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. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
him the plagues which are written in this book And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life c. Rev. 22. 18 19. Secret things belong to God revealed things to us and our children that we may do all the words of this law Deut. 29. 29. Pray for us that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified 2 Thes 3. 1. 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 Heb. 12. 25. The parable of the good seed sown in good and bad ground and the success thereof Matth. 13. 3 4 5 6 c. See Preaching of the Word Chap. 27. CHAP. II of GOD. I. His Names and Titles IN the beginning God created the heavens c. Gen. 1. 1. And the Lord God formed man c. Gen. 2. 7. ch 15. 7. ch 28. 13. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord Gen. 4. 26. And he was the Priest of the Most High God c. Gen. 14. 18 19 20. The Lord appeared unto Abraham and said I am the Almighty God c. Gen. 17. 1. ch 28. 3. Rev. 21. 22. The name of the Lord the everlasting God Gen. 21. 33. The Lord the God of heaven and the God of the earth Gen. 24. 3 7. And God said unto Moses I am that I am c. Thus shall you say c. I am hath sent me unto you c. The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob hath sent me c. This is my name for ever and this is my memorial unto all generations c. The Lord God of the Hebrews c. Exod. 3. 6 14 15. ch 9. 1 13. I appeared unto Abraham c. by the name of God Almighty but by my name Jehovah was not known unto them Exod. 6. 2 3. Isa 12. 2. chap. 26. 4. And the Lord c. proclaimed the name of the Lord c. The Lord God merciful and gracious c. The Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous God c. Exod. 34. 5 6 14. ch 33. 19. The Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh Numb 27. 16. ch 16. 22. That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name The Lord thy God Deut. 28. 58. The Lord God of gods the Lord God of gods c. Josh 22. 22. To sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shilo c. 1 Sam. 1. 3 11. Jer. 46. 18. The Lord of hosts the God of the armies of Israel c. 1 Sam. 17. 45. Isa 28. 29. The God of Israel said the Rock of Israel spake to me c. 2 Sam. 23. 3. Extol him who rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah c. Psal 68. 4. That men may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah the Most High over all the earth c. Psal 83. 18. Let them praise thy great and terrible name Holy Psal 99. 3. Holy and Reverend is his name Psal 111. 9. They have provoked the Holy One of Israel Isa 1. 4. Ezek. 39. 7. I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give unto another Isa 42. 8. Jer. 16. 21. As for our Redeemer the Lord of hosts is his name the Holy One of Israel Isa 47. 4. ch 54. 5. Jer. 32. 18. O the Hope of Israel the Saviour thereof c. Jer. 14. 8. I will sanctifie my great name c. And the Heathen shall know that I am the Lord Ezek. 36. 23. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel and the Heathen shall know that I am the Lord the Holy One of Israel Ezek. 39. 7. The Lord the God of hosts is his name Amos 4. 13. ch 5. 27. The Lord hath sworn by the Excellency of Jacob Amos 8. 7. Now the God of patience and consolation grant c. Rom. 15. 5. 33. Now the God of peace be with you all c. 1 Thes 5. 2 3. God is not the Author of confusion but of peace 1 Cor. 14. 33. Heb. 13. 20. God is Light and in him is no darkness 1 Joh. 1. 5. Jam. 1. 17. God is Love 1 Joh. 4. 8 16. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent c. Rev. 22. 6. II. He is a Spirit GOD is a Spirit Joh. 4. 24. III. His Excellency Majesty Greatness Perfection Glory and Sovereignty and Absoluteness HE created the world and all things in it Gen. 1. ch 2. Psal 100. 3. Psal 104. Psal 136. 5 6 c. Prov. 22. 2. And the fear of you c. shall be upon every beast c. Into your hands are they delivered c. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you c. I have given you all things c. Neither shall there be any more a flood to destroy the earth Gen. 9. 2 3 11. When men endeavoured to prevent their being scattered God scattered them by confounding their language Gen. 11. 4 5 c. And the Lord said to Abraham c. Lift up thine eyes c. For all the land which thou seest to thee will I give it and to thy seed for ever c. Gen. 13. 14 15 16 17. Exod. 9. 29. Psal 24. 1. 1 Cor. 10 26 28. The Priest of the most high God c. The most high God Possessor of heaven and earth Gen. 14. 18 19 20 22. Psal 9. 2. Josh 3. 11. Who hath made man's mouth or who hath made the dumb or deaf or the seeing c. Have not I the Lord Exod. 4. 11. I am the Lord and I will bring you out from under the burthens of the Egyptians and I will rid you of their bondage and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgment c. Exod. 6. 6 7. That thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God c. I will sever c. To the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth Exod. 8. 10 22. ch 9. 14 16. ch 10. 2. Thy right hand O Lord is become glorious in power c. hath dashed in pieces the enemy and in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown c. With the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered c. Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the gods c. Glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders c. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever Exod. 15. 6 7 8 11 15 16 17 18. Psal 146. 10. Rev. 19. 6. I know that the Lord is greater than all gods for in the thing they dealt proudly he was above them Exod. 18. 11. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke because the Lord descended c. And the whole mount
c. The judgment was by one to condemnation c. For if by one mans offence or one offence death reigned by one man c. by one mans disobedience many were made sinners Rom. 5. 12 15 16 17 18 19. I fear c. as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility so your minds should be corrupted c. 2 Cor. 11. 3. CHAP. V. Of Man's State by Nature since Sin entred I. Corrupt unclean and desperately wicked ADam ready to excuse his Sin laying it upon Eve and Eve laid it upon the Serpent Gen. 3. 12 13. Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell because God had not respect unto his offering as unto Abels and he rose up against his brother and â—lew him Gen. 4. 8 9. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart or the whole imagination purposes and desires was only evil continually c. The earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence c. for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth c. Gen. 6. 5 11 12. The imaginations of man's heart are evil from his youth Gen. 8. 21. ch 11. 4. The wickedness of Sodom at the time when God came to destroy it Gen. 19. Esau sold his Birthright for a mess of pottage Gen. 25. 30 31 32 33. Esau hated his brother because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him and Esau said in his heart c. then will I slay my brother Jacob Gen. 27. 41. Joseph his brethren hated him could not speak peaceably to him envied him they conspired against him to slay him and to cover it with a lye Gen. 37. 4 18 19 20 23 24. And Pharaoh said Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go Exod. 5. 2. After all the wonders Moses wrought and the judgments against Aegypt his heart was still hardened against God and would not yield and the Magicians accounted that to be the â—inger of God Exod. 7. ch 8. ch 9. ch 10. Ahab hardened 〈◊〉 Kings 22. Saul excuseth his disobedience upon pretence that the people preserved the Cattle for Sacrifice I Sam. 15. 15 19 21. Absalom had a Tent spread upon the top of the House and went in unto his Father's Concubines in the sight of all Israel 2 Sam. 16. 22. Ahab had sold himself to work evil in the sight of the Lord c. None like to Ahab who did fell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord 1 Kings 21. 25 26. Psal 141. 4 9. 1 Kings 22. Ahaziah being sick sent to an Idol to enquire and after sent a Captain with his fifty to take the Propher whom God destroyed with fire yet he sent again and again 2 Kings 1. 2 9 10 11 12 13. The King of Israel said c. This evil is of the Lord what shall I wait for the Lord any longer Hazael when the Prophet had told him how wicked he should be said Is thy servant a Dog c. 2 Kings 8. 11 12 13. Rabshaketh said What confidence is this wherein thou trustest c. Let not Hezekiah deceive you c. neither make you trust in the Lord c. Have any of the gods of the Nations delivered at all his land c. Who c. hath delivered c. that the Lord should deliver out of my hand c. 2 Kings 18. 30 32 33 35. Isa 36. ch 37. The words of Sennacherib who hath sent him to reproach the living God c. Whom thou hast reproached and blasphemed and against whom thou hast exalted thy voice c. Against the holy One of Israel by thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord c. 2 Kings 19. 16 22 23. 2 Chron. 32. 9. 10 c. King Ahaz did wickedly and in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. This that King Ahaz 2 Chron. 28. 19 22. Israel laughed to scorn and mocked the Messengers of Hezekiah who exhorted them to repent 2 Chron. 30. 6 7 c. The chief Priests and the People transgressed very much after all the abominations of the Heathen c. And the Lord c. sent to them his Messengers c. but they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose c. till there was no remedy 2 Chron. 36. 14 15 16. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean thing Not one Job 14. 4. What is man that he should be clean or he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous c. Yea the Heavens are unclean in his sight how much more abominable and filthy is man who drinketh in iniquity like water Job 15. 14 15 16. ch 25. 4. The wicked say c. Depart from us for we delight not in the knowledge of this ways What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what can he do c. Job 21 14 15. ch 22. 17. ch 34. 9. The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us Psal 2. 2 3. Matth. 2. 16. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek God God is not in all his thoughts c. his mouth is full of curâ—ing and deceit and fraud c. He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see c. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God c. Psal 10. 4 7 11 13. Psal 50. 17 18 19 c. With our tongue will we prevail our lips are our own who is Lord over us Psal 12. 4. The fool hath said in his heart There is no God they are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none who doeth good c. They are all gone aside they are together become filthy or stinking there is none who doth good no not one Psal 14. 1 2 3. Psal 53. 1 2 3. Eccl. 9. 3. He deviseth mischief on his bed he setteth himself in a way not good Psal 36. 4. Prov. 4. 16. I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Psal 51 5. The wicked estranged from the womb they go astray as soon as they are born speaking lyes c. Psal 58. 3 4 5. Pride compasseth them about as a chain violence covereth them as a garment c. They are corrupt and speak wickedly c. they set their mouth against the Heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth c. They say How doth God know and is there knowledge in the most high Psal 73. 6 8 9 11. Psal 94. 4 7. Job 24. 14 15. The wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them c. For all this
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
who believeth not is condemned already c. he shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him John 3. 3 18 36. Ye are servants of sin and ye are of your father the devil John 8. 54. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men c. they are worthy of death Rom. 1. 18 32. Thinkest thou this c. that thou shalt escape the judgment of God c. Thou treasurest up unto thy self wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgments of God c. Indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who doth evil c. Rom. 2. 4 5 8 9. Destruction and misery are in their ways Rom. 3. 16. Sin entred and death by sin Rom. 5. 12. Whether of sin unto death c. what fruit had ye c. the end of those things is death c. the wages of 〈◊〉 is death Rom. 6. 16 21 23. James 1. 15. To be carnally minded is death So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God c. for if he live after the flesh ye shall die Rom. 8. 6 8 13. Vessels of wrath fitted to destruction Rom. 9. 22. The unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God c. neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers c. shall inherit the kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. If any man love not the Lord Jesus let him be Anathema Maranatha 1 Cor. 16. 22. If our Gospel be hid it is hid unto them who are lost in whom the God of c. 2 Cor. 4. 3. The work of the flesh c. adultery fornication c. They who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God Gal. 5. 19 20 21. He who soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption Gal. 6. 8. Prov. 22. 8. You c. were dead in trâ—espasses and sins c. by nature the children of wrath as well as others Ye were without Christ being aliens of the Commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promises having no hope and without God in the world Ephes 2. 1 3 12. No whoremonger nor unclean person c. hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God c. Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience or unbelief Ephes 5. 5 6. â—owrdâ— 3. 5 6. Hebr. 13. 4. Many walk c. whose eâ—d is destruction Phil. 3. 18 19. When they say peace c. then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with-child and they shall not escape 1 Thes 5. 3. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven c. taking vengeance on them who know not God and who obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power When c. 2 Thes 1. 7 8 9. Heb. 10. 26 27. That they all might be damned who believe not c. 2 Thes 2. 12. To them who are unbelieving is nothing pure c. Titus 1. 15. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Hebr. 10. 31. Psalm 2. 12. Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge Hebr. 13. 4. Judgment must begin at the house of God and if first at us what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God c. Where shall the ungodly and sinners appear 1 Pet. 4. 17 18. The Lord knows c. to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished c. the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men 2 Pet. 2. 9. ch 3. 7. Jude vers 15. Ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 John 3. 15. And the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bond-man and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks c. and said to the mountains and rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sitteth on 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. Whosoever was not found in the book of Life was cast into the lake of fire Rev. 20. 15. The fearful and unbelieving and the abominable c. shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death c. There shall in no wise enter into the new Jerusalem any thing which defile or worketh abomination or a lye Rev. 21. 8 27. For without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers c. Rev. 22. 15. See more of God's Judgments against Sin and Sinners Chap. 16. See more of the Danger of Unbelief Chap. 11. CHAP. VI. The Case the Law concludes Men under I. Under Sin and Guilt IF thou Lord shouldest mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand Psalm 130. 3. Job 9. 1 2. Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father there is one who accuseth you even Moses in whom ye trust John 5. 45. We have before proved or charged both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin as it is written There is none righteous c. Whatsoever the law saith it saith unto them who are under law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty or subject to the Judgment of God before God c. There is no difference for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God Rom. 3. 9 19 23. Where no law is is no transgression Rom. 4. 15. Until the law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed when there is no law c. The law entred that the offence might abound c. Rom. 5. 13 20. I had not known sin but by the law c. Without the law sin was dead I was alive without the law once but when the commandment came sin revived and I died c. That sin might appear sin c. and by the commandment might become exceeding sinful Rom. 7. 7 8 9 13. For God hath concluded them all or shut them up together in unbelief c. Rom. 11. 32. The strength of sin is the law 1 Cor. 15. 56. The scripture hath concluded all men under sin Gal. 3. 22. Rom. 5. 12. Psalm 143. 2. Whoso shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one is made guilty of all c. James 2. 10. II. Under the Curse thereof CUrsed be he who confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them and c. Deut. 27. 26. If thou wilt not c. to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee c. all these curses shall come upon thee Cursed thou c. Deut. 28. 15 16 17 18 c. Thus saith the Lord
said unto him Art thou he who should come or do we look for another Jesus said c. Shew John c. The blind receive their sight c. And blessed is he who shall not be offended in me c. For this is he of whom it is written c. Come unto me all that labour c. Matth. 11. 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 28 29. The voice out of the cloud said This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Hear ye him Matth. 17. 5. And the Angel said c. I bring you tidings of great joy which shall be to all people For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour who is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign to you You shall find the Babe wrapped in swadling-clothes lying in a manager c. Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace good will towards men c. Simeon to whom it was revealed by the Holy Ghost that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord Christ took up the Child Jesus into his arms and blessed God and said c. For mine eyes have seen thy Salvation c. Luke 2. 10 11 12 14 25 26 28 30 31 32. They who are whole need not a Physician c. I came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Luke 5. 31 32. Jesus said unto Zacheus This day is salvation come to this house c. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost Luke 19. 8 9 10. Matth. 18. 11. John seeing Jesus coming unto him said Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away or â—eareth the sins of the world c. We have found the Messiâ—s which is being interpreted the Christ And he brought him to Jesus c. Philip said to Nathaniel We have found him of whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write Jesus c. John 1. 29 30 34 36 41 42 45. As Moses lifted up the serpent c. even so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have everlasting life c. That the world through him should be saved John 3. 14 15 17. Numb 21. 8 9. I know that Messias cometh which is called Christ when he cometh he will tell us all things Jesus said unto her I who speak unto thee am he John 4. 25 26. Acts 9. 5. ch 22. 8. The works that I do bear witness of me that the Father sent me c. And ye will not come to me that ye might have life John 5. 36 40. Labour c. for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life which the Son of man shall give you for him hath God the Father sealed c. The Bread of God is he who cometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world c. And Jesus said unto them I am the Bread of Life he who cometh to me shall never hunger c. I am the living Bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this Bread he shall live for ever c. John 6. 27 33 35 51. When ye have lift up the Son of man then shall ye know that I am he c. John 8. 28. Jesus said Dost thou believe on the Son of God He said c. Who is this Lord that I might believe on him And Jesus said unto him Thou hast both seen him and it is he who talketh with thee John 9. 35 36 37. I am the door said Jesus by me if any man enter in he shall be saved c. I am come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly I am the good Shepherd c. I give them eternal life John 10. 9 10 11 15 28. ch 14. 6. I came not to judge c. but to save the world John 12. 47. I have glorified thee on earth I have finished the work thou gavest me to do John 17. 4. These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is that Christ the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through his name John 20. 31. Jesus Christ c. whom ye crucified whom God raised c. This is the Stone which was set at nought c. Neither is there salvation in any other For there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved c. Against thy holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate Acts 4. 10 11 12 27. Jesus whom ye flew c. him hath God exalted c. to be a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance unto Israel and forgiveness of sins Acts 5. 30 31. Through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins Acts 13. 38. We believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus we shall be saved Acts 15. 11. Paul c. reasoned with them out of the scriptures c. that this Jesus whom I preach unto you is Christ Acts 17. 2 3. Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth or fore-ordained to be a propitiation through faith in his blood Rom. 3. 24 25. Who was delivered for our offences and raised again for our justification Rom. 4. 25. When we were yet without strength in the set time Christ died for the ungodly c. While we were yet â—â—nners Christ died for us c. If when we were enemies we were reconciled unto God by the death of his Son c. Our Lord Jesus by whom we have now received the atonement Rom. 5. 6 8 10 11. Who shall deliver me from this body of death I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 7. 24 25. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 3. 11. They were all baptized into Moses c. did all drink the same spiritual drink for they did all drink of the same spiritual Rock which followed or went with them and that Rock was Christ c. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them c. 1 Cor. 10. 4. 9. All the promises of God in him are yea and in him are Amen unto the glory of God 2 Cor. 1. 20. God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ c. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself 2 Cor. 5. 18 19. Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins Gal. 1. 3 4. In him we are blessed chosen adopted accepted have remission of sins all things Ephes 1. 3 4 c. The Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Gal. 2. 20. God sent forth his Son made of a woman c. to redeem them who were under the law c. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us c. Gal. 3. 13. ch 4. 4 5. Colos 1. 14. Heb. 9. 11 12. Blessed be God who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings 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.
