Christ 1 2 3. Paul an Apostle not of Men nor called by Men but by Christ from Heaven and by his Revelation attested by the Power of God the Father who raised him from the Dead and all the Brethren with me to the Churches of Galatia we wish Grace and Peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ Note That Paul mentions not the Church of Galatia but the Churches every City that had Christians like our Corporations having then a Church not then put down to settle one onely Church called Diocesane in stead of multitudes 4. Who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father 5. To whom be glory for and ever Amen 4 5. Who by dying for our Sins designed to call us out of the World and save us from the Temptations Vices Examples and Practices of wicked worldly Men. To him be Glory for ever and ever Amen 6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel 6. I marvel that you who voluntarily received the Truth from me are so soon turned from the Gospel of the Grace of Christ to another Doctrine contrary to this Grace as if it were the Gospel 7. Which is not another but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ 7. Which is far from being Christs Gospel contrary to my Preaching as they pretend but it is the Doctrine of Men that would trouble you and would pervert the Gospel of Christ 8. But though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you then that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed 9. As we said before so say I now again If any man preach any other gospel unto you then that ye have received let him be accursed 8 9. But I pronounce and repeat it If I yea or an Angel from Heaven if any Man pretend to preach to you any other Gospel than that which we have preached or you received let him be Anathema renounce him as an excommunicate accursed Person Note 1. That there is no other Gospel to be expected besides that communicated to us by the Apostles and recorded in the Scripture The Dream of a more perfect Gospel of the Holy Ghost is wicked 2. That this Gospel hath fuller Evidence than if an Angel spake from Heaven and is to be believed before and against such an Angel 3. That it is the Peoples Duty to reject and forsake any Teacher that would bring another Gospel or pervert this Not as Church-Governours but as Subjects of Christ that must be loyal to him and save themselves 10. For do I now perswade men or God or do I seek to please men for if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ 10. Do I now preach the Doctrine of Men on Mans Authority to please Men or the Word of God by his Authority to please him Am I the Messenger and Preacher of Man or of God Which do I serve and seek to please For if I please Men as their Servant I am none of Christs Servant 11. But I certifie you brethren that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man 11. I would have you know that the Gospel which I preach is not Humane from Man nor on Mans Authority nor to gratifie the Will or Wordly Interest of Man 12. For I neither received it of man neither was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ 12. I learned it not of any Humane Teacher nor took it on Humane Authority but from Christs Revelation 13. For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews religion how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God and wasted it 14. And profited in the Jews religion above many my equals in mine own nation being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers 13 14. You have heard how I formerly unmeasurably persecuted and wasted the Church through excess of Zeal for the Tradition of my Fathers and Religion of the Jews c. 15. But when it pleased God who separated me from my mothers womb and called me by his grace 16. To reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the heathen 15 16. But when it pleased God who by his free electing Grace decreed me to know Christ first my self and then preach him to the Heathens which was a kind of separating me to it from the Womb and when he called me hereto by his meer Grace 16 17. Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me but I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus 16 17. I staid not to consult with any Man but presently preached the Gospel nor went I up to Jerusalem to learn of the Apostles there what to preach but c. 18. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him fifteen days 19. But other of the apostles saw I none save James the Lords brother 18 19. It was three years after before I went to Jerusalem and staid fifteen days with Peter c. Note 1. That though Luke Acts 9.26 put Paul's coming to Jerusalem near his Conversion and mention not expresly his three years absence or being in Arabia yet the brevity of the History proveth not the shortness of the Time And it was not three years after his going from Damascus but after his Conversion And Luke Acts 9.23 saith That it was after much time that he went from Damascus which belonged to Arabia so that it 's like that he spent the three years at or near Damascus and when he was escaped went presently to Jerusalem 2. And though it may seem that three years had been time enough to have satisfied the Church at Jerusalem of Paul's Conversion yet it seems that he spent that time in Arabia and Damascus to avoid the rage of his Countrymen at Jerusalem and so his remoteness occasioned their dissatisfaction 20. Now the things which I write unto you behold before God I lie not 21. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cylicia 22. And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ 23. But they had heard only That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed 24. And they glorified God in me Note All this Paul writeth to prove that he received not the Gospel from the Apostles or any man but immediately from Christ CHAP. II. 1. THen fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas and took Titus with me also 2. And I went up by revelation and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles but privately to them which were of reputation lest by any means I should run or had run
