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 kingdom is the Lords and he is the Governour amongst 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 or 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 counsel of none effect the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever the thoughts of his heart to all generations Psal. 33. 6 7 9 10 11. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised Psal. 48. 1. Psal. 50. 1. Let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth Selah Psal. 59. 13. Isa. 60. 16. 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 heavens 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 is 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 horse are cast into a deep sleep Thou thou art to be feared 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. 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. 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 saist return ye children of men c. Psal. 90. 2 3. The Lord reigneth he is clothed 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. 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. 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 up 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 Lords 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. Psal. 145. 5 6. 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. There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord Prov. 21. 30. I know that whatsoever God doth 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. 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. Great is the holy one of Israel in the middest 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 Isaiah 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
my soul have I desired thee in the night yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early Isa. 26. 8 9. In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people Isa. 28. 5. As for our redeemer the Lord of hosts is his name the holy one of Israel Isa. 47. 4. I will greatly rejoyce in the Lord my soul shall be joyful in my God Isa. 61. 10. Hath a nation changed their gods which yet are no gods but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit c. My people have committed two evils they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and hewed them out cisterns broken cisterns c. Have I been a barren wilderness unto Israel c Can a maid forget her ornaments a bride her attire yet my people have forgotten me days without number Jer. 2. 11 13 31 32. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might c. But let him who glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord who exerciseth loving kindness c. Jer. 9. 23 24. 2 Cor. 10. 17. 1 Cor. 29. 31. The portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the former of all things c. The Lord of hosts is his his name Jer. 10. 16. chap. 51. 19. O the hope of Israel the saviour thereof in time of trouble why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land and as a wayfaring man turneth aside to tarry for a night why shouldest thou be as a man astonied c Yet thou O Lord in the midst of us and we are called by thy name c. Jer. 14. 8 9. chap. 17. 13. The Lord is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope in him Lam. 3. 24. Wo also unto them when I depart from them Hosea 9. 12. Fear not O land be glad and rejoyce for the Lord will do great things c. Be glad then ye children of Zion and rejoyce in the Lord your God Joel 2. 21 23. But the Lord the hope or harbour of his people and the strength of the children of Israel Joel 3. 16. Arise and depart ye for this is not your rest because it is polluted Micha 2. 10. Although the figtree shall not bloâ—…om neither fruit in the vine c. Yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation The Lord God is my strength c. Habbak 3. 17 18 19. Rejoyce because your names are written in heaven Luk. 10. 20. Zacheus came down and received Christ joyfully Luk. 19. 5 6. Lord to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal â—…ife c. Thou art that Christ the son of the living God John 6. 68 69. Philip said unto him Shew us the Father and it sufficeth John 14. 8. These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full John 15. 11. The Eunuch went on his way rejoycing Acts 8. 38 39. By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoyce in hope of the glory of God c. we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ Rom. 5. 2 11. Rejoycing in hope Rom. 12. 12. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing Rom. 15. 13. Our consolation also aboundeth by Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 1. 5. Now thanks be to God who always causeth us to triumph in Christ 2 Cor. 2. 14. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ Gal. 6. 14. My brethren rejoyce in the Lord c. we are the circumcision c. who rejoyce in Christ c. I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Christ Jesus my Lord Phil. 3. 1 3 8. Rejoyce in the Lord alway and again I say rejoyce c. And the peace of God which passeth all understanding shall keep your heart and mind c. Phil. 4. 4 7. Rejoyce evermore 1 Thess. 5. 16. That by two immutable things wherein it is impossible for God to lye we might have a strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Heb. 6. 18. In whom though now ye see not yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 1 Pet. 1. 8. 2dly To obey and hearken to the Laws and Word of God in Christ. There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy James 4. 12. Now the Lord had said unto Abram Get thee out of thy countrey and from thy kindred and from thy fathers house unto a land I will shew thee c. So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him Gen. 12. 1 4 5. Heb. 11. 8. God said unto Abraham Take now thy son thine only Isaac whom thou lovest c. and offer him there for a burnt-offering c. and Abraham rose up early in the morning and took Isaac c. he stretched forth his hand and took his knife to slay his son c. in blessing I will bless thee c. because thou hast obeyed my voice Gen. 22. 1 2 3 10 17 18. In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my commandments my statutes and my laws Gen. 26. 4 5. Thus did the children of Israel as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron so did they Exod. 12. 50. If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God and wilt do that which is right in his sight and will give ear unto his commandments and keep all his statutes I will put none of these diseases upon thee Exod. 15. 26. Deut. 28. 1. I will rain bread c. that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no c. How long refuse ye to keep my commandments c Exod. 16. 4 28. Now therefore if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people c. And all the people answered together and said all that the Lord hath spoken we will do Exod. 19. 5 7 8. ch 24. 3. 7. Shewing mercy unto thousands of them who love me and keep my commandments Exod. 20. 6. Behold I will send an Angel before thee c. Beware of him and obey his voice provoke him not for he will not pardon you c. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice and do all that I spake then c. Exod. 23. 21 22. That ye seek not after your own heart c. Do all my commandments and be holy Numb 15. 39 40. We will hear it and do it And the Lord said c. they have well said all that they have spoken O that there were
all saints c. And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints ascended up before God out of the Angels hand Rev. 8. 3 4. See more of Prayer in Affliction Chap. 22. See more of Common Calamities Chap. 23. See more in Duty towards all Men Chap. 19. See Prayer for Magistrates Chap. 24 To take special notice of the Acts of Gods Goodness and Mercy keep memorials thereof celebrate his praises extol him and stir up others so to do Abraham's servant when God had heard his request he bowed down his head and worshipped the Lord. And he said Blessed be the Lord God of my Master Abraham who hath not left destitute my Master of his mercy and his truth c. When he heard their words he worshipped the Lord c. Gen. 24. 26 27 52. I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God that thou wast pleased with me Gen. 33. 10. Then Jacob said c. Let us arise and go unto Bethel and I will make there an Altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went c. And he built there an Altar and called the place El-Bethel because there God appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother Gen. 35. 2 3 7. Moses and Israel solemnly celebrated his praise for their deliverance at the red Sea in a song of praise Exod. 15. 2 3 to the 22. When Israel got victory over the Amalekites he built an Altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nissi that is the Lord my banner Exod. 17. 13 14 15. And Moses told unto Jethro his Father-in-law all that the Lord had done unto Pharoah and to the Egyptians for Israels sake c. and Jethro rejoyced for all the goodness which the Lord had done unto Israel c. and said Blessed be the Lord who hath delivered you c Now I know that the Lord is greater than all Gods c. Exod. 18. 8 9 10 11. When thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee Deut. 8. 10. Moses song Deut. 32. Joshua pitched stones in Gilgal in memory of Israels passing dry thorow Jordan that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord that it is mighty Josh. 4. 20 21 22 23 24. The song of Deborah and Barak which they sang after the victory against Sisera and his Army Judges 5. Hannah sang praise when she brought Samuel her son to the house of the Lord whom the Lord had given her upon her prayer 1 Sam. 2. 1 2 3 4 to the 11. When the Philistines were beaten Samuel set up a stone called the name thereof Eben-Ezer saying Hitherto hath the Lord helped us 1 Sam. 7. 10 11 12. When Abigail met David and prevented him in his hasty purpose concerning Nabals house he said unto Abigail Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who sent thee this day to meet me and blessed be thy advice c. And when David heard that Nabal was dead he said Blessed be the Lord who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and hath kept his servant from evil c. 1 Sam. 25. 32 33 39. When God had promised many things unto David he saith set thy name be magnified for ever saying the Lord of Hosts is the God over Israel c. 2 Sam. 7. 26. And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hands of Saul And he said the Lord is my rock my fortress and my deliverer c. 2 Sam. 22. Upon the return of the Ark to the City of David he prepares a song and delivers it to be sang by way of thanksgiving unto God 1 Chron. 16. 8 9 to the 37. When the people had offered willingly towards the building of the house of the Lord David blessed the Lord before all the congregation and David said Blessed be thou Lord God of Israel our father for ever and ever c. Now therefore our God we thank thee and praise thy glorious name c. that we should be able to offer so willingly c. the congregation did so 1 Chron. 29. 9 10 11 12 13 14 to the 20. Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord and he spake unto him c. but Hezekiah rendred not again according to the benefit done unto him c. 2 Chron. 32. 24 25. Ezra takes notice of a little favour and acknowledgeth it to the praise of God Ezra 9. 8 9. Chap. 7. 27 28. Stand up bless the Lord your God for ever and ever and blessed by thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise c. Nehem. 9. 5 6 7 8 c. When Job had lost all than he said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken blessed be the name of the Lord Job 1. 20 28. I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness and will sing to the name of the Lord most high Psal. 7. 17. O Lord our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth who hast fet thy glory above the heavens c. Psal. 8. 1 9. I will praise thee O Lord with my whole heart I will shew forth all thy marvellous works I will sing praise to thy name O thou most high c. Sing to the Lord who dwelleth in Sion declare among the people his doings Psal. 9. 1 2 11. I will sing unto the Lord because he hath dealt bountifully with mâ—… Psal. 13. 6. Thou art holy who inhabiteth the praises of Israel c. ye who fear the Lord praise him all ye the seed of Jacob glorifie him Psal. 22. 3 23. That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all thy wondrous works Psal. 26. 7. The Lord is my strength c. with my song will I praise him Psal. 28. 7. Sing unto the Lord O ye Saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance or to the memorial of his holy name c. thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing c. to the end that my glory may sing praise unto thee amd not be silent O Lord my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever Psal 30. 4 11 12. Blessed be the Lord for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness Psal. 31. 21. Praise is comely for the upright Psal. 33. 1. Psal. 147. 1. I will bless the Lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth c. O magnifie the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together I sought the Lord and he heard me c. O taste and see that the Lord is good c. Psal. 34. 1 3 4 6 8. My tongue shall speak of thy righteousness of thy praise all the day Psal. 35. 28. Great is the
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 Psal. 48. 1 10. Offer unto God thanksgiving c. I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me c. whoso 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. 57. 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. Praise waiteth for thee O God in Sion c. Psal. 65. 1. 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 O 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 cryed 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 of 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 the 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 faithness 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 Psal. 95. 1 2. Psal. 96. 1 2. 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. 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 a 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 forgat his works c. Psal. 106 1 2 12 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. O 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 c. Whoso is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord Psal. 107. 1 2 8 15 31 32 43. I will praise the Lord with my whole heart in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation Psal. 111. 1 2. 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 Lords name is to be praised Psal. 113. 1 3 Psal. 135. 1 2 3. 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. Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments Psal. 119. 164. 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 the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Zion Psal. 147. 12. All persons and things called upon to praise the Lord Psal. 148. Psal. 149. Psal. 150. O Lord thou my God I will exalt thee I will praise thy name for thou hast done wonderful things c. Isa. 25. 1. 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 we desired of thee for thou hast now made known unto us the Kings matter Dan. 2. 19 20 21 22 23. When Christ had healed the two blind men they spread abroad his fame in all that country Mat. 9. 30 31. Mary upon the promise made to her praifeth 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
thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety Psal. 4. 8. Psal. 3. 5 6. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed a refuge in times of trouble and they who know thy name will put their trust in thee for thou Lord hast not forsaken them who seek thee Psal. 9. 9 10. In the Lord put I my trust how say ye to my soul flee as a bird c Psal. 11. 1. Psal. 31. 1 6. The Lord is my rock and my fortress c. in whom I will trust c. Psal. 18. 2 31. Psal. 91. 2. In the name of our God we will set up our banners c. Some trust in chariots and some in horses but we will remember the name of the Lord our God Psal. 20. 5 7. The King trusteth in the Lord and through the mercy of the most high he shall not be moved Psal. 21. 7. Our father 's trusted in thee they trusted and thou didst deliver c. They trusted in thee and were not confounded Psal. 22. 4 5. Who is this king of glory the Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in battel c. the Lord of hosts he the king of glory Psal. 24. 7 8. The Lord my strength and my shield my heart trusteth in him and I am helped Psal. 28. 7. In thee O Lord do I put my trust let me not be ashamed c. O how great is thy goodness c. which thou hast wrought for them who trust in thee c. Thou shalt hide them c. Psal. 31. 1 6 14 19 20 24. He who trusteth in the Lord mercy shall compass him about Psal. 32. 10. The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought c. The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever Psal. 33. 10 11. Prov. 19. 21. Isa. 46. 10. Trust in the Lord and do good so shalt thou dwell in the land c. Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass c. The salvation of the righteous is of the Lord he their strength in the time of trouble And the Lord shall help them c. He shall deliver them c. because they trust in him Psal. 37. 3 5 39 40. Blessed is the man who maketh the Lord his trust Psal. 40. 4. Psal. 84. 12. He maketh wars to cease c. Be still and know that I am God I will be exalted c. The Lord of hosts is with us the God of Jacob our refuge Psal. 46. 9 10 11. I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever Psal. 52. 8. Cast thy burthen on the Lord and he shall sustain thee Psal. 55. 22. What time I am afraid I will trust in thee c. In God I have put my trust I will not fear what flesh can do unto me Psal. 56. 3 4 11. For my soul trusteth in thee yea in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge until calamities be overpast Psal. 57. 1. Psal. 61. 3 4. Through God we shall do valiantly for he shall tread down our enemies Psal. 60. 12. In God is my salvation and my glory the rock of my strength my refuge is in God Trust in him at all times ye people c. God hath spoken once twice have I heard this that power belongeth unto God Psal. 62. 7 8 11 12. The God of Israel is he who giveth strength and power unto his Psal. 68. 35. A fire was kindled against Jacob c. because they believed not God and trusted not in his salvation though he had commanded the clouds c. Psal. 78. 21 22 23. The Lord reigneth the Lord is clothed with majesty the Lord is clothed with strength c. Psal. 93. 1. Psal. 97. 1. Psal. 146. 10. 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 then 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 is 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 c. Great is our God and of great power his understanding is infinite c. Psal. 147. 2 3 4 c. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not to thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledg him and he shall direct thy paths Prov. 3. 5 6. Commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established whoso trusteth in the Lord happy is he Prov. 16. 3 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. Chap. 19. 21. Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe 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. 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 the storm a shadow from the heat when the blast of the terrible ones is as 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
23 24. Jerusalem is ruined and Judah is fallen because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord to provoke the eyes of his glory because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with stretched-forth necks c. therefore the Lord will smite with a scab c. The Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments c. Isa. 3. 8. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. Judg I pray you betwixt me and my vineyard What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes brought it forth wild grapes I will take away the hedg thereof c. The Prophet pronounceth many woes against several sinners Isa. 5. 4 5 6 7 8 to the 26. God threatens Jacob and Israel for their pride and stoutness of heart because they turned not to him who smote them their leaders cause them to err that he will cut off c. and for all this his anger is not turned away Isa. 9. 8 9 10 11 12 to the 21. O Assyrian c. I will send him against an hypocritical nation and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the spoil c. Isa. 10. 5 6. Gods great judgments threatned against Babylon Isa. 13. The Lord said Forasmuch as this people draw near with their mouth c. but have removed their hearts far from me and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men therefore c. the wisdom of the wise shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid Wo unto them who seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark Isa. 29. 13 14 15. God threatens Israel for leaning upon Egypt for help and not hearkning to stay on God Isa. 30. 1 2 to the 17. This people have I formed for my self c. but thou hast not called upon me O Jacob but thou hast been weary of me O Israel thou hast not brought me the small cattel c. but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities c. thy first fathers have sinned and thy teachers c. therefore I have prophaned the Princes of thy Sanctuary and have given Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproaches Isa. 43. 21 22 23 24 28. O that thou hadst hearkned to my Commandments then had thy peace been c. Isa. 48. 18. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear for your hands are defiled with blood c. none call for justice Isa. 59. 1 2 3 4 c. I have spread out my hands all the day long unto a rebellious people who walketh in a way which is not good c. I will not keep silence but will recompence even recompence into their bosoms c. Ye are they who forsake the Lord who forget my holy mountain c. therefore will I number you to the sword c. Isa. 65. 2 3 4 6 11 12. They have chosen their own ways and their soul delighteth in their abominations I also will chuse their delusions and will bring their fears upon them because when I called none did answer c. but they did evil before mine eyes c. Isa. 66. 3 4. What iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone from me c Wherefore will I yet plead with you saith the Lord and with your children c. See if there be such a thing hath a nation changed their gods c but my people have changed their glory c. Be astonished O heavens c. They have sorsaken me the fountain c. Hast thou not procured this unto thy self c Thine own wickedness shall correct thee and thy backsliding reprove thee c. Have I been a barren wilderness c Can a maid forget her ornaments Jerem. 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 17 19 31 32. And I saw when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away c. Yet her treacherous Sister Judah feared not but went and played the harlot also c. Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart but feignedly Jer. 3. 7 8 9 10. O Jerusalem wash thine heart from wickedness that thou mayst be saved how long shall vain thoughts lodg within thee c thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee this thy wickedness because it is bitter it reacheth unto thine heart Jer. 4. 13 14 17 18. How shall I pardon thee for this thy children have forsaken me and sworn by them who are no gods when I had fed them to the full they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots houses they were as fed horses in the morning every one neighing after his neighbours Wife and shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this Go ye up upon her walls and destroy c. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land the Prophets prophefie 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 7. 8 9 10 29 30 31. 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. chap. 7. 8 9 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. chap. 35. 17. What wilt thou say when I shall punish thee c Shall not sorrow take thee as a Woman in travel c. for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered c. Jer. 13. 21 22. chap. 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
Duties in Common Calamities See Common Calamities Chap. 23. See Believers Duties towards the spirit Chap. 21. See Believers Duties in Church affairs Chap. 27. Believers Duties to Magistrates See Magistrates Chap. 24. See Believers Duties in case of Temptations by Satan and false teachers to errour c. Chap. 30. See Believers Duties in relation to the things of this World Chap. 38. CHAP. XX. How men come truly and spiritually to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent and the Mysteries of Salvation by him and expressed in the Word To believe it bring forth fruit and persevere therein through difficulties to Eternal Life First Man of himself can do neither of these EXcept the Lord build the house they labour in vain who build it except the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh but in vain Psal. 127. 1. Mans goings are of the Lord how can a man then understand his own way Prov. 20. 24. O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps Jer. 10. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin c may ye also do good who are accustomed to do evil Jer. 13. 23. No man knoweth the son but the father neither knoweth any man the father but the son and he to whomsoever the son will reveal him Matt. 11. 27. A rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven c. It is easier for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter c. with men this is impossible but with God all things are possible Matt. 19. 23 24 25 26. A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven John 3. 27. No man can come unto me except the father who hath sent me draw him c. except it were given unto him of my father John 6. 44 65. As the branch cannot bear fruit of it self except it abide in the vine no more can ye except you abide in me c. for without or severed from me ye can do nothing John 15. 4 5. The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2. 14. Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves but our sufficiency is of God 2 Cor. 3. 5. By grace are ye saved through faith and that not of your selves it is the gift of God Ephes. 2. 8. 2dly God in Christ doth all freely and hath promised so to do Who am I and what is my people that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort c of thine own have we given thee 1 Chron. 29. 14. 1st In General And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul that thou mayest live Deut. 30. 6. The hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment c. by the word 2 Cron. 30. 12. Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right or constant spirit in me c. restore to me the joy of thy Salvation uphold me by thy free spirit Psal. 51. 10 12. The God of Israel is he who giveth strength and power unto his people Psal. 68. 35. Turn us again O God c. quicken us and we will call upon thy name c. Psal. 80. 3 18 19. I am the Lord thy God c. open thy mouth wide and I will fill it Psal. 81. 10. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee c. the Lord will give grace and glory and no good thing will he withhold c. Psal. 84. 5 11. Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound they shall walk O Lord in the light of thy countenance in thy name shall they rejoyce all the day long c. for thou art the glory of their strength Psal. 89. 15 16 17. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lâ—…an not to thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledg him and he shall direct thy paths Prov. 3. 5 6. The preparations or disposings of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue are from the Lord Prov. 16. 1. Mans goings are of the Lord Prov. 20. 24. Draw me we will run after thee Cant. 1. 4. Jer. 31. 3. Hos. 11. 3 4. He who is left in Zion c. shall be called holy c. when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughter of Zion c. by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning Isa. 4. 3 4. Thou also hast wrought all our works in us or for us by thee only will we make mention Isa. 26. 12 13. Behold your God will come then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing for in the wilderness shall waters break out and streams in the desert c. the parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs c. and a high way shall be there c. the way-faring men though fools shall not err Isa. 35. 4 5 6 7 8. I the Lord have called thee in righteousness c. will give thee c. a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison and them who sit in darkness out of the prison-house Isa. 42. 6 7. Look unto me and be ye saved all ye ends of the earth for I am God c. in the Lord have I righteousness and strength Isa. 45. 22 24. That thou maist say to the prisoners go forth to them who are in darkness shew your selves they shall feed in the ways c. for he who hath mercy on them shall lead them even by the springs of water shall he guide them Isa. 49. 9 10 The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings c. he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them who are bound Isa. 61. 1 2. Return c. and I will heal your backslidings behold we come unto thee Jer. 3. 22. I will be their God for they shall return unto me with their whole heart Jer. 24. 7. With loving-kindness have I drawn thee c. 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 the thigh c. Behold the day cometh saith the Lord that I will make a new covenant c. I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts c. and they shall teach no more
neither shall cease from yielding fruit Jer. 17. 7 8. I will be as the dew to Israel he shall grow or blossom as a Lilly and cast forth his roots as Lebanon c. I am like a green fir-tree and from me is thy fruit found Hos. 14. 5 6 8. Who is a God like unto thee c He will subdue your iniquities Micah 7. 8 19. The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel c. and the spirit of all the remnant of the people and they came and did work in the house of the Lord Hagg. 1. 14. I will pour out upon the house of David c. the spirit of prayer c. Zech. 12. 10. But unto you who fear my name shall the Son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves in the stall Mal. 4. 2. Jesus said unto her If thou knewest c. who it is that said unto thee Give me to drink thou wouldst have asked of him and he would have given thee living-water c. shall be in him a well of water springing up into eternal life John 4. 10 14. He who believeth on me as the Scripture saith out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters John 7. 38. I am come that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly John 10. 10. I am the true vine and my father is the husbandman c. Abide in me and I in you 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 or severed from me ye can do nothing John 15. 1 2 4 5. Sin shall not have dominion over you for we are not under the law but under grace Rom. 6. 14. Having then gifts differing according to the grace which is given to us Rom. 12. 6. I have planted Apollo watered but God gave the increase so then neither is he that planteth any thing neither he who watereth but God who giveth the increase c. we are labourers together with God ye are Gods husbandry ye are Gods building 1 Cor. 3. 5 6 7 9. Not that we are sufficient of our selves c. but our sufficiency is of God 2 Cor. 3. 5. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong-holds casting down imaginations and every high thing which exalts it self against the knowledg of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God Gal. 2. 20. For this cause I bow my knees to the father c. that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner-man that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith c. Now unto him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we can ask or think according to the power that worketh in us Ephes. 3. 14 16 17 20. But c. may grow up into him in all thing who is the head Christ from whom the whole body fitly joined together c. according to the effectual working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the body c. Ephes. 4. 15 16. Brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might Ephes. 6. 10. I know how to be abased c. I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me Phil. 4. 12 13. We c. do not cease to pray for you c. that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all well-pleasing being fruitful in every good work c. strengthned 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. 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 sight Heb. 13. 20 21. 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 nor forsake thee Deut. 31. 3 6 8. Wait on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy heart Psalm 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. 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. 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 fat c. Psal. 92. 13 14. The Lord upholdeth all that fall and raifeth 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. 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 walkâ—… ye in it when ye turn to the right-hand and when ye turn to the left Isa. 30. 21. 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 thâ—… 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
20. 17. Unto the Church of God which is at Corinth 1 Cor. 1. 2. As I teach every where in every Church 1 Cor. 4. 17. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ when ye are gathered together c. 1 Cor. 5. 4. When ye come together in the Church c. when ye come together therefore into one place c. despise ye the Church of God c. wherefore my brethren when ye come together to eat tarry one for another 1 Cor. 11. 16 18 20 21 22 33 34. If therefore the whole Church be come together in one place c. let him keep silence in the Church c. as in all the Churches of the saints c. let women keep silence in the Churches c. it s a shame for a woman to speak in the Church 1 Cor. 14. 23 28 33 34 35. As I have given order to the Churches of Galatia so do c. The Churches of Asia 1 Cor. 16. 1 19. The Churches of Macedonia c. thorowout all the Churches c. chosen of the Churches c. brethren the messengers of the Churches c. shew c. before the Churches 2 Cor. 8. 1 18 19 23 24. Paul c. unto the Churches of Galatia c. unknown by face unto the Churches Gal. 1. 1 2 22. Ye Philippians c. no Church c. but ye only Phil. 4. 15. When this Epistle is read among you cause it that be read also in the Church of Laodicea Col. 4. 15 16. To the Church of the Thessalonians which is in God 1 Thes. 1. 1. The Churches of God which in Judea are in Christ c. 1 Thes. 2. 14. The Church at Babylon c. salute you 1 Pet. 5. 13. Born witness of thy charity before the Church c. I wrote unto the Church but Diotrephes c. casteth them out of the Church 3 Joh. vers 6. 9 10. The seven Churches of Asia c. Ephesus Smirna Pergamus c. Rev. 1. 4 11. The Dignity Priviledges and Blessings belonging to the Church of Jesus Christ in general as such I will set my tabernacle among you and my soul shall not abhor you and I will walk among you and will be your God and ye shall be my people Levit. 26. 11 12. Ezek. 37. 26 27 28. The cloud filled the house of the Lord so that the Priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud for the glory of the Lord had filled the house 1 Kings 8. 10 11. chap. 9. 3. There is a river the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God the holy place of the tabernacles of the most high God in the midst of her she shall not be moved God shall help her c. the Lord of hosts is with us the God c. Psal. 46. 4 5 7. Out of Sion the perfection of beauty God hath shined Psal. 50. 2. The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan an high hill why leap ye ye high hills this is the hill God desireth to dwell in the Lord will dwell in it for ever Psal. 68. 15 16. In Judah is God known his name is great in Israel in Salem also is his tabernacle and his dwelling-place in Sion Psal. 76. 1 2. He delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into the enemies hand he gave his people over also unto the sword and was wroth with his inheritance Psal. 78. 61 62. How amiable are thy Tabernacles O Lord of hosts c blessed are they who dwell in thy house they will be still praising of thee c. they go from strength to strength every one of them in Zion appearing before God Psal. 84. 1 4 7. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more then all the dwellings of Jacob glorious things are spoken of thee O city of God 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. The Lord hath chosen Zion he hath desired it 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 with bread c. Psal. 132. 13 14 15 16 17. The Lord shall reign for ever thy God O Zion unto all generations Psal. 146. 10. He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgments unto Israel he hath not dealt so with any nation c. Psal. 147. 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. Micah 4. 1. 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 c. 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 do keep it I will water it every moment left 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. 29. 8. The Lord whose fire is in Zion and his furnace in Jerusalem Isa. 31. 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 judg 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
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 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 be found the eye also which saw him shall see him no more c. Job 20. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 c. What is the hope of the hypocrite when he hath gained when God taketh away his soul will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him Job 27. 8 9. The hypocrites in heart heap up wrath Job 36. 13. O Assyrian the rod of mine anger c. I will send him against an hypocritical nation and against the people of my wrath c. Isa. 10. 5 6. Wo unto them who seek deep to hide their 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 among 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 lye 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. Cursed be the deceiver who hath in his flock a male c. and sacrificeth to the Lord a corrupt thing Mal. 1. 14. Ye are the salt of the earth but if the salt have lost his savour 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 hâ—…ven Matth. 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. 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 found 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 Harlots go into the kingdom of God before you Matth. 21. 19 23 29 30. 31. When the king came c. he saw there a man who had not on a wedding-garment and he sad 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. Whosoever hath not from 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 is hypocrisie c. he who knoweth his masters 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 Luk. 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. â—…5 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. The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against c. men who hold the truth in unrighteousness Rom. 1. 18. 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 Thess. 2. 16. CHAP. XXIX Of the Conscience AND it came to pass afterwards that Davids heart smote him because he had cut off Sauls skirt and he said unto his men The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my master the Lords anointed to stretch forth my hand against him c. 1 Sam. 24. 5 6. And Davids 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. chap. 12. 13. When Josiah had heard the words of the book of the law that
122 See Gods threatnings and judgment against sin and sinners Chap. 16. p. 218. 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 than others and what they can do with God c. Chap. 14. p. 124. See more in the next Chap. of Union and relation to Christ. p. 135. See the advantages of Faith chap. 11. p. 100. See their Priviledges in Afflictions chap. 22. p. 325. In times of â—…on-Calamities chap. 23. p. 365. See the Glory Believers shall have chap. 37. p. 462. 4. Of the Union and relations between Christ and his Church and the mutual love and esteem of each other and the manifestation thereof Chap. 15. p. 135.  Of the Duties of Believers such as profess to be Saints Chap. 16. p. 138. First towards God Chap. 16. p. 138. 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 p. 138 2. In particular To love God and the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. p. 142 3. As fruits of love to God Christ to delight themselves in God long for pant after him make their boast of glory 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 p. 144 2. To obey and hearken to the Laws and Word of God and our Lord Jesus p. 149 See more of Disobedience p. 218. 4. Worship God and sanctifie him therein p. 153 See more in ch 27. p. 407. and of Idol ch 40. p. 487. 5. To believe imbrace and be found in the practise 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 p. 158 6. To pray to God Of Prayer at large p. 161 See more in Afflictions ch 22. p. 351. Common Calamities chap. 23. p. 366. 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 p. 170 8. To fear God and none else or other fear The Arguments thereto p. 177 1. Not to fear any else or other fear p. 177 2. Fear God p. 179 9. To trust in God and in none else in all cases the Arguments thereto p. 184 1. Not in any else p. 184 2. In God as a suitable Object p. 186 See more of Faith ch 11. p. 93. 10. To look believingly unto hope in and patiently wait for God his salvation in all cases The Arguments thereto p. 193 See more in the nature use of Faith ch 11. p. 100. 11. To walk humbly before God abasing self opposing all high thoughts Avoid boasting of self The Reasons p. 198 See more of submitting in Affliction ch 22. p. 345. See Death ch 34. p. 450. 12. To be moderate meek patient and quiet in all things Yhe encouragements thereto p. 205 See more Duties to Brethren ch 17. p. 25. Duties to all men ch 19. p. 279. Duties to Persecutors ch 22. p. 356. See Words chap. 16. p. 207. 13. To take heed to our lips That our words be not rash but true well ordered and savoury and seasonable p. 207 14. To acknowledg 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 p. 211 2. To acknowledg sin to God mourn for it both our own and others p. 211 See more in Affliction ch 22. p. 347. In Common Calamities ch 23. p. 366 In Prayer ch 16. p. 161. 3. To depart from sin and all appearance of it hate it and avoid the occasions of it the Reasons p. 213 See Duties in general ch 16. p. 138. 4. Gods reasonings with complainings of and threatnings and judgments against sinners for their several sins disobedience and rebellions p. 218 See more of sin in Mans nature chap. 5. p. 32 40. Of Gods correcting his for sin ch 13. p. 122. Pardon of sin ch 10. p. 84. 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 p. 229 See more of owning him in time of Persecution ch 22. p. 348. Of Perseverance ch 16. p. 241. 2. To wait for the second coming of Christ. p. 231 See more his coming to judgment ch 36 p. 457. 16. To walk with God heartily uprightly sincerely and to follow him fully and zealously the Reasons of it p. 232 See also Hypocrites c. ch 28. p. 417. 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. p. 241 See more of holding fast in time of Affliction ch 22. p. 348. 2. That Saints shall be kept have power to stand p. 246 See more of God upholding in Affliction ch 22. p. 332. 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 p. 248 See more of Saints aptness to fall chap. 13. p. 117. Of the Tempters Methods chap. 30. p. 422. 2. Duties of Saints Believers brethren in the Lord each to other as such and as standing in that relation one to another Chap. 17. P 251. 1. To love each other the kinds of it p. 251 2. To sympathize with each other in pity and compassion help and comfort one another bear one anothers burthens have mutual care of each other p. 253 See also this Duty to Afflicted ones ch 22. p. 361 3. To honour and respect each other and be kind and affectionate p. 254 See more walking humbly ch 16. p. 198. 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 p. 255 5. To live peaceably among themselves avoid whisperings tale-bearing and whatsoever tends to divide or disturb peace p. 257 6. To rebuke reprove exhort admonish and warn each other c. To take such rebuke c. well from each other 1. To rebuke exhort c. p. 259 2. To take such rebuke c. well p. 260 See more Church discipline ch 27. p. 413. 7. To confess sins to and pray each for other p. 261
16. p. 170. 2. Reading Teaching preaching of the word of God Prophefying p. 407 See more of Ministers in general and of gifts of Church-members ch 26. p. 382. p. 396. 3. Baptisms p. 411 4. Breaking of Bread or the Lords Supper p. 412 5. Discipline Church-Censures or removing of Scandals c. p. 413 See more of Rebuking one another ch 17. p. 259. Of Hypocrites and Hypocrisie The spirits and practises of such who are very formal 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 Chap. 28. p. 417 See more of their pesecuting temper chap. 22. p. 317. The Danger of Hypocrisie and of Formality and end of Hypocrites p. 425 Also see Sincerity Chap. 16. p. 223. Of the Conscience Chap. 29. p. 427. 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 chap. 30. p. 429. 1. Of Satan the Devil himself his subtilty c. p. 429 See more Sinners bondage ch 5. p. 32. 2. The Instruments of Satan Seducers Deceivers c. And the Saints Duty about it p. 432 Of Consideration Meditation pondering upon and serious weighing of the things of God his Word and Works ourselves c. Chap. 31. p. 437 Of the Thoughts Mind and Affections Chap. 32. p. 441 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 back-slidden from following of God and otherwise ch 33. p. 444. 1. Wherein God cannot repent and wherein or how he is said to repent p. 444 2. Repentance in man in general and of Back-sliders returning c. p. 445 Also see Gods reasonings with Sinners ch 16. p. 218. Of Death the laying down of these Tabernacles Chap. 34. p. 450 Of the Resurrection from the Dead Chap. 35. p. 455 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 Chap. 36. p. 457 Also see waiting for Christ's coming chap. 16. p. 231. Of the Glory prepared for the Saints and reserved to be given to them at the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. Chap. 37. p. 462 Also see the end of the Wicked ch 5. p. 40. Of Knowledg and Understanding in and about Divine things and of the want thereof Ignorance about such things and the evil thereof Chap. 38. p. 466 See more of the sottish nature of Man chap. 5. p. 37. See also the giver of Knowledg chap. 20. p. 288. 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 Chap. 39. p. 476 Of Idolatry setting up and worshipping of strangs gods graven Images c. Chap. 40. p. 487 Also see worshipping the true God chap. 16. p. 153. Of the Angels their appearing to men what they are and do Chap. 41. p. 494 Of the Parables and Similitudes which Christ spake Chap. 42. p. 499 Of the Miracles and wonderful things which were done by Christ and his Apostles Chap. 43. p. 501 Of the Kings of Israel and Judah how they came to their Power and Office Chap. 44. p. 503 Also see Magistrates at large chap. 24. p. 369. Of Sacrifices and Altars and calling upon the Name of the Lord before the coming of the Law Chap. 45. p. 507 Reader THese few Mistakes of the Press the greater part whereof being in the Figures only you may easily correct with your Pen to which end you have the Word Titles References and Figures noted severally and not together And for the Figures you are not directed to the Line but to the Page only because the order that the Texts are placed in will more suddenly send you to it 1. In the words pag. 13. l. 3 for counsel r. people p. 29. l 23. f the Lord of the spirit r. of the Lord the spirit p. 40. l. 27 for curse r. cup. p. 48. l. 19 f. branch r. or branch p. 257. l. 12 f. prophet r. report p. 262. l. 9 f. meâ—…k r. weak p 372 l 35 f. have eaten â—…r have not eaten 2. In the Titles P. 105 f nature of faith r. the danger and issue of unbelief p. 325 f. Gods ends in afflicting â—…r Considerations comforting in afflictions through 4 pages 3. In the Rèferences at the end of the Heads P. 30. f. ch 5. r. 7 f. ch 19. r. 21. p. 36 f. ch 15. r. 16. p. 39 f. ch 37. r 38. p. 43 f. ch 15. r. 16. p. 54 f. ch 9. r. 10. p. 69. r. ch 10 p. 134 f. ch 36. r. 37. p. 158 f. ch 39. r. 40. p. 204 f. ch 33. r. 34. p. 232 f. ch 35. r. 36. p. 283. f. ch 38. r. 39. p. 291 f. ch 37. r. 38. p. 403 f. ch 16. r. 26. 4. In the Number upon the pages P. 248 in the next page f. 241. r. 249 and so on through 8 pages and then it falls in right 5. In the Chapter or Verses of the Scriptures P. 9 for Gen. 9. 21 11. r. 2. 3 11. p. 10 f. Exo. 29. r. 19. p. 32 f. Gen. 27. 4. r. 37. 4 f. 2 Kings 19. r. 18. p. 3â—… f. 1 Sam. ch 1. r. ch 5. p. 54 f. Ps. 100. r. 110. p. 80 f. Mark 11. r. 4. p. 86 f. Pet. 3. 13. r. 3. 18. p. 90 f. Gal. 2. 19. r. 16. p. 117 f. John 1. 1. r. 1 Epist. 1. p. 121 f. Mat. 16. 16. r. 16. 17. p. 179 f. Exo. 5. r. 1. p. 182 f. Eccl. 18. r. 8. p. 186 f. 1 Cor. r. 2. p. 192 f. Mark 1. 2 32. r. 1â—… 32. p. 201 f. Zech. 4. 1 r. 9. 9 p. 202 f. Acts. 12. r. 14. p. 206 f. Rom. 13. r. 1 Cor. 13. p. 213 f. Hosea 5. 14. r. 5. 15. p. 214 f. Exo. 29. r. 20 f. Gen. 14. 16. r. 44. 16 f. 1 Sam. 2. 24. r. ver 25. p. 215 f. John 8. 1. r. 5. 14. p. 216 f. 2 Co. 16. r. 6. p. 120 f. 1 Sam. 18. r. 28. p. 222 f. 2 Kings 10. r. 9. p. 232 f. 1 John 20. r. 2. p. 234 f. 2 Kings 23. 35. r. 23 25. p. 234 f. Isa. 37. r. Ps. 37. p. 235 f. Ps. 51. 8. r. 51. 6 f. Ps. 63. 1. r. 63. 8 f. Ps. 49. r. 94. p. 240 f. Hebr. 4. 2. r. 4. 13. p. 245. r. James 1. 25. p. 259 f. Rom. 15. 4. r. 15. 14. p. 261 f. John 19. 11 12. r. 17. 11 22. p. 267 f. Eph. 4. 29 r. 4. 28. p. 272 f. Ps. 7. r. 78. p. 274 f Matth. 1. r. Malachi 1. p. 303 f.
