3. Of the Churches Duties towards their Ministers and such others who labour amongst them 231 4. Of the Elections and Ordination of Officers in Churches ibid. 12. Of laying on of Hands upon the several Occasions and to the several ends in Scripture mentioned 232 13. Of the several Ordinances of Christ to be observed in and by the Churches of Christ and elsewhere Page 232. 1. Prayers 232 See more in Prayer at large Chap. 16. Page 92. See Praising at large Chap. 16. Page 92. 2. Reading Teaching Preaching of the Word of God Prophesying 232 See more of Ministers in general Chap. 26. Page 219. And of Gifts of Church-Members Page 226. 3. Baptisms 234 4. Breaking of Bread or the Lords Supper 235 5. Discipline Church-Censures or removing of Scandals c. 236 See more of Rebuking one another Chap. 17. Page 149. Chap. XXVIII Of Hypocrites and Hypocrisie The Spirits and Practices of such who are very format and earnest in and about the external Parts of Worship and Profession and in a shew for God yet high in their Opposition of Christ the Truth of the Gospel and Power of Godliness in others 237 See more of their persecuting Temper Chap. 22. Page 181. The Danger of Hypocrisie and of Formality and end of Hypocrites 242 Also see Sincerity Chap. 16. Page 134. Chap. XXIX Of the Conscience 243 Chap. XXX Of the Devil of his subtilty wiles and ways by himself and in and by his Instruments wicked Men false Teachers Deceivers and Seducers The Description of them and what concerns the Saints therein 244 1. Of Satan the Devil himself his subtilty c. 244 See more sinners Bondage Chap. 5. Pag. 18. 2. The Instruments of Satan Seducers Deceivers c. And the Saints Duties about it 246 Chap. XXXI Of Consideration Meditation pondering upon and serious weighing of the things of God his Word and Works our selves c. 249 Chap. XXXII Of the Thoughts Mind and Affections Page 251 Chap. XXXIII Of Repentance in the general wherein God cannot repent and wherein or how he is said to Repent Repentance in Man and of his turning to God from sin and in such who have backsâ—idden from following of God and otherwise Page 253 1. Wherein God cannot repent and wherein or how he is said to repent 253 2. Repentance in Man in general and of back-sliders returning c. ibid. Also see God's reasonings with Sinners Chap. 16. Page 125. Chap. XXXIV Of Death the laying down of these Tabernacles Page 256 Chap. XXXV Of the Resurrection from the Dead Page 259 Chap. XXXVI Of Christ's second Coming to the Judgment and rendring unto every Man according to his Deeds done in the Body whether good or bad Page 260 Also see Waiting for Christ's coming Chap. 16. Page 134. Chap. XXXVII Of the Glory prepared for the Saints and reserved to be given to them at the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ Page 262 Also see the End of the Wicked Chap. 5. Page 23. Chap. XXXVIII Of Knowledge and Understanding in and about Divine things and of the want thereof Ignorance about such things and the evil thereof Page 264 See more of the sottish Nature of Man Chap. 5. Page 21. See also the Giver of Knowledge Chap. 20. Page 166. Chap. XXXIX Of this present World and the Titles Honours Pleasures and other things in this World The use of them the Snares and Temptations in them and of the Saints Duties in relation to them Page 270 Chap. XL. Of Idolatry setting up and Worshiâ—ping strange Gods graven Images c. Page 276 Also see Worshipping the true God Chap. 16. Page 88. Chap. XLI Of the Angels their appearing to Men what they are and do Page 280 Chap. XLII Of the Parable and Similitudes which Christ spake Page 282 Chap. XLIII Of the Miracles and wonderful Things which were done by Christ and his Apostles Page 283 Chap. XLIV Of the Kings of Israel and Judah how they came to their Power and Office Page 286 Also see Magistrates at large Chap. 24. Page 211. Chap. XLV Of Sacrifices and Altars and calling upon the Name of the Lord before the giving of the Law Page 286 Chap. XLVI Christianity a difficult thing or it 's hard to be a Christian indeed ibid. Chap. XLVII Of Time or Opportunity Page 287 Chap. XLVIII Of the Signs of the end of the World Page 289 Chap. XLIX Encouragements to wait for hope in and cry to God in a time when our Case seems desperate ibid. Chap. L. God takes notice of a little good in any Page 290 Chap. LI. Of Vowes and Promises to God ibid. Chap. LII Of Blasphemies Page 291 Chap. LIII Of Israel's Murmurings Page 292 Chap. LIV. Of Diligence in our Calling Page 294 Chap. LV. Of Voices Dreams and Visions by which God declared his mind of old Page 295 Chap. LVI Of the Call and Commission of the Apostles equal without Superiority Page 296 Chap. LVII Of Israel's return from the Countries into which they are scattered Page 297 Chep LVIII Of the Seventh Day and the Laws about it And the Change of the first day of the Week Page 299 Chap. LIX Of Usury Page 300 Chap. LX. Of Envy Hatred Emulation Discontent Strife Page 301 Chap. LXI Of Murder the taking away of the Life Man Page 302 Chap. LXII Of Adultery Page 303 Chap. LXIII Of Drunkenness Page 305 Chap. LXIV That great outward Privileges nor our own Righteousness will be security against Judgment here or Damnation hereafter no cause of boasting Page 306 Chap. LXV Of Words and Deeds neither true nor good yet spoke and done to effect things designed or prevent Dangers Page 307 Chap. LXVI Of Words and Sayings expressive of Choice only not binding Page 308 Chap. LXVII Of sensible sick lost Sinners hungry thirsty Souls longing ones such whom Christ came to seek heal satisfie and save Page 309 Chap. LXVIII Of departed Soul's ignorance of Men and Things here in this World Ibid. Chap. LXIX Of Mary the Mother of our Lord according to the Flesh her having of Children by Joseph her Husband Ibid. CHAP. I. Of the Scriptures Written Word of God the Word of Truth their Authority Use End and Excellency Heb. 1. 1. chap. 2. 3 4. Prov. 23. 23. WHAT nation so great that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day Deut. 4. 8. Psal 119. 138 172. Therefore shall ye lay up these words in your heart and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand that they may be as frontlets between your eyes And you shall teach them your children speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way when thou lyest down and when thou risest up And thou shalt write them upon the dore-post of thy house and upon thy gates that your days may be multiplied c. Deut. 11. 18 19 20. ch 6. 6 7 8. Thou shalt read the law before all Israel in their
you c. that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all well-pleasing being fruitful in every good work c. strengthened with all might according to his glorious power c. And he is the head of the body the Church c. for it pleased the father that in him should all fulness dwell Col. 1. 9 10 11 18 19. The head from which the body c. having nourishment c. increaseth with the increase of God Col. 2. 19. Ye received it as the word of God which effectually worketh also in you who believe for ye brethren became followers of the Churches 1 Thess 2. 13 14. Now our Lord Jesus Christ c. establish you in every good word and work 2 Thess 2. 17. Now the God of Peace c. make you perfect in every good work to do his will working or doing in you that which is well-pleasing in his â—ight Heb. 13. 20 21. God gives more grace to the humble James 4. 6. V. To give Power and Ability to persevere in Faith and Obedience through Straits and Tentations to Eternal Life THE Lord thy God he will go over before thee c. Be strong and be of good courage fear not nor be afraid of them for the Lord thy God he it is who doth go with thee he will not fail thee not forsake thee Deut. 31. 3 6 8. Hebr. 13. 5 6. Wait on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart Psal 27. 14. The steps of a good man are ordered or established by the Lord c. Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand Psal 37. 23 24. 1 Sam. 2. 9. Psal 17. 5. Renew a constant or right spirit in me c. uphold me with thy free spirit Psal 51. 10 12. Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee he shall never suffer the righteous to be removed Psal 55. 22. Thou shalt guide me by thy Counsel and afterwards receive me to glory Psal 73. 23 24. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God they shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall be sat c. Psal 92. 13 14. Hold thou me up and I shall be safe and I will c. Psal 119. 116 117. The Lord upholdeth all that fall and raiseth up all that are cast down Psal 145. 14. Be not afraid c. for the Lord shall be thy confidence and shall keep thy foot from being taken Prov. 3. 25 26. When thou goest thy steps shall not be straitned and when thou runnest thou shalt not stumble Prov. 4. 12. Who is this coming out of the wilderness leaning upon her beloved c. Cant. 8. 5. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee Isa 26 3. A vineyard of red-wine I the Lord do keep it I will water it every moment I will keep it night and day Isa 27. 2 3. And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying This is the way walk ye in it when ye turn to the right-hand and when ye turn to the left Isa 30. 21. And a man shall be an hiding-place from the wind a covert from the tempest c. Isa 32. 2. The everlasting God c. fainteth not neither is weary c. He giveth power to the faint and to them who have no might he encreaseth strength even the youths shall faint c. but they who wait on the Lord shall renew or change their strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary and walk and not faint Isa 40. 28 29 30 31. I will bring the blind by a way they know not c. These things will I do unto them and not forsake them Isa 42. 16. Fear not for I have redeemed thee c. When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the Rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned c. for I am the Lord thy God Isa 43. 1 2 3. The Lord hath given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary Isa 50. 4. Thus saith the high and lofty one c. I dwell in the high and holy place with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones for I will not contend for ever neither will I be always wroth for the spirit should fail before me and the soul I have made Isa 57. 15 16. I will make an everlasting covenant with them and I will not turn away from them to do them good but I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me Jer. 32. 40. Rejoycè not against me O mine enemy when I fall I shall rise when I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto me Micah 7. 8. Ye shall be brought before governours and before kings for my sake c. take no thought how or what ye shall speak for it shall be given you in that same hour what we shall speak Matth. 10. 18 19 20. Luke 21. 15. Simon Simon Behold Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not Luke 22. 31 32. Whosoever shall drink of the waters which I shall give them shall never thirst but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life John 4. 14. My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give them eternal life and they shall never perish nei her shall any man pluck them out of my hand my father who gave them me is greater than I and no man is able to pluck them out of my father's hands I and my father one John 10. 27 28 29 30. Holy father keep through thine own name those thou hast given me c. while I was with them in the world I kept them in thy name c. I pray c. that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one John 17. 11 12 15. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ tribulation or distress c. nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us for I am perswaded that neither death nor life c. shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Rom. 8. 25 30 37 38 39. Who art thou who judgest another man's servant yea he shall be holden up for God is able to make him stand Rom. 14. 4. The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly c. Now to him who is of power to establish you according to my Gospel c.
Chap. 21 Page 176 In Duties Chap. 16 Chap. 17 Chap. 18 Chap. 19. In each Duty in Affliction Chap. 22 Page 192 In Duties to Magistrates Chap. 24 Page 215 Chap. XIII Saints Believers the Children of God themselves may be overtaken with Faults are not altogether free from Sinful Dispositions and Inclinations in this Life that they may be Corrected of God for them Page 67. 1. In general it is affirmed 67 2. Particular instances of the Saints failings Recorded ibid. 3. That God will Punish and Correct his for Sinning 70 See Gods Threatnings and Judgments against Sin and Sinners Chap. 16 Page 125 Chap. XIV Of the Priviledges of the Saints and their Excellency above others What God hath done doth do and will do for and be unto them more then others and what they can do with God c. Page 71. See more in the next Chap. of Union and Relation to Christ Page 77 See the Advantages of Faith Chap. 11 Page 57 See their Priviledges in Afflictions Chap. 22 Page 186 In times of Common Calamities Chap. 23 Page 209 See the Glory Believers shall have Chap. 37 Page 262 Chap. XV Of the Union and Relations between Christ and his Church and the mutual Love and Esteem of each other and the Manifestation thereof Page 77 Chap. XVI Of the Duties of Believers such as profess to be Saints First Towards God Page 19. 1. In general to live to God only not to self to be Holy Fruitful Walk in the Light in an Honest Heavenly and Spiritual Conversation worthy of our High-Calling To glorifie God and mind things above 79 2. In Particular To Love God and the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ 82 3. As Fruits of Love to God and Christ to delight themselves in God Long for Pant after him make their boast of Glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their Portion All and Rest And to obey and hearken to the Laws and Words of God and Christ 1. To Delight in Long for Pant after make their boast of Glory and rejoyce in God and Christ as their Portion 83 2. To obey and hearken to the Laws and Word of God our Lord Jesus 85 See more of Disobedience Page 125 4. Worship God and Sanctifie him therein 88 See more in Chap. 27 Page 232. and of Idol Chap. 40 Page 276 5. To Believe Imbrace and be found in the Practice of nothing in the things of God and about his Worship but that which clearly according to Precepts Rules and Examples of Scripture appears to be Christs mind upon which we may in Faith expect Acceptance 90 6. To Pray to God Of Prayer at large 92 See more in Afflictions Chap. 22 Page 201 Common Calamities Chap. 23 Page 210 7. To take especial Notice of the Acts of Gods Goodness and Mercy keep Memorials thereof Celebrate his Praises Extol him stir up others so to do 97 8. To fear God and none else or other fear The Arguments thereto Page 101 1. Not to fear any else or other fear 101 2. Fear God 102 9. To Trust in God and in none else in all Cases the Arguments thereto 105 1. Not in any else 105 2. In God as suitable Object 106 See more of Faith Chap. 11 Page 53 10. To look believingly unto Hope in and Patiently wait for God his Salvation in all Cases The Arguments thereto 110 See more in the Nature and Use of Faith Chap. 11 Page 57 11. To walk humbly before God abasing self opposing all High Thoughts Avoid boasting of self The Reasons 113 See more of submitting in Affliction Chap. 22 Page 178 See Death Chap. 34 Page 256 Duties of Believers towards God Chap. 16. 12. To be Moderate Meek Patient and Quiet in all things The Encouragements thereto 117 See more Duties to Brethren Chap. 17 Page 145 Duties to all Men Chap. 19 Page 161 Duties to Persecutors Chap. 22 Page 204 See Words Chap. 16 Page 119 13. To take heed to our Lips That our Words be not rash but true well-ordered and Savory and Seasonable 119 14. To acknowledge Sin depart from it and watch against it the Arguments thereto Gods complaining of it Reasonings with Sinners about it Threatnings and Judgments against Sinners for it 1. What Sin is 121 2. To acknowledge Sin to God Mourn for it both our own and others ibid. See more in Affliction Chap. 22 Page 200 In Common Calamities Chap. 23 Page 210 In Prayer Chap. 16 Page 92 3. To depart from Sin and all appearance of it hate it and avoid the occasions of it the Reasons 123 See Duties in General Chap. 16 Page 79 4. Gods Reasonings with Complainings of and Threatnings and Judgments against Sinners for their several Sins Disobedience and Rebellions 125 See more of Sin in Man's Nature Chap. 5 Page 18 23. Of Gods Correcting his for Sin Chap. Chap. 13 Page 70 Pardon of Sin Chap. 10 Page 48 15. To own and profess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ and his before Men boldly To wait for Christs second coming 1. To Own and Confess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ before Men. 133 See more of owning him in time of Persecution Chap. 22 Page 199 Of Perseverance Chap. 16 Page 139 2. To wait for the Second coming of Christ 134 See more his coming to Judgment Chap. 36 Page 260. 16. To walk with God Heartily Uprightly Sincerely and to follow him fully and Zealously The Reasons of it ibid. See also Hypocrites c. Chap. 28. Page 237 17. To stick fast to God not to depart abide in the Faith and Practice of what we know of his Will to the end That the Saints shall be kept 1. To Persevere and Abide in Faith and Practice c. 139 See more of holding fast in time of Affliction Chap. 22 Page 200 2. That Saints shall be kept have power to stand 142 See more of God upholding in Afflictions Chap. 22 Page 190 18. To take heed to Observe and Watch diligently over our selves with a Holy Jealousie and Fear lest we should Apostatize and depart from God his Truths and Ways into any Error or Sin The Reasons our Danger 143 See more of Saints Aptness to fall Chap. 13 Page 67 Of the Tempers Methods Chap. 30 Page 244 Chap. XVII Second Duties of Saints Believers Brethren in the Lord each to other as such and as standing in that relation one to another Page 145. 1. To Love each other The kinds of it 145 2. To Sympathize with each other in Pity and Compassion Help and Comfort one another bear one anothers Burdens have mutual Care of each other 146 See also this Duty to Afflicted ones Chap. 22 Page 207. 3. To Honour and Respect each other and be kind and Affectionate 147 See more walking Humbly Chap. 16 Page 113. 4. Not Rashly and Unadvisedly to take up a Prejudice against any believe Reports take Offence or be Angry but tenderly Forgive cover Faults and restore Offenders in Love ibid. Secondly Duties of
hearing c. that they may hear that they may learn and fear the Lord your God and observe to do all the words of this law and that their children who have not known may hear and learn to fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. ch 17. 18 19 20. Jâ—sh 1. 3. When Josiah heard it read he rent his clothes 2 Kings 22. 11 c. Ezra 9. 4. I have esteemed hid or laid up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food or appointed portion Job 23. 12. The word of the Lord is tryed or refined Psal 18. 30. Psal 12. 6. The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the statutes of the Lord are right rejoycing the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure enlightning the eyes c. the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether more to be desired than fine gold sweeter also than the honey and the honey-combs c. Moreover by them is thy servant warned Psal 19. 7 8 9 10 11. Psal 93. 5. Psal 119. 105. 2 Sam. 22. 31. Lo I come in the volume of the book it is written of me c. Psal 40. 7. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children that the generation to come might know the children who should be born should arise and declare to their children that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments and might not be as their fathers c. Psal 78. 5 6 7 8. Because they rebelled against the words of God and contemned the counsel of the Most High therefore he brought down their heart c. Psal 107. 11. 12. Luk. 7. 30. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his ways By taking heed according to thy word c. Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee c. Remember thy word unto thy servant upon which thou caused me to hope c. I will speak of thy testimonies before kings thy word hath quickned me c. Unless thy law had been my delight I had perished in my affliction c. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies c. I have more understanding than all my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation I understand more than the ancients c. How sweet are thy words to my taste thy word is a lamp to my feet c. I hope in thy word the entrance of thy words giveth light it giveth understanding to the simple Psal 119. 9 11 46 49 50 92 96 98 99 103 105 114 130. Thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name c. All the kings of the earth shall praise thee O Lord when they hear the words of thy mouth Psal 138. 2 4. He shewed his words to Jacob and his statutes and his judgments unto Israel he hath not dealt so with any nation And as for his judgments they have not known them Psal 147. 19 20. Deut. 4. 8. Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed but he who feareth the Commandments shall be rewarded or in peace Prov. 13. 13 Every word of God is pure c. Prov. 30. 5. To the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light or morning in them Isa 8 20. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who bringeth good-tidings who publisheth peace who bringeth good-tidings of good who publisheth salvation who faith unto Zion Thy God reigneth Isa 52. 7. As the rain cometh c. so shall my word be which goeth out of my mouth it shall not return unto me void but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it Isa 55. 10 11. To this man will I look to him who is poor c. And trembleth at my word c. Hear the word of the Lord ye who tremble at his word c. he shall c. Isa 66. 2 5. Behold the word of the Lord is to them a reproach they have no delight in it Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord c. Jer. 6. 10 11. The wise men are ashamed c. Lo they have rejected the word of the Lord and what wisdom is in them Jer. 8. 9. Luke 7. 30 The prophet who hath a dream let him tell a dream and he who hath my word let him speak my word faithfully What is the chaff to the wheat faith the Lord Is not my word like as fire saith the Lord and like a hammer which breaketh the rock in pieces Jer. 23. 28 29. I will shew thee that which is noted in the scriptures of truth Dan. 10. 21. Because Ephraim hath made many altars c. I have written unto him the great things of my law but they were counted as a strange thing Hos 8. 11 12. Psal 119. 129. Behold c. I will send a famine c. not of bread c. but of hearing the word of the Lord and they shall wander from sea to sea c. to seek the word oâ— the Lord and shall not find Amos. 8. 11. 12. Do not my words do good to him who walketh uprightly Micah 2. 7. Christ when the Devil tempted him said to him It is written Man lives not by bread alone c. It is written again Thou shalt c. Matt. 4. 4 7 10. Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine and doth them I will liken him to a wise man who buildeth his house upon a rock c. Matt. 7. 24 25. When the Pharisees contended Christ said unto them Have ye not read what David did when he was an hungry c. Or have ye not read in the law how that on the Sabbath-day c. Matt. 12. 2 3 4 5. ch 21. 16. Have ye not read that he who made them at the beginning made them male and female c. What God hath joyned together let no man c. Matt. 19. 4 5 6. And he said It is written My house shall be called a house of prayer but ye have made it a den c. Did ye never read in the scriptures That the stone which the builders refused the same is become the head of the corner Matt. 21. 13 16 42. Luk. 20. 17. Have not you read that which was spoken unto you by God saying I am c. Matt. 22. 31 32. Luk. 20. 37 38. All ye shall be offended c. For it is written I will unite the shepherd and the stock shall be scatterd abroad c. Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray c. But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be c. But all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled Matt. 26. 31
any man preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received let him be accursed The gospel c. I neither received it of man c. but by the revelation of Jesus Gal. 1. 7 8 9 11 12. The scripture foreseeing that God would c. The scripture hath concluded all under sin Gal. 3. 8 22. Jam. 4. 5. Having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace c. And take c. the sword of the spirit which is the word of God Ephes 6. 15 17. Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the God of peace shall be with you Philip. 4. 9. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and c. Col. 3. 16. Ye received the word of God which ye heard of us ye received it not as the word of men but as it is in truth the word of God which effectually worketh also in you who believe 1 Thes 2. 13. As ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound c. Wherefore comfort or exhort one another with these words 1 Thess 4. 1 18. Hold the traditions ye have been taught whether by word or our epistle 2 Thes 2. 15. These things write I unto thee c. that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thy felt in the house of God c. 1 Tim. 3. 14 15. If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus c. 1 Tim. 4. 6. I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect Angels that thou observe these things without preferring one before another c. 1 Tim. 5. 21. ch 6. 13 14. If any men teach otherwise and consent not to wholsom words the words of our Lord Jesus and to the doctrine which is according to godliness he is proud or a fool knowing nothing but doing about questions and strifes of words c. 1 Tim. 6. 3 4. 2 Tim. 2. 14 15 16 17. Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me c. 2 Tim. 1. 13. Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of knowing of whom thou hast learned And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise to salvation c. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine c. That the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works 2 Tim. 3. 14 15 16 17. Preach the word c. For the time will come they will not endure sound doctrine c. 2. Tim. 4. 2 3 4. Therefore ought we to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should let them slip for it the word spoken by Angels was stedfast c. how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord was confirmed unto us by them who heard God also bearing witness both with signs c. Heb. 2. 1 2 3 4. ch 12. 25. Wherefore as the holy Ghost saith To day if ye will hear his voice Heb. 3. 7. The word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit c. Heb. 4. 12 13. Every one who useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness Heb. 5. 13. Begat he us with the word of truth c. Be swift to hear c. the engrafted word able to save c. Jam. 1. 18 19 21. Ephes 1. 13. chap. 5. 26. 2 Tim. 2. 15. If you fulfil the royal law according to the scripture Thou shalt love c. Jam. 2. 8. Being born again not of corruptible seed but c. by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever c. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you 1 Pet. 1. 23 25. As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby 1 Pet. 2. 2. I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though ye know them and be established in the present truth c. Moreover I will endeavour that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance for we have c. We have also a more sure word of prophecy whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light which shineth in a dark place c. knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private or proper interpretation for the prophecy came not in old or any time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 12 13 15 16 19 20 21. This second Epistle I write unto you in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken of before by the holy Prophets and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord 〈◊〉 Saviour c. Paul also according unto the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you as also in all his epistles c. In which are some things hard to be understood which they who are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also other scriptures to their own destruction 2 Pet. 3. 1 2 15 16. And these things write we unto you that your joy may be full 1 Joh. 1. 4. He who doth not abide in the doctrine of Christ hath not God c. If there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him God-speed for he who bids him God-speed c. 2 Joh. 9. 10 11. It was needful for me to write to you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints c. I will put you in remembrance though ye once knew c. Remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ That they told you there should c. Jud. vers 3 5 17 18. Christ sent and signified by his Angel unto his servant John the things which must shortly come to pass c. Blessed is he who readeth and they who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein c. Write the things which thou hast seen c. Rev. 1. 1 2 3 19. You shall not add unto the word which I command you neither diminish from it Deut. 4. 2. Matth. 15. 3 4 5 6. Every word of God is pure c. Add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee and thou be found a lyar Prov. 30. 5 6. I testifie c. if any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto
him the plagues which are written in this book And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life c. Rev. 22. 18 19. Secret things belong to God revealed things to us and our children that we may do all the words of this law Deut. 29. 29. Pray for us that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified 2 Thes 3. 1. See that ye refuse not him who speaketh for if they escaped not who refused him who spake on earth much more shall not we escape if we turn away from him who speaketh from heaven Heb. 12. 25. The parable of the good seed sown in good and bad ground and the success thereof Matth. 13. 3 4 5 6 c. See Preaching of the Word Chap. 27. CHAP. II of GOD. I. His Names and Titles IN the beginning God created the heavens c. Gen. 1. 1. And the Lord God formed man c. Gen. 2. 7. ch 15. 7. ch 28. 13. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord Gen. 4. 26. And he was the Priest of the Most High God c. Gen. 14. 18 19 20. The Lord appeared unto Abraham and said I am the Almighty God c. Gen. 17. 1. ch 28. 3. Rev. 21. 22. The name of the Lord the everlasting God Gen. 21. 33. The Lord the God of heaven and the God of the earth Gen. 24. 3 7. And God said unto Moses I am that I am c. Thus shall you say c. I am hath sent me unto you c. The Lord God of your fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob hath sent me c. This is my name for ever and this is my memorial unto all generations c. The Lord God of the Hebrews c. Exod. 3. 6 14 15. ch 9. 1 13. I appeared unto Abraham c. by the name of God Almighty but by my name Jehovah was not known unto them Exod. 6. 2 3. Isa 12. 2. chap. 26. 4. And the Lord c. proclaimed the name of the Lord c. The Lord God merciful and gracious c. The Lord whose name is Jealous is a jealous God c. Exod. 34. 5 6 14. ch 33. 19. The Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh Numb 27. 16. ch 16. 22. That thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name The Lord thy God Deut. 28. 58. The Lord God of gods the Lord God of gods c. Josh 22. 22. To sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shilo c. 1 Sam. 1. 3 11. Jer. 46. 18. The Lord of hosts the God of the armies of Israel c. 1 Sam. 17. 45. Isa 28. 29. The God of Israel said the Rock of Israel spake to me c. 2 Sam. 23. 3. Extol him who rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah c. Psal 68. 4. That men may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah the Most High over all the earth c. Psal 83. 18. Let them praise thy great and terrible name Holy Psal 99. 3. Holy and Reverend is his name Psal 111. 9. They have provoked the Holy One of Israel Isa 1. 4. Ezek. 39. 7. I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give unto another Isa 42. 8. Jer. 16. 21. As for our Redeemer the Lord of hosts is his name the Holy One of Israel Isa 47. 4. ch 54. 5. Jer. 32. 18. O the Hope of Israel the Saviour thereof c. Jer. 14. 8. I will sanctifie my great name c. And the Heathen shall know that I am the Lord Ezek. 36. 23. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel and the Heathen shall know that I am the Lord the Holy One of Israel Ezek. 39. 7. The Lord the God of hosts is his name Amos 4. 13. ch 5. 27. The Lord hath sworn by the Excellency of Jacob Amos 8. 7. Now the God of patience and consolation grant c. Rom. 15. 5. 33. Now the God of peace be with you all c. 1 Thes 5. 2 3. God is not the Author of confusion but of peace 1 Cor. 14. 33. Heb. 13. 20. God is Light and in him is no darkness 1 Joh. 1. 5. Jam. 1. 17. God is Love 1 Joh. 4. 8 16. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent c. Rev. 22. 6. II. He is a Spirit GOD is a Spirit Joh. 4. 24. III. His Excellency Majesty Greatness Perfection Glory and Sovereignty and Absoluteness HE created the world and all things in it Gen. 1. ch 2. Psal 100. 3. Psal 104. Psal 136. 5 6 c. Prov. 22. 2. And the fear of you c. shall be upon every beast c. Into your hands are they delivered c. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you c. I have given you all things c. Neither shall there be any more a flood to destroy the earth Gen. 9. 2 3 11. When men endeavoured to prevent their being scattered God scattered them by confounding their language Gen. 11. 4 5 c. And the Lord said to Abraham c. Lift up thine eyes c. For all the land which thou seest to thee will I give it and to thy seed for ever c. Gen. 13. 14 15 16 17. Exod. 9. 29. Psal 24. 1. 1 Cor. 10 26 28. The Priest of the most high God c. The most high God Possessor of heaven and earth Gen. 14. 18 19 20 22. Psal 9. 2. Josh 3. 11. Who hath made man's mouth or who hath made the dumb or deaf or the seeing c. Have not I the Lord Exod. 4. 11. I am the Lord and I will bring you out from under the burthens of the Egyptians and I will rid you of their bondage and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgment c. Exod. 6. 6 7. That thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God c. I will sever c. To the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth Exod. 8. 10 22. ch 9. 14 16. ch 10. 2. Thy right hand O Lord is become glorious in power c. hath dashed in pieces the enemy and in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown c. With the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered c. Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the gods c. Glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders c. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever Exod. 15. 6 7 8 11 15 16 17 18. Psal 146. 10. Rev. 19. 6. I know that the Lord is greater than all gods for in the thing they dealt proudly he was above them Exod. 18. 11. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke because the Lord descended c. And the whole mount
they dry up c. he leadeth counsellors away spoiled and maketh the judges fools he looseth the bonds of kings c. he leadeth princes away spoiled and overthroweth the mighty c. Job 12. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 c. Shall not his excellency make you afraid and his dread fall upon you Job 13. 11. Jer. 5. 22. Job 23. 15. Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those who are high Job 21. 22. He stretcheth out the north over the empty places and hangeth the earth upon nothing he bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds c. he hath compassed the waters with bounds until the day and night come to an end the pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof He divideth the sea c. By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens c. Lo these are parts of his ways but how little a portion is heard of him But the thunder of his power who can understand Job 26. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Psal 19. 1 2 3 4 c. Jer. 5. 22. Psal 74. 12 13 14 c. Psal 77. 17 18. Psal 104. 2 3 4 c. Destruction from God was a terrour to me and by reason of his highness I could not endure Job 31. 23. Isa 13. 3. ch 28. toto God is greater than man Why dost thou strive against him For he giveth not account of any of his matters Job 33. 12 13. ch 49. 19. Jer. 49. 19. Job 21. 22. When he gives quietness who can give trouble And when he hideth who can behold him Job 34. 29. He thundereth with the voice of his excellency c. God thundereth marvellously with his voice great things doth he which we cannot comprehend For he faith to the snow Be thou on the earth Likewise to the small rain c. He sealeth up the hand of every man that all men may know his works c. With God is terrible majesty c. Job 37. 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. 22 23. The Lord said unto Job c. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth c. Who hath laid the measures thereof c. Job 38. toto Psal 104. 2 3 4 5 c. Who is able to stand before me Who hath prevented me that I should repay Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine Job 41. 10 11. Jer. 49. 19. Psal 50. 9 10 11 12. The kings of the earth set themselves c. He that fitteth in heaven shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision Then shall he speak unto him in his wrath c. Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill Sion Psal 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the earth Who hast set thy glory above the heavens Psal 8. 1 9. The Lord is in his holy temple the Lord's throne is in heaven Psal 11. 4. The heavens declare the glory of God the firmament sheweth his handy-work Psal 19. 1 2. The kingdom is the Lord's and he is the Governor among the nations Psal 22. 28. Psal 47. 2 7. Who is the King of Glory The Lord of hosts he is the King of Glory Psal 24. 10. The voice of the Lord is upon the waters The God of glory thundereth the Lord is upon many waters The voice of the Lord is powerful â—x power the voice of the Lord is full of majesty The voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedars c. The Lord sitteth upon the floods yea the Lord sitteth King for ever Psal 29. 3 4 5 6 7 8 10. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made c. He spake and it was done he commanded and it stood fast The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought he maketh the devices of the people of none effect The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever the thoughts of his heart to all generations Psal 33. 6 7 8 9 10 11. Isa 14. 27. Psal 104. 2 3 4 c. Zech. 12. 1. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised Psal 48. 1. Psal 50. 1. Verily he is a God who judgeth in the earth Psal 58. 11. Let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth Selah Psal 59. 13. Isa 60. 16. Psal 47. 2 7. Psal 66. 7. He visiteth the earth and watereth it c. enricheth it c. Thou preparest them com c. Psal 65. 9 10. 11. He that is our God is the God of salvation and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death c. To him who rideth upon the heaven of heavens c. His excellency is over Israel and his strength in the heavens O God thou art terrible out of thy holy places c. Psal 68. 20 33 34 35. Promotion cometh not from the east c. but God the Judge he putteth down one and setteth up another Psal 75. 6 7. In Judah is God known his name great in Israel c. Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey c. At thy rebuke O God of Jacob the chariot and horses are cast into a deep sleep Thou thou art to be scared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry c. He shall cut off the spirit of princes he is terrible to the kings of the earth c. Psal 76. 1 4 6 7 12. Nahum 1. 5 6. Who is so great a God as our God Thou the God that doest wonders c. The waters saw thee O God c. they were afraid the depths also were troubled c. Psal 77. 13 14 16. Job 9. 10. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the gods Psal 82. 1. That men may know that thou whose Name alone is Jehovah art the Most High over all the earth Psal 83. 18. Psal 91. 1. Among the gods none like unto thee O Lord neither is there any works like unto thy works All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee c. for thou art great and doest wondrous things thou art God alone Psal 86. 8 9 10. Psal 87. 5. Psal 111. 2 3 4 6 7. Who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord God is greatly to be feared c. Who is a strong lord like unto thee c. Psal 89. 6 7 8 9 11. Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest Return ye children of men c. Psal 90. 2 3. Job 9. 13. The Lord reigneth he is cloathed with majesty c. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters yea than the mighty waves of the sea Psal 93. 1 4. Psal 97. 1. Psal 99. 1. Psal 104. 1 2 3 4 c. The Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods in his hands are the deep places of the earth c. Psal 95.
3 4 5. Psal 96. 4. Psal 97. 9. Psal 135. 5 6 c. The Lord made the heavens honour and majesty are before him strength and beauty in his sanctuary c. Psal 96. 5 6. Fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about him c. The hills melt like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth c. Psal 97. 3 4 5. Psal 114. 7. Nahum 1. 4 5. Know ye that the Lord he is God he hath made us and not we our selves or his we are Psal 100. 3. 4. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens and his kingdom ruleth over all Psal 103. 19. The Lord is high above all nations his glory above the heavens Who like unto the Lord our God who dwelleth on high c. He raiseth the poor out of the dust c. that he may set him with princes c. he maketh the barren woman to keep house c. Psal 113. 4 5 7 8 9. Our God is in the heavens he hath done whatsoever he pleased c. The heaven the heavens are the Lord's but the earth hath he given to the children of men Psal 115. 3 16. Psal 135. 6. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and I will declare thy greatness c. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and thy dominion throughout all generations c. Psal 145. 5 6 13. Let them praise the name of the Lord for his name alone is excellent his glory is above the earth and heaven Psal 148. 13. The lot is cast into the lap but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord Prov. 16. 33. There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord Prov. 21. 30. The building of Babel Gen. 11. Joseph's dream brought to pass Gen. from ch 37. to ch 48. I know that whatsoever God doeth it shall be for ever nothing can be put to it nor any thing taken from it and God doth it that men should fear before him Eccles 3. 14. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth Isa 2. 10 19 21. Job 37. 22 23. Holy holy holy the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of thy glory Woe is me c. I have seen the king the Lord of hosts Isa 6. 3. The Lord of hosts hath purposed and who shall disanul and his hand stretcheth out who shall turn it back Isa 14. 27. Great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee Isa 12. 6. Rev. 19. 17. Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not c. behold the majesty of the Lord Isa 26. 10. The Lord of hosts wonderful in counsel and excellent in working Isa 28. 29. The Lord God c. who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out heaven with the span and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a ballance Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord or being his counsellor hath taught him With whom took he counsel c. Behold the nations are as the drop of a bucket and are counted as the small dust of the ballance Behold he taketh up the Isles as a very little thing c. All nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity To whom then will ye liken God or what likeness will ye compare unto him c. He who sitteth upon the circle of the earth c. that bringeth the princes to nothing c. To whom will ye liken me or shall I be equal saith the Holy One Lift up your eyes on high and behold who hath created these things Isa 40. 10 12 13 14 15 17 18 22 23 24 25 26. ch 42. 5. ch 46. 5 9 10. Jer. 5. 22. Job 9. 7 8 9. Yea before the day was I am he and there is none that can deliver out of my hand I will work and who shall let c. I the Lord your Holy One the Creator of Israel your King c. who maketh a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters c. I have given Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproaches Isa 43. 13 15 16 28. I the Lord who maketh all things who stretcheth forth the heavens alone who spreadeth abroad the earth by my self who frustrateth the tokens of the lyars and maketh diviners mad who turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish c. who saith to the deep Be dry and I will dry Isa 44. 24 25 27. Rev. 10. 6. ch 14. 7. I form light and create darkness I make peace and create evil I the Lord do all these things c. Woe to him who striveth with his Maker Let the potsheard strive with the potsheards of the earth c. I have made the earth and created man upon it I even my hands have stretched out the heavens c. Every knee shall bow to me every tongue shall swear c. Isa 45. 7 9 12 18 23. To whom will ye liken me c. I am God my Counsel shall stand I will do all my pleasure Isa 46. 5 9 10. Behold at my rebuke I dry up the sea c. I cloath the heavens with blackness c. Isa 50. 2 3. Nahum 1. 4. My word shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper Isa 55. 11. Thus saith the high and lofty One who inhabiteth eternity whose Name is Holy I dwell in the high and holy place c. Isa 57. 15. Thus saith the Lord The heaven is my throne and the earth my foot-stool where is the house ye build unto me and where is the place of my rest for all these things hath mine hand made c. Isa 66. 1 2. 2 Chron. 2. 6. ch 6. 18. Hath a nation changed their gods which are yet no gods but my people have changed their glory c. Jer. 2. 11. The Lord our God who giveth rain both the former and the latter in its season he reserveth unto us the appointed week of the harvest Jer. 5. 24. There is none like unto thee O Lord thou art great and thy name is great in might Who would not fear thee O King of nations For to thee doth it appertain forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms are none like unto thee c. At his wrath the earth shall tremble and the nations c. He hath made the earth by his power c. The Portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the Former of all things Jer. 10. 6 7 10 11 12 13 16. ch 51. 15 16 19. Job 9. 5.
his voice at any time nor seen his shape John 5. 37. Not that any man hath seen the Father save he which is of God he hath seen the Father c. John 6. 46. The invisible things of him even his eternal Power and Godhead Rom. 1. 20. Who is the Image of the Invisible God Col. 1. 15. Who c. dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man hath seen nor can see 1 Tim. 6. 16. Now to the King eternal immortal invisible c. 1 Tim. 1. 17. V. Incorruptible WHO changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image c. Rom. 1. 23. To the King c. immortal c. 1 Tim. 1. 17. ch 6. 16. VI. He is the most Strong Almighty and Omnipotent God a Rock THE Lord appeared to Abraham and said c. I am the Almighty God c. Gen. 17. 1. ch 28. 3. ch 35. 11. And the Lord said c. Is any thing too hard for the Lord Gen. 18. 13 14. Jer. 32. 27. His hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob c. By the Almighty c. Gen. 49 24 25. I will redeem you with a stretched-out arm Exod. 6. 6. Jer. 30. 54. The Lord is a Man of War c. Thy right hand O Lord is become glorious c. Exod. 15. 3 6. He who saw the vision of the Almighty c. Numb 24. 4 16. Thou hast shewed thy servant c. thy mighty hand For what god is there c. who can do according to thy works and according to thy might Deut. 3. 24. Thou shalt not fear c. for the Lord thy God is among you a mighty God Deut. 7. 21. The Lord thy God c. he is a consuming fire Deut. 9. 3. Jehovah c. is the God of gods c. the most strong the greatest and the most powerful c. Deut. 10. 17. He is the Rock his work is perfect c. Jesurun c. forsook God c. and lightly esteemed of the Rock of his salvation c. Of the Rock who begat thee thou art unmindful c. Their rock is not as our Rock the enemies themselves being judges c. neither is there any who can deliver out of my hand Deut. 32. 4 15 18 31 39. 1 Sam. 2. 2. 2 Sam. 22. 3. 32. Psal 3. 3. That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty that ye may fear c. Josh 4. 24. ch 5. 14. The Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me c. And the Almighty hath afflicted me Ruth 1. 20 21. John 8. 3. There is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few 1 Sam. 14. 6. The Strength of Israel will not lie c. 1 Sam. 15. 29. Behold God is mighty c. mighty in strength c. Job 36. 5. Isa 28. 2. Shall he who contendeth with the Almighty instruct c. Hast thou an arm like God or canst thou thunder c. Job 40. 2. 9. ch 9. 13. I know that thou canst do every thing and that no thought can be with-holden Job 42. 2. Luke 1. 37. Matt. 19. 26. Who is a strong Lord like unto thee c. Thou hast a mighty arm strong is thine hand high is thy right hand Psal 89. 8 9 13. Isa 63. 1. Psal 24. 8. Rev. 18. 8. The Lord is cloathed with strength Psal 93. 1. They shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee for I am with thee saith the Lord Jer. 1. 19. James 4. 12. The everlasting God never faints neither is weary c. He giveth power to the faint c. Isa 40. 28 29. The Lord is c. a strong-hold in the day of trouble Nahum 1. 7. The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty Zephan 3. 17. 2 Cor. 6. 18. Isa 50. 2. ch 59. 1. With God all things are 〈◊〉 Mark 10. 27. Luke 1. 37. Do we provoke the Lord c. are we stronger than he 1 Cor. 10. 22. To him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us Ephes 3. 20. Rom. â—4 4. Strengthened c. according to his glorious power c. Col. 1. 11. Ephes 1. 19 20 c. Our God is a consuming 〈◊〉 Hâ—b 12. 29. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God c. 1 Pet. 5. 6. Lord God Almighty Rev. 4. 8. ch 11. 17. ch 15. 3. ch 21. 22. The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth Rev. 19. 6. VII He is Omniscient Omnipresent Immense THou Lord seest me for she said Have I here looked after him that seeth me Gen. 16. 13. The Lord is a God of knowledge and by him actions are weighed 1 Sam. 2. 3. Job 37. 16. ch 21. 22. The Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart 1 Sam. 16. 7. Luke 16. 15. Thou thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men 1 Kings 8. 39. The Lord searcheth all hearts and understandall the imaginations of the thoughts If thou seek him he c. 1 Chron. 28. 9. Deut. 31. 21. Psal 147. 5. Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee c. 2 Chron. 6. 18. Jer. 23. 24. Hell is naked before him and destruction hath no covering Job 26. 6. God understandeth the way thereof and he knoweth the place thereof for he looketh to the ends of the earth and seeth under the whole heaven Job 28. 10 23 24. Isa 40. 28. His eyes are upon the ways of man and he seeth all his goings c. No darkness where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves Job 34. 21 22. Psal 11. 4 5. Job 31. 4. The righteous God trieth the hearts and reins Psal 7. 9. Jer. 11. 20. The Lord looketh from heaven and beholdeth all the sons of men c. Psal 33. 13 14 15. Heaven is thy throne earth is thy foot-stool Psal Understand ye brutish c. He that planteth the ear shall he not hear He that formeth the eye shall he not see c. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanity Psal 94. 8 9 11. 1 Cor. 3. 20. Thou c. understandest my thoughts afar off thou c. art acquainted with all my ways For not a word in my tongue but loe O Lord thou knowest it altogether c. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me c. Whither shall I go from thy spirit or whither shall I flee from thy presence If I ascend up into heaven thou art there c. Psal 139. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. Prov. 5. 21. Jer. 23. 23 24. Job 9. 11. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the good and the bad c. Hell and destruction are before the Lord how much more then the hearts of the children of men
c. for thou art a gracious and merciful God Nehem. 9. 17 31. Psal 145. 8. Lam. 3 21 22 23. Joel 2. 13. Thy mercy O God is in the heavens c. Psal 36. Psal 57. 10. Thou a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercy c. Psal 86. 15. Psal 111. 4. Psal 145. 8. Psal 78. 38 39. Mercy c. shall go before thy face Psal 89. 14. The Lord is God his mercy is everlasting Psal 100. 5. The Lord is merciful c. he will not alway chide c. As the heaven is high above the earth so great is his mercy towards them who fear him c. Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them who fear him for he knoweth our frame he remembreth that we are dust Psal 103. 8 9 11 13 14 c. Hos 11. 8 9. James 5. 11. His mercy endureth for ever c. Psal 136. 1 2 c. Luke 1. 50. Where c. is the founding of thy bowels and of thy mercies Isa 63. 15. I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you for I am merciful saith the Lord I will not keep anger for ever c. Jer. 3. 12. Judges 10. 15 16. Ephraim my dear son c. my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him c. Jer. 31. 20. 2 Chron. 36. 15. To the Lord our God belongs mercy c. Dan. 9. 9. I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful flow to anger and of great kindness and repentest thee of the evil c. Jonah 4. 2. Joel 2. 13. Hos 11. 8 9. Judg. 2. 18. Who is a God like unto thee who pardoneth iniquity c. He retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy Micah 7. 18. I am the Lord who change not therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed Mal. 3. 6. Lam. 3. 22. Remission of their sins Through the tender mercies or bowels of mercy of our God whereby the day-spring from on high c. Luke 1. 50 77 78. Blessed be God c. Father of mercies and God of all comfort 2 Cor. 1. 3. But God who is rich in mercy for his great love c. Ephes 2. 4. See Chap. 33. XII He is Long-suffering and Patient MY Spirit shall not always strive c. yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years Gen. 6. 3. The Lord c. long-suffering c. Exod. 34. 6. Psal 86. 15. The Lord is long-suffering c. Num. 14. 18. Thou art a God c. slow to anger c. Neh. 9. 17. Psal 104. 8. Joel 2. 13. Jonah 4. 2. Despisest thou the c. forbearance and long-suffering c. Rom. 2. 4. The Lord is not slack c. but his long-suffering to usward c. 2 Pet. 3. 9 15. XIII He is Gracious Good Kind and Bountiful I Am gracious Exod. 22. 27. The Lord God merciful and gracious c. abundant in goodness c. Exod. 34. 6. Psal 33. 5. Thou a God c. gracious c. and of great kindness Nem. 9. 17. 31. For the Lord God is a sun and shield no good thing will he withhold from them who walk uprightly Psal 84. 11. For the Lord is good c. Psal 100. 5. Psal 86. 5. Psal 136. 1 2 3 c. Great is thy bounty above the heavens Psal 108. 4. They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness c. The Lord is gracious c. The Lord is good to all c. Psal 145. 7 8 9. Therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious to you c. and that he may have mercy c. Isa 30. 18. Let him who glorieth glory in this That c. he knoweth me that I am the Lord who exerciseth loving-kindness c. in the earth For in these things I delight saith the Lord c. Jer. 9. 2â— Matt. 5. 45. The Lord your God for he is c. of great kindness c. Joel 2. 13. Jonah 4. 2. Not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance Rom. 2. 4. The forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded towards us c. Ephes 1. 7. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Jesus Christ Ephes 2. 7. God who giveth unto all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given c. James 1. 5. The God of all grace who hath called us c. 1 Pet. 5. 10. XIV He is Faithfulness and Truth THE Lord c. abundant in goodness and truth Exod. 34. 6. God is not a man that he should lye c. Hath he said and shall not he do it or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good Numb 23. 19. Heb. 6. 18. 1 Sam. 15. 29. Tit. 1. 2. Rom. 3. 4. Know therefore that the Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth covenant c. to a thousand generations c. Deut. 7. 9 1 Cor. 1. 9. 2 Tim. 2. 13. Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you all are c. Josh 23. 14. ch 21. 45. Thou art that God and thy words be true and thou hast promised 2 Sam. 7. 28. Heb. 10. 23. 1 Kings 8. 56. Thy faithfulness reacheth to the clouds Psal 36. 5. Psal 108. 4. The heavens shall praise thy wonders O Lord thy faithfulness also in the congregation of thy saints c. Mercy and truth shall go before thy face c. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail Psal 89. 5 14 33. Psal 36. 5. Deut. 32. 4. Psal 108. 4. The Lord is good c. his truth endureth to all generations Psal 100. 5. Psal 117. 2. Psal 119. 89 90. He will ever be mindful of his covenant c. The works of his hands are verity c. are done in truth and uprightness Psal 111. 5 7 8. Happy is he c. whose hope is in the Lord his God c. who keepeth truth for ever Psal 146. 5 6. Heb. 10. 23. He who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth and he who sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth Isa 65. 16. Great is thy faithfulness c. Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good c. Lam. 3. 23 38. God is faithful and will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able c. 1 Cor. 10. 13. 1 Thes 5. 24. 1 Cor. 1. 9. Two immutable things wherein it is impossible for God to lye c. Heb. 6. 18. Commit the keeping of their souls c. as unto a faithful Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge c. Rev. 6. 10. XV.
