upon Revelations and fained Miracles think the same of Rantâ—rs Quakers and some Anabaptists prove Palea that is chaff hay and stubble that shall be surely burnt 1 Cor. 3.11 Some render the text Quid paleae cum tritico what hath chaff to do with the wheat as Hos 14.9 Joh. 2.4 Away with any such mixtures In the writings of some Sectaries Sunt bona mista malis sunt mala mista bonis The speech in the text seemeth to have been Proverbial and is not unlike that of the Apostle 2 Cor. 6.14 15 16. and those in humane Authors Quid sceptre plectro Suid. Qui specillo gladio quid lecytho strophio quid hyaenae cani quid bovi delphino quid cani balneo c. So what communion hath faith and unbelief zeal and passion c. And yet unbelief may be with faith Lord I believe help thou mine unbelief Mar. 9.24 zeal with passion yea in young Christians heat and passion goeth sometimes for zeale and yet it is but chaff which when blown away the heap is little else but wheat that is saith zeal humility though we have lesse pride passion presumption But this by the way only Ver. 29. Is not my Word like a fire As it is like solid wheat wholesom food 1 Tim. 6.3 so it is no lesse liâ—e fire that most active Element called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it is pure saith One and fire because it is fair It inlighteneth enliveneth warmeth purgeth assimilateth aspireth consumeth combustible matter congregat hâ—mogenea segregat heterogenia so doth the Word when accompanied by the Spirit who is of a fiery nature and of a fiery operation Isa 4.4 Mal. 3.2 Matth. 3.11 The words that I speak unto you they are Spirit and thee are life Job 6.65 Did not our hearts burn within us whiles he talked with us by the way and opened unto us the holy Scriptures Luke 24.32 when the word comes home to the heart in the power of it the preacher was sent of God See Gal. 2.8 And like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces i. e. The rockiest hearts and sturdiest stomacks are tamed terrified by the Word when God once takes them to do Iâ— is as his plough to break up their fallow ground and as his sword to run them through Jer. 4 Heb. 4. and to lay them for dead Rom. 7. And like as the hardest ice is broken with hot waters as well as with hammers so is the hardest heart with the Gospel as well as with the Law Ver 30. Behold I am against those Prophets Heb. Behold I against by an angry Aposiopesis That steal my Word every one from his neighbour That filth it either by hiding it from others as the Popish Doctors do from the common people or by wresting it to the defence of their false doctrines as Marcion the heretike whom therefore Tertullian fitly calleth Murem Ponticum the rat of Pontus for his gnawing and tawing of the Scriptures to bring them to his purpose Or by a fraudulent imitating of Gods true Prophets taking up their parables and making use of their expressions such as are Thus saith the Lord Grace be to you and peace c. Wasps also have their combs as well as Bees and Apes will be doing as they see men to do Or lastly by causing the people ro forget and lose the good that they had once learned of the true Prophets This we see daily done by the cunning fetches and flatteries of the Seducers of our times causing many to lose the things that they had wrought 2 Joh. 8. Ver. 31. That use their tongues Or abuse them rather to smoothing and soothing up people in their sins lenificant linguas id est blando sermone alliciunt plebem they flatter and collogue or tollunt linguam they sift up their tongues viz. by extolling themselves and speaking magnifically of their own doing As one hath observed of some Sectaries amongst us that they often call upon their hearers to mark Dulcorantium mollificantium False Prophets sooth sweeten men for it may be they shall hear that which they never heard before When the thing is either false or if true no more then is ordinarily taught by others and which they have stolen out of the writings of others And say He saith See on ver 30. Ver. 32. That cause my people to erre by their lyes and by their lightnesse By their lying discorses and light or lose courses So Zeph. 3.4 Judg. 9.4 If these false Prophets had been of a sober grave behaviour the people might have been with better excuse deluded by them as Aristotle noteth of Eudoxus and the same is true of Epicâ—rus himself as Tully telleth us that he prevailed much in disputing for pleasure because he was no voluptuous man himself But these in the text were no lesse leud then loud lyars Ver. 33. What is the burthen of the Lord Ironicum interrogandi genus thus they profanely asked by way of scoff or despite such as he will drive down their throats again plaguing them for their profane malignity Then shalt thou say What burthen q d. I 'le burden you to some purpose sith ye profanely count and call my Word a burthen you shall suddenly have your back-burthen of plagues and miseries for the contempt of it I will even forsake you And then Woe be unto you Hos 9.12 you shall be eased of these burthens and of me together and that you 'l find misery enough See chap. 12.7 Learn therefore to speak holily and honourably of Gods Word left thou hear this Word of his Thou shalt never enter into my rest Ver. 34. That shall say The burthen of the Lord Nempe per lâ—dibrium in contempt and derision See 2 Chron. 36.16 Ver. 35. Thus shall ye say God sets them a form who otherwise knew not how to lisp out a syllable of sober language Loquamur verba Scripturae saith Peter Ramus utamur sermone Spiritus Sancti Let us inure our selves to Scripture-Expressions Ver. 36. For every mans word shall be his burthen That jear of his aforementioned shall lye heavy upon him and cost him dear for under the weight he shall sink and be crusht in pieces Ver. 37. Thus shalt thou say to the Prophet See on ver 35. Ver. 38. But sith ye say The burthen of the Lord Sith ye accuse me as unmerciful my Word as a ponderous burthen and my Messengers as telling you nothing but terrible things and bloody businesses which therefore you are resolved to slight and neglect Ver. 39. Therefore behold I even I will utterly forget you I nunc ergo lude pasquillis putidis dicteriis saith One. Go thy waies now thou that thinkest it a goodly thing to gibe and jear at Gods Ministers and their messages Consider of this dreadful denunciation and thereby conceive aright of the hainousnesse of thy sin for God doth not use to kill flies upon mens foreheads
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
