your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid if ye loved me ye would rejoyce ib. 27 28. A glimpe onely and tast of this joy put Peter beside himselfe Master it is good for us to be here let us here pitch tabernacles and not downe to the world againe Motives to Fear Fear is the betraying of those succours which reason offereth Wisd 17 12. arising from dangers which reason telleth us we are unable to withstand These dangers may affright us 1. in our temporall estate 2. in our spirituall 3. in our eternall being hereafter For temporall afrightments what thunders are so terrible startling as those against 1. Pharoah and Egypt for his perfidious and treacherous dealing with Gods people Ezech. 29. 2. against Tyrus and their King for their pride and luxury 3. against Babylon Isa 13. and 14. for their captivating and insulting upon Gods people 2. For his temporal estate Cain complained not Gen. 4.14 but the feare of a guilty conscience was a Fury that ever haunted him My punishment is greater then I can bear Behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth and from thy face shall I be hid and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond and it shall come to passe that every one that findeth me shall slay me A scantling of the third It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10.31 This fcarfulnesse in proposing the law was so terrible that the people could not endure that which was commanded and if so much as a beast touch the mountain it shall be stoned and thrust through with a dart and so terrible was the sight that Moses said I exceedingly feare and quake Heb. 12.20 21. What horrour will then be can any heart imagine when the sun shall become as black as sack-cloth of hair and the moone and the stars of heaven fall unto the earth even as the fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind when the heavens shall depart as a scroul rolled together and every mountaine and iland shall be removed out of their places when the Kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every free-man shall hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountaines and shall say unto the rocks and mountaines Fall on us and to the hills Cover us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Rev. 6. When the dismall doome is once pronounced Go ye cursed of my father into everlasting fire prepared for the devill and his angells Matth. 25.41 Motives to Joy Joy the ayme of all our desires must be raysed especially on the serious consideration 1. of joy in the holy Ghost 2. comfort in a good conscience 3. a chearfull and thankfull use of temporall blesings These depend one on the other Temporals delight not if conscience be not satisfied conscience receives not content but from assurances from the holy Spirit that all is well Amongst the fruits of the spirit this joy is served in with love which quickneth all the rest The fruit of the Spirit is lov joy peace long-suffering gentlenes goodnes faith meeknes temperance against such there is no law Galat. 5.22 23. Upon this is grounded that holy frolick if the word profane not of the Apostle to the Philippians Rejoyce in the Lord alwaies and again I say rejoyce Let your moderation be knowen unto all men the Lord is neer at hand Phil. 4.4 5. Upon which grounds we have the excitation of the church O come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our salvation Psalm 95. O be joyfull in the Lord all ye lands Psal 100. O sing unto the Lord a new song Psal 98. And divers other Psalms set to the same key of joy This was the rejoycing of the blessed-Virgin My spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour Luk 1.47 That which our Saviour exhorteth his disciples unto In this rejoyce not that the spirits are subject to you but rather rejoyce that your names are written in heaven 2. Luk. 10.20 All the dayes of the afflicted are evill but he that is of a merry heart upon a good conscience hath a continuall feast Prov. 15.15 This merry heart maketh a cheareful countenance but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken Ib. For our rejoycing is this the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and godly sincerity not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world 2 Cor. 1.12 Thus the Apostles when they were beaten and threatned after their imprisonment by the high priests command departed from the presence of the Council rejoycing that they were accounted worthy to suffer for his name Act. 5.41 It was St. Paul's excercise to have a conscience voyd of offence towards God and towards men Act. 24.16 And the Hebrews tooke joyfully the spoyling of their goods knowing in themselves that they had in heaven a better and an enduring substance Heb. 10.34 3. Joy and thankfullnesse for temporall blessings are not onely approved but enjoyned Thou shalt rejoyce before the