 Thes 3. 5. A crown of righteousness which the Lord c. shall give me at that day c. but unto them also who love his appearing 2 Tim. 4. 8. Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Titus 2. 13. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and unto them who look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation Heb. 9. 28. Ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise for yet a little while and he who shall come will come and will not tarry c. Heb. 10. 36 37. Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord Behold the husband-man waiteth for the precious fruits be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth near James 5. 7 8. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the grace which is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 13. There shall come in the last day scoffers c. saying Where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were c. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise c. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night c. What manner of persons ought ye to be c. Looking for and hastening unto the day of God c. 2 Peter 3. 3 4 5 9 10 11 12. Abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed c. at his coming 1 John 2. 28. We know that when he appears we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3. 2. Keep your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life Jude verse 21. Surely I come quickly Amen even so come Lord Jesus Rev. 22. 7 12 22. See his coming to judge the world Chap. 36. To walk with God heartily uprightly sincerely and to follow him fully and zealously The reasons thereof ENoch walked with God Gen. 5. 22 24. Noah was a just man and perfect or upright in his generation Noah walked with God c. according unto all which God commanded him so did he c. Gen. 6. 9 22. The Lord said unto Abram Get thee out of thy country c. so Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him Gen. 12. 1 4. The Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto him I am the Almighty God walk before me and be thou perfect or upright Gen. 17. 1 2. Abimelech said In the integrity of my heart c. have I done this c. And God said c. I know c. Gen. 20. 5 6 7. God said unto Abraham Take thy son c. and offer him c. And Abraham rose up early in the morning to go about it c. Gen. 22. 1 2 3 4 c. The Lord said to Moses Go I will be with thy mouth c. and he said O my Lord Send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses Exod. 4. 12 13 14. Jerem. 1. 6 7. Bring me an offering of every man who giveth it willingly with his heart Exod. 25. 1. My servant Moses who is faithful in all mine house with him will I speak mouth to mouth Num. 12. 7 8. Heb. 3. 2 5. But my servant Caleb because he had another spirit with him and hath followed me fully him will I bring into the land Num. 14. 24. ch 32. 12. Josh 14. 8 14. Take heed to thy self and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget c. lest they depart from thine heart c. thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 4. 9 29. The Lord said They have well said all that they have spoken O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear c. Deut. 5. 28 29. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee but c. to serve the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 10. 12. 1 Sam. 12. 20. Thou shalt be perfect or upright or sincere with the Lord thy God Deut. 18. 13. The Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 26. 16. Cleave unto the Lord your God as ye have done unto this day Josh 23. 8. Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth Josh 24. 14. 1 Sam. 12. 24. Because Israel did not destroy all the inhabitants of the land according to command God said I will not drive them out
Ezek. 11. 5. The upright shall dwell in thy presence Ps 140. 13. If thou seek wisdom as silver c. and seek it as hid treasures c. then shalt thou understand c. The Lord is a buckler to them who walk uprightly Prov. 2. 4 5 6 7. My son c. let thine heart keep my commandments Prov. 3. 1. ch 23. 26. Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life Prov. 4. 23. For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord and he pondereth all his goings Prov. 5. 21. He who walketh uprightly walketh surely c. Prov. 10. 9. The integrity of the upright shall guide them c. the righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way c. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver him c. Such as are upright in the way are his delight Prov. 11. 3 5 6 20. He who walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord Prov. 14. 2. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good c. the prayers of the upright is his delight c. A man of understanding walketh uprightly Prov. 15. 3 8 21. All the ways of man are clean in his own eyes but the Lord weigheth the spirits Prov. 16. 2. The just man walketh in his integrity Prov. 20. 7. Every way of man is right in his own eyes but but the Lord pondereth the hearts Prov. 21. 2. My son give me thine heart Prov. 23. 26. Joe 2. 12 13. If thou sayest Behold we know it nor doth not he who pondereth the heart consider Prov. 24. 12. A faithful man shall abound with blessings Prov. 28. 20. The upright love thee or they love thee uprightly Cant. 1. 4. The way of the just is uprightness thou most upright dost weigh the path of the just Isa 26. 7. Hezekiah c. Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart c. Isa 38. 2. Hearken unto me c. the people in whose heart is my Law fear ye not Isa 51. 7. Is it such a fast I have chosen c. to bow down his head as a bull-rush c. Is not this the fast I have chosen to loose the bands of wickedness Isa 58. 5 6 7 8. From the prophet to the Priest every one dealeth falsly for they have healed the nurt of the daughter of my people lightly saying Peace c. Jer. 8. 20. 11. O Lord of Hosts who judgest righteously who triest the reins and the heart Jer. 11. 20. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it I the Lord search the heart and try the reins even to give every man according to his ways according to the fruit of his doings Jer. 17. 9 10. ch 32. 19. Rom. 8. 27. I am God at hand c. not a God afar off Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him saith the Lord Do not I fill heaven and earth Jer. 23. 23 24. Heb. 4. 12 13. Job 34. 22. Cursed be he who doth the work of the Lord deceitfully or negligently Jer. 48. 10. I know the things which come to your mind every one Ezek. 11. 5. Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the Kings meat c. Dan. 1. 8. Do not my word do good to him who walketh uprightly Micah 2. 7. Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him Habbak 2. 4. When ye fasted and mourned c. did ye at all fast unto me unto me Zechar. 7. 5 6 7. Ye brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick c. sacrificed to the Lord a corrupt thing c. Mal. 1. 13 14. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart Matth. 5. 23. When thou dost alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth c. No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other ye cannot serve God and Mammon Matth. 6. 3 24. Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life c. Not every one who saith Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom c. Matth. 7. 13 14 21. Because they had not root they withered away Matth. 13. 5 6. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man but that which cometh out c. those things which proceedeth out of the mouth cometh from the heart and they defile the man Matth. 15. 11 18. ch 23. 25 26. Jesus said If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me Matth. 16. 24 25. The Lord said unto him who had improved his talents Well done thou good and faithful servant thou hast been faithful over a few things I will make thee ruler over many things enter thou into the joy c. Matth. 25. 20 21. Watch c. the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak Matth. 26. 41. Teaching them to observe all things which I have commanded you Matth. 28. 20. When Jesus called the blind man he cast away his garment rose and came unto Jesus Mark 10. 50. Zacharias and Flizabeth walked in all the Ordinances and Commandments of the Lord blameless Luke 1. 5 6. Mary c. kept all these sayings in her heart Luke 2. 51. Simon James and John they forsook all and followed Christ c. Levi left all rose up and followed Christ when he had called him Luke 5. 10 11 27 28. Jesus said unto another Follow me but he said Lord suffer me first to go and bury my father c. Another said Lord I will follow thee but let me first go and bid them farewel c. Jesus said unto him No man having put his hand to the Plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God Luke 9. 59 61 62. ch 8. 14. Take heed of hypâ—risie for there is nothing hid which shall not be uncovered Luke 12. 1 2. If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my disciple and whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple c. Whosoever he be among you who forsaketh not all he hath cannot be my disciple Luke 14. 26 27 33. No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one c. you cannot serve God and Mammon Ye are they who justifie your selves before men but God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God Luke 16. 13 15. Jesus saw Nathaniel c. and said of him Behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile John 1. 47. God
promises Heb. 6. 1 11 12. Make strait or even paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way Heb. 12. 13. The wisdom which is from above is pure c. without partiality and without hypocrisie c. James 3. 17. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend unto the world is the enemy of God c. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you c. Purifie your hearts ye double-minded James 4. 4 8. Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying c. unto unfeigned love of the brethren See that ye love one another with a pure heart servently 1 Pet. 1. 22. Wherefore laying aside c. all guile and hypocrisie c. Neither was guile found in Christs mouth 1 Pet. 2. 1 22. Whose adorning let it not be that outward c. but the hidden man of the heart 1 Pet. 3. 3 4. Give all diligence to add to your faith virtue c. wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall c. 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7 8 9 10. Seeing that ye look for such things c. be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot and blemish c. but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus c. 2 Pet. 3. 14 18. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth 1 John 1. 6. Let us not love in word c. but in deed and in truth c. If our hearts condemn us God is greater c. 1 John 3. 18 19 20 21. I rejoyce greatly that I have found of thy children sincerely walking in truth 2 John verse 4. The brethren by their testimony did commend thy sincerity as thou walkest sincerely c. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth Beloved thou dost faithfully whatsoever thou dost to the brethren and to strangers 3 John verse 3 4 5. But ye beloved building up your selves in your most holy faith c. Jude verse 20. Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life Revel 2. 10. Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead be watchful and strengthen the things which remain I have not found thy work perfect before God c. Thou hast a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments c. I know thy work that thou art neither hot nor cold I would thou wert cold or hot so then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth Because thou sayest I am rich c. and knowest not that thou art wretched c. As many as I love I rebuke c. be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 1 2 3 4 15 16 17 19. These are they who were not defiled with Women for they are Virgins these are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Revel 14. 4. Let every man prove his own work c. for every man shall bear his own burthen c. Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also rcap c. Gal. 6. 3 4 5 6 7. See the spirits and practices of Hypocrites and the danger of Hypocrisie Chap. 28. To stick fast to God and not to depart from him abide in the faith and practice of what we know of his Will and persevere to the end The reasons That the Saints shall be kept To persevere and abide with God in the faith and practice c. THat thou keep this Commandment without spot unrebukable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 6. 14. Enâ—ch walked with God and he was not for God took him Gen. 5. 23 24. Your eyes have seen c. But ye who did cleave unto the Lord c. are alive every one of you this day Deut. 4. 3 4. Jesurun waxed fat and kicked then he forsook God who made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation c. of the Rock which begat thee thou art unmindful and hath forgotten God who formed thee and when the Lord saw it he abhorred them Deut. 32. 15 16 17 18 19. Psal 78. 56 57 58 59. Jer. 6. 28 30. Cleave unto the Lord your God as ye have done unto this day Josh 23. 8. Deut. 10. 20. ch 30. 20. Chuse you whom ye will serve c. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord Josh 24. 15. Israel departed from God after Joshua c. were dead often Judges 2. 8 9 10 c. Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face continually 1 Chron. 16. 11. Thou Solomon c. know thou the God of thy fathers c. If thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever 1 Chron. 28. 9. Hear ye me Asa and all Judah c. the Lord is with you while ye be with him and if ye seek him he will be found of you but if ye forsake him he will forsake you 2 Chron. 15. 2. Ye cannot prosper because ye have forsaken the Lord he hath forsaken you 2 Chron. 24. 20. ch 26. 5. The righteous also shall hold on his way Job 17. 9. I have kept the ways of the Lord I have not wickedly departed from my God c. I did not put away his Statutes from me Psalm 18. 21 22. Job 23. 11 12. 2 Sam. 22. 22 23. Psal 26. 3 2 Kings 18. 6. Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee Psalm 37. 34. All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee c. Our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy way though thou hast sore broken us c. If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to strange gods shall not God search this out Psal 44. 17 18 19 20 21. Psal 119. 157. He will speak peace to his people but let them not turn again to folly Psal 85. 8. Then believed they his words they sang his praise they soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel c. they forgat God their Saviour who had done great things Psal 106. 12 13 21. Psal 78. 10 11 37 41 56 57 58 59. As for such who turn aside unto their crooked ways the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal 125. 5. My son forget not my law Prov. 3. 1. The back-slider in heart shall be filled with his own ways Prov. 14. 14. He who keepeth his way preserveth his soul Prov. 16. 17. My son give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my ways Prov. 23. 26. I have nourished and brought up children c. they have forsaken the Lord they
born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot c. 1 John 3. 9. Ye are of God c. and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world 1 John 4. 3 4. There is a sin unto death c. We know that every one who is born of God sinneth not but c. keepeth himself c. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world 1 John 5. 4 17 18. The truth which dwelleth in us and shall be in us for ever 2 John ver 2. Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to preserve you faultless before the presence of his glory c. to the only wise God c. Jude ver 24 25. Rom. 16. 25. Those whose names were not writen in the book of life they worshipped and wondred at the beastâ— Rev. 13. 8. ch 17. 8. See more of God's giving Power to Persevers Chap. 20. See more of God's upholding his in time of Trouble and Persecution Chap. 22. To take heed to observe and watch diligently over our selves with a holy jealousie and fear left we should Apostatize and Depart from God hiâ— Truth and Ways into any Error or Sin Thâ—â— Reasons Our Danger HEzekiah was left of God that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32. 31. Take heed to thy self lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee 〈◊〉 but ye shall destroy their altars c. lest c. they 〈◊〉 go a whering after their gods and do sacrince c. 〈◊〉 Exod. 34. 12 13 15 16. What nation so great who hath God so nighâ— unto them c. Only take heed to thy self and 〈◊〉 keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the thingsâ—â— which thine eyes have seen and left they depart from thine heart all the days of thy life c. Take ye therefore good heed unto your selves c. lest ye corrupt your selves and make you a graven image c. Deut. 4. 7 8 9 15 33. When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land c. When thou shalt have eaten and be full beware lest thou forget the Lord c. Deut. 6. 10 11 12. ch 8. 10 11 12 13 14. I will give rain c. that thou maist eat and be full take heed to your selves that your hearts be not deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods Deut. 11. 14 15 16. Solomon whom God so much honoured sinned greatly in old age 1 Kings 11. If thy brother c. intice thee secretly saying Come let us go and serve other gods c. thou shalt not consent to him nor hearken unto him c. Deut. 13. 6 7 8 9. Take good heed therefore unto your selves that ye love the Lord your God c. Joshua 23. 11 12 c. There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan or the Adversary among or in the midst of them Job 1. 6 7. ch 2. 1 2. Stand in awe and sin not commune with your 〈◊〉 heart c Psalm 4. 4. Psalm 16. 8. 〈◊〉 I will take heed to my ways that I sin 〈◊〉 tongue c. Psalm 39. 1. 〈…〉 shall a young man cleanse his 〈…〉 taking heed thereto according to thy word Psalm 119. 9. Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keep the door of my lips Psalm 141. 3. Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it the issues of life Prov. 4. 23. A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself c. Prov. 27. 12. Happy is the man who feareth always but he who hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief Prov. 28. 14. Blessed is the man who observes his hand lest he do any evil Isa 56. 2. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Jerem. 17. 9. And my people are bent to backsliding from me Hosea 11. 7. Jesus said Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of c. Matth. 16. 6. Luke 12 1 2. Jesus said Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many Matth. 24. 4 5. Watch and pray that ye enter not into tentations Matth. 26. 41. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness Luke 12. 35. Take ye heed Behold I have foretold you all things c. The day and hour knoweth no man c. Take ye heed watch and pray for ye know not c. Mark 13 23 32 33 35 36 37. Take heed and beware of covetousness c. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching Luke 12. 15 36 37 38. Take heed to your selves left at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life c. Watch ye therefore Luke 21. 34 36. Peter was confident and so denied Christ Luke 22. 32 34 59 60. Matth. 26. 69 70 c. Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to them who are weak for if any man see thee c. 1 Cor. 8. 8 9 10. These things happened unto them for ensamples and they were written for our admonition c. Wherefore let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 11 12. Watch ye stand ye fast c. 1 Cor. 16. 13. I fear c. as the Serpent c. so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ 2 Cor. 11. 3. See that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise Ephes 5. 15. Praying always c. and watching thereunto with all perseverance Ephes 6. 18. Beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of the concision Phil. 3. 2. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men c. not after Christ Col. 2. 8. Continue in praying and watch in the same Col. 4. 2. We are not of the night nor of darkness therefore let us not sleep as others but let us watch and be sober for they who sleep sleep in the night c. 1 Thes 5. 5 6 7. Some snall depart from the faith c. some are already turned aside c. have erred concerning the faith 1 Tim. 4. 1. ch 5. 12 15. ch 6. 10 21. ch 1. 5 6 18 19. 2 Tim. 2. 17 18. They c. shall be turned unto fables But watch thou in all things 2 Tim. 4. 4 5. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God c. Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin Hebr. 3. 12 13. ch 12. 15. ch 2. 1. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entring into rest
related one to another in the Flesh I. Husbands to Wives and Wives to Husbands Of Marriage c. AND the Lord said It is not good that the man should be alone I will make him a help meet for him c. Adam said This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh Gen. 2. 18 23 24. God commanded Abraham to hearken to his wife in the case of Ishmael and Isaac Gen. 21. 14. Jacob loved Rachel more then Leah c. and when the Lord saw that Leah was hated he opened her womb but Rachel was barren Gen. 29. 30 31. And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children Rachel envied her sister and said unto Jacob give me children or else I die And Jacobs anger was kindled against Rachel and he said Am I in Gods stead who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb Gen. 30. 1 2. 1 Sam. 1. 5. Zipporah the wife of Moses said to him a bloody Husband art thou to me Exod. 4. 25 26. Moses sanctified the people c. and he said unto them be ready against the third day come not at your wives c. Exod. 19. 14 15. None of you shall approach unto any who is near a-kin unto him or remainder of his flesh to uncover nakedness I am the Lord the nakedness of thy father or thy mother c. Lev. 18. 6 7 8 9 10 11 to the 19. Neither shalt thou make marriages with them c. Deut. 7. 3 4. The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth to a man neither shall a man put on a womans garment for all who do so are an abomination unto the Lord thy God Deut. 22. 5. Hannah wept and did not eat Then said Elkanah her Husband to her Hannah why weepest thou and why eatest thou not and why is thy heart grieved am not I better unto thee than ten sons so Hannah rose c. 1 Sam. 1. 8. Saul sent messengers to Davids house to watch him and slay him c. And Michal Davids wife told him c. And let him down through a window and he went and fled and escaped 1 Sam. 19 11 12 13 c. Israels sin in taking strange wives and their sorrow and reformation Ezra 9. ch 10. Jobs wife said unto him Dost thou still retain thine integrity curse God and die But he said unto her Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh What shall we receive good c. Job 2. 9 10. 1 Kings 11. 1 4. Ch. 21. 25. A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband but she who maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones Prov. 12. 4. ch 18. 22. The contentions of a wife are a continnal dropping c. A prudent wife is from the Lord Prov 19. 13 14. It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and an angry woman Prov. 21. 19. Who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands c. Prov. 31. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. c. ch 14. 1. Whosoever shall put away his wife saving for the cause of fornication causeth her to commit adultery and whosoever shall marry her who is divorced committeth adultery Mat. 5 31 32. ch 19. 9. The Pharisees said Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause And he answered and said unto them Have ye not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female c. Wherefore they are no more twain but one flesh What therefore God hath joyned together let no man put asunder c. Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered c. But it was not so from the beginning it is good not to marry c. he said all men cannot receive it c. he that can let him receive it Mat. 19. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. The woman who hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth but if the husband be dead she is free from the law of the husband So then if while her husband liveth she be marryed to another man she shall be called an adultress but if her husband be dead c. Rom. 7. 2 3. It is good for a man not to touch a woman nevertheless to avoid fornication let every man have his own wife and let every woman have her own husband Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence and likewise also the wife unto the husband The wife hath not power over her own body but the husband and likewise also the husband hath not power of his but the wife Dcfraud you not one the other except with consent for a time that you may give your selves to fasting and to prayer and come together again that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency c. I say to the unmarryed and widows it is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn And unto the marryed I command not I but the Lord Let not the wife depart from the husband but if she depart let her remain unmarried c. Let not the husband depart from his wife c. And if any brother hath a wife who believeth not and she be pleased to dwell with him let him not put her away c. for the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife c. else were your children unclean but now they are holy c. For what knowest thou O wife whether thou shalt save thy husband c. The time is short it remains that they who have wives be as though they had none c. An unmarried life commended 1 Cor. 7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 29 32 33 to the end Have we not power to lead about a sister a wife as well as other Apostles and the brethren of the Lord and Cephas 1 Cor. 9 5. The head of the woman is the man c. The man is not of the woman but the woman of the man Neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for the man c. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman neither is the woman without the man in the Lord for as the woman is of the man even so is the man also by the woman c. 1 Cor. 11. 3 8 9 11 12. Let your women keep silence in the Churches for it is not permitted to them to speak 〈◊〉 under obedience as also
