kind of storehouse for advice in matters of Religion We account them the surest Rule of life the divine beam and most exact ballance But the Papists see well enough that whiles the authority of the Scriptures standeth Divina slatera Aug. Exactissima trutina Chrysost the traditions of their Popes cannot be established which they account the touchstone of doctrine and foundation of faith And in favour of their unwritten verities as they call them they tell us but falsly that Christ commanded his Apostles to preach but not to write Lying children and therefore not Gods children chap. 63.8 Ver. 10. Which say to the Seers See net c. strang impudency but in thus reciting their words the Prophet rather expresseth their spirit then their speeches And yet it may be that the Polititians of those times blamed the Prophets Isaiah and the rest â—â—â—â—ragmatical for interposing and medling in State-matters and pressing the Law so strictly sith in cases of necessity as now it was they must make bold to borrow a little Law of the holy one of Israel Speak unto us smooth things Heb. smoothnesses toothless truths and such as may speak you No-medlers Ver. 11. Get ye out of the way If that be the way which you so much insist upon warp a little remit of your rigour Religiosum opertet esse sed non religentem Cause the holy one of Israel to depart from us Desinat ille nos per Prophet as obtundere let 's hear no more of him molest us not with so many messages from him see Mic. 2.6 Ver. 12. Wherefore thus saith the holy one of Israel The Prophet doth on purpose repeat this title so much disrelished by them to cross them Ministers must not be men-pleasers Ver. 13. Therefore this iniquity shall be unto you q. d. your Commonwealth is tumbling down apace and ye are hastening the utter ruin of it as if ye were ambitious of your own destruction which will be as suddain so total ver 14. Ver. 14. And he shall break it as the breaking of a Potters vessel Collige ex hoc loco saith Oecolampadius Gather we may from this text that remediless ruin wil befall such as resist the Holy Ghost and sin against light Ver. 15. The Holy one of Israel A stile much in the mouths of Gods Prophets in those times But how great arrogancy is it in the Pope to take unto him the title of His Holiness In returning and rest shall ye be saved This is the same in effect with that before ver 7. Preachers must be instant stand to their work and not be baffled out of their unpleasing messages The Septuagint here have it Si conversus ingemueris tunc salvaberis Ver. 16. But ye said No we will not return or rest This is a golden rule of life In silentio spe fortitudo vestra but these refractaries would none of it they knew a better way to work then all that came to Politicians are like tumblers that have their heads on the earth and their heels against heaven Cross-gtain'd they are for most part to all good For we will flee upon horses whereof Egypt was full and for which it was famous of old and so is yet for the Mamalukes horses especially Therefore shall ye flie but in another sense sc fusi fugatique ab hoste with the enemy at your heels Ver. 17. One thousand shall flee See Deut. 32.30 with the Note Vntill ye be left at a beacon Heb a mast i. e. a very poor few or all alone shred of all you had This was fulfilled when Sennacherib wasted the Country even to the very walls of Jerusalem Paucitatem salvandorum nobis insinuat saith Oecolamp Ver. 18. And therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you This it a wonderful condescension i. e. God tarrieth looking for thee to shew thee mercy Serm. of Repent as Mr. Bradford rendreth it if thou wert ripe he is ready But never think that he will lay cordials upon full and foul stomachs faith another grave Divine D. Harris that he will scarf thy bones before they be set and lap up thy sores before they be searcht God chooseth the fittest times to hear and help his suppliants Isa 49.8 with Psal 69.13 opportunitatem opitulandi expectat Be patient therefore brethren untill the coming of the Lord Jam. 5.7 Let your equanimity your longanimity be known to