the heart of men proceede euill thoughts adulteries fornications murders 22. Thefts coueteousnesse wickednesse deceit lasciuiousnesse an euill eye blasphemie pride foolishnesse 23. All these euill things come from within and defile the man 31. 1. Cor. 10. Whether ye eate or drinke or whatsoeuer yee do doe all to the glorie of God 1. Tim. 4. 4. For euerie creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be receiued with thanksgiuing 5. For it is sanctified by the Word of God and prayer 1. Cor. 8. 9. But take heede least by any meanes this libertie of yours become a stumbling blocke to them that are weake Rom. 14. 15. If thy brother bee grieued with thy meate now walkest thou not charitably destroy not him with thy meate for whom Christ died 20. All things indeede are pure but it is euill for that man who eateth with offence 21. It is neither good to eate flesh nor to drinke wine nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weake 13. 1. Cor. 8. If meate make my brother offend I will eate no flesh while the world standeth lest I make my brother to offend 2. Rom. 14. One beleeueth that he may eate all things another who is weake eateth herbes 3. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not and let not him which eateth not iudge him that eateth for God hath receiued him Rom. 14. 6. Hee that eateth eateth to the Lord for hee giueth God thankes and hee that eateth not to the Lord hee eateth not and giueth God thanks 23. Hee that doubteth is damned if hee eate because hee eateth not of faith for whatsoeuer is not of faith is sinne 19. Let vs therefore follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith one may edifie another Loue and Charitie 7. BEloued 1. Iohn 4. let vs loue one another for loue is of God and euery one that loueth is borne of God and knoweth God 8. Hee that loueth not knoweth not God for God is loue 12. If we loue one another God dwelleth in vs and his loue is perfect in vs. 16. God is loue and he that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him 10. 2. He that loueth his brother abideth in the light and there is no occasioÌ„ of stumbling in him 11. But hee that hateth his brother is in darknesse 1. Iohh 4. and walketh in darkenesse and knoweth not whether hee goeth because that darknesse hath blinded his eyes 20. If a man say I loue GOD and hateth his brother hee is a lier for hee that loueth not his brother whom he hath seene how can he loue God whom he hath not seene 21. And this commandement haue wee from him that hee that loueth GOD loue his brother also 10. Rom. 13. Loue worketh no ill to his neighbour therefore loue is the fullfilling of the law 14. Gal. 5. For all the law is fullfilled in one word euen in this thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe 15. But if yee bite and deuoure one another take heed ye be not consumed one of another 9. 1. Thes 4. Yee your selues are taught of God to loue one another 22. 1. Pet. 1. See that ye loue one another with a pure heart feruently 1. Tim. 1. 5. The end of the commandement is charitie out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith vnfained 1. Iohn 3. 18 Let vs not loue in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth Deut. 15. 7. Thou shalt not harden thy heart nor shut thine hand from thy poore brother 8. But thou shalt open thy hand wide vnto him and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his neede in that which hee wanteth 10. Thou shalt surely giue him and thine heart shall not be grieued when thou giuest vnto him because that for this thing the Lord thy GOD shall blesse thee in all thy works and in all that thou puttest â—hine hand vnto 27 He that giueth vnto the poore shall not lacke Pro. 28. but he that hideth his eyes shall haue many a curse 17. 19. He that hath pittie vpon the poore lendeth vnto the Lord and that which he hath giuen will he pay him againe 1. Psal 41. Blessed is he that considereth the poore needy the Lord will deliuer him in time of trouble Rom. 12 8. He that giueth let him do it with simplicitie he that sheweth mercie with cheerefulnesse 1. Iohn 3. 17. Who so hath this worlds good and seeth his brother hath neede and shutteth vp his bowells of compassion from him how dwelleth the loue of God in him 1. Peter 4. 8. Aboue all things haue feruent charitie among your selues for charitie shall couer the multitude of sinnes 1. Cor. 16. 14. Let all your things be done with charitie 1. Thes 3. 12. And the Lord make you to increase and to abound in loue one towards another and towards all men Prayer 8. 