people Psal 8 1. and I will testifie vnto thee ô Israel if thou wilt hearken vnto me 9. There shall no strange God bee in thee neither shalt thou worship any strange God 3. Isa 43. For I am the Lord thy God the holy One of Israel thy Sauiour 10. Before mee there was no God formed neither shal there be after me 11. I euen I am the Lord and besides me there is no Sauiour 44. 6. I am the first and I am the last and besides me there is no God 24. Thus saith the Lord thy Redeemer and he that formed thee from 〈◊〉 wombe I am the Lord that maketh all things that stretcheth foorth the heauens alone that spreadeth abroad the earth by my selfe 48. 12. Hearken vnto me O Iacob and Israel my called I am he I am the first and I am the last Act. 7. 49. Heauen is my Throne and earth is my footestoole Isa 45. 22. Looke vnto me and be ye saued all the ends of the earth for I am God and there is none else 6. 1. Cor. 8. To vs there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Iesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him 6. Ephe. 4. There is one God Father of all who is aboue all and through all and in you all 28. In him we liue Act 17. and moue and haue our being for we are all his of spring 29. Forasmuch then as wee are the of-spring of God wee ought not to thinke that the Godhead is like vnto gold or siluer or stone grauen by 〈◊〉 and mans deuice 30. And the times of this ignorance God winked at but now commandeth all men euery where to repent 31. Because he hath appointed a day in the which he will iudge the world in righteousnesse by that man whom he hath ordained whereof hee hath giuen assurance vnto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Reuel 4. 11. Thou art worthy O Lord to receiue glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created 3. This is eternall life Ioh. 17. that we might know thee the onely true God and Iesus Christ whom thou hast sent 27. Psal 73. They that are farre from thee shal perish thou hast destroyed all them that goe a whoring from thee 4. 16. Their sorrowes shall be multiplyed that hasten after another God 5. 96. All the Gods of the Nations are Idols but the Lord made the heauens 6. Honour and Maiesty are before him strength and beauty are in his Sanctuary 89. 6. For who in the heauen can be compared vnto the Lord who among the sonnes of the mightie can be likened vnto the Lord 95. 7. He is our God and wee are the people of his pasture and the sheepe of his hands Iosh 2◠16. God forbid that we should forsake the Lord to serue other gods 23. Put away the strange gods which are among you incline your hearts vnto the Lord God of Israel 24. The Lord our God will we serue and his voice will we obey 18. Isa 30. The Lord is a God of iudgement blessed are they that waite for him 10. Psal 34. They that seeke the Lord shall not want any good thing 13. For he is gracious Ioel 2. and mercifull slow to anger and of great kindnesse 50. Luke 1. And his mercy is on them that feare him from generation to generation 12. Psal 33. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people whom hee hath chosen for his owne inheritance Rom. 11. 36. For of him and through him and to him are all things To whom be glory for euer Amen The holy Scriptures Mat. 22. 29. YE doe erre not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God Ier. 23. 29. Is not my word like as a fire saith the Lord like a hammer that breaketh the rocke in peeces Ioh. 5. 39. Search the Scriptures for in them ye think yee haue eternall life and they are they which testifie of me 〈◊〉 Receiue with meeknesse the ingrafted word which is able to saue your soules 31. These are written Ioh. 20. that ye might beleeue that Iesus is the Christ the Son of God and that beleeuing yee might haue life through his name 4. Rom. 15. For whatsoeuer things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might haue hope 3. 1. Tim. 6. If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholsome words euen the words of our Lord Iesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godlinesse 4. He is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strifes of words whereof commeth enuie strife raylings euill surmises 5. Peruerse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth supposing that gaine is godlinesse from such withdraw thy selfe Ioh. 8. 31. If ye continue in my word then are yee my disciples indeed 32. And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free 8. Pro. 8. All the words of my mouth are in righteousnesse there is nothing froward or peruerse in them 9. They are all plaine to him that vnderstandeth and right to them that find knowledge 47. He that is of God Ioh. 8. heareth Gods words 9. 2. Ioh. 1. Whosoeuer transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hee hath both the Father and the Sonne 10. If there come any vnto you and bring not this doctrine receiue him not into your house neither bid him God speed 2 Chron. 17. 9. The Leuites and the Priests sent by Iehosaphat taught in Iuda had the booke of the Law of the Lord with them and went about throughout all the Cities of Iuda and taught the people 34. 31. Iosiah made a couenant before the Lord to walke after the Lord and to keepe his commandements his testimonies and his Statutes with all his heart and with all his soule to performe the words of the couenant which are written in this booke 32. And hee caused all that were present in Ierusalem Beniamin to stand to it And the Inhabitants of Ierusalem did according to the couenant of God the God of their fathers 35. Act. 15. Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch teaching and preaching the word of the Lord with many others also 11. 17. The Iewes of Berea were more noble then those in Thessalonica in that they receiued the word with all readinesse of minde and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so 12. Therefore many of them belieued also of honourable women which were Greekes and of men not a fewe Acts. 17. 1. When Paul and Silas had passed throrough Amphipolis
vpon the graues of them that had sacrificed vnto them 5. And hee burnt the bones of the Priests vpon their altars and cleansed Iudah and Ierusalem 1. Sam. 7 3. If ye doe returne vnto the Lord with all your hearts then put away the strange Gods and Ashtaroth from among you and prepare your hearts vnto the Lord and serue him onely 4. The children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth and serued the Lord onely 10. Ier. 10. The Lord is the true God he is the liuing God and an euerlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation Inuocation 13. Rom. 10. WHosoeuer shall call vpon the name of the Lord shall be saued 15. Psal 50. Call vpon mee in the day of trouble I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me 9. Zepha 3 I will turne to the people a pure language that they may all call vpon the name of the Lord to serue him with one consent Act. 7. 59 They stoned Steuen calling vpon God and saying Lord Iesus receiue my spirit Luk. 11. 2. When ye pray say Our father which art in heauen hallowed bee thy name Thy kingdome come thy will be done as in heauen so in earth 3. Giue vs day by day our dayly bread 4. And forgiue vs our sinnes for we also forgiue euery one that is indebted to vs. And lead vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from euill 23. Io. 16. Whatsoeuer yee shall aske the father in my name he will giue it you 28. Mat. 11. Come vnto me all ye that labour and are heauie laden and I will giue you rest 16. Heb. 4. Let vs come boldly vnto the throne of grace that we may obtaine mercie and find grace to helpe in time of need 14. Psal 50. Offer vnto GOD thanksgiuing and pay thy vowes vnto the most high 3. 18. I will call vpon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be saued from mine enemies 6. In my distresse I called vpon the Lord and cryed vnto my God Hee heard my voice out of his Temple and my crie came before him even into his eares 5. 3. My voice shalt thou heare in the morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayer vnto thee and will looke vp 13. 3. Consider and heare me ô Lord my God lighten mine eyes least I sleep the sleepe of death 1. King 8. 39. Heare thou in heauen thy dwelling place forgiue and doe and giue to euery man according to his waies whose heart thou knowest for thou euen thou onely knowest the hearts of all the children of men 16. Isa 63. Doubtlesse thou art our father though Abraham be ignorant of vs and Israell acknowledge vs not thou ô Lord art our father our redeemer thy name is from euerlasting 5. Eccle. 9. The liuing know that they shall die but the dead know not any thing neither haue they any more a reward for the memory of them is forgotten 6. Also their loue and their hatred and their enuy is now perished neither haue they any more a portion for euer in any thing that is done vnder the Sunne Iob 14. 21. His sonnes come to honour and he knoweth it not and they are brought low but hee perceiueth it not of them Psal 99. 6. Moses and Aaron among his Priests and Samuel among them that call vpon his name they called vpon the Lord and he answered them 7. He spake vnto them in the cloudy pillar they kept his testimonies and the ordinance that he gaue them 12. Rom. 10. The same Lord ouer all is rich to all that call vpon him Adoration 18. Psal 145. THe Lord is nigh vnto all them that call vpon him to all that call vpon him in truth 23. Io. 4. The true worshippers shall worshippe the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him 24. God is a spirit and they that worshippe him must worship him in spirit and in truth Psal 51. 