except ye be converted and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven Matth. 18. 3 4. Zecharia just and walked in all the commandments of the Lord unblameably Luke 1. 5 6. The Woman to whom much was forgiven loved Christ much Luke 7. 37 38 45 46 47. If I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation I restore him four-fold Luke 19. 8. When Andrew had found Christ himself he tells his Brother Simon and brings him to him Philip tells Nathaniel and leads him to Jesus John 1. 40 41 42 43 44 45. ch 4. 28 29. Jesus answered and said unto him Verily verily I say unto thee Except a man be born again or from above he cannot see the kingdom of God c. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit c. Every one who doeth evil hateth the light c. But he who doeth truth cometh unto the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God John 3. 3 5 6 20 21. John was a Burning and a Shining Light c. Ye have not his word abiding in you for him whom he hath sent ye believe not John 5. 35 38. Simon Peter answered him Lord to whom shall we go Thou hast the words of eternal life John 6. 68. If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed c. If ye were Abraham's children you would do the works of Abraham c. If God were your Father ye would love me for I proceed forth and came from God c. He who is of God heareth God's words ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God John 8. 31 39 42. 47. 1 John 2. 24. 2 John vers 9. The sheep hear his voice c. The sheep follow him for they know his voice and a stranger they will not follow but will flee from him for they know not the voice of a stranger c. I know my sheep and am known of mine c. My sheep hear my voice c. and they follow me John 10. 3 4 5 14 27. Jesus said If I wash thee not thou hast no communion with me Simon Peter faith unto him Lord not my feet only but also my head and my hands c. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another John 13. 8. 35. If ye love me keep my commandments c. He who hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is who loveth me c. If any man love me he will keep my words John 14. 15 21 23. ch 15. 14. Every branch in me who beareth not fruit he taketh away and every branch which beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit c. If ye were of the world the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you John 15. 1 2 16. 18 19. The world have hated them because they are not of the world even as I c. John 17. 14. Ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce and ye shall be sorrowful John 16. 20. Every one who is of the truth heareth my voice John 18. 37. ch 8. 37 47. They were pricked to the heart and said Men and brethren What shall us do Acts 2. 37 38. ch 16. 30. When they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they marvelled and took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard Acts. 4. 13 19. Saul when Christ came to him and converted him he said Lord What wilt thou have me to do Acts 9. 6. chap. 2. 37 38 c. chap. 16. 30 31 c. God is no respecter of persons but in every nation he who feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him Acts 10. 34 35. When the Priests of Jupiter would have done Sacrifice to the Apostles Barnabas and Paul they rent their clothes and ran in amongst the people crying out and saying Sirs Why do ye these things We also are men of like passions with you and preach unto you that you should turn from these vanities unto the living God Acts 14. 13 14 15. ch 3. 12 13. Apollos that eloquent Man was content to learn the way of God more perfectly of Aquila and Priscilla Tent-makers Acts 18. 24 25 26. Many who believed came and confessed and shewed their deeds Many also of them who used curious arts brought their books together and burnt them and they counted the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver Acts 19. 18 19. None of these things move me neither count I my life dear unto my self so that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have c. Acts 20. 24. I am ready not only to be bound but also to die for the name of the Lord Jesus Acts 21. 13. I wist not that he was the high priest for it is written Thou shalt not speak evil of c. Acts 23. 4 5. Paul consessâ—th freely thus I verily thought with my self that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus c. Which thing I also did in Jerusalem and many of the saints I did shut up in prison c. and being exceeding mad against them I persecuted them c. I would to God that not only thou but all that hear me c. were both almost and altogether such as I am except these bonds Acts 26. 9 10 11 29. Gal. 1. 13. We glory in tribulation also knowing that tribulation worketh patience c. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost Rom 5. 3 5. How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer therein c. Ye were the servants of sin but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine whereto ye were delivered being made free from sin ye became the servants of righteousness Rom. 6. 2 17 18. That which I do I allow not what I would that I do not but what I hate that do I c. I consent unto the law that it is good now then it is no â—ore I that do it but sin which dwelleth in me c. To will is present with me c. The good that I would I do not c. I find then a law that when I would do good then evil is present with me For I delight in the law of God after the inner man but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind c. O wretched man that I am Who shall deliver me c. Thanks be to God through Jesus
for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel saith the Lord Ezek. 39. 29. Not by might or power but by my Spirit saith the Lord c. grace Zach. 4. 6 7. I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie c. and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit Joel 2. 28 29. Acts 2. 16 17. Luke 24. 49. I will pour upon the house of David c. the Spirit of grace and of supplication and they shall look upon me whom they have have pierced c. Zech. 12. 10. Ephes 6. 18. Jude verse 20. When they deliver you up take no thought how or what ye shall speak c. for it is not ye who speak but the Spirit of your Father who speaketh in you Matth. 10. 19 20. Luke 12. 12. ch 17. 20 21. If I cast out devils by the Spirit of God then the kingdom is come unto you Matth. 12. 28. Except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit John 3. 5 6. It is the Spirit who quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing c. John 6. 36. 2 Cor. 3. 6. He who believeth on me out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water but this spake he of the Spirit which they who believed on him should receive John 7. 38 39. Gal. 3. 2. 14. John 4. 13 14. I will pray the Father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive c. He dwelleth with you and shall be in you I will not leave you comfortless I will come to you c. The Comforter the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance whatsoever I have said John 14. 16 17 18 25 26. But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father the Spirit of truth c. John 15. 26. ch 1. 33. Acts 1. 5. It is expedient for you that I go away for if I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto youâ— and when he is come he will convince the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment c. I have yet many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now Howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth c. he shall not speak of himself but c. He shall receive of mine and shew it unto you John 16. 7 8 12 13 14. They were not able to resist the wisdom and spirit by which Stephen spake Acts 6. 9. 10. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost c. Rom. 5. 5. If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwell in you he who raised up the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit which dwelleth in you c. If ye through the spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body ye shall live For as many as are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God c. Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit himself maketh intercession for us c. Rom. 8. 11 13 14 26 27. Eph. 2. 18. Eph. 6. 18. Jude verse 20. That ye may abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost c. That the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable being sanctified by the holy Ghost c. To make the Gentiles obedient c. by the power of the spirit of God Rom. 15. 13 16 18 19. Eye hath not seen c. but God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit for the spirit searcheth all things c. The things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God Now we have received c. the spirit of God that we might know the things which are freely given unto us of God 1 Cor. 2. 9 10 11 12. Such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified c. and by the spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6. 11. Titus 3. 5. No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost Now there are diversity of gifts but the same spirit c. The manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal For to one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom c. But all these worketh that one and the self same spirit dividing to every man severally as he will c. By one spirit we are all baptized into one body 1 Cor. 12. 3 4 7 8 9 10 11 13. We c. beholding c. the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image c. by the spirit of the Lord 2 Cor. 3. 17 18. We through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith Gal. 5. 5 22 Through him we both have an access by one spirit unto the father Ephes 2. 18. The mystery of Christ which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men as now it is revealed c. by the spirit c. I bow my knees unto the father c. that he would grant you c. to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man Ephes 3. 4 5 14 16. Who declared unto us your love in the spirit Col. 1. 8. Our Gospel came not unto you in word only but also in power and in the holy Ghost c. And ye became followers of us and of the Lord 1 Thess 1. 5 6. God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the spirit and belief of the truth 2 Thess 2. 13. That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the holy Ghost who dwelleth in us 2 Tim. 1. 14. He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which is shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ Tit. 3 5 6. Ephes 5. 26. Elect c. through sanctification of the spirit unto obedience c. Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren 1 Pet. 1. 2 22. But ye have an unction from the holy one and ye know all things c. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things c. 1 John 2. 20. 27. Of the Spirit of God further his being given to and dwelling in the Saints and working in them and others The Nature Appearance and Fruit of the Spirit and
the Saints Duty towards the Spirit in following him and not Sinning against him Grieving him or Quench-him I. Of the Spirit given to and in the Saints and others and what he did and doth THese be they who separated themselves sensual having not the spirit Jude 1. 18 19. And Pharaoh said unto his servants Can we find such a one as this is a man in whom the spirit of God is Gen. 41. 38. I have called by name Basaleel c. And I have filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom and understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship to devise cunning work to work in gold and silver and in brass c. Exod. 31. 2 3 4. ch 35. 31 32 c. Gather unto me seventy of the Elders of Israel c. And I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee and will put it upon them and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee c. And the Lord came down c. and took of the spirit that was upon him and gave it unto the seventy Elders And it came to pass that when the spirit rested on them they prophesied and did not cease c. Would all the Lords people were prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them Numb 11. 16 17 25 26 29. My servant Caleb because he had another spirit with him and followed me fully him will I bring into the land Numb 14. 24. And Balaam lift up his eyes c. and the spirit of God came upon him and he blessed Israel instead of cursing them Numb 24. 1 2 3 10. Take thee Joshua the son of Nun a man in whom is the spirit and lay thine hand upon him Numb 27. 18. The spirit of the Lord upon Jepthah c. Judg. 11. 29. Sampson and the child grew and the Lord blessed him and the spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan Judge 13 24 25. And the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and he rent the Lyon as he would have rent a kid c. and the spirit of the Lord came upon him and he c. slew thirty of them c. Judg. 14. 6 19. The spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and the cords which were upon his arms became as flax Judg. 15. 14. The spirit of the Lord will come upon thee and thou shalt prophesie with them and shall be turned into another man c. And the spirit of God came upon him and he prophesied 1 Sam. 10. 6 9 10. Samuel anointed David and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward c. But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him 1 Sam. 16. 13 14. David had the pattern of Gods house given to him by the spirit 1 Chron. 28. 12 19. Yet many years dist thou forbear them and testified against them by thy spirit in thy prophets Neh. 9. 30. Zech. 7. 12. Truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord and of judgment and of might to declare unto Jacob his tranâ—gression and to Israel his sin Micah 3. 8. I indeed baptize you with water c. but he c. shall baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire c. Mat. 3. 11. Mark 1. 8. For it is not ye that speak but the spirit of your father who speaketh in you Mat. 10. 20. Luke 12. 11 12. It is said of John he shall be filled with the holy Ghost even from his mothers womb c. The Angel said unto Mary The holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee c. Elizabeth was filled with the holy Ghost and she spake c. Zacharias was filled with the holy Ghost and prophesied saying c. Luke 1. 13 15 35 41 47. The holy Ghost was upon Simeon And it was revealed unto him by the holy Ghost that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord Luke 2. 25 26. If ye then being evil know how to give good things to your children how much more shall your heavenly father give his holy spirit to them who asketh him Luke 11. 13. The kingdom of God cometh not with observation c. Behold the kingdom of God is among you or within you Luke 17. 20 21. The spirit of truth c. he dwelleth with you and shall be with you John 14. 17. ch 4 14. The comforter c. he will reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of judgment c. when the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth For he shall not speak of himself but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak and he will shew you things to come He shall glorifie me for he shall receive of mine and shew it unto you John 17. 7 8 13 14. He breathed on them and saith unto them Receive the holy Ghost John 20. 22. Job 32. 8. Wait for the promise of the father which ye have heard of me for John truly baptized with water but ye shall be baptized with the holy-Ghost not many days hence c. ye shall receive power after the holy-Ghost is come upon you or the power of the holy Ghost cometh upon you Acts 1. 4 5 8. Luke 24. 49. ch 3. 16. This was fulfilled And they were all filled with the holy-Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance c. Jesus c. having received of the father the promise of the holy Ghost he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear Acts 2. 2 3 4 14 15 16 17 18 32 33. Then Peter filled with the holy-Ghost said c. the place was shaken c. And they were all filled with the holy Ghost and they spake the word c. Acts 4. 8 31. The holy Ghost whom God hath given unto them who obey him Acts 5. 32. Stephen a man full of the holy Ghost c. and they were not able to resist the spirit and wisdom by which he spake Acts 6. 5 10. ch 7. 55. Peter and John c. prayed for them that they might receive the holy Ghost for as yet he was fallen upon none of them c. and they received the holy Ghost Acts 8. 15. 16 17. The Lord c. hath sent me that thou mightest c. be filled with the holy Ghost Acts 9. 17. While Peter yet spake these words the holy Ghost fell on all them who heard the word c. they heard them speak with tongues c. Acts 10. 44 46. Barnabas was a good man and full of the holy Ghost c. Acts 11. 24. Acts 13. 9 52. God who knoweth the hearts bear them witness giving them the holy Ghost as he did unto us Acts 15. 8. They were forbidden by the holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia c. then they assayed