all men the Lord is at hand Phil. 4 5. And therefore will he be exalted He will get up to his tribunal or throne of grace that if ye repent ye may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need Heb. 4.16 For the Lord is a God of jugdement i. e. He is a wise God that knoweth best when to deal forth his favours and where to place his benefits Blessed are all they that wait for him Wait his leasure non cerebri sui sectantur consilia and seek not to get off by indirect courses Those though they should die in a waiting condition yet cannot but be happy because God hath said here Blessed are all they that wait for him Ver 19. For the people shall dwell in Zion c. Or For thou the people of Zion that dwell in Jerusalem shalt weep no more Flebile principium melior fortuna sequetur At the voice of thy cry Thou shalt pray thou shalt also hear the word of God ver 20.21 and reform thy life ver 22. so shall good be done unto thee When he shall hear it he will answer thee yea before chap. 65.24 before thy prayer can get from thy heart to thy mouth it is got as high as heaven Ver. 20. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity Though he hold you to hard-meat and give you but prisoners pitrance so much as will keep you alive only and that you eat your meat with the peril of your lives emendicato pane hic vivamus saith Luther in our Fathers house is bread Gods plenty Yet shall not thy Teachers be removed into a corner Non alis se induent they shall not take wing and flie from thee The Ministry is a sweet mercy under what misery soever men do otherwise groan and labour Corporeal wants are not much to be passed on so the spiritual food be not wanting a famine of the word is the greatest Judgement Amos 8. when the Gospel was first preacht there was great scarcity of bodily food Rev. 6.6 Act. 11.28 but that was scarce felt by those holy souls who did eat their meat such as it was with gladness and singleness of heart Greenham accounting that bread and cheese with the Gospel was good chear Thine eyes shall see thy Teachers A description of holy hearers their eyes are intent on the preachers Scultet their ears arrect their whole course conformed to the rule quando lapsus tam in proclivi est ver 21. their dearest sins abandoned ver 22. Oh for such hearers
behold the face of God the Father and of his Son here is one held forth in the next verse Vers 5. Every word of God is pure Oda septima Pind. tanta fuit admirationis apud Rhodios ut fuerit scripta in templo aure is literis c. Joh. Manl. loc Com. 414. he is a shield Albeit all the sacred sentences contain'd in this blessed book are pure precious and profitable yet as one star in Heaven out-shineth another so doth one Proverb another and this is among the rest velut inter stellas luna minores an eminent sentence often recorded in Scripture and far better worthy than ever Pindarus his seventh Ode was to be written in letters of gold Every word of God is pure purer than gold tried in the fire Rev. 3.17 purer than silver tried in a furnace and seven times purified Psal 12.6 Julian therefore that odious Apostate is not to be hearkened to who said there was as good stuff in Phocillides as in Salomon in Pindarus his Odes as in Davids Psalms Nor is that brawling dog Porphyry to be regarded who blasphemously accuseth Daniel the Prophet and Matthew the Evangelist Spec. Europae as writers of lies Os durum The Jesuits some of them say little less of Saint Pauls Epistles which they could wish by some means censured and reformed as dangerous to be read and savouring of heresie in some places Traditions they commonly account the touch-stone of doctrine and foundation of faith the Scriptures to be rather a Commonitorium as Bellarmine calls it a kind of store-house for advice Greg. in 3. Reg. then Cor animam Dei the heart and soul of God as Gregory calls them a Fortress against Errours Firmamentum contra errores Aug. in Johan 1. Tract 2. Possevin Appar sac verbo Pat. Antiq as Augustine The Apostle calleth concupiscence sin at non licet nobis ita loqui but we may not call it so saith Possevine the Jesuit