may bring forth more fruit * John Ch. 15 V. 3 Ch. 13 V. 10 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you Abide in me John V. 4 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 John Ch. 15 V. 5 I am the vine ye are the branches he that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit for without me ye can do nothing If a man abide not in me John V. 6 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 V. 7 If ye abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you John V. 8 Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit so shall ye be my disciples As the Father hath loved me John V. 9 so have I loved you continue ye in my love John V. 10 If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abide in his love John V. 11 These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full Sect. II. * John Ch. 15 V. 12 Ch. 13 V. 34 This is my commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you John V. 13 Greater love hath no man then this that a man lay down his life for his friends Ye are my friends John V. 14 if ye do whatsoever I command you John V. 15 Henceforth I call you not servants for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth but I have called you friends for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you John V. 16 Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and * Matth. Ch. 28 V. 19 ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name he may give it you These things I command you that ye love one another John V. 17 CHAP. CLXXVIII Christ arms his disciples against the hatred and persecution of the world J John Ch. 15 V. 18 IF the world hate you ye know that it hated me before it hated you John V. 19 If ye were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you * John Ch. 15 V. 20 Ch. 13 V. 16 Remember the word that I said unto you The servant is not greater then the lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you if they have kept my saying they will keep yours also John V. 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my names sake because they know not him that sent me John V. 22 If I had not come and spoken unto them they had not had sinne but now they have no cloak for their sinne John V. 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also John V. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did they had not had sinne but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father John V. 25 But this cometh to passe that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law They hated me without a cause * John Ch. 15 V. 26 Ch. 14 V. 26 Luke Ch. 14 V. 49 But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father even the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father he shall testifie of me John Ch. 15 V. 27 And ye also shall bear witnesse because ye have been with me from the beginning John Ch. 16 V. 1 These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended They shall put you out of the Synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you John V. 2 will think that he doth God service John V. 3 And these things will they do unto you because they have not known the Father John V. 4 nor me But these things have I told you that when the time shall come ye may remember that I told you of them And these things I said not unto you at the beginning because I was with you CHAP. CLXXIX Christ again comforteth his disciples being sorrowfull for the prediction of his departure Sect. I. J John Ch. 16 V. 5 BUt now I go my way to him that sent me and none of you asketh me Whither goest thou But because I have said these things unto you John V. 6 sorrow hath filled your heart John V. 7 Neverthelesse I tell you the truth 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 John V. 8 he will reprove the world of sinne and of righteousnesse and of judgement Of sinne John V. 9 because they beleeve not on me Of righteousnesse John V. 10 because I go to my Father and ye see me no more Of judgement John V. 11 because the prince of this world is judged John V. 12 I have yet many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now Howbeit John V. 13 when he the Spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth for he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall heare that shall he speak and he will shew you things to come John V. 14 He shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shall shew it unto you John V. 15 All things that the Father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine and shall shew it unto you Sect. II. A little while and ye shall not see me John V. 16 and again a little while and ye shall see me because I go to the Father John V. 17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves What is this that he saith unto us A little while and ye shall not see me and again a little while and ye shall see me and Because I go to the Father John Ch. 16 V. 18 They said therefore What is this that he saith A little while we cannot tell what he saith John V. 19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him and said unto them Do ye enquire among your selves of that I said A little while and ye shall not see me and again a little while and ye shall see me John V. 20 Verily verily I say unto you that ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce and