Saints Believers Brethren in the Lord each to other as such and as standing in that Relation one to another Chap. 17. Page 145. 5. To live peaceably among themselves avoid Whispering Tale-bearing and whatsoever tends to divide or disturb Peace Page 148 6. To rebuke reprove exhort admonish and warn each other c. To take such Rebuke c. well from each other 149 1. To rebuke exhort c. 149 2. To take such Rebuke c. well 150 See more of Church-Discipline Chap. 27 Page 236. 7. To confess Sins to and pray for each other 150 8. To be of one Mind 151 9. To walk wisely and charitably one towards another And in things indifferent to have respect to the Weak and to avoid Offences ibid. 10. To distribute and communicate to each others Necessities Of Giving to the Poor in general 152 See more in shewing Mercy to all Chap. 19. Page 162. Of Giving to Enemies Chap. 22. Page 205. Of Church-Collections for the Poor Chap. 27. Page 228 Cha. XVIII 3 Duties of Saints Believers each to other as they stand related to one another in the Flesh Page 154. 1. Husbands to Wives and Wives to Husbands Of Marriage Women c. 154 2. Parents to their Children and Children to their Parents 156 3. Masters to their Servants and Servants to their Masters 158 4. Magistrates to Subjects and Subjects to Magistrates 159 See Magistrates at large Chap. 24. Page 213. Chap. XIX 4. The Duties of Saints towards all Men those who are without Unbelievers Enemies Pag. 159. 1. In the General 159 2. In Particular not to speak Evil of them or judge them 160 3. Be just righteous true and faithful to and with them in all things of Trust and Dealing ibid. 4. To live at peace with them every one doing his own Work and not intermedling with others 161 5. Not to be discontented angry or revengeful against them but to behave themselves meekly gently and patiently towards them bearing Wrong ibid. See more of Meekness Chap. 16. Page 117. 6. To pity them shew them Mercy pray for them requite them Good for Evil Love for Hatred 162 See more of Doing Good to Persecutors Chap. 22. Page 205. Giving to the Poor Chap. 17. Page 142. 7. To behave themselves humbly and courteously towards all giving them due Respect ibid. 8. To avoid all unnecessary Society and Fellowship with wicked Men. 163 5. Of the Duties of Saints in Times of Affliction and Persecution both towards God such as persecute and such as are persecuted and afflicted ibid. See Afflictions and Persecutions at large Chap. 22. Page 204. 6. Their Duties in Times of Common Calamities ibid. See Common Calamities at large Chap. 23. Page 210. 7. Their Duties towards the Spirit ibid. See Duties towards the Spirit at large Chap. 21. Page 177. 8. Their Duties towards their Ministers or Pastors ibid. See Church-Affairs at large Chap. 27. Page 231. 9. Their Duties in case of Temptation by Satan and False-Teachers Errours c. ibid. See Satan's Instruments False-Teachers c. in general Chap. 30. Page 244. 10. Their Duties in relation to the Things of this World ibid. See the Things of this World in general Chap. 39. Page 270. Chap. XX. How Men come truly and spiritually to know the only true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent and the Mystery of Salvation by him and expressed in the Word To believe bring forth Fruit and persevere through Difficulties to Eternal Life Page 164. 1. A Man of himself can do neither of these 164 2. God in Christ doth all freely hath promised so to do 1. In General ibid. 2. In Particular to give Knowledge of himself c. 166 See more of Knowledge Chap. 38. Page 264. 3. To give Faith or enable to believe 168 4. To enable them to subdue Sin bring forth Fruit profit c. ibid. 5. To give Power to persevere in Faith c. 170 See more of Perseverance Chap. 16. Page 142. 6. God in Christ doth command encourage and invite by Promises to come to him for these and cast our Care upon him 171 Chap. XXI How God doth work and effect these things in the Hearts and Spirits of his Elect Pag. 173. By his Spirit whom he promised Page 173 Of the Spirit of God further his being given to and dwelling in the Saints working in them and others The Nature and Fruits thereof Saints Duties towards the Spirit Page 174. 1. Of the Spirit given to and in the Saints and what he did and dâ—th 174 2. The Nature Working and Fruits of the Spirit 176 3. Saints Duties toward the Spirit Page 177. 1. To follow him and make use of him 177 2. Not to sin against grieve or quench the Spirit ibid. Chap. XXII Of Afflictions Troubles and Persecutions Pag. 178 1. To whom they belong or who may expect them Page 178. 1. Common to all 2. More especially to the Saints Pag. 178. 1. The Holy Ghost affirms it ibid. 2. That the Saints have been so exercised Pag. 179. 1. From God more immediately 179 2. From men Page 180. 1. Wicked Men Heathens 180 2. From Professors Men zealous of the Law and Traditions 181 2. For what Ends God doth correct his Children and suffer them to be persecuted Page 183. 1. To exercise and try their Faith and Obedience 183 2. To humble and purge them ibid. 3. To make them to remember God and the Things above look to own and close with them 184 4. For God's own Glory and the Furtherance of the Gospel ibid. 5. For the Effecting of great Good and Advantage to those who are exercised with Trouble c. 185 3. The Considerations which should bear up stay and comfort the Spirits of the Saints in their Afflictions and under Persecutions Page 186. 1. That God appoints them and that for such Ends as before 186 2. That such who are so exercised are blessed and happy and so pronounced 'T is a Seal of Sonship of God's choice Love and of their Salvation ibid. 3. That God well knows the Design and Ways of Satan and of all the Adversaries of Believers And that they can do no more nor proceed further against the Saints than what God permits He turns about the Purposes of Adversaries 187 4. That God orders and determines of the Measure Manner Time and Continuance of Afflictions and Persecutions and that according to our Need. 189 5. That God doth sometimes make Enemies and Persecutors themselves to acknowledge the Saints Innocency when they suffer and will surely avenge them of their Adversaries ibid. 6. That God will comfort uphold and preserve his in all their Troubles and not lay more upon them than they can bear 190 See Common Calamities Chap. 23. Page 209. 7. That the Saints are near and dear to God in Christ so that he takes notice of their Afflictions and Persecutions and is said to be persecuted and afflicted in their Persecutions c. 192 For more See Union and Relation
this thy day the things which belong to thy peace c. Luke 19. 10 41 42. Mark 3. 5. And the word was made flesh c. full of grace and truth John 1. 14. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping c. 〈◊〉 groaned in the spirit and was troubled c. Jesus wept Then said the Jews Behold how he loved him John 11. 33 35 36. Luke 7. 12 13 14. Let not your hearts be troubled ye believe in God c. Peace I leave with you my peace I give unto you c. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid John 14. 1 27. Matth. 14. 27. I have many things to say unto you but ye cannot hear them now howbeit c. John 16. 12 13. When Mary sought Jesus weeping he appeared to her to comfort her c. He shewed himself also to his Disciples his hands and feet and the second time to Thomas when he would not believe the report of the rest John 20. 11 14 15 16 19 25 27. Christ gives charge three times to Peter that if he loved him he should feed his Lambs and his Sheep John 21. 15 16 17. Ye denied the holy and just One Acts 3. 14. I obtained mercy for this cause that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them who should hereafter believe on him 1 Tim. 1. 16. In that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them who are tempted Heb. 2. 18. ch 4. 15. Who is holy harmless undefiled c. Heb. 7. 26. Christ as of a Lamb without spot and blemish 1 Pet. 1. 19. Hereby perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us c. 1 John 3. 16. Behold I stand at the door and knock If any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him and sup with him and he with me Rev. 3. 20. CHAP. VIII How Christ wrought this Salvation for Sinners and what he was made and is what he undertook and did in order to it 1. He is Mediator THere is one God one Mediator between God and man the man Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 2. 5. By so much was Jesus made a Surety of a better testament Heb. 7. 22. He is made the Mediator of a better testament which was established upon better promises Heb. 8. 6. And for this cause he is the Mediator of the New Testament that c. Heb. 9. 15. And to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant or testament Heb. 12. 24. II. He took upon him the Nature of Man a Body of Flesh and humbled himself GOD said to the serpent c. I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel Gen. 3. 15. Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call his name Immanuel Isa 7. 14. And there shall come forth a Rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him c. Isa 11. 1 2. Acts 13. 22 23. His visage was so marred more than any man and his form more than the sons of men Isa 52. 14. He hath no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him he is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows c. We hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not Isa 53. 2 3. The Lord hath created a new thing in the earth a woman shall compass a man Jer. 31. 22. They shall smite the Judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek Micah 5. 1. The birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise c. Mary was sound with child of the Holy Ghost c. She had brought forth her first-born Son and he called his name Jesus Matth. 1. 18 20 23 25. Thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son and shall call his name Jesus the holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God Luke 1. 31 35. He was tempted of the devil Matth. 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. And Jesus said unto them The foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head Matth. 8. 20. Is not this the Carpenter's Son Is not his mother called Mary and his brethren James c. And they were offended in him Matth. 13. 55 56 57. He rode upon an Ass into the city of Jerusalem Matth. 21. 2 4 7. She brought forth her first-born Son and wrapped him in swadling-clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn c. He went down with them c. and was subject to them But his mother kept c. Luke 2. 7 51. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among 〈◊〉 John 1. 14. Jesus therefore being weary with his journey sate thus on the well John 4. 6. The bread which I give is my flesh which I give for the life of the world John 6. 51. The high priest prophesied that Jesus should die c. and gather the dispersed sons of God into one John 11. 49 50 c. David c. knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh he would raise up Christ c. Acts 2. 29 30. Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord who was made of the seed of David according to the flesh Rom. 2. 3. 2 Tim. 2. 8. Reâ— 22. 16. God sending his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh Rom. 8. 3. Of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came Rom. 9. 5. Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor c. 2 Cor. 8 â— Though he was cruâ—ified through weakness yet he lived 2 Cor. 13. 4. God sent forth his Son made of a woman made under the law Gal. 4. 4. But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient c. Phil. 2. 7 8. Hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death c. Col. 1. 21 22. Great is the mystery of godliness God was manifested in the flesh 1 Tim. 3. 16. Jesus who was made a little lower than the Angels for the suffering of death c. He who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren c. As the children are partakers of flesh and blood he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death c. Verily he took not on him the nature of Angels but he
7. 1 2 3 4 5. Uriah said unto David The Ark and Israel and Judah abide in tents and my Lord Joab and the servants are encamped in the open field shall I then go into mine house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife c. I will not do this thing 2 Sam. 11. 11. I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God for all his judgments were before and as for his statutes I did not depart from them I was also upright before or to him I have also kept me from mine iniquity 2 Sam. 22. 22 23 24. And David's heart smote him after that he had numbred the people And David said unto the Lord I have sinned greatly c. And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel for it c. And David said Lo I have sinned I have done wickedly but these sheep what have they done let thine hand be against me and against my father's house 2 Sam. 24. 10 15 17. 1 Sam. 24. 5. When Josiah heard the book of the law he rent his clothes c. was tender c. 2 Kings 22. 11 13 13 19. Ezra 9. 4. Esther when the Jews were in danger by Haman ventured her life and all for their security she said Go fast for me c. I also and my maidens will fast likewise and so will I go unto the King which is not according to the law and if I perish I perish Esther 4. 16. Job a man perfect and upright fearing God and departing from all evil Job 1. 1 8. chap. 31. 13 14 c. His delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he meditate day and night he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water Psalm 1. 2 3. Psalm 92. 12 13 14. Joh. 23. 12. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in his holy place He who 〈◊〉 clean hands and a pure heart who hath not 〈◊〉 up soul unto vanâ—y nor sworn deceitfully c. This is the generation of them who seek him that seek thy face c. Psalm 24. 3 4 5 6. Psalm 15. 1 2. I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thine honour dwefleth Psalm 26. ◠〈◊〉 ye my face my heart said unto thee Thy face Lord will I seek Psalm 27. 8. The righeous sheweth mercy and giveth c. is over 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 c. the 〈◊〉 of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment the law of his God is in his heart Psalm 37. 21 26 31 32. Psalm 112. 5. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long Psalm 71. 24. Psalm 119. 46. Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion c. for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and favour the dust thereof Psalm 102. 13 14. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord Psalm 112. 7. I have rejoyced in the ways of thy testimonies as in all riches c. I will delight my self in thy statutes c. Thy testimonies are my delight and my counsellor c. I am a companion to all who fear thee and keep thy statutes c. O how love I thy law it is my meditation all the day c. Better to me than thousands of gold c. How sweet are thy words c. Psalm 119. 14 16 20 24 63 72 97 103 172 174. I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the house of the Lord Psalm 122. 1. If I forget thee O Jerusalem c. If I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy Psalm 137. 5 6. Psalm 74. 1 2 3 4 c. I hate them who hate thee am not I grieved when men rise up against thee Psalm 139. 21 22. Psalm 119. 53 126 136 158. I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works and shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and will declare thy greaness They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness c. Thy saints shall bless thee they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power to make known unto the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of thy kingdom Psalm 145 5 6 7 10 11 12. The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day Prov. 4. 18. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil pride and arrogancy and the evil way Prov. 8. 13. A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast Prov. 12. 10. He who walks righteously and speaketh uprightly he who despiseth the gain of oppression who snaketh his hands from holding of bribes who stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing of evil he shall dwell on high c. Isa 33. 15 16. I remember c. the love of thine espousal when thou wentest after me in the wilderness c. Jer. 2. 2. When the King asked Daniel thus Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen and the interpretation thereof Daniel answered in the presence of the King and said The secret which the King hath commanded cannot the wise-men c. shew unto the King But there is a God in heaven who revealeth secrets and maketh known to the king c. Dan. 2. 26 27 28. Then they who feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkened and heard c. Mal. 3. 16. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted Blessed are the meek c. Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Matth. 5. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. John 16. 20. Prov. 27. 7. He who loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he who loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me and he who taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me Matth. 10. 36 37 38. ch 16. 24. Luke 14. 33. He who is not with me is against me and he who gathereth not with me scattereth abroad Matth. 12. 30. The kingdom of heaven is like to a treasure hid in a field the which when a man hath found he hideth and for joy thereof he goeth and selleth all he hath and buyeth that field Matth. 13. 44. Luke 10. 39 42. Verily I say unto you