17. The Sacrifices of God are a broken spirit a broken and a contrite heart ô God thou wilt not despise 1. Cor. 6. 20. Ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit which are Gods 1. Pet. 2. 5. Yee also as liuely stones are built vp a spirituall house an holy Priesthood to offer vp spirituall Sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ Philip. 3. 3. We are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit and reioyce in Christ Iesus and haue no confidence in the flesh 20. Ier. 6. To what purpose commeth there to me Incense from Sheba and the sweete cane from a farre countrie your burnt offerings are not acceptable nor your sacrifices sweete vnto me 23. Amos. 5. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs for I will not heare the melody of thy viols 24. But let iudgement run downe as waters and righteousnesse as a mighty streame 8. Micha 6. What doth the Lord require of thee but to do iustly and to loue mercy and to walke humbly with thy God Isa 1. 16. Wash ye make ye cleane put away the euill of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do euill 17. Learne to doe well seeke iudgement releeue the oppressed iudge the fatherlesse pleade for the widdow Deut. 13. 4. Ye shall walke after the Lord your God and feare him and keepe his commandements obey his voice and ye shall serue him and cleaue vnto him 12. 10. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to feare the Lord thy God to walke in all his waies and to loue him and to serue the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule 13. To keepe the commandements of the Lord and his statutes which I command thee this day for thy good 30. Mar. 12. Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule and with all thy minde and with all thy strength this is the first commandement Iosh 22. 5. Take diligent heed to doe the commandement and the law which Moses the seruant of the Lord charged you to loue the Lord your God and to walke in all his wayes and to keepe his commandements and to cleaue vnto him and to serue him with all your heart and with all your soule Col. 2. 18. Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humilitie and worshipping of Angels intruding into those things which hee hath not seene vainely puft vp by his fleshly minde 8. When I had heard Reuel 22. and seene I fell downe to worship before the feete of the Angel which shewed me these things 9. Then saith hee vnto me see thou do it not for I am thy fellow seruant and of thy brethren the Prophets and of
is certaine we can carrie nothing out 8. And hauing foode and raiment let vs be therwith content 9. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtfull lusts which drowne men in destruction and perdition 10. For the loue of money is the roote of all euill which while some coueted after they haue erred from the faith and pierced themselues thorough with many sorrowes 20. Thou foole this night thy soule shall be required of thee Luk. 12. then whose shall those things bee which thou hast prouided 21. So is he that layeth vp treasure for himselfe and is not rich towards God Pro. 18. 11. The rich mans wealth is his strong citie and as an high wall in his owne conceit 11. 4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath but righteousnesse deliuereth from death Zepha 1. 18. Neither their siluer nor their gold shall be able to deliuer them in the day of the Lords wrath Luke 12. 15. A mans life consisteth not in the abundance of things which hee possesseth 31. Rather seeke ye the kingdome of God and all these things shall bee added vnto you Patience 14. 1. Thes 5. BE patient towards all men 15 See that none render euill for euill vnto any man but euer follow that which is good both among your selues and to all men 19. Rom. 12. Auenge not your selues but rather giue place vnto wrath for it is written vengeaÌ„ce is mine I will repay saith the Lord. 3. Iames 1. The trying of your faith worketh patience 4. But let patience haue her perfect worke that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing Rom. 5. 3. Tribulations worke patience 4. And patience experience and experience hope Luk. 21. 19. In your patience possesse ye your selues Phil. 4. 5. Let your moderation be knowne vnto all men Iam. 1. 19. Let euery man bee swift to heare slow to speake slow to wrath 20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousnesse of God Pro. 16. 32. Hee that is slow to anger is better then the mightie and hee that ruleth his spirit then he that taketh a citie 29. 14. Hee that is slow to wrath is of great vnderstanding but hee that is hastie of spirit exalteth folly 4. Wrath is cruell 27. and anger is outragious 9. Eccles 7. Bee not hastie in thy spirit to bee angry for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles 7. Iam. 5. Bee patient vnto the comming of the Lord behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it vntill he receiue the early and later raine 8. Bee yee also patient stablish your hearts for the comming of the Lord draweth nigh 10. Take the Prophets who haue spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience 11. Behold wee count them happy which indure yee haue heard of the patience of Iob and haue seene the end of the Lord that the Lord is pittifull and of tender mercy 1. Pet. 5. 10. The GOD of all grace who hath called vs into his eternall glorie by Christ Iesus after that yee haue suffered a while make perfect stablish strengthen settle you 11. To him bee glory and dominion for euer and euer Amen Humilitie 6. 1. Pet. 5. HVmble your selues vnder the mightie hand of God that he may exalt you in due time 5. Yea all of you bee subiect one to another and be clothed with humilitie for God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble â—â—o 16. 19. Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly then to deuide the spoile with the proud 11. 2. When pride commeth then commeth shame but with the lowly is wisedome Mat. 11. 29. Learne of me for I am lowly in heart â—uk 14. 11. Whosoeuer exalteth himselfe shall be abased and he that humbleth himselfe shall bee exalted â—phes 4. 1. Walke worthy of the vocation wherein yee are called 2. With all lowlinesse and meekenesse with long suffering forbearing one another in loue 3. Phil 2. Let nothing be done through strife or vaine-glory but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteeme other better then themselues 5. Let this minde be in you which was also in Christ Iesus 7. Who made himselfe of no reputation and tooke vpon him the forme of a seruant and was made in the likenesse of men 8. Hee humbled himselfe and became obedient vnto death euen the death of the crosse Phil. 2. 9. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and giuen him a name which is aboue euery name 10. That at the name of Iesus euery knee should bow of things in heauen and things in earth and things vnder the earth 11. And that euery tongue should confesse that Iesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the father Psal 138. 6. Though the Lord be high yet hee hath respect vnto the lowly but the proude he knoweth afarre off 9. 25. The meeke will he guide in iudgement and the meeke will hee teach his way 34. Pro. 3. Surely he scorneth the scorners but he giueth grace vnto the lowly 6. Psal 147. The Lord lifteth vp the meeke hee casteth the vngodly downe to the ground 10. Luke 18. Two men went vp into the Temple to pray the one a Pharisee and the other a Publican 11. The Pharise stood prayed thus with himselfe God I thank thee that I am not as other men are exortioners vniust adulterers and euen as this Publican Luke 18. 12. I fast twise in the weeke I giue tithes of all that I possesse 13. And the Publican standing a farre off would not lift vp so much as his eyes vnto heauen but smote vpon his brest saying God be mercifull to me a sinner 14. I tell you this man went downe to his house iustified rather then the other for euery one that exalteth himselfe shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted The holy Eucharist 26. IEsus tooke bread Mat. 26. and blessed it and brake it and gaue it to the Disciples and said take eate this is my body 27. And he tooke the cup and gaue thankes and gaue it to them saying drinke ye all of it 28. For this is my blood of the new Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sinnes 22. Iesus tooke bread Mark 14. and blessed and brake it gaue to them and said take eate this is my bodâ— 23. And hee tooke the cup and when hee had giuen thankes hee gaue it to them and they all dranke of it 24. And hee said vnto them this is my blood of the new Testament which is shed for many Luke 22. 19. Hee tooke bread and gaue thankes and brake it and gaue vnto them saying this is my body which is giuen for you this doe in remembrance