to him c. My Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him c. The Comforter the holy Ghost whom my Father will send in my name he shall teach you John 14. 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 16 17 18 21 23 26. When the Spirit of truth is come c. he will shew you things to come he shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shew it unâ—o you All things which the Father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you c. Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name he will give it you c. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world again I leave the world and go to the Father c. John 16. 13 14 15 23 27 28 30. Now O Father glorifie thou me c. with the glory which I had with thee before the world was c. And all mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in them c. that they may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee John 17. 5 10 21. Thomas answered and said unto him My Lord and my God John 20. 28. Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lye to the Holy Ghost c. Thou hast not lied unto men but to God c. How is it that ye are agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord Acts 5. 3 4 9. Stephen calling and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit Acts 7. 59. Peter said to AEneas Jesus Christ maketh thee whole arise Acts 9. 34. The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Acts 23. 28. Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever Amen Rom. 9. 5. With all in every place who call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord 1 Cor. 1. 2. The Spirit searcheth all things yea the deep things of God For what man knoweth the things of a man but the spirit of man which is in him even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2. 10 11. Know you not that ye are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you c. 1 Cor. 3. 16. He who is joyned unto the Lord is one spirit c. Know you not that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost who is in you which ye have of God c. 1 Cor. 6. 17 19. 2 Cor. 6. 17. To us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and one Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 8. 6. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed c. 1 Cor. 10. 9. Now the Lord is that Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty c. Even as by the Spirit of the Lord or of the Lord the Spirit 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all 2 Cor. 13. 14. God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts c. Gal. 4 6. Through him we both have an access by one Spirit unto the Father c. in whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit Ephes 2. 18 22. By him were all things created c. By him and for him and he is before all things and by him all things consist Col. 1. 16 17. Heb. 1. 2 3. The mystery of God and of the Father and of Christ in whom or wherein are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge c. for in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily Col. 2. 2 3 9. Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way 1 Thes 3 11. Now our Lord Jesus himself and God even our Father c. comfort your hearts 2 Thes 2. 16 17. God our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ our hope grace mercy and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ c. I thank Jesus Christ our Lord who hath enabled me for that he counted me c. â— Tim. 1. 1 2 12. Rom. 1. 7. 1 Tim. 2. 3. 2 Epis John ver 3. Great is the mystery of godliness God was manifested in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of Angels c. received up into glory 1 Tim. 3. 16. According to the commandment of God our Saviour c. grace and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our saviour Titus 1. 3 4. Looking for c. the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Titus 2. 10 13. ch 3. 4. Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself Heb. 9. 14. Let all the Angels of God worship him c. Unto the Son he saith Thy throne O God c. Heb. 1. 6 8. The Prophets c. searching what c. the Spirit of Christ which was in them 1 Pet. 1. 10 11. God and our Saviour Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1. 1. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us 1 John 3. 16. Three who bare record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these thee are one c. His Son Jesus Christ this is the true God c. 1 John 5. 7 20. Denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus c. To the only wife God our Saviour c. Jude vers 4 25. All the Churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the reins and hearts Rev. 2. 23. See more of Christ's Excellency Chap. 7. more of the Spirit Chap. 21. CHAP. IV. Of Man in his first Estate wherein he was Created and of his Fall Of his First State AND God said Let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over all the soul of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth So God created man in his own image in the image of God created him male and female created he them And God blessed them and God said unto them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea c. Gen. 1. 26 27 28 29. Psal 8. 5 6 7. Adam gave names to all the creatures which were brought to him Gen. 2. 19 20. God hath made man upright c. Eccles 7. 29. Of his Fall The Manner and Occasion of Man's Fall at 〈◊〉 Gen. 3. 2 Cor. 11. 3. 〈◊〉 made man upright but they have sought out any many inventions Eccles 7. 29. By one man sin entred into the world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for that or in whom all have sinned c. If through the the offence of one man many be dead
c. The judgment was by one to condemnation c. For if by one mans offence or one offence death reigned by one man c. by one mans disobedience many were made sinners Rom. 5. 12 15 16 17 18 19. I fear c. as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility so your minds should be corrupted c. 2 Cor. 11. 3. CHAP. V. Of Man's State by Nature since Sin entred I. Corrupt unclean and desperately wicked ADam ready to excuse his Sin laying it upon Eve and Eve laid it upon the Serpent Gen. 3. 12 13. Cain was very wroth and his countenance fell because God had not respect unto his offering as unto Abels and he rose up against his brother and â—lew him Gen. 4. 8 9. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart or the whole imagination purposes and desires was only evil continually c. The earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence c. for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth c. Gen. 6. 5 11 12. The imaginations of man's heart are evil from his youth Gen. 8. 21. ch 11. 4. The wickedness of Sodom at the time when God came to destroy it Gen. 19. Esau sold his Birthright for a mess of pottage Gen. 25. 30 31 32 33. Esau hated his brother because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him and Esau said in his heart c. then will I slay my brother Jacob Gen. 27. 41. Joseph his brethren hated him could not speak peaceably to him envied him they conspired against him to slay him and to cover it with a lye Gen. 37. 4 18 19 20 23 24. And Pharaoh said Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go I know not the Lord neither will I let Israel go Exod. 5. 2. After all the wonders Moses wrought and the judgments against Aegypt his heart was still hardened against God and would not yield and the Magicians accounted that to be the â—inger of God Exod. 7. ch 8. ch 9. ch 10. Ahab hardened 〈◊〉 Kings 22. Saul excuseth his disobedience upon pretence that the people preserved the Cattle for Sacrifice I Sam. 15. 15 19 21. Absalom had a Tent spread upon the top of the House and went in unto his Father's Concubines in the sight of all Israel 2 Sam. 16. 22. Ahab had sold himself to work evil in the sight of the Lord c. None like to Ahab who did fell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord 1 Kings 21. 25 26. Psal 141. 4 9. 1 Kings 22. Ahaziah being sick sent to an Idol to enquire and after sent a Captain with his fifty to take the Propher whom God destroyed with fire yet he sent again and again 2 Kings 1. 2 9 10 11 12 13. The King of Israel said c. This evil is of the Lord what shall I wait for the Lord any longer Hazael when the Prophet had told him how wicked he should be said Is thy servant a Dog c. 2 Kings 8. 11 12 13. Rabshaketh said What confidence is this wherein thou trustest c. Let not Hezekiah deceive you c. neither make you trust in the Lord c. Have any of the gods of the Nations delivered at all his land c. Who c. hath delivered c. that the Lord should deliver out of my hand c. 2 Kings 18. 30 32 33 35. Isa 36. ch 37. The words of Sennacherib who hath sent him to reproach the living God c. Whom thou hast reproached and blasphemed and against whom thou hast exalted thy voice c. Against the holy One of Israel by thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord c. 2 Kings 19. 16 22 23. 2 Chron. 32. 9. 10 c. King Ahaz did wickedly and in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. This that King Ahaz 2 Chron. 28. 19 22. Israel laughed to scorn and mocked the Messengers of Hezekiah who exhorted them to repent 2 Chron. 30. 6 7 c. The chief Priests and the People transgressed very much after all the abominations of the Heathen c. And the Lord c. sent to them his Messengers c. but they mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose c. till there was no remedy 2 Chron. 36. 14 15 16. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean thing Not one Job 14. 4. What is man that he should be clean or he who is born of a woman that he should be righteous c. Yea the Heavens are unclean in his sight how much more abominable and filthy is man who drinketh in iniquity like water Job 15. 14 15 16. ch 25. 4. The wicked say c. Depart from us for we delight not in the knowledge of this ways What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what can he do c. Job 21 14 15. ch 22. 17. ch 34. 9. The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us Psal 2. 2 3. Matth. 2. 16. The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seek God God is not in all his thoughts c. his mouth is full of curâ—ing and deceit and fraud c. He hath said in his heart God hath forgotten he hideth his face he will never see c. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God c. Psal 10. 4 7 11 13. Psal 50. 17 18 19 c. With our tongue will we prevail our lips are our own who is Lord over us Psal 12. 4. The fool hath said in his heart There is no God they are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none who doeth good c. They are all gone aside they are together become filthy or stinking there is none who doth good no not one Psal 14. 1 2 3. Psal 53. 1 2 3. Eccl. 9. 3. He deviseth mischief on his bed he setteth himself in a way not good Psal 36. 4. Prov. 4. 16. I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me Psal 51 5. The wicked estranged from the womb they go astray as soon as they are born speaking lyes c. Psal 58. 3 4 5. Pride compasseth them about as a chain violence covereth them as a garment c. They are corrupt and speak wickedly c. they set their mouth against the Heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth c. They say How doth God know and is there knowledge in the most high Psal 73. 6 8 9 11. Psal 94. 4 7. Job 24. 14 15. The wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them c. For all this
they sinned still and believed not for his wondrous work Psal 78. 30 31 32 56 57 58. They frame mischief by a law they gather themselves together against the Soul of the Righteous and condemn the innocent blood Psal 94. 20 21. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people c. they have consulted together with one consent or heart they are confederate against thee Psal 83. 3 5. The tender mercy of the wicked is cruel Prov. 12. 10. Fools make a mock at sin Prov 14. 9. Not a just man upon the earth who doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7. 20. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil Eccles 8. 11. Psal 55. 19. Woe to them who draw iniquity c. who say Let him make speed hasten his work that we may may see c. Isa 5. 18 19 20. The King of Assyria lifted up in pride said Shall not I do to Jerusalem as to Samaria c. By the strength of my hand have I done it and by my wisdom for I am prudent Isa 10. 10 11 13. Ye have said We have made a covenant with death and with hell c. the scourge shall not come upon us c. Isa 28. 15. Let favour be shewed to the wicked yet will he not learn righteousness c. Deal unjustly in the land of uprightness and will not behold the Majesty of the Lord c. Thy hand is lifted up they will not see c. Isa 26. 10 11. They make a man an offender for a word and lay a snare for him who reproveth in the gate c. Isa 29. 20 21. Thou hast trusted in thy wickedness thou hast said none-seeth me c. and thou hast said in thine heart I and none else beside me Isa 47. 10. All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way Isa 53. 6. The wicked like the troubled sea which cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt Isa 57. 20. Thou saidâ—t There is no hope no for I have loved strangers and after them will I go Jer. 2. 25. ch 22. 21. Thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou qast consumed them they have refused to receive correction they have made their faces harder than a rock they have refused to return Jer. 5. 3. Were they ashamed c. They were not at all ashamed neither could they blush therefore c. Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the way and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein c. But they said We will not walk therein Jer. 6. 15 16. They spake not aright no man repented of his wickedness saying What have I done Every one turned to his course as the horse rusneth into the battel Jer. 8. 6. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron with the point of a diamond it is graven upon the table of their heart c. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked c. Jer. 17. 1 9. Thus faith the Lord Return ye c. And they said There is no hope but we will walk after our own devices and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart c. Let us devise devices against Jeremiah c. and let us not give heed to any of his words Jer. 18. 11 12 18. The King cut and burned the Roll wherein was written Jeremy's Prophesie and would have taken the Prophet himself Jer. 36. 21 23 24 26. The people told Jeremiah We will not hearken unto thee but we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth out of our own mouth to burn incense to the queen of heaven c. Jer. 44. 15 16 17. They are stiff-hearted c. they are rebellious c. they are impudent Ezek. 2. 4 7. ch 3. 7. Hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark every man in the chambers of his imagery For they say The Lord seeth not us the Lord hath forsaken the earth c. Ezekâ— 8. 12. When they had slain their children to their idols then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it c. Ezek. 23. 39. Nebuchadnezzar said Who is that God who can deliver out of my hands Dan. 3. 15. The king said Is not this great Babylon which I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honour of my majesty While the word was in his mouth c. a voice said The kingdom is departed Dan. 4. 30 31. Though Belshazzar knew all which God had done to his father for his pride yet he humbled not his heart But thou hast lifted up thy self against the Lord of heaven c. Thou hast praised the gods of silver c. Dan. 5. 21 22 23. Their mother hath played the harlot c. For she said I will go after my lovers who gave me my bread c. Hos 2. 5. They set their heart on their iniquity Hos 4. 8. God repeats many Judgments he hath brought upon Israel and saith Yet they have not returned unto me c. Amos. 4. 6 7 8 9 10. They hate him who rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him who speaketh uprightly Amoâ— 5. 10. Isa 29. 21. None upright amongst men and the best of them as a briar c. Micah 7. 2 3 4. Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts Execute true judgment c. But they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear yea they made their heart as an Adamant-stone lest they should hear the law c. Zech. 7. 9 10 11 12. I will punish the men c. who say in their hearts that the Lord will not do good neither will he do evil Zeph. 1. 12. Psal 2. 17. Your words have been stout against me saith the Lord Yet ye say What have we spoken against thee Ye have said It is vain to serve God and what profit that we have kept his ordinances c. Mal. 3. 13 14. Job 21. 14 15. O Jerusalem c. How often would I have gathered you c. and ye would not Matth. 23. 37. John 5. 40. Luke 14. 17 18 19 c. When Pilate had said I am innocent of the blood of this just person see ye to it Then answered all the people and said His blood be on us and our children Matth. 27. 24 25. See the desperate wickedness of the Priests and Elders Matth. 27 ch 28. The World hate Christ and all that are good Matth. 10. 22. John 15. 18 19 c. 1 John 3. 13. John 17. 14. That which cometh out of them and defileth the man For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts adulteries fornications thefts covetousness wickedness deceit lasciviousness an evil eye blasphemy pride foolishness
All these evil things come from within and defile the man Mark 7. 20 21 22 23. Matth. 15. 18 19 20. Jam. 4. 1. Matth. 12. 35 36. His citizens hated him c. saying We will not have this man to reign over us c. Luke 19. 14. John 7. 7. Certain of the Jews banded together and bound themselves with a Curse saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul More than forty Acts 23. 12 13. Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light c. John 3. 19 20. They became vain in their imagination and their foolish heart was darkned c. and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image c. Wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts c. Who changed the truth of God into a â—ye and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator c. For this cause God gave them up to vile affections for even the women did change the natural use to that which is against nature c. Being filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murther debate deceit malignity whisperers back-biâ—ers haters of God despightful proud boasters inventers of evil things disobedient to parents c. covenant-breakers without natural affections implacable unmerciful c. Not only do the same but have pleasure in them who do them Rom. 1. 21 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 32. They are all gone out of the way c. Their throat is an open sepulchre with theirtongues they have used deceit the poyson of Asps lies under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness Their feet are swift to shed blood c. There is no fear of God before their eyes Rom. 3. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19. Psal 5. 9. When we were yet sinners c. enemies we were reconciled Rom. 5. 8 10 12. The carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be c. Rom. 8. 7. Now the works of the flesh are c. adultery fornication uncleanness c. Gal. 5. 19 20 21. James 3. 14 15. You who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in times paâ—t ye walked c. In the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of our flesh Ephes 2. 1 2 3. Col. 2. 13. Other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds c. being alienated from the life of God Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness c. The old man which is corrupt Ephes 4. 17 18 19 22. The enemies of the cross of Christ c. Whose god is their belly whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things Phil. 3. 18 19. You who were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works Col. 1. 21. The Jews who kiâ—â—ed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and have persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all men forbidding us to speak c. To fill up their sins alway for the wrath c. 1 Thes 2. 14 15 16. Who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercy 1 Tim. 1. 13. A Description of the desperate Wickedness of some in the last Age of the World 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3 c. We our selves were sometimes foolish disobedient deceived serving divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another Tit. 3. 3. John 8. 34. Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed and when lust hath cenceived it bringeth forth sin James 1. 14 15. ch 4. 1 2. ch 3. 14 15. Ye rich men c. ye have â—ived in pleasures c. been wanton ye have nourished your selves c. James 5. 1 2 3 4 c. Your vain conversation by tradition from your fathers 1 Pet. 1. 18. The time past of our lives may suffice us c. when we walked in lasciviousness lusts excess of wine revellings banquetings and abominable idolatries wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess 1 Pet. 4. 3 4. They have eyes full of adultery who cannot cease from sin 2 Pet. 2. 14. We know that c. the whole world lieth in wickedness 1 John 5. 19. Ungodly men turning the grace of God into lasciviousness and denying the only Lord c. Jude vers 10. When God poured out his Viol of Wrath Men blasphemed and repented not Rev. 16. 9 10 11 21. ch 9. 18 19 20 21. See more of Sin Chap. 16. See more of Persecutors Chap. 22. See the Spirits and Practices of Hypocrites Chap. 28. II Ignorant and sottishly opposing the true God and his Ways and adoring Idols of Stocks and Stones WHen Jacob went from Laban Laban complains that he had stolen his Gods Gen. 31. 30. Pharaoh said Who is the Lord that I should obey him c. I know not the Lord Exod. 5. 2. Israel by Aaron made a molten Calf and they said these be thy gods O Israel which brought thee out of Egypt c. They built an altar and offered sacrifice to it Exod. 32. 4 5 6. The Men of Ashdod were so sottish that when Dagon their Idol-God had fallen down before the Arâ— twice and was broken in pieces and themselves had confessed the Hand of the God of Israel to be sore against them and their God yet they continued to call him their God and neither the Priest nor any who came into Dagon's House would after tread upon the Threshold whereon Dagon fell 1 Sam. 5. 2 3 4 5 7. ch 6. 5 6. The wicked say unto God Depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what profit should we have if we pray unto him Job 21. 14 15. Who said unto God Depart from us and what can the Almighty do for or by them Job 22. 17. They are those who rebel against the light they know not the way thereof nor abide in the path thereof Job 24. 13. Great men are not wise neither do the aged understand judgment Job 32. 9. The fool hath said in his heart There is no God Psal 14. 1. But unto the wicked God said What hast thou to do to declare my statutes c. seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee c. Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self Psal 50. 16 17 21. They slay the widow c. yet they say The Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Jacob regard Understand O ye brutish c. He who planteth the ear shall c. Psal 94. 6 7 8. Evil men understand not judgment Prov. 28. 5. The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib Israel doth not know my people do
not consider Isa 1. 3. He heweth down cedars c. for a man to burn and warm himself c. Yea he maketh a god and worshippeth it he maketh a graven image and falleth down thereto He burneth part thereof c. the residue thereof he maketh a god and worshippeth it and prayeth to it and saith Deliver me for thou art my god They have not known nor understood c. and none considereth in his heart neither is there knowledge or understanding to say I have burned part c. shall I make the residue thereof an abomination shall I fall down to the stock of a tree Isa 44. 14 15 16 17 18 19. They have not known me they are sottish children they have no understanding Jer. 4. 22. The word of the Lord is unto them a reproach they have no delight in it Jer. 6. 10. Though Nebuchadnezzar had acknowledged the God of Daniel to be the God of Gods and a Lord of Kings c. yet he presently makes a Molten Image and commands his People to worship it c. and said Who is that God who shall deliver you out of my hands Dan. 2. 47. ch 3. 1 4 5 6 15. Belshazzar and his Princes c. praised the Gods of Gold and of Silver c. Dan. 5. 3 4. She did not know that I gave her corn and wine c. Hos 2. 8. The Gergesons so ignorant that because of the Loss of their Swine The whole city came out to meet Jesus c. and besought him to depart out c. Matth. 8. 32 33 34. O Jerusalem c. How often would I have gathered c. And ye would not Luke 13. 34. ch 19. 14. Christ was in the world c. and the world knew him not c. He came to his own and his own received him not John 1. 10 11. Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light John 3. 19. If thou hadst known the gift of God and who it is who said c. Give me c. Thou wouldst have asked of him c. Jesus said to the woman Ye worship ye know not what John 4. 10. 22. Ye will not come to me that ye may have life John 5. 40. Jesus said The world c. Me it hateth because I testifie of it that c. John 7. 7. The spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him John 14. 17. The world c. It hated me before it hated you Because I have chosen you c. therefore the world hates you c. These things will they do c. Because they know not him who sent me they hated both me and my father John 15. 18 19 21 24. Simon Magus so sottish that he offered Money for power to confer the Holy Ghost by Imposition of Hands Acts 8. 18 19 20. When Paul was at Athens c. he saw the City wholly given to Idolatry or full of Idols c. Certain Philosophers c. encountred him and some said What will this babler or base fellow say Other some He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods Because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection c. I perceive saith Paul ye are too superstitious c I found an Altar with an inscription To the unknown God Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship him declare I Acts 17. 16 18 22 23. When Paul preached many believed not but spake evil of that way before the multitude c. Demetrius and his company cry up Great is Diana the goddess c. And cried out against Paul for saying that they were no gods which were made with hands and endeavouring to turn men to the true God c. The Town-Clerk said The whole city is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana and of the image which fell down from Jupiter Acts 19. 9 24 25 26 to the end Certain questions c. of one Jesus which is dead whom Paul affirmed to be alive Acts 25. 19. The way of peace they have not known Rom. 3. 17. The carnal mind is enmity against God for it cannot be subject c. Rom. 8. 7. The preaching of the cross is to them who perish foolishness c. After that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God 1 Cor. 1. 18 21. The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know for they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2. 14. John 8. 43. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel c. should shine unto them 2 Cor. 4. 4. Acts 26. 17 18. Howbeit then when ye knew not God ye did service unto them who by nature are no Gods Gal. 4. 8. 1 Pet. 1. 14. Rev. 9. 20. Walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds having the understanding darkned being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the blindness c. Ephes 4. 17 18. Ye were sometimes darkness but now c. Ephes 5. 8. Not in the lust of concupiscence even as the Gentiles who knew not God 1 Thes 4. 5. The world knoweth not us because it knoweth not him 1 John 3. 1. See Ignorance in Divine Things Chap. 38. III. In Servitude and Subjection to Satan and Sin IN the Parable of the Sower Christ saith the tares are the children of the wicked one c. The enemy who soweth them is the devil Matth. 13. 38 39. When the strong man armed keepeth his palace his goods are in peace but when a stronger than he shall come upon him c. Luke 11. 21 22. Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do John 8. 44. To whom ye yield your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death c. Ye were servants of sin Rom. 6. 16 20. Them who are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded the mind c. 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. The prince of the power of the air the spirit who now worketh in the children of disobedience Ephes 2. 2. Thanks be to God c. who hath delivered us from the power of darkness c. Col. 1. 12 13. That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will 2 Tim. 2. 26. Acts 26. 28. In this c. are manifest and the children of the devil Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God neither he who loveth not his brother And Cain who was of that wicked one c. 1 John 3. 8 9 10 12. IV. The sad Fruit and End of such a State WHen Adam and Eve had sinned they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God c. and were afraid because naked And Sorrow on
2. 4 5 6 7 8 ch 3. 9 10. Titus 3. 4 5. 6. God c. who hath saved us c. by grace which he hath given us in Christ c. 2 Tim. 1. 8 9 10. What is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man that thou visitest him Heb. 2. 6. Psal 8. 4. 〈◊〉 this was manifest the love of God towards us 〈…〉 that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him Hereâ—n is love 〈◊〉 that we loved God but that he 〈…〉 and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins c. And we have seen and do testifie that the Father sent the Son the Saviour c. 1 John 4. 9 10 14 19. ch 3. 1. And this is the record that God hath given us eternal life and this life is in his Son 1 John 5. 11. God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel confirmed it by an Oath that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lye we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us Heb. 6. 17 18. Who is he in and by whom this Salvation is conveyed and wrought John 1. 17. Ephes 3. 8. It is Jesus Christ THE Law was given by Moses but grace and truth by Jesus Christ c. John 1. 17. Of which salvation the prophets have enquired c. the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow 1 Pet. 1. 10. 11. And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel Geâ— 3. 15. The Lord said unto Abram c. And in thee shall all the families in the earth be blessed Gen. 12. 3. Abraham shall c. And all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him Gen. 18. 18. The Lord said to Isaac c. In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed Gen. 26. 4. The Lord said to Jacob c. And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed Gen. 26. 14. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah nor a law-giver from between his feet until Shiloe come and unto him shall the gathering of the nations be binding his foal to the vine and his Ass's colt c. Gen. 49. 10 11. I know my Redeemer lives c. Job 19. 25. He keepeth all his bones not one of them is broken Psal 34. 20. John 19. 33 34 36 37. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire c. Then said I Loe I come c. Psal 40. 6 7 8. Heb. 10. 5 6 7. Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted c. hath lift up his heel against me Psal 41. 9. Matth. 26. 14 15 47 c. Psal 55. 12 13 14. Thou hast ascended on high led captivity captive received gifts for men c. Psal 68. 18. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand upon the Son of man whom thou madest strong for thy self Psalm 80. 17. The Stone which the builders refused is become the Head of the corner Psalm 118. 22. Acts 4. 10 11 12. Isa 28. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 6. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works were old I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the earth was c. then I was by him one brought up and I was daily his delight rejoycing always before him rejoycing in the habitable parts of his earth and my delight with the sons of men Prov. 8. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light They who dwell in the land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined c. For unto us a Child is born unto us a Son is given c. Isa 9. 2 3 6. Matt. 4. 15 16. There shall be a root of Jesse who shall stand for an Ensign of the people to it shall the Gentiles c. Isa 11. 1 2 10. Isa 60. 1 2 3 c. Behold a King shall reign c. a man shall be a hiding-place from the wind c. Isa 32. 1 2 3. O Zion who bringeth good tidings c Behold the Lord shall come c. His arm shall rule for him his reward is with him he shall feed his flock like c. Isa 40. 10. Behold my servant whom I uphold c. he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles he shall not cry nor lift up c. I will give thee for a Covenant to the people for a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners Isa 42. 1 2 6 7. ch 49. 6 8 9. Acts 13. 47. Matth. 12. 18 19. The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season c. I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks c. Isa 50. 46. Matth. 26. 67. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings c. to bind up the broken heart to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison unto them who are bound c. Isa 61. 1 2 3 c. Luke 4. 17 18 19 20 21. Isa 45. 13. Who is this that cometh from Edom with dyed garments c. Mighty to save Why art thou red in apparel and thy garment like him who treadeth c. Isa 63. 1 2 3. I will raise unto David a righteous branch c. and in his days Judah shall be saved c. He shall be called the Lord our Righteousness Jer. 23. 5 6. John 1. 45. I called my Son out of Egypt c. Thou Bethâ—â—hem c. Out of thee shall he come Hos 11. 1. Micah 5. 2. Matth. 2. 6 15. I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come c. Haggai 2. 7. Behold the man whose name is the Branch and he shall grow up out of his place and he shall build the temple of the Lord c. Zech. 6. 12 13. Behold thy King cometh he is just and having salvation lowly and riding upon an ass and upon a colt the sole of an ass c. Zech. 9. 9. Matt. 21. 5 7 8. They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver c. Zech. 11. 12 13. Matth. 26. 15. That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost and she shall bring forth a Son and thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins Matth. 1. 21. ch 1â— 11. The Star directed the Wise Men unto Jesus Matth. 2. 9 10 11. The Spirit of God like a Dove lighted upon Jesus and loe a voice from heaven saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Matth. 3. 16 17. John
thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world c. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me and they received them c. While I was with them in the world I kept them c. I have given them thy word c. I have declared unto them thy name and will declare it John 17. 6 8 12 14 26. ch 1. 18. To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the truth Every one who is of the truth heareth my voice John 18. 37. God who c. spake in times past to the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoke unto us by his Son c. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard c. Heb. 1. 1 2. ch 2. 1. Wherefore c. consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession Jesus Christ who was faithful to him who appointed him as also Moâ—es was faithful in all his house c. Christ as a Son in his own house whose house are we c. Wherefore c. to day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts Heb. 3. 1 2 3 5 6 7 8. Our Lord Jesus Christ that great Shepherd of the sheep Heb. 13. 20. Ye were as sheep going astray but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls 1 Pet. 2. 25. XI He is our ALL in all things our Compleatness and Perfection I Will make him First-born c. My covenant shall stand fast with him Psal 89. 27 28. Let him take hold of my strength he may make peace with me he shall make peace c. Isa 27. 5. By the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit Zech. 9. 11. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased c. Matth. 17. 5. Of his fulness have all we received grace for grace c. John 1. 16. I am the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture John 10. 9. I am the way the truth and the life John 14. 6. As the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can ye except ye abide in me I am the Vine ye are the branches he who abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me or severed from me ye can do nothing John 15. 4. 5. It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you These things I have spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace in the world ye shall have tribulation John 16. 7 33. I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one John 17. 23. Jesus Christ c. He is that Stone which the builders counted foâ—â—nothing is made the Head of the corner Acts 4. 10 12. Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ c. All things are yours whether Paul or Apollos c. all are yours and ye are Christ's 1 Cor. 3. 11 21 22 23. The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law But thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15. 56 57. All the promises of God in him are yea and in him Amen to the glory of God 2 Cor. 1. 20. He became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich 2 Cor. 8. 9. I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Gal. 2. 20. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ c. There is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus and if Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise Cal. 3. 14 28 29. Who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places or things in Jesus Christ c. Chosen us in him c. predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ c. he hath made us accepted in the beloved c. that he might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in him c. who filleth all in all Ephes 1. 3 4 5 6 10 23. Hath quickned us together with Christ c. and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner-stone in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God c. Ephes 2. 5 6 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22. That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promises in Christ c. The unsearchable riches of Christ Ephes 3. 6 8. Grow up into him in all things who is the head Christ from whom the whole body is fitly joyned together Ephes 4. 15 16. We are the circumcision c. who rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh Phil. 3. 3. It pleased the Father that in him all fulness should dwell c. Christ in or among you the hope of glory whom we preach warning every man c. That we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus Col. 1. 19 27 28. In him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily and ye are compleat in him who is the head c. Not holding the head from which all the body by joynts and bands having nourishment administred and knit together increaseth with the increase of God Col. 2. 9 10 19. Your life is hid with Christ in God when Christ who is our life c. Put on the new man c. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew c. But Christ is all in all c. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus c. Col. 3. 3 4 10 11 17. 1 Cor. 1. 30. ch 2. 2. Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel 2 Tim. 1. 9 10. In that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them who are tempted Heb. 2. 18. By one offering he hath perfected for ever them who are sanctified c. Heb. 10. 14. Ye are built up c. To offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. Heb. 13. 15. The God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 5. 10. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich and white raiment that thou
John 9. 35 36 37 38 39. Other sheep I have which are not of this fold Them also I must bring and they shall hear my voice and there shall be one fold c. Ye believe not because ye are not of my sheep c. My sheep hear my voice John 10. 16 26 27. They believed not on him that the saying of Esaias the Prophet might be fulfilled c. Lord who hath believed c. Therefore they could not believe because Esaias had said Again he hath blinded their eyes c. John 12. 37 38 39 40 41. I speak not of you all I know whom I have chosen John 13 18. Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit c. I have chosen you out of the world c. John 15. 16 19. That he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him c. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world Thine they were and thou gavest them me c. I pray c. but for them whom thou gavest me out of the world John 17. 2 6 9. The promise is made to you and your children and to all who are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call c. And the Lord added unto the Church daily such as should be saved Acts 2. 39 47. Philip sent on purpose to meet the Eunuch and commanded to go â—ear his Chariot where he preached unto him and converted him Acts 8. 26 〈…〉 Paul was persecuting the Church c. and was converted in the midst of his rage c. And Christ said to Ananias Go thy way for he is a chosen vessel to bear my name before the Gentiles c. And I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name Acts 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 15 16. Acts 22. 14. God in a special manner calls Cornelius to the faith Acts 10. 1 2 c. Which extraordinary Call Peter after declares at large to those of the Circumcision Acts 11. 2 3 c. When the Gentiles heard c. as many as were ordained to eternal life believed Acts 13. 48. How God at first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name Acts 15. 14 18. Paul and others were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the Word in Asia c. They assayed to go into Bithynia but the Spirit suffered them not c. When Paul preached at Philippi c. Lydia heard him and the Lord opened her heart that she attended unto the things which were spoken c. was baptized Acts 16. 6 7. 14 15. Paul came to Corinth c. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision Be not afraid but speak and hold not thy peace c. For I have much people in this city Acts 18. 1 9 10. We know that all things shall work together for good to them who love God to them who are called according to his purpose for whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son c. Whom he did predestinate them he called whom he called he justified c. them he also glorified Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect Rom. 8. 28 29 30 33. When Rebeckah also had conceived by one Isaac the children not yet born neither having done any good or bad that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works but of him who calleth It was said unto her The elder shall serve the younger as 't is written Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated c. Is there unrighteousness with God God forbid For he saith to Moses I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion So then it is not of him who willeth nor of him who runneth but of God who sheweth mercy For the Scripture saith unto Pharaoh c. Thou wilt say unto me Why doth he yet find fault For who hath resisted his will Who art thou who repliest or answerest against or disputest with God Shall the thing formed say to him who formed it Why hast thou thus made me c. Rom. 9. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 c. Malachi 1. 2. 3. Isa 4â— 9 10. God hath not cast away his people whom he foreknew c. I have reserved to my self seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace If by grace then it is no more of works otherwise grace is no more grace c. The election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded or hardened as it is written c. The gifts and callings of God are without repentance As ye in the times past have not believed God yet have now obtained mercy c. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out for who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his counseller c. For of him and through him and to him are all things Rom. 11. 4 5 6 7 8 29 30 31 32 33. 1 Kings 19. 18. God is faithful by whom ye are called into the fellowship of his Son c. For you see your calling Brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty c. but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world c. that no flesh should glory in his presence But of him are ye in Christ Jesus c As it is written He who glorieth let him glory in the Lord 1 Cor. 1. 9 26 27 28 29 30 31. James 2. 5. I am c. not meet to be called an Apostle c. but by the grace of God I am what I am 1 Cor. 15. 9 10. He who hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God c. All things are of God who hath reconciled us unto himself by Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 5. 5 18. When it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace to reveal his Son in me that I might preach c. Gal. 1. 15 16. Blessed be God c. according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world c. Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace c. Having made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself c. Being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will Ephes 1. 4 5 6 7 9 11.
Which in other ages was not made known c. That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs and of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ Ephes 3. 5 6 11. Work out your own salvation c. for it is God who worketh in you both to will and 〈◊〉 do of his good pleasure Phil. 2. 13. Giving thanks to the Father who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the Saints in light who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son Col. 1. 12 13. Knowing c. your election of God For our Gospel came not unto you in word but also in power c. 1 Thes 1. 4 5. 1 Cor. 1. 18 24. God hath not appointed us unto wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord 1 Thes 5. 9. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation c. Whereunto he called you by our Gospel 2 Thes 2. 13 14. God who hath saved us and called us with a holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began 2 Tim. 1. 8 9 10. Rom. 1. 6. I endure all things for the elects sake c. Who concerning the truth have erred c. Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure having this seal the Lord knoweth them that are his 2 Tim. 2. 10 18 19. If they shall enter into rest although the works were finished from the foundation of the world Hebr. 4. 3. By one sacrifice he hath for ever perfected them who are sanctified Hebr. 10. 14. To the strangers c. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father 1 Pet. 1. 1 2. Titus 1. 1. Being disobedient whereto they were appointed but ye are a chosen generation a royal Priesthood a peculiar or a purchased people that ye may shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness c. 1 Pet. 2. 8 9 10. The God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory c. 1 Pet. 5. 10. They went out from us c. that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us 1 John 2. 19. We love him because he first loved us 1 John 4. 19. All who dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the Book or life of the Lamb Rev. 13. 8. ch 17 18. And they who dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the Book of life from the foundation of the world when c. Rev. 17. 8. Whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire c. Rev. 20. 15. There shall in no wise enter into the new Jerusalem but those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of Life Rev. 2â— 27. CHAP. X. Pardon and Remission of Sins Reconciliation and Peace with God Justification and Sanctification before God Eternal Life and Salvation free through the Grace of God only by the Death Sacrifice and Sufferings of Christ without Works In General THE life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you c. For it is the blood maketh an atonement for the soul Levit. 〈◊〉 11. This is the true grace of God wherein ye stand 1 Pet. 5. 12. The law was given by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ John 1. 17. If by grace then is it no more works otherwise grace is no more grace but if it be of works then is it no more of grace otherwise work is no more work c. That he might have mercy on all O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom c. Rom. 11. 6 32 33. 2 Thes 2. 16. Ephes 2. 8. We are chosen adopted accepted have remission of sin c. and all in and through Jesus Christ Ephes 1. 2 3 c. We are the Circumcision who worship God in spirit rejoice in Christ have no confidence in the the flesh Phil. 3. 3. We are come c. to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel Hebr. 12. 24. Who testified before-hand the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow 1 Pet. 1. 11. In Particular I. Pardon of Sins THE Lord proclaimed himself The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth c. forgiving iniquity transgression and sin Exod. 34. 6 7. Numb 14. 17 18 19. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven whose sin is covered Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin Psalm 32. 1 2 5. Rom. 4. 7 8. As for our transgressions thou shall purge them away Psalm 65. 3. Thou wast a God who forgave them thou tookest vengeance on their inventions Psalm 90. 8. But there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared Psalm 130. 4. Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red as crimsâ—n they shall be as wooll Isa 1. 18. I am he who blotteth out thy transgression for mine own sake and will not remember thy sins Isa 43. 35. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sins Sing O Heavens for the Lord hath done it Isa 44. 22 23. He was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities c. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all c. he shall bear their iniquities Isa 53 5 6 11. Let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and unto our God for he will abundantly pardon or multiply pardons for my thoughts are not your thoughts c. Isa 55. 7 8 9. Ezek. 33. 14 15 16. I will make a new covenant c. for I will forgive their iniquity and will remember their sins no more Jer. 31. 31 34. Hebr. 10. 17 18. I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me and I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned against me and whereby they have transgressed against me Jer. 33. 8. In those days and in that time saith the Lord the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none and the sins of Judah and they shall not be found for I will pardon them whom I reserve Jer. 50. 20. Isa 33. 24. Seventy weeks are determined c. to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity c. The Messiah shall be cut off but not for himself c. Dan. 9. 24 26. Who is a God like unto thee who pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage c. thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea Micah 7.
18 19. In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness Zech. 13. 1. Thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins Matth. 1. 21. Jesus said to the sick of the palsie Son be of good cheer thy sins be forgiven thee c. Ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins Matth. 9. 2 6. All manner of sins and blasphemies shall be forgiven to men but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men And whosoever speaks a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever speaks against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him in this world neither in the world to come Matth. 12. 31 32. This is my blood c. which was shed for many for the remission of sins Matth. 26. 28. To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins through the tender mercies of our God whereby the day spring from on high hath visited us Luke 1. 77 78. I say unto thee Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much but to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little And he said unto her Thy sins are forgiven thee Luke 7. 48 49. It behoveth Christ to suffer c. and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name Luke 24. 46 47. Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world John 1. 29. Repent c. that your sins may be blotted out when the time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord and he shall send Jesus c. Acts 3. 19 20. Jesus c. hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins Acts 5. 30 31. To him gave all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins Acts 10. 43. Be it known unto you c. that through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins Acts 13. 38. To open the eyes c. that they may â—eceive forgiveness of sins c. through faith in me c. Acts 26. 18. Whom God hath set forth or fore-ordained to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remissiâ—n or or passing over of sins Rom. 3. 25. Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures c. If Christ be not raised c. ye are yet in your sins c. The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law but thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 15. 3 17 56 57. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself not imputing their trespasses unto them c. For he hath made him to be sin for us 2 Cor. 5. 19 21. Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins Gal. 1. 3 4. In whom ye have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace wherein he hath abounded c. Ephes 1. 7 8. Col. 1. 14. And you c. hath he quickned together with him having forgiven you all trespasses Col. 2. 13. Jesus Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity Titus 2. 13 14. His Son c. when he had by himself purged our sins sate down Hebr. 1. 2 3. Wherefore it behoveth him to be made like unto his brethren c. to make reconciliation for the sins of the people Hebr. 2. 17. I will be merciful unto their unrighteousnesses and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more Hebr. 8. 12. If the blood of Bulls c. sanctifieth c. how much more shall the blood of Christ who offered himself c. purge our consciences c. by means of death for the redemption of the transgression Without shedding of blood no remission of sin c. Once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself c. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many Hebr. 9. 13 14 15 22 26 28. This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sate down c. moreover where is remission of those there is no more offering for sin c. Hebr. 10. 12 18. Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on or to the tree c. by whose stripes ye were healed 1 Pet. 2. 24. Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us unto God 1 Pet. 3. 18. The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin c. If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 1 John 1. 7 9. If any man sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world c. I write to you little children because your sins are forgiven you for his names sake 1 John 2. 1 2 12. He was manifested to take away our sins c. 1 John 3. 5. Herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins 1 John 4. 10. Jesus Christ c. who hath loved us and washed us with his own blood from our sins Rev. 1. 5. Reconciliation to and Peace with God MErcy and truth are met righteousness and peace have kissed c. Psalm 85. 10. Fury is not in me c. Let him take hold of my strength he may make peace with me he shall make peace with me Isa 27. 4 5. The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness sake Isa 42. 21. The chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed Isa 53. 5. Seventy weeks are determined c. to make reconciliation for iniquity Dan. 9. 24. He shall be a Priest upon his throne and the counsel of peace shall be between them both Zech. 6. 12 13. This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased Mâ—tth â— 17. Go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and unto your Father and unto my God and your God John 20. 17. The Word which God sent unto the children of Israel preaching peace by Jesus Christ Acts 10. 36. We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ c. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled c. We say in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement Rom. 5. 1 10 11. God who hath reconciled us unto himself
flesh c. 1 Tim. 3. 9 16. I. In its Nature and Objects Abram c. and he believed in the Lord and it was accounted c. Gen. 15. 6. I know my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body or after I shall awake this body shall be destroyed yet out or in my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another c. Job 19. 25 26 27. Remember the word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope Psalm 119. 49 50. Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation stone c. He who believeth shall not make haste Isa 28. 16. The Centurion said Lord I am not worthy c. but speak the word only and my servant shall be healed for I am a man under authority c. And I say to this man Go and he goeth and unto another Come and he cometh c. When Jesus heard this he said c. I have not found so great faith no not in Israel c. Many shall come from east and west and shall sit down with Abraham c. Matth. 8. 8 9 10 11 13. Believe ye that I am able to do this They said to him Yea Lord Matth. 9. 28 29. ch 5. 12. The woman of Canaan would not be put off though Christ spake harsh to her whereupon Jesus said to her O woman great is thy faith be it unto thee as thou wilt Matth. 15. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. Simon Peter said Thou art Christ the Son of the living God And Jesus said unto him Blessed art thou c. for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father which is in heaven Matth. 16. 16 17. Mark 8. 29. Luke 9. 20. The woman of the bloody issue said If I may but touch his clothes I shall be whole c. Jesus said unto her Thy faith hath made thee whole go in peace Mark 5. 27 18 29 34. Matth. 9. 18 21. Jesus said unto them Have faith in God c. And shall not doubt in his heart Mark 11. 22 23. Matth. 21. 21. O fools and slow of heart to believe all which the prophets have spoken Luke 24. 21 22 24. Isa 66. 2. His own received him not but as many as received him to them he gave to become c. those who believe in his name c. John seeing Jesus coming unto him and saith Behold the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world This is he of whom I said after me cometh a man who is preferred before me for he was before me c. And I saw and bare record that this is the Son of God c. Andrew said to his brother Simon We have found the Messias which is being interpreted the Christ c. Philip said to Nathaniel We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets did write Jesus of Nazareth the son of Joseph c. Nathaniel said Thou art the Son of God Thou art the King of Israel Jesus said Because I said c. Believest thou thou shalt see greater c. John 1. 11 12 29 30 34 36 40 41 45 49 50. The Disciples c. believed the Scripture and the words which Jesus had said John 2. 22 23. He who hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true John 3. 3. The Samaritans believed on him for the saying of the woman c. and more believed because of his own word and said unto the woman Now we believe not because of thy saying for we have heard him our selves and know that this is indeed the Christ the Saviour of the world c. Jesus said to the Nobleman Go thy way thy son liveth and the man believed the word which Jesus had spoken and he went his way c. And himself believed and his whole house John 4. 39 41 42 50 53. He who believeth on him who sent me c. Had ye believed Moses c. But if ye believe not his writings c. John 5. 24 46 47. This is the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent c. Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal life And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ the Son of the living God John 6. 29 68 69. For if ye believe not that I am he ye shall die in your sins c. Abram saw my days c. John 8. 24 56. The man who was born blind Christ cured and when the Jews had cast him out Jesus heard of it and when he had found him he said unto him Dost thou believe on the Son of God And he answered and said Who is he Lord that I might believe on him c. It is he who talketh with thee And he said Lord I believe and he worshipped him John 9. 33 36 37 38. Jesus c. whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die Believest thou this She said unto him Yea Lord I believe that thou art the Christ the Son of God which should come into the world John 11. 25 26 27. ch 6. 14. He who believeth on me believeth not on me but on him who sent me John 12. 44. That when it is come to pass ye may believe that I am he John 13. 19. Acts 26. 18. Ye believe in God believe also in me John 14. 1. The Father himself loved you because yâ— harâ— loved me and believe that I came out from God c. Now we are sure that thou knowest aâ— things c. By this we believe that that thou camest forth from God John â—6 27 30. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest to me and they have received them and they have known surely that I came out from thee and they have believed that thou didst send me John 17. 8 25. ch 11. 44. 1 John 5. 10 11. Thomas c. said unto him My Lord and my God c. Jesus said c. Blessed are they who have not seen yet believed These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God John 20. 28 29 31. The Eunuch said What doth hinder me to be baptized And Philip said If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest And he answered and said I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God He baptized him Acts 8. 36 37 38. Paul preached Christ in the Synagogues that he is the Son of God c. Proving that this is very Christ Acts 9. 20 22. ch 17. 3. God gave them the like gifts c. Then hath God also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life Acts 11. 17 18. We believe that through the Grace of our Lord Jesus we shall be saved even as they Acts 15. 11. Testifying to the Jews c.