works of my hands Command ye me c. Israel shall be saved with an everlasting salvation c. Isa 45. 11 17. Zion said The Lord hath forsaken me c. Can a woman forsake her sucking-child c. Yet will I not forget thee Behold I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands thy walls are continually before me Isa 49. 14 15 16. Thy Maker is thy Husband c. and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel the God of the whole earth c. With everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord No weapon which is formed against thee shall prosper c. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness of me saith the Lord Isa 54. 5 8 10 17. Unto them will I give in my house c. a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off c. Them will I bring unto my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer and their burnt-offerings accepted upon my altar Isa 56. 3 4 5 6 7. In all their afflictions he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them c. Doubtless thou art our Father c. Return for thy servants sake the tribes of thine inheritance the people of thy holiness c. Isa 63. 9 16 17 18 ch 64. 9. Since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear neither hath the eye seen O God besides thee what he hath prepared for him who waiteth for him or a God besides thee who doth so for him who waiteth c. Isa 64. 4. 1 Cor. 2. 9. Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem c. if ye can find a man if there be any who executeth judgment who seeketh the truth and I will pardon it Jer. 5. 1. Gen. 18. 26 32. Is Ephraim my dear son he a pleasant child Since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy on him saith the Lord c. If the ordinances of heaven cease then the seed of Israel shall cease from being a nation before me Jer. 31. 20 36 37. When Jerusalem was taken and Jeremiah the Prophet the King of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah c. Look well to him and do him no harm but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee Jer. 39. 11 12. Numb 14. 37 38. The precious Sons of Zion comparable to fine Gold how are they esteemed c. Lam. 4. 2. God ordered the Mark of Salvation to be upon his when all others were to be smitten Ezek. 9. 4 5 6. Though I have scattered them c. yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the Countries where they shall come Ezek. 11. 16. Though these three men Noah Daniel and Job were in it they should deliver their own souls by their righteousness saith the Lord c. they only shall be delivered themselves Ezek. 14. 14 16 18 20. I sought for a man amongst them who should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none therefore c. Ezek. 22. 30 31. Because thou hast said c. These two Countries shall be â—hine and we will possess it whereas the Lord was there or though the Lord was there Therefore c. Ezek. 35. 10 11. Psal 14. 5. O Daniel a man greatly beloved c. O man greatly beloved fear not c. Dan. 10. 11. 19. ch 9. 23. Jacob. c. by his staength he had power with God yea he had power over the Angel and prevailed he wept c. There he spake with us even the Lord God of hosts Hos 12. 2 3 4 5. Gen. 32. 24 25. Hos 11. 12. I will be as the dew unto Israel he shall grow as the lilly c. Hos 14. 5 6. And my people shall never be ashamed Joâ—l 2. 26 27. For he who toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eyes Zech. 2. 8. We will go with you for we have heard God is with you Zech. 8. 23. Ezra 8. 22. The Lord harkned and heard and a book of remembrance was written before him for them who feared the Lord and that thought upon his name And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts in that day when I make up my jewels or special treasure and I will spare them as a man spareth his son who serveth him Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him who serveth God and him who serveth him not Mal. 3. 16 17 18. Unto you who fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves in the stall Mal. 4. 2. They are pronounced blessed and many privileges mentioned by Christ They are the salt of the earth the light of the world c. Matth. 5. 3 4 5 to 14. The very hairs of your head are all numbred c. Ye are of more value than many sparrows Matth. 10. 30 31. Among them who are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist Notwithstanding he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he Matth. 11. 11. It is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven c. Blessed are your eyes for they see and your ears for they hear c. Matth. 13. 11 16. Mark 4. 11 12 34. When Peter began to sink Christ helped him Matth. 14. 30 31. Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me it were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck c. Woe unto the world because of offences c. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones for I say unto you that in heaven their Angels do always behold the face of my Father c. Matth. 18. 6 7 10. That they should deceive the elect if it were possible Matth. 24 24. For the elect's sake whom he hath chosen he hath shortned the days c. Mark 13. 20. Matth. 24. 22. To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom Christ opened the parable to them Rejoyce not that the spirits are subject to you but rather rejoyce because your names are written in the book of life Luke 10. 20. The hairs of your head are numbred c. Fear not little flock it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom Luke 12. 7 32. Joy in heaven over one sinner who repenteth more than over ninety nine just persons c. There is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over him c. Luke 15. 7 10. To as many as received him to them he gave power or the right or privilege to become the sons of
Calamities Chap. 23. In the Glory Believers shall have Chap. 37. In the next Chapter Of their Relation to Christ See perseverance that the Saints shall be kept Chap. 16. CHAP. XV. The Union and Relations between Christ and his Church and the mutual Love and Esteem each of other and the manifestation thereof I Will declare thy name unto my brethren c. Psalm 22. 22. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for thy love is better than wine c. Thy name is as ointment poured forth therefore do the Virgins love thee Tell me O thou whom my soul loveth where thou feedest c. For why should I be as one who turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions If thou know not O thou fairest among women go c. A bundle of myrrh is my beloved unto me he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts c. Behold thou art fair my love c. Cant. 1. 2 3 7 8 13 15 16. As the lilly among thorns so is my love among the daughters As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood so my beloved among the sons I sate down or delighted and sate down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit sweet c. I am sick of love his left hand under my head and his right hand doth embrace me c. O my dove let me see thy countenance let me hear thy voice for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely Cant. 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 14. By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth I sought him but I found him not I will rise now and go about the City c. I will seek him whom my soul loveth c. Saw ye whom my soul loveth I found him c. I held him and would not let him go Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. Thou art all fair my love there is no spot in a thee come with me c. Thou hast ravished or taken away my heart my sister spouse Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes c. How fair is thy love my sister spouse How much better is thy love than wine c. A garden inclosed is my sister c. Let my beloved come into his garden c. Cant. 4. 7 9 10 12 16. It is the voice of my beloved who knocketh saying Open to me my sister my love my dove my undefiled c. I opened to my beloved but my beloved had withdrawn himself was gone my soul failed when he spake I sought him but could not find I called him but he gave me no answer c. Tell him I am sick of love c. My beloved is c. he is altogether lovely Cant. 5. 2 6 10 16. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine c. Thou beautiful O my love c. my dove my undefiled c. Who is she who looketh forth as the morning fair as the moon clear as the sun Cant. 6. 3 4 9 10. ch 2. 16. I am my beloved's and his desire is towards me Cant. 7. 10. Prov. 8. 31. Set me as a seal upon thine heart as a seal upon thine arm for love is strong as death Cant. 8. 6. Behold I and the children whom the Lord hath given me Isa 8. 18. Heb. 2. 13. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me c. When saw we thee an hungry c. and did not minister c. Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me Matth. 25. 34 35 40 45. Mark 9. 41 42. Go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee and there shall they see me Matth. 28. 10. Mark 3. 35. Rom. 8. 29. He who eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him John 6. 56. I am the good shepherd the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep c. I c. know my sheep and am known of mine John 10. 11 14. I am glad for your sakes that I was not there to the intent ye may believe John 11. 14 15. Ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well for so I am John 13. 13. Let not your hearts be troubled c. I will come again and receive you to my self that where I am there ye may be also c. I will not leave you comfortless c. Ye see me because I live ye shall live also c. You in me and I in you c. Peace I leave with you c. I will love him and manifest my self to him c. Let not your hearts be troubled John 14. 1 3 18 19 20 21 23 27. 2 John 3. 24. I am the vine ye are the branches c. As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love c. These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you that your joy might be full c. I have loved you greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends c. Ye are my friends c. John 15. 5 9 11 12 13 14. Luke 12. 4. These things have I spoken that I should not be offended c. I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce and your joy no man taketh from you c. The Father himself loveth you c. John 16. 1 22 27. Christ prays for his Church at large John 17. Go to my brethren and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and your Father to my God and to your God John 20. 17. Jesus said Food my sheep seed my lambe John 21. 15 16 17. When Saul persecuted the Church Christ said unto him Why persecutes thou me c. I am Jesus whom thou persecutest Acts 9. 4 5. Ye are become dead unto the law that ye should be married unto another even to him who is raised from the dead Rom. 7. 4. ch 14. 9. Thou bearest not the root but the root thee Rom. 11. 17. Ye are Christ's 1 Cor. 3. 23. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ c. He who is joyned unto the Lord is one spirit 1 Cor. 15 17. When ye sin so against the brethren ye sin against Christ c. 1 Cor. 8. 12. The head of every man is Christ 1 Cor. 11. 3. All the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ c. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body 1 Cor. 12. 12 13. Gal. 3. 28. The love of Christ constraineth us 2 Cor. 5. 14. I have espoused you unto one husband that that I may present you a chast virgin to Christ 2 Cor. 11. 2. Gave him to be the head over all things to the Church which is the body the fulness of him who filleth all in all Ephes 1. 22 23. Col. 1. 18. To know the
with the proud Prov. 16. 2 5. 18 19. ch 18. 12. Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his maker Prov. 17. 5. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness or bounty Prov. 20. 6. Every way of man is right in his own eyes but the Lord pondereth the heart Prov. 21. 2. Put not forth thy self in the presence of the King and stand not in the place of great men For better it is that it be said unto thee Come up hither than that thou shouldst be put lower in the presence of the Prince Prov. 25. 6 7. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit there is more hope of a fool than of him Prov. 26. 12. Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth a stranger and not thine own lips The full soul loatheth the honey-comb but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet Prov. 27. 2 7. He who is of a proud heart stirreth up strife Prov. 28. 25. A man's pride shall bring him low but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit Prov. 29. 23. Surely I am more brutish than man and have not the understanding of a man c. There is a generation pure in their own eyes and yet not washed from their filthiness c. how lofty are c. Prov. 30. 2 12 13. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtiness of man shall be brought down c. for the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon every one who is proud and lofty and upon every one who is lifted up and he shall be brought low c. Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils for wherein is he to be accounted of Isaiah 2. 11 12 13 17 22. ch 5. 15. Job 9. 13. Wo unto them who are wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight Isa 5. 21. Wo is me c. I am of unclean lips c. for mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hosts Isa 6. 5. I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks for he saith By the strength of my hand I have done it c. Shall the ax boast it self against him that heweth therewith c. Therefore shall the Lord the Lord of Hosts send among his fat ones leanness and under his glory he shall kindle a fire c. The high ones of stature shall be hewn down and the haughty shall be humbled Isa 10. 12 13 15 16 33. ch 14. 11 12 13 14 15. The Lord of Hosts hath purposed it to stain or pollute the pride of all glory to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth Isa 23. 9. Hear you scornful men c. because you say we have made a covenant with death c. it shall be broken c. Isa 28. 14 15 18. Thus saith the high and lofty One c. I dwell in the high and holy place with him also who is of an humble and contrite spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite Isa 57. 15. Thus faith the Lord The heaven is my throne c. but to this man will I look to him who is pure and contrite in spirit and trembleth at my word Isa 66. 1 2. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom nor the mighty man in his might c. Jer. 9. 23. I will mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem c. who shall refuse to hear my word c. Jer. 13. 9 10 15 17 18. O house of Israel cannot I do with you as this potter faith the Lord behold as the clay is in the potters hands so ye in mine hand O house of Israel Jer. 18. 6. When the prophet Jeremiah had spoken the words of the Lord to the people then spake Azariah c. and all the proud men saying unto Jeremiah Thou speakest falsly The Lord our God hath not sent thee to say c. Jer. 42. 1 2. Behold I am against thee O thou most proud or pride faith the Lord God of Hosts c. And the most proud shall stumble and fall c. Jer. 50. â—1 32. Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom pride c. and the more haughty c. Ezek. 16. 49 50. Thus faith the Lord c. exalt him that is low and abase him who is high Ezek. 21. 26. God threatens the Prince of Tyrus for his sacrilegious Pride Ezek. 28. 1 c. When the King said unto Daniel Art thou able to make known unto me the dream c. Daniel answered c. There is a God in heaven who revealeth secrets c. but as to me this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living Dan. 2. 25 26 27 28 30. Is not this great Babylon which I have built by the might of my power and for the honour of my Majesty While the word was in the king's mouth there fell a voice c. saying c. The kingdom is departed from thee c. He was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen c. Those who walk in pride he is able to abase Dan. 4. 29 30 31 32 33 37. Isa 27. 4. When his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened in pride or to deal proudly he was deposed from his kingly throne and took his glory from him c. and thou his son Belshazzar hast not humbled thine heart although thou knewest all this but hast lifted up thy self against the Lord of heaven c. Dan. 5. 20 21 22 23. Their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten me Hosea 13. 6. He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly c. and walk humbly with thy God Micah 6. 8. Behold his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him Habbak 2. 4. Moab shall be as Sodom c. This shall they have for their pride because they reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of Hosts Zephan 2. 9 10 Jerem. 48. 26 27 29. Behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just c. lowly Zech. 9. 9. The day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud c. shall be stubble Mal. 4. 1. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven Matth. 5. 3. The Centurion answered and said Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under my roof Matth. 8. 7 8 Luke 7. 6 7. Thou Capernaum which art exalted unto heaven shall be brought down to hell For if the c. Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest Matth. 11. 23 29. Whosever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven Matth. 18. 4. Luke 9. 46 47 48. Mark 10. 15. When the ten heard it
observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee Cursed thou in the city and cursed thou in the field c. Deut. 28. 15 16 17 18 19 20 to the end chap. 29. 19 20. chap. 3. 17 18 19. Do ye thus requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father c. Deut. 32. 6 32 33 c. Achan sinned in taking the cursed thing and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel c. and the men of Aâ— smote them c. The Lord said c. neither will I be with you any more except ye destroy the accursed thing from among you Up c. And God said He who is taken with this accursed thing shall be burned with fire he and all that he hath because he hath transgressed c. And accordingly Achan and his was stoned and burned Josh 7. 1 4 5 10 12 13 15 24 25 26. If ye forsake the Lord and serve strange gods then he will turn and do you hurt and consume you after he hath done you good Josh 24. 20. Judges 2. 13 14 15. ch 10. 6 13. God rendred the Wickedness of Abimelech c. in slaying his seventy Brethren And all the Evil of the Men of Shechem c. upon their heads c. Judges 9. 56 57. God said Did not I deliver you c. yet have ye forsaken me c. Wherefore I will deliver you no more Go and cry unto the gods ye have chosen let them deliver you c. Judges 10. 11 12 13 14. Sampson's Deiilah was his ruin Judges 16. 15 to 21. The Benjamites cut off and destroyed for the great Sin in abusing the Levite's Concubine to death Judges 18. ch 19. God threatens Eli for his suffering his Sons to sin so in the Priesthood 1 Sam. 2. 22 23 24 to the end The Lord said I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house c. for I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile and he restrained them not and therefore have I sworn unto the house of Eli That the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor burnt-offerings for ever 1 Sam. 3. 11 12 13 14. ch 4. 17 18. God's Judgments upon the Philistines while they kept the Ark of God amongst them 1 Sam. 5. 6 7 8 c. He smote the men of Bethshemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord c. fifty thousand and seventy men 1 Sam. 6. 19. The elders of Israel came to Samuel and said Make us a king to judge us like all the nations c. And the Lord said unto Samuel c. They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them c. And God said You shall cry out because of your king c. and the Lord will not hear you in that day 1 Sam. 8. 4 5 7 18 19. ch 10. 19. The Lord sent thunder and rain in wheat-harvest and all the people feared the Lord and Samuel We have added unto all our sins this eviâ— to ask us a king c. If ye will still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your king 1 Sam. 12. 12 16 17 18 19 25. Saul offered sacrifice himself c. Samuel said to him Thou hast done foolishly c. but now the kingdom shall not continue I Sam. 13. 9 10 13 14. Samuel said to Saul Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord he hath also rejected thee from being king 1 Sam. 15. 9 11 17 22 23 26. The Lord also takes away his Spirit from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him 1 Sam. 16. 1 14. And when Saul enquired of the Lord the Lord answered him not neither by dreams nor by Uriâ— nor by prophets c. Then he goes to a familiar spirit c. Samuel said Why hast thou disquieted me c. Saul said God is departed from me and answereth me no more c. The Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand Because thou obeyed not the voice of the Lord nor executed his fierce wrath upon Amalek c. therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day c. 1 Sam. 28. 6 7 15 16 17 18 19. 2 Chron. 10. 13 14. Uzzah put forth his hand unto the ark of God and took hold of it c. and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah and God smote him there for his errour or rashness and there he died c. Michal David's wife despised David for his dancing before the ark c. therefore sâ—e had no child unto the day of her death c. 2 Sam. 6. 16 23. David's Sin in the matter of Uriah's Wife c. displeased the Lord 2 Sam. 11. 27. And Nathan said unto David c. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel I anointed thee king over Israel c. and if that had been too little I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight that thou hast killed Uriah c. Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house c. Behold I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house and I will take thy wives before thine eyes and give them unto thy neighbour and he shall lie with thy wife in the right of this sun c. The child also shall surely die c. And the child died 2 Sam. 12. 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 18. Then Amnon his Son forceth Tamar Sister of Absalom c. And Absalom killeth Amnon 2 Sam. 13. 11 12 13 14 28 29. Absalom conspireth against David and rebels 2 Sam. 15. Absalom went in to his Father's Concubines in the â—â—ght of all Israel 2 Sam. 16. 21 22. Absalom is sâ—ain himself 2 Sam. 18. 14 15. There was a famine c. And David enquired of the Lord and the Lord answered It is for Saul and his bloody house because he slew the Gibeonites c. The Children of Israel had sworn unto them and Saul sought to slay them in his Zeal c. 2 Sam. 21. 1. Josh 9. 15. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel c. David said Go number the people c. So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel c. and there died seventy thousand men 2 Sam. 24. 1 2 15. Adonijah put to death by Solomon's Order and Joab for his Sin killing of Abner and Amasa also put to death and Shâ—mei also put to death for his cursing of David 1 Kings 2. 24 25 28 31 32 33 34. If you shall at all turn from following of me you or your children and will not keep my commandments
is a Spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John 4. 24. Amongst the chief Rulers also many believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they would be put out of the Synagogue for they loved the praise of men more then the praise of God John 12. 42 43. The Eunuch said Here is water what hinders me to be baptized And Philip said If thou believest with all thine heart thou mayest Acts 8. 36 37. Barnabas exhorteth them all that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord Acts 11. 23. None of these things move me neither count I my life dear unto my self so that I might finish my course with joy and the Ministry c. Acts 20. 24. I was not disobedient unto the heavenly Vision but shewed c. Acts 26. 17 18 19. He is not a Jew who is one outwardly neither is that Circumcision which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew which is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God Rom. 2. 28 29. Ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine whereto ye were delivered Rom. 6. 17. That which I would do I cannot what I hate I do c. I consent to the Law c. with my mind I serve the Lord c. Rom. 7. 14 15 c. Let love be without dissimulation abhor that which is evil cleave to that which is good c. Not slothful in business servent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 9 11. Amos 5. 15. For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power 1 Cor. 4. 20. Let us keep the Feast c. with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth 1 Cor. 5. 8. Ye are bought with a price be ye not servants of men c. let every man wherein he is called therein abide with God c. They who have wives be as tho they had none c. that you may attend on the Lord without distinction 1 Cor. 7. 23 24 29 30 31 c. So rua that ye may obtain 1 Cor. 9. 24. Hebr. 12. 1. Be ye followers of me even as I also am of Christ 1 Cor. 1â— 1. Though I bestow all my goods to seed the poor c. and have not charicy at profiteth me nothing 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3. Our rejoycing is this the testimony of cur conscience that in simplicity and godly uncerity c. we have had our conversation in the world 2 Cor. 1. 12. We are not as many who corrupt the word of God but as of sincerity but as of God in the sight of God speak we c. 2 Cor. 2. 17. We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully 2 Cor. 4. 2. Let us cleanse our selves c. perfecting holiness in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7. 1. If there be first a willing mind it is accepted according to that a man hath and not c. 2 Cor. 8. 12. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart c. God loveth a chearful giver 2 Cor. 9. 7. Be perfect c. 2 Cor. 13. 11. When it pleaseth God c. to reveal his Son in me c. immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood c. but I went c. Gal. 1. 15 16 17. Peter c. was to be blamed for before that certain came from James he did eat with the Gentiles but when they were come he withdrew and separated himself fearing them of the Circumcision and the other Jews dissembled likewise with him insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation But when I saw they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel I said unto Peter c. Gal. 2. 11 12 13 14. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good matter and not only when I am present with you Gal. 4. 18. Speaking the truth or being sincere in love may grow up in him Ephes 4. 15. Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children c. We are members of his body c. for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joyned unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh this is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ and his Church Ephes 5. 1 30 31 32. Servants be obedient c. in singleness of your heart as unto Christ not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart with good will doing service as to the Lord not unto men Ephes 6. 5 6 7. Col. 3. 22 23. This I pray c. that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ Phil. 1. 9 10. Do all things without murmuring or disputing c. that ye may be blameless and harmless or sincere and without rebuke c. All seek their own things few the things of Christ Phil. 2. 14 15 21. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead not as though I had already attained either were already perfect but I follow after if that I may apprehend c. This one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth to those things which are before I press towards the mark c. Phil. 3. 11 12 13 14. 2 Cor. 7. 1. 2 Thess 1. 3. Epaphras c. always labouring or striving servently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God for I bear him record that he hath a great zeal for you Coâ—oss 4. 12 13. They received not the love of the truth that they might be saved 2 Thes 2. 10. I charge you before God c. that you observe these things without prejudice or preferring one before another doing nothing by partiality 1 Tim. 5. 21. No man who warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of life that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a Souldier 2 Tim. 2. 4. In all things shewing thy self c. in doctrine uncorruptness gravity sincerity c. who gave himself for us that he might c. purifie unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Titus 2. 7 14. It behoveth us to attend the more to those things we have heard lest at any time we let them slip or they slide from us Hebr. 2. 1. All things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do Heb. 4. 13. Luke 12. 1 2. Let us go on unto perfection not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works c. We desire that everyone of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end that ye be not slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the
promises Heb. 6. 1 11 12. Make strait or even paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way Heb. 12. 13. The wisdom which is from above is pure c. without partiality and without hypocrisie c. James 3. 17. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend unto the world is the enemy of God c. Draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you c. Purifie your hearts ye double-minded James 4. 4 8. Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying c. unto unfeigned love of the brethren See that ye love one another with a pure heart servently 1 Pet. 1. 22. Wherefore laying aside c. all guile and hypocrisie c. Neither was guile found in Christs mouth 1 Pet. 2. 1 22. Whose adorning let it not be that outward c. but the hidden man of the heart 1 Pet. 3. 3 4. Give all diligence to add to your faith virtue c. wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall c. 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 7 8 9 10. Seeing that ye look for such things c. be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot and blemish c. but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus c. 2 Pet. 3. 14 18. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth 1 John 1. 6. Let us not love in word c. but in deed and in truth c. If our hearts condemn us God is greater c. 1 John 3. 18 19 20 21. I rejoyce greatly that I have found of thy children sincerely walking in truth 2 John verse 4. The brethren by their testimony did commend thy sincerity as thou walkest sincerely c. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth Beloved thou dost faithfully whatsoever thou dost to the brethren and to strangers 3 John verse 3 4 5. But ye beloved building up your selves in your most holy faith c. Jude verse 20. Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life Revel 2. 10. Thou hast a name that thou livest and art dead be watchful and strengthen the things which remain I have not found thy work perfect before God c. Thou hast a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments c. I know thy work that thou art neither hot nor cold I would thou wert cold or hot so then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth Because thou sayest I am rich c. and knowest not that thou art wretched c. As many as I love I rebuke c. be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 1 2 3 4 15 16 17 19. These are they who were not defiled with Women for they are Virgins these are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth Revel 14. 4. Let every man prove his own work c. for every man shall bear his own burthen c. Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also rcap c. Gal. 6. 3 4 5 6 7. See the spirits and practices of Hypocrites and the danger of Hypocrisie Chap. 28. To stick fast to God and not to depart from him abide in the faith and practice of what we know of his Will and persevere to the end The reasons That the Saints shall be kept To persevere and abide with God in the faith and practice c. THat thou keep this Commandment without spot unrebukable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Tim. 6. 14. Enâ—ch walked with God and he was not for God took him Gen. 5. 23 24. Your eyes have seen c. But ye who did cleave unto the Lord c. are alive every one of you this day Deut. 4. 3 4. Jesurun waxed fat and kicked then he forsook God who made him and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation c. of the Rock which begat thee thou art unmindful and hath forgotten God who formed thee and when the Lord saw it he abhorred them Deut. 32. 15 16 17 18 19. Psal 78. 56 57 58 59. Jer. 6. 28 30. Cleave unto the Lord your God as ye have done unto this day Josh 23. 8. Deut. 10. 20. ch 30. 20. Chuse you whom ye will serve c. But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord Josh 24. 15. Israel departed from God after Joshua c. were dead often Judges 2. 8 9 10 c. Seek the Lord and his strength seek his face continually 1 Chron. 16. 11. Thou Solomon c. know thou the God of thy fathers c. If thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever 1 Chron. 28. 9. Hear ye me Asa and all Judah c. the Lord is with you while ye be with him and if ye seek him he will be found of you but if ye forsake him he will forsake you 2 Chron. 15. 2. Ye cannot prosper because ye have forsaken the Lord he hath forsaken you 2 Chron. 24. 20. ch 26. 5. The righteous also shall hold on his way Job 17. 9. I have kept the ways of the Lord I have not wickedly departed from my God c. I did not put away his Statutes from me Psalm 18. 21 22. Job 23. 11 12. 2 Sam. 22. 22 23. Psal 26. 3 2 Kings 18. 6. Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee Psalm 37. 34. All this is come upon us yet have we not forgotten thee c. Our heart is not turned back neither have our steps declined from thy way though thou hast sore broken us c. If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to strange gods shall not God search this out Psal 44. 17 18 19 20 21. Psal 119. 157. He will speak peace to his people but let them not turn again to folly Psal 85. 8. Then believed they his words they sang his praise they soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel c. they forgat God their Saviour who had done great things Psal 106. 12 13 21. Psal 78. 10 11 37 41 56 57 58 59. As for such who turn aside unto their crooked ways the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity Psal 125. 5. My son forget not my law Prov. 3. 1. The back-slider in heart shall be filled with his own ways Prov. 14. 14. He who keepeth his way preserveth his soul Prov. 16. 17. My son give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my ways Prov. 23. 26. I have nourished and brought up children c. they have forsaken the Lord they