In time of affliction ch 22. p. 354 U Unbelief the evil ch 11. p. 103 Union between Christ and his see Relation among the Saints ch 17. p. 261 Uprightness see Sincerity W Wait on God see Hope for Christs coming ch 16. p. 231 Watch against sin and apostacy ch 16. p. 248 Wickedness of man see Sin Wives ch 18. p. 268 Word see Scriptures Words ch 16. p. 207. ch 19. p. 277 World ch 39. p. 476 Worship God ch 16. p. 153 according to the Word p. 158 X Â Y Â Z Zeal see Sincerity CHAP. I. Of the Scriptures Written Word of God the Word of Truth their Authority Use End and Excellency Heb. 1. 1. ch 2. 3 4. THerefore shall ye lay up these my 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. Thou shalt read the Law before all Israel in their 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. When Josiah heard it read he rent his cloths 2 Kings 22. 11 c. 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. 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. Wherewithall 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 Thy word hath quickened 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 49 50 92 96 98 99 103 105 114 130. All the kings of the earth shall praise thee O Lord when they hear the words of thy mouth Psal. 138. 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. Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed but he who feareth the commandments shall be rewarded or in peace Prov. 13. 13. 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 Isaiah 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 saith unto Zion thy God reigneth Isaiah 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 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 Is not my word like as fire saith the Lord and like a hammer which breaketh the rock in pieces Jer. 23. 28 29. 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 Hose 8. 11 12. Behold c. I will send a famine c. not of bread c. but of hearing the words of the Lord and they shall wander from sea to sea c. to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find Amos 8. 11 12. Christ when the Devil tempted him said to him it is written man lives not by bread alone c. It is written again thou shall 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. 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. 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. 42. Have you not read that
things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do and the God of peace shall be with you Phil. 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 Thes. 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 self 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 doteing 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 thorowly 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 if 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. 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. James 1. 18 19 21. If you fulfil the royal law according to the scripture Thou shalt love c. James 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 prophesie whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light which shineth in a dark place c. Knowing this first that no prophesie of the Scripture is of any private or proper interpretation for the Prophesie 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 and 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 unto their own destruction 2 Pet. 3. 1 2 15 16. And these things write we unto you that your joy may be full 1 John 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 John 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. Jude 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 Prophesie 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. 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 testify 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 Prophesie 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. CHAP. II. Of GOD. First 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. chap. 15. 7. ch 28. 13. Then began men to call upon the Name of the Lord
ends of the earth and seeth under the whole heaven Job 28. 23 24. His eyes are upon the ways of man and he seeth all his goings Job 34. 21. Psal. 11. 4 5. The righteous God tryeth the hearts and reins Psal. 7. 9. Jer. 11. 20. The Lord looketh from heaven and beholdeth all the sons of men Psal. 33. 13. Understand ye brutish c. He that planteth the ear shall he not hear He that formed the eye shall he not see c The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanity Psal. 94. 8 9 11. Thou c. art acquainted with all my ways For not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether c. Such knowledg is too wonderful for me c. Whither shall I go from thy spirit Or whither shall I fly from thy presence If I ascend up into Heaven thou art there c. Psal. 139. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. Prov. 5. 21. 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 Prov. 15. 3 11. Shall the thing framed say of him who framed it he had no understanding Isa. 29. 16. Mine eyes are upon all their ways They are not hid from my face Neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes Jer. 16. 17. ch 32. 19. I the Lord search the heart I try the reins Jer. 17 10. ch 20. 12. I know the things which come into thy mind every one of them Ezek. 11. 5. He revealeth the deep and â—…ecret things He knoweth what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth with him Dan. 2. 22 28. Thy father who seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly c. Your father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him Mat. 6. 4 6 8 18. But of that day and hour knoweth no man c. but the father Mark 13. 32. That should seek the Lord c. though he be not far from every one of us Act. 17. 27. O the depth of the riches c. Of the knowledg of God c. Rom. 11. 33 34. Pleasing c. God who tryeth our hearts c. 1 Thes. 2. 4. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight But all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do Heb. 4. 12 13. 8thly He is most Wise. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength c. Job 9. 4. The Lord of host wonderful in counsel Isa. 28. 29. The Lord is a God of judgment Isa. 30. 18. He hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion Jer. 10. 12. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledg of God Rom. 11. 33. To God only wise be glory c. Rom. 16. 27. 1 Tim. 1. 17. The foolishness of God is wiser than men 1 Cor. 1. 25. To the only wise God our saviour be glory c. Jude vers 25. 9thly He is most Holy Who like thee O Lord c. glorious in holiness c. Exod. 15. 11. I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity c. Exod. 20. 5. Nahum 1. 2. Ye shall be holy for I am holy c. Levit. 11. 44 45. chap. 19. 2. chap. 20. 26. I the Lord who sanctifieth you am holy Levit. 21. 8. For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you Deut. 6. 15. The Lord for he is an holy God he is a jealous God he will not forgive c. Josh. 24. 19. There is none holy as the Lord for there is none besides 1 Sam. 2. 2. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God 1 Sam. 6. 20. The holy one of Israel is our king Psal. 89. 18. Psal. 99. 9. The knowledg of the holy is understanding Prov. 9. 10. Holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts Isa. 6. 3. Behold from the habitation of thy holiness c. The people of thy holiness hath possessed c. Isa. 63. 15 18. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel c. And the heathen shall know that I am the Lord the holy one in Israel Ezek. 39. 7. Isa. 43. 14 15. The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness c. Amos 4. 2. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look at iniquity Habak 1. 13. Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is c. Rev. 4. 8. Who shall not fear thee O Lord c. for thou only art holy c. Rev. 15. 4. 10thly He is most just A God of truth and without iniquity just and right is he Deut. 32. 4. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right c. Nehem. 9. 33. Surely God will not do wickedly neither will the Almighty pervert judgment c. Wilt thou condemn him who is most just Job 34. 12. 17. He is excellent c. and in plenty of justice Job 37. 23. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness c. Psal. 11. 7. Psal. 33. 5. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne Psal. 89. 14. No God besides me a just God c. Isa. 45. 21. I am the Lord who exercise c. judgment and righteousness in the earth c. Jer. 9. 24. The Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doth Dan. 9. 14. The just Lord is in the middest thereof he will not do iniquity every morning he doth bring his judgment to light Zephan 3. 5. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed c. Heb. 6. 10. Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways c. Rev. 15. 3. 11thly He is Compassionate Pitiful and Merciful The men laid hold upon his hand c. the Lord being merciful unto him Gen. 19. 16. The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious c. keeping mercy for thousands c. Exod. 34. 6 7. The Lord is c. Of great mercy Numb 14. 18. The Lord thy God is a merciful God he will not forsake thee neither destroy thee c. Deut. 4. 31. O give thanks unto the Lord c. For his mercy endures for ever 1 Chron. 16. 34. 2 Chron. 20. 21. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you if ye return c. 2 Chron. 30. 9. Psal. 116. 5. Thou a God c. merciful slow to anger c. For thy great mercies sake thou didst not consume them c. For thou art a gracious and merciful God Nehem. 9. 17 31. Psal. 145. 8. Thou a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercy c. Psal. 86. 15. Psal. 111. 4. Psal. 145. 8. 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. His mercy endureth for ever c. Psal. 136. 1 2 c. Where c. is the sounding 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. To the Lord our God belongs mercy c. Dan. 9. 9. I knew that thou a gracious God and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repentest thee of the evil c. Jonah 4. 2. Joel 2. 13. 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. Remission of their sins Through the tender mercies or bowels of mercy of our God whereby the day-spring from on high c. Luk. 1. 77 78. 12thly He is long-suffering and patient The Lord c. Longsuffering 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. Nehem. 9. 17. Psal. 103. 8. Despisest thou the c. forbearance and long-suffering c. Rom. 2. 4. 13. 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. Thou a God c. gracious c. and of great kindness Nehem. 9. 17 31. For the Lord God 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. 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. 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. 24. 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. The God of all grace who hath called us c. 1 Pet. 5. 10. 14. 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 he not do it Or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good Numb 23. 19. Heb. 6. 18. 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. Thou art that God and thy words be true and thou hast promised 2 Sam. 7. 28. Heb. 10. 23. 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. The Lord is good c. His truth endureth to all generations Psal. 100. 5. Psal. 117. 2. He will ever be mindful of his covenant c. The work 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. 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. Commit the keeping of their souls c. as unto a faithful creatour 1 Pet. 4. 19. How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge c. Rev. 6. 10. 15. He is unchangeable I am the Lord I change not therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed c. Mal. 3. 6. God willing c. To shew to 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 c. Heb. 6. 17 18. The father of lights with whom is no variableness or shadow of turning James 1. 17. 16. He is infinite and unsearchable Unto God would I commit my cause Who doth great things and unsearchable c. Job 5. 9. chap. 37. 5. Who doeth great things past finding out c. Lo he goeth by me and I see him not he passeth on also but I perceive him not Job 9. 10 11. Canst thou by searching find out God canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection Job 11. 7. 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 Job 26. 14. Behold God is great and we know him not neither can the number of his years be searched out Job 36. 26. Touching the Almighty we cannot find him out he is excellent in power c. Job 37. 23. Thy way is in the sea and thy path in the great waters and thy footsteps are not known Psal. 77. 19. O Lord how great are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep Psal. 92. 5. Great is the Lord c. and his greatness is unsearchable Psal. 145. 3. Great is our Lord c. his understanding is unsearchable Psal. 147. 5. As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit nor how the bones do grow in the womb c. even so thou knowest not the work of God who maketh all Eccl. 11. 5. Hast thou not known hast thou not heard the everlasting God c. There is no searching of his understanding Isa. 40. 28. Neither knoweth any man the father save the son and he to whomsoever the son will reveal him Matt. 11. 27. O the depth of the riches both
things and by him all things consist Col. 1. 16 17. Heb. 1. 2 3. The mistery of God and of the father and of Christ in whom or wherein are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledg c. For in him dwelleth 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. 1 Tim. 1. 1 2 12. Rom. 1. 7. 1 Tim. 2. 3. Great is the mistery 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 three 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 wise 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. 5. more of the Spirit Chap. 19. 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 the foul of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he 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 mans fall at large Gen. 3. 2 Cor. 11. 3. God made man upright but they have sought out 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 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 raigned by one 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 subtilty so your minds should be corrupted c. 2 Cor. 11. 3. CHAP. V. Of Mans state by nature since sin entered 1st Corrupt unclean and desperately wicked CAin was very wrath and his countenance fell because God had not respect unto his offering as unto Abels and he rose up against his brother and slew 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 mans heart are evil from his youth Gen. 8. 21. The wickedness of Sodom at the time when God came to destroy it Gen. 19. 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. 27. 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 Egypt his heart was still hardened against God and would not yield Exod. 7. chap. 8. ch 9. ch 10. Absalom had a tent spread upon the top of the house and went in unto his fathers 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 sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord 1 Kings 21. 25. Ahaziah being sick sent to an idol to enquire and after sent a captain and his fifty to take the Prophet whom God destroyed with fire yet he sent again and again 2 Kings 1. 2 9 10 11 12 13. Hazael when the Prophet had told him how wicked he should be said is thy servant a dog c. 2 King 8. 11 12 13. Rabshakeh 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 King 19. 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 King 19. 16 22 23. 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. The chief Priests and the people transgressed very much after all the abomination
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. What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what can he do c. Job 21. 15. ch 22. 17. 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. 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 cursing 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. 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 gon 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. 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 assoon as they are born speaking lyes Psal. 58. 3. 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 knowledg in the most high Psal. 73. 6 8 9 11. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Thou said there is no hope no for I have loved strangers and after them will I go Jer. 2. 25. Thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou hast 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. 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. 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 rusheth into the battle 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 saith 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 Jeremy 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 Jeremy 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. 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. Ezek. 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 Nebuchadnezzar 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. Hosea 2. 5. They set their heart on their iniquity Hos. 4. 8. God repeats many judgments he had 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 Amos 5. 10. 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. 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. 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 Matt. 27. 24 25. 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. 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 fourty Acts 23. 12 13. 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 lye 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 into that which is against nature c. Being filled with all unrighteousness fornication wickedness covetousness maliciousness full of envy murder debate deceit malignity whisperers backbiters 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 fame but have pleasure in them who do them Rom. 1. 21 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 32. They are all gon out of the way c. Their throat is an open sepulchre with their tongues they have used deceit the poison of Asps is 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. When we were yet sinners c. Enemies we were reconciled Rom. 5. 8 10. 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. You who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in times past ye walked c. In the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of our flesh c. 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 killed 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. We our selves were sometimes foolish disobedient deceived serving divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another Titus 3. 3. Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and inticed and when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin James 1. 14 15. chap. 4. 1 2. Your vain conversation by tradition from your fathers 1 Pet. 1. 18. The time past of our life 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 lyeth in wickedness 1 John 5. 19. See more of sin Chap. 15. 2dly 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 Ark 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. 1. 2 3 4 5 7. The wicked say unto God depart from us for we desire not the knowledg 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 bruitish c. He who planteth the ear shall c. Psal. 94. 6 7 8. The Ox knoweth his owner and the Ass his masters crib Israel doth not know my people doth 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 knowledg or understanding to say I have burned part c. Shall I make the residue thereof an abomination shall I fall down to the stock of a tree Isa. 44. 14 15 16 17 18 19. They have not known me they are sottish children they have no understanding Jer. 4. 22. The word of the Lord is unto them a reproach they have no delight in it Jer. 6. 10. Though Nebuchadnezzar had acknowledged the God of Daniel to be the God of Gods and a Lord of Kings c. Yet he presently makes a molten image and commands his people to worship it c. And said who is that God who shall deliver you out of my hands Dan. 2. 47. ch 3. 1 4 5 6 15. Belshazzer and his princes c. Praised the gods of gold and of silver c. Dan. 5. 3 4. The Gergesons so ignorant that because of the loss of their swine The whole city came out to meet Jesus c. And besought him to depart out c. Matt. 8. 32 33 34. O Jerusalem c. How often would I have gathered c. And ye would not Luk. 13. 34. Christ was in the world c. And the world knew him not c. He came to his own and his own received him not John 1. 10 11. Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light Joh. 3. 19. Jesus said to the woman ye worship ye know not what John 4. 22. Ye will not come to me that ye may have life John 5. 40. Jesus said the world c. Me it hateth because I testify of it that c. John 7. 7. The spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it seeth him not neither knoweth him John 14. 17. The world c. It hated me before it hated you Because I have chosen you c. Therefore the world hates you c. These things will they do c. Because they know not him who sent me they hated both me and my father John 15. 18 19 21 24. Simon Magus so sottish that he offered money for power to confer the holy Ghost by imposition of hands Acts 8. 18 19 20. When Paul was at Athens c. He saw the city wholly given to idolatry or full of Idols c. Certain Philosophers c. incountred him and some said what will this habler or base fellow say Other some he seemeth to be a setter sorth of strange gods because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection c. I perceive saith Paul ye are too superstitious c. I found an Altar with an Inscription To the unknown God Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship him declare I Act. 17. 16 18 22 23. When Paul preached many believed not but spake evil of that way before the multitude c. Demetrius and his company cry up great is Diana the goddess c. And cryed out against Paul for saying that they were no gods which were made with hands and endeavouring to turn men to the true God c. The Town-clark said the whole city is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana and of the Image which fell down from Jupiter Act. 19. 9 24 25 26 to the end Certain questions c. Of one Jesus which was dead whom Paul affirmed to be alive Act. 25. 19. The way of peace they have not known Rom. 3. 17. The carnal mind is enmity against God for it cannot be subject c. Rom. 8. 7. The preaching of the cross is to them who perish foolishness c. After that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God 1 Cor. 1. 18 21. The natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness unto him neither can he know for they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2. 14. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel c. Should shine unto them 2 Cor. 4. 4. Act. 26. 17 18. Howbeit then when ye knew not God ye did service unto them who by nature are no Gods Gal. 4. 8. Walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds having the understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them because of the blindness c. Ephes. 4. 17 18. Ye were sometimes darkness but now c. Ephes. 5. 8. Not in the lust of concupiscence even as the Gentiles who knew not God 1 Thes. 4. 5. See ignorance in Divine things Chap. 37. 3dly In servitude and subjection to Satan and Sin In the parable of the sower Christ saith the tares are the Children of the wicked one c. The enemy who soweth them is the Devil Matt. 13. 38 39. When the strong man armed keepeth his palace his goods are in peace but when a stronger than he shall come upon him c. Luk. 11. 21 22. Ye are of your father the Devil and the lusts of your father ye will do John 8. 44. To whom ye yield your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death c. Ye were servants of sin Rom. 6. 16 20. Them who are lost in whom the God of this world hath blinded the mind c. 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. The Prince of the power of the air the spirit who now worketh in the children of disobedience Ephes. 2. 2. Thanks be to God c. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness c. Col. 1. 12 13. That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil who are taken captive by him at his will 2 Tim. 2. 26. In this c. Are manifest and the children of the Devil whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he who loveth not his brother and Cain who was of that wicked one c. 1 John 3. 8 9 10 12. The fad fruit and end of such a state When Adam and Eve had sinned they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God c. And was afraid because naked Gen. 3. 8 10. Aaron made Israel naked by sin Exod. 32. 25. If there be any among you c. That he bless himself in his heart saying I will have peace though I walk in the imagination or stubbornness of my heart to add drunkenness to thirst The Lord will not spare him but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousie shall smoke against that man and all the curses which are written in this book shall lye upon him and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven Deut. 29. 19 20. If a man sin against the Lord who shall intreat for him They who despise me saith the Lord shall be lightly esteemed 1
Phil. 3. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. The law is good if a man use it lawfully knowing that the law is not made for the righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient c. 1 Tim. 1. 8 9. Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he hath saved us Titus 3. 5. If therefore perfection were by the Levitical Priesthood c. What further need was there that another priest should rise c For the law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope Heb. 7. 11 19. chap. 8. 5 6 8. In which were offered both gifts and sacrifices which could not make him who did the service perfect as pertaining to the conscience Heb. 9. 9. For the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect For 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 a remembrance of sin again every year For it is not possible that the blood of Bulls and Goats should take away sins c. Sacrifice and offerings thou wouldest not c. In burned offerings c. Thou hadst no pleasure c. Sacrifices which can never take away sin Heb. 10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 11. chap. 13. 9 10. Whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all For he who said c. James 2. 10. We are all as an unclean thing and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags Isa. 64. 6. When ye have done all these things which are commanded you say we are unprofitable servants we have done that which was our duty to do Luk. 17. 5 6 7 8 9 10. If the ministration of death written and ingraven in stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance which was to be done away c. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious For if the ministration of condemnation be glory much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory for even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect by reason of the glory which excelleth For if that which is done away was glorious much more that which remaineth is glorious 2 Cor. 3. 7 8 9 10 11. CHAP. VII Of Mans Salvation and Redemption how it came and by what means From God only and no otherwise NOne can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransome for him For the redemption of their soul is Pretious c. That he should live for ever Psal. 49. 7 8. Will the Lord be pleased with Thousands of Rams or with Ten thousand rivers of Oil shall I give my first-born for my transgression the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul c. Micha 6. 7. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver or gold c. 1 Pet. 1. 18. He saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no intercessour therefore his arm brought salvation to him c. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion c. Isa. 59. 16 20. The year of my redeemed is come And I looked and there was none to help therefore mine own arm brought salvation to me c. Isa. 63. 4 5. Then thou spakest in a vision to thy holy one and saidst I have laid help upon one who is mighty I have exalted one chosen amongst the people c. Psal. 89. 19. Thus saith the Lord behold I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone a tryed stone a precious corner-stone a sure foundation c. Isa. 28. 16. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together c. Isa. 40. 5. Luk. 3. 4 5 6. Behold my servant whom I uphold mine elect in whom my soul delighteth I have put my spirit upon him he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles c. I the Lord have called thee in righteousness c. And give thee for a covenant of the people for a light of the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners c. Isa. 42. 1 4 5 6 7. I will bring neer my righteousness it shall not be far off and my salvation shall not tarry and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel Isa. 46. 13. It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the reserved of Israel I will also give thee for a light unto the Gentiles that thou maist be my salvation to the ends of the earth c. That thou maist say to the prisoners go forth c. Isa. 49. 6 9. Act. 13. 46 47. To whom is the Arm of the Lord revealed For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground c. Isa. 53. 1 2. The spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good-tidings to the meek he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them who are bound to proclaim the acceptable year c. To comfort them who mourn c. Isa. 61. 1 2 3. Saith the Lord I will raise unto David a righteous branch c. In his days shall Judah be saved and Israel shall dwell safely and this his name whereby he shall be called the Lord our righteousness c. Jer. 23. 5 6. Behold I will bring forth my servant the branch Zechar. 3. 8. Behold I will send my messenger c. And the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple even the messenger of the covenant whom ye delight in Behold he shall come saith the Lord of hosts Mal. 3. 1. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David as he spake by the mouth of the holy prophets c. That we should be saved from our enemies c. To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant c. To give knowledg of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins through the tender mercy of our God whereby the day-spring or sun-rising bravith from on high visited us to give light c. Luk. 1. 68 69 70 71 72 77 78 79. Mine eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared before all people a light to the Gentiles c. Luk. 2. 30 31. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believed should not perish c. That the world through him might be saved John 3. 16 17. If
thou hadst known the gift of God and who it is who saith unto thee c. John 4. 10. I came from heaven to do the will of him who sent me And this is the fathers will who sent me that of all he hath given me I should lose nothing c. That every one who seeth the son and believeth on him may have everlasting life John 6. 38 39 40. Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledg of God ye have taken c. Act. 2. 23. Against the holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate c. Were gathered together for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Acts 4. 27 28. Him hath God exalted with his right hand a Prince and a Saviour Act. 5. 31. God commended his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us c. The grace of God and the gift by grace c. Rom. 5. 8 15 16. What the law could not do c. God sending his own son c. Rom. 8. 3. All things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus 2 Cor. 5. 18. Jesus who gave himself c. According to the will of God and our father Gal. 1. 4. God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law to redeem them who are under the law c. Gal. 4. 4 5. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus c. Who hath blessed us c. in Christ and chosen us adopted us c. Ephes. 1. 3 4 5 c. 1 Pet. 1. 3 4. God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he loved us even when we were dead in sins hath quickened us c. That in ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness towards us through Jesus Christ for by grace are ye saved Ephes. 2. 4 5 6 7 8. chap. 3. 9 10. Titus 3. 4 5 6. What is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man that thou visitest him Heb. 2. 6. Psal. 8. 4. In this was manifest the love of God towards us because that God sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us 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. 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. It is Jesus Christ. 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 Gen. 3. 15. The Lord said unto Abram c. And in thee shall all 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. 28. 14. The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloe come and unto him shall the gathering of the nations be binding his foal unto the vine and his Asses colt c. Gen. 49. 10. I know my redeemer lives c. Job 19. 25. Sacrifice and offering thou didest not desire c. Then said I lo I come c. Psal. 40. 6 7 8. Heb. 10. 5 6 7. The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner Psal. 118. 22. Act. 4. 10 11 12. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way before his works of 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 dayly his delight rejoycing always before him rejoicing 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. 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. 49. 1 2 6 7. Act. 13. 47. 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. 4 6. Matt. 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. Luk. 4. 17 18 19 20 21. Who is this who 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. Joh. 1. 45. I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come c. Hagga 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 rideing upon an Ass and upon a Colt the fole of an Ass
c. Christ who is gon into Heaven and is on the right hand of God 1 Pet. 3. 22. If any man sin we have an Advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous 1 John 2. 1 2. 9thly He is made our King and Head to encounter and conquer our enemies to Rule for us and in us There shall come a star out of Jacob and a scepter shall arise out of Israel Numb 24. 17. Gen. 49. 10. Yet have I set my king or mine anointed upon my holy hill of Sion I have given thee the heathen for thine inheritance c. Psal. 2. 6 8. Thine arrows sharp in the hearts of the kings enemies whereby the people fall under thee Thy throne O God is for ever and ever the scepter of thy kingdom a right scepter c. The Lord thy God hath anointed thee with the oyl c. Psal. 45. 5 6 7. Heb. 1. 8. Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive thou hast received gifts for men Psal. 68. 18. Unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulders c. Of the increase of his government shall be no end upon the Throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it c. Isa. 9. 6 7. The days come saith the Lord that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch and a king shall reign and prosper c. In his days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely Jer. 23. 5 6. ch 33. 17. Zech. 6. 12 13. I will set up one sheepherd over them and he shall feed them even my servant David c. I will be their God and my servant David a Prince among them Ezek. 34. 23 24. The Messiah the Prince Dan. 9. 25. Thou Bethlehem c. out of thee shall he come forth unto me to be ruler in Israel Micah 5. 2. Rejoice greatly O daughter of Zion c. behold thy king cometh c. Zech. 9. 9. Jesus he shall be great c. And the Lord God shall give him the Throne of his father David and he shall reign c. for ever and of his kingdom no end Luk. 1. 31 32 33. When a strong man armed keepeth his palace his goods are in peace but when a stronger than he shall come upon him and overcometh him he taketh from him all his Armour c. Luke 11. 21 22. When he is come he will convince the world c. of judgment because the prince of this world is judged c. Be of good chear I have overcome the world John 16. 8 11 33. God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ Act. 2. 36. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour c. Act. 5. 31. O Death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory c. Thanks be unto God who gave us the victory through our Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 15. 54 55 56 57. Christ c. He set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above all principalities and powers and might and dominion c. And hath put all things under his feet and given him to be head over all things to the Church Ephes. 1. 20 21 22. Grow up in him in all things who is the head Christ c. Ephes. 4. 15. Christ is the head of the Church and Saviour of the body Ephes. 5. 23. He is the head of the body the Church c. that in all things he might have the preeminence Col. 1. 18. He blotted out the hand-writing of ordinances which was against us which was contrary unto us and took it out of the way c. And having spoiled principalities and powers he made a shew of them openly triumphing over them in it or in himself Col. 2. 14 15. It became him c. in bringing many sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect c. He also himself took part likewise of the same that through death he might destroy him who had the power of death that is the Devil and deliver them who through fear of death were all their life-time subject to bondage Heb. 2. 14 15. But this man c. sate down on the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool Heb. 10. 12 13. Even as I also have overcome and am sate down with my father in his throne Rev. 3. 21. These shall make war with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings Rev. 17. 14. 10thly He is our great Prophet and Sheepherd to teach guide and feed us The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the middest of thee of thy brethren like unto me unto him thou shalt hearken c. And the Lord said they have well spoken c. I will raise them up a Prophet c. and I will put my words into his mouth and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him And it shall come to pass that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name I will require it of him Deut. 18. 15 16 17 18 19. Act. 3. 22 23. Act. 7. 37. I will declare thy name unto my brethren Psal. 22. 22. I have preached righteousness in the great Congregation c. I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation c. Psal. 40. 9 10. Thou hast received gifts for men yea for the rebellious also Psal. 68. 18. Unto us a son is given c. he shall be called wonderful Counseller Isaiah 9. 6. Behold the Lord God will come c. He shall feed his flock like a Sheepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arms and carry in his bosom and shall gently lead those who are with young Isa. 40. 10 11. A bruised reed shall he not break and the smoaking flax shall he not quench He shall bring forth judgment unto truth c. The Isles shall wait for thy law I the Lord give thee c. a light of the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the Prison them who sit in darkness out of the prison house Isa. 42. 3 4 6 7. Behold I have given him c. a leader and commander unto the people Isa. 55. 4. The Lord hath anointed me to preach good-tidings to the meek c. to bind up the broken-hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the Prison to them who are bound To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord c. To appoint unto them who mourn in Zion to give unto them beauty for ashes the oil of joy for mourning c. Isa. 61. 1 2 3. I will feed them in goodly pasture c. and they shall lye in a good fold and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel I will feed my flock and will cause them to lye
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 joints 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. Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought light 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 tryed in the fire that thou mayest be rich and white raiment that thou maist be clothed that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve that thou mayest see Rev. 3. 18. CHAP. IX Gods free choice of His in Christ to Eternal Life and calling them according to his Purpose and Grace AND ye shall be holy unto me for I the Lord am holy and have severed you from other people that ye should be mine Levit. 20. 26. Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth the Lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you because ye were more in number than any people for ye were the fewest of all people but because the Lord loved you c. Deut. 7. 6 7 8. ch 14. 2. Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them and he chose their seed after them even you above all people as at this day Deut. 10. 15. The Lord will not forsake his people for his names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people 1 Sam. 12. 22. And what one nation in the earth is like thy people like Israel whom God went to redeem for a people to himself and to make him a name and to do for you great things c For thou hast confirmed to thy self thy people Israel a people unto thee for ever and thou Lord art become their God 2 Sam. 7. 23 24. 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 makest thou Woe unto him who saith unto his father what begettest thou c. Isa. 45. 9 10. The Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit a Wife of youth when thou wast refused saith thy God Isa. 54. 5 6. I am found of them who sought me not I said behold me behold me unto a nation which was not called by my name Isa. 65. 1. Rom. 10. 20. ch 15. 21. The Lord said to Jeremy before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and before thou camest out of the womb I sanctified thee I ordained thee a Prophet unto the nation Jer. 1. 5. I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee Jer. 31. 3. When God gives out the great promises of a new heart a new spirit c. He said not for your sakes do I this be it known unto you be ashamed c. Ezek. 36. 22 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32. ch 20. 43 44. It shall come to pass that in the place where it was said unto them ye are not my people there it shall be said unto them ye are the sons of the living God Hosea 1. 10. I will have mercy upon her who had not obtained mercy and will say to them which were not my people thou my people and they shall say thou my God Hosea 2. 23. Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the Lord their God c. and shall fear the Lord c. Hosea 3. 5. When Israel a child then I loved him c. I taught Ephraim also to go taking them by their arms but they knew not that I healed themâ—… I drew them with cords of a man with bands of love c. Hosea 11. 1 2 3 4. O Children of Israel c. You only have I known of all the families of the earth Hosea 3. 1 2. At that time Jesus answered and said I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and earth because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes Even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight Matt. 11. 25 26. Luk. 10. 21. It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven but to them it is not given c. Therefore spake I to them in parables because they seeing see not c. Blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear Matt. 13. 11 13 16. Mark 11. 12 34. I will give unto this last even as unto thee Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own Is thine eye evil because I am good So the last shall be first and the first last for many be called but few chosen c. To sit on my right hand or my left is not mine to give but to them for whom it is prepared of my father Matt. 20. 14 15 16 21 23. Mark 10. 40. Jesus called Simon and Andrew and James and John to follow him and they did Mark 1. 16 17 18 19 20. Except that the Lord had shortned those days no flesh should be saved but for the elects sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortened the days Mark 13. 20. Thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son and thou shalt call his name John He shall be great in the sight of the Lord c. He shall be filled with the holy Ghost even from his mothers womb Luke 1. 13 15. Many Widows were in Israel in the days of Elias c. When great famine was throughout all the land but unto none of them was Elias sent save unto Sarepta c. And many leapers were in Israel in the time of Elizeus