faith towards our Lord Jesus Acts 20. 20 21. Believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets and have hope towards God which they themselves also allow that there c. Acts 24. 14 15. John 2. 22. That they may receive remission of sins c. through faith that is in me Acts 26. 18. Paul said Be of good cheer for there shall be no loss c. Be of good cheer for I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me Acts 27. 22 23 24 25. To him who worketh not but believeth on him who justifieth the ungodly his faith is accounted for righteousness c. Abraham against hope believed in hope c. And being not weak in faith considered not his own body now dead c. but was strong in the faith giving glory to God and being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able also to perform and therefore it was imputed unto him for righteousness Rom. 4. 5 16 18 19 20 21 22. Now if we be dead with Crist we believe that we shall also live with him Rom. 6. 8. We are saved by hope But hope which is seen is not hope For what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for it But if we hope for what we see not then do we with patience wait for it c. I am persuaded that neither life c. Rom. 8. 24 25 38 39. The righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise Say not in thine heart Who shall ascend into heaven that is to bring Christ down from above Or Who shall descend into the deep that is to bring up Christ from the dead But what saith it The word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that is the word of saith which we preach That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness Rom. 10. 6 7 8 9 10. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ c. Rom. 13. 14. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Spirit of God I Cor. 12. 3. Our preaching is not with enticing words c. that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God I Cor. 2. 4 5. We also believe and therefore speak knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and shall present us with you c. while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen c. are eternal 2 Cor. 4. 13 14 18. We know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God â—n house not made with hands eternal in the heavens c. We are confident I say and willing â—â—ther to be absent from the body and to be preâ—â—â— with the Lord c. Knowing therefore the 〈◊〉 of the Lord we persuade men c. 2 Cor. 〈◊〉 6 7 8 11. That we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted or hoped in Christ Ephes 1. 12. Buried with him in baptism wherein also you are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him from the dead Col. 2. 12. We pray for you always that our God would c. fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power 2 Thess 1. 11. Therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men especially of them who believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. Fight the good fight of faith lay hold of eternal life 1 Tim. 6. 12. When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee c. I am not ashamed for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day 2 Tim. 1. 5 12. James 1. 5 6. According to the faith of God's elect c. In hope of eternal life which God who cannot â—ye promised before the world began c. Rebuke them sharply that they may be found sound in the faith Titus 1. 1 2 13. ch 2. 2. And faith which thou hadst towards our Lord Jesus Philem. ver 5. Acts 20. 20 21. The word c. did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them who heard it c. We who have believed do enter into rest Heb. 4. 2 3. We c. who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Heb. 6. 18. Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen c. For he who cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him c. By faith Abraham c. sojourned in the land of promise c. For he looked for a city which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God through faith Also Sarah her self received strength c. because she judged him faithful who had promised c. These all died in the faith not having received the promises but seeing them afar off and were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed c. Abraham offered Isaac c. accounting that God was able to raise him up from the dead c. Moses had respect to the recompence of reward c. as seeing him who is invisible And some refused deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Heb. 11. 1 6 8 9 10 11 13 17 19 26 35. ch 6. 18. Blessed be God c. who hath begotten us again to a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ c. whom having not seen ye love in whom though you see not yet believing c. who by him do believe in God c. that your faith and hope might be in God I Pet. 1. 3 8 21. To whom coming as unto a living stone c. ye also as living stones are built up c. 1 Pet. 2. 4 5. To them who have obtained like precious faith with us 2 Pet. 1. 1. Who is a lyar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ I John 2. 22. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is That we believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ 1 John 3. 2 3 23. ch 5. 13. We have seen and do testifie that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour c. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God And we have known and believed the love which God hath unto us c. 1 John 4. 14 15 16. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God c. Who is he who overcometh the world but he who believeth that Jesus is the
Son of God c. If we receive the testimony of men the testimony of God is greater c. We know we are of God We know that the Son of God is come c. His Son Jesus Christ this is the true God and eternal life I John 5. 1 5 9 19 20. But ye beloved build up your selves in your most holy faith Jude vers 20. See the Worker of Faith Chap. 20. II. In its Use Benefits and Advantages further Noah believed was moved with fear built the Ark was saved Heb. 11. 7. 2 Kings 22. 11 13. Pharâ—ioh's Servants who beheved God's Word secured their Cattel from the Hail Exod. 9. 18 19 20 21 24. I had fainted unless I had believed to see the the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living Psal 27. 13. Isa 7. 9. Submit thy works to the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established Prov. 16. 3. 2 Chron. 20. 20. Behold God is my salvation I will trust c. therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation Isa 12. 3. Daniel was taken out of the den and no manner of hurt c. because he believed in his God Dan. 6. 23. Jesus said unto the blind men Believe ye that I am able to do this They said unto him Yea Lord. Then touched he their eyes saying According to your faith be it unto you And their eyes were opened Matth. 9. 28 29 30. Luke 18. 42. When Peter came out of the ship he walked on the water to go to Jesus but when he began to fear he began to sink c. And Jesus said unto him O thou of little faith why didst thou doubt Matth. 14. 28 29. 30 31. When Christ saw the Faith of the Woman of Canaan Jesus answered and said unto her O woman great is thy faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt And her daughter was made whole Matth. 15. 26 27 28. Luke 18. 42. ch 7. 7. The disciples came to Jesus apart and said Why could not we cast him out And Jesus said unto them Because of your unbelief For verily I say unto you if you have faith as a grain of mustard-seed ye shall say to this mountain Remove hence unto yonder place and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible unto you Matth. 17. 19. 20. Mark 11. 23. Matth. 21. 21. The Faith of the Woman with the bloody Issue derived virtue from Christ to heal her c. Jesus said to the Ruler when News was brought that his Daughter was dead Be not afraid only believe And Christ raised her Mark 5. 27 28 29 34 36 42. If thou canst believe all things are possible to him who believeth c. He cried out Lord I believe help thou my unbelief Jesus healed his child Mark 9. 23 24 25. What things soever ye desire when ye pray believe that ye receive and ye shall have them Mark 11. 24. James 1. 5 6 7. Matth. 21. 22. He who believeth on me as the scripture saith out of his belly shall slow rivers of living water But this spake he of the spirit which they who believed on him should receive John 7. 38 39. ch 4. 14. I am come a light into the world that whosoever believeth in me should not abide in darkness John 12. 46. If thou wouldst believe thou shouldst see the glory of God John 11. 40. Christ prayed only for those who had and afterwards should believe in him John 17. 20. Through faith in his name hath made this man strong whom ye see and know Yea the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all Acts 3. 16. What doth hinder me to be baptized And if thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest Acts 8. 36 37. Putting no difference between them and us purifying their hearts by faith Acts 15. 9. Rejoycing in hope Rom. 12. 12. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing Rom. 15. 13. We are always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord for we walk by faith and not by fight We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5. 6 7 8. They who are of faith the same are the children of Abraham c. We received c. the spirit through faith Gal. 3. 7 14. In whom after that ye believed ye were sealed with the Hely Spirit Ephes 1. 13. In whom ye have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him c. that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith Ephes 3. 12 17. Heb. 4. 16. Above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked Ephes 6. 16. We are the circumcision c. who rejoyce in Christ and have no confidence in the flesh Phil. 3. 3. Putting on the breast-plate of faith and love and for an helmet the hope of salvation 1 Thes 5. 8. Therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men especially of them who believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. Fight the good fight of faith lay hold on eternal life 1 Tim. 6. 12. The word c. did not profit not being mixed with faith in them who heard it c. For we who have believed do enter into rest c. For he who is entred into rest he also hath ceased from his own works Heb. 4. 2 3 10. 2 Chron. 20. 20. That by two immutable things c. we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul both sure and stedfast c. Heb. 6. 18 19. Faith enabled Men to do and suffer great things for God See at large Heb. 11. chap. 12. 1 2 c. And the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him James 5. 15. Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation c. receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls 1 Pet. 1. 5 9. To them who have obtained like precious faith with us 2 Pet. 1. 1. This is the victory which overcometh the world men our faith 1 John 5. 4. III. In its Effects or the Fruits by which it is known to be true We should try our selves Examine your selves whether ye be in the faith 1 Cor. 13. 5. All men have not faith 2 Thes 3. 2. 'T is called the Faith of God's Elect sound and unfeigned faith 2 Tim. 1. 5. Tit. 1. 13. ch 2. 2. That the trial of your faith being much more precious than that of Gold c. might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 7. Be ready always to give c. a reason of the
c. But he who believed not shall be damned Mark 16. 14 16. Thou shalt be dumb and not able to speak until the day that these things shall be performed because thou believest not my word which shall be c. Luke 1. 19 20. The Son of man when he comes shall he find faith on earth Luke 18. 8. But those mine enemies who would not that I should reign over them bring hither and stay them before me Luke 19. 27. John 5. 40 43. He who believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God c. He who believeth not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him John 3. 18 36. Verily verily I say unto you Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood ye have no life in you John 6. 53. I said therefore unto you That you shall die in your sins for if ye believe not that I am he ye shall die in your sins John 8. 24. Ye believe not because ye are not of my sheep as I said unto you My sheep hear my voice c. John 10. 26 27. ch 5. 38. If any man hear my words and believe not c. He who rejecteth me and receives not my words hath one who judgeth him the word which I have spoken the same shall judge him in the last day John 12. 47 48. If a man abide not in me he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they are burned John 15. 6. He will reprove the world of sin c. of sin because they believe not on me John 16. 8 9. Beware therefore lest that come upon you c. Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I will work a work in your days a work which you shall in no wise believe though a man declare it unto you Acts 13. 40 41. How shall they call on him in whom they have not believed Rom 10. 14. Well because of unbelief they were broken off c. and thou standest by faith c. God spared not the natural branches c. Rom. 11. 20 21. He who doubteth is damned if he eat because not of faith for whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14. 23. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven taking vengeance on them c. who obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction c. 2 Thes 1. 8. Antichrist shall prevail upon such who shall perish because they received not the truth in the love thereof or the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they shall believe a lye that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thes 2. 8 9 10 11 12. Holding faith c. which some haying put away concerning faith have made shipwrack of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander whom I have delivered unto Satan that being chastised they might learn not to blaspheme 1 Tim. 1. 19 20. Unto them who are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their minds and consciences are defiled Titus 1. 15. If the word spoken by Angels was stedfast and every transgreision and disobedience received a just recompence of reward How shall we escape if we neglect so great Salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord c. Hebr. 2. 2 3. I swear in my wrath they shall not or if they shall enter into my rest Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God c. And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest but to them who believed not So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief Hebr. 3. 11 12 18 19. Numb 14. 21 22 23. Psalm 106. 24 25 26. The word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith or because they were not united by Faith to it in them who heard c. They to whom it was first preached or the Gospel was first Preached entered not in because of unbelief Hebr. 4. 2 6. If we sin c. there is no more sacrifice c. but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation c. The just shall live by faith but if any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him But we are not of those who draw back to perdition but of them who believe to the salvation of the soul Hebr. 10. 26 27 28 29 38 29. Without faith it is impossible to please God for he c. Heb. 11. 6. See that ye refuse not him who speaketh For if they escaped not who refused him who spake on earth much more shall not we if turn away from him who speaketh from heaven Hebr. 12. 25. Let him ask in faith c. for he that wavereth is like c. Let not that man think he shall receive c. James 1. 5 6 7. Unto you who believe he is very precious but unto them who are disobedient the Stone which the builders disallowed of the same is made the head of the corner and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence unto them who stumble at the Word being disobedient whereunto also they were appointed 1 Pet. 2. 7 8. What shall the end be of them who obey not the Gospel of God 1 Pet. 4. 17 18. He who believeth not God hath made him a lyar because he believeth not the record which God gave of his Son and this is the record That God hath given unto us eternal life and this life is in his Son c. He who hath not the Son hath not life 1 John 5. 10 11 12. The fearful and unbelieving c. shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Rev. 21. 8. He who despised Moses law died without mercy c. Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God c. Hebr. 10 28 29. See more of trusting in God Chap. 16. CHAP. XII Characters of Saints good Men and Believers appearing in Word and Deed. I. That such may be known from others by their Fruits We should try SEarch and try me O Lord and know my heart try me and know my thoughts Psalm 139. 23 24. Ye shall know them by their fruits Do men gather grapes of thorns c. Matth. 7. 16 17 18 c. The tree is known by his fruit O generation of vipers how can ye being evil speak good things for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh A good man our of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure
7. 1 2 3 4 5. Uriah said unto David The Ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents and my Lord Joab and the servants are encamped in the open field shall I then go into mine house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife c. I will not do this thing 2 Sam. 11. 11. I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God for all his judgments were before and as for his statutes I did not depart from them I was also upright before or to him I have also kept me from mine iniquity 2 Sam. 22. 22 23 24. And David's heart smote him after that he had numbred the people And David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly c. And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel for it c. And David said Lo I have sinned I have done wickedly but these sheep what have they done let thine hand be against me and against my father's house 2 Sam. 24. 10 15 17. 1 Sam. 24. 5. When Josiah heard the book of the law he rent his clothes c. was tender c. 2 Kings 22. 11 13 13 19. Ezra 9. 4. Esther when the Jews were in danger by Haman ventured her life and all for their security she said Go fast for me c. I also and my maidens will fast likewise and so will I go unto the King which is not according to the law and if I perish I perish Esther 4. 16. Job a man perfect and upright fearing God and departing from all evil Job 1. 1 8. chap. 31. 13 14 c. His delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water Psalm 1. 2 3. Psalm 92. 12 13 14. Joh. 23. 12. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in his holy place He who 〈◊〉 clean hands and a pure heart who hath not 〈◊〉 up soul unto vanâ—y nor sworn deceitfully c. This is the generation of them who seek him that seek thy face c. Psalm 24. 3 4 5 6. Psalm 15. 1 2. I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwefleth Psalm 26. ◠〈◊〉 ye my face my heart said unto thee Thy face Lord will I seek Psalm 27. 8. The righeous sheweth mercy and giveth c. is over 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 c. the 〈◊〉 of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment the law of his God is in his heart Psalm 37. 21 26 31 32. Psalm 112. 5. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long Psalm 71. 24. Psalm 119. 46. Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion c. for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof Psalm 102. 13 14. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord Psalm 112. 7. I have rejoyced in the ways of thy testimonies as in all riches c. I will delight my self in thy statutes c. Thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellor c. I am a companion to all who fear thee and keep thy statutes c. O how love I thy law it is my meditation all the day c. Better to me than thousands of gold c. How sweet are thy words c. Psalm 119. 14 16 20 24 63 72 97 103 172 174. I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the house of the Lord Psalm 122. 1. If I forget thee O Jerusalem c. If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy Psalm 137. 5 6. Psalm 74. 1 2 3 4 c. I hate them who hate thee am not I grieved when men rise up against thee Psalm 139. 21 22. Psalm 119. 53 126 136 158. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works and shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and will declare thy greaness They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness c. Thy saints shall bless thee they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power to make known unto the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of thy kingdom Psalm 145 5 6 7 10 11 12. The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day Prov. 4. 18. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil pride and arrogancy and the evil way Prov. 8. 13. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast Prov. 12. 10. He who walks righteously and speaketh uprightly he who despiseth the gain of oppression who snaketh his hands from holding of bribes who stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing of evil he shall dwell on high c. Isa 33. 15 16. I remember c. the love of thine espousal when thou wentest after me in the wilderness c. Jer. 2. 2. When the King asked Daniel thus Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen and the interpretation thereof Daniel answered in the presence of the King and said The secret which the King hath commanded cannot the wise-men c. shew unto the King But there is a God in heaven who revealeth secrets and maketh known to the king c. Dan. 2. 26 27 28. Then they who feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened and heard c. Mal. 3. 16. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted Blessed are the meek c. Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Matth. 5. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. John 16. 20. Prov. 27. 7. He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he who loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me and he who taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me Matth. 10. 36 37 38. ch 16. 24. Luke 14. 33. He who is not with me is against me and he who gathereth not with me scattereth abroad Matth. 12. 30. The kingdom of heaven is like to a treasure hid in a field the which when a man hath found he hideth and for joy thereof he goeth and selleth all he hath and buyeth that field Matth. 13. 44. Luke 10. 39 42. Verily I say unto you
except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven Matth. 18. 3 4. Zecharia just and walked in all the commandments of the Lord unblameably Luke 1. 5 6. The Woman to whom much was forgiven loved Christ much Luke 7. 37 38 45 46 47. If I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation I restore him four-fold Luke 19. 8. When Andrew had found Christ himself he tells his Brother Simon and brings him to him Philip tells Nathaniel and leads him to Jesus John 1. 40 41 42 43 44 45. ch 4. 28 29. Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee Except a man be born again or from above he cannot see the kingdom of God c. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit c. Every one who doeth evil hateth the light c. But he who doeth truth cometh unto the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God John 3. 3 5 6 20 21. John was a Burning and a Shining Light c. Ye have not his word abiding in you for him whom he hath sent ye believe not John 5. 35 38. Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go Thou hast the words of eternal life John 6. 68. If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed c. If ye were Abraham's children you would do the works of Abraham c. If God were your Father ye would love me for I proceed forth and came from God c. He who is of God heareth God's words ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God John 8. 31 39 42. 47. 1 John 2. 24. 2 John vers 9. The sheep hear his voice c. The sheep follow him for they know his voice and a stranger they will not follow but will flee from him for they know not the voice of a stranger c. I know my sheep and am known of mine c. My sheep hear my voice c. and they follow me John 10. 3 4 5 14 27. Jesus said If I wash thee not thou hast no communion with me Simon Peter faith unto him Lord not my feet only but also my head and my hands c. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another John 13. 8. 35. If ye love me keep my commandments c. He who hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is who loveth me c. If any man love me he will keep my words John 14. 15 21 23. ch 15. 14. Every branch in me who beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch which beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit c. If ye were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you John 15. 1 2 16. 18 19. The world have hated them because they are not of the world even as I c. John 17. 14. Ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce and ye shall be sorrowful John 16. 20. Every one who is of the truth heareth my voice John 18. 37. ch 8. 37 47. They were pricked to the heart and said Men and brethren What shall us do Acts 2. 37 38. ch 16. 30. When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they marvelled and took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard Acts. 4. 13 19. Saul when Christ came to him and converted him he said Lord What wilt thou have me to do Acts 9. 6. chap. 2. 37 38 c. chap. 16. 30 31 c. God is no respecter of persons but in every nation he who feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him Acts 10. 34 35. When the Priests of Jupiter would have done Sacrifice to the Apostles Barnabas and Paul they rent their clothes and ran in amongst the people crying out and saying Sirs Why do ye these things We also are men of like passions with you and preach unto you that you should turn from these vanities unto the living God Acts 14. 13 14 15. ch 3. 12 13. Apollos that eloquent Man was content to learn the way of God more perfectly of Aquila and Priscilla Tent-makers Acts 18. 24 25 26. Many who believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds Many also of them who used curious arts brought their books together and burnt them and they counted the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver Acts 19. 18 19. None of these things move me neither count I my life dear unto my self so that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have c. Acts 20. 24. I am ready not only to be bound but also to die for the name of the Lord Jesus Acts 21. 13. I wist not that he was the high priest for it is written Thou shalt not speak evil of c. Acts 23. 4 5. Paul consessâ—th freely thus I verily thought with my self that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus c. Which thing I also did in Jerusalem and many of the saints I did shut up in prison c. and being exceeding mad against them I persecuted them c. I would to God that not only thou but all that hear me c. were both almost and altogether such as I am except these bonds Acts 26. 9 10 11 29. Gal. 1. 13. We glory in tribulation also knowing that tribulation worketh patience c. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost Rom 5. 3 5. How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer therein c. Ye were the servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine whereto ye were delivered being made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness Rom. 6. 2 17 18. That which I do I allow not what I would that I do not but what I hate that do I c. I consent unto the law that it is good now then it is no â—ore I that do it but sin which dwelleth in me c. To will is present with me c. The good that I would I do not c. I find then a law that when I would do good then evil is present with me For I delight in the law of God after the inner man but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind c. O wretched man that I am Who shall deliver me c. Thanks be to God through Jesus
of faith and labour of love c. knowing beloved your election of God For our gospel came not unto you in word only but also in power c. and ye became followers of us and of the Lord having received the word in much affection c. ye turned to God c. to serve the living and true God and to wait for his Son 1 Thes 1. 3 4 5 6 9 10. The word of God which effectually worketh also in you who believe for ye brethren became followers of the Churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus for ye also have suffered like things of your own country-men 1 Thes 2. 13 14. Ye brethren are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief ye are the children of the light c. 1 Thes 5. 4 5. I thank Jesus Christ our Lord who hath enabled me c. who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercy c. Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners of whom I am the chief 1 Tim. 1. 12 13 15. Let every one who nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity 2 Tim. 2. 19. A peculiar people zealous of good works Titus 2. 14. Ephes 2. 10. He who hath entred into his rest hath ceased from his own works Heb. 4. 10. They who believe desire a better country that is an heavenly c. Moses c. chusing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt c. Heb. 11. 16 24 25 26. Follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Heb. 12. 14. John 13. 8. We trust we have a good conscience in all things as those who count in all things to live honestly Heb. 13. 8. If any among you seem to be religious and bridle not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this man's religion is vain Pure religion and undefiled between God and the Father is this To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction to keep himself unspotted from the world James 1. 26 27. What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and have not works c. Faith if it have not works is dead c. I will shew thee my faith by my works c. Faith without works is dead 〈◊〉 James 2. 14 18 26. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge amongst you let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom But if ye have bitter envying c. this wisdom desceadeth not from above c. But the wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and eaâ—â—â— to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisie and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace c. James 3. 13 14 15 16 17 18. Jesus 〈◊〉 whom having not seen ye love c. Seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth c. unto unfeigned love of the breâ—men 1 Pet. 1. 8 22. Cant. 1. 3 4. As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word of God that ye may grow thereby if so be ye have tasted c. Ye are a chosen generation c. that ye should shew forth the vertues or 〈◊〉 of him who hath called you c. 1 Pet. 2. 2 3 9. Luke 10. 39 42. The time of our life may suffice c. when we waâ—ked in lasâ— viousness c. wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot 1 Pet. 4. 3 4. Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust Add to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge c. for if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus but he who lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off c. 2 Pet. 1. 4 5 6 7 8 9. Just 〈◊〉 vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with unlawful deeds 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. Psal 119. 53 126 136 158. Jer. 9. 1 2. ch 13. 17. God is â—ight c. If we say we have 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 and walk in darkness we lye c. But if we walk in the light c. If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves 〈◊〉 1. 6 7 3. 〈◊〉 we know that we know him if we keep his commandments He who faith I know him and keepeth not hâ—s commandments is a lyar and the truth is not â—n him c. He who abideth in 〈…〉 himself also to walk even as he walked c. He who â—aith he is in the light and 〈◊〉 hâ—s Brother is in darkness even until now 〈◊〉 who loveâ—â— his brother abideth in the light c. If any man loveth the world the love of the 〈◊〉 is not in him c. If ye know that he is 〈◊〉 ye know or know ye that every one 〈◊〉 righteousness is born of God 1 John 2. â— 4 6 â— 10 11 15 29. We shall see him as he is And every man who hath this hope in him 〈◊〉 himself as he is pure c. Whâ—soever abideth in him sinneth not c. He who committeth sin or giveth his labour to sin is of the devil c. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil Whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither is he who loveth not his brother c. We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren c. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murtherer and ye know that no murtherer hath eternal life abiding in him c. Whosoever hath this world's goods and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up the bowels of his compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him c. Let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth And hereby we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before God c. For if our hearts condemn us he is greater c. And hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he hath given us 1 John 3. 2 3 5 6 8 9 10 14 15 17 18 19 24. ch 4. 12 13. ch 5. 18. Whoso knoweth God heareth us those who are not of God hear us not By this we know the spirit c. Love is of God and every one who loveth is born of God and knoweth God c. God is love he who dwelleth in love dwelleth in God
months and times and years c. Gal. 1. 6. Gal. 4. 9 10 11. Paul complains thus I have no man like minded whâ— will naturally â—re for your state for all 〈◊〉 their own not the things which are Jesus Christ's Phil. 2. 20. 21. Ye are dun of hearing for when for the time ye ought to bâ— teachers ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracies of God and are become such as have need of milk c. Hetr 5. 11 12. Thee hast born and hast patience and for my 〈◊〉 sake hast laboured and hast not fainted 〈◊〉 I have somewhat against thee because 〈…〉 thy first love c. So the Church of Pergamos c. and the Church of Thiatira c. See Rev. 2 3 4 12 13 14 15 18 19 20. III. That God will punish or correct his for sinning GOD was angry with Moses for his sin and would not suffer him to go into the good land Deut. 3. 25 26 27. ch 4. 21 22. God said to Moses Die in the mount as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel c. Because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel c. Because ye believed me not c. Deut. 32. 48 50 51. Psalm 106. 32 33. Numb 20. 12. Aaron shall be gathered unto his people he shall not enter into the land c. because ye rebelled against my word c. Numb 20. 24. I will be his Father and he shall be my son If he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men but my mercy shall not depart away from him 2 Sam. 7. 14 15. God punished Solomon for his sin in his old age 1 Kings 11. David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord and Nathan said unto David The Lord also hath put away thy sin thou shaet not die how be it because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the child shall sureâ—y die 2 Sam. 12. 13 14. Hezekiah sinned and there was wrath upon him 2 Chron. 32. 25. 2 Kings 20. 12 13 c. If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments c. 〈◊〉 I will 〈◊〉 their transgreâ—â—ions with a rod and their iniquities with itripes Psalm 89. 30 31 32. The man of God for his disobedience was slain 1 Kings 13. 18 19 20 c. Thou wast a God who forgavest them though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions Psalm 99. 8. Christ withdrew himself from his Spouse when she grew sluggish and mindless of him Cant. 5. 1 2 3 4 c. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him I hid me and was wroth and he went on frowardly or turning away in the way of his heart I have seen his way and I will heal him Isa 57. 17 18. I have forsaken my house c. I have given the dearly beloved c. into the hand of enemies Jer. 12. 7 8 9 10. I will correct thee in measure and will not leave thee altogether unpunished Jer. 30. 11. ch 46. 28. You only have I known of all the families in the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Amos 3. 2. When God sent Jonah to Nineveh he fled from God's presence c. but the Lord sent out a great wind c. And Jonah was east into the Sea for this Jonah 1. 1 4 10. 11 12. Zacharias struck dumb for not believing Luke 1. 19 20. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep c. When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11. 30 31. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 19. Hebr. 12. 6 7 8. See more of God's Judgments for Sin Chap. 16. CHAP. XIV Of the Privileges of Saints and their Excellency above others What God bath done doth do and will do for and be unto them more than others and what they can do with God c. THE Lord had respect to Abel and his offerings c. If thou do well shalt thou not be accepted Gen. 4. 4 7. Enoch walked with God and was not for God took him Gen. 5. 24. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord Gen. 6. 8. And the Lord said unto Noah Come thou and all thy house into the Ark For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation Gen. 7. 1. 2 Pet. 2. 5. And the Lord plagued Pharoah and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife Gen. 12. 17. ch 20. 2 3. The word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision saying Fear not Abram I am thy shield thy exceeding great reward Gen. 15. 1. ch 17. 1 2 7. God said Shall I hide from Abram what I am about to do c. the cry of Sodom c. is greater c. Abram interceded with God for Sodom and God granted him as much as he asked See at large Gen. 18. 17 18 20 23 24 25 26 27 28 c. When God had sent his Angels to destroy Sodom they said unto Lot Hast thon any here besides Son-in-law and thy sons and thy daughters and whatsoever thou hast in the câ—y bring out of this place c. They hastened Lot saying Arise take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here lest thou be consumed c. And while he lingered the men laid hold upon his hand and upon the hand of his wife and upon the hand of his two daughters the Lord being merciful unto him and they brought him forth c. He prevailed with God to spare Zoar c. Haste thee escape thither for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither c. God remembred Abram and sent Lot out or the midst of the overthrow c. Gen. 19. 12 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 29. 2 Pet. 2. 6 7. And God said unto Abram c. Of the son of the bond-woman will I make a nation because he is thy feed Gen. 21. 12 13. God spake to Jacob friendly when he fled from his brother Esau Gen. 28. 13 14 15. Laban said unto Jacob I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blesled me for thy sake c. Jacob said to him c. The Lord hath blessed thee since my coming or at my foot Gen. 30. 27 30. Prov. 11. 10 11. When Laban was pursuing Jacob God came to Laban c. and said Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad or from good to bad c. Laban said It is in the power of my hands to do thee hurt but the God of your father spake unto me yester-night saying Take thou heed c. Gen. 31. 24 29. Jacob prevailed with God
c. I have seen God face to face Gen. 32. 28 30. When Jacob and his family were journying the terrors of God were upon the cities round about them God appeared unto Jacob again c. and blessed him c. Gen. 35. 5 9 13. The Lord was with Joseph and he was a prosperous man c. and his master saw that the Lord was with him c. and made all that he did to prosper in his hand c. The Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's fake c. The Lord was with Joseph c. and gave him favour in the fight of the keeper c. When Joseph had the custody of the prisoners that which he did the Lord made it to proâ—per Gen. 39. 2 3 5 21 22 23. Joseph said unto his brethren c. As for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good to bring to pass as at this day c. Gen. 50. 20. God gave Israel favour in the fight of the Egyptians and Pharoah's servants and so Moses c. There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt such as there was none like it c. But against any of the children oâ— Israel shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast that ye may know how that the Lord dâ—th put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel Exod. 11. 3 6 7. I will pass through the land of Egypt this night and will smite all the first-born c. and the blood shall be to you for a token c. when I see the blood I will pass over you and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you c. Exod. 12. 12 13. I will dwell among the children of Israel and will be their God c. Exod. 29. 45. When God had said to Moses Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them that I may consume them c. Moses prayed for Israel and prevailed often for them And the Lord said I have pardoned according to thy word Exod. 32. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. Numb 14. 11 12 13 19 20. And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto his friend c. When Moses had said I beseech thee shew me thy glory He said I will make all my goodness pass before thee c. Exod. 33. 11 17 18 19. ch 19. 19 20. ch 34. 2 3 5 6. My servant Moses is not so who is faithful in all mine house with him will I speak mouth to mouth apparently and not in dark speeches and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold Numb 72. 7 8. He hath blessed and I cannot reverse it He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob neither hath he seen perversness in Israel The Lord his God is with him and the shout of a King is among them c. Surely there is no inchantment against Jacob neither is there any divination against Israel Numb 23. 20 21 23. Deut. 23. 5. For what nation so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God in all things which we call upon him for And what nation so great which hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law c. Did ever people hear the voice of God c. as thou hast heard and live Deut. 4. 7 8 33. Rom. 3. 1 2. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself above all the nations which are upon the earth Deut. 14. 1. ch 26. 17 18. 19. For the Lord's portion is his people Jacob the lot of his inheritance c. He led him about he instructed him he kept him as the apple of his eye Deut. 32. 9 10. 1 Pet. 5. 3. Jer. 12. 7 8 9 10. The eternal God thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms c. Happy thou O Israel Who is like unto thee O people saved by the Lord the Shield of thy help and who is the Sword of thine exceliency Deut. 33. 27 29. At the Word of Jeshua the Sun stood still and the Moon staid Josh 10. 12 13 14. When Gidâ—on asked signs of God he gave them to him Judg. 6. 17 21 36 37 38 39 40. Manoah inâ—eated the Lord c. and God hearkned c. And the Angel came again c. Judges 13. 8 9 23. He will keep the feet of his saints 1 Sam. 2. 9. she Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people 1 Sam. 12. 22. David went on and grew great and the Lord God of hosts was with him 2 Sam. 5. 10. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee c. Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake c. I will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen 1 Kings 11. 11 12 13. ch 15. 4. He only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave because in him is found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel 1 Kings 14. 13. The Prophet Elijah was taken up into Heaven 2 Kings 2. 12. When the King of Israel and Jehoshaphat the King of Judah went together and wanted Water Elisha the Prophet said c. Were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah I would not look towards thee not see thee But now c. 2 Kings 3. 6 7 9 10 14 15 c. God hearkened to Hezekiah and gave him a Sign that God would heal him he brought the Shadow ten Degrees backward 2 Kings 20. 9 10. Isa 38. 7 8. Behold God will not cast away a perfect man c. Job 11. 20. Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly c. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water which bringeth forth his fruit in his season his fruit shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth it shall prosper Psal 1. 1 3. Know that the Lord hath set apart him who is godly for himself Psal 4. 3. A seed shall serve him it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation c. Psal 22. 30. The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want he maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me besides the still waters c. Psal 23. 1 2. All the paths of the Lord are goodness and truth unto such who keep his covenant c. What man is he who fearêth the Lord him shall he teach in the way which he shall chuse his soul shall dwell at ease and his seed shall inherit the earth The secret of the Lord is with them who fear him and he will shew them his covenant or make them know it Psal 25. 10 12 13 14. Oh! how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them who fear thee thou hast wrought
in my God Isa 61. 10. Hath a nation changed their gods which yet are no gods But my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit c. My people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the Fountain of living waters and have hewed them out cisterns broken cisterns c. Have I been a barren wilderness unto Israel c. Can a maid forget her ornaments a bride her attire yet my people have forgotten me days without number Jer. 2. 11 13 31 32. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might c. But let him who glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord who exerciseth loving-kindness c. Jerem. 9. 23 24. 2 Cor. 10. 17. 1. Cor. 1. 29. 31. The portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the Former of all things c. The Lord of hosts is his name Jer. 10. 16. ch 51. 19. O the hope of Israel the Saviour thereof in time of trouble why shouldst thou be as a stranger in the land and as a way-faring man turneth aside to tarry for a night Why shouldst thou be as a man astonied c. Yet thou O Lord in the midst of us and we are called by thy name c. Jer. 14. 8 9. ch 17. 13. The Lord is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope in him Lam. 3. 24. Woe also unto them when I depart from them Hos 9. 12. Fear not O land be glad and rejoyce for the Lord will do great things c. Be glad then ye children of Zion and rejoyce in the Lord your God Joel 2. 21 23. But the Lord the hope or harbour of his people and the strength of the children of Israel Joel 3. 16. Arise and depart ye for this is not your rest because it is polluted Micha 2. 10. Although the fig-tree shall not blossom neither fruit in the vine c. yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation The Lord God is my strength c. Habbak 3. 17 18 19. Rejoyce because your names are written in heaven Luke 10. 20. Zacheus came down and received Christ joyfully Luke 19. 5 6. Lord to whom shall we go Thou hast the words of eternal life c. Thou art that Christ the Son of the living God John 6. 68 69. Philip said unto him Shew us the Father and it sufficeth John 14. 8. These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full John 15. 11. Peter said Lord thou knowest I love thee John 21. 17. The Eunuch went on his way rejoycing Acts 8. 38 39. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoyce in hope of the glory of God c. We also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 5. 2 11. Rejoycing in hope Rom. 12. 12. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing Rom. 15. 13. Our consolation also aboundeth by Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 1. 5. Now thanks be to God who always causeth us to triumph in Christ 2 Cor. 2. 14. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ Gal. 6. 14. My brethren rejoyce in the Lord c. We are the circumcision c. who rejoyce in Christ c. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord Philip. 3. 1 3 8. Rejoyce in the Lord alway and again I say rejoyce c. And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your heart and mind c. Philip. 4. 4 7. Rejoyce evermore 1 Thes 5. 16. That by two immutable things wherein it is impossible for God to lye we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Heb. 6. 18. In whom though now ye see not yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1. 8. 1 John 1. 4. II. To obey and hearken to the Laws and Word of God in Christ THere is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy James 4. 12. Now the Lord had said unto Abram Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred and from thy father's house unto a land I will shew thee c. So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him Gen. 12. 1 4 5. Heb. 11. 8. So in putting away Ishmael and Hagar Gen. 21. 11 11 13 14. God said unto Abraham Take now thy son thine only Isaac whom thou lovest c. and offer him there for a burnt-offering c. And Abraham rose up early in the morning and took Isaac c. He stretched forth his hand and took his knife to slay his son c. In blessing I will bless thee c. because thou hast obeyed my voice Gen. 22. 1 2 3 10 17 18. In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my commandments my statutes and my laws Gen. 26. 4 5. God bid Moses go and said he would be with his mouth c. He refused God was angry Exod. 4. 13 14. Thus did the children of Israel as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron so did they Exod. 12. 50. If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God and wilt do that which is right in his sight and will give ear unto his commandments and keep all his statutes I will put none of these diseases upon thee Exod. 15. 26. Deut. 28. 1 2 3 c. I will rain bread c. that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no c. How long refuse ye to keep my commandments c. Exod. 16. 4 28. Now therefore if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people c. And all the people answered together and said All that the Lord hath spoken we will do Exod. 19. 5 7 8. chap. 24. 3 7. Deut. 26. 16 17 18. Shewing mercy unto thousands of them who love me and keep my commandments Exod. 20. 6. Behold I will send an Angel before thee c. Beware of him and obey his voice provoke him not for he will not pardon you c. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice and do all that I spake then c. Exod. 23. 21 22. That ye seek not after your own heart c. Do all my commandments and be holy Numb 15. 39 40. We will hear it and do it And the Lord said c. They have well said all that they have spoken Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always that it might be well with them and
their children for ever c. You shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you you shall not turn aside to the right and or to the left you shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you Deut. 5. 27 28 29 32 33. Levit. 18. 3 4 26. Hear therefore O Israel and observe to do that it may be well with thee Deut. 6. 3. The Lord thy God is a faithful God who keepeth covenant and mercy with them who love and keep his commandments to a thousand generations Deut. 7. 9. Levit. 20. 22. 1 Kings 6. 12. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his judgments and his commandments alway c. And it shall come to pass if you will hearken diligently unto my commandments c. then will I give you c. Deut. 11. 7 8 13 14. ch 10. 12 13. Levit. 26. 3 4 5 c. God commanded thee that thou do these statutes c. and that with all thy heart and from thy whole soul Deut. 26. 16. See I have set before you this day life and good and death and evil c. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore chuse life c. that thou mayest love the Lord thy God that thou mayest obey his voice and that thou mayest cleave unto him for he is thy life c. Deut. 30. 15 16 19 20. ch 13. 4. ch 32. 46 47. Prov. 19. 16. Isa 1. 19 20. Take diligent heed to do the commandments and laws c. to love the Lord your God and to walk in all his ways and to keep all his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart c. Josh 22. 5. Deut. 10. 12 13. If ye will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord then shall both ye and the king who reigneth over you continue c. 1 Sam. 12. 14. Behold to obey is better than sacrifice to hearken than the fat of rams for rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft c. 1 Sam. 15. 22. David charged Solomon to keep the Charge of the Lord his Statutes his Commandments c. as it is written in the Law of Moses 1 Kings 2. 1 2 3. ch 9. 4 5. Hear O my people and I will testifie unto thee O Israel if thou wilt hearken unto me c. But my people would not hearken unto me and Israel would none of me so I gave them up unto their own hearts lust and they walked in their own counsels Oh that my people had hearkned unto me and Israel had walked in my ways I should soon have subdued their enemies c. Psal 81 8 11 12 13 14 16. 2 Kings 21. 8 9. Because they rebelled against the word of God and contemned the counsel of the Most High therefore he brought down their heart with labour Psal 107. 11 12. Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently c. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments c. I will run the ways of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart c. Oh how love I thy law c. I love thy testimonies c. It is time for thee O Lord to work they have made void thy law therefore I love thy commandments above gold c. Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law c. My soul hath kept thy restimonies and I love them exceedingly Psal 119. 4 6 32 97 119 120 127 136 158 167. Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded but ye have set at nought my counsel and would none of my reproof I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh c. Prov. 1. 24 25 26 30 31. My son forget not my law but let thy heart keep my commandments Prov. 3. 1. Blessed is the man who heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors Prov. 8. 32 33 34. He who turneth away his ear from hearing the law even his prayer shall be abomination Prov. 28. 9. Thus saith the Lord Thy Redeemer c. Oh that thou hadst hearkned to my commandments then had thy peace been as the river c. Isa 48. 17 18. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way that is not good after their own thoughts Isa 65. 2. I will bring their fears upon them because when I called none did answer when I spake they did not hear but they did evil c. Isa 66. 4. Jer. 35. 17. Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee c. Their ear is uncircumcised they cannot hearken Jer. 6. 8 10. I speak not unto your fathers c. But this thing commanded I them saying Obey my voice and I will be your God and ye shall be my people and walk ye in all my ways which I have commanded you that it may be well unto you But they hearkned not nor inclined their ear but walked in the counsels and in the imaginations of their evil heart c. Jer. 22 23 24. chap. 11. 4 7 8. Cursed the man who obeyeth not the words of this covenant Jer. 11. 3 4. The Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the Prophets rising early and sending but ye have not hearkned nor inclined your ear c. Jer. 25. 4. ch 44. 4 5. Will ye not receive instruction to hearken unto my words faith the Lord The words of Jonab the son of Rechab that he command his sons not to drink wine are performed for unto this day they drink none but obey their fathers commandment notwithstanding I have spoken unto you rising early and speaking but ye hearkned not unto me Jer. 35. 13 14 15. As for the word thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord we will not hearken unto thee Jer. 44. 16. Thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. ch 3. 11 27. For they hear thy words but they do them not Ezek. 33. 32. Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts saying Execute true judgment c. but they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear yea they made their hearts as an adamant-stone lest they should hear the law and the words which the Lord of Hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets c. Therefore it is come to pass as he cryed and they would not hear so they cried and I would not hear c. Zech. 7. 9 10 11 12 13. Not every one who saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into
true God he is the living God and an everlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble c. he hath made the earth by his power he hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion when he uttereth his voice c. Jer. 10. 10 12 13. Heb. 9. 14. Yet I am the Lord thy God and thou shalt know no God but me for there is no saviour besides me Hosea 13. 4. Isa 37. 20. I hate I despise your feasts and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies c. But let judgment run down c. Amos 5. 21 22 23 34. Psalm 66. 18. Isa 66. 3. Jer. 6. 20. Isa 1. 11 12 c. And it shall come to pass that every one who is least of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King the Lord of Host c. Zech. 14. 16. If then I be a father where is mine honour c. And if ye offer the blind and the lame c. offer it now unto your governor will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person c. Ye brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick thus ye brought an offering should I accept this at your hand saith the Lord But cursed the deceiver who hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth unto God a corrupt thing for I am a great king saith the Lord of hosts and my name is dreadful among the heathen Mal. 1. 6 8 13 14. ch 2. 2 3 13. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come c. then shall the offerings of Judah c. be pleasant unto the Lord Mal. 3. 1 4. Get thee behind me Satan for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Matth. 4. 10. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them Matth. 18. 20. There is one God and there is none other but he Mark 12. 32. Our father 's worshipped in this mountain and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship c. The hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem worship the Father Ye worship ye know not what c. but the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth For the Father seeketh such to worship him God is a Spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John 4. 20 21 22 23 24. The Father himself c. ye have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his shape John 5. 37. Exod. 33. 20. And he said Lord I believe and he worshipped him John 9. 38. The most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands c. Heaven is my Throne c. hath not my hands made all c. Acts 7. 48 49 50. Whom ye ignorantly worship him declare I unto you God who made the world and all things therein seeing that he is Lord or heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands neither is worshipped with mens hands as though he needed any thing seeing he gave to all life and breath and all things and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitations c. Acts 17. 24 25 26. After the way they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Acts 24. 14. God whom I serve with my spirit c. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things which are made his eternal power and God-head so that they were without excuse because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God c. but became vain c. Changed the truth of God into a lie and served and worshipped the creature more than the Creator who is blessed for ever Amen Rom. 1. 9 20 21 23 25. 2 Tim. 1. 3. Not slothful in business servent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. This I speak c. that ye may attend on the Lord without distraction 1 Cor. 7. 32 35. We know that an idol is nothing in the world and there is none other God but one For though there be that are called Gods c. but to us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in or for him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. So falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God is in you of a truth 1 Cor. 14. 25. Gen. 24. 26 52. Exod. 4 31. ch 12. 27. ch 34. 8. Joshua 5. 14. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit Phil. 3. 3. When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world he faith and let all the angels of God Worship him Hebr. 1. 6. God c. because he could swear by no greater he sware by himself c. The living God c. Heb. 6. 13. ch 9. 14. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved let us have grace or hold fast whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12. 28 29. Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifice acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. No man hath seen God at anytime 1 John 4. 12. The four and twenty elders fell down before him who sate on the throne and worshiped him who liveth Rev. 4. 10 11. Fear God and given glory unto him c. And worship him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters Rev. 14. 7. chap. 15. 4. ch 4. 8 9 10 11. ch 5. 13. Worship God Rev. 19. 10. ch 22. 9. Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts 1 Pet. 3. 15. The Lord c. he will famish all the gods of the earth and Men shall worship him every one Zeph. 2. 11. See more of Idolatry and Worshipping strange Gods c. Chap. 40. See the Order of Publick Worship Ordinances Officers c. Chap. 27. Believe imbrace and be found in the Practice of nothing in the things of God and about his Worship but that which clearly according to Precepts Rules and Examples of the Scriptures appears to be Christ's mind upon which we can in Faith expect acceptance AND Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments and all the people answered with one voice and said All the words which the Lord hath said will we do And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord c. And he took the book of the covenant and read in
the audience of the people and they said All that the Lord hath said will we do and be obedient Exod. 24. 2 4 7. And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them according unto all that I shew thee after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof even so shall ye make c. Exod. 25. 8 9. In the tabernacle without the vail which is before the testimony Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening till morning before the Lord c. Exod. 27. 21. And these are the garments which they shall make a breast plate c. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy Brother and his sons that they may minister unto me in the Priest's office c. Exod. 28. 4 5 6 c. They made the holy garments for Aaron as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 39. 1. Thus did Moses according to all that the Lord commanded him so did he c. He spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle c. as the Lord commanded Moses c. And he lighted the lamps before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses c. When they came near unto the Altar they washed as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 40. 16 19 21 23 25 27 29. Levit. 8. 4 5 36. So did David in all he did as he received from God 1 Chron. 28. 12 13 19. 2 Chron. 29. 25. Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron c. offered strange fire which he commanded them not and there went out fire from the Lord and devoured them and they died before the Lord. And Moses said unto Aaron This is that the Lord spake I will be sanctified in them who come nigh me and before all the people c. Levit. 10. 1 2 3. After the doings of the land of Egypt c. and after the doings of the land of Canaan c. shall ye not do neither shall ye walk in their ordinances Ye shall do my judgments and keep my ordinances to walk therein I am the Lord your God Levit. 18. 3 4. And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai according to all that the Lord commanded Moses so did the children of Israel c. They shall leave none of it c. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it Moses enquired of God in an unrevealed Case about the Passover Numb 9. 5 6 7 8 9 10 12. Levit. 19. 5 6. ch 22. 30 31 32. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you neither shall you c. Deut. 4. 2. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods c. ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God but unto the place the Lord your God shall chuse out of all your tribes to put his name there unto his habitation shall ye seek and thither shalt thou come and thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings c. and ye shall not do c. every man what is right in his own eyes c. When you go over Jordan c. then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall chuse to cause his name to dwell there thither shall ye bring all that I command you your burnt-offerings c. Take heed to thy self that thou be not snared by following them c. And that thou enquire not after their gods saying How did these nations serve their gods Even so will I do likewise Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God c. Whatsoever thing I command you observe to do it thou shalt not add thereunto nor diminish from it Deut. 12. 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 11 13 14 30 31 32. Numb 15. 39 40. Secret things belong unto the Lord our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever that we may do all the words of this law Deut. 29. 29. Rebel not c. in building an altar besides the altar of the Lord our God Josh 22. 19 29. Jeroboam ordained a feast c. like unto the feast in Judah c. upon the month which he had devised in his own heart 1 Kings 12. 32 33. 2 Kings 17. 8. Israel sinned c. in walking in the Statutes of the Heathen c. and of the kings of Israel which they had made c. 2 Kings 17. 7 8 19. Be not righteous overmuch neither make thy self overwise Eccles 7. 16. To the law and to the testimony If they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isa 8. 20. Jer. 8. 9. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws changed the ordinances c. Isa 24. 5. And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed c. Wherefore the Lord said Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me with their mouth c. and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men therefore behold I will proceed to do a marvellous work c. The wisdom of the wise men shall perish c. Isa 29. 11 12 13 14. I have spread out my hand all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way that is not good after their own thoughts c. who sacrificeth in gardens and burneth incense upon altars of brick c. Isa 65. 2 3. Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest c. Jer. 6. 16. I spake not to your fathers nor commanded them c. concerning burnt-offerings c. Jer. 7. 22 23 31. The place of my throne c. shall the house of Israel no more defile neither they nor their kings by their whoredom c. in their setting of their threshold by my threshold and their posts by my posts c. Ezek. 43. 7 8. Son of man mark well c. all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord and all the laws thereof c. And thou shalt say to the rebellious c. Ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers uncircumcised in heart c. to pollute it even my house when ye offer my bread c. And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things but ye have set keepers of my charge or ordinance in my sanctuary for your selves Ezek. 44. 5 6 7 8 9. If ye offer the blind c. offer it to your governor c. I am a great King c. Mal. 1. 6 8 13 14. Why do you transgress the commandments of God by your traditions For God commanded saying c. But ye say c. Thus have ye made the commandments of God of none effect by your traditions c. In
the work of faith 2 Thes 1. 11. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father who hath loved us comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work 2 Thes 2. 16 17. Finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course or may run and be glorified and that we may be delivered c. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God c. 2 Thes 3. 1 2 5. Exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for kings and for all who are in authority or eminent place that we may lead a quiet c. For this is good and acceptable in the fight of God our Saviour c. I will therefore that men pray every where listing up holy hands without wrath or doubting 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3 8. Every creature of God is good c. if it be received with thanksgiving c. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer 1 Tim. 4. 4 5. She that is a widow indeed c. and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day 1 Tim. 5. 5. I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day 2 Tim. 1. 3. Philemon vers 4. Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens Jesus c. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need Heb. 4. 14 15 16. Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cries and tears unto him who was able to save Hebr. 5. 7. Having therefore brethren boldness to enter into the holiest c. and having an high priest over the house of God let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith c. Hebr. 10. 19. 20 21 22. Ephes 3. 11 12. He who prays to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him Hebr. 11. 6. Pray for us c. Now the God of peace c. make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well-pleasing c. Heb. 13. 18 20 21. If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth unto all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him But let him ask in faith nothing wavering for he who wavereth is like a wave of the sea c. and let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord James 1. 5 6 7. Ye have not because ye ask not ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your lusts or pleasures James 4. 2 3. Is any among you afflicted let him pray c. is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the Church and let them pray over him c. and the prayer of faith shall save the sick c. Pray one for another the effectual fervent prayer c. James 5. 13 14 15 16 17. And if ye call on the Father who without respect of persons judgeth c. 1 Pet. 1. 17. Likewise ye husbands dwell with them c. that your prayers be not hindered c. The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers 1 Pet. 3. 7 12. Be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Whatsoever we ask we receive of him because we keep his commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight 1 John 3. 22. This is the confidence that we have in him that if we ask any thing according unto his will he heareth us and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask we know that that we have the petitions that we desire of him If any man see his brother sin a sin not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death There is a sin unto death I do not say that ye shall pray for it 1 John 5. 14 15 16. Praying in the holy Ghost Jude verse 20. The elders c. having every one of them harps and golden viols full of odours or incense which are the prayers of the saints Rev. 5. 8. Another Angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer and there was given unto him much incense that he should offer it with or add it to the prayers of all saints c. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God out of the Angels hand Rev. 8. 3 4. See more of Prayer in Affliction Chap. 22. See more of Common Calamities Chap. 23. See more in Duty towards all Men Chap. 19. See Prayer for Magistrates Chap. 24. To take special notice of the Acts of God's Goodness and Mercy keep memorials thereof celebrate his Praises extol him and stir up others so to do THY glorious name c. is exalted above all blessing and praises Nehem. 9. 5. Abraham's Servant when God had heard his request he bowed down his head and worshipped the Lord. And he said Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth c. When he he heard their words he worshipped the Lord c. Gen. 24. 26 27 52. I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God that thou wast pleased with me Gen. 33. 10. Then Jacob said c. Let us arise and go to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went c. And he built there an altar and called the place El-Bethel because there God appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother Gen. 35. 2 3 7 14 15 ch 28. 18 19 c. God commanded Israel to commemorate their deliverance from Egypt once in every year Exod. 13. 3 4 5 c. Moses and Israel solemnly celebrated his praise for their deliverance at the Red Sea in a Song of Praise Exod. 15. 2 3 to the 22. When Israel got victory over the Amalâ—kites he built an Altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi that is the Lord my banner Exod. 17. 13 14 15. And Moses told unto Jethro his Father-in-law all that the Lord had done unto Pharoch and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake c. And Jethro rejoyced for all the goodness which the Lord had done unto Israel c. and said Blessed be the Lord that hath delivered you c. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods Exod. 18. 8 9 10 11. When thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee Deut. 8. 10.
Israel is commanded especially to remember their deliverance out of Egypt Deut. 26. 1 2 3 c. Exod. 13. 14 15. Moses Song Deut. 32. Joshua pitched stones in Gilgal in memory of Israel's passing dry thorow Jordan that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty Josh 4. 5 6 7 20 21 22 23 24. The Song of Deborah and Barak which they sang after the victory against Sisera and his Army Judges 5. 2 Chron. 20. 26. Psalm 124. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Hannah sang praise when she brought Samuel her Son to the House of the Lord whom the Lord had given her upon her Prayer 1 Sam. 2. 1 2 3 4 to the 11. When the Philistines were beaten Samuel set up a stone called the name thereof Eben-Ezer saying Hitherto hath the Lord helped us 1 Sam. 7. 10 11 12. When Abigail met David and prevented him in his hasty purpose concerning Nabal's House he said unto Abigail Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice c. And when David heard that Nabal was dead he said Blessed be the Lord who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and hath kept his servant from evil c. 1 Sam. 25. 32 33 39. When God had promised many things unto David he faith Let thy name be magnified for ever saying The Lord of Hosts is the God over Israel c. 2 Sam. 7. 26. And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hands of Saul And he said The Lord is my rock my fortress and my deliverer c. 2 Sam. 22. Blessed be God who hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he hath promised 1 Kings 8. 56. Upon the return of the Ark to the City of David he prepares a Song and delivers it to be sung by way of Thanksgiving unto God 1 Chron. 16. 8 9 to the 37. When the people had offered willingly towards the building of the House of the Lord David blessed the Lord before all the Congregation and David said Blessed be thou Lord God of Israel our Father for ever and ever c. Now therefore our God we thank thee and praise thy glorious name c. that we should be able to offer so willingly c. The congregation did so 1 Chron. 29. 9 10 to the 20. Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord and he spake unto him c. but Hezekiah rendred noâ— again according to the benefit done unto him c. 2 Chron. 32. 24 25. Isa 28. 8 9. ch 39. Ezra takes notice of a little favour and acknowledgeth it to the praise of God Ezra 9. 8 9 13 14. ch 7. 27 28. Stand up bless the Lord your God for ever and ever and blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise c. Nehem. 9. 5 6 c. When Job had lost all then he said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken blessed be the name of the Lord Job 1. 20 28. I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness and will sing to the name of the Lord most high Psalm 7. 17. O Lord our God how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast set thy glory above the heavens c. Psalm 8. 1 9. I will praise thee O Lord with my whole heart I will shew forth all thy marvellous works I will sing praise to thy name O thou most high c. Sing to the Lord who dwelleth in Sion declare among the people his doings Psalm 9. 1 2 11. Psalm 96. I will sing unto the Lord because he hath dealt bountifully with me Psalm 13. 6. David's Song of Praises for his Deliverances Psalm 18. Thou art holy who inhabiteth the praises of Israel c. Ye who fear the Lord praise him all ye the seed of Jacob glorifie him Psalm 22. 3 23. That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works Psalm 26. 7. The Lord is my strength c. with my song will I praise him Psalm 28. 7. Sing unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance or to the memorial of his holy name c. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing c. to the end that my glory may sing praise unto thee and not be silent O Lord my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever Psalm 30. 4 11 12. Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness Psalm 31. 21. Praise is comely for the upright Psalm 33. 1. Psalm 147. 1. I will bless the Lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth c. O magnifie the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together I sought the Lord and he heard me c. O taste and see that the Lord is good c. Psalm 34. 1 3 4 6 8. Psalm 54. 6 7. My tongue shall speak of thy righteousness of thy praise all the day Psalm 35. 28. Psalm 105. 1 2 3. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God c. according to thy name so is thy praises O God unto the ends of the earth Psalm 48. 1 10. Offer unto God thanksgiving c. I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me c. Whose offereth praise glorifieth me Psal 50. 14 15 23. My heart is fixed O God my heart is fixed or prepared I will sing praise awake up my glory c. I will praise thee O Lord among the people I will sing unto thee among the nations Psal â—7 7 8 9. Psal 108. 1 2. I will sing of thy power yea I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning for thou hast been my defence c. Psal 59. 16 17. Psal 62. 7. Praise waiteth for thee O God in Sion c. Psal 65. 1. Isa 12. Make a joyful noise unto God all ye saints sing forth the honour of his name make his praise glorious c. All the earth shall worship thee and shall sing unto thee Oh bless our God ye people c. Come hear c. all ye who fear God and I will declare what he hath done for my soul I cried c. Blessed be God who hath not turned away my prayer nor his mercy from me Psal 66. 1 2 4 8 16 17 20. Psal 81. 1. Sing unto God sing praises unto his name extol him who rideth upon the heavens c. A Father to the fatherless c. Psal 68. 4 5. I will praise the Lord with a song and will magnifie him with thanksgiving this also shall please the Lord better than an ox c. Psal 69. 30 31. By thee have I been holpen up from my womb my praise shall be continually of thee
c. My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness thy salvation all the day Psal 71. 6 15 24. We will not hide them from their children shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord c. Psal 78. 4. Psal 89. 1. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing unto thy name O most High to shew forth thy loving-kindness in the morning and thy faithfulness every night Psal 92. 1 2. O come let us sing unto the Lord let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation let us come before his presence with thanksgiving c. Psal 95. 1 2. Psal 96. 1 2. Psal 100. 1 2 4. Sing unto the Lord a new song for he hath done marvellous things his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory c. Psal 98. 1 2. Psal 105. Bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name c. and forget not all his benefits who forgiveth thee all thy iniquities who healeth all thy diseases c. Psal 103. 1 2 3 4 22. I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise to my God while I have my being Psal 104. 33. Psal 146. 2. Praise ye the Lord O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord Who can shew forth all his praises c. Then believed they his words they sang his praise they soon forget his works c. Psal 106. 1 2 12â— 13. Psal 147. 1. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good c. let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath redeemed c. Oh that men would praise the Lord c. let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the elders Whose is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord Psal 107. 1 2 6 8 15 21 22 31 32 43. Psal 135. 1 2 3 4 5. Psal 118. 1 2 3 c. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation Psal 111. 1 2 Psal 86. 12. Praise ye the Lord praise O ye servants of the Lord c. from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised Psal 113. 1 3. Psal 135. 1 2 3. Psal 68 32. Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy name give glory c. But we will bless the Lord from this time forth and for evermore Psal 115. 1 18. I believed therefore have I spoken Psal 116. 10. At midnight will I arise to give thanks to thee because of thy righteous judgments Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments Psal 119. 62 164. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side we had been swallowed up quick or alive Psal 124. 1. 2 c. O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good c. O give thanks unto the God of gods for his mercy is for ever O give thanks to the Lord of lords Psal 136. 1 2 3 26. I will praise thee with my whole heart before the gods will I sing praise unto thee c. for thy loving-kindness and for thy truth c. Psal 138. 1 2. I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made c. Psal 139. 14. I will extol thee my God O King and I will bless thy name for ever and ever c. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatness is unsearchable c. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works and shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and will declare thy greatness they shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness c. Thy saints shall bless thee they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power to make known unto the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious Majesty c. Psal 145. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12. Praise c. for it is good to â—ing praises unto our God for it is pleasant and praise is comely c. Praise the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Zion Psal 147. 11 12. All persons and things called upon to praise the Lord Psal 148. Psal 149. Psal 150. The Church's Song propheâ—â—ed of which she shall sing in the Day of her Glory Isa 12. O Lord thou my God I will exalt thee I will praise thy name for thou hast done wonderful things c. Isa 25. 1. ch 26. Sing unto the Lord a new song c. The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man c. Isa 42. 10 11 12 c. This people have I formed for my self that they should shew forth my praise but thou hast not called upon me c. Isa 43. 21 22. Give glory to the Lord your God before he cause darkness c. Jer. 13. 16. Daniel said Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever for wisdom and might are his and he changeth the times and the seasons He removeth kings and setteth up kings he giveth wisdom to the wise c. He revealeth the deep and secret things c. I thank thee and praise thee O thou God of my fathers who hast given me wisdom and might and hast made known unto me now what I desired of thee for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter Dan. 2. 19 20 21 22 23. Nebuchadnezzar when his Understanding returned to him blessed and praised God Dan. 4. 34 37. When Christ had healed the two blind Men they spread abroad his Fame in all that Country Matth 9. 30 31. Luke 5. 25. ch 18. 43. Mary upon the Promise made to her praiseth at large My soul doth magnifie the Lord c. The Heavenly Host praised God saying Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace c. Simeon took up Jesus and blessed God saying c. Anna the Prophetess coming in at that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord Luke 1. 46 c. ch 2. 13 14 28 29 38. Christ said unto the Man out of whom he had cast Devils Return to thine own house and shew how great things God hath done unto thee And he went his way and published it throughout the whole city c. Luke 8. 38 39. When Christ had healed ten Lepers one of them returned back and with a loud voice glorified God and fell down on his face at his feet giving him thanks c. Jesus answered and said Were there not ten cleansed but where are the nine There are not found who returned to give glory to God save this stranger Luke 17. 14 15 16 17 18. The whole multitude of the Disciples began to rejoyce and to praise God
with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen saying Blessed be the King who cometh in the name of the Lord c. Jesus said c. If these should hold their peace the stones c. would cry out c. Luke 19. 37 38 40. And they continued daily with one accord in the temple c. did eat their meat with gladness and with singleness of heart praising God Acts 2. 46 47. Luke 24. 52 53. When the lame man was healed he stood up and entred with them into the temple walking and leaping and praising God Acts 3. 8 9. We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard Acts 4. 20. He took bread and gave thanks in presence of them all Acts 27. 35. Having therefore obtained help of God I continue unto this day Acts 26. 22. Paul and Silas being in Prison sang Praises to God that the Prisoners heard Acts 16. 24 25. Who shall deliver I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 7. 24 25. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out For who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his counsellor or who hath first given unto him c. For of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be glory for ever Amen Rom 11. 33 34 35 36. He who eateth eateth unto the Lord for he giveth God thanks Rom. 14. 6. To God only wise be glory through Jesus Christ for ever Amen Rom. 16. 27. I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given you c. 1 Cor. 1. 4 5. I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with understanding also 1 Cor. 14. 15. The sting of death is sin c. But thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 15. 56 57. Blessed be God c. who comforteth us in all our tribulations that we may be able to c. You also helping together by prayer for us that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf 2 Cor. 1. 3 4 11. Now thanks be unto God who always causeth us to triumph in Christ and maketh manifest the the savour of his knowledge by us in every place 2 Cor. 2. 14. We having the same spirit of faith c. and therefore speak c. All things are for your sakes that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound unto the glory of God 2 Cor. 4. 13 15. Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness which causeth through us thanksgiving unto God for the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God whilst by the experiment of this ministration they glorifie God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ c. 2 Cor. 9. 11 12 13. God and our Father to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen c. They glorified Gal. 1. 4 5 24. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings c. that we should be to the praise of his glory c. I also c. cease not to give thanks for you c. Ephes 1. 3 12 14 15. Unto him who is able to do exceedingly c. unto him be glory in the Church by Jesus Christ Ephes 3. 20 21. Speaking to your selves in Psalms c. giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ Ephes 5. 19 20. Colos 3. 16. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you Philip. 1. 3. 1 Thes 1. 2. 2 Tim. 1. 3. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known c. Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever Amen Philip. 4. 6 20. We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ c. Since we heard of your faith c. Giving thanks unto the Father who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints Col. 1. 3 12 13. 1 Thes 1. 2 3. In the faith c. abounding therein with thanksgiving Col. 2. 7. Be ye thankful c. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ giving thanks to God and the Father by him Col. 3. 15 17. Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving Col. 4. 2. For this cause also thank we God without ceasing because when ye received the word of God c. 1 Thes 2. 13. In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you 1 Thes 1. 18. I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who hath enabled me c. who was before a blasphemer c. Now unto the King eternal immortal invisible the only wise God be honour and glory for ever and ever Amen 1 Tim. 1. 12 13 17. Every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving 1 Tim. 4. 3 4. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually that is the fruit of our lips giving thanks or confessing to his name c. Heb. 13. 15 21. Psal 116. 17. Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen 2 Pet. 3. 18. Is any merry Let him sing Psalms James 5. 13. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according unto his abundant mercy hath begotten us again to a lively hope c. 1 Pet. 1. 3. Ye are a chosen generation c. that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you c. 1 Pet. 2. 9. Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason of the hope which is in you with meekness and fear 1 Pet. 3. 15. If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God c. that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever Amen 1 Pet. 4. 11. ch 5. 11. Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to him be glory both now and for ever 2 Pet. 3. 18. Now unto him who is able c. to the only wise God our Saviour be glory majesty and dominion c. Jude Vers 4 24 25. Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory and honour and power for thou hast created all things c. Rev. 4. 11. And they sung a new song Thou art worthy c. for thou wast slain c. Worthy is the Lamb which was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing
with the midwives c. Exod. 1. 17 20 21. I will at this time send all my plagues c. that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth c. He who feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants c. flee into the houses Ezod 9. 14 16 20. ch 10. 1 2. Israel saw that great work of drowning the Egyptians c. which the Lord did and the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord Exod. 14. 31. The sea covered them c. Who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the gods or mighty ones Who like thee glorious in holiness fearful in praises doing wonders Exod. 15. 10 11. When God appeared upon the mount with a found of a trumpet c. all the people that was in the camp trembled Exod. 19. 16 18. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who taketh his name in vain c. God appeared on Mount Zinai terribly that he people might fear him Exod. 20. 7 18 19 20. Thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see me and live Exod. 33. 20 21 23. Thou shalt not curse the deaf c. but shalt fear thy God I the Lord c. Levit. 19. 14 32. Ye shall not therefore oppress one another but thou shalt fear thy God for I am the Lord your God c. Levit. 25. 17 36 43. Did ever people hear the voice of God c. as thou hast heard and live c. Unto thee it was shewed that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God there is none else besides him Deut. 4. 32 33 35. Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would serve me and keep c. Deut. 5. 29. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve him c. Deut. 6. 13. chap. 10. 20. 1 Sam. 12. 24. Understand therefore this day that the Lord thy God he who goeth over before thee as a consuming fire he shall destroy c. I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure wherewith the Lord was wroth against you c. Deut. 9. 3 19. And now Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God c. Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens are the Lord's c. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords a great God and a mighty and terrible who regardeth not persons nor taketh reward Deut. 10. 12 14 17. Read this law before all Israel c. that they may learn and fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. I I am he and there is no God with me I kill c. neither is there any who can deliver out of my hands c. If I whet my glittering sword c. Deut. 32. 39 41. That all the people of the earth may know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever Joshua 4. 24. Deut. 3. 24. There is none holy as the Lord c. The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down unto the grave and bringeth up the Lord maketh poor c. 1 Sam. 2. 1 6 7 8. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God! 1 Sam. 6. 20. Then the earth trembled the foundations of heaven moved and shook because he was wroth there went up a smoke out of his nostrils c. 2 Sam. 22. 8 9 10 11 12. My servant Job c. one who feareth God and escheweth evil Job 1. 1 8. How should man be just with God! c. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength Who hath hardened against him and hath prospered who removeth the mountains and they know not who overturneth them in his anger who shaketh the earth out of her place and the pillars thereof tremble who commandeth the sun and it riseth not and sealed up the stars who alone spreadeth out the heavens c. Job 9. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Canst thou by searching find out God canst thou find out the Almighty Job 11. 7 8 9 10. The Lord hath wrought this in whose hand is the soul or life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind Job 12. 9 10. Will you speak wickedly for God c. Shall not his excellency make you afraid and his dread fall upon you Job 13. 7 8 11. Therefore am I troubled at his presence when I consider I am affraid of him Job 23. 15. Psalm 119. 120. And unto man he said Behold the fear of the Lord that is wisdom Job 28. 28. God said to Job None is so fierce who dare stir him up speaking of a creature Who then is able to stand before me Job 41. 10. Stand in awe and sin not Psalm 4. 4. Nehem. 5. 9 15. Who is the king of glory the Lord of hosts he is this king of glory Psalm 24. 10. What man is he who feareth the Lord him he shall teach in the way which he shall chuse c. The secret of the Lord is with them who fear him and he will shew them his covenant Psalm 25. 12 13 14. O! how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them who fear thee Psalm 31. 19. He gathereth the waters of the sea together and c. Let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him for he spake and it was done c. Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them who fear him c. Psalm 33. 6 7 8 9 18. The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them who fear him and delivereth them c. O fear the Lord ye his saints for there is no want unto them who fear him c. Hearken unto me I will teach you the fear of the Lord Psalm 34. 7 9 11. The transgression of the wicked saith Within my heart there is no fear of God before his eyes Psalm 36. 1. He uttereth his voice the earth melteth Psalm 46. 6. The Lord most high is terrible he is a great king over all the earth Psalm 47. 2. Because they have no changes therefore they fear not God Psalm 55. 19. To him who rideth upon the heavens of heavens of old lo he doth send or give out his voice a mighty voice c. His excellency over Israel and his strength in the clouds or Heavens O God thou art terrible out of thy holy places Psalm 68 33 34 35. At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep Thou thou art to be feard and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry c. The earth feared and was still Psalm 76. 6 7 8. Surely his salvation is nigh them who fear him Psalm 85. 9. God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the
13 14 15. Let thy companions deliver thee but the wind shall carry them all away vanity shall take them Isa 57. 13. Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills and from the multitudes of mountains c. Jer. 3. 23. Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord c. Jer. 7. 4. Trust ye not in any brother for every brother will utterly supplant Jer. 9. 4 5. This is thy portion c. because thou hast forgotten me and trusted in falshood Therefore still I discover thy skirts upon thy face c. Jer. 13. 25 26. Thus saith the Lord Cursed be the man who who trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from God for he shall be like the heath in the desert c. Jer. 17. 5 6. For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures thou shalt also be taken c. Jer. 48. 7. Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys c. O back-sliding daughter who trustest in her treasures saying Who shall come unto me Behold I will bring fear upon thee saith the Lord of host Jer. 49. 4 5 16. As for us our eyes as yet failed for our vain hope in our watching we have watched for a nation which could not save us Lam. 4. 17. Egypt shall know c. because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel When they took hold of thee by thy hand thou didst break and rent all their shoulders And when they leaned upon thee thou breakest all their loins c. Ezek. 29. 6 7. Isa 20. 5 6. They shall know that I am the Lord when I have set a fire in Egypt and when all her helpers shall be destroyed Ezek. 30. 8. Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart they call to Egypt they go to Assyria when they shall go I will spread my net upon them I will bring them down c. Wo unto them for they have fled from me Hosea 7. 11 12 13. Jer. 2. 36 37. Ephraim feedeth upon wind c. they do make a covenant with the Assyrians c. Hosea 12. 1. Wo unto them who are at ease or secure in Zion and trust in the mountains of Samaria Amos 6. 1. Trust ye not in a friend put ye not confidence in a guide keep the door of thy mouth from her who lyeth in thy bosom For the son dishonoureth the father c. Micah 7. 5 6. Charge them who are rich c. that they trust not in uncertain riches c. 1 Tim. 6. 17. We had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves 2 Corin. 1. 9. II. In God alone a suitable Object GOD said Let their be light and there was light c. Gen. 1. 3 6 9 c. When Sarah doubted of the promise because of her age The Lord said to Abraham Wherefore did Sarah laugh saying Shall I of surety bear a child which am old Is any thing too hard for the Lord Gen. 18. 12 13 14. Luke 1. 37. When Hagar was fainting and thought there was no way but death with her child God shewed her a well of water c. Gen. 21. 15 16 17 18 19. When Joseph's Brethren had conspired to kill him God works for his deliverance Gen. 37. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 c. When God was sending Moses upon a great Work Moses said unto the Lord O my Lord I am not eloquent c. but I am slow of speech c. And the Lord said unto him Who hath made man's mouth Or who maketh the dumb or the deaf or the seeing or the blind Have not I the Lord Now therefore go and I will be with thy mouth c. Exod. 4. 10 11 12. And Moses said unto the people Fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will shew to you to day c. the Lord shall fight for you c. And the Angel of God which went before the camp removed and went behind them between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel c. Led them through the Red-sea Exod. 14. 13 14 19 20 21 22. The Lord shall reign for ever and ever Exod. 15. 18. The Lord c. proclaimed the name of the Lord The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity transgression and sin c. Exod. 34. 5 6 7. And Moses said The people amongst whom I am are six hundred thousand c. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them to suffice them Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them c. And the Lord said unto Moses Is the Lord's hand waxed short Thou shalt see c. Numb 11. 21 22 23. God is not a man that he should lye neither the son of man that he should repent Hath he said and shall he not do Or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good Behold c. he hath blessed and I cannot reverse it Heb. 6. 18. Numb 23. 19 20. Tit. 1. 2. What god is there in heaven or earth that can do according to thy works and according to thy might Deut. 3. 24. Unto thee it was shewed that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God there is none else besides him c. Deut. 4. 35 39. Know therefore that the Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth covenant and mercy with them who love him c. Deut. 7. 9. Understand therefore this day that the Lord thy God he who goeth before thee as a consuming fire he shall destroy them and he shall bring them down before thy â—ace so shalt thou drive them out c. Deut. 9. 3. ch 31. 6. There shall be no man able to stand before you for the Lord your God shall lay the sear of you c. Deut. 11. 25. Josh 5. 1. 2 Chron. 14. 14. chap. 17. 10. Their rock is not as our Rock the enemies themselves being judges c. See now that I I am he and there is no god with me I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal Neither is there any who can deliver out of my hand for I lift up my hand to heaven and say I live for ever Deut. 32. 31 39 40. There is none like unto the God of Jesurun who rideth upon the heaven for thy help and in his excellency on the sky The eternal God thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee c. Deut. 33. 26 27. Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you c. Josh 3. 10. Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you all are come to pass unto you and not one thing hath failed thereof c. Josh 23. 14. chap. 21.
