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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45436	A paraphrase and annotations upon all the books of the New Testament briefly explaining all the difficult places thereof / by H. Hammond.	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing H573B; ESTC R28692	3,063,581	1,056

are here called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 boastings and they that take pleasure in such language in assuming thus to themselves speaking thus magnificently of their own purposes are here said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to rejoice or glory in such boasting and though all sort of rejoicing be not yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all such kind of rejoicing is evil v. 16. and that in an high degree CHAP. V. 1. GO to now ye rich men weep and howle for your miseries that shall come upon you Paraphrase 1. There will now shortly come such daies that all the rich among you or that place any part of their interest on this world are likely to have a very mournfull time of it in respect of their great disappointments and the sad destructions and calamities that are about to fall on the Jewes 2. Your riches are corrupted and your garments moth-eaten Paraphrase 2. You have not employed your wealth like faithfull stewards as God hath appointed you to the relief of them that want but let them not in your hands for want of use your food like Manna is putrified by being kept Exod. 16. 20. and so the garments which would have covered the needy being laid up in your wardrobes are devoured by moths 3. Your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witnesse against you and shall eat your flesh note a as it were fire ye have heaped treasure together for the last daies Paraphrase 3. And that rust which is wont to breed in iron by lying unused breeds in your coin your gold silver which are not ordinarily capable of rust and this covetous withholding more then is meet will not onely tend to your want but is moreover a foul and crying sinne that shall rise in judgment against you and shall gnaw on and devour your flesh your treasuring up wealth is as the treasuring up fire which shall onely help to bring more miseries upon you and so more fearfully to consume you when the destruction of the Jews now approaching comes and falls most sharply upon the wealthiest men as icon after it fell our 4. Behold the hire of the labourers which have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud crieth and the cries of them which have reaped are entred into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth Paraphrase 4. These riches of yours have not kept you from being unjust but rather tempted you to oppression of the poor labourer And this griping and cruelty of yours is a crying sin and will bring down severe vengeance upon you from the Lord of hosts 5. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and been wanton ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter Paraphrase 5. You have set your hearts upon the pitifull poor delights and joyes of this earth lived delicately and luxuriously as Dives And what hath all this been but the pampering your selves as it were for the shambles 6. Ye have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you Paraphrase 6. Your nation hath condemned Christ to death and crucified him he making no resistence and now ye Gnostick Judaizers have dealt in like manner with the pure orthodox Christians 7. Be patient therefore brethren unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the pretious fruit of the earth and hath long patience for it untill he receive the early and latter rain Paraphrase 7. As for you that are Christians indeed and are now persecuted by them ye may be confident that Christ will shortly come and avenge his and your cause upon them see ver 8. and therefore ye may well wait patiently so short a space till that time come and then you shall be rescued from the present distresses see Note on Mat. 24. b. For thus doth the husbandman give you an example of patience waiting for the fruit of the earth and in order to that for the showers that come in the seed-time to sit the ground and before harvest or reaping to plump the corn and accordingly he defers to do one or other to sow or reap with patience and attendance to the other duties of his calling till those seasons come 8. Be ye also patient stablish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh Paraphrase 8. And their example ye may very fitly transcribe at this time and thereby confirm and encourage your selves in your adherence to Christ whatever your sufferings are as being assured that coming of Christ described Mat. 24. in vengeance on his enemies is now very near approaching see Mat. 24. b. and Heb. 10. 37. 9. note c Grudge not one against another brethren lest ye be condemned behold the Judge standeth before the door Paraphrase 9. Envy not one another break not out into those acts of zeal or emulation● or murmuring against one another lest you bring that vengeance upon you for behold the coming of Christ to the destruction of the Jewes and malicious persecuting Gnosticks is now very nigh at hand see Mat. 24. b. 10. Take my brethren the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience Paraphrase 10. And whatsoever the temptations or persecutions are which might tempt you to comply and joyn with the persecuters consider what ye read and know of the prophets of God in the old Testament who when they came to proclaim God's judgments against the sinful Jewes were generally very contumeliously used by them but yet never sainted or were discouraged thereby and such examples will fortifie you against the like temptations that they may not have any impression on you to weary you out of your constancy and bring you to join with the Judaizers 11. Behold we count them happy which endure Ye have heard of the patience of Job and have seen the end of the Lord that the Lord is pitifull and of tender mercy Paraphrase 11. There is nothing that according to the principles of Christianity is more honourable and blisseful then suffering patiently and constantly You remember what sufferings Job met with and upon his patient bearing of them what in the end the Lord gave him double to all that he had lost Job 42. 10. By which it appears how far God is from despising us in our afflictions or leaving us in the hands of the persecuters how much he loves and how careful he is of you 12. But above all things my brethren swear not neither by heaven nor by the earth nor by any other oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest you fall into note d condemnation Paraphrase 12. One special caveat I shall farther give you that ye permit not your selves that custome of swearing by heaven or earth or any other form of oath In stead of such unnecessary customes it will be much more for your turn that