they cannot hearken the word of the Lord is to them a reproch they haue no delight in it Ier 2. 13. They haue forsaken the fountaine of liuing waters and hewed them out cisternes broken cisternes that can hold no water 8. But though we Gal. 1. or an Angell from Heauen preach any other Gospell to you then that which we haue preached vnto you let him be accursed 11. The Gospell which was preached of mee was not after man 12. For I neither receiued it of man neither was I taught it but by the reuelation of Iesus Christ 17. 2. Cor. 2. We are not as many which corrupt the word of God but as of sinceritie but as of God in the sight of God speake we in Christ 2. 4. Not walking in craftinesse nor handling the word of God deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth commending our selues vnto euery mans conscience in the sight of God 3. But if our Gospell be hid it is hid to them that are lost 4. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of men which beleeue not lest the light of the glorious Gospell of Christ who is the image of God should shine vnto them Ezek 20. 18. Walke not in the statutes of your Fathers neither obserue their iudgments nor defile your selues with their Idols 19. Ezech 20. I am the Lord your God walke in my statutes and keepe my iudgements and do them 2. Deut. 4. Ye shall not adde vnto the word which I command you neither shall you diminish ought from it that yee may keepe the cammandements of the Lord your God which I command you 32. 12. What thing soeuer I command you obserue to do it Thou shalt not adde thereto nor diminish from it Deut. 5. 32. Ye shall obserue to doe as the Lord your God hath cōmanded you you shall not turne aside to the right hand or to the left 28. 14. Thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day to the right hand or to the left to goe after other Gods to serue them 16. Aske for the olde pathes Ier. 6. where is the good way and walke therein and you shall finde rest for your soules Num. 15. 39. Remember all the commandements of the Lord and doe them and seeke not after your owne heart and your owne eyes after which ye vse to goe a whoring 17. Ier. 6. Hearken to the sound of the trumpet 4. Mal. 4. Remember yee the Law of Moses my seruant which I commanded to you in Horeb for all Israel with the statutes and iudgments 6. Pro. 30. Adde not thou vnto his words least he reproue thee and thou be found a lier 15 Though it be but a mans couenant yet Gal. 3. if it be confirmed no man disanulleth or addeth therto Reuel 22. 18. I testifie vnto euery man that heareth the words of the Prophecie of this book If any man shall adde vnto these things God shall adde vnto him the plagues that are written in this booke 19. And if any man shall take away from the words of the booke of this Prophecie God shall take away his part out of the booke of life and out of the holy citie and from the things which are written in this booke Images 21. LIttle children keep your selues from Idols 1. Ioh. 5. 1. Leuit. 26. Yee shall make you no Idols nor grauen Image neither reare you vp a standing Image neither shall you set vp any Image of stone in your land to bow downe vnto it for I am the Lord your God 8. Deut. 5. Thou shalt not make thee any grauen Image or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the waters beneath the earth 9. Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe vnto them nor serue them Isa 40. 18. To whom will yee liken God or what likenesse will yee compare vnto him Deu. 4. 15. Ye saw no similitude on the day that the Lord spake vnto you in Horeb out of the middest of the fire 12. Ye heard the voice of the words but saw no similitude onely ye heard a voice 13. And hee declared vnto you his couenant which hee commanded you to performe euen ten commandements and he wrote them vpon two tables of stone 8. I am the Lord Isa 42. that is my name and my glory will I not giue to another neither my praise to grauen Images 14. Ier. 10. Euery founder is confounded by the grauen Image for his moulten Image is falshood and there is no breath in them 15. They are vanitie and the worke of errours in the time of their visitation they shall perish 8. The stocke is a doctrine of vanities 29. Isa 41. Their moulten Images are winde and confusion Psal 97. 7. Confounded be all they that serue grauen Images that boast themselues of Idols Isa 44. 9. They that make a grauē Image are al of them vanitie and their delectable things shall not profit and they are their owne witnesses they see not nor know that they may be ashamed 45. 16. They shall be ashamed and also confounded all of them they shall goe to confusion together that are makers of Idols Deut. 4. 23. Take heede vnto your selues least yee forget the couenant of the Lord your GOD which he made with you and make you a grauen Image or the likenesse of any thing which the Lord thy GOD hath forbidden thee 29. Acts 17. Wee ought not to thinke that the Godhead is like vnto gold or siluer or stone grauen by art and mans deuice 19. Habak 2◠Woe vnto him that saith to the wood awake to the dumbe stone arise it shall teach Behold it is laid ouer with gold and siluer and there is no breath at all in the middest of it Deut. 4. 3. Your eyes haue seene what the Lord did because of Baal Peor for all the men that followed Baal Peor the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from you Numb 33. 52. Yee shall driue out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their pictures and destroy all their moulten Images and quite pluck downe all their high places Deut. 7. 5. Ye shall destroy their Altars and breake downe their Images and cut downe their groues and burne their grauen Images with fire 3. 2 Cro. 34. Iosiah while he was yet young began to seeke after the God of Dauid his father and began to purge Iudah and Ierusalem from the high places and the groues and the carued Images and the moulten Images 4. And they brake downe the Altars of Baalim in his presence and the Images that were on high aboue them be cut downe and the groues and the carued Images and the moulten Images he brake in peeces and made dust of them and strowed it
them which keepe the sayings of this booke worship God 10. 19. And I fell at his feet to worship him and he said vnto me see thou do it not I am thy fellow seruant and of thy brethren that haue the testimonie of Iesus Worship God 2. The Lord is great in Zion and he is high aboue all people 5. Exalt yee the Lord our God and worship at his footstoole for hee is holy Iosh 24. 14. Feare the Lord and serue him in sinceritie and in truth and put away the Gods which your fathers serued on the other side of the flood and in Egipt and serue ye the Lord. Isa 8. 13. Sanctifie the Lord of hosts himselfe and let him be your feare and let him be your dread Reuel 14. 7. Worship him that made heauen and earth and the sea and the fountaines of waters 8. Luke 4. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy GOD and him onely shalt thou serue Faith 1. Heb. 11. FAith is the substance of things hoped for the euidence of things not seene 6. Hee that commeth to God must beleeue that he is and that hee is a rewarder of them that diligently seeke him 46. Io. 12. I am come a light into the world that whosoeuer beleeueth on mee should not abide in darkenesse Iohn 3. 36. He that beleeueth on the sonne hath euerlasting life and he that beleeueth not the sonne shall not see life but the wrath of God shall abide on him Galat. 3. 26. Ye are the children of God by faith in Christ Iesus 22. The Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne that the promise by faith of Iesus Christ might bee giuen to them that beleeue Act. 10. 43. To him giue all the Prophets witnesse that through his name whosoeuer belieueth in him shall receiue remission of sins 22. Heb. 10. Let vs draw neare with a true heart in full assurance of faith 23. Let vs hold fast the profession of our faith without wauering for hee is faithfull that promised 9. If thou shalt confesse with thy mouth the Lord Iesus Rom. 10. and shalt beleeue in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt bee saued 10. For with the heart man beleeueth vnto righteousnesse and with the mouth confession is made vnto saluation Gal. 3. 9. They that be of faith are blessed with faithfull Abraham 1. Pet. 1. 9. The end of your faith the saluation of your soules Repentance Hos 14. 1. O Israel returne vnto the Lord thy God for thou hast fallen by thine iniquitie Act. 3. 19. Repent yee therefore and bee conuerted that your sinnes may bee blotted out 23. Ezech. 18. Haue I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die saith the Lord God and not that hee should returne from his wayes and liue 30. Repent and turne your selues from all your transgressions so iniquitie shall not be your 〈◊〉 31. Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby you haue transgressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit 11. Turne ye turne ye 33. from your euill waies for why will ye die 〈◊〉 ô house of Israel Isa 1. 18. Come now and let vs reason together saith the Lord though your sinnes bee as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they bee red like crimson they shall bee as wooll Heb. 6. 9. The Lord is long suffering to vs-ward not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance Isa 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way and the vnrighteous man his thoughts and let him returne vnto the Lord and hee will haue mercy vpon him and to our GOD for hee will abundantly pardon 40. Let vs search Lam. 3. and trie our wayes and turne againe to the Lord. 25. The Lord is good to them that waite for him to the soule that seeketh him 27. Iob. 33. If any say I haue sinned and peruerted that which was right and it profited me not 28. He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit and his life shall fee the light 7. Psal 130. Let Israell hope in the Lord for with the Lord there is mercie and with him is plenteous redemption 8. And hee shall redeeme Israell from all his iniquities Confession Pro. 28. 