Lord reigneth the Lord is cloathed with majesty the Lord is clothed with strength c. Psal 93. 1. Psal 97. 1. Psal 146. 10. Rev. 19. 6. The righteous c. he shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord Psal 112. 6 7. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes Psal 118. 8 9. My help cometh from the Lord who made heaven and earth c. Behold he who keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep Psal 121. 2 3 4. They who trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion which cannot be removed c. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever Psal 125. 1 2. The Lord great and our God above all gods Whatsoever the Lord pleaseth did he in heaven and in earth Psal 135. 5 6. Happy is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the Lord his God who made heaven and earth and the sea and all that therein if who keepeth truth for ever Psal 146. 5 6. He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds He telleth the number of the stars Great is our God and of great power his understanding is infinite c. Psal 147. 2 3 4 c. Trust to the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths Prov. 3. 5 6. Commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established c. Man's heart deviseth his way but the Lord directeth his steps c. Whoso trusteth in the Lord happy is he Prov. 16 3 9 20. The name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous runneth into it and are safe Prov. 18. 10. There is no wisdom or understanding nor counsel against the Lord. The horse is prepared against the day of battel but safety or Victory is of the Lord Prov. 21. 30 31 ch 19. 21. Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be sate Many seek the rulers favour but every mans judgment is from the Lord Prov. 29. 25 26. If ye will not believe surely ye shall not be established Isa 7. 9. Associate your selves c. take counsel together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shall not stand for God is with us Isa 8. 9 10. Jer. 1. 18 19. I will trust and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is my refuge Isa 12. 2. For the Lord of Hosts hath purposed and who shall disannul it and his hand is stretched out and who shall turn it back Isa 14. 27. There shall be desolation because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength Isa 17. 10. Thou hast been a strength to the poor a strength to the needy in his distress a refuge from a storm a shadow from the hear when the blast of the terrible ones is a storm against the wall Isa 25. 4. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee trust ye in the Lord for ever for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength for he bringeth down c. Isa 26. 3 4. Behold the Lord a mighty and a strong one Isa 28. 2 6. The Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose therefore have I cried concerning this Their strength is to sit still c. For thus saith the Lord God the holy one of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength and ye would not c. Isa 30. 7 15 16. Behold the Lord God will come c. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd c. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meted out heaven c. Isa 40. 10 11 12. I the Lord the first and with the last I am he c. Isa 41. 4. ch 44. 6. When thou passest â—horow the waters c. they shall not overflow thee c. For I am the Lord thy God the holy one of Israel thy Saviour c. And besides me there is no Saviour c. I will work and who shall let it c. Isa 43. 2 3 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. ch 45. 21. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer and he who formed thee from the womb I the Lord who maketh all things who stretcheth forth the heavens c. who confirmeth the word of his servant and performeth the counsel of his messengers c. who saith to the deep Be dry Isa 44. 24 25 26 27. I am the Lord and there is none else I form the light and create darkness c. O God of Israel the Saviour Isa 45. 6 7 15 21. My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure Isa 46. 10. Is my hand shortned at all that I cannot redeem or have I no power to deliver Behold at my rebuke I dry up the sea c. Who is among you who feareth the Lord c. who fit in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord c. and stay upon his God Isa 50. 2 3 10. Isa 8. 17. ch 59. 1. Psalm 115. 11. Fear not c. for thy maker is thy husband the Lord of hosts is his name and thy redeemer the holy one of Israel the God of the whole earth Isa 54. 4 5. But he who putteth his trust in me shall possess the land and shall inherit my holy mountain Isa 57. 13. Behold the Lord's hand is not shortned that it cannot save neither his ear heavy that it cannot hear but your iniquities have separated Isa 59. 1 2. ch 50. 2. Blessed is the man who trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is for he shall be as a tree planted by the waters c. O Lord the hope of Israel Jer. 17. 7 8 13. Behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh is there any thing too hard for me Jer. 32. 27. I will surely deliver thee c. because thou hast put thy trust in me saith the Lord Jer. 39. 18. Leave thy fatherless c. and let the widows trust in me Jer. 49. 11. Their Redeemer is strong the Lord of hosts the Lord of hosts is his name he shall throughly plead their cause c. Jer. 50. 34. I the Lord have spoken and will do Ezek. 22. 14. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us c. and he will deliver us Dan. 3. 17 28. Daniel was taken out of the den and no manner of hurt was found upon him because he believed in his God Dan. 6. 23. Blesâ—ed be God c. for wisdom and might are his he changeth the times c. removeth kings c. Dan. 2. 20 21 22
for him fret not thy self c. because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass c. Fret not thy self in any wise to do evil c. Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee c. Psalm 37. 5 7 8 34. And now Lord what wait I for my hope is in thee Psal 39. 7. I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me and heard my cry he brought me up out of an horrible pit out of the mire Psalm 140. 1 2. Why art thou cast down O my soul why art thou disquieted in me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him Psalm 42. 6 11. Psalm 43. 5. God our refuge c. a very present help in time of trouble Psalm 46. 1. O God thou my God early will I seek thee my soul thirâ—teth for thee c. My soul wait thou only upon God for my expectation is only from him he only my rock and c. Psalm 62. 1 5. I am weary of my crying my throat is dried mine eyes fail while I wait for my God Psal 69. 3. Psalm 119. 123. Isa 38. 14. But I will hope continually and will yet praise thee more and more Psalm 71. 14. Psalm 52. 9. Thou O Lord art a God full of compassion and gracious long suffering and plenteous in mercy and truth Psalm 86. 15. Psalm 111. 4. Even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God Thou turnest Man to destruction and sayest Return ye children of men Psalm 90. 2 3. The Lord will not cast off his people neither will he forsake his inheritance Psalm 94. 14. Deut. 31. 6 8 The Lord is merciful and gracious slow to anger plenteous in mercy he will not always chide neither will he keep anger for ever c. Like as a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them who fear him c. The mercy of God is from everlasting to everlasting Psalm 103. 8 9 13 17. Psalm 78. 38 39. These all wait on thee that thou mayest give them their meat in due season Psalm 104. 27. They soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel Psalm 106. 13. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion he hath given meat unto them who fear him he will ever be mindful of his covenant Psalm 111. 4 5. Psalm 116. 5. Psalm 112. 4. My soul fainteth for thy salvation I hope in thy word Psalm 119. 49 81. Behold as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters c. so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God until he have mercy upon us Psalm 123. 2. I wait for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope c. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they who watch for the morn let Israel hope in the Lord for with the Lord is mercy and plenteous redemption Psal 130. 5 6 7. Our bones are scattered c. but mine eyes are unto thee O God the Lord Psalm 141. 7 8. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great mercy the Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works c. The Lord upholdeth all that fall c. The eyes of all wait upon or look unto thee and thou givest them their meat in due season Thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing Psalm 145. 8 9 14 15 16. Happy is he c. whose hope is in the Lord his God Psalm 146. 5. The Lord taketh pleasure in them c. who hope in his mercy Psalm 147. 11. Hope deserred maketh the heart sick but when it cometh c. Prov. 13. 12. Say not thou I will recompence evil wait on the Lord and he shall save thee Prov. 20. 22 If thou faint in the day of adversity thy strength is small Prov. 24. 10. I will wait upon the Lord who hideth his face from the house of Jacob and I will look for him c. Should not a people seek unto the Lord Isa 8. 17 19. At that day shall a man look to his Maker and his eyes shall have respect unto the holy One of Israel and he shall not look to the altars Isa 17. 7 8. And it shall be said in that day Lo this is our God we have waited for him and he will save us this the Lord we have waited for him Isa 25. 9. In the way of thy judgment O Lord have we waited for thee the desire of our soul is to the remembrance of thy name With my soul have I desired thee in the night c. Isa 26. 8 9. He who believeth shall not make haste Isa 28. 16. Wo to the rebellious children who take counsel but not of me and who cover with a covering but not of my Spirit c. Their strength is to sit still c. For thus saith the Lord the holy One of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved In quietness and conâ—idence shall be your strength and ye would not c. therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you c. for the Lord is a God of judgment blessed are all they who wait for him Isa 30. 1 7 15 18. Wo to them who go down to Egypt for help c. but they look not to the holy One of Israel neither seek the Lord Isa 31. 1. O Lord be gracious to us we have waited for thee Isa 33. 2. Hast thou not known c. the everlasting God the Lord the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not neither is weary there is no searching of his understanding he giveth power c. But they who wait upon the Lord shall renew strength they shall mount up with wings as Eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not be faint Isaiah 40. 28 29 30 31. Look unto me and be ye saved all the ends of earth for I am God and there is none else Isa 45 22. Thou shalt know that I am the Lord for they shall not be ashamed who wait for me Isaiah 49. 23. Who is among you who feareth the Lord c. and walks in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Isa 50. 10. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear neither hath the eye seen O God besides thee what he hath prepared for him who waiteth for him Isaiah 64. 4. I am the Lord who exercise loving-kindness judgment and righteousness in the earth for in these things I delight saith the Lord Jer. 9. 24. O the hope of Israel the saviour thereof in time of trouble c. Are there any among the vanities of the heathen who can cause rain c. Art not thou he O Lord our God therefore will we want upon thee for thou hast made all these things Jer. 14. 8 22. ch 17. 13. Blessed is
with the proud Prov. 16. 2 5. 18 19. ch 18. 12. Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his maker Prov. 17. 5. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness or bounty Prov. 20. 6. Every way of man is right in his own eyes but the Lord pondereth the heart Prov. 21. 2. Put not forth thy self in the presence of the King and stand not in the place of great men For better it is that it be said unto thee Come up hither than that thou shouldst be put lower in the presence of the Prince Prov. 25. 6 7. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit there is more hope of a fool than of him Prov. 26. 12. Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth a stranger and not thine own lips The full soul loatheth the honey-comb but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet Prov. 27. 2 7. He who is of a proud heart stirreth up strife Prov. 28. 25. A man's pride shall bring him low but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit Prov. 29. 23. Surely I am more brutish than man and have not the understanding of a man c. There is a generation pure in their own eyes and yet not washed from their filthiness c. how lofty are c. Prov. 30. 2 12 13. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of man shall be brought down c. for the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one who is proud and lofty and upon every one who is lifted up and he shall be brought low c. Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of Isaiah 2. 11 12 13 17 22. ch 5. 15. Job 9. 13. Wo unto them who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight Isa 5. 21. Wo is me c. I am of unclean lips c. for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts Isa 6. 5. I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks for he saith By the strength of my hand I have done it c. Shall the ax boast it self against him that heweth therewith c. Therefore shall the Lord the Lord of Hosts send among his fat ones leanness and under his glory he shall kindle a fire c. The high ones of stature shall be hewn down and the haughty shall be humbled Isa 10. 12 13 15 16 33. ch 14. 11 12 13 14 15. The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it to stain or pollute the pride of all glory to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth Isa 23. 9. Hear you scornful men c. because you say we have made a covenant with death c. it shall be broken c. Isa 28. 14 15 18. Thus saith the high and lofty One c. I dwell in the high and holy place with him also who is of an humble and contrite spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite Isa 57. 15. Thus faith the Lord The heaven is my throne c. but to this man will I look to him who is pure and contrite in spirit and trembleth at my word Isa 66. 1 2. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom nor the mighty man in his might c. Jer. 9. 23. I will mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem c. who shall refuse to hear my word c. Jer. 13. 9 10 15 17 18. O house of Israel cannot I do with you as this potter faith the Lord behold as the clay is in the potters hands so ye in mine hand O house of Israel Jer. 18. 6. When the prophet Jeremiah had spoken the words of the Lord to the people then spake Azariah c. and all the proud men saying unto Jeremiah Thou speakest falsly The Lord our God hath not sent thee to say c. Jer. 42. 1 2. Behold I am against thee O thou most proud or pride faith the Lord God of Hosts c. And the most proud shall stumble and fall c. Jer. 50. â—1 32. Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom pride c. and the more haughty c. Ezek. 16. 49 50. Thus faith the Lord c. exalt him that is low and abase him who is high Ezek. 21. 26. God threatens the Prince of Tyrus for his sacrilegious Pride Ezek. 28. 1 c. When the King said unto Daniel Art thou able to make known unto me the dream c. Daniel answered c. There is a God in heaven who revealeth secrets c. but as to me this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living Dan. 2. 25 26 27 28 30. Is not this great Babylon which I have built by the might of my power and for the honour of my Majesty While the word was in the king's mouth there fell a voice c. saying c. The kingdom is departed from thee c. He was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen c. Those who walk in pride he is able to abase Dan. 4. 29 30 31 32 33 37. Isa 27. 4. When his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened in pride or to deal proudly he was deposed from his kingly throne and took his glory from him c. and thou his son Belshazzar hast not humbled thine heart although thou knewest all this but hast lifted up thy self against the Lord of heaven c. Dan. 5. 20 21 22 23. Their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten me Hosea 13. 6. He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly c. and walk humbly with thy God Micah 6. 8. Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him Habbak 2. 4. Moab shall be as Sodom c. This shall they have for their pride because they reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of Hosts Zephan 2. 9 10 Jerem. 48. 26 27 29. Behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just c. lowly Zech. 9. 9. The day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud c. shall be stubble Mal. 4. 1. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Matth. 5. 3. The Centurion answered and said Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof Matth. 8. 7 8 Luke 7. 6 7. Thou Capernaum which art exalted unto heaven shall be brought down to hell For if the c. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest Matth. 11. 23 29. Whosever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven Matth. 18. 4. Luke 9. 46 47 48. Mark 10. 15. When the ten heard it
an account thereof in the day of judgment for by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned Matth. 12. 34 35 36 37. Every Scribe instructed c. is like to a master of a family who bringeth forth c. both new and old Matth. 13. 52. Those things which proceed out of the mouth cometh forth from the heart and they defile the man Matth. 15. 18. And all wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth Luke 4. 22. Peter too rashly said unto Christ Thou shalt never wash my feet John 13. 8. Bless and curse not Rom. 12. 14. In the Church I had rather speak five words with my understanding that I might teach others also than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue c. It is a shame for a woman to speak in the Chruch 1 Cor. 14. 19 35. Evil communication corrupts good manners 1 Cor. 15. 33. Wherefore putting away lying speak every man truth with his neighbour c. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying or to edifie profitable that it may minister grace unto the hearers and grieve not the holy Spirit of God c. Let all bitterness c. and clamour and evil-speaking be put away Ephes 4. 25 29 30 31. But fornication c. let it not be once named amongst you as becometh saints neither filthy nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient Ephes 5. 3 4. But now also put off all these c. blasphemy filthy communication out of your mouth Lye not one to another c. Col. 3. 8 9. Let your speech be always with grace seasoned with salt that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man Col. 4. 6. Neither give heed to fables c. which minister questions rather than godly edifying 1 Tim. 1. 4. They learn to be idle c. and not only idle but tatlers also and busi-bodies speaking things which they ought not 1 Tim. 5. 13. Doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railing c. perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds c. 2 Tim. 6. 4 5. Charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit to the subverting of the hearers c. Shun prophane and vain bablings for they will increase to more ungodliness and their word will eat as doth a canker c. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strifes 2 Tim. 2. 14 16 17 23. In all things shew thy self a pattern c. Sound speech which cannot be condemned that he who is of the contrary party may be ashamed Titus 2. 7 8. Speak evil of no man to be no brawler c. Titus 3. 2. Let every man be swift to hear slow to speak c. It any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this man's religion is vain James 1. 19 26. If any man offend not in word the same is a perfect man and able also to bridle the whole body Behold we put bits in horses mouths c. The ships though great c. yet are they turned about with a small helm whithersoever the governer listeth so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things c. And the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity so is the tongue among our members that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of hell For every kind of beast c. hath been tamed of man but the tongue can no man tame an unruly evil full of deadly poyson Therewith bless we God even the Father and therewith curse we men c. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blassings and cursings My brethren these things ought not so to be James 3. 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10. Speak not evil one of another brethren for whoso speaketh evil of his brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evil of the law James 4. 11. Wherefore laying aside all malice c. and evil-speaking 1 Pet. 2. 1. Not rendring c. railing for railing but contrariwise blessing c. He who would love life and see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile 1 Pet. 3. 9 10. But these as natural brute beasts c. speak evil of the things they understand not 2 Pet. 2. 12. The Lord c. to convince all c. of all their hard speeches which ungodly c. have spoken against me Jude vers 14 15. All lyars shall have their part in the lake which burneth c. and there shall in no wise enter in c. whosoever worketh c. and maketh a lye Rev. 21. 8 27. Without are dogs c. and whatsoever loveth and maketh a lye Rev. 22. 15. To acknowledge and mourn for Sin dâ—part from it and watch against it The Arguments God complains of it Reasoning with Sinners about it Threatnings and Judgments against Sin and Sinners I. What Sin is BY the law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3. 20. ch 7. 7 13. Sin is the transgression of the law 1 John 3. 4. All unrighteousness is sin 1 John 5. 17. II. Acknowledge Sin unto God both their own and others and mourn for them AND Moses returned unto the Lord and said Oh this people have sinned a great sin and have made them gods of gold c. Exod. 32. 31. Deut. 9. 16 18 19 20. And Aaron shall lay both of his hands upon the head of the live goat and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel and all their transgressions and all their sins c. Levit 16. 21. If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their trespasses which they have trespassed against me and that also they have walked contrary unto me c. then will I remember my covenant Levit. 26. 40 42. When a man or woman shall commit any sin c. then they shall confess their sins which they have done Numb 5. 6 7. Joshua said to Achan Give glory to the God of Israel and make confession c. â—osh 7. 19. And David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 12 13. David's heart smote him c. And David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly in that I have done 2 Sam. 24. 10. Wicked Ahab his mourning kept off the threatned Judgments in his days 1 Kings 21. 27 29. Ezra said I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee my God for our iniquities are increased over our head and our-trespasses c. Ezra 9. 5 6 7 c. ch 10. 6. 2. Kings 22. 11 13 19. Nehemiah confesseth thus Both I and my father's house have sinned we have dealt very corruptly against thee and have not kept c. Nehem. 1.
6 7. ch 9. 16 17 c. Job saith I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7. 20. ch 9. 2 3. If any say I have sinned and perverted that which was right and it profiteth me not He will deliver his soul c. Job 33. 27 28. Job answered the Lord and said Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay mine hand upon my mouth Job 40. 3 4. I acknowledged my sins unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin Psalm 32. 5. I will declare mine iniquity I will be sorry for my sins Psalm 35. 18. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight c. Psalm 51. 3. 4 5. We have sinned with our fathers we have committed iniquity c. Psalm 106. 6 7. Horror hath taken hold of me because of the wicked who forsake thy law c. Rivers of water run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law c. I beheld the transgressions and was grieved because they keep not thy word Psalm 119. 53 126 136. 158. Nehem. 13. 7 8. Jer. 9. 1 2. Gen. 34. 7. Mark 3. 5. Jer. 13. 17. Psal 139. 21 22. If thou shouldst mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand Psalm 130. 3 He who covereth his sin shall not prosper but whose confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. Behold thou art wroth for we have sinned c. We are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousness as filthy rags c. Isa 64. 5 6 7. Yet thou sayest Because I am innocent surely his anger shall turn from me Behold I will plead with thee because thou sayest I have not â—nned Jer. 2. 35. Go and proclaim these words c. Return thou back-sliding Israel saith the Lord I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you c. Only acknowledge thine iniquity that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God and hast scattered thy ways c. Jer. 3. 12 23. 1 Sam. 12. 9 10. If ye will not hear it my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride and mine eyes shall weep sore Jer. 13. 17. O Lord though our iniquities testifie against us do thou for thy name's sake for our back-sltidings are many We have sinned against thee c. We acknowledge O Lord our wickness the iniquity of our fathers for we have sinned against thee Jer. 14. 7 20. The Lord is righteous for I have rebelled against his commandments c. My heart is turned within me for I have grievously rebelled Lam. 1. 18 20. ch 3. 42. The crown is fallen from our heads we unto us that we have sinned Lam. 5. 16. Set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh who cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof Ezek. 9. 4. Ye shall remember your ways c. and ye shall loath your selves in your own sight for all your evil which ye have commited Exek 20. 43. chap. 16. 63. I prayed unto the Lord my God and made my confession c. We have sinned and committed iniquity c. Dan. 9. 3 4 5 6 15. I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offences and seek my face Hosea 5. 15. Turn ye unto me with all your-heart with fasting with weeping and with mourning Rent your hearts and not your garments Joel 2. 12 13. Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted Matth. 5. 4. Peter remembred the words of Jesus which said unto him Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice and he went out and wept bitterly Matth. 26. 75. The prodigal Son said I will arise and go to my father and I will say unto him Father I have sinned against heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called thy son c. Luke 15. 18. 19 21. And many who believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds Acts 19. 18. Paul made confession of his being a persecutor of the Saints Acts 22. 4 5 19 20. I rejoice not that ye were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner or according to God c. for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation never to be be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death c. ye sorrowed after a godly sort What carefulness it wrought in you yea clearing of your selves yea indignation yea fear yea vehement desire yea zeal yea revenge 2 Cor. 7. 9 10 11. And lest when I come again my God will humble me among you and that I shall bewail many who have sinned already c. 2 Cor. 12. 21. Many walk of whom I have told you often and now tell you weeping the enemies c. Phil. 3. 18. Delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling amongst them in seeing and hearing vèxed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness If we say we have not sinned we make him a lyar and his word is not in us 1 John 1. 8 9 10. Be afflicted mourn and weep humble your selves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up James 4. 9 10. See Confession of Sin in time of Affliction Chap. 22. In time of Common Calamity Chap. 23. See Prayer Chap. 16. Saints Duty confess one to another Chap. 17. Depart from Sin and all appearance of it hate it and avoid the Occasions of it The reasons thereof THere shall not be found among you c. who useth divination an observer of times an inchanter or a witch or a charmer or a consulter with a familiar spirit c. All who do so are an abomination to the Lord c. Deut. 18. 10 11 12 14. When Adam had sinned he hid himself was afraid because naked Gen. 3. 8 10. Exod. 32. 25. Abimelech said unto Isaac What is this thou hast done unto us one of the people might lightly have lain with thy wife and thou shouldst have brought guiltiness upon us And Abimelech charged all his people saying He who toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death Gen. 26. 8 9 10. ch 20. 2 3 4 c. When Joseph had been tempted to sin by Potiphar's Wife he answered her How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God c. when she laid hold on him he fled from her Gen. 39. 7 8 9 10 11 12. See the Ten Commandments Exod. 20. Thou shalt not follow a multitude to
do evil Exod. 23. 2. And be sure your sins will find you out Numb 32. 23. Gen. 44. 16. Psalm 44. 20 21. Joshua 7. 1 5 11 12 24 25 26. Job 34. 22. Psalm 44. 20 21 Jonah 1. 4 5 6. 1 Kings 2. 24 25 28 31 32 c. If any man sin against another the Judge shall judge him but if a man sinneth against the Lord who shall entreat for him 1 Sam. 2. 25. Tamar Sister of Amnon being tempted said Commit not this wickedness 2 Sam. 13. 11 12 13. I have kept the way of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God c. I have kept my self from mine iniquity 2 Sam. 22. 22 25. The drinking was according to law none did compel but according to every man's pleasure Esther 1. 8. Job feared God and eschewed evil Job 1. 1 8. To depart from evil is understanding c. Job 28. 28. I made a covenant with mine eyes why then should I think upon a maid Job 31. 1. Stand in awe and sin not Psalm 4. 4. For thou art not a God who hath pleasure in wickedness neither shall evil dwell with thee c. thou hatest all workers of iniquity Psalm 5. 4 5. I kept my self from mine iniquity Psalm 18. 23. I have hated the congregation of evil doers c. I will wash mine hands in innocency and so will I compass thine altar O Lord Psalm 26. 5. Depart from evil and do good Psalm 34. 14. Psalm 37. 27. He prophesied of Christ thus Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness Psalm 45. 7. Heb. 1. 8 9. If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me Psalm 66. 18. John 9. 31. He will speak peace to his c. but let them not turn again to folly Psalm 85. 8. Holiness becomes thy house O Lord for ever Psalm 93. 5. Ye who love the Lord hate evil Psalm 97. 10. I will walk within my house with a perfect heart I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes Psalm 101. 2 3. Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee c. I have refrained my feet from every evil way c. I hate every false way Psalm 119. 11 101 104. Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up-rising thou understandest my thoughts afar off Thou c. art acquainted with all my ways for not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether c. Psalm 139. 2 3 4. My son if sinners intice thee consent thou not If they say Come with us c. walk thou not in the way with them Refrain thy foot from their path for their feet run to evil Prov. 1. 10 11 to 17. Enter not into the path of the wicked and go not into the way of evil men avoid it pass not by it turn from it and pass away for c. Prov. 4. 14 15 16. The lips of a strange woman drop as an honey-comb c. Remove thy way far from her and come not near the door of her house lest c. Prov. 5. 3 4 5 8 c. ch 6. 2 4 25 29 32 33. ch 7. 5 6 7 c. 25. ch 22. 14. ch 23. 27 28. ch 2. 16 17 18. ch 9. 13 14 c. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil Prov. 8. 13. ch 3. 7. Wickedness overthroweth the sinner Prov. 13. 6. Fools make a mock of sin c. A wise man feareth and departeth from evil c. Sin is a reproach to any people or nation Prov. 14. 9 16 34. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good Prov. 15. 3. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil Prov. 16. 6. With a furious man thou shalt not go lest thou learn his ways c. Prov. 22. 24 25. Whosoever confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall have mercy Prov. 28. 13. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me c. Bring no more oblations c. Wash ye make ye clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil Isa 1. 11 12 13 14 15 16. Jer. 6. 19 20. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts c. Isa 55. 7. Is not this the fast which I have chosen c. to loose the bands of wickedness c. Isa 58. 3 4 5 6. The Lord's hand is not shortned c. but your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear Isa 59. 1 2 3. Josh 7. 11 12 13. He who killeth an ox as if he slew a man c. they have chosen their own ways and their soul delighteth in their abomininations Isa 66. 3. Jer. 6. 19 20. Thine own wickedness shall correct thee c. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God Jer. 2. 19. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved how long shall vain thoughts lodge within thee c. Thy ways and thy doings have procured those things unto thee this thy wickedness because it is bitter because it reacheth unto thine heart Jer. 4. 14 18. Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have with-holden good things from you for among my people are found wicked men Jer. 5. 25. Thus saith the Lord Amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord c. for if ye throughly amend your ways c. then will I cause you c. Will you steal murther and commit adultery c. and come and stand before me in this house c. Jer. 7. 3 4 5 7 8 9 10. It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil that I purpose to do unto them that they may return every man from his evil way that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin Jer. 36. 2 3. Repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruine Cast away from you all your transgressions c. Ezek. 18. 30 31. Turn ye turn ye from your evil ways why will ye die c. Ezek. 33. 11 14 15 16 18 19. Seek good and not evil that ye may live c. hate the evil and love the good Amos 5. 14 15. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on iniquity Habbak 1. 13. Be ye not as your fathers unto whom the former Prophet have cryed c. Turn ye now from your evil ways and from your evil doings but they did not hear not hearken unto me saith the Lord Zechar. 1. 4. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart and if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast
observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee Cursed thou in the city and cursed thou in the field c. Deut. 28. 15 16 17 18 19 20 to the end chap. 29. 19 20. chap. 3. 17 18 19. Do ye thus requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father c. Deut. 32. 6 32 33 c. Achan sinned in taking the cursed thing and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel c. and the men of Aâ— smote them c. The Lord said c. neither will I be with you any more except ye destroy the accursed thing from among you Up c. And God said He who is taken with this accursed thing shall be burned with fire he and all that he hath because he hath transgressed c. And accordingly Achan and his was stoned and burned Josh 7. 1 4 5 10 12 13 15 24 25 26. If ye forsake the Lord and serve strange gods then he will turn and do you hurt and consume you after he hath done you good Josh 24. 20. Judges 2. 13 14 15. ch 10. 6 13. God rendred the Wickedness of Abimelech c. in slaying his seventy Brethren And all the Evil of the Men of Shechem c. upon their heads c. Judges 9. 56 57. God said Did not I deliver you c. yet have ye forsaken me c. Wherefore I will deliver you no more Go and cry unto the gods ye have chosen let them deliver you c. Judges 10. 11 12 13 14. Sampson's Deiilah was his ruin Judges 16. 15 to 21. The Benjamites cut off and destroyed for the great Sin in abusing the Levite's Concubine to death Judges 18. ch 19. God threatens Eli for his suffering his Sons to sin so in the Priesthood 1 Sam. 2. 22 23 24 to the end The Lord said I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house c. for I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not and therefore have I sworn unto the house of Eli That the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor burnt-offerings for ever 1 Sam. 3. 11 12 13 14. ch 4. 17 18. God's Judgments upon the Philistines while they kept the Ark of God amongst them 1 Sam. 5. 6 7 8 c. He smote the men of Bethshemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord c. fifty thousand and seventy men 1 Sam. 6. 19. The elders of Israel came to Samuel and said Make us a king to judge us like all the nations c. And the Lord said unto Samuel c. They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them c. And God said You shall cry out because of your king c. and the Lord will not hear you in that day 1 Sam. 8. 4 5 7 18 19. ch 10. 19. The Lord sent thunder and rain in wheat-harvest and all the people feared the Lord and Samuel We have added unto all our sins this eviâ— to ask us a king c. If ye will still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your king 1 Sam. 12. 12 16 17 18 19 25. Saul offered sacrifice himself c. Samuel said to him Thou hast done foolishly c. but now the kingdom shall not continue I Sam. 13. 9 10 13 14. Samuel said to Saul Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord he hath also rejected thee from being king 1 Sam. 15. 9 11 17 22 23 26. The Lord also takes away his Spirit from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him 1 Sam. 16. 1 14. And when Saul enquired of the Lord the Lord answered him not neither by dreams nor by Uriâ— nor by prophets c. Then he goes to a familiar spirit c. Samuel said Why hast thou disquieted me c. Saul said God is departed from me and answereth me no more c. The Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand Because thou obeyed not the voice of the Lord nor executed his fierce wrath upon Amalek c. therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day c. 1 Sam. 28. 6 7 15 16 17 18 19. 2 Chron. 10. 13 14. Uzzah put forth his hand unto the ark of God and took hold of it c. and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah and God smote him there for his errour or rashness and there he died c. Michal David's wife despised David for his dancing before the ark c. therefore sâ—e had no child unto the day of her death c. 2 Sam. 6. 16 23. David's Sin in the matter of Uriah's Wife c. displeased the Lord 2 Sam. 11. 27. And Nathan said unto David c. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel I anointed thee king over Israel c. and if that had been too little I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight that thou hast killed Uriah c. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house c. Behold I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house and I will take thy wives before thine eyes and give them unto thy neighbour and he shall lie with thy wife in the right of this sun c. The child also shall surely die c. And the child died 2 Sam. 12. 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 18. Then Amnon his Son forceth Tamar Sister of Absalom c. And Absalom killeth Amnon 2 Sam. 13. 11 12 13 14 28 29. Absalom conspireth against David and rebels 2 Sam. 15. Absalom went in to his Father's Concubines in the â—â—ght of all Israel 2 Sam. 16. 21 22. Absalom is sâ—ain himself 2 Sam. 18. 14 15. There was a famine c. And David enquired of the Lord and the Lord answered It is for Saul and his bloody house because he slew the Gibeonites c. The Children of Israel had sworn unto them and Saul sought to slay them in his Zeal c. 2 Sam. 21. 1. Josh 9. 15. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel c. David said Go number the people c. So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel c. and there died seventy thousand men 2 Sam. 24. 1 2 15. Adonijah put to death by Solomon's Order and Joab for his Sin killing of Abner and Amasa also put to death and Shâ—mei also put to death for his cursing of David 1 Kings 2. 24 25 28 31 32 33 34. If you shall at all turn from following of me you or your children and will not keep my commandments
c. then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them and this house which I have hallowed for my Name will I cast out of my sight and Israel shall be a proverb and a by-word c. 1 Kings 9. 6 7 8. And the Lord was angry with Solomon because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel who had appeared unto him twice c. Therefore the Lord said unto Solomon Forasmuch as this is done of thee and thou hast not kept my covenant c. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee and will give it to thy servant 1 Kings 11. 9 10 11. It was charged me by the word of the Lord saying Eat no bread c. Thus saith the Lord Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord c. and hast eaten bread and drank water c. thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers c. A Lion met him by the way and slew him c. It is the man of God 1 Kings 13. 8 9 21 22 24 25 26. Tell Jeroboam c. Forasmuch as I have exalted thee from among the people and made thee prince c. yet thou hast done evil above all that were before thee for thou hast gone and made thee other gods c. Therefore behold I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam him who pisseth against the wall c. Him who dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall dogs eat and him who dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat for the Lord hath spoken it 1 Kings 14. 7 to 11. Baasha smote all the house of Jeroboam he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed until he had destroyed him according to the saying of the Lord c. Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he had sinned and which he made Israel to sin 1 Kings 15. 27 29 30. 2 Chron. 12. 1 2 4 5. The very like threatning did God send to Baasha for his Sins c. and acordingly executed by Zimri his Servant 1 Kings 16. 1 2 3 4 9 10 11 12 13. God threatens and sends a Famine in Israel for the Sins of Ahab c. 1 Kings 17. He killed Naboth and possessed his Vineyard c. Thus saith the Lord Hast thou killed and taken possession also c. In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood even thine c. All this executed against him Jezebel and Ahab's House 1 Kings 21. 14 19 21 22 23 24. ch 22. 38. 2 Kings 9. 33. Ahaziah fell down c. He sent to enquire of the God of Ekron c. And the Lord by Elijah sends thus Is it not because there is not a God in Israel ye go to enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron Now therefore thus saith the Lord Thou shalt not come down from thy bed c. but shalt surely die c. So he died according to the word of the Lord 2 Kings 1. 2 3 4 6 16 17. God punished Gehazi for his Covetousness with Leprosie 2 Kings 5. 20 21 22 c. So it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God c. and walked in the statutes of the heathen c. The Lord testified against them by the hand of all the prophets all the seers saying Turn ye from your ways c. Notwithstanding they would not hear but hardned their necks c. Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight c. And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel and afflicted them and delivered them into the hand of the spoilers until he had cast them out of his sight 2 Kings 17. 7 8 9 13 14 15 18 19 20. Senacherib and his Army smitten for his Blasphemy and Pride 2 Kings 19. 21 22 23 35 37. Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did c. and hath made Judah also to sin c. therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel Behold I am bringing evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that whosoever heareth of it both his ears shall tingle c. I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies c. because they have done c. 2 Kings 21. 9 11 12 13 14 15. The Lord turned not from the fierceness of his wrath wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked withal And the Lord said I will remove Judah also out of my sight as I have removed Israel and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen and the house of which I have said my Name shall be there 2 Kings 23. 26 27. God accordingly gives them up wholly to their Enemies 2 Kings 24. ch 25. Jehoram's Wickedness surely punished by the Lord 2 Chron. 21. 4 6 11 13 14 15 c. Uzzia the king when he was strong his heart was lifted up to his destruction c. He went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense and when the priests withstood him he was wroth and while he was yet wroth with the priests the leprosie even rose up in his forehead c. The Lord had smitten him And Uzzia the king was a leper unto the day of his death 2 Chron. 26. 16 to 22. The Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz c. for he made Judah naked and transgressed c. 2 Chron. 28. 19. Moreover all the chief of the priests and the people transgressed very much c. And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers c. But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his word and misused his prophets until the wrath of God arose against his people till there was no remedy therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees c. 2 Chron. 36. 13 14 15 16 17. Jer. 32. 31 32 34 35 36. ch 44. 2 3 4 c. The Psalmist reckons up the several Rebellions of Israel and God's Judgments against them for Sin Psal 78. My people would not hearken to my voice and Israel would none of me so I gave them up to their own hearts c. O that my people had hearkned unto me c. Psal 81. 11 12 13. Deut. 5. 29. ch 32. 28 29 30. Israel's Behaviour and Rebellions together with God's Dealings with them summed up by the Psalmist Psal 106. Psal 95. 9 10 11. Ezek. 20. Because they rebelled against the the words of God and contemned the counsel of the Most High therefore he brought down their heart with labour they fell down and none to help Psal 107. 11 12. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity c. Turn you at my reproof c. Because I called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and
and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this Go ye up upon her walls and destroy c. Your iniquities have turned away these things and your sins have withholden good things from you c. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land the prophets prophesie falâ—ly and the priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof Jer. 5. 7 8 9 10 25 29 30 31. ch 9. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Ezek 20. 15 16. Thus hath the Lord of hosts said c. Cast a mount against Jerusalem this is the city to be visited she is wholly oppression in the midst of her c. Be then instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul depart from thee c. I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land saith the Lord for from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given unto covetousness and from the prophet even unto the priests every one dealeth falsly c. Hear O earth Behold I will bring evil upon this people c. Jer. 6. 6 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 18 19. ch 7. 8 9 c. They were not ashamed nor could they blush therefore shall they fall c. Jer. 8. 12 13 14 c. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel Cursed be the man who obeyeth not the words of this covenant They are turned back unto the iniquity of their fathers who refuse to hear my words c. Therefore thus saith the Lord Behold I will bring evil upon them which they shall not be able to escape and though they shall cry unto me I will not hearken unto them c. Therefore pray not thou for this people for I will not hearken c. Jer 11. 3 10 11 12 14. ch 35 17. ch 14. 11 12. ch 18. 17. Their tongue is as an arrow c. Shall I not visit them for these things saith the Lord Jer. 9. 8 9. What wilt thou say when I shall punish thee c. Shall not sorrow take thee as a woman in travail c. For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered c. Wo c. Wilt thou not be made clean c. Jer. 13. 10 14 21 22 27. ch 14. 11 12. Though Moses and Samuel stood before me yet my mind could not be towards this people cast them out of my sight c. such as are for death to death c. Who shall have pity upon thee O Jerusalem who shall bemoan thee c. Thou hast forsaken me saith the Lord Jer. 15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 c. Ye have done worse than your fathers for behold ye walk every one after the imaginations of his own heart that ye may not hearken unto me therefore will I cast you out of this land c. Jer. 16. 9 11 12 13 c. The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron and with the point of a diamond is graven upon the tables of their heart c. Jer. 17. 1 23 27. Return ye c. And they said There is no hope but we will walk after our own doings c. Jer. 18. 11 12 15 16 c. The land is full of adulterers for because of swearing or cursing the land mourneth the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up Jer. 23. 10 39 40. As the evil figs c. so will I give the king and the princes and the residue of Jerusalem which remain in this land and them who dwell in the land of Egypt I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt to be a reproach c. And I will send the sword the famine and the pestilence among them till they be consumed from off the land Jer. 24. 8 9 10. ch 25 7 8 9 10 11. Thus saith the Lord If they will hearken and turn every man from his evil way that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do because of the evil of their doings c. If ye will not c. then will I make this house like Shilo and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth Jer. 26. 2 3 4 5 6. God threatned and punished many for Prophesying falsly and lyes to Israel Jer. 28. 15 16 17. ch 29. 21 31 32. Thus saith the Lord Thy bruise is incurable c. for the multitude of thine iniquity thy sins were increased I have done these things unto thee Jer. 30. 12 13 14 15. Because of all the evil of the children of Israel c. this city c. shall be delivered into the hand c. Jer. 32. 32 c. Ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty every man unto his brother and every man to his neighbour Behold I proclaim a liberty for you saith the Lord to the sword and to the pestilence c. Jer. 34. 1 17. This Jerusalem c. hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations c. Therefore thus saith the Lord I even I am against thee c. therefore the fathers shall eat the sons c. Ezek. 5. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. When God had shewed Ezekiel Judah's abominations he saith unto him Therefore will I also deal in fury mine eyes shall not spare neither will I have pity And though they cry c. will I not hear them Ezek. 8. 18. ch 9. 8 9 10. ch 7. 3 4 8 9. But as for them whose heart walketh c. I will recompence their way upon their own head The glory of the Lord left in the City Ezek. 11. 21 22 23. When the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously then will I stretch out my hand upon it and will break the staff of bread thereof and will send famine upon it and will cut off man and beast c. Though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it they should deliver but their own souls c. Ezek. 14. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20. Pride fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was Sodom's sins for which God took her away Ezek. 16. 49 50. Thus saith the Lord God Are ye come to enquire of me As I live saith the Lord God I will not be enquired of by you c. Ezek. 20. 1 2 3 4. God reckons up many sins of Jerusalem and then says Can thine heart endure Can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee I the Lord have spoken and will do it and will scatter thee c. Ezek. 22. 1 2 to the 15. When the righteous man turneth from his righteousness and committeth iniquity he shall even die thereby Ezek. 33. 12 13 18. The heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity because they trespassed against me therefore c. Ezek. 29. 23 24. The Kings of Babylon
punished for their Pride c. Dan. 4. 31 32. ch 5. Let her therefore put her whoredoms out of her sight c. lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day she was born c. and I will not have mercy upon her children c. Hosea 2. 2 3 4 5. The Lord hath a controversie with the land because no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they break out and blood toucheth blood therefore shall the land mourn c. Ephraim is joined to Idols let him him alone Hosea 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 c. 17. The pride of Israel doth testifie to his face therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity Judah also shall fall with them they shall go with the flocks and with their herds to seek the Lord but they shall not find he hath withdrawn himself from them They have dealt treacherously against the Lord Hosea 5. 3 4 5 6 7. Zechar. 7. 11 12 13. They consider not c. now their own doings have beset them about they c. Wo unto them for they have fled from me destruction unto them because they have transgressed c. They return not to the most high they are like a deceitful bow their princes shall fall by the sword c. Hosea 7. 2 13 14 15 16. Wo unto them when I depart from them for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house I will love them no more c. Hosea 9. 12 15 17. They hate him who rebuke in the gate they abhor him who speaketh uprightly c. I hate I despise your feast days and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies c. Amos 5. 10 11 12 21 22 23. Wo unto them who are at ease in Zion c. ye who put far away the evil day c. who lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches c. who chaunt to the sound of the viol and invent to themselves instruments of musick like David who drink wine in bowls c. but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph therefore now shall they go captive c. I abhor the excellency of Jacob and hate his palaces Amos 6. 1 3 4 5 6 7 8. Isa 5. 11 12 13 22. Though they dig into hell thence shall my hand take them though they clamb up c. thence will I c. Amos 9. 2 3 c. They shall cry unto the Lord but he will not hear them he will ever hide his face from them as they behaved themselves ill in their doings c. They build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity the heads thereof judge for reward and the priests thereof teach for hire and the prophets thereof divine for money yet will they â—â—an upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us none evil can come upon us Therefore shall Zion for your sakes be plowed as a field and Jerusalem become heaps c. Micah 3. 3 4 5 10 11 12. ch 1. 1 2 3 4 5 6. God warned Ninevah of her Desolation for her sin if she repented not Jonah 1. 2. ch 3. 2 3 4. Hear ye O mountains the Lord's controversie c. for the Lord hath a controversie with his people and he will plead with Israel O my people what have I done unto thee and wherein have I wearied thee testifie against me for I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt c. There are yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked c. the rich men thereof are full of violence c. therefore also will I make thee sick c. Micah 6. 2 3 4 10 11 12 13 14 15. Amos 2. 4 5 6 c. Several woes pronounced against Persons for divers Sins Habbak 2. 6 9 12 15 19. Micah 2. 1 2 c. I will punish the princes and the king's children and all such who are clothed with strange apparel c. all those who leap on the threshold who fill their master's house with violence and deceit c. I will punish the men who are setled on their lees and say in their heart The Lord will not do good neither will he do evil c. and I will bring distress upon men c. because they have sinned c. He shall make a speedy riddance of all them who dwell in the land Zeph. 1. 8 9 12 17 18. Is this a time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses and this house lie waste c. Because of mine house that is waste and ye run every man to his own house therefore the heavens over you is stayed from dew and the earth is stayed from fruit and I called for a drought upon the land Haggai 1. 4 9 10 11. Cursed be the deceiver who hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing Mal. 1. 13 14. I will be a swift witness against the forcerers and against adulterers and against false-swearing and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages the widow and the fatherless that turn aside the stranger c. Ye are gone away from mine ordinances c. ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me c. your words have been stout against me saith the Lord yet ye say What have we spoken so much against thee ye have said It is in vain to serve God c. Mal. 3. 5 9 10 13 14. Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all who do wickedly shall be stubble and the day which cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch Mal. 4. 1. Christ pronounceth a wo against Chorazin Bethsaida and Capernaum for not repenting Matth. 11. 21 22 23 24. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto your selves that ye are the children of them who killed the prophets fill ye up then the measure of your fathers Ye serpents ye generation of vipers how can ye escape the damnation of hell Wherefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucifie and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias c. whom ye slew between the temple and the altar Verily I say unto you All these things shall come upon this generation O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou who killest the prophets and stonest them who are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thy children together c. and ye would not Behold your house is left to you desolate Matth. 23. 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38. Annanias and Sapphira for their Lying to the Holy Ghost
and Herod for Pride slain Acts 5. 5 10. Acts 12. 21 22 23. Because when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful c. wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonour their own bodies between themselves who changed the truth of God into a lye c. for this cause God gave them up to vile affections c. God gave them over to a reprobate mind Rom. 1. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 c. Think this O man c. who do such things that thou shalt escape the judgment of God Rom. 2. 2 3 c. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep c. 1 Cor. 11. 29 30 31. The Apostle reckons up some of the Sins and Punishments of Israel and concludes Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples and they are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come 1 Cor. 10. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 21 22. Now the works of the flesh c. adultery c. they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God Gal. 5. 19 20 21. 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Ephes 5. 5. If any shall worship the beast c. the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God c. Rev. 14. 9 10. He who is unjust let him be unjust still and he who filthy let him be filthy still c. Behold I come quickly c. Rev. 22. 11. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them who commit such things c. who will render to every man according to his deeds Rom. 2. 2 3 4 5 6. Gal. 6. 7 8. Ephes 5. 5 6. Colos 3. 5 6. Heb. 13. 4. The great Judgments denounced against Babylon for her great Sins and Persecutions Rev. 18. See more in the Duty of Obedience in this Chapter See more of Man's Sin and Corrupt Nature Chap. 5. The sad Effects of such a State See the same Chapter See more of God's punishing his own for Sin Chap. 13. See Pardon of Sin Chap. 10. To own and profess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ boldly before Men and to wait for Christ's second Coming I. To Own and Confess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ before Men. I Know my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth c. Job 19. 25. I will speak oh thy testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed c. I am a companion of all them who fear thee Psal 119. 46 63. Psal 16. 2 3. None call for justice nor any pleadeth for truth Isa 59. 4. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and he will deliver us out of thine hand O king but if not be it known unto thee O king that we will not serve thy gods Dan. 3. 17 18. When Daniel knew that the Writing was signed he went into his house and his window being open in his Chamber towards Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees c. and prayed and gave thanks before his God Dan. 6. 10. Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven but whosoever shall deny me before men him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven Matth. 10. 32 33. Luke 12. 8 9. A damsel came unto Peter saying Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee but he denied before them all saying I know not what thou sayest c. And again he denied with an oath saying I do not know the man c. Then began he to curse and to swear saying I know not the man Matth. 26. 69 70 72 74. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh into the glory of his Father with the holy angels Mark 8. 38. The parents of the blind man durst not confess Christ but answered He is of age ask him these words spake his parents because they feared the Jews for the Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was Christ that he should be put out of the Synagogue therefore said his parents He is of age ask him c. But the son confessed him John 9. 19 20 21 22 23 30 31 32 c. Nevertheless among the chief Rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the Synngâ—gue for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God John 12. 42 43. Let the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Acts 2. 36. The God of our fathers hath glorified his Son Jesus whom ye delivered up c. but ye denied the holy and just One c. and killed the Prince of life c. Acts 3. 13 14 15. Be it known unto all c. that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye crucified c. even by him doth this man stand before you whole This is the stone that was set at nought by you builders c. We cannot but speak c. Acts 4. 10 11 20. Did not we straightly charge you that you should not teach in this name c. Then Peter and the other Apostles answered and said We ought to obey God rather than men The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew c. Him hath God exalted with his right hand c. Acts 5. 28 29 30. Be it known to you therefore men and brethren that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins Acts 13. 38. This I confess unto thee that after the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Acts 24. 14. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus c. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made to salvation Rom. 10. 9 10. As often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup shew ye or ye do shew the Lord's death till he come 1 Cor. 11. 26. And many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear Phil. 1. 14. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him c. that at the name of Jesus c. and that every tongue should confess that Jesus is the Lord to the glory of God the Father Phil. 2. 11. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner c. I am not ashamed for I know whom I believe 2 Tim. 1. 8 12. If we suffer we shall also reign with him If we deny him he will also deny us 2 Tim. 2.