grudgings 1 Pet. 4. 9. We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren 1 John 9. 16. Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves Phil. 2. 3. See Walking Humbly Chap. 16. IV. Not rashly easily and unadvisedly to judge or take up a prejudice against any believe reports take offence or be angry but tenderly to forgive cover faults restore such as have offended in meekness love and privacy NOah was uncovered Ham saw his fathers nakedness and told his two brethren without and Shem and Japhet took a garment and laid it upon their shoulders and went backward and covered the nakedness of their father c. and they saw not their fathers nakedness c. Gen. 9. 21 22 23 24 25. When Joseph had told his dream his brethren envied him but his father observed the saying Gen. 37. 8 9 10 11. Thou shalt not raise or receive a false report Exod. 23. 1. Thou shalt not avenge or bear any grudge against the children of thy people Levit. 19. 18. When the children of Reuben the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh had built an Altar to a good end the rest of their brethren heard of it and presently concludes it to be a turning away from the Lord and they resolve rashly to go to war against them Joshua 22. 10 11 12 16 17 18 c. Eli thought Hannah was drunk when 〈◊〉 she was praying 1 Sam 1. 12 13 14 15 c. When Absalom desigued his rebellion there went two hundred men out of Jerusalem with him and they went in their simplicity and they knew not any thing 2 Sam. 15. 10 11. David conceived evil of Mephibosheth without cause through Ziba's lye 2 Sam. 16. 3. 4. ch 19â— 24 25 c. Lord who shall abide in thy tabernacle c. he who backbiteth not c. nor taketh up or receiveth or endureth a reproach against his neighbour Psal 15. 1 3. The Lord is merciful c. slow to anger Psal 103. 8. Hatred stirreth up strife but love covereth all sins c. He who uttereth a slander is a fool Prov. 10. 12 18. The simple believeth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his goings c. He who is soon angry dealeth foolishly Prov. 14. 15 17. A wicked doer giveth heed to lying lips a lyar gives ear to a naughty tongue c. He who covereth a transgression seeketh love or procureth love Prov. 17. 4 9. The discretion of a man deferreth his anger and it is his glory to pass over a transgression Prov. 19. 11. All who watch for iniquity are cut off Who make a man an offender for a word Isa 29. 21 22. Whosoever is angry with his Brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment Matth. 5. 22. If ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you But if ye forgive not men their trespasses c. Mat. 6. 14 15. Judge not that ye be not judged c. Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye but considerest not the beam which is in thine own eye or how wilt thou say to thy brother let me pull out c. Mat. 7. 1 3 4. Gen. 38. 13 c. If thy brother shall trespass against thee go and tell him his fault between him and thee alone if he shall hear thee thou hast gained thy brother c. Peter said Lord how oft shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him till seven times Jesus said unto him I say not unto thee until seven times but until seventy-times-seven c. I forgave thee all that debt c. Shouldest thou not also have had compassion on thy fellow-servant even as I had pity on thee c. and his Lord was wroth c. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you if ye from your hearts forgive 〈◊〉 every one his brother their trespasses Mat. 18. 15 21 22 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35. The disciples blamed the woman as wasting the oyntment but Christ justified her Matth. 26. 7 8 c. If thy brother trespass against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him If he trespass against thee seven times a day c. thou shalt for 〈◊〉 him Luke 17. 3 4. 〈◊〉 not according to the appearance but judge 〈◊〉 judgment Joh. 7. 24. Joseph of Arimathea was a disciple yet confessed not openly for fear John 19. 38 39. The believers of the circumcision rashly judged of Peter and contended with him for eating with the Gentiks But when Peter gave them an account of the cause they held their peace c. Acts 11. 1 2 3 4 18. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour Rom. 13. 10. But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you or of mans judgment or day c. Judge nothing before the time until the Lord come who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness c. 1 Cor. 4. 3 4 5. Charity suffereth long c. seeketh not her own is not eaily provoked thinketh no evil c. beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things 1 Cor. 13. 4 5 7. In malice be ye children 1 Cor. 14. 20. The fruit of the spirit is c. long-suffering gentleness c. meekness Gal. 5. 22 23. Titus 3. 2. Brethren if or although a man be overtaken in a fault ye who aâ—e spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted Bear ye one anothers burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ Gal. 6. 1 2. Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called with all lowliness and meekness with long-suffering forbearing one another in love c. be tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you Eph. 4. 1 2 32. But now you also put off all these anger wrath malice c. Put on therefore as the elect of God c. bowels of mercies c. meekness long-suffering forbearing one another and forgiving one another If any man have a complaint or quarrel against any even as Christ forgave you so also do ye Col. 3. 8 12 13. Let every man be c. slow to wrath for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God James 1. 19 20. Speak not evil one of another brethren for he who speaketh evil of his brother speaketh evil of the Law c. Who art thou who judgest another James 4. 11 12. Above all things have servent charity among your selves for Charity shall or will cover the multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. V. To live peaceably among themselves avoid whispering tale-bearing and whatsoever tends to provake divide or disturb the peace among them ABram said unto Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee between me and thee c. for we be brethren c.
be divisions among you c. 1 Cor. 11. 18 23. Finally brethren c. be of one mind 2 Cor. 13. 11. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace c. one body and one spirit Ephes 4. 3 4 5. That ye stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith Phil. 1. 27. If therefore there be any consolation in Christ c. fulfil ye my joy that ye be like-minded c. being of one accord of one mind let nothing be done through strife or vain glory c. Phil. 2. 1 2 3 4 5. Whereto we have already attained let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing Phil. 3. 16. I beseech 〈◊〉 c. that they be of the same mind in the Lord Phil. 4. 2. Finally be all of one mind 1 Pet. 3. 8. IX To walk wisely and charitably one towards another and in things indifferent to have respect to the meek to avoid offenees IF ye had known what this meaneth I will have mercy and not sacrifice ye would not have condemn'd the guiltless Math. 12. 7. Hose◠6. 6. The Pharisees would have accused the disciple◠for plucking corn and Christ for healing a withered hand on the Sabbath day till he said unto them which of you having one sheep c. fall into a pit on the Sabbath-day will he not lay-hold on it and lift it out c. it is lawful to do well on the Sabbath day Math. 12. 1 2 3 4 10 11 12. Luke 6. 1 2 c. Math. 15. 2. Whosoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me it were better that a milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the midst of the Sea Wo unto the world because of offences for it must needs to that offences come but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh Matth. 18. 6 7. Luke 17. 1 2. His Disciples say unto him if the case of the man be so with his wife it is not good to marry But he said unto them all men cannot receive this saying save they to whom it is given for there are some Eunuchs which were so born c. and there are some Eunuchs who have made themselves c. He who is able to receive it let him Matth. 19. 10. 11 12. Judge not least ye be judged condemn not lest ye be condemned Luke 6. 37. Jesus said I have yet many things to say unto you but ye cannot bear them now howbeit when he the spirit of truth is come he will guide John 16. 12 13. Why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the Disciples which c. Acts 15. 10. Gal. 5. 12. Him who is weak receive but not with doubtful disputations or not to judge his doubtful thoughts for one believeth that he may eat all things another who is weak eateth herbs let not him who eateth despise him who eateth not and let not him who eateth not judge him who eateth for God hath received him c. One man esteemeth one day above another another esteemeth every day alike let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind he who observeth a day observeth it to the Lord c. Why dost thou judge thy brother why dost thou set at nought thy brother c. Let us not therefore judge one another any more but judge this rather that no man put a stumbling-block or an occasion to fall in his brothers way I know c. that there is nothing unclean of it self but to him who esteemeth any thing to be unclean to him it is unclean And if thy brother be grieved with thy meat now walkest thou not charitably c. Let us therefore follow after things which make for peace c. All things indeed are pure but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence it is good neither to eat flesh c. whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or made weak c. he who doubteth is damned if he eat c. for whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14. 1 2 3 5 6 10 13 14 15 19 20 21 23. We then who are strong ought to bear with the infirmities of the weak and not to please our selves let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification Rom. 15. 1 2 3. I have fed you with milk and not with meat for hitherto ye were not able to bear it neither yet now are ye able to bear it 1 Cor. 3. 1 2. All things are lawful unto me but all things are not expedient or profitable all things are lawful for me but I will not be brought under the power of any c. 1 Cor. 6. 12. ch 10. 23. I would that all men were even as I my self but every man hath his proper gift of God one after this manner c. Is any man called being circumcised let him not become uncircumcised and is any called in uncircumcision let him not be circumcised Circumcision is nothing c. 1 Cor. 7. 7 18 19. We know that an Idol is nothing in the world c. howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge for some with conscience of the Idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered to Idols and their conscience being weak is defiled But meat commendeth us not to God c. Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumhling block to them who are weak for if any man see thee who hast knowledge sit at meat in the Idols temple shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldned to eat those things which are offered to Idols and through thy knowledge shall thy weak brother perish for whom Christ died but when ye sin so against the weak brethren and wound their weak conscience ye sin against Christ wherefore if meat make my brother to offend I will eat no flesh while the world standeth lest I make my brother to offend 1 Cor. 8. 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. For though I be free from all men yet have I made my self a servant unto all that I might gain the more and unto the Jews I became as a Jew that I might gain the Jew c. To the weak became I as weak c. I am made all things unto all men that I might by all means save some c. 1 Cor. 9. 19 20 21 22. All things are lawful for me but all things are not expedient c. all things edifie not let no man seek his own but every man anothers wealth whatsoever is sold in the shambles that eat asking no question for conscience sake for the earth is the Lords c. If any of them who believe not bid you and ye be disposed to go whatsoever is set before you eat asking no question for conscience sake But if any man say unto thee this is offered in sacrifice unto Idols eat not
c. a light to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to bring out the prisoners from the prison and them who sit in darkness out of the prison-house Isa 42. 6 7. Look unto me and be ye saved all ye ends of the earth for I am God c. In the Lord have I righteousness and strength Isa 45. 22 24. That thou mayest say to the prisoners Go forth To them who are in darkness Shew your selves They shall feed in the ways c. for he who hath mercy on them shall lead them even by the springs of water shall he guide them Isa 49. 9 10. The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings c. he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them who are bound Isa 61. 1 2. Return c. and I will heal your back-slidings Behold we come unto thee Jer. 3. 22. I will be their God for they shall return unto me with their whole heart Jer. 24. 7. With loving-kindness I have drawn thee c. Turn thou me and I shall be turned for thou art the Lord my God Surely after that I was turned I repented and after that I was instructed I smote upon the thigh c. Behold the day cometh saith the Lord that I will make a new covenant c. I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts c. and they shall teach no more every man c. Jer. 31. 3 18 19 31 32 33 34. Heb. 8. 8 9 10 11. ch 10. 15 16 17. I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me for ever c. I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me Jer. 32. 39 40. Psal 86. 11. Turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned Lam. 5. 21. I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within you and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and I will give them an heart of flesh that they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and do them Ezek. 11. 19 20. ch 20. 43. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean c. A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you I will take away the stony heart c. and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them c. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses c. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways and your doings which were not good and shall loath your selves in your own sight for your iniquities Ezek. 36. 25 26 27 29 31. chap. 16. 61 63. chap. 37. 14 23 24 25 26 27 28. I taught Ephraim to go c. I drew them with the cords of a man c. Hos 11. 3 4. I will strengthen them in the Lord and they shall walk up and down in his name Zech. 10. 12. I will pour upon the house of David c. a spirit of grace and of supplication and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn Zech. 12. 10. The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come c. and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he shall purifie the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver that they may offer unto the Lord c. Mal. 3. 1 2 3 4. Jesus did but bid the Fisher-men follow him and they immediately leave all and follow him Matth. 4. 18 19 20 21 22. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled Matth. 5. 6. Luke 1. 53. The whole need not a physician but they who are 〈◊〉 c. For I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Matth. 9. 11 12. ch 11. 28. The kingdom of God is come unto you Or else how can one enter c. except he bind the strong man and then spoil his goods Matth. 12. 28 29. Luke 17. 20 21. The Son of man is come to save that which was last c. How think ye If a man have one hundred sheep and one of them be gone astray doth he not c. and seeketh that which is gone astray Even so it is not the will of your Father c. that one of these little ones should perish Matth. 18. 11 12 13 14. Luke 19. 10. Which are born not of blood c. but of God c. Of his fulness have we received grace for grace John 1. 13 16. 1 Pet. 1. 23. Col. 1. 19. Except a man be born again or from above he cannot see the kingdom of God c. The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou hearest the sound thereof but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth so is every one who is born of the spirit John 3. 3 5 7 8. For as the Father raiseth up the dead and quickeneth them even so the Son quickeneth whom he will c. The hour is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they who hear shall live John 5. 21 25. All which the Father hath given me shall come to me and him who cometh to me I will in no wise cast out c. No man can come to me ex-the Father who hath sent me draw him c. Every man therefore who hath heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me c. It is the Spirit who quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing John 6. 37 44 45 63. God sent Jesus to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities Acts 3. 26. Jesus c. him hath God exalted with his right hand a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel c. Acts 5. 30 31. God gave them the like gifts as he did unto us c. They glorified God saying Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life Now they who were scattered c. spake unto the Gentiles c. and the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number believed and turned unto the Lord Acts 11. 17 18 19 20 21. Paul having made complaint of himself saith O wretched man that I am Who shall deliver me c. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 7. 15 18 19 21 24 25. I was found of them who sought me not I was made manifest unto them who asked not after me Rom. 12. 20. Christ c. wrought by me to make the Gentiles obedient by word c. Rom. 15. 18. That no flesh should glory c. but of him are ye in Christ Jesus 1 Cor. 1. 29 30. I have planted and Apollo watered but God gave the increase 1 Cor 3.