The Author to the Hebrews saith Marriage is honourable among all men but the Rhemists on 1 Cor. 7.9 say that the marriage of Priests is the worst sort of incontinency Christ saith the Sin against the Holy Ghost hath no remission Bellarmine saith that it may be forgiven The Council of Constance comes in with a non-obstance against Christs institution Lib. 2. de Paeâ—it cap. 16. Montan. in 1 Cor. 14. withholding the Cup from the People at the Sacrament And a Parisian Doctor tells us that although the Apostle would have sermons and service celebrated in a known tongue yet the Church for very good cause hath otherwise ordered it Bishop Bonners Chaplain called the Bible in scorn his little pretty Gods book and judged it worthy to be burnt tanquam doctrina peregrina as strange doctrine Gilford and Raynolds said it contained some things prophane and apocryphal Others have stiled it the mother of heresie and therefore not fit to be read by the common people lest they suck poyson out of it Prodigious blasphemy Of the purity and perennity of the holy Scriptures See more in my True treasure pag. 85.139 He is a shield to them that put their trust in him See Gen. 15.1 with the note and Prov. 29.25 Buxtorf Tiberias Vers 6. Adde thou not unto his words As the Jews at this day do by their traditions which they arrogantly call Mashlamnutha Completio perfectio because they think that thereby the Law is compleated and perfected as the Artemonites Brightm upon Rev. p. 292. and after them the school-men corrupted the Scripture out of Aristotle and Theophrastus turning all into questions and quillets As Mahomet joyned his Alfurta his service book an horrible heap of all blasphemies to the three parts of holy Scripture as he divides them the Law Psalmes and Gospel As the Papists adde their humane inventions and unwritten verities which they equallize unto if not prefer before the book of God as appears by that Heathenish decree of the Council of Trent And when at the Council of Basil the Hussites denied to receive any doctrine that could not be proved by Scripture Jacob Revius hist Pontif. p. 235. Cardinal Cusan answered that Scriptures were not of the being of the Church but of the well-being and that they were to be expounded according to the current rite of the Church which if it change its mind the judgement of God is also changed Lastly such adde to Gods Word as wrest it and rack it making it speak that which it never thought causing it to go two miles where it would go but one gnawing and tawing it to their own purposes as the Shoo-maker taws his upper-leather with his teeth Tertullian calls Marcion the heretick Mus Ponticus of his arroding and gnawing the Scripture to make it serviceable to his errours Lest he reprove thee Both verbally and penally both with words and blows Lest he severely punish thee as one that addes to his will or imbaseth his coyn And thou be found a lier As all Popish forgers and foysters at this day are found to be God hath ever raised up such as have detected their impostures and vindicated the purity and perfection of the sacred Scriptures Vers 7. Two things have I required of thee Two special requests he had among many for our present condition is a condition of singular vanity and indigency we get our living by begging and are never without somewhat to bee required of God never without out wants and aylments and sutes for supplies Deny me them not See here both his familiarity with God in Prayer and his importunity for a lazie Sutâ—r beggs a denial Agur therefore re-enforceth his request it was honest else he would never have begun it but being so he is resolved to follow it So doth David with his one thing which hee did desire and he would desire Psal 27.4 he would never give it over So Jacob would have a blessing and therefore wrastles with might and slight and this he doth in the night and alone and when God was leaving him and upon one legge He had a hard pull of it and yet he prevailed Let me goe saith God No thou shalt not goe saith Jacob till I have my request It is not unlawful for us to be unmannerly in Prayer to be importunate and after a sort impudent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 11.8 Propter improbitatem Luke 18.8 Was not the Woman of Canaan so Matth. 