from before you but they shall be in your sides and their gods shall be a snare unto you Judges 2. 2 3. Jephthah concerning his vow said I have opened my mouth unto the Lord and I cannot go back c. Judges 11. 31 35 39. Psal 116. 14 18. The Lord is a God of knowledge and by him all actions are weighed 1 Sam. 2. 3. God had said to Saul Go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all which they have c. But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep c. Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel saying It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king for he is turned back from following me and hath not performed my commandment 1 Sam. 15. 3 8 9 10 11. The Lord seeth not as man seeth for man looketh on the outward appearance but the Lord looketh on the heart 1 Sam. 16. 7. I was also upright before him c. With the upright thou wilt shew thy self upright 2 Sam. 22. 24 26. Psal 18. 23. Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercies according as he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee 1 Kings 3. 6. Thou thou only knowest the hearts of all the children of men c. Let your hearts therefore be perfect with the Lord your God 1 Kings 8. 39 61. Psal 44. 21. If thou wilt walk before me as David thy father walked in integrity of heart and in uprightness to do according to all c. Then I will establish c. 1 Kings 9. 4 5. It came to pass that when Solomâ—n was old c. his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of David c. he went not fully after the Lord c. 1 Kings 11. 4 6. Asa did that which was right c. but the high places were not removed nevertheless Asa his heart was perfect with the Lord all his days 1 Kings 15. 11 14. How long halt ye between two opinions If the Lord be God follow him 1 Kings 18. 21. Elijah and Micaiah the prophets both faithful to God in a bad time 1 Kings 19. 10. chap. 22. 13 14. Thy servant will not offer c. to any other gods but the Lord In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant When my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship c. and I bow my self c. 2 Kings 5. 11. 18. Many kings of Israel did that which was right c. but yet did not take away the high places 2 Kings 14. ch 15. Josiah turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his might according to all the Law of Moses c. 2 Kings 23. 25. ch 18. 3 4 5 6. Set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God 1 Chron. 22. 10. 2 Chron. 11. 16. ch 15. 12 15. Know thou the God of thy fathers and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth c. 1 Chron. 28. 9. I know also my God that thou triest the heart and hast pleasure in uprightness As for me in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things 1 Chron. 29. 17. Prov. 17. 3. Rom. 8. 27. The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to shew himself strong in the behalf of or strongly to hold with them whose heart is perfect towards him 2 Chron. 16. 9. Amaziah did that which is right in the sight of the Lord but not with a perfect heart 2 Chron. 25. 2. Hezekiah c. wrought that which was good and right c. he did it with all his heart and prospered 2 Chron. 31. 20 21. Job was a perfect and upright man and one who feared God c. Job 1. 1 8. Still be holdeth his integrity although thou movest me against him c. Job 2. 3. Behold God will not cast away a perfect man Job 8. 20. My foot hath held his steps his way have I kept and not declined c. Job 23. 11. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Job 27. 6. Psal 26. 11. Doth not he see all my ways and count all my steps Job 31. 4. ch 34. 21. No darkness c. where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves Job 34. 22. God who saveth the upright in heart Psal 7. 10. The Lords throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eye-â—â—ds try the children of men Psal 11. 4 5 Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle c. he who walketh uprightly Psal 15. 1 2. I have set the Lord always before me Psal 16. 8. The Lord preserveth the faithful Psal 31. 23. Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Psal 37. 37. Forget all thine own people and thy fathers house so shall the king greatly desire thy beauty Psal 45. 10 11. Like sheep they are laid in the grave c. and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning Psal 49. 14. Behold thou desirest truth in the inner parts Psal 51. 6. My soul followeth hard after thee thy right hand c. Psal 63. 8. Psal 119. 60. All the upright in heart shall glory Psal 64. 10. Psal 97. 11. I will pay my vows which my mouth hath uttered c. when I was in trouble Psal 66. 13 14. Psal 116. 14 18. The Lord God c. will give grace and glory no good thing will he withhold from them who walk uprightly Psal 84. 11. They say the Lord shall not see c. He who planteth the ear shall he not hear He who formed the eye shall he not see c. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man Psal 94. 7 8 9 11 15. It is a people who do err in their hearts c. Psal 95. 10. Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart Psal 97. 11. I will behave my self wisely in a perfect way c. I will walk within my house with a perfect heart Psal 101. 2. Psal 26. 11. Unto the upright there shall arise a light in the darkness Psal 112. 4. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments I will praise thee with uprightness of heart c. My zeal hath consumed me c. Psal 119. 6 7 139. Do good O Lord unto c. them who are upright in their hearts as for such who turn aside to their crooked ways the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal 125. 4 5. O Lord thou hast searched me and known me thou knowest my down-sitting and up-rising thou understandest my thoughts afar off thou compassest my path and my lying down and art acquainted with all my ways for there is not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether Psal 139. 1 2 3 4.
c. Gal. 1. 6 7 8. Paul blames the Galatians for turning back to Circumcision and beggarly Rudiments and exhorts them to stick to the Faith and to stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ had made them free Gal. 3. ch 4. ch 5. ch 2. 4 5. Let us not be weary in well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not Gal. 6. 9. That ye henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro c. Let him who stole steal no more Ephes 4. 14 28. Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestie not with Flesh c. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand c. praying and watching with all perseverance Ephes 6. 11 12 13 18. Nevertheless whereunto we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing Philip. 3. 16. Stand fast in the Lord my dearly beloved Philip 4. 1. If ye continue in the faith grounded and setled and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye have heard c. Col. 1. 23. I am with you in the spirit joying and beholding your order and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ As ye therefore received Christ the Lord walk ye in him rooted and built up in him and stablished in the faith as ye have been taught Col. 2. 5 6 7. For we live if ye stand fast in the Lord c. 1 Thess 3. 8. We exhort you c. that as you have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound more and more c. 1 Thess 4 1 10. Prove all things hold fast that which is good 1 Thess 5. 21. Therefore brethren stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught whether by word or our epistle c. Now our Lord Jesus himself and God even our Father c. stablish you in every good word and work 2 Thess 2. 15 17. Brethren be not weary or faint not in well-doing 2 Thess 3. 13. Holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith hath made shipwreck of whom is Hymeneus c. 1 Tim. 1. 19 20. They shall be saved in child-bearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety 1 Tim. 2. 15. I charge thee c. that thou keep this commandment c. until the appearing of our Lord c. 1 Tim. 6. 13 14. In the latter times some shall depart from the faith c. Some are already turned aside after Satan 1 Tim. 4. 1. ch 5. 12 15. ch 1. 5 6 18 19. ch 6. 10 21. 2 Tim. 2. 17 18. ch 4. 10. If we deny him he also will deny us 2 Tim. 2. 12. But continue thou in the things thou hast learned and hast been assured of c. 2 Tim. 3. 14 15 16. ch 1. 13 14. I have fought a good fight I have finished 〈◊〉 course I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a crown c. 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. A bishop must be blameless c. holding fast the faithful word c. Tit. 1. 9. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should let them slip c. Heb. 〈◊〉 1 2 3. Whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firmly unto the end c. We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end Heb. 3. 6 12 14. Seeing that we have a great High Priest c. let us hold fast our profession for we have not anâ— High Priest who cannot be touched with c. Heb. 4. 14 15. For it is impossible for those who are once enlightened c. if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance c. We desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end That 〈◊〉 be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and and patience inherit the promises Heb. 6. 4 5 6 11 12. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised c. For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful looking for of judgment c. Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward for ye have need of patience c. If any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him We are not of them who draw back into perdition Heb. 10 23 26 27 35 36 37 38 39. Let us run with patience the race set before us looâ—ing unto Jesus c. lest ye be weary and faint in your minds c. Heb. 12. 1 2 3 15 28. Jesus Christ the same c. Be not carried about c. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace Heb. 13. 8 9. Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty c. and continueth c. James 1. 25. To him who knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sin James 4. 17. Gird up the loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end 1 Pet. 1. 13. The devil c. whom resist stedfast in the faith 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world c. they are again entangled therein and overcome the latter end is worse with them than the beginning for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them 2 Pet. 2. 20 21. ch 3. 17 18. Matth. 12. 43 44 45. They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us no doubt they c. Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning if that c. remain in you ye also shall continue in the Father and the Son c. And now little children abide in him that when he shall appear c. 1 John 2. 19 24 28. Look to your selves that ye lose not these things which we have wrought but that we c. 2 John vers 8 9. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth 3 John vers 4. 2 John vers 4. Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints c. The angels who kept not their first state c. he hath reserved in chains c. Build up your selves in your most holy faith c. keep your selves in the love of God c. Jude vers 3 6 20 21. I know thy works c. thou hast laboured
born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot c. 1 John 3. 9. Ye are of God c. and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world 1 John 4. 3 4. There is a sin unto death c. We know that every one who is born of God sinneth not but c. keepeth himself c. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world 1 John 5. 4 17 18. The truth which dwelleth in us and shall be in us for ever 2 John ver 2. Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to preserve you faultless before the presence of his glory c. to the only wise God c. Jude ver 24 25. Rom. 16. 25. Those whose names were not writen in the book of life they worshipped and wondred at the beastâ— Rev. 13. 8. ch 17. 8. See more of God's giving Power to Persevers Chap. 20. See more of God's upholding his in time of Trouble and Persecution Chap. 22. To take heed to observe and watch diligently over our selves with a holy jealousie and fear left we should Apostatize and Depart from God hiâ— Truth and Ways into any Error or Sin Thâ—â— Reasons Our Danger HEzekiah was left of God that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32. 31. Take heed to thy self lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee 〈◊〉 but ye shall destroy their altars c. lest c. they 〈◊〉 go a whering after their gods and do sacrince c. 〈◊〉 Exod. 34. 12 13 15 16. What nation so great who hath God so nighâ— unto them c. Only take heed to thy self and 〈◊〉 keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the thingsâ—â— which thine eyes have seen and left they depart from thine heart all the days of thy life c. Take ye therefore good heed unto your selves c. lest ye corrupt your selves and make you a graven image c. Deut. 4. 7 8 9 15 33. When the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land c. When thou shalt have eaten and be full beware lest thou forget the Lord c. Deut. 6. 10 11 12. ch 8. 10 11 12 13 14. I will give rain c. that thou maist eat and be full take heed to your selves that your hearts be not deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods Deut. 11. 14 15 16. Solomon whom God so much honoured sinned greatly in old age 1 Kings 11. If thy brother c. intice thee secretly saying Come let us go and serve other gods c. thou shalt not consent to him nor hearken unto him c. Deut. 13. 6 7 8 9. Take good heed therefore unto your selves that ye love the Lord your God c. Joshua 23. 11 12 c. There was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan or the Adversary among or in the midst of them Job 1. 6 7. ch 2. 1 2. Stand in awe and sin not commune with your 〈◊〉 heart c Psalm 4. 4. Psalm 16. 8. 〈◊〉 I will take heed to my ways that I sin 〈◊〉 tongue c. Psalm 39. 1. 〈…〉 shall a young man cleanse his 〈…〉 taking heed thereto according to thy word Psalm 119. 9. Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keep the door of my lips Psalm 141. 3. Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it the issues of life Prov. 4. 23. A prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself c. Prov. 27. 12. Happy is the man who feareth always but he who hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief Prov. 28. 14. Blessed is the man who observes his hand lest he do any evil Isa 56. 2. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Jerem. 17. 9. And my people are bent to backsliding from me Hosea 11. 7. Jesus said Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of c. Matth. 16. 6. Luke 12 1 2. Jesus said Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many Matth. 24. 4 5. Watch and pray that ye enter not into tentations Matth. 26. 41. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness Luke 12. 35. Take ye heed Behold I have foretold you all things c. The day and hour knoweth no man c. Take ye heed watch and pray for ye know not c. Mark 13 23 32 33 35 36 37. Take heed and beware of covetousness c. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching Luke 12. 15 36 37 38. Take heed to your selves left at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life c. Watch ye therefore Luke 21. 34 36. Peter was confident and so denied Christ Luke 22. 32 34 59 60. Matth. 26. 69 70 c. Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to them who are weak for if any man see thee c. 1 Cor. 8. 8 9 10. These things happened unto them for ensamples and they were written for our admonition c. Wherefore let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 11 12. Watch ye stand ye fast c. 1 Cor. 16. 13. I fear c. as the Serpent c. so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ 2 Cor. 11. 3. See that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise Ephes 5. 15. Praying always c. and watching thereunto with all perseverance Ephes 6. 18. Beware of dogs beware of evil workers beware of the concision Phil. 3. 2. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men c. not after Christ Col. 2. 8. Continue in praying and watch in the same Col. 4. 2. We are not of the night nor of darkness therefore let us not sleep as others but let us watch and be sober for they who sleep sleep in the night c. 1 Thes 5. 5 6 7. Some snall depart from the faith c. some are already turned aside c. have erred concerning the faith 1 Tim. 4. 1. ch 5. 12 15. ch 6. 10 21. ch 1. 5 6 18 19. 2 Tim. 2. 17 18. They c. shall be turned unto fables But watch thou in all things 2 Tim. 4. 4 5. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God c. Lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin Hebr. 3. 12 13. ch 12. 15. ch 2. 1. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entring into rest
If thou wilt take the left hand then I will go to the right or if thou to the right hand then will I go to the left Gen. 13. 8 9. Thou shalt not raise or receive a false report Exod. 23. 1. Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle c. he who backbiteth not with his tongue c. nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour Psal 15. 1 3. See the mischief which followed the false reports of Doeg to Saul and of Ziba to David 1 Sam. 22. 2 Sam. 16. Seek peace and pursue it Psal 34. 14. It was not an enemy who reproached me then could I have born it but thou a man mine equal c. We walked unto the house of God in company Psal 55. 12 13 14. Whosoever privily slandereth his neighbour him will I cut off Psal 101. 5. I am for peace c. they for war Psal 120. 7. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity Psal 133. 1. These things doth the Lord hate c. him who soweth discord among brethren Prov. 6 16 19. A tale-bearer revealeth secrets but he who is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter Prov. 11. 13. Only by pride comes contention Prov. 13. 10. ch 28. 25. A whisperer separateth chief friends Prov. 16. 28. He who repeateth the matter separateth friends c. the beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with Prov. 17. 9 14. chap. 26. 21. The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds Prov. 8. 18. It is an honour for a man to cease from strife c. He who goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets therefore meddle not with him who flattereth Prov. 20. 3 19. Where there is no tale-bearer the strife ceaseth c. The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds c. Prov. 26. 20 21 22. The forâ—ing of wrath bringeth forth strife Prov. 30. 33. Can two walk together except they be agreed Amos 3. 3. Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God c. Leave there thy gift c. First be reconciled to thy brother and then come and offer thy gift c. Matth. 5. 9 23 24. Every kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation Matth. 12. 25. If thy brother shall trespass c. go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone Matth. 18. 15. One is your Master Christ and all ye are brethren Matth. 23. 8. Have peace one with another Mark 9. 50. If it be possible as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men Rom. 12. 18. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may edifie another Rom. 14. 19. Ye are yet carnal for whereas there is among you envyings and strifes and divisions or factious are ye not carnal and walk as men for while one saith I am of Paul c. are ye not carnal 1 Cor. 3. 3 4. ch 1. 10 11 12. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you no not one who shall be able to judge between his brethren but brother goeth to law with brother c. now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because ye go to law c. 1 Cor. 6. 5 6 7. Charity envieth not 1 Cor. 13. 4. For I fear c. lest there be debates envyings wraths strifes backbitings whisperings c. 2 Cor. 12. 20. Brethren c. live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you 2 Cor. 13. 11. If ye bite and devouâ— one another take heed ye be not consumed one of another c. The fruit of the Spirit is c. peace long-suffering gentleness c. Let us not be desirous of vain-glory provoking one another envying one another Gal. 5. 15 22 26. Epâ—â— 4. 2. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace one body c. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour c. be put away from you Ephâ—s 4. 3 4 5 6 31. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory c. Phil. 2. 3. That ye study or are ambitiously striving to be quiet and do your own business c. 1 Thes 4. 11. Be at peace among your selves 1 Thes 5. 13. They learn to be idle wandring about from house to house and not only idle but talkers also and busie-bodies speaking things which they ought not 1 Tim. 5. 13. 2 Thes 3. 11 12. Doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railing c. 1 Tim. 6. 4 20. Charging them c. that they strive not about words to no profit c. Shun profane and vain babling c. Follow peace with them who call on the Lord c. but roolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strifes 2 Tim. 2. 14 16 22 23. The aged women c. that they be not false-accusers or make-bates Titus 2. 3. Avoid foolish questions c. and contentions and strivings about the Law for they c. Titus 3. 9. Follow peace with all men Heb. 12. 14. It ye have bitter envyings and strife in youâ— hearts glory not c. This wisdom is not from above c. for where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work But the wisdom which is from above is c. peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated c. And the fruits of righteousness is sowâ— in-peace of them who make peace James 3. 14 15 16 17 18. Whence comes wars and sightings among you come they not hence even of your lusts c. â— speak not evil one of another brethren James 4. 1 11. Wherefore laying aside all malice c. and envyings and evil-speakings 1 Pet. 2. 1. Whose adorning let it not be that outward c. but the hidden man c. of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price c. not rendring evil for evil or raiâ—ings He who will love life and see good days c. 〈◊〉 him seek peace and ensue it 1 Pet. 3. 3 4 9 10 11. VI. To rebuke reprove exhort admonish and warn each other for and about sin and their duty And to take such rebukes c. well and kindly from each other I. To rebuke c. THou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart Thou shalt in any wife rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him or that thou bear not sin for him Lev. 10. 17. He who rebuketh a scorner getteth to himself shame c. Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee Prov. â— 7 8. Dâ—â—ate thy cause with thy neighbour and discover not a secret to another c. As an ear-ring of gold c. so is a wise reprover upon an obedient car Prov. 25. 9 12. Open rebuke is better than secret love Prov 27. 5. He who rebuketh a man afterwards shall
for his sake who shewed it and for conscience sake c. conscience I say not thine own but of the others c. Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God even as I please all men in all things not seeking my own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved 1 Cor. 10 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 31 32 33. ch 11. 1. Charity seeketh not her own 1 Cor. 13. 4 5. Let all your things be done with charity 1 Cor. 16. 14. Look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus Phil. 2. 4 5. Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto you Nevertheless whereunto we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing Phil. 3. 15 16. Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in eating or in drinking or in respect of an holy day or of the new moon or of the sabbath which are a shadow of things to come but the body is of Christ Col. 2. 16 17. We exhort you brethren c. comfort the feeble minded support the weak be patient towards all men 1 Thes 5. 14. Neither give heed to fables c. which minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith now the end of the commandment is charity c. 1 Tim. 1. 4 5. Some shall depart from the faith c. forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received c. 1 Tim. 4. 3 4 5. Unto the pure all things are pure Tit. 1. 15. When Paul was writing many things concerning Christ he said of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered seeing ye are dull of hearing c. ye are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat c. strong meats belongs unto them who are of full age Heb. 5. 10 11 12 13 14. It is a good thing that the heart be established with grace not with meats which have not profited them who have been occupied therein Heb. 13. 9. Charity covereth a multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. I will put upon you no other burden but that which ye have already hold fast till I come Rev. 2. 24 25. X. To Distribute and Communicate to one anothers Necessities give to the Poor IF thou lend money to any of my people who is poor by thee thou shalt not be unto them as an usurer neither shalt thou lay upon him usury c. Exod. 22. 25 26. When ye reap the harvest of your land thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy fields neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard c. Thou shalt leave them for the poor and the stranger I am the Lord your God Lev. 19. 9 10. ch 25 1 2 3 4 c. If thy brother be waxen poor c. then thou shalt relieve him c. that he may live Levit. 25 35. If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates c. thou shalt not harden thine heart nor shut thine hand against thy poor brother but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth Beware that there be not a thought or word in thy wicked heart saying The seventh year the year of release is at hand and thine eye be evil against thy brother and thou givest him nought and he cry unto the Lord against thee and it be sin unto thee thou shalt surely give him and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy work c. for the poor shall never cease out of the land therefore I command thee c. Deut. 15. 7 8 9 10 11. If I have withheld from the poor their desire c. or have eaten my morsel alone and the fatherless have not eaten thereof c. If I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any poor without covering If his loins have not blessed me c. The stranger did not lodge in the street I opened my door to the traveller Job 31. 16 17 18 19 20 32. The righteous sheweth mercy and giveth c. He is ever merciful and lendeth Psal 37. 21 26. Blessed is he who considereth the poor or weak the Lord will deliver him Psal 41. 1 2 3. A good man sheweth favour and lendeth c. He hath dispersed he hath given unto the poor c. Psal 112. 5 9. Honour the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruit of thy increase c. Say not unto thy neighbour go and come again and to morrow I will give when thou hast it by thee Prov. 3. 9 27 28. There is who scattereth and yet increaseth c. The liberal soul shall be made fat and he who watereth shall be watered also himself Prov. 11. 24 25. He who hath mercy on the poor happy is he c. He who oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker but he who honoureth him hath mercy on the poor Prov. 14. 21 31. He who hath pity on the poor lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again Prov. 19. 17. Whose stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor he also shall cry himself but shall not be heard Prov. 21. 13. He who hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed for he giveth of his bread to the poor Prov. 22. 9. He who giveth unto the poor shall not lack Prov. 28. 27. Cast thy bread upon the waters for thou shalt find it after many days Give a portion to seven and also to eight c. Eccies 11. 1 2 3. Is not this the fast that I have chosen c. Is it not to do deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor which are cast out to thy house when thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thine own flesh Then shall thy light break forth as the morning c. And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry and satisfie the afflicted soul then shal thy light rise in obscurity c. Isa 58. 6 7 8 9 10 11. I have desired mercy and not sacrifice Hosea 6. 6. Give to him who asketh thee and from him who would borrow of thee turn not away Mat. 5. 42. Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them c. when thou doest thine alms do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do c. that they may have glory of men c. But
when thou doest thine alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth Mat. 6. 1 2 3. Ask and it shall be given you Mat. 7. 7. Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a Disciple verily I say unto you He shall in no wise lose his reward Mat. 10. 42. Mark 9. 41. Christ shall say I was an hungry and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in Naked and ye clothed me c. when saw we thee an hungry c. Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me c. Mat. 25. 35 36 37 38 39 40 c. The poor widow threw in two mites c. Jesus said This poor widow hath cast more in than all they c. For all they did cast in of their abundance but she of her want did cast in all she had Mark 12. 42 43 44. Luke 21. 1 2 3 4. He who hath two Coats let him impart to him who hath none c. so of meat Luke 3. 11. When thou makest a feast call the poor the maimed the lame the blind And thou shalt be blessed for they cannot recompence thee for thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the just Luke 14. 13 14. Sell all that thou hast and distribute to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven Luke 18. 22. The multitude of them who believed were of one heart c. neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own but they had all things common c. Acts 4. 32 34 Cornelius a devout man c. who gave much alms to the people c. thy prayer and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God Acts 10 1 2 4. Then the Discipies every man according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren who dwelt in Judea Acts 11. 29. I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said it is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20. 35. He who giveth let him do it with simplicity or liberality he who sheweth mercy with cheerfulness c. distributing to the necessity of the saints given to hospitaliâ—y c. Rom. 12 8 13. ch 16. 1 2. It hath pleased them of Macedonia c. to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem Rom. 15. 26. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him 1 Cor. 16 2. As ye abound in all things c. see that ye abound in this grace also I speak c. to prove the sincerity of your love for know ye the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich c. As there was a readiness to will so there may be a performance also out of that which you have for if there be first a willing mind it is accepted according to that a man hath and not according to that he hath not 2 Cor. 8. 7 8 9 10 11 12. He who soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly and he who sowesh bountifully shall reap bountifully Every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver And God is able to make all grace abound towards you that ye always having sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work 2 Cor. 9 6 7 8 9. As we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men especially unto them who are of the houshold of faith Gal. 6. 10. 3 John ver 5. 6. Rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that ye may have to give to him who needeth Eph. 4. 28. Paul commends the Philippians for their sending to his relief and said Not because I desire a gift but I desire fruit that may abound to your account c. My God shall supply all your needs c. Phil. 4. 14 15 16 17 19. This we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat c. We command c. that with quietness they work and eat their own bread 2 Thess 3. 10 11 12. If any widow have children or nephews let them learn first to shew pity or kindness at home to requite their Parents for that is good and acceptable before God c. And if any provide not for his own and especially for those of his own house or kindred he hath denyed the faith and is worse than an infidel c. If any man or woman who believeth have widows let them relieve them and let not the Church be charged 1 Tim. 5. 4 8 16. Charge them who are rich in this world c. that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate laying up in store a good foundation 1 Tim. 6 17 18 19. The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus for he oft refreshed me c. and in how many things he ministred unto me at Ephesus c. 2 Tim. 1. 16 17 18. Philem ver 7. God is not unrighteous to forget your works c. which ye have shewed towards his name in that ye have ministred unto the Saints and do minister Heb. 6. 10. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained Angels unawares c. To do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Heb. 13. 2 16. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom c If a brother or sister be naked c. and one of you say to them depart in peace c. and ye give them not c. what doth it profit James 2. 5 15 16. Use hospitality one to another without grudging As every man hath received the gift so let him minister the same one to another as good stewards c. If any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God giveth that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus c. 1 Pet. 4. 9 10 11. Whosoever hath this worlds goods and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him My little children let us not love in word or in tongue but in deed and in truth 1 John 3. 17. 18. See more of the relief of the poor of the Churches c. Chap. 27. See more of giving to enemies Chap. 22. See shewing mercy to all men Chap. 19. CHAP. XVIII The Duties of Saints Believers each towards other as they stand
saith the law And if they will learn any thing let them ask their husbands at home for it is a shame for a woman to speak in the Church 1 Cor. 14. 34 35. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness c. 2 Cor. 6. 14 15 16. Deut. 7. 3 4. 1 Kings 11. 14. ch 24. 25. Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord For the husband is the head of the wife c. therefore as the Church is subiect to Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the Church c. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies he who loveth his wife loveth himself for no man ever yet hated his own flesh c. Let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband Eph. 5. 22 23 24 25 28 33. Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands love your wives and be not bitter against them Col. 3. 18 19. In like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel c. Let the women learn in silence with all subjection but I suffer not a woman to teach or usurp authority over the man but to be in silence For Adam was first formed then Eye and Adam was not deceived c. 1 Tim. 2. 9 10 11 12 13 14. I will therefore that the younger women marry bear children guide the house give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully 1 Tim. 5. 14. The aged women likewise that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness c. that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands c. discreet chast keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word of God be not blasphemed Tit. 2. 3 4 5. Marriage is honourable in all and the bed undefiled but whoremongers c. Heb. 13. 4. Wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word c. Holy women c. being in subjection to their own husbands even as Sarah obeyed Abram calling him lord c. Likewise ye husbands dwell with them according to knowledge giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindered 1 Pet. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. II. Parents to their Children and Children to their Parents CHildren acknowledged to be from God as a desirable thing and barrenness a reproach Gen. 4. 1. 25. ch 15. 2 3. ch 16. 2. ch 25. 21. ch 30. 1 2 23. 1 Sam. 1. 5 6 10 11. Luke 1. 24. 25. Noah being uncovered withâ—n his tent Hain saw it and told his brethren without who took a garment and laid it on their shoulders and went backwards and covered the nakedenss of their father who afterwards blessed them and cursed their brother who told them Gen. 9. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27. Abram shall surely become a great and mighty nation c. For I know him that he will command his children and his houshold after him that they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment Gen. 18. 19. Thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites amongst whom I dwell but thou shalt go unto my country and my kindred and take a wife to my son Isaac c. Gen. 24. 3. ch 28. 1 2 7 8 9. Isaac when he was old called his son Esau that he might bless him before he died c. Rebekah said c. if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heath c. what good shall my life do me Gen. 27. 1 2 3 4 5 46. ch 26 34 35. Esau took wives of Ishmaels family on purpose because it displeased his father and mother Gen. 28. 7 8 9. When Esau saw the women and the children with Jacob he asked him whose are these with thee and he said The Children which God hath graciously given thy servant Gen. 33. 4 5. Psalm 128. 1 3 4 c. Rachel said to her Father let not my Lord be displeased that I cannot arise to thee c. Gen. 31. 35. Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age and made him a coat of divers colours c. therefore his brethren-hated him and could not speak peaceably to him c. When Jacob supposed him to be dead he rent his cloaths and put sackcloth upon him c. refused to be comforted and he said For I will go down into the grave with my son mourning thus his father wept for him Gen. 37. 3 33 34 35. ch 42. 36 38. Simeon and Levi destroyed the Sechmites their father Jacob rebuked them they justifie it Gen. 34. 30 31. When Jacob was told that Joseph is yet alive his heart fainted for he believed them not c. after he revived and said I will go see him before I die Gen. 45 26 27 28. Joseph met his father and fell on his neck and wept od his neck a good while and Israel said unto Joseph now let me die since I have seen thy face Gen. 46 29 30. ch 50. 1. When Joseph brought his sons unto his father Israel Joseph bowed himself to the earth Gen. 48 9 10 11 12. The sons of Israel did unto him according as he commanded them for c. Gen. 50. 12 13. That thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son and of thy sons son what things I have wrought in Egypt and my signs c. that ye may know that I am the Lord Exod. 10. 1 2. When thy son shall ask What means the offering of the first-born c. thou shalt say unto him by strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt c. and flew all the first-born Exod. 13. 8 12 13 14 15. ch 12. 25. 26. 27. Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and did obeisance and kissed him and they asked each other of their welfare Exod. 18. 5 6 7. Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land c. Exod. 20. 12. He who smiteth his father or mother shall be surely put to death c. He who curseth or revileth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death Exod. 21. 15 17. Levit. 20. 9. Ye shall fear every one his father and his mother Levit. 19. 3. I will make them to hear my word c. and that they may teach their Children c. Deut. 4. 10. These words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart and thou shalt teach them diligently or whet or sharpen unto thy children and shall talk of them c. Thou shalt tell thy son We were servants c. Deut. 6. 6 7
21. chap. 11. 18 19. A man may not disinherit his first-born son If any man have a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they have chastned him will not hearken unto them then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him c. and all the men of his City shall stone him c. Deut. 21. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. Cursed be he who lightly esteems his father or mother Deut. 27. 16. Gather c. men women and children c. that they may hear c. that they may learn and fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. Set your hearts unto all the words c. which ye shall command your children to observe to do all the words of this law Deut. 32. 46. When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come saying What mean these stones then ye shall let your children know saying Israel came over Jordan on dry land for the Lord your God dryed up c. Josh 4. 20 21 22 23. Deut. 4. 9 10 ch 6. 20 21. Ruths great love to her mother-in-law recorded Ruth 1. 15 16 17. Eli was old and heard all that his sons did unto Israel and how they lay with the women c. and he said unto them Why do you such things for I hear of your evil dealings c. nay my sons for it is no good report that I hear c. If a man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him 1 Sam. 2. 22 23 24 25. I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken c. for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not or frowned not upon them 1 Sam. 3. 11 12 13 14. Bathsheba king Solomon's mother came to him he rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her caused a seat to be set for her on his right-hand 1 Kings 2. 19. David prays for Solomon his son and instructs him to keep the law 1 Chron. 22. 11 12 13. Job offered burnt-offerings for his sons continually for Job said It may be that my sons have sinned c. Job 1. 4 5. I will utter dark sayings of old which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us we will not hide them from their children shewing the generations to come the praises of the Lord c. that the generation to come might know the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God c. Psal 78. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Lo children are an heritage of the Lord the fruit of the womb a reward happy is the man who hath his quiver full of them Psal 127. 3 4 5. Ps 128. 3. Gen. 4. 1 25. ch 15. 2 3. ch 25. 21. ch 30. 22. 23 24. 1 Sam. 1. 5 6 10 11. Luke 1. 24 25. My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother Prov. 1. 8. ch 4. 1 2 c. ch 6. 20. A wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother Prov. 10. 1. ch 17. 25. ch 18. 13. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his childrens children c. He who spareth his rod hateth his son but he who loveth him chasteneth him tâ— times Prov. 13. 22 24. Chasten thy son while there is hope and let not thy soul spire for his crying Prov. 19. 18. Whoso curseth his father or mother his lampshall be put out in obscure darkness Prov. 20. 20. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it c. Foolishâ—â—ss is bound in the heart of a child the rod of correction shall drive it Prov. 22. 6 15. Withhold not correction from the child for if thou beat him with the rod he shall not die thou shalt beat him with a rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell Prov. 23. 13 14. Whoso robbeth his father or his mother and saith it is no transgression the same is a companion of a destroyer Prov. 28. 24. The rod and reproof give wisdom but a child left bringeth his mother to shame Correct thy son and he shall give thee rest c. Prov. 29. 15 17. The eye which mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the Ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it Prov. 30. 17. The sons of Jonadab commended by God himself for their obedience to their fathers commands and rewarded Jer. 35. 5 6 7 8 9 10 16 19. Leave thy fatherless children I will preserve them alive Jer. 49. 11. In thee they have set light by father and mother Ezek. 22. 7. A son honoureth his father Mal. 1. 6. He shall turn the heart of the father to the children and the heart of the children to their fathers Mal. 4. 6. I am come to set a man at variance against his father c. He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he who loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me Mat. 10. 35 37. God commanded saying Honour thy father and thy mother and he who curseth father or mother let him dye the death But ye say c. Mat. 15. 4 5 6. Jesus went down with his parents c. and was subject unto them Luke 2. 51. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents but the parents for the children 2 Cor. 12. 14. Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right honour thy father c. And ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord Eph. 6. 1 2 3 4. Children obey your parents in all things for this is well-pleasing to the Lord. Fathers provoke not your children lest they be discouraged Col. 3. 20 21. One who ruleth well in his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity 1 Tim. 3. 4. If a Widow have children c. let them learn to shew kindness at home and to requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before God c. If any provide not for his own house c. If any man or woman believeth not have widows let them relieve them c. 1 Tim. 5. 4 8 16. Perilous times shall come c. Men shall be disobedient to parents c. without natural affection 2 Tim. 3. 1 2 3. Teach the young men c. to love their children Tit. 2. 4. III. Masters to their Servants and Servants to their Masters HAgar despised her mistress Sarah dealt hardly with her she fled from her face c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto her Return to thy mistress and submit thy self under her hands Gen. 16. 4
6 7. There are diversities of operations but it is the same God who worketh all in all 1 Cor. 12. 6. But by the grace of God I am that I am c. I labour c. but the grace of God with me 1 Cor. 15. 10. Gal. 1. 15. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature c. But all these things are of God c. 2 Cor. 5. 17 18. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations c. 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live c. I live by faith Gal. 2. 20. What is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe c. Ephes 10. 19 20. Col. 1. 11 12 13. We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath c. Ephes 2. 10. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ Ephes 4. 7. Work out your own salvation c. For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure Philip. 2. 12 13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthneth me Philip. 4. 13. In meekness instruct c. If God peradventure will give them repentance to the c. 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. The just shall live by faith c. Heb. 10. 38. Now the God of peace c. make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Heb. 13. 20 21. 2 Thes 5. 23 24. Every good and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variableness c. James 1. 17. Giving thanks unto the Father who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son Col. 1. 12 13. 2. In Particular To give Knowledge of himself and of Jesus Christ and of the Mystery of Salvation by him in the Gospel and of our Duty Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day Deut. 29. 2. 3 4. There is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding Great men are not wise neither do the aged understand judgment Job 32. 8 9. Psal 94. 10. Job 38. 36. Behold God c. Who teacheth like him Job 36. 22. ch 38. 36. Good and upright is the Lord therefore will he teach sinners in the way the meek will he guide in judgment and the meek will he teach his way c. What man is he who feareth the Lord hâ—â— shall he teach in the way that he shall chuse c. The secret of the Lord is with them who â—ear him and he will shew them his covenant Psal 25. 4 5 8 9 12 14. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go I will guide thee with mine eye Psal 32. 8. O send out thy light and thy truth let them lead me let them bring me unto c. Psal 43. 3 4. Open thou mine eyes that I may behold the wondrous things out of thy law c. Teach me O Lord the way of thy statutes and I shall keep it to the end Give me understanding and I shall keep thy law Psal 119. 18 33 34. Psal 86. 11. He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgments unto Israel Psal 147. 19. Wisdom crieth c. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity c. and fools hate knowledge Turn ye at my reproof Behold I will pour out my spirit upon you I will make known my words unto you Prov. 1. 20 22 23. If thou criest after knowledge c. then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God For the Lord giveth wisdom out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding Prov. 2. 3 4 5 6. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths Prov. 3. 6. I have taught them the way of wisdom I have led thee in the right paths Prov. 4. 11. The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Isa 11. 9. Heb. 2. 14. Habak 2. 14. And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness c. They also who erred in the spirit shall come to understanding c. they shall learn doctrine Isa 29. 18 24. And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee saying This is the way walk ye in it when ye turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left Isa 30. 21. And the eyes of them who see shall not be dim c. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge and the tongue of the stammerers be ready to speak plainly or elegantly Isa 32. 3 4. Your God will come c. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped Isa 35. 4 5. I the Lord have called thee c. for a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes c. And I will bring the blind by a way they knew not I will lead them in paths they have not known I will make darkness light before them and crooked things streight Isa 42. 6 7 16. I will give them an heart to know me that I am the Lord c. Jer. 24. 7. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them Jer. 31. 34. Heb. 8. 11. Isa 54. 13. Jesus said I thank thee O Father c. because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Neither knoweth any man the Father but the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him Matth. 11. 25 27. It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it is not given Matth. 13. 11 13. Mark 4. 11 12. Peter said Thou art that Christ c. And Jesus answered and said unto him Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Jona for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but my Father who is in heaven Matth. 16. 15 16 17. The day-spring from on high hath visited us to give light to them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death to guide our seet into the way of peace Luke 1. 78 79. I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gain-say nor resist Luke 25. 15. These are the words which I spake
To God only wise c. Rom. 16. 20 25 27. Jesus Christ who shall also confirm you unto the end that ye may be also blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ God is faithful c. 1 Cor. 1. 7 8 9. There hath no tentation taken you but what is common or moderate unto man but God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it 1 Cor. 10. 13. Now he who establisheth us with you in Christ and hath anointed us is God who hath also sealed us c. 2 Cor. 1. 21 22. I sought the Lord c. and he said unto me My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness most gladly therefore will I glory in mine infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me for when I am weak then am I strong 2 Cor. 12. 7 8 9 10. Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand c. Ephes 6. 10 11 13. ch 3. 16. Being confident of this very thing that he who hath begun a good work in you will perfect or finish it until the day of Christ Phil. 1. 6. Every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry c. I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me Phil. 4. 12 13. And I pray God your whole spirit soul and body be preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ faithful is he who called you who also will do it 1 Thess 5. 23 24. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself c. establish you in every good word and work 2 Thess 2. 17. The Lord is faithful who shall stablish you and keep you from evil 2 Thess 3. 3. I know whom I have believed and am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day 2 Tim. 1. 12. No man stood with me c. notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me c. and the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom 2 Tim. 4. 16 17 18. To an inheritance c. reserved for you or for us who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation 1 Pet. 1. 4 5. But the God of all grace who hath called us c. after that you have suffered a while make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you 1 Pet. 5. 10. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God 1 John 3. 9. ch 5. 18. Ye are of God little children and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world 1 John 4. 4. Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory c. to the only wise God c. Jude v. 24 25. See more That Saints shall be kept Chap. 16. God in Christ doth Command Invite and Encourage by Promises to come to him for Teachings Spiritual Life and Strength to bring forth Fruit and persevere and to cast our Care upon him for all THe Lord he it is who doth go before thee he will be with thee he will not fail thee neither forsake thee fear not neither be dismayed Deut. 31. 8. Wait on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart Wait I say on the Lord Psal 27. 14. Cast thy burthen upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee Psal 55. 22. Wisdom cryeth without she uttereth her voice in the streets c. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity turn ye at my reproof Behold I will pour out my spirit unto you I will make known my words unto you Prov. 1. 20 21 22 23. ch 8. v. 1 to v. 11. Happy is the man who findeth wisdom and the man who getteth understanding c. She is more precious than rubies and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her c. Then shalt thou walk in the way safely and thy foot shall not stumble Prov. 3. 13 14 15 23. I wisdom c counsel is mine and sound wisdom I am understanding I am strength By me kings reign c. I love them who love me and those who seek me early shall and me Riches and honour are with me yea durable riches and righteousness My fruit is better than gold yea fine gold and my revenue than choice silver I lead in the ways of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgment that I may cause those who love me to inherit substance and I will fill their treasures c. Now therefore hearken unto me O ye children for blessed are they who keep my ways Hear instruction and be wise and refuse it not Blessed is the man who heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors for whoso findeth me findeth life Prov. 8. 1 12 14 15 17 18 19 20 21 32 33 34 35. ch 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6. When the poor and needy seek water and there is none and their tongue faileth for thirst I the Lord will hear them I the God of Israel will not forsake them I will open rivers in high places and fountains in the midst of the valleys I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of water Isa 41. 17 18. Psalm 69. 3. I said not to the seed of Jacob Seek ye my face in vain c. Look unto me and be ye saved all ye ends of the earth for I am God Isaiah 45. 19 22. Who is among you who â—eareth the Lord c. who walketh in darkness and hath no light let hin trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Isa 50. 10. Ho every one who thirsteth come ye to the waters and ye who have no money come ye buy and eat yea come buy wine and milk without money and without price wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Hearken diligently to me and eat ye that which is good and let your souls delight it self in fatness incline your ear and come unto me hear and your souls shall live and I will make an everlasting covenant with you c. Seek ye the Lord while he may be found call upon him while he is near Let the wicked forsake his ways c. and let him return unto the Lord Isa 55. 1 2 3 6 7. I have seen thy adulteries c. Wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be Jerem. 13. 27. As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in
for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel saith the Lord Ezek. 39. 29. Not by might or power but by my Spirit saith the Lord c. grace Zach. 4. 6 7. I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie c. and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit Joel 2. 28 29. Acts 2. 16 17. Luke 24. 49. I will pour upon the house of David c. the Spirit of grace and of supplication and they shall look upon me whom they have have pierced c. Zech. 12. 10. Ephes 6. 18. Jude verse 20. When they deliver you up take no thought how or what ye shall speak c. for it is not ye who speak but the Spirit of your Father who speaketh in you Matth. 10. 19 20. Luke 12. 12. ch 17. 20 21. If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God then the kingdom is come unto you Matth. 12. 28. Except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit John 3. 5 6. It is the Spirit who quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing c. John 6. 36. 2 Cor. 3. 6. He who believeth on me out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water but this spake he of the Spirit which they who believed on him should receive John 7. 38 39. Gal. 3. 2. 14. John 4. 13 14. I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive c. He dwelleth with you and shall be in you I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you c. The Comforter the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said John 14. 16 17 18 25 26. But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father the Spirit of truth c. John 15. 26. ch 1. 33. Acts 1. 5. It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto youâ— and when he is come he will convince the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment c. I have yet many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now Howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth c. he shall not speak of himself but c. He shall receive of mine and shew it unto you John 16. 7 8 12 13 14. They were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit by which Stephen spake Acts 6. 9. 10. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost c. Rom. 5. 5. If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwell in you he who raised up the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit which dwelleth in you c. If ye through the spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body ye shall live For as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God c. Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit himself maketh intercession for us c. Rom. 8. 11 13 14 26 27. Eph. 2. 18. Eph. 6. 18. Jude verse 20. That ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost c. That the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable being sanctified by the holy Ghost c. To make the Gentiles obedient c. by the power of the spirit of God Rom. 15. 13 16 18 19. Eye hath not seen c. but God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit for the spirit searcheth all things c. The things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God Now we have received c. the spirit of God that we might know the things which are freely given unto us of God 1 Cor. 2. 9 10 11 12. Such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified c. and by the spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6. 11. Titus 3. 5. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost Now there are diversity of gifts but the same spirit c. The manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal For to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom c. But all these worketh that one and the self same spirit dividing to every man severally as he will c. By one spirit we are all baptized into one body 1 Cor. 12. 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 13. We c. beholding c. the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image c. by the spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. We through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith Gal. 5. 5 22 Through him we both have an access by one spirit unto the father Ephes 2. 18. The mystery of Christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as now it is revealed c. by the spirit c. I bow my knees unto the father c. that he would grant you c. to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man Ephes 3. 4 5 14 16. Who declared unto us your love in the spirit Col. 1. 8. Our Gospel came not unto you in word only but also in power and in the holy Ghost c. And ye became followers of us and of the Lord 1 Thess 1. 5 6. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth 2 Thess 2. 13. That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the holy Ghost who dwelleth in us 2 Tim. 1. 14. He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which is shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ Tit. 3 5 6. Ephes 5. 26. Elect c. through sanctification of the spirit unto obedience c. Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren 1 Pet. 1. 2 22. But ye have an unction from the holy one and ye know all things c. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things c. 1 John 2. 20. 27. Of the Spirit of God further his being given to and dwelling in the Saints and working in them and others The Nature Appearance and Fruit of the Spirit and
99. 8. Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him c. Psal 34. 19. For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as the father the son in whom he delighteth Prov. 3. 12. Behold I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and wonders in Israel Isa 8. 18. He who departeth from evil maketh himself a prey Isa 59. 15. They watch for iniquity they make a man an offender for a word c. Isa 29. 20 21. You only have I known of all the families of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Amos 3. 2. Beware of men for they will deliver you up to the Councels and they will scourge you in their Synagogues and ye shall be brought before governours and kings for my sake c. and the brother shall deliver up the brother to death and the father the child c. and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake c. The disciple is not above his master c. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his Master and the servant as his Lord if they have called the master of the house Belzebub how much more shall they call them of the houshould c. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth c. A man's enemies shall be they of his own houshold Mat. 10. 17 18 21 22 24 25 34 35 36. chap. 24. 9 10. Luke 21. 12 13 14 c. Mark 10. 30. Then said Jesus unto his disciples If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me Matth. 16. 24. Mark 8. 34 35. Wo unto you who laugh now for ye shall mourn and weep wo unto you when all men shall speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets Luke 6. 25 26. Jesus said unto him Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head Luke 9. 58. If the world hate you ye know that it hated me before it hated you If ye were of the world the world would love its own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you Remember the word I said unto you The servant is not greater than his Lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you c. These things they will do unto you for my name's sake because they know not him who sent me John 15. 18 19 20 21 1 John 3. 13. John 17. 14. These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended But they shall put you out of their Synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God service and these things will they do unto you because they have not known the father nor me c. Ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce ye shall be sorrowful c. In the world ye shall have tribulation John 16. 1 2 3 20 22 33. Of a truth against the holy child Jesus c. both Herod c. were gathered together to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Acts 4. 27 28. The Lord said of Paul I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my Name Acts 9. 15 16. Exhorting them to continue in the faith and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God Acts 14. 22. Mark 10. 30. The holy Ghost witnesseth in every city saying That bonds and afflictions abide me Acts 20. 23. Always we who live are delivered to death for Christ's sake that also the life of Jesus c. 2 Cor. 4. 11. ch 7. 5. But as then he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was born after the spirit so it is now Gal. 4. 29. We wrestle not with flesh c. but with principalities c. Ephes 6. 11 12 13. Unto you it is given c. not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake Phil 1. 29. That no man be moved by these afflictions for your selves know that we are appointed thereunto 1 Thes 3. 3. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3. 12. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth c. for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not but if ye be without chastisements whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons Heb. 12. 6 7 8. Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial c. as though some strange thing happened to you but rejoyce in as much as ye are made partakers of Christ's sufferings judgment must begin at the house of God 1 Pet. 4. 12 13 17. The devil c. whom resist c. that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. Behold the devil shall cast some of you in prison that ye may be tried and ye shall have tribulation ten days Rev. 2. 10. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 19. These are they who came out of great tribulation and have washed c. Rev. 7. 14. Secondly That the Saints have been so exercised with Afflictions in Soul and Body from God and in their Bodies and outward Concerns from Men by Persecutions 1. From God more immediately Prov. 18. 14. JAcob sorely afflicted in Joseph and other of his sons Gen. 37. ch 34. The Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me I went forth full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty c. Ruth 1. 20 21. Job greatly afflicted in his out-things and his body Job 1. 13 to the end ch 2. 5 6 7 8. ch 7. 3 4 5 c. ch 9. 27 28 c. O that my grief were thoroughly weighed c. for now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea therefore my words are swallowed up or I want words to express my grief for the arrows of the Almighty are within me the poison thereof drinketh up my spirit the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me Job 6. 1 2 3 4. ch 13. 24 26. ch 19. ch 30. Psal 38. 2. Psal 55. 4 5. I was full of confusion therefore see my affliction Job 10. 15 16 c. My soul is sore vexed O Lord how long c. I am weary with my groaning all the night or every night make I my bed to swim I water my couch with tears mine eye is consumed because of grief c. Psal 6. 3 7. Psal 32. 4. Psal 102. 3 4 c. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me c. I cry in the day-time and thou hearest not Psal 22. 1 2. I am desolate and afflicted the troubles of mine heart are enlarged c. Psal 25. 16 17. Ps 40. 12. Ps 102. 3 4 5 6 9. Ps 143. 4. My
me c. every day they wrest my words all their thoughts are against me for evil Psal 56. 1 2 5. The mighty are gathered against me not for my transgression nor my sin O Lord they run and prepare themselves without my fault c. Psal 59. 3 4 7. Ps 119. 86 161. The workers of iniquity who whet their tongues like a sword c. bitter words that they may shoot in secret at the perfect c. Psal 64. 2 3 4 5. They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head Psal 69. 4. Psal 109. 2 3 4. They who hate thee have lifted up the head they have taken crafty counsel against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones They have said Come and let us cut them off c. Psal 83. 2 3 4 5. Psal 31. 13. How long shall the wicked triumph shall they utter and speak hard things c. they break in pieces thy people O Lord and afflict thine heritage c Who frame mischief by a law they gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood Ps 94. 3 4 5 20 21. The proud have forged a lie against me Ps 119. 69 86. We are exceedingly filled with contempt our foul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those who are at ease with the contempt of the proud Psal 123. 3 4. The enemy hath persecuted c. my spirit overwhelmed c. my heart is desolate c. my spirit faileth c. Psal 143. 3 4 7. All that pass by the way clap their hands at thee they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem saying Is this the City c. we have swallowed up certainly this is the day we looked for We have found c. Lam. 2. 15 16. There are certain Jews whom thou hast set oâ—r the affairs of the provinces c. These men O king have not regarded thee they served not thy gods nor worship golden-images c. and they cast them into the fiery-furnace Dan. 3. 9 12 20 21. The wicked devoureth the man who is more righteous than he Habak 1. 13. The princes and the presidents sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom but they could find none c. Then said these men We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel except we find it against him in the law of his God c. They procure a law that none should ask of any god or man but the king c. watch Daniel accuse him and cast him into the lions den Dan. 6. 4 5 to v. 17. They afflict the just therefore the prudent shall keep silence c. for it 's an evil time Amos 5. 12 13. Herod had laid hold on John and bound him and put him in prison for Herodias sake c. for John said to him It is not lawful for thee to have her c. and he sent and beheaded John in the prison Mat. 14. 3 4 9 10. Herod and Pilate who were at enmity before persecute Christ and were made friends Luke 23. 11 12. Because you are not of the world c. therefore the world hateth you John 15. 19. They disputed with Stephen and they were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit by which he spake then they stirred up the people c. and came upon him and caught him and brought him to the council and set up false witnesses Acts 6. 9 to 14. Herod the king stretched forth his hand to vex certain of the church and he killed James the brother of John with the sword and because he saw it pleased the Jews he proceeded to take Peter and imprison him c. Acts 12. 1 2 3 4. They caught Paul and Silas and drew them into the market-place unto the rulers and brought 〈◊〉 to the magistrares saying These men being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city and teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive neither to observe being Romans c. they beat them put them into prison Acts 16. 19 to v. 25. ch 19. 9. The Philosophers c. say unto Paul What will this babler or base fellow say Acts 17. 18. There arose no small stir about that way for a cèrtain man c. who made silver shrines for Diana c. complained against Paul made a great uproar laid hold of Paul's companions Acts 19. 23 to v. 30. We would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia 2 Cor. 1. 8 9. I suffer trouble unto bonds 2 Tim. 2. 9. Ye endured a great fight of afflictions partly whiles ye were made a gazing-stock both by reproches and afflictions c. Ye took joyfully the spoiling of your goods c. Heb. 10. 32 33 34. Others were tortured c. Others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonments c. of whom the world was not worthy Heb. 11. 35 36 37 38. Do not rich men oppress you by tyranny and draw you to the tribunals James 2. 6. Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you James 5. 6. They speak evil of you as of evil doers c. 1 Pet. 3. 16. ch 4. 4. The world hath not known you because they have not known him c. Marvel not my brebrethren if the world hate you 1 〈◊〉 3. 1 13. ch 3. 30. I John c. was in the isle that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Christ Jesus Rev. 1. 9. Secondly From hypocritical Professors of the true God Jews Men zealous of the Law and Traditions The Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering But unto Cain and his offering he had no respect c. Cain rose up against Abel his brother and slew him Gen. 4. 4 5 8. 1 John 3. 12. Gen. 27. 43. Esau cameâ—forth against Jacob with four hundred men Gen. 32. 6 7 8 c. Joseph's brethren hate him and could not speak peaceably unto him c. they conspired against to slay him c. they cast him into a pâ—t c. they sell him to the Ishmaelites c. Gen. 37. 4 10 11 18 20 24 27 28. ch 45. 4 5. Joshua envied Eldad and Medad for prophecying and would have Moses forbid them but Moses rebukes him Numb 11. 27 28 29. Saul eyed David that day and forward c. He said I will smite David c. he became his enemy continually often attempted to take away his life from him 1 Sam. 18 8 9 11 17 29. ch 19. 1 9 10 11. ch 22. ch 24. ch 26. Absalom conspired against his father David 2 Sam. 15. Shimei cursed David when he fled from Absolom 2 Sam. 16. 5 6 7 8 13. Ahab pursued Elijah in every nation c. he said to Elijah when he saw him Art thou he who troubleth Israel 1 Kings 18. 10 17. ch 21. 20. Jezebel threatens to take away Elijah his
remembered that God was their rock c. Psal 78. 34 35. Isa 9. 13. It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes the law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold c. Psal 119. 71 72. My beloved had withdrawn himself was gone my soul failed c. I sought him c. Cant. 5. 6. Such as escape of the house of Jacob shall no more again stay upon him who smote them but shall stay upon the Lord the holy one of Israel in truth Isa 10. 20 21. In that day it shall come to pass that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin c. At that day shall a man look to his maker and his eyes shall have respect to the holy one of Israel and he shall not look to the altars c. Isa 17. 4 5 6 7 8. In vain have I smitten your children they receive no correction Jer. 2. 30. Amos 4. 10. Wherefore doth a living man complain c. let us search and try our ways and turn again unto the Lord Lam. 3. 39 40. Isaiah 9. 13. Jeremiah 31. 18 19. I will cause you to pass under the rod c. and ye shall know that I am the Lord Ezekiel 20. 37 38. Behold I will hedge up thy way c. Then shall she say I will go and return to my first husband for then was it better with me than now c. Hos 2. 6 7 8 ch 5. 15. I will bring a third part through the fire c. they shall call on my name and I will hear them Amos. 4. 10. We had the sentence of doath in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God who raiseth the dead who delivered us c. 2 Cor. 1. 8 9 10. Our light affliction worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen c. 2. Cor. 4. 17 18. See Repentance Chap. 33. 4. For Gods own Glory and the furtherance of the Gospel I will harden Pharaohs heart that he shall follow after them and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh and upon all his host that the Egyptians may know that I am the Lord c. And the Egyptians pursued after them c. and the children of Israel were sore afraid c. Exod. 14. 4 9 10 17 18. He fed thee with Manna c. that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live Deut. 8. 3. Howbeit because by this deed thou hast given great cause to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die 2 Sam. 12. 14. Hast thou considered my servant Job c. and still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movest me against him to destroy him without cause Job 2. 3. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain Psalm 76. 10. The Three Children's Sufferings made Persecutors acknowledge and give Honour to God Dan. 3. 27 28 29. So Daniel's Sufferings made Darius the King who had caused him to be cast into the Lions Den to acknowledge and honour God Dan. 6. 20 26 27. Master Who did sia this man or his parents that he was born blind Jesus answered Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents but that the work of God might be made manifest in him John 9. 1 2 3. Jesus said This sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God that the Son of God might be glorified thereby John 11. 3 4. This spake he signifying by what death he should glorifie God John 21. 18 19. We are troubled on every side c. that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body for we who live are always delivered unto death that the life of Jesus might be manifest in our mortal flesh 2 Cor. 4. 8 9 10 11. When Paul was buffeted c. he besought the Lord thrice that it might depart and it was said My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness Most gladly will I therefore rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me c. 2 Cor. 12. 7 8 9 10. I would have you understand c. that the things which have happened to me have fallen out to the furtherance of the gospel c. and many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear Philip. 1. 12 13 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ c. the spirit c. on your part he is glorified 1 Pet. 4. 14. 5. For the effecting of great Good and Advantage to those who are exercised with Trouble c. JOseph's Afflictions and Sufferings his being sold by his brethren and afterwards being imprisoned happened through God to his great honour and advantage He advanced to be next the King his Brethren who sold him made to bow to him and honour him and are nourished by him his Father's Sorrow also recompenced in that Joseph provided for him in the Famine Gen. 37. 28 34 35. ch 29. 5 20. ch 41 39 40 41 42 43 44. ch 45. 5 7 8. ch 47. 11 12. But as for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good to bring to pass as at this day to save much people alive Gen. 50. 20 21. The more they afflicted them the more they multiplied and growed Exod. 1. 11 12. Ezra 5. ch 6. And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians and the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord and his servant Moses Exod. 14. 31. Who fed thee with Manna c. that he might humble thee c. to do thee good in the latter end Deut. 8. 16. Hezekiah left of God to try him that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32. 31. When Manasseh was afflicted he sought the Lord the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers and prayed unto him c. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God c. He took away the strange gods c. 2 Chron. 3. 3 11 12 13 15 16. Tatnai the Governor opposing the Jews wrought for their advantage in the end Ezra 5. ch 6. If they be bound in fetters c. then he sheweth them their work and their transgressions that they may have exceeded He openeth also their ear to discipline Job 36. 8 9 10. Before I was afflicted I went astray but now I have kept thy word c. It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes c. Thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me Psal 119. 67 71 75. They who sow in tears
unto thee who pardoneth iniquity c. he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy he will turn again he will have compassion upon us Micah 7. 8 9 18 19. Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted Mat. 5. 4. Verily verily I say unto you that ye shall were and lament c. but your sorrow shall be turned into joy c. ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce John 16. 20 22. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly Rom. 16. 20. God is faithful c. but will with the temptation also make a way to escape 1 Cor. 10. 13. God who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver 2 Cor. 1. 10. It is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them who trouble you and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus c. 2 Thes 1. 6 7. What persecutions I endured but out of them all the Lord delivered me 2 Tim. 3. 11. The Lord stood with me c. and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion 2 Tim. 4. 17 18. Heb. 13. 5 6. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly 〈◊〉 of temptations 2 Pet. 2. 9. Cons 11. That Afflictions and Petsecutions have been the lot of Christ himself and of the Saints in all Ages THE disciple is not above his Lord nor the servant above his master it is enough for the dâ—â—ciple that he be as his Master c. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold Fear them not therefore Mat. 10. 24 25 26. If the world hate you you know that it hated me before it hated you c. remember the word that I said unto you The servant is not greater than the Lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you John 15. 18 20. We are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men c. even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffetted and have no certain dwelling-place c. being reviled c. persecuted c. we are made as the filth of the world and the off-scouring of all things unto this day 1 Cor. 4. 9 11 12 13. There hath no temptation taken you but what is common to man 1 Cor. 10. 13. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus sake 2 Cor. 4. 11. But as then he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was after the spirit even so it is now Gal. 4. 29. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses c. let us run with patience the race which is set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of faith who for the joy which was set before him endured the cross c. for consider him who endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest you be wearied and faint in your minds Heb. 12. 1 2 3. Take my Bâ—â—thren the Prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience Jam. 5. 10. Hereunto also are ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should also follow his steps 1 Pet. 2. 21. Your adversary the Devil as a roaring lion c. whom resist stedfast in the saith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. How long O Lord c. dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them who dwell on the earth and it was said unto them That they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow-servants also and their brethren which should be killed as they were should be fulfilled Rev. 6. 10 11. IV. What are the Dúties of the Saints and how they ought to behave themselves under their Afflictions and Sufferings both towards God and Men. First Towards God 1. To eye God in them Afflictions being sent of him JOseph said to his Brethren it was not you who sent me hither but God Gen. 45. 5. 8. ch 50. 19 20. I will harden Pharaoh's heart that he shall follow after them c. Exod. 14. 1. ch 4. 21. When Israel wanted water in the desert they did not eye God in it but chide with Moses Numb 20. 2 3. But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate Deut. 2. 30. Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not amongst us Deut. 31. 17. See now that I even I am he c. I kilâ— and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any who can deliver you out of my hand Deut. 32. 39. The Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me c. God hath brought me home again empty Ruth 1. 20 21. When Samuel had told Eli what the Lord would do against his house he said It is the Lord 1 Sam. 3. 18. Shimei cursed David c. David said So let him curse because the Lord hath said unto him Curse David who then shall say wherefore 2 Sam. 16. 6 7 8 9 10. Satan said Put forth thine hand c. Job said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken Job â— 11 21. chap. 2. 5. Afflictions cometh not forth of the dust neither doth trouble come out of the ground c. the chastening of the Lord for he maketh fore and bindeth up he woundeth c. Job 5. 6. 17 18. ch 9. 12. I will say unto God c. wherefore contendest thou with me Job 10 2. ch 30. 11. God hath overthrown me c. he hathâ— fenâ—â—â— up my way that I cannot pass c. Job 19. 6 7. 8 9 10 11 12. chap. 13. 26 27. Lam. 1. 12 13 c. chap. 2. 5 6. When he giveth quietness who then can make trouble and when he hideth his face who then can behold him Job 34. 22. I opened not my mouth because thou didst it c. when thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity thou makest his beauty to consume away c. Psal 39. 9 11. Thou hast cast us off and put us to shame c. thou hast given us like sheep for meat Psal 44. 9 10 c. Thou who hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me Psal 71. 20. Thou turnest man to destruction Psal 90. 3. Their Enemies he turned their heart to hate his people and to deal subtilly with his servants Psal 105. 25. Despise not the chastening of the Lord c. Prov. 3. 11 12. Heb. 12. 5 6. O Assyrian the rod of thine anger c. I will send him against an hypocritical Nation c. Isa 10. 5 6. I make peace I create evil I the Lord do all these things Isa 45. 7.
