a sin unto death I do not say that he shall pray for it 1 John 5. 16. 2dly Particular instances of the Saints failings recorded Noah was a just man perfect in his generation Noah walked with God Gen. 6. 9. chap. 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 staggered 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 art 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. O that Ishmael might live before thee c. He said of his wife she is my sister again at Gerer for fear of being slain c. Gen. 12. 12 13. Gen. 15. 8. Gen. 17. 16 17 18. Gen. 20. 2 11. 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 lise 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 dye Behold this City is near to flye 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 400 men against him he was greatly afraid and distressed c. Gen. 32. 6 7. Moses was very meek above all the men upon the face of the earth c. Moses my servant is dead c. who was faithful to him in all his house c. and Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant Numb 12. 3 7. Jof 1. 2 13. Heb. 3. 2 5. When God was sending Moses he saith O my Lord I am not eloquent c. And the Lord said unto him Who hath made mans mouth c. and he said O my Lord send I pray thee by the hand thou wile send or shouldst send and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses c. Moses returned unto the Lord and said Wherefore hast thou so evilly entreated this people Why is it that thou hast sent me c. Moses was very wroth c. now ye rebels Must we fetch out 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. And Moses said c. shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them c. He spake unadvisedly with his lips being provoked in his spirit Exod. 4. 10 11 12 13 14. Exod. 5. 22 23. Numb 11. 11 12 14 15 21 22 23. Numb 16. 15. Numb 20. 10 11. Psal. 106. 32 33. Numb 27. 14. 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 Exod. 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. 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 King 14. 8. Acts 13. 22. And David c. was sore afraid of Achish the King of Gath. And he changed his behaviour before them and feigned himself mad in their hands c. David said in his heart I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul c. He went on with the Philistines against Israel c. He sent messengers to fetch Uriahs wife and he lay with her c. to cover it made Uriah drunk and then sent to Joab to put Uriah into the hottest battel and then retire from him that he mighe be smitten and dye c. O my son Absolom my son my son Absolom would God I had dyed for thee c. He caused the children of Israel to be numbred c. I said in my haste I am cut off from before thine eyes c. I said in my haste that all men are lyars c. 1 Sam. 21. 12 13 14. 1 Sam. 27. 1. 1 Sam. 29. 2. 2 Sam. 11. 2 3 4 13 14 15. 2 Sam. 18. 33. 2 Sam. 24. 1 2 3 4 c. Psal. 31. 22. Psal. 116. 11. And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord as did David his father c. Asa his heart was perfect with the Lord all his days 1 King 15. 11 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 relyed on the King of Syria and not relyed 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. 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 King 19. 4. And Jehoshaphat walked c. doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord 2 Chron. 20. 32. 1 King 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. chap. 20. 33. Hezekiah did that which was right in the sight of the Lord he removed the high-places c. he trusted in the Lord
Gen. 4. 26. And he was the Priest of the Most High God Gen. 14. 18 19 20. The Lord appeared unto Abraham and said c. I am the Almighty God c. Gen. 17. 1. chap. 28. 3. Rev. 21. 22. 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 18. chap. 9. 1 13. I appeared unto Abraham c. By the Name of God Almighty but by my name Jehovah was not known to 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. chap. 33. 19. The Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh Numb 27. 16. That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name the Lord thy God Deut. 28. 58. To sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shilo c. 1 Sam. 1. 3 11. The Lord of hosts the God of the Armies of Israel c. 1 Sam. 17. 45. The God of Israel said The rock of Israel speak 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. 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 sanctify 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 middest of my people Israel and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord the holy one of Israel Ezek. 39. 7. 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 John 1. 5. James 1. 17. God is love 1 Joh. 4. 8 16. And the Lord God of the holy Prophets sent c. Rev. 22. 6. 2dly He is a Spirit God is a spirit John 4. 24. 3dly His Excellency Majesty Greatness Perfection Glory and Soveraignty and Absoluteness He created the world and all things in it Gen. 1. ch 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. Have given you all things c. Neither shall there be any more a flood to destroy the earth Gen. 9. 21. 3. 11. 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. The Priest of the most high God c. The most high God possessour of heaven and earth Gen. 14. 18 19 20 22. Psal. 9. 2. 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 maist know that there is none like unto the Lord our God c. I will sever c. To the end thou maist know that I am the Lord in the middest of the earth Exod. 8. 10 22. Thy right hand O Lord is become glorious in power c. hath dasned 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 prayses doing wonders c. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever Exod. 15. 6 7 8 11 15 16 17 18. I now 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 quaked greatly Exod. 29. 18. ch 20. 18 19. And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai c. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount c. Exod. 24. 16 17. Ezek. 3. 23. chap. 8. 4. ch 9. 3. There will I meet with the children of Israel and they shall be sanctified by my glory Exod. 29. 4. 3. I beseech thee shew me thy glory c. Thou canst not see my face For there shall no man see me and live c. And it shall come to pass while my glory passeth by that I will put thee in a clift c. Exod. 33. 