and God in him c. It a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a lyar for he who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4. 6 7 16 20. ch 5. 1. Whsoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and whosoever loveth him c. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that c. Whosoever is born of God sinneth not but he who is begotten of God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not 1 John 5. 1 4 18. He who doth good is of God but he who doth evil hath not seen God 3 John Vers 11. He who abideth in the doctrine or Christ hath both the Father and the Son 2 John Vers 9. Those whose names are written in the book of life they will not subscribe to Antâ—christ Rev. 13. 8. ch 14. 4. ch 17. 8. ch 21. 27. See more in the Fruits of the Spirit Chap. 21. See more in the Fruits of Faith Chap. 11. See more in Duties Chap. 10. under each Duty And Chap. 22. under each Duty in Affliction And Chap. 24. Duties to Magistrates CHAP. XIII Saints Believers the Children of God themselves may be overtaken with Faults are not altogether free from sinful Dispositions and Inclinations in this Life and may be corrected of God for them I. In general it is affirmed FOR there is no man who sinneth not 1 Kings 8. 46. How should man be just with God or before God If he will contend with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand c. Whom though I were righteous yet would I not answer I would make supplication to my Judge c. If I justifie my self my own mouth shall condemn me If I say I am perfect it shall also prove me perverse Job 9. 1 2 3 15 20. Who can understand his errours Cleanse thou me from secret faults keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins let them not have dominion over me Psal 19. 12 13. If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquity O Lord who shall stand Psal 130. 3. The rod of the wicked shall not rest c. lest the righteous put forth their hands to iniquity Psal 125. 3. Who can say I have made my heart clean I am pure from my sins Prov. 20. 9. A just man falleth seven times a day and riseth up Prov. 24. 16. For that there is not a just man upon earth who doeth good and sinneth not Eccles 7. 20. The flesh lusteth against the spirit c. so that ye cannot do the things that ye would Gal. 5. 17. Rom. 7. 14 15 16 17 c. If any man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual restore such c. considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Gal. 6. 1 2. I have no man like-minded c. for all seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christ's Philip. 2. 20 21. Paul saith I count not my self to have apprehended but this one thing c. I press towards the mark c. Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded Philip. 3. 13 14 15. For in many things we offend all If any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man James 3. 2. If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us It we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins c. If we say that we have not sinned we make him a lyar and his word is not in us 1 John 1. 1 8 9 10. If any man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them who sin not unto death There is a sin unto death I do not say that he shall pray for it 1 John 5. 16. II. Particular Instances of the Saints Failings recorded NOah was a just man perfect in his generation Noan walked with God Gen. 6. 9. ch 7. 1. Noah drank of the wine and was drunken and was uncovered within his tent Gen. 9. 21. Abraham believed the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness c. Abraham my Friend He staggâ—red not through unbelief Gen. 15. 6. Isa 41. 8. Rom. 4. 16 18 19 20. They will kill me they will save thee alive Say I pray thee thou are my sister c. And when God had promised him to inherit the Land he said Lord God Whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it c. When the Promise was made to him of a Child he fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart Shall a child c. Oh that Ishmael might live before thee c. He said of his Wife She is my sister again at Gerer for fear of being slain Gen. 12. 12 13. ch 15. 8. ch 17. 16 17 18. ch 20. 2 11. Sarah laughed at the Promise and then denied that she had laughed Gen. 18. 12 13 15. Good Isaac said of his Wife also She is my sister for fear of the Men of the place lest they should kill him for her Gen. 26. 7. Just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man c. 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. He lingered the men laid hold upon his hand c. and said Go escape for thy life c. And Lot said unto him Oh not so my Lord c. I cannot escape to the mountains lest some evil take me and I die Behold this city is near to flee unto Is it not a little one c. He afterwards drinks Wine and then lay with his two Daughters Gen. 19. 16 17 18 19 20 33. 34 35 36. Jacob when he heard his Brother Esau was coming with four hundred men against him he was greatly afraid and distressed c. Gen. 32. 6 7. He was sore distressed when one of his Sons was kept by Joseph and another sent for Gen. 42. 36 37 c. Moses was very meek above all the men upon the face of the earth c. Moses my servant is dead c. Who is faithful to him in all his house c. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant Numb 12. 3 7. Jos 1. 2 13 Heb. 3. 2 5. When God was sending Moses he saith O my Lord I am not eloquent c. And the 〈…〉 unto him Who hath made man's mouth c. And he said O my Lord Send I pray thee by the hand thou wilt send or shouldest send And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses c. Moses returned unto the Lord and said Wherefore hast thou so evilly intreated this people Why is it that thou hast sent me c. Moses was very wrath c. Now ye rebels Must we fetch water out of the rock c. I am not able to bear this people c. If thou deal thus with me kill me I pray thee out of hand
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
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
true God he is the living God and an everlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble c. he hath made the earth by his power he hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion when he uttereth his voice c. Jer. 10. 10 12 13. Heb. 9. 14. Yet I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt know no God but me for there is no saviour besides me Hosea 13. 4. Isa 37. 20. I hate I despise your feasts and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies c. But let judgment run down c. Amos 5. 21 22 23 34. Psalm 66. 18. Isa 66. 3. Jer. 6. 20. Isa 1. 11 12 c. And it shall come to pass that every one who is least of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King the Lord of Host c. Zech. 14. 16. If then I be a father where is mine honour c. And if ye offer the blind and the lame c. offer it now unto your governor will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person c. Ye brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick thus ye brought an offering should I accept this at your hand saith the Lord But cursed the deceiver who hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth unto God a corrupt thing for I am a great king saith the Lord of hosts and my name is dreadful among the heathen Mal. 1. 6 8 13 14. ch 2. 2 3 13. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come c. then shall the offerings of Judah c. be pleasant unto the Lord Mal. 3. 1 4. Get thee behind me Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Matth. 4. 10. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them Matth. 18. 20. There is one God and there is none other but he Mark 12. 32. Our father 's worshipped in this mountain and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship c. The hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem worship the Father Ye worship ye know not what c. but the hour cometh and now is when 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. 20 21 22 23 24. The Father himself c. ye have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his shape John 5. 37. Exod. 33. 20. And he said Lord I believe and he worshipped him John 9. 38. The most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands c. Heaven is my Throne c. hath not my hands made all c. Acts 7. 48 49 50. Whom ye ignorantly worship him declare I unto you God who made the world and all things therein seeing that he is Lord or heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands neither is worshipped with mens hands as though he needed any thing seeing he gave to all life and breath and all things and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitations c. Acts 17. 24 25 26. After the way they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Acts 24. 14. God whom I serve with my spirit c. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things which are made his eternal power and God-head so that they were without excuse because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God c. but became vain c. Changed the truth of God into a lie and served and worshipped the creature more than the Creator who is blessed for ever Amen Rom. 1. 9 20 21 23 25. 2 Tim. 1. 3. Not slothful in business servent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. This I speak c. that ye may attend on the Lord without distraction 1 Cor. 7. 32 35. We know that an idol is nothing in the world and there is none other God but one For though there be that are called Gods c. but to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in or for him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. So falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God is in you of a truth 1 Cor. 14. 25. Gen. 24. 26 52. Exod. 4 31. ch 12. 27. ch 34. 8. Joshua 5. 14. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit Phil. 3. 3. When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world he faith and let all the angels of God Worship him Hebr. 1. 6. God c. because he could swear by no greater he sware by himself c. The living God c. Heb. 6. 13. ch 9. 14. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved let us have grace or hold fast whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12. 28 29. Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifice acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. No man hath seen God at anytime 1 John 4. 12. The four and twenty elders fell down before him who sate on the throne and worshiped him who liveth Rev. 4. 10 11. Fear God and given glory unto him c. And worship him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters Rev. 14. 7. chap. 15. 4. ch 4. 8 9 10 11. ch 5. 13. Worship God Rev. 19. 10. ch 22. 9. Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts 1 Pet. 3. 15. The Lord c. he will famish all the gods of the earth and Men shall worship him every one Zeph. 2. 11. See more of Idolatry and Worshipping strange Gods c. Chap. 40. See the Order of Publick Worship Ordinances Officers c. Chap. 27. Believe imbrace and be found in the Practice of nothing in the things of God and about his Worship but that which clearly according to Precepts Rules and Examples of the Scriptures appears to be Christ's mind upon which we can in Faith expect acceptance AND Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments and all the people answered with one voice and said All the words which the Lord hath said will we do And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord c. And he took the book of the covenant and read in
Heathen who know thee not and upon the families who call not on thy name Jer. 10. 25. Psal 14. 4. I will bring evil upon them c. and though they shall cry unto me I will not hearken unto them c. Therefore pray not thou for this people c. for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble Jer. 11. 11 14. ch 14. 11 12. Jeremiah prays for Israel when he prophessed of the dearth Jer. 14. 7 8 9 18 19 20 21 22. The Lord said unto him Though Moses and Samuel stood before me my mind could not be towards the people c. Jer. 15. 1. Then shall ye call upon me and ye shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken unto you And ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart Jer. 29. 12 13. Call upon me and I will answer thee and shew thee great and mighty or hidden things which thou knowest not Jer. 33. 3. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto God in the heavens c. Thou hast covered thy self with a cloud that our prayers should not pass thorow Lam. 3. 41 44. When God had promised many things that he would do for his he saith I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them Ezek. 36. 24 to 37. Daniel desired his Companions that they would ask mercy of the God of Heaven concerning the Secret of the King's Dream that Daniel and his Fellows should not perish c. And it was revealed to him Dan. 2. 17 18 19. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed he went into his house and his windows being open in his chamber towards Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he did aforetime Dan. 6. 10 11. And I set my face unto the Lord God to seek by prayer and supplication and I prayed unto the Lord my God and made my confession and said O Lord c. forgive c. for the Lord's sake for thy own sake for thy mercy's sake Dan. 9. 3 4 5 c. They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord but they shall not find he hath withdrawn himself from them They have dealt treacherously against me the Lord Hos 5. 6. They have not cryed unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds Hosea 7. 7. 14. By his strength he had power with God yea he had power over the Angel and prevailed he wept and made supplication unto him Hosea 12. 3 4. Gen. 32. 24 25 26 27. Sanctifie a fast c. and cry unto the Lord Alas for the day c. Joel 1. 14 15 c. Sanctifie a fast c. let the priests ministers of the Lord weep c. and let them say Spare thy people O Lord and give not thine heritage to reproach that the heathen should rule over or use a by-word against them wherefore should they say amongst the people Where is their God Then will the Lord be jealous for his land and pity his people c. And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered Joel 2. 15 16 17 18 32. Acts 2. 21. Seek ye me and ye shall live c. seek the Lord and ye shall live c. I hate and despise your feasts c. Let judgment run down as water and righteousness c. Amos 5. 4 6 21 22 23. When my soul fainted within me I remembred the Lord and my prayer came in unto thee into thine holy temple Jonah 2. 7. Let man and beast be covered with sack-cloath and cry mightily unto God c. who can tell if God will return c. And they prevailed Jonah 3. 8 9 10. Seek ye the Lord all ye meek of the earth c. it may be ye shall be hid Zeph. 2. 3. As he cryed and they would not hear so they cryed and I would not hear saith the Lord of hosts Zech. 7. 13. Prov. 1. 24 25 28. The inhabitants of one city shall go to another saying Let us go speedily or continually be going to pray before the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts I will go also Zech. 8. 20 21. Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain The Lord shall Zech. 10. 1. I will pour upon the house of David c. a spirit of prayer and supplication Zech. 12. 10. Pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you Matth. 5. 44. When thou prayest thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the synagogues c. but when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut the door pray to thy Father c. and when ye pray use not vain repititions as the heathens do for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking c. Your Father knoweth what things ye have have need of before ye ask them after this manner therefore pray ye Our Father c. Matth. 6. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. Luke 11. 1 2 c. Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you for every one who asketh receiveth c. What man is there among you who if his son ask bread will he give him a stone c. If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things unto them who ask him Matth. 7. 7 8 9 10 11. Luke 11. 9 10 11 12 13. Christ looking up to heaven he blessed the bread and fishes c. he went up into the mount apart to pray c. Peter said Lord save me Mat. 14. 19 23 30. The woman of Canaan would not give off asking till she had obtained Matth. 15. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven c. Matth. 18. 19. Ye know not what ye ask said Christ unto the mother of Zebedee's children c. The two blind men would not cease crying till they were heard Matth. 20. 21 22 30 31 32 33. All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing ye shall receive Matth. 21. 22. Mark 11. 24. James 1. 5 6 7. Christ fell on his face and prayed saying O my Father if it be possible c. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation c. He prayed again and again c. He kneeled down anâ— prayed Matth. 26. 39 41 42 44. Luke 6. 12. Luke 22. 41 46. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into the harvest Luke 10. 2. And it