Luke V. 36 the whole shall be full of light as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light CHAP. CIX Christ dines with a Pharisee The disputations there arising L Luke V. 37 ANd as he spake a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him and he went in and sat down to meat And when the Pharisee saw it Luke V. 38 he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner * Matth. Ch. 23 V. 25 And the Lord said unto him Luke V. 39 Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter but your inward part is full of ravening and wickednesse Ye fools Luke V. 40 did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also Luke V. 41 But rather give almes of such things as you have and behold all things are clean unto you But wo unto you Pharisees Luke V. 42 for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs and passe over judgement and the love of God these ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone * Matth. Ch. 23 V. 6 Wo unto you Pharisees Luke V. 43 for ye love the uppermost seats in the Synagogues and greetings in the markets Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites Luke V. 44 for ye are as graves which appeare not and the men that walk over them are not aware of them Then answered one of the lawyers Luke V. 45 and said unto him Master thus saying thou reproachest us also And he said Luke V. 46 Wo unto you also ye lawyers for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be born and ye your selves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers * Matth. Ch. 23 V. 29 Wo unto you Luke Ch. 11 V. 47 for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and your fathers killed them Luke V. 48 Truly ye beare witnesse that ye allow the deeds of your fathers for they indeed killed them and ye build their sepulchres Luke V. 49 Therefore also said the wisdome of God I will send them prophets and apostles and some of them they shall slay and persecute Luke V. 50 That the bloud of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation From the bloud of Abel unto the bloud of Zacharias Luke V. 51 which perished between the altar and the temple verily I say unto you it shall be required of this generation * Matth. Ch. 23 V. 13 Wo unto you lawyers Luke V. 52 for ye have taken away the key of knowledge ye entred not in your selves and them that were entring in ye hindred Luke V. 53 And as he said these things unto them the Scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently and to provoke him to speak of many things Laying wait for him Luke V. 54 and secking to catch something out of his mouth that they might accuse him CHAP. CX A large sermon of Christs to his disciples and to the people Sect. I. Of shunning hypocrisie L Luke Ch. 12 V. 1 IN * Matth. Ch. 16 V. 6 the mean time when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people insomuch that they trode one upon another he began to say unto his disciples first of all Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisie * Matth. Ch. 10 V. 26 For there is nothing covered Luke V. 2 that shall not be revealed neither hid that shall not be known Luke Ch. 12 V. 3 Therefore whatsoever yet have spoken in darknesse shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the eare in closets shall be proclaimed upon the house tops Sect. II. Of the constant confession of the truth and of Christ And I say unto you my friends Luke V. 4 Be not afraid of them that kill the bodie and after that have no more that they can do Luke V. 5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear Fear him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell yea I say unto you Fear him * Matth. Ch. 10 V. 29 Luke V. 6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings and not one of them is forgotten before God Luke V. 7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbred Fear not therefore ye are of more value then many sparrows * Matth. Ch. 10 V. 32 Luke V. 8 Also I say unto you Whosoever shall confesse me before men him shall the Sonne of man also confesse before the angels of God Luke V. 9 But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God * Matth. Ch. 12 V. 31 Luke V. 10 And whosoever shall speak a word against the Sonne of man it shall be forgiven him but unto him that blasphemeth against the holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven * Matth. Ch. 10 V. 19 Luke V. 11 And when they bring you unto the Synagogues and unto magistrates and powers take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer or what ye shall say Luke V. 12 For the holy Ghost shall teach you in the same houre what ye ought to say Sect. III. A dehortation from covetousnesse and care And one of the companie said unto him Master Luke V. 13 speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me And he said unto him Luke V. 14 Man who made me a judge or a divider over you Luke Ch. 12 V. 15 And he said unto them Take heed and beware of covetousnesse for a mans life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth Luke V. 16 And he spake a parable unto them saying The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully And he thought within himself saying Luke V. 17 What shall I do because I have no room where to bestow my fruits And he said This will I do Luke V. 18 I will pull down my barns and build greater and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods Luke V. 19 And I will say to my soul Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many yeares take thine ease eat drink and be merrie But God said unto him Luke V. 20 Thou fool this night thy soul shall be required of thee then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided Luke V. 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich towards God Luke V. 22 And he said unto his disciples Therefore I say unto you * Matth. Ch. 6 V. 25 Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat neither for the bodie what ye shall put on Luke V. 23 The life is more then meat and the bodie is more then raiment Consider the ravens