18 19 20 22. I will do marvails such as have not been done in all the earth c. And all the people shall see the work of the Lord for it is a terrible thing that will do with thee Exod. 34. 10. The glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle Exod. 40. 34 35. Levit. 9. 23. Num. 14. 10. ch 16. 42. As truly as I live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord because all those men who have seen my glory and my miracles c. Numb 14. 21 22. Balaam said c. All that the Lord speaketh that I must do Numb 23. 26. Let the Lord God of the spirits of all flesh set a man Numb 27. 16. O Lord God thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hands for what God is there in heaven or in earth that can do according to thy work and according to thy might Deut. 3. 24. The Lord thy God is a consuming fire a jealous God c. Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the middest of the fire as thou hast heard and live c. The Lord he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is none else
of the wisdom and knowledg of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out For who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his counsellour c. Rom. 11. 33 34 35. 17. He is eternal And Abraham c. called there on the name of the Lord the everlasting God Gen. 21. 33. The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms Deut. 33. 27. And also the strength or eternity of Israel will not lye 1 Sam. 15. 29. The Lord shall endure for ever c. Psal. 9. 7. Before the mountains were brought forth c. even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God c. For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night Psal. 90. 2. 4. Thou Lord art high for evermore Psal. 92. 8. The Lord reigneth c. Thy throne is established of old thou art from everlasting Psal. 93. 1 2. Psal. 146. 10. Thou O Lord shalt endure for ever and thy remembrance unto all generations c. They shall perish but thou shalt endure c. Thou art the same and thy years shall have no end Psal. 102. 12 26 27. Lam. 5. 19. Thy name O Lord endureth for ever and thy memorial throughout all generations Psal. 135. 13. Isa. 63. 16. Hast thou not known c. that the everlasting God the Lord c. Isa. 40. 28. Thus saith the Lord c. I the first and I the last and besides me there is no God Isa. 44. 6. ch 48. 12. Thus saith the high and lofty one who inhabiteth eternity c. Isa. 57. 15. The Lord the true God he is c. An everlasting king Jer. 10. 10. Dan. 4. 3 34. For the invisible things of him c. even his eternal power and Godhead Rom. 1. 20. Now is made manifest c. according to the commandment of the everlasting God Rom. 16. 26. Christ c. Who through the eternal spirit offered himself c. Heb. 9. 14. Now unto the king eternal c. the only wise God c. 1 Tim. 1. 17. I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending saith the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty Rev. 1. 8 11. chap. 11. 17. Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come Rev. 4. 8. Worshipped him who liveth for ever and ever Rev. 5. 14. chap. 15. 7. 18. He only is the true and living God Unto thee it was shewed that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God there is none else besides him c. Know therefore this day and consider it in thine heart that the Lord he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is none else Deut. 4. 35 39. ch 7. 9. 1 Sam. 2. 2. The Lord our God is one Lord Deut. 6. 4. Mark 12. 29 32. 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 6. Gal. 3. 20. See now that I I am he and there is no God with me I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal c. Deut. 32. 39. Isa. 43. 10 11 12. And Joshua said hereby shall ye know that the living God is among you And that he will c. Josh. 3. 10. Ruth 3. 13. 1 Sam. 20. 3. 2 Sam. 22. 47. 1 King 17. 1. Job 27. 2. Who is God save the Lord And who is a rock save our God 2 Sam. 22. 32. Psal. 18. 31. O Lord God of Israel c. Thou art the God thou alone of all c. 2 King 19. 15 19. Nehem. 9. 6. Psal. 86. 10. Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God 2 Chron. 15. 3. My heart and flesh cryeth out for the living God Psal. 84. 2. Jer. 44. 26. Know ye that the Lord he is God he hath made us and his we are c. Psal. 100. 3. I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give to another neither my praise to graven images Isa. 42. 8. Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel c. I am the first and I the last and besides me there is no God c. Have not I told thee from that time and have declared ye are my witnesses Is there a God besides me Yea no God c. Isa. 44. 6 8. ch 45. 5 6 18 20 21 22. ch 46. 9 10. Joel 2. 27. But the Lord is the true God he is the living God Jer. 10. 10. chap. 23. 36. Matt. 16. 16. John 6. 57 69. Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles who can cause rain c Art not thou he O Lord our God c. thou hast made all Jer. 14. 22. Behold I the Lord the God of all flesh is there any thing too hard for me Jer. 32. 27. And this is life eternal that they might know thee the only true God and Jesus c. John 17. 3. 1 Thes. 1. 9. Turn from these vanities unto the living God who made heaven c. Act. 14. 15. 2 Cor. 6. 16. 1 Tim. 4. 10. â—…ho changed the truth of God into a lye and worshipped and served the creature more than the creatour who is blessed for ever Amen Rom. 1. 25. We know c. That there is none other God but one For though there 〈◊〉 that are called Gods c. But to us there is but one God c. Of whom 〈◊〉 all things 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. Who only hath immortality dwelling in the light c. 1 Tim. 6. 16. Worshipped him who liveth for ever and ever Rev. 4. 8 9 10. ch 5. 14. 10. 6. ch 15. 7. CHAP. III. Of the one God Father Son and Spirit or the Trinity GOD said let us make man in our image after our likeness c. So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him Gen. 1. 26 27. Col. 1. 15 16 17. Heb. 1. 2. And the Lord God said behold the man is become as one of us c. Gen. 3. 22. And the Lord said Behold the people is one c. Go to let us go down and there confound their language Gen. 11. 6 7. Not so my Lord c. I have accepted thee concerning this thing that I will not overthrow this City for the which thou hast spoken c. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven Gen. 19. 18 21 24. And the Lord said unto Satan the Lord rebuke thee O Satan even the Lord who hath chosen Jerusalem c. Zechar. 3. 2. All things are delivered unto me of my father and no man knoweth the son but the father neither knoweth any man the father save the son and he to whomsoever the son will reveal him Matt. 11. 27. The woman of Canaan came to Jesus and worshipped him saying Lord help Matt. 15. 25. The Eleven disciples went c. Where Jesus had appointed them and when they saw