Lord in acknowledgment of temporal blessings Deut. 12.12.18 At the presenting of the first fruits and tithes after a set paryer it is added Thou shalt rejoyce in every good thing which the Lord thy God hath given unto thee and unto thine house thou and the Levite and the stranger that is among you Deut 26.11 When God crowneth the yeer with goodnesse and the clouds drop fatness upon the dwellings of the wildernesse the little hills are brought in to rejoyce on every side when the folds shall be full with sheep the vallies also shall stand so thick with corne that they shall laugh and sing Psal 65.12 Whereupon the Kingly prophet sets forth a proclamation O prayse the Lord for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God yea a joyfull and pleasant thing it is to be thankefull Psal 147. Motives to Sorrow A sorrowfull spirit is a sacrifice to God despise not O Lord humble and contrite hearts Psal 51.9 Sorrow ariseth commonly from any thing that crosseth our desires and therefore may be either 1. godly or 2. worldy Concerning both which we have that of the Apostle Though I made you sorry with a letter I do not repent though I did repent for I perceive that the same Epistle hath made you sorry though it be but for a season Now I rejoyce not that ye were made sorry but that ye sorrowed to repentance for ye were made sorry after a godly manner that ye might receive dammage by us in nothing for godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of but the sorrow
if thou refuse to let him goe behold I will slay thy son even thy first born Exod. 4.22 23. And often he had brought them out to the confusion of mighty Pharoah and all their opposites and supplied their wants What heart would not melt to ponder that affectionate winning speech And now Israel what doth thy Lord thy God require of thee but to fear thy God and to walk in his waies and to love him and to serve thy Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul Deuter. 10. More patheticall is that if it may be concerning their hard usage though deserved from Assur and Babel Israel is a scattered sheep the lyons have driven him away first the King of Assyria hath devoured him and last this Nebuchadnezzar hath broken his bones Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts behold I will punish the King of Babylon and his land as I have punished the King of Assyria and I will bring Israel again into his habitation and he shall feed in Carmel and Bashan and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead In those dayes and at that time saith the Lord the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none and the sins of Judah and they shall not be found for I will pardon them whom I reserve Go up against the land of the rebells over against it and against the inhabitants of Pekoda that are to be visited waste and utterly destroy after them saith the Lord and do according to all that I have commanded thee Jerem. 50. If this love take not what should the considerations worke 1. that it is the Lord that woeth us that made us and not we our selves 2. that loved so the world being his enemies Joh. 3.16 Rom. 5.10 Col. 1.21 that he sent his only begotten son to redeem us from hellish slavery to an everlasting kingdome 3. that sent his holy spirit to be our comforter Joh. 16. to helpe our infirmities Rom. 8.26 and to cry Abba father 4. Psal 119. his word to be a perpetuall lanthorn unto our feet and a light unto our pathes 5. his blessing for our supply in all necessaries all conveniences Verily thou shalt be fed Psal 37.3 When young lyons do lack and suffer hunger those that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing Psal 34.10 his protection and safe conduct from the roaring Lion 1 Pet. 5.8.0 and his complices that walketh about seeking whom he may devoure 7. his deliverance from all contempts Psal 107.41 and pressures Motives to preserve love our selves What can be more patheticall then that of our Saviour What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his owne soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul Matth 16.26 or that of Job What is the hope of the hypocrit though he hath gaine When God taketh away his soul will God hear his cry when trouble commeth upon him Will he delight himselfe in the Almighty will he all way call upon God Job 26.8 Or that of the Apostle Know you not that your members are the the members of Christ shal I take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot God forbid 1 Cor. 6.15 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God and the spirit of God dwelleth in you if any man defileth the temple of God him God will destroy For the Temple of God is holy whose temple ye are 1 Cor. 3.16 17. Ye are not your own ye are bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit which are Gods 1 Cor. 6.19 20. For the loving of Gods Church