13. HEe that couereth his sinnes shall not prosper but who so confesseth and forsaketh thē shall haue mercy Luke 15. 18. I will arise and go to my father and will say vnto him father I haue sinned against heauen and before thee 19. And am no more worthy to bee called thy sonne 5. Psal 32. I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee and mine iniquitie haue I not hid I said I will confesse my transgressions vnto the Lord and thou forgauest the iniquitie of my sinne 4. Dan. 9. I prayed vnto the Lord my God and made my confession and said O Lord the great and dreadfull God keeping the couenant and mercie to them that loue him and to them that keepe his commandements 5. Wee haue sinned and committed iniquitie and haue done wickedly and haue rebelled euen by departing from thy precepts and from thy iudgements Dan 9. 6. Neither haue wee hearkened vnto thy seruants the prophets which spake in thy name to our kings our princes and our fathers and to all the people of the land Nehem. 1 5. O Lord God of heauen the great and terrible God that keepeth couenant and mercie for them that loue him and obserue his commandements 6. Let thine eare bee now attentiue and thine eyes opē that thou mayst heare the prayer of thy seruant which I pray before thee now day and night for the children of Israel thy seruants and confesse the sinnes of the children of Israel which wee haue sinned against thee both I and my fathers house haue sinned 7. We haue dealt very corruptly against thee and haue not kept the commandements nor the statutes nor the Iudgements which thou commandedst thy seruant Moses 10. 2 Sam. 24. Dauid said vnto the Lord I haue sinned greatly in that I haue done and now I beseech thee O Lord take away the iniquitie of thy seruant for I haue done foolishly Luke 18. 13. The publican standing afarre off would not lift vp so much as his eyes vnto heauē but smote vpon his brest saying God be merciful vnto me a sinner 1. Iohn 1. 9. If wee confesse our sinnes hee is faithfull and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse Rom. 14. 11. As I liue saith the Lord euery knee shall bow to me and euery tongue shall confesse to God 12. So then euery one of vs shall giue account of himselfe vnto God 4. Psal 41. Lord be mercifull vnto me heale my soule for I haue sinned against thee Faith and works 22. Iames 1. BE yee doers of the word and not hearers onely deceiuing your owne selues 23.
For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer he is like vnto a man beholding his naturall face in a glasse 24. For hee beholdeth himselfe and goeth his way and straight way forgetteth what manner of man he was Iam. 1. 25. But who so looketh into the perfect law of libertie continueth therin he being not a forgetfull hearer but a doer of the worke this man shall be blessed in his deed 26. If any among you seeme to be religious and bridle not his tongue but deceiueth his owne heart this mans religion is vaine 27. Pure religion and vndefiled before God and the father is this to visit the fatherlesse and the widdowes in their affliction and to keepe himselfe vnspotted from the world Rom. 2. 13. Not the hearers of the law are iust before God but the doers of the law shall be iustified 21. Mat. 7. Not euery one that saith vnto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdome of heauen but hee that doth the will of my father which is in heauen 24. Whosoeuer heareth these sayings of mine and doth them I will liken him vnto a wise man which built his house vpon a rock 25. And the raine descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beate vpon that house and it fell not for it was founded vpon a rocke Math. 7. 26. And euery one that heareth these sayings of mine and doth them not shall be likened vnto a foolish man which built his house vpon the sand 27. And the raine descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat vpon that house and it fell and great was the fall of that house 5. 16. Let your light so shine before mē that they may see your good works and glorifie your father which is in heauen 5. Peter 1. 5. Adde to your faith vertue to vertue knowledge 6. And to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse 7. And to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnes charitie 8. For if these things be in you and abound they make you that you shall neither be barren nor vnfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ 9. But he that lacketh these things is blind cannot see farre off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sinnes 2. Pet. 1. 10. Wherefore the rather brethren giue diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things yee shall neuer fall 11. For so an entrance shall bee ministred vnto you abundantly into the euerlasting kingdome of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Tit. 3. 8. This is a faithfull saying and these things I will that thou affirme constantly that they which haue beleeued in God might be carefull to maintaine good workes these things are good and profitable vnto men 14. Iam. 2. What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and haue not works can faith saue him 15. If a brother or a sister be naked and destitute of dayly foode 16. And one of you say vnto them depart in peace bee you warmed and filled notwithstanding yee giue them not those things which are needfull for the body what doth it profit 17. Euen so faith if it haue not works is dead being alone Iames 2. 21. Was not Abraham our father iustified by works when hee had offered Isaac his sonne vpon the Altar 22. Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect 23. And the Scripture was fullfilled which saith Abraham beleeued God and it was imputed to him for righteousnesse and he was called the friend of GOD. 24. Yee see then how that by workes a man is iustified and not by faith onely 26. For as the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also Iustification 19. NOw wee know Rom. 3. that what things soeuer the law saith it saith to them that are vnder the law that euery mouth may bee stopped and all the world may become guiltie before God 20. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shal no flesh bee iustified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sinne Rom. 3. 21. But now the righteousnesse of God without the law is manifested being witnessed by the law and the Prophets 22. Euen the righteousnesse of God which is by faith of Iesus Christ vnto all and vpon all them that beleeue for there is no difference 23. For all haue sinned and come short of the glory of God 24. Being iustified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Iesus Christ 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the deeds of the law 31. Do wee then make voyde the law through faith God forbid yea we establish the law 4 To him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt Rom. 4. 5. But to him that worketh not but beleeueth on him that iustifieth the vngodly his faith is counted for righteousnesse 13. The promise that he should be the heire of the world was not to Abraham or his seed thorough the law but thorough the righteousnesse of faith Rom. 4. 14. For if they which are of the law be heires faith is made voyd and the promise made of none effect Rom. 5. 1. Being iustified by faith wee haue peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ 2. By whom also wee haue accesse by faith into his grace wherin we stand and reioyce in hope of the glory of God 18. As by the offence of one iudgement came vpon all men to condemnation euē so by the righteousnesse of one the free gift came vpon all men vnto iustification of life 5. Titus 3. Not by workes of righteousnesse which wee haue done but according to his mercy hee saued vs by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost 6. Which he shed on vs abundantly through Iesus Christ our sauiour 7. That being iustified by his grace we should be made heires according to the hope of eternall life 8. Ephe. 2. By grace are yee saued through faith and that not of your selues it is the gift of God 9. Not of workes least any man should boast Galat. 5. 4. Christ is become of none effect vnto you whosoeuer of you are iustified by the law yee are fallen from grace 5. For we through the spirit waite for the hope of righteousnesse by faith 6. For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision auaileth any thing nor vncircumcision but faith which worketh by loue Luk. 17. 10. When ye shall haue done all those things which are commanded you say wee are vnprofitable seruants wee haue done that which was our dutie to doe 8. Phil. 3. I count all things but losse for the excellencie of the knowledge of Christ Iesus my Lord for whom I haue suffered the losse of all things and doe count them