a god and worshippeth it and prayeth to it and saith deliver me for thou art my god They have not known nor understood c. And none considereth in his heart neither is there knowledg or understanding to say I have burned part c. Shall I make the residue thereof an abomination shall I fall down to the stock of a tree Isa. 44. 14 15 16 17 18 19. They have not known me they are sottish children they have no understanding Jer. 4. 22. The word of the Lord is unto them a reproach they have no delight in it Jer. 6. 10. Though Nebuchadnezzar had acknowledged the God of Daniel to be the God of Gods and a Lord of Kings c. Yet he presently makes a molten image and commands his people to worship it c. And said who is that God who shall deliver you out of my hands Dan. 2. 47. ch 3. 1 4 5 6 15. Belshazzer and his princes c. Praised the gods of gold and of silver c. Dan. 5. 3 4. The Gergesons so ignorant that because of the loss of their swine The whole city came out to meet Jesus c. And besought him to depart out c. Matt. 8. 32 33 34. O Jerusalem c. How often would I have gathered c. And ye would not Luk. 13. 34. Christ was in the world c. And the world knew him not c. He came to his own and his own received him not John 1. 10 11. Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light Joh. 3. 19. Jesus said to the woman ye worship ye know not what John 4. 22. Ye will not come to me that ye may have life John 5. 40. Jesus said the world c. Me it hateth because I testify of it that c. John 7. 7. The spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him John 14. 17. The world c. It hated me before it hated you Because I have chosen you c. Therefore the world hates you c. These things will they do c. Because they know not him who sent me they hated both me and my father John 15. 18 19 21 24. Simon Magus so sottish that he offered money for power to confer the holy Ghost by imposition of hands Acts 8. 18 19 20. When Paul was at Athens c. He saw the city wholly given to idolatry or full of Idols c. Certain Philosophers c. incountred him and some said what will this habler or base fellow say Other some he seemeth to be a setter sorth of strange gods because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection c. I perceive saith Paul ye are too superstitious c. I found an Altar with an Inscription To the unknown God Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship him declare I Act. 17. 16 18 22 23. When Paul preached many believed not but spake evil of that way before the multitude c. Demetrius and his company cry up great is Diana the goddess c. And cryed out against Paul for saying that they were no gods which were made with hands and endeavouring to turn men to the true God c. The Town-clark said the whole city is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana and of the Image which fell down from Jupiter Act. 19. 9 24 25 26 to the end Certain questions c. Of one Jesus which was dead whom Paul affirmed to be alive Act. 25. 19. The way of peace they have not known Rom. 3. 17. The carnal mind is enmity against God for it cannot be subject c. Rom. 8. 7. The preaching of the cross is to them who perish foolishness c. After that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God 1 Cor. 1. 18 21. The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know for they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2. 14. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel c. Should shine unto them 2 Cor. 4. 4. Act. 26. 17 18. Howbeit then when ye knew not God ye did service unto them who by nature are no Gods Gal. 4. 8. Walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds having the understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the blindness c. Ephes. 4. 17 18. Ye were sometimes darkness but now c. Ephes. 5. 8. Not in the lust of concupiscence even as the Gentiles who knew not God 1 Thes. 4. 5. See ignorance in Divine things Chap. 37. 3dly In servitude and subjection to Satan and Sin In the parable of the sower Christ saith the tares are the Children of the wicked one c. The enemy who soweth them is the Devil Matt. 13. 38 39. When the strong man armed keepeth his palace his goods are in peace but when a stronger than he shall come upon him c. Luk. 11. 21 22. Ye are of your father the Devil and the lusts of your father ye will do John 8. 44. To whom ye yield your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death c. Ye were servants of sin Rom. 6. 16 20. Them who are lost in whom the God of this world hath blinded the mind c. 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. The Prince of the power of the air the spirit who now worketh in the children of disobedience Ephes. 2. 2. Thanks be to God c. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness c. Col. 1. 12 13. That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil who are taken captive by him at his will 2 Tim. 2. 26. In this c. Are manifest and the children of the Devil whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he who loveth not his brother and Cain who was of that wicked one c. 1 John 3. 8 9 10 12. The fad fruit and end of such a state When Adam and Eve had sinned they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God c. And was afraid because naked Gen. 3. 8 10. 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 stubbornness 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 lye 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