1. Tim. 2. I Will that men pray euery where lifting vp holy hands without wrath and doubting 18. Ephe. 6. Praying alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the spirit 20. Iude Build vp your selues in your most holy faith praying in the holy Ghost 24. Mark 11. What things soeuer yee desire when yee pray beleeue that ye receiue them and yee shall haue them 25. And when ye stand praying forgiue if ye haue ought against any that your father also which is in heauen may forgiue you your trespasses 26. But if you do not forgiue neither will your father which is in heauen forgiue you your trespasses Mat. 6. 5. When thou prayest thou shalt not bee as the Hipocrites are for they loue to stand praying in Synagogues and in the corners of the streete that they may be seene of men verily I say vnto you they haue their reward 6. But thou when thou prayest enter into thy closet and when thou hast shut thy doore pray to thy father which is in secret and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly 7. When you pray vse not vaine repetitions as the heathen doe for they thinke that they shall bee heard for their much speaking 41. Lam. 3. Let vs lift vp our heart with our hands vnto God in the heauens 14. 1. Cor. 14. If I pray in an vnknowne tongue my spirit prayeth but mine vnderstanding is vnfruitfull 15. I will pray with the spirit and will pray with vnderstanding also 19. In the Church I had rather speake fiue words with my vnderstanding that by my voice I might teach others also then ten thousand words in an vnknowne tongue 8. For if the trumpet giue an vncertaine sound who shall prepare himselfe to the battaile 6. So likewise you except yee vtter by the tongue words easie to bee vnderstood how shall it bee knowne what is spoken for ye speake into
to the hill of the Lord Isa 2.3 to the house of the GOD of Iacob and he will teach vs his wayes and wee shall walke in his pathes and let not obscuritie discourage vs. 〈…〉 The heads contained are these viz. A Preparation Fol. 2 God Fol. 5 The Scriptures Fol. 12 The Church Fol. 23 Traditions Fol. 28 Images Fol. 38 Inuocation Fol. 47 Adoration Fol. 53 Faith Fol. 61 Repentance Fol. 64 Confession Fol. 68 Faith and workes Fol. 73 Iustification Fol. 81 Fasting Fol. 90 Meates Fol. 98 Loue and Charity Fol. 105 Prayer Fol. 111 One Mediator Fol. 116 Our propitiation Purgatory and satisfaction Fol. 118 Sinnes Fol. 124. Will. Fol. 130 Hypocrisie Fol. 135 Riches Fol. 139 Patience Fol. 145 Humility Fol. 149 The holy Eucharist Fol. 155 The happinesse of Gods seruants Fol. 164 The vanitie of the world Fol. 167 The end of the world Fol. 171 The Iudgement Fol. 179 Psalmes Of Confession Fol. 200 Of contrition Fol. 203 For remission Fol. 206 For mercie and direction Fol. 209 For vnderstanding Fol. 212 In trouble Fol. 215. For deliuerance Fol. 217 Against our Enemies Fol. 220 Of Confidence in Gods mercie Fol. 225 Acknowledging Gods mercie Fol. 228 Magnifying Gods mercie and goodnesse Fol. 233 Of praise Fol. 236 Psalmes in Sicknesse 1 Psalme in sicknesse Fol. 242 2 Psalme Fol. 244 3 Psalme Fol. 246 4 Psalme Fol. 248 A Prayer Fol. 252 The soules Comfort Fol. 254 AN EPISTLE GENERALL Beloued 1. 1. Tim. 4. THe Spirit speaketh expressely that in the latter times some shall depart from the Faith giuing heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of diuels 2. Speaking lyes in hypocrisie hauing their conscience seared with a hot iron 3. Forbidding to marrie and commanding to abstaine from meats which God hath created to bee receiued with thankesgiuing of them which beleeue and know the truth 1. Tim 4. 4. For euery creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be receiued with thankesgiuing 5. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer Tit. 1. 10. There are many vnruly and vaine-talkers and deceiuers 11. Whose mouthes must be stopped who subuert whole houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucres sake 14. Giue not heed to Iewish fables and commandements of men that turne from the truth 5. 1. Ioh. 4. They are of the world therefore speake they of the world and the world heareth them 6. We are of God hee that knoweth God heareth vs hee that is not of God heareth not vs hereby know wee the spirit of truth and the spirit of errour 8. Beware Col. 2. lest any man spoile you through phylosophie and vaine deceit after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world not after Christ 9. For in him dwelleth all the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily 10. And wee are compleate in him which is the head of all principalitie power 2. Tim. 2. 14. Striue not about words to no profit but to the subuerting of the hearers 23. Foolish and vnlearned questions auoide knowing that they do gender strifes Phil. 1. 