saith the law And if they will learn any thing let them ask their husbands at home for it is a shame for a woman to speak in the Church 1 Cor. 14. 34 35. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness c. 2 Cor. 6. 14 15 16. Deut. 7. 3 4. 1 Kings 11. 14. ch 24. 25. Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord For the husband is the head of the wife c. therefore as the Church is subiect to Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the Church c. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies he who loveth his wife loveth himself for no man ever yet hated his own flesh c. Let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband Eph. 5. 22 23 24 25 28 33. Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands love your wives and be not bitter against them Col. 3. 18 19. In like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel c. Let the women learn in silence with all subjection but I suffer not a woman to teach or usurp authority over the man but to be in silence For Adam was first formed then Eye and Adam was not deceived c. 1 Tim. 2. 9 10 11 12 13 14. I will therefore that the younger women marry bear children guide the house give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully 1 Tim. 5. 14. The aged women likewise that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness c. that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands c. discreet chast keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word of God be not blasphemed Tit. 2. 3 4 5. Marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled but whoremongers c. Heb. 13. 4. Wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word c. Holy women c. being in subjection to their own husbands even as Sarah obeyed Abram calling him lord c. Likewise ye husbands dwell with them according to knowledge giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindered 1 Pet. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. II. Parents to their Children and Children to their Parents CHildren acknowledged to be from God as a desirable thing and barrenness a reproach Gen. 4. 1. 25. ch 15. 2 3. ch 16. 2. ch 25. 21. ch 30. 1 2 23. 1 Sam. 1. 5 6 10 11. Luke 1. 24. 25. Noah being uncovered withâ—n his tent Hain saw it and told his brethren without who took a garment and laid it on their shoulders and went backwards and covered the nakedenss of their father who afterwards blessed them and cursed their brother who told them Gen. 9. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27. Abram shall surely become a great and mighty nation c. For I know him that he will command his children and his houshold after him that they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment Gen. 18. 19. Thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites amongst whom I dwell but thou shalt go unto my country and my kindred and take a wife to my son Isaac c. Gen. 24. 3. ch 28. 1 2 7 8 9. Isaac when he was old called his son Esau that he might bless him before he died c. Rebekah said c. if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heath c. what good shall my life do me Gen. 27. 1 2 3 4 5 46. ch 26 34 35. Esau took wives of Ishmaels family on purpose because it displeased his father and mother Gen. 28. 7 8 9. When Esau saw the women and the children with Jacob he asked him whose are these with thee and he said The Children which God hath graciously given thy servant Gen. 33. 4 5. Psalm 128. 1 3 4 c. Rachel said to her Father let not my Lord be displeased that I cannot arise to thee c. Gen. 31. 35. Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age and made him a coat of divers colours c. therefore his brethren-hated him and could not speak peaceably to him c. When Jacob supposed him to be dead he rent his cloaths and put sackcloth upon him c. refused to be comforted and he said For I will go down into the grave with my son mourning thus his father wept for him Gen. 37. 3 33 34 35. ch 42. 36 38. Simeon and Levi destroyed the Sechmites their father Jacob rebuked them they justifie it Gen. 34. 30 31. When Jacob was told that Joseph is yet alive his heart fainted for he believed them not c. after he revived and said I will go see him before I die Gen. 45 26 27 28. Joseph met his father and fell on his neck and wept od his neck a good while and Israel said unto Joseph now let me die since I have seen thy face Gen. 46 29 30. ch 50. 1. When Joseph brought his sons unto his father Israel Joseph bowed himself to the earth Gen. 48 9 10 11 12. The sons of Israel did unto him according as he commanded them for c. Gen. 50. 12 13. That thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son and of thy sons son what things I have wrought in Egypt and my signs c. that ye may know that I am the Lord Exod. 10. 1 2. When thy son shall ask What means the offering of the first-born c. thou shalt say unto him by strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt c. and flew all the first-born Exod. 13. 8 12 13 14 15. ch 12. 25. 26. 27. Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and did obeisance and kissed him and they asked each other of their welfare Exod. 18. 5 6 7. Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land c. Exod. 20. 12. He who smiteth his father or mother shall be surely put to death c. He who curseth or revileth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death Exod. 21. 15 17. Levit. 20. 9. Ye shall fear every one his father and his mother Levit. 19. 3. I will make them to hear my word c. and that they may teach their Children c. Deut. 4. 10. These words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart and thou shalt teach them diligently or whet or sharpen unto thy children and shall talk of them c. Thou shalt tell thy son We were servants c. Deut. 6. 6 7
21. chap. 11. 18 19. A man may not disinherit his first-born son If any man have a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they have chastned him will not hearken unto them then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him c. and all the men of his City shall stone him c. Deut. 21. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. Cursed be he who lightly esteems his father or mother Deut. 27. 16. Gather c. men women and children c. that they may hear c. that they may learn and fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. Set your hearts unto all the words c. which ye shall command your children to observe to do all the words of this law Deut. 32. 46. When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come saying What mean these stones then ye shall let your children know saying Israel came over Jordan on dry land for the Lord your God dryed up c. Josh 4. 20 21 22 23. Deut. 4. 9 10 ch 6. 20 21. Ruths great love to her mother-in-law recorded Ruth 1. 15 16 17. Eli was old and heard all that his sons did unto Israel and how they lay with the women c. and he said unto them Why do you such things for I hear of your evil dealings c. nay my sons for it is no good report that I hear c. If a man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him 1 Sam. 2. 22 23 24 25. I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken c. for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not or frowned not upon them 1 Sam. 3. 11 12 13 14. Bathsheba king Solomon's mother came to him he rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her caused a seat to be set for her on his right-hand 1 Kings 2. 19. David prays for Solomon his son and instructs him to keep the law 1 Chron. 22. 11 12 13. Job offered burnt-offerings for his sons continually for Job said It may be that my sons have sinned c. Job 1. 4 5. I will utter dark sayings of old which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us we will not hide them from their children shewing the generations to come the praises of the Lord c. that the generation to come might know the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God c. Psal 78. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Lo children are an heritage of the Lord the fruit of the womb a reward happy is the man who hath his quiver full of them Psal 127. 3 4 5. Ps 128. 3. Gen. 4. 1 25. ch 15. 2 3. ch 25. 21. ch 30. 22. 23 24. 1 Sam. 1. 5 6 10 11. Luke 1. 24 25. My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother Prov. 1. 8. ch 4. 1 2 c. ch 6. 20. A wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother Prov. 10. 1. ch 17. 25. ch 18. 13. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his childrens children c. He who spareth his rod hateth his son but he who loveth him chasteneth him tâ— times Prov. 13. 22 24. Chasten thy son while there is hope and let not thy soul spire for his crying Prov. 19. 18. Whoso curseth his father or mother his lampshall be put out in obscure darkness Prov. 20. 20. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it c. Foolishâ—â—ss is bound in the heart of a child the rod of correction shall drive it Prov. 22. 6 15. Withhold not correction from the child for if thou beat him with the rod he shall not die thou shalt beat him with a rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell Prov. 23. 13 14. Whoso robbeth his father or his mother and saith it is no transgression the same is a companion of a destroyer Prov. 28. 24. The rod and reproof give wisdom but a child left bringeth his mother to shame Correct thy son and he shall give thee rest c. Prov. 29. 15 17. The eye which mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the Ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it Prov. 30. 17. The sons of Jonadab commended by God himself for their obedience to their fathers commands and rewarded Jer. 35. 5 6 7 8 9 10 16 19. Leave thy fatherless children I will preserve them alive Jer. 49. 11. In thee they have set light by father and mother Ezek. 22. 7. A son honoureth his father Mal. 1. 6. He shall turn the heart of the father to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers Mal. 4. 6. I am come to set a man at variance against his father c. 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 Mat. 10. 35 37. God commanded saying Honour thy father and thy mother and he who curseth father or mother let him dye the death But ye say c. Mat. 15. 4 5 6. Jesus went down with his parents c. and was subject unto them Luke 2. 51. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents but the parents for the children 2 Cor. 12. 14. Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right honour thy father c. And ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord Eph. 6. 1 2 3 4. Children obey your parents in all things for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. Fathers provoke not your children lest they be discouraged Col. 3. 20 21. One who ruleth well in his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity 1 Tim. 3. 4. If a Widow have children c. let them learn to shew kindness at home and to requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before God c. If any provide not for his own house c. If any man or woman believeth not have widows let them relieve them c. 1 Tim. 5. 4 8 16. Perilous times shall come c. Men shall be disobedient to parents c. without natural affection 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3. Teach the young men c. to love their children Tit. 2. 4. III. Masters to their Servants and Servants to their Masters HAgar despised her mistress Sarah dealt hardly with her she fled from her face c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto her Return to thy mistress and submit thy self under her hands Gen. 16. 4
6 7 8 9. See the faithfulness and industry of Abraham's servent in the business of fetching a wife for his master's son Gen. 24. With all my power I have served your father and your father hath deceived me c. Gen. 31. 6 7. Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant poor and needy of thy brethren or of thy strangers c. At his day thou shalt give him his hire neither shall the suâ— go down upon it for he is poor and ferteth his heart upon it Deut. 24. 14 15. Lev. 19. 13. If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me what then shall I do when God riseth up and when he visiteth what shall I answer him Did not he who made me in the womb make him And did not one fashion us in the womb Job 31. 13 14 15. As the eyes of servants unto the hand of their masters as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress so our eyes upon the Lord Psal 123. 2. The king's favour is towards a wise servant c. Prov. 14. 35. A wise servant shall have rule over a son who causeth shame c. Prov. 17. 2. Accuse not a servant to his master lest he curse thee c. Prov. 30. 10. Wo unto him c. who useth his neighbour's service without wages and giveth him not for his work Jer. 22. 13. A servant honoureth his master c. If I am master where is my fear Mal. 1. 6. The disciple is not above his master nor the servant above his Lord Mat. 10. 24. Which of you having a servant plowing or feeding cattel will say unto him by and by when he is come out of the field Go and sit down to meat and will not rather say unto him Make ready wherewith I may sup and gird thy self and serve me c. and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink Doth he thank that servant c. I trow not Luke 17. 7 8 9 10. Art thou called being a servant care not for it but if thou mayest be made free use it rather For he who is called in the Lord being a servant 〈◊〉 the Lord's free-man c. Let every man abideâ—â— the same calling wherein he was called 1 Cor. 〈◊〉 21 22 24. Servants be obedient to them who are your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling in singleness of your heart as unto Christ Not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ c. from the heart with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men c. And ye masters do the same things unto them forbearing or moderating threatning knowing that your master also is in heaven neither is there respect of persons with him Eph. 6. 5 6 7 8 9. Col. 3. 22 23 24. Masters give unto your servants that which is just and equal knowing that ye also have a master in heaven Col. 4. 1. Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed And they who have believing-masters let them not despise them because they are brethrea but rather do service because they are faithful or believing and beloved partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholsome words c. he is proud knowing nothing c. 1 Tim. 6. 1 2 3 4. Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters and to please them well in all things not answering again or gainsaying Not purloining but shewing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine or God our saviour in all things Tit. 2. 9 10. Go to now ye rich men weep and howl for your misery c. Behold the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud crieth and the cries of them who have reaped are entred into the ears of the Lord James 5. 1 4. Servants be subject to your own masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward For this is thank-worthy if a man for conscience sake towards God endure grief suffering wrongfully For what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye shall take it patiently But if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is acceptable with God For even hereunto were ye called 1 Pet. 2. 18 19 19 20 21. 4. Magistrates to Subjects and Subjects to Magistrates See Magistrates and Magistracy at large Chap. 24. CHAP. XIX Saints Believers Duties towards all Men those who are with out Unbelievers Enemies I. In General THou shalt neither vex a stranger nor oppress him for ye were strangers in the land Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless c. Exod. 22. 21 22. Curse not the deaf put no offence or stumbling block before the blind c. Levit. 19. 13 14. He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger c. Love ye therefore the stranger for ye were strangers Deut. 10. 18 19. Job 31. 32. Who shall dwell in thy holy hill c. he who doth no evil to his neighbour Psalm 15. 1 3. Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts saying Execute true judgment and shew mercy and compassion every man to his brother and oppress not the widow nor the fatherless the stranger nor the poor and let none of you imagin evil against his brother in your heart Zech. 7. 9 10. ch 8. 16 17. Prov. 3. 29. Isa 58. 6 7. Give not that which is holy unto dogs neither cast you your pearls before swine lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and rent you c. Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so unto them for this is the law and the prophets Matth. 7. 6 12. Luke 6. 31. Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves Matth. 10. 16. And herein do I exercise my self to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men Acts 〈…〉 Recompence to no man evil provide things honest in the sight of all men Rom. 12. 17. Levit. 19. 18. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he who loveth another hath fulfilled the law c. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour Rom. 13. 7 8 9 10. Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles c. even as I please all men in all things not seeking mine own profit 1 Cor. 10. 32 33. Charity thinketh no evil 1 Cor. 13. 5. Providing for honest things not only in the sight of the Lord but in
Work not intermedling with others nor idle or trifling SEek peace and pursue it Psalm 34. 14. Psalm 120. 7. Let thy feet be seldom in thy neighbours house lest he be weary of thee and hate thee Prov. 25. 17. Accuse not a servant to his master lest he curse thee c. Prov. 30. 10. Blessed are the peace makers for they shall be called the children of God c. Whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek turn to him the other c. Matth. 5. 9 38 39 40. If it be possible as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men Dearly beloved avenge not your selves Rom. 12. 18 19. If the unbelieving depart let him depart c. but God hath called us to peace 1 Cor 7. 15. That ye study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work c. 1 Thes 4. 11. We hear that there are some among you who walk disorderly working not at all but are busie-bodies now them who are such we command and exhort c. that with quietness they work c. 2 Thes 3. 11 12. Withal they learn to be idle wandring about from house to house and not only idle but tatlers also and busie-bodies I will c. that they give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully 1 Tim. 5. 13 14 15. That they which have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works these things are good and profitable unto men c. and let ours also learn to maintain good works or profess honest Trades for necessary uses c. Tit. 3. 8 14. Follow peace with all men Heb. 12. 14. But if ye have bitter envying and strife c. this wisdom descends not from above but is c. The wisdom that is from above is c. peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated c. c. And the fruit of peace is sown in peace of them who make peace James 3. 14 15 17 18. From whence comes wars and fighting amongst you come they not hence even of your lusts c. James 4. 1. Let none of you suffer c. as a busie-body in other mens matters c. 1 Pet. 4. 15. He will love life c. let him seek peace and ensue it 1 Pet. 3. 11. 5. Not to be Discontented Angry or Revengeful against them But to behave themselves meekly gently and patiently towards them bearing Wrong LOT speaks to the wicked men tâ—us I pray you brethren do not so wickedly c. Gen. 19. 5 6 7. Simeon and Levi's cruelty in slaying the Shechemites greatly blamed Gen. 34. 25 26 30. ch 49. 5 6 7. David resolved in haste to destroy Nabal's house because of Nabal's unkindness but Abigail having interposed he blessed God for her counsel and forbore his revenge 1 Sam. 25. 32 33 34. Levit. 19. 18. Prov. 20. 22. ch 24. 29. Israel's rage against Judah was rebuked by the prophet 2 Chron. 28. 9 10. Fret not thy self because of evil-doers neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity for they shall soon be cut down Psal 37. 1 2. Prov. 24. 1 19. Envy not the oppressor and chuse none of his his ways Prov. 3. 31. Let not thine heart envy sinners but be in the fear of the Lord all the day Prov. 23. 17. Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause is in danger c. Matth. 5. 22. If ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you but if ye forgive not men their trespasses neither will your Father forgive c. Matth. 6. 14 15. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart Matth. 11. 29. One of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and stroke a servant of the high-priest c. Then said Jesus unto him Put up again thy sword into his place for all they who take the sword shall perish by the sword Matth. 26. 51 52. ch 5. 39. The Samaritans did not receive Christ and when his Disciples James and John saw this they said Lord wilt thou that we command fire from heaven and consume them as Elias did and he turned and rebuked them and said Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of for the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives c. Luke 9. 52 53 54 55 56. Charity suffereth long and is kind charity envieth not c. is not easily provoked thinketh no evil 1 Cor. 13. 4 5. In malice be ye children but in understanding be ye men 1 Cor. 14. 20. The fruit of the Spirit is c. long-suffering gentleness c. meekness temperance Gal. 5. 22 23. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour c. be put away from you Ephes 4. 31. Col. 3. 8. Let your moderation be known unto all men Phil. 4 5. Be patient towards all men see that none render evil for evil unto any man 1 Thes 5. 14 15. 1 Pet. 3. 9. The servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men c. patient in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves if God peradventure c. 2 Tim. 2. 2 4 25. Speak evil of no man to be no brawlers gentle shewing all meekness to all men Titus 3. 2. Let every man be slow to wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God James 1. 19 20. The wisdom which is above is c. gentle and easie to be intreated c. James 3. 17. Not rendring evil for evil or railing for railing c. knowing that ye are c. Be ready always to give an answer unto every man c. with meekness 1 Pet. 3. 9 15. See the Duty of not Revenging on Enemies Persecutors Chap. 2. See the Duty of Moderation Meekness Patience c. in General Chap. 16. VI. To pity them shew them mercy pray for them and requite them Good for Evil Love for Hatred IF thou meet thine enemies ox or ass going astray thou shalt surely bring him back again to him If thou see the ass of him who hateth thee under his burtheâ— and wouldst forbear to help him thou shalt surely help with him or wouldst cease to leave thy Business for him thou shalt surely leave it to join with him Exod. 23. 4 4. Deut. 22. 1 2 3 4. If thy brother be waxen poor c. thou shalt relieve him a stranger or a sojourner that he may live Levit. 25. 35. David rewarded Saul good for evil which Saul acknowledgeth 1 Sam. 24. 17 18 19. Israel were charged to cloth feed and help the men of Judah then their captives 2 Chron. 28. 11. 15. With the merciful thou wilt shew thy self merciful Psal 18. 25. The righteous is ever merciful Psal 37 25 26. He who considereth the poor or sick the Lord will strengthen him upon his bed of languishing Psaâ—m 41. 1 2 3. The merciful man doth good unto his own soul but he who is cruel