my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early Isa. 26. 8 9. In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people Isa. 28. 5. As for our redeemer the Lord of hosts is his name the holy one of Israel Isa. 47. 4. I will greatly rejoyce in the Lord my soul shall be joyful 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 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. Jer. 9. 23 24. 2 Cor. 10. 17. 1 Cor. 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 his name Jer. 10. 16. chap. 51. 19. O the hope of Israel the saviour thereof in time of trouble why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land and as a wayfaring man turneth aside to tarry for a night why shouldest 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. chap. 17. 13. The Lord is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope in him Lam. 3. 24. Wo also unto them when I depart from them Hosea 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 figtree shall not bloâ—…om 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 Luk. 10. 20. Zacheus came down and received Christ joyfully Luk. 19. 5 6. Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal â—…ife 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. 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 knowledg of Christ Jesus my Lord Phil. 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. Phil. 4. 4 7. Rejoyce evermore 1 Thess. 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. 2dly 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 countrey and from thy kindred and from thy fathers 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. 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. 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. 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. ch 24. 3. 7. 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 O 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 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 hand 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. 11 13 14. ch 10. 12 13. 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 maist love the Lord thy God that thou maist obey his voice and that thou maist cleave unto him for he is thy life c. Deut. 30. 15 16 19 20. ch 13. 4. 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. Joshua 22. 5. 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 then 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 commandements 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 O that my people had hearkened 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 commandements c. I will run the ways of thy commandements when thou shalt enlarge my heart c. O 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 testimony and I love them exceedingly Psal. 119. 4 6 3â—… 97 119 126 127 136 158 167. 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. Blessed is the man who heareth me watching dayly at my gates waiting at the post of my doors Prov. 8. 34. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer c. O 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. Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee Jer. 6. 8. I spake 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. 7. 22 23 24. chap. 11. 7 8. The Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the Prophets rising early and Israel and the tabernacle or Israel shall be sanctified by my glory c. Exod 25. 22. ch 29. 42 43. 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 Aarons 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 serve him 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 the heaven of heavens is the Lords 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. Deut. 10. 12 14 17 20. ch 11. 13. Thou may not sacrifice the passover within any of the gates c. But at the place which the Lord thy God shall chuse to place his name in there thou shalt sacrifice Deut. 16. 5 6. Serve ye the Lord and if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord c. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. And the people answered and said God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods c. He is a holy
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 governour 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. Get thee behind me Satan for it is written thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Matt. 4. 10. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them Matt. 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 Act. 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 of 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 Act. 24. 14. God whom I serve with my spirit c. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are cleerly seen being understood by the things which are made his eternal power and godhead so that they are 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 lye 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 fervent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. 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. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit Phil. 3. 3. When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world he saith and let all the Angels of God worship him Heb. 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 priest-hood to offer up spiritual sacrifice acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. No man hath seen God at any time 1 John 4. 12. Fear God and give 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. Worship God Rev. 19. 10. chap. 22. 9. Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts 1 Pet. 3. 15. See more of Idolatry and worshipping strange Gods c. Chap. 39. 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 Christs 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 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 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 Priests office c. Exod. 28. 4 5 8 c. They made the holy garments for Aaron as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 39. 1. Thus did Moses according unto 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. 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 dyed before the Lord. And Moses said unto Aaron This is that the Lord spake I will be sanctified in