the work of faith 2 Thes 1. 11. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father who hath loved us comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work 2 Thes 2. 16 17. Finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course or may run and be glorified and that we may be delivered c. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God c. 2 Thes 3. 1 2 5. 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 c. For this is good and acceptable in the fight of God our Saviour c. I will therefore that men pray every where listing up holy hands without wrath or doubting 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3 8. Every creature of God is good c. if it be received with thanksgiving c. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer 1 Tim. 4. 4 5. She that is a widow indeed c. and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day 1 Tim. 5. 5. I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day 2 Tim. 1. 3. Philemon vers 4. Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens Jesus c. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need Heb. 4. 14 15 16. Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cries and tears unto him who was able to save Hebr. 5. 7. Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest c. and having an high priest over the house of God let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith c. Hebr. 10. 19. 20 21 22. Ephes 3. 11 12. He who prays to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him Hebr. 11. 6. Pray for us c. Now the God of peace c. make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well-pleasing c. Heb. 13. 18 20 21. If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth unto all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him But let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he who wavereth is like a wave of the sea c. and let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord James 1. 5 6 7. Ye have not because ye ask not ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts or pleasures James 4. 2 3. 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 prayer of faith shall save the sick c. Pray one for another the effectual fervent prayer c. James 5. 13 14 15 16 17. And if ye call on the Father who without respect of persons judgeth c. 1 Pet. 1. 17. Likewise ye husbands dwell with them c. that your prayers be not hindered c. The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers 1 Pet. 3. 7 12. Be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight 1 John 3. 22. This is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask any thing according unto his will he heareth us and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask we know that that we have the petitions that we desire of him If any man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death There is a sin unto death I do not say that ye shall pray for it 1 John 5. 14 15 16. Praying in the holy Ghost Jude verse 20. The elders c. having every one of them harps and golden viols full of odours or incense which are the prayers of the saints Rev. 5. 8. Another Angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with or add it to the prayers of all saints c. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God out of the Angels hand Rev. 8. 3 4. See more of Prayer in Affliction Chap. 22. See more of Common Calamities Chap. 23. See more in Duty towards all Men Chap. 19. See Prayer for Magistrates Chap. 24. To take special notice of the Acts of God's Goodness and Mercy keep memorials thereof celebrate his Praises extol him and stir up others so to do THY glorious name c. is exalted above all blessing and praises Nehem. 9. 5. Abraham's Servant when God had heard his request he bowed down his head and worshipped the Lord. And he said Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth c. When he he heard their words he worshipped the Lord c. Gen. 24. 26 27 52. I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God that thou wast pleased with me Gen. 33. 10. Then Jacob said c. Let us arise and go to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went c. And he built there an altar and called the place El-Bethel because there God appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother Gen. 35. 2 3 7 14 15 ch 28. 18 19 c. God commanded Israel to commemorate their deliverance from Egypt once in every year Exod. 13. 3 4 5 c. Moses and Israel solemnly celebrated his praise for their deliverance at the Red Sea in a Song of Praise Exod. 15. 2 3 to the 22. When Israel got victory over the Amalâ—kites he built an Altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi that is the Lord my banner Exod. 17. 13 14 15. And Moses told unto Jethro his Father-in-law all that the Lord had done unto Pharoch and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake c. And Jethro rejoyced for all the goodness which the Lord had done unto Israel c. and said Blessed be the Lord that hath delivered you c. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods Exod. 18. 8 9 10 11. When thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee Deut. 8. 10.
c. Unto him that sits on the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever Rev. 5. 9 11 12 13. ch 7. 11 12. The four and twenty Elders c. worshipped God saying We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty c. Rev. 11. 16 17. Fear God give glory unto him Rev. 14. 7. And they sung the song of Moses c. saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty c. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name For thou only art holy c. Rev. 15. 3 4. Salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our God for true and righteous are his judgments c. And again c. Praise our God all ye his servants and ye who fear him both small and great Rev. 19. 1 2 5 7. To fear God alone and none else The Arguments for it Not to fear any else Or other Fear FEar not Abram I am thy shield thy exceeding great reward Gen. 15. 1. God appeared unto Isaac the same night and said I am the God of Abraham thy father fear not for I am with thee c. Gen. 26. 24. Moses said to Israel Fear not for God is come to prove you that his fear may be before you c. Exod. 20. 20. If thou shalt say in thine heart These nations are more than I how can I disposiess them Thou shalt not be afraid of them but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh c. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them for the Lord thy God is among you a mighty God and terrible c. Deut. 7. 17 18 21. chap. 20. 1. Be strong and of a good courage fear not nor be afraid of them for the Lord thy God he who goeth with thee he will not fail thee nor forsake thee Deut. 31. 6 8. Josh 1. 5 6 7 9. Nekemiah feared not when the Enemy designed to make him afraid and sin c. Neâ—em 6. 10 11 12 c. I will not be afraid of ten thousand of people that have set against me round about Psal 3. 6 7. 2 Chron. 20. 15 16 17. I will both lay me down in peace and sleep for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety Psal 4. 8. Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou with me c. Psal 23. 4. The Lord is my light and my salvation Whom shall I fear The Lord is the strength of my life Of whom shall I be afraid c. Though an host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear c. Psal 27. 1 3. God is our refuge c. therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried c. Psal 46. 1 2 3 c. In God will I put my trust I will not fear what flesh can do unto me Psal 56. 4 11. The righteous c. shall not be afraid of evil tidings c. Psal 112. 6 7 8. The Lord is on my side I will not fear what man can do Psal 118. 6 7. Be not afraid of sudden fear neither of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh for the Lord shall be thy confidence c. Prov. 3. 25 26. The righteous are as bold as a lion Prov. 28. 1. The fear of man bringeth a snare Prov. 29. 25. Take heed and be quiet fear not neither be faint-hearted for the two tails c. Isa 7. 4 5 6 c. Say ye not a confederacy c. neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid c. Isa 8. 12. ch 7. 3 4 5 6. Say unto them who are of a fearful heart Be strong fear not behold your God will come Isa 35. 4. Fear thou not for I am with thee be not dismayed for I am thy God c. fear not I will help thee c. Fear not thou worm Jacob Ye men of Israel I will help thee faith the Lord Isa 41. 10 13 14. Thus saith the Lord who created thee O Jacob c. Fear not for I have redeemed thee c. when thou passest through the waters I with thee Isa 43. 1 2 5. Fear ye not neither be afraid Have not I told thee c. Is there a God besides me c. Isa 44. 2 8. Hearken unto me ye who know righteousness c. Fear ye not the reproach of men neither be afraid of their revilings for the moth shall eat them c. I am he who comforteth you Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die and of the son of man who shall be made as grass and forgettest the Lord thy Maker Isa 51. 7 8 12 13. Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver thee c. Jer. 1. 7 8 17 18 19. Learn not the ways of the Heathen and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens for the heathen are dismayed at them for the customs of the people are vain Jer. 10. 2. Be not afraid of the king of Babylon c. for I am with you to save you c. Jer. 42. 11. Be not afraid of them neither be afraid of their words c. nor be dismayed at their looks c. Ezek. 2. 6. ch 3. 9. When Christ had told his Disciples what Persecutors would do to them he faith Fear them not c. And Fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul Matth. 10. 26 28 31. Luke 12. 4. Why are ye so fearful How is it that ye have no faith Mark 4. 40. We being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear Luke 1. 74. Fear not little flock for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luke 12. 32. Let not your hearts be troubled c. neither let it be afraid John 14. 1 27. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but c. Rom. 8. 15. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power 2 Tim. 1. 7. Moses's Parents feared not the King's Edict nor did he the King's Wrath Heb. 11. 25 27. We may boldly say The Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man shall do unto me Heb. 13. 5 6. If ye suffer for righteousness sake happy and be not afraid of their terrour neither be troubled but sanctifie the Lord c. 1 Pet. 3. 14 15. There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment He who feareth is not made perfect in love 1 John 4. 18. Fear God GOD said unto Abraham Now I know that thou fearest God c. Gen. 22. 12. Now I know that thou fearest God seeing thou hast not with-held thy son Gen. 22. 12. But the midwives feared God and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them but saved the men-children alive c. Therefore God dealt well
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.
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
from before you but they shall be in your sides and their gods shall be a snare unto you Judges 2. 2 3. Jephthah concerning his vow said I have opened my mouth unto the Lord and I cannot go back c. Judges 11. 31 35 39. Psal 116. 14 18. The Lord is a God of knowledge and by him all actions are weighed 1 Sam. 2. 3. God had said to Saul Go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all which they have c. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep c. Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel saying It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king for he is turned back from following me and hath not performed my commandment 1 Sam. 15. 3 8 9 10 11. The Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart 1 Sam. 16. 7. I was also upright before him c. With the upright thou wilt shew thy self upright 2 Sam. 22. 24 26. Psal 18. 23. Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercies according as he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee 1 Kings 3. 6. Thou thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men c. Let your hearts therefore be perfect with the Lord your God 1 Kings 8. 39 61. Psal 44. 21. If thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked in integrity of heart and in uprightness to do according to all c. Then I will establish c. 1 Kings 9. 4 5. It came to pass that when Solomâ—n was old c. his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of David c. he went not fully after the Lord c. 1 Kings 11. 4 6. Asa did that which was right c. but the high places were not removed nevertheless Asa his heart was perfect with the Lord all his days 1 Kings 15. 11 14. How long halt ye between two opinions If the Lord be God follow him 1 Kings 18. 21. Elijah and Micaiah the prophets both faithful to God in a bad time 1 Kings 19. 10. chap. 22. 13 14. Thy servant will not offer c. to any other gods but the Lord In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant When my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship c. and I bow my self c. 2 Kings 5. 11. 18. Many kings of Israel did that which was right c. but yet did not take away the high places 2 Kings 14. ch 15. Josiah turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his might according to all the Law of Moses c. 2 Kings 23. 25. ch 18. 3 4 5 6. Set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God 1 Chron. 22. 10. 2 Chron. 11. 16. ch 15. 12 15. Know thou the God of thy fathers and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth c. 1 Chron. 28. 9. I know also my God that thou triest the heart and hast pleasure in uprightness As for me in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things 1 Chron. 29. 17. Prov. 17. 3. Rom. 8. 27. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of or strongly to hold with them whose heart is perfect towards him 2 Chron. 16. 9. Amaziah did that which is right in the sight of the Lord but not with a perfect heart 2 Chron. 25. 2. Hezekiah c. wrought that which was good and right c. he did it with all his heart and prospered 2 Chron. 31. 20 21. Job was a perfect and upright man and one who feared God c. Job 1. 1 8. Still be holdeth his integrity although thou movest me against him c. Job 2. 3. Behold God will not cast away a perfect man Job 8. 20. My foot hath held his steps his way have I kept and not declined c. Job 23. 11. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Job 27. 6. Psal 26. 11. Doth not he see all my ways and count all my steps Job 31. 4. ch 34. 21. No darkness c. where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves Job 34. 22. God who saveth the upright in heart Psal 7. 10. The Lords throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eye-â—â—ds try the children of men Psal 11. 4 5 Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle c. he who walketh uprightly Psal 15. 1 2. I have set the Lord always before me Psal 16. 8. The Lord preserveth the faithful Psal 31. 23. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Psal 37. 37. Forget all thine own people and thy fathers house so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty Psal 45. 10 11. Like sheep they are laid in the grave c. and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning Psal 49. 14. Behold thou desirest truth in the inner parts Psal 51. 6. My soul followeth hard after thee thy right hand c. Psal 63. 8. Psal 119. 60. All the upright in heart shall glory Psal 64. 10. Psal 97. 11. I will pay my vows which my mouth hath uttered c. when I was in trouble Psal 66. 13 14. Psal 116. 14 18. The Lord God c. will give grace and glory no good thing will he withhold from them who walk uprightly Psal 84. 11. They say the Lord shall not see c. He who planteth the ear shall he not hear He who formed the eye shall he not see c. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man Psal 94. 7 8 9 11 15. It is a people who do err in their hearts c. Psal 95. 10. Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart Psal 97. 11. I will behave my self wisely in a perfect way c. I will walk within my house with a perfect heart Psal 101. 2. Psal 26. 11. Unto the upright there shall arise a light in the darkness Psal 112. 4. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments I will praise thee with uprightness of heart c. My zeal hath consumed me c. Psal 119. 6 7 139. Do good O Lord unto c. them who are upright in their hearts as for such who turn aside to their crooked ways the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal 125. 4 5. O Lord thou hast searched me and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and up-rising thou understandest my thoughts afar off thou compassest my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways for there is not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether Psal 139. 1 2 3 4.