say ought to you ye shall say The Lord hath need of them and straitway he will send them 4. All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet saying 5. Tell ye the daughter of Sion Behold thy King cometh to thee meek sitting on an ass and a colt the foal of an ass 1. c. Note Christs way of Travaile was as poor mens on Foot And it was the rich sort of persons that road on Asses they being there bigger than ours and onely Men of great State or War that rode on Horses And Christ knowing that the People would at his Entrance into Jerusalem applaud him with Hosanna as the Messiah and King of the Jews resolved to own their Testimony so far as to ride in in some State 2. Tho both the Ass and Colt be loosed and brought it was the Colt onely that Christ rode on 6. And the Disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them 7. And brought the ass and the colt and put on them their cloathes and they set him thereon 8. And a very great multitude spread their Garments in the way others cut down branches from the trees and strewed them in the way 9. And he multitude that went before and that followed cryed saying Hosanna to the Son of David Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest 6.7.8.9 N. This was the common peoples Proâ—laiming him King and the Messiah spreading Garments â—nd Boughs being their Solemnization and Mosanna their Acclamation a Word which signifieth Save now and was used with that sort of Pomp. Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord signified Blessed be the Messiah and King whom we have long looked for and God hath now sent To which in Luke is added Peace in Heaven and Glory in the Highest That is Let the Heavenly Prosperity and Glory come down upon this Kingdom and his Kingdom tend to Heavenly Peace or Prosperity and Glory to God and Man with God 10. And when he was come into Jerusalem all the City was moved saying Who is this 11. And the multitude said This is Jesus the Prophet of Nazareth of Galilee 10.11 The Citizens all came to see who it was that came in so applauded And the people that accompanied him in told them It is Jesus the famous Prophet whose Miracles you have heard of 12. And Jesus went into the Temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the Temple and overthrew the Tables of the Money changers and the seats of them that sold Doves 13. And said to them It is written My house shall be called a house of prayer but ye have made it a den of Thieves 12.13 In this State he went on to the Temple and as one in Power he cast out them that had turned the Temple into a Market-place to furnish men with Sacrifices and over-threw the Tables of them that like Goldsmiths or Bankers Exchanged Money for advantage Alledging Isa 56.7 My House c. Ye have made a Market-place of it where the Covetous Defraud Men for gain 14. And the blind and the lame came to him in the Temple and he healed them 14 He wrought out his Miracles openly in the Temple as he had done in the Country 15. And when the Chief Priests and Scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the Temple and saying Hosanna to the Son of David they were sore displeased 16. And said to him Hearest thou what these say 15.16 The Rulers that knew they were under the Roman Power and saw that Jesus was not like to deliver them from it were greatly displeased when they heard the inferiour Multitude and Youths crying him up as the King Messiah and said Hearest thou what these say of thee wilt thou suffer them to raise a Sedition for thee and expose us all to the Romans Wrath. 16. And Jesus saith to them yea Have ye never read Out of the mouthes of babes and sucklings hast thou perfected praise 16. Yea As it is Written Psal 8.2 c. N. The Septuagint which Matthew useth differs from the Hebrew but not in sence 17. And he left them and went out of the city unto Bethany and he lodged there 18. Now in the morning as he turned into the City he hungred 19. And when he saw a figtree in the way he came to it and found nothing thereon but leaves onely and said to it Let no more fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever And presently the figtree withered away 20. And when the Disciples saw it they marvelled saying How soon is the Figtree withered away 17.18.19.20 N. It began then to die but it was the next day that the Disciples saw it and wondred 21. Jesus answered and said to them Verily I say to you If ye have faith and doubt not ye shall not onely do this which is done to the figtree but also if ye shall say to this mountain Be thou removed and be thou cast into the Sea it shall be done 22. And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing ye shall receive 21.22 Nothing shall be too hard which God hath promised and ye by Faith and Prayer are fit to receive 23. And when he was come into the Temple the chief Priests and the Elders of the People came to him as he was teaching and said By what authority dost thou these things and who gave thee this authority 23. The Chief Priests and Elders Examined him to shew his authority 24.25 And Jesus said to them I also will ask you one thing which if you tell me Iâ— likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things The baptism of John whence was it from heaven or of men And they reasoned with themselves saying If we shall say from heaven he will say to us Why did ye not then believe him 26. But if we shall say of men We fear the People for all hold John as a Prophet 24.25.26 They perceived the advantage Christ would have by their Answer Either Johns Testimony or the power of the Multitude who reverenced Prophets sent from God and would have stoned them Luke 20.6 27. And they answered Jesus and said We cannot tell And Jesus said to them Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things 27. If you will not answer my Question neither will I answer yours 28. But what think you A certain man had two Sons and he came to the first and said Son go and work to day in my Vineyard 29. He answered and said I will not but afterward he repented and went 30. And he came to the second and said likewise and he answered and said I go Sir and went not 31. Whether of them two did the will of his father 28. c. That you may see that your highest profession of Holiness and Knowledge while you disobey God doth leave you worse than the Publicans and