c. Prov. 11. 17. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel Prov. 12. 10. He who is glad at calamities shall not go unâ—â—â—ushed Prov. 17. 5. If thine enemy be hungry give him bread to eat and if he be thirsty give him water to drink for thou shalt heap up coals c. and the Lord shall reward thee Prov. 25. 21 22. 2 Chron. 28. 11 15. Prov. 24. 11 12. Seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive and pray unto the Lord for it for in the peace thereof ye shall have peace Jer. 29. 7. Blessed are the merciful c. love your enemies bless them who curse you do good to them who hate you and pray for them who despitefully use you c. that you may be the children of your heavenly Father for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good c. For if ye love them who 〈◊〉 you 〈◊〉 reward have ye Do not even the Publicans the same Matth. 5. 7 44 45 46. Luke 6. 32 33 35 36. Christ had compassions on the multitude and did them good Matth. 9. 36. ch 14. 14. ch 15. 32. The Samaritan's compassion and care of the wounded in the Parable commended Luke 10. 30 31 c. Recompence to no man evil for evil c. avenge not your selves c. If thine enemy hunger feed him c. Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good Rom. 12. 17 19 20 21. As we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men Gal. 6. 10. Put on bowels of mercy kindness c. Col. 3. 12. Micah 6. 8. The Lord make you to encrease in love c. towards all men 1 Thes 3. 12. See that none render evil for evil unto any man but ever follow that which is good both among your selves and unto all men 1 Thes 5. 15. Exhort c. that supplications and prayers c. be made for all men 1 Tim. 2. 1. The wisdom that is from above is c. full of mercy and good fruits c. James 3. 17. Not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing but contrariwise blessing 1 Pet. 3. 9. He shall have judgment without mercy who doth not shew mercy James 2. 13. See this Duty towards Persecutors Chap. 22. See giving to the Poor at large Chap. 17. VII To behave themselves humbly and courteously towards all giving them due respect THE children of Heth said to Abraham Hear us my Lord thou art a mighty Prince amongst us in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead c. And Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the land c. Gen. 23. 5 6 7 11 12. Jacob bowed himself seven times to the ground until he came near his brother Esau c. Let my Lord I pray thee pass over before his servant c. let me find grace in the sight of my Lord Gen. 33. 3 14 15. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honour the face of the old man and fear thy God I am the Lord Levit. 19. 32. Rom. 13. 7. If thou meet any man salute him not and if any salute thee answer him not again 2 Kings 4. 29. Let me not give flattering titles to any man c. my maker would soon take me away Job 32. 21 22. God threatned it as an evil that the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient and the base against the honourable Isa 3. 5. If ye salute your brethren only what do you more than others do not even the Publicans the same Be ye therefore perfect as your Father which is is in heaven is perfect Matth. 5. 47 48. When ye come into an house salute it Matth. 10. 12. When thou art bidden c. sit not down in the highest room lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him and he who bade thee and him come and say to thee Give this man place and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room c. Sit in the lowest room c. then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them who fate at meat with thee Luke 14. 8 9 10. I am not mad most noble Festus said Paul but speak forth the word c. Acts 26. 24 25. I c. communicated that gospel c. but privately to them who were of reputation Gal. 2. 2. Honour or esteem all men 1 Pet. 2. 17. Finally c. be courteous 1 Pet. 3. 8. The elder unto the elect lady c. And now I beseech thee lady 2 John vers 1 5. VIII To avoid all unnecessary Society and Fellowship with wicked Men. THey shall not dwell in the land lest they make thee sin against me Exod. 23. 31 32 33. When Jehoshaphat had helped the wicked King of Israel Jehu the Son of Hanani the Seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat Shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them who hate the Lord Therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord 2 Chron. 19. 1 2. Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of scorners Psal 1. 1. Who shall abide in thy tabernacle c. He in whose eyes a vile person is contemned Psal 15. 1 4. I have not sate with vain persons neither will I go in with dissemblers I have hated the congregation of evil-doers I will not sit with the wicked Psal 26. 4 5. I will not know a wicked person c. He who worketh deceit shall not dwell in my house He who telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight Psal 101. 4 6 7. Psal 119. 115. Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech c. with him who hateth peace I for peace c. they for war Psal 120. 5 6 7. Do not I hate them who hate thee O Lord c. Am not I grieved with those who rise up against thee I hate them with a perfect hatred Psal 139. 21 22. My son if sinners entice thee consent not c. Walk not thou in the way with them refrain thy foot from their path Prov. 1. 10 15. He who walketh with wise men shall be wise but a companion of fools shall be destroyed Prov. 13. 20. Go from the presence of a foolish man 〈◊〉 thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge Prov 14. 7. Make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man thou shalt not go left thou learn his ways and get a snare unto thy soul Prov. 22. 24 25. Be not thou envious against evil men neither desire to be with them Prov. 24. 1 2. I wrote to you in an epistle not to keep company with fornicators yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world c. for then muâ—t 〈◊〉 needs go out of this world 1 Cor. 5. 9 10. Ephâ—s 5. 5 6
c. a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison and them who sit in darkness out of the prison-house Isa 42. 6 7. Look unto me and be ye saved all ye ends of the earth for I am God c. In the Lord have I righteousness and strength Isa 45. 22 24. That thou mayest say to the prisoners Go forth To them who are in darkness Shew your selves They shall feed in the ways c. for he who hath mercy on them shall lead them even by the springs of water shall he guide them Isa 49. 9 10. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings c. he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them who are bound Isa 61. 1 2. Return c. and I will heal your back-slidings Behold we come unto thee Jer. 3. 22. I will be their God for they shall return unto me with their whole heart Jer. 24. 7. With loving-kindness I have drawn thee c. Turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon the thigh c. Behold the day cometh saith the Lord that I will make a new covenant c. I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts c. and they shall teach no more every man c. Jer. 31. 3 18 19 31 32 33 34. Heb. 8. 8 9 10 11. ch 10. 15 16 17. I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever c. I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me Jer. 32. 39 40. Psal 86. 11. Turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned Lam. 5. 21. I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within you and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and I will give them an heart of flesh that they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and do them Ezek. 11. 19 20. ch 20. 43. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean c. A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you I will take away the stony heart c. and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them c. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses c. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings which were not good and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your iniquities Ezek. 36. 25 26 27 29 31. chap. 16. 61 63. chap. 37. 14 23 24 25 26 27 28. I taught Ephraim to go c. I drew them with the cords of a man c. Hos 11. 3 4. I will strengthen them in the Lord and they shall walk up and down in his name Zech. 10. 12. I will pour upon the house of David c. a spirit of grace and of supplication and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn Zech. 12. 10. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come c. and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he shall purifie the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the Lord c. Mal. 3. 1 2 3 4. Jesus did but bid the Fisher-men follow him and they immediately leave all and follow him Matth. 4. 18 19 20 21 22. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Matth. 5. 6. Luke 1. 53. The whole need not a physician but they who are 〈◊〉 c. For I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Matth. 9. 11 12. ch 11. 28. The kingdom of God is come unto you Or else how can one enter c. except he bind the strong man and then spoil his goods Matth. 12. 28 29. Luke 17. 20 21. The Son of man is come to save that which was last c. How think ye If a man have one hundred sheep and one of them be gone astray doth he not c. and seeketh that which is gone astray Even so it is not the will of your Father c. that one of these little ones should perish Matth. 18. 11 12 13 14. Luke 19. 10. Which are born not of blood c. but of God c. Of his fulness have we received grace for grace John 1. 13 16. 1 Pet. 1. 23. Col. 1. 19. Except a man be born again or from above he cannot see the kingdom of God c. The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth so is every one who is born of the spirit John 3. 3 5 7 8. For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them even so the Son quickeneth whom he will c. The hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they who hear shall live John 5. 21 25. All which the Father hath given me shall come to me and him who cometh to me I will in no wise cast out c. No man can come to me ex-the Father who hath sent me draw him c. Every man therefore who hath heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me c. It is the Spirit who quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing John 6. 37 44 45 63. God sent Jesus to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities Acts 3. 26. Jesus c. him hath God exalted with his right hand a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel c. Acts 5. 30 31. God gave them the like gifts as he did unto us c. They glorified God saying Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life Now they who were scattered c. spake unto the Gentiles c. and the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord Acts 11. 17 18 19 20 21. Paul having made complaint of himself saith O wretched man that I am Who shall deliver me c. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 7. 15 18 19 21 24 25. I was found of them who sought me not I was made manifest unto them who asked not after me Rom. 12. 20. Christ c. wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient by word c. Rom. 15. 18. That no flesh should glory c. but of him are ye in Christ Jesus 1 Cor. 1. 29 30. I have planted and Apollo watered but God gave the increase 1 Cor 3.
unto you while I was yet with you c. Then opened he their understanding that they might understand the scriptures Luke 24. 44 45. That was the true light which lighteth every man who cometh into the world c. None hath seen God c. The only begotten Son c. he hath declared him John 1. 9 18. As it is written in the prophets and they shall be all taught of God Every man therefore who hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me John 6. 45. Isa 54. 13. If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of my self John 7. 17. Then spake Jesus again unto them saying I am the light of the world he who followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life c. If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed and ye shall know the truth John 8. 12 32. Jesus said For judgment I am come into the world that they who see not might see and that they who see might be made blind John 9. 39. I am come a light c. that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness John 12. 46. I have called you friends for all things which I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you John 15. 15. This is life eternal That they may know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent c. I have manifested thy Name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world John 17. 2 3 6. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. But when it pleased God c. to reveal his Son in me c. Gal. 1. 15 16. Having made known the mystery of his will unto us according unto his good pleasure c. Making mention of you in my prayers That the God of our Lord Jesus c. may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him the eyes of your understanding being enlightned that ye may know what is the hope of his calling c. Ephes 1. 9 16 17 18 19. ch 3. 18 19. That ye may know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge c. Ephes 3. 14. 18. If in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto you Phil. 3 15. The mystery which hath been hid c. but now is made manifest to his Saints to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ Col. 1. 26 27. Ephes 3. 4. 5. Consider what I say and the Lord give thee understanding in all things 2 Tim. 2 7. If any of you lack wisdom let him ask it of God who giveth liberally unto all men and upbraideth not and it shall be given James 1. 5. We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us understanding that we may know him who is true 1 John 5. 20. See more in Knowledge and Understanding Chap. 38. III. To give Faith or Enable to believe BLessed art thou c. for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father c. Matth. 16. 16 17. Lord I believe help thou mine unbelief Mark 9. 24 25. Them who believe c. who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh c. but of God John 1. 12 13. All which the father giveth me shall come to me c. No man can come to me except the father who hath sent me draw him c. John 6. 37 44 65. Other sheep I have c. them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice John 10 16. Christ condescended to help Thomas his faith by shewing himself to him John 20. 25 27. Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life c. They who were scattered abroad preached the Gospel and the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number believed and were turned unto the Lord Acts 11. 18 19 20 21. When Paul preached c. a certain woman named Lydia heard whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken by Paul and when she was baptized c. Acts 16. 13 14 15. Every man c. not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith c. Let us prophesie according to the proportion of faith Rom. 12. 3 6. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost c. I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient by word c. Rom. 15. 13 18. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus 1 Cor. 1. 30. My preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom c. that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God 1 Cor. 2 4 3. I have planted c. but God gave the increase c. But God who giveth the increase 1 Cor. 3. 6 7. That ye may know c. what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead Ephes 1. 18 19 20. Ye are saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God Ephes 2. 8. That he would grant c. that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith Ephes 3. 16 17. Unto you it is given on the behalf of Christ not only to believe on him c. Phil. 1. 29. Through the faith of the operation of God c. Col. 2. 12. We pray c. that our God would c. fulfil the work of faith with power 2 Thess 1. 11. Looking unto Jesus the author or beginner and finisher of our faith Heb. 12. 2. Every good gift c. cometh down from the father of lights c. of his own will begat he us with the word of truth James 1. 17 18. To them who have obtained like precious faith with us 2 Pet. 1. 1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God c. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is our victory which overcometh the world even our faith 1 John 5. 1 4. IV. To make them Fruitful or Enable them to subdue Sin profit in Grace and Activity for God THen rose up the chief of the fathers c. whose spirit God had raised
to go up to build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem Ezra 1. 5. Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly c. he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water which bringeth forth fruit in his season his leaf also shall not wither c. Psal 1. 1 2 3. Thou wilt prepare their heart and thou wilt cause thine ear to hear Psal 10. 17. Wait on the Lord c. and he shall strengthen thine heart Psal 27. 14. I will go in the strength of the Lord God Psalm 71. 16. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee c. The Lord will give grace Psal 84. 5 11. The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree he shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God They shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall be fat or green and flourishing Psal 92. 12 13 14. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power Psal 110. 3. I will run the ways of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart c. Make me to go in the path of thy commandments c. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies Psal 119. 32 35 36. The preparation of the heart and answer of the tongue is from the Lord Prov. 16. 1. Man's goings are of the Lord Prov. 20. 24. Draw me we will run after thee Cant. 1. 4. Awake O north-wind and come thou south blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out c. Cant. 4. 16. See the effect of Christs voice and drawings with the Spouse Cant. 5. Lord c. thou also hast wrought all our works in us or for us c. by thee only will we make mention of thy name Isa 26. 12 13. A vineyard of red-wine c. I the Lord will water it every moment Isa 27. 2 3. Your God will come c. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing Isa 35. 4 6. The everlasting God the Lord c. He giveth power to the faint and to them who have no might he increaseth strength c. but they who wait upon the Lord shall renew strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be â—aint Isa 40. 28 29 30 31. I will pour water upon him who is thirsty c. I will pour out my spirit c. and they shall spring up among the grass as willows by the water-courses Isa 44. 3 4. I am the lord thy God who teacheth thee to profit who leadeth thee by the way thou shouldst go Isa 48. 17. Blessed is the man who trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters and which spreadeth out her roots by the river and shall not see when heat cometh but her leaf shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought or restraint neither shall cease from yielding fruit Jer. 17. 7 8. I will be as the dew to Israel he shall grow or blossom as a Lilly and cast forth his roots as Lebanon c. I am like a green fir-tree and from me is thy fruit found Hos 14. 5 6 8. Who is a God like unto thee c. He will subdue your iniquities Micah 7. 8 19. The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel c. and the spirit of all the remnant of the people and they came and did work in the house of the Lord Hagg. 1. 14. I will pour out upon the house of David c. the spirit of prayer c. Zech. 12. 10. But unto you who fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves in the stall Mal. 4. 2. Jesus said unto her if thou knewest c. who it is that said unto the Give me to drink thou wouldst have asked of him and he would have given thee living water c. shall be in him a well of water springing up into eternal life John 4. 10. 14. He who believeth on me as the Scripture saith out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters John 7. 38. I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly John 10. 10. I am the true vine and my father is the husbandman c. Abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me I am the vine ye are the branches he who abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without or severed from me ye can do nothing John 15. 1 2 4 5. Sin shall not have dominion over you for we are not under the law but under grace Rom. 6. 14. Having then gifts differing according to the grace which is given to us Rom. 12. 6. I have planted Apollo watered but God gave the increase so then neither is he that planteth any thing neither he who watereth but God who giveth the increase c. we are labourers together with God ye are Gods husbandry ye are Gods building 1 Cor. 3. 5 6 7 9. Not that we are sufficient of our selves c. but our sufficiency is of God 2 Cor. 3. 5. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations and every high thing which exalts it self against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. ch 12. 9 10. I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God Gal. 2. 20. For this cause I bow my knees to the father c. that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner-man that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith c. Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us Ephes 3. 14 16 17 20. But c. may grow up into him in all things who is the head Christ from whom the whole body fitly joyned together c. according to the effectual working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the body c. Ephes 4. 15 16. Brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might c. putting on the whole armour of God that c. Ephes 6. 10. 11 12 13 c. I know how to be abased c. I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me Phil. 4. 12 13. We c. do not cease to pray for
for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel saith the Lord Ezek. 39. 29. Not by might or power but by my Spirit saith the Lord c. grace Zach. 4. 6 7. I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie c. and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit Joel 2. 28 29. Acts 2. 16 17. Luke 24. 49. I will pour upon the house of David c. the Spirit of grace and of supplication and they shall look upon me whom they have have pierced c. Zech. 12. 10. Ephes 6. 18. Jude verse 20. When they deliver you up take no thought how or what ye shall speak c. for it is not ye who speak but the Spirit of your Father who speaketh in you Matth. 10. 19 20. Luke 12. 12. ch 17. 20 21. If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God then the kingdom is come unto you Matth. 12. 28. Except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit John 3. 5 6. It is the Spirit who quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing c. John 6. 36. 2 Cor. 3. 6. He who believeth on me out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water but this spake he of the Spirit which they who believed on him should receive John 7. 38 39. Gal. 3. 2. 14. John 4. 13 14. I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive c. He dwelleth with you and shall be in you I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you c. The Comforter the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said John 14. 16 17 18 25 26. But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father the Spirit of truth c. John 15. 26. ch 1. 33. Acts 1. 5. It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto youâ— and when he is come he will convince the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment c. I have yet many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now Howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth c. he shall not speak of himself but c. He shall receive of mine and shew it unto you John 16. 7 8 12 13 14. They were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit by which Stephen spake Acts 6. 9. 10. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost c. Rom. 5. 5. If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwell in you he who raised up the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit which dwelleth in you c. If ye through the spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body ye shall live For as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God c. Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit himself maketh intercession for us c. Rom. 8. 11 13 14 26 27. Eph. 2. 18. Eph. 6. 18. Jude verse 20. That ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost c. That the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable being sanctified by the holy Ghost c. To make the Gentiles obedient c. by the power of the spirit of God Rom. 15. 13 16 18 19. Eye hath not seen c. but God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit for the spirit searcheth all things c. The things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God Now we have received c. the spirit of God that we might know the things which are freely given unto us of God 1 Cor. 2. 9 10 11 12. Such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified c. and by the spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6. 11. Titus 3. 5. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost Now there are diversity of gifts but the same spirit c. 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 c. But all these worketh that one and the self same spirit dividing to every man severally as he will c. By one spirit we are all baptized into one body 1 Cor. 12. 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 13. We c. beholding c. the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image c. by the spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. We through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith Gal. 5. 5 22 Through him we both have an access by one spirit unto the father Ephes 2. 18. The mystery of Christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as now it is revealed c. by the spirit c. I bow my knees unto the father c. that he would grant you c. to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man Ephes 3. 4 5 14 16. Who declared unto us your love in the spirit Col. 1. 8. Our Gospel came not unto you in word only but also in power and in the holy Ghost c. And ye became followers of us and of the Lord 1 Thess 1. 5 6. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth 2 Thess 2. 13. That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the holy Ghost who dwelleth in us 2 Tim. 1. 14. He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which is shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ Tit. 3 5 6. Ephes 5. 26. Elect c. through sanctification of the spirit unto obedience c. Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren 1 Pet. 1. 2 22. But ye have an unction from the holy one and ye know all things c. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things c. 1 John 2. 20. 27. Of the Spirit of God further his being given to and dwelling in the Saints and working in them and others The Nature Appearance and Fruit of the Spirit and