to go into Bithinia but the spirit suffered them not Acts 16. 6. 7. Paul came to Ephesus and finding certain Disciples he said unto them Have ye received the holy Ghost since ye believed and they said unto him We have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost c. and when Paul laid his hands upon them the holy Ghost came on them and they spake with tongues and prophesied Acts. 19. 1 2 6. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost who is given unto us Rom. 5. 5. That ye abound in hope through the power of the holy Ghost Rom. 15. 13. Ye are not in the flesh but in the spirit if so be that the spirit of God dwelleth in you now if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his if the spirit of him who raised up Jesus c. dwell in you he c. shall quicken c. by his spirit which dwelleth in you Rom. 8. 9 11. Fervent in the spirit c. Rom. 12. 11. We have not received the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of God c. 1 Cor. 2. 12. Ye are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. 3. 16. ch 6. 19. 2 Cor. 13. 5. He who is joyned to the Lord is one spirit 1 Cor. 6. 17. I think I have the spirit of God 1 Cor. 7. 40. The manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12. 7 8 9 c. Who hath also sealed us and given us the earniest of his spirit into our hearts 2 Cor. 1. 22. ch 5. 5. Ye are the Epistle of Christ c. written not with Ink but with the spirit of the living God c. 2 Cor. 3. 3. We have the same spirit of faith according as it is written c. 2 Cor. 4. 13. Christ hath redeemed us c. that ye might receive the promise of the spirit through faith Gal. 3. 14. And because ye are sons God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba father Gal. 4. 6. In whom also after that ye believed ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance c. Eph. 1. 13 14. In whom you also are built together for an habitation for God through the spirit Eph. 2. 22. ch 4. 6. Be not drunk with wine c. but be filled with the spirit c. Eph. 5. 18. This shall turn to my salvation through your prayers and the supply or the spirit of Jesus Christ Phil. 1. 19. If any fellowship of the spirit c. Fulfil ye my joy that ye be like-minded Phil. 2. 1 2. God who hath also given unto us his holy spirit 1 Thess 4. 8. Then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming 2 Thess 2. 8. Being by the holy Ghost who dwelleth in us 2 Tim. 1. 14. According to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy Ghost which he hath shed on us abundantly or richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour Tit. 3. 5 6. God also bearing them witness both with c. and gifts of the holy Ghost according to his own will Heb. 2. 4. The Prophets have enquired c. what manner of time the spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie when he spake before hand c. unto whom it was revealed c. by them who have preached the Gospel unto you with the holy Ghost sent down from Heaven 1 Pet. 1. 10 11 12. Christ c. being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the spirit 1 Pet. 3. 18. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you c. 1 Pet. 4. 14. He hath given us great and precious promises that by these ye might be made partakers of the divine nature c. Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 4 21. Ye have an unction from the holy one and ye know all things c. but the anointing which ye have received abideth in you c. the same anointing teacheth you all things John 2. 20 27. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us by the spirit which he hath given us 1 John 3. 9 24. We know that we dwell in him and he in us because he hath given us of his spirit 1 John 4. 13. It is the spirit who beareth witness because the spirit is truth c. Three who beareth record in heaven the father the word and the holy Ghost and these three are one c. 1 John 5. 6 7 8. These are they c. not having the spirit Jude verse 19. Grace unto you c. and from the seven spirits which are before his throne Rev. 1. 4. ch 3. 1 5 Hear what the spirit saith unto the Churches Rev. 2. 7 11 17 29. I beheld and lo c. a lamb having c. seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth Rev. 5. 6. And the spirit and bride say come Rev. 22. 17. II. The Nature Workings and Fruits of the Spirit AND the spirit of God moved upon the waters Gen. 1. 2. And the Lord said My spirit shall not always strive with man Gen. 6. 3. Balaam who came with a purpose to curse Israel when the spirit of God came upon him he blessed them Numb 24. 1 2 to the 14. Is the spirit of the Lord straitned or shortned are these his doings Micah 2. 7. Handle me and see me for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me to have Luke 24. 39. I saw the spirit descending from heaven like a dove and it abode upon him John 1. 32. He would have given thee living water c. water springing up into eternal life John 4. 10 14. He who believeth c. out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters c. This spake he of the spirit c. John 7. 38 39. When he is come he will convince the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment John 16. 8. They were not able to resist c. and the spirit by which he spake Acts 16. 10. The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost Rom. 5. 5. We have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but the spirit of adoption by which we cry c. The spirit it self beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God Rom. 8. 15 16. Fervent in the spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. We have not received the spirit of the world but the spirit of God 1 Cor. 2.
12. No man speaking by the spirit of God ceileth Jesus accursed c. that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost c. There are diversity of gifts but the same spirit c. to one is given c. But all these worketh that one and the self same spirit dividing c. 1 Cor. 12. 3 4 5 6 7 c. Who hath also sealed us and given us the earnest of his spirit 2 Cor. 1. 22. ch 5. 5. Ye are our Epistle c. ye are manifestly declared the Epistle of Christ c. written not with ink but with the spirit of the living God not in tables of stone but in fleshy tables of the heart c. The letter killeth but the spirit giveth life c. If the ministration of death c. were glorious c. How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious c. Now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty 2 Cor. 3. 2 3 6 7 8 17. God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts crying Abba father Gal. 4. 6. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other c. The fruit of the spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance Gal. 5. 17 22 23. Ye were sealed with the holy spirit of promise which is the earnest of our inheritance until the purchased possession Eph. 1. 13 14. The holy spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption Eph. 4. 30. For the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth Eph. 5. 9. God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power of love and of a sound mind 2 Tim. 1. 7. Having received the word in much affliction with joy of the holy Ghost 1 Thes 1. 6. Acts 9. 31. Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself c. Heb. 9. 14. The anointing teacheth you c. and is truth and is no lye 1 John 2. 27. Try the spirits whether they are of God c. Hereby know ye the spirit of God every spirit that confesseth Jesus Christ to have been come in the flesh is of God And every spirit which confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the fâ—esh is not of God c. Greater is he that is in you than he who is in the world 1 John 4. 1 2 3 4. It is the spirit who beareth witness because the spirit is truth c. The Father the Word and the holy Ghost and these there are one 1 John 5. 6 7 8. The spirit and the bride say Come Rev. 22. 17. III. Saints Duty towards the Spirit 1. In following after him and making use of him THE manifestation of the spirit is given to â—â—ry man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12. 7. The same anointing teacheth you of all things 1 John 2. 27. And the Lord said My spirit shall not always strive with man Gen. 6. 3. The true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship him God is a spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth John 4. 23 24. Fervent in the spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. The manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12. 7. I will pray with the spirit c. I will sing with the spirit c. 1 Cor. 14. 15. Walk ye not in the same spirit 2 Cor. 12. 18. Are ye so foolish having begun in the spirit are ye now made perfect by the flesh Gal. 3. 3. Walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh c. If ye be led by the spirit ye are not under the law c. If we live in the spirit let us also walk in the spirit Gal. 5. 16 17 18 25. 1 John 2. 27. He who soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting Gal. 6. 8. Be not drunk c. but be ye filled with the spirit Eph. 5. 18. The sword of the spirit which is the word of God c. praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit Eph. 6. 17 18. We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit Phil. 3. 3. Wherefore as the holy Ghost saith If ye will hear his voice c. Hebr. 3. 7. Build up your selves c. praying in the holy Ghost Jude v. 20. He who hath an ear let him hear what the spirit saith to the Churches Rev. 2. 7 11 17 29. 2. Not to sin against grieve or quench the Spirit But they rebelled and vexed his holy spirit therefore he was turned to be their Enemy Isa 63. 10. But the blasphemy against the holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men c. Whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him out whosoever speaketh against the 〈…〉 shall not be forgiven him neither 〈…〉 Matth. 12. 31 32. Mark 3. 〈◊〉 〈…〉 Satan filled thine heart to 〈…〉 c. thou hast not lied unto 〈…〉 God c. How is it that ye have 〈…〉 to tempt the spirit of the Lord c. she 〈◊〉 down and died c. Acts 5. 2 3 5 8 9 10. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears ye do always resist the holy Ghost as your fathers did so do ye c. Have not your fathers persecuted c. Acts 7. 51 52. Simon offered money for power to confer the holy Ghost Acts 8. 18 19. The Sadduces say that there is no resurrection neither angel nor spirit Acts 23. 8. Keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace c. and grieve not the holy spirit of God whereby ye are sealed Eph. 4. 3 30. Quench not the spirit 1 Thes 5. 19. He who despised Moses law died without mercy c. Of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the son of God c. and hath done despite unto the spirit of Grace Heb. 10. 28 29. The spirit of God and of Glory resteth upon you on their parts he is evil spoken of c. 1 Pet. 4. 14. CHAP. XXII Of Afflictions Troubles and Persecutions 1. To whom they belong or who way expect thom 1. Common to all MAN is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward Job 5. 7. Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble Job 14. 1. 2. More especially the Saints Believers such as are born of the Spirit First The Holy-Ghost affirms this I Will be his father and he shall be my son If he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men but my mercy shall not depart away from him c. 2 Sam. 7. 14 15. Psal
99. 8. Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him c. Psal 34. 19. For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as the father the son in whom he delighteth Prov. 3. 12. Behold I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and wonders in Israel Isa 8. 18. He who departeth from evil maketh himself a prey Isa 59. 15. They watch for iniquity they make a man an offender for a word c. Isa 29. 20 21. You only have I known of all the families of the earth therefore will I punish you for all your iniquities Amos 3. 2. Beware of men for they will deliver you up to the Councels and they will scourge you in their Synagogues and ye shall be brought before governours and kings for my sake c. and the brother shall deliver up the brother to death and the father the child c. and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake c. The disciple is not above his master c. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his Master and the servant as his Lord if they have called the master of the house Belzebub how much more shall they call them of the houshould c. Think not that I am come to send peace on earth c. A man's enemies shall be they of his own houshold Mat. 10. 17 18 21 22 24 25 34 35 36. chap. 24. 9 10. Luke 21. 12 13 14 c. Mark 10. 30. Then said Jesus unto his disciples If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me Matth. 16. 24. Mark 8. 34 35. Wo unto you who laugh now for ye shall mourn and weep wo unto you when all men shall speak well of you for so did their fathers to the false prophets Luke 6. 25 26. Jesus said unto him Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head Luke 9. 58. If the world hate you ye know that it hated me before it hated you If ye were of the world the world would love its own but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you Remember the word I said unto you The servant is not greater than his Lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you c. These things they will do unto you for my name's sake because they know not him who sent me John 15. 18 19 20 21 1 John 3. 13. John 17. 14. These things have I spoken unto you that ye should not be offended But they shall put you out of their Synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God service and these things will they do unto you because they have not known the father nor me c. Ye shall weep and lament but the world shall rejoyce ye shall be sorrowful c. In the world ye shall have tribulation John 16. 1 2 3 20 22 33. Of a truth against the holy child Jesus c. both Herod c. were gathered together to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done Acts 4. 27 28. The Lord said of Paul I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my Name Acts 9. 15 16. Exhorting them to continue in the faith and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God Acts 14. 22. Mark 10. 30. The holy Ghost witnesseth in every city saying That bonds and afflictions abide me Acts 20. 23. Always we who live are delivered to death for Christ's sake that also the life of Jesus c. 2 Cor. 4. 