and our neighbours and enemies what can be more pathetical then that speech watered with teares of our Saviour over Jerusalem When he was come neer he beheld the city wept over it saying If thou hadst known even in this thy day the things that belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes Luk. 19.41 42. The Aposiopesis makes it more passionate As that of Moses for the people O this people have sinned a great sin and made them Gods of gold yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin If not blot me I pray thee out of the book which thou hast written Exod. 32.31 32. which St. Paul professeth in plainer speech I say the truth in Christ I ly not my conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy ghost that I have great heavynesse and continuall sorrow in my heart For I could wish my selfe were accursed from Christ for my brethren my kinsmen acording to the flesh Rom. 9.1 2 3. And what a lamentation have we of Davids for Saul his enemy 2 Sam. 1.17 And of Jeremiah for Zedekiah and Jerusalem that had used him so barbarously in his passionate Threnes Which are a sufficient pattern where love should be opened and placed which our Saviour urgeth as the cheife mark of his followers A new commandement I give you that ye love one another as I have loved you that ye also love one another By this shall all men knovv that ye are my disciples if ye love one another Joh. 13.34 35. Which is farther urged by that beloved disciple 1 Joh. 4. from the 7 v. to the end of the Chapter Motives to hatred May be especially bent against 1. sluggishnesse 2. impertinences 3. sordid avarice 4. bestiall luxury 5. brutish inhumanity 6. persidious breach of promises oathes and vowes 7. and rebellion against such as God hath set over us For the first To the Ant thou sluggard consider her wayes and be wise which having no guid overseer or ruler provideth her food in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest How long wilt thou sleep ô sluggard when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of thy hands to sleep So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth and thy vvant as an armed man Pro. 6. Why stand ye here Idle Matth. 20. Belly-gods vvhose glory is their shame Phil. 3 r9 to whom the Apostle would have no victuall afforded 2 Thess 3.10 Notwithstanding 2. such pragmaticall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and busy-bodies will work not at all as they should but disorder all 2 Thess 3.11 these will be digging a pit which themselves fall into breaking hedges till a serpent bite them removing stones and cleaving wood whereby they shall be hurt and endangered Eccles 10.8 and slaves on hors-back when Princes goe on foot ib. Promising liberty to others when they themselves are the servants of corruption 2 Pet. 2.19 Women will have their share amongst them with their tattling 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and idle running from house to house 1 Tim. 5.13 And some of the pick-thanke tencher-chaplaines who will take upon them to epis copize it in other mens diocesses 1 Pet. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4.13 till a judgment
first year Exod. 12.9 Corn the Son of the threshing floore Isa 21.20 the Owles daughters Ib. 3.21 that is Chicken Villages belonging to Bethshean and other Cities are said to be their daughters Jos 17. Daughters of Jerusalem Sion or Babylon are the inhabitants which acknowledg those places for Mothers In which sense Jerusalem is said to be the Mother of us all Gal. 4.26 To this Trope are referred Anthropopathies wherein hands and eyes and eares and other members and humane affections are referred to God and Spirits which Anthropomorphites taking literally were condemned for Hereticks Of this kind are these passages It repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved Him at the Heart Gen. 6.6 His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel Judg. 10.16 Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them Exod. 32.10 The Lord repented of the evill that he thought to do unto his people v. 14. and the like In which expressions for mans weak capacity God is said to do such things out of passion which from eternity he had determined as men do out of weakness when they change their minds No change being in God but in the things done which fall out in men according to the mutability of their purposes carried on by passion Thou tellest my wandrings put my teares in thy bottle Are they not in thy book Psal 56.8 * Comprehensio intellectio Intellectio est cum res tota parva de parte cognoscitur aut de toto parva pars Author ad Heren Synecdoche Of Synecdoches are met with no lesse store 1. In generalls put for particulars Preach the word to every Creature Mar. 16.15 meaning that is capable of it The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God Rom. 8.19 all