Mr. Matth. V. 28 when they shall rise Mark V. 23 whose wife shall she be of them M Matth. V. 28 seven for they all Mr. Mark V. 23 seven had her to wife Mark V. 24 And Jesus answering said unto them Do ye not therefore erre because ye know not the scriptures neither the power of God L Luke V. 34 The children of this world marrie and are given in marriage Luke V. 35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world and the resurrection from the dead neither marrie nor are given in marriage M Matth. V. 30 For in the resurrection Mr. Mark V. 25 when they shall rise from the dead they neither marrie nor are given in marriage L Luke V. 35 Neither can they die any more M Matth. V. 30 but are as the angels of God Mr. Mark V. 25 which are in heaven L Luke V. 35 for they are equall unto the angels and are the children of God being the children of the resurrection M Matth. V. 31 But as touching the resurrection of the dead L Luke V. 37 that the dead are raised even Moses shewed at the bush when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Mr. Mark Ch. 12 V. 26 Have ye not read in the book of Moses M Matth. V. 31 that which was spoken unto you by God saying Mr. Mark Ch. 12 V. 26 how in the bush God spake unto him saying I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob L Luke Ch. 20 V. 38 For M Matth. Ch. 22 V. 32 God is not the God of the dead Mr. Mark V. 27 but the God of the living L Luke Ch. 20 V. 38 for all live unto him Mr. Mark V. 27 ye therefore do greatly erre M Matth. V. 33 And when the multitude heard this they were astonished at his doctrine L Luke V. 39 Then certain of the Scribes answering said Master thou hast well said And after that Luke V. 40 they durst not ask him any question at all CHAP. CLVI Christs answer to the Scribe concerning the greatest commandment of the Law M Matth. V. 34 BUt when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadduces to silence they were gathered together Matth. V. 35 Then one of them which was a lawyer Mr. Mark V. 28 one of the Scribes came and having heard them reasoning together and perceiving that he had answered them well asked him M Matth. V. 36 a question tempting him and saying Master which is Mr. Mark V. 28 the first M Matth. V. 36 great commandment Mr. Mark V. 28 of all M Matth. V. 36 in the Law Mr. Mark V. 29 And Jesus answered and M Matth. V. 36 said unto him Mr. Mark V. 29 The first of all the commandments is Heare O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord * Luke Ch. 10 V. 27 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart Mark V. 30 and with all thy soul and with all thy minde and with all thy strength this is the first M Matth. V. 38 39 and great commandment And the second is like unto it Mr. Mark V. 31 namely this Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self there is no other commandment greater then these M Matth. V. 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the prophets Mr. Mark Ch. 12 V. 32 And the Scribe said unto him Well Master thou hast said the truth for there is one God and there is none other but he Mark V. 33 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the soul and with all the strength and to love his neighbour as himself is more then all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices Mark V. 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly he said unto him Thou art not farre from the kingdome of God And no man after that durst ask him any question CHAP. CLVII Jesus propounds a question to the Pharisees concerning Christ whose sonne he should be M Matth. Ch. 22 V. 41 WHile the Pharisees were gathered together Jesus asked them Mr. Mark V. 35 while he taught in the temple M Matth. V. 42 Saying What think ye of Christ whose sonne is he They say unto him The sonne of David Mr. Mark V. 35 And Jesus answered and said M Matth. V. 42 unto them Mr. Mark V. 35 How say the Scribes that Christ is the sonne of David M Matth. V. 43 How then doth David in spirit call him Lord Mr. Mark V. 36 For David himself said by the holy Ghost L Luke Ch. 20 V. 42 in the book of psalmes The LORD said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand Luke V. 43 Till I make thine enemies thy footstool Mr. Mark V. 37 David therefore himself calleth him Lord. M Matth. V. 45 If David then call him Lord how Mr. Mark V. 37 and whence M Matth. V. 46 is he his sonne And no man was able to answer him a word neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any moe questions Mr. Mark V. 37 And the common people heard him gladly CHAP. CLVIII Christ sharply inveighs against the Scribes and Pharisees taxeth their vices and denounceth heavy punishments against them Sect. 1. M Matth. Ch. 23 V. 1 THen spake Jesus to the multitude and to his disciples L Luke Ch. 20 V. 45 for then in the audience of all the people he spake to his disciples Mr. Mark Ch. 12 V. 38 And he said unto them in his doctrine M Matth. V. 2 Saying The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat Matth. V. 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe that observe and do but do not ye after their works for they say Matth. V. 4 and do not For they binde heavy burdens and grievous to be born and lay them on mens shoulders but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers Matth. V. 5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments * Luke Ch. 11 V. 43 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts Matth. V. 6 and the chief seats in the Synagogues And greetings in the markets Matth. V. 7 Mr. Mark Ch. 12 V. 38 Beware of the Scribes which love and L Luke V. 46 desire to walk in long robes and love greetings in the markets and the highest seats in the Synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts M Matth. V. 8 and to be called of men Rabbi Rabbi But be not ye called Rabbi for one is