12. No man speaking by the spirit of God ceileth Jesus accursed c. that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost c. There are diversity of gifts but the same spirit c. to one is given c. But all these worketh that one and the self same spirit dividing c. 1 Cor. 12. 3 4 5 6 7 c. Who hath also sealed us and given us the earnest of his spirit 2 Cor. 1. 22. ch 5. 5. Ye are our Epistle c. ye are manifestly declared the Epistle of Christ c. written not with ink but with the spirit of the living God not in tables of stone but in fleshy tables of the heart c. The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life c. If the ministration of death c. were glorious c. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious c. Now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty 2 Cor. 3. 2 3 6 7 8 17. God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba father Gal. 4. 6. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other c. The fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance Gal. 5. 17 22 23. Ye were sealed with the holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance until the purchased possession Eph. 1. 13 14. The holy spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption Eph. 4. 30. For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth Eph. 5. 9. God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power of love and of a sound mind 2 Tim. 1. 7. Having received the word in much affliction with joy of the holy Ghost 1 Thes 1. 6. Acts 9. 31. Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself c. Heb. 9. 14. The anointing teacheth you c. and is truth and is no lye 1 John 2. 27. Try the spirits whether they are of God c. Hereby know ye the spirit of God every spirit that confesseth Jesus Christ to have been come in the flesh is of God And every spirit which confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the fâ—esh is not of God c. Greater is he that is in you than he who is in the world 1 John 4. 1 2 3 4. It is the spirit who beareth witness because the spirit is truth c. The Father the Word and the holy Ghost and these there are one 1 John 5. 6 7 8. The spirit and the bride say Come Rev. 22. 17. III. Saints Duty towards the Spirit 1. In following after him and making use of him THE manifestation of the spirit is given to â—â—ry man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12. 7. The same anointing teacheth you of all things 1 John 2. 27. And the Lord said My spirit shall not always strive with man Gen. 6. 3. The true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him God is a spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John 4. 23 24. Fervent in the spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. The manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12. 7. I will pray with the spirit c. I will sing with the spirit c. 1 Cor. 14. 15. Walk ye not in the same spirit 2 Cor. 12. 18. Are ye so foolish having begun in the spirit are ye now made perfect by the flesh Gal. 3. 3. Walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh c. If ye be led by the spirit ye are not under the law c. If we live in the spirit let us also walk in the spirit Gal. 5. 16 17 18 25. 1 John 2. 27. He who soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting Gal. 6. 8. Be not drunk c. but be ye filled with the spirit Eph. 5. 18. The sword of the spirit which is the word of God c. praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit Eph. 6. 17 18. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit Phil. 3. 3. Wherefore as the holy Ghost saith If ye will hear his voice c. Hebr. 3. 7. Build up your selves c. praying in the holy Ghost Jude v. 20. He who hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith to the Churches Rev. 2. 7 11 17 29. 2. Not to sin against grieve or quench the Spirit But they rebelled and vexed his holy spirit therefore he was turned to be their Enemy Isa 63. 10. But the blasphemy against the holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men c. Whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him out whosoever speaketh against the 〈…〉 shall not be forgiven him neither 〈…〉 Matth. 12. 31 32. Mark 3. 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Satan filled thine heart to 〈…〉 c. thou hast not lied unto 〈…〉 God c. How is it that ye have 〈…〉 to tempt the spirit of the Lord c. she 〈◊〉 down and died c. Acts 5. 2 3 5 8 9 10. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears ye do always resist the holy Ghost as your fathers did so do ye c. Have not your fathers persecuted c. Acts 7. 51 52. Simon offered money for power to confer the holy Ghost Acts 8. 18 19. The Sadduces say that there is no resurrection neither angel nor spirit Acts 23. 8. Keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace c. and grieve not the holy spirit of God whereby ye are sealed Eph. 4. 3 30. Quench not the spirit 1 Thes 5. 19. He who despised Moses law died without mercy c. Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the son of God c. and hath done despite unto the spirit of Grace Heb. 10. 28 29. The spirit of God and of Glory resteth upon you on their parts he is evil spoken of c. 1 Pet. 4. 14. CHAP. XXII Of Afflictions Troubles and Persecutions 1. To whom they belong or who way expect thom 1. Common to all MAN is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward Job 5. 7. Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble Job 14. 1. 2. More especially the Saints Believers such as are born of the Spirit First The Holy-Ghost affirms this I Will be his father and he shall be my son If he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men but my mercy shall not depart away from him c. 2 Sam. 7. 14 15. Psal
99. 8. Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him c. Psal 34. 19. For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as the father the son in whom he delighteth Prov. 3. 12. Behold I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and wonders in Israel Isa 8. 18. He who departeth from evil maketh himself a prey Isa 59. 15. They watch for iniquity they make a man an offender for a word c. Isa 29. 20 21. You only have I known of all the families of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Amos 3. 2. Beware of men for they will deliver you up to the Councels and they will scourge you in their Synagogues and ye shall be brought before governours and kings for my sake c. and the brother shall deliver up the brother to death and the father the child c. and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake c. The disciple is not above his master c. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his Master and the servant as his Lord if they have called the master of the house Belzebub how much more shall they call them of the houshould c. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth c. A man's enemies shall be they of his own houshold Mat. 10. 17 18 21 22 24 25 34 35 36. chap. 24. 9 10. Luke 21. 12 13 14 c. Mark 10. 30. Then said Jesus unto his disciples If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me Matth. 16. 24. Mark 8. 34 35. Wo unto you who laugh now for ye shall mourn and weep wo unto you when all men shall speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets Luke 6. 25 26. Jesus said unto him Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head Luke 9. 58. If the world hate you ye know that it hated me before it hated you If ye were of the world the world would love its own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you Remember the word I said unto you The servant is not greater than his Lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you c. These things they will do unto you for my name's sake because they know not him who sent me John 15. 18 19 20 21 1 John 3. 13. John 17. 14. These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended But they shall put you out of their Synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God service and these things will they do unto you because they have not known the father nor me c. Ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce ye shall be sorrowful c. In the world ye shall have tribulation John 16. 1 2 3 20 22 33. Of a truth against the holy child Jesus c. both Herod c. were gathered together to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Acts 4. 27 28. The Lord said of Paul I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my Name Acts 9. 15 16. Exhorting them to continue in the faith and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God Acts 14. 22. Mark 10. 30. The holy Ghost witnesseth in every city saying That bonds and afflictions abide me Acts 20. 23. Always we who live are delivered to death for Christ's sake that also the life of Jesus c. 2 Cor. 4. 11. ch 7. 5. But as then he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was born after the spirit so it is now Gal. 4. 29. We wrestle not with flesh c. but with principalities c. Ephes 6. 11 12 13. Unto you it is given c. not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake Phil 1. 29. That no man be moved by these afflictions for your selves know that we are appointed thereunto 1 Thes 3. 3. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3. 12. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth c. for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not but if ye be without chastisements whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons Heb. 12. 6 7 8. Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial c. as though some strange thing happened to you but rejoyce in as much as ye are made partakers of Christ's sufferings judgment must begin at the house of God 1 Pet. 4. 12 13 17. The devil c. whom resist c. that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. Behold the devil shall cast some of you in prison that ye may be tried and ye shall have tribulation ten days Rev. 2. 10. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 19. These are they who came out of great tribulation and have washed c. Rev. 7. 14. Secondly That the Saints have been so exercised with Afflictions in Soul and Body from God and in their Bodies and outward Concerns from Men by Persecutions 1. From God more immediately Prov. 18. 14. JAcob sorely afflicted in Joseph and other of his sons Gen. 37. ch 34. The Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me I went forth full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty c. Ruth 1. 20 21. Job greatly afflicted in his out-things and his body Job 1. 13 to the end ch 2. 5 6 7 8. ch 7. 3 4 5 c. ch 9. 27 28 c. O that my grief were thoroughly weighed c. for now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea therefore my words are swallowed up or I want words to express my grief for the arrows of the Almighty are within me the poison thereof drinketh up my spirit the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me Job 6. 1 2 3 4. ch 13. 24 26. ch 19. ch 30. Psal 38. 2. Psal 55. 4 5. I was full of confusion therefore see my affliction Job 10. 15 16 c. My soul is sore vexed O Lord how long c. I am weary with my groaning all the night or every night make I my bed to swim I water my couch with tears mine eye is consumed because of grief c. Psal 6. 3 7. Psal 32. 4. Psal 102. 3 4 c. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me c. I cry in the day-time and thou hearest not Psal 22. 1 2. I am desolate and afflicted the troubles of mine heart are enlarged c. Psal 25. 16 17. Ps 40. 12. Ps 102. 3 4 5 6 9. Ps 143. 4. My
will reap in joy He who goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoycing c. Psal 126. 5 6. When Christ withdrew from the Spouse he endeared himself the more to her Cant. 5. 6 10 11. When the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria c. Such as are escaped out of the house of Jacob shall no more again stay upon him who smote them but shall stay upon the Lord c. Isa 10. 12 20 21. When thy judgments are in the earth the Inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness Isa 26. 9. So will I acknowledge them who are carried away captive of Judah whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good for I will set mine eyes upon them for good Jer. 24. 5 6. God's chastening of Ephraim did him much good in the end Jer. 31. 18 19 20. They shall bear the punishment of their iniquity c. that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions but that they may be my people and I c. Ezek. 14. 10 11. I will cause you to pass under the rod and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant Ezek. 20. 37. Daniel and the three other by their afflictions were more advanced Dan. 3. ch 6. I will hedge up thy ways with thorns c. Then shall she say I will go and return to my first husband for then it was better with me c. I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak comfortably or friendly unto her Hos 2. 5 6 7 8 14. I will also leave a poor and an afflicted people and they shall trust in the name of the Lord Zeph. 3. 12. He who loseth his life for my sake shall find it For what is a man profited if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul Matth. 10. 39. Mark 8. 34 35. And every one who hath forsaken houses or brethren c. or lands for my name's sake shall receive an hundred-fold and shall inherit everlasting life Matth. 19. 27 29. Tribulation worketh patience and patience experience c. Rom. 5. 3 â— 5. And we know that all things work together for good unto them who love God Rom. 8. 28. Psal 25. 10. Excommunication designed for good that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 5. 5. When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11. 32. Though our outward man decay yet our inward man is renewed day by day for our light afflictions which are but for a moment worketh for as a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory while we look not at things which are seen 2 Cor. 4. 16 17 18. Heb. 10. 34 35 36. In nothing terrified by your adversaries which as to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God Philip. 1. 28. Tribulations which ye endure c. that ye may be accounted worthy of the kingdom of God 2 Thes 1. 5. It is a faithful saying c. If we suffer we shall also reign 2 Tim. 2. 11 12 Rom. 8. 17 18. 1 Pet. 4. 13. We have fathers of our flesh who correct us and we give them reverence Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live for they c. chastened us after their own pleasure but he for our profit c. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous c. nevertheless afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them who are exercised thereby Heb. 12. 9 10 11. Ye are in heaviness c. that the trial of your saith c. might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 6 7. See Second Consideration following III. The Considerations which should stay bear up and comfort the Spirits of Satuts in their Afflictions and under Persecutions Cons 1. That it is their Portion which God appointed them in this Life as a Privilege and that too for such Ends. See them last before Cons 2. That such who are so exercised are blessed and happy and so pronounced in Scripture a Seal of their Sonship and God's choice Love to them and of their Salvation BEhold happy is the man whom God correcteth c. for he maketh sore and bindeth up c. Job 5. 17 18. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest O Lord and teachest c. Psal 94. 12. Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as a father the son in whom he delighteth Prov. 3. 12. He who spareth his rod hateth his son but he who loveth him chasteneth him Prov. 13. 24. Blessed are they who mourn for they c. Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake c. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake rejoyce and be exceeding glad Matth. 5. 4 10 11 12. Blessed are ye who hunger now c. who weep now c. But wo unto them who are rich c. who are full c. who laugh now c. when all men speak well of you Luke 6. 21 22 24 25 26. In nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of Perdition but to you of salvation and that of God for unto you it is given c. not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake Philip. 1. 28 29. If ye bear chastisements God exhibits himself to you as to sons for what son is there c. If ye be without chastisements c. then are ye bastards and not sons Heb. 12. 7 8. Blessed is the man who endureth temptations for when he is tried c. James 1. 12. We count them happy who endure c. Ye have heard of the patience of Job James 5. 10 11. If ye suffer for righteousness sake happy are ye and be not afraid 1 Pet. 3. 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye for the spirit of God and glory resteth upon you c. 1 Pet. 4. 14. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Rev. 3. 19. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord or for the Lord's sake Rev. 14. 13. Cons 3. That God well knows the Design and Ways of Satan and all the Adversaries of Believers And that they can do no more or proceed farther against the Saints than what God permits He turns about their Purposes YOur father deceived me c. but God suffered him not to hurt me If he said thus c. Laban pursued Jacob c. And God came unto Laban the Syrian in a dream in the night and
sanctuary in the countries where they shall come Ezek. 11. 16. Psalm 106. 45 46. God preserved his in the fiery furnace and Daniel in the Lions den Dan. 3. 25. Dan. 6. 22. I will c. bring her into the wilderness and speak comfortably to her Hosea 2. 14. How shall I give thee up Ephraimâ— c. mine heart is turned within meâ— my â—epentings are kindâ—ed together I will not execute the 〈…〉 mine anger for I am God and not man c. Hosea 11. 8 9. Rejoice not against me O mine enemy when I fall I shall arise when I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a light to me Micah 7. 8. The Lord is good a strong hold in the day of trouble and he knoweth them c. Nahum 1. 7. When they deliver you up take no thought how or what ye shall speak for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak Matth. 10. 19. God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it 1 Cor. 10. 13. Blessed be God c. the God of all comfort who comforteth us in all our tribulations c. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolations also aboundeth by Christ 2 Cor. 1. 3 4 5. We are troubled on every side c. persecuted but not forsaken c. always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be manifest in our body c. The inward man is renewed c. 2 Cor. 4. 8 9 10 16. We had trouble on every side c. Nevertheless God who comforteth them who are cast down comforted us c. 2 Cor. 7. 5 6. I besought the Lord thrice c. and he said unto me My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness 2 Cor. 12. 8 9 10. At my first answer no man stood with me c. notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me c. And the Lord shall deliver me c. 2 Tim. 4. 16 17 18. Every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry c. I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me Phil. â— 11 12 13. Be contented c. for he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee so we may boldly say The Lord is my helper c. Hebr. 13. 5 6. See the Saints Privileges in common Calamities Chap. 23. Cons 7. That the Saints are near and dear to God in Christ so that he takes special notice of their Afflictions and Troubles and is said to be persecuted and afflicted in their Persecutions and Afflictions AND the Lord said Surely I have seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their task-masters for I know their sorrows and I am come down to deliver them c. Exod. 3. 7 8 9. ch 2. 23 24 25. 1 Sam. 9. 16. The Lord's portion is his people Jacob is the lot of his inheritance he found him in a desert land c. He led him about or encompassed him about he kept he instructed him as the apple of his eye c. Deut. 32. 9 10. The Lord c. his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel Judges 10. 16. For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel that it was very bitter 2 Kings 14. 26. Thou hast considered my trouble thou hast known my soul in adversity Psalm 31. 7. Thou hast known my reproach and my shame and my dishonour mine adversaries are all before thee Psalm 69. 19. The Lord will not cast of his people neither will he forsake his inheritance Psalm 94. 14. He reproved kings for their sakes saying Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm Psalm 105. 14 15. They provoked him c. nevertheless he regarded their afflictions when he heard their cry and he remembred for them his covenant and repented according to the multitude of his mercies Psalm 106. 43 44 45 46. I was wroth with my people c. and given them into thine hand thou didst shew them no mercy upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid the yoke Isa 47. 6. Zion said The Lord hath forsaken me and my Lord have forgotten me Can a woman forget her sucking-child that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb Yea they may forget yet will I not forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hand thy walls are continually before me Isa 49. 14 15 16. Fear not for thou shalt not be ashamed c. for thy maker is thine husband the Lord of hosts is his name and thy redeemer the holy One of Israel Isa 54. 4 5. For he said Surely they are my people children who will not lie so he was their Saviour in all their afflictions he was afflicted and the Angel of his presence saved them and in his love and in his pity he redeemed them c. Isa 63. 8 9. Is Ephraim my dear son is he a pleasant child for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him saith the Lord Jer. 31. 20. I see four men walking in the fire and they have no hurt and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God Dan. 3 25. How shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I deliver thee Israel c. mine heart is turned within me my repentings are kindled â—â—sea 11. 8. The Lord is good a strong hold or strength in the day of trouble and he knoweth them who trusteth in him Nahum 1. 7. I am sore displeased c. for I was but a little displeased and they helped forward the affliction Zech. 1. 15. He sent unto me the nations which spoiled you for he who toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye For behold I will shake mine hand upon them and they shall be a spoil c. Zech. 2. 8. The very hairs of your head are all numbred c. He who receiveth you receiveth me c. Matth. 10. 30 40 42. ch 18. 5 6. Then shall the king say unto them on his right hand c. I was an hungry and ye gave me meat c. Then shall the râ—ghteous answer him saying When saw we thee an hungred c. and the king shall answer and say unto them Verily I say unto you Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand depart from me ye cursed c. For I was an hungry and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink I was a stranger and ye took me not in naked and ye
I was wroth with my people I have c. given them into thine hand Isa 47. 6. Thou hast cast me into the deep c. thy billows and 〈◊〉 waves have passed over me Jonah 2. 3. The Lord's voice crieth unto the city c. Hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it Micah 6. 9. In vain have I smitten your children they have received no correction Jer. 2. 30. When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord 1 Cor. 11. 32. Moses endured as seeing him who is invisible Heb. 11. 27. Whom the Lord loves he chastenâ—th and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth Heb. 12. 6. 7. See more of Common Calamities Chap. 23. 2. To submit to God with an humble quiet and silent Spirit under Troubles WHen Benjamin must to Egypt or Jacob could have no food he saith If I am bereaved I am c. Gen. 43. 14. When God had slain Nadab and Abihu Aaron's son and Moses had told Aaron that God would be sanctified in all those who came near him c. Aaron held his peace Levit. 10. 1 2 3. If their uncircumcised hearts be humbled and they then except of the punishment of their iniquity then will I remember my covenant Levit. 26. 41 42. Ye shall eat until it come out at your nostrils and it be loathsome unto you because that ye have despised the Lord who is among you and have wept before him saying Why came we forth out of Egypt Numb 11. 19 20. Exod. 14. 10 11 12. Do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee deliver us only we pray thee this day Judges 10. 15. When Samuel had told Eli all which God had threatned against Eli's house Eli said It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good 1 Sam. 3. 14 15 16 1â— 1â— David said Carry back the Ark of God into the city it I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again c. But if he thus say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good to him 2 Sam. 15. 25 26. Behold the day cometh that all which is in thine house and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day shall be carried unto Babylon nothing shall be left saith the Lord c. Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah Good is the word or the Lord which thou hast spoken c. 2 Kings 20. 16 17 18 19. When Job had received all the sad messages of his Ladies he worshipped and said Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not Job 1. 19 20 21. Then said his wife to him c. Curse God and die But he said unto her c. What shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not 〈◊〉 evil in all this did not Job sin Job 2. 9 10. He is wise in heart c. Who hath hardened himself against him and prospered Who c. How much less shall I answer him and chuse out my words to reason with him whom tho I were righteous would I not answer c. Job 9. 3 4 13 14 15 32. Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those who are high one dieth in his full strength or in the strength of his perfection c. and another dieth in the bitterness of his soul and never eateth with pleasure Job 21. 22 23 24 25. God is greater than man why dost thou strive against him for he giveth not account of any of his matters for God speaketh once yea twice man perceiveth it not c. Job 33. 10 11 12 13 14 15. For he will not lay upon man more than is right that he should enter into judgment with God c. Surely it is meet to be said unto God I have born chastisement I will not offend that which I see not teach thou me If I have done iniquity I will do not more Job 34. 23 31 32. The Lord answered Job and said shall he who contendeth with the Almighty instruct him he who reproveth God let him answer it Then Job answered and said Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth once have I spoken but I will not answer c. Job 40. 1 2 3 4 5. chap. 42. 3 4 5 6. I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou didst it Psal 39. 9. My son despise not the chastenings of the Lord neither be weary of his correction for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth Prov. 3. 11 12. Heb. 12. 5 6. Who would set the briers c. against me c. I would burn them together Isa 27. 4. Wo unto him who striveth with his maker let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth shall the clay say to him who fashioneth it what c. Isa 45. 9. In vain have I smitten your children they received no correction Jer. 2. 30. Cannot I do with you as this potter saith the Lord Behold as the clay is in the potter's hand so are ye in my hand O house of Israel Jer. 18. 4 5 6. Thou hast chastened me c. after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed c. Jer. 31. 18 19. God tells his people in Babylon that if they would abide there he would build them and not pull them down but if they submitted not to their condition but said They would go down to Egypt where they might see no war c. Then judgments should follow them thither and there they should die Jer. 42. 10 to v. 17. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth he sitteth alone and keepeth silence because he putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope c. Wherefore doth the living man complain c. for the punishment of sins Lam. 3. 27 28 29 39. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Micah 7. 9. In your patience possess ye your souls Luke 21. 19. None of these things move me neither is my life dear unto me so that c. Acts 20. 24. Tribulation worketh patience and patience experience c. Rom. 5. 4 5. Patience in tribulations Rom. 12. 12. Neither murmur ye as some of them murmured and were destroyed 1 Cor. 10. 10 11. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities in reproches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christ's sake for when I am weak then am I strong 2 Cor. 12. 10. 2 Tim. 2. 3. I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content Phil. 4. 11 12. Endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ c. 2 Tim. 2. 3. We our selves glory in you c. for your faith and patience in all your persecutions 2 Thes 1. 4. Consider him who