11. ch 7. 5. But as then he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was born after the spirit so it is now Gal. 4. 29. We wrestle not with flesh c. but with principalities c. Ephes 6. 11 12 13. Unto you it is given c. not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake Phil 1. 29. That no man be moved by these afflictions for your selves know that we are appointed thereunto 1 Thes 3. 3. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3. 12. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth c. for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not but if ye be without chastisements whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons Heb. 12. 6 7 8. Think it not strange concerning the fiery trial c. as though some strange thing happened to you but rejoyce in as much as ye are made partakers of Christ's sufferings judgment must begin at the house of God 1 Pet. 4. 12 13 17. The devil c. whom resist c. that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. Behold the devil shall cast some of you in prison that ye may be tried and ye shall have tribulation ten days Rev. 2. 10. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Be zealous therefore c. Rev. 3. 19. These are they who came out of great tribulation and have washed c. Rev. 7. 14. Secondly That the Saints have been so exercised with Afflictions in Soul and Body from God and in their Bodies and outward Concerns from Men by Persecutions 1. From God more immediately Prov. 18. 14. JAcob sorely afflicted in Joseph and other of his sons Gen. 37. ch 34. The Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me I went forth full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty c. Ruth 1. 20 21. Job greatly afflicted in his out-things and his body Job 1. 13 to the end ch 2. 5 6 7 8. ch 7. 3 4 5 c. ch 9. 27 28 c. O that my grief were thoroughly weighed c. for now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea therefore my words are swallowed up or I want words to express my grief for the arrows of the Almighty are within me the poison thereof drinketh up my spirit the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me Job 6. 1 2 3 4. ch 13. 24 26. ch 19. ch 30. Psal 38. 2. Psal 55. 4 5. I was full of confusion therefore see my affliction Job 10. 15 16 c. My soul is sore vexed O Lord how long c. I am weary with my groaning all the night or every night make I my bed to swim I water my couch with tears mine eye is consumed because of grief c. Psal 6. 3 7. Psal 32. 4. Psal 102. 3 4 c. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me c. I cry in the day-time and thou hearest not Psal 22. 1 2. I am desolate and afflicted the troubles of mine heart are enlarged c. Psal 25. 16 17. Ps 40. 12. Ps 102. 3 4 5 6 9. Ps 143. 4. My
will reap in joy He who goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoycing c. Psal 126. 5 6. When Christ withdrew from the Spouse he endeared himself the more to her Cant. 5. 6 10 11. When the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria c. Such as are escaped out of the house of Jacob shall no more again stay upon him who smote them but shall stay upon the Lord c. Isa 10. 12 20 21. When thy judgments are in the earth the Inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness Isa 26. 9. So will I acknowledge them who are carried away captive of Judah whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good for I will set mine eyes upon them for good Jer. 24. 5 6. God's chastening of Ephraim did him much good in the end Jer. 31. 18 19 20. They shall bear the punishment of their iniquity c. that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions but that they may be my people and I c. Ezek. 14. 10 11. I will cause you to pass under the rod and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant Ezek. 20. 37. Daniel and the three other by their afflictions were more advanced Dan. 3. ch 6. I will hedge up thy ways with thorns c. Then shall she say I will go and return to my first husband for then it was better with me c. I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak comfortably or friendly unto her Hos 2. 5 6 7 8 14. I will also leave a poor and an afflicted people and they shall trust in the name of the Lord Zeph. 3. 12. He who loseth his life for my sake shall find it For what is a man profited if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul Matth. 10. 39. Mark 8. 34 35. And every one who hath forsaken houses or brethren c. or lands for my name's sake shall receive an hundred-fold and shall inherit everlasting life Matth. 19. 27 29. Tribulation worketh patience and patience experience c. Rom. 5. 3 â— 5. And we know that all things work together for good unto them who love God Rom. 8. 28. Psal 25. 10. Excommunication designed for good that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 5. 5. When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11. 32. Though our outward man decay yet our inward man is renewed day by day for our light afflictions which are but for a moment worketh for as a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory while we look not at things which are seen 2 Cor. 4. 16 17 18. Heb. 10. 34 35 36. In nothing terrified by your adversaries which as to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God Philip. 1. 28. Tribulations which ye endure c. that ye may be accounted worthy of the kingdom of God 2 Thes 1. 5. It is a faithful saying c. If we suffer we shall also reign 2 Tim. 2. 11 12 Rom. 8. 17 18. 1 Pet. 4. 13. We have fathers of our flesh who correct us and we give them reverence Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live for they c. chastened us after their own pleasure but he for our profit c. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous c. nevertheless afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them who are exercised thereby Heb. 12. 9 10 11. Ye are in heaviness c. that the trial of your saith c. might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 6 7. See Second Consideration following III. The Considerations which should stay bear up and comfort the Spirits of Satuts in their Afflictions and under Persecutions Cons 1. That it is their Portion which God appointed them in this Life as a Privilege and that too for such Ends. See them last before Cons 2. That such who are so exercised are blessed and happy and so pronounced in Scripture a Seal of their Sonship and God's choice Love to them and of their Salvation BEhold happy is the man whom God correcteth c. for he maketh sore and bindeth up c. Job 5. 17 18. Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest O Lord and teachest c. Psal 94. 12. Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth even as a father the son in whom he delighteth Prov. 3. 12. He who spareth his rod hateth his son but he who loveth him chasteneth him Prov. 13. 24. Blessed are they who mourn for they c. Blessed are they who are persecuted for righteousness sake c. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake rejoyce and be exceeding glad Matth. 5. 4 10 11 12. Blessed are ye who hunger now c. who weep now c. But wo unto them who are rich c. who are full c. who laugh now c. when all men speak well of you Luke 6. 21 22 24 25 26. In nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of Perdition but to you of salvation and that of God for unto you it is given c. not only to believe on him but also to suffer for his sake Philip. 1. 28 29. If ye bear chastisements God exhibits himself to you as to sons for what son is there c. If ye be without chastisements c. then are ye bastards and not sons Heb. 12. 7 8. Blessed is the man who endureth temptations for when he is tried c. James 1. 12. We count them happy who endure c. Ye have heard of the patience of Job James 5. 10 11. If ye suffer for righteousness sake happy are ye and be not afraid 1 Pet. 3. 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye for the spirit of God and glory resteth upon you c. 1 Pet. 4. 14. As many as I love I rebuke and chasten Rev. 3. 19. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord or for the Lord's sake Rev. 14. 13. Cons 3. That God well knows the Design and Ways of Satan and all the Adversaries of Believers And that they can do no more or proceed farther against the Saints than what God permits He turns about their Purposes YOur father deceived me c. but God suffered him not to hurt me If he said thus c. Laban pursued Jacob c. And God came unto Laban the Syrian in a dream in the night and
unto thee who pardoneth iniquity c. he retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy he will turn again he will have compassion upon us Micah 7. 8 9 18 19. Blessed are they who mourn for they shall be comforted Mat. 5. 4. Verily verily I say unto you that ye shall were and lament c. but your sorrow shall be turned into joy c. ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce John 16. 20 22. And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly Rom. 16. 20. God is faithful c. but will with the temptation also make a way to escape 1 Cor. 10. 13. God who delivered us from so great a death and doth deliver 2 Cor. 1. 10. It is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them who trouble you and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus c. 2 Thes 1. 6 7. What persecutions I endured but out of them all the Lord delivered me 2 Tim. 3. 11. The Lord stood with me c. and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion 2 Tim. 4. 17 18. Heb. 13. 5 6. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly 〈◊〉 of temptations 2 Pet. 2. 9. Cons 11. That Afflictions and Petsecutions have been the lot of Christ himself and of the Saints in all Ages THE disciple is not above his Lord nor the servant above his master it is enough for the dâ—â—ciple that he be as his Master c. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold Fear them not therefore Mat. 10. 24 25 26. If the world hate you you know that it hated me before it hated you c. remember the word that I said unto you The servant is not greater than the Lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you John 15. 18 20. We are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men c. even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffetted and have no certain dwelling-place c. being reviled c. persecuted c. we are made as the filth of the world and the off-scouring of all things unto this day 1 Cor. 4. 9 11 12 13. There hath no temptation taken you but what is common to man 1 Cor. 10. 13. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus sake 2 Cor. 4. 11. But as then he who was born after the flesh persecuted him who was after the spirit even so it is now Gal. 4. 29. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses c. let us run with patience the race which is set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of faith who for the joy which was set before him endured the cross c. for consider him who endured such contradiction of sinners against himself lest you be wearied and faint in your minds Heb. 12. 1 2 3. Take my Bâ—â—thren the Prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord for an example of suffering affliction and of patience Jam. 5. 10. Hereunto also are ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should also follow his steps 1 Pet. 2. 21. Your adversary the Devil as a roaring lion c. whom resist stedfast in the saith knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. How long O Lord c. dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them who dwell on the earth and it was said unto them That they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow-servants also and their brethren which should be killed as they were should be fulfilled Rev. 6. 10 11. IV. What are the Dúties of the Saints and how they ought to behave themselves under their Afflictions and Sufferings both towards God and Men. First Towards God 1. To eye God in them Afflictions being sent of him JOseph said to his Brethren it was not you who sent me hither but God Gen. 45. 5. 8. ch 50. 19 20. I will harden Pharaoh's heart that he shall follow after them c. Exod. 14. 1. ch 4. 21. When Israel wanted water in the desert they did not eye God in it but chide with Moses Numb 20. 2 3. But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate Deut. 2. 30. Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not amongst us Deut. 31. 17. See now that I even I am he c. I kilâ— and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any who can deliver you out of my hand Deut. 32. 39. The Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me c. God hath brought me home again empty Ruth 1. 20 21. When Samuel had told Eli what the Lord would do against his house he said It is the Lord 1 Sam. 3. 18. Shimei cursed David c. David said So let him curse because the Lord hath said unto him Curse David who then shall say wherefore 2 Sam. 16. 6 7 8 9 10. Satan said Put forth thine hand c. Job said The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken Job â— 11 21. chap. 2. 5. Afflictions cometh not forth of the dust neither doth trouble come out of the ground c. the chastening of the Lord for he maketh fore and bindeth up he woundeth c. Job 5. 6. 17 18. ch 9. 12. I will say unto God c. wherefore contendest thou with me Job 10 2. ch 30. 11. God hath overthrown me c. he hathâ— fenâ—â—â— up my way that I cannot pass c. Job 19. 6 7. 8 9 10 11 12. chap. 13. 26 27. Lam. 1. 12 13 c. chap. 2. 5 6. When he giveth quietness who then can make trouble and when he hideth his face who then can behold him Job 34. 22. I opened not my mouth because thou didst it c. when thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity thou makest his beauty to consume away c. Psal 39. 9 11. Thou hast cast us off and put us to shame c. thou hast given us like sheep for meat Psal 44. 9 10 c. Thou who hast shewed me great and sore troubles shalt quicken me Psal 71. 20. Thou turnest man to destruction Psal 90. 3. Their Enemies he turned their heart to hate his people and to deal subtilly with his servants Psal 105. 25. Despise not the chastening of the Lord c. Prov. 3. 11 12. Heb. 12. 5 6. O Assyrian the rod of thine anger c. I will send him against an hypocritical Nation c. Isa 10. 5 6. I make peace I create evil I the Lord do all these things Isa 45. 7.