the Prophet and none of them was cleansed saving Naaman c. Luke 4. 25 26 27. Christ called Zacheus to come down c. And he received him joyfully and Christ said to him this day is salvation come to thy house for so much as he also is the son of Abraham For the son of man is come to seek and save that which was lost Luke 19. 5 6 8 9 10. All which the father hath given me shall come to me and him who cometh to me I will in no wise cast out c. This is the fathers will c. That of all which be hath given me I should lose nothing c. There are some of you who believe not c. No man can come unto me except it were given him of my father John 6. 37 39 64 65. Jesus called the blind man whom he had healed and discovers himself to him 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 Act. 2. 39 47. Phillip sent on purpose to meet the Eunuch and commanded to go neer his Chariot where he preached unto him and converted him Act. 8. 26 27 28 29 36 37. Paul was persecuting the Church c. And was converted in the middest 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 Act. 11. 2 3 c. When the Gentiles heard c. as many as were ordained to eternal life believed Act. 13. 48. 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 Act. 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 Rom. 8. 28 29 30. 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 replyest 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. God hath not cast away his people whom he fore-knew 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. As ye in times past have not believed God yet have now obtained mercy c. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledg of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out for who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his Counseller c. For of him and through him and to him are all things Rom. 11. 4 5 6 7 8 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. 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 mothers 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 mistery 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 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. Work out your own salvation c. for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to 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. 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. 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 Heb. 4. 3. To the strangers c. Elect according to the foreknowledg of God the father 1 Pet. 1. 1 2. 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. All who dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the Book of life of the Lamb Rev. 13. 8. 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. 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 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. We are the Circumcision who worship God in spirit rejoyce in Christ have no confidence in the flesh Phil. 3. 3. We are come c. to the blood of sprinkling which speaketh better things than that of Abel Heb. 12. 24. Who testified before-hand the sufferings of Christ and the glory which should follow 1 Pet. 1. 11. In Particular 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. 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 Psal. 32. 1 2 5. As for our transgressions thou shalt purge them away Psal. 65. 3. But there is forgiveness with thee that thou mayest be feared Psal. 130. 4. Though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red as crimson 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. I will make a new Covenant c. for I will forgive their iniquity and will remember their sins no more Jer. 31. 31 34. Heb. 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. 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 Mic. 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 Mat. 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 Mat. 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 speaketh 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 Mat. 12. 31 32. To give knowledg 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 receive forgiveness of sins 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 remission or passing over of sins Rom. 3. 25. Christ dyed for our sins according to the Scriptures 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 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. Eph. 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 Tit. 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 Heb. 2. 17. I will be merciful unto their unrighteousnesses and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more Heb. 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 Heb. 9. 13 14 15 22 26 28. This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever sate down Heb. 10. 12. 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. 13. 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 Joh. 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 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 Mat. 3. 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 by Jesus Christ and hath committed unto us the ministry of reconciliation to wit that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses c. 2 Cor. 5. 18 19. The glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved Eph. 1. 6. But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by he blood of Christ for he is our peace who hath made both one hath broken down the middle-wall of partition between us hath abolished in his flesh the enmity the law of commandments in ordinances for to maâ—…e in himself of twain one new man so making peaâ—… That he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby or in himself and came and preached peace to you who were
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. He who hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true John 3. 33. 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. 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. 68 69. For if ye believe not that I am he ye shall dye in your sins Joh. 8. 24. 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. 35 36 37 38. Jesus c. whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never dye 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. 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. Ye believe in God believe also in me John 14. 1. The father himself loveth you because ye have loved me and believe that I came out from God c. Now we are sure that thou knowest all things c. By this we believe that thou camest forth from God John 16. 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 didest send me John 17. 8. 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 Act. 9. 20 22. ch 17. 3. God gave them the liâ—…e gifts c. Then hath God also granted to the Gentiles repentance unto life Act. 11. 17 18. We believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus we shall be saved even as they Act. 15. 11. 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. Paul said be of good cheer for there shall be no loss c. Be of good chear 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 â—…or 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 perswaded 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 Christ 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 that we see not then do we with patience wait for it c. I am perswaded 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 inâ—… 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 faith 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. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the spirit of God 1 Cor. 12. 3. Our preaching is not with inticeing words c. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God 1 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 an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens c. We are confident I say and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord c. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men c. 2 Cor. 5. 1 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. fulfill all the
mighty works there because of their unbelief Mat. 13. 58. Peter began to sink through unbelief Jesus said unto them O thou of little faith wherefore didst thou doubt Mat. 14. 29 30 31. He appeared unto the eleven and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart because they believed not them who had seen him after he was risen 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. But those mine enemies who would not that I should reign over them bring hither and slay them before me Luke 19. 27. 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 dye in your sins for if ye believe not that I am he ye shall dye 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. 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 judg 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 c. 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 having 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 transgression 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. Heb. 2. 2 3. I swear in my wrath they shall not or if they shall enter 〈◊〉 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 swear 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 Heb. 3. 11 12 18 19. 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 Heb. 4. 2 6. 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 Heb. 10. 38 39. 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 Heb. 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 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 dyed without mercy c. Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who have trodden under foot the son of God c. Heb. 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 1. That such may be known from others by their fruits 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 out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things Mat. 12. 33 34 35. John 3. 6. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon c. that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination c. Luke 16. 13 15. Some have not
fathers 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 King 22. 11 13 18 19. 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. 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 Psal. 1. 2 3. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in his holy place He who hath clean hands and a pure heart who hath not lift up his soul unto vanity nor sworn deceitfully c. this is the generation of them who seek him that seek thy face c. Psal. 24. 3 4 5 6. I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth Psal. 26. 8. Seek ye my face my heart said unto thee Thy face Lord will I seek Psal. 27. 8. The righteous sheweth mercy and giveth c. is ever merciful and lendeth c. the mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment the law of his God is in his heart Psal. 37. 21 26 31 32. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long Psal. 71. 24. Psal. 119. 46. Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion c. for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof Psal. 102. 13 14. He shall not be afraid of evil tydings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord Psal. 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. O how love I thy law it is my meditation all the day c. how sweet are thy words c. Psal. 119. 14 16 24 97 103. I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the house of the Lord Psal. 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 Psal. 137. 5 6. 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 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 Psal. 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. He who walks righteously and speaketh uprightly he who despiseth the gain of oppression who shaketh 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. 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 hraven 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 Mat. 5. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. John 16. 20. 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 solloweth after me is not worthy of me Mat. 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 Mat. 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 Mat. 13. 44. Verily I say unto you Except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven Mat. 18. 3 4. The woman to whom much was forgiven loved Christ much Luke 7. 37 38 45 46 47. 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. chap. 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 doth evil hateth the light c. But he who doth truth rometh 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 Abrahams 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 Gods words ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God John 8. 31 39 42 47. 1 John 2. 24. 2 John 9 ver The sheep hear his voice c.
glory of the Lord c. are changed into the same image c. by the spirit 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. We having the same spirit of faith according as it is written I believed and therefore have I spoken we also believe and therefore speak 2 Cor. 4. 13. In this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house from heaven c. that mortallity might be swallowed up of life We are willing to be absent from the body that we may be present with the Lord wherefore we labour that whether present c. we may be accepted of him c. knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we perswade men c. The love of Christ constraineth us c. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature old things are past away behold all things as become new 2 Cor. 5. 2 4 8 9 11 14 17. Jesus Christ is in you except you be reprobates c. We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth 2 Cor. 13. 5 8. When it pleased God c. to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him c. immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood Gal. 1. 15 16. I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me Gal. 2. 20. The works of the flesh are manifest which are adultery c. but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance and they who are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections or passions and lusts Gal. 5. 19 20 21 22 23 24. God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom or whereby the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world for in Jesus Christ circumcision availeth nothing c. but a new creature Gal. 6. 14 15. This I say therefore and testifie in the Lord That ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds c. But ye have not so learned Christ. If so be that ye have heard him and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus Ephes. 4. 17 18 19 20 21. For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness righteousness and truth Eph. 5. 9. Some preach Christ out of envy and strife c. what then notwithstanding in every way whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached and therein do I rejoyce yea and I will rejoyce Phil. 1. 15 16 17 18. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit rejoyce in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh c. What things were gain to me those I count loss for Christ yea doubtless and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Christ Jesus my Lord c. that I might know him and the power of his resurrection c. and be made conformable unto his death if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead not as though I had already attained or were already perfect but I follow after c. but this one thing forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press towards the mark c. let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded c. Our conversation is in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour c. Phil. 3. 3. 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 20. I have learned in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content I know how to be abased and I know how to abound every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer need I can do all things through Christ who strengthneth me Phil. 4. 11 12 13. And bringeth forth fruits as it doth also in you since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth Col. 1. 6. If ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above c. Set your affections on things above not on things on the earth c. seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds and have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledg after the image of him who created him Colos. 3. 1 2 9 10. Remembring without ceasing your work 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 affliction 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 Countrey-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. He who is entred into his rest hath ceased from his own works Hebr. 4. 10. They who believe desire a better countrey 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. If any among you seem to be religious and bridle not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this mans religion is vain Pure religion and undefiled before 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 hath not works is dead c. I will shew thee my faith by my works c. Faith without works is dead also James 2. 14 18 26. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledg 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 descendeth not from above c. but the wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated full of mercy and good fruits without
Saints being compelled did blaspheme Acts. 26. 10 11. I brethren could not speak unto you as unto spiritual but as unto Carnal as unto babes in Christ I have fed you with milk and not with meat For hitherto ye were not able neither yet now are ye able for ye are yet carnal c. There is among you envying and strife and divisions or factions are ye not carnal and walk as men c. They were greatly disorderly in the Lords supper 1 Cor. 3. 1 2 3. 1 Cor. 11. Ye suffer fools gladly c. Ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man devour you if a man take of you if a man exalt himself if a man smite you on the face 2 Cor. 11. 19 20. I fear lest when I come I shall not find you such as I would c. Lest there be debates envyings wraths strifes backbitings whisperings swellings tumults Lest when I come again my God will humble me among you and that I shall bewail many who have sinned already and have not repented of the â—…anness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed 2 Cor. 12. 20 21. I marvel that you are so soon removed from him who called you into the grace of Christ unto another Gospel c. And now after that ye have known God or rather are known of God how turn ye back to the weak and beggerly elements or rudiments whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage ye observe days and months and times and years c. Gal. 1. 6. Gal. 4. 9 10 11. Paul complains thus I have no man like minded who will naturally care for your state for all seek their own not the things which are Jesus Christs Phil. 2. 20 21. Ye are dull of hearing for when for the time ye ought to be teachers ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God and are become such as have need of milk c. Heb. 5. 11 12. Thou hast borne and hast patience and for my names sake hast laboured and hast not fainted nevertheless I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left 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. 3dly 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. chap. 4. 21 22. God said to Moses Dye 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 middest of the children of Israel Deut. 32. 48 50 51. Psalm 106. 32 33. Aaron shall be gathered unto his people he shall not enter into the land c. Because ye rebelled against my word c. Num. 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. David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord and Nathan said unto David the Lord also hath put away thy sin thou shalt not dye how-be-it because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the child c. shall surely dye 2 Sam. 12. 13 14. If his children forsake my law and walk not in my judgments c. Then will I visit their transgressions with a rod and their iniquity with stripes Psal. 89. 30 31 32. Thou wast a God who forgavest them though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions Psal. 99. 8. 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 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 I will punish you for all your iniquities Amos 3. 2. When God sent Jonah to Nineveh he fled from Gods presence c. But the Lord sent out a great wind c. And Jonah was cast into the Sea for this Jonah 1. 1 4 10 11 12. Zacharias struck dumb for not believing Luk 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. Heb. 12. 6 7 8. See more of Gods Judgments for sin Chap. 16. CHAP. XIV Of the Priviledges of Saints and their excellency above others VVhat God hath done doth do and will do for and be unto them more than others and what they can do with God c. 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 Abrams wife Gen. 12. 17. 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. Abram interceded with God for Sodom and God granted him as much as he asked See at large Gen. 18. 23 24 25 26 27 28 c. When God had sent his Angels to destroy Sodom they said unto Lot Hast thou any here besides son-in-law and thy sons and thy daughters and whatsoever thou hast in the city 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. Hast thee escape thither for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither c. God remembred Abram and sent Lot out of 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 seed Gen. 21. 12 13. Laban said unto Jacob I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed 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. 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 you 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 c. Gen. 32. 28 30. God appeared unto Jacob again c. and blessed him c. Gen. 35. 9. 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 Egyptians house for Josephs sake c. the Lord was with Joseph c. and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper c. When Joseph had the custody of the prisoners that which he did the Lord made it to prosper 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. 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 of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue against man or beast that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel Exod. 11. 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 to the 15. Numb 14. 11 12 13 19 20. And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face as a man speaketh unto a 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 12. 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. 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. 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. 2. For the Lords portion is his people Jacob the lot of his inheritance c. he lead him about he instructed him he kept him as the apple of his eye Deut. 32. 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 excellency Deut. 33. 27 29. At the word of Joshua the Sun stood still and the Moon stayed Joshua 10. 12 13. When Gideon asked signs of God he gave them to him Judges 6. 17 21 36 37 38 39 40. He will keep the feet of his saints 1 Sam. 2. 9. The Lord will not forsake his people for his great names 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 fathers sake c. I will give one tribe to thy son for David my servants sake and for Jerusalems sake which I have chosen 1 King 11. 11 12 13. chap. 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 King 14. 13. The Prophet Elijah was taken up into heaven 2 King 2. 12. When the King of Israel and Jehosephat the King of Judah went together and wanted water Elisha the Prophet said c. Were it not that I regard the presence of Jehosephat the King of Judah I would not look towards thee nor see thee But now c. 2 King 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 King 20. 9 10. Isaiah 38. 7 8. 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 doth 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 lye down in green pastures he leadeth me besides the still waters c. Psal. 23. 1 2. What man is he who feareth 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. 12 13 14. O how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them who fear thee thou hast wrought for them who trust in thee before the sons of men thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man thou shalt
God he is a jealous God Joshua 24. 14 15 16 19. Elkanah went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts 1 Sam. 1. 1 3. Prepare your hearts unto the Lord and serve him only 1 Sam. 7. 3 4. Only fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart 1 Sam. 12. 24. And Elijah came unto all the people and said how long halt ye between opinions or thoughts if the Lord be God follow him but if Baal follow him 1 Kings 18. 21. That the heart be prepared to serve God is expected commended and the contrary taken notice of 2 Chron. 12. 14. ch 19. 3. ch 29. 36. ch 30. 18 19. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Psalm 2. 11. But as for me I will come unto thy house c. and in thy fear will I worship towards thy holy temple or the Temple of thy holiness Psal. 5. 7. Who is God save the Lord Psal. 18. 31. All the ends of the world shall remember and return unto the Lord and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee for the kingdom is the Lords and he the governour among the nations All they who are fat on earth shall eat and worship c. A seed shall serve him Psal. 22. 27 28 29 30. I will wash my hands in innocency so will I compass thine altar O Lord c. I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwelleth Psal. 26. 6 8. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto or the honour of his name worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness or in his glorious sanctuary Psal. 29. 2. Psal. 96. 4 6 7 8 9. For he is thy Lord and worship thou him Psal. 45. 11. All the earth shall worship thee and shall sing unto thee c. Psal. 66. 4. Psal. 63. 1 2 3 c. Neither shalt thou worship any strange God I the Lord thy God Psal. 81. 9 10. How amiable are thy tabernacles c my soul longeth c. a day in thy courts is better c. Psal. 84. 1 2 c. I will call upon thee among the gods none like unto thee O Lord neither are there any works like unto thy works all nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy name for thou art great and dost wonderful things thou art God alone Psal. 86. 7 8 9 10. Rev. 15. 4. For who in 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 in the assembly of the saints and to be had in reverence of all them about him Psal. 89 6 7. Before the mountains were c. even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God Psal. 90. 2. The Lord is great and a great King above all gods c. O come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our Maker for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture Psal. 95. 3 6 7. The Lord reigneth c. worship him all ye gods c. for thou Lord art high above all the earth thou art exalted far above all gods Psal. 97. 1 7 9. Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at his footstool he is holy Psal. 99 5 9. Holy and reverend is his name Psal. 111. 9. I will worship toward his holy temple Psal. 138. 2. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools c. Be not rash with thy mouth and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing or word before God for God in heaven and thou upon earth therefore let thy words be few Eccles 5. 1 2. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand c. to whom then will ye liken God or what c Isa. 40. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. I am the Lord that is my name and my glory will I not give unto another Isa. 42. 8. That ye may know and believe me and understand that I am he before me there was no God formed or nothing formed of God neither shall there be after me I the Lord and besides me no Saviour I have declared and have saved and I have shewed when there no God among you Therefore ye my witnesses saith the Lord that I am God yea before the day I am he and there is none who can deliver out of my hand I will work and who shall let it Thus saith the Lord your Redeemer the Holy One of Israel c. But thou hast not called upon me O Jacob Isa. 43 10 11 12 13 14 15 22. Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel and his redeemer the Lord of Hosts I am the first and I the last and besides me no God c. Ye are my witnesses is there a God besides me yea no God I know not any c. Thus saith the Lord c. I am the Lord who maketh all things who stretcheth forth the heavens alone who spreadeth abroad the earth by my self c. Isa. 44. 6 8 24. Psal. 96. 5. I am the Lord and none else no God besides me I girded thee though thou hast not known me That they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me I am the Lord and none else I form the light and create darkness I make peace and create evil I the Lord do all these things c. Thus saith the Lord who created the heavens God himself who formed the earth and made it he hath established it c. I am the Lord and there is none else Isa. 45. 5 6 7 18 21 22. I am God and there is none besides me I am God and none like me declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things which are not done saying My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure Isa. 46. 9 10. chap. 41. 4. But the Lord is the 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 24. 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 governour will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person c ye brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick thus ye brought an offering should I accept this at your hand saith the Lord But cursed the deceiver who hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth unto God a corrupt thing for I am a great king saith the Lord of hosts and my name is dreadful among the heathen Mal. 1. 6 8 13 14. Get thee behind me Satan for it is written thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Matt. 4. 10. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them Matt. 18. 20. There is one God and there is none other but he Mark 12. 32. Our father 's worshipped in this mountain and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship c. The hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem worship the father ye worship ye know not what c. but the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him God is a spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John 4. 20 21 22 23 24. The father himself c. ye have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his shape John 5. 37. Exod. 33. 20. And he said Lord I believe and he worshipped him John 9. 38. The most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands c. Heaven is my throne c. hath not my hands made all c Act. 7. 48 49 50. Whom ye ignorantly worship him declare I unto you God who made the world and all things therein seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth dwelleth not in temples made with hands neither is worshipped with mens hands as though he needed any thing seeing he gave to all life and breath and all things and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitations c. Acts 17. 24 25 26. After the way they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Act. 24. 14. God whom I serve with my spirit c. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are cleerly seen being understood by the things which are made his eternal power and godhead so that they are without excuse because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God c. but became vain c. Changed the truth of God into a lye and served and worshipped the creature more than the Creator who is blessed for ever Amen Rom. 1. 9 20 21 23 25. 2 Tim. 1. 3. Not slothful in business fervent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. We know that an Idol is nothing in the world and there is none other God but one For though there be that are called Gods c. but to us there is but one God the father of whom are all things and we in or for him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him 1 Cor. 8. 4 5 6. 1 Tim. 2. 5. So falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God is in you of a truth 1 Cor. 14. 25. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit Phil. 3. 3. When he bringeth in the first begotten into the world he saith and let all the Angels of God worship him Heb. 1. 6. God c. because he could swear by no greater he sware by himself c. The living God c. Heb. 6. 13. ch 9. 14. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved let us have grace or hold fast whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12. 28 29. Ye also as lively stones are built up a spiritual house a holy priest-hood to offer up spiritual sacrifice acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. No man hath seen God at any time 1 John 4. 12. Fear God and give glory unto him c. And worship him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters Rev. 14. 7. chap. 15. 4. Worship God Rev. 19. 10. chap. 22. 9. Sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts 1 Pet. 3. 15. See more of Idolatry and worshipping strange Gods c. Chap. 39. See the order of Publick worship Ordinances Officers c. Chap. 27. Believe imbrace and be found in the practice of nothing in the things of God and about his worship but that which clearly according to Precepts Rules and Examples of the Scriptures appears to be Christs mind upon which we can in faith expect acceptance And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the judgments and all the people answered with one voice and said All the words which the Lord hath said will we do And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord c. And he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people and they said All that the Lord hath said will we do and be obedient Exod. 24. 2 4 7. And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them according unto all that I shew thee after the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all the instruments thereof even so shall ye make Exod. 25. 8 9. In the tabernacle without the vail which is before the testimony Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening till morning before the Lord c. Exod. 27. 21. And these are the garments which they shall make a breast-plate c. And they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother and his sons that they may minister unto me in the Priests office c. Exod. 28. 4 5 8 c. They made the holy garments for Aaron as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 39. 1. Thus did Moses according unto all that the Lord commanded him so did he c. he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle c. as the Lord commanded Moses c. And he lighted the lamps before the Lord as the Lord commanded Moses c. When they came near unto the Altar they washed as the Lord commanded Moses Exod. 40. 16 19 21 23 25 27 29. Levit. 8. 4 5 36. Nadab and Abihu the sons of Aaron c. offered strange fire which he commanded them not and there went out fire from the Lord and devoured them and they dyed before the Lord. And Moses said unto Aaron This is that the Lord spake I will be sanctified in
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 Num. 9. 5 12. Levit. 19. 5 6. 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. 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. 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. Be not righteous overmuch neithâ—… make thy self over wise 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. 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 for as much 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. 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. Why do you transgress the commandments of God by your traditions for God commanded saying c. But ye say c. thus have ye made the commandments of God of none effect by your traditions c. In vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men Matt. 15. 3 4 5 6 8 9. Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them Matt. 18. 20. Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you Matt. 28. 20. Act. 10. 33. When Paul according to advice had observed some Jewish ceremonies the Jews came upon him and layd hold on him the very thing his advisers proposed to prevent by it Act. 21. 20 21 22 23 c. After the way which they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets Acts 24. 14. That ye may prove what is that good that acceptable will of God Rom. 12. 2. Ephes. 5. 10 17. He who doubteth is damned if he eat because not of faith for whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14. 23. Now I praise you brethren that you c. keep the ordinances or traditions as I delivered them unto you c. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night c. 1 Cor. 11. 1 2 23. If we or an Angel from heaven preach unto you other than that which we have preached c. let him be accursed Gal. 1. 8. Ye did run well who did hinder you or turn you back this perswasion cometh not of him who called you Gal. 5. 7 8. That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness c. Ephes. 4. 14. Those things which ye have learned and received and heard and seen in me do Philip. 4. 9. Beware lest any man spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world c. If ye be dead with Christ why as though living in the world are ye subject to ordinances touch not tast not handle not which all are to perish with the using after the commandments and doctrine of men which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will-worship Col. 2. 8 20 21 22 23. We beseech you brethren and exhort you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye
cryed and they would not hear so they cryed and I would not hear saith the Lord of hosts Zech. 7. 13. The inhabitants of one city shall go to another saying Let us go speedily or continually be going to pray before the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts I will go also Zech. 8. 20 21. Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain The Lord shall Zech. 10. 1. I will pour upon the house of David c. a spirit of prayer and supplication Zech. 12. 10. Pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you Mat. 5. 44. When thou prayest thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are for they love to pray standing in the synagogues c. but when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut the dore pray to thy father c. and when ye pray use not vain repetitions as the heathens do for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking c. your father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask them after this manner therefore pray ye Our Father c. Matt. 6. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. Luke 11. 1 2 c. Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be openâ—…d unto you for every one who asketh receiveth c. What man is there among you who if his son ask bread will he give him a stone c If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things unto them who ask him Matt. 7. 7 8 9 10 11. Luk. 11. 9 10 11 12 13. Christ looking up to heaven he blessed the bread and fishes c. he went up into the mount apart to pray c. Peter said Lord save me Matt. 14. 19 23 30. The woman of Canaan would not give off asking till she had obtained Mat. 15. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask it shall be done for them of my father which is in heaven c. Matt. 18. 19. Ye know not what ye ask said Christ unto the mother of Zebedees children c. The two blind men would not cease crying till they were heard Matt. 20. 21 22 30 31 32 33. All things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing ye shall receive Mat. 21 22. Mark 11. 24. Christ fell on his face and prayed saying O my father if it be possible c. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation c. He prayed again and again c. He kneeled down and prayed Matt. 26. 39 41 42 44. Luke 6. 12. Luk. 22. 41. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into the harvest Luk. 10. 2. And it came to pass as he was praying in a certain place when he ceased one of his disciples said unto him Lord teach us to pray c. Luk. 11. 1 2. And the Apostles said unto the Lord Encrease our faith Luke 17. 5. And he spake a parable unto them that men ought always to pray and not to faint saying there was in a city a Judg c. Shall not God avenge his elect who cry day and night unto him c I tell you that he will Luk. 18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Beware of the scribes c. who for a pretence or a shew make long prayers Luk. 20. 46 47. Watch ye therefore and pray always that ye may be counted worthy to escape all those things that shall come to pass c. Luk. 21. 36. If thou knewest the gift of God and who it is c. thou wouldest have asked of him and he would c. John 4. 10. Whatsâ—…ever ye shall ask in my name that will I do that the father may be glorified in the son If ye shall ask any thing in my name I will do it John 14. 13 14. If ye abide in me ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you John 15. 7. Whatsoever ye shall ask the father in my name he will give it unto you hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name ask and you shall receive that your joy may be full John 16. 23 24 26. Christs prayer for his at large John 17. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication Act. 1. 14. ch 2. 42. The Apostles and their company prayed with one accord and said Lord thou art God c. And now Lord behold their threatnings and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word c. Act. 4. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30. We will give our selves continually to prayer and c. Act. 6. 4. Simon said Pray ye the Lord for me that none of these things which ye have spoken Act. 8. 24. Enquire for one called Saul of Tarsus for behold he prays c. Peter put them forth and kneeled down and prayed and turned him c. Act. 9. 11 40. Cornelius a devout man and one who c. and prayed unto God always c. Peter went up upon the house to pray about the sixth hour Act. 10. 1 2 4 9 30 31. Peter was in Prison but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him Act. 12. 5. And on the sabbath-day we went out of the city by a river side where prayer was wont to be made c. And it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain damsel c. Act. 16. 13 16. Paul when he had thus spoken he kneeled down and prayed with them all Act. 20. 36. And we kneeled down on the shore and prayed Act. 21. 5. Even while I prayed in the temple I was in a trance Act. 22. 17. I make mention of you always in my prayers making request c. I might have a prosperous journey Rom. 1. 9 10. 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 with groanings which cannot be uttered Rom. 8. 26. The same Lord over all is rich unto all who call upon him c. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed Rom. 10. 12 14. Continuing instant in prayer Rom. 12. 12. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing c. I beseech you c. that ye will strive together with me in your prayers to God for me that I may be delivered c. Rom. 15. 13 30 31 32. With all who in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord 1 Cor. 1. 2. Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonoureth his head but every woman who prayeth c. Judg you in your selves is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered 1 Cor. 11. 4 5 13.