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
remembered that God was their rock c. Psal 78. 34 35. Isa 9. 13. It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes the law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold c. Psal 119. 71 72. My beloved had withdrawn himself was gone my soul failed c. I sought him c. Cant. 5. 6. Such as escape of the house of Jacob shall no more again stay upon him who smote them but shall stay upon the Lord the holy one of Israel in truth Isa 10. 20 21. In that day it shall come to pass that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin c. At that day shall a man look to his maker and his eyes shall have respect to the holy one of Israel and he shall not look to the altars c. Isa 17. 4 5 6 7 8. In vain have I smitten your children they receive no correction Jer. 2. 30. Amos 4. 10. Wherefore doth a living man complain c. let us search and try our ways and turn again unto the Lord Lam. 3. 39 40. Isaiah 9. 13. Jeremiah 31. 18 19. I will cause you to pass under the rod c. and ye shall know that I am the Lord Ezekiel 20. 37 38. Behold I will hedge up thy way c. Then shall she say I will go and return to my first husband for then was it better with me than now c. Hos 2. 6 7 8 ch 5. 15. I will bring a third part through the fire c. they shall call on my name and I will hear them Amos. 4. 10. We had the sentence of doath in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God who raiseth the dead who delivered us c. 2 Cor. 1. 8 9 10. Our light affliction worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen c. 2. Cor. 4. 17 18. See Repentance Chap. 33. 4. For Gods own Glory and the furtherance of the Gospel I will harden Pharaohs heart that he shall follow after them and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh and upon all his host that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord c. And the Egyptians pursued after them c. and the children of Israel were sore afraid c. Exod. 14. 4 9 10 17 18. He fed thee with Manna c. that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live Deut. 8. 3. Howbeit because by this deed thou hast given great cause to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die 2 Sam. 12. 14. Hast thou considered my servant Job c. and still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movest me against him to destroy him without cause Job 2. 3. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain Psalm 76. 10. The Three Children's Sufferings made Persecutors acknowledge and give Honour to God Dan. 3. 27 28 29. So Daniel's Sufferings made Darius the King who had caused him to be cast into the Lions Den to acknowledge and honour God Dan. 6. 20 26 27. Master Who did sia this man or his parents that he was born blind Jesus answered Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents but that the work of God might be made manifest in him John 9. 1 2 3. Jesus said This sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God that the Son of God might be glorified thereby John 11. 3 4. This spake he signifying by what death he should glorifie God John 21. 18 19. We are troubled on every side c. that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body for we who live are always delivered unto death that the life of Jesus might be manifest in our mortal flesh 2 Cor. 4. 8 9 10 11. When Paul was buffeted c. he besought the Lord thrice that it might depart and it was said My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness Most gladly will I therefore rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me c. 2 Cor. 12. 7 8 9 10. I would have you understand c. that the things which have happened to me have fallen out to the furtherance of the gospel c. and many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear Philip. 1. 12 13 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ c. the spirit c. on your part he is glorified 1 Pet. 4. 14. 5. For the effecting of great Good and Advantage to those who are exercised with Trouble c. JOseph's Afflictions and Sufferings his being sold by his brethren and afterwards being imprisoned happened through God to his great honour and advantage He advanced to be next the King his Brethren who sold him made to bow to him and honour him and are nourished by him his Father's Sorrow also recompenced in that Joseph provided for him in the Famine Gen. 37. 28 34 35. ch 29. 5 20. ch 41 39 40 41 42 43 44. ch 45. 5 7 8. ch 47. 11 12. But as for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good to bring to pass as at this day to save much people alive Gen. 50. 20 21. The more they afflicted them the more they multiplied and growed Exod. 1. 11 12. Ezra 5. ch 6. And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians and the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord and his servant Moses Exod. 14. 31. Who fed thee with Manna c. that he might humble thee c. to do thee good in the latter end Deut. 8. 16. Hezekiah left of God to try him that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32. 31. When Manasseh was afflicted he sought the Lord the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers and prayed unto him c. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God c. He took away the strange gods c. 2 Chron. 3. 3 11 12 13 15 16. Tatnai the Governor opposing the Jews wrought for their advantage in the end Ezra 5. ch 6. If they be bound in fetters c. then he sheweth them their work and their transgressions that they may have exceeded He openeth also their ear to discipline Job 36. 8 9 10. Before I was afflicted I went astray but now I have kept thy word c. It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes c. Thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me Psal 119. 67 71 75. They who sow in tears
said unto him Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob from good to bad or either good or bad c. It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt but the God of your father spake unto me yester-night saying Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob Gen. 31. 7 8. 23 24 29 42. When Esau was coming against Jacob with four hundred Men and Jacob was afraid yet God changed Esâ—u's Heart so that when he met Jacob he embraced him c. Which made Jacob say to Esau I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God and thou wast pleased with me Gen. 32. 6 7 8. ch 33. 3 4 10. And the terrour of God was upon the cities that were round about them and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob Gen. 35. 5. Joseph's brethren when they saw him c. conspired against him to slay him And they said one to another Behold this dreamer cometh Come now therefore and let us slay him c. and we shall see what will become of his dreams c. All which God prevented and purposed better things Gen. 37. 18 19 20 c. chap. 39. ch 50. 19 20. The King of Egypt designed the weakening of Israel and preventing their Increase But the more they afflicted them the more they multiplied Exod. 1. 9 10 11 12 20. And the Lord said I have surely seen the afflictions of my people c. for I know their forrows Exod. 3. 7. Acts 7. 34. Psal 10. 14. Pharaoh could not hurt Moses and Aaron though they came with so many threatnings from God Exod. 7. ch 8. c. Pharaoh's Design in pursuing Israel God knew and prevented Pharaoh and overthrew him Exod. 14. The enemy said I will pursue I will overtake I will divide the spoil my lust shall be satisfied upon them I will draw my sword mine hand shall destroy or re-possess them Thon didst blow thy wind the sea did cover them they sank as lead c. Who is like unto thee O Lord Exod. 15. 9 10 11. Balak's Design was to have Balaam to curse Israel but God over-ruled him so that he could not but bless Israel Numb 22. ch 24. 10 11 12 13. ch 23. Saul designed to kill David made many Attempts and pursued him yet could never effect it God prevented him 1 Sam. 18. ch 19. ch 23. ch 24. ch 26. Achitophel gave counsel against David but God brought it to nought and suffered not his enemieâ— to bring their design to pass 2 Sam. 17. The King of Assyria came against Samaria and said The gods do so unto me and more also if the dust of Samaria shall suffise for handfuls for all the people who follow me But God prevented him 1 Kings 20. 1 2 to 21. God defeated the King of Assyria's Design against Elisha 2 Kings 6. 13 14 c. The enemies of Israel set themselves to hinder the building of the Temple asked who commanded them to do it wrote to the King against it But God prevented their Purpose and brought forth the contrary Effect Ezra 5. ch 6. When Israel were building the Adversaries conspired together to come to sight against Jerusalem to hinder it c. And when our enemies heard that it was made known unto us and God had brought their counsel to nought we returned c. Nehem. 4. 7 8 9 11 15. Haman's great Design was to destroy Mordecai and all the Jews and it went on far but God then turned it quite about Esth 5. ch 6. ch 7. ch 8. Job could not be touched by Satan any farther or otherwise than so far as God gave him leave Job 1. 9 10 11 11 12. ch 2. 4 5 6. He disappointeth the devices of the crasty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise He taketh the wise in their own craftiness c. They meet with darkness in the day and grope in the nâ—on Job 5. 12 13 14. Why do the Heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord c. Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill c. Psal 2. 1 2 4 6. Psal 59. 7 8. He hath ordained his arrows against the persecutors Behold he travaileth with iniquity hath conceived mischief and brought forth falshood he made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch he made his mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing come down upon his own pate Psal 7. 13 14 15 16. Psal 9. 15 16. They intended evil against thee they imagined a mischievous device which they are not able to perform Psal 21. 21. Thou preparest a table for me in the sight of mine enemies Psal 23. 5. 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. 10 11. By this I know that thou favourest me because mine enemy doth not triumph over me Psal 41. 11. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath thou shalt restrain Psal 76. 10. When Israel were but few in number c. when they went from one nation to another c. he suffered no man to do them wrong yea he reproved kings for their sake c. Psal 105. 12 13 14 15. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us then they had swallowed us up quick Psal 124. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Gen. 31. 42. There are many devices in the heart of man nevertheless the counsel of the Lord that shall stand Prov. 19. 21. There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord Prov. 21. 30. Gen. 11. 4 5 6 7 c. Be quiet fear not c. Because Syria c. have taken evil counsel against thee saying Let us go up against Judah and vex it c. Thus saith the Lord God It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass Isa 7. 4 5 6. 7. Micah 4. 11 12 13. Associate your selves O ye people and ye shall be broken in pieces c. Gird your selves and ye shall be broken in pieces c. Take counsel together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shall not stand for God is with us Isa 8. 9 10. Jer. 48. 30. O Assyrian the rod of mine anger c. I will lend him against an hypocritical nation c. Howbeit he meaneth not so c. It is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few c. Wherefore it shall come to pass when the Lord hath performed his work c. I will punish the fruit c. Isa 10. 5 6 7 12. Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark and they say Who seeth
and saist Return ye children of men Psal 90. 3. When the Lord returned the captivity of Zion we were like men who dream Psal 126. 1 2. God â—lew the the Assyrians and saved Judah when they were low Isalm 30. ch 37. God delivered Jeremy out of the Dungeon when ready to perish Jer. 38. 6 7 c. So when Jerusalem was taken God delivered Jeremy Jeremiah 39. 11 12 13 14. ch 4. 1 2 3. I will heal thee c. because they call thee an out-cast saying This is Zion whom no man looks after Thus saith the Lord behold I will bring again the captivity of Jacobs tents Jer. 30. 17 18. God appeared for his when in the fire and in the lyons den and delivered them Dan. 3. ch 6. God delivered Jonah when cast into the Sea by a fish Jonah 1. 15 17. ch 2. 10. When Peter through unbelief was sinking into the sea Christ stretched out his hand and caught him and saved him Matth. 14. 28 29 30 31. When the Apostles were put into the prison the Angel of the Lord brought them out Acts 5. 18. 19. Peter being imprisoned in order to his being brought out to the people and being fettered and lying between two souldiers the angel of the Lord came said Arise the chains fell off the gates open of their own accord he is delivered Acts 12. 1 2 3 4 to the 12. When Paul and Silas were thrust into the inner prison and their feet fast in the stocks God made the foundation of the prison to shake and doors fly open and delivered Paul and Silas Acts 16. 23 24 26 29 30 39. Paul when the Jews went about to kill him was delivered by the captain c. Acts 2. 30 31 31. ch 23. 12 13 14 15 c. Paul and his company strangely saved in their voyage by sea and shipwrack Acts 27. Cons 9. That Afflictions and Persecutions shall be for the great good of Saints JAcobs and Josephs affliction proved for the advantage of both Gen. ch 37. ch 41. to the 47. Before I was afflicted I went astray but c. it is good for me that I have been afflicted c. Psal 119. 67 71. They who sow in tears shall reap in joy he who goeth forth and weepeth c. Psal 126. 5 6. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go into the house of feasting for that is the end of all men and the living will lay it to his heart Sorrow is better than laughter for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better Eccles 7. 2 3. By this shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin Isa 27. 9. Eprahim's chastisement was greatly for his good Isa 31. 18 19 20. I will bring the third part through the fire c. they shall call on my name and I will hear them I will say it is my people and they shall say the Lord is my God Zech. 13. 9. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you c. rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven Matth. 5. 11 12. 2 Cor. 4. 17. Whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it Matth. 16. 25. John 12. 25. Every one who hath forsaken houses c. for my name sake shall receive an hundred fold and shall inherit everlasting life Matth. 19. 29. Luke 18. 29. 30. Heb. 10. 34 35 36. Blessed are ye who hunger now for ye shall be filled blessed are ye who weep now for ye shall laugh Luke 6. 21. We know that all things move together for good to them that love God Rom. 8. 28. In nothing terrified c. which is to them an evident token of c. but to you of salvation and that of God Phil. 1. 28. It is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation unto them who trouble you and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord c. 2 Thess 1. 5 6 7. Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that ye have in heaven a better and an c. Heb. 10. 34. Moses c. choosing rather affliction with the people of God c. esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches c. for he had respect unto the recompence of reward Heb. 11. 24 25 26. Now no chastening for the present c. nevertheless afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness Heb. 12. 11. The tryal of your faith worketh patience c. blessed is the man who endureth temptations for when he is tryed he shall receive the crown of life James 1. 3 12. We have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord James 3. 11. Rejoyce in as much as ye are partakers of Christs sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed ye may be glad also with exceeding joy if ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy for the spirit of God and glory shall rest upon you 1 Pet. 4. 13. 14. These are they who came out of great tribulations c. 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 c. shall feed them c. and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Rev. 7. 13 14 15 16 17. ch 20. 4 6. See some of the Ends of Gods Afflicting his Chap. 22. Cons That God will not always chide nor suffer his to be under Afflictions and Persecutions they shall have an End he will bring Deliverance and restore Joy THO Joseph was hated sold and imprisoned yet God did deliver him at last Gen. 37. ch 30. ch 40. ch 41. After Israel had been long and sorely oppressed and afflicted by the Egyptians the Lord sent Moses for their deliverance and said I have surely seen the afflictions of my people which are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their task-masters c. and I am come down to deliver them out of their hand c. and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land Exod. 3. 7 8 9 10. ch 6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. 1 Sam. 9. 15. 16. Exod. 2. 24 25. Yet for all that when they be in the land of their enemies I will not cast them away neither will I abhor them to destroy them utterly c. but I will for their sakes remember the covenant c. I am the Lord Levit. 26. 43 44 45. For the Lord will judge his people and repent him for his servants when he sees that their power is gone c. he will be merciful to his land c. Deut. 32. 36 43. 2 Kings 14. 16. so did God often for his people Israel Judges 3. ch 4. c. I will for this afflict the house of David but not for ever 1 Kings 11. 39. He maketh sore and bindeth