I was wroth with my people I have c. given them into thine hand Isa 47. 6. Thou hast cast me into the deep c. thy billows and 〈◊〉 waves have passed over me Jonah 2. 3. The Lord's voice crieth unto the city c. Hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it Micah 6. 9. In vain have I smitten your children they have received no correction Jer. 2. 30. When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord 1 Cor. 11. 32. Moses endured as seeing him who is invisible Heb. 11. 27. Whom the Lord loves he chastenâ—th and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth Heb. 12. 6. 7. See more of Common Calamities Chap. 23. 2. To submit to God with an humble quiet and silent Spirit under Troubles WHen Benjamin must to Egypt or Jacob could have no food he saith If I am bereaved I am c. Gen. 43. 14. When God had slain Nadab and Abihu Aaron's son and Moses had told Aaron that God would be sanctified in all those who came near him c. Aaron held his peace Levit. 10. 1 2 3. If their uncircumcised hearts be humbled and they then except of the punishment of their iniquity then will I remember my covenant Levit. 26. 41 42. Ye shall eat until it come out at your nostrils and it be loathsome unto you because that ye have despised the Lord who is among you and have wept before him saying Why came we forth out of Egypt Numb 11. 19 20. Exod. 14. 10 11 12. Do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee deliver us only we pray thee this day Judges 10. 15. When Samuel had told Eli all which God had threatned against Eli's house Eli said It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good 1 Sam. 3. 14 15 16 1â— 1â— David said Carry back the Ark of God into the city it I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again c. But if he thus say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good to him 2 Sam. 15. 25 26. Behold the day cometh that all which is in thine house and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day shall be carried unto Babylon nothing shall be left saith the Lord c. Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah Good is the word or the Lord which thou hast spoken c. 2 Kings 20. 16 17 18 19. When Job had received all the sad messages of his Ladies he worshipped and said Naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. In all this Job sinned not Job 1. 19 20 21. Then said his wife to him c. Curse God and die But he said unto her c. What shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not 〈◊〉 evil in all this did not Job sin Job 2. 9 10. He is wise in heart c. Who hath hardened himself against him and prospered Who c. How much less shall I answer him and chuse out my words to reason with him whom tho I were righteous would I not answer c. Job 9. 3 4 13 14 15 32. Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those who are high one dieth in his full strength or in the strength of his perfection c. and another dieth in the bitterness of his soul and never eateth with pleasure Job 21. 22 23 24 25. God is greater than man why dost thou strive against him for he giveth not account of any of his matters for God speaketh once yea twice man perceiveth it not c. Job 33. 10 11 12 13 14 15. For he will not lay upon man more than is right that he should enter into judgment with God c. Surely it is meet to be said unto God I have born chastisement I will not offend that which I see not teach thou me If I have done iniquity I will do not more Job 34. 23 31 32. The Lord answered Job and said shall he who contendeth with the Almighty instruct him he who reproveth God let him answer it Then Job answered and said Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth once have I spoken but I will not answer c. Job 40. 1 2 3 4 5. chap. 42. 3 4 5 6. I was dumb I opened not my mouth because thou didst it Psal 39. 9. My son despise not the chastenings of the Lord neither be weary of his correction for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth Prov. 3. 11 12. Heb. 12. 5 6. Who would set the briers c. against me c. I would burn them together Isa 27. 4. Wo unto him who striveth with his maker let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth shall the clay say to him who fashioneth it what c. Isa 45. 9. In vain have I smitten your children they received no correction Jer. 2. 30. Cannot I do with you as this potter saith the Lord Behold as the clay is in the potter's hand so are ye in my hand O house of Israel Jer. 18. 4 5 6. Thou hast chastened me c. after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed c. Jer. 31. 18 19. God tells his people in Babylon that if they would abide there he would build them and not pull them down but if they submitted not to their condition but said They would go down to Egypt where they might see no war c. Then judgments should follow them thither and there they should die Jer. 42. 10 to v. 17. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth he sitteth alone and keepeth silence because he putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope c. Wherefore doth the living man complain c. for the punishment of sins Lam. 3. 27 28 29 39. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Micah 7. 9. In your patience possess ye your souls Luke 21. 19. None of these things move me neither is my life dear unto me so that c. Acts 20. 24. Tribulation worketh patience and patience experience c. Rom. 5. 4 5. Patience in tribulations Rom. 12. 12. Neither murmur ye as some of them murmured and were destroyed 1 Cor. 10. 10 11. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities in reproches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christ's sake for when I am weak then am I strong 2 Cor. 12. 10. 2 Tim. 2. 3. I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content Phil. 4. 11 12. Endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ c. 2 Tim. 2. 3. We our selves glory in you c. for your faith and patience in all your persecutions 2 Thes 1. 4. Consider him who
endured such c. lest ye be weary and faint in your minds c. Fathers of our flesh who correct us c. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the father of spirits and live for they c. chasten us after their pleasure but he for our profit Hebr. 12. 3. 9 10. James 1. 12. Submit your selves therefore to God resist the Devil James 4. 7. The husbandman waiteth c. Be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord c. James 5. 7 8 11. If ye do well and suffer for it and take it patiently this is acceptable to God 1 Pet. 2. 20. Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial c. as though some strange thing happened c. 1 Pet. 4. 12. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time 1 Pet. 5. 6. I know thy work c. and thy patience c. Rev. 2. 2 3 19. 3. To confess their Sins and justifie God PHaraoh c. said I have sinned c. the Lord is righteous and I and my people are wicked Exod. 9. 27. If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers with their trespasses c. then will I remember my covenant c. Levit. 26 40 41 42. The princes c. and the king humbled themselves and they said The Lord is righteous 2 Chron. 12. 6. 1 Kings 21. 27 28 29. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right but we have done wickedly c. Ezra 9. 10 11 12 13. Neh. 9. 33 34 c. Judg. 10. 13 14 15. Dan. 9. 14. I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7. 20. How should man be just with God if he will content with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand c. If I justifie my self mine own mouth shall condemn me Job 9. 2 3 20. ch 4. 17. Psal 143. 2. He looked unto men and if any say I have sinned c. he will deliver his soul from going into the pit c. Job 33. 27 28. He will not lay upon man more than is right c. Job 34. 23. Behold I am vile what shall I answer thee c. Job 40. 3 4. I uttered that I understood not things to◠wonderful for me which I knew not c. I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Job 42. 3 5 6. Against thee thee only have I sinned c. that thou mayest be justified c. Psal 51. 4. He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities Ps 103. 10. Ezra 9. 13. The church in her affliction confesseth her sin Isa 59. 11 to v. 16. Thou art wroth for we have sinned c. Isa 64. 5 6 7. Thou sayest Because I am innocent surely his anger shall turn from me behold I will plead with thee because thou sayest I have not sinned Jer. 2. 35. Only acknowledge thine iniquity c. Jer. 3. 12 13 25. Daniel confesseth to God at large in the time of the captivity Dan. 9. 5 to v. 16. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned therefore she is removed c. Zion spreadeth forth her hands c. The Lord is righteous for I have rebelled Lam. 1. 8 9 18 20. It is the Lord's mercy we are not consumed c. wherefore doth the living man complain c. Let us search and try our ways and turn again c. Lam. 3. 22 39 40 42. The crown is fallen from our head wo to us that we have sinned Lam. 5. 16. I will go and return to my place till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face i◠in their afflictions they will seek me early Hos 5. 15. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him Micah 7. 9. Dost thou not fear God seeing thou art in the same condemnation and we indeed justly for we receive the due reward of our deeds c. Luke 23 40 41. See more of Confession at large Chap. 16. See more of Confession of Sins in time of Common Calamities Chap. 23. One to another Chap. 17. See Prayer Chap. 16. 4. To hold fast to God own the Lord Jesus his People and Ways in the midst of Trouble Afflictious and Persecutions SHall such an one as I flee c. and go into the temple to save his life Nehem. 6. 11. Job's Wife said unto him in his great Affliction Dost thou still retain thy integrity Curse God and die But he said unto her Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh What c. In all this did not Job sin with his lips Job 2. 9 10. All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee neither have we dealt falsly in thy covenant Our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy way Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragous and covered us with the shadow of death if we have forgotten the name of our God c. Psal 44. 17 18 19 20. The proud have had me greatly in derision yet have I not declined from thy law c. Many are my persecutors and mine enemies yet do I not decline from thy testimonies c. Princes have persecuted me without a cause yet doth my heart stand in awe of thy word Psal 119. 51 87 157 161. The Lord spake unto me c. and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people saying Say ye not A confederacy to all them to whom this people shall say A confederacy neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid Sanfie the Lord of hosts himself and let him be your fear and your dread and he shall be for a sanctuary Isa 8. 11 12 13 14. When Jeremiah had prophesied to Judah then spake the priest and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people saying This man is worthy to die for he hath prophesied against this city c. Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people saying The Lord sent me to prophesie against this house c. therefore now amend your ways c. But as for me behold I am in your hand do with me as seemeth good c. Jer. 26. 11 to 15. Daniel when a Captive in Babylon he purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the Portion of the King's Meat nor with the Wine which he drank and therefore he requested 〈◊〉 that he might not defile himself c. denied Pulse to eat and Water to drink Dan. 1. 8 to 13. When a strict Law had been made by the King that every one should fall down and worship the 〈◊〉 image he had set up under pain of being cast into the Fiery Furnace Shadrach Meshach and 〈◊〉 refuse to do it and in the presence of the King said We are not careful to answer thee in
this matter c. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us c. and he will c. But if not Be it known unto thee O king that we will not serve thy gods nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up Dan. 3. 13 14 15 16 17 18. When a Decree was passed That whosoever should ask a Petition of any God or Man for thirty days save of the King he should be cast into the Lions Den And Daniel knew that the Writing was signed He went into his house and his windows being open in his chamber towards Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks as he did aforetime Dan. 6. 7 8 9 10. Ye shall be hated of all men for my name sake but he who endureth unto the end shall be saved c. He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me c. And he who taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me c. He who loseth his life for my sake shall find it Matth. 10. 22 37 38 39. ch 16. 24 25 26. He heareth the word and anon with joy receiveth it yet hath he not root in himself but dureth for a while for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word by and by he is offended Matth. 13. 20 21. When Christ was taken his Disciples fled Peter denied him but afterwards wept bitterly for his so doing Matth. 26. 56 70 72 74 75. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of his Father c. Mark 8. 36. John 9. 21 22. These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended John 16. 1. Gal. 5. 11. ch 6. 32. When the Apostles had been commanded not to speak at all c. in the name of Jesus they say Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard Acts 4. 19 20. Again When they were charged with Preaching contrary to their Command the Apostle said We ought to obey God rather than men And they preached Christ before the Council who caused them to be beaten and gave them a new Charge not to preach yet they daily in the Temple and in every House ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ Acts 5. 27 28 29 30 40 41 42. None of these things move me c. so that I may finish my course with joy and the ministry c. Acts 20. 23 24. I am ready not only to be bound but also to die c. for the name of the Lord Jesus Acts 21. 13. Paul before Foelix said after the way they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Acts 24. 14. If I preach circumcision why do I yet suffer c. Then is the offence of the cross ceased Gal. 5. 11. ch 6. 12. Many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word without fear c. That ye stand fast c. striving together for the faith of the gospel and in nothing terrified by your adversaries Philip. 1. 14 27 28. Be thou not therefore ashamed of the testimony of the Lord nor of me his prisoner but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel c. I suffer these things nevertheless I am not ashamed 2 Tim. 1. 8 12. Heb. 13. 13. If we suffer c. If we deny him he also will deny us 2 Tim. 2. 12. Nor faint when thou art rebuked of him Heb. 12. 5. If any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but glorifie God 1 Pet. 4. 16. Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints Jude vers 3. Thou shalt suffer c. Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life Rev. 2. 10. ch 12. 11. See more of Perseverance Chap. 16. 5. To be chearful under Affliction and rejoyce to to be counted worthy to suffer for Christ BE of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart all ye who hope in the Lord Psal 31. 24. Although the fig-tree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the vine c. yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation Heb. 3. 17 18. When they shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake rejoyce and be exceeding glad Mat. 5. 11 12. He who taketh not up his cross and followeth me is not worthy of me Matth. 10. 38. ch 16. 24 25. In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good chear I have overcome the world John 16. 33. When the Apostles had been put into the common Prison brought before the Council and been beaten there they departed from the presence of the Council rejoycing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name Acts 5. 18 27 40 41. Paul and Silas being thrust into the inner Prison and their Feet made fast in the Stocks sang Praises unto God and the Prisoners heard Acts 16. 24 25. Bonds and afflictions abide in me but none of these things move me Acts 20. 23 24. What mean ye to weep c. I am ready not to be bound only but also to die Acts 21. 13. And not only so but we glory in tribulation also Rom. 5. 3. As sorrowful yet always rejoycing 2 Cor. 6. 10. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christ's sake 2 Cor. 12. 9 10. I Paul am made a minister who now rejoyce in my sufferings for you Col. 1. 23 24. That no man should be moved by these afflictions for your selves know that we are appointed c. 2 Thes 3. 3. Thou therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ 2 Tim. 2. 3. Heb. 12. 5. For 〈◊〉 c. took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves c. Heb. 10. 34. Moses chusing rather to suffer c. esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt Heb. 11. 25 26. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees Heb. 12. 12. My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience c. Blessed is the man who endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown James 1. 1 2 12. If ye suffer for righteousness sake c. be not afraid of their terrour neither be troubled 1 Pet. 3. 14. Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you c. but rejoyce in as much as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings that when his
people a prince who wauteth understanding c. Prov. 28. 15 16. When the righteous are in authority the people rejoyce but when the wicked beareth rule the people mourn c. The king by judgment stablisheth the land but he who receiveth gifts overthroweth it c. If a ruler hearken to lies all his servants are wicked The king who faithfully judgeth the poor his throne shall be established for ever c. Many seek the ruler's favour but every man's judgment is from the Lord Prov. 29. 2 3 12 14 26. It is not for kings to drink wine nor for princes strong drink left they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of the afflicted Prov. 31. 4 5. I saw under the sun the place of judgment wickedness there c. God shall judge the righteous Eccles 3. 16 17. Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who will no more be admonished Eccles 4. 13. Oppression maketh a wise man mad and a gift destroyeth the heart Eccles 7. 7. If thou seest the oppression of the poor and violent perverting of judgment and justice c. he who is higher than the highest regardeth Eccles 5. 8. Wo to thee O land when thy king is a child and thy princes eat in a morning blessed thou O land when thy king is the son of nobles and thy princes eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness Eccles 10. 16 17. The princes are rebellious and companions of thieves every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards they judge not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them c. Ah I will ease me c. Isa 1. 22 24. Jer. 5. 28. I will give children to be their princes and babes shall rule over them and the people shall be oppressed every one by another What mean ye ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor c. Isa 3. 4. 14 15. Wo unto them who decree unrighteous decrees c. to turn aside the needy from judgment c. what will ye do in the day of visitation c. Isa 10. 1 2 3. In that day shall the Lord of Hosts c. for a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment Hear the word of the Lord ye scornful men who rule this people c. because they have said c. Isa 28. 5 6 14 15 18. He who despiseth the gain of oppressions who shaketh his hands from holding of bribes c. he shall dwell on high Isa 33. 15 16. Is not this the rast that I have chosen To loose the bands of wickedness to undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free and that ye break every yoke Isa 58. 6 7 8. Zech 6. 5 6 7 8 c. Judgment is turned away backward and justice standeth afar off for truth it is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter Isa 59. 14. Hear the word of the Lord O king of Judah c. Thus saith the Lord Execute ye judgment and righteousness and deliver ye the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor do no wrong do no violence to the stranger c. neither shed innocent blood in this place c. Shalt thou reign because thou closest thy self in Cedar Did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice and it was well with him he judged the cause of the poor then it was well with him c. but thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness and for to shed innocent blood and for oppression and for violence c. Jer. 22. 1 2 3 15 16 17. Ezek. 22. 27. O princes of Israel remove violence and spoil and execute judgment and justice Take away your exactions from the people saith the Lord God Ezek. 45. 9. Zech. 8. 16. King Nebuchadnezzar for his great pride was driven from men to eat grass as an ox Dan. 4. 30 to 34. When the Princes had procured a wicked Law and Daniel taken upon it the King Darius was troubled and would have delivered him Dan. 6. I hate I despise your feasts c. Let judgment run down as waters c. Amos 5. 21 24. O heads of Jacob and princes Is it not for you to know judgment who hate the good and love c. Heer this ye princes c. who abhor judgment c. The heads thereof judge for reward Micah 3. 1 2 3 9 11. ch 7. 3. The law is slacked and judgment doth never go forth The wicked compasseth about the righteous therefore wrong judgment c. Habak 1. 4. Judge not according to the appearance but judge righteous judgment John 7. 24. Refrain your selves from these men c. For if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it Acts 5. 34 to 39. Ye ought to c. do nothing rashly c. the law is open let them implead one another Acts 19. 36 38. Paul said Dost thou fit to judge according to law and commandest me to be smitten contrary to law Acts 23. 3. It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any to die before he who is accused have the accusers face to face and have license to answer for himself c. It seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and withal not to signifie the crime laid against him Acts 25. 16 27. Rulers are not a terror to good works but to the evil c. for he is the minister of God to thee for good c. a revenger to execute wrath upon him who doth evil c. They are God's ministers attending continually upon this very thing Rom. 13. 3 4 6. Governors c. for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well 1 Pet. 2. 14. The great whore with whom the king's of the earth have committed fornication The ten horns shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire for God hath put it into their hearts to fulfill his will Rev. 17. 1 2 16 17. See Chap. 44. IV. The Duties of Subjects to their Magistrates in respect both to their Persons and Decrees First What they may not do when and wherein they may not obey them ISrael sinned c. in walking in the statutes c. and of the kings of Israel which they had made c. 2 Kings 17. 7 8 19. Render to Cesar the things which are Cesar's and to God the things which are God's Matth. 22. 21. The King of Egypt commanded the Midwives to kill the Men-Children of the Hebrews But they feared God and obeyed not the King And God took it well of them Exod. 1. 15 16 17 20 21. Saul said Jonathan shall surely die c. And the people said c. As the Lord liveth there shall not one hair of his head fall c. So
sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth Isa 65. 16. Jer. 12. 16. And thou shalt swear the Lord liveth in truth in judgment and in righteousness Jer. 4. 2. ch 12. 16. ch 5. 2. How shall I pardon thee for this Thy children have forsaken me and sworn by them who are no gods Jer. 5. 7. Because of swearing the land mourneth c. Jer. 23. 10. Hosea 4. 1 to 5. The king sware secretly unto Jeremiah saying As the Lord liveth who made us this soul I will not put thee to death Jer. 38. 16. God threatned the Jews King for breaking his Covenant and despising his Oath he made to and with the King of Babylon and saith Surely mine oath which he hath despised and my covenant which he hath broken even it will I recompence upon his own head c. I will bring him to Babylon Ezech. 17. 15 16 18 19 20. I heard the man cloathed in linnen c. when he lift up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven and sware by him who liveth for ever that it shall be for a time c. Dan. 12. 7. God threatens to cut off them who swear by the Lord and that swear by Malchâ—â—n Zephania 1. 5. Every one who sweareth shall be cut off c. I will bring it forth saith the Lord of hosts and it shall enter into the house of c. and into the house of him who sweareth falsly by my name c. Zech. 5. 3 4. Love no false oath for all these are things which I hate saith the Lord Zech. 8. 17. Swear not at all neither by heaven for it is God's throne nor by earth for it is his foot-stool c. But let your communication be yea yea nay nay for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil Matth. 5. 33 to 37. James 5. 12. Herod swore rashly to Herodias her daughter Matth. 14. 6 7 8 9 c. They sought false witness against Christ and two came Matth. 26. 60. Prov. 14. 5. They suborned false witnesses against Stephen Acts 6. 11 13. Men verily swear by the greater and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife Wherein God willing more abundantly c. confirmed it by an oath Heb. 6. 13 16 17 18. Jer. 22. 5. Numb 14. 21 22. And the Angel c. lifted up his hand to heaven and sware by him who liveth for ever c. that there should be time no longer Revel 10. 5 6. CHAP. XXVI Of Preachers in general Gospel-Ministers of what Spirits they should be their Duty and Recompence HOW shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard how shall they hear without a preacher how shall they preach except they shall be seat Rom. 10. 14 15 c. And though the Lord gave you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more but thine eyes shall see thy teachers Isa 30. 20. The Lord said unto Jeremy Thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee and whatsoever I shall command thee thou shalt speak Be not afraid c. Jer. 1. 7 8. If thou take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth Jer. 15. 19. The word of the Lord was made a reproach c. and a derision daily then said I I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name but his Word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay c. Jer. 20. 8 9. If thou speakest not to warn the wicked c. to save his life c. he shall die c. but his blood will I require at thy hand c. Ezek. 3. 17 18 19 c. Freely ye have received and freely give provide neither gold nor silver nor brass in your purses c. for the workman is worthy of his meat c. I send you forth as sheep c. be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves Mat. 10. 7 8 9 10 16. John 20. 21. Luke 10. 1 2 3 4 c. Go ye therefore teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost â—eaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo I am with you c. Matth. 28. 19 20. John 20. 21 22 23. He who despiseth you despiseth me and he who despiseth me despiseth him who sent me Luke 10. 16. He who speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory but he who seeketh his glory who sent him the same is true c. John 7. 18. The Apostles were very desirous to do good to the souls of others and therefore took all occasions possible to preach the Gospel every where Acts 2. 13 14 c. ch 3. 12 13 c. ch 4. 8 9 10 11. ch 5. 29 30 31 42. ch 7. 1. 2 3 c. When the Apostles were forbid to preach Christ they answer Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye for we cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard Acts 4. 19 20. We will give our selves to prayer continually and preaching of the Word Acts 6. 4. These are the servants of the most high God who shew unto us the way of salvation Acts 16. 17. Paul being a tent-maker abode with Aquilla being of the same craft and wrought with him c. He reasoned in the Synagogue every Sabbath c. He testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ c. Apollos shewing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ Acts 18. 1 2 3 4 5 28. Paul preached three months disputing and perswading about the kingdom of God but when divers were hardned c. he separated the disciples c. Acts 19. 8 9. Paul said I kept back nothing which was profitable unto you but have shewed you and have taught you publickly and from house to house c. testifying c. repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ c. Neither count I my life dear so that I might finish c. the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testifie the Gospel c. I am pure from the blood of all men for I have not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel of God c. I have coveted no man's silver or gold c. ye your selves know that these hands have ministred to my necessity and to them who were with me Acts 20. 20 21 24 26 27. 33 34 35. The Gentiles to whom I now send thee to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light c. Acts 26. 17 18 c. Gal. 1. 10 11 12 15 16. Paul dwelt two years in his own hired house and received all who came in unto him preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those
c. of Zion it shall be said This and that man was born in her and the highest himself shall establish her Psal 87. 2 3 5. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish c. still bring forth fruit Psal 92. 13 14. Holiness becomes thine house for ever O Lord Psal 93. 5. The Lord is great in Zion and he is high above all people Psal 99. 2. Psal 48. 1 2 c. The Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired iâ— for his habitation this is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have desired it I will abundantly bless her provision I will satisfie her poor witâ—â— bread c. Psal 132. 13 14 15 16 17. Psal 48. 14. The Lord shall reign for ever thy God O Zion unto all generations Psal 146. 10. Praise thy God O Zion for he hath c. blessed thy children c. filled thee with the finest of the wheat c. He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgments unto Israel he hath not dealt so with any nation c. Psal 147. 12 13 14 19 20. The mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills c. out of Zion shall go forth the law Isa 2. 2 3 4. Micah 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Psal 48. 8 9. The Lord will create upon every dwelling-place of mount Zion and upon her assembly a cloud and smoak by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defence Isa 4. 5 6. The Lord of hosts who dwelleth in mount Zion Isa 8. 18. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb c. they shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain Isa 11. 6 7 8 9. Cry out and shout thou inhabitant of Zion for great is the holy one of Israel in the midst of thee Isa 12. 6. The Lord hath founded Zion and the poor of his people shall trust in it Isa 14. 32. The moon shall be confounded c. when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion Isa 24. 23. In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things a feast of wines on the lees c. and I will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people c. Isa 25. 6 7. A vineyard of red-wine I the Lord doth keep it I will water it every moment lest any hurt it I will keep it night and day Isa 27. 2 3. As when an hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth and he awaketh and his soul is empty c. so shall the multitude c. be who fight against Zion Isa 20. 8. As the Lion c so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion c. The Lord whose fire is in Zion and his furnace in Jerusalem Isa 31. 4 9. Look upon Zion the city of our solemnities thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation a tabernacle which shall not be taken down c. but there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams c. the Lord is our judge our law-giver the Lord our King c. the inhabitants shall not say I am sick the people c. shall be forgiven Isa 33. 20 21 22 24. God threatens nations as recompences for the controversy of Zion Isa 34. 1 2. 8. The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come unto Zion c. and they shall obtain gladness and sorrow and sighing shall fly away Isa 35. 10. ch 51. 11 12. Great promises are made to the Church of God Isa 41. 8 9 10 11 c. I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory Isa 46. 13. Zion said the Lord hath forsaken me c. can a woman forget her sucking child c. yâ—a they may yet will I not forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of mine hands thy walls are continually c. Isa 49. 14 15 16. The Lord shall comfort Zion he will comfort all her waste places Isa 51. 3. Psal 69. 35 36. Isa 54. Zion thy God reigneth Isa 52. 7. I will bring them to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house Isa 56. 6 7. The great glory the Church of God shall have upon her Isa 60. Zech. 12. ch 13. Say to the Daughter of Zion Behold thy salvation cometh c. and they shall call them the holy people the redeemed of the Lord and thou shalt be called Sought out a city not forsaken Isa 62. 11 12. I will take you one of a city c. and bring you unto Zion and will give you pastors according to mine heart Jer. 3. 14 15. Do not abhor us for thy names sake do not disgrace the throne of thy glory Jer. 14. 21. The place of my throne and the place of the soles of my â—eet where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever Ezek. 43. 7. And ye shall know that I am the Lord in the midst of Israel c. for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance as the Lord hath said Joel 2â— 27 32. The Lord also shall roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and heaven and earth shall shake but the Lord is the hope of his people c. I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion my holy mountain c. and a fountain shall come out of the house of the Lord and shall water the vailey c. Judâ—â— shall dwell for ever c. for the Lord dwelleth in Zion Joel 3. 16 17 18 19 20 21. For I saith the Lord will be unto her a wall of fire round about and will be the glory in the midst of her c. many nations shall be joyned to the Lord in that day and shall be my people and I will dwell in the midst of thee c. and the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion c. Zech. 2. 5 10 11 12. Rejoyce greatly O daughter of Zion c. behold thy king cometh unto thee he is just c. Zech. 9. 9. Upon this rock will I build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against her Matth. 16. 18. For where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them Matt. 18. 20. Feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Acts 20. 28. The Churches the glory of Christ 2 Cor. 8. 23. The Church which is the fulness of him who filleth all in all Ephes 1. 22. 23. ch 4. 13. To the intent that unto principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God c. unto him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages c. Ephes 3. 10 11 21. That he might present to himself a
glorious Church without spot Ephes 5. 27. The house of God which is the Church of the living God the pillar c 1 Tim. 3. 15. Who walketh in the midst of the golden Candlesticks Rom. 2. 1. See Union and Relation between Christ and his Church Chap. 15. See Saints Priviledges Chap. 14. Thirdly Of the Qualification of the Members of the Churches what they should be AND the Lord spake to Aaron saying Do not drink wine nor strong drink thou nor thy sons with thee when ye go into the tabernacle c. That ye may put difference between holy and unholy and between unclean and clean c. Levit. 10. 9 10. Holiness becometh thine house O Lord for ever Psal 93. 5. They shall call them the holy people the redeemed of the Lord Isa 62 12. Her Priests have violated my law c have put no difference between the holy and prophane neither have they shewed c. between the unclean and the clean Ezek 22. 26. Ephraim he hath mixed himself among the people is a cake not turned Hosea 7. 8. Can two walk together except they be agreed Amos 3. 3. To all that be in Rome beloved of God called Saints Rom. 1. 7. Grant you to be like minded one towards another c. that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorifie God c. I my self am perswaded of you brethren that ye also are full of goodness filled with all knowledge c. Rom. 15. 5 6 14. Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth to them who are sanctified in Christ Jesus called Saints c. I beseech you c. that ye all speak the same thing c. that ye be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgment 2 Cor. 1. 2 10. By one spirit we are all baptized into one body c. 1 Cor. 12. 13. Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness what communion hath light with darkness c. Ye are the temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and c. wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord c. I will receive you 2 Cor. 6. 14 15 16 17 18. First they gave their own selves to the Lord and unto us by the will of God 2 Cor. 8. 5. Ye are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord in whom you also are built together for an habitation of God through the spirit Eph. 2. 19 20 21 22. To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are at Colosse Col. 1. 2. Ye are the children of the light and of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness c. that this Epistle be read unto all the holy brethren 1 Thes 5. 5 17. Be ready always to give an answer unto every man who asketh you a reason of the hope which is in you with meekness and fear 1 Pet. 3. 15. See more of Discipline c. Chap. 27. Fourthly Of the Propriety that particular Churches had in their Members and of others joyning themselves to them AND great fear came upon all the Churches c. and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch and of the rest durst no man joyn himself to them but the people magnified them Acts 5. 11 12 13. And when Saul was come to Jerusalem he assayed to joyn himself to the disciples and they were all afraid of him and believed not that he was a disciple but Barnabas took him and brought him unto the Apostles and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord c. and he was with them coming c. at Jerusalem Acts. 9. 26 27 28. They determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go c. It pleased the Apostles c. with the whole church to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch c. Judas and Silas chief men among the brethren Acts 15. 2 22. Phebe our sister who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea Rom. 16. 1. Because of false brethren unawares brought in who came in privily to spy c. Gal. 4. 2. Epaphroditus my brother c. but your messenger c. I send him therefore the more carefully that when ye see him again ye may rejoyce c. he was nigh unto death c. Phil. 2. 25 26 27 28. Onesimus c. who is one of you c. Epaphras who is one of you c. salute you Col. 4. 9 12. Our friends salutâ— thee greet the friends by name 3 John v. 14. Fifthly Of Letters Commendatory Or The Churches receiving of such who were Recommended them from others by Word or Letter BArnabas took Paul and brought him to the Apostles and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord c. and he was with them c. Acts. 9. 26 27 28. When Apollos was disposed to pass into Achaiâ— the brethren wrote exhorting the Disciples to receive him who when he was come helps them much Acts 18. 27. I commend unto you Phebe our sister c. that ye receive her in the Lord c. Rom. 16. 1 2. If Timotheus come see that he may be with you without fear for he worketh c. 1 Cor. 16. 10 11. Need we as some Epistles of commendation to you or of commendation fresh you 2 Cor. 3. 1 2 3. He remembreth the obedience of you all how with fear c. ye received him 2 Cor. 7. 14 15. Whether any do enquire of Titus he is my partner c. or our brethren they are the messengers of the churches wherefore shew ye to them c. 2 Cor. 8. 22 23 24. Marcus c. touching whom ye received commandment if he come unto you receive him Col. 4. 10. The brethren c. whom if thou bring forward c. we therefore ought to receive such c. I wrote to the church but Diotrephes c. received us not c. and forbiddeth them who would c. 3 John 3. 6 8 9 10. Sixthly Of the Order of the Churches in their Assemblies and Meeting What they did there as their Duty and how they should order it in their constant Worship GOD is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the Saints and to be had in reverence of all them about him Psal 89. 7. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there will I be in the midst of them Mat. 18. 20. Christ said The Scribes and Pharisees c. love the chief seats in the Synagogues c. but he who is greatest among you shall be your servant c. Mat. 23. 6. 11 12 17. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication c. Peter stood up in the midst of the
disciples c. about one hundred and twenty c. Acts 1. 13 14 15. They were all with one accord in one place c. and they continued stedfastly in the Apostle's doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers c. And all who believed were together c. and they continued daily with one accord in the temple c. Acts 2. 1 42 44 46. The Apostles being let go they went to their own company c. and they lift up their voice with one accord and said Lord c. Acts 4. 23 24 c. The church c. and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch Acts 5. 11 12. Barnabas and Saul a whole year assembled themselves with the church and taught much people Acts 11. 25 26. Prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him c. many were met together praying Acts 12. 5 12. Ye come together not for the better c. When ye come together in the Church I hear that there be c. When ye come together into one place this is not to eat the Lord's Supper c. wherefore my brethren when ye come together to eat tarry c. 1 Cor. 11. 17 18 20 33. If therefore the whole Church be come together into one place c. If all prophesie c. How is it then brethren When ye come together every one hath a Psalm hath a Doctrine c. let all things be done unto edifying c. for God is not the author of confusion but of peace as in all the Churches of the Saints 1 Cor. 14. 23 24 25 26 31 33. I am with you in the spirit joying and beholding your order Col. 2. 5. Comfort your selves together and edifie one another even as also ye do 1 Thes 5. 11. Let us consider one another to provoke one another to love and good works not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another Heb. 10. 24 25. My brethren have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory with respect of persons for if there come into your assembly or Synagogue a man with a gold ring in goodly apparel and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment and ye have respect unto him who weareth the gay cloathing and say unto him Sit thou here in a good place and say unto the poor Stand thou there or Sit here under my footstool are you not then partial c. hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom c. If ye fulfil the royal law c. thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self ye do well but if ye respect persons ye commit sin James 2. 1 to v. 10. Seventhly Of the Gifts which the Members of Churches received Of Prayer Prophesying Psalms Tongues c. and how they did use them in the Church-Assemblies and elsewhere for the Edification and Good one of another and of others The Order how they should be Used Directed Such Gifts to be desired for this end ELdad ad Medad prophefied in the camp and there ran a young man and told Moses and Joshua c. said My Lord Moses forbid them and Moses said unto him Enviest thou for my sake Would God that all the Lord's people were Prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them Numbers 11. 26 27 28 29. Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the Congregation and spread forth his hand toward heaven and said Lord God of Israel c. 1 Kings 8. 22 23 c. Jehoshaphat stood in the Congregation c. in the house of the Lord c. and said O Lord God of our fathers art not thou God in heaven c. 2 Chron. 20. 4 5 c. Then they who feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkned c. They shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts Mal. 3. 16 17. John said Master We saw one casting out devils in thy name and he followed not us and we forbad him but Jesus said Forbid him not for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name that can lightly speak evil of me for he who is not against us is on our part Mark 9. 38 39 40. Luke 9. 50. The Jews used to have such speak in their Synagogue who were not either priests or other officers as appears in these instances Luke 4. 16 to v. 22. Acts 13. 14 to v. 19. ch 17. 1 2 3. There was a great persecution against the Church which was at Jerusalem and they were all seattered abroad c. except the Apostles c. therefore they who were scattered abroad went every-where preaching the word Acts 8. 1 4. Now they who were scattered c. when they were come to Antioch spake unto the Grecians preaching the Lord Jesus and the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord Acts 11. 19 20 21. Apollos an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures c. he taught diligently the things of the Lord knowing only the baptism of John c. who when Aquilla and Priscilla had taught the way of God more perfectly did mightily convince the Jews and that publickly shewing by the Scriptures that Jesus was Christ Acts 18. 24 to v. 29. Think soberly according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith For as we have many members in one body and all members have not the same office so we being many c. Having then gifts differing according to the grace which is given to us whether prophecy let us prophesie according to the proportion of faith c. Or he that teacheth on teaching or he who exhorteth on exhortation c. he who ruleth with diligence Rom. 12. 3 to v. 9. I my self am also perswaded of you my brethren that ye also are full of goodness filled with knowledge able also to admonish one another Rom. 15. 14. I thank my God c. that in every thing ye are inriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge 1 Cor. 1. 4 5. Now there are diversity of gifts but the same spirit c. But the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal For to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom to another the word of knowledge c. to another faith c. to another prophecy c. But all these worketh that one and the self-same spirit dividing to every man severally as he will c. If the foot shall say Because I am not the hand I am not of the body c. God hath set the members every one of them in the body as it hath pleased him c. Are all Apostles c. Have all the gift of healing Do all speak with tongues c. But covet earnestly the best gifts 1
He directs his epistles to the Angel of the Church but the matter he speaks to the whole Church and concludes Hear what the spirit saith unto the Churches Rev. 1. 4. ch 2. ch 3. See mere of Church-Acts in Discipline Ninthly Of the ending of Controverses arising between the Members of the Churches to avoid going to Law before others DAre any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the Saints do ye not know that the Saints shall judge the world and if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters know ye not that we shall judge Angels how much more things which pertain to this life c. Set them to judge who are least esteemed in the Church I speak to your shame Is it so that there is not a wise man among you no not one who shall be able to judge between his brethren but brother goeth to law with brother and that before the unbelievers Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you because ye go to law one with another why do ye not rather take wrong c. 1 Cor. 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Tenthly Of the Relief of the Poor of the Churches and their Contributions to the Necessity of other Churches and the Order of it AND the multitude of them who believed were of one heart c. Neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own but they had all things common c. Neither was there any among them that lacked for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the prises c. and laid them down at the Apostles feet and distribution was made unto every man according as he had â—â—ed Acts 4. 32 34 35. The price of thy land While it remained was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in thine own power why hast thou c. Acts 5. 1 2 3 4. When the number of the disciples were multiplied there arose a murmuring against the Hebrews by the Grecians because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration Whereupon the Church chose Deacons to look to this matter Acts 6. 1 2 3 4 5 6. The Disciples every one according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren c. Acts 11. 28 29 30. These hands have administred to my necessities and to them who were with me I have shewed you all things how that ye so labouring ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20. 34 35. It hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem Rom. 15. 25 26. Now concerning the collection for the Saints as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia so do ye upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as God hath prospered him that there be no gathering when c. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. By the occasion of the forwardness of others and to prove the sincerity of your love for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich c. Not that other men be eased and you burdened but by an equalility c. 2 Cor. 8. 1 2 3 7 8 9 13 14. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver c. The administration of this Service not only supplieth the want of the Saints but it is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God c. They glorifie God for your professed subjection to Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 9. 7 12 13. If any would not work neither should he eat c. But ye brethren be not weary in well-doing c. 2 Thes 3. 10 11 12 13. If any widow have children or nephews let them learn first to shew pity at home and to requite their parents c. If any provide not for his own c. If any man or woman who believeth have widows let them relieve them and let not the Church be charged that it may relieve them who are widows indeed 1 Tim. 5. 4 8 16. See the Duty of Distributing to the Saints Necessity at large Chap. 17. Eleventhly Of the Officers of particular Churches their Power Duty and Recompence How they should be Qualified for the Office and of the Churches Duty to them as such I. Of the Officers Power Duties c. I Will give you Pastors according to mine heart who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding Jer. 3. 15. ch 23. 4. Thou shalt speak my word unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. Levit. 10. 11. I have made thee a watchman c. give them warning from me when I say c. and thou givest him not warning c. his blood will I require at thine hand yet if thou warn c. Ezek. 3. 17 18 19. They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and prophane and cause men to discern between the unclean and the clean c. and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies c. Ezek. 44. 23 24. Jer. 15. 19. Levit. 10. 8 9 10. Their widows are neglected in the daily ministration Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables c. look ye out among you seven men of honest report full of the holy Ghost and wisdom c. we will give our selves continually to prayer and the ministry of the word Acts 6. 1 2 3 4. Paul sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the Church c. he said unto them c. Take heed therefore to your selves and to all the flock over the which the holy Ghost hath made you overseers or Bishops to seed the Church of God c. I know this that after my departure grievous wolves shall enter c. therefore watch c. and I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20. 17 18 28 29 30 31 35. Let us wait on our ministring or he who teacheth on teaching or he who exhorteth on exhortation c. he who ruleth with diligence c. Rom. 12. 7 8. It is required in stewards that a man be sound faithful 1 Cor. 4 2. God hath set some in the Church first Apostles secondly Prophets thirdly Teachers c. helps governments 1 Cor. 12. 28. He gave some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the
ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come into the unity of the saith c. Ephes 4. 11 12 13 14. To all the Saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi with the Bishops and Deacons Phil. 1. 1. Say to Archippus Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord that thou fulfil it Col. 4. 17. If a man desire the office of a Bishop he desireth a good work a Bishop then must be blameless the husband of one wife vigilant sober of good behaviour or modest given to hospitality apt to teach not given to wine no striker nor greedy of filthy lucre but patient not a brawler not covetous one who ruleth well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity for if a man know not how to rule his own house how shall he take care of the Church of God not a novice or one newly come to the faith lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil Likewise must the Deacons be grave not double-tongued not given to much wine not greedy of filthy lucre holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience let these also first be proved then let them use the office c. husband of one wife ruling their children well and their own house 1 Tim. 3. 1 to v. 13. If thou put the brethren in mind of these things thou shalt be a good minister c. but refuse profane and old c. Be thou an example to believers in word in conversation in charity c. give attendance unto reading to exhortation to doctrine c. meditate on these things give thy self wholly unto them c. take heed to thy self and thy doctrine 1 Tim. 4. 6 7 11 12 13 15 16. Rebuke not an elder but admonish him as a father and the younger men as brethren the elder women c. Let the elders who rule well c. especially they who labour in the word and doctrine 1 Tim. 5. 1 17. O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding prophane and vain babbling 1 Tim. 6. 20. I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee c. 2 Tim. 1. 6 7. The things thou hast heard of me among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also c. a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word c. shun profane and vain babbling c. The servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men apt to teach patient or forbearing in meekness instructing them who oppose themselves if God peradventure c. 2 Tim. 2 2 15 16 23 24 25. Ordain Elders in every City c. If any be blameless c. not accused of riot or unruly for a Bishop must be blameless as the steward of God not self-willed not soon angry not given to wine no striker not given to filthy lucre but a lover of hospitality a lover of good men sober just holy temperate holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers Titus 1. 5 6 7 8 9. Shewing thy self a pattern c. in doctrine uncoruptness gravity sincerity c. sound speech which cannot be condemned c. these things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority Titus 2. 7 8 15. Them who have the rule c. watch for your souls as they who must give account Heb. 13. 17. Is any sick c. call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over them c. James 5. 14. The Elders who are among you I exhort c. seed the flock of God which is among you or as much as in you is taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy lucre but of a ready mind neither as being lords or over-ruling over God's heritage but being examples of the flock 1 Pet. 5. 1 2 3 4. Diotrephes who loveth to have the preheminence received us not 3 John v. 9 10. See more in Gospel-Preachers in general Chap. 26. II. Complaints of and Threatnings against Evil Officers or Ministers of the Church HIS watchmen are blind they are all ignorant they are all dumb dogs they cannot bark sleeping lying down loving to slumber yea they are greedy dogs who can never have enough and they are shepherds who cannot understand they all look to their own way every one for his gain from his quarter come ye say they I will fetch wine and we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as to day Isa 56. 10 11 12. The Priests said not Where is the Lord and they who handled the law knew me not the Pastors also transgressed against me c. Wherefore I will yet plead c. Jer. 2. 8 9. The Prophets prophesie falsly and the Priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof Jer. 5. 30 31. From the Prophet unto the Priest every one dealeth falsly they have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying Peace c. when c. Jer. 6. 13 14. ch 8. 10 11. The Pastors are become brutish and have not sought the Lord therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks shall be scattered Jer. 10. 21. Many Pastors have destroyed my vineyard they have trodden my portion c. Jer. 12. 10 11. Wo unto the Pastors who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture saith the Lord therefore thus saith the Lord c. against the Pastors who feed my people Ye have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not visited them Behold I will visit upon you the evil of your doings c. The Prophets c. They strengthen the hands of evil-doers so that none do return from his wickedness Jer. 23. 1 2. The Priests and the Prophets advise to put Jeremiah to death because he told them what God spake Jer. 26. 10 11 16. Her Priests have violated my law and have profaned mine holy things they have put no difference between the holy and profane neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean Ezek. 22. 26. Wo to the shepherds of Israel who do feed themselves should not the shepherds feed the flock ye eat the fat and ye clothe your selves with the wool c. ye feed not the flock the diseased have ye not strengthened neither have ye healed that which was sick c. but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled Ezek. 34. 2 3 4 8 10. The priests thereof teach for hire and the prophets thereof divine for money yet will they lean upon the Lord c. therefore shall Zion c. be plowed Micah 3. 11. Her priests have done violence to the law polluted the
them Acts 6. 5 6. Peter and John prayed and laid their Hands on Disciples and they received the Holy Ghost Acts 8. 17. The Prophets and Teachers at Antiâ—ch by the Command of the Holy Ghost to separate Paul and Barnabas c. did pray and fast and lay their Hands upon them Acts 13. 1 2 3. Paul finding disciples c. And when Paul had 〈◊〉 his hands on them the Holy Ghost c. Acts 19. 1 6. Paul prayed and laid hands on Publius his father and healed him being sick Acts 28. 8. Neglect not the gift c. given theâ— c. with laying on of the hands of the presbytery 1 Tim. 4. 14. Lay hands suddenly on no man neither be partaker of other men's sins 1 Tim. 5. 22. Stir up the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of hands 2 Tim. 1. 6. Not laying again the foundation of repentance c. of laying on of hands Heb. 6. 1 2. Thirteenthly Of the several Ordinances of Christ to be observed in and by the Churches of Christ and elsewhere THE earth is defiled under the inhabitants thereof because they have transgressed the laws changed the ordinances c. Isa 24. 5. And they continued stedfastly in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers c. And they continuing daily with one accord in the temple Acts 2. 41 42 46. And now I praise you brethren that you c. keep the ordinances as they were delivered unto you 1 Cor. 11. 2. I. Prayers THese all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women c. Acts 1. 14. And they continued c. and in prayers Acts 2. 42. See Prayers at large Chap. 16. See Praising at large Ibid. II. Reading Teaching and Preaching of the Word of God Prophesying THou shalt set a king over thee c. He shall write him a copy of this law in a book c. he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord Deut. 17. 15 18 19. 20. 2 Kings 22. 11. When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall chuse thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing Gather the people together men and women and children and thy stranger that is within thy gates that they may hear and that they may learn and fear the Lord your God and observe to do all the words of this saw and their children who have not known may hear and learn to fear the Lord c. Deut. 31. 11 12 13. Joshua read all the words of the law the blessings and curses according unto all which is written in the book of the law there was not a word of all which Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were conversant among them Josh 8. 34 35. Jehoshaphat sent to his Princes to Benhail c. to teach in the cities of Judah and with them Elishama c. Priests and they taught in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them and went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people 2 Chron. 17. 7 8 9. And Ezra the Priest brought the law before the Congregation c. and he read therein c. from the morning until the mid-day c. Also Joshua and Bani c. and the Levites caused the people to understand the law and the people stood in their place so they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and gave the sense and caused them to understand the reading Nehem. 8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. ch 13. 1. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children c. that they might set their hope in God c. Psal 78. 5 6 7. Blessed is the man who heareth me watching daily at my gates waiting at the posts of my doors for whose findeth me findeth life Prov. 8 34 35. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who bringeth good tydings who publisheth peace c. and publisheth salvation c. Isa 52. 7. Nâ—hâ—m 1. 15. The prophet who hath a dream let him tell a dream and he who hath my word let him speak my word faithfully what is the chaff to the wheat saith the Lord Jer. 23. 28 29. Thou shalt speak my words unto them whither they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. They shall wander from sea to sea c. to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it Amos 8. 12. And the Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the earth and then shall the end c. Matth. 24. 14. Go ye therefore and teach all nations c. teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you Matth. 28. 19 20. The parable of the sower opened by Christ to be the word preached Mark 4. 14 15 16 c. Luke 8. 11. Whosoever shall not receive you nor hear you when ye depart thence shake off the dust from under your feet for a testimony against them Mark 6. 11. Luke 10. 16. Matth. 10. 11 12 13. Jesus c. as his custom was he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath-day and stood up to read and there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaias and when he had opened the book he found the place where it was written The spirit of the Lord is upon me c. and he closed the book and gave it again to the minister and sat down c. and he began to say unto them This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears c. and all c. wondred at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth c. Luke 4. 16 17 18 19 20 31 32. Jesus went through every City c. preaching and shewing the glad tidings c. Luke 8. 1. Jesus said c. Ought not Christ to have suffered c And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself c. then opened he their understandings c. Luke 24. 26 27 45. I pray c. for them also who shall believe in me through their word John 17. 20. When the Apostles were commanded not to preach Christ they said whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye Acts 4. 18. 19. ch 5. 28. Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life and when c. And daily in the temple and in every house they ceased not to teach and to preach Jesus Christ Acts 5. 20 42. The Eunuch reading the Prophet Isaias Philip came to him c. and opened his mouth and
began at the same Scripture and preached unto him Jesus he believed c. Acts 8. 27 28 to the 38. We are here all present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God while Peter was preaching Christ the holy Ghost fell on all them who heard Acts 10. 33 44. ch 2. 37 38 c. Call for Simon c. who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy houshold shall be 〈◊〉 Acts 11. 13 14. When Paul and his company came to Antioch he went into the Synagogue c. and after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the Synagogue sent unto them saying Ye men and brethren if ye have any word of exhortation for the people say on Then Paul stood up and preached c. Acts 13. 13 14 15 16 c. Then spake the Lord to Paul c. speak and hold not thy peace for I have much people in this City and he continued there c. teaching the word of God among them Acts 18. 9 10 11. Paul went into the Synagogue and spake boldly for the space of three months disputing and perswading the things concerning the kingdom of God but when divers were hardned and believed not c. he separated the disciples disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus and this continued by the space of two years so that all they who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Acts 19. 8 9 10 20. Now brethren I commend you to God and the word of his grace which is able c. Actâ— 20. 32. I have appeared unto thee c. to make thee a minister c. the Gentiles to when I now send thee to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God Acts 26. 16 17 18. And Paul dwelt two years in his own hired house and received all who came in unto 〈◊〉 preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ Acts 28. 2â— 30 31. ch 9. 22. ch 18. 28. ch 11. 2â— 21. I am ready to preach the Gospel c. for I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God to salvation c. Rom. 1. 15 16. 2 Thâ—ss 2. 14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe on him or whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent c. so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God Rom 10. 14 15 17. Titus 1. 3. Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospel c. for the preaching of the cross is to them who perish foolishness but unto us who are saved it is the power of God c. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them who believe c. 1 Cor. 1. 17 18 21 23 24. ch 15. 1 2 3 4. My preaching was not with the inticâ—ing words of mans wisdom c. but that which the holy Ghost c. 1 Cor. 2 4 5 13. In Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel 1 Cor. 4. 15. Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonoureth his head 1 Cor. 11. 4. He who prophesyeth speaketh unto men to edification exhortation and comfort c. he edifieth the Church c. 1 Cor. 14. 3 4. Who hath made us able ministers of the new Testament c. if the ministration of death written and engraven in stones was glorious so c. how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious c 2 Cor. 3. 6 7 8 9 10. The ministry of reconciliation to wit that God was in Christ c. we are Ambassadours for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled unto God 2 Cor. 5. 18 19 20. And he gave some Apostles c. for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the ministry 〈◊〉 the edifying of the body until c. Ephes 4. 11. 12 13 14. The Apostle rejoyced that Christ was preached although some did it not uprightly Phil. 1. 15 16 18. When this Epistle is read amongst you cause it 〈◊〉 read also in the Church of the Laâ—dâ—ceans 〈◊〉 4. 16. We received the word of God which ye heard of 〈…〉 received it not as the word of men but as 〈…〉 the word of God c. 1 Thess 2. 13 〈…〉 〈…〉 propâ—â—â—yings 1 Thess 5. 20. Gâ—ve attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine 〈◊〉 13. I 〈◊〉 thee c. preach the word be instant in 〈◊〉 and out of season reprove c. 2. Tim. 4. 1 2 3. If the word spoken by Angels was stedfast c. how shall we escape it we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them who 〈◊〉 c. Heb. 2. 2. 3. For unto us was the Gospel preached as well as unto them but the word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them who heard or because they were not united by faith to it Heb. 4. 2. I beseech you brethren suffer the word of exhortation for I have written c. Heb. 13. 22. Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth c. wherefore my beloved brethren let every man be swift to hear c. receive with meekness the ingrafted word which is able to save your souls but be ye doers of the word and not hearers only c. James 1. 18 19 21 22 23. Being born again not of corruptible feed but of incorruptible by the word of God c. and this is the word which by the Gospel is preached unto you 1 Pet. 1. 23 25. As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby 1 Pet. 2. 2. If any man speak let him speak as the Oracles of God 1 Pet. 4. 11. I will not be negligent to put you in remembrance always of these things though ye know them and be established in the present truth yea I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance 2 Pet. 1. 12 13. ch 3. 1 2. Jude ver 5. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the father and with his son Jesus Christ 1 John 1. 3. Blessed is he who readeth and they who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein Revel 1. 3. See Ministers of the Gospel in general Chap. 26. See gifts of the members of Churches before See of the word of God Chap. 1. III. Baptisms GOD said unto Abram Thou shalt keep my covenant c. Every man child among you shall be circumcised