Let him who speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret c. I will pray with the spirit and will pray with understanding also 1 Cor. 14. 13 14 15. You also helping together by prayer for us 2 Cor. 1. 11. For this cause I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart frâ—…m me and he said unto me My grace is sufficient c. 2 Cor. 12. 7 8 9. Making mention of you in my prayers That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledg of him c. Ephes. 1. 16 17 18 19. For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus c. That he would grant unto you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith c. Ephes. 3. 14 15 16 17 18 19. Praying always with all manner of prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints and for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may c. Ephes. 6. 18 19. Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request c. And thus I pray that your love may abound c. Phil. 1. 4 9 10 11. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God c. Phil. 4. 6. For this cause we also c. do not cease to pray for you and to desire that ye may be filled with the knowledg of his will c. Col. 1. 9 10 11. Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving withall praying also for us that God would open unto us a dore of utterance c. Labouring fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God Col. 4. 2 3 4 12. 1 Pet. 4. 7. Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith Now God himself and our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way unto you and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love c. 1 Thes. 3. 10 11 12. Pray without ceasing c. And the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly c. Brethren pray for us 1 Thes. 5. 17 23 25. We pray always for you that our God would c. fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and 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 stablish 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 sight of God our Saviour c. I will therefore that men pray every where lifting 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 Heb. 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. Heb. 10. 19 20 21 22. 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 sicâ—… 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 hindred â—… 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 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 vers 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 or add it to with the prayers of
Jesus and blessed God saying c. Anna the Prophetess coming in at that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord Luk. 1. 46 c. Luk. 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 thorowout the whole city c. Luk. 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 unto God save this stranger Luk. 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. Luk. 19. 37 38. And they continued dayly with one accord in the Temple c. Did eat their meat with gladness and with singleness of heart praising God Act. 2. 46 47. When the lame man was healed he stood up and entered with them into the temple walking and leaping and praising of God Act. 3. 8 9. We cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard Act. 4. 20. He took bread and gave thanks in presence of them all Act. 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 Act. 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 knowledg of God! how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out For who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his 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. 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. 11. Now thanks be unto God who always causeth us to triumph in Christ and maketh manisest the favour of his knowledg by us in every place 2 Cor. 2. 14. We having the same spirit of saith 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 inriched in every thing to all bountifulness which causeth through us thanksgiving unto God for the administation of this service not only supplyeth the want of the saints but is abundant also by many thanksgiving 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 exeeedingly 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. I thank my God upon every remembrance of you Phil. 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 Phil. 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. 1 Thes. 1. 2 3. In the faith c. abounding therein within 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. 5. 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 oâ—…r 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. 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 of father 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. Now unto him who
is able c. To the only wise God our Saviour be glory and majesty dominion c. Jude vers 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 wisdome and strength and honour and glory and blessing c. unto him that sits on the throne and unto the lamb for ever and ever Rev. 5. 9 11 12 13. chap. 7. 11 12. Fear God give glory unto him Rev. 14. 7. And they sung the song of Moses c. saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty c. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name for thou only art holy c. Rev. 15. 3 4. Salvation and glory and honour and power unto the Lord our God for true and righteous are his judgments c. And again c. Praise our God all ye his servants and ye who fear him both small and great Rev. 19. 1. 2 5 7. To fear God alone and none else the Arguments for it Not to fear any elsâ—… or other fear Fear not Abram I am thy shield thy exceeding great reward Gen. 15. 1. God appeared unto Isaac the same night and said I am the God of Abram thy father fear not for I am with thee c. Gen. 26. 24. If thou shalt say in thine heart These nations are more than I how can I dispossess them thou shalt not be afraid of them but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharoah c. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them for the Lord thy God is among you a mighty God and terrible c. Deut. 7. 17 18 21. Be strong and of a good courage fear not nor be afraid of them for the Lord thy God he who goeth with thee he will not fail thee nor forsake thee Deut. 31. 6 8. Joshua 1. 5 6 7 9. I will not be afraid of ten thousand of people that have set against me round about Psal. 3. 6. 2 Chron. 20. 15 16 17. I will both lay me down in peace and sleep for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety Psal. 4. 8. Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou with me c. Psal. 23. 4. The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid c though an host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear c. Psal. 27. 1 3. God is our refuge c. therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried c. Psal. 46. 1 2. In God will I put my trust I will not fear what flesh can do unto me Psal. 56. 4 11. The righteous c. shall not be afraid of evil tidings c. Psal. 112. 6 7 8. Be not afraid of sudden fear neither of the defolation of the wicked when it cometh for the â—…rd shall be thy confidence c. Prov. 3. 25 26. The fear of man bringeth a snare Prov. 29. 25. Say ye not a confederacy c. neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid c. Isa. 8. 12. ch 7. 3 4 5 6. Say unto them who are of a fearful heart Be strong fear not behold your God will come Isa. 35. 4. Fear thou not for I am with thee be not dismayed for I am thy God c. fear not I will help thee c. Fear not thou worm Jacob Ye men of Israel I will help thee saith the Lord Isa. 41. 10 13 14. Thus saith the Lord who created thee O Jacob c. fear not for I have redeemed thee c. when thou passest through the waters I with thee Isa. 43. 1 2 5. Fear ye not neither be afraid have not I told thee c. is there a God besides me c. Isa. 44. 8. Hearken unto me ye who know righteousness c. Fear ye not the reproach of men neither be afraid of their revilings for the moth shall eat them c. I am he who comforteth you Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall dye and of the son of man who shall be made as grass and forgettest the Lord thy maker Isa. 51. 7 8 12 13. Be not afraid of their faces for I am with thee to deliver thee c. Jer. 1. 7 8 17 18 19. Learn not the ways of the heathen and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens for the heathen are dismayed at them for the customs of the people are vain Jer. 10. 2. Be not afraid of them neither be afraid of their words c. nor be dismayed at their looks c. Ezek. 2. 6. chap. 3. 9. When Christ had told his disciples what persecutors would do to them he saith Fear them not c. And fear not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the soul Matt. 10. 26 28. Luke 12. 4. Why are ye so fearful how is it that ye have no saith Mark 4. 40. We being delivered out of the hands of our enemies might serve him without fear Luke 1. 74. Fear not little flock for it is your fathers good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luke 12. 32. Let not your hearts be troubled c. neither let it be afraid John 14. 1 27. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but c. Rom. 8. 15. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power 2 Tim. 1. 7. Moses parents feared not the kings edict nor did he the kings wrath Heb. 11. 25 27. We may boldly say The Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man shall do unto me Heb. 13. 5 6. If ye suffer for righteousness sake happy and be not afraid of their terrour neither be troubled but sanctifie the Lord c. 1 Pet. 3. 14 15. There is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear hath torment he who feareth is not made perfect in love 1 John 4. 18. Fear God Now I know that thou fearest God seeing thou hast not withheld thy son Gen. 22. 12. But the midwives feared God and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them but saved the men-children alive c. Therefore God dealt well with the Midwives c. Exod. 5. 17 20 21. I will at this time send all my plagues c. that thou maist 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 Exod. 9. 14 20. Israel saw that great work of drowning the Egyptians c. which the Lord did and the
the people tremble He sitteth between the Cherubins let the earth be removed or stagger the Lord is great in Zion he is high above all people let them praise the great and terrible name it is holy Psal. 99. 1 2 3. As the heavens are high above the earth so great is his mercy towards them who fear him c. As a father pitieth his children so the Lord pitieth them who feareth him c. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting unto them who fear him Psal. 103. 11 13 17. He hath given meat unto them that fear him c. Holy and reverend is his name The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom Psal. 111. 5 9 10. Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob who turneth the rock into a standing water the flint into a fountain of water Psal. 114. 7 8. He will bless them who fear the Lord small and great Psal. 115. 13. He will fulfil the desire of them who fear him he also will hear c. Psal. 145. 19. The Lord taketh pleasure in them who fear him c. Psal. 147. 11. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledg Prov. 1. 7. Chap. 9. 10. Fear the Lord and depart from evil Prov. 3. 7. In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence c. it is the fountain of life to depart from the snares of death Prov. 14. 26 27. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasures c. Prov. 15. 16. By the fear of the Lord men depart from evil Prov. 16. 6. Let not thine heart envy sinners but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long Prov. 23. 17. Whatsoever God doth it shall be for ever c. and God doth it that men should fear before him Eccl. 3. 14. It shall be well with them who fear God who fear before him Eccl. 18. 12. The Lord alone shall be exalted in that day c. And they shall go into the holes c. for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his Majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth Isa. 2. 17 19 21. I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne c. and one cryed unto another and said Holy holy holy is the Lord of Hosts the whole earth is full of his glory c. then said I Wo is me c. because I a man of unclean lips c. have feen the King the Lord of Hosts Isa. 6. 1 3 5. Sanctifie the Lord of Hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread Isa. 8. 13. The Lord of Hosts hath sworn saying Surely as I thought so shall it come to pass and as I have purposed it shall stand c. 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. 24 27. Thou hast made of a city an heap c. therefore shall the strong people glorifie thee the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee Isa. 25. 1 2 3. Who would set the briers and thornes against me in battel c. I would burn them together Isa. 27. 4. Forasmuch as this people draw near unto me with their mouth c. and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men therefore c. They shall sanctifie my name and sanctifie the holy one of Jacob and shall fear the God of Israel Isa. 29. 13 14 15 23. Behold the Lord God will come c. who hath measured the waters in the hallow of his hand and meeted heaven with the span and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure c. behold the nations as a 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 Isa. 40. 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. I the Lord the first and with the last I am he the isles faw it and feared the ends of the earth were afraid drew near c. Isa. 41. 4 5. The heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool where is the house Isa. 66. 1. Act. 7. 48 49 50. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God and that my fear is not in thee Jer. 2. 19. O foolish people c. fear ye not me saith the Lord Will ye not tremble at my presence Who hath placed the sands for the bounds of the Sea by a perpetual decree that it cannot pass it c. But this people hath revolted c. neither say they in their hearts Let us now fear the Lord our God who giveth rain c. Jer. 5. 21. 22 23 24. None like unto thee O Lord thou great and thy name great in might who would not fear thee O King of nations for to thee it appertaineth c. The Lord is the true God he the living God an everlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation c. Jer. 10. 6 7 10. 12 13. Dan. 2. 20 21 22 47. Chap. 4. 17 32. O house of Israel cannot I do with you as this potter saith the Lord behold as the clay in the potters hand so ye in my hand O house of Israel Jer. 18. 6. Can any hide himself in secret praces that I shall not see him saith the Lord Do not I fill heaven and earth c Jer. 23. 24. The great the mighty God the Lord of Hosts is his name great in counsel and mighty in work c. I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever c. I will put my fear into their hearts Jer. 32. 18 19 39 40. The Lord shall utter his voice before his army c. for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible and who can abide it Joel 2. 11. God is jealous the Lord revengeth c. He rebuketh the Sea and maketh it dry c. The mountains quake at him and the hills melt c. Nahum 1. 2 3 4 5 6. If I be a master Where is my fear c I am a great King saith the Lord of Hosts and my name is dreadful amongst the heathen Mal. 1. 6 14. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerer c. And fear not me saith the Lord of Hosts c. A book of remembrance was written before him for them who feared the Lord and that thought of his name And they shall be mine saith the Lord Mal. 3. 5 16 17. But unto you who fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall grow c. Mal. 4. 2. Fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell Mat. 10. 28. His
mercy is on them who fear him from generation to generation he hath shewed strength c. He hath put down the mighty c. Luke 1. 50 51 52 53. The most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands c. Heaven is my throne c. Hath not my hand made all these things Acts 7. 48 49 50. The Churches were edified and walked in the fear of the Lord Acts 9. 31. In every nation he who feareth him c. is accepted with him Acts 10. 35. God who made the world and all things therein seeing he is God c. Acts 17. 24 25 c. All things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do Heb. 4. 13. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10. 31. Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear For our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12. 28 29. Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear 1 Pet. 1. 17. 2 Cor. 7. 1. Fear God 1 Pet. 2. 17. Fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his Judgment is come Rev. 14. 7. Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty c. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name for thou only art holy Rev. 15. 3 4. To trust in God and in none else in all Cases The Arguments thereto 1. Not in any else There is none besides thee neither is there any rock like unto God 1 Sam. 2. 2. Because thou hast relied on the King of Assyria and not relied on the Lord thy God therefore is the host of the King of Syria escaped out of thy hands c. Asa in his disease fought not to the Lord but to the Physicians 2 Chron. 16. 7. 12. There is no King saved by the multitude of an host a mighty man is not delivered by much strength A horse is a vain thing for safety neither shall he deliver by his great strength Psal. 33. 16. 17. They who trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches None can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him c. that he should live for ever Psal. 49. 6 7 9. Lo this is the man who made not God his strength but trusted in the abundance of his riches c. But I trust in the mercy of God for ever Psal. 52. 7 8. Give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man Psal. 60. 11. Surely men of low degree are vanity men of high degree a lye to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity Trust not in oppression c. Psal. 62. 9 10. Put not your trust in Princes nor in the sons of men in whom is no help his breath goeth sorth he turneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish Psal. 146. 3 4. He who trusted unto his riches shall fall Prov. 11. 28. He who trusteth in his own heart is a fool Prov. 28. 26. Cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of Isa. 2. 22. Thou didst look in that day unto the armour of the house of the forest c. ye made also a ditch between the two walls c. But ye have not looked unto the maker thereof Isa. 22. 8 9 10 11. Wo unto the rebellious children c. who take counsel but not of me c. who walk to go down to Egypt and have not asked at my mouth to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharoah and to trust in the shadow of Egypt Therefore shall the strength of Pharoah be your shame and the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion c. for the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose c. their strength is to sit still Isa. 30. 1 2 3 5 7. Thou hast trusted in thy wickedness thou hast said None seeth c. Thou hast said in thine heart I am and none else besides me c. Stand now with thine enchantments c. let them stand up and save thee c. Behold they shall be as stubble c. None shall save thee Isa. 47. 10 11 12 13 14 15. 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 will I discover thy skirts upon thy face c. Jer. 13. 25 26. Thus saith the Lord Cursed be the man 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 shall also be taken c. Jer. 48. 7. Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys c. O back-sliding daughter who trusteth 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. As for us our eyes as yet failed for our vain hope in our watching we have wtached 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 brakest all their loins c. Ezek. 29. 6 7. 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. Ephraim feedeth upon wind c. they do make a covenant with the Assyrians c. Hosea 12. 1. Wo unto them who are at ease 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 dore of thy mouth from her who lyeth in thy bosom For the son dishonoureth the father c. Micah 7. 5 6. We had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves 1 Cor. 1. 9. 2. In God alone a suitable Object God said Let there 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
shall help in vain and to no purpose therefore have I cryed 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. Chap. 44. 6. When thou passest thorow 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. Chap. 45. 21. Thus saith the Lord thy redeemer and he who formed thee from the womb I the Lord who maketh all things who stretched 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 formed the light and create darkness c. O God of Israel the saviour c. 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 sit in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God Isa. 50. 2 3 10. Isa. 8. 17. chap. 59. 1. 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 Lords 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. chap. 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. Blessed be God c. for wisdom and might are his he changeth the times c. removeth kings c. Dan. 2. 20 21 22 47. ch 4. 17 32. Thou shalt know no God but me for there is no saviour besides me c. O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self but in me is thine help Hosea 13. 4 9. Ashur shall not save us c. for in thee the fatherless find mercy Hosea 14. 3. When my soul fainted within me I remembred the Lord Jonah 2. 7. Trust ye not in a friend c. for the son dishonoureth the father c. Therefore I will look unto the Lord I will wait for the God of my salvation Micah 7. 5 6 7. The Lord is good a strong hold or strength in the day of trouble and he knoweth them who trust in him Nahum 1. 7. Although the figtree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the vines the labour of the Olive shall fail and the field shall yield no meat c. yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God of my salvation the Lord God is my strength Habbak 3. 17 18 19. Wo to her c. she trusted not in the Lord she drew not near to her God c. I will leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people and they shall trust in the name of the Lord Zephan 3. 1 2 12. Not by might not by power but by spirit saith the Lord of Hosts who thou O great mountain before Zerubbabel Zech. 4. 6 7. Take no thought for your life what you shall eat or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body what you shall put on c. behold the fowls of the air c. yet your heavenly father feedeth them are ye not much better than they c. Consider the Lillies c. If God so clothe the grass c. shall he not much more clothe you O ye of little faith c. your heavenly father knoweth that ye have need of these things Matth. 6. 25 26 28 29 30 32. There is one God and there is none other but he Mark 1. 2 32. Blessed is she who believes for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her c. Luke 1. 45. Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God believe also in me Joh. 14. 1. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world Act. 15. 18. God who made the world and all things therein seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth c. he giveth to all life and breath and all things Acts 17. 24 25. Let God be true but every man a lyar Rom. 3. 4. If God be for us who can be against us Rom. 8. 31. The foolishness of God is wiser than men and the weakness of God is stronger than men 1 Cor. 1. 25 27. God c. the father of mercies and the God of all comfort c. We had the sentence of death in our selves that we should not trust in our selves but in God who raiseth the dead who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver in whom we trust that he will yet deliver 2 Cor. 1. 3 9 10. God who comforteth them who are cast down c. 2 Cor. 7. 6. Unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think c. Ephes. 3. 20. Be careful for nothing but in every thing by prayer c. let your requests be made known unto God Phil. 4. 6. The living and the true God 1 Thes. 1. 9. 1 Pet. 1. 23.
Therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men specially of those who believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. In hope of eternal life which God who cannot lye promised before the world c. Titus 1. 2. Be content with such things as ye have for he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee so we may boldly say the Lord is my helper and I will not fear Hebr. 13. 5. 6. Every good gift and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lights with whom is no variableness c. James 1. 17. Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5. 7. See Faith Chap. 11. To look believingly unto hope in and patiently wait for God in all cases the Arguments hereto Fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he will shew c. and the Lord shall fight for you c. Exod. 14. 13 14. The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth Exod. 34. 6. When the people complained or were as it were complainers it displeased the Lord c. Numb 11. 1. God is not 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 Numb 23. 19. Heb. 6. 18. Titus 1. 2. Rom. 3. 4. The Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth Covenant Deut. 7. 9. Not one thing hath failed of all the good things the Lord your God spake c. Joshua 23. 14. The King of Israel said Behold this evil is of the Lord what should I wait for the Lord any longer 2 Kings 6. 33. We have no might c. neither know we what to do but our eyes are upon thee c. ye shall not need to fight in this set your selves stand ye and see the salvation of the Lord with you 2 Chron. 20. 12 17. I would seek unto God and unto God would I commit my cause who doth great things and unsearchable marvellous things without number Job 5. 8. 9. In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up Psal. 5. 3. Thou Lord hast not forsaken them who seek thee Psalm 9. 10. They shall praise the Lord who seek him Psalm 22. 26. Thou the God of my Salvation on thee do I wait all the day c. mine eyes are ever towards the Lord for he shall pluck my feet out of the net Psalm 25. 5 15. Wait on the Lord and be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart wait I say on the Lord Psalm 27. 14. Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them c. who hope in his mercy to deliver their soul c. Our soul waiteth for the Lord he is our help Psalm 33. 18 19 20. Thy mercy O Lord in the Heavens thy faithfulness reacheth to the clouds Psalm 36. 5. Psalm 57. 10. Commit thy way unto the Lord c. and he shall bring it to pass c. rest in the Lord and wait patiently 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. 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 40. 1 2. Why art thou cast down O my soul why art thou disquieted in me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him 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 thirsteth for thee Psalm 62. 1. I am weary of my crying my throat is dryed mine eyes fail while I wait for my God Psalm 69 3. But I will hope continually and will yet praise thee more and more Psalm 71. 14. 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 ofmen Psalm 90. 2 3. The Lord will not cast off his people neither will he forsake his inheritance Psalm 94. 14. 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. These all wait on thee that thou mayst 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. Psal 116. 5. Psalm 112. 4. My soul fainteth for thy salvation I hope in thy word Psalm 119. 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 Psalm 130. 5 6 7. Our bones are scattered c. but mine eyes are unto thee O God the Lord Psalm 14â—… 7 8. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and of great mercy â—…he 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. The Lord taketh pleasure in them c. who hope in his mercy Psalm 147. 11. Hope deferred 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 saint 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 Isaiah 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
If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand Psalm 130. 3. Lord my heart is not haughty nor mine eyes lofty c. Psalm 131. 1 2. Though the Lord be high yet hath he respect unto the lowly but the proud he knoweth afar off Psalm 138. 6. Be not wise in thine own eyes c. Surely he scorneth the scorners but he giveth grace unto the lowly Prov. 3. 7 34. These things doth the Lord hate a proud look or haughty eyes Prov. 6. 16 17. Pride cometh then cometh shame but with the lowly is wisdom Prov. 11. 2. Only by pride cometh contention Prov. 13. 10. Before honour is humility Prov. 15. 33. Chap. 18. 12. All the ways of man are clean in his own eyes c. every one who is proud in heart is an abomination unto the Lord c. Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty look before a fall better be of an humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud Prov 16. 2 5 18 19. Chap. 18. 12. 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 Prov. 27. 2. He who is of a proud heart stirreth up strife Prov. 28. 25. A mans 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 Prov. 30. 2. 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. Chap. 5. 15. Wo unto them who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight Isaiah 5. 21. Who is me c. I am of unclean lips c. for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts Isaiah 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. 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. 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 saith the Lord The heaven is my â—…rone 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. O house of Israel cannot I do with you as this Potter saith 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 saith the Lord God of Hosts c. And the most proud shall stumble and fall c. Jer. 50. 31 32. Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom Pride c. and the more haughty c. Ezek. 16. 49 50. Thus saith 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. Dan. 2. 25 26 27 28. 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 kings 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. When his heart was lifted up and his mind hardned 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 listed up thy self against the Lord of heaven c. Dan. 5. 20 21 22 23. 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. Behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just c. lowly Zech. 4. 1. 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. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest Matth. 11. 29. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the fame is greatest in the kingdom of heaven Matth. 18. 4. When the ten heard it they were moved with indignation against their two brethren
lying lips are an abomination to the Lord but they who deal truly are his delight Prov. 12. 17 22. He who keepeth his mouth keepeth his life but he who openeth wide his lips shall have destruction c. a righteous man hateth lying Prov. 13. 3 5. A soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up anger The tongue of the wise useth knowledg aright but the mouth of fools poureth forth foolishness c. A wholsom tongue is a tree of life but perversness therein is a breach in the spirit c. The lips of the wise disperseth knowledg c. A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth and a word spoken in due season how good it is The heart of the righteous studieth to answer but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things Prov. 15. 1 2 4 7 23 28. Righteous lips are the delight of kings and they love him who speaketh right c. The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth and addeth learning unto his lips Pleasant words are as an honey-comb sweet to the soul Prov. 16. 13 23 24. Excellent speech becomes not a fool much less do lying lips a Prince c. He who hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief c. He who hath knowledg spareth his words c. Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is counted wife He who shutteth his lips is a man of understanding Prov. 17. 7 20 27 28. A fools lips enter into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes c. His mouth is his destruction and his lips the snare of his soul c. The word of a tale-bearer or whisperer are as wounds c. He who answereth a matter before he heareth it is folly and shame unto him c. Death and life is in the power of the tongue c. The rich man answereth roughly Prov. 18. 6 7 8 13 21 23. He who speaketh lyes shall perish c. shall not escape Prov. 19. 5 9. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles Prov. 21. 23. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver Prov. 25. 11. Answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit Prov. 26. 4 5. Let another man praise thee not thine own mouth a stranger not thine own lips Prov. 27. 2. A fool uttereth all his mind but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards c. Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words there is more hope of a fool than of him Prov. 29. 11 20. Be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God c. Let thy words be few c. for in many words also divers vanities but fear thou God Eccl. 5. 2 3 7. The words of wise men are heard in quiet Eccl. 9. 17. The words of a wise mans mouth are gracious or grace c. A fool also is full of words a man cannot tell what shall be Eccl. 10. 12 14. I hearkned and heard they spake not aright c. Jer. 8. 6. They bent their tongue like their bow for lyes but are not valiant for the truth c. will not speak the truth they have taught their tongue to speak lyes c. Their tongue is an arrow shot out it speaketh deceit one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth in his heart he layeth in wait Jer. 9. 3 5 8. The Lord hath a controversie c. because there is no truth c. by swearing and lying c. Hosea 4. 1 2. The prudent shall keep silence in that day for it is an evil time Amos 5. 13. Keep the dores of thy mouth from her who lieth in thy bosom Micah 7. 5. Speak ye every man truth to his neighbour Zech. 8. 16. How can ye being evil speak good things for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth evil things But I say unto you That every idle word which men shall speak they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment for by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned Mat. 12. 34 35 36 37. Those things which proceed out of the mouth cometh forth from the heart and they defile the man Mat. 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 Joh. 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 Church 1 Cor. 14. 19 35. Evil communication corrupt 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 Eph. 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 Eph. 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 you 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 busie-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. 1 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 unto 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. If any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this mans 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 governour 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 proceed blessings and cursings My brethren these things ought not so to be James 3. 2 3 4 5 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 bruit 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 verse 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 acknowledg and mourn for sin depart from it and watch against it the arguments God complains of it reasoning with sinners about it threatnings and judgments against sin and sinners 1. What sin is By the Law is the knowledg of sin Rom. 3. 20. Rom. 7. 7 13. Sin is the transgression of the Law 1 John 3. 4. All unrighteousness in sin 1 John 5. 17. 2. Acknowledg 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. 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 trespass 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 Num. 5. 6 7. And David said to Nathan I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 12. 13. Davids heart smote him c. and David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly in that I have done 2 Sam. 24. 10. 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. Nehemiah confesseth thus Both I and my fathers house have sinned we have dealt very corruptly against thee and have not kept c. Nehem. 1. 6 7. Job saith I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7. 20. 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 aknowledged 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 Psal. 32. 5. I will declare mine iniquity I will be sorry for my sins Psal. 35. 18. For I acknowledg my transgressions and my sin is ever before me Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight c. Psal. 51. 3 4 5. We have sinned with our fathers we have commited iniquity c. Psal. 106. 6 7. 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 Psal. 119. 136 158. If thou shouldst mark iniquities O Lord who shall stand Psal. 130. 3. He who covereth his sin shall not prosper but whoso 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 sinned 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 acknowledg thine iniquity that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God and hast scattered thy ways c. Jer. 3. 12 23. 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 Names sake for our back-slidings are many We have sinned against thee c. We acknowledg O Lord our wickedness 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. The crown is fallen from our heads wo unto us that we have sinned Lam. 5. 16. Set a mark upon the forheads 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 committed Ezek. 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 acknowledg their
offences and seek my face Hosea 5. 14. 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 Act. 19. 18. Paul made confession of his being a persecutor of the Saints Acts 22. 4 5 19 20. I rejoyce 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 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. Delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling amongst them in seeing and hearing vexed 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. 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 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 lyen with thy Wise 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. When Joseph had been tempted to sin by Potiphars Wise he answered her How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God c when she layed hold on him he fled from her Gen. 39. 7 8 9 10 11 12. See the Ten Commandments Exod. 29. 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. 14. 16. If any man sin against another the Judg shall judg him but if a man sinneth against the Lord who shall intreat for him 1 Sam. 2. 24. 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. Job feared God and eschewed evil Job 1. 1 8. I made a covenant with mine eyes why then should I think upon a maid Job 31. 1. For thou art not a God who hath pleasure in wickedness neither shall evil dwell with thee c. thou hatest all workers of iniquity Psal. 5. 4 5. I have hated the congregation of evil doers c. I will wash my hands in innocency and so will I compass thine altar O Lord Psal. 26. 5. Depart from evil and do good Psal. 34. 14. Psal. 37. 27. He prophesied of Christ thus Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness Psal. 45. 7. Heb. 1. 8 9. If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not hear me Psal. 66. 18. Joh. 9. 31. He will speak peace to his c. but let them not turn again to folly Psal. 85. 8. Holiness becomes thy house O Lord for ever Psal. 93. 5. Ye who love the Lord hate evil Psal. 97. 10. I will walk within my house with a perfect heart I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes Psal. 101. 2 3. I have refrained my feet from every evil way c. I hate every false way Psal. 119. 101 104. Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up-risiâ—… 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. Psal. 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 12 13 14 15 16. 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 8. chap 6. 24 25 29. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil Prov. 8. 13. 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. 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. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts c. Isa. 55. 7. The Lords hand is not shortned c. but your iniquities have separated betwen you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear Isa. 59. 1 2 3. He who killeth an ox as if he slew a man c. they have chosen their own ways and their soul delighteth in their abominations Isa. 66. 3. 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 lodg 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 withholden 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 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 ruin 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 nor 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 it from thee c. and if thy right hand offend thee cut it off Matth. 5. 28 29 30. Behold thou art made whole sin no more lest a worse thing come unto thee John 8. 1. Psal. 85. 8. Jesus said unto the Woman taken in adultery Neither do I condemn thee Go and sin no more c. Verily I say unto you whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin Joh. 8. 11 34. Thou who preachest a man should not steal dost thou steal thou who sayest a man should not commit adultery dost thou commit adultery c. Rom. 2. 21 22 23. Nor as some affirm that we say le ts do evil that good may come whose damnation is just Rom. 3. 8. What shall I say then shall we continue in sin that grace may abound God forbid how shall we who are dead to sin live any longer therein c. Our old man is crucified with him c. that henceforth we should not serve sin c. Reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto sin c. Let not sin reign therefore in your mortal bodies that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin Rom. 6. 1 2 6 11 12 13. What I hate that do I c. the evil which I would not that do I Rom. 7. 15 19. If ye through the spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body ye shall live Rom. 8. 13. Abhor that which is evil c. recompence to no man evil for evil c. be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good Rom. 12. 9 17 21. The night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness c. Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying c. make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts Rom. 13. 12 13 14. I would have you wise to that which is good but simple or harmless concerning evil Rom. 16. 19. Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God be not deceived neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God c. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord c. Flee fornication 1 Cor. 6. 9 10 13 18. Heb. 13. 4. Now these things were our examples to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted neither be ye idolaters c. nor commit fornication c. neither tempt Christ c. neither murmur ye c. Flee from idolatry 1 Cor. 10. 6 7 8 9 10 14. Charity rejoyceth not in iniquity 1 Cor. 13. 6. Awake to righteousness and sin not c. The sting of death is sin 1 Cor. 15. 34 56. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion hath light with darkness 2 Cor. 16. 14. Having these promises c. let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit c. 2 Cor. 7. 1. Now I pray to God that ye do no evil 2 Cor. 13. 7. Ye are called unto liberty only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh c. fulfil not the lusts of the flesh c. adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulation wrath strife seditions heresies envyings murders drunkenness revellings and such like c. they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God Gal. 5. 13 16 19 20 21. Be angry and sin not let not the Sun go down on your wrath neither give place to the Devil Let him who stole steal no more Eph. 4. 26 27 28. Fornication c. let it not be once named amongst you as becoming Saints c. Have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them c. Be not drunk with Wine wherein is excess Eph. 5. 3 11 18. Col. 3. 5 6 8. This is the will of God even your sanctification c. for God hath not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness 1 Thes. 4. 3 4 7. Abstain from all appearance of evil 1 Thes. 5. 22. She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth c. Keep thy self pure 1 Tim. 5. 6 22. Let every one who nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity and flee also youthful lusts 2 Tim. 2. 19 22. The grace of God which bringeth salvation to all men hath appeared c. teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live c. Titus 2. 11 12. Exhort one another c. lest any of you be hardned through the deceitfulness of sin Heb. 3. 13. If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sin but a certain fearful looking for of judgment c. Heb. 10. 26 27. Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us Heb. 12. 1. Wherefore lay
Nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face Deut. 8 19 20. If thy brother c. thy daughter or thy wise c. intice thee secretly saying Let us go and serve other gods c. thou shalt not spare him thou shalt surely kill him c. Deut. 13. 6 7 8 9 c. If thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to 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 to the end chap. 29. 19 20. Achan sinned in taking the accursed thing and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel c. and the men of Ai smote them c. And God said He who is taken with this accursed thing shall be burned with fire he and all that he hath because that he hath transgressed c. and accordingly Achan and his was stoned and burned Josh. 7. 1 4 5 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. Sampsons Delelah was his ruine Judg. 16. 15 16 17 18 19 20 21. The Benjamites cut off and destroyed for the great sin in abusing the Levites concubine to death Judg. 18. chap. 19. God threatens Eli for his suffering his sons to sin so in the Priesthood 1 Sam. 2. 22 23 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 judg his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vilâ—… 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. He smote the men of Bethshemesh because 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 judg 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. chap. 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 evil to ask us a king c. if ye shall 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 1 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 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 urim nor by Prophets c. Then he goes to a familar 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. 18. 6 7 15 16 17 18 19. 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 error or rashness and there he dyed c. Michal Davids wife despised David for his dancing before the Ark c. therefore she had no child unto the day of her death c. 2 Sam. 6. 16 23. Davids sin in the matter of Uriahs 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 unto thy neighbour and he shall lye with thy wife in the sight of this Sun c. the child also shall surely dye c. And the child dyed 2 Sam. 12. 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 18. Then Amnon his son forceth Tamar sister of Absalom c. And Absalom killeth Aâ—…non 2 Sam. 13. 11 12 13 14 28 29. Absalom conspired against David and rebels 2 Sam. 15. Absalom went in unto his fathers concubines in the sight of all Israel 2 Sam. 16. 21 22. Absalom is slain 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 dyed seventy thousand men 2 Sam. 24. 1 2 15. Adonijah put to death by Solomons order and Joab for his sin killing of Abner and Amasa also put to death and Shimei 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 Lyon 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 dyeth of Jeroboam in the city shall dogs eat and him who dyeth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat for the Lord hath spoken it 1 Kings 14. 7 8 9 10 11. Baasha smote all the house of Jeroboam he left not to Jeroboam any that breathrd 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 sin 1 Kings 15. 27 29 30. The very like threatning did God send to Baasha for his sin c. and accordingly 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 Ahabs house 1 Kings 21. 14 19 21 22 23 24. Chap. 22. 38. 2 Kings 10. 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 dye c. So he dyed according to the word of the Lord 2 Kings 1. 2 3 4 6 16 17. 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. 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 Jeroboam 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 wirhal And the Lord faid 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. Chap. 25. Uzziah 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 wrath and while he was yet wrath with the Priests the leprosie even rose up in his forehead c. The Lord had smitten him and Uzziah the King was a leper unto the day of his death 2 Chr. 26. 16 17 18 19 20 21. 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. The Psalmist reckons up the several rebellions of Israel and Gods 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. Israels behaviour and rebellions together with Gods dealings with them summed up by the Psalmist Psal. 106. Because they rebelled against 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 no man regardeth but ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof I also will laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh when your fear cometh as desolation c. Then shalt thou call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me for they hated c. Prov. 1. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30. Hear O heavens c. I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me the ox knoweth his owner c. Israel doth not know my people doth not consider c. Why should ye be stricken any more ye will revolt more and more c. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifice unto me saith the Lord c When ye make many prayers I will not hear you for your hands are full of blood wash you make you clean c. Come now and let us reason c. but if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured by the sword c. Ah I will ease me of mine adversaries Isa. 1. 2 3 4 5 11 13 16 17 18 20
c. such as are for death to death c. Who shall have pity upon thee O Jerusalem who shall bemoan thee c. Thou hast for saken me saith the Lord Jer. 15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 c. Ye have done worse than your fathers sor 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. 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. Return ye c. And they said there is no hope but we will walk after our ow◅ 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. 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. chap. 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. 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 hearkned 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. Jerem. 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 Judahs 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. chap. 9. 8 9 10. But as for them whose heart walketh c. I will recompence their way upon their own head The glory of the Lord left 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. 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 indure 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 dye 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. 39. 23 24. The Kings of Babylon punished for their pride c. Dan. 4. 31 32. ch 5. Let her therefore put away her whōredoms 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 knowledg 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 joyned to Idols let 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. 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. 13 14 15 16. Wo unto them when I depart from them Hosea 9. 12. 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. who lye 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 4 5 6 7 8. 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 judg for reward and the Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets thereof divine for money yet will they lean 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. Hear ye O mountains the Lords 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. Several woes pronounced against persons for divers sins Habbak 2. 9 12 15 19. I will punish the Princes and the kings children and all such who are clothed with strange apparel c. all those who leap on the threshold who fill their masters 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 seiled houses and this house lye 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 sorcerers 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. 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 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 Mat. 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. 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. 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. He who is unjust let him be unjust still and he who is 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. See more of mans sin and corrupt nature Chap. 5. The sad affects of such a state See the same Chapter See more of Gods 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 Christs second coming 1. To own and confess the true God and our Lord Jesus Christ before mâ—…n I know my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth c. Job 19. 25. I will speak of 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 Daniel 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 Mat. 10 32 33. Luke 12. 8 9. A damsel came unto Peter saying Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee but he denyed before them all saying I know not what thou sayest c. and again he denyed with an oath faying I do not know the man c. then began he to curse and to swear saying I know not the man Mat. 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 in the glory of his Father with the holy Angels Mark 8. 38. The parenrs 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 he put out of the Synagogue for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God John 12. 42 43. Let all 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 denyed 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 here before you whole This is the stone which 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 Lords 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 fuffer we shall also reign with him If we deny him he also will deny us 2 Tim. 2. 12. They profess they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient c. Titus 1. 16. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God 1 John 4. 15. I know thy works and where thou dwellest where Satans seat is and thou holdest fast my name and hast not denyed my faith Rev. 2. 13. See more of owning Christ in times of persecution Chap 22. See more perseverance Chap. 16. To wait for Christs second coming Watch therefore for you know not what hour your Lord will come c. Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man cometh Mat. 24. 42 44. The wise and foolish virgins slumbered and slept while the bridegroom tarried Mat. 25. 5. Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning and ye your selves like unto men who wait for their Lord c. Luke 12. 35 36. I will come again and receive you unto my self John 14. 3. See that ye come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 1. 7. For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body c. Phil. 3. 20 21. When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory Col. 3. 4. Ye turned to God c. and to wait for his Son from heaven 1 Thes. 1. 10. To you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thes. 1. 6 7. The Lord direct your hearts in the love of God and into the patient waiting for Christ 2 Thes. 3. 5. A crown of righteonsness which the Lord c. shall give me at that day c. â—…ut unto them also who love his appearing 2 Tim. 4. 8. Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ Titus 2. 13. Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many and uâ—…â—…hem who look for him shall he appear the second time withou sin unto salvation Heb. 9. 28. Ye have need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise for yet a little while and he who shall come will come and will not tarry c. Heb. 10. 36 37. Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord Behold the husband-man waiteth for the precious fruits be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth near James 5. 7 8. Wherefore girt up the loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the grace which is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 13. There shall come in the last day scoffers c. saying Where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were c. The Lord is not flack concerning his promise c. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night c. What manner of persons ought ye to be c. Looking for and hastening unto the day of God c. 2 Peter 3. 3 4 5 9 10 11 12. Abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed c. at his coming 1 John 20. 28. We know that when he appears we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 1 John 3. 2. Keep your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life Jude verse 21. See his coming to judg the world Chap. 35. To walk with God heartily uprighty sincerely and to follow him fully and zealously The reasons thereof Enoch walked with God Gen. 5. 22 24. Noah was a just man and perfect or upright in his generation Noah walked with God c. according unto all which God commanded him so did he Gen. 6. 9 22. The Lord said unto Abram Get thee out of thy
country c. so Abram departed as the Lord had spoken unto him Gen. 12. 1 4. The Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto him I am the Almighty God walk before me and be thou perfect or upright Gen. 17. 1 2. God said unto Abraham Take thy son c. and offer him c. And Abraham rose up early in the morning to go about it c. Gen. 22. 1 2 3 4 c. The Lord said to Moses Go I will be with thy mouth c. and he said O my Lord Send I pray thee by the hand of him whom thou wilt send and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses Exod. 4. 12 13 14. My servant Moses who is faithful in all mine house with him will I speak mouth to mouth Num. 12. 7 8. Heb. 3. 2 5. But my servant Caleb because he had another spirit with him and hath followed me fully him will I bring into the land Num. 14. 24. Chap. 32. 12. Josh. 14. 8 14. Take heed to thy self and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget c. lest they depart from thine heart c. thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 4. 9 29. The Lord said They have well said all that they have spoken O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear c. Deut. 5. 28 29. What doth the Lord thy God require of thee but c. to serve the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 10. 12. 1 Sam. 12. 20. Thou shalt be perfect or upright or sincere with the Lord thy God Deut. 18. 13. The Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 26. 16. Cleave unto the Lord your God as ye have done unto this day Josh. 23. 8. Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth Josh. 24. 14. Because Israel did not destroy all the inhabitants of the land according to command God said I will not drive them out from before you but they shall be in your sides and their gods shall be a snare unto you Judges 2. 2 3. Jephthah concerning his vow said I have opened my mouth unto the Lord and I cannot go back c. Judges 11. 31 35 39. The Lord is a God of knowledg 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. 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 Solomon was old c. his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God as the heart of David c. 1 Kings 11. 4. 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. 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. Chap. 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. 35. Chap. 18. 3 4 5 6. 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 tryest 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 was 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 he 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. Doth not he see all my ways and count all my steps Job 31. 4. God who saveth the upright in heart Psal. 7. 10. The Lords throne is in heaven his eyes behold his eye-lids 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 Isa. 37. 37. Forget also 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. 8. My soul followeth hard after thee thy right hand c. Psal. 63.
1. 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. 49. 7 8 9 11 15. 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. 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. Ezek. 11. 5. The upright shall dwell in thy presence Psal. 140. 13. The Lord is a buckler to them who walk uprightly Prov. 2. 7. My son c. let thine heart keep my commandments Prov 3. 1. chap. 23. 26. Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life Prov. 4. 23. For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord and he pondereth all his goings Prov. 5. 21. He who walketh uprightly walketh surely c. Prov. 10. 9. The integrity of the upright shall guide them c. the righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way c. The rigteousness of the upright shall deliver him c. Such as are upright in the way are his delight Prov. 11. 3 5 6 20. He who walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord Prov. 14. 2. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good c. the prayers of the upright is his delight c. A man of understanding walketh uprightly Prov. 15. 3 8 21. All the ways of man are clean in his own eyes but the Lord weigheth the spirits Prov. 16. 2. The just man walketh in his integrity Prov. 20. 7. Every way of man is right in his own eyes but the Lord pondereth the hearts Prov. 21. 2. My son give me thine heart Prov. 23. 26. If thou sayest Behold we know it not doth not he who pondereth the heart consider Prov. 24. 12. A faithful man shall abound with blessings Prov. 28. 20. The way of the just is uprightness thou most upright dost weigh the path of the just Isa. 26. 7. Hezekiah c. Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart c. Isa. 38. 2. Hearken unto me c. the people in whose heart is my Law fear ye not Isa. 51. 7. Is it such a fast I have chosen c to bow down his head as a bull-rush c. Is not this the fast that I have chosen to loose the bands of wickedness Isa. 58. 5 6 7 8. From the Prophet to the Priest every one dealeth falsly for they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people lightly saying Peace c. Jer. 8. 20 11. O Lord of Hosts who judgest righteously who tryest the reins and the heart Jer. 11. 20. The heart is deceitful above all things and desparately wicked who can know it I the Lord search the heart and try the reins even to give every man according to his ways according to the fruit of his doings Jer. 17. 9 10. chap. 32. 19. Rom. 8. 27. 〈◊〉 God at hand c. not a God afar off Can any hide himself in secret plaâ—…â—…hat I shall not see him saith the Lord Do not I fill heaven and earth Jer. 23. 23 24. Heb. 4. 12. 13. Cursed be he who doth the work of the Lord deceitfully or negligently Jer. 48. 10. I know the things which come to your mind every one Ezek. 11. 5. Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the Kings meat c. Dan. 1. 8. Behâ—…ld his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him Habbak 2. 4. Ye brought that which was torn and the lame and the sick c. sacrificed to the Lord a corrupt thing c. Mal. 1. 13. 14. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart Matth. 5. 28. When thou dost alms let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth c. No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other ye cannot serve God and Mammon Matth. 6. 3 24. Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life c. Not every one who saith Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom c. Matth. 7. 13 14 21. Because they had not root they withered away Matth. 13. 5. 6. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man but that which cometh out c. those things which proceedeth out of the mouth cometh from the heart and they defile the man Matth. 15. 11. 18. Jesus said If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me Matth. 16. 24 25. The Lord said unto him who had improâ—… 〈◊〉 â—…ts Well done thou good and faithful servant thou hast been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a few things I will make thee ruler over many things enter thou â—…to the joy c. Matth. 25. 20. 21. Watch c. the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak Matth. 26. 41. Teaching them to observe all things which I have commanded you Matth. 28. 20. When Jesus had called the blind man he cast away his garment rose and came unto Jesus Mark 10. 50. Zacharias and Elizabeth walked in all the Ordinances and Commandments of the Lord blameless Luke 1. 5 6. Mary c. kept all these sayings in her heart Luke 2. 51. Simon James and John they forsook all and followed Christ c. Levi left all rose up and followed Christ when he had called him Luke 5. 10 11 27 28. Jesus said unto another Follow me but he said Lord suffer me first to go and bury my
purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Titus 2. 7 14. All things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do Heb. 4. 2. Let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works c. We desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end that ye be not slothsul but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises Heb. 6. 1 11 12. The wisdom which is from above is pure c. without partiality and without hypocrisie c. James 3. 17. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend unto the world is the enemy of God c. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you c. Purifie your hearts ye double-minded James 4. 4 8. Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying c. unto unfeigned love of the brethren See that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently 1 Pet. 1. 22. Wherefore laying aside c. all guile and hypocrisie c. Neither was guile found in Christs mouth 1 Pet. 2. 1 22. Whose adorning let it not be that outward c. but the hidden man of the heart 1 Pet. 3. 3 4. Give all diligence to add to your faith virtue c. wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall c. 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7 8 9 10. Seeing that ye look for such things c. be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot and blemish c. but grow in grace and in the knowledg of our Lord Jesus c. 2 Pet. 3. 14 18. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth 1 John 1. 6. Let us not love in word c. but in deed and in truth c. If our hearts condemn us God is greater c. 1 John 3. 18 19 20 21. I rejoyce greatly that I have found of thy children walking in truth 2 John verse 4. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth Beloved thou dost faithfully whatsoever thou dost to the brethren and to strangers 3 John verse 4 5. But ye beloved building up your selves in your most holy faith c. Jude verse 20. Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life Revel 2. 10. Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead be watchful and strengthen the things which remain I have not found thy work perfect before God c. Thou hast a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments c. I know thy work that thou art neither hot nor cold I would thou wert cold or hot so then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth Because thou sayest I am rich c. and knowest not that thou art wretched c. As many as I love I rebuke c. be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 1 2 4 15 16 17 19. These are they who were not defiled with Women for they are Virgins these are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Revel 14. 4. Let every man prove his own work c. for every man shall bear his own burthen c. Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap c. Gal. 6. 3 4 5 6 7. See the spirits and practises of Hypocrites and the danger of Hypocrites Chap. 28. To stick fast to God and not to depart from him abide in the faith and practice of what we know of his Will and persevere to the end The reasons That the Saints shall be kept To persevere and abide with God in the faith and practise c. That thou keep this Commandment without spot unrebukable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 6. 14. Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him Gen. 5. 23 24. Jesurun waxed fat and kicked then he forsook God who made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation c. of the Rock which begat thee thou art unmindful and hath forgotten God who formed thee and when the Lord saw it he abhorred them Deut. 32. 15 16 17 18 19. Cleave unto the Lord your God as ye have done unto this day Josh. 23. 8. Chuse you whom ye will serve c. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord Josh. 24. 15. Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face continually 1 Chron. 16. 11. Thou Solomon c. know thou the God of thy fathers c. If thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever 1 Chron. 28. 9. Hear ye me Asa and all Judah c. the Lord is with you while ye be with him and if ye seek him he will be found of you but if ye forsake him he will forsake you 2 Chron. 15. 2. The righteous also shall hold on his way Job 17. 9. I have kept the ways of the Lord I have not wickedly departed from my God c. I did not put away his Statutes from me Psalm 18. 21. 22. Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee Psalm 37. 34. All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee c. Our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy way though thou hast sore broken us c. If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to strange gods shall not God search this out Psal. 44. 17 18 19 20 21. He will speak peace to his people but let them not turn again to folly Psal. 85. 8. Then believed they his words they sang his praise they soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel c. they forgat God their Saviour who had done great things Psal. 106. 12 13 21. As for such who turn aside unto their crooked ways the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal. 125. 5. My son forget not my law Prov. 3. 1. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways Prov. 14. 14. My son give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my ways Prov. 23. 26. I have nourished and brought up children c. they have forsaken the Lordâ—… they have provoked the holy one of Israel unto anger they are gone away backward why should ye â—…e stricken any more ye will revolt more and more c. they who forsake the Lord shall be consumed Isa. 1. 2 4 5 28. There shall be desolation because thou hast forgotten the God of thy Salvation and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy
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 1 Thess. 4. 1. 〈◊〉 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 shipwrack 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. In the latter times some shall depart from the faith c. Some are already turned aside after Satan 1 Tim. 4. 1. ch 5. 15. 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. I have fought a good fight I have finished my 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. 2. 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 14. Seeing that we have a great High-priest c. Let us hold fast our profession For we have not an 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 ye be not slothful but followers of them who through faith 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 who promised c. For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledg 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 unto perdition Heb. 10. 23 26 27 35 36 37 38 39. Let us run with patience the race set before us looking unto Jesus c. lest ye be weary and faint in your minds c. Heb. 12. 1 2 3 15. Jesus Christ the same c. Be not carryed 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. 〈◊〉 To him who knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sâ—… 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. 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 son c. And now little children abide in him that when he shall appear c. 1 Joh. 2. 19 24 28. Look to your selves that ye lose not these things which we have wrought but that we c. 2 Joh. ver 8 9. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth 3 Joh. ver 4. Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto 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 ver 3 6 20 21. I know thy works c. thou hast laboured and hast not fainted c. To him who overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life c. he shall not be hurt by the second death c. I will give to eat of the hidden Manna and will give him a white stone c. Hold fast till I come and he who overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end to him will I give power over the nations Rev. 2. 3 7 10 11 17 25 26. He who overcometh shall be clothed with white raiment c. I will confess his name c. Hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy crown c. I will make him a pillar c. I will grant him to sit in my Throne c. Rev. 3. 5 11 12 21. He shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son Rev. 21. 7. He who is righteous let him be righteous still and he who is holy let him be holy still Rev. 22. 11. See holding â—…st to God in time of affliction c. Chap. 22. That the saints believers shall be kept Have power given them to persevere and abide in the faith c. Christ will uphold them 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 with his hand c. Psal. 37. 23 24. I will bring the blind by a way they know not I will lead them in paths they have not known I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight these things will I do unto them and not forsake them Isa. 42. 16. I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee Jer. 31. 3. I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn
ways by taking heed thereto according to thy word Psal. 119. 9. Set a watch O Lord before my mouth keep the dore of my lips Psal. 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. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Jer. 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. Matt. 16. 6. Jesus said Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall deceive many Matt. 24. 4 5. Watch and pray that ye enter not into tentations Matt. 26. 41. 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 Luk. 12. 15 36 37 38. Take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life c. watch ye therefore Luk. 21. 34 36. 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 takâ—… heâ—…d lest he fall 1 Cor. 10. 11 12. Watch ye stand ye fast c. 1 Cor. 16. 13. See that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise Ephes. 5. 15. 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 shall depart from the faith c. some are already turned aside c. have erred concerning the faith 1 Tim. 4. 1. ch 5. 15. ch 6. 10 21. 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 Heb. 3. 12 13. Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entring into rest any of you should seem to come short of it c. lest any man fall c. Heb. 4. 1 11. The end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer 1 Pet. 4. 7. Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the Devil like a roaring Lyon walketh about seeking whom he may devour 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. Seeing ye know before beware left ye also being led away with the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness 2 Pet. 3. 17. Look to your selves that we lose not those things which we have gained 2 John v. 8. Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain c. If thou shalt not watch c. Rev. 3. 2 3. Behold I come as a thief blessed is he who watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walketh naked and they see his shame Rev. 16. 15. See the Saints aptness to fall into sin Chap. 13. See the Devil and Deceivers ways to draw aside Chap. 30. CHAP. XVII Of the Duties of Saints Believers Brethren in the Lord each to other as such and as standing in that relation one to another 1st To love one another the kinds of it THou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self I am the Lord Levit. 19. 18. My goodness extends not unto thee but to the saints who are in the earth and to the excellent in whom is all my delight Psal. 16. 2 3. I am a companion of all them who fear thee c. Psal. 119. 63. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is then a stalled ox where hatred is Prov. 15. 17. Love is as strong as death c many waters cannot quench love Cant. 8. 6 7. Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self on these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets Matt. 22. 39 40. The love of many shall wax cold Matt. 24. 12. A new commandment I give unto you That ye love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye love one another John 13. 34 35. This is my commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you Joh. 15. 12 13 17. We being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another c. let love be without dissimulation c. be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love or in the love of the brethren Rom. 12. 5 9 10. 1 Cor. 12. 13 25 27. Owe no man any thing but to love one another for he who loveth another hath fulfilled the law c. it is briefly comprehended in this saying namely Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self Love worketh no ill to his neighbour Rom. 13. 8 9 10. Gal. 5. 13 14. Though I speak with the tongue of men or angels c. have the gift of prophesie c. have all faith c. bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth me nothing charity suffereth long c. charity never faileth c. 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13. Follow after charity 1 Cor. 14. 1. Let all your things be done with charity 1 Cor. 16. 14. There is neither Jew nor Greek c. for ye are all one in Christ Jesus Gal. 3. 28. The sruit of the spirit is love c. Gal. 5. 22. Walk in love as Christ also hath loved us c. Ephes. 5. 2. I pray that your love may abound more and more in knowledg c. Phil. 1. 9. Having the same love c. look not every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others Phil. 2. 2 4. We give thanks c. since we heard c. of the love which ye have unto all saints Col. 1. 3 4. Ephes. 1. 15. That their hearts might be comforted being knit together in love Col. 2. 1 2. Above all these things put on charity which is the bond of perfectness Col. 3. 14. The Lord make you to increase
God c. bowels of mercies c. meekness long-suffering forbearing one another and forgiving one another If any man have a complaint or quarrel against any even as Christ forgave you so also do ye Col. 3. 8 12 13. Let every man be c. slow to wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God James 1. 19 20. Speak not evil one of another brethren for he who speaketh evil of his brother speaketh evil of the Law c. Who art thou who judgest another James 4. 11 12. Above all things have fervent charity among your selves for Charity shall or will cover the multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. 5lthy To live peaceably among themselves avoid whispering tale-bearing and whatsoever tends to provoke divide or disturb the peace among them Abram said unto Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee c. for we be brethren c. 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 Prophet 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. 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. 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. 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 medled with Prov. 17. 9 14. The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds Prov. 18. 8. 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 Prov. 26. 20. 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 Matth. 5. 9. 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 lyeth 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 factions 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. Is it so that there is not a wise man among you no not one who shall be able to judg 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 devour 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. 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 Ephes. 4. 3 4 5 6 31. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory c. Phil. 2. 3. That ye study 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 〈◊〉 Tim. 5. 13. Doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railing c. 1 Tim. 6. 4 20. Follow peace with them who call on the Lord c. but foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender strifes 2 Tim. 2. 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. If ye have bitter envyings and strife in your 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 sown in peace of them who make peace James 3. 14 15 16 17 18. Whence comes wars and fightings among you come they not hence even of your lusts c 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 adoning 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 railings He who will love life and see good days c. let him seek peace and ensue it 1 Pet. 3. 3 4 9 10 11. 6thly 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 1st To rebuke c. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him or that thou bear not sin for him Lev. 19. 17. Debate 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 ear Prov. 25. 9 12. Open rebuke is better than secret
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 judg 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 meat 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. I will put upon you no other burden but that which ye have already hold fast till I come Rev. 2. 24 25. 10thly 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. If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethen 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. Job 31. 16 17 18 19 20. The righteous sheweth mercy and giveth c. He is ever merciful and lendeth Psal. â—…7 21 26. Blessed is he who considereth the poor or weak the Lord will deliver him Psal. 41. 1. A good man sheweth favour and lendeth c. He hath dispersed he hath given unto the poor c. Psal. 112. 5 9. Say not unto thy neighbour Go and come again and tomorrow I will give when thou hast it by thee Prov. 3. 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. Whoso 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. Eccles. 11. 1 2 3. Is not this the fast that I have chosen c Is it not to 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 shall 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. 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 Disciples 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 hospitality 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 ye 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 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 soweth 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 all 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. 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. 29. 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 12. 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. 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 Joh. 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 related one to another in the flesh 1st Husbands to Wives and Wives to Husbands Of Marriage c. AND the Lord said It is not good that the man should be alone I will make him a help meet for him c. Adam said This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh she shall be called Woman because she was taken out of man Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh Gen. 2. 18 23 24. Jacob loved Rachel more then Leah c. and when the Lord saw that Leah was hated he opened her womb but Rachel was barren Gen. 29. 30 31. And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children Rachel envied her sister and said unto Jacob Give me children or else I die And Jacobs anger was kindled against Rachel and he said Am I in Gods stead who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb Gen. 30. 1 2. Moses sanctified the people c. and he said unto them Be ready against the third day come not at your wives c. Exod. 19. 14 15. None of you shall approach unto any who is near of kin unto him or remainder of his flesh to uncover
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 knowledg 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 hindred 1 Pet. 3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. 2dly Parents to their Children and Children to their Parents Noah being uncovered within his tent Ham saw it and told his brethren without who took a garment and laid it on their shoulders and went backwards and covered the nakedness 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 kinred and take a wife to my son Isaac c. Gen. 24. 3 Isaac when he was old called his son Esau that he might bless him before he died Gen. 27. 1 2 3 4 5. 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. Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age 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. 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 on his neck a good while and Israel said unto Joseph Now let me die since I have seen thy face Gen. 46. 29 30. 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 mayst 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 slew all the first-born Exod. 13. 12 13 14 15. chap. 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. 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. Deut. 6. 6 7. chap. 11. 18 19. 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. 18 19 20 21. 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. 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 all 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 Solomons mother came to him he rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her c. caused a seat to be set for her on his right-hand 1 Kings 2. 19. 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. 7. 8 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. Psal. 128. 3. My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother Prov. 1. 8. A wise son maketh a glad father but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother Prov. 10. 1. A good man leaveth an inheritance to his childrens children c.