be just in the sight of God or any meritorious act that was thus rewarded in him see note on c. 3. b. For if it were then would it not be said that God did account or reckon his faith unto him for righteousnesse that is freely out of meer mercy justifie him as v. 3. it was and v. 5. is again said these two phrases it was reputed to him for righteousnesse there and were it is reputed to him according to grace or favour being directly of the same importance but that upon his perfect innocence and blamelesnesse God was bound by lawes of strict justice to reward and crown his innocence and his virtues as paying him that which he ought him a due debt and not freely giving it him by way of favour and grace as is implied in accounting or imputing to him for righteousnesse 5. But to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousnesse Paraphrase 5. But his way of justification was by believing pardon for sinners upon reformation and thereupon reforming and giving himself up to doe whatsoever God now would have him doe and so 't was not any originall innocence of his which might challenge the reward as due but onely God's acceptation of his faith which was an act of God's meer mercy and that may be vouchsafed to Idolatrous Gentiles upon their repentance as well as to him and their receiving of the faith and leaving their former courses of sinne on Christs command as he did in his countrey upon God's be accepted to the justification 6. Even as David also describeth the blessednesse of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without works Paraphrase 6. Agreeable to which is that description of blessednesse in David Psal 32. that he is blessed whom the Lord out of his free grace and pardon of sinne accepteth and accounteth as righteous and not on any merit of their own performances that is that blessednesse consists in having this Evangelical way of justifying sinners or those who have been sinners and now repent and return vouchsafed to any man not that of never having lived in sinne for want of which the Jewes will not admit the Gentiles to any hope of justification but the other I say of mercy and forgivenesse upon reformation and forsaking their former evil waies as appears by the words of the Psalme 7. Saying Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sinnes are covered Paraphrase 7. Blessed are they not who never sinn'd at all that were never in a wicked or wrong course as of the Gentiles it is acknowledged that they were but who having been ill have reformed and found place of repentance and of mercy upon reformation meerly by the forgivenesse and pardon of God 8. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sinne Paraphrase 8. Blessed is the man whose sinne though he have been guilty as 't is acknowledg'd the Gentiles have is not charged on him by God but freely pardoned and forgiven unto him upon his reformation 9. Cometh this blessednesse then upon the circumcision onely or upon the uncircumcision also for we say that faith was reckoned unto Abraham for righteousnesse Paraphrase 9. This then being the nature of the Evangelical course of God's gracious way of dealing with sinners giving them place for repentance and upon the sincerity of that justifying and accepting them whatsoever their former sinnes have been we may now farther consider whether this course may not be taken with uncircumcised Gentiles as well as with the Jewes and that will best be done by considering how God dealt with Abraham and what condition Abraham was in when God thus reckoned his faith to him for righteousnesse or justified and approved of him and rewarded him so richly for believing 10. How was it then reckoned when he was in circumcision or in uncircumcision not in circumcision but in uncircumcision Paraphrase 10. And of this the account is easie if we but observe the time when Abraham's justification is spoken of viz. when those words were said of him Abraham believed and it was counted to him for righteousnesse For we find that was Gen. 15. 6. before he was circumcised ch 17. 24. and therefore it could not be a privilege annext to circumcision but is a grace and favour of God whereof the uncircumcised Gentiles are no lesse capable then the Jewes who are within the covenant of circumcision which is an evidence that receiving of Christ now and believing and obeying of him as then Abraham obeyed will be accepted by God without circumcision 11. And he received the signe of circumcision a seal of the righteousnesse of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised that he might be the father of all them that believe though they be not circumcised that righteousnesse might be imputed unto them also Paraphrase 11. And being justified after this Evangelical manner upon his faith without and before circumcision he received the sacrament of circumcision for a seal on his part of his performing those commands of God given to him his walking before him sincerely Gen. 17. 1. upon which the covenant is made to him and thus sealed v. 2 4 10. and on God's part for a testification of that faith of his and obsignation of that precedent justification and so by consequence he is the father in a spirituall sense that is an exemplar or copy which they that transcribe are called his sonnes of every uncircumcised believer who therefore succeeds him as a son to a father in that privilege of being justified before God 12. And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision onely but also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had being yet uncircumcised Paraphrase 12. And in like manner a spirituall father conveying down mercies and the inheritance to the Jewes that were circumcised and do now convert to Christ and so besides circumcision which they drew from him do also transcribe his diviner Copy follow his example of faith and obedience which were remarkable in him before he was circumcised leave their sinnes as he did his countrey and believe all Gods promises and adhere to him against all temptations to the contrary 13. For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the Law but through the righteousness of faith Paraphrase 13. For the great promise made to Abraham and his posterity that they should possesse so great a part of the world Idumaea and a great deal more beside Canaan under which also heaven was typically promised and comprehended Heb. 11. 14 16. was not made by the Mosaicall Law or consequently upon condition of performing and observing of that see note on Mat. 5. g. but by this other Evangelicall way of new obedience without having observed the Law of Moses without being circumcised 14. For if they which are of the Law