is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble he cometh forth like a flower and is cut down he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not c. seeing his days are determined the number of his months are with thee thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass c. man dieth and wasteth away yea man giveth up the ghost and where is he c. Man lieth down and riseth not till the heavens be no more c. If a man die shall he live again all the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come And he passeth thou changest his countenance and sendeth him away c. Job 14. 1 2 5 7 10 12 14 20. Acts 17. 26. 2 Sam. 7. 12. 1 Chron. 17. 11. When a few years are come then I shall go the way whence I shall not return Job 16. 22. The grave is mine house c. I have said to corruption thou art my father to the worm thou art my mother and my sister Job 17. 13 14. Shall any teach God knowledge c one dieth in his full strength or very perfection being wholly at ease and quiet his breast full of milk c. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul and never eateth with pleasure they shall lie down alike in the dust Job 21. 22 23 24 25 26. I know that thou wilt bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living Job 30. 23. If he set his heart upon man if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath all flesh shall perish together and man shall turn again unto dust Job 34. 14 15. In death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee thanks Psal 6. 5. Isa 38. 18. Psal 88. 10 11 12. Psal 115. 17. Psal 30. 9. Lord make me to know mine end and the measure of my days what it is that I may know how frail I am behold thou hast made my days an hand-breadth and mine age as nothing before thee c. Spare me c. before I go hence and be no more Psal 39. 4 5 11 13. They who trust in their wealth c. none can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him c. that he should also live for ever and not see corruption for he seeth wise men die likewise the fool c. when he dieth he shall carry nothing away Psal 49. 6 7 8 9 10 14 16 17. The terrors of death are fallen upon me c. bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days Psal 55. 4 23. Psa 116. 3. And unto God the Lord belong the issues from death Psal 68. 20. I have said Ye are gods c. but ye shall die like men Psal 82. 6 7. What man is he who liveth and shall not see death c shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave Selah Psal 89. 48. Thou turnest man to destruction c. they are like grass which groweth up in the morning it flourisheth c. in the evening it is cut down and withered c. the days of our years are threescore years and ten and if by reason of strength they be fourscore c. it is soon cut off c. so teach us to number our days c. Psal 90. 3 5 6 10 12. He remembreth that we are dust as for man his days are as grass as the flower of the field so he flourisheth for the wind passeth over it and it is gone c. Psal 103. 14 15 16. Thou takest away their breath they die and return to their dust Psal 104. 29. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 116. 15. Man is like to vanity his days are as a shadow which passeth away Psal 144. 4. 1 Chron. 29. 15. Psal 102. 11. Put not your trust in Princes c. his breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish Psal 146. 3 4. When a wicked man dyeth his expectation shall perish Prov. 11. 7. The righteous hath hope in his death Prov. 14. 32. Boast not thy self of to morrow for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth Prov. 27. 1. How dieth the wise man as the fool Eccles 2. 16. A time to be born and a time to die c. all go to one place all are of the dust and all turn to dust again who knoweth the spirit of a man which goeth upward and the spirit of the beast which goeth downward to the earth Eccles 3. 1 2 20 21. As he came forth of his mothers womb naked shall he return to go as he came and take nothing c. Eccles 5. 15 16. Job 1. 21. The day of death is better then the day of ones birth it is better to go to the house c. Eccles 7. 1 2. ch 4. 1 2. No man c. hath c. power in the day of death and no discharge in that war Eccles 8. 8. A living dog is better than a dead Lion c. there is no work c. in the grave whither thou goest Eccles 9. 3 4 5 10. Then shall the dust return unto the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it Eccles 12. 1 2 3 4 6 7. He will swallow up death in victory and the Lord God will wipe away tears c. Isa 25. 8. Set thine house in order for thou must die c. I said in the cutting off of my days I shall go to the gates of the grave c. The grave cannot praise thee c. the living the living he shall praise thee as I do this day Isa 38. 1 2 10 11 18 19. All flesh is grass and the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field the grass withereth the flower fadeth because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it Isa 40. 6 7 8. James 1. 10 11. 1 Pet. 1. 24. That thou shouldst be afraid of man who shall dye c and be made as grass Isa 51. 12. The righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come Isa 57. 1 2. 2 Kings 22. 19 20. Lamentation and bitter weeping Rachel weeping for her children because they were not Jer. 31. 15. Matth. 2. 16 17 18. Son of man I will take away from thee the desire of thine eyes at a stroke yet neither shall thou mourn nor weep neither shall thy tears run down c. My wife died c. this was for a sign Ezek. 24. 16 17 18 24. Go thou thy way till the end for thou shalt rest and stand in the lot at the end Dan. 12. 13. Your fathers where are they and the prophets do they live for ever Zechar. 1. 5. I will ransom them from the power of the grave I will redeem them
ignorant was I I was as a beast before thee Psal â—3 16. 17 22. Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen who have not known thee Psal 79. 6. They know not neither will they understand they walk on in darkness Psal 82. 5. Let them be confounded c. that they may know that thou whose name alone is Jehovah art the most high over all the earth Psal 83. 18. Understand O ye brutish among the people and fools when will ye be wise He who planted the ear shall he not hear c. Psal 94. 7 8 9 10 11. It is a people who do err in their hearts and they have not known my ways Psal 95. 10. Whoso is wise and will observe these things even they shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord Psal 107. 43. For I know that the Lord is great and our Lord above all gods Psal 135. 5. Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk Psal 143. 8. Ps 146. 8. He shewed his word unto Jacob c. He hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgments they have not known them Ps 147. 19 20. A wise man will hear and increase learning a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels c. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity c. and fools hate knowledge c. they shall call upon me but I will not answer c. for that they hated knowledge and did not chuse the fear of the Lord Prov. 1. 5 7 22 28 29. Apply thine heart to understanding yea if thou cryest after knowledge c. if thou seek her as silver c. then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord c. for the Lord giveth wisdom c. understanding shall keep thee Prov. 2. 2 3 4 5 6 10 11. ch 4. 7. Happy is the man who findeth wisdom and the man who getteth understanding for the merchandize of it is better than the merchandize of silver Prov. 3. 13 14. ch 8. 5 6 11. ch 16. 16. Job 28. 12 15 16 17 c. I beheld c. a young man void of understanding passing through the street c. Prov. 7. 7 8 c. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom the knowledge of the Holy understanding Prov. 9. 10. Wise men lay up knowledge Prov. 10. 14. The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way Prov. 14. 8. Evil men understand not judgment but they who seek the Lord understand all things Prov. 28. 5. Surely I am more brutish than any man and have not the understanding of a man Prov. 30. 2. Tell me O thou whom my soul loveth where thâ— feedest c. if thou know not O thou fairest c. go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock Cant. 1. 7 8. The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib Israel doth not know my people doth not consider Isa 1. 3. Therefore my people are gone into captivity because they have no knowledge Isa 5. 13. Hear ye indeed but understand not and see ye indeed but perceive not c. make their ears heavy and shut their eyes lest they see c. and understand Isa 6. 9 10. Mat. 13. 13 14. The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea Isa 11. 9. Habak 2. 14. The Egyptians shall know the Lord in that day and shall do sacrifice c. Isa 19. 21. It is a people of no understanding therefore he who made them will not have mercy on them Isa 27. 11. The Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep and hath closed your eyes c. and the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book sealed c. therefore c. The wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid c. In that day shall the eyes of the blind see out of obscurity c. They who erred in spirit shall come to understanding c Isa 29. 10 11 12 13 14 18 24. Save us c. that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord c. Isa 37. 20. Have ye not known c. it is he who â—tteth upon the circle of the earth Isa 40. 21 22. That they may know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord c. Isa 41. 20. I will bring the blind by a way they knew not c. in paths they have not known Isa 42. 16. They have not known nor understood for he hath shut their eyes and they cannot see and their hearts and they cannot understand c. neither is there knowledge or understanding to say I have 〈◊〉 part of it c. Isa 44. 18 19. Nations c. which knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord c. Isa 55. 5. They who handle the law knew me not Jer. 2. 8. I will give you Pastors c. who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding Jer. 3. 15. My people is foolish they have not known me they are 〈◊〉 children they have no understanding they are wise to do evil but to do good they have no knowledge Jer. 4. 22. ch 8. 7. ch 9. 3 6. ch 5. 21. Hâ—sea 5. 4. Let him who glories glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord who exercise loving-kindness judgment and righteâ—â—sness Jer. 9. 24. I will give them an heart to know me that I am the Lord Jer. 24. 7. Hosea 2. 20. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least c. Jer. 31. 34. All the remnant c. shall know whose words shall stand mine or theirs Jer. 44. 28. Ezek. 6. 10. I will set my glory among the heathen so the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward c. And when I have brought them again c. then shall they know that I am the Lord their God who caused them to be led into captivity Ezek. 39. 21 22 23 27 28. ch 38. 23. Jer. 16. 21. To the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth c. They shall make thee eat grass as oxen c. till thou know that the most High ruleth c. Dan. 4. 17 25 32. But the people who do know their God shall be strong and do c. and they who understand among the people shall instruct many c. and some of understanding shall fall Dan. 11. 32 33 35. Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased c. And none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand Dan. 12. 4 10. For she did not know that I gave her corn and wine and oyl c. Hosea 2. 8. The Lord hath a controversie c.
22. My Lord is wife according to the wisdom of an Angel of God 2 Sam. 14. 20. When the Angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it the Lord repented him of the evil 2 Sam. 24. 16 17. 1 Chron. 21. 15 16 18 20 30. The Angel of the Lord came to Elijah and gave him food c. 1 Kings 19. 5 6 7. The Angel of the Lord said to Elijah c. Go up to meet the messengers c. 2 Kings 1. 13. The Angel of the Lord went out and smote the Camp of the Assyrians one hundred fourscore and five thousand 2 Kings 19. 35. Isa 37. 36. His Angels he charged with folly Job 4. 18. The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them who fear him and delivereth Psal 34. 7. Dan. 3. 28. ch 6. 22. Let the Angel of the Lord chase them c. Persecute them Psal 35. 5 6. The Charets of God are twenty thousand even thousands or many thousands of Angels Psal 68. 17. Man did eat Angels food c. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger c. by sending evil angels amonst them Psal 78. 25 49. For he shall give his Angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways they shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone Psal 91. 11 12. Mat. 4. 6. Bless the Lord ye his Angels who excel in strength who do his command Psal 103. 20 21. Who maketh his Angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire Psal 104. 4. Heb. 1. 7. Praise ye him all his Angels c. Psal 148. 2. Neither say thou before the Angel that it was an errour Eccles 5. 6. They are called Seraphims each one had six wings c. Isa 6. 2 3 4 c. The Angel of his presence saved them Isa 63. 9. He had power over the Angel and prevailed Hosea 12. 4. The Angel talked with Zechariah Zech. 1. 8 9 11 12 13 14. ch 2. 3. ch 4. ch 5. Joshua the high Priest standing before the Angel of the Lord c. And the Lord said to Satan The Lord rebuke thee c. And the Angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua c. Zech. 3. 1 2 3 6. The Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream saying Joseph Fear not Mat. 1. 20. Again the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream saying c. Mat. 2. 13. The Devil leaving Christ behold Angels came and ministred unto him c. Mat. 4. 11. Luke 22. 43. The reapers are the Angels c. The Son of man shall send forth his Angels and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things which offend c. At the end of the world the Angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the just Mat. 13. 39 41 49. Despise not one of these little ones for I say unto you In heaven their Angels do behold the face of my father which is in heaven Mat. 18. 10. And he shall send his Angels c. and they shall gather together his elect c. but of that day and hour knoweth no man no not the Angels of heaven Mat. 24. 31 36. The Son of man shall come c. and all the holy Angels with him Mat. 25. 31. He shall presently give me more than twelve legions of Angels Mat. 26. 53. The Angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it his countenance was like lightning and his rayment as white as snow and for fear of him the keepers did shake and became as dead men And the Angel answered and said unto the women Fear not ye for I know that ye seek Jesus c. he is not here for he is risen Mary saw two Angels in white sitting one at the head and the other at the feet Mat. 28. 2 3 4 5 6. Acts 6. 15. John 20. 12. Luke 24. 4 5 6 23. There appeared unto Zacharias an Angel of the Lord c. who said unto him Fear not c. I am Gabriel who stand in the presence of God and am sent to speak unto thee c. The Angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a City c. to a Virgin c. Luke 1. 11 12 13 19 26 27 28 30 35. There were shepherds abiding in the field c and to the Angel of the Lord came upon them c And the Angel of the Lord said unto them Fear not for behold I bring you good tidings c. and suddenly there was with the Angel a multitude of the heavenly Host praising God and saying Glory to God in the Higest The Angels were gone away from them into heaven c. Jesus who was so named of the Angels Luke 2. 8 9 10 13 14 15 21. He who denieth me before men shall be denied before the Angels of God Luke 12. 9. There is joy in the presence of the Angels of God over one sinner that repenteth Luke 15. 10. The beggar died and was carried by the Angels into Abraham's bosom Luke 16. 22. Ye shall see heaven open and the Angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man John 1. 51. An Angel went down at a certain season and troubled the water John 5. 4. The people c. said That it thundered others said an Angel spake to him c. John 12. 29. While they looked c. two men stood by them in white apparel who also said c. Acts 1. 10 11. The Angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth Acts 5. 19. This Moses whom c. the same did God send c. by the hands of the Angel c. who spake to him in mount Sinai c. Who hath received the law by the disposition of Angels and have not c. Acts 7