but dung that I may winne Christ 9. And bee found in him not hauing mine owne righteousnes which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousnesse which is of God by faith 11. Bee not slothfull Heb. 6. but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promise Gal. 3. 2. This onely would I learne of you receiued ye the spirit by the workes of the law or by the hearing of faith 3. Are yee so foolish hauing begun in the spirit are yee now made perfect by the flesh 11. That no man is iustified by the law in the sight of God it is euident for the iust shall liue by faith 18. If the inheritance be of the law it is no more of promise but God gaue it to Abraham by promise 21. Gal. 3. For if there had been a law giuen which could haue giuen life verily righteousnes should haue beene by the law 22. But the Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne that the promise by faith of Iesus Christ might be giuen to them that beleeue 23. But before faith came we were kept vnder the Law shut vp vnto the faith which should afterwards be reuealed 24. Wherefore the law was our Schoolemaster to bring vs vnto Christ that we might bee iustified by faith Gal. 3. 25. But after that faith is come we are no longer vnder a Schoolemaster 26. For yee are all the children of God by faith in Christ Iesus Fasting Matth. 6. 16. WHen ye fast be not as the Hipocrites of a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces that they may appeare vnto men to fast verily I say vnto you they haue their reward 17. But thou when thou fastest anoint thine head and wash thy face 18. That thou appeare not vnto men to fast but vnto thy father which is in secret thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly 5. Isa 58. Is it such a fast that I haue chosen a day for a man to afflict his soule Is it to bowe downe his head as a bulrush and to spread sackloth and ashes vnder him wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord 6. Is not this the fast that I haue chosen to loose the bonds of wickednesse to vndoe the heauie burthens and to let the oppressed goe free and that ye breake euery yoke 7. Is it not to deale thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poore that are cast out to thine house when thou seest the naked that thou couer him and that thou hide not thy selfe from thine owne flesh Zechar. 7. 5. When ye fasted and mourned in the fift and seauenth moneth euen those seuentie yeares did ye at all fast vnto me euen to me 9. Thus speaketh the Lord of Hostes saying execute true iudgement and shew mercie and compassion euerie man to his brother 10. And oppresse not the widdow nor the fatherlesse the stranger nor the poore and let not any of you imagine euill against his brother in your heart 3. Dan. 9. I set my face vnto the Lord God to seeke by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes 4. Nehem. 1. I sate downe and wept and mourned certaine dayes and fasted and prayed before the Lord of heauen 1. Sam. 7. 6. The Israelites fasted and said We haue sinned against the Lord. Luke 2. 37. Anna was a widdow of about fourescore and foure yeares which departed not from the Temple but serued God with fasting and prayers day and night udg 20. 26. All the children of Israel and all the people went vp and came vnto the House of God and wept and sate there before the Lord and fasted that day vntill euen and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. 12. Ioel. 2. Turne ye euen to me saith the Lord with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning 13. And rent your hearts and not your garments and turne vnto the Lord your God for he is gratious and mercifull slow to anger and of great kindnesse and repenteth him of the euill 15. Blow the trumpet in Zion sanctifie a fast call a solemme assembly 16. Gather the people sanctifie the Congregation assemble the Elders gather the children and those that suck the breasts let the bridegrome goe forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet Ioel 2. 17. Let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord weepe between the Porch and the Alter and let them say Spare thy people O Lord and giue not thine heritage to reproch that the heathen should rule ouer them Ionah 3. 5. The people of Nineueh beleeued God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackloth from the greatest of them to the least of them 6. And the king of Nineueh arose from his throne and hee layde his robe from him and couered him with sackloth and sate in ashes 7. And he caused it to bee proclaimed and published through Nineueh by the decree of the king and his nobles saying let neither man nor beast heard nor flocke taste any thing let them not feede nor drinke water 8. But let man and beast be couered with sakcloth and cry mightily vnto God yea let them turne euery one from his euill way and from the violeÌ„ce that is in their hands Ionah 3. 9. Who can tell if God will â—â—â—ne and repent and turne away from his fierce anger that we perish not 10. And God saw their workes that they turned from their euill way and God repented of the euill that hee had said that hee would doe vnto them and he did it not Meates Col. 2. 16. LEt no man iudge you in meate or in drinke Rom. 14. 17. For the kingdome of God is not meate and drink but righteousnesse and peace and ioy in the holy Ghost 8. 1. Cor. 8. Meate commendeth vs not to God for neither if we eate are wee the better neither if we eate not are we the worse 25. 10. Whatsoeuer is sold in the shambles that eate making no question for conscience sake for the earth is the Lords and the fullnesse thereof 14. Rom. 14. There is nothing vncleane of it selfe but to him that esteemeth any thing to bee vncleane to him it is vncleane Tit. 1. 15. Vnto the pure all things are pure but vnto them that are defiled and vnbeleeuing is nothing pure but euen their mind and conscience is defiled Mat. 15. 11. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man but that which commeth out of the mouth this defileth a man 18. Those things which proceede out of the mouth come forth from the heart and they defile the man Mar. 7. 15. There is nothing from without a man that entring into him can defile him but the things which come out of him those are they that defile the man 21. For from within out of
of me 20. Likewise also the cup after supper saying this cup is the new Testament in my blood which is shed for you 16. 1. Co. 10. The cup of blessing which wee blesse is it not the Communion of the blood of CHRIST The bread which we breake is it not the Communion of the body of Christ 17. For we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread 23. The Lord Iesus the same night in which hee was betraied tooke bread 24. And when hee had giuen thankes he brake it and said take eate this is my body which is broken for you this doe in remembrance of mee Cor. 11. 25. After the same manner also hee tooke the cup when he had supped saying this cup is the new Testament in my blood this doe as oft as ye drinke it in remembrance of me 26. For as often as yee eate this bread and drinke this cup yee doe shew the Lords death till he come 27. Wherefore who soeuer shall eate this bread and drinke this cup of the Lord vnworthily shall bee guiltie of the body and bloud of the Lord. 28. But let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate of that bread and drinke of that cup. 29. For he that eateth and drinketh vnworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himselfe not discerning the Lords body 3. Cor. 10. Our fathers did all eate the same spirituall meate 4. And did all drinke the same spirituall drinke for they dranke of that spirituall rocke that followed them and that rocke was Christ 35. Iesus said Ioh. 6 I am the bread of life he that commeth to mee shall neuer hunger and he that beleeueth on me shall neuer thirst 51. I am the liuing bread which came downe from heauen If any man eate of this bread he shall liue for euer and the bread that I will giue is my flesh which I will giue for the life of the world 56. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him 58. Not as your fathers did eate Manna and are dead he that eateth of this bread shall liue for euer 63. Iohn 6. It is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speake vnto you they are spirit and they are life 28. 16. I came forth from the father and am come into the world againe I leaue the world and go to my father 7. It is expedient for you that I goe away for if I goe not away the comforter will not come vnto you but if I depart I will send him vnto you 2. 14. I goe to prepare a place for you 3. And if I goe and prepare a place for you I will come againe and receiue you vnto my selfe that where I am there yee may be also Mat. 26. 29. I will not drinke henceforth of this fruite of the vine vntill that day when I drinke it new with you in my fathers kingdome Mar. 16. 19. After the Lord had spoken to them hee was receiued vp into heauen and sate on the right hand of God Heb. 10. 13. From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstoole 14. For by one offering he hath perfected for euer them that are sanctified 1. Col. 3. If yee bee risen with Christ seeke those things which are aboue where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God 20. Phil. 3. Our conuersation is in heauen from whence also we looke for the Sauiour the Lord Iesus Christ 21. Acts 3. Whom the heauen must receiue vntill the times of restitution of all things which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world began The happinesse of Gods seruants Psal 37. 