would abound c. 1 Thes. 4. 1. Prove all things hold 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 begining 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 Luk. 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 wife because she was barren and the Lord was intreated of him and Rebekah 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. Hosea 12. 4 5. Moses prayed unto God for Pharoah 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. Num. 14. 13 to the 20. The forms Moses and Aaron and his sons used in blessing the people and in their march Num. 6. 23 24 25 26. chap. 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. If 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 Ai Joshua 7 6 7 8 9. 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 hearkened 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 dye 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. Hanna 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 may be with him and his house as God had said to him by Nathan the Prophet 2 Sam. 7. 17 18 19 to the 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. God said to Solomon ask what I shall give thee And Solomon asked wisdom to govern and God was pleased so with that and in that he had not asked long life and riches that God gave him wisdom and understanding and riches and honour also 1 Kings 3. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. King Solomon prayed at large at the dedication of the Temple and God heard him 1 Kings 8. 22 23 24 c. ch 9. 2 3. 2 Chron. 1. 7 8 c. Elijah the Prophet prayed that it might be made known that God was God in Israel when others were for Baal And God he heard him and caused fire to come down and consume the sacrifice 1 Kings 18. 36 37 38. Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face continually 1 Chron. 16. 11. If thou seek him he will be found of thee 1 Chron. 28. 9. Judah c. fought him with their whole desire and he was found of them 2 Chron. 15. 15. There are good things found in thee thou hast taken away c. and hast prepared thine heart to seek God 2 Chron. 19. 3. Asa prayed for help against the Ethiopian Army of 1000000 and prevailed 2 Chron. 14. 10 11 12. When Moab c. came against Jehosaphat he stood in the congregation in the house of the Lord and prayed for help and God heard and answered 2 Chron. 20. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 24. Hezekiah being sick prayed 2 Chron. 32. 24. Nehemiah when he heard of the affliction of the Jews he wept and mourned and fasted and prayed Nehem. 1. 4 5 6 7 8 c. So again when Israel were building and in danger of enemies Nehem. 4. 4 5 9. I would make supplication to my judg Job 9. 15. My God for unto thee will I pray my voice shalt thou hear in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct unto thee and look up Psal. 5. 2 3. I acknowledged my sin c. for this shall every one who is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou maist be found Psal. 32. 5 6. They who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing Psal. 34. 10. Call upon me in the time of trouble I will deliver thee c. Psal. 50. 15. Though Nathan had told David his sin was forgiven him yet he prays earnestly to be delivered from blood-guiltiness c. Psal. 51. 1 2 3 4 to the 15. As for me I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me evening and morning at noon will I pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice Psal. 55. 16 17. O thou who â—…rest prayer unto thee shall all
all saints c. And the smoke of the incense which came 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 Gods Goodness and Mercy keep memorials thereof celebrate his praises extol him and stir up others so to do 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 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 unto 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. 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 Amalekites 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 Pharoah and to the Egyptians for Israels sake c. and Jethro rejoyced for all the goodness which the Lord had done unto Israel c. and said Blessed be the Lord who hath delivered you c Now I know that the Lord is greater than all Gods c. 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. Moses song Deut. 32. Joshua pitched stones in Gilgal in memory of Israels passing dry thorow Jordan that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty Josh. 4. 20 21 22 23 24. The song of Deborah and Barak which they sang after the victory against Sisera and his Army Judges 5. 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 Nabals 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 saith set 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. Upon the return of the Ark to the City of David he prepares a song and delivers it to be sang 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 11 12 13 14 to the 20. Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord and he spake unto him c. but Hezekiah rendred not again according to the benefit done unto him c. 2 Chron. 32. 24 25. Ezra takes notice of a little favour and acknowledgeth it to the praise of God Ezra 9. 8 9. Chap. 7. 27 28. Stand up bless the Lord your God for ever and ever and blessed by thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise c. Nehem. 9. 5 6 7 8 c. When Job had lost all than 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 Psal. 7. 17. O Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast fet thy glory above the heavens c. Psal. 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 Psal. 9. 1 2 11. I will sing unto the Lord because he hath dealt bountifully with mâ—… Psal. 13. 6. 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 Psal. 22. 3 23. That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works Psal. 26. 7. The Lord is my strength c. with my song will I praise him Psal. 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 amd not be silent O Lord my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever Psal 30. 4 11 12. Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness Psal. 31. 21. Praise is comely for the upright Psal. 33. 1. Psal. 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. Psal. 34. 1 3 4 6 8. My tongue shall speak of thy righteousness of thy praise all the day Psal. 35. 28. Great is the