sorts of men hoping to have their states bettered Submit your selves to every humane Creature for the Lords sake 1 Pet. 2.13 that is every man to whom you are subordinate because God will have it so 2. Specialties put for generalls as The Sun shall not burn thee by day nor the Moon by night Psal 1216. that is nothing shall hurt thee Edom and Moab and Ammon have confederated or covenanted to take unto themselves the houses of God in possession Psal 83. i.e. the progeny of such wicked persons So souls are put for persons All the souls that came into Egypt with Jacob were 70. that is all the persons Gen. 46.27 His travell shall fall upon his own head and his wickednesse upon his owne pate Ps 7.16 his person shall endure the brunt of it Is not the hand of Joab in all this 2 King 14.19 Joabs advice and counsell 3. A synecdoche is frequently observed in putting a set number for an indefinite and reciprocally If we would contend with God we cannot answer one for a Thousand 1 Sam. 18.8 that is a great multitude by which trope 7 is often put for many or an unlimited number The women said to Naomi concerning Obed He shall be unto thee a restorer of life and a nourisher of thine old age For thy daughter in law which loveth thee which is better to thee then 7 Sons hath born him Ruth 4.15 So an evil spirit cast out when he returns is said to take with him 7 other spirits which makes the re-possession of him that was freed worse than when he was first possessed Matth. 12.45 It is a good caution put in by a father Augustinus de Doctr. Christia Lib. 3. c. 5. 10. 11. that To urge a trope according to the letter and that which is literally taken to wrest to a trope in some sort verifieth that of the Apostle The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life 2 Cor. 3.6 Such a mistake the Disciples were guilty of who understood the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadduces which their Master warned them to take heed of to be literally meant of bread which should have been understood metaphorically of their leaven of doctrine Matth. 16.12 And the false witnesses alledged against Christ the destroying of the materiall Temple which was spoken of him by a Trope concerning the Temple of his Body Jo. 2.21 These tropes twisted together in a speech continuate are as sparkling Diamonds in a Ring by the Apostle termed an allegory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gal. 4.24 Gal. 4.24 And may be conspicuously discerned in 1. Types 2. Mysteries 3. Apologues 4. Parables 5. Apothegms 6. Reproofs * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exemplar figura a picture or shadow of things to come qui in veteri testamento praefiguravit aliquid in novo fit tribus modis vel 1. Natura vel 2. Hominum confilio vel 3. Dei Types Hagar and Sarah by the Apostle are urged as types of difference between the old and new Testament as answerable to Sinai in bondage and free Jerusalem Gal. 4.25 Israels reducing from Egypt mentioned by the Prophet Hosea 11.1 is made a type by the evangelist of our Saviours returning from thence Matth. 2.15 The deliverance by the arke said to be a type of baptisme 1 Pet. 3.21 as likewise the lifting up of the brasen Serpent a type of Christ's lifting up on the Crosse Joh. 3 14. The passing of the Israelites thorough the red sea mannah the cloud and the rock set down as types of the Sacraments of the New Testament 1 Cor. 10. So to take such precepts literally as Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milk Exod. 23.19 Thou shalt not plough with an asse and an ox together Deut. 22.10 Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn Ib. 25.4 and not morally for avoiding cruelty parting stakes in worshipping and defrauding the Minister of his due the Apostle brandeth as grosse for saith he Doth God take care for oxen 1 Cor. 9.9 1 Tim. 5.18 * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—uâ—d An hidden secret in Religion the knowledge of which is not attainable by any strength of flesh and blood but by divine revelation Mysteries Mysteries under aenigmaes or hidden speeches contain matter either 1. Morall 2. Sacramentall 3. Propheticall for informing of manners by way of doctrine confirming of promises or points of belief or fore-warning of things to come for the good of Gods people and terrour of their opposites For instances in either Without controversie great is the mystery of godlinesse God was manifest in the flesh justified in the spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the world and received into glory 1 Tim. 3.16 To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God but to them that are without all things are done in parables Mar. 4.11 Of these mysteries the Apostles and their successors are the dispensers Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God 1 Cor. 4.1 Which mystery was kept secret