c. and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you c. Abram took Ishmael his son and all who were born in his house c. and circumcised the flesh c. And Abraham was ninety and nine years old when he was circumcised c. and Ishmael his son 13 years old when he was circumcised Gen. 17. 9 10 11 12 13 23 24 25. Suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the kingdom of Heaven and he laid his hands on them Matth. 19. 13 14 15. Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Matth. 28. 19. John said I indeed baptize you with water but one mightier than I cometh c. he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire Luke 3. 16. Acts 11. 15 16. John 1 26 31 33. Acts â— 5. Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples John 4. 1 2. Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins for the promise is unto you and to your children c. then they who gladly received the word were baptized Acts 2. 38 39 41. ch 22. 26. But when they believed c. they were baptized both men and women c. Simon was baptized c. The Eunuch said Here is water what hinders me to be baptized and Philip said If thou believest with all thine heart thou maist c. they went down into the water and he baptized him Acts 8. 12 13 36 37 38. Saul arose and was baptized Acts 9. 18. chap. 22. 16. Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized who have received the holy Ghost as well as we and he commanded them to be baptized in the name c. Acts 10. 47 48. Who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved Acts 11. 14. Lydia c. whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul and when she was baptized and her houshold c. believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved thou and thine house c. and he took them the same hour c. and was baptized he and all his straightway Acts 16. 14 15 30 31 32 33 34. Some who were baptized with John's baptism were baptized again Acts 19. 3 4 5. Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death buried c Rom. 6. 3 4. I baptized also the house of Stephanus besides I know not whether I c. 1 Cor. 1. 16. The unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband otherwise were your children unclean but now they are holy 1 Cor. 7. 14. Leaving the principles c. of the doctrine of Baptisms Heb. 6. 1 2. The ark wherein few c. were saved by water the like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 3. 20 21. IV. Breaking of Bread or the Lord's Supper THE Passover instituted and all the directions about it Exod. 12. The doubt whether one unclean might eat the passover resolved by God unto Moses Numb 9. 6 7 c. The people not prepared yet did eat Hezekiâ—h prayed for them 2 Câ—r 30. 18 1â— As they were eating Jesus took bread and blessed it and bâ—ake it and gave it to his Disciples and said Take eat this is my body and he took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them saying Drink ye all of it for this is my blood of the new Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins but he said unto them I will not drink it henceforth c. and when they had sung c. Matth. 26. 26 27 28 29 30. They all drank of the cup Mark 14. 23. He sate down and the twelve Apostles with him c. He took the cup and gave thanks and said Take this and divide it among your selves c. And he took bread and gave thanks and brake it and gave unto them saying This is my body which is given for you this do in remembrance of me Likewise also the cup after supper saying This cup is the new Testament in my blood which is shed for you Luke 22. 14 16 17 18 19 20. When Judas had received the sop at supper he went immediately out John 13. 26 30. And they continued stedâ—astly c. in breaking of bread Acts 2. 42. Upon the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break bread c. Paul preached to them c. in the upper chamber where they were gathered together c. When he therefore was come up again and had broken bread c. Acts 20. 7 8 9 10 11. Purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump c. let us keep the feast not with old leaven c. but with the unleavened bread of sincerity 1 Cor. 5. 7 8. The cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the blood of Christ the bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ for we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread c. ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils ye cannot c. 1 Cor. 10. 16 17 21 22. When ye come together therefore into one place this is not to eat the Lord's supper or ye cannot eat for in eating every one taketh before other his own supper and one is hungry and another is drunken what have ye not houses to eat and to drink in or despise you the Church of God and shame them that have not or are poor for I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he brake it and said Take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in or for a remembrance of me After the same manner also he took the cup when he had supped saying This cup is the new Testament in my blood this do ye as often as ye drink it in remembrance of me for as often as ye eat thus bread and drink this cup ye do shew 〈…〉 ye the Lord's death till he come wherefore whosoever shall eat this breadâ— and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord c. he who eateth c. unworthily eateth and drinketh dâ—mnation to himself not discerâ—ing the Lord's body c. When ye come together to eat tarry one for another and if any man hunger
your â—ast you and pleasures and exact all your labours c. ye fast for strife c. Isa 58. 1 2 c. I have spread out my hands all the day long to a reâ—ellious people c. who provoke me to anger continually c. who say Stand by thy self come not near to me for I am holier than thou these are a smoke in my nose Isa 65. 2 3 4 5. Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart but feignedly Jer. 3. 10. Thus saith the Lord c. Amend your ways c. trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord c. Behold ye trust in lying words which cannot profit Will ye steal murder c. and come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name c. Jer. 7. 3 4 8 9 10. Ezek. 23. 38 39. Matth. 3. 8 9 10. Egypt c. are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel uncircumcised in heart Jer. 9. 26. Thou art near in their mouth and far from their reins Jer. 12. 2. Judah said Pray for us to the Lord c. that the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk and the thing that we may do c. We will obey the voice of the Lord c. But Jeremy afterwards said O ye remnaâ—t of Judah c. Ye dissembled in your hearts or have used deceit against your souls when ye sent me unto the Lord your God saying Pray for us c. We will do c. ye have not obeyed the voice of God nor any thing c. Jer. 42. 1 2 3 4 5 6 19 20 21. And they come unto thee as the people cometh and they sit before thee as my people and they hear thy words but they will not do them for with their mouth they shew much love but their heart goeth after their covetousness c. thou art unto them as a very lovely song c. for they hear thy words but they do them not Ezek. 33. 31 32. Luke 12. 1 2. O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee O Judah what shall I do unto thee for your goodness is as a morning cloud and as an early dew it goeth away Hosea 6. 4. They have not cried to me with their heart c. they return not to the most high c. Hosea 7. 14 16. The heads judge for reward and the priests thereof teach for hire c. yet will they lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us c. Micah 3. 11. When ye fast Did ye at all fast unto me c. Did ye not eat c. Zech. 7. 5 6. Herod sent to seek Christ under pretence of worshipping him but he designed to kill him Mar. 2. 3 5 8 16. When thou dost thine aâ—ms do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory or men c. And when thou prayest thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the Synagogues and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men c. Moreover when ye fast be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast Mat. 6. 2 5 16. Why beholdest thou the moâ—e which is in thy brother's eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye or how wilt thou say to thy brother Let me pull out the moâ—e out of thine eye and behold a beam in thine own eye thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye c. Not every one who saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven c. Many will say unto me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name c. then I will profess I never knew you Mat. 7. 3 4 5 21 22 23. Luke 13. 26 27. John came neither eating nor drinking and they say he hath a devil the Son of man came eating and drinking and they say behold a man gluttonous and a wine-bibber and a friend of Publicans and sinners Mat. 11. 18 19. When the Pharisees saw the disciples plucking corn on the Sabbath-day they said Behold thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath-day Jesus said Have ye not read c. how that on the Sabbath-days the priests in the temple prosane the Sabbath and are blameless c. They asked him saying Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath-day that they might accuse him c. then he cured the man c. Then the Pharisees went out and held a council against him that they might destroy him c. They said This fellow doth not cast out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of Devils Matth. 12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 11 12 13 14 24. John 5. 16. The stony-ground c. is one who hath not root in himself but temporal persecution ariseth he is offended c. They said of Christ Is not this the Carpenter's son c. whence then hath this man all these things and they were offended in him Mat. 13. 22 54 55 56 57. Then there came to Jesus Scribes and Pharisees c. saying Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders for they wash not their hands when they eat bread But he answered and said unto them Why do you also transgress the commandment by your traditions for God commanded saying Honour thy father c. but ye say c. thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition ye hypocrites well did Isaias prophesie of you saying This people draw near to me with their mouth c. but their heart is far from me Matth. 15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Mark 7. 1 2 3 4 c. The young rich man had observed much of the law yet when Christ had said unto him If thou wilt be perfect go and â—ell that thou hast and give to the poor he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions c. Many who are first shall be last and the last shall be first Mat. 19. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 30. Those who agreed for wages murmur because those who did not agree nâ—r do so much work as they had alike wages freely given them Mat. 20. 1 2 to v. 15. When the chief Priests and Scribes saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying in the temple and saying Hosanna to the son oâ— David they were sore dispâ—eased c. And when he was come into the temple the chief Priests and the Elders c. came unto him as he was teaching and said By what authority dost thou these things and who gave thee this authority When Christ had put forth the parable of the vineyard and the chief Priests had heard this parable they perceived that
They have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge for they being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God Rom. 10. 1 2 3. As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh they conâ—train you to be circumciâ—ed only leâ—t they should suffer persecution for the croâ—s of Christ for neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law but desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh Gâ—l 6. 12 13. The Jews who both killed the Lord Jesusâ— and their own prophets and have 〈…〉 us 〈◊〉 â—â— out they please not God and are contraâ—y unto all men 〈…〉 to speak to the 〈◊〉 that they might be saved to 〈◊〉 up their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Thes 2. 14 15 16. Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof c. These also resist the truth c. 2 Tim 3. 5 8. They profess they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and to every good work reprobate or void of Judgment Titus 1. 16 They went out from us but they were not of us c. they went out that they might be manifest c. 1 John 2. 19. Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead c. I have not found thy work perfect before God c. The Church of the Laodiceans c. I know thy works that thou art neither hot nor cold c. Thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and poor and blind and naked c. Rev. 3. 1 2 14 15 17. See Persecution from Professors Chap. 22. See Sincerity Chap. 16. See Characters of Saints Chap. 12. The great danger of Hypocrisie and Formality and end of Hypocrites THE Israelites had sinned and though they had the Ark amongst them yet fell before Enemies 1 Sam. 4. The hypocrites hope shall perish whose hope shall be cut off and whose trust shall be a spiders web he shall lean upon his house but it shall not stand he shall hold it fast but it shall not endure Job 8. 13 14 15. He also is my salvation for an hypocrite shall not come before him Job 13. 16. The congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate c. Job 15. 34. He who speaketh flattery to his friend the eyes of his children shall fail Job 17. 5. The joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment though his excellency mount up unto the heavens and his head reach unto the clouds he shall perish for ever like his own dung They who have seen him shall say Where is he and he shall flee away as a dream and shall not â—e found The eye also which â—aw him shall â—ee him no more c. c. Job 20. 5 6 c. What is the hope of the hypocrite when he hath gaâ—ned when God taketh away his soul will God 〈◊〉 his cry when trouble cometh upon him Job â—7 8 9. The hypocrites in heart heap up wrath Job 〈◊〉 13. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half 〈◊〉 days c. Psalm 55. 23. O Aâ—â—yrian the rod of mine anger c. I will 〈◊〉 him against an hypocritical nation and against the people of my wrath c. Isa 10. 5 6. Wâ— unto them who seek deep to 〈◊〉 then counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark and they say Who seeth us and who knoweth Isa 29. 15 16. The sinners in Zion are afraid fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites c. Who amongst us shall dwell with the devouring fire c. Isa 33. 14. Behold all ye who kindle a fire who compass your selves about with sparks walk in the light of your fire and in your sparks which ye have kindled this shall ye have of my hand ye shall lie down in sorrow Isa 50. 11. I will declare thy righteousness and thy works for they shall not profit thee Isa 57. 12. Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord c. Behold ye trust in lying words which cannot profit c. therefore will I do to this house c. wherein ye trust c. as I have done to Shiloh and I will cast you out of my sight Jer. 7. 4 8 9 10 11. I will punish all them who are circumcised with the uncircumcised Egypt c. all these nations are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel uncircumcised in the heart Jer. 9. 25 26. Ye dissembled in your hearts when ye sent me unto the Lord your God c. Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword by the famine c. Jer. 42. 19 20 21 22. Isa 9. 17. Cursed be the deceiver who hath in his flock a male c. and sacrificeth to the Lord a corrupt thing Mal. 1. 14. Think not to say within your selves We have Abraham to our father c. The ax is laid c. 3. 8 9 10. Ye are the salt of the earth but if the salt have lost his favour wherewith shall it be salted It is henceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men c. I say unto you That except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven Maâ—th 5. 13 20. Many will say unto me in that day Lord Lord Have we not prophesied in thy name c. and then will I profess unto them I never knew you depart from me ye who work iniquity Matth. 7. 22. 23. Luke 13. 25 26 27. He heareth the word c. receiveth it yet hath he not râ—ot in himself but dureth but for a while c. Matth. 13. 20 21. Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up Let them alone c. If the blind lead the blind both shall fall c. Matth. 15. 13 14. When Christ â—ound nothing but leaves on the fig-tree he said Let no fruit grow on thee henceforth for ever and presently it withered away c. Jesus said to the Priests c. Publicans and harâ—ots go into the Kingdom of God before you Matth. 2â— 19 23 29 30 31. When the king came c. he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment and he said unto him Friend how camest thou hither c. and he was speechless then said the king to his servants Bind him c. and cast him into outer darkness there shall be weeping c. Matth. 22. 11 12 13. Wo unto the Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites often pronounced Matth. 23. 13 14 15 16 23 25 27 29. The foolish Virgins who had no Oil to put into their Lamps were shut out Matth. 25. 8 9 c. Whosoever hath not from him him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have or thinketh he hath Luke 8. 18.
Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees which i◠hypocrisie c. He who knoweth his master's will and doth not according shall be beaten with many stripes Luke 12. 1 47. James 4. 17. They shall begin to say We have eat and drank in thy presence c. but he shall say I know you not whence you are depart from me all ye workers c. Ye shall see Abraham c. in the kingdom of God and you thrust out Luke 13. 25 26 27 28. Ye are they who justifie your selves but God knows your hearts for that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God Luke 16. 15. Every branch which beareth not fruit in me he taketh away John 15. 2. Ananias and Saphira both smote with death for their hypocrisie Acts 5. 5 10. They are not all Israel who are of Isreal c. Rom. 9. 6 7. ch 2. 28. 1 Cor. 10. 1 to 6. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against c. men who hold the truth in unrighteousness Rom. 1. 18. If a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself Gal. 6. 3. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways James 1. 8. The Jews c. forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins always for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 1 Thes 2. 16. See Sincerity Chap. 16. CHAP. XXIX Of the Conscience AND it came to pass afterwards that David's heart smote him because he had cut off Saul's skirt and he said unto his men The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my master the Lord 's anointed to stretch forth my hand against him c. 1 Sam. 24. 5 6. And David's heart smote him after that he had numbred the people and David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly in that I have done 2 Sam. 24. 10. ch 12. 13. When Josiah had heard the words of the book of the law that he rent his clothes c. and he commanded c. Go and enquire of the Lord for me and for the people c. for great is the wrath of the Lord c. Tell the man that sent you to me c. I will bring evil upon this place c. But to the king c. because thine heart was tender and thou hast humbled thy self c. thine eyes shall not see all the evil c. 2 Kings 22. 11 12 13 15 16 18 19 20. I will not remove mine integrity c. my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live Job 27. 5 6. Throw the first stone at her c. they c. being convicted by their own conscience went out c. John 8. 7 9. Now when they heard this they were pricked in their heart and said c. What shall we do Acts 2. 37. Paul said c. I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day Acts 23. 1. And herein do I exercise my 〈◊〉 to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man Acts 24. 16. Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing them witness or the Conscience witnessing with them and their thoughts the mean while or between themselves accusing or else excusing one another Rom. 2. 15 16. I say the truth in Christ I lye not my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost Rom. 9. 1. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but for conscience sake Rom. 13. 5. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles eat asking no question for conscience sake for the earth is the Lord's c. If any of them who believe not bid you c. Whatsoever is before you eat asking no question for conscience sake but if any man say unto thee This is offered to idols eat not for his sake c. and for conscience-sake c. Conscience I say not thine own but of the others for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience c. Give none offence neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God 1 Cor. 10. 25 26 27 28 29 32. ch 8. 7. Our rejoicing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity nor with sleshly wisdom c. 2 Cor. 1. 12. By the manifestation of the truth commended our selves to every man's conscience in the sight of God 2 Cor. 4. 2. We are made manifest unto God and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences 2 Cor. 5. 11. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience c. holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck 1 Tim. 1. 5 19. Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience 1 Tim. 3. 9. The Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith c. speaking lyes in hypocrine having their consciences seared with a hot iron forbidding to marry c. 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3. I thank God whom I serve c. with a pure conscience 2 Tim. 1. 3. Unto them who are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled Titus 1. 15. In which were offered both gifts and sacrifices which could not make him who did the service 〈◊〉 as pertaining to the conscience c. If the blood of bulls and goats sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ c. purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God Heb. 9. 9◠13 14. The law having a shadow of good things c. can never with those sacrifiees they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect then would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins but in those sacrifices there is a remembrance c. Let us draw near c. having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience c. Heb. 10. 1 2 3 22. We trust we have a good conscience in all things willing to live honestly Heb. 13. 18. This is thank-worthy if a man for conscience towards God endure grief suffering wrongfully 1 Pet. 2. 19. Having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you c. Baptism doth also now save us not the putting away the filth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus 1 Pet. 3. 16 21. Let us not love in word c. Hereby we know c. For if our heart condemn us God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things Beloved if our heart condemn us not then have we confidence towards God 1 John 3. 18 to 22. CHAP. XXX Of the Devil Of his Subtilty Wiles and Ways by himself and in
of the soâ—tishness of the makers and worshippers of idols saith None considereth in his heart neither is there knowledge or understanding to say I have burned part of it in the fire c. and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination shall I fall down to the stock of a 〈◊〉 Isa 44. 17 18 19. The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away and none considereth that the righteous are taken from the evil to come Isa 57. 1. Thou meetest him c. who remembred thee in thy ways Isa 64. 5. This I call to mind therefore have I hope It 's the Lords mercy c. 1 Sam. 3. 20 21 22. They shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carryed captive Ezekiel 6. 9. Son of man prepare thy stuff for removing and remove by day in their sight c. it may be they will consider though they be a rebellious house Ezek. 12. 3. Because thou hast not remembred the days of thy youth c. I will recompence c. Ezek. 16. 22 43 61. And lo if he beget a son who seeth all his fathers sins and considereth and doth not such like c. he shall not die for the iniquity of his fathers Ezek. 18. 14 15 16 17 28. There shall ye remember your ways c. and loath your selves c. Ezek. 20. 43. chap. 6. 9. chap. 36. 31. When I would have healed Israel then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered c. and they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness now their own doings have beset them about c. Hosea 7. 1 2. When my soul fainted within me I remembred the Lord Jonah 2. 7. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts Consider or set your heart upon your ways Haggai 1. 5 7. Take no thought for your life what you shall eat c. Behold the fowls of the air for they sow not c. And why take ye thought for rayment consider the Lillies of the field how they grow they toil not c. yet Solomon c. Matth. 6. 25 26 28 29 30. Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye Matth. 7. 3. The disciples for want of consideration said For what purpose is this waste for this oyntment might have been sold c. Jesus said Why trouble ye the woman for she hath wrought a good work upon me Matth. 26. 7 8 9 10 11. The wind ceased and they were sore amazed c. for they considered not the miracle of the loaves for their heart was hardned Mark 6. 51 52. All they who heard wondred c. but Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart Luke 2. 17 18 19. chap. 1. 29 65 66. All men mused or reasoned or debated in their hearts of John whether he were the Christ or not Luke 3. 15. Which of you intending to build a Tower sitteth not down first and counteth the cost whether he hath sufficient to finish it c Luke 14. 28 29 30 31 The Prodigal when he came to himself he said How many of my father's servants c. Luke 15. 17. Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate before what you shall answer for I will give you a mouth c. Luke 21. 14. Nor consider that it is expedient that one man should die c. John 11. 49 50. Peter rashly said to Jesus Thou shalt never wash my feet but when Jesus had said If I wash thee not thou hast no part with me Peter said c. Not my feet only but also my hands and my head John 13. 8 9. They of the Circumcision contended with Peter for going to the Gentiles till they had considered the grounds which Peter rehearsed to them Acts 11. 1 2 3 c. While we look not at things which are seen but at the things c. 2 Cor. 4. 18. Brethren if a man be overtaken in a fault ye who are spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Gal. 6. 1. Brethren be imitators of me and consider those who so walk as ye have us for example Phil. 3. 17. Meditate on these things give thy self wholly to them c. Consider what I say and the Lord give thee understanding in all these things 1 Tim. 4. 15. 2 Tim. 2. 7. Wherefore holy brethren c. consider the Apostle and high Priest of our profession Jesus Christ who was faithful c. Heb. 3. 1 2. Now consider how great this man was unto whom the Patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoil Heb. 7. 4. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works Heb. 10. 24. Let us run with patience c. looking unto Jesus c. for consider him who endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest ye be wearied and faint in your mind Heb. 12. 1 2 3. Remember them who have the rule over you who have spoken unto you the word of God whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation Heb. 13. 7. Remember ye the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Jude v. 17. Luke 22. 61. ch 24. 6 8. John 2. 17. 22. ch 16. 4. ch 12. 16. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do thy first works c. Rev. 2. 5. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard and hold fast and repent Rev. 3. 3. CHAP. XXXII Of the Thoughts Mind and Affections AND God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually Gen. 6. 5. ch 8. 21. If they shall bethink themselves or bring back to their heart c. and repent c. 1 Kings 8. 47. Deut. 30. 1 2. The Lord c. understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts c. 1 Chron. 28. 9. I have made a covenant with my eyes why then should I think of a maid Job 31. 1. The wicked c. will not seek God God is not in all his thoughts or all his thoughts are there is no God Psal 10. 4. We have thought of thy loving kindness O God in the midst of thy temple Psal 48. 9. Ps 139. 17. Their inward thought is that their house shall continue for ever and their dwellings c. Psal 49. 1â— Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy â—elt c. Psal 50. 21. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow c. when I remember thee Psal 63. 5 6. When I thought to know this it was too painful for me until I went c. Psal 73. 16 17. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanity c. in the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul Psal 94. 11 19. I thought on
my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies c. I hate vain thoughts c. Psal 119. 59 113. Thou knowest my down-sitting c. thou understandest my thoughts afar off c. Search me O God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts Psal 139. 2 23. His breath goeth forth c. in that very day his thoughts perish Psal 146. 4. The thoughts of the righteous are right but the counsels of the wicked c. Prov. 12. 5. The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord Prov. 15. 26. Commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established Prov. 16. 3. The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness but of every one who is hasty only to want Prov. 21. 5. Eat thou not the bread of him who hath an evil eye for as he thinketh in his heart so is he Eat c. saith he but his heart is not with thee Prov. 23. 6 7. The thought of foolishness is sin Prov. 24. 9. If thou hast thought evil lay thine hand upon thy mouth Prov. 30. 32. O Assyrian c. I will send him against an hypocritical nation c. howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart think so but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few Isa 10. 5 6 7. Let the wicked man forsake his ways and the unrighteous man his thoughts let him return unto the Lord Isa 55. 7. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity Isa 59. 7. I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way which is not good after their own thoughts Isa 65. 2. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness c. how long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee Jer. 4. 14. Neither say they in their heart let us now fear the Lord our God Jer. 5. 24. Behold I will bring evil upon this people the fruit of their thoughts Jer. 6. 19. Thus saith the Lord c. I know the things which come into your mind every one Ezek. 11. 5. Then the king's countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joynts of his loins were loosed Dan. 5. 6. A book of remembrance was written before him for them who feared the Lord and that thought upon his name Mal. 3. 16. Take no thought for your life c. Which of you by taking thought can add c. And why take ye thought for raiment c. Take therefore no thought for the morrow c. sufficient to the day is the evil of it Matth. 6. 25 27 28 31 34. Jesus knowing their thoughts said Wherefore think you evil in your heart Mat. 9. 4. Mark 2. 8. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth c. Mat. 12. 35. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts murders c. Mat. 15. 19. When Mary saw the Angel she was troubled at his sayings and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be c. He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts c. Luke 1. 29 51. This child is set for the fall and rising of many c. that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed c. Luke 2. 35. All men mused or reasoned or debated in their hearts of John whether he were the Christ or notâ— Luke 3. 15. The Scribes and Pharisees watched him c. but he knew their thoughts Luke 6. 7 8. Martha thou art careful and troubled about many things but one thing is needful Luke 10. 41 42. And the Lord c. looked and Peter remembred the words of the Lord c. Luke 22. 61. Why are ye troubled and why do thoughts arise in your hearts behold my hands Luke 24. 38 39. Thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God might be purchased with money c. pray God if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven Acts 8. 20 22. They became vain in their imaginations and their foolish hearts was darkened Rom. 1. 21. They who are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh c. to be carnally minded is death c. because the carnal mind is enmity against God Rom. 8. 5 6 7. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vain 1 Cor. 3. 20. Let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 12. Charity c. thinketh no evil 1 Cor. 13. 5. Casteth down imaginations or reasonings c. and bringeth into captivity every thought 2 Cor. 10. 5. If a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself Gal. 6. 3. Many walk c. whose end is destruction whose God is their belly c. who mind earthly things Phil. 3. 18 19. Whatsoever things are true c. if there be any praise think on these things Phil. 4. 8. Set your affections or mind on things above and not on things of the earth Col. 3. 2. The word of God is quick c. a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart c. all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we c. Heb. 4. 12. 13. Are ye not then partial c. and are become Judges of evil thoughts James 2. 4. Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though ye know them c. to stir you up by putting in remembrance c. I will endeavour that you may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance c. 2 Pet. 1. 12 13 15. ch 3. 1 2. Jude v. 4 5. CHAP. XXXIII Of Repentance in General wherein God cannot Repent and wherein or how he is said to Repent Repentance in Man and his turning to God from Sin and in such who have back-slidden from following God and otherwise First Wherein God cannot Repent and wherein or how he is said to Repent AND God saw that the wickedness of man was great c. and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart Gen. 6. 5 6. Moses prayed and said c. Turn from thy fierce wrath and repent of this evil against thy people c. and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do Exod. 32. 11 12 14. Ye shall bear your iniquities c. and ye shall know my breach of promise or altering of my purpose Numb 14. 34. God is not a man that he should lye neither the son of man that he should repent hath he said and shall not he do it or hath he spoken and shall not make it good Num. 23. 19. 1 Sam. 15. 29. Heb. 6. 18. Titus 1. 2. The Lord shall c. repent himself for his servants when he seeth that power is gone
and there c. Deut. 32. 36. It repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them who oppressed them Judges 2. 18. It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king for he is turned back c. the Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee c. and also the strength or eternity of Israel will not lye nor repent for he is not a man that he shoul repent 1 Sam. 15. 11 28 29 35. When the Angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destory it the Lord repented him of the evil and said to the Angel c. It is enough stay c. 2 Sam. 24. 16. They have humbled themselves I will not destroy them but will grant them some deliverance 2 Chron. 12. 7. 1 Kings 21. 27 29. Return O Lord how long and let it repent thee concerning thy servants Psal 90. 13. He remembred c. and repented according to the multitude of his mercies Psal 106. 45. The Lord will judge his people and repent himself concerning his servants Psal 135. 14. For this shall the earth mourn c. because I have spoken I have purposed and will not repent neither will I turn back from it c. Jer. 4. 28. I will c. destroy thee I am weary with repentings Jer. 15. 6. Amend your ways c. and the Lord will repent him of the evil which he hath pronounced against you c. And the Lord repented him of the evil which c. Jer. 26. 3 13 19. ch 18. 7 8 9 10 11. I will plant you c. for I repent me of the evil I have done unto you Jer. 42. 10. chap. 18. 8 10. I the Lord have spoken c. I will not go back neither will I spare c. nor repent Ezek. 24. 14. How shall I give thee up Ephraim c. my heart is turned within me my repentings are kindled together I will not execute the fierceness c. Hosea 11. 8 9. O Grave c. repentance shall be hid from mine eyes Hosea 13. 14. By whom shall Jacob arise c. the Lord repented for this It shall not be saith the Lord Amos 7. 2 3 5 6. Who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger and we perish not c. And God saw their works that they turned from their evil way and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them and he did it not Jonah 3. 9 10. chap. 4. 20. Joel 2. 13 14. I thought to punish you c. and I repented not so again have I thought c. to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah fear ye not c. Zech. 8. 14 15. Secondly Repentance in Mâ—n in General and his turning c. GOD led the people not thorow the way of the land of the Philistines c. for God said Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war and they return Exod. 13. 17. And thou shalt call to mind c. and shall return c. with all thy heart c. Deut. 30. 1 2 3 8. 1 Kings 8. 47 48. Deut. 4. 30 31. And the children oâ— Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother Judges 21. 6 15. Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel saying if ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts put away the strange gods c. from among you and prepare your hearts unto the Lord c. then they did put away Balaam c. and served the Lord only 1 Sam. 7. 3 â— If they bethink themselves c. and repent c. and so return unto thee with aâ— their heart c. 1 Kings 8. 47 48. Ahab humbled himself c. and God brought not the threatned Judgments in his days 1 Kings 21. 27 29. For a long season Israel was without the true God c. But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel and sought him he was found 2 Chron. 15. 4. Turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham c. and he will return to the remnant of you c. and be not like your fathers c. If ye turn again unto the Lord your brethren c. shall find compassion for the Lord your God is gracious c. 2 Chron. 30. 6 7 9. Manasseh-repented c. when he had been in afliction 2 Chron. 33. 12 13 14 c. Jer. 4. 14. I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies Psal 119. 59. Wash ye make ye clean put away the evil of your goings c. Isa 1. 16 17. Jer. 4. 14. Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted for in that day every man shall cast away his Idols c. Isa 31. 6 7. I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions c. return unto me Isa 44. 22. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon for my thoughts are not your thoughts c. Isa 55. 6 7 8 9. Is this the fast that I have chosen c. Loose the bonds of Iniquity to undo the heavy burthens c. Isa 58. 5 6 7. Thou hast played the harlot with many lovers yet return again to me saith the Lord c. but she turned not c. return thou backsliding Israel faith the Lord c. and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you for I am merciful c. only acknowledge tâ—â—e iniquity c. return c. I will heâ—l your backslidings Behold we come un to thee for thou art the Lord our God Jer. 3. 1 6 7 12 13 14 22. If thou wilt return O Israel faith the Lord return unto me and if thou wilt put away thy abomination out of my sight then c. Jer. 4. 1 4 14. Were they ashamed when they had committed c. nay they were not at all c. neither could they blush Jer. 6. 15. Amend your ways and your doings c. trust not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord c. for if ye thorowly amend your ways and your doings c. Jer. 7. 3 4 5 6 7. Isa 58. 5 6 7. No man repented of his wickedness saying What have I done every one turning to his course as the horse râ—â—hâ—th into the batter Jer. 8. 5 6. Return ye nâ—w every one from his evil way and make your ways and 〈◊〉 doings good And they said There is no hope but we will walk after c. Jer. 13. 11 12. I will give them an heart to know me c. for they shall return unto me with their whole heart Jer. 24. 7. Surely I have heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thou hast chastized me and I was chastized as a Bullock accustomed to the yoke turn thou me and I shall be turned
for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon my thigh I was ashamed yea even confounded because I did bear the reproach of my youth Jer. 31. 18 19 20. Take the Roll c. it may be the house of Judah will hear c. that they may return every man from his evil way that I may forgive their iniquity c. Jer. 36. 2 3 6 7. Let us search and try our ways and turn a-again to the Lord Lam. 3. 40. Joshua 7. 10 12. Turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned Lam. 5. 21. They who escape of you shall remember me among the nations c. and they shall loath themselves for the evils which they have committed Ezek. 6. 9. Thus faith the Lord God of Israel Repent and turn your selves from your Idols and turn away your faces from all your abominations c. Ezek. 14. 6. If the wicked will turn from all his sins which he hath committed and keep all my statutes c. he shall surely live c. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die faith the Lord not that he should return from his ways and live c. repent and turn you from all your transgressions so iniquity shall not be your ruine c. make you a new heart and a new spirit for why will you die c. Ezek. 18. 21 23 30 31 32. ch 33. 11 12 13 c. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings which were not good and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your iniquity Ezek. 36. 31. ch 6. 9. ch 20. 43. O king c. break off thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by shewing mercy Dan. 4. 27. I will hedge up her way c. then shall she say I will go and return to my first husband c. Hosea 2. 6 7. Israel shall return and â—eek the Lord their God c. and shall fear the Lord Hosea 3. 5. Jer. 50. 4 5. They will not frame their doing to turn unto their God Hosea 5. 4. Come let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us Hosea 6. 1. Zech. 1. 3 4. The pride of Israel testisieth to his face and they do not return to the Lord their God nor seek him for all this c. they return not to the most high Hosea 7. 10 14 16. Isa 9. 13. Jer. 2. 30. ch 5. 3. Break up your fallow ground for it is time to seek the Lord Hosea 10. 12. Jer. 4. 3 4. O Israel return unto the Lord c. take unto you words and return to the Lord Hosea 14. 1 2. Turn ye even to me with all your hearts and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning and rent your hearts and not your garments c. he is gracious Joel 2. 12 13. God sent judgment after judgment yet Israel repented not Joel 4. 6 8 9 10 11. Amos 4. 8 c. The people of Niniveh believed God and proclaimed a fast c. God saw their works that they turned from their evil way Jonah 3. 5 8 9 10. They shall look upon him whom they have pierced and they shall mourn Zech. 12. 10. Return unto me and I will return unto you saith the Lord of hosts Mal. 3. 7. Zech. 1. 3 4. John Baptist preached c. saying Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is c. Mat. 3. 1 2 6. From that time Jesus began to preach and to say Repent for the kingdom c. Matth. 4. 17. Mark 1. 15. I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Mat. 9. 13. Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done because they repented not c. if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Tyre c. they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes Mat. 11. 20 21 22. The men of Niniveh c. because they repented at the preaching of Jonas Mat. 12. 41. Son go work c. but he said I will not but afterwards he repented and went c. ye when ye had seen repented not afterwards that ye might believe him Mat. 21. 28 29 32. Judas repented himself and brought again the thirty pieces c. I have sinned Mat. 27. 3 4. Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Luke 13. 2 3 5. Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner who repenteth more than over ninety nine just persons who need no repentance c. there is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over one sinner who repenteth c. the prodigal returned Luke 15. 7 10 17 18 19 20 21 24 32. If one went from the dead to them they would repent c. If they hear not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead Luke 16. 30 31. If he trespass against thee seven times c. and he turn again to thee saying I repent Luke 17. 3 4. It behoveth Christ to suffer c. that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations Luke 21. â—6 47 When they heard this they were 〈◊〉 in their hearts and said c. men and 〈◊〉 what shall we do Peter said unto 〈◊〉 Repeâ—t and be baptized Acts 2. 3â— â—8 Repent ye therefore and 〈…〉 that your sins may be blotted oâ—◠〈◊〉 Him hath God exalted 〈◊〉 for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness 〈…〉 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thought of c. Acts 8. 22. Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life c. a great number believed and were turned unto the Lord Acts 11. 18 21. We preach to you that ye should turn from these vanities to the living God Acts 14. 15. And the times of this ignorance God winked at but now commandeth all men every where to to repent Acts 17. 30. I kept back nothing c. testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Acts 20. 20 21. But shewed c. that they should repent and turn to God and do works meet for repentance c. Acts 26. 20. Not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance Rom. 2. 4. Though I made you sorry c. I do not repent c. ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner c. for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of 2 Cor. 7. 8 9 10. I shall bewail many who have sinned aready and have not repented of the uncleanness c. which they have committed 2 Cor. 12. 21. How ye turned to God from Idols to serve the living and true God and to wait for his son from heaven c. 1 Thes 1. 9 10. In meekness
of the resurrection from the dead some mocked Acts 17. 32. Of the hope and resurrection of the dead am I called in question c. The Sadduces say There is no resurrection c. The Pharisees confess it Acts 23. 6 8. ch 24. 21. They themselves also allow that there shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and unjust Acts 24. 15. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead Acts 26. 8. God who quickeneth the dead c. Rom. 4. 17. The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God c. We our selves groan within our selves waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body Rom. 8. 19 21 32 23. And God hath both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by his own power 1 Cor. 6. 14. The resurrection of the dead proved at large and with what bodies and the manner of the resurrection 1 Cor. 15. 12 13 to the 56. That we should not trust in our selves but in God who raiseth the dead 2 Cor. 1. 9. He who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and shall c. 2 Cor. 4. 14. The holy spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day oâ— redemption Ephes 4. 30. We look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according unto the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself Phil. 3. 20 21. He is the head c. the beginning the first-born from the dead c. Col. 1. 18. When Christ c. shall appear then shall ye also appear with him c. Colos 3. 4. I would not have you ignorant brethren concerning them who are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others who have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord That we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them who are asleep for the Lord himself shall descend c. and the dead in Christ shall arise first then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them c. 1 Thes 4. 13 14 15 16 17. Hymeneus c. who concerning the truth have erred saying That the resurrection is past already and overthrow the faith of some 2 Tim. 2. 18. Not laying again the foundation c. of the resurrection of the dead Heb. 6. 1 2. Others were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Heb. 11. 35. Thy wrath is come and the time of the dâ—â—d that they should be judged Rev. 11 18. I saw the souls of them who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus c. and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years but the rest of the dead lived not again till the thousand years were finished This is the first resurrection blessed and holy is he who hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power c. And I saw the dead small and great stand before God c. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it and Death and Hell or the grave delivered up the dead which were in them Rev. 20. 4 5 6 12 13. CHAP. XXXVI Of Christ's Second Coming to the Judgment and rendring unto every Man according to his Deeds done in the Body whether good or bad IF thou do well shalt thou not be accepted and if thou doest not well sin lieth at thy door Gen. 4. 2. Shall not the judge of all the earth do right Gen. 18. 25. The wicked is reserved to the day of destruction they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath Job 21. 30. I know my Redeemer liveth and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth Job 19. 25. The ungodly shall not stand in judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous Psal 1. 5. The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations which forget God Psalm 9 17. God is Judge himself Psal 50. 6. Verily there is a reward for the righteous verily he is a God who judgeth in the earth c. Psal 58. 11. He cometh to judge the earth and he shall judge the world with righteousness and the people with his truth Psal 96. 13. Psal 98. 9. Shall not he render to every man according to his works Prov. 24. 12. Rejoice O young man in thy youth c. and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment Eccles 11. 9. For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil Eccles 12. 14. ch 3. 17. Thine eyes are upon all the ways of the sons of men to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings Jer. 32. 19. ch 1â— 10. Ezek. 18. ch 33. 8 9 c. Agree with thine adversary c. lest at any time thine adversary deliver thee to the judge c. Matth. 5. 25 26. Many will say to me in that day Lord Lord Have we not prophesied in thy name c. then will I protess unto them I never knew you depart from me ye who work iniquity Matth. 7. 21 22 23. Luke 13. 25 26 27. Whosoever shall not receive you c. it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city Matth. 10. 14 15. ch 11. 21 to 25. ch 12. 41 42. But I say unto you That every idle word which men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment Matth. 〈◊〉 36. So shall it be at the end of the world the Son of man shall send forth his Angels and they shall gather c. them which do iniquity and shall cast them into a 〈◊〉 of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth then shall the righteous shine c. Matth. 13. 40 41 42 43 49 50. Luke 3. 17. The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels and then he shall reward every man according unto his works Matth. 16. 27. There was a man who had not on a wedding-garment and the king said unto him Friend how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment and he was speechless Then said the king to his servants Bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into outer darkness there shall be weeping c. Matth. 22. 11 12 13. ch 25. 30. As the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth to the west so shall also the coming of the Son of man be
not soon shaken in mind c. as that the day of Christ is at hand c. except there come first a falling away and that man of sin be revealed c. 2 Thes 2. 1 2 3. Until the illustrious appearance of our Lord Jesus c. 1 Tim. 6. 14. The Lord Jesus who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom c. a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day c. unto them also who love his appearance 2 Tim. 4. 1 8. Looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Titus 2. 13. 2 Tim. 1. 10. Not laying again the foundation c. of eternal judgment Heb. 6. 1 2. It is appointed for aâ—l men once to die but after this the judgment so Christ c. unto them who look for him shall â—e appear the second time without sin Heb. 9. 27 2â— A certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indâ—gnation which shall devour the adversary c. It is a feartel thing so fall into the hands of the living God Heâ— 10. 27 31. Ye are câ—â—e unto mount Zâ—on c. and to God the Judge of all c. Heb. 12. 22 23. Be patient therefore brethren to the coming of the Lord c. for the coming of the Lord draweth near c. James 5. 7 8. That the tryal of our faith c. might be found uâ—to praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ c. the Father who without respect or persons Judgeth according unto every mans works 1 Pet. 1. 7 13 17. Psal 62. 12. Who shall give account unto him who is ready to judge the quick and the dead c. The end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and waten unto prayer c. The time is come that judgment must began at the house of God c. What shall the 〈◊〉 be of them who obey not the Gospel of God And if the righteous scarcely be saved Where shall the ungodly and sinners appear 1 Pet. 4. 5 7 17 18. When the chief shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a crown c. 1 Pet. 5. 4. If God spared not the Angels who sinned but cast them down c. to be reserved unto judgment c. The Lord knoweth how c. to reserve the the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished 2 Pet. 2. 4 9. There shall come in the last days scoffers c. and saying Where is the promise of his coming For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the â—eginning c. the heavens and the earth which now are by the same word are kept in store reserved unto she against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men c. One day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day c. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise c. Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought ye to be c. looking for and hasting unto the day of God 2 Pet. 3. 3 4 7 8 10 11 12. Psal 102. 25 26. Abide in him that when he appears we may have conndence at his coming 1 John 2. 28. That we may have â—oldness in the day of judgment because as he is so are we 1 John 4. 16 17. The Angels who kept not their first state c. hath he reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day c. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgment upon all c. Jude ver 6 14 15. Behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also who pierced him c. Rev. 1. 7. I will give to every one of you according to to your works Rev. 2. 23. And the heavens departed as a scroul c. and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighâ—y men c. hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said unto the mountains and rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face or him who sitteth upon the throne and from the wâ—ath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. 14 15 16 17. Mark 13. 31. The nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and thou shouldit give unto thy servants a reward c. Rev. 11. 18. ch 14. 7. I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away c. and I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened c. and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works Rev. 20. 11 12 15. Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according as his works shall be c. And the Spirit and the Bride say Come c. He who restified these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen Even so come Lord Jesus Rev. 22. 12 17 20. We are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them who do such things Râ—â— 2. 2. Be not deceived c. for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap for he who soweth to the flesh shall or the flesh reap c. Gal. 6. 7 8. See the Duty of Waiting for Christ's Coming Chap. 16. CHAP. XXXVII Of the Glory prepared for the Saints and reserved to be given to them at the Appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ MAN hath not heard nor perceived c. what he hath prepared for them who wait for him Isa 64. 4. 1 Cor. 2. 9 10. Verily there is a reward for the righteous Psal 58. 11. If in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable 1 Câ—r 15. 19. 1 Tim. 4. 8. After I awake c. yet in my flesh or out of my flesh shall I see God whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another Job 19. 26 27. In thy presence is fulness of joy at thy right hand pleasure for evermore Psalm 16. 11. Psalm 17. 15. Death shall feed on them and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning Psal 49. 14. Many of them who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life c. and they who be wise or teachers shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they who turn many to righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever Dan. 12. 2 3. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall
c. look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness 2 Pet. 3. 13. He who doeth the will of God abideth for ever 1 John 2. 17. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3. 2. They shall walk with me in white c. cloathed in white c. will I make a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go no more out c. will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and am set down c. Rev. 3. 4 5 11 12 21. ch 2. 26 27 28. I beheld and lo a great multitude c. stood before the throne c. cloathed with white robes and palms in their hands c. These are they who came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple and he who sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them they shall hunger no more nor thirst no more neither shall the sun light on them or any heat for the Lamb c. shall feed them c. and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Rev. 7. 9 13 to 18. Isa 25. 8. The souls of them who were beheaded and which had not worshipped the beast c. nor received his mark c. Rev. 20. 4. The New Jerusalem's Glory described at large c. Behold the tabernacle of God is with men and he will dwell with them c. and wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away Rev. 21. 1 to 5. ch 22. 1 to 6. 2 Pet. 3. 13. See more of Eternal Life Chap. 10. See the sad End of wicked Men Chap. 5. CHAP. XXXVIII Of Knowledge and Understanding in and about Divine Things and of the Want thereof Ignorance about such things and the Evil thereof WHen Abimelech had taken Sara Abram's Wife though in the Integrity of his Heart not knowing her to be Abram's Wife because he had said she was his Sister yet God said unto him Behold thou art a dead man for the woman thou hast taken for she is a man's wife Gen. 20. 2 to 10. Pharaoh said Who is the Lord that I should obey him Exod. 5. 2. And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch forth my hand upon Egypt and bring forth the children of Israel from among them Exod. 7. 5. Ezek. 6. 7 10 13. Exod. 14. 4 18. According to thy word that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord Exod. 8. 10. I have hardned his heart and the heart of his servants that I might shew these my signs c. that ye may know how that I am the Lord Exod. 10. 1 2. Deut. 4. 35. Exod. 6. 7. Jethro said when Moses had told him what God had done Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he c. Exod. 18. 11. 2 Kings 5. 15. Under the Law they were to offer Sacrifices for Sins of Ignorance whether of a Person or of the Congregation Levit. 4. 2 3 4 13 14 15. ch 5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 17 18 19. Numb 15. 24 25 26. Ye have seen all that the Lord did c. yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day Deut. 20. 2 4. They sacrificed c. not to God to gods whom they knew not to new gods Deut. 32. 17. There arose another generation c. who knew not the Lord nor the works he had done c. Judges 2. 10. Sampson said to his father Get her for me c. but his father and his mother knew not that it was of the Lord that he sought an occasion against the Philistines Judges 14. 3 4. The sons of Eli wicked men knew not the Lord 1 Sam. 2. 12. Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him 1 Sam. 3. 7. That all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel c. that the Lord saveth not by sword c. 1 Sam. 17. 46 47. Elijah prayed that God would by an extraordinary means let it be known that thou art a God in Israel c. that this people may know that thou art the Lord God 1 Kings 18. 36 37 38. Because the Syrians have said The Lord is God of the hills but he is not God of the Valleys therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hands and ye shall know that I am the Lord 1 Kings 20. 28. Solomon asked wisdom and knowledge and God gave it and riches also 2 Chron. 1. 9 10 11 12. Nevertheless they shall be his servants that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the Countreys 2 Chron. 12. 8. God left Hezekiah to try him that he might know all that was in his heart 2 Chron. 32. 31. Canst thou by searching find out God Carst thou find out the Almighty to perfection c. Job 11. 7 8 12. ch 37. 5. Eccles 11. 5. I have understanding as well as you I am not inferiour to you Job 12. 3. ch 13. 2. Lo these are parts of his ways but how little a portion is heard of him Job 26. 14. There is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding great men are not always wise neither do the aged understand judgment Job 32. 8 9. ch 38. 36. I uttered that I understood not things too wonderful for me which I knew not I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee wherefore I abhor my self c. Job 42. 5 6. They who know thy name will put their trust in thee c. The Lord is known by the judgments he executeth Psal 9. 10 16. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge who eat up my people c. Psal 14. 4. Psal 53. 4. The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shew his handy work day unto day uttereth speech and night unto night teacheth knowledge c. The testimonies of the Lord are sure making wise the simple c. The commandments of the Lord is pure inlightning the eyes Psal 19. 1 2 3 4 7 8. Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted c. Psal 46. 10. Consume them c. and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earthâ— Selah Psal 59. 13. Ps 99. 10. When I thought to know this it was too painful for me until I went into the Sanctuary of God then understood I their end c. so foolish and
ignorant was I I was as a beast before thee Psal â—3 16. 17 22. Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen who have not known thee Psal 79. 6. They know not neither will they understand they walk on in darkness Psal 82. 5. Let them be confounded c. that they may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah art the most high over all the earth Psal 83. 18. Understand O ye brutish among the people and fools when will ye be wise He who planted the ear shall he not hear c. Psal 94. 7 8 9 10 11. It is a people who do err in their hearts and they have not known my ways Psal 95. 10. Whoso is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord Psal 107. 43. For I know that the Lord is great and our Lord above all gods Psal 135. 5. Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk Psal 143. 8. Ps 146. 8. He shewed his word unto Jacob c. He hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgments they have not known them Ps 147. 19 20. A wise man will hear and increase learning a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels c. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity c. and fools hate knowledge c. they shall call upon me but I will not answer c. for that they hated knowledge and did not chuse the fear of the Lord Prov. 1. 5 7 22 28 29. Apply thine heart to understanding yea if thou cryest after knowledge c. if thou seek her as silver c. then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord c. for the Lord giveth wisdom c. understanding shall keep thee Prov. 2. 2 3 4 5 6 10 11. ch 4. 7. Happy is the man who findeth wisdom and the man who getteth understanding for the merchandize of it is better than the merchandize of silver Prov. 3. 13 14. ch 8. 5 6 11. ch 16. 16. Job 28. 12 15 16 17 c. I beheld c. a young man void of understanding passing through the street c. Prov. 7. 7 8 c. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom the knowledge of the Holy understanding Prov. 9. 10. Wise men lay up knowledge Prov. 10. 14. The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way Prov. 14. 8. Evil men understand not judgment but they who seek the Lord understand all things Prov. 28. 5. Surely I am more brutish than any man and have not the understanding of a man Prov. 30. 2. Tell me O thou whom my soul loveth where thâ— feedest c. if thou know not O thou fairest c. go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock Cant. 1. 7 8. The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib Israel doth not know my people doth not consider Isa 1. 3. Therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge Isa 5. 13. Hear ye indeed but understand not and see ye indeed but perceive not c. make their ears heavy and shut their eyes lest they see c. and understand Isa 6. 9 10. Mat. 13. 13 14. The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Isa 11. 9. Habak 2. 14. The Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day and shall do sacrifice c. Isa 19. 21. It is a people of no understanding therefore he who made them will not have mercy on them Isa 27. 11. The Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep and hath closed your eyes c. and the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book sealed c. therefore c. The wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid c. In that day shall the eyes of the blind see out of obscurity c. They who erred in spirit shall come to understanding c Isa 29. 10 11 12 13 14 18 24. Save us c. that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord c. Isa 37. 20. Have ye not known c. it is he who â—tteth upon the circle of the earth Isa 40. 21 22. That they may know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord c. Isa 41. 20. I will bring the blind by a way they knew not c. in paths they have not known Isa 42. 16. They have not known nor understood for he hath shut their eyes and they cannot see and their hearts and they cannot understand c. neither is there knowledge or understanding to say I have 〈◊〉 part of it c. Isa 44. 18 19. Nations c. which knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord c. Isa 55. 5. They who handle the law knew me not Jer. 2. 8. I will give you Pastors c. who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding Jer. 3. 15. My people is foolish they have not known me they are 〈◊〉 children they have no understanding they are wise to do evil but to do good they have no knowledge Jer. 4. 22. ch 8. 7. ch 9. 3 6. ch 5. 21. Hâ—sea 5. 4. Let him who glories glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord who exercise loving-kindness judgment and righteâ—â—sness Jer. 9. 24. I will give them an heart to know me that I am the Lord Jer. 24. 7. Hosea 2. 20. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least c. Jer. 31. 34. All the remnant c. shall know whose words shall stand mine or theirs Jer. 44. 28. Ezek. 6. 10. I will set my glory among the heathen so the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward c. And when I have brought them again c. then shall they know that I am the Lord their God who caused them to be led into captivity Ezek. 39. 21 22 23 27 28. ch 38. 23. Jer. 16. 21. To the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth c. They shall make thee eat grass as oxen c. till thou know that the most High ruleth c. Dan. 4. 17 25 32. But the people who do know their God shall be strong and do c. and they who understand among the people shall instruct many c. and some of understanding shall fall Dan. 11. 32 33 35. Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased c. And none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand Dan. 12. 4 10. For she did not know that I gave her corn and wine and oyl c. Hosea 2. 8. The Lord hath a controversie c.