a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding great men are not wise neither do the aged understand judgment Job 32. 8 9. 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 him shall he teach in the way that he shall chuse c. the secret of the Lord is with them who fear him and he will shew them his covenant Psal. 25. 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. 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. 33 34. He sheweth his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgments unto Israel Psal. 147. 19. Wisdom cryeth c. how long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity c and fools hate knowledg turn you 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 cryest after knowledg c. then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledg of God For the Lord giveth wisdom out of his mouth cometh knowledg and understanding Prov. 2. 3 4 5 6. In all thy ways acknowledg 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 knowledg of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Isa. 11. 9. Heb. 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 knowledg 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 straight 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. 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 feet 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 21. 15. These are the words which I spake unto you while I was yet with you c. Then opened he their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures Luke 24. 44 45. That was the true light which lighteth every man who cometh into the world John 1. 9. As it is written in the prophets And they shall be all taught of God Every man therefore who hath heard and hath learned of the father cometh unto me John 6. 45. Isa. 54. 13. If any man will do his will he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God or whether I speak of my self John 7. 17. Then spake Jesus again unto them saying I am the light of the world he who followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life c. If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed and ye shall know the truth John 8. 12 32. Jesus said For Judgment I am come into the world that they who see not might see and that they who see might be made blind John 9. 39. I am come a light c. that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness John 12. 46. I have called you friends for all things which I have heard of my father I have made known unto you John 15. 15. This is life eternal that they may know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent c. I have manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world John 17. 2 3 6. God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts the light of the knowledg of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. But when it pleased God c. to reveal his son in me c. Gal. 1. 15 16. Having made known the mystery of his will unto us according unto his good pleasure c. making mention of you in my prayers That the God of our Lord Jesus c. may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledg of him the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that ye may know what is the hope of his calling c. Eph. 1. 9 16 17 18 19. ch 3. 18 19. If in any thing ye be otherwise minded God shall reveal even this unto you Phil. 3. 15. The mystery which hath been hid c. but now is made manifest to his Saints to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the
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 wrath 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. Rejoyce not against me O mine enemy when I fall I shall arise 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 ye 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 neither 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 fathers 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 shouldst 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 conquerours 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 36 37 38 39. Who art thou who judgest another mans 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. 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. 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. stablish 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. chap. 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 verse 24. 25. God in Christ doth command invite and encourage by promises to come to him for teachings spiritual life and strength to bring forth fruit ond persevere and to east 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
Creator 1 Pet. 4. 19. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God c. casting all your care upon him for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5. 6 7. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tryed in the fire that thou mayst be rich and white rayment that thou mayst be clothed c. and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve that thou mayst see c. Behold I stand at the dore and knock If any man hear my voice and open the dore I will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me Rev. 3. 18 20. I will give unto him who is a-thirst of the fountain of living-water freely Rev. 21. 6. Let him that is a-thirst come And whosoever will let him take of the water of life freely Rev. 22. 17. CHAP. XXI How doth God work and effect these things in the hearts and spirits of his Elect By his Spirit whom he promised to them JEsus c. having received of the father the promise of the Holy Ghost he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear Acts 2. 33. Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them Nehem. 9. 20. Renew a right or constant spirit within me c. take not thy holy spirit from me c. uphold me with thy free spirit Psal. 51. 10 11 12. He who is least in Zion and he who remaineth in Jesusalem shall be called holy c. when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughter of Zion c. by the spitit of judgment and by the spirit of burning Isa. 4. 3 4. I will pour my spirit upon thy seed c. and they shall spring up among the grass as willows by the water-side Isa. 44. 3 4. I will put a new spirit in you c. that they may walk in my statutes c. Ezek. 11. 19 20. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes c. Ezek. 36. 27. And ye shall know that I am the Lord when I have opened your graves c. and shall put my spirit in you Ezek. 37. 13 14. Neither will I hide my face any more from them for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel saith the Lord Ezek. 39. 29. 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 hand-maids in those days will I pour out my spirit Joel 2. 28 29. Acts 2. 16 17. 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 pierced c. Zeeh. 12. 10. 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. 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. Joh. 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 Joh. 7. 38 39. 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 Joh. 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. Joh. 15. 26. 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 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 receive of mine and shew it unto you Joh. 16. 7 8 12 13 14. They were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit by which Stephen spake Act. 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 v. 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. 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 withall 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 they 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. 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 Eph. 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. 12. 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. 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 Joh. 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 the Saints duty towards the spirit in following him and not sinning against him grieving him or quenching him 1st Of the spirit given to and in the Saints and others and what he did and doth These be they who separated themselves sensual having not the spirit Jude 8. 19. And Pharaoh said unto his servants Can we find such a one as this is a man in whom the spirit of God is Gen. 41. 38. I have called by name Basaleel c. and I have filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom and understanding and in knowledg and in all manner of workmanship to devise cunning work to work in gold and silver and in brass c. Exod. 31. 2 3 4. Gather unto me seventy of the Elders of Israel c. And I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee and will put it upon them and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee c. And the Lord came down c. and took of the spirit that was upon him and gave it unto the seventy Elders And it came to pass that when the spirit rested on them they prophesied and did not cease c. Would all the Lords people were prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them Numb 11. 16 17 25 26 29. My servant Caleb because he had another spirit with him and followed me fully him will I bring into the land Numb 14. 24. And Balaam lift up his eyes c. and the spirit of God came upon him and he blessed Israel instead of cursing them Numb 24. 1 2 3 10. Take thee Joshua the son of Nun a man in whom is the spirit and lay thine hand upon him Numb 27. 18. The spirit of the Lord upon Jepthah c. Judg. 11. 29. Sampson and the child grew and the Lord blessed him and the spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan Judg. 13. 24 25. And the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and he rent the Lyon as he would have rent a kid c. and the spirit of the Lord came upon him and he c. slew thirty of them c. Judg. 14. 6 19. The spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and the cords which were upon his arms became as flax Jug 15. 14. And the spirit of the Lord will come upon thee and thou shalt prophesie with them and shall be turned into another man c. And the spirit of God came upon him and he prophesied 1 Sam. 10. 6 9 10. Samuel anointed David and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward c. But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him 1 Sam. 16. 13 14. Yet many years didst thou forbear them and testified against them by thy spirit in thy prophets Neh. 9. 30. Zech. 7. 12. Truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord and of Judgment and of might to declare unto Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin Micah 3. 8. I indeed baptize you with water c. but he c. shall baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire c. Mat. 3. 11. Mark 1. 8. For it is not ye that speak but the spirit of your father who speaketh in you Mat. 10. 20. It is said of John he shall be filled with the holy Ghost even from his mothers womb c. The Angel said unto Mary The holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee c. Elizabeth was filled with the holy Ghost and she spake c. Zacharias was filled with the holy Ghost and prophesied saying c. Luk. 1. 13 15 35 41 47. The holy Ghost was upon Simeon And it was revealed unto him by the holy Ghost that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord Luk. 2. 25 26. If ye then being evil know how to give good things to your children how much more shall your heavenly father give his holy spirit to them who asketh him Luk. 11. 13. The kingdom of God cometh not with observation c. Behold the kingdom of God is among you or within you Luk. 17. 20 21. The comforter c. he will reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of judgment c. when the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth For he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will shew you things to come He shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shew it unto you John 16. 7 8 13 14. He breathed on them and saith unto them Receive ye the Holy-Ghost Joh. 20. 22. Wait for the promise of the father which ye have heard of me for John truly baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the Holy-Ghost not many days hence c. ye shall receive power after the Holy-Ghost is come upon you or the power of the holy Ghost cometh upon you Act. 1. 4 5 8. This was fulfilled And they were all filled with the Holy-Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance
who departeth from evil maketh himself a prey Isa. 59. 15. 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 brother to death and the father the child c. and ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake c. The desciple 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 his houshold c Think not that I am come to send peace on earth c. A mans enemies shall be they of his own houshold Matth. 10. 17 18 21 22 24 25 34 35 36. chap. 24. 9 10. 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. Wo to 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 names sake because they know not him who sent me John 15. 18 19 20 21. 1 John 3. 13. 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. The holy Ghost witnesseth in evety city saying That bonds and afflictions abide me Acts 20. 23. 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. 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 Thess. 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 Christs 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. Revel 3. 19. 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 1st From God more immediately Job greatly afflicted in his out-things and his body Job 1. 13 to the end Job 2. 5 6 7 8. O that my grief were thorowly 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 poyson whereof drinketh up my spirit the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me Job 6. 1 2 3 4. 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. I am desolate and afflicted the troubles of mine heart are enlarged c. Psal. 25. 16 17. Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones thou hast broken may rejoyce hide thy face from my sin Psal. 51. 8 9. Save me O God for the waters are come in unto my soul I sink in deep mire where is no standing I am come into deep waters or depth of waters where the floods over-flow me I am weary of my crying my throat is dry mine eyes fail while I wait for my God Psal. 69. 1 2 3. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord my sore ran in the night and ceased not my soul refused to be comforted I remember'd God and was troubled I complained and my spirit was overwhelmed Selah Thou holdest mine eyes waking I am so troubled that I cannot speak c. Will the Lord cast off for ever will he be favourable no more Is his mercy clean gone for ever doth his promise fail Psal. 77. 1 2 3 4 7 8. My soul is full of troubles c. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit in darkness in the depths thy wrath lyeth hard on me thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves c. I am afflicted and ready to die I suffer thy terrors I am distracted thy fierce wrath goeth over me thy terrors have cut me off Psal. 88. 3 6 7 9 14 15 16 17. Out of the depths have I cryed unto thee O Lord Psal. 130. 1. Jonah cast into the sea and in the belly of the fish Jonah 1. 15. chap. 2. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you c. We are chastened of the Lord
c. 1 Cor. 11. 30 31 32. We are troubled on every side without were fightings within were fears 2 Cor. 7. 5. Secondly From men by persecutions of various kinds Gal. 4. 20. 1st From men openly wicked Heathens Infidels Joseph because he refused to sin with Potiphars wife was by her means imprisoned in Egypt Gen. 39. 7 8 9 to the 21. When Israel began to increase in Egypt the king said Come let us deal wisely with them lest they multiply and it come to pass when there fall out any war c. Therefore did they set over them task-masters to afflict them with their burthens c. They made them serve with rigour and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage c. ordered the Midwives to kill the male-children Exod. 1. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16. Afterwards they laid the burthen heavier allowing them no straw and yet required the tale of brick Exod. 5. 6 7 8 9 11. Pharaoh pursued after Israel with a great army unto the red-sea Exod. 14. 7 8 9 10. The adversaries of Israel and Judah troubled them in their building and hired counsellors against them to frustrate their purpose c. Afterwards Rehum the Chancellor wrote to the king c. The Jews are building the rebellious and bad City c. If this City be builded and the walls set up again then will not they pay toll tribute c. and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings now because we have maintenance from the kings palace it was not meet for us to see the kings dishonour c. This City is a rebellious City and hurtful unto kings c. and that they have moved sedition within the same of old c. If this City be built c. by this means thou shalt have no portions on this side the river c. So they hasted to Jerusalem and by force stayed the work Ezra 4. 1 4 5 12 13 14 15 16 23 24. When Sanballat and others heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up c. they were very wroth and conspired all of them together to come to fight against Jerusalem and to hinder it c. Nehem. 4. 2 3 7 8. When Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence then was Haman full of wrath c. wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews c. said unto the king There is a certain people c. and their laws are divers from all people neither keep they the kings laws therefore it is not for the kings profit to suffer them Let it please the king that it may be written that they may be destroyed and I will pay c. The king grants his desire c. Esther 3. 5 6 8 9 10 11. Many say of my soul There is no help for him in his God Selah Psal. 3. 12. The wicked in pride doth persecute the poor Psal. 10. 2. All they who see me laugh me to scorn they shoot out the lip they shake the head saying He trusted in the Lord that he would deliver him let him deliver him seeing or if he delights in him Psal. 22. 7 8. They devise deceitful matters against them who are quiet in the land c. They have said Aha aha our eye hath seen c. so would we have it Psal. 35. 20 21 25. The wicked plotteth or practiseth against the just and gnasheth upon him with his teeth c. The wicked have drawn out their sword c. to cast down the poor and needy to slay such as be of upright conversation Psal. 37. 12 14. They also who seek after my life lay snares and they who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all the day long c. when my foot slippeth they magnifie themselves against me c. They also who render evil for good are my adversaries because I follow that which is good Psal. 38. 12 16 19 20. For thy sake are we killed all the day long we are counted as sheep for the slaughter Psal. 44. 22. Have the workers of iniquity no knowledg who eat up my people as they eat bread Psal. 53. 4. Man would swallow me up he fighting daily oppresseth me my enemies would daily swallow me up for they be many who fight against 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. 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. 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. 38. 2 3 4 5. 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 Psal. 94. 3 4 5 20 21. We are exceedingly filled with contempt our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those who are at ease with the contempt of the proud Psal. 123. 3 4. 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 over the affairs of the provinces c. These men O King have not regarded thee they serve not thy gods nor worship golden-images c. and they cast them into the fiery-furnace Dan. 3. 9 12 20 21. 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 6 7 8 9 to the 17. 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 Matth. 14. 3 4 9 10. 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 10 11 12 13. 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 them to the Magistrates 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 20 21 22 23 24. 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 certain man c. who made silver shrines for Diana c. complained against Paul made a great uproar laid hold of Pauls companions Acts 19. 23 24 25 26 27 28 29. 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 reproaches 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. 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. chap. 4. 4. Marvel not my brethren if the world hate you 1 John 3. 13. 〈◊〉 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. 2dly 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 Joh. 3. 12. Josephs brethren hate him and could not speak peaceably unto him c. they conspired against him to slay him c. they cast him into a pit c. they sell him to the Ishmaelites c. Gen. 37. 4 11 11 18 20 24 27 28. 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. Absalom conspired against his father David 2 Sam. 15. Shimei cursed David when he fled from Absalom 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. Jeremy saith O Lord c. revenge me of my persecutors c. for thy sake I have suffered rebuke Jer. 15. 15. Matth. 5. 12. They hate him who rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him who speaketh uprightly c. they afflict the just Amos 5. 10 12. 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 c. Math. 11. 18 19. Behold I send unto you Prophets and wise men and Scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucifie and some of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues and persecute them from City to City Math. 23. 34. Some said Christ was a good man others said no but he deceiveth the people howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews Joh. 7. 12 13. The Jews had agreed already that if any man did confess that he was Christ he should be put out of the Synagogue c. They reviled the man who owned Christ to them they say Thou wast altogether born in sins and dost thou teach us and they cast him out or excommunicated him John 9. 22 28 33 34. The chief Priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away and believed on Jesus Joh. 12. 10 11. When Peter had spake unto the people the Priests and the rulers of the temple came upon them being grieved that they taught the people and preached c. the resurrection c. And they laid hands on them and put them in hold c. that it spread no further among the people let us straitly threaten them c. So when they had further threatned them c. Act. 4. 1 2 3 17 21. The high Priest rose up and all who were with him c. and were filled with indignation or envy and laid their hands on the Apostles and put them into the common Prison c. when the Apostles had spoke to them they were cut to the heart and they took counsel to slay them Acts 5. 16 17 18 33. They suborn witnesses against Stephen and said We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God c. That Jesus shall destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered us Act. 6. 10 11 12 13 14. They run upon Stephen with one accord and cast him out of the City and stoned him Act. 7. 57 58. There was a great persecution against the Church at Jerusalem and they were all scattered abroad c. Saul made havock of the Church entering into every house and haling men and women committing them to prison Act. 8. 1 3 ch 26. 10 11. Saul breathed out threatning and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord Went unto the high Priest and desired of him letters c. that if he found any of this way whether they were men or women he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem c. When he was converted the Jews took counsel to kill him c. and they watched the gates day and night to kill him Act. 9. 1 2 22 23 24. Gal. 1. 13 14. 1 Tim. 1. 13. Herod having killed James and because he saw it pleased the Jews be proceeded Act. 12. 2 3. When the Jews saw the multitude they were filled with envy and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming c. But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women and the chief men of the City and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their coasts Act. 13. 45 50. In Iconium they went both together into the Synagogue to
speak c. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds evil affected against the brethren c. and they fled unto Lystra c. And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch c. who perswaded the people and having stoned Paul drew him out of the city supposing he had been dead Act. 14. 1 2 6 19. When Paul had reasoned with them of Thessalonica that Christ had suffered c. the Jews who believed not moved with envy took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company and set all the city in an uproar and assaulted the house of Jason c. they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city crying These who have turned the world upside down are come hither also whom Jason hath received and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar saying That there is another King one Jesus c. When the Jews c. had knowledg that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea they came thither also and stirred up the people Act. 17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13. After Paul had preached at Corinth c. the Jews made an insurrection with one accord against Paul and brought him to the Judgment-seat saying This fellow perswadeth men to worship God contrary to the law Act. 18. 11 12 13. The Jews when they saw Paul in the Temple stirred up all the people and laid hands on him crying out Men of Israel help this is the man who teacheth all men every where against the people and the law and this place c. and hath polluted this holy place c. They took him and drew him out of the temple c. went about to kill him Act. 21. 27 28 29 30 31. They cryed out against Paul and said Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit he should live c. After they bind themselves under a curse to kill him Act. 22. 22 23. ch 23. 12. The high Priest and elders by Tertullus the orator said of Paul before the Governour We have found this man a pestilent fellow a mover of fedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarens who also have gone about to profane the temple c. Paul said Neither can they prove the things whereof they accuse me c. I confess after the way they call heresie so worship I c. Act. 24. 1 2 5 6 13 14. The high priest and chief of the Jews informed Festus against Paul and besought him c. that he would send him to Jerusalen laying wait in the way to kill him c. They laid many and grievous complaints against him which they could not prove Act. 25. 2 3 7. As concerning this sect we know that it is every where spoken against Act. 28. 22. Ye also have suffered like things of your own country-men even as they have of the Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets and have persecuted us c. forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles 1 Thess. 2. 14 15 16. Alexander the copper-smith did me much evil c. of whom be thou also aware for he hath greatly withstood our words 2 Tim. 4. 14 15. Secondly For what ends doth God chastise his children and suffer them to be persecuted 1st To exercise and try their faith and obedience The Lord thy God led thee these forty years to humble thee and to prove thee to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no Deut. 8. 2 16. I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died that through them I may prove Israel whether they will keep the way of the Lord c. or not Judg. 2. 21 22 23. ch 3. 4. And the Lord said unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant Job c still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movest me against him to destroy him without cause Job 2. 3. What is man c. that thou shouldst visit him every morning and try him every moment Job 7. 17 18. Thou O Lord hast proved us thou hast tried us as silver is tried thou broughtest us into the net thou laidst afflictions upon our loins Psal. 66. 10 11 12. Some of them of understanding shall fall to try them c. Daniel 11. 35. I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver is refined and will try them as gold is tried Zech. 13. 9. Others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings c. Heb. 11. 36 37. Count it all joy when ye fall into divers tentations knowing that the trying of you faith worketh patience c. Blessed is the man who endureth temptations for when he is tryed he shall receive c. James 1. 2 3 12. Though now for a season if need be ye are in heaviness that the trial of your faith being much more precious c. 1 Pet. 1. 6 7. Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you But rejoyce in as much as ye are partakers of Christs suffering c. 1 Pet. 4. 12 13. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried Rev. 2. 10. I will keep thee from the hour of tentation which shall come upon all the world to try them who dwell upon the earth Rev. 3. 20. 2dly To humble and purge them The Lord thy God led thee forty years in the wilderness to humble thee c. Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna c. that he might humble thee c. Deut. 8. 2 16. So Manasseh made Judah c. to err to do worse than the heathen Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captain of the host of the king of Assyria who took Manasseh c. bound him with fetters and carried him to Babylon And when he was afflicted he besought the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers c. And God brought him again into his kingdom c. He then took away the strange gods c. 2 Chron. 33. 9 10 11 12 13 15 16. Job complains of his afflictions then saith What is man that thou shouldst magnifie him c I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Job 7. 16 17 18 19 20. Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble for thou writest bitter things against me Job 13. 25. If they be c. holden in cords of afflictions then he sheweth them their work and their transgressions that they have exceeded Job 36. 8 9. Behold I am vile What shall I answer thee I will lay my hand upon my mouth once have I spoken but
c. but I will proceed no farther Job 40. 4 5. I have heard of thee c. but now mine eyes see thee wherefore I abhor my self c. Job 42. 5 6. Hath he smitten bim c By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin Isa. 27. 7 8 9. My fury and mine anger was poured out c. They are not humbled unto this day neither have they feared nor walked in my law Jer. 44. 6 10. I will cause you to pass under the rod c. and you shall remember your wayes c. and ye shall loath your selves in your own sight Ezek. 40. 37 38 43. Some of them of understanding shall fall c. to purge and to make them white Dan. 11. 35. I will bring the third part through the fire and will refine them as silver Zech. 13. 9. Lest I should be exalted above measure c. there was given to me a thorn in the flesh a messenger of Satan to buffet me 2 Cor. 12. 7. 3dly To make them to remember God and things above look to own them and close with them Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed and Jacob said O God of my father Abraham c. the Lord who saidst unto me Return c. Gen. 32. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. He suffered thee to hunger c. that thou mayst know that man lives not by bread alone but c. Deut. 8. 3. When Manasseh was in affliction he besought the Lord his God c. then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God 2 Chron. 33. 12 13. God hath overthrown me and hath encompassed me with his net c. for I know my redeemer liveth and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth c. in my flesh shall I see God Job 19. 6 25 26 27. When my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher than I for thou hast been a shelter Psal. 61. 2 3. When he slew them then they sought him and they returned and enquired early after God and they remembred that God was their rock c. Psal. 78. 34 35. 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. 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. Wherefore doth a living man complain c let us search and try our ways and turn again unto the Lord Lam. 3. 39 40. I will cause you to pass under the rod c. and ye shall know that I am the Lord Ezek. 20. 37 38. Behold I will hedg 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. chap. 5. 15. We had the sentence of death 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 c. 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. 4thly For Gods own glory and the furtherance of the Gospel I will harden Pharoahs heart that he shall follow after them and I will be honoured upon Pharoah 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 Psal. 76. 10. The three childrens sufferings made persecutors acknowledg and give honour to God Dan. 3. 27 28 29. So Daniels sufferings made Darius the king who had caused him to be cast into the lions den to acknowledg and honour God Dan. 6. 20 26 27. Master Who did sin 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 Phil. 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. 5thly For the effecting of great good and advantage to those who are exercised with trouble c. Josephs afflictions and sufferings his being sold by his brethren and after 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 fathers sorrow also recompensed in that Joseph provided for
fruit c. Isa. 10 5 6 7 12. Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark and they say Who seeth us c Surely your turning of things up-side down shall be esteemed as the potters Clay Isa. 29. 15 16. Senacherib comes against Jerusalem and by Rabshakeh proclaims his proud design but God wonderfully disappointed him Isa. 36. ch 37. Behold they shall surely gather together but not by me whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake c. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper Isa. 54. 15 17. When the enemy shall come in like a floud the spirit of the Lord shall set up a standard against him or put him to flight Isa. 59. 19. I am with thee c. they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee for I am with thee faith the Lord to deliver thee Jer. 1. 17 18 19. ch 15. 20. 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 c. I will even gather you from the people c. Ezek. 11. 16. All that the envious presidents and princes could do and devise against Daniel could not out him but he prospered in the reign of Darius and of Cyrus and so the three Children Dan. 6. Dan. 3. They know not the thoughts of the Lord for he shall gather them as the sheaves in the floor Micah 4. 11 12 13. Herod designs the killing of the Child Jesus he sends to enquire after him gives order for the slaying of all the children of that age yet God suffered him not to effect his design Matth. 2. 1 2 3 to the 16. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your father But the very hairs of your head are all numbred fear ye not therefore ye are of more value than many sparrows Mat. 10. 29 30 31. There came certain of the Pharisees saying unto him Get thee out and depart hence for Herod will kill thee And he said unto them Go ye tell that fox Behold I cast out devils and I do cures to day to morrow and the third day I shall be perfected Nevertheless I must walk to day and to morrow and the day following c. Luke 13. 31 32 33. You shall be hated of all men for my names sake but there shall not a hair of your head perish In your patience possess ye your souls Luke 21. 17 18 19. Then said Pilate c. Knowest thou not that I have power to crucifie thee and have power to release thee Jesus answered Thou couldest have no power at all against me except it were given thee from above Joh. 19. 10 11 Against thy holy Child Jesus c. to do what thy hand and counsel determined before to be done Act. 4. 27 28. They took counsel to slay the Apostles but Gamaliel said Refrain from these men and let them alone 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 lest haply ye be found fighting against God Acts 5. 33 34 35 38 39 40. When Saul was going in his fury to persecute God meets with him and stays the persecution Acts 9. 1 2 3 c. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world Act. 15. 18. Speak hold not thy peace for I am with thee and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee for I have much people in this city Act. 18. 9 10. Many had conspired and bound themselves with an oath to kill Paul ere they did eat yet God disappointed them Act. 23. 12 13 thence to the end God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able 1 Cor. 10. 13. 4thly That God orders and determines of the measure manner time and continuance of afflictions and persecutions and that according to our need God said unto Abraham Know assuredly that thy feed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years c. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again Gen. 15. 13 14 15 16. And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years the self-same day it came to pass that all the host of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt Exod. 12. 40 41 51. God led Israel through the wilderness that they should not see war and be discouraged Exod. 13. 17. Their heart was not right with him c. but he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not yea many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath For he remembred that they were but flesh a wind which passeth away and cometh not again Psal. 78. 37 38 39. I know O Lord that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me Psal. 119. 75. It shall come to pass when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Sion and upon Jerusalem I will punish the fruit of the stout-heart c. O my people be not afraid of the Assyrian he shall smite thee with a rod c. For yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease c. Isa. 10. 12 24 25. In measure when it shooteth forth thou wilt debate with it he stayeth his rough wind in the day of his east wind Isa. 27. 7 8. Thus saith the Lord That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and perform my good toward you in causing you to return c. Jer. 29. 10. Ezra 1. 1 2 3. I will not make a full end of thee but I will correct thee in measure and will not c. Jer. 30. 11. ch 46. 28. He doth not afflict willingly or from his heart nor grieve the children of men Lam. 3. 33. Against thy holy Child Jesus c. To do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Act. 4. 27 28. 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 1 Cor. 10. 13. He was sick nigh unto death but God had mercy on him c. but on me also left I should have sorrow upon sorrow Phil. 2. 27. Ye greatly rejoyce though now for a season if need be ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations 1 Pet. 1. 6. The God of all grace c. after that ye have suffered a while make you perfect 1 Pet. 5. 10. Behold the Devil shall cast some of you into prison c. and ye shall have tribulation ten days Be thou faithful unto death and I will give c. Rev.