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
glory shall be revealed ye may be glad also If any suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God in this behalf for the time is come when judgment c. 1 Pet. 4. 12 13 16. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach Heb. 13. 13. 6. To cry to the Lord for Help Support and Salvation JAcob in his distress when Esau pursued him prayed earnestly c. Gen. 32. 8 9 c. 24 25 c. Jacob in his great distress when Joseph had kept Simeoâ— and required Benjamin also said God Almighty give you mercy before the man that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin If I be bereaved c. Gen. 43. 14. The children of Israel lifted up their eyes and behold the Egyptians marched after them and they were sore afraid And the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord Exod. 14. 10. When all the waters were bitter that the people could not drink Moses cried unto the Lord Exod. 15. 23 24 25. Moses cried unto the Lord saying What shall I do unto this people they be almost ready to stone me c. So when Amalek fought with Israel Moses held up his hand and then Israel prevailed c. Exod. 17. 1 2 3 4 11 12. If thou afflict them c. and they cry at all to me I will surely hear their cry Exod. 22. 23. The Lord shall scatter you among the nations c. But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God thou shalt find him If thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 4. 27 29. When Israel were delivered into the hand of their enemies they cried unto the Lord and the Lord 〈◊〉 up a Deliverer Judges 3. 8 9. ch 10. 13 14. 2 Chron. 15. 3 4. 1 Sam. 6. 16. Hannah was in bitterness of Soul and prayed unto the Lord and wept fore 1 Sam. 1. 10 11 12 13. Samuel prayed for Israel when the Philistines came against them 1 Sam. 9. 9. David in his distress prayed the Lord to turn the Counsel of Acicitophel into foolishness 2 Sam. â—5 31. ch 12. 22. In my distress I called upon the Lord and cried to my God and he did hear my voice out of his temple 2 Sam. 22. 7. Psal 18. 6. When Jerusalem was in distress by reason of the Assyrians and Rabshakeh's railing and threatening Hezekiah spread the Letter before the Lord and prayed before the Lord and said O Lord God c. 2 Kings 19. 14 15 16 c. Isa 37. 14 15 c. Hezekiah was sick unto death c. he turned his face to the wall and prayed unto the Lord saying I beseech thee O Lord c. He wept 2 Kings 20. 1 2 3. Isa 38. 1 2 3. When there came an Host of one thousand thousand against Judah Asa cried unto the Lord his God and said Lord it is nothing unto thee to help c. 2 Chron. 14. 9 10 11 12. There came a great Multitude against Jehoshaphat c. He feared and set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a Fast c. And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation and said O Lord God of our fathers Art not thou God c. 2 Chron. 20. 2 3 4 c. When Manasseh was in affliction he besought the Lord his God c. and prayed unto him and he was intreated of him 2 Chron. 33. 11 12 13. Job 36. 8 9. I am full of confusion therefore see thou mine affliction Job 10. 15. Psal 9. 13. He heareth the cry of the afflicted Job 34. 28. Psal 102. 17. The hypocrite in heart they cry not when he bindeth them Job 36. 13. O Lord save me from all them who persecute me and deliver me Psal 7. 1. Our fathers c. they cried to thee and were delivered c. He hath not despised nor abhorred the afflictions of the afflicted neither hath he hid his face from him but when he cried unto him he heard Psal 22. 4 5 24. Psal 107. 6 13. I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears This poor man cried and the Lord heard and saved him out of all his troubles Psal 34 4 6 17. Psal 35. The Psalmist prays for Help and Salvation in such a time Psal 38. 20 21 22. Psal 39. 10 13. Psal 69. 14 15. Psal 88. Psal 143. 7 8 9. For thy sake are we killed all the day long c. Awake Why sleepest thou O Lord Arise c. Wherefore hidest thou thy face forgettest our affliction c. Psal 44. 22 23 24 25 26. Psal 74. 9 10 11. Call upon me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me Psal 50. 15. David prays earnestly in his low Condition for Joy and Comfort Psal 51. 7 8 9 10 c. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran in the night Psal 77. 2. In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee for thou wilt answer me Psal 86. 7. I called upon the Lord in distress the Lord answered me and set me in a large place Psal 118. 5. Psal 130. 1. The heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord he inclineth it which way he will Prov. 21. 1. The Church in her low Condition prays earnestly Look down c. Isa 63. 15 to 19. Psal 74. 9 10 11 Isa 64. 8 9. Lord correct me in judgment not in thine anger lest thou bring me to nothing Jer. 10. 24. I called upon thy name O Lord out of the low dungeon c. Lam. 3. 55 59 c. Daniel and his Friends in his great Strait and Danger about the King's Dream prays to God Dan. 2. 13 14 18. I will go and return unto my place till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face In their affliction they will seek me early Hos 5. 15. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be delivered Joel 2. 32. When the Mariners were in the Tempest they called upon their Gods and roused up Jonah to call upon his God If so be God will think upon us that we perish not Jonah 1. 4 5 6. Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fisnes belly and said I cry c. Jonah 2. 1 2 c. The Ninevites prayed c. Who can tell if God will turn c. Jonah 3. 8 9. 2 Sam. 12. 22. When Peter saw the Wind boisterous he was afraid and beginning to sink he cried saying Lord save me And immediately Jesus c. caught him Matth. 14. 30 31. Shall not God avenge his Elect who cry to him day and night Yea he will avenge them Luke 18. 7 8. When the Apostles had been imprisoned and convened before Council they lift up their voice to God with one accord and said Lord Thou art God c. Behold their threatnings and grant unto thy servants c. Acts 4.
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.
fasted wept lay in sack-cloth Ester 4. 1 2 3 16. The Psalmist makes complaint and prays to God earnestly for the church in great calamity Psal 74. Psal 79. Psal 80. By the rivers of babylon there we sate down we wept when we remembred Zion c. If I forget thee O Jerusalem c. Psal 137. 1. 4. 5 6. Despise not the chastening of the Lord nor be weary c. Prov. 3. 11 12. The people turned not to him who smote them neither do they seek the Lord of hosts Isa 9. 13 14. I will weep bitterly labour not c. And in that day did the Lord of hostscall to weeping and to mourning and to baldness c. and behold joy and gladness slaying of oxen c. This iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die saith the Lord Isa 22. 4 12 13 14. In the way of thy judgments O Lord we have waited for thee c. Come my people enter into your chambers c. until the indignation be overpast Isa 26. 8 12 20 21. Hezekiah spread Rabshakehs letter before the Lord and prayed unto the Lord c. Isa 57. 14 15 c. There is none c. who stirreth up himself to take hold of thee for thou hast c. consumed c. Isa 64. 7 8 9 10. Thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou hast consumed them but they have refused to receive correction c. They refused to return Jer. 5. 3. ch 2. 30. Oh that my head were water and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people c. Jer. 9. 1. Mine eyes shall weep in secret places for your pride and mine eye shall weep sore and run down with tears because the Lords flock is carried away captive Jer. 13. 17. In the great famine Jeremy confesseth sin and prays to and pleads with God for Israel at large Jer. 14. At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy If that nation c. turn from their evil I will repent of the evil which I thought Behold I frame evil against you c. return ye now every one from c. Jer. 18. 7 8 11. God complained against Judah that thô they were destroyed yet not humbled Jer. 3. 44 6 10. The Lord blamed Baruch for seeking great things for himself in such a day Jer. 45. Arise c. pour out thy soul like water before the Lord lift up thine hands c. for the life of thy children c. Lam. 2. 19 20. Let us search and try our ways and turn again to the Lord let us lift up our heart with our hand unto God in the heavens Lam. 3. 39 40 41 42. Set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof Ezek. 9. 4. I sought for a man among 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 Ezek. 22 30. Daniel in the captivity confesseth and prayeth Dan. 9. 3 4 c. Come let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal Hosea 6. 1. God calls upon Israel to sanctifie a fast and to â—y unto the Lord Joel 1. 13 14. Zeph. 2. 1 2 3. Turn to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning and rent your heart and not your garments and turn unto the Lord c. Who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him c. Blow the trumpet in Zion sanctifie a fast Joel 2. 12 13 14 15 16 17 Deut. 30. 1 2 3 c. Because I will do this prepare to meet thy God O Israel Amos 4. 11 12. The prudent shall keep silent in that time for it is an evil time c. let judgment run down like water c. Amos 5. 13 14 15 24. Micah 7. 5 6. 7. Wo to them who are at ease in Zion c. but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph Amos 6. 1 3 6. Isa 57. 1. The mariners call upon Jonah to pray and enquired for what cause they were in that danger Jonah 1. 5 6 7 c. The people of Nineveh upon a threatning fast pray and return from their evil Jonah 3. 5 6 c. Though there be no ox in the stall c. yet will I rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God c. Hab. 3. 17 18 19. Is this a time for you to dwell in your cieled houses and this house lie waste c. therefore thus saith the Lord consider or set your heart upon your ways Haggai 1. 4 5 7. When ye fasted and mourned did ye at all fast unto me c Execute true judgment c. Zech. 7. 5 9 10. Isa 58. 3 4 5 6 7 8. When ye hear of wars c. be not troubled for such things must be Mark 13. 7. Jesus said unto them Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Gaâ—leans because they suffered such things I tell you nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloe fell and slew them think ye that they were sinners above all men who dwelt in Jerusalem I tell you nay but except ye repent c. Luke 13. 1 2 3 4 5. See more in Prayer and Affliction Chap. 22. See more of Humility Chap. 16. CHAP. XXIV Of Magistrates and Magistracy an Ordinance of God 1. That Magistracy is an Ordinance of God That by him are Magistrates Advanced to Offices c. The Titles given them THE kingdom is the Lords and he is the governor among the nations Psal 22. 28. Dan. 4. 17. John 3. 27. ch 19. 11. Against all the gods or Princes of Egypt I will execute judgment c. Exod. 12. 12. And the Lord said to Moses Gather unto me seventy of the Elders of Israel c. and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee and will put it upon them and they shall bear the burthen of the people with thee c. Numb 11. 16 17 25. Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee throughout all the tribes and they shall judge the people Deut. 16. 18. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust lifteth the beggar from the dunghil to sit among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory 1 Sam. 2. 8. When the people asked a king the Lord said to Samuel c. For they have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them 1 Sam. 8. 5 6 7. ch 10. 18. 19. ch 12. 12 17 18 19 20. Saith Cirus c. the Lord God of heaven hath given me all
disciples c. about one hundred and twenty c. Acts 1. 13 14 15. They were all with one accord in one place c. and they continued stedfastly in the Apostle's doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers c. And all who believed were together c. and they continued daily with one accord in the temple c. Acts 2. 1 42 44 46. The Apostles being let go they went to their own company c. and they lift up their voice with one accord and said Lord c. Acts 4. 23 24 c. The church c. and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch Acts 5. 11 12. Barnabas and Saul a whole year assembled themselves with the church and taught much people Acts 11. 25 26. Prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him c. many were met together praying Acts 12. 5 12. Ye come together not for the better c. When ye come together in the Church I hear that there be c. When ye come together into one place this is not to eat the Lord's Supper c. wherefore my brethren when ye come together to eat tarry c. 1 Cor. 11. 17 18 20 33. If therefore the whole Church be come together into one place c. If all prophesie c. How is it then brethren When ye come together every one hath a Psalm hath a Doctrine c. let all things be done unto edifying c. for God is not the author of confusion but of peace as in all the Churches of the Saints 1 Cor. 14. 23 24 25 26 31 33. I am with you in the spirit joying and beholding your order Col. 2. 5. Comfort your selves together and edifie one another even as also ye do 1 Thes 5. 11. Let us consider one another to provoke one another to love and good works not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another Heb. 10. 24 25. My brethren have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory with respect of persons for if there come into your assembly or Synagogue a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment and ye have respect unto him who weareth the gay cloathing and say unto him Sit thou here in a good place and say unto the poor Stand thou there or Sit here under my footstool are you not then partial c. hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom c. If ye fulfil the royal law c. thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self ye do well but if ye respect persons ye commit sin James 2. 1 to v. 10. Seventhly Of the Gifts which the Members of Churches received Of Prayer Prophesying Psalms Tongues c. and how they did use them in the Church-Assemblies and elsewhere for the Edification and Good one of another and of others The Order how they should be Used Directed Such Gifts to be desired for this end ELdad ad Medad prophefied in the camp and there ran a young man and told Moses and Joshua c. said My Lord Moses forbid them and Moses said unto him 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 Numbers 11. 26 27 28 29. Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the Congregation and spread forth his hand toward heaven and said Lord God of Israel c. 1 Kings 8. 22 23 c. Jehoshaphat stood in the Congregation c. in the house of the Lord c. and said O Lord God of our fathers art not thou God in heaven c. 2 Chron. 20. 4 5 c. Then they who feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkned c. They shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts Mal. 3. 16 17. John said Master We saw one casting out devils in thy name and he followed not us and we forbad him but Jesus said Forbid him not for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name that can lightly speak evil of me for he who is not against us is on our part Mark 9. 38 39 40. Luke 9. 50. The Jews used to have such speak in their Synagogue who were not either priests or other officers as appears in these instances Luke 4. 16 to v. 22. Acts 13. 14 to v. 19. ch 17. 1 2 3. There was a great persecution against the Church which was at Jerusalem and they were all seattered abroad c. except the Apostles c. therefore they who were scattered abroad went every-where preaching the word Acts 8. 1 4. Now they who were scattered c. when they were come to Antioch spake unto the Grecians preaching the Lord Jesus and the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord Acts 11. 19 20 21. Apollos an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures c. he taught diligently the things of the Lord knowing only the baptism of John c. who when Aquilla and Priscilla had taught the way of God more perfectly did mightily convince the Jews and that publickly shewing by the Scriptures that Jesus was Christ Acts 18. 24 to v. 29. Think soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith For as we have many members in one body and all members have not the same office so we being many c. Having then gifts differing according to the grace which is given to us whether prophecy let us prophesie according to the proportion of faith c. Or he that teacheth on teaching or he who exhorteth on exhortation c. he who ruleth with diligence Rom. 12. 3 to v. 9. I my self am also perswaded of you my brethren that ye also are full of goodness filled with knowledge able also to admonish one another Rom. 15. 14. I thank my God c. that in every thing ye are inriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge 1 Cor. 1. 4 5. Now there are diversity of gifts but the same spirit c. But the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal For to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom to another the word of knowledge c. to another faith c. to another prophecy c. But all these worketh that one and the self-same spirit dividing to every man severally as he will c. If the foot shall say Because I am not the hand I am not of the body c. God hath set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him c. Are all Apostles c. Have all the gift of healing Do all speak with tongues c. But covet earnestly the best gifts 1