Praise the Lord O my soul Thus he doth himselfe and makes Apostrophe's to others to do the like O come let us sing unto the Lord Sing unto the Lord a new song So all former Halleluiahs are shut up with an Apostrophe to all Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord Psal 150. * Fictio personae when the person is not there but brought in upon the stage speaking as if he were present So a thing that is mute oft-times is dressed up in a person and words put in his mouth In this there ought to be a decorum observed that ye dresse not the servant like the master but that there be a respect had to the thing personated and accordingly to be clothed with words Prov. 1.22 Prosopopoea By a Prosopopoea 1. Wisdom is filled with a speech How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge Turn at my reproof behold I will pour out my spirit unto you I wil make knovvn my words unto you 2. A Harlot I have peace-offerings with me this day I have payed my vowes Therefore come I forth to meet thee diligently to seek thy face and I have found thee I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry with carved work vvith fine linnen of Egypt I have perfumed my bed vvith myrrh Prov. 7. aloes and cynnamon Come let us take our fill of love untill the morning let us solace our selves with love For the good man is not at home he is gone a long journey he hath taken a bag of mony with him and will come at the day appointed 3. Sacrilegious Church-robbers Come let us root them out that they be no more a people and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance Psal 83.4 4. Hypocriticall Separatists Isa 65.5 that walk after their own thoughts Stand by thy self come not near to me for I am holier then thou 5. Rebells For now they will say We have no King because vve feared not the Lord Hos 10. vvhat then should a King do to us They have spoken vvords svvearing falsly in making a covenant Thus judgment springeth up like hemlock in the furrows of the field The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth aven 6. Wretched Nabals What shall I do I have no room to bestovv my fruits This vvill I do Luk. 12.17 18 19. I vvill pull dovvn my barns and build greater and there vvill I bestovv my fruits and my goods And I vvill say to my soul Soul thou hast much goods laid up for many years Take thine ease eat and drink and be merry 7. Penitent Prodigals How many hired servants of my fathers have bread enough and to spare and I perish vvith hunger I vvill arise and go to my father and say to him Father I have sinned against heaven and against thee and am no more vvorthy to be called thy son make me as one of thy hired servants Luk. 15.17 18 19. In like manner the Pharisee and Publican are fitted vvith prayers Ib. 18.11 12 13. And the desperate vvith a speech consonant to their remedilesse case This vvas he vvhom vve had sometimes in derision and a proverb We fools accounted his life madnesse and his end vvithout honour Hovv is he numbered among the children of God and his life among the Saints We wearied our selves in the way of wickednesse What hath pride profited us All these things are passed away like a shaddow Wisd 5. Sometimes in stead of personating one divers are represented on the theater as Who is this that comes from Edom with his garments from Bozrah that is glorious in his apparell travelling in the greatnesse of his strength I that speak in righteousnesse mighty to save Wherefore art thou red in thy apparell and thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine-fat I have trodden the wine-presse alone and of the people there was none with me For I will tread them in my anger and trample them in my fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments and I will stain all my raiment Isa 63.1 2 3. We have a little sister and she hath no breasts what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for If she be a wall we will build upon her a palace of silver and if she be a dore we will enclose her with boards of cedar Cant. 8.8 * Addubitatio eùm â—â—â—â—lamus quaerere unde incipiendum ubi desinendum quid potissimùm dicendum omnino fit Quint. l. 9. c. 2. Aporia Aporia is as it were a casting about and deliberating with our selves in a doubtfull business what way to take The Steward said within himself What shall I do for my Lord taketh away from me my Stewardship I cannot dig and to beg I am ashamed Luk. 16.3 I am in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with Chirst which is far better nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needfull for you Phil. 1.22 23 24. Such deliberations by an anthropopathy are ascribed to God himself O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee for your goodnesse is as the morning clowd and as the dew it goeth away Hos 6.4 So Ib. 11.8 How shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I