24 29 30. Peter therefore was kept in prison but prayers were made without ceasing of the Church to God for him Acts 12. 5 12. Paul when he was under the buffeting of Satan saith For this thing I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from me 2 Cor. 12. 7 8. Is any among you afflicted Let him pray c. Is any sick among you Let him call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over him c. and the prayers of the faithful shall save the sick James 5. 13 14 15. See more of Prayer Chap. 16. See more of Duties in common Calamities 7. Not to fear but believing commit their Case to God and quietly wait for his Salvation HE hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee So that we may boldly say The Lord is my helper I will not fear what man can do unto me Heb. 13. 5 6. Israel's Impatience in waiting for God made them quarrel with Moses and Moses with God although God was in his way of delivering Exod. 5. 21 22 23. The children of Israel said unto Moses Because there were no graves in Egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness c. And Moses said unto the people Fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he shall shew to you this day c. The Lord shall fight for you Exod. 14. 10 to 14. Because of Israel's Unbelief and Impatience in waiting for God they were not suffered to enter Canaan only their Children of whom they had said They should be a prey they did possess the land Deut. 1. 32 to 39. As an encouragement we should remember what God hath done formerly Dent. 7. 17 18 19. And David was greatly distressed c. but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God 1 Sam. 30. 6. ch 17. 34 35 36 37. It may be the Lord will lock on my affliction and that the Lord will requite good for his cursing this day 2 Sam. 16. 12. Elisha said when the City was environed with Enemies Fear not for they who be with us are more than they who be with them c. But when there was a Famine in Samaria the King because Deliverance hastned not said Behold this evil is from the Lord What should I wait for the Lord any longer 2 Kings 6. 14 15 16 33. 2 Chron. 32. 7 8. In the great Famine of Samaria the great Lord who would not believe the Plenâ—y the Prophet had fore-told was told by the Prophet that he should see it but not eat thereof And so it fell out unto him 2 Kings 7. 1 2 17 18 19 20. Though Judah was beset by Israel yet Judah prevailed because they relied upon the Lord God c. 2 Chron. 23. 14 18. Ezra 8. 21 22 23. God was angry with Asa for relying upon the King of Assyria and not on God 2 Chron. 16. Be not afraid nor dismayed for the battel is not yours but God's c. Stand ye and see the salvation of the Lord with you 2 Chron. 20. 15 16 17. To God I would commit my cause Job 5. 8. Psal 9. 10. Psal 10. 14. Psal 11. 1. I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined to me c. He brought me out of an horrible pit Psal 40. 1 2. Why art thou cast down O my soul why art thou disquieted in me Hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him Psal 42. 5 11. Psal 31. 24. Cast thy burthen upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee Psal 55. 22. The Lord is merciful c. he will not always chide c. Psal 103. 8 9. Our bones are scattered at the graves mouth c. But mine eyes are unto thee O Lord Psal 141 7 8. Job 13. 15. Despise not the chastening of the Lord neither be weary of his correction Prov. 3. 11 12. Heb. 12. 5 6. If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small Prov. 24. 10. The fear of man bringeth a snare but whoso trusteth in the Lord shall be safe Prov. 29. 25. If thou seest the oppression of the poor c. marvel not c. for he who is higher than the highest regardeth c. Eccles 5. 8. Take heed and be quiet fear not neither be faint-hearted c. because Syria Ephraim c. have taken evil counsel against thee c. It shall not stand Isa 7. 3 to 7. And I will wait upon the Lord who hideth his face from the house of Jacob and I will look for him Isa 8. 17. It shall be said in that day Lo this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us Isa 25. 9. ch 26. 8. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee c. Come my people enter thou into thy chamber c. hide thy self c. until the indignation be over Isa 26. 3 20. The Egyptians shall help in vain c. therefore have I cried c. their strength is to sit still c. Thus saith the Lord In returning and rest you shall be saved in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength c. Isa 30. 7 15. Fear not for I am with thee Be not dismayed for I am thy God c. Isa 41. 10 13 14. Gen. 15. 1. ch 26. 24. Who is among you who feareth the Lord who obeyeth the voice of his servant who walketh in darkness and hath no light Let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Behold all ye who kindle a fire c. Isa 50. 10 11. Fear ye not the reproach of men neither be afraid or their revilings c. I even I am he who comforteth you Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die c. and forgettest the Lord thy Maker Isa 51. 7 12 13. Matth. 10. 28 31. It is the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not c. It 's good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord Lamen 3. 22 25 26. The three Children threatned said Our God c. will deliver us out of thy hand Daniel 3. 16 17. When my soul fainted within me I remembred the Lord Jonah 2. 7. None upright amongst men they all lie in wait to shed blood c. that they do evil with both hands earnestly c. The son dishonoureth the father c. therefore will I look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my salvation Micah 7. 2 3 4 5 6 7. The Lord is good a strong hold in the day of trouble and he knoweth them who trust in him Nahum 1. 7. Take no thought c. for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak Matth. 10. 19 20 28 31. ch 6. 27. Come unto me all ye who labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest Matth. 11. 28.
When they shall deliver you up c. study not before what to say it shall be given you then c. Mark 13. 11. Luke 24. 14 15 c. God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape 1 Cor. 10. 13. We should not trust in our selves but in God c. who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver 2 Cor. 1. 9 10. Judges 13. 22 23. 1 Sam. 17. 34 35 36 37. In nothing terrified by your adversaries Phil. 1. 28. Be careful for nothing but in every thing c. let your request be made known unto God Phil. 4. 6. We our selves glory in you c. for your patience and faith in all your persecutions 2 Thes 1. 4. Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example c. When he suffered he threatned not but committed his cause to him who judgeth righteously 1 Pet. 2. 21 23. If ye suffer c. be not afraid of their terror c. but sanctifie the Lord c. 1 Pet. 3. 14 15. Hebr. 13. 16. Rev. 2. 10. Wherefore let them who suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their soul to him in well-doing as unto a faithful Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. See more of Trust in God Chap. 16. See of Waiting for God Ibid. See more of not Fearing Ibid. Secondly The Duties of Saints and how they ought to behave themselves towards Enemies and Persecutors in a time of Persecution and Suffering from them 1. To be patient quiet and sober towards them not revenge or return Evil for Evil or Reviling for Reviling but forgive them JOseph instead of revenging upon his Brethren for their injuring of him speaks kindly to his Brethren and said Be not grieved nor angry with your selves that ye sold me hither for God did send me before you to preserve life c. So now it was not you who sent me hither but God c. Gen. 45. 6 7 8. Gen. 50. 19 20 21. Though Saul hunted for David's life yet would not David avenge himself upon him 1 Sam. 24. ch 26. When Shimei cursed David he bore it quietly and would not avenge himself 2 Sam. 16. 7 8 9 10 11. And afterward Abishai said to David Shall not Shimei be put to death for this because he cursed the Lord's anointed c. David said to Shimei Thou shalt not die 2 Sam. 19. 21 22 23. Job quarrelled not with the Instruments which spoiled him but acknowledged 't was the Lord Job 1. 20 21. O God to whom vengeance belong c. shew thy self Psalm 94. 1. Envy thou not the oppressor or the Man of Violence Prov. 3. 31. Say not thou I will recompence evil wait on the Lord and he shall save Prov. 20. 22. Say not I will do so to him as he hath done to me I will render to the man c. Prov. 24. 29. He was oppressed c. yet he opened not his mouth c. as a sheep c. so he opened not his mouth Isa 53. 7. Psalm 38 13 14. Jeremy said As for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth good c. Jer. 26. 11 14. Resist not but whosever shall finite thee on the right cheek turn to him the other Matth. 5. 38 39. If ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you Matth. 6. 14 15. When one of Christ's Disciples drew his Sword c. he bid him put it up c. Matthew 26. 51 52. James and John said Lord Wilt thou that we command fire down from heaven and consume them c. but he turned and rebuked them and said Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of for the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives c. Luke 9. 53 54 55 56. Ye shall be hated c. in your patience possess ye your souls c. Luke 21. 16 17 19. Paul said to Festus when he had said He was beside himself I am not mad most noble Festus c. Acts 26. 24 25. Recompence to no man evil for evil c. Avenge not your selves but rather give place to wrath for it is written Vengeance is mine I will repay faith the Lord Rom. 12. 17 19. Deut. 32. 35. Being reviled we bless c. being defamed we intreat 1 Cor. 4. 12 13. See that none render evil for evil unto any man 1 Thes 5. 15. Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you James 5. 6. So is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men c. Christ suffered c. leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps c. who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not 1 Pet. 2. 15 21 23. Not rendring evil for evil or railing c. 1 Pet. 3. 9. 2. Not to desire or rejoice in the hurt of Enemies and Persecutors DAvid mourned and wept when Saul was slain although he had been his deadly enemy hated and pursued him several years 2 Sam. 1. 4 5 to the end Abner his great enemy who set up Ishbosheth in opposition to him being slain David said I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord for ever c. He commands all to mourn for him and himself mourned followed him to his funeral 2 Sam. 3. 27 28 29 31 32. So David instead of rejoycing that Ishbosheth was slain commanded his young men to kill those who slew him 2 Sam. 4. 8 9 10 11 12. When Israel had conquered Judah the Prophet commanded them to let the Captives go feed them and clothe them and not insult over them 2 Chron. 28. 9 10 c. If I rejoice at the destruction of him who hated me or lift up my self when evil found him neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul Job 31. 28 29 30. He who is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished Prov. 17. 5. Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth lest the Lord see it and it displease him and he turn away his wrath from him Prov. 24. 17 18. 3. To pray for and do good to Persecutors and Enemies IF thou seest the ass or ox of thine enemy going astray thou shall c. bring it back c. Exod. 23. 4 5. Miriam had spoken against Moses yet he prays for her against her Leprosie Numb 12. 1 10 13. Saul said to David Thou hast rewarded me good whereas I have rewarded thee evil 1 Sam. 24. 17. Israel came and fought against Judah and being overcome Judah shews them kindness 2 Chron. 28. If thine enemy hunger give him bread to eat and if he be thristy give him water to drink c. Prov. 25. 21. Rom. 12. 20. Seek
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
the people rescued Jonathan that he died not 1 Sam. 14. 43 44 45. Hezekiah the Lord was with him c. and he rebelled against the king of Asiyria 2 Kings 18. 7. Mordecai bowed not to Haman notwithstanding the King's Commandment Esther 3. 1 2 3. ch 5. 9. When King Nebuchadnezzar had commanded the Worshipping of an Image Shadrach Meshach and Abednego refused to obey and said Be it known unto thee O king that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the image c. Dan. 3. 15. to 18. When Darius had established a Decree that none should ask any Petition of any God or Man for thirty Days Daniel went into his house after his wonted manner and prayed three times a day Dan. 6. 7 to 10. When the Apostles were forbid to preach in the name of Christ they answered c. Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge you Acts 4. 18 19 20. When the Council charged them with preaching contrary to their Commands c. Peter c. said We ought to obey God father than man Acts 5 27 28 29. Moses was hid by his parents c. and they feared not the king's edict c. He feared not the wrath of the king Heb. 11. 23 27. Secondly What they ought to do or wherein they 〈◊〉 should acknowledge and obey them 1. Submit to and obey them in all Lawful Things MIriam and Aaron spoke against Moses and God smote Miriam with a Leprosie Numb 12 1 9 10 11. The Lord destroyed Korah and his Company for their Rebellion against Moses c. Numb 16. 1 c. Keep the king's commandment and that in regard of the oath of God c. Eccles 8. 2 3 4. God threatned the Jews for revolting from the King of Babylon and breaking their Oath and Covenant with him Ezek. 17. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. Though there was no Tribute due from Christ yet he said to Peter Lest we should offend them go thou c. give unto them for me and thee Matth. 17. 24 to 27. Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesar's Matth. 22. 21. Let every soul be subject to the higher power c. Whosoever therefore resisteth the powers resisteth the ordinance of God c. shall receive to themselves damnation c. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the powers Do that which is good c. Ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for conscience-sake c. For this cause pay you tribute c. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers to obey magistrates c. Titus 3. 1. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the king as supream or unto Governors as unto them who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers c For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye shall put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 15. 2. Give them due Honour and Respect Not contemn their Persons or speak Evil of them THou shalt not revile the gods or Judges nor curse the ruler of thy people Exod. 22. 28. David said to Saul My Lord the King And when Saul looked behind him David stooped with his face to the earth and bowed himself c. He said I will not put forth my hand against the Lord's anointed 1 Sam. 24. 6 8 10. ch 26. 9 11. Nathan the prophet when he was come in before the king he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground and said My Lord O king c. 1 Kings 1. 23 24. Is it fit to say to a king Thou art wicked To princes Ye are ungodly Job 34. 18. The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion c. Prov. 19. 12. The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul Prov. 20. 2. ch 16. 14 15. Put not forth thy self in the presence of a king c. Prov. 25. 6 7. Where the word of a king is there is power And who may say unto him What doest thou Eccles 8. 4. Curse not the king no not in thy thoughts Eccles 10. 20. Daniel said to Darius the King O king live for ever Dan. 6. 21. When the Apostle had spoken sharply to the High-Priest and some who stood by had said Revilest thou God's high-priest Then said Paul I wist not brethren that he was the high-priest for it is written Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people Acts 23. 2 3 4 5. Paul said I think my self happy king Agrippa because I shall answer for my self this day before thee c. Festus said c. Paul Thou art beside thy self much learning doth make thee mad But he said I am not mad most noble Festus but speak forth the words of truth and soberness c. Acts 26. 1 2 3 24 25. ch 24. 10. Render therefore to all their dues c. fear to whom fear honour to whom honour Rom. 13. 7. Honour the king 1 Pet. 2. 17. But chiefly them who walk in the lust of uncleanness and despise government c. a dominion c. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignities whereas Angels who are greater in power and might bring not railing accusations against them before the Lord 2 Pet. 2. 10 11 Jude vers 8 9. 3. To pray for them EXhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for kings and for all who are in authority or eminent place that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godliness and honesty For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. 4. To endeavour to get good Magistrates WHen Adonijah exalted himself saying I will be king and preparation was made for it Then Bathsheba the Queen and Nathan the prophet made application to David to set up Solomon to be King and accordingly prevailed 1 Kings 1. 5. To discover Treasons MOrdecai discovered the Design of the King 's two Servants against him Esther 2. 21 22 23. 6. To be content with such Magistrates which God hath set over us although they be not such as they should be WHen Samuel was old he made his sons judges over Israel c. and his sons walked not in or followed not his ways but turned aside after lucre and took bribes and perverted judgment Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together and came to Samuel c. and said unto him Behold thou art old and thy sons walk not in thy ways Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations
c. This greatly displeased God and he said to Samuel They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them c. The people said Nay but there shall be a king over us 1 Sam. 8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 19 20. Ye have this day rejected your God who c. Ye have said But set a king over us 1 Sam. 10. 19. Samuel afterwards tells them their wickedness was great in the sight of the Lord in asking a King Which Sin the people acknowledged when God had sent Thunder and Rain in Harvest 1 Sam. 12. 16 to 19. They have set up kings but not by me they have made princes and I knew it not Hosea 8. 3 4. And thy judges of whom thou saidst Give me a king and princes I gave thee a king in mine anger and took him away in my wrath Hosea 13. 10 11. See the Kings of Israel c. Chap. 44. CHAP. XXV Of an Oath for Testimony Confirmation and Ending of Controversies and other Occasions And evil Oaths ABraham said unto the king of Sodom I have have lift up my hand unto the Lord the most high God that I would not take c. any thing lest thou shouldest say c. Gen. 14. 22 23. Abiâ—â—elech c. spake unto Abraham saying God is with thee c. Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsly with me nor with my son c. And Abram said I will swear c. They swore both of them Gen. 21. 22 23 24 31. Josh 2. 12 13 14. Abraham said unto his servant Put I pray thee thy hand under my thigh and I will make thee swear by the Lord the God of heaven and the God of the earth that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites c. And the servant did swear Gen. 24. 3 4 9. Abimelech and Isaac sware each to other not to hurt one the other Gen. 26. 28 29 31. Jacob and Laban made a Covenant and swore to it Jacob did swear by the fear of his father Isaac Gen. 31. 44 50 to 53. Joseph swore by the Life of Pharaoh Gen. 42. 15 16. Israel called Joseph his son to him and desired him to swear unto him that he would bury him not in Egypt but in his Father's Burying-place Joseph did swear unto him Gen. 47. 29 30 31. ch 50. 5. Joseph had straitly sworn the Children of Israel saying c. Ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you Exod. 13. 19. Gen. 50. 25. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour Exod. 20. 16. ch 2. 1. Prov. 24. 28. 〈◊〉 25. 18. If a man deliver to his neighbour an ass c and it die or is hurt c. no man seeing it then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods and the owner of it shall accept thereof Exod. 22. 10 11. If a soul sin and hear a voice of swearing and is a witness whether he hath seen or known it if he do not utter it then he shall bear his iniquity Levit. 5. 1. And ye shall not swear by my name falsly neither shalt thou prophane the name of thy God Levit 19. 12. Prov. 14. 5. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God c. and shalt swear by his name Deut. 6. 13. ch 10. 20. At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he who is worthy of death be put to death At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death The hands of the witness shall be first upon him Deut. 17. 6 7. One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity or for any sin At the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses shall the matter be established If a false witness rise up c. the judges shall make diligent enquiry and if the witness 〈◊〉 a false witness c. then shall he do unto him c. Deut. 19. 15 to 19. Joshua made peace with the Gibeonites c. and the princes of the congregation sware unto them c. The princes said We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel therefore we may not touch them Joshua 9. 15 19. ch 2. 12 14. ch 6. 22. The men of Israel had sworn c. saying There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wise c. How shall we do seeing we have sworn by the Lord c. Judges 21. 1 7 18. Jonathan said unto David Go in peace â—orasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord saying The Lord be between me and thee and between my seed and thy seed for ever 1 Sam. 20. 13 17 42. Saul said unto David Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord that thou wilt not cut off my feed c. And David sware unto Saul 1 Sam. 24. 21 22. ch 30. 15. The king sware to Shimei that he should not die 2 Sam. 19. 23. God brought a famine upon Israel for the sin of Saul in staying the Gibeonites with whom Israel had made a covenant to which the princes swore 2 Sam. 21. 1 2 3. David had swoâ—n to Bathsheba his queen by the Lord his God that Solomon his son should reign after him c. And the king sware and said As the Lord liveth c. even as I sware unto thee by the Lord c. even so will I do 1 Kings 1. 17 29 30. They set up false witness against Naboth 1 Kings 21. 10 13. Matth. 26. 59. Acts 6. 11 15. Jehojada sent c. the rulers and captains c. and made a covenant with them and took an oath of them in the house of the Lord and shewed them the king's son c. 2 Kings 11. 4 5 6 c. Asa with Judah made a solemn Covenant to seek the Lord God of their Fathers with all their heart c. That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death c. And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice c. And all Israel rejoyced at the oath for they had sworn with all their hearts 2 Chron. 15. 8 9 12 to 15. Ezra made a covenant c. He made the chief priests the Levites and all Israel to swear that they should do according to this word And they sware Ezra 10. 3. 5. Nehemiah called the priests and took an oath of them that they should do according to this promise Nehem. 5. 11 12. The king shall rejoyce in God every one that sweareth by him shall glory Psal 63. 11. These six things doth the Lord hate c. A false witness who speaketh â—yes Prov. 6. 16 19. A false witness shall not be unpunished c. Prov. 19. 5 9. Keep the king's commandment and that in regard of the oath of God Eccles 8. 2. He who