37. MArke the perfect man and behold the vpright for the end of that man is peace 92. 12. The righteous shall flourish like the Palme tree he shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon Hosea 14. 6. His branches shall spread and his beautie shall be as the Oliue tree and his smell as Lebanon Psal 92. 13. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the Courts of our God 14. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall bee fat and flourishing 23. 37. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and he delighteth in his way 24. Though he fall he shall not vtterly bee cast downe for the Lord vpholdeth him with his hand 12. 25. What man is hee that feareth the Lord him shall hee reach in the way that he shall choose 13. His soule shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the earth 14. The secret of the Lord is with them that feare him and hee will shew them his couenant â—sal 103. 17. The mercy of the Lord is from euerlasting to euerlasting vpon them that feare him and his righteousnesse vnto childrens children 18. To such as keepe his couenant and to those that remember his commandements to do them 65. 4. Blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to approach vnto thee that he may dwell in thy courts he shall be satisfied with the goodnesse of thy house euen of thy holy Temple The vanitie of the world 15. LOue not the world 1. Iohn 2. neither the things that are in the world if any man loue the world the loue of the father is not in him 16. 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 17. And the world passeth away and the lust thereof but hee that doth the will of God abideth for euer Eccles 1. 14. I haue seene all the workes that are done vnder the Sun and behold all is vanitie and vexation of spirit Col. 3. 2. Set your affection on things aboue not on things on the earth Iames 4. 4. Whosoeuer will be a friend of the world is the enemie of God Mat. 6. 24. No man can serue two masters for either hee will hate the one and loue the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other ye cannot God and Mammon 15. Luke 16. That which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God 14. What is your life Iames. 4. It is euen a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away 4. Psal 144. Man is like to vanitie his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away 15. 103. His dayes are as grasse as a flower of the field so he florisheth 16. For the winde passeth ouer it and it is gon and the place thereof shall know it no more 2. Iob 14. He coÌ„meth forth like a flower and is cut downe he flieth also as a shadow and continueth not 1. Pet. 1. 24. For all flesh is as grasse and
He onely is my rocke and my saluation hee is my defence I shall not bee moued 40. 4. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust Acknowledging Gods mercie Psal 28. 7. THe Lord is my strength and my shield my heart trusted in him and I am helped therefore my heart greatly reioyceth and with my song will I praise him 86. 12. I will praise thee O Lord my God with all my heart and I will glorifie thy name for euermore 13. For great is thy mercy towards mee and thou hast deliuered my soule from the lowest hell 3. Psal 1â—3 In the day when I cried thou answeredst me and strengthenedst mee with strength in my soule 5. 32. I acknowledged my sinne vnto thee and mine iniquitie I haue not hid 6. I said I will confesse my transgressions vnto the Lord and thou forgauest the iniquitie of my sinne 11. 16. Thou wilt shew me the path of life in thy presence is fullnesse of ioy at thy right hand there are pleasures for euermore Psal 18. 32. It is God that girdeth mee with strength and maketh my way perfect 31. For who is God saue the Lord or who is a rocke saue our God 147. 3. He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth vp their wounds â—4 22. The Lord redeemeth the soule of his seruants and none of them that trust in him shall bee desolate 145. 8. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great mercie 9. Psal 145. The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are ouer all his works 10. All thy workes praise thee O Lord and thy Saints blesse thee 11. They shall speake of the glorie of thy kingdome and talke of thy power 13. Thy Kingdome is an euerlasting Kingdome and thy dominion endureth throughout all ages 5. 36. Thy mercie O Lord is in the heauens and thy faithfullnesse reacheth vnto the Clouds Psal 36. 6. Thy righteousnesse is like the great mountaines thy iudgements are a great deepe O Lord thou preseruest man and beast 7. How excellent is thy louing kindnesse O God therefore the children of men put their trust vnder the shadow of thy wings 8. They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatnesse of thy house and thou shalt make them drinke of the riuers of thy pleasures 9. For with thee is the well of life and in thy light shall we see light Magnifying Gods mercie and goodnesse 1. I will praise thee Psal 9. O Lord with my whole heart I will shew foorth all thy maruelous workes 2. I will be glad and reioyce in thee I will sing praise vnto thy name ô thou most high 10. They that know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast not forsaken them that seeke thee 90. 119. Thy faithfulnesse is to all generations thou hast established the earth and it abideth Psal 119. 142. Thy righteousnesse is an euerlasting righteousnesse and thy Law is truth 135. 13. Thy Name ô Lord endureth for euer and thy memoriall ô Lord thorow out all generations 106. 2. Who can vtter the mightie acts of the Lord Who can shew forth all his praise 33. 5. Hee loueth righteousnesse and iudgement The earth is full of the goodnesse of the Lord. 111. 7. The workes of his hands are veritie and iudgement all his commandements are true 4. Psal 111. Hee hath made his wonderfull works to be remembred The Lord is gracious and full of compassion 14. 145. The Lord vpholdeth all that fall and raiseth vp all those that bee bowed downe 19. He will fullfill the dâ—sire of them that feare him Hee will also heare their crie and saue them 1. 103. Blâ—sse the Lord O my soule and all that is within me blesse his holy name 2. Blesse the Lord ô my soule and forget not all his benefits Psal 103. 3. Who forgiueth all thine iniquities who healeth all thy diseases 4. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction who crowneth thee with louing kindenesse and tender mercies 113. 2. Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth for euermore Of Praise 104. 33. I will sing vnto the Lord as long as I liue I will sing praise vnto my God whiles I haue any being 7. 17. I will praise the Lord according to his righteousnesse I will sing praise vnto the name of the Lord most high 1. O Lord our Lord Psal 8. how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glory aboue the heauens 18. 35. I will giue thee thankes in the congregation I will praise thee among much people 2. 138. I will worshippe towards thy holy Temple and praise thy name for thy louing kindnesse and for thy truth for thou hast magnified thy word aboue all thy name Psal 145. 1. I will extoll thee my God O king and I will blesse thy name for euer and euer 2. Euery day will I blesse thee and I will praise thy name for euer and euer 21. My mouth shall speake the praise of the Lord and let all flesh blesse his holy name for euer and euer 18. 46. The Lord liueth and blessed bee my rocke and let the God of my saluation be exalted 28. 6. Blessed be the Lord because he hath heard the voice of my supplications 13. Psal 41. Blessed be the Lord GOD of Israel from euerlasting to euerlasting Amen Amen PSALMES IN SICKNESSE IAMES 5.15 The prayer of faith shall saue the sicke and the Lord shall raise him vp and if he haue committed sins they shall be forgiuen him LONDON Printed for E. BLACKMORE 1628. THE FIRST PSALME IN SICKNESSE Psal 38. 1. O Lord rebuke mee not in thy wrath neither chasten mee in thy hot displeasure 2. For thine arrowes sticke fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore 3. There is no soundnesse in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sinne 14. Psal 22. I am powred out like water all my bones are out of ioynt My heart is like waxe it is melted in the middest of my bowells 4. 38. For mine iniquities are gone ouer my head as an heauie burthen they are too heauy for me 5. My wounds stinke are corrupt because of my foolishnesse 4. 41. Lord bee mercifull vnto me heale my soule for I haue sinned against thee 9. 38. All my desire is before thee and my groaning is not hid from thee 18. For I will declare mine iniquitie and will be sorry for my sinne Psal 119. 176. I haue gone astray like a lost sheepe seeke thy seruant for I do not forget thy Commandements 175. Let my soule liue and it shall praise thee and let thy iudgements helpe me Second Psalme 69. 16. HEare me ô Lord for thy louing kindnesse is good Turne vnto me according to