15.22 Shee came for a Cure and a Cure she would have and had it too with an high commendation of her heroical faith Christ he was no Penny-father he had more blessings than one even the abundance of Spirit for them that ask it When poor men make requests to us we usually answer them as the Eccho doth the voyce the answer cuts off half the Petition if they ask us two things we think we deal well if we grant them one Few Naamans that when you beg one talent will force
detestable decree of the Council of Trent is well known whereby the Apocryphaâ— is set cheek by joule as they say with the holy Canon the Vulgar Translation with the Original traditions with Scriptures and unwritten verities with those that are written This is intolerable presumption Jews and Turks do the like in their Talmud and Alchoran that I speak not of our Sect-Masters who boldly obtrude their Placits without just proof and require to be beleeved And the wall between me and them Which they have wretchedly set up by their sins to their singular disadvantage Esa 59.2 or they have come under my nose as it were to provoke me Or the nearer they were to Church the further from God Ver. 9. Now let them put away their whoredom So shall all be well betwixt us See Jer. 3.1 Isa 1.18 with the Notes Piscator ictus sapiat Some read it Now they will put away c. and so they did after the captivity but will not be yet drawn to worship the true God aright the Lord perswade their hearts thereto Fiat Fiat And the carcasses See on ver 7. And I will dwell in the midst of them for ever This is the same with that Mat. 28. I am with you to the end of the world Ver. 10. Shew the house Heb. that house sc which I have shewed thee in visions the idea of that Temple which shall shortly be set up its figure and dimensions That they may be ashamed Of having dealt so unworthily with a God so gracious And let them measure the pattern Vt metiantur universe that by a holy Geometry they may in the spirit of their minds take all the dimensions of it and be transformed into the likeness of the heavenly pattern These are those holy and heavenly Mathematikes which none can learn but those that are taught of God Scholae Platonis haec fuit inscriptio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and without which none can be Christs Disciple like as none might be scholar to Plato that had not the grounds of Geometry Ver. 11. And if they be ashamed of all that they have done If they blush and bleed at heart for their iniquities Penitents are to be taught the truth which is according to godliness and all such are exactly to know and to do the whole will of God as had not rather be carnally secured then soundly comforted Ver. 12. Vpon the top of the mountain The Church is as a City on an hill seen far and near Mat. 5.14 and the members of it are still ascending from one degree of grace to another from strength to strength till they see the face of God in Sion Psal 15.1 Heb. 12.22 23. The whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy All the Lords people are so at least in profession inchoation honest endeavour divine acceptation and shall be so one day in all perfection Rev. 21.8 27. 22.14 15. Ver. 13. And these are the measures of the Altar viz. Of burnt offerings which was in the Priests court and not at all spoken of till now The cubit viz. That of the Sanctuary Even the bottom Heb. the bâ—som This shall be the higher place Heb. the back as that which bore all We have also an Altar Heb. 13.10 even Jesus Christ the just one who is both our Ariel Gods Lion Rev. 5.5 and our Harcel Gods Mount of four cubits as being preached unto the Gentiles in all parts believed on in the world received up into glory 1 Tim. 3.16 Ver. 14. And from the bottom upon the ground This so exact measuring of the Altar may import saith Polanus the faithful and perfect preaching of the Gospel by the Apostles and all faithful Ministers of Gods Word after them 2 