to him to come thence And did he remember what he saw there and tell it to any If not doth it not make for the sleepy inactivity of Souls departed Ans Souls go not to Heaven by necessitation as a stone descendeth but are disposed of by God as the Supream Governour those that are for Heaven to Heaven and those that serve Devils to the Devils and those that are not yet judg'd to either but are to live presently again on earth as Lazarus and others raised are reserved by God accordingly whether yet in the body as in a swoun or near it or where God pleased and vouchsased no other knowledg and memory than is meet for such as are to revive and live yet on Earth 55. And the Jews passover was nigh at hand and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover to purifie themselves 55. The legally unclean were not to celebrate the Passover 56. Then sought they for Jesus and spake among themselves as they stood in the Temple What think ye that he will not come to the feast 56. For all were bound to come to it that were not unavoidably hindered 57. Now both the chief Priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment that if any man knew where he were he should shew it that they might take him 57. N. 1. Christs Ministers use Gods Ordinances to save men and the Devils Clergy use them for snares mischief and murder 2. They will not let the people be neuters between God and the Devil but force them to be informing Persecutors CHAP. XII THEN Jesus six days before the passoover came to Bethany where Lazarus was which had been dead whom he raised from the dead 2. There they made him a Supper and Martha served but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him 1. N. 1 Christ was not against festival entertainment 2. This is the same History mentioned Luk. 10. Where you may see more of it 3. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard very costly and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment 3. N. 1. It is not unlike that such an action was twice done that is by two several Mary's and that this is not the same with that Luke 7. But yet it is very hard to judge where this was done that it was thrice done is not probable And that it was done in the house of Simon the Leper other Evangelists notifie yet here it seemeth to have been done in Martha's own house compar'd with Luke 10. I'ts most likely to me that Simon and Martha dwelling in the same Village at Bethany joyned their Purses and Labour and feasted him in Simons house where this anointing was done But that he was also entertained at Martha and Mary's house where that was done which is recorded Luke 10. 4. Then said one of his disciples Judas Iscariot Simons son which should betray him 5. Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence and given to the poor 4 5. N. That as Piety is oft pretended by hypocrites against Charity so is Charity here by Judas against Piety And there is no work so good but may be opposed by very fair pretences 6. This he said not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief and had the bag and bare what was put therein 6. Judas being Purse-bearer falsly pretended a care of the poor for his selfish covetousness 7. Then said Jesus Let her alone against the day of my burial hath she kept this 8. For the poor always ye have with you but me ye have not always 7. This which she gave shall be as it were for my funeral embalming that may be best on such an extroardinary occasion which ordinarily is not so You may always give to the poor 9. Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there and they came not for Jesus sake only but that they might see Lazarus also whom he had raised from the dead 10. But the chief Priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death 11. Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away and believed on Jesus 9. N. To be put to death by such wicked Priests and Rulers is no dishonour or note of guilt in the sufferer 2. We see here how much Dives was deceived Luk. 16. That thought his brethren would have been perswaded by Lazarus sent from the dead It 's like they would have indicted him for a Scandalum Magnatum or put him to death again 12. On the next day much people that was come to the feast when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem 13. Took branches of palm-trees and went forth to meet him and cried Hosanna blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. 12 13. They honoured him by this applauding solemnity as the Messiah sent from God to be the King of Israel 14. And Jesus when he had found a young ass he sat thereon as it is written 15. Fear not daughter of Sion behold thy King cometh sitting on an asses colt 14 15. Thus Zach. 9.9 Was fulfilled 16. These things understood not his disciples at the first but when Jesus was glorified then remembred they that these things were written of him and that they had done these things unto him 16. N. Many things are said and done by Christ which shall not be presently understood but in their season 17. The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave and raised him from the dead bare record 18. For this cause the people also met him for that they heard that he had done this miracle 17 18. N. It was the people that had seen and heard of his raising Lazarus that there met him as King with Hosanna's 19. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves perceive ye how ye prevail nothing behold the world is gone after him 19. N. They thought their danger immanent that the people would proclaim him King and then the Romans would destroy their Country as Rebels for they could not trust God to save them from the Romans though Miracles should have taught it them 20. And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast 20. These Greeks were not the Jews of Alexandriae that used the Greek tongue elsewhere called Greeks but the Proselites of the Gates who worshipped but as Catechumens did with Christians 21. The same came therefore to Philip which was of Bethsaida of Galilee and desired him saying Sir we would see Jesus 22. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew and again Andrew and Philip told Jesus 23. And Jesus answered them saying the hour is come that the Son of man shall be glorified 24. Verily verily I say unto you Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth alone but if it die it