deliver thee Israel how shall I make thee as Admah how shall I set thee as Zeboim Mine heart is turned within me my repentings are kindled together What reward shall I give unto the Lord for all the benefits he hath done unto me I will receive the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vowes now in the presence of all his people Right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116.11 12. * A Dubitatione non procul abhorret Communicatio cum aut ipsos adversarios consulimus aut quando cum judicibus deliberamus Quint. l. 9. c. 2. Anacoinosis Anacoinosis debates the matter with others and admits of scruples but so far as we may plausibly decide them And here a Prolepsis the foreseeing and anticipating of doubts is most naturall Will a man rob his God Yet ye have robbed me But ye say Wherein have we robbed thee In tithes and offerings Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me even the whole nation Mal. 3.8 9. Thou wilt say The branches be broken off that I might be graffed in Well because of unbelief they vvere broken off and thou standest by faith be not high-minded but fear For if God spared not the naturall branches take heed lest he also spare not thee Rom. 11.19 20 21. Thou wilt say unto me Why doth he yet find fault for who hath resisted his vvill Nay but O man vvho art thou that repliest against God Shall the thing framed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus Rom. 9.19
preachersought out to find acceptable words 5. warrantable doctrine by its owne grounds and confirmation of the masters of the assembly that which was written was upright even words of truth The words of the wise are as goads and nails fastned by the masters of the assemblies 6. derived from the Word which is given by the hand of one shepheard Christ our Saviour 7. Abstaining from distracting studies which wearie the flesh in making many books when his owne bible would give content if it be rightly used that we need especially for matters of salvation no other Directory XIIII The arms of a Christian Souldier against 1. principalities 2. powers 3. rulers of the darknes of this world 4. spirituall wickednesses in high places 1. the girdle of truth for the loyns 2. for the breast the brest-plate of righteousness 3. for the feet the preparation of the Gospel of peace 4. for the left hand next the heart the shield of faith to quench the fiery darts of the Divel 5. for the right hand the sword of the spirit which is the word of God 6. for the head the helmet of salvation 7. for the accomplishing of all prayer and supplications in the Spirit with watching and all perseverance Eph. 6.12 CHAP. VII Of Antitheses I. IT is written that Abraham had two sons the one by a bondmaid the other by a free-woman but he that was of the bond-woman was born after the flesh but he of the free woman was by promise Which things are an Allegory For these are the two covenants the one from mount Sinai which gendereth to bondage which is Hagar for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to Jerusalem that now is and is in bondage with her children but Jerusalem which is above is free and is the mother of us all Gal. 4. Where may be noted correspondencies and antitheses between 1. Hagar a bond-woman and Sarah free 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ismael Hagar's son after the flesh and Isaac Sarah's according to promise 3. Sinai in Arabia the desert and Jerusalem in the land of promise 4. Sinai called by the Arabians Hagar allegorizing the Law Jerusalem the mother of us all the covenant of the gospell thence proclaimed 5. dependers of the Law for justification Hagarens born to bondage adherents to faith the sons of Sarah born to freedom 6. fleshly Ismaelites persecutors spirituall sons of Sarah for a time under the crosse 7. the censure upon the persecuting juststiciaries Cast out the bond-woman and her son on the other side The freewoman's children shall be heyrs II. Antithesis between Christ and Adam Rom. 5. 1 Not as the offence so is the free gift that by justice extended this by grace abounded 2. That included the venome of one offence or propagated but one offence originall this quits from originall and infinite actualls 3. That by one brought in the tyranny of death this by one the gift of Righteousnesse and reign in Life 4. That the root of just Condemnation this of the free gift of Justification 5. That made all men sinners this made many righteous 6. The horridness of that is manifested by the Law the abounding of grace is more illustrious by the Gospell 7. That was attended by reigning sin unto Death this by Grace to Righteousnesse and Eternall Life III. Antithesis between the flesh and the Spirit Rom. 7. where 1. The flesh brings forth fruit unto death the Spirit contendeth to serve in newnesse of Life 2. The flesh holds by the old letter the spirit by a new tenure 