and he who shall come will come and will not tarry Now the just shall live by faith c. Heb. â—…0 36 37 38. Let us run with patience the race which is set before us looking unto Jesus c. Heb. 12. 1 2. The trial of your faith worketh patience and let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and intire c. James 1. 3 4. Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husband-man waiteth c. Be ye also patient stablish your hearts c. Behold we count them happy who endure ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord That the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercies James 5. 7 8 10 11. Wherefore gird up the loins of your minds be sober and hope to the end for the grace which is to be brought to you c. 1 Pet. 1. 13. Wherefore let them who suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-doing as unto a faithful Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5. 7. Perfect love casts out fear c. he who feareth is not made perfect in love 1 John 4. 18. Keep your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Jude verse 21. See more of Faith in its nature and use Chap. 11. To walk humbly before God abasing self opposing all high thoughts within us and avoid boasting of our selves the Reasons Abraham said Behold now I have taken upon me to speak unto thee who am but dust and ashes Gen. 18. 27. Jacob said c. I am not worthy of the least of all or I am less than all the mercy and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant for with my staff I passed over c. Gen. 32. 10. Pharaoh said unto Joseph c. I have heard say of thee thou canst understand a dream and interpret it And Joseph answered Pharaoh and said It is not in me God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace Gen. 41. 15 16. I know that the Lord is greater then 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. Speak not thou in thine heart after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out 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. SauI hath slain his thousands and David his ten thousands and Saul was very wrath and the saying displeased him and he said They have ascribed 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 mine own sight 2 Sam. 6. 22. But thine eyes are upon the haughty that thou mayst bring them down 2 Sam. 22. 28. 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. 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 2 Chron. 32. 25 26. 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. Psalm 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. 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. 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 visiteth him Psalm 8. 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.
apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness c. Pure religion is c. to keep himself unspotted from the world James 1. 21 27. Whosoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all for c. James 2. 10 11. Cleanse your hands ye sinners and purifie your hearts c. James 4. 8. Wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrifies and envies c. Dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers c. Abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul 1 Pet. 2. 1. 11. He who will love lise c. let him eschew evil c. for the face of the Lord is against them who do evil 1 Pet. 3. 10 11 12. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness 2 Pet. 3. 11. These things write I unto you that ye sin not c. 1 Joh. 2. 1. Every man who hath this hope in him purifieth himself as he is pure c. whosoever abideth in him sinneth not whosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither knoweth him c. he who committeth sin is of the Devil 1 John 3. 6 8. Hating the very garment spotted with the flesh Jude ver 23. I will therefore â—…hat the younger women c. give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully c. Some are already turned c. 1 Tim. 5. 14. That the word of God be not blasphemed c. not purloyning that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things Titus 2. 5 10. See Doings in general Chap. And words Chap. 4. Gods reasonings with complainings of and threatnings and judgments against Sinners for their several sins disobedience and rebellions 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. Sodom 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. Gen. 18. 20. chap. 19. 13 24 25. God met with Josephs brethren for their sin in selling Joseph Gen. 44. 16. chap. 42. 21. Many plagues and judgments against and upon Pharaoh and the Egyptians for their sins in not letting Israel go Exod. 7. chap. 8. chap. 9. chap. 10. chap. 11. chap. 12. 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 the Calf Exod. 32. 9 10 33 34 35. 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 Lev. 18. 24 25 26 28. But if ye will not hearken unto me c. I will appoint over you terror c. And if ye will not for all this hearken c. then will I punish you seven times more for your sins c. Lev. 26. 14 15 16 to the 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 the Camp c. And they fell a lusting c. and said Who shall give us flesh to eat c And while the flesh was â—…et 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 Num. 11. 1 4 5 32 33. And Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses c. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them c. And Miriam 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 unto this land to fall by the sword that our wives and our children should be a prey c Let us make us a Captain and let us return c. And the Lord said I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them c. Surely they shall not see the land c. Your carcasses 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. Numb 14. 1 2 3 4 12 22 23 29 31 32. Korah aod his company for rebelling against Moses and against Aaron was swallowed up of the earth c. The people murmured against Moses for this and 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 Gods word at the waters of Meribah Numb 20. 12 23 24. Deut. 3. 27. Deut. 32. 48 49 50 51. chap. 4. 21 22. 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. 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