Congregation stone him 6. 2. Sam. 6. Vzzah put forth his hand to the Arke of God and tooke hold of it for the oxen shooke it 7. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Vzzah and God smote him there for his error and there he died by the Arke of God 19. 1. Sam. 6. And hee smote the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the Arke of the Lord euē hee smote of the people threescore thousand and threescore and ten men 30. Math. 25. Cast ye the vnprofitable seruant into vtter darkenesse there shall bee weeping and gnashing of teeth Iam. 3. 2. In many things wee offend all 1. Iohn 1. 7. And the bloud of Iesus Christ cleanseth vs from all sinne Will. Gen. 6. 5. GOd saw that the wickednes of man was great in the earth and that euery imagination of the thoughts of his heart was onely euill continually 8. 21. The imagination of mans heart is euill from his youth 23. Ier. 10. O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himselfe it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps 18. 31. Thou hast chastised me and I was chastised as a bullocke vnaccustomed to the yoake turne thou me and I shall be turned thou art the Lord my God 24. Pro. 20. Mans goings are of the Lord how can a man then vnderstand his owne way 1. 16. The preparations of the heart of man and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. 5. Iohn 15. I am the vine ye are the branches he that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth foorth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing Psal 32. 8. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way that thou shalt goe I will guide thee with mine eye Hosea 13. 9. O Israel thou hast destroyed thy selfe but in me is thine helpe Iohn 6. 44. No man can come to mee except the father which hath sent me draw him 2. Cor. 3. 5. We are not sufficient of our selues to thinke any thing as of our selues for our sufficiency is of God 13. Philip. 2. It is God which worketh in you both to will and to doe of his good pleasure 17. Iames 1. Euery good gift and euery perfect gift is from aboue and cōmeth downe from the father of lights with whom is no variablenesse neither shadow of turning 18. Of his owne will begate hee vs with the word of truth that wee should bee a kinde of first fruits of his creatures 15. Ye ought to say Iames 4. if the Lord will we shall liue and doe this or that Acts 18 21. I will returne againe vnto you if God will 1. Cor. 4. 19. I will come vnto you shortly if the Lord will Heb. 6. 3. This will wee doe if God permit Ezech. 36. 26. A new heart will I giue you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will giue you an heart of flesh 17. And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walke in my statutes and ye shall keepe my iudgements and doe them 45. Luke 24. Then opened hee their vnderstanding that they might vnderstand the Scriptures 12. Iohn 1. As many as receiued him to them gaue he power to become the sonnes of God euen to them that beleeue on his name 13. Which were borne not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God Hipocrisie 8. Iames 4. CLeanse your hands ye sinners and purifie your hearts ye double minded Luke 12. 1. Beware ye of the leauen of the Pharises which is hypocrisie Pro. 30. 12. There is a generation that are pure in their owne eyes and yet is not washed from their filthinesse Iob 36. 13. The hypocrites in heart heape vp wrath Isay 58 2. They seeke mee dayly and delight to know my wayes as a nation that did righteousnesse and forsook not the ordinance of their God they aske of mee the ordinances of Iustice they take delight in aproaching to God 5. Mat. 23. But all their workes they doe for to be seene of men 23. Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharises Hypocrites for yee pay tythe of mynt and annise and cūmyne and haue omitted the weightier matters of the law iudgement mercy and faith these ought yee to haue done and not to leaue the other vndone 27. Ye are like to whited sepulchers which indeede appeare beautifull outward but are within full of dead mens bones and of vncleanenesse 28. Euen so yee also outwardly appeare righteous vnto men but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie Luk. 11. 39. Yee Pharisees doe make cleane the outside of the cup and platter but your inward part is full of rauening and wickednesse Mat. 23. 26. Cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter that the outside of them may bee cleane also Luk. 11. 40. Ye fooles did not he which made that which is without make that which is within also 41. Rather giue almes of such things as you haue behold all things are cleane vnto you Riches 1. Eccles 6. THere is an euill which I haue seene vnder the Sunne and it is common among men 2. A man to whom God hath giuen riches wealth and honour so that hee wanteth nothing for his soule of all that hee desireth yet God giueth him not power to eate thereof but a stranger eateth it this is vanitie and it is an euill disease 1. Tim. 6. 17. Charge them that bee rich in this world that they bee not high minded nor trust in vncertaine riches but in the liuing God who giueth vs richly all things to enioy 18. That they doe good that they bee rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate 19. Laying vp in store for themselues a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternall life Iames 5. 1. Goe to now ye rich men weepe and howle for your miseries that shal come vpon you 2. Your riches are corrupted and your garments moth-eaten 3. Your gold and siluer is cankred and the rust of them shall be a witnesse against you and shall eate your flesh as it were fire yee haue heaped vp treasure together for the last dayes 24 Woe vnto you that are rich Luke 6. for ye haue receiued your consolation 19. Mar. 4. The cares of this world and the deceitfullnesse of riches and the lusts of other things entring in choake the word and it becommeth vnfruitfull Luk. 16. 13. Yee cannot serue God and Mammon 1 Tim 6. 6. Godlinesse with contentment is great gaine Psal 62. 10. If riches increase set not your heart vpon them 1 Tim. 6. 7. For we brought nothing into this world and it
all the glorie of man as the flower of gras the grasse withereth and the flower thereof falleth away Psal 62. 9. Surely men of low degree are vanitie and men of high degree are a lie to be laid in the ballance they are altogether lighter then vanitie 39. 5. Verily euery man at his best state is altogether vanitie The end of the world 3. Math. 24. AS Iesus sate vpon the Mount of Oliues the disciples came vnto him priuately saying tell vs what shall bee the signe of thy comming and of the end of the world 4. And Iesus answered and said vnto them Take heede that no man deceiue you 5. For many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceiue many 6. And yee shall heare of warres and rumors of warres See that yee bee not troubled for all these things must come to passe but the end is not yet Math 24. 7. For nation shall rise against nation and kingdome against kingdome and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diuers places 8. All these are but the beginning of sorrowes 9. Then shall they deliuer you vp to be afflicted and shall kill you and yee shall bee hated of all Nations for my names sake 10. And they shall many be offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another 11. And many false prophets shall arise and shall deceiue many 12. And because iniquitie shall abound the loue of many shall waxe cold 13. But hee that shall endure vnto the end shall be saued 14. And this Gospell of the Kingdome shall be preached in all the world for a witnesse vnto all Nations and then shall the end come 21. Then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time no not euer shall bee Mat. 24. 22. And except those dayes should bee shortned there should no flesh bee saued but for the elects sake those dayes shall bee shortned 24. There shall arise false christs and false prophets and shal shew great signes and wonders in so much that if it were possible they shall deceiue the very elect 2. Tim. 3. 1. This know also that in the last dayes perilous times shall come 2. For men shall bee louers of their owne selues couetous boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to Parents vnthankefull vnholy 3. Without naturall affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good 4. Traytors heady high minded louers of pleasures more then louers of God 5. Hauing a forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof from such turne away 6. For of this sort are they which creepe into houses and leade captiue silly women ladē with sins led away with diuers lusts 7. Euer learning and neuer able to come to the knowledge of the truth 2. Tim. 3. 8. Now as Iannes Iambres withstood Moses so do these also resist the truth men of corrupt mindes reprobate concerning faith 9. But they shall proceede no further for their folly shall bee manifested vnto all men as theirs also was Luke 21. 25. And there shall be signes in the Sunne and in the Moone and in the starres and vpon the earth distresse of nations with perplexitie the sea and the waters shall roare 26. Mens heart fayling them for feare and for looking after those things which are comming on the earth for the powers of heauen shal be shaken 27. And then shall they see the sonne of man comming in a cloude with power and great glory 28. And when these things shall begin to come to passe then looke vp and lift vp your heads for your redemption draweth nigh 13. Mar. 13. But of that day and houre knoweth no man not the Angels in heauen nor the son but the father Luke 21. 36. Watch yee therefore and pray alwayes that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe and to stand before the sonne of man 1. Thes 4. 