because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land c. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou hast rejected knowledge I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no Priest Hosea 4. 1 2 6. Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord c. For I desire c. the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings Hosea 6. 3 6. I taught Ephraim to go c. but they knew not that I healed them c. Hosea 11. 3. Who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent and he shall know them Hosea 14 9. The poor of the flock who waited on me knew that it was the word of the Lord Zech. 11. 11. The Priests lips should preserve knowledge Mal. 2. 7. The light of the body is the eye c. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness how great is that darkness Mat. 6 22 23. No man knoweth the father but the son and he to whom the son revealeth him Mat. 11. 27. If ye had known what this meaneth I will have mercy c. ye would not have condemned c. Mat. 12. 7. Because it is given to you to know the mystery of the kingdom of heaven but to them it is not given c. therefore speak I to them in parables c. When any one hears the word of the kingdom and understands it not then cometh the wicked oâ—e c. Matth. 13. 11 13 16 19 35. Mâ—rk 4. 11 12 15 34. If the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch c. Are ye without understanding Mat. 15. 14 16. Ye do err not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God Mat. 22. 29. The Gadarenes through ignorance of Christ besought him to depart from them Lâ—ke 8. 37. Peter said c. Let us build three tabernacles one for thee c. not knowing what he said Luke 9. 33. I thank thee O father c. that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes c. for so it seemed good in thy sight c. No man knoweth who the son is c. but the son and he to whom the son will reveal him c. blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see c. Luke 10. 21 22 23. Wo unto you Lawyers for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ye eâ—tred not in your selves and them who were entring in ye hindred or forbad Luke 11. 52. That servant who knew his Lord's will and prepared not neither did according c. shall be beaten with many stripes but he who knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes Luke 12. 47 48. Jesus took unto him the twelve and said unto them c. And they understood none of these things and this saying was hid from them neither knew they c. Luke 18. 31 32 33 34. John 12. 16. ch 13. 7. ch 20. 9. He beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace but now they are hid c. Luke 19. 41 42. Then opened he their understandings that they might understand the Scriptures Luke 24. 44 45. He was in the world c. and the world knew him not John 1. 10 26. Ye must be born again c. Nicodemus answered and said unto him How can these things be Jesus c. said Art thou a master in Israel and knowest not these things If I have told you of earthly things and ye believe not how will ye c. if I tell you heavenly John 3. 4 7 8 9 10 12. If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith to thee Give me to drink thou wouldst have asked of him and he would have given thee living water c. Ye worship ye know not what we know what we worship John 4. 10. 22. The Jews therefore strove among themselves saying How can this man give us his flesh to eat John 6. 52. If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God c. John 7. 17. I am the light of the world he who followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of the life c. ye neither know me nor my â—ather if ye had known me ye should have 〈◊〉 my father also c. When ye have lift up the Son of man then shall ye know that I am he c. If ye continue in my word c. ye shall know the truth c. Why do ye not understand my speech even because ye cannot hear my word John 8. 12 19 28 32 43. ch 14. 7 9. We know that God spake unto Moses as for this fellow we know not from whence he is c. Jesus said For judgment came I c. that they who see not might see and that they who see might be made blind c. If ye were blind ye should have no sin c. John 9. 29 39 41. He who walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth John 12. 35. If ye know these things happy are ye if ye do them John 13. 17. All these things will they do unto you c. because they know not him who sent me John 15. 21. ch 16. 2 3. And this is life eternal that they may know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent c. They have known surely that I came out from thee c. The world hath not known thee c. these have known that thou hast sent me John 17. 3 7 8 24. As yet they knew not the Scripture that he must rise again from 〈◊〉 dead John 20. 9. ch 12. 16. It is not for you to know the times and the seasons where c. Acts 1. 7. Ye denied the Holy one c. and killed the Prince of life and now brethren I wot that through ignorance ye did it as did also your rulers Acts 3. 14 15 17. When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men c. they had been with Jesus Acts 4. 13. They who dwell at Jerusalem and their rulers because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the Prophets which are read c. they have fulfilled them in condemning him Acts 13. 27. I found an altar with this inscription To the unknown God whom therefore ye ignorantly worship I declare c. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold c. and the times of this ignorance God winked at but now commandeth c. Acts 17. 23 29 30. I verily thought with my self that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus c. Acts 26. 9. That which may be known of God is manifest c. for the invisible things
and seek not the honour which cometh from God only John 5. 44. Labour not for the meat which perisheth but for that which endureth c. John 6. 27. He is of age ask him c. These words spake his parents because they feared the Jews for the Jews had agreed already That if any man did confess that he was Christ he should be put out of the Synagogue therefore said his parents c. John 9. 21 22 23. Judas displeased at the use of the ointment upon pretence of the poor but 't was because he bare the purse c. Among the chief rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be put out of the Synagogue for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God John 12. 4 5 6 42 43. In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good chear I have overcome the world John 16. 33. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil John 17. 15. Jesus answered My kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not c. John 18. 36. Pilate â—ought to release â—esus but the Jews cried out saying If thou let this man go thou art not Caesar's friend c. When Pilate therefore heard that saying he brought Jesus forth c. John 19. 12 13 15 16. Mark 15. 15. What house will ye build for me saith the Lord c. Hath not my hand made all these things c. Acts 7. 48 49 50. ch 14. 15 17. When Paul had cast out the evil Spirit out of the damsel and her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone they caught Paul and Silas c. and said That they did exceedingly trouble the City c. Acts 16. 18 to 22. God who made the world c. he is Lord of heaven and earth c. He giveth to all life c. and all things Acts 17. 24 25. So Demetrius a Silver-smith and others of the same trade who made silver Shrines for Diana c. complained against Paul for Preaching the Gospel cried up Diana because they were like to lose their gain if men esteemed not of Diana as a Goddess Acts 19. 24 to 28. Your selves know that these hands of mine have ministred to my necessities and them who were with me I have shewed you all things how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said If is more blessed to give than to receive Acts. 20. 33 34 35. The carnal mind is enmity against God It is not subject to the law of God neither indeed can be Rom. 8. 7. Make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Rom. 13. 14. Ye see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many noble are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wife c. that no flesh should glory c. 1 Cor. 1. 26 27 28 29. I will not be brought under the power of any meats for the belly c. but God shall destroy both c. 1 Cor. 6. 12 13. The time is short it remaineth that both they who have wives be as though they had none and they who weep as though they wept not and they who rejoice as if they rejoiced not and they who buy as though they possessed not and they who use this world as not abusing it for the fashion of this world passeth away c. He who is married careth for the things which are of this world how he may please his wife 1 Cor. 7. 29 to 34. I keep under my body and bring it in subjection lest that by any means c. 1 Cor. 9. 27. The Devil is called the God of this world 2 Cor 4. 4. The sorrow of the world worketh death 2 Cor. 7. 10. You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be rich 2 Cor. 8. 9. God is able to make all grace abound towards you that ye always having all sufficiency c. 2 Cor. 9. 8. Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God c. Gal. 1. 4. The flesh lusteth against the spirit c. so that ye cannot do the thing that ye would Gal. 5. 17. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom or whereby the world is crucified to me and I unto the world Gal. 6. 14. Covetousness let it not be once named among you as becometh Saints c. for this ye know that no whoremonger c. nor covetous man who is an idolâ—er hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God Ephes 5. 3 5. 2. Cor 6. 10. Whose end is destruction whose God is their belly whose glory is in their shame who mind earthly things Phil. 3. 15. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication c. let your request be made known to God c. I have learned that in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content I know how to be abased and how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and suffer need c. but my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Jesus Christ Psal 4. 6 12 19. Set your affections or mind on things above not things on the earth c. Mortifie therefore your members c. inordinate affections evil concupiscence and covetousness which is idolatry Col. 3. 2 5. Meats which God hath created to be received c. for every creature of God is good and nothing to c. 1 Tim. 4. 3 4. 1 Cor. 10. 25 26 27. She who liveth in pleasure or delicately is dead while she liveth 1 Tim. 5. 6. Godliness with contentment is great gain for we brought nothing into the world it is certain we can carry nothing out and having food and raiment let us be therewith content but them who will be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition for the love of money is the root of all evil which while some coveted after have erred from the faith and pierced themselves thorow with many sorrows but thou O man flee these things c. Charge them who be rich in this world that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living God who giveth all things richly to enjoy that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute c. laying
God from idols to serve the living and true God 1 Thes 1. 9. Little children keep your selves from idols 1 John 5. 21. And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which neither can see nor hear nor walk Rev. 9. 20. The Lord terrible c. he will famish or make lean all the gods of the earth c. Zeph. 2. 11. See Worshipping of the true God Chap. 16. CHAP. XLI Of Angels appearing to Men What they are and do AND the Angel of the Lord found Hagar by a fountain of water c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto her Return to thy mistress c. I will multiply thy seed exceedingly c. Gen. 16. 7 8 9 10 11. Three men appeared to Abraham his discourse with them and entertaining of them Gen. 18. Dan. 10. 5 6 7 c. And there came two Angels to Sodom at even c. and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them and he bowed himself with his face towards the ground c. but the men put forth their hands and pulled Lot into the house c. and they smote the men who were at the door with blindness c. And the men said unto Lot Hast thou here any beside son-in-law c. for we will destroy this place c. The Angels hastened Lot c. and while he lingred the men laid hold upon his hand c. When they had brought them out abroad that he said Escape for thy life c. And Lot said unto them O not so my Lord c. And he said unto him See I have accepted thee concerning this thing c. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah c. Gen. 19. 1 2 3 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 21 24. And the Angel of God called unto Hagar out of heaven and said unto her What aileth thee Hagar Fear not for God hath heard thy voice Gen. 21. 17. And the Angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said Abraham Abraham c. Lay not thine hand upon the Lad c. And the Angel of the Lord called unto Abraham the second time out of heaven Gen. 22. 11 12 15. Abraham said unto his servant The Lord God of heaven c. he shall send his Angel before thee and thou shalt take a wife unto my son c. Gen. 24. 6 7. Jacob dreamed and behold a ladder c. the Angels of God ascending and descending c. Gen. 28. 12. The Angel of God spake unto Jacob in a dream c. said For I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee I am the God of Bethel c. where thou vowest a vow unto me c. Gen. 31. 11 12 13. And Jacob went on his way and the Angel of God met him and when Jacob saw them he said This is God's Host c. And Jacob was left alone and there wrestled a man with him c. as a Prince hast thou power with Angels c. And Jacob said I have seen God face to face and my Life is preserved Gen. 32. 1 2 24 28 30. Hosea 12. 4. The Angel who redeemed me from all evil bless the lad Gen. 48. 16. And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto Moses in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush c. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called unto him out of the midst of the bush c. said I am the God of thy father c. Exod. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Acts 7. 30 35. And the Angel of the Lord who went before the Camp of Israel removed and went behind them and the pillar of the cloud c. Exod. 14. 19 20. Behold I send an Angel before thee to keep thee in the way c. for mine Angel shall go before thee and bring thee in unto the Amorite Exod. 23. 20 23. ch 32. 34. ch 33. 2. He heard our voice and sent an Angel and brought us forth out of Egypt Numb 20. 16. God was angry with Balaam because he went and the Angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him c. And the ass upon which he rode saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand and the ass turned aside c. But the Angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyard c. And when the ass saw the Angel of the Lord she thrust her self unto the wall c. And the Angel of the Lord went farther and stood in a narrow place c. and when the ass saw the Angel of the Lord she fell down under Balaam c. Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam and he saw the Angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand and he bowed down his head and fell flat on his face c. And the Angel of the Lord said unto Balaam c. The word which I shall speak unto thee that thou shalt speak Numb 22. 22 23 24 25 26 27 31 32 33 34 35. When Joshua was by Jericho c. behold there stood a man over-against him with his sword drawn in his hand And Joshua went unto him and said unto him Art thou for us or for our adversaries And he said Nay but as Captain or Prince of the Host of the Lord am I come And Joshua fell on his face unto the earth and did worship and said unto him What saith my Lord unto his servant c. Joshua 5. 13 14 15. An Angel of the Lord came c. when the Angel had spoken those words c. the people c. wept Judges 2. 1 4. Curse ye Meros said the Angel of the Lord c. because they came c. Judges 5. 23. And there came an Angel of the Lord and sat under an Oak c. appeared unto Gideon and said unto him The Lord is with thee c. And Gideon said unto him Oh my Lord c. The Lord said unto him Surely I will be with thee c. And the Angel of God said unto him Take thee flesh c. and lay them upon this rock c. Then the Angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff and touched the flesh c. And when Gideon perceived that he was an Angel of the Lord Gideon said Alas O Lord God for because I have seen an Angel of the Lord face to face c. Thou shalt not die c. Judges 6. 11 12 15 16 17 20 21. 22 23. The Angel of the Lord appeared to Manoah his wife c When Manoah knew that he was an Angel of the Lord he said unto his Wife We shall surely die because we have seen God c. Judges 13. 3 6 8 13 16 18 21
spittle Mark 8. 22 23. The miraculous number of fish taken by Peter and his company when Christ had commanded them to take their net and cast it into the sea Luke 5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. He healed the Centurions servant raised the widows only son from the dead when they were carrying him to be buried Luke 7. 2 3 c. 11 12 13 c. He made the woman straight who had by reason of an infirmity been bowed and could not stand up Luke 13. 11 12 13. He cured a man of a dropsie Luke 14. 2 3 4. Christ healed the ear with a touch which the disciples had cut off Luke 22. 51. Christ healed ten lepers Luke 17. 12 13 14 15 16. He restored sight to another blind man Luke 18. 41 42 43. Christ cured the High Priests servants ear Luke 22. 51. He turned water into wine at the marriage faest in Cana John 2. 7 8 9. He healed the noble-mans son by his word which the noble man believed and found that his child mended the same hour Christ spake John 4. 47 49 50 51 52 53. He cured the man who had had an infirmity 36 years and had waited long at the pool and could not get in John 5. 5 6 7 8 9. He restored sight to the man who was born blind he anointed his eyes with clay and spittle and bid him wash c. John 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. He raised Lazarus from the dead after he had been laid in his grave John 11. 43 44. He caused Peter and other disciples to cast their net into the sea and they took a miraculous number of fishes John 21. 6 7 8. Many wonders and signs were done by the Apostles Acts 2. 43. ch 14. 3. Peter raised up the lame man who had lain at the temple-gate Acts 3. 2 6 7. Ananias and Saphira both at the Apostles word fell down dead c. And by the hands of the Apostles were many signs and wonders wrought c. they brought sick folks and them who were vexed with unclean spirits and they were healed every one Acts. 5. 9 10 12 15 16. Philip did many miracles cast out unclean spirits healed palsies and lame Acts 8 6. 7. Peter healed Aeneas of the palsie and raised Dorcas from the dead Acts 9. 34 40 41. Paul cured the cripple at Lystra who had been lame from his mothers womb Acts 14. 8 9 10. Paul cast out the spirit of divination out of the maid Acts 16. 16 17 18. And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul so that from his body were brought to the sick handkerchiefs c. and the diseases departed from them and the evil spirits went out of them Acts 19. 11 12. Paul raised Eutichus from the dead when he had fallen down from the window Acts 20. 9 10. Paul healed the father of Publius of his fever and bloody-flux and others Acts 28. 8 9. So grâ—at salvation which first began to be spoken by the Lord c. God also bearing them witness both with signs and wonders and with divers miracles c. Hebr. 2. 3 4. Mighty signs and wonders by the power of the spirit of God Rom. 15. 19. CHAP. XLIV Of the Kings of Israel and Judah How they came to their Power and Office GIdeon hath judged Israel he had seventy sons Abimilech one of the sons of Gideon by his servant by subtilty with the men of Shechem that it was better one should reign than all the seventy sons procures money hires vain and light persons and kills all his brethren except Jotham the youngest who hid himself Abimelech by the men of Shechem and the house of Millo made King After a few years he was slain by a piece of mill-stone a woman threw down on him after whom Judges governed a lâ—ng time till Samuel Judges 9. Israel by the Elders came to Samuel and said Make us a king to judge us lâ—ke all the nations and though God was displeased at it and said They had rejected not Samuel but God himself that he should not reign over them yet he bids Samuel hearken unto them and make them a king 1 Sam. 8. Samuel before Saul came was told of God of his coming and that he should be the man whom he should anoint king Samuel anoints him king â—ccordingly 1 Sam. 9. ch 10. According to this afterwards all the people went to Gilgal and here they made Saul king before the Lord 1 Sam. 11. 14 15. Samuel said to Saul When thou wast little in thine own fight wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel c. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord he hath rejected thee from being king 1 Sam. 15. 17 23. Samuel by Gods special direction anointed David the son of Jesse to be king although Saul was yet living and the spirit left Saul and came upon David 1 Sam. 16. 1 12 13 14. And after Sauls death the men of Judah came to Hebron and there they anointed David king over Judah but Abner made Ishbosheth the son of Saul king over all Israel 2 Sam. 2. 1 2 3 4 8 9. After the death of Ishbosheth being slain came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron c. And all the Elders of Israel came c. and king David made a league with them and they anointed David 〈◊〉 over Israel 2 Sam. 5. 1 2 3. Adonijah David his son being about to set up himself David sets up Solomon 1 Kings 1. 5 6 c. God said to Solomon Thou hast not kept my covenant c. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee and will give it to thy servant c. Abijâ—h the Prophet told Jeroboam That God would give ten tribes unto him and take the kingdom out of the hands of Solomons son and give ten tribes unto him Solomon died Rehoboam rigned in his stead 1 Kings 11. 9 10 11 12 29 30 31 35 36 37 43. All Israel came to Shethem to make Rehoboam king the people proposing ease and Rehoboam refusing to grant it the cause was from the Lord that he might perform what he had said ten tribes fell off from him And when all Israel had heard that Jeroboam was come again they sent and called him to the Congregation and made him king over all Israel When Rehoboam intended by force to reduce them God forbid it and said This thing is from me only Judah subjected to Rehoboam 1 Kings 12. 1 7 3 4 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24. Go tell Jeroboam thus faith the Lord God of Israel Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people and made thee Prince over my people Israel and rent the kingdom from the house of David and gave it unto thee c. Jeroboam died and Nadab his son reigned in his stead over Israel Rehoboam died and Abijam his son reigned in his stead over Judah 1
Kings 14. 7 1 20 3â— Abijam died and Asa his son reigned over Judah Asa died and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead over Judah Baasha conspired against Nadab king of Israel and smote him and reigned in his stead over Israel 1 Kings 15. 8 24 26 27 28. The word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hananiah against Baasha saying Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of thee dust and made thee Prince over my people Israel and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam Behold I will take away the posterity of Baasha c. Baasha died Elah his son reigned in his stead Zimri one of Elah his servants conspired against him and smote him and killed him and reigned in his stead over Israel But when Israel being in the Camp heard of it they made Omri the Captain of the Host king that day in the Camp of Israel Zimri is burnt Then half the people followed Tibni to make him King and half followed Omri Tibni died and Omri prevailed and reigned he died and Ahab his son reigned in his stead 1 Kings 16. 1 2 3 6 9 10 16 18 21 22 28. God appointed Elijah to anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel Ahab being alive 1 Kings 19. 16. Ahab the king of Israel was slain in the battel and Ahazâ—ah his son reigned in his stead over Israel Jehoshaphat king of Judah died and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead over Judah 1 Cings 22. 34 35 40 50. Ahaziah the king of Israel died and Jehoram reigned in his stead over Israel because he had no son 2 Kings 1. 17. Joram otherwise Jehoram the king of Judah died and Anaziah his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 8. 24 25. Elisha sent one of the children of the Prophets to Jehu the captain of the host of Israel to anoint him king over Israel Jehoram the king being yet living in Jezerel and wounded when the young man anointed him he said Thus faith the Lord God of Israel I have anointed thee king over the people of the Lord even over Israel and thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master that I may avenge c. Then the army proclaimed him king then Jehu killed Jehoram king of Israel c. and also Ahaziah the king of Judah was slain by Jehu 2 Kings 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 14 24 27. And the Lord said unto Jehu Because thou hast done well in executing that which was right in mine eyes and hast done unto the house of Ahab according unto all which was in my heart thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel Jehu died and Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead over Israel 2 Kings 10. 30 35. Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw her son was dead she killed the blood-royal except Joash who was hid and reigned over Judah Jehojada caused Jehoash or Joash to be made king and sit upon the throne and Athaliah to be slain 2 Kings 11. Jehoash was slain by two of his servants who conspired against him and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 12. 20 21. Jehoahaz dyed and Joash his son reigned in his stead over Israel Joash died and Jeroboam sat upon his throne over Israel 2 Kings 3. 13. 9 1. ch 14. 16. They made a conspiracy against Amaziah and slew him And the people of Judah took Azariah his son and made him king over Judah Jeroboam king of Israel died and Zachariah his son reigned over Israel 2 Kings 14. 19 20 21 29. Azariah king of Judah died and Jotham his son reigned in his stead Shallum conspired against Zachariah king of Israel and flew him before the people and reigned in his stead 2 Kings 15. 7 8 9 12. Menahem smote Shallum king of Israel and flew him and reigned in his stead Menahem died and Pekaliah his son reigned in his stead over Israel Pekah one of his Captains conspired against him smote him killed him and others and reigned in his room over Israel Hoshea made a conspiracy against Pekah king of Israel and smote him and slew him and reigned in his stead Jotham the king of Judah died and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead 2 Kings 15. 13 14 22 25 30 38. Ahaz king of Judah died Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 16. 20. And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and Manasleth his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 20. 21. Manasseth the king of Judah died and Amon his son reigned in his stead The servants of Amon king of Judah conspired against him and slew the king in his own house The people of the land slew the Conspirators and made Josiah the son of Amon king in his stead he reigned over Judah 2 Kings 21. 18 23 24 26. Josiah is slain by Pharaoh king of Egypt the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in his fathers stead Pharaoh puts Jehoahaz out and set up Eliakim Jehoahaz his son in his stead and called him Jehoiakim 2 Kings 23 29 30 33 34. Jehoiakim died and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead over Judah Jehoiachin is carryed away captive to Babylon and the king of Babylon made Mattaniah king in his stead and called him Zedekiah 2 Kings 24. 6 15 17. Zedekiah the king and all carryed captives 2 Kings 25. See Magistrates Chap. 24. CHAP. XLV Of Sacrifices and Altars and calling upon the Name of the Lord before the giving of the Law CAin brought of the fruits of the ground an offering unto the Lord and Abel he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof and the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering but unto Cain and his offering he had not respect c. Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord Gen. 4. 2 3 4 5 26. Noah builded an Altar unto the Lord and took of every clean beast and of every clean fowl and offered burnt-offerings on the altar and the Lord smelled a sweet savour or a savour of rest Gen. 8. 20 21. And the Lord appeared unto Abram and said Unto thy seed will I give this land and there builded he an altar unto the Lord who appeared unto him c. and he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent c. and there builded an altar unto the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord Gen. 12. 7 8. Afterwards when Abram came again to the place on the east of Bethel unto the place of the altar which he had made there at first and there Abram called upon the name of the Lord c. Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre c. and builded there an altar to the Lord Gen. 13. 3 4 18. Abram planted a grove or a tree in Beersheba and
now I will go unto the Lord peradventure I shall make an attonement for your sin Exod. 32. 30. The Lord shall epent himself for his servants when he seeth that power is gone c. Deut. 32. 36. Ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you and from off your gods and from off your land 1 Sam. 6. 5. And Jonathan said c. Come and let us go over unto the garison of these uncircumcised it may be that the Lord will work for us for there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or few 1 Sam. 14. 6. While the child was yet alive I fasted and wept for I said Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me that the child may live 2 Sam. 12. 22. Let him alone and let him curse c. it may be the Lord will look on mine affliction and that the Lord will requite good for his curing this day 2 Sam. 16. 12. Why sit we hear until we die If we enter into the city then the famine is in the city and we shall die there c. Now therefore come let us sall into the host of the Assyrians if they save us we shall live if they kill us we shall but die c. 2 Kings 7. 3 4 c. This day is a day of trouble c. it may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh c. and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard Wherefore lift up prayers for the remnant which are left 2 Kings 19. 3 4. We have trespassed against our God and have taken strange wives c. yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives c. Ezra 10. 2 3. O my God I cry in the day time and thou hearest not c. be not far from me c. Psalm 22. 2 3 to the 12. It is good for a man that beareth his yoke in his youth c. He putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there be hope Lam. 3. 27 29. Israel said Our bones are dried and our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts c. Thus saith the Lord Behold O my people I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel Ezek. 37. 11 12 13. O King c. break off thy sins by righteousness c. if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquility or healing of thine error Dan. 4. 27. Rent your hearts c. who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him c. Joel 2. 13 14. Hate the evil and love the good and establish judgment in the gates it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph Amos 5. 15. The ship was like to be broken c. Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship and he lay and was fast asleep and the Ship-master came to him and said to him c. Arise call upon thy God if so be that God will think upon us thaâ— we perish not Jonah 1. 4 5 6. Jonah when in the Fish's belly said I am cass out of thy fight yet will I look again unto thy holy temple c. when my soul sainted within me I remembred the Lord and my prayer came in unto thee into thine holy temple Jonah 2. 1 2 3 4 7. Let man and beast be covered with sack-cloth and cry mightily unto God yea let them turn every man from his evil way c. Who can tell if God will turn and repent and turn away from his fierce anger that we perish not Jonah 3. 8 9 10. Seek ye the Lord all ye meek c. It may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger Zeph. 2. 3. The Woman who had had the bloody Issue twelve years and had spent much upon Physicians to no purpose came and touched Christ and was healed Luke 8. 43 44 45 46 47 48. John 5. 5 6 7 8 9. The Woman of Canaan though Christ answered her roughly cried still and prevailed Mark 7. 26 27 c. Repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thought of thy heart may be forgiven thee for I perceive thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity Acts 8. 22 23. In meekness instructing them who oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledgement of the truth and that they may recover them out of the snare of the Devil who are taken captive by him at his will 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. See Repentance Chap. 33. See Crying to God in time of Afflictions Chap. 22. See Salvations in such low Conditions Ibid. CHAP. L. God takes notice of a little Good and Humblings in any and requites it and commends it HE only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave because in him there is found some good thing towards the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam 1 Kings 14. 12 13. Ahab c. rent his clothes and put sack-cloath upon his flesh c. and went softly c. Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me because he humbleth himself before me I will not bring the evil in his days 1 Kings 21. 27 28 29. Jehu commended and rewarded for his zeal in executing the Judgments of God upon Ahab's house 2 Kings 10. 30. Because thine heart was tender saith God to Josiah and thou hast humbled thy self before the Lord c. and hast rent thy clothes and hast wept before me I also have heard saith the Lord. Behold therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers c. in peace and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place 2 Kings 22. 18 19 20. When the Lord saw that Rehoboam and the princes humbled themselves he said I will not destroy them but I will grant them some deliverance c. God would not destroy him altogether 2 Chron. 12. 6 7 12. Thus saith the Lord I remember the kindness of thy youth the love of thine Espousals when thou wentest after me in the wilderness in a land which was not sown Jer. 2. 2. Thus God did note and commend the good of the Churches in Asia Rev. 2. 2 3 9 13 19. ch 3. 4 8 10 11. CHAP. LI. Of Vowes and Promises to God JAcob vowed a vow saying If God will be with me and will keep me in this way and will give me bread to eat c. then shall the Lord be my God c. Gen. 28. 20 21 22. ch 31. 13. The Law for redemption of the things vowed Levit. 17. The Law about â—ows where it binds and is to be kept and where not Numb 30. When thou shalt vow to the Lord thy God
before the Lord. And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness that we and our cattel should die there And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt to bring us into this evil place It is no place of seed or of figs or vines c. Numb 20. 1 2 3 4 5 The soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way And the people spake against God and against Moses Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness for there is no bread neither is there any water and our soul loatheth this light bread And the Lord sent siery serpents among the people and they bit the people and much people died Numb 21. 4 5 6. Ye have been rebellious against the Lord since the day I knew you Deut. 9. 23 24. They tempted God in their hearts by asking meat for their lusts yea they spake against God They said Can God furnish a table in the wilderness c. Behold he smote the rock c. Can he give bread also Can he provide flesh for his people Therefore the Lord heard and was wroth So a fire was kindled against Jacob c. because they believed not in God nor trusted in his salvation c. They sinned still and believed not his wondrous works c. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desart Yea they turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel c. Psal 78. 18 19 20 21 22 32 40 41. I would not that ye should be ignorant how that our fathers were under the cloud c. but with many of them God was not well pleased for they were overthrown in the wilderness Now these things were our examples to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lasted c. Neither let us tempt Christ as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of serpents Neither murmur ye as some or them also murmured and were destroyed by the destroyer Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples or types and are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come therefore let him who thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 to 13. See the Things of the World Chap. 39. CHAP. LIV. Saints Duty to be diligent and industrious in their Callings GO to the Ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise which having no guide overseer or ruler provideth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest How long wilt thou sleep O sluggard When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep Yet a little sleep a little sâ—umber a little folding of the hands to sleep so shall thy poverty come as one who travelleth and thy want as an armed man Prov. 6. 6 7 8 9 10 11. ch 24. 33 34 He becometh poor who dealeth with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich he who gathereth in summer is a wise son he who sleepeth in harvest is a son who causeth shame c. As vinegar to the teeth and smoak to the eyes so is the sluggard to them who send him Prov. 10. 4 5 26. He who tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding c. The hand of the diligent shall bear rule but the slothful shall be under tribute c. the slothful roasteth not that which he took in hunting but the substance of a diligent man is precious Prov. 12. 11 24 27. The soul of the sluggard desireth and hath nothing but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat Prov. 13. 4. In all labour there is profit but the talk of the lips tend only to poverty Prov. 14. 23. The way of the slothful man is an hedge of thorns Prov. 15. 19. He also who is slothful in his work is brother to him who is a great waster Prov. 18. 9. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep and an idle soul shall suffer hunger c. A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again Prov. 19. 15 24. ch 26. 15. The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing c. Love not sleep lest thou come to poverty open thine eyes and thou shalt be satisned with bread Prov. 20. 4 13. He who loveth pleasure or sport shall be a poor man c. The desire of the slothful killeth him for his hand refuseth to labour Prov. 21. 17 25. The slothful man saith A Lion without I shall be slain in the streets c. Seest thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before kings he shall not stand before mean men Prov. 22. 13 29. ch 26. 13. Drowsiness shall cloath with rags Prov. 23. 21. I went by the field of the slothful c. and lo it was all grown over with thorns nettles had covered the face thereof c. Yet a little sleep c. so thy poverty shall come c. Prov. 24. 30 31 32 33 34. By much slothfulness the building decays and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth down Eccles 10. 18. As the door turneth on its hinges so the slothful man upon his bed c. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can render a reason Prov. 26. 14. 16. He who tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread but he who followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough Prov. 28. 19. The Industry of a good Wife set forth at large Prov. 31. 10 11 12 c. Rise up ye women who are at ease hear my voice ye careless daughters c. Many days and years shall ye be troubled ye careless women for the vintage shall fail c. Tremble ye women who are at ease be troubled ye careless ones c. Isa 32. 9 10 11. This was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom abundance of idleness was in her c. neither c. Ezek. 16. 49. Matth. 20. 3 6. You your selves know that these hands have ministred to my necessities and to them who were with me I have shewed you also how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of our Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive Acts 20. 33 34 35. ch 18. 1 2 3. 2 Thes 3. 7 8 9 10. Let him who stole steal no more but rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have to give to him who needeth Ephes 4. 28. That you study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work with your own hands as we commanded you 1 Thes 4. 11. We commanded you that if any would not work he should not
eat For we hear there are some among you who walk disorderly working not at all c. We command c. that with quietness they work and eat their own bread c. 2 Thes 3. 10 11 12. Withal they learn to be idle wandring about from house to house 1 Tim. 5. 13. That they who have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works or honest trades Titus 3. 8 14. CHAP. LV. God's Way of declaring his Mind of Old by Voices Dreams and Visions THE Lord spake to Adam to Cain Noah c. Gen. 2. 16 17. ch 3. 8 9 10 11 c. ch 4. 6 7 9 10 to 16. ch 6. 13 14 c. ch 7. 1 2 3 c. ch 9. ch 12. 1 2 3. After these things the word of the Lord came in a vision unto Abram saying I am thy shield c. Gen. 15. 1 2 3 c. God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said unto him Behold thou art but a dead man for the woman which thou hast taken c. God said to him in a dream Yea I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart c. Gen. 20. 2 to 8. Jacob dreamed and behold a ladder set upon the earth and the top thereof reached to heaven c. The Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father c. The land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it c. Gen. 28. 11 to 16. And the Angel of God spake unto me in a dream saying Jacob c. I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee I am the God of Bethel where thou anointedst the pillar where thou vowedst a vow to me c. And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night and said unto him Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob c. Gen. 31. 11 12 13 24. Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it to his brethren c. And he dreamed yet another dream c. Gen. 36. 5 to 11. ch 42. 6. ch 43. 26 28. ch 44. 14. ch 50. 18. The Dreams of the Butler and Baker of Pharaoh in the Prison and of Pharaoh himself interpreted by Joseph Gen. 40. ch 41. God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night and said Jacob Jacob c I am the God of thy Father fear not to go down into Egypt c. Gen. 46. 1 to 5. God spake to Moses out of the burning bush Exod. 3. Moses went up unto God and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain saying Thus shalt thou say c. Moses spake and God answered him by a voice c. And the Lord said to Moses Go down charge the people c. Exod. 19. 3 4 9 10 19 20 21 22 24. If there be a prophet among you I c. will make my self known to them in a vision c. Numb 12. 6. He hath said who heard the words of God who saw the vision of the Almighty falling into a trance but having his eyes open c. Num. 24. 4 16. The Lord spake to Samuel by Voice or Word 1 Sam. 3. 4 10 11 21. To Nathan by Vision 2 Sam. 7. 17. The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night and God said Ask what I shall give thee c. 1 Kings 3. 5 6 7. ch 9. 2. The Lord answered not Saul by prophets nor by dreams c. 1 Sam. 28. 6 15. God speaketh once yea twice yet man perceiveth it not In a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instruction Job 33. 14 15 16. Thou spakest in a vision to thy Holy One and saidst I have laid help upon one c. Psal 89. 19. Nebuchadnezzar's Dreams which Daniel expounded Dan. 2. ch 4. Belshazzar's Vision against the Wall Dan. 5. 5 25. Daniel's Vision of the Beasts c. Dan. 7. Of the Man cloathed in Linnen Dan. 10. 5 6 7 c. Of other things Dan. 7. ch 8. ch 10. I have also spoken by the prophets and I have multiplied visions and used similitudes by the ministery of the prophets Hos 12. 10. I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and c. your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions Joel 2. 28. Acts 2. 16 17. For the vision is yet for an appointed time but in the end it shall speak and not lye and though it tarry wait for it because it will surely come c. Habak 2. 3. Behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph thou son of David fear not c. Matth. 1. 20. And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return unto Herod c. And when they were departed behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying Arise and take the young child c. Matth. 2. 12 13 19 22. Pilate c. said I will have nothing to do with that just Man for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him c. Matth. 27. 19. Saul saw a Vision and heard a Voice saying Saul Saul Why persecutest thou me c. A certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias And to him said the Lord in a vision c. Arise and go c. Acts 9. 1 2 3 4 to 11. ch 26. 13 14 15 c. Cornelius saw in a Vision evidently an Angel of God coming unto him and saying Cornelius thy prayers and thine alms are come up c. Peter also had a Vision and God spake to him c. Acts 10. 3 4 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 28 30 c. ch 11. 5. A Vision appeared to Paul in the night There stood a man of Macedonia and prayed him saying come over unto Macedonia and help us c. He endeavoured to go assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the Gospel unto them Acts 16. 9 10. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision be not afraid but speak c. for I am with thee Acts 18. 9. It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord I knew a man c. 2 Cor. 12. 1 2 3. God who at sundry times and in divers manners spoke in times past unto the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son c. Heb. 1. 1 2. CHAP. LVI The Call and Commission of the Apostles equal without Superiority JEsus c. saw two brethren Simeon called Peter and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fishers and he saith unto them follow me and I will make you fishers of men c. he saw other two brethren James the son of Zebedee and John his brother c. and he called them and they immediately c. followed
thee into the land which thy fathers possessed and thou shalt possess it c. and the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart c. to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart c. Deut. 30. 1 2 3 4 5 6. The Lord shall judge his people and repent himself for his servants when he seeth that power is gone and there is none shut up or least c. rejoyce O ye nations his people for he will avenge the blood of his servants c. and will be merciful to his land to his people Deuteronomy 32. 36 43. O that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people Jacob shall rejoyce Israel shall be glad Psal 14. 7. And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established or prepared in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow in unto it And many people shall say come ye let us go up c. for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem Isa 2. 2 3. And it shall come to pass in that day the remnant of Israel c. shall stay upon the Lord the holy one of Israel in truth the remnant shall return the remnant of Jacob unto the mighty God for though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea a remnant of them shall return c. Isai 10 20 21 22 23. And it shall come to pass in that day the Lord shall fet his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be lest from Assyria c. and from the Island of the sea and he shall set up an ensign for the nations and shall assemble the out-casts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth Isa 11. 11 12. The Lord will have mercy on Jacob and will yet refuse Israel and set them in their own land c. Isa 14. 1 2. 3 32. He shall cause them who came out of Jacob to take root Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the world with fruit c. ye shall be gathered one by one O ye children of Israel c. and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the out-casts in the land of Egypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem Isa 27. 6 12 13. Look upon Zion the city of our solemnities thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation a tabernacle which shall not be taken down nor one of the stakes there of shall ever be removed neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken but there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers Isa 33. 20 21 c. Look unto Abram your father and unto Sarah who bare you c. for the Lord shall comfort Zion he will comfort all their wast places and he will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the Lord joy and gladness shall be found therein thanksgiving and the voice of melodie Isa 51. 2 3. ch 52. 1 2 3 4. ch 60. ch 61. 4 5 6 c. ch 62. ch 65. 18. 19 20 21 22 23 ch 66. 8 9 10 11 12 13 15. Micah 4. Zephan 3. 14 15 c. At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord and all the nations shall be gathered unto it to the name of the Lord to Jerusalem c. in those days shall the house of Judah walk with the house of Israel and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land which I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers but I said c. Jerem. 3. 14 15 16 17 18. The days come saith the Lord that it shall no more be said the Lord liveth who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt but the Lord liveth who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands whither he had driven them and I will bring them again into their land which I gave to their fathers Jerem. 16. 14 15. ch 23. 3 4 5 6 7 8. I will be the God of all the families of Israel and they shall be my people c. again I will build thee and thou shalt be built O virgin of Israel c. then shall ye plant vines upon the mountain of Samaria the planters shall plant and shall ear c. for this saith the Lord sing with gladness for 〈◊〉 and shout among the chief of the nations c. behold I will bring them from the north country and gather them from the coasts of the earth c. a great company shall return thither c. for I am a father to Israel and Ephraim is my first-born hear the word of the Lord O ye nations and declare it in the Isles of the nations and say He who scattereth Israel will-gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock for the herd hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him who was stronger then he therefore shall they come and sing in the height of Zion c. if heaven above can be measured c. I will also cast of all the seed of Israel for all that they have done saith the Lord behold the days come saith the Lord that the city shall be built to the Lord c. Jerem. 31. 1 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 27 28 38 c. ch 30. Behold I will gather them out of the countries whither I have driven them in mine anger c. and I will bring them again into this place and I will cause them to dwelt safely and they shall be my people c. Jer. 32. 37 38. Thus saith the Lord If my covenant be not with day and night c. then will I cast off the feed or Jacob and David my servant that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham Isaac and Jacob For I will cause their captivity to return and have mercy on them Jer. 33. 25 26 ch 46. 27 28 In those days the children of Israel shall come they and the children of Judah together going and weeping c. Jer. 59. 4 20. Thus saith the Lord God although I have cast them far off among the heathen and although I have scattered them among the Countreys yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the Countreys where they shall come therefore c. I will even gather you from the people and assemble you out of the Countreys where ye have been scattered and I will give you the land of Israel and they shall come thither and they shall take away all the detestable things c. Ezek. 11. 16 17 18 Ye shall
Elah was drinking himself drunk in his house c. Zimri smote and killed him 1 Kings 16. 8 9 10. Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the Pavilion when Israel came and slew the Assyrians with a great slaughter c. 1 Kings 20. 16 17 18 19 20. And they gave drink in vessels of gold c. and royal wine in abundance and the drinking according to law none did compel for the king had appointed to all the officers of his house that they should do according unto every 〈◊〉 pleasure Hester 1. 7 8. They who sate in the gate spake against me I am the long of the drunkards or drinkers of drink Psalm 69. 12. Wine is a mocker strong drink is raging whosoever is deceived hereby is not wise Prov. 20. 1. Be not amongst wine bibbers nor amongst riotous eaters of flesh c. for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty Prov. 23. 2 20 21. It is not for kings to drink wine c. lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted Prov. 31. 4 5. Wo unto them who rise up early in the morn that they may follow strong drink who continue until night till wine inflame them c. Wo to the mighty to drink mine and men of strength to mingle strong drink Isa 5. 11 22. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard c. Isa 24. 20. They also have erred through wine and through strong drink are out of the way the Priest and the Prophet have erred through strong drink they are swallowed up of wine they are out of the way through strong drink they err in vision they stumble in judgment for all their tables are full of vomit and filthiness c. Isa 28. 7. 8. His watch-men are blind c. Come ye say they I will fetch wine and we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant Isa 56. 10. 11 12. Awake ye drunkards weep and house all ye drunkards of wine because of the new wine because it is cut off from your mouth Joel 1. 5. Wo to them who are at ease in Zion c. who drink wine in bowls c. Amos 6. 1 6. While they are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured Nahum 1. 10. Wo unto him who giveth his neighbour drink who putteth thy bottle to him and makest drunken also that thou mayst look on their nakedness Habak 2. 15. But if that evil servant c. shall begin to smite his fellow servants and eat and drink with the drunken The Lord of that servant shall come c. Matth. 24. 48 49 50. Luke 12. 45. Others mocking said Those men are full of new wine But Peter c. said c. These are not drunken as ye suppose seeing it is but the third hour of the day c. Acts 2. 13 14 15. Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness c. Rom. 13. 13. I have written to you not to keep company c. if any man who is called brother be c. a drunkard c. with such a one no not to eat 1 Cor. 5. 11. Be not deceived neither fornicators c. nor drunkards c. shall inherit the kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. Ephes 5. 21. One is hungry another is drunken c. 1 Cor. 11. 21. Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit c. Ephes 5. 8. They who are drunk are drunken in the night but let us who are of the day be sober c. 1 Thes 5. 7 8. CHAP. LXIV Great Outward Privileges nor our own Righteousness alone will be our Security against Judgments here or Damnation for ever No Cause of Boasting in these only WHat nation so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God in all that we call upon him for And what Nation so great that hath Statutes c. so righteous as all this law Only take heed and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things thine eyes have seen c. left ye corrupt and make you a graven image c. leâ—t ye forget the covenant c. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire c. When c. ye shall do evil in the light of the Lord to provoke him to anger c. ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land c. be utterly destroyed c. Ask of the days past c. Did ever people I ear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou hast heard and live Or hath God essayed to go and take him a nation from the middest of a nation by tentations by signs c. Because he loved thy fathers he chose their feed after them and brought them out in his sight with his mighty power c. Thou shalt therefore keep his statutes Deut. 4. 7 8 9 10 16 23 24 25 26 27 33 34 36 37 40. Speak not thou in thine heart after the Lord hath cast them out from before thee saying for my righteousness the Lord hath brought me into possess this good land but for the wickedness of these nations c. not for thy righteousness nor for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go to possess their land but for the wickedness c. the Lord thy God doth drive them out c. And that he may perform the word which the Lord swore unto thy rathers Abraham c. the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness for a stiff-necked people c. Deut. 9. 4 5 6 7 c. To the wicked God saith What hast thou to do to declare my statutes or that thou shouldest â—ake my Covenant into thy mouth seeing thou harest instruction and castest my words behind thee c. Psal 50. 16 17 18. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord I am full of the burâ—t-offerings c. who hath required this at your hands to tread my Courts c. bring no more vain oblations incense is an abomination to me the new moon and sabboths the calling of assemblies I cannot away with it c. they are a trouble to me I am weary to bear them when you make many prayers I won't hear c. your hands are full of blood wash you make you clean c. Isa 1. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. Jer. 6. 19 20. We are all an unclean thing and all our righteousness as filthy rags Isa 64. 6. He who killeth an ox is as if he slew a man he who sacrificeth a lamb as if he cut off a dog's neck c. They have chosen their own ways c. Isa 66. 3. Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord c. If ye throughly amend your ways c.
for they did unto thee evil c. And Joseph wept when he heard it c. Gen. 50. 15 16 17. When Pharaoh had charged the Midwives with breaking his Commands and saving the Men-children alive they said unto him Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women for they are lively and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them Therefore God dealt well with the midwives c. Exod. 1. 16 to 21. When Rahab had hid the Spies and the King had sent for them she said There came men unto me but I wist not whence c. when it was dark the men went out whither c. I wot not pursue after them quickly for ye shall overtake them But she had brought them up to the roof of the house and hid them c. Joshua 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6. When the Inhabitants of Gibeen came to Joshua they took old Sacks c. and said to Joshua We be come from a far country now therefore make ye a league with us c. from a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the Lord thy God for we have heard the same of him and all that he did in Egypt c. Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake unto us saying Take victuals c. This our bread we took hot on the day we came forth c. but now behold it is dry and it is mouldy c. by reason of the very long journey c. And Joshua made peace with them c. and smote them not because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them c. Josh 9. 3 4 5 c. When the Moabites oppressed Israel the Lord raised them up a Deliverer Ebud c. Who going to Eglon the King of Moab with a Present from Israel after he had presented it he said I have a secret errand unto thee O king Who said Keep silence And all c. went out And Ehud came unto him and he was sitting in a summerparlour c. and said unto him I have a message from God unto thee and he arose out of his seat And Ehud took the dagger c. and thrust it into his belly c. Judges 3. 14 to 22. Sampson said several times That if they did bind him c. he should be weak and be as another man But it was not so Judges 16. 6 7 c. When God said to Samuel that he would send him to anoâ—nt David Samuel said How can I go If Saul hear he will kill me And the Lord said Take a heifer with thee and say I am come to sacrifice to the Lord And call Jesse to the sacrifice c. Which Samuel did and said I am come to sacrifice to the Lord 1 Sam. 16. 1 to 7. When Saul had sent for David Michal his Wife put an Image in the Bed c. covered it with a Cloth after she had sent him away and she said He is sick c. When Saul had said unto her Why hast thou deceived me c. She said He said unto me Let me go Why should I kill thee 1 Sam 19. 11 to 19. When Saul had a Design to have killed David and had enquired of him Jonathan answered as David had directed him to do and said David earnestly asked of me to go to Bethlehem and he said Let me go I pray thee for our family hath a sacrifice in the city and my brother he hath commanded me and now if I have found favour in thine eyes let me get away I pray thee and see my brethren Therefore he cometh not to the king's table 1 Sam. 20. 6 27 28 29. David when he fled from Saul and came to Abimelech the Priest he asked him Why art thou alone David said c. The king hath commanded me a business and hath said unto me Let no man know any thing of the business c And I have appointed servants to such and such a place c. Is not under thine hand spear or sword for I have neither brought my sword c. because the king's business required haste c 1 Sam. 21. 1 2 3 8 15. When David and his men had invaded the country near him and slain all and Achish said to him Whither have ye made a Road to day And David said Against the south of Judah c. And Achish believed David saying He hath made his people Israel to abhor him c. 1 Sam. 27. 8 to 13. When Absalom designed to rebel he said unto the King I pray thee let me go and pey my now which I have vowed unto the Lord in Hebron for thy servant vowed c. while I abode at Geshur in Syria saying If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem then I will serve the Lord 2 Sam. 15. 6 7 8 9 10 c. Jehu gathered all the People together and said unto them Ahab served Baal a little Jehu shall serve him much Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal all his servants and all his priests let none be wanting for I have a great sacrifice to Baal c. But Jehu did it in Subâ—â—ity to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal c. which afterwards he did 2 Kings 10. 18 to 26. CHAP. LXVI Of Words or Sayings expressive of Choice only not Binding ABraham said to the Angel Behold now my Lord turn in I pray you into your servant's house and tarry all night c. And they said Nay but we will abide in the street And he pressed upon them greatly and they turned in unto him and entred his house and he made them a feast c. Gen. 18. 1 to 5. When the Sons of the Prophets had said to Elisha c. There be with thy servants fifty strong men â—et them go we pray thee and seek thy master c. And he said Ye shall not send And when they urged him till he was ashamed he said Send And they sent c. 2 Kings 2. 14 15 16. When Jesus was about to wash Peter's Feet Peter said Thou shalt never wash my feet Jesus answered him saying Unless I wash thy feet thou shalt have no communion with me Then Peter said Lord not only my feet but also my hands and head John 13. 8 9. CHAP. LXVII Of Sensible Sick Lost Sinners Hungry Thirsty and Longing Souls such whom Christ came to seek heal satisfie and love HE satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness Psal 107. 9. The full soul loatheth the honey-comb but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet Prov 20. 24. When the poor and needy seek water and there is none and their tongue fail for thirst I the Lord will hear them c. I will open rivers in high places c. Isa 41. 17 18. Ho every one who thirsteth come ye to the waters c. hearken ye diligently unto me and