3. The flesh worketh death by that which is good that sin might become exceeding sinfull the Spirit clears it selfe by pleading a pardon 4. By the flesh we are sold unto sin by the Spirit we attaine redemption 5. In the flesh to will may be present with us but deeds follow not but the spirit urgeth to performe 6. The inward man delighteth in the Law of God but the Law of the members carry the intents against the Law of the Mind 7. The flesh makes up the body of sin the Spirit obtaineth deliverance by Christ IV. Antithesis between the Body before and after the Resurrection 1 Cor. 15.1 It is sowen in Corruption it is raised in incorruption 2. It is sowen in Honour it is raised in Glory 3. It it sowen in weaknesse it is raised againe in power 4. It is sowen a naturall body it is raised a spirituall body 5. It is sowen as the first Adams issue having onely a living soul it is raised as the second Adams purchase made a quickning spirit 6. The first is of the Earth earthly the second from the Lord of Heaven heavenly 7. The first carrying the image or stamp of earth from which he was taken the second the badg of Heaven to which he is advanced V. Antithesis between true pastors and impostors or scorners 1 Cor. 5. We are made a spectacle to the World and to Angells and to Men. 1. We are fools for Christs sake but ye are wise in Christ 2. We are weak but ye are strong 3. Ye are honoured but we are despised as it appeareth because at this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffetted and have no certain dwelling place and labour working with our owne hands 4. Being reviled we blesse 5. Being persecuted we suffer it 6. Being defamed we entreate 7. We are made the filth of the world and are the off-scouring of all things unto this day VI. Gods Ministers to be approved 1. In much patience 2. In afflictions 3. In necessities 4. In distresses 5. In stripes 6. In imprisonment 7. In tumults 8. In labours 9. In watchings 10. In fastings By 1. Purenesse 2. By knowledge 3. By long-suffering 4. By kindnesse 5. By the Holy Ghost 6. By love unfained 7. By the word of truth 8. By the power of God 9. By the armour of Righteousnesse 10. On the right hand and on the left 11. By honour and dishonour 12. By evill report and good report As 1. Deceivers and yet true 2. As unknown and yet well known 3. As dying yet behold we live 4. As chastned and not killed 5. As sorrowfull yet alwayes rejoycing 6. As poor and yet making many rich 7. As having nothing and yet possessing all things 2 Cor. 6. VII The chast Matrone and the whore of Babylon are thus differenced 1. The Matron is cloathed with the Sun from Heaven Rev. 12.1 The great whore with Scarlet and Gold and Pearls from the earth 2. The Matron hath the Moon and spotted-changes under her Feet the Whore sitteth on many waters which will at length fail her 3. The Matron hath a Crown of 12 Stars upon her Head the Whore appeares with a frontlet of blasphemies Mystery Babylon the great Rev. 17.5.12.2 Mother of harlots and abhominations of the earth 4. The Matron is fruitfull and travelling to bring forth Children the Whore is drunk with the blood of Saints and Martyrs and
is more for destruction then honest propagation 5. The Dragon watcheth the Matron to devour her off-spring but mounts the Whore upon a beast which hath seven Heads and ten Horns the most terrible and majesticall in all his hellish mewes 6. The Dragon with his Angells enter the lists in the Whore's quarrell but Michael and his adherents undertake for the Matron to the Dragon 's shamefull routing 7. The Matron is furnished with Eagle's wings to be nourished and preserved in the wildernesse but the whore is deserted and hated by her Partizans who shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire Rev. 17.36 CHAP. VIII Of Parables and Similitudes I Have spoken by the Prophets and I have multiplyed visions and used similitudes by the hand of the prophets Hos 12.10 A Parallel betwixt Christ and Melchizedeâ—k 1. both had like Ordination 2. by oath not by descent 3. without praedecessors or sucessors father mother beginning or end of life 4. greater than Abraham by reason of receiving tithes from him and Levi in his loins 5. King of righteousnesse and peace 6. blessing as the greater but not receiving from him 7. both offering for others not for their own sins as Christ the antitype did once for all Heb. 7. Between a minister Matth. 5.15 and a candle Men light not a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it giveth light to all that are in the house 1. A candle lightens not it selfe but must be lightned of and from another so a Minister must have his calling and gifts from God's illumination How shall he preach except he be sent 2. Rom. 10.15 A candle is not lighted to be hid under a bushel neither a Minister ordained to behave himselfe as a dumb Dog sleeping through idlenesse never satisfied through covetousnesse and drowning himselfe and others in all kind of surquedry 3. Isa 56 10. A candle must be set on a candlestick for its more commodious giving light So must the Minister reside in some designed Cure wherein he may do most good he must not bischop it in another mans dicecesse 1 Pet. 4.15 nor boast without his measure in other mens lines 4. 