shall receive the crown of life James 1. 3 12. We have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord James 5. 11. Rejoyce inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christs sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed ye may be glad also with exceeding joy 1 Pet. 4. 13. These are they who came out of great tribulations c. therefore are they before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple and he who sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them c. shall feed them c. and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes Rev. 7. 13 14 15 16 17. See some of the ends of Gods afflicting his Chap. 22. 10thly That God will not always chide nor suffer his to be under afflictions and persecutions they shall have an end he will bring deliverance and restore joy After Israel had been long and sorely oppressed and afflicted by the Egyptians the Lord sent Moses for their deliverance and said I have surely seen the afflictions of my people which are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters c. and I am come-down to deliver them out of their hand c. and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land Exod. 3. 7 8 9 10. chap. 6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Yet for all that when they be in the land of their enemies I will not cast them away neither will I abhor them to destroy them utterly c. but I will for their sakes remember the covenant c. I am the Lord Levit. 26. 43 44 45. For the Lord will judge his people and repent him for his servants when he sees that their power is gone c. he will be merciful to his land c. Deut. 32. 36 43. He maketh sore and bindeth up he woundeth and his hands make whole Job 5. 18. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job c. also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before Job 42. 10. The needy shall not always be forgotten the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever Psal. 9. 18. Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble c. to judg the fatherless and the oppressed that the man of the earth may no more oppress or terrifie Psal. 10. 17 18. For the oppression of the poor for the sighing of the needy now will I arise saith the Lord I will set him in safety from him who would ensnare him or puffeth at them Psal. 12. 5. Sing unto the Lord O ye Saints of his c. for his anger endureth but a moment c. weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning Psal. 30. 4 5. The righteous cry and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles c. many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all Psal. 34. 17 19. I waited patiently for the Lord c. he brought me up also out of an horrible pit out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock c. Psal. 40. 1 2. Call upon me in the time of trouble I will deliver thee and thou c. Psal. 50. 15. Thou who hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me again and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth thou shalt increase my greatness and comfort me on every side Psal. 71. 20 21. I will hear what God the Lord will speak for he will speak peace to his people but let them not turn again to folly Psal. 85. 8. The Lord is merciful and gracious c. he will not always chide neither will he keep his anger for ever Psal. 103. 8 9 13 14. The rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity Psal. 125. 2 3. They who sow in tears shall reap in joy he who goeth forth and weepeth c. shall doubtless come again with rejoycing c. Psal. 126. 5 6. The Lord will judg his people and he will repent himself concerning his servant Psal. 135. 14. For yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease and mine anger in their destruction Isa. 10. 25. Though thou wast angry with me thine anger is turned away and thou comfortedst me Isa. 12. 1. The Lord will have mercy on Jacob and will yet chuse Israel and set them in their own land c. and they shall rule over their oppressors c. the Lord will give thee rest from thy sorrow and from thy fear and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve Isa. 14. 1 2 3. God hath comforted his people and will have mercy upon his afflicted Isa. 49. 13. The redeemed of the Lord shall return and come with singing unto Zion c. they shall obtain gladness and joy Sorrow and mourning shall flee away I I am he who comforteth you c. hear now this thou afflicted c. I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling c. thou shalt no more drink it again Isa. 51. 11 12 21 22. For a small moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercy will I gather thee in a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee c. Isa. 54. 7 8. I will not contend for ever neither will I be always wroth for the spirit should fail before me and the fouls I have made For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him I hid me c. and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart I have seen his ways I will heal him I will lead him also and restore comforts unto him and c. Isa. 57. 15 16 17 18. In my wroth I smote thee but in my favour have I had mercy on thee Isa. 60. 10. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me c. to bind up the broken hearted c. to comfort all who mourn to appoint unto them who mourn in Zion to give unto them beauty for ashes and the oyl of joy for mourning c. Isa. 61. 1 2 3. I know the thoughts that I think towards you saith the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end Jer. 29. 10 11. I will heal thee of thy wounds saith the Lord because they called thee an outcast saying This is Zion whom no man seeketh after Jerem. 30. 17. He who scattereth Israel will gather him c. I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoyce from their sorrow c. Is Ephraim my dear son c I will surely have mercy on him saith the Lord c. As I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down c. so will I watch over them to build and to plant saith the
Lord Jer. 31. 10 13 20 28. For the Lord will not cast off for ever but though he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies for he doth not afflict willingly Lam. 3. 31 32. Therefore thus saith the Lord God Now will I bring again the Captivity of Jacob and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel and will be jealous for mine holy name after that they have born their shame c. Ezek. 39. 25 26. Come let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will bind us up c. Hos. 6. 1. Rejoyce not against me O mine enemy though I fall I shall arise c. I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him until he plead my cause c. he will bring me forth to the light and I shall behold his righteousness c. Who is a God like 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 Mic. 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 weep 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 Joh. 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 Jeus 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. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations 2 Pet. 2. 9. 11thly That afflictions and persecutions 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 disciple 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 Joh. 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 Corinth 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 Brethren 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 follow his steps 1 Pet. 2. 21. Your adversary the Devil as a roaring Lion c. whom resist stedfast in the faith 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 judg 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. Fourthly What are the Duties of the Saints and how they ought to behave themselves under their afflictions and sufferings both towards God and men 1st Towards God 1st 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. I will harden Pharoahs heart that he shall follow after them c. Exod. 14. 4. 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. See now that I even I am he c. I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any who can deliver out of my hand Deut. 32. 39. 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 1. 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 sore and bindeth up he woundeth c. Job 5. 6 17 18. chap. 9. 12. I will say unto God c. wherefore contendest thou with me Job 10. 2. chap. 30. 11. God hath overthrown me c. he hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass c. Job 19. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. When he giveth quietness who then can make trouble and when he hideth his face who then can behold him Job 34. 29. 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 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. I make peace I create evil I the Lord do all these things Isa. 45. 7. I was wrath with my people I have c. given them into thine hand Isa. 47. 6. The Lords voice crieth unto the city c. Hear ye the rod and who hath appointed it Micah 6. 9. When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord 1 Cor. 11. 32. Moses endured as seeing him who is invisible Heb. 17. 29. Whom the Lord loves he chasteneth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth Heb. 12. 6 7. See more of common calamities Chap. 23. 2dly To submit to God with an humble quiet and silent spirit under troubles When God had slain Nadab and Abihu Aarons 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. Do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee deliver us only we pray thee this day Judg. 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 17 18. David said Carry back the Ark of God into the city if 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 of the Lord which thou hast spoken c. 2 Kings 20. 16 17 18 19. When Job had received all the sad messages of his losses he worshipped And said Naked came I out of my mothers 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 receive evil in all this did not Job sin Job 2. 9 10. How much less shall I answer him and chuse out my words to reason with him whom though I were righteous would I not answer c Job 9. 13. 14 15. Shall any teach God knowledg 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 speeketh 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 no 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. 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. 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. Cannot I do with you as this potter saith the Lord Behold as the clay is in the potters 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 11 12 13 14 15 16. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth he sitteth alone and keepeth silence because c. 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. None of these things move me neither is my life dear unto me so that c. Act. 20. 24. Tribulation worketh patience and patience experience c. Rom. 5. 4 5. Patient 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 reproaches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christs 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. We our selves glory in you c. for your faith and patience in all your persecutions 2 Thess. 1. 4. 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 Heb. 12. 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. Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time 1 Pet. 5. 6. 3dly To confess their sins and justifie God 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. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right but we have done wickedly c. Neh. 9. 33 34 c. 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 contend 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. He looketh 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 too wonderful for me which I knew not c. I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes Job 42. 3 5 6. He hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us according to our iniquities Psal. 103. 10. The church in her affliction confesseth her sin Isaiah 59. 11 12 13 14 15. 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 acknowledg thine iniquity c. Jer. 3. 12 13. Daniel confesseth to God at large in the time of the captivity Dan. 9. 5 to the 16. Zion spreadeth forth her hands c. The Lord is righteous for I have rebelled Lam. 1 18 20. It is the Lords mercy we are not consumed c. wherefore doth the living man complain c Let us search and try our ways and turn again Lam. 3. 22 39 40. 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 acknowledg their offence and seek my face in their afflictions they will seek me early Hosea 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. Luk 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. 4thly To hold fast to God own the Lord Jesus his people and ways in the midst of trouble afflictions and persecutions Job his 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 dragons 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. 51 157 161. 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 Sanctifie the Lord of host himself and let him be your fear and your dread and he shall be for a sanctuary Isa. 28. 11 12 13 14. When Jeremy 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 dye for he hath prophesied against this city c. Then spake Jeremy 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 12 13 14 15. Daniel when a captive in Babylon he purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the kings meat nor with the wine which he drank and therefore he requested c. that he might not defile himself c. desired pulse to eat and water to drink Dan. 1. 8 9 10 11 12 13. When a strict law had been made by the king that every one should fall down and worship the golden Image he had set up under pain of being cast into the fiery furnace Shadrach Meshach and Abednego 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 toward 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 names 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 Mat. 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 Mat. 13. 20 21. When Christ was taken his disciples fled Peter denied him but afterwards wept bitterly for his so doing Mat. 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. These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended Joh. 16. 1. Gal. 5. 11. ch 6. 12. 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 judg ye For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard Act. 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 Act. 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. Act. 20. 23 24. I am ready not only to be bound but also to die c. for the name of the Lord Jesus Act. 21. 13. Paul before Felix said After the way they call heresie so worship I the God of my fathers Act. 24. 14. Many of the brethren in 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 Phil. 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. If we suffer c. if we deny him he also will deny us 2 Tim. 2. 12. Nor faint when thou are 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. Thou shalt suffer c. be thou faithful unto the death and I will give thee a crown of life Rev. 2. 10. See more of perseverance Chap. 16. 5thly To be chearful under affliction and rejoyce to be counted worthy to suffer for Christ. 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 Hab. 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 Math. 5. 11 12. In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good chear I have overcome the world Joh. 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 Act. 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 Act. 6. 24 25. Bonds and afflictions abide me but none of these things move me Act. 20. 23 24. What mean we to weep c. I am ready not to be bound only but also to die Act. 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 Christs sake 2 Cor. 12. 9 10. I Paul am made a minister who now rejoyce in my sufferings for you Col. 1. 23 24. Thou therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of â—â—rist 2 Tim. 2. 3. For ye c. took joyfully the spoyling 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 in 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 tryed he shall receive the crown James 1. 1 2 12. Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery tryal which is to try you c. but rejoyce inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christs sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed ye may be glad also If any suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God in this behalf for the time is come when judgment c. 1. Peter 4. 12. 13. 16. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach Heb. 13. 13. 6thly To cry to the Lord for help support and salvation Jacob in his distress when Esau pursued him prayed earnestly Gen. 32. 8 9 24. Jacob in his great distress when Joseph had kept Simeon and required Benjamin also said God almighty give you mercy before the man that he may send away your other brother and Benjamin If I be bereaved c. Gen. 43. 14. The children of Israel lifted up their eyes and behold the Egyptians marched after them and they were sore afraid and the children of Israel cryed out unto the Lord Exod. 14. 10. When all the waters were bitter that the people could not drink Moses cryed unto the Lord Exod. 15. 23 24 25. Moses cryed unto the Lord saying What shall I do unto this people they be almost ready to stone me c. So when Amalek fought with Israel Moses held up his hand and then Israel prevailed c. Exod. 17. 1 2 3 4 11 12. The Lord shall scatter you among the nations c. But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God thou shalt find him if thou seek him with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 4. 27 29. When Israel were delivered into the hand of their enemies they cryed unto the Lord and the Lord raised up a deliverer Judg. 3. 8 9. Hannah was in bitterness of soul and prayed unto the Lord and wept sore 1 Sam. 1. 10 11 12 13. David in his distress prayed the Lord to turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishnâ—… 2 Sam. 15. 31. ch 12. 22. In my distress I called upon the Lord and cryed to my God and he did hear my voice out of his temple 2 Sam. 22. 7. When Jerusalem was in distress by reason of the Assyrians and Rabshakehs railing and threatning Hezekiah spread the letter before the Lord and prayed before the Lord and said O Lord God c. 2 Kings 19. 14 15 16 c. Hezekiah was sick unto death c. he turned his face
in the heavens Lam. 3. 39 40 41 42. Set a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof Ezek. 9. 4. I sought for a man among them who should make up the hedg and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none Ezek. 22. 30 Daniel in the captivity confesseth and prayeth Dan. 9. 3 4 c. God calls upon Israel to sanctifie a fast and to cry unto the Lord Joel 1. 13 14. Zeph. 2. 1 2 3. Turn to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning and rent your heart and not your garments and turn unto the Lord c. Who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him c Blow the trumpet in Zion sanctifie a fast Joel 2. 12 13 14 15 16 17. Because I will do this prepare to meet thy God O Israel Amos 4. 11 12. The prudent shall keep silent in that time for it is an evil time Amos 5. 13 c. Wo to them who are at ease in Zion c. but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph Amos 6. 1 3 6. The people of Nineveh upon a threatning fast pray and return from their evil Jonah 3. 5 6 c. Though there be no ox in the stall c. yet I will rejoyce in the Lord I will joy in the God c. Hab. 3. 17 18 19. Is this a time for you to dwell in your cieled houses and this house lie waste Haggai 1. 4 5. When ye fasted and mourned did ye at all fast unto me c Execute true judgment c. Zech. 7. 5 9 10. Jesus said unto them Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans because they suffered such things I tell you nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloe fell and slew them think ye that they were sinners above all men who dwelt in Jerusalem I tell you nay but except ye repent c. Luk. 13. 1 2 3 4 5. CHAP. XXIV Of Magistrates and Magistracy First That Magistracy is an Ordinance of God That by him are Magistrates advanced to Offices c. The Titles given them THE kingdom is the Lords and he is the governour among the nations Psal. 22. 28. Dan. 4. 17. Against all the gods or Princes of Egypt I will execute judgment c. Exod. 12. 12. And the Lord said to Moses Gather unto me seventy of the Elders of Israel c. and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee and will put it upon them and they shall bear the burthen of the people with thee c. Numb 11. 16 17 25. Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee throughout all thy tribes and they shall judg the people Deut. 16. 18. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust lifteth the beggar from the dunghil to sit among Princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory 1 Sam. 2. 8. When the people asked a king the Lord said to Samuel c. For they have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them 1 Sam. 8. 5 6 7. The Kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins also they have dominion over our bodies c. our cattel c. Nehem. 9. 37. Promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west c. but God is the judg he putteth down one and setteth up another Psal. 75. 5 6 7. God c. judgeth among the gods c. I have said Ye are gods c. Psal. 82. 1 6. By me kings reign and princes decree justice by me princes rule and nobles even all the judges of the earth Prov. 8. 15 16. For the transgression of a land many are the Princes thereof Prov. 28. 2. And that day shall the Lord of Hosts be c. for a spirit of judgment unto him who sitteth in judgment Isa. 28. 5 6. I have made the earth c. and have given it unto whom it seemeth meet unto me And now have I given c. to Nebuchadnezzar Jer. 27. 5 6 7. Blessed be the name of God c. he changeth the times and seasons he removeth kings and setteth up kings c. he is a God of gods and Lord of kings Dan. 2. 20 21 47. To the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth up over it the basest of men c. And they shall drive thee from men c. until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whom he will Dan. 4. 17 32. O thou king the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom and majesty and glory and honour and for the majesty he gave him all c. trembled c. Dan. 5. 18 19. There is no power but of God the powers which be are ordained or ordered of God whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God Rulers are not a terror c. for he is the minister of God to thee for good Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4. 2dly What they are in the sight of God and considered as men Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment I am the Lord Exod. 12. 12. He leadeth away counsellors spoiled and maketh the Judges fools he looseth the bonds of kings and girdeth their loins with a girdle he leadeth Princes away spoiled and overthroweth the mighty c. he poureth contempt upon Princes and weakneth the strength c. Job 12. 17 18 19 20 21. Accepteth not the person of Princes nor regardeth the rich c. for they all are the work of his hands in a moment shall they dye Job 34. 18 19 20. Be wise now therefore O ye kings be instructed ye Judges of the eath serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling kiss the son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled Psal. 2. 2 10 11 12. I have said Ye are gods c. but ye shall dye like men and fall like one of the Princes Psal. 82. 6 7. The kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water he turneth it whither he will Prov. 21. 1. If thou seest the oppression of the poor and violent perverting of judgment and justice c. he who is higher than the highest regardeth and there is a higher than they Eccles. 5. 8. Ye scornful men who rule this people c. because ye have said We have made a covenant with death c. thus saith the Lord c. Your covenant with death shall be disanulled c. when the overflowing scourge shall pass thorow then ye shall
persons of the wicked Selah Defend the poor and fatherless do justice to the afflicted and needy deliver the poor and needy rid them out of the hands of the wicked Psal. 82. 1 2 3 4. David said I will not know a wicked person whoso privily slandereth his neighbour him will I cut off him who hath a high look and a proud heart him will I not suffer mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me he who walketh in a perfect way shall serve me c. I will early destroy all the wicked of the land c. Psal. 101. 3 4 5 6 7 8. It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness for the throne is established by righteousness righteous lips are the delight of kings and they love him who speaketh right Prov. 16. 12 13. It is not good to accept the person of the wicked to overthrow the righteous in judgment Prov. 18. 5. A king who sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes c. A wise king scattereth the wicked and bringeth the wheel over them c. Mercy and truth preserve the king and his throne is upholden by mercy Prov. 20. 8 26 28. To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice Prov. 21. 3. Take away the wicked from before the king and his throne shall be established in righteousness Prov. 25. 5. As a roaring lion c. so is a wicked ruler over the poor people a Prince who wanteth 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. The king who faithfully judgeth the poor his throne shall be established for ever c. Many seek the rulers favour but every mans judgment is from the Lord Prov. 29. 2 3 14 26. It is not for kings to drink wine nor for Princes strong drink lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted Prov. 31. 4 5. Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king who will no more be admonished Eccles. 4. 13. 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 judg not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them c. Ah I will ease me c. Isa. 1. 22 24. I will give children to be their Princes and babes shall rule over them and the people shall be oppressed every one by another Isa. 3. 4. 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 Isa. 28. 5 6. 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 fast 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. 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 execuue judgment and justice Take away your exactions from my people saith the Lord God Ezek. 45. 9. King Nebuchadnezzar for his great pride was driven from men to eat grass as an ox Dan. 4. 30 31 32 33. I hate I despise your feasts c. let judgment run down as waters c. Amos 5. 21 24. Hear this ye Princes c. who abhor judgment c. the heads thereof judg for reward Micah 3. 9 11. chap. 7. 3. Judg not according to the appearance but judg 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 35 36 37 38 39. Ye ought to c. do nothing rashly c. the law is open let them implead one another Acts 19. 36 38. 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 licence to answer for himself c. It seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and withal not to signifie the crime laid against him Act. 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. Theyare Gods ministers attending continually upon this very thing Rom. 13. 3 4 16. Governours c. for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them who do well 1 Pet. 2. 14. The duties of subjects to their magistrates in respect both to their persons and decrees 1st What they may not do when and wherein they may not obey them Render to Cesar the things which are Cesars and to God the things which are Gods Mat. 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 should surely die c. And the people said c. As the Lord liveth there shall not one hair of his head fall c. So the people rescued Jonathan that he died not 1 Sam. 14.
who swear by the Lord and that swear by Malchum Zeph. 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 Gods 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 Mat. 5. 33 34 35 36 37. James 5. 12. They sought false witnesses against Christ and two came Mat. 26. 60. 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. 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 Rev. 10. 5 6. CHAP. XXVI Of Preachers in general Gospel-Ministers of what spirits they should be their Duty and Recompence AND though the Lord give 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. 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 as wise as serpents and harmless as doves Mat. 10. 7 8 9 10 16. Joh. 20. 21. Go ye therefore teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo I am with you c. Mat. 28. 19 20. He who speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory but he who seeketh his glory who sent him the same is true c. Joh. 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 judg 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 Act. 6. 4. These are the servants of the most high God who shew unto us the way of salvation Act. 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 connsel of God c. I have coveted no mans 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 Acts 26. 17 18. 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 things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ Acts 28. 30 31. I thank my God c. that your faith is spoken of c. without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers c. I Iong to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift to the end you may be established c. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation Rom. 1. 8 9 10 11 16. Col. 1. 9. Ephes. 1. 15 16. I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient c. I beseech you brethren for the Lord Jesus Christs sake c. that ye strive together with me in your prayer to God for me that I may be delivered from them who do not believe c. Rom. 15. 18 30. When I came to you I came not in the excellency of speech or of wisdom declaring unto you the testimony of God for I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified c. and my speech and my preaching was not with inticing or perswasible words of mans wisdom but in demonstration of the spirit c. which things also we speak not in the words mans wisdom teacheth but which the holy Ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual 1 Cor. 2. 1 2 3 4 13. And I brethren could not speak unto you as spiritual c. I have fed you with milk and not with meat for hitherto ye were not able c. I have planted c. but God gave the increase so then neither is he who planteth any thing c. 1 Cor. 3. 1 2 6 7. Account of us as c. stewards of the mystery of God moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful c. Even to this present hour we hunger c. and labour working with our own hands 1 Cor. 4. 2 11 12.
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. 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 yea 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. 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. 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 pastours 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 feet 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 2. 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 valley c. Judah shall dwell for ever c. for the Lord dwelleth in Zion Joel 3. 16 17 18 19 20 21. For I faith 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. Upon this rock will I build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against her Matt. 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 Act. 20. 28. The Churches the glory of Christ 2 Cor. 8. 23. 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 thorowout 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. See Union and Relation between Christ and his Church Chap. 15. 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 differenee between the holy and profane 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 knowledg 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 1 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 Ephes. 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 Thess. 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. Of the propriety that particular Churches had in their members and of others joyning themselves to them And great fear came upon all the Church c. and they were all with one accord in Solomons 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. 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. 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 salute thee greet the friends by name 3 John ver 14. 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 Achaia 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 from 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. 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 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. Matth. 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 Apostles 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 voyce with one accord and said Lord c. Acts 4. 23 24 c. The Church c. and they were all with one accord in Solomons 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. When ye come together into one place this is not to eat the Lords Supper c. wherefore my brethren when ye come together to eat tarry c. 1 Cor. 11. 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 Thess. 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 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Of the gifts which the members of Churches received Of Prayer Prophecying Psalms Tongues c. and how they did use them in the Church-assemblies and elswhere 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 and Medad prophesied 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 Lords people were Prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them Numb 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. 6 7 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 Malachi 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. 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
17 18 19 20 21. Acts 13. 14 15 16 17 18. chap. 17. 1 2 3. There was a great persecution against the Church which was at Jerusalem and they were all scattered 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 25 26 27 28. 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 4 5 6 7 8. I my self am also perswaded of you my brethren that ye also are full of goodness filled with knowledg 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 knowledg 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 knowledg 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 Cor. 12. 4 7 8 9 11 15 18 28 29 30 31. Desire spiritual gifts but rather that ye may prophesie c. He who prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification and exhortation and comfort c. He edifieth the Church c. Forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the Church c. If all prophesie and there come in one that believeth not c. he is convinced of all c. will report that God is in you of a truth How is it brethren that when ye come together every one of you hath a psalm c. let all things be done to edifying c. Let the prophets speak two or three and let the other judg If any thing be revealed to another who sitteth by let the first hold his peace For ye may all prophesie one by one that all may learn and all may be comforted And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets For God c. Let your women keep silence in the Churches c. Wherefore brethren covet to prophesie c. Let all things be done decently and in order 1 Cor. 14. 1 3 4 5 12 23 24 25 26 29 30 31 32 33 34 39 40. We also believe therefore speak 2 Cor. 4. 13. As ye abound in every thing in faith and utterance and knowledg 2 Cor. 8. 7. Many of the brethren of the Lord waxing confident by my bonds are much more bold to speak the word c. Some preach Christ out of envy c. What then c Christ is preached and I therein do rejoyce c. Phil. 1. 14 15 16 17 18. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3. 16. Comfort or exhort one another with these words 1 Thess. 4. 18. Wherefore comfort your selves together and edifie one another even as also ye do 1 Thess. 5. 11. Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief c. But exhort one another daily c. lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin Heb. 3. 12 13. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God Heb. 5. 12. Let us consider one another c. not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as-the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the c. Heb. 10. 24 25. As every man hath received the gift even so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God giveth that God in all things may be glorified 1 Pet. 4. 10 11. Of other acts done in and by these particular Churches in sending out messengers to other churches and upon occasions determining of controversies in religious matters writing and sending Epistles and ordering other affairs Of their meeting together in order hereto and receiving and hearing such Epistles the Epistles directed to the whole body and they concerned in it When tidings of the gentiles receiving the Gospel came unto the ears of the Church which was in Jerusalem they sent forth Barnabas that he should go as far as Antioch c. When the dearth was prophesied of the Disciples every man according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren who dwelt in Judea Which also they did and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul Acts 11. 20 21 22 28 29 30. Paul and Barnabas coming to Antioch gathered the church together and rehearsed all that God had done with them and how c. Acts 14. 26 27. When the matter of circumcision was in dispute in the Church at Antioch they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the Apostles and the Elders about this question And being brought on their way by the Church c. when they were come to Jerusalem they were received by the Church and of the Apostles c. All the multitude kept silence and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul c. Then James spake c. Then pleased it the Apostles and elders with the whole Church to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch c. and wrote letters by them after this manner
The Apostles Elders and Brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are c. It seems good to us being assembled with one accord to send chosen men unto you c. it seems good to the holy Ghost and to us c. They came to Antioch and when they had gathered the multitude together they delivered the Epistle Act. 15. 1 2 3 4 6 12 13 22 23 25 27 28 30. If then ye have judgment of things pertaining to this life set them to judg who are least esteemed in the Church 1 Cor. 6. 4. When I come whomsoever you shall aprrove by letters them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem 1 Cor. 16. 3. We have sent with him the brother c. who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace or gift c. Whether any do enquire c. of our brethren they are the messengers of the Churches 2 Cor. 8. 18 19 23. I suppose it necessary to send unto you Epaphroditus c. your messenger and he who ministred to my wants Phil. 2. 25. When this epistle is read among you cause that it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans and that ye likewise read the estpile from Laodicea And say to Archippus take heed to the ministry which thou hast received of the Lord that thou fulfil it Col. 4. 16 17. I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren 1 Thess. 5. 27. Salute all them who have the rule over you and all the Saints Heb. 13. 24. Peter having written at large to the Saints speaks distinctly to the elders thus To the elders which are among you I exhort c. to feed the flock of God c. 1 Pet. 5. 1 2 3. I wrote to the Church but Diotrephes who loved to have the pre-eminence among them received us not wherefore if I come I will remember his deeds c. Not content herewith neither doth he himself receive the brethren and forbiddeth them that would and casteth them out of the Church Beloved follow not that which is evil 3 Joh. vers 9 10 11. John wrote to the seven Churches in Asia distinctly though they were in one countrey and charges each Church with its own guilt and commends each Church by it self takes no notice of any power any had over other 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 more of Church-Acts in Discipline Of the ending of controversies 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 judg the world and if the world shall be judged by you are ye unworthy to judg the smallest matters know ye not that we shall judg Angels how much more things which pertain to this life c Set them to judg 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 judg 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. 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 need Act. 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 Act. 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 Act. 6. 1 2 3 4 5 6. The Disciples every one according to his ability determined to send relief unto the brethren c. Act. 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 Act. 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 equality 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 grudingly 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 Thess. 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. 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 First Of Officers Power Duties c. I
will give you Pastors according to mine heart who shall feed you with knowledg and understanding Jer. 3. 15. chap. 23. 4. Thou shalt speak my word unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear Ezek. 2. 7. 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 profane 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. Their widows were 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 to feed 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 found faithful 1 Cor. 4. 2. God hath set some in the Church first Apostles secondarily 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 faith 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 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. 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. Let the Elders who rule well c. especially they who labour in the word and doctrine 1 Tim. 5. 17. O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding profane and vain babling 1 Tim. 6. 20. 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. shun profane and vain bablings 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 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-willâ—…d 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 found doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gain-sayers Titus 1. 5 6 7 8 9. Shewing thy self a pattern c. in doctrine uncorruptness gravity sincerity c. these things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority Titus 2. 7 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. feed 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 Gods heritage but being examples of the flock 1 Pet. 5. 4 2 3 4. Diotrephes who loveth to have the preheminence received us not c. 3 John ver 9 10. See more in Gospel-Preachers in general Chap. 16. 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 lyâ—…ng 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. chap. 8. 10 11. The Pastors are become brutish and have not sought the Lord therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks shall be scattered Jer. 10. 21. Many Pastors have destroyed my vinyard they have trodden my portion c. Jer. 12. 10 11. Wo unto the Pastors who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture saith the Lord therefore thus saith the Lord c. against the Pastors who feed my people Ye have scattered my flock and driven them away and have not visited them Behold I will visit upon you the evil of your doings Jer. 23. 1 2. Her Priests have violated my law and have profaned mine holy things they have put no difference between the holy and profane neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean Ezek. 22. 26. Wo to the shepherds of Israel who do feed themselves should not the shepherds feed the flock ye eat the fat and ye clothe your selves with the wool c. ye feed not the flock the diseased have ye not strengthned neither have ye healed that which was sick c. but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled Ezek. 34. 2 3 4 10. The Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets thereof divine for money yet will they lean upon the Lord c. therefore shall Zion c. be plowed Micah 3. 11. Her Priests have done violence to the law polluted the Sanctuary Zephan 3. 4. Wo to the Idol-shepherd who leaveth the flock the sword shall be upon his c. Zechar. 11. 17. O Priests who despise my name c. ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar c. if ye offer the blind and the lame ye say It is not evil c. Malachi 1. 6 7 8. The Priests lips should keep knowledg c. but ye are departed out of the way ye have caused many to stumble at the law ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi c. therefore have I also made you contemptible c. before the people Malachi 2. 7 8 9. He who is an hireling c. seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and fleeth and the wolf catcheth them and scattereth the sheep c. John 10. 12 13. 3dly The Churches duty towards their Officers and such other who labour among them Provide neither gold nor silver c. for the workman is worthy of his meat Matth. 10. 9 10. They all weptfore c. sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more Acts 20. 37 38. If the Gentiles are made partakers of their spiritual things their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things Rom. 15. 27. Have we not power to eat and drink c. to sorbear working c who goeth to warfare at any time at his own charges c Say I these things as a man or saith not the law the same also Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox which treadeth out the corn c. Doth God take care for oxen or saith he it not altogether for our sakes for our sakes no doubt c. If we have sown unto you in spiritual things is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things c Nevertheless we have not used this power c. lest we should hinder the Gospel Do ye not know that they who minister about holy things live or feed of the things of the temple c even so hath the Lord ordained that they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel 1 Cor. 9. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14. Know the house of Stephanus c. that you submit your selves unto such and to every one who helpeth with us and laboureth 1 Cor 16. 15 16. Ye received me as an Angel c. am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. 4. 14 15 16. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him who teacheth in all good things Gal. 6. 6. Praying always c. and for me that utterance may be given unto me c. Ephes. 6. 18 19. 1 Thess. 5. 26. I suppose it necessary to send unto you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labour c. but your messenger c. receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and hold such in reputation or honour such because for the work of Christ c. Phil. 2. 25 28 29 30. Ye sent once and again unto my necessity not because I desire a gift but I desire fruit that may abound to your account c. I received the things sent from you an odour of a sweet-smelling sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God Phil. 4. 15 16 17 18. We beseech you brethren to know them who labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and esteem them very highly in love for their work-sake 1 Thess. 5. 12 13. Let the Elders who rule well be counted worthy of double-honour especially they who labour in the word and doctrine for the Scripture saith Thou shalt not muzzle the oxe c. the labourer is worthy of his hire against an Elder receive not an accusation but before two or three witnesses 1 Tim. 5. 17 18 19. Obey them who have the rule over you or guide you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls c. pray for such c. salute all them who have the rule over you Heb. 13. 7 17 18 24. Is any sick among you let him call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over them James 5. 14 15. Likewise ye younger submit your selves to the elder 1 Pet. 5. 5. Of the Election and ordination of Officers in Churches And the Lord spake to Moses saying Take Aaron and his sons with him c. and gather thou all the congregation together c. And Moses did as the Lord commanded him c. and said unto the congregation This is the thing which the Lord commanded to be done And Moses brought Aaron and his sons and washed them c. Levit. 8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. Thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together and thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord and the children of Israel shall put their hands c. Numb 8. 9 11. Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said the number about 120 c. Wherefore of these men who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us c. must one be ordained to be a witness with us c.