43 44 45. Hezekiah the Lord was with him c. and he rebelled against the king of Assyria 2 Kings 18. 7. When king Nebuchadnezzar had commanded the worshiping of an Image Shadrach Meshach and Abednego refused to obey c. and said Be it known unto thee O King that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the Image c. Dan. 3. 15 16 17 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 8 9 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 judg you Act. 41. 18 19 20. Then the council charged them with preaching contrary to their commands c. Peter c. said We ought to obey God rather than men Act. 5. 27 28 29. Moses was hid by his parents c. and they feared not the kings edict c. He feared not the wrath of the king Heb. 11. 23 27. 2dly What they ought to do or wherein they should acknowledg and obey them 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. 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 Mat. 17. 24 25 26 27. Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesars Mat. 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. Tit. 3. 1. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the king as supream or unto governours 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 should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 15. 3dly 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 Lords anointed 1 Sam. 24. 8 10. Nathan the prophet when he was come in before the king he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground c. 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 kings wroth 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. 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 unto the High-priest and some who stood by had said Revilest thou Gods 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 my people Act. 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. Act. 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. or dominion c. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignities whereas Angels who are greater in power and might bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord 2 Pet. 2. 10 11. Jude vers 8 9. 4thly 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. 5thly 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. 6thly 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 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 judg us like all the nations c. This greatly displeased God and he said to Samuel They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them c. The people said Nay but there shall be a king over us 1 Sam. 8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 19 20. Samuel afterwards tells them their wickedness was great in the sight of the Lord in asking a king Which sin the people acknowledged when God had sent thunder and rain in harvest
love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof Jer. 5. 30 31. From the Prophet unto the Priest every one dealeth falsly they have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying peace c. when c. Jer. 6. 13 14. chap. 8. 10 11. The Pastors are become brutish and have not sought the Lord therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks shall be scattered Jer. 10. 21. Many Pastors have destroyed my vinyard they have trodden my portion c. Jer. 12. 10 11. Wo unto the Pastors who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture saith the Lord therefore thus saith the Lord c. against the Pastors who feed my people Ye have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not visited them Behold I will visit upon you the evil of your doings Jer. 23. 1 2. Her Priests have violated my law and have profaned mine holy things they have put no difference between the holy and profane neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean Ezek. 22. 26. Wo to the shepherds of Israel who do feed themselves should not the shepherds feed the flock ye eat the fat and ye clothe your selves with the wool c. ye feed not the flock the diseased have ye not strengthned neither have ye healed that which was sick c. but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled Ezek. 34. 2 3 4 10. The Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets thereof divine for money yet will they lean upon the Lord c. therefore shall Zion c. be plowed Micah 3. 11. Her Priests have done violence to the law polluted the Sanctuary Zephan 3. 4. Wo to the Idol-shepherd who leaveth the flock the sword shall be upon his c. Zechar. 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. Malachi 1. 6 7 8. The Priests lips should keep knowledg 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 Malachi 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. 3dly The Churches duty towards their Officers and such other who labour among them Provide neither gold nor silver c. for the workman is worthy of his meat Matth. 10. 9 10. They all weptfore 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 not power to eat and drink c. to sorbear working c who goeth to warfare at any time at his own charges c Say I these things as a man or saith 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 Gospel 1 Cor. 9. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Know the house of Stephanus c. that you submit your selves unto such and to every one who helpeth with us and laboureth 1 Cor 16. 15 16. Ye received me as an Angel c. am I therefore become your enemy because I tell 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 Thess. 5. 26. 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. Phil. 2. 25 28 29 30. Ye sent once and again unto my necessity not because I desire a gift but I desire fruit 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 Phil. 4. 15 16 17 18. 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 Thess. 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 oxe c. the labourer is worthy of his hire against an Elder receive not an accusation but before two or three witnesses 1 Tim. 5. 17 18 19. 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. Of the Election and ordination of Officers in Churches And the Lord spake to 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 sons and washed them c. Levit. 8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. Thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together and thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord and the children of Israel shall put their hands c. Numb 8. 9 11. Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said the number about 120 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.