glorious Church without spot Ephes 5. 27. The house of God which is the Church of the living God the pillar c 1 Tim. 3. 15. Who walketh in the midst of the golden Candlesticks Rom. 2. 1. See Union and Relation between Christ and his Church Chap. 15. See Saints Priviledges Chap. 14. Thirdly Of the Qualification of the Members of the Churches what they should be AND the Lord spake to Aaron saying Do not drink wine nor strong drink thou nor thy sons with thee when ye go into the tabernacle c. That ye may put difference between holy and unholy and between unclean and clean c. Levit. 10. 9 10. Holiness becometh thine house O Lord for ever Psal 93. 5. They shall call them the holy people the redeemed of the Lord Isa 62 12. Her Priests have violated my law c have put no difference between the holy and prophane neither have they shewed c. between the unclean and the clean Ezek 22. 26. Ephraim he hath mixed himself among the people is a cake not turned Hosea 7. 8. Can two walk together except they be agreed Amos 3. 3. To all that be in Rome beloved of God called Saints Rom. 1. 7. Grant you to be like minded one towards another c. that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God c. I my self am perswaded of you brethren that ye also are full of goodness filled with all knowledge c. Rom. 15. 5 6 14. Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth to them who are sanctified in Christ Jesus called Saints c. I beseech you c. that ye all speak the same thing c. that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgment 2 Cor. 1. 2 10. By one spirit we are all baptized into one body c. 1 Cor. 12. 13. Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness what communion hath light with darkness c. Ye are the temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and c. wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord c. I will receive you 2 Cor. 6. 14 15 16 17 18. First they gave their own selves to the Lord and unto us by the will of God 2 Cor. 8. 5. Ye are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord in whom you also are built together for an habitation of God through the spirit Eph. 2. 19 20 21 22. To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colosse Col. 1. 2. Ye are the children of the light and of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness c. that this Epistle be read unto all the holy brethren 1 Thes 5. 5 17. Be ready always to give an answer unto every man who asketh you a reason of the hope which is in you with meekness and fear 1 Pet. 3. 15. See more of Discipline c. Chap. 27. Fourthly Of the Propriety that particular Churches had in their Members and of others joyning themselves to them AND great fear came upon all the Churches c. and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch and of the rest durst no man joyn himself to them but the people magnified them Acts 5. 11 12 13. And when Saul was come to Jerusalem he assayed to joyn himself to the disciples and they were all afraid of him and believed not that he was a disciple but Barnabas took him and brought him unto the Apostles and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord c. and he was with them coming c. at Jerusalem Acts. 9. 26 27 28. They determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go c. It pleased the Apostles c. with the whole church to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch c. Judas and Silas chief men among the brethren Acts 15. 2 22. Phebe our sister who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea Rom. 16. 1. Because of false brethren unawares brought in who came in privily to spy c. Gal. 4. 2. Epaphroditus my brother c. but your messenger c. I send him therefore the more carefully that when ye see him again ye may rejoyce c. he was nigh unto death c. Phil. 2. 25 26 27 28. Onesimus c. who is one of you c. Epaphras who is one of you c. salute you Col. 4. 9 12. Our friends salutâ— thee greet the friends by name 3 John v. 14. Fifthly Of Letters Commendatory Or The Churches receiving of such who were Recommended them from others by Word or Letter BArnabas took Paul and brought him to the Apostles and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord c. and he was with them c. Acts. 9. 26 27 28. When Apollos was disposed to pass into Achaiâ— the brethren wrote exhorting the Disciples to receive him who when he was come helps them much Acts 18. 27. I commend unto you Phebe our sister c. that ye receive her in the Lord c. Rom. 16. 1 2. If Timotheus come see that he may be with you without fear for he worketh c. 1 Cor. 16. 10 11. Need we as some Epistles of commendation to you or of commendation fresh you 2 Cor. 3. 1 2 3. He remembreth the obedience of you all how with fear c. ye received him 2 Cor. 7. 14 15. Whether any do enquire of Titus he is my partner c. or our brethren they are the messengers of the churches wherefore shew ye to them c. 2 Cor. 8. 22 23 24. Marcus c. touching whom ye received commandment if he come unto you receive him Col. 4. 10. The brethren c. whom if thou bring forward c. we therefore ought to receive such c. I wrote to the church but Diotrephes c. received us not c. and forbiddeth them who would c. 3 John 3. 6 8 9 10. Sixthly Of the Order of the Churches in their Assemblies and Meeting What they did there as their Duty and how they should order it in their constant Worship GOD is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the Saints and to be had in reverence of all them about him Psal 89. 7. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there will I be in the midst of them Mat. 18. 20. Christ said The Scribes and Pharisees c. love the chief seats in the Synagogues c. but he who is greatest among you shall be your servant c. Mat. 23. 6. 11 12 17. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication c. Peter stood up in the midst of the
your â—ast you and pleasures and exact all your labours c. ye fast for strife c. Isa 58. 1 2 c. I have spread out my hands all the day long to a reâ—ellious people c. who provoke me to anger continually c. who say Stand by thy self come not near to me for I am holier than thou these are a smoke in my nose Isa 65. 2 3 4 5. Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart but feignedly Jer. 3. 10. Thus saith the Lord c. Amend your ways c. trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord c. Behold ye trust in lying words which cannot profit Will ye steal murder c. and come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name c. Jer. 7. 3 4 8 9 10. Ezek. 23. 38 39. Matth. 3. 8 9 10. Egypt c. are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel uncircumcised in heart Jer. 9. 26. Thou art near in their mouth and far from their reins Jer. 12. 2. Judah said Pray for us to the Lord c. that the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk and the thing that we may do c. We will obey the voice of the Lord c. But Jeremy afterwards said O ye remnaâ—t of Judah c. Ye dissembled in your hearts or have used deceit against your souls when ye sent me unto the Lord your God saying Pray for us c. We will do c. ye have not obeyed the voice of God nor any thing c. Jer. 42. 1 2 3 4 5 6 19 20 21. And they come unto thee as the people cometh and they sit before thee as my people and they hear thy words but they will not do them for with their mouth they shew much love but their heart goeth after their covetousness c. thou art unto them as a very lovely song c. for they hear thy words but they do them not Ezek. 33. 31 32. Luke 12. 1 2. O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee O Judah what shall I do unto thee for your goodness is as a morning cloud and as an early dew it goeth away Hosea 6. 4. They have not cried to me with their heart c. they return not to the most high c. Hosea 7. 14 16. The heads judge for reward and the priests thereof teach for hire c. yet will they lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us c. Micah 3. 11. When ye fast Did ye at all fast unto me c. Did ye not eat c. Zech. 7. 5 6. Herod sent to seek Christ under pretence of worshipping him but he designed to kill him Mar. 2. 3 5 8 16. When thou dost thine aâ—ms do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory or men c. And when thou prayest thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the Synagogues and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men c. Moreover when ye fast be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast Mat. 6. 2 5 16. Why beholdest thou the moâ—e which is in thy brother's eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye or how wilt thou say to thy brother Let me pull out the moâ—e out of thine eye and behold a beam in thine own eye thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye c. Not every one who saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven c. Many will say unto me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name c. then I will profess I never knew you Mat. 7. 3 4 5 21 22 23. Luke 13. 26 27. John came neither eating nor drinking and they say he hath a devil the Son of man came eating and drinking and they say behold a man gluttonous and a wine-bibber and a friend of Publicans and sinners Mat. 11. 18 19. When the Pharisees saw the disciples plucking corn on the Sabbath-day they said Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath-day Jesus said Have ye not read c. how that on the Sabbath-days the priests in the temple prosane the Sabbath and are blameless c. They asked him saying Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath-day that they might accuse him c. then he cured the man c. Then the Pharisees went out and held a council against him that they might destroy him c. They said This fellow doth not cast out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of Devils Matth. 12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 14 24. John 5. 16. The stony-ground c. is one who hath not root in himself but temporal persecution ariseth he is offended c. They said of Christ Is not this the Carpenter's son c. whence then hath this man all these things and they were offended in him Mat. 13. 22 54 55 56 57. Then there came to Jesus Scribes and Pharisees c. saying Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders for they wash not their hands when they eat bread But he answered and said unto them Why do you also transgress the commandment by your traditions for God commanded saying Honour thy father c. but ye say c. thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition ye hypocrites well did Isaias prophesie of you saying This people draw near to me with their mouth c. but their heart is far from me Matth. 15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Mark 7. 1 2 3 4 c. The young rich man had observed much of the law yet when Christ had said unto him If thou wilt be perfect go and â—ell that thou hast and give to the poor he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions c. Many who are first shall be last and the last shall be first Mat. 19. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 30. Those who agreed for wages murmur because those who did not agree nâ—r do so much work as they had alike wages freely given them Mat. 20. 1 2 to v. 15. When the chief Priests and Scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying Hosanna to the son oâ— David they were sore dispâ—eased c. And when he was come into the temple the chief Priests and the Elders c. came unto him as he was teaching and said By what authority dost thou these things and who gave thee this authority When Christ had put forth the parable of the vineyard and the chief Priests had heard this parable they perceived that
and by his Instruments Wicked Men False Teachers Deceivers and Seducers The Description of them And what concerns the Saints therein First Of Satan the Devil himself NOW the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made And he said unto the woman Yea because or hath God said Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden The woman said c. We may eat c. but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden God hath said Ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it lest ye die And the serpent said unto the woman Ye shall not surely die for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be open and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil And the woman saw that the tree was good Gen. 3. 1 to 7. Satan was a lying Spirit in the Prophets to persuade Ahab c. 1 Kings 22. 21 22 23. 2 Chron. 20. 21 22. And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel 1 Chron. 21. 1. 2 Sam. 24. 1. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan or the adversary came also among or in the 〈◊〉 of them c. The Lord said to Satan From whence comest thou Then said he c. From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it c. He said Doth Job serve God for nought Hast thou not made an hedge about him c. Put forth thine hand and touch that which he hath and he will curse thee to thy face c. Then Satan having leave given him destroyed all he had Job 1. 6 7 to the end ch 2. 1 2 3. Hast thou considered my servant Job c. still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movedst me against him to destroy him without a cause And Satan answered the Lord and said Skin for skin yea and all that a man hath will he give for his life but put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face And the Lord said He is in thine hand but or only save his life So went Satan c. and smote Job Job 2. 3 4 5 6 7. And he shewed me Joshua the high-priest standing before the Angel of the Lord and Satan standing on his right hand to resist him And the Angel said unto Satan The Lord rebuke thee O Satan even the Lord who hath chosen c. Zech. 3. 1 2. Jesus c. in the wilderness to be tempted of the devil When he had fasted c. the tempter came to him He said If thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread But he answered and said It is written c. Then the devil taketh him c. and setteth him on a pinacle of the temple and saith unto him If thou be the Son of God cast thy self down For it is written He shall give his Angels charge c. Jesus said It is written again c. The devil c. shews him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them and saith unto him All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me c. Get thee hence Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Matth. 4. 1 to 12. When Jesus was come on the other side c. there met him two possessed with devils c. they cried out saying What have we to do with thee Jesus thou Son of God Art thou come hither to torment us before our time c. So the devils besought him saying If thou cast us out suffer us to go away into the herd of swine And he said unto them Go c. The whole city came out and besought him that he would depart out of their coasts Matth. 8. 28 to 35. Mark 5. 2 3 4 5 c. Luke 8. 27 28 c. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man he walketh through dry places seeking rest and finding none Then he saith I will return to my house from whence I came out And when he is come he findeth it empty swept and garnished then goeth he and taketh with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter in and dwell there and the last state of that man is worse c. Matth. 12. 43 44 45. When any one heareth the word c. and understandeth it not then cometh the wicked one and c. The tares are the children of the wicked one the enemy who sowed them is the devil Matth. 13. 10 38 39. Jesus rebuked the devil and he departed out of him and the child was cured c. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting Matth. 17. 18 21. Christ suffered not the devils to speak because they knew him Mark 1. 34. Lord even the devils are subject to us through thy name And he said unto them I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven Luke 10. 17 18. And he was casting out a devil c. Some of them said He casteth out devils by Beelzebub the chief of the devils c. If Satan also be divided against himself how shall his kingdom stand c. If I by Beelzebub cast out devils by whom do your children cast them out Luke 11. 14 15 17 to 21. Mark 3. 22 23. Ought not this woman c. whom Satan hath bound c. be loosed c. Luke 13. 16. Simon Simon behold Satan hath desired you that he may â—ift you as wheat but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not Luke 22. 31 32. Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye wiâ—â— do He was a 〈◊〉 from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh of a lye he speaketh of his own for he is a lyar and the father of it John 8. 44. The devil having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot Simon 's son to betray c. After Jesus had given the sop to Judas satan entred intoâ— him John 13 2 26 27. Luke 22. 3. The prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me John 14. 30. When the Spirit is come c. he will reprove or convince the world of c. of judgment because the prince of this world is judged John 16. 8 9 11. I pray c. that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one John 17. 15. Peter said Ananias why hath Satan filled thine heart to lye to the Holy Ghost Acts 5. 3. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly Rom. 16. 20. Then come together again lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency c. 1 Cor. 7. 5. Confirm your love towards him c. left Satan should
of the soâ—tishness of the makers and worshippers of idols saith None considereth in his heart neither is there knowledge or understanding to say I have burned part of it in the fire c. and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination shall I fall down to the stock of a 〈◊〉 Isa 44. 17 18 19. The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away and none considereth that the righteous are taken from the evil to come Isa 57. 1. Thou meetest him c. who remembred thee in thy ways Isa 64. 5. This I call to mind therefore have I hope It 's the Lords mercy c. 1 Sam. 3. 20 21 22. They shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carryed captive Ezekiel 6. 9. Son of man prepare thy stuff for removing and remove by day in their sight c. it may be they will consider though they be a rebellious house Ezek. 12. 3. Because thou hast not remembred the days of thy youth c. I will recompence c. Ezek. 16. 22 43 61. And lo if he beget a son who seeth all his fathers sins and considereth and doth not such like c. he shall not die for the iniquity of his fathers Ezek. 18. 14 15 16 17 28. There shall ye remember your ways c. and loath your selves c. Ezek. 20. 43. chap. 6. 9. chap. 36. 31. When I would have healed Israel then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered c. and they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness now their own doings have beset them about c. Hosea 7. 1 2. When my soul fainted within me I remembred the Lord Jonah 2. 7. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts Consider or set your heart upon your ways Haggai 1. 5 7. Take no thought for your life what you shall eat c. Behold the fowls of the air for they sow not c. And why take ye thought for rayment consider the Lillies of the field how they grow they toil not c. yet Solomon c. Matth. 6. 25 26 28 29 30. Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye Matth. 7. 3. The disciples for want of consideration said For what purpose is this waste for this oyntment might have been sold c. Jesus said Why trouble ye the woman for she hath wrought a good work upon me Matth. 26. 7 8 9 10 11. The wind ceased and they were sore amazed c. for they considered not the miracle of the loaves for their heart was hardned Mark 6. 51 52. All they who heard wondred c. but Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart Luke 2. 17 18 19. chap. 1. 29 65 66. All men mused or reasoned or debated in their hearts of John whether he were the Christ or not Luke 3. 15. Which of you intending to build a Tower sitteth not down first and counteth the cost whether he hath sufficient to finish it c Luke 14. 28 29 30 31 The Prodigal when he came to himself he said How many of my father's servants c. Luke 15. 17. Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate before what you shall answer for I will give you a mouth c. Luke 21. 14. Nor consider that it is expedient that one man should die c. John 11. 49 50. Peter rashly said to Jesus Thou shalt never wash my feet but when Jesus had said If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me Peter said c. Not my feet only but also my hands and my head John 13. 8 9. They of the Circumcision contended with Peter for going to the Gentiles till they had considered the grounds which Peter rehearsed to them Acts 11. 1 2 3 c. While we look not at things which are seen but at the things c. 2 Cor. 4. 18. Brethren if a man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Gal. 6. 1. Brethren be imitators of me and consider those who so walk as ye have us for example Phil. 3. 17. Meditate on these things give thy self wholly to them c. Consider what I say and the Lord give thee understanding in all these things 1 Tim. 4. 15. 2 Tim. 2. 7. Wherefore holy brethren c. consider the Apostle and high Priest of our profession Jesus Christ who was faithful c. Heb. 3. 1 2. Now consider how great this man was unto whom the Patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoil Heb. 7. 4. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works Heb. 10. 24. Let us run with patience c. looking unto Jesus c. for consider him who endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest ye be wearied and faint in your mind Heb. 12. 1 2 3. Remember them who have the rule over you who have spoken unto you the word of God whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation Heb. 13. 7. Remember ye the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Jude v. 17. Luke 22. 61. ch 24. 6 8. John 2. 17. 22. ch 16. 4. ch 12. 16. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do thy first works c. Rev. 2. 5. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard and hold fast and repent Rev. 3. 3. CHAP. XXXII Of the Thoughts Mind and Affections AND God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually Gen. 6. 5. ch 8. 21. If they shall bethink themselves or bring back to their heart c. and repent c. 1 Kings 8. 47. Deut. 30. 1 2. The Lord c. understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts c. 1 Chron. 28. 9. I have made a covenant with my eyes why then should I think of a maid Job 31. 1. The wicked c. will not seek God God is not in all his thoughts or all his thoughts are there is no God Psal 10. 4. We have thought of thy loving kindness O God in the midst of thy temple Psal 48. 9. Ps 139. 17. Their inward thought is that their house shall continue for ever and their dwellings c. Psal 49. 1â— Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy â—elt c. Psal 50. 21. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow c. when I remember thee Psal 63. 5 6. When I thought to know this it was too painful for me until I went c. Psal 73. 16 17. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanity c. in the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul Psal 94. 11 19. I thought on
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