And they appointed two c. and they prayed and said Lord who knowest the hearts of all men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen c. And they gave forth their lots and the lot fell upon Matthias and he was numbred with the eleven Acts 1. 15 21 22 23 24 25 26. Then the Twelve called the multitude c. and said c. Brethren look ye out among you seven men of honest report c. whom we may appoint over this business c. and the saying pleased the multitude and they chose Stephen c. Acts 6. 2 3 5 6. And when they had ordained them Elders by suffrage in every Church and had prayed with fasting they commended them to the Lord Acts 14. 22 23. For this cause left I thee in Crete c. and ordain Elders in every City as I had appointed Titus 1. 5. Of laying on of hands upon the several occasions and to the several ends in Scripture mentioned Bring forth him who hath cursed c. let all who heard him lay their hands on his head Levit. 24. 14. Thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord and the children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites Numb 8. 9 10. Moses set Joshua before the congregation and he laid his hands upon him and c. Numb 17. 18 19 22 23. Joshua c. was full of the spirit of wisdom for Moses had laid his hands upon him Deut. 34. 9. They chose Stephen c. whom they set before the Apostles and when they had prayed they laid their hands upon 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 Antioch 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 laid 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 thee 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 mens sins 1 Tim. 5. 22. Stir up the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands 2 Tim. 1. 6. Not laying again the foundation of repentance c. of laying on of hands Heb. 6. 1 2. Of the several Ordinances of Christ to be observed in and by the Churches of Christ and elswhere 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. First 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 Praising at large Chap. 16. Secondly 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 law 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 Joshua 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. Allo 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 whoso 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. Nahum 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. They shall wander from sea to sea c. to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it Amos 8. 12. Go ye therefore and teach all nations c. teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you Matth. 28. 19 20. 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. 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 sate 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 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 judg ye Acts 4. 18 19. ch 5. 28. And daily in the temple and in every house they ceased not to teach and to preach Jesus Christ Acts 5. 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. Call for Simon c. who shall tell thee words whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved 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. Now brethren I commend you to God and the word of his grace which is able c. Acts 20. 32. I have appeared unto thee c. to make thee a minister c. the Gentiles to whom 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 him preaching the kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ Acts 28. 30 31. 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. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe on him of 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. 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. My preaching was not with the inticing 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 prophecying having his head covered dishonoureth his head 1 Cor. 11. 4. He who prophecyeth 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 Embassadours 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 for 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. 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 c. 1 Thess. 2. 13 16. Despise not prophecyings 1 Thess. 5. 20. Give attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine 1 Tim. 4. 13. I charge thee c. preach the word be instant in season 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 if we neglect so great salvation which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed unto us by them who heard 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 ingraffed 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 seed 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. chap. 3. 1 2. 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. 3dly 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 thirteen 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 4thly Breaking of bread or the Lords Supper The Passover instituted and all the directions about it Exod. 12. The people not prepared yet did eat Hezekiah prayed for them 2 Chr. 30. 18 19. As they were eating Jesus took bread and blessed it and brake 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 stedfastly 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 comunion 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 Lords 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 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 thenew Testament in my blood this do ye as often as ye drink it in remembrance of me for as often as
have we fasted say they and thou seest it not have we afflicted our soul and thou takest no knowledg Behold in the day of your fast you find pleasures and exact all your labours c. ye fast for strife c. Isa. 58. 1. 2 3 4. I have spread out my hands all the day long to a rebellious 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. 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 remnant 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. 41. 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. 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. The heads judg for reward and the priests thereof teach for hire c. yes will they lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord among us c Mic. 3. 11. Herod sent to seek Christ under pretence of worshipping him but he designed to kill him Matth. 2. 3 5 8 16. When thou dost thine alms do not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory of 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 Matth. 6. 2 5 16. Why beholdest thou the mote which is in thy brothers eye but considereth not the beam that is in thine own eye or how wilt thou say to thy brother Let me pull out the mote 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 Matth. 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 Matth. 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 profane the Sabbath and are blameless c They asked him saying Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day that they mighe 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. They said of Christ Is not this the Carpenters son c whence then hath this man all these things and they were offended in him Matth. 13. 54 55 56 57. Then there came to Jesus Scribes and Pharisecs 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 nigh to me with their mouth c. but their heart is far from me Matth. 15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. The young rich man had observed much of the law yet when Christ had said unto him If thou wilt be perfect go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor he went away sorrowful for he had great possessions Matth. 19. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22. Those who agreed for wages murmur because those who did not agree nor do so much work as they had alike wages freely given them Matth. 20. 1 2 to the 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 of David they were sore displeased 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 vinyard and the chief Priests had heard this parable they perceived that he spake of them but when they sought to lay hands on him c. Matth. 21. 15 23 33 34 35 36 37 45 46. Then went the Pharisees and took counsel how they might intangle him in his talk c. asked him Is it lawful to give tribute to Cesar or not c Jesus said Why tempt ye me ye hypocrites c. Matth. 22. 15 16 17 18. The Scribes and Pharisees c. they say and do not for they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be born and lay them on mens
c. These filthy dreamers defile the flesh despise dominions and speak evil of dignities yet Michael c. contending with the devil c. durst not bring against him a railing accusation c. These speak evil of those things which they know not c. Clouds they are without water c. These are murmurers complainers walking after their own lusts and their mouth speaketh great swelling-words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage c. These be they who separate themselves sensual having not the spirit Jude ver 3. 4 8 9 10 12 13 16 18 19. I know the blasphemy of them who say they are Jews and are not but are the Synagogue of Satan c. hold the doctrine of Balaam c. so the doctrine of the Nicolaitans c. Rev. 2. 9 14 15. chap. 3. 9. That the image of the beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed and causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads and that no man might buy or sell save he who had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name Rev. 13. 15 16 17. I heard another voice from heaven saying Come out of her my people that ye be not partaker of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues for her sins have reached unto heaven Rev. 18. 4. CHAP. XXXI Of Consideration Meditation pondering upon and serious weighing of the things of God his Word and Works our selves c. ISaac went out to meditate or pray in the field at the even-tide Gen. 24. 63. Know therefore this day and consider it in thine heart that the Lord he is God Deut. 4. 39. If thou shalt say in thine heart these Nations are more than I how can I dispossess them Thou c. shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharoah and unto all Egypt c. Deut. 7. 17 18. Therefore shall ye lay up all these my words in your heart and in your soul c. ye 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 c. Deut. 11. 18 19. O that they were wise c. that they would consider their latter end Deut. 32. 29. This book of the law shall not depart c. but thou shalt meditate therein day and night Josh. 1. 8. Fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things he hath done for you 1 Sam. 12. 24. David hastily resolved to cut off Nabals house but when by Abigails words he considered the matter he was staid and blessed the counsel c. 1 Sam. 25. If they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive and repent c. 1 Kings 8. 47. Therefore am I troubled at his presence when I consider I am afraid of him Job 23. 15. He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others because they turned back from him and would not consider any of his ways Job 34. 26 27. O Job stand still and consider the wondrous works of God Job 37. 14. Blessed is the man c. whose delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate both day and night Psal. 1. 1 2. When I consider the heavens the works of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained what is man that thou art mindful of him c Psal. 8. 3 4. My heart was hot within me while I was musing the fire burned then spake l c. Psal. 39. 3. Now consider this ye who forget God lest I tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver Psal. 50. 22. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness and my mouth shall praise c. when I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night Psal. 63. 5 6. All men shall fear and declare the work of God for they shall wisely consider of his doing Psal. 64. 9. I will remember the years of the right-hand of the most High I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old I will meditate also of all thy works and talk of thy doings Psal. 77. 10 11 12. I will sing praise to my God c. my meditation of him shall be sweet Psal. 104. 33 34. Who is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord Psal. 107. 43. The works of the Lord are great sought out of all them who have pleasure therein his works are honourable c. he hath made his wonderful works to be remembred Psal. 111. 2 3 4. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed according to thy word c. I will meditate in thy precepts c. Princes did sit and speak against me but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes c. I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies c. I remembred thy judgments of old O Lord and have comforted my self c. I have remembred thy name O Lord in the night c. I will consider thy testimonies c. Thy commandment is exceeding broad c. Thy law is my meditation all the day c. they are ever with me I have more understanding than all my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation c. Mine eyes prevent the night-watches that I may meditate in thy word Psal. 119. 9 15 23 52 55 59 78 95 96 97 98 99 148. I remember the days of old I meditate on all thy works I muse on the work of thine hand c. my soul thirsteth after thee c. Psal. 143. 5 6. Ponder the path of thy feet and let all thy ways be established or all thy ways shall be ordered aright Prov. 4. 26. Go to the Ant thou sluggard consider her ways and be wise Prov. 6. 6. The simple believeth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his going Prov. 14. 15. The heart of the righteous studieth to answer but the mouth of the wicked poureth c. Prov. 15. 28. The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth or maketh wise his mouth Prov. 16. 23. A wicked man hardneth his face but as for the upright he directeth or considereth his way Prov. 21. 29. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools for they consider not that they do evil be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God for God is in heaven Eccles. 5. 1 2. Consider the work of God for who can make that straight which he hath made crooked c in the day of adversity consider
Eccles. 7. 13 14. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth Eccles. 12. 1. The ox knoweth his owner and the asse his masters crib but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider Ah sinful nation Isa. 1. 3 4. They regard not the work of the Lord neither consider the operation of his hand therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledg Isa. 5. 11 12 13. Psal. 28. 5. That they may see and know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord hath done this and the holy one of Israel hath created it Isa. 41. 20. Remember ye not the former things neither consider the things of old Isa. 43. 18. God complaining of the sottishness of the makers and worshippers of idols saith None considereth in his heart neither is there knowledg or undrstanding 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 tree 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. They shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carryed captive Ezek. 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. And lo if he beget a son who seeth all his fathers sins and considereth and doth not such like c. he shall not dye for the iniquity of his fathers Ezek. 18. 14 15 16 17 28. 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 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 toyl 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. Which of you intending to build a Tower sitteth not down first and counteth the cost whether he have sufficient to finish it c Luke 14. 28 29 30 31. 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. 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. 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. Meditate on these things give thy self wholly to them c. Consider what I say and the Lord give thee understanding in all 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 sollow 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 verse 17. 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. chap. 8. 21. 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. Their inward thought is that their house shall continue for ever and their dwellings c. Psal. 49. 11. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow c. when I remember thee Psal. 63. 5 6. 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. 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
Hos. 11. 8 9. O Grave c. repentance shall be hid from mine eyes Hos. 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. Joel 2. 14. Secondly Repentance in Man 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 the Children of 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 4. If they bethink themselves c. and repent c. and so return unto thee with all their heart c. 1 Kings 8. 47 48. 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. I thought on my ways and turned my feet unto thy testimonies Psal. 119. 59. 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 c. 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. 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 saith the Lord c. and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you for I am merciful c. only acknowledg thine iniquity c. return c. I will heal your backslidings Behold we come unto thee for thou art the Lord our God Jer. 3. 1 6 7 12 13 14 22. If thou wilt return O Israel saith the Lord return unto me and if thou wilt put away thy abomination out of my sight then c. Jer. 4. 1. 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. No man repented of his wickedness saying What have I done every one turning to his course as the horse rusheth into the battel Jer. 8. 6. Return ye now every one from his evil way and make your ways and your doings good And they said There is no hope but we will walk after c. Jer. 18. 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 unaccustomed 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 that 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 again to the Lord Lam. 3. 40. 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 saith 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 dye saith 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 dye c. Ezek. 18. 21 23 30 31 32. ch 33. 11. 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. chap. 6. 9. I will hedg 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 seek the Lord their God c. and shall fear the Lord Hos. 3. 5. They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God Hos. 5. 4. Come let us return unto the Lord for he hath torn and he will heal us Hos. 6. 1 Zech. 1. 3 4. The pride of Israel testifieth 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 Hos. 7. 10 14 16. Break up your fallow ground for it is time to seek the Lord Hos. 10. 12. O Israel return unto the Lord c. take unto you words and return to the Lord Hos. 14. 1 2. Turn ye even to me withal your hearts and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning and rent your hearts and not your garments c. he is graciòus Joel 2. 12 13. God sent judgment after judgment yet Israel repented not Joel 4. 6 8 9 10 11. 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.
Dan. 12. 2 13. I will ransom them from the power of the grave I will redeem them from death O death I will be thy plagues O grave I will be thy destruction Hosea 13. 14. But as touching the resurrection from the dead c. I am the God of Abraham c. God is not the God of the dead but the God of the living Matth. 22. 31 32. Luke 20. 35 37 38. Thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the just Luke 14. 14. The hour is coming in which all who are in the grave shall hear his voyce and shall come forth they who have done good unto the resurrection of life c. John 5. 28 29. I should lose nothing but raise it up again at the last day c. and I will raise him up at the last day John 6. 39 40 44 54. I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day Jesus said unto her I am the resurrection and the life he who believeth c. John 11. 24 25 26. Because I live ye shall live also John 14. 19. They taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead Acts 4. 2. And when they heard 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. chap. 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. 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 22 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 of 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. 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 dyed 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 Thess. 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 dead 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 Christs second coming to the Judgment and rendring unto every man according to his deeds done in the body whether good or bad SHall not the Judg 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 Psal. 9. 17. God is Judg himself Psal. 50. 6. He cometh to judg the earth and he shall judg the world with righteousness and the people with his truth Psal. 96. 13. Psal. 98. 9. Rejoyce 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. 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. Agree with thine adversary c. lest at any time thine adversary deliver thee to the Judg 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 profess 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. chap. 11. 21 22 23 24. But I say unto you That every idle word which men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment Matth. 12. 36. So shall it be at the end of the world the Son of man shall send sorth his Angels and they shall gather c. them which do iniquity and shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth then shall the righteous shine c. Matth. 13. 40 41 42 43 49 50. The Son of man shall
are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance of them who know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thess. 1. 6 7 8 9. We beseech you by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye 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 Thess. 2. 1 2 3. The Lord Jesus who shall judg the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom c. a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judg 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. Not laying again the foundation c. of eternal judgment Heb. 6. 1 2. It is appointed for all men once to dye but after this the judgment so Christ c. unto them who look for him shall he appear the second time without sin Heb. 9. 27 28. A certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversary c. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10. 27 31. Ye are come unto mount Zion c. and to God the Judg 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 unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ c. the father who without respect of persons judgeth according unto every mans works 1 Pet. 1. 7 17. Who shall give account unto him who is ready to judg the quick and the dead c. the end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer c. The time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God c. What shall the end 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. The Lord knoweth how c. to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished 2 Pet. 2. 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 beginning c. the heavens and the earth which now are by the same word are kept in store reserved unto fire 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 confidence at his coming 1 John 2. 28. That we may have boldness 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 thousands 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. 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 mighty 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 of him who sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. 14 15 16 17. The nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and thou shouldst give unto thy servants a reward c. Rev. 11. 18. 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 testified 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 Rom. 2. 2. Be not deceived c. for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap for he who soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap c. Gal. 6. 7 8. CHAP. XXXVII Of the glory prepared for the Saints and reserved to be given to them at the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ. IF in this life only we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable 1 Cor. 15. 19. 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. 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 see God Matth. 5. 8. Lay up for your selves treasure in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal c. Matth. 6. 20. Many shall come c. and shall sit down with Abraham c. in the kingdom of heaven Matth. 8. 11.
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 14 15 16 17. The new Jerusalems 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 2 3 4. chap. 22. 1 2 3 4 5. See more of Eternal-life Chap. 10. See the sad end of wicked men Chap. 5. CHAP. XXXVIII Of knowledg and understanding in and about Divine things and of the want thereof Ignorance about such things and the evil thereof WHen Abimelech had taken Sarah Abrams wife though in the integrity of his heart not knowing her to be Abrams 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 mans Wife Gen. 20. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. 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. According to thy word that thou mayst 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. 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. 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. chap. 5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 17 18 19. 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. 29. 2 4. They sacrificed c. not to God to gods whom they knew not to new gods Deut. 32. 17. 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. 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 knowledg 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. Canst thou by searching find out God Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection c Job 11 7 8. 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. 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 knowledg 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 knowledg 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. Consume them c. and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth Selah Psal. 59. 13. 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. 73. 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. Psal. 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 Psal. 147. 19 20. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity c and fools hate knowledg c they shall call upon me but I will not answer c. for that they hated knowledg and did not chuse the fear of the Lord Prov. 1. 22 28 29. Apply thine heart to understanding yea if thou cryest after knowledg 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. Happy is the man who findeth wisdom
21. The parable of the rich man and poor Lazarus Luke 16. 20 c. Take heed to your selves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day come c. Luke 21. 34. How can ye believe who receive honour one from another 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. 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. 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 sought to release Jesus but the Jews cryed out saying If thou let this man go thou art not Cesars friend c. When Pilate therefore heard that saying he brought Jesus forth c. John 19. 12 13 15 16. 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. chap. 14. 15 17. When Saul 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 19 20 21. 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 prâ—…aching the Gospel cryed up Diana because they were like to lose their gain if men esteemed not of Diana as a goddess Acts 19. 24 25 26 27. 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 It 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 wise c. that no flesh should glory c. 1 Cor. 1. 26 27 28 29. 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 rejoyce as if they rejoyced 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 marryed careth for the things which are of this world how he may please his wife 1 Cor. 7. 29 30 31 32 33. 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 Idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God Ephes. 5. 3 5. Whose end is destruction whose God is their belly whose glory is in their shame who mind earthly things Phil. 3. 19. 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 Phil. 4. 6 12 19. Set your affections or mind on things above not on 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. 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 mony 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 up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come 1 Tim. 6. 6 7 8 9 10 11 17 18 19. Endure
Centurions servant of the palsie Peters mother-in-law of a fever Stilleth the tempest on the sea Driveth out the devils out of the two men possessed among the Gergezens Matth. 8. 2 3 13 14 15 16 26 28 c. Mark 5. 2. Luke 4. 33 39. Luke 5. 12 13. chap. 8. 1 2. He cured the sick of the palsie whom they brought on a bed to him The woman who had the bloody-issue cured by touching his garment Raised from the dead Jairus daughter giveth sight to two blind mâ—…n healeth a dumb man possessed of a devil Matth. 9. 2 6 7 20 25 28 32. Mark 2. 3 4. Luke 8. 44. Mark 9. 20. He cured the withered hand Matth. 12. 10 13. The five loaves and the two fishes wherewith he fed 5000. He walked on the sea Matth. 14. 15 16 25. Luke 9. 12. John 6. 5 6. He cured the daughter of the woman of Canaan who was vexed with a devil He cured multitudes With seven loaves and a few little fishes he fed four thousand men besides women and children Matth. 15. 21 30 31 33 34. He cured the lunatick Matth. 17. 15 16. He cureth two other blind men Matth. 20. 30 c. He said unto the fig-tree Let no fruit grow on thee henceforth for ever and presently the fig-tree withered away Matth. 21. 19. He cast out the unclean spirit Mark 1. 23. He cured the blind man with 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 81. 41 42 43. He turned water into wine at the marriage-feast 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. chap. 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 handkercheifs 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-flix and others Acts 28. 8 9. CHAP. XLIV Of the Kings of Israel and Judah How they came to their Power and Office GIdeon had judged Israel he had seventy sons Abimelech 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 milstone a woman threw down on him after whom Judges governed a long time till Samuel Judges 9. Israel by the Elders came to Samuel and said Make us a King to judg us like 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 anoâ—…nt king Samuel anoints him king accordingly 1 Sam. 9. chap. 10. According to this afterwards all the people went to Gilgal and there they made Saul king before the Lord 1 Sam. 11. 14 15. Samuel said to Saul When thou wast little in thine own sight 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 king 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 sâ—…id 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. Ahijah 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 reigned in his stead 1 Kings 11. 9 10 11 12 29 30 31 35 36 37 43. All Israel came to Shechem 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 sorce to reduce them God forbid it and said This thing is from me only Judah subjected to Rehoboam 1 Kings 12. 1 2 3 4 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24. Go tell Jeroboam thus saith 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 away 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 8 20 31. 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 the 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 then alive 1 Kings 19. 16. Ahab the king of Israel was slain in the battel and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead over Israel Jehoshaphat king of Judah died and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead over Judah 1 Kings 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 Ahaziah 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 Jezreel and wounded when the young man anointed him he said Thus saith 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 generaration 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 dyed and Jeroboam sat upon his throne over Israel 2 Kings 13 9 13. chap. 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 dyed and Zachariah his son reigned over Israel 2 Kings 14. 19 20 21 29. Azariah king of Judah dyed and Jotham his son reigned in his stead Shallum conspired against Zachariah king of Israel and slew him before the people and reigned in his stead 2 Kings 15. 7 8 9 10. Menahem smote Shallum king of Israel and slew him and reigned in his stead Menahem dyed 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 dyed and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead 2 Kings 15. 13 14 22 25 30 38. Ahaz king of Judah dyed Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 16. 20. And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead over Judah 2 Kings 20. 21. Manasseh the king of Judah dyed 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 Pharoah 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 dyed 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 captive 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 called there on the name of the Lord the everlasting God Gen. 21. 33. Isaac said Here is the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering c Abram built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on the wood c. Then Abram took the ram and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son Gen. 22. 7 8 9 13. The Lord appeared unto Isaac at Beersheba and he builded an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there Gen. 26. 24 25. Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount when Laban came to him Gen. 31. 54. And Jacob came to Shalem and pitched his tent before the City and he erected there an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel that is God the God of Israel Gen. 33. 18 19 20. And God said unto Jacob Arise go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto God who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother Then Jacob said unto his houshold and unto all who were with him c. Let us arise and go up unto Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress c. And he built there an altar and called the place El-Bethel c. the God of Bethel Gen. 35 1 2 3 6 7. And Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Jacob Gen. 46. 1. Moses directed of God to say unto Pharoah Let us go we beseech thee three days journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God Exod. 3. 18. And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi that is the Lord my Banner for he said Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek c. Exod. 17. 14 15 16. And Jethro Moses father-in-law took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God Exod. 18. 12. God when he had given the law upon mount Sinai he then did command the building of an altar and the offering of sacrifices Exod. 20. 24 25 26. FINIS
Deut. 4. 24 33 39. chap. 5. 24 25 26. The Lord thy God is among you a mighty God and terrible Deut. 7. 21. Nehem. 1. 5. ch 4. 14. The Lord thy God he who goeth before thee is a consuming fire c. Thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness c. Deut. 9. 3 26. Isa. 60. 16. Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lords thy God the earth also with all that therein is c. For the Lord your God is God of Gods and Lord of Lords a great God mighty and terrible who regardeth not persons nor taketh rewards Deut. 10. 14 17. And know you c. The Lord your God his greatness his mighty hand and his stretched-out arm and his miracles and his acts which he did c. Deut. 11. 2 3. Thou maist fear this glorious and fearful name the Lord thy God Deut. 28. 58. Ascribe ye greatness unto our God the Rock his work is perfect all his ways are judgment c. When the most high divided 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 hands For if I lift up my hand to heaven c. Deut. 32. 3 4 8 39 41 42 c. There is none like unto the God of Jesurun who rideth upon the heavens in thy help and in his excellency on the sky The eternal God thy refuge and underneath are everlasting arms and he shall thrust out c. Deut. 33. 26 27. There is none besides thee neither is there any rock like our God c. The Lord is a God of knowledg and by him are actions weighed c. The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up the Lord maketh poor and maketh rich he bringeth low and lifteth up He raiseth up the poor c. So the pillars of the earth are the Lords and he hath set the world upon them He will keep the feet of his Saints c. 1 Sam. 2. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 c. Job 9. 5 6 7 8 9. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God 1 Sam. 6. 20. Thou art great O Lord God For none is like thee neither is there any God beside thee 2 Sam. 7. 22. The earth shook and trembled the foundations of heaven moved and shook because he was wrath There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured c. 2 Sam. 22. 8 9 10 11 12. The Glory of the Lord had filled the house 1 King 8. 11. Thou art the God thou alone of all the kingdoms of the earth thou hast made heaven and earth 2 King 19. 15. Declare his glory c. For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised to be feared above all Gods For all the Gods of the people are Idols but the Lord made the heavens Glory and honour are in his presence strength and gladness in his place c. Give unto the Lord the glory due to his name 1 Chron. 16. 24 25 26 27 28 c. Psal. 96. 4 5. Thine O Lord is the greatness and the glory and the victory and the majesty for all in heaven and earth is thine thine the kingdom O Lord and thou art exalted as head above all Both riches and honour come of thee and thou reignest over all and in thine hand is power and might and in thine hand to make great and to give strength unto all 1 Chron. 29. 11 12. Blessed be thy glorious name who art exalted above all blessing and praises thou thou art Lord alone thou hast made heaven c. And thou preservest them all Nehem. 9. 5 6. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Job 1. 21. God c. Who doeth great things and unsearchable without number Who giveth rain upon the earth and sendeth waters upon the fields to set up on high those who are low c. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform c. Job 5. 8 9 10 11 12 c. Canst thou by searching find out God Canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection c If he cut off or make a change and shut up or gather together then who can hinder him c. Job 11. 7 8 9 10. chap. 9. 10 11 12 13 c. Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this In whose hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of all manking c. With him is wisdom and strength he hath counsel and understanding Behold he breaketh down and it cannot be built up again He shutteth up a man and there can be no opening he withholdeth the waters and they dry up c. He leadeth counsellors away spoiled and maketh the judges fools He looseth the bond 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. 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. Destruction from God was a terrour to me and by reason of his highness I could not endure Job 31. 23. 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 9. 12. 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 saith 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 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. The kings of the earth set themselves c. He that sitteth in heaven shall laugh The Lord shall have them in derision Then shall he speak unto him in his wrath c. Yet have
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 sound 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 Exod. 20. 7. 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. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve him c. Deut. 6. 13. chap. 10. 20. Understand therefore this day that the Lord thy God he who goeth over before thee as a consuming fire he shall destroy c. Deut. 9. 3. 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 Lords 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. 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. 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 Psal. 4. 4. Who is the king of glory the Lord of hosts he is this king of glory Psal. 24. 10. What man is he who feareth the Lord him he shall teach in the way which he shall choose c. The secret of the Lord is with them who fear him and he will shew them his Covenant Psal. 25. 12 13 14. O! how great is thy goodness which thou hast laid up for them who fear thee Psal. 31. 19. He gathereth the waters of the sea together 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 feareth him c. Psal. 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 Psal. 34. 7 9 11. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart there is no fear of God before his eyes Psal. 36. 1. He uttereth his voice the earth melteth Psal. 46. 6. The Lord most high is terrible he is a great king over all the earth Psal. 47. 2. Because they have no changes therefore they fear not God Psal. 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 Psal. 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 feared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry c. The earth feared and was still Psal. 76. 6 7 8. Surely his salvation is nigh them who fear him Psal. 85. 9. Before the mountains were c. even from everlasting to everlasting thou art God Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest Return ye children of men Who knoweth the power of thine anger even according to thy fear is thy wrath Psal. 90. 2 3 11. The Lord reigneth he is clothed with Majesty the Lord is clothed with strength c. Thy throne is established of old thou from everlasting c. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters Psal. 93. 1 2 4. The Lord a great God and a great King above all gods Psal. 95. 3. Psal. 135. 5 6 7. The Lord is great c. he is to be feared above all gods c. The Lord made the heavens honour and majesty are before him c. fear before him all the earth Psal. 96. 4 5 6 9. A fire goeth before him and burneth up his enemies round about his lightnings enlighteneth the world the earth saw and trembled the hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth Psal 97. 3 4 5 9. The Lord reigneth let
he rent his cloaths 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. 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 self 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 Lords c. If any of them who believe not bid you c. whatsoever is before you eat asking no queston 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 mans 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. chap. 8. 7. Our rejoycing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom c. 2 Cor. 1. 12. By manifestation of the truth commended our selves to every mans 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 shipwrack 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 hypocrisie having their conscience feared with a hot iron forbidding to marry c. 1 Tim. 4. 1 2 3. I thank God whom I serve c. with 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 perfect 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 conscience 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 sacrifices 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 of 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. 13 19 20 21. 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 First Of Satan the Devil himself NOW the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made and he said unto the woman yea because or hath God said Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden the woman said c. We may eat c. but of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden God hath said Ye shall not eat of it neither shall ye touch it left ye die And the serpent said unto the woman Ye shall not surely die for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your eyes shall be open and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil and the woman saw that the tree was good Gen. 3. 1. 2 3 4 5 6. And Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel 1 Chron. 21. 1. Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan or the adversary came also among or in the midst of them c. The Lord said to Satan From whence comest thou then said he c. from going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it c. He said Doth Job serve God for nought hast thou not made a hedg about him c put forth thine hand and touch that which he hath and he will curse thee to thy face c. then Satan having leave given him destroyed all he had Job 1. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 to the end chap. 2. 1 2 3. Hast thou considered my servant Job c still he holdeth fast his integrity although thou movedst me against him to destroy him without a cause And Satan answered the Lord and said Skin for skin yea and all that a man hath will he give for his life but put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face and the Lord said He is in thine hand but or only save his life So went Satan c. and smote Job