2 Cor. 10.15 A candle giveth light to all indifferently that are in the house So a Minister should apply himselfe to all within his compasse making himselfe all things to all men that by all means he may save some 1 Cor. 9.22 6. A candle sometimes wanteth snuffers so may a Minister correptions But it should be with snuffers of Gold belonging to the Sanctuary and by such as know and have right to use them not by polluted fingers or other meanes which may rather extinguish then make them burn the brighter 7. A candle inverted is extinguished by his owne nutriment and so a Minister who turning that light downeward which should turne upward most commonly is fryed to destruction in his owne fatnesse The course of mans life resembleth an expedition at sea wherein 1. our nativity is the shore we lanch from 2. the church the bottom wherein we are carried 3. the world the sea 4. Christ the pilot 5. the Scripture the compasse 6. the gifts of the holy ghost the prosperous gales we saile by 7. Sinus Abrahae the haven of happinesse we are bound for Then are they glad because they be at rest and so he bringeth them to the haven where they would be Psal 107. 30. God's people as lively stones are built up a spirituall house an holy priesthood to offer up spirituall sacrifice acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2.5 A good man in divers respects resembleth a stone 1. A stone is to be hammered fit for the place before it be laid in building So a faithfull man by education and suffering is fashioned to the calling wherein he is to be imployed 2. A stone is measured before it be laid in its place So the faithfull should be placed according to their abilities 3. a stone must be hard to endure wind and weather beside casuall assaults the like opposition must be expected of those that live godly 4. a stone in a lower range beareth his superiour covers his inferiour and justles not with his fellowes set beside the like respect should be had amongst good men to superiours to peers and inferiors 5. a stone butting out must be beaten back to range with his fellowes and so must too forward exorbitants which ambitiously perk before their brethren 6. a mouldered stone must be plucked out to have a sounder set in his place so in defect of a treacherous Judas a Matthias is justly chosen 7. stones that are not well cemented continue not a building so without the cement of charity christianity shattereth which is built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Jesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner-stone in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord In whom yee also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit Eph. 2.20 I am a stranger with thee and a sojourner as all my fathers were Psal 39.12 1 A pilgrim professeth himself to be so by carriage and habite so should a christian 2. he passeth-by obvious sights as not belonging unto him this becometh a mortified christian 3. He builds not in every Inne he lodgeth in so ought a christian 4. He burdens not himselfe with unnecessary carriage such would be combersome to a christian 5. He shrinks not at impediments dangers which crosse him but constantly struggles through them much more should a christian 6. He maketh the best of the entertainment he meets with any where not calling fire from heaven upon inhospitable Samaritans Luk. 9.54 this sorts with the calme spirit of a Christian 7. He allwayes hath a desire to his true home this should be the ayme and comfort of a christian For while we are in the body we are absent from the Lord for we walk by faith and not by sight and therefore should be confident and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord 2 Cor. 5.6 1. For the Lords day there is ground in nature Some time is to be set apart for the publick worship of God observed in all religions And the same ground there is for Episcopacy that some persons should be set a part and praeferred before others to performe and oversee the performance of that sacred worship 2. A patterne for that was among the Jewes one day designed in seven The like was also for church-goverment by chiefe Priests Priests and Levites to which are answerable our Bishops Priests and Deacons under the gospell The most that is said for appointing the Lords-day for publick worship is the intimation not praecept of our Saviour but practice of the Apostles and so much we have and more in the differencing of the xij Apostles lxx disciples and the observation