them Acts 6. 5 6. Peter and John prayed and laid their Hands on Disciples and they received the Holy Ghost Acts 8. 17. The Prophets and Teachers at Antiâ—ch by the Command of the Holy Ghost to separate Paul and Barnabas c. did pray and fast and lay their Hands upon them Acts 13. 1 2 3. Paul finding disciples c. And when Paul had 〈◊〉 his hands on them the Holy Ghost c. Acts 19. 1 6. Paul prayed and laid hands on Publius his father and healed him being sick Acts 28. 8. Neglect not the gift c. given theâ— c. with laying on of the hands of the presbytery 1 Tim. 4. 14. Lay hands suddenly on no man neither be partaker of other men's sins 1 Tim. 5. 22. Stir up the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of hands 2 Tim. 1. 6. Not laying again the foundation of repentance c. of laying on of hands Heb. 6. 1 2. Thirteenthly Of the several Ordinances of Christ to be observed in and by the Churches of Christ and elsewhere THE earth is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws changed the ordinances c. Isa 24. 5. And they continued stedfastly in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers c. And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple Acts 2. 41 42 46. And now I praise you brethren that you c. keep the ordinances as they were delivered unto you 1 Cor. 11. 2. I. Prayers THese all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women c. Acts 1. 14. And they continued c. and in prayers Acts 2. 42. See Prayers at large Chap. 16. See Praising at large Ibid. II. Reading Teaching and Preaching of the Word of God Prophesying THou shalt set a king over thee c. He shall write him a copy of this law in a book c. he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord Deut. 17. 15 18 19. 20. 2 Kings 22. 11. When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall chuse thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing Gather the people together men and women and children and thy stranger that is within thy gates that they may hear and that they may learn and fear the Lord your God and observe to do all the words of this saw and their children who have not known may hear and learn to fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. Joshua read all the words of the law the blessings and curses according unto all which is written in the book of the law there was not a word of all which Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were conversant among them Josh 8. 34 35. Jehoshaphat sent to his Princes to Benhail c. to teach in the cities of Judah and with them Elishama c. Priests 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. And Ezra the Priest brought the law before the Congregation c. and he read therein c. from the morning until the mid-day c. Also Joshua and Bani c. and the Levites caused the people to understand the law and the people stood in their place so they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and gave the sense and caused them to understand the reading Nehem. 8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. ch 13. 1. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children c. that they might set their hope in God c. Psal 78. 5 6 7. Blessed is the man who heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors for whose findeth me findeth life Prov. 8 34 35. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who bringeth good tydings who publisheth peace c. and publisheth salvation c. Isa 52. 7. Nâ—hâ—m 1. 15. The prophet who hath a dream let him tell a dream and he who hath my word let him speak my word faithfully what is the chaff to the wheat saith the Lord Jer. 23. 28 29. Thou shalt speak my words unto them whither they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. They shall wander from sea to sea c. to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it Amos 8. 12. And the Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the earth and then shall the end c. Matth. 24. 14. Go ye therefore and teach all nations c. teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you Matth. 28. 19 20. The parable of the sower opened by Christ to be the word preached Mark 4. 14 15 16 c. Luke 8. 11. Whosoever shall not receive you nor hear you when ye depart thence shake off the dust from under your feet for a testimony against them Mark 6. 11. Luke 10. 16. Matth. 10. 11 12 13. Jesus c. as his custom was he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath-day and stood up to read and there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaias and when he had opened the book he found the place where it was written The spirit of the Lord is upon me c. and he closed the book and gave it again to the minister and sat down c. and he began to say unto them This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears c. and all c. wondred at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth c. Luke 4. 16 17 18 19 20 31 32. Jesus went through every City c. preaching and shewing the glad tidings c. Luke 8. 1. Jesus said c. Ought not Christ to have suffered c And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself c. then opened he their understandings c. Luke 24. 26 27 45. I pray c. for them also who shall believe in me through their word John 17. 20. When the Apostles were commanded not to preach Christ they said whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye Acts 4. 18. 19. ch 5. 28. Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life and when c. And daily in the temple and in every house they ceased not to teach and to preach Jesus Christ Acts 5. 20 42. The Eunuch reading the Prophet Isaias Philip came to him c. and opened his mouth and
c. and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you c. Abram took Ishmael his son and all who were born in his house c. and circumcised the flesh c. And Abraham was ninety and nine years old when he was circumcised c. and Ishmael his son 13 years old when he was circumcised Gen. 17. 9 10 11 12 13 23 24 25. Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the kingdom of Heaven and he laid his hands on them Matth. 19. 13 14 15. 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. 19. John said I indeed baptize you with water but one mightier than I cometh c. he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire Luke 3. 16. Acts 11. 15 16. John 1 26 31 33. Acts â— 5. Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples John 4. 1 2. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins for the promise is unto you and to your children c. then they who gladly received the word were baptized Acts 2. 38 39 41. ch 22. 26. But when they believed c. they were baptized both men and women c. Simon was baptized c. The Eunuch said Here is water what hinders me to be baptized and Philip said If thou believest with all thine heart thou maist c. they went down into the water and he baptized him Acts 8. 12 13 36 37 38. Saul arose and was baptized Acts 9. 18. chap. 22. 16. Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized who have received the holy Ghost as well as we and he commanded them to be baptized in the name c. Acts 10. 47 48. Who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved Acts 11. 14. Lydia c. whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul and when she was baptized and her houshold c. believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved thou and thine house c. and he took them the same hour c. and was baptized he and all his straightway Acts 16. 14 15 30 31 32 33 34. Some who were baptized with John's baptism were baptized again Acts 19. 3 4 5. Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death buried c Rom. 6. 3 4. I baptized also the house of Stephanus besides I know not whether I c. 1 Cor. 1. 16. The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband otherwise were your children unclean but now they are holy 1 Cor. 7. 14. Leaving the principles c. of the doctrine of Baptisms Heb. 6. 1 2. The ark wherein few c. were saved by water the like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us 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. 20 21. IV. Breaking of Bread or the Lord's Supper THE Passover instituted and all the directions about it Exod. 12. The doubt whether one unclean might eat the passover resolved by God unto Moses Numb 9. 6 7 c. The people not prepared yet did eat Hezekiâ—h prayed for them 2 Câ—r 30. 18 1â— As they were eating Jesus took bread and blessed it and bâ—ake it and gave it to his Disciples and said Take eat this is my body and he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying Drink ye all of it for this is my blood of the new Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins but he said unto them I will not drink it henceforth c. and when they had sung c. Matth. 26. 26 27 28 29 30. They all drank of the cup Mark 14. 23. He sate down and the twelve Apostles with him c. He took the cup and gave thanks and said Take this and divide it among your selves c. And he took bread and gave thanks and brake it and gave unto them saying This is my body which is given for you this do in remembrance of me Likewise also the cup after supper saying This cup is the new Testament in my blood which is shed for you Luke 22. 14 16 17 18 19 20. When Judas had received the sop at supper he went immediately out John 13. 26 30. And they continued stedâ—astly c. in breaking of bread Acts 2. 42. Upon the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break bread c. Paul preached to them c. in the upper chamber where they were gathered together c. When he therefore was come up again and had broken bread c. Acts 20. 7 8 9 10 11. Purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump c. let us keep the feast not with old leaven c. but with the unleavened bread of sincerity 1 Cor. 5. 7 8. The cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the blood of Christ the bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ for we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread c. ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils ye cannot c. 1 Cor. 10. 16 17 21 22. When ye come together therefore into one place this is not to eat the Lord's supper or ye cannot eat for in eating every one taketh before other his own supper and one is hungry and another is drunken what have ye not houses to eat and to drink in or despise you the Church of God and shame them that have not or are poor for I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in or for a remembrance of me After the same manner also he took the cup when he had supped saying This cup is the new Testament in my blood this do ye as often as ye drink it in remembrance of me for as often as ye eat thus bread and drink this cup ye do shew 〈…〉 ye the Lord's death till he come wherefore whosoever shall eat this breadâ— and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord c. he who eateth c. unworthily eateth and drinketh dâ—mnation to himself not discerâ—ing the Lord's body c. When ye come together to eat tarry one for another and if any man hunger
my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies c. I hate vain thoughts c. Psal 119. 59 113. Thou knowest my down-sitting c. thou understandest my thoughts afar off c. Search me O God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts Psal 139. 2 23. His breath goeth forth c. in that very day his thoughts perish Psal 146. 4. The thoughts of the righteous are right but the counsels of the wicked c. Prov. 12. 5. The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord Prov. 15. 26. Commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established Prov. 16. 3. The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness but of every one who is hasty only to want Prov. 21. 5. Eat thou not the bread of him who hath an evil eye for as he thinketh in his heart so is he Eat c. saith he but his heart is not with thee Prov. 23. 6 7. The thought of foolishness is sin Prov. 24. 9. If thou hast thought evil lay thine hand upon thy mouth Prov. 30. 32. O Assyrian c. I will send him against an hypocritical nation c. howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart think so but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few Isa 10. 5 6 7. Let the wicked man forsake his ways and the unrighteous man his thoughts let him return unto the Lord Isa 55. 7. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity Isa 59. 7. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way which is not good after their own thoughts Isa 65. 2. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness c. how long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee Jer. 4. 14. Neither say they in their heart let us now fear the Lord our God Jer. 5. 24. Behold I will bring evil upon this people the fruit of their thoughts Jer. 6. 19. Thus saith the Lord c. I know the things which come into your mind every one Ezek. 11. 5. Then the king's countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joynts of his loins were loosed Dan. 5. 6. A book of remembrance was written before him for them who feared the Lord and that thought upon his name Mal. 3. 16. Take no thought for your life c. Which of you by taking thought can add c. And why take ye thought for raiment c. Take therefore no thought for the morrow c. sufficient to the day is the evil of it Matth. 6. 25 27 28 31 34. Jesus knowing their thoughts said Wherefore think you evil in your heart Mat. 9. 4. Mark 2. 8. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth c. Mat. 12. 35. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts murders c. Mat. 15. 19. When Mary saw the Angel she was troubled at his sayings and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be c. He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts c. Luke 1. 29 51. This child is set for the fall and rising of many c. that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed c. Luke 2. 35. All men mused or reasoned or debated in their hearts of John whether he were the Christ or notâ— Luke 3. 15. The Scribes and Pharisees watched him c. but he knew their thoughts Luke 6. 7 8. Martha thou art careful and troubled about many things but one thing is needful Luke 10. 41 42. And the Lord c. looked and Peter remembred the words of the Lord c. Luke 22. 61. Why are ye troubled and why do thoughts arise in your hearts behold my hands Luke 24. 38 39. Thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God might be purchased with money c. pray God if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven Acts 8. 20 22. They became vain in their imaginations and their foolish hearts was darkened Rom. 1. 21. They who are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh c. to be carnally minded is death c. because the carnal mind is enmity against God Rom. 8. 5 6 7. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain 1 Cor. 3. 20. Let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 12. Charity c. thinketh no evil 1 Cor. 13. 5. Casteth down imaginations or reasonings c. and bringeth into captivity every thought 2 Cor. 10. 5. If a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself Gal. 6. 3. Many walk c. whose end is destruction whose God is their belly c. who mind earthly things Phil. 3. 18 19. Whatsoever things are true c. if there be any praise think on these things Phil. 4. 8. Set your affections or mind on things above and not on things of the earth Col. 3. 2. The word of God is quick c. a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart c. all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we c. Heb. 4. 12. 13. Are ye not then partial c. and are become Judges of evil thoughts James 2. 4. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though ye know them c. to stir you up by putting in remembrance c. I will endeavour that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance c. 2 Pet. 1. 12 13 15. ch 3. 1 2. Jude v. 4 5. CHAP. XXXIII Of Repentance in General wherein God cannot Repent and wherein or how he is said to Repent Repentance in Man and his turning to God from Sin and in such who have back-slidden from following God and otherwise First Wherein God cannot Repent and wherein or how he is said to Repent AND God saw that the wickedness of man was great c. and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart Gen. 6. 5 6. Moses prayed and said c. Turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of this evil against thy people c. and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do Exod. 32. 11 12 14. Ye shall bear your iniquities c. and ye shall know my breach of promise or altering of my purpose Numb 14. 34. God is not a man that he should lye neither the son of man that he should repent hath he said and shall not he do it or hath he spoken and shall not make it good Num. 23. 19. 1 Sam. 15. 29. Heb. 6. 18. Titus 1. 2. The Lord shall c. repent himself for his servants when he seeth that power is gone