Cor. 10.13 c. 1 Cor. 4.1 2. Rev. 11.1 Ver. 15. So the Altar Heb. Harcel the hill of God or the only place of sacrifices And from the Altar Ariel the Lion of God so called because the fire of this Altar devoured the sacrifices as a Lion doth the prey See Esa 29.16 Ver. 16. Square in the four squares thereof Christ the Christian Altar is compleat firm and fixed Ver. 17. And his staires shall look toward the East As leading to the Sun of righteousnesse and the light of eternal blessedness arising out of heaven Ver. 18. These are the ordinances of the Altar Christians also have their sacrifices though of another alloy to offer and must look to the ordinances of their Altar Ministers must especially Ver. 19. And thou shalt give to the Priests All this is to be understood spiritually as being figuratively spoken A young bullock Together with a goat and a ram ver 22 23 25. All that are Christs have crucified the flâ—sh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5.24 and are still doing at it Ver. 20. And thou shalt take of the blood Christ as Mediatour was consecrated and qualified for the work Ver. 21. Without the Sanctuary So Christ suffered without the gate Heb. 13.11 12. Ver. 22. And they shall cleanse the Altar To set forth how Christ clenseth and sanctifieth his people Heb. 9.19 24. Job 17.19 Heb. 9.13 14. Ver. 23. Thou shalt offer See on ver 19. Plato salâ—ominat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 diu charis Nihil utilius sale â—c soâ—e Cael Rhodig l. 6. c 1. Ver. 24. And the Priests shall cast salt upon them Christians must have salt within themselves Mar. 9.50 and see to it that all their speeches be seasoned with the salt of mortification and discretion Eph. 4. so shall God make an everlasting covenant with them even a covenant of salt See Levit. 2.13 Ver. 25. Every day a goat Mortification must be a Christians dayly practice Ver. 26. They shall purge Thou and they together We must also sanctifie the Lord God in our hearts 1 Pet. 3.15 Ver. 27. It shall be upon the eighth day The services of mortified men shall be accepted on the eighth day especially the Christian sabbath in the holy Assemblies CHAP. XLIV Ver. 1. THen he brought me back From the Eastgate which was found shut to the Northgate where the Prophet received large instructions ver 4. Christ must be followed though he seem to lead us in and out backward and forward as if we were treading a maze Ver. 2. This gate shall be shut Is and shall be save only to Messiah the Prince Psal 118.20 and to whomsoever he as having the keyes of David shall open it This gate of the Lord into which the righteous shall enter sc by that new and living way which Christ their forerunner Heb. 6.20 hath prepared and paved for them with his own blood Heb. 10.20 See Heb. 7.8 9 11 12 24. And no man shall enter in it No meer man unless it be by Emmanuel See Joh. 3.13 Ver. 3. It is for the Prince For Messiah the Prince so Christ is called Dan. 9. Or for the Chief Priest who as he had a singular priviledge herein above other Priests so
the cross b. 306 Pauls painfulness b. 166 Peace spiritual is a Jewel a. 116. the wickeds peace unsound b. 154 Perjury punished b. 438 Persecution befalleth the best a. 318. wicked hate them b. 196. conspire against them b. 50. are Gods rods b. 51. terrour of 88. b. 120. Persevere in well-doing a. 262 Plain-dealing best a 106. See Arnulph Plato detained the truth b. 138 Persians Laws why irrepealable b. 546 Policy enemy to piety b. 107 237 355 Worldly wisdom flat folly b. 526 Popeâ— his pride b. 467 553. downfall 495 496. the number of his name 544. his blasphemy 556. he joyns with the Turk against the truth b. 493 Poverty excuseth not from duty a. 42. t is disregarded a. 86. forgot a. 287. deprecate it a. 204 Pragmaticalness censured a. 174 Praise the Lord for all b. 58. for recovery out of sickness b. 124. wicked cannot do it b. 126 Prayers power of prayer a. 63. 