that shall be but bare grain it may chance of wheat or of some other grain 37. The Corn which thou sowest hath not the Blade or Stalk and Ear and Flower and Chaff It is not formally but virtually or seminally the same whether it be Wheat or other Grain 38. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him and to every seed his own body 38. But out of this Seed and by its Seminal Vertue God by the addition of attracted Nutriment giveth it a Body with Straw Flowers Chaff and Seed as pleaseth him It being his Power and Will to which nothing is impossible which must satisfie our inquisitive Minds Resurrection as Generation being unsearchable to us 39. All flesh is not the same flesh but there is one kind of flesh of men another flesh of beasts another of fishes and another of birds 39. But you must allow a difference of Bodies for even here there is much difference 40. There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial but the glory of the celestial is one and the glory of the terestrial is another 41. There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars for one star differeth from another star in glory 42. So also is the resurrection of the dead It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption 40 41 42. The Celestial Bodies greatly differ from the Earthly Bodies and so do even the Celestial among themselves as the Sun from the Moon and one Star from another c. And so shall our Bodies at the Resurrection greatly differ from these that we have now particularly by being incorruptible 43. It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness it is raised in power 44. It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body 43 44. It is now so vile a Body that it must rot and corrupt in darkness in the Earth but it shall rise in Glory It is buried in utter impotency like the common Earth but Gods Power shall raise it a Powerful Body It is buried like the Body of a Beast that was passive and only acted by the living Soul but it shall rise a Spiritual Body more suited to the Nature of the Soul and having also an active Nature like as Fire hath in it self Thare are Natural Bodies of Passive Matter in daily flux repaired by Food and acted only by other Natures or Souls And there are Spiritual Bodies either such as the Sun and Light hath or higher which are incorruptible and of themselves not inclined to death dissolution or change and besides the Soul are so like it that they are themselves Active Natures 45. And so it is written The first man Adam was made a living soul the last Adam was made a quickning spirit 45. That is The first Adam was made by God a living Soul put into a corruptible Body not having an unchangeable State in himself nor Power to make his Posterity such But the second Adam had in himself unchangeable Life suited to a spiritual glorious State and was the Root of such to his Believing Posterity enabled as the Lord of Life to rise himself ascend to Heaven and to raise them to Life and take them to himself and to make them a spiritual holy People capable thereof 46. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual but that which is natural and afterward that which is spiritual 46. But the Animal Person from whom by Generation we have but meer Nature was to us in causality before him that conveyeth to us Spiritual and Everlasting Life Our Nature derived from Adam was before the Reparation Spiritual Holiness Resurrection or Glory given by Christ even as Adam was before Christs own Incarnation and Resurrection Perfection is the last and ripe State of Gods Work in our Salvation 47. The first man is of the earth earthy the second man is the Lord from heaven 47. Adam was made out of the Dust of the Passive Elements though God breathed into him a Living Soul yet Earth was his first abode But Christ is the Lord from Heaven his Divine Nature being there from everlasting assumed the Humane by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost 48. As is the earthy such are they also that are earthy and as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly 48. And as Adam was a Natural Man and the Root of such so it is but Nature which we have from him And as Christ is Heavenly and Spiritual so will he make all the holy Seed to be like him Spiritual and Heavenly 49. And as we have born the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly 49. And as we are born of Adam Men as he was so we shall be made by Christ Spiritual and Heavenly as he is 50. Now this I say brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God neither doth corruption inherit incorruption 50. And this I tell you That these Bodies must not come to Heaven in the proper Form of Flesh and Blood nor can as such possess it for as such they are corruptible and cannot so inherit Heaven which is incorruptible 51. Behold I shew you a mystery We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed 51. And I will tell you that which is commonly unknown Though the Just shall not die that are alive at Christs coming they shall all be changed as well as those that rise from the Dead from being proper Flesh and Blood to have Spiritual Bodies 52. In a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed 52. In a moment Christs potent Call will be like a Trumpet calling Men together and the Dead shall be raised and living Saints changed into an incorruptible state 53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality 53. For this mortal Body and Composition which is now corruptible by Dissolution must be changed into an incorruptible and immortal state of Being and Habitation 54. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory 54. And Death being conquered by Christ being a Fruit of Sin from which he saveth us we shall die no more 55. O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory 56. The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law 55. Though now Death seem to conquer us we triumph over it by Faith in Christ foreseeing our Resurrection being saved from Sin which is the Sting and the Penal Law or Curse which is Sins condemning Strength 57. But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our