ye shall be sorrowfull but your sorrow shall be turned into joy John V. 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow because her houre is come but assoon as she is delivered of the childe she remembreth no more the anguish for joy that a man is born into the world And ye now therefore have sorrow John V. 22 but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce and your joy no man taketh from you John V. 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing * Matth. Ch. 7 V. 7 Verily verily I say unto you Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name John V. 24 he will give it you Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full John V. 25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs the time cometh when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs but I shall shew you plainly of the Father John V. 26 At that day ye shall ask in my name and I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for you For the Father himself loveth you John V. 27 because ye have loved me and have beleeved that I came out from God I came forth from the Father John V. 28 and am come into the world again I leave the world and go to the Father John V. 29 His disciples said unto him Lo now speakest thou plainly and speakest no proverb John V. 30 Now are we sure that thou knowest all things and needest not that any man should ask thee by this we beleeve that thou camest forth from God Jesus answered them John Ch. 16 V. 31 Do ye now beleeve * Matth. Ch. 26 V. 31 Behold the houre cometh John V. 32 yea is now come that ye shall be scattered every man to his own and shall leave me alone and yet I am not alone because the Father is with me These things I have spoken unto you John V. 33 that in me ye might have peace in the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good cheer I have overcome the world CHAP. CLXXX Christ prayes ardently for his own glorification and the conservation of the church Sect. I. J John Ch. 17 V. 1 THese words spake Jesus and lift up his eyes to heaven and said Father the houre is come glorifie thy Sonne that thy Sonne also may glorifie thee * Matth. Ch. 28 V. 18 As thou hast given him power over all flesh John V. 2 that he should give eternall life to as many as thou hast given him John V. 3 And this is life eternall that they may know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent John V. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do John V. 5 And now O Father glorifie thou me with thine own self with the glorie which I had with thee before the world was Sect. II. I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world John V. 6 thine they were and thou gavest them me and they have kept thy word John V. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me John Ch. 17 V. 8 and they have received them * John Ch. 16 V. 27 and have known surely that I came out from thee and they have beleeved that thou didst send me I pray for them John V. 9 I pray not for the world but for them which thou hast given me for they are thine And all mine are thine John V. 10 and thine are mine and I am glorified in them John V. 11 And now I am no more in the world but these are in the world and I come to thee Holy Father keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me that they may be one as we are John V. 12 While I was with them in the world I kept them in thy name those that thou gavest me I have kept and none of them is lost but the sonne of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled John V. 13 And now come I to thee and these things I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them because they are not of the world John V. 14 even as I am not of the world John V. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil They are not of the world even as I am not of the world John V. 16 Sanctifie them through thy truth thy word is truth As thou hast sent me into the world John V. 17 even so have I also sent them into the world John V. 18 And for their sakes I sanctifie my self John V. 19 that they also might be sanctified through the truth Sect. III. Neither pray I for these alone John V. 20 but for them also which shall beleeve on me through their word That they all may be one John V. 21 as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us that the world may beleeve that thou hast sent me John V. 22 And the glorie which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one even as we are one John Ch. 17 V. 23 I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me * John Ch. 17 V. 24 Ch. 12 V. 26 Father I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am that they may behold my glorie which thou hast given me for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world John V. 25 O righteous Father the world hath not known thee but I have known thee and these have known that thou hast sent me John V. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name and will declare it that the love where with thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them CHAP. CLXXXI The historie of the passion crucifying death and buriall of Christ His departure out of Jerusalem into mount Olivet with his prophesie of the flight of the disciples M Matth. Ch. 26 V. 30 ANd when they had sung an hymne they went out into the mount of Olives For J John Ch. 18 V. 1 when Jesus had spoken these words L Luke Ch. 22 V. 39 he came out and went J John Ch. 18 V. 1 with his disciples over the brook Cedron L Luke Ch. 22 V. 39 as he was wont to the mount of Olives