instructing them who oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth and that they may recover themselves out of theâ—â—are of the Devil 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts c. Heb. 4. 7. ch 3. 15. Ps 95. 7 8. Let us go on to perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works c. for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened c. if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves c. Heb. 6. 1 4 5 6. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you cleanse your hands ye sinners c. James 4 8 9 10. Brethren if any of you do err from the truth and one convert him let him know that he who converteth a sinner from the errour of his way shall save a soul from death c. James 5 19 20. The Lord is not slack c. but is long-suffering to us-ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance 2 Pet. 3. 9. Thou hast left thy first love remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first worâ—s or the I will come unto 〈◊〉 quickly c. thou hast there them who hold the doctrine of Balaam c. 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 I will come c. I gave her space to 〈◊〉 of her fornication and she repented not behold I will cast her into a bed c. Rev. 2. 4 5 14 15 16 20 21 22. I have not found thy works perfect before God remember therefore how thou hast received and heard and hold fast and repent c. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten be zealous therefore and repent Rev. 3 2 3 19. 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 c. neither repented they of their murders c. Rev. 9. 20 21. And men were scorched or burned with great heat and blasphemed the name of God c. and they repented not to give him glory c. and repented not of their deeds Rev. 16. 8 9 10 11. See more of departing from Sin Chap. 16. See more of Invitations and incouragements to come to God and Christ for it Chap. 20. CHAP XXXIV Of Death the laying down of these Tabernacles AND the Lord formed man of the dust of the ground or dusâ— of the ground Gen. 2. 7. Job 4. 19. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return Gen. 3. 19. God said unto Abraham Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace thou shalt be buried in a good old age Gen. 15. 15. ch 25. 8. I have undertaken to speak unto the Lord who am but dust and ashes Gen. 18. 27. Sarah died c. and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her Gen. 23. 2. Abraham dyed c. and was gathered to his people c. Ishmael c. gave up the ghost and was gathered unto his people Gen. 25. 8 17. Isaac c. said Behold now I am old I know not the day of my death Gen. 27. 1 2. ch 35 28 29. Rachel died in bearing Benjamiâ— by the way buryed there and a stone put upon her grave Gen. 35. 17 18 19 c. Jacob said c. The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years few and evil have the days of the years of my life been Gen. 47. 9. He mourned for Joseph refused to be comforted but said I will go down unto my grave mourning Gen. 37. 34 35. Jacob ordered Joseph not to bury him in Egypt but to carry him to the burying place to his father Gen. 47. 29 30. Joseph wepâ— for his father Israel when he dyed and there was great mourning and lamentation for him 〈◊〉 50. â— 3 10 17. Aaron dyed in the mount c. all the house of Israel mourned for him thirty days Numb 20. 28 29. Deut. 34. 8. Balaam 〈◊〉 let me die the death of the righteous and let my laâ—t â—â—d be like his Numbers 2â— 10. And the Lord said unto Moses c. When thou hast seen it thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people as Aaron thy brother was gathered for ye 〈◊〉 c. Numb 27. 12 13 14. Deut. 34. 5. O that they were wise c. that they would consider their latter end Deut. 32. 29. Joshua said Behold this day I am going the way of all the earth c. Josh 23. 14. â— Kings 2. 2. Now Samuel was dead and all Israel lamented him c. and Samuel said unto Saul Why hast thou disquieted me to bring me up 1 Sam. 28. 3 15. David and the men with him mourned and wept and fasted until even for Saul and for Jonathan c. 2 Sam. 1. 11 12. When Davids child was sick he fasted and prayed he said who can tell if God will be gracious to me that the child may live but when it was dead he rose up and did eat and said I shall go to him he shall not return to me 2 Sam. 12. 16 17 20 22 23. David wept for Absolom his son and cryed O my son Absolom my son c. 2 Sam. 18. 33. ch 19 4. The child shall die and all Israel shall mourn c. for he only c. shall come to the grave 1 Kings 14. 12 13. Elijah stretched himself upon the dead child c. and said O Lord my God I pray thee let this childs soul come into him again or into his inward parts 1 Kings 17. 21 22. Acts 20. 10. We are all strangers c. our days on the earth are as a shadow and there is none abiding 1 Chron. 29. 15. Zech. 1. 5. Job said Why died I not in the womb c for now should I have lien still and been quiet I should have slept then had I been at rest with Kings c. there the wicked cease trroubling the weary are are at rest c. they hear not the voice c. Job 3. 11 13 14 17 18 19. ch 6. 8 9. ch 10 18 19 20 c. Naked came I out of my mothers womb c. the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken blessed c. Job 1. 21. Is there not an appointed time to man on earth are not his days also like the days of an hireling c. Swiâ—ter then a weavers shuttle c. thine eye upon me and I am not c. Job 7. 1 2 6 7 8 9 10. We are of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are a shadow Job 8. 9. My days are swifter then a post c. as the swist ships as the eagle c Job 9. 25 26. Man who
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
his resurrection c. Phil. 3. 8 10. Since c. ye knew the grace of God in truth we desire that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and understanding c. increasing in the knowledge of God c. the Saints to whom God would-make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles which is Christ c. Col. 1. 6 9 10 26 27. Unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ in whom or wherein are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge Col. 2. 2 3. The new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him who created c. Col. 3. 10. Knowing brethren c. your election of God for our Gospel came not to you in word only but also in power c. 1 Thes 1. 4 5. I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them who are asleep 1 Thes 4. 13. Taking vengeance upon them who know not God 2 Thes 1. 8. Desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what they say nor whereof they affirm but we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully c. but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief c. 1 Tim. 1. 6 7 8 9 13. Who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth 1 Tim. 2. 4. If any man teach otherwise c. he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions c. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4. They profess that they know God but in works they deny him Titus 1. 16. They do err in their hearts not having known my ways Heb. 3. 10. Every high Priest taken from among men c. who can have compassion on the ignorant c. concerning whom I have many things to say and hard to be unfolded seeing ye are dull of hearing c. Heb. 5. 1 2 11 12. If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth c. Hebr. 10. 26. 2 Pet. 2. 20 21. If any man lack wisdom let him ask it of God who giveth to all men liberally c. James 1. 5. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you let him shew out of a good c. James 3. 13. To him who knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin James 4. 17. Not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance c. 1 Pet. 1. 14. With well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 1 Pet. 2. 15. Grace c. be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord c. Add c. to vertue knowledge c. If these things be in you c. ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus c. but he who lacketh these c. is blind c. knowing this first that no Scripture is of private interpretation 2 Pet. 1. 2 3 5 8 9 20. But these c. speak evil of things they understand not c. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord c. it had been better c. not to have known c. 2 Pet. 2. 12. 20 21. Jude v. 1. This they are willingly ignorant of c. Paul c. in all his Epistles c. in which are some things hard to be understood which they who are unlearned wrest c. seeing ye know c. Grow in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus c. 2 Pet. 3. 5 15 16 17 18. Hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments he that saith I know him and c. I write to you fathers because ye have known him c. ye know all things c. as the same anointing teacheth you all things c. 1 John 2. 3 4 13 20 21 27. Therefore the world knew us not because it knew him not c. whosoever sinneth hath not c. known him we know that we have passed from death to life c. hereby we know that we are of the truth c. 1 John 3. 1 6 14 19. ch 5. 2. Hereby know ye the spirit of God c. he who knoweth God heareth us c. hereby know we the spirit of truth and the spirit of errour c. he that loveth God knoweth God he who loveth not knoweth not God we have known and believed the love that God hath to us 1 John 4. 2 6 7 8 16. That ye may know that ye have eternal life c. we know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not c. we know that we are of God c. we know that the son of God is come c. 1 John 5. 13 18 19 20. These speak evil of those things which they know not Jude v. 10. All the Churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and heart c. Rev. 2. 23. And knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind c. Rev. 3. 17. See the Ignorance of Natural Men Chap. 5. See the Giver of knowledge Chap. 20. CHAP. XXXIX Of this present World and the Riches Honours Pleasure and other Things in this World the use of them the Snares and Tentations in them and of the Saints Duty in Relation to them WHile the earth remaineth seed time and harvest cold and heat and summer and winter day and night shall not cease Gen. 8. 22. And Abraham was very rich in Cattel in Silver and in Gold c. Lot also went with Abraham c. their substance was great so that they could not dwell together Gen. 13. 2. Job 1. 3. Gen. 26. 12 13 14. If God will c. give me bread to eat and raiment to put on c. then c. Gen. 28. 20 21. When Rachel said Give me children c. Jacob said Am I in Gods stead who withheld c. Gen. 30. 1 2. ch 33. 5. All the earth is mine said the Lord to Moses Exod. 19. 5. God gave inventions to men to work of divers sorts Exod. 35. ch 36. ch 37 c. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours c. nor any thing that is thy neighbours Exod. 20. 17. Israel wept again and said Who shall give us flesh to eat c and God was angry Numb 11. 4. 10. 1 Cor. 10. 6 10. Balaam upon great news offers Balak went out being desired to curse Israel Numb 22. He sed thee with Manna c. that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only but c. thy raiment waxed not old c. The Lord thy God will bring thee into a good land c. wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness c. when thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the
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
22. My Lord is wife according to the wisdom of an Angel of God 2 Sam. 14. 20. When the Angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it the Lord repented him of the evil 2 Sam. 24. 16 17. 1 Chron. 21. 15 16 18 20 30. The Angel of the Lord came to Elijah and gave him food c. 1 Kings 19. 5 6 7. The Angel of the Lord said to Elijah c. Go up to meet the messengers c. 2 Kings 1. 13. The Angel of the Lord went out and smote the Camp of the Assyrians one hundred fourscore and five thousand 2 Kings 19. 35. Isa 37. 36. His Angels he charged with folly Job 4. 18. The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them who fear him and delivereth Psal 34. 7. Dan. 3. 28. ch 6. 22. Let the Angel of the Lord chase them c. Persecute them Psal 35. 5 6. The Charets of God are twenty thousand even thousands or many thousands of Angels Psal 68. 17. Man did eat Angels food c. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger c. by sending evil angels amonst them Psal 78. 25 49. For he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways they shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone Psal 91. 11 12. Mat. 4. 6. Bless the Lord ye his Angels who excel in strength who do his command Psal 103. 20 21. Who maketh his Angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire Psal 104. 4. Heb. 1. 7. Praise ye him all his Angels c. Psal 148. 2. Neither say thou before the Angel that it was an errour Eccles 5. 6. They are called Seraphims each one had six wings c. Isa 6. 2 3 4 c. The Angel of his presence saved them Isa 63. 9. He had power over the Angel and prevailed Hosea 12. 4. The Angel talked with Zechariah Zech. 1. 8 9 11 12 13 14. ch 2. 3. ch 4. ch 5. Joshua the high Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord c. And the Lord said to Satan The Lord rebuke thee c. And the Angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua c. Zech. 3. 1 2 3 6. The Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream saying Joseph Fear not Mat. 1. 20. Again the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream saying c. Mat. 2. 13. The Devil leaving Christ behold Angels came and ministred unto him c. Mat. 4. 11. Luke 22. 43. The reapers are the Angels c. The Son of man shall send forth his Angels and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things which offend c. At the end of the world the Angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the just Mat. 13. 39 41 49. Despise not one of these little ones for I say unto you In heaven their Angels do behold the face of my father which is in heaven Mat. 18. 10. And he shall send his Angels c. and they shall gather together his elect c. but of that day and hour knoweth no man no not the Angels of heaven Mat. 24. 31 36. The Son of man shall come c. and all the holy Angels with him Mat. 25. 31. He shall presently give me more than twelve legions of Angels Mat. 26. 53. The Angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it his countenance was like lightning and his rayment as white as snow and for fear of him the keepers did shake and became as dead men And the Angel answered and said unto the women Fear not ye for I know that ye seek Jesus c. he is not here for he is risen Mary saw two Angels in white sitting one at the head and the other at the feet Mat. 28. 2 3 4 5 6. Acts 6. 15. John 20. 12. Luke 24. 4 5 6 23. There appeared unto Zacharias an Angel of the Lord c. who said unto him Fear not c. I am Gabriel who stand in the presence of God and am sent to speak unto thee c. The Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a City c. to a Virgin c. Luke 1. 11 12 13 19 26 27 28 30 35. There were shepherds abiding in the field c and to the Angel of the Lord came upon them c And the Angel of the Lord said unto them Fear not for behold I bring you good tidings c. and suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly Host praising God and saying Glory to God in the Higest The Angels were gone away from them into heaven c. Jesus who was so named of the Angels Luke 2. 8 9 10 13 14 15 21. He who denieth me before men shall be denied before the Angels of God Luke 12. 9. There is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over one sinner that repenteth Luke 15. 10. The beggar died and was carried by the Angels into Abraham's bosom Luke 16. 22. Ye shall see heaven open and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man John 1. 51. An Angel went down at a certain season and troubled the water John 5. 4. The people c. said That it thundered others said an Angel spake to him c. John 12. 29. While they looked c. two men stood by them in white apparel who also said c. Acts 1. 10 11. The Angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth Acts 5. 19. This Moses whom c. the same did God send c. by the hands of the Angel c. who spake to him in mount Sinai c. Who hath received the law by the disposition of Angels and have not c. Acts 7. 35 37 53. And the Angel of the Lord spake unto Philip saying Arise and go towards c. Acts 8. 26 27. An Angel of God appeared to Cornelius Acts 10. 3 7 22. The Angel of the Lord came unto Peter in prison and led him out c. Then said they It is his Angel c. The Angel of God smote Herod Acts 12. 7 8 9 11 15 23. The Sadduces say there is no resurrection Angel nor Spirit Acts 23. 8 9. There stood by me this night the Angel of God c. whose I am and whom I serve saying fear not Saul c. Acts 27. 23. Know ye not that we shall judge Angels 1 Cor. 6. 3. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the Angels 1 Cor. 11. 10. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thess 1. 7. I charge thee before God c. and the elect Angels 1 Tim 5. 21. Of the Angels he faith Who maketh his Angels spirits c. Are they not all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who
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
thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it and it would be sin in thee But if thou shalt forbear to vow it shall be no sin in thee That which is gone out of thy lips a free wilt offering according as thou hast vowed c. Deut. 23. 21 22 23. Eccles 5. 4 5. Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand then c. Numb 21. 2 3. Jepthah's Vow to dedicate to God whatever came out of his house to meet him after his Victory his Daughter met him he performed the Vow Judges 11. 30 31 32. Hannah vowed to give her Child unto the Lord and she performed it 1 Sam. 1. 11 27 28. Offer to God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the Most High Psal 50. 14. Thy vows are upon me O God I will render praises unto thee Psal 56. 12. Thou O God hast heard my vows thou hast given me the heritage c. So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever that I may daily perform my vows Psal 61. 5 8. I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings I will pay thee my vows which my lips have uttered c. when I was in trouble Psal 66. 13 14. Vow and pay unto the Lord your God Psal 76. 11. I will pay my Vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people Psal 116. 14. It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy and after vows to make enquiry Prov. 20. 25. When thou vowest unto God defer not to pay c. Better thou shouldst not vow than c. not perform Eccles 5. 4 5. God threatens Judah for saying they would performe their Vows which they had made to burn Incense to the Queen of Heaven c. Jer. 44. 25 26 27 c. I will pay that which I have vowed Jonah 2 9. Paul having shorn his head at Cenchrea for he had a Vow Acts 18. 18. We have four men who have a vow on them them take and purifie thy self with them c. And all may know c. that thou thy self also walkest orderly and keepest the law Touching the Gentiles we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing c. Acts 21. 20 21 22 23 24 c. The Law about the Vows of a Daughter in her Father's House And of a married Person Numb 30. CHAP LII Of Blasphemy AND the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord and cursed and they brought him to Moses c. and they they put him in ward that the mind of the Lord might be shewed unto them And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Bring forth him who hath cursed without the camp and let all who heard him lay their hands upon him and let all the congregation stone him c. Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin and he who blasphemeth the name of the Lord shall be put to death Levit. 24. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 23. Jezebel King Ahab's Wife commanded the Nobles to set up False Witnesses against Naboth to testifie that he did blaspheme God and the King and so stone him to death Which accordingly they did 1 Kings 21. 8 9 10 11 12 13. Acts 6. 11 13. Senacherib King of Assyria by his Servants said Who among all the gods c. could deliver his people out of mine hand that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand c. No god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver c. how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hands And his servants spake yet more against the Lord God c. He wrote also a Letter to rail on the Lord God of Israel and to speak against him c. And they spake against the God of Jerusalem as against the gods of the people of the earth the work of the hands of men 2 Chron. 32. 9 to 20. The shame of my face hath covered me for the voice of him who reproacheth and blasphemeth Psal 44. 16. O God how long shall the adversaries reproach shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever c. Remember this the enemy hath reproached O Lord and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy name Psal 74. 10 18 22. Render unto our neighbours seven-fold c. their reproach wherewith they have reproached thee O Lord Psal 79. 12. What have I here saith the Lord that my people is taken away for nought c. and my name continually every day is blasphemed Isa 52. 5. In this your fathers have blasphemed me in that they have committed a trespass against me when I had brought them into the land c. Then they saw every high Hill and all the thick trees and then they offered sacrifices there c. Ezek. 20. 27 28. Thou shalt know that I am the Lord. I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountain of Israel saying They are laid desolate c. Thus with your mouth you have boasted against me and have multiplied your words against me c. Ezek. 35. 12 13. When Christ had said to a man Thy sins are forgiven thee c. certain Scribes said within themselves This man blasphemeth c. The Pharisees said He casteth out devils by the prince of devils Matth. 9. 2 3 34. Luke 5. 21. The Pharisees said This fellow doth not cast out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils c. Jesus said c. If I cast out devils by the spirit of God then the kingdom of God is come amongst you c. Wherefore I say unto you All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but the blaspemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever shall speak a word against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world neither in the world to come Matth. 12. 24 28 31 32. Luke 12. 10. Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of Power and coming in the clouds of heaven Then the high Priest rent his clothes saying he hath spoken blasphemy what need have we of farther witnesses behold now ye have heard his blasphemy Matth. 26. 64 65. He who shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness c. because they said He hath an unclean spirit Mark 3. 29 30. From within out of the heart of men proceedeth evil thoughts blasphemes Mark 7. 21 22. They c. asked hâ—m saying Prophesie who is iâ— who smote thee And many other things blasphemously spake they against him Luke 22. 64 65. For a good work we stone thee not but for blasphemy because that thou being a man makest thy self God c. Say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world Thou
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
12. to 18. ch 35. 2. Six days shall work be done c. ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day Exod. 35. 3. Six days shall work be done but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest an holy convocation c. Levit. 23. 3. They found a Man who gathered sticks upon the Sabbath day c. and the Lord said to Moses The man shall surely be put to death all the Congregation shall stone him with stones without the Camp Numb 15. 32 33 34 35 36. And on the sabbath day two lambs c. this is the burnt-offering of every sabbath beside the continual burnt-offerings c. Numb 28. 9 10. Keep the sabbath day to sanctifie it c. and remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt c. Deut. 5. 12 13 14 15. If the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell we would not buy it on the sabbath c. Nehem. 10. 31. Nehemâ—an contended with the Nobles of Judah for profaning the Sabbath and he caused the gates be shut on the Sabbath to keep out Merchandizes and threatned such who brought them to sell on the Sabbath Nehem. 13. 15 to the 23. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath from doing thy pleasure on my holy day and call the sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord honourable and shall honour him not doing thine own ways nor finding thine own pleasures nor speaking thine own words then c. I will cause thee to ride upon the high places c. Isa 58. 13 14. Bear no burthen on the sabbath day nor bring in by the gates of Jerusalem neither carry forth a burthen out of the houses on the sabbath day neither do ye any work but hallow ye the sabbath day c. Jerem 17. 21 22 24 27. I gave them my sabbath to be a sign between me and them c. Ezek. 20. 12 20 21. Hear this O ye who swallow up the needy c. saying When will the new moon be gone that we may sell corn and the sabbath that we may set forth wheat c. Amos 8. 4 5. Jesus went through the Corn on the sabbath day and his Disciples were an hungred and began to pluck the ears of Corn to eat But when the Pharisees saw it they said to him Behold thy Disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day But he said unto them Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungred c. and how on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath and are blameless c. If ye had known what this means I will have mercy and not sacrifice ye would not have condemned the guiltless For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day c. What man c. who shall have one sheep and it shall fall into a pit on the sabbath day will he not lay hold on it and lift it out c. Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath day Matth. 12. 1 2 to the 13. Luke 6. 1 2 3 c. ch 13. 14 15 16. The sabbath was made for man and not man for the sabbath Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath Mark 2. 27 28. Very early in the morning the first day of the week they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the Sun c. Mark 16. 2 3 c. Luke 24. 1 2 3 c. Jesus c. as his custom was he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read and there was delivered to him the Book of the Prophets c. Luke 4. 16 31. Ye on the Sabbath day circumcise a man If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision that the law of Moses should not be broken or without breaking the Law Are ye angry with me because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day John 7. 22 23. And the same day at evening being the first day of the week c. the Disciples were assembled c. came Jesus in the midst and saith to them Peace c. And after eight days again or in eight days his Disciples were within c. came Jesus the doors being shut and stood in the midst of c. John 20. 19 26. Paul c. reasoned in the Synagogue every sabbath and perswaded the Jews and Greeks c. Acts 18. 4. Paul c. abode at Troas seven days and upon the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break bread Paul preached unto them ready to depart on the morrow and continued his speech until midnight c. When he c. had broken bread and eaten and talked a long while even till break of day so he departed Acts 20. 6 7 8 11. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gathering when I come 1 Cor. 16. 2. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise And God did rest the seventh day from all his works c. If Jesus or Joshua had given them rest then would he not afterwards have spoken of another day there remaineth therefore a rest or a Sabbath to the people of God c. Hebr. 4. 4 5 6 7 8 9. I John c. was in the Spirit on the Lord's day c. Rev. 1. 9 10. CHAP. LIX Of Usury IF thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee thou shalt not be to him as an usurer neither shall thou lay upon him usury Exod. 22. 25. And if thy brother be waxen poor and fallen in decay with thee then thou shalt relieve him c. Take thou no usury of him or increase but fear thy God that thy brother may live with thee Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury nor leâ—d him thy victuals for increase Levit. 25. 35 36 37. Thou saul not lend upon usury to thy brother usury of money usury of any thing that is lent upon usury Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury c. Deut. 23. 19 20. When the Jews were low and borrowed Money each of other to buy Corn and for necessary Uses and they took Mortgages of their Lands and sold their Sons and Daughters each to other for it then Nehemiah rebuked them for this Usury and further tells them That he and his Brethren might exact of them Money and Corn and prays them to leave off this Usury Nehem. 5. Who shall abide in thy tabernacle c. he who putteth not out his Money to usury not taketh not a reward against the innocent c. Psal 15. 1 5. He who by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance he shall gather for him who will pity the poor
Israel is commanded especially to remember their deliverance out of Egypt Deut. 26. 1 2 3 c. Exod. 13. 14 15. Moses Song Deut. 32. Joshua pitched stones in Gilgal in memory of Israel's passing dry thorow Jordan that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty Josh 4. 5 6 7 20 21 22 23 24. The Song of Deborah and Barak which they sang after the victory against Sisera and his Army Judges 5. 2 Chron. 20. 26. Psalm 124. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Hannah sang praise when she brought Samuel her Son to the House of the Lord whom the Lord had given her upon her Prayer 1 Sam. 2. 1 2 3 4 to the 11. When the Philistines were beaten Samuel set up a stone called the name thereof Eben-Ezer saying Hitherto hath the Lord helped us 1 Sam. 7. 10 11 12. When Abigail met David and prevented him in his hasty purpose concerning Nabal's House he said unto Abigail Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice c. And when David heard that Nabal was dead he said Blessed be the Lord who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and hath kept his servant from evil c. 1 Sam. 25. 32 33 39. When God had promised many things unto David he faith Let thy name be magnified for ever saying The Lord of Hosts is the God over Israel c. 2 Sam. 7. 26. And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hands of Saul And he said The Lord is my rock my fortress and my deliverer c. 2 Sam. 22. Blessed be God who hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he hath promised 1 Kings 8. 56. Upon the return of the Ark to the City of David he prepares a Song and delivers it to be sung by way of Thanksgiving unto God 1 Chron. 16. 8 9 to the 37. When the people had offered willingly towards the building of the House of the Lord David blessed the Lord before all the Congregation and David said Blessed be thou Lord God of Israel our Father for ever and ever c. Now therefore our God we thank thee and praise thy glorious name c. that we should be able to offer so willingly c. The congregation did so 1 Chron. 29. 9 10 to the 20. Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord and he spake unto him c. but Hezekiah rendred noâ— again according to the benefit done unto him c. 2 Chron. 32. 24 25. Isa 28. 8 9. ch 39. Ezra takes notice of a little favour and acknowledgeth it to the praise of God Ezra 9. 8 9 13 14. ch 7. 27 28. Stand up bless the Lord your God for ever and ever and blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise c. Nehem. 9. 5 6 c. When Job had lost all then he said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken blessed be the name of the Lord Job 1. 20 28. I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness and will sing to the name of the Lord most high Psalm 7. 17. O Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glory above the heavens c. Psalm 8. 1 9. I will praise thee O Lord with my whole heart I will shew forth all thy marvellous works I will sing praise to thy name O thou most high c. Sing to the Lord who dwelleth in Sion declare among the people his doings Psalm 9. 1 2 11. Psalm 96. I will sing unto the Lord because he hath dealt bountifully with me Psalm 13. 6. David's Song of Praises for his Deliverances Psalm 18. Thou art holy who inhabiteth the praises of Israel c. Ye who fear the Lord praise him all ye the seed of Jacob glorifie him Psalm 22. 3 23. That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works Psalm 26. 7. The Lord is my strength c. with my song will I praise him Psalm 28. 7. Sing unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance or to the memorial of his holy name c. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing c. to the end that my glory may sing praise unto thee and not be silent O Lord my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever Psalm 30. 4 11 12. Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness Psalm 31. 21. Praise is comely for the upright Psalm 33. 1. Psalm 147. 1. I will bless the Lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth c. O magnifie the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together I sought the Lord and he heard me c. O taste and see that the Lord is good c. Psalm 34. 1 3 4 6 8. Psalm 54. 6 7. My tongue shall speak of thy righteousness of thy praise all the day Psalm 35. 28. Psalm 105. 1 2 3. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God c. according to thy name so is thy praises O God unto the ends of the earth Psalm 48. 1 10. Offer unto God thanksgiving c. I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me c. Whose offereth praise glorifieth me Psal 50. 14 15 23. My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed or prepared I will sing praise awake up my glory c. I will praise thee O Lord among the people I will sing unto thee among the nations Psal â—7 7 8 9. Psal 108. 1 2. I will sing of thy power yea I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning for thou hast been my defence c. Psal 59. 16 17. Psal 62. 7. Praise waiteth for thee O God in Sion c. Psal 65. 1. Isa 12. Make a joyful noise unto God all ye saints sing forth the honour of his name make his praise glorious c. All the earth shall worship thee and shall sing unto thee Oh bless our God ye people c. Come hear c. all ye who fear God and I will declare what he hath done for my soul I cried c. Blessed be God who hath not turned away my prayer nor his mercy from me Psal 66. 1 2 4 8 16 17 20. Psal 81. 1. Sing unto God sing praises unto his name extol him who rideth upon the heavens c. A Father to the fatherless c. Psal 68. 4 5. I will praise the Lord with a song and will magnifie him with thanksgiving this also shall please the Lord better than an ox c. Psal 69. 30 31. By thee have I been holpen up from my womb my praise shall be continually of thee
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