Moses which you profess to own do bid you love your Neighbour as your self and forbid such uncharitable censures so that by condemning your Brethren you condemn the Law And this is not to keep either Moses's Law or Christ's but to set your selves above both by making your selves Reproving Judges of them 12. There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy who art thou that judgest another 12. Christ and none else saith Dr. H. hath Authority to give Laws to us There is but one Law-giver who hath the absolute and final power of life and death eternal Salvation and Damnation Who art thou that darest arrogate this Judgment Or what power hast thou to judge or anathematize another any further than truly to tell men whom Christ will judge and cast away 13. 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 14. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow for what is your life it is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away 13 14. You are too much set on wordly prosperity and you plot for gain as if you were secured of long abode on Earth and you lay your designs with presumptuous confidence where and how long you will dwell trade and gain when as your Life on Earth is a meer uncertain fugitive vapour quickly gone 15. For that ye ought to say If the Lord will we shall live and do this or that 16. But now ye rejoyce in your boastings all such rejoycing is evil 15 16. Whereas ye should remember the uncertainty and shortness of your lives and design and do all in submissive dependance on the will of God But you fetch your comfort from wordly things by your own vain presumption of long Life and hope of worldly prosperity all such presumptuous carnal comforts are evil 17. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin 17. And the brevity of Mans Life and the vanity of worldly gain are things so notorious and undeniable to all men especially to Christians that to let these vanities loosen you from Christ and your obedience is utterly unexcuseable CHAP. V. 1. GO to now ye rich men weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you 1. But as to thoâ—e that will yet cleave to the World and take no warning let me tell you to your sorrow that dreadful miseries are coming upon you the fore sighâ— of which shouhld make you weep and howl instead of your deceitful joy 2. Your riches are corrupted and your garments moth-eaten 3. Your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire ye have heaped treasure together for the last days 2 3. What are these vanities which you have so inordinately affected Your beloved riches are not only corruptible but corrupted by you to your own sin and hurt your rich cloathing is a moth-eaten vanity The gold and silver which you have treasured up is cankered and rusty and the guilt signified by that rust shall condemn you and corrode your Consciences as fire At great cost and labour you have treasured up riches but it is in effect to be a prey to your Enemies in the day of your Destruction and a witness in God's day of Judgment against your selves to your own confusion 4. Behold the hire of the labourers which have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud crieth and the cries of them which have reaped are entred into the ears of the Lord of sabbaoth or hosts 4. You Jews are addicted to Covetousness and by that to Injury and Oppression and you deny poor labourers their wages and defraud them and God heareth their cries and will revenge them on you 5. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter 5. Your Riches have been provision for your sensuality You have by them made provision for the lusts of the flesh and lived in pleasure revelling and luxury and lasciviousness and have fed and cherished the flesh and its delights as in a continual feast 6. Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you 6. Your Riches have lift you up into power which you have abused to condemn and kill innocent men who have not resisted you but endured all Note 1. Some think that the Jewish Christians are here meant to whom James wrote but sure they were not so degenerate 2. Some think it was the Gnostick Hereticks 3. I think it much more probable that by an Apostrophe he speaks to the Rich Infidels to introduce his Exhortation to the Christians to Patience 7. Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it until he receive the early and latter rain 8. Be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh 7 8. But as for you persecuted Christians bear all this patiently without discouragement tiredness or wavering in your Faith For the time is short and the coming of Christ for your deliverance is not far off If in your Husbandry or Tillage you look not to reap as soon as you have sowed but wait for the Harvest and Fruit and for the Showers that must ripen it should you not more patiently wait for greater things when the time will quickly come 9. Grudge not one against another brethren lest ye be condemned behold the Judge standeth before the door 9. Make not too great a matter of your wrongs nor quarrel among your selves as the Jewish Zealots mentioned by Josiphus did lest while you condemn one another all condemn themselves and biting and devouring one another you be devoured one of another Stay but a little and the Judge who is at hand will avenge you of your Enemies and end all your quarrels which ignorance and pride have made and kept up among your selves 10. Take my brethren the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience 10. You justly honour the Prophets who have spoken as sent from God Remember how they were used and how they suffered and let them be your Example and imitate them in Patience 11. Behold we count them happy which 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 mercy 11. It is part of our Faith to believe that they are happy who patiently suffer for Righteousness sake You have heard of Job's patience and of the end which God intended and accomplished which tells us that God is full of pity and mercy to us when he afflicteth us 12.