God from idols to serve the living and true God 1 Thes 1. 9. Little children keep your selves from idols 1 John 5. 21. And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which neither can see nor hear nor walk Rev. 9. 20. The Lord terrible c. he will famish or make lean all the gods of the earth c. Zeph. 2. 11. See Worshipping of the true God Chap. 16. CHAP. XLI Of Angels appearing to Men What they are and do AND the Angel of the Lord found Hagar by a fountain of water c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto her Return to thy mistress c. I will multiply thy seed exceedingly c. Gen. 16. 7 8 9 10 11. Three men appeared to Abraham his discourse with them and entertaining of them Gen. 18. Dan. 10. 5 6 7 c. And there came two Angels to Sodom at even c. and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them and he bowed himself with his face towards the ground c. but the men put forth their hands and pulled Lot into the house c. and they smote the men who were at the door with blindness c. And the men said unto Lot Hast thou here any beside son-in-law c. for we will destroy this place c. The Angels hastened Lot c. and while he lingred the men laid hold upon his hand c. When they had brought them out abroad that he said Escape for thy life c. And Lot said unto them O not so my Lord c. And he said unto him See I have accepted thee concerning this thing c. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah c. Gen. 19. 1 2 3 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 21 24. And the Angel of God called unto Hagar out of heaven and said unto her What aileth thee Hagar Fear not for God hath heard thy voice Gen. 21. 17. And the Angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said Abraham Abraham c. Lay not thine hand upon the Lad c. And the Angel of the Lord called unto Abraham the second time out of heaven Gen. 22. 11 12 15. Abraham said unto his servant The Lord God of heaven c. he shall send his Angel before thee and thou shalt take a wife unto my son c. Gen. 24. 6 7. Jacob dreamed and behold a ladder c. the Angels of God ascending and descending c. Gen. 28. 12. The Angel of God spake unto Jacob in a dream c. said For I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee I am the God of Bethel c. where thou vowest a vow unto me c. Gen. 31. 11 12 13. And Jacob went on his way and the Angel of God met him and when Jacob saw them he said This is God's Host c. And Jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him c. as a Prince hast thou power with Angels c. And Jacob said I have seen God face to face and my Life is preserved Gen. 32. 1 2 24 28 30. Hosea 12. 4. The Angel who redeemed me from all evil bless the lad Gen. 48. 16. And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto Moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush c. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called unto him out of the midst of the bush c. said I am the God of thy father c. Exod. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Acts 7. 30 35. And the Angel of the Lord who went before the Camp of Israel removed and went behind them and the pillar of the cloud c. Exod. 14. 19 20. Behold I send an Angel before thee to keep thee in the way c. for mine Angel shall go before thee and bring thee in unto the Amorite Exod. 23. 20 23. ch 32. 34. ch 33. 2. He heard our voice and sent an Angel and brought us forth out of Egypt Numb 20. 16. God was angry with Balaam because he went and the Angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him c. And the ass upon which he rode saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand and the ass turned aside c. But the Angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyard c. And when the ass saw the Angel of the Lord she thrust her self unto the wall c. And the Angel of the Lord went farther and stood in a narrow place c. and when the ass saw the Angel of the Lord she fell down under Balaam c. Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand and he bowed down his head and fell flat on his face c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto Balaam c. The word which I shall speak unto thee that thou shalt speak Numb 22. 22 23 24 25 26 27 31 32 33 34 35. When Joshua was by Jericho c. behold there stood a man over-against him with his sword drawn in his hand And Joshua went unto him and said unto him Art thou for us or for our adversaries And he said Nay but as Captain or Prince of the Host of the Lord am I come And Joshua fell on his face unto the earth and did worship and said unto him What saith my Lord unto his servant c. Joshua 5. 13 14 15. An Angel of the Lord came c. when the Angel had spoken those words c. the people c. wept Judges 2. 1 4. Curse ye Meros said the Angel of the Lord c. because they came c. Judges 5. 23. And there came an Angel of the Lord and sat under an Oak c. appeared unto Gideon and said unto him The Lord is with thee c. And Gideon said unto him Oh my Lord c. The Lord said unto him Surely I will be with thee c. And the Angel of God said unto him Take thee flesh c. and lay them upon this rock c. Then the Angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff and touched the flesh c. And when Gideon perceived that he was an Angel of the Lord Gideon said Alas O Lord God for because I have seen an Angel of the Lord face to face c. Thou shalt not die c. Judges 6. 11 12 15 16 17 20 21. 22 23. The Angel of the Lord appeared to Manoah his wife c When Manoah knew that he was an Angel of the Lord he said unto his Wife We shall surely die because we have seen God c. Judges 13. 3 6 8 13 16 18 21
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
called there on the name of the Lord the everlasting God Gen. 21. 33. Isaac said Here is the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering c Abram built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on the wood c. Then Abram took the ram and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son Gen. 22. 7 8 9 13. The Lord appeared unto Isaac at Beersheba and he builded an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there Gen. 26. 24 25. Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount when Laban came to him Gen. 31. 54. And Jacob came to Shalem and pitched his tent before the City and he erected there an altar and called it El-Eloe-Israel that is God the God of Israel Gen. 33. 18 19 20. And God said unto Jacob Arise go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto God who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother Then Jacob said unto his houshold and unto all who were with him c. Let us arise and go up unto Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress c. And he built there an altar and called the place El-Bethel c. the God of Bethel Gen. 35. 1 2 3 6 7. And Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Jacob Gen. 46. 1. Moses directed of God to say unto Pharaoh Let us go we beseech thee three days journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God Exod. 3. 18. And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi that is the Lord my Banner for he said Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek c. Exod. 17. 14 15 16. And Jethro Moses's father-in-law took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God Exod. 18. 12. God when he had given the law upon mount Sinai he then did command the building of an altar and the offering of sacrifices Exodus 20 24 25 26. CHAP. XLVI Christianity is a difficult thing or it is hard to be a Christian indeed IF thy right eye offend thee pluck it out c. if thy right hand offend cut it off c. Matth. 5. 29 30. Then said Jesus to his Disciples if any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross dayly and follow me for whosoever will save his life shall lose it and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it Matth. 16. 24 25. Luke 9. 23. ch 14. 26 27 33. Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be who find it Matth. 7. 13 14. Luke 13. 24. If thou wilt be perfect go and sell all thou hast and give it c. he went away sorrowful c. I say unto you a rich man shall hardly enter c. Matth. 19. 20 21 c. ch 13. 45 46. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptations c. Matth. 26. 41. The last shall be first and the first last for many be called but few chosen Matth. 20. 16. ch 22. 14. Labour not for the meat which perisheth but for that meat which endureth to everlasting life c. John 6. 27. There is a war in my members warring against the law of my mind c. Rom. 7. 13. Gal. 5. 17. Not sloathful in business servent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. Be ye stedfast c. always 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. Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him 2 Cor. 5. 9 10. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations and every high thing which exalts it self against the knowledge of God and bringeth into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. The flesh lusteth against the spirit c. so that ye cannot do the things ye would Gal. 5. 17. Rom. 7. 21 23. That ye may know c. what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the wâ—â—king of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand c. Ephes 1. 18 19 20. See that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise redeeming the time c. Ephes 5. 15 16. Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places or against wicked Spirits c. That ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done or overcome all to stand Ephes 6. 11 12 13. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2. 12. I reach forth c. I press towards the mark Phil. 3. 13 14. We pray always for you that our God would c. fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power 2 Thes 1. 11. Fight the good fight of faith lay hold of eternal liâ—e 1 Tim. 6. 12. 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. Then therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ no man who warreth entangleth himself with affairs of life c. 2 Tim. 2. 3 4. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief Heb. 4. 11. That ye be not sloathful but followers of them who through faith and patience c. Heb. 6. 12. Let us run with patience the race which is set before us c. consider him who endureth such contiadiction of sinners against himself lest ye be weary and faint in your mind Ye have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin c. Heb. 12. 1 3 4. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you Janus 4. 7. An inheritance c. reserved for you or us who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation 1 Pet. 1. 4 5. If the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly c. 1 Pet. 4. 18. Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the Devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour whom resist stedfast in the faith c. 2 Pet. 5. 8 9. Having all diligence add to your faith virtue c. Giving all diligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 5 10. Wherefore beloved seeing ye look for such things be diligent
blasphemest because I said I am the Son of God John 10. 33 36. They suborned men who said We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God Acts 6. 11 13. When Herod had spoken c. the people gave a shout saying It is the voice of a God not of a man And immediately the Angel of God smote him because he gave not God the glory c. Acts 12. 21 22 23. Paul testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed he c. said to them Your blood be upon your heads c. Acts 18. 5 6. ch 19. 9. ch 13. 45. I punished them oft in every Synagogue and compelled them to blaspheme being exceeding mad against them c. Acts 26. 11. The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you c. Rom. 2. 23 24. But now you also put off all these anger c. blasphemy c. Colos 3. 8. Putting me into the Ministry who before was a blasphemer c. Alexander whom I have delivered unto Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme 1 Tim. 1. 13 20. Servants c. count their own master worthy of all honour that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed 1 Tim. 6. 1. Men shall be lovers of their own selves c. blasphemers c. 2 Tim. 3. 2. Discreet chaste keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word of God be not blasphemed Titus 2. 4 5. Do not rich men oppress you c. Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called James 2. 6 7. They think c. strange c. blaspheming or speaking evil of you c. 1 Pet. 4. 5. I know the blasphemy of them who say they are Jews and are not but the synagogue of Satan Rev. 2. 9. I saw a beast c. and upon his head the names of blasphemy c. And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies c. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them who dwell in heaven Rev. 13. 1 5 6. And men were scorched with great heat and blasphemed the name of God who hath power over these pl gues and they repented not to give him glory c. They gnawed their tongues for pain and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain and their sores and repented not of their deeds c. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of hail c. Rev. 16. 9 10 11 21. CHAP. LIII Israel's Murmurings against God and Moses when God was in his Way of Redeeming them WHen Moses and Aaron had been with Pharaoh and Pharaoh had made their burthen heavier they met Moses and Aaron who stood in the way as they came forth from Pharaoh and they said unto them The Lord look upon you and judge because you have made our favour to be abhorred or to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants to put a sword into their hands to slay us Exod. 5. 1 2 6 7 20 21. When they were pursued by the Egyptians they cried unto the Lord and they said unto Moses Because there were no graves in Egypt hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us to carry us forth out of Egypt Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt saying Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness Exod. 14. 8 to 13. They could not drink of the waters of Marah for they were bitter c. And the people murmured against Moses saying What shall we drink Exod. 15. 23 24. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness and c. said unto them Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt when we sate by the flesh-pots when we did eat bread to the full for ye have brought us forth into the wilderness to kill this whole congregation with hunger c. Ye shall see the glory of the Lord for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord And what are we that ye murmur against us c. Your murmurings are not against us but against the Lord Exod. 16. 2 3 7 8 12. The people did chide with Moses and said Give us water that we may drink And Moses said to them Why chide you with me wherefore do you tempt the Lord And the people thirsted there for water and the people murmured against Moses and said Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our cattel with thirst c. They tempted the Lord saying Is the Lord among us or not Exod. 17. 2 3 7. When the people complained it displeased the Lord and his anger was kindled and the fire of the Lord burnt c. And the mixed multitude who was among them fell a lusting And the children of Israel also wept again or murmured and wept and said Who shall give us flesh to eat We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely the cucumbers and the melons c. but now our soul is dried away there is nothing at all besides this Manna before our eyes c. God gave them flesh but while the flesh was yet between their teeth ere it was chewed the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague c. Numb 11. 1 4 5 6 10 20 31 32 33. Upon the report of the Spies of the difficulty of entring the Land all the Congregation of Israel listed up their voice and cried and the people wept that night And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron and the whole congregation said unto them Would God we had died in the land of Egypt or Would God we had died in this wilderness And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land to fall by the sword that our wives and our children should be a prey Were it not better for us to return into Egypt c. Let us make us a captain and return into Egypt Your carcases shall fall in the wilderness c. These men who saw my glory and my signs have tempted me c. Numb 14. 1 2 3 4 9 10 22 23 28 29 30 31 32. When Korah and his Company were swallowed up all the Congregation of the Children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron saying Ye have killed the people of the Lord Numb 16. 41. There was not water for the congregation and they gathered themselves against Moses and against Aaron and the people chod with Moses and spake saying Would God we had died when our brethren died
eat For we hear there are some among you who walk disorderly working not at all c. We command c. that with quietness they work and eat their own bread c. 2 Thes 3. 10 11 12. Withal they learn to be idle wandring about from house to house 1 Tim. 5. 13. That they who have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works or honest trades Titus 3. 8 14. CHAP. LV. God's Way of declaring his Mind of Old by Voices Dreams and Visions THE Lord spake to Adam to Cain Noah c. Gen. 2. 16 17. ch 3. 8 9 10 11 c. ch 4. 6 7 9 10 to 16. ch 6. 13 14 c. ch 7. 1 2 3 c. ch 9. ch 12. 1 2 3. After these things the word of the Lord came in a vision unto Abram saying I am thy shield c. Gen. 15. 1 2 3 c. God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said unto him Behold thou art but a dead man for the woman which thou hast taken c. God said to him in a dream Yea I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart c. Gen. 20. 2 to 8. Jacob dreamed and behold a ladder set upon the earth and the top thereof reached to heaven c. The Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father c. The land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it c. Gen. 28. 11 to 16. And the Angel of God spake unto me in a dream saying Jacob c. I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedst the pillar where thou vowedst a vow to me c. And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night and said unto him Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob c. Gen. 31. 11 12 13 24. Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brethren c. And he dreamed yet another dream c. Gen. 36. 5 to 11. ch 42. 6. ch 43. 26 28. ch 44. 14. ch 50. 18. The Dreams of the Butler and Baker of Pharaoh in the Prison and of Pharaoh himself interpreted by Joseph Gen. 40. ch 41. God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night and said Jacob Jacob c I am the God of thy Father fear not to go down into Egypt c. Gen. 46. 1 to 5. God spake to Moses out of the burning bush Exod. 3. Moses went up unto God and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain saying Thus shalt thou say c. Moses spake and God answered him by a voice c. And the Lord said to Moses Go down charge the people c. Exod. 19. 3 4 9 10 19 20 21 22 24. If there be a prophet among you I c. will make my self known to them in a vision c. Numb 12. 6. He hath said who heard the words of God who saw the vision of the Almighty falling into a trance but having his eyes open c. Num. 24. 4 16. The Lord spake to Samuel by Voice or Word 1 Sam. 3. 4 10 11 21. To Nathan by Vision 2 Sam. 7. 17. The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night and God said Ask what I shall give thee c. 1 Kings 3. 5 6 7. ch 9. 2. The Lord answered not Saul by prophets nor by dreams c. 1 Sam. 28. 6 15. God speaketh once yea twice yet man perceiveth it not In a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction Job 33. 14 15 16. Thou spakest in a vision to thy Holy One and saidst I have laid help upon one c. Psal 89. 19. Nebuchadnezzar's Dreams which Daniel expounded Dan. 2. ch 4. Belshazzar's Vision against the Wall Dan. 5. 5 25. Daniel's Vision of the Beasts c. Dan. 7. Of the Man cloathed in Linnen Dan. 10. 5 6 7 c. Of other things Dan. 7. ch 8. ch 10. I have also spoken by the prophets and I have multiplied visions and used similitudes by the ministery of the prophets Hos 12. 10. I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and c. your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions Joel 2. 28. Acts 2. 16 17. For the vision is yet for an appointed time but in the end it shall speak and not lye and though it tarry wait for it because it will surely come c. Habak 2. 3. Behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph thou son of David fear not c. Matth. 1. 20. And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return unto Herod c. And when they were departed behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying Arise and take the young child c. Matth. 2. 12 13 19 22. Pilate c. said I will have nothing to do with that just Man for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him c. Matth. 27. 19. Saul saw a Vision and heard a Voice saying Saul Saul Why persecutest thou me c. A certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias And to him said the Lord in a vision c. Arise and go c. Acts 9. 1 2 3 4 to 11. ch 26. 13 14 15 c. Cornelius saw in a Vision evidently an Angel of God coming unto him and saying Cornelius thy prayers and thine alms are come up c. Peter also had a Vision and God spake to him c. Acts 10. 3 4 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 28 30 c. ch 11. 5. A Vision appeared to Paul in the night There stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him saying come over unto Macedonia and help us c. He endeavoured to go assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the Gospel unto them Acts 16. 9 10. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision be not afraid but speak c. for I am with thee Acts 18. 9. It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord I knew a man c. 2 Cor. 12. 1 2 3. God who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in times past unto the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son c. Heb. 1. 1 2. CHAP. LVI The Call and Commission of the Apostles equal without Superiority JEsus c. saw two brethren Simeon called Peter and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fishers and he saith unto them follow me and I will make you fishers of men c. he saw other two brethren James the son of Zebedee and John his brother c. and he called them and they immediately c. followed
know that I am the Lord when I shall bring you into the land of Israel into the Countries for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers and there shall ye remember your ways c. Ezek. 20. 42. 43. ch 28. 24 25 26. Thus saith the Lord God Behold I will both search my sheep c. and deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered c. and will bring them to their own land c. and I will set up the shepherd over them c. Ezek. 34. 11. 12 13 23 24 c. Mountains of Israel ye shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to my people of Israel for they are at hand to come behold I am for you and I will turn unto you and ye shall be tilled and sowed c. and the city shall be inhabited and the wasts builded c. I will settle you after your old estates and will do better unto you then at your beginnings and ye shall know that I am the Lord c. I will take you from among the heathen and gather you from all countryes and will bring you into your own land c. and ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers and ye shall be my people c. then shall ye remember your own ways c. not for your sakes do I this saith the Lord God be it known to you c. then the heathen who are left round about you all know that I the Lord build the ruined places and plant that which was desolate I the Lord have spoken it and I will do it c. I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel Ezek. 36 8 9 10 11 19 23 24 28 31 32 33 Hosea 2. 14 15. Amos 9. 11 14 15. By the dry bones is typified the Israelites returned These bones are the whole house of Israel behold they say our bones are dryed and our hope is lost and we are cut off for our part therefore prophesy c. O my people I will open your graves cause you to come out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel c. I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen whither they be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel and one king shall be king to them all and they shall no more be divided into two nations c. and they shall dwell in the land which I have given unto Jacob c. 37. Hosea 1. 10 11. Joel 3. 6 7. Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel but I have gathered them in their own land c. and will hide my face no more Ezek. 39. 25 c. Jerusalem shall be inhabited c. Flee from the land of the north saith the Lord for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven c. Deliver thy self O Zion who dwellest with the daughters of Babylon c. for he who toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye Zech. 2. 4 5 6 7 8 12. Joel 3. Zeph. 3. 14 15 c. Thus saith the Lord I am returned unto Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem c. There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem c. and the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof c. Behold I will save my people from the east countries and from the west country and I will bring them and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and they shall be my people and I will be their God c. As I thought to punish you when your Fathers provoked me to wrath c. and I repented not so again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah Fear ye not c. Yea many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem and to pray c. Zech. 8. 3 4 5 7 8 13 14 15. ch 12. 7 8 9. ch 14. 10 11 20 21 22 23. In that day I will make Jerusalem a burthensom stone for all people c. They shall be cut off though the people of the earth gather c. Zech. 12. 3 4 c. I would not brethren that ye should be ignorant of this mystery lest ye should be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written There shall come out of Sion the deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob for this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sin c. they are beloved for the Father's sake c. Rom. 11. 25 26 27 28. See the Dignity and Blessings belonging to the Church of God as such Chap. 27. CHAP. LVIII Of the Seventh Day or Sabbath in Old Testament days and the Laws about it and of the Change to the First Day ON the seventh day God ended his work c. and rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made and God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because that in it he had rested c. Gen. 2. 2 3. To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord bake that which you will bake to day c. for to morrow is a sabbath unto the Lord c. Six days ye shall gather it but on the seventh day the sabbath in it there shall be none c. Abide ye every man in his place let no man go out of his place on the sabbath day So the people rested on the sabbath day Exod. 16. 23 to the 30. Remember the sabbath-day to keep it holy Six days shall thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day the sabbath of the Lord thy God thou shalt not do any work thou nor thy son c. for in six days the Lord made heaven c. and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it Exod. 20. 8 9 10 41. Deut. 5. 12 13 14. On the seventh day thou shalt rest that thine ox and thine ass may rest and the son of thine handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed Exod. 23. 12. ch 34. 21. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore for it is holy unto you every one who defileth it shall surely be put to death for whosoever doth work therein that soul shall be cut off from among his people and he shall surely be put to death Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath c. it is a sign between me and the children for ever for in six days the Lord made heaven c. Exod. 31.