27. Stand fast in one spirit with one mind striuing together for the faith of the Gospell 28. And in nothing terrified by your aduersaries which is to them an euident token of perdition but to you of saluation that of God 29. For vnto you it is giuen in the behalfe of Christ not onely to beleeue on him but also to suffer for his sake 12. Col. 3. Put on therefore as the elect of God holy and beloued bowells of mercies kindnesse humblenesse of mind meekenesse long suffering 13. Forbearing one another and forgiuing one another if any man haue a quarrell against any euen as Christ forgaue you so also do ye 14. And aboue all things put on charitie which is the bond of perfectnesse 15. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also yee are called in one body and be ye thankfull 17. And whatsoeuer ye do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Iesus giuing thankes to God and the Father by him 6. Phil. 4. Bee carefull for nothing but in euery thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiuing let your requests bee made knowne vnto God 23. Col. 1. Continue in the faith grounded and setled and be not mooued away from the hope of the Gospell which ye haue heard and which was preached to euery creature which is vnder heauen 14 That ye henceforth bee no more children tossed too and fro Ephes 4. and carried about with euery wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craftinesse whereby they lye in wait to deceiue 15. But speaking the truth in loue may grow vp into him in al things which is the head euen Christ Phil. 1. 9. And this I pray that your loue may abound yet more and more in knowledge in all iudgement 10. That yee may approue things that are excellent that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ 11. Being filled with the fruites of righteousnesse which are by Iesus Christ vnto the glorie and praise of God Amen ORACLES AND PSALTERIES OF THE HOLY GHOST WHat Nation is there so great Deut. 4.8 that hath Statutes Iudgments so righteous as all this Law which I set before you this day This is the way Isa 30.21 walke ye in it when ye turne to the right hand and when ye turne to the left Deut. 12.34 Thou shalt not adde thereto nor diminish from it Preparation Amos 4. 12. PRepare to meet thy God ô Israel 1. Sam. 12. 23. I will teach you the good and the right way 24. Only feare the Lord and serue him in truth with all your heart Mat. 6. 33. Seeke yee first the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse and all things shall be added vnto you Psal 37. 4. Delight thy selfe also in the Lord and he shall giue thee the desires of thine heart 5. Pro. 3. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and leane not vnto thine owne vnderstanding 6. In all thy wayes acknowledge him and hee shall direct thy paths 4. Psal 91. He shall couer thee with his feathers and vnder his wing shalt thou trust his truth shall be thy shield and buckler 8. 34. O tast and see that the Lord is good blessed is the man that trusteth in him 5. 146. Happy is he that hath the God of Iacob for his helpe whose hope is in the Lord his God Psal 27. 14. Waite on the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart Waite I say on the Lord. 125. 1. They that trust in the Lord shall bee as Mount Sion which cannot bee remoued but abideth for euer 2. As the mountaines are round about Ierusalem so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth euen for euer God 8. HEare ô my
For if any be a hearer of the word and not a doer he is like vnto a man beholding his naturall face in a glasse 24. For hee beholdeth himselfe and goeth his way and straight way forgetteth what manner of man he was Iam. 1. 25. But who so looketh into the perfect law of libertie continueth therin he being not a forgetfull hearer but a doer of the worke this man shall be blessed in his deed 26. If any among you seeme to be religious and bridle not his tongue but deceiueth his owne heart this mans religion is vaine 27. Pure religion and vndefiled before God and the father is this to visit the fatherlesse and the widdowes in their affliction and to keepe himselfe vnspotted from the world Rom. 2. 13. Not the hearers of the law are iust before God but the doers of the law shall be iustified 21. Mat. 7. Not euery one that saith vnto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdome of heauen but hee that doth the will of my father which is in heauen 24. Whosoeuer heareth these sayings of mine and doth them I will liken him vnto a wise man which built his house vpon a rock 25. And the raine descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beate vpon that house and it fell not for it was founded vpon a rocke Math. 7. 26. And euery one that heareth these sayings of mine and doth them not shall be likened vnto a foolish man which built his house vpon the sand 27. And the raine descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat vpon that house and it fell and great was the fall of that house 5. 16. Let your light so shine before mē that they may see your good works and glorifie your father which is in heauen 5. Peter 1. 