15. For this we say vnto you by the word of the Lord that wee which are aliue and remaine vnto the comming of the Lord shall not preuent them which are asleepe 16. For the Lord himselfe shall descend from heauen with a shoute with the voice of the Archangel and with the trumpe of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first 17. Then we which are aliue and remaine shall bee caught vp together with them in the clouds to meete the Lord in the aire and so shall we euer be with the Lord. The Iudgement 27. Heb. 9. IT is appointed vnto all men to die but after this the Iudgement 7. Eccles. 12. The dust shall returne to the earth as it was and the spirit shall returne to God who gaue it 1. 2. Cor. 5. Wee know if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolued we haue a building of God a house not made with hand eternall in the heauens Rom. 8. 10. The bodie is dead because of sinne but the spirit is life because of righteousnesse Gal. 6. 8. He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reape corruption but hee that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reape life euerlasting Iohn 5. 24. He that heareth my Word and beleeueth on him that sent me hath euerlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death vnto life 18. Psal 37. The Lord knoweth the daies of the vpright and their inheritance shall be for euer 20. But the wicked shall perish and the enemies of the Lord shall bee as the fat of lambes they shall consume into smoke shall they consume away 23. Rom. 6. The wages of sinne is death but the gift of GOD is eternall life thorough Iesus Christ our Lord. 22. The begger died Luke 16 and was carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome the rich man also died and was buried 23. And in hell hee lift vp his eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham afarre off and Lazarus in his bosome 24. And he cryed and said father Abraham haue mercie on me and send Lazarus that hee may dip the tip of his finger in water and coole my tongue for I am tormented in this flame 25. But Abraham said sonne remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus euill things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented 13. Wide is the gate Mat. 7. and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which goe in thereat 14. Straite is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth vnto life and few there bee that finde it 28. Iohn 15. The houre is comming in the which all that are in the graues shall heare his voice 29. And shall come forth they that haue done good vnto the resurrectiō of life and they that haue done euill vnto the resurrection of damnation Mat 25. 46. These shall
goe away into euerlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternall Dan. 12. 2. Many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake some to euerlasting life and some to shame and euerlasting contempt Mat. 25. 31. When the sonne of man shall come in his glory and shall the holy Angels with him then shall hee sit vpon the throne of his glory 32. Mat. 25. And before him shall bee gathered all nations and he shall separate them one from another as a sheapheard diuideth his sheepe from the goates 33. And he shall set the sheepe on his right hand but the goates on the left 34. Then shall the king say vnto them on his right hand come yee blessed of my father inherit the kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world 41. Then shall hee say vnto them on the left hand depart from me yee cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the deuill and his Angels Iude. 24. Now vnto him that is able to keepe you from falling and to present you faultlesse before the presence of his glory with exceeding ioy 25. To the only wise God our Sauiour be glorie and maiestie dominion and power now and euer Amen Reuel 22. 14. Blessed are they that doe his commandements that they may haue right to the tree of life may enter in through the gates into the citie 15. For without are dogges and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and Idolaters and whosoeuer loueth and maketh a lie PSALTERIES OF THE HOLY GHOST ROM 14 17. The Kingdome of GOD is not meate and drinke but righteousnesse and peace and ioy in the Holy Ghost LONDON Printed for E. BLACKMORE 1628. A PREFACE concerning the PSALMES DAVID is said to be the instrumentall cause of the Psalmes to whom all things were reuealed and by him set downe Hee is also esteemed the greater 2. Samuel 23.2 and more excellent Prophet in that hee did not Prophesie by certaine visions of things or darke couerings of words but by the inward motion onely of the holy Ghost which is most euident because the manifold and most beautifull riches in that tresurie conteined are impossible to be matched by any other Among which the inuocation of Almightie God being the greatest defence for our saluation against the continuall assaults of Satan is most excellently composed for a presedent and direction vnto vs vpon all occasions Eph. 6.18 We are commanded to pray alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the spirit which is impossible for vs to do vnlesse we be learned in the exercise of Pietie and guided therein by the holy Spirit of God The true rule whereof is to be taken out of the Booke of the Psalmes For by reading them we are as well stirred vp to the vnderstanding of our infirmities as admonished and taught how to seeke a sure remedie for them They are doubtlesse the Anatomie of all the parts of the soule for wee cannot finde any disposition or affection of the minde in our selues the forme and proportion whereof is not in this glasse represented When in this language we prepare our selues to speake vnto God we are drawne to so strict an examination of our transgressions that all our secret offences being disclosed and our hearts cleansed from hypocrisie wee cannot but deliuer a reall account and full confession of them By this language which is Verba spiritus sancti The words of the holy Ghost wee haue not onely a familiar accesse vnto God but do also find it more safe and auaileable for vs to acknowledge and confesse our sinnes before him then before men 1. Iohn 1.9 for he is faithfull and iust to forgiue vs our sinnes and to cleanse vs from all vnrighteousnesse Psal 118.8 And it is better to trust in him then to put confidence in man In them wee haue examples and directions of thanksgiuing for blessings receiued and dangers escaped They are most comfortable in all times of temptation trouble and affliction The Psalmes therefore ought to be our meditations in all holy exercises both priuate and publike they are the key of knowledge Almost all holy write and misteries are briefely contained in them Their scope is the right way to eternall felicitie Some of the Fathers do counsaile the young souldiers of Christ Iesus Cassidor first to learne them before they learne the other holy Scriptures Others affirme that they are Arma Iuuenum Climac ex sententia Patrum The armour and weapons of young men And I doubt not but they may also truely be accounted Armentaria senum The armories and storehouses of old men Another saith Basil Liber Psalmoâ—uÌ„ quidvi in se complectitur quod vsui sit omni bonae doctrinae promptuaâ—ium est The booke of the Psalmes containeth in it whatsoeuer is vsefull and is the storehouse of all good doctrine In them certainely is expressed as in a liuely resemblance the true rule of religious seruice and worship for the example of a godly man assaulted by all manner of temptations is of more power to moue and incourage vs to flie vnto God in time of necessitie then a Commandement alone In proem in 7. Psal poenitent INNOCENT the third saith Inter omnes orationis species post orationem dominicam perfecta in Psalmis forma orandi reperitur Among all kinds of prayer next vnto the Lords prayer the absolute forme of praying is sound in the Psalmes yet not onely the words are to bee read and rehearsed in our meditations but our hearts also must be attendant and eleuated vnto heauen for wee are taught to lift vp our hands with our hearts vnto God in the heauens The holy Ghost being the dictator and guide of Dauids penne Lam. 3.41 and tongue when they were by him registred It is most meete and requisite that in all times of our deuotion they bee recited with the assistance of the same blessed Spirit which wee must before-hand inuocate lifting vp holy hands 1. Tim. 2 8. without wrath or doubting S. AVGVSTINE in his last sicknesse appointed DAVIDS Penitentiall Psalmes to be written Possidius in vita August and set vpon the foure sides of the wall which on his sicke daies lying on his bed he did behold and reade alwaies shedding forth teares abundantly S. BASIL also being in his death bed desired that the Psalmes might bee read vnto him by GREGORIE NAZIANZEN A man certainely in his greatest sorrow and anguish of conscience occasioned by Gods wrath and iudgement may by them learn to raise vp and comfort himself Come then let vs bring our offering of the finest gold to lay vpon Gods Altar the least graine whereof is more precious in his sight then all the Alcumie of the world Let vs drinke of the purest fountaine and forsake the troubled and muddie riuers Isa 55.1 Euery one that thirsteth come ye to these waters and he that hath no money yea come