then will I cause you to dwell in this place c. Behold ye trust in lying words which cannot profit Will ye steal murther c. and come and stand before me in this house c. Therefore I will do to this house which is called by my name wherein ye trust c. as I have done to Shiloh Jer. 7. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 14 15. When I say to the righteous he shall surely live if he trust in his own righteousness and commit iniquity all his righteousness shall not be remembred c. he shall die Ezek. 33. 13 18. ch 23 38 39. I hate and despise your feast-days and will not smell in your solemn assemblies Though ye offer me burnt-offerings and your meat-offerings I will not accept of them c. Let judgment run down as waters c. Amos 5. 21 to 26. Hear this c. ye heads of the house of Jacob and princes of the house of Israel who abhor judgment and pervert all equity c. The heads thereof judge for reward and the priests thereof teach for hire c. Yet will they lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord amongst us none evil can come upon us Therefore shall Zion for your sakes be plowed c. Micah 3. 9 to 13. Bring forth fruit meet for repentance and think not to say within your selves We have Abraham for our father c. Matth. 3. 8 9 10. Luke 3. 8. Many will say to me in that day Lord Lord Have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name cast out devils and in thy name done many wondrous works And then will I profess to them I never knew you depart from me ye who work iniquity Matth. 7. 21 22 23. Whosoever shall do the will of God the same is my brother and sister and mother Mark 3. 33 35. I know not whence you are Then shall ye begin to say We have eat and drank in thy presence and thou hast taught in our streets But he shall say I tell you I know you not whence you are depart from me all ye workers of iniquity c. Luke 13. 25 26 27. Jesus said to the Pharisees Ye are they who justifie your selves before men but God knows your hearts for that which is highly esteemed amongst man is an abomination in the sight of God Luke 16 14 15. When ye have done all those things which ye are commanded say We are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do Luke 17. 10. The Pharisee stood c. and said O God I thank thee I am not as other men are extortioners c. I fast twice in the week I give tythes of all I possess And the Publican standing afar off would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven but sinote upon his breast saying God be merciful to me a sinner I tell you this man went down to his house justified rather than the other c. Luke 18. 10 to 15. Then said Jesus c. If ye continue in my word c. the truth shall make you free They answered him We be Abram's seed and were never in bondage to any man How sayest thou Ye shall be made free Jesus said c. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin I know ye are Abraham's seed but ye seek to kill me c. They said Abraham is our father Jesus said If ye were Abraham's children ye would do the works of Abraham c. They said We are not born of fornication we have one father even God Jesus said unto them If God were your father ye would love me c. Ye are of your father ther the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do John 6. 31 32 33 37 39 41 42 45. Behold thou art called a Jew restest in the law and makest thy boast of God and knowest c. and art confident that thou thy self art a guide to the blind an instructer c. Dost thou steal c. Thou makest the boast of thy law Through breaking the law dishonourest thou God Rom. 2. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 28 29. Therefore by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight Rom. 3. 20. Gal. 2. 16. They have a Zeal of God but not according to knowledge for they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God c. Rom. 10. 2 3. If a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself c. Gal. 6. If any other man thinketh he hath whereof he may trust in the flesh I more circumcised on the eighth day c. I count all things but loss c. that I may win Christ and be found in him not having mine own righteousness which is of the law out that which is through the faith of Christ c. Philip. 3. 3 to 10. Whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point is guilty of all c. James 2. 10 11. The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost Luke 19. 10. CHAP. LXV Of Words Sayings and Doings neither true nor good spoken and done on Politick Grounds to effect Things designed or prevent Dangers ABraham said of his Wife when he was in fear She is my sister Gen. 20. 2 11 12. Isaac in the like fear said of his Wife She is my sister Gen. 26. 7 9. Rebeccah put her Son Jacob to go to Isaac for the Blessing and cloathed him with his Brother's Garments and put Skins upon his Neck and Hands to make him feel rough to Isaac that Isaac might think him to be Esau and bless him And Jacob said to his Father being asked who he was I am Esau thy first-born c. Isaac said Art thou my very son Esau And he said I c. Gen. 27. 9 10 to 29. Rachel having hid her Father's Images under the Camels Furniture and sate on them when Laban searched for them she said unto her Father Let not it displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee for the custom of women is upon me c. Gen. 31. 34 35. And the Sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Homer his Father deceitfully c. They said unto them We cannot give our sister to one who is uncircumcised c. If every male of you will be circumcised then will we give our daughters c. Which when they had done Jacob's Sons tell on them and slew them Gen. 34. 12 13 14 c. When Joseph's Brethren saw that their Father was dead they said Joseph will peradventure hate us and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him And they sent messengers to Joseph saying Thy father did command before he died saying So shall ye say to Joseph Forgive I pray thee now the trespasses of thy brethren and their sin
the sight of men 2 Cor. 8. 21. Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others c. Do all things without murmuring or dispurings that ye may be blameless and harmless or sincere the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom ye shine or shine ye as lights in the world Phil. 2. 4 14 15. Let your moderation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand Phil. 4. 5. Walk in wisdom towards them who are without c. Let your speech be always with grace c. that ye may know how to answer every man Col. 4. 5 6. The Lord 〈◊〉 you to increase c. abound in love c. towards all men 1 Thes 3. 12. Ephes 5. 2. That ye study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work 〈◊〉 your own hands c. That we may walk 〈◊〉 towards them who are without and that ye may have â—ack of nothing or of no men 1 Thes 4. 11 12. We exhort you brethren c. be patient towards all men See that noâ—e render evil for evil unto any man but ever follow that which is good both among your selves and to all men 1 Thes 5. 14 15. That ye be sober grave temperate sound in faith charity patience c. The aged women likewise c. In all things shew thy self a pattern of good works c. sound speech that cannot be condemned that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you Titus 2. 2 3 6 7 8. Put them in mind c. to be ready to every good work c. To be no brawler our gentle shewing all meekness unto all men for we c. Titus 3. 1 2 3. Wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and envies and evil speakings c. abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul having your conversation honest amongst the Gentiles that whereas they or wherein they speak against you as evil doers they may by your good works which they shall behold glorifie God in the day of visitation c. For so is the will of God that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men c. Honour or esteem all men 1 Pet. 2. 1 11 12 15 17. Job 17. 5. Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give answer to every man who asketh you a reason of the hope which 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 c. 1 Pet. 3. 14 15 16 17. II. In Particular Not to Judge them or speak Evil of them THou givest thy mouth to evil c. thou sittest and speakest against thy brother c. thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self c. Psalm 50. 19 20 21. Judge not that ye be not judged for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged Matth. 7. 1 2. Judge nothing before the time until the Lord come 1 Cor. 4. 5. Charity c. thinketh no evil 1 Cor. 13. 5. Put them in mind to speak evil of no man c. for we our selves were sometimes foolish disobedieâ— Titus 3. 1 2 3. Speak not evil one of another c. who art thou who judgest another James 4. 11 12. Wherefore laying aside c. all evil speakings 1 Pet. 2. 1. III. Be Just Righteous True and Faithful to and with them in all things of Trust and Dealing THAT which is altogether just or Justice shalt thou follow that thou c. Deut. 10. 20. Ye shall not c. deal falsly neither lye one to â—o another c. Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour nor rob him c. ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment in meteyard in weight or in measure just ballances just weights a just Ephah and a just Hin shall ye have I the Lord your God Levit. 19. 11 13 34 35 36. Job 17. 5. Levit. 25. 17. If thou sell ought unto thy neighbour or buyest ought of thy neighbours hand ye shall not oppress one another Levit. 25. 14. Thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures a great and a small c. Deut. 25. 14 15. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness Psalm 11. 7. A false balance is an abomination to the Lord but a just weight is his delight Prov. 11. 1. ch 16. 11. Micah 6. 10 11. Divers weights or a stone and a stone and divers measures or an Ephah and an Ephah are both alike abominations to the Lord Prov. 20. 10. Amos. 8. 5. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice c. It is the joy of the just to do judgment Prov. 21. 3 15. Micah 6. 6 7 8. Remove not the ancient land-marks or bound which thy father have set Enter not into the field of the fatherless for their redeemer is mighty he shall plead their cause with thee Prov. 22. 28. ch 23. 10 11. As as a mad man c. so is he who deceiveth his neighbour and saith Am I not in sport Prov. 26. 18 19. God complained against Israel None calleth for justice nor any pleadeth for truth Isa 59. 4. Wo to him who buildeth his house by unrighteousness and his chamber by wrong who useth his neighbours service without wages c. Jer. 22. 13. In thee they deal by oppression with the stranger Ezek. 22. 7 29. Daniel was faithful in his trust neither was there any error or fault found in him Dan. 6. 4 5. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly c. Micah 6. 8. The just Lord in the midst thereof he will not do iniquity Zeph. 4. 5. Have we not all one Father hath not one God created us Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother Malachi 2. 10. Jesus said unto the Publicans Exact no more than that which is appointed you c. And to the Soldiers he said Do no violence to any man c. be content with your wages c. Luke 3. 13 14. He who is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much c. Luke 16. 10 11 12. Render therefore to all their dues tribute to whom tribute c. owe no man any thing but to love c. Rom. 13. 7 8. Nay you do wrong and defraud c. know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit c. 1 Cor. 6. 8 9. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter because the Lord is the avenger of such 1 Thes 4. 6. Follow righteousness 1 Tim. 6. 11. The hire of the labourers which ye kept back by fraud cryeth and the cries c. have entred c. James 5. 1 4. IV. Live at Peace with them every one doing their own
before the Lord. And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness that we and our cattel should die there And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt to bring us into this evil place It is no place of seed or of figs or vines c. Numb 20. 1 2 3 4 5 The soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way And the people spake against God and against Moses Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness for there is no bread neither is there any water and our soul loatheth this light bread And the Lord sent siery serpents among the people and they bit the people and much people died Numb 21. 4 5 6. Ye have been rebellious against the Lord since the day I knew you Deut. 9. 23 24. They tempted God in their hearts by asking meat for their lusts yea they spake against God They said Can God furnish a table in the wilderness c. Behold he smote the rock c. Can he give bread also Can he provide flesh for his people Therefore the Lord heard and was wroth So a fire was kindled against Jacob c. because they believed not in God nor trusted in his salvation c. They sinned still and believed not his wondrous works c. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desart Yea they turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel c. Psal 78. 18 19 20 21 22 32 40 41. I would not that ye should be ignorant how that our fathers were under the cloud c. but with many of them God was not well pleased for they were overthrown in the wilderness Now these things were our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lasted c. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of serpents Neither murmur ye as some or them also murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples or types and are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come therefore let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 to 13. See the Things of the World Chap. 39. CHAP. LIV. Saints Duty to be diligent and industrious in their Callings GO to the Ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise which having no guide overseer or ruler provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest How long wilt thou sleep O sluggard When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep Yet a little sleep a little sâ—umber a little folding of the hands to sleep so shall thy poverty come as one who travelleth and thy want as an armed man Prov. 6. 6 7 8 9 10 11. ch 24. 33 34 He becometh poor who dealeth with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich he who gathereth in summer is a wise son he who sleepeth in harvest is a son who causeth shame c. As vinegar to the teeth and smoak to the eyes so is the sluggard to them who send him Prov. 10. 4 5 26. He who tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding c. The hand of the diligent shall bear rule but the slothful shall be under tribute c. the slothful roasteth not that which he took in hunting but the substance of a diligent man is precious Prov. 12. 11 24 27. The soul of the sluggard desireth and hath nothing but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat Prov. 13. 4. In all labour there is profit but the talk of the lips tend only to poverty Prov. 14. 23. The way of the slothful man is an hedge of thorns Prov. 15. 19. He also who is slothful in his work is brother to him who is a great waster Prov. 18. 9. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep and an idle soul shall suffer hunger c. A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again Prov. 19. 15 24. ch 26. 15. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing c. Love not sleep lest thou come to poverty open thine eyes and thou shalt be satisned with bread Prov. 20. 4 13. He who loveth pleasure or sport shall be a poor man c. The desire of the slothful killeth him for his hand refuseth to labour Prov. 21. 17 25. The slothful man saith A Lion without I shall be slain in the streets c. Seest thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before kings he shall not stand before mean men Prov. 22. 13 29. ch 26. 13. Drowsiness shall cloath with rags Prov. 23. 21. I went by the field of the slothful c. and lo it was all grown over with thorns nettles had covered the face thereof c. Yet a little sleep c. so thy poverty shall come c. Prov. 24. 30 31 32 33 34. By much slothfulness the building decays and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth down Eccles 10. 18. As the door turneth on its hinges so the slothful man upon his bed c. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can render a reason Prov. 26. 14. 16. He who tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread but he who followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough Prov. 28. 19. The Industry of a good Wife set forth at large Prov. 31. 10 11 12 c. Rise up ye women who are at ease hear my voice ye careless daughters c. Many days and years shall ye be troubled ye careless women for the vintage shall fail c. Tremble ye women who are at ease be troubled ye careless ones c. Isa 32. 9 10 11. This was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom abundance of idleness was in her c. neither c. Ezek. 16. 49. Matth. 20. 3 6. You your selves know that these hands have ministred to my necessities and to them who were with me I have shewed you also how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20. 33 34 35. ch 18. 1 2 3. 2 Thes 3. 7 8 9 10. Let him who stole steal no more but rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have to give to him who needeth Ephes 4. 28. That you study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work with your own hands as we commanded you 1 Thes 4. 11. We commanded you that if any would not work he should not