and sith they think us not worthy to breath in the common aire whom thou hast made heires of the world together with faithful Abraham our Progenitour destroy them from under these heavens of thine in the compass and cope whereof thou raignest and rulest all From under the heavens of the Lord Do thou O Christ to whom the Father hath committed all judgment root them out from under the heavens of thy heavenly Father Thus some Paraphrase the words and observe therehence the mystery of the Trinity like as they do from Gen. 19.24 CHAP. IV. Pet. à Figueir Ver. 1. HOw is the gold become dim How by way of wonderment again as chap. 1.2 q. d. Quo tanto scelere hominum qua tanta indignatione Dei What have men done and how hath God been provoked that there are such strange alterations here all on the sudden By gold and fine gold here understand the Temple overlaid by Solomon with choice gold or Gods people his spiritual Temple who had now lost their lustre and dignity The stones of the Sanctuary are poured out Come tumbling down from the demolished Temple Ver. 2. The precious sons of Zion Those Porphyrogeniti as the Greek Emperours children were called Sept. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because born and bred up in a room made up of precious stones Understand it of the Jews in general Gods peculiar people precious in his sight and therefore honourable Isa 43.4 of Zedekiahs sons in particular who as did also the rest of the Jewish Nobility if Josephus may be beleeved poudered their hair with gold dust Antiq. l. 8. c. 7. to the end that they might glister and sparkle against the beams of the Sun The precious children of the Church are all glorious within by means of the graces of the Spirit that golden oyle Zach. 4.12 and the blessings of God out of Zion Psal 134.3 which are far beyond all other the blessings of heaven and of earth As earthen pitchers Weak and worthlesse Ver. 3. Even the sea-monsters Heb. Whales or Seales which being Amphibii have both a willingnesse Vulg. Lamiae and a place convenient to suckle their whelps The daughter of my people is become cruel She is so perforce being destitute of milk for want of food but much more by feeding upon them ver 10. and chap. 2.20 Oh what a mercy is it to have meat and how inexcusable are those unnatural mothers that neglect to nurse their children not out of want but wantonnesse Surely as there is a blessing of the womb to bring forth so of the brests to give suck Gen. 49.25 and the dry breasts and barren womb have been taken for a curse Hos 9.14 as some interpret that text Ver. 4. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth For want of suck That was a miracle which is recorded of the old woman of Bolton in Lancashire who took up a poor child that lay crying at the breasts of her dead mother slain among many others by Prince Ruperts party and laying it to her own dry breasts that had not yeelded suck for above twenty years before on purpose to still it had milk came to nourish it to the admiration and astonishment of all beholders This and another like example of Gods good providence for the releif of little ones whom their mothers could not relieve may be read of in Mr. Clarks Mirror for Saints and Sinners Edit 3. fol. 495 507. And no man breaketh it unto them The parents either not having it for them or not having an heart to part with it to them Ver. 5. They that did feed delicately Such uncertainty there is of outward affluence Our Richad the second was famished to death Speed Lib. 3. c. 4. Henry Holland Duke of Excester grand-child to John of Gaunt was seen to run on foot bare-legged after the Duke of Burgundy's train begging his bread for Gods sake This I saw saith Philip de Comines This Henry was brother in law to King Edward the fourth from whom he fled They that were brought up in scarlet Qui nutriebantur in croceis sen cocceis In fimetis victum quaeritant prae inopia Jun. that were gorgeously arrayed or that rolling on their rich beds wrapped themselves in costly coverlets Embrace dunghils There take up their lodgings and there also are glad to find any thing to feed on though never so course and homely The Lapwing is made an Hieroglyphick of infelicity because he hath as a coronet upon the head and yet feedeth upon the worst of excrements It is pitty that any child of God washt in Christ's blood should bedabble his scarlet robe in the stinking guzzle of the worlds dunghill that any one who hath heretofore soared as an Eagle should now creep on the ground as a bettle or wallow as a swine in the mire of sensuality Ver. 6. For the punishment of the iniquity of Zion is greater For Sodom was destroyed by Angels Zion by malicious men The enemies were not enriched by Sodom as they were by Zion Sodom was destroyed in an instant not so Zion for she had her punishment piecemeal first a long seige and then the loss of all after a world of miseries sustained in the seige Julius Caesar was wont to say It is better once to fall then alwaies to hang in suspence Augustus wished that he might dye suddenly His life he called a Comedy and said that he thought he had acted his part therein pretty handsomly Now if he might soon passe through death he would hold it an happinesse Souldiers wish is thus set forth by the Poet quid enim concurritur horae Momento aut cita mors venit aut victoria laeta It is the ancient and manful fashion of the English who are naturally most impatient of lingering mischiefs to put their quarrels to the trial of the sword Speed 963. as the Chronicler observeth Ver. 7. Her Nazarites Who served God in a singular way of abstinence above other men These had their rules given them Num. 6. which whiles they observed They were purer then snow whiter then milk Temperance is the mother of beauty as luxury is of deformity This is nothing to the Popish Votaryes those Epicures and Abby-lubbers Quorum luxuriae totus non sufficit orbis Some by Nazarites here understand their Nobles and such as wore coronets on their heads Nezar is a crown 2 Sam. 1.10 2 Kings 11.12 thus Joseph was a Nazarite Gen. 49.26 So Daniel and his three Associates in whom that was verified Gratior est pulchro veniens in corpore virtus Ver. 8. Their visage is blacker then a coal Heb. their visage is more darkned then blacknesse sc With famine fear grief and car those vultures have so fed upon them that all sightlinesse and lovelinesse is lost Think the same of Apostates God may complain of such as Mic. 2.8 Ver. 9. They that be slain with the sword are better They suffer lesse pain in dying