5. Adde to your faith vertue to vertue knowledge 6. And to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse 7. And to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnes charitie 8. For if these things be in you and abound they make you that you shall neither be barren nor vnfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus Christ 9. But he that lacketh these things is blind cannot see farre off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sinnes 2. Pet. 1. 10. Wherefore the rather brethren giue diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things yee shall neuer fall 11. For so an entrance shall bee ministred vnto you abundantly into the euerlasting kingdome of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Tit. 3. 8. This is a faithfull saying and these things I will that thou affirme constantly that they which haue beleeued in God might be carefull to maintaine good workes these things are good and profitable vnto men 14. Iam. 2. What doth it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith and haue not works can faith saue him 15. If a brother or a sister be naked and destitute of dayly foode 16. And one of you say vnto them depart in peace bee you warmed and filled notwithstanding yee giue them not those things which are needfull for the body what doth it profit 17. Euen so faith if it haue not works is dead being alone Iames 2. 21. Was not Abraham our father iustified by works when hee had offered Isaac his sonne vpon the Altar 22. Seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect 23. And the Scripture was fullfilled which saith Abraham beleeued God and it was imputed to him for righteousnesse and he was called the friend of GOD. 24. Yee see then how that by workes a man is iustified and not by faith onely 26. For as the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also Iustification 19. NOw wee know Rom. 3. that what things soeuer the law saith it saith to them that are vnder the law that euery mouth may bee stopped and all the world may become guiltie before God 20. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shal no flesh bee iustified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sinne Rom. 3. 21. But now the righteousnesse of God without the law is manifested being witnessed by the law and the Prophets 22. Euen the righteousnesse of God which is by faith of Iesus Christ vnto all and vpon all them that beleeue for there is no difference 23. For all haue sinned and come short of the glory of God 24. Being iustified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Iesus Christ 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is iustified by faith without the deeds of the law 31. Do wee then make voyde the law through faith God forbid yea we establish the law 4 To him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace but of debt Rom. 4. 5. But to him that worketh not but beleeueth on him that iustifieth the vngodly his faith is counted for righteousnesse 13. The promise that he should be the heire of the world was not to Abraham or his seed thorough the law but thorough the righteousnesse of faith Rom. 4. 14. For if they which are of the law be heires faith is made voyd and the promise made of none effect Rom. 5. 1. Being iustified by faith wee haue peace with God through our Lord Iesus Christ 2. By whom also wee haue accesse by faith into his grace wherin we stand and reioyce in hope of the glory of God 18. As by the offence of one iudgement came vpon all men to condemnation euē so by the righteousnesse of one the free gift came vpon all men vnto iustification of life 5. Titus 3. Not by workes of righteousnesse which wee haue done but according to his mercy hee saued vs by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost 6. Which he shed on vs abundantly through Iesus Christ our sauiour 7. That being iustified by his grace we should be made heires according to the hope of eternall life 8. Ephe. 2. By grace are yee saued through faith and that not of your selues it is the gift of God 9. Not of workes least any man should boast Galat. 5. 4. Christ is become of none effect vnto you whosoeuer of you are iustified by the law yee are fallen from grace 5. For we through the spirit waite for the hope of righteousnesse by faith 6. For in Iesus Christ neither circumcision auaileth any thing nor vncircumcision but faith which worketh by loue Luk. 17. 10. When ye shall haue done all those things which are commanded you say wee are vnprofitable seruants wee haue done that which was our dutie to doe 8. Phil. 3. I count all things but losse for the excellencie of the knowledge of Christ Iesus my Lord for whom I haue suffered the losse of all things and doe count them