hardness as a good soldier of Christ no man who warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier 2 Tim. 2. 4. In the last times c. men shall be lovers of their own selves c. lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God 2 Tim. 3. 4. Demas hath forsaken me having loved this present world c. 2 Tim. 4. 10. The earth c. bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed receiveth blessing from God Heb. 6. 7. Ye c. took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that ye have in heaven a better and enduring substance c. Hebr. 10. 34. By faith Moses when he came to years refused to be called the son of Pharoahs daughter chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt Heb. 11. 24 25 26. Let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such things as ye have for he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee so that we may boldly say The Lord is my helper c. Heb. 13. 5. 6. Let the brother of low degree rejoyce in that he is exalted but the rich in that he is made low because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away for the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass and the flower thereof falleth and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth so also shall the rich man perish in his ways c. James 1. 9 10 11. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith c but ye have despised the poor Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment-seat do not they blaspheme that worthy name c James 2. 5 6 7. Know ye not that the friendship of this world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God c. Go to now ye that say To day or to morrow we will go into such a City and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain whereas ye know not what will be on the morrow for what is your life it is even a vapour c. for that ye ought to say If the Lord will we shall live and do this or that but now you rejoyce in your boastings all such rejoycings are evil James 4. 4 13 14 15 16. Acts 18. 21. Go to now ye rich men weep and howl for your misery which shall come upon you your riches are corrupted your garments moth eaten your gold and silver cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire ye have heaped treasures together for the last days Behold the hire of your labourers who reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud cryeth c. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth ye have been wanton ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter c. ye have condemned the just James 5. 1 2 3 4 5 6. All flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass the grass withereth and the flower thereof falleth away 1 Pet 1. 7 24. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God c. casting all your care upon him for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5. 6 7. Love not the world neither the things which are in the world if any man love the world the love of the father is not in him for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father but is of the world and the world passeth away and the lust thereof 1 John 2. 15 16 17. Greater is is he who is in you than he who is in the world they are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world heareth them 1 John 4. 4 5. Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the World and this is the victory which overcometh the World even our faith Who is he who overcometh the World but he who believeth that Jesus is the Son of God 1 John 5. 4 5. The kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief Captains and the mighty men c. hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne c. Revel 6. 15 16 17. Heaven and earth shall pass away all these things shall end Psal. 102. 25 26. Isa. 51. 6. Matth. 24. 35. 2 Pet. 3. 7 10 11. 1 John 2. 17. CHAP. XL. Of Idolatry setting up and worshipping of strange gods graven Images LAban said to Jacob Wherefore hast thou stollen my gods Gen. 31. 30. Jacob said unto his houshold Put away the strange gods that are among you c. And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hands and all their ear-rings which were in their ears and Jacob hid them under the Oak Gen. 35. 2 4. I am the Lord thy God thou shalt have no other god before me thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image or any likeness that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth thou shalt not bow down thy self to them nor serve them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God c. Ye shall not make with me gods of silver neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold Exod. 20. 2 3 4 5 23. Psal. 81. 9 10. He who sacrificeth unto any god save unto the Lord only he shall be utterly destroyed Exod. 22. 20. Make no mention of the names of other gods neither let it be heard out of thy mouth c. Thou shalt not bow down to their gods nor serve them c. Thou shalt utterly overthrow them and quite break down their Images c. Thou shalt make no covenant with them nor with their gods c. if thou serve their gods it will surely be a snare unto thee Exod. 23. 13 24 32 33. The people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him Up make us gods which shall go before us for as for this Moses c. we wot not what is become of him And Aaron said 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 to Moses c. Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them c. Exod 32. 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 10. Psal. 106. 19 20. 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-Image 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 joyned 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. 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. Deut. 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. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods c. you shall overthrow their altars Deut. 12. 2 3. 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. Ye have seen their abominations and their Idol-gods or dunghil-gods wood stone c. Deut. 29. 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. Josh. 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. 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. chap. 10. 6 7. Micahs mother sâ—…id 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 cryed out Ye have taken away my gods which I made and the Priest and yâ—… 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. chap. 18. 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24. Solomon in his old age was drawn away to commit idolatry 1 Kings 11. 4 5 6 7 8 9. 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 said Behold thy gods O Israel so Israel went and worshipped and he made a 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 27 28 29 30 31 32 33. chap. 14. 9 10. 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. Asa king of Judah removed the Idols c. but the High-places were not removed 1 Kings 15. 11 12 13 14. All the kings of Israel after Jeroboam did continue in thr same idolatry till Ahab and he served Baal and worshipped him 1 Kings 16. chap. 22. 51 52 53. Hezekiah destroyed Idolatry removed the High-places brake the Images cut down the groves and brake in pieces the brazen-serpent which Moses made for in those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it and called it Nehushtan c. so did Josiah the king 2 Kings 18. 4. chap. 23. 4 5 c. King Ahaz his Idolatry 2 Chron. 28. 23 25. If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god shall not God search this out for he knoweth the secrets of the heart Psal. 44. 20 21. Confounded be all they who serve graven-images who boast themselves of Idols worship him all ye gods Psal. 97. 7. Our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleased their Idols are silver and gold the works of mens hands they have mouths but they speak not eyes have they but they see not they have ears but they hear not noses have they but they smell not c. they who make them are like unto them so is every one who trusteth in them Psal. 115. 3 4 5 6 7 8. Psal. 135. 15 16 c. Their land also is full of Idols they worship the work of their own hands that which their own fingers have made and the mean man boweth down and the great man humbleth himself c. The Idols shall utterly pass away and they shall go into the holes of the rocks c. for fear of the Lord c. In that day a man shall cast his Idols of silver and his Idols of gold which they made each one for himself to worship to the moles and to the bats c. Isa. 2. 8 9 18 19 20. chap. 31. 7. In that day shall a man look to his maker c. and he shall not look to the altars the work of his hands neither shall respect that which his fingers