94. it ever prevaileth a. 102. pray in humility a. 166. with importunity a. 203. constancy ibid. b. 547. in few words a. 246. what to pray for a. 203. pray oâ— b. 205. though but broken petitions b. 125. in secret a. 337. God heareth his and why b. 212. he hearreth not the wicked a. 5. carnal prayers a. 146 Pride hatefull a. 32. self-conceited a. 68. breeds brawls a. 75. swelleth b. 467. breaketh a. 109. b. 98. 475. 530. mischief of pride a. 141. purse-proud a. 150. self-conceited foiled a. 271 Profess Christ wisely and boldly a. 343 b. 141. openly b. 547. to the last a. 353. good words and no more b. 261 Promises they are full of sweetness a. 329. b. 479. suck sweetness out of them b. 215 Proverbs of Solomon praised a. 1. 50. See Solomon Providence ordereth all a. 106 113 138 150. This Heathens doubted of denyed b. 130. One event to all a. 228 282 286 Publike Spirit a common blessing a. 60. honour of publike benefactors b. 190 Prosperity in sin a plague b. 34 559 Punishment of sin God befools those whom he will destroy b. 338. he loves to retaliate b. 78. he hath variety of plagues b. 88. he begins at his Sanctuary b. 415. See Sin Purity love of it a. 150 Q QUakers cross-grained b. 132 R RAin is of God b. 241 Raptures spiritual a. 331 332 Reformation wrought here by degrees b. 496 Remission of sin is free b. 140. full b. 143. plentiful b. 178. above all that we can think 179. Sin unpardoned lyeth heavy b. 279 Renovation the new creature b. 163. all things new in Christ a. 222. the change a. 345 Repent b. 233 234. throughly b. 7. speedily b. 80. lest All too late b. 247. Repentance the best defensive weapon b. 83. It reingratiateth with God b. 516. It is twofold b. 19 Reproaches We are naturally impatient of them b. 452. slight them a. 220 Reprobation a. 105 Reproof a friendly office a. 263. if fitly performed a. 167. bear it well a. 103. love a faithfull Reprover a. 48 63. Many are thereby enraged a. 95 96 Restitution b. 199 Resurrecton proved b. 94 95. See b. 490 Revenge is bloody a. 85. crossed b. 426 do not avenge your selves a. 16. 137. 164 Riches profit not a. 58. protect not 64. stave not off death 252. are uncertain a. 251. ill-gotten bring a curse a. 226 Money the Monarch of this world a. 296 Rivers Good meetings at Rivers sides b. 392 Rome must be burnt a. 207. See Pope Papists S SAbbath kept and broken how b. 191. scorned b. 370 Sacrament of the Lords Supper sweet to Saints a. 323 Sacrifices Evangelical b. 320 Sacriledge a. 138 sacrilegious buildings b. 287. See b. 541 Saints their excellency a. 72 274 275. beauty and bravery a. 322. safety b. 119. dignity b. 200. sobriety b. 527. their love to Christ a. 340. eager desires after him 341. they will not lie b. 203. their sins are soon ripe b. 223. A Saint is homo quadratus b. 504. much honoured b. 158 Saracens whence b. 357 Satan foretelleth not things future b. 133 Scandal Shun scandalous practices a. 289 Scriptures their worth a. 75 76. sweetness 110. extolled 309. a Rule of life b. 109. blasphemed b. 122. Two Testaments a. 315. distinction of verses but alate b. 111. Scripture is plain a. 43. profitable b. 498 Scorners odious a. 160. b. 183 184. See Mocking Security precedeth destruction b. 61. 101. t is a spiritual judgement b. 104 Seedsmen of sedition a. 32. Make-bates a. 69. 112. Shun such and why a. 163 Seducers a. 185. dangerous creatures a. 292. Foxes and why a. 338. shun them a. 320 smell them out ibid. they lead to Atheism b. 293. See Hereticks Self-conquest the best a. 113 Self-delusion b. 143. deadly a. 83 111 Self-flattery pernicious a. 140 Self-love sinful a. 143 Self-examination b. 381 382 Sensualists hardly converted b. 515. they shall smoke for it a. 201 202 Separation a great sin a. 122 Severity sometimes necessary a. 138 Shame for sin double b. 11 Silence seasonable a. 235 Sin the bitter-sweet of it a. 136 272. hath punishment at the heels of it a. 27 70 255. b. 13 17 18. it destroyeth whole States a. 91. freedom from guilt and filth of it b. 8. Saints sins turn to their good a. 319. upbraid them not with sins repented of a. 111. they work out sins scum b. 459. Hide not sin a. 186. bewail the sins of the times b. 452 Sincerity of Saints a. 357. 't is perfection b. 92. known by uniformity a. 172 Slander slurreth the best a. 264 Sycophants are Serpents a. 293. b. 283 Solomon his great wisdom a. 217 218. his three books a. 153. his Proverbs praised a. 1 2. his Ecclesiastes a. 218. Canticles a. 312. his Observations are lost a. 223. his Fasciculus temporum a. 232. he was well taught a. 229 Sorrow godly bettereth the heart a. 261. Mourn for sin b. 67 Soul is of God and returneth to God a. 307 Spirit is Gods hand b. 412. puts mettle into the Saints a. 330. his still voice b. 110. he is of a fiery nature b. 23. why compared to water b. 58 Submission appeaseth a. 108. submit to Gods holy hand a. 267. consider 268. submit to superiours a. 275 Superstition grosly mistaken b. 347. superstition of fore-fathers is to be abandoned b. 447 Suretyship unadvised dangerous a. 28 T TAle-bearers frown upon them a. 170. they are murtherers b. 452. See Slanderers and Seedsmen of Sedition Tears sow in tears a. 233. sorts of tears a. 238. Crocodile tears b. 340 Thoughts evil b. 236. rid them ibid. they are not free a. 100. See Heart Tillage very useful a. 249. 't is of Gods teaching b. 103 Time discern it a. 277. redeem it a. 300. make the best of it a. 232. waste it not on trifles b. 176. our time is short our task long a. 285 Tongue govern it a. 127. be advised what you speak a. 101 198. gracious language a. 214 335. Tongue mischievous to many a. 57 93 Treason comes to light a. 296. Traitors Meed b. 117. good men oft charged with treason b. 332 Trent-Council discovered b. 413. their high-presumption b. 505 Trinity a. 302. made man ibid. Trust God only a. 10. rest on him b. 108 make him thy refuge a. 124. they are happy that so do a. 109. creature-confidence disappointed a. 125 169 Truth prize it a. 158. it seeketh no corners b. 147 Turkish Empire Vaste b. 95 V VAin-glory naught a. 170. See Boasting Victories of English over the Spaniard b. 436 Union with Christ affect it a. 315 339 Vows make and keep them a. 247. a vow for holiness b. 522 D. Ushier preached sixty years b. 221. his Prophecy of Irelands desolation b. 403 Usury unlawful a. 184. b. 440. 453 W WAR wasteth people a. 89 wisdom best manageth it a. 145. Sword in commission b. 352 Wigelius an Antiacademian Widgin b. 521 Whirlwinds violent b. 393 Whoredom pernicious a. 8 9.23 24 25 34 35 36 39 40 41 151 273. costly b. 433. Harlot and Whore whence ibid. Two adulterous Priests punished b. 308. Whoredom how punished in sundry Nations b. 434 456. a beastly punishment of it b. 433 Wicked are dross a. 165. uncounsellable a. 190. uncorrigible a. 181. ambitious of destruction a. 66. they stink a. 323. yet oft they live long 208 279. they are restless b. 186. desperately naught b. 228. wilfully b. 244 praise them not a. 182 Widows Gods Clients a. 100 Wife good and evil 64. a. 80. Good Wife pretious a. 127 130. rare 212. described and praised a. 212 213 215 216. an evil Wife a great plague a. 143 144 Wine comforteth a. 211 Wisdom true what a. 65. wherein it consisteth a. 76. it doth much in War 145. saveth and sacketh Cities a. 287 288 Women unfit for Government b. 18. they oft sway their husbands ibid. they are still made use of by the Devil b. 346 347. their pride and luxury punisht b. 19 20 Word of God powerfull in operation a. 153. b. 2. 57. accompanied with the spirit b. 194. t is pure a. 202. add not to it ibid. it shall be accomplished b. 8 9. It is light b. 45. loathed a. 178. a famine of it a. 195. blasphemed a. 202. t is fire b. 294. a hammer ibid. will still shew men their faults b. 330. abuse of it is dangerous b. 282. Scripture-poetry b. 364 Works of God God is much seen in them b. 28. the wonder of the Sun a. 220. of the winds ibid. rivers ibid. of mans body 299 306 World a Wilderness a. 345. all here is vanity a. 219. unsatisfactory a. 221. empty a. 227. vexatious a. 229 changeable b. 64. World wheels about b. 394. See 558. Worship of God prepare to it a. 244 be not slight and overt in it a. 245 246. grow not secure after it a. 342. Speak reverently of holy things a. 173. Mens persons must first be accepted a. 140 Y SErve God in Youth a. 303 Z ZEal be resolute for God b. 533. Laurence his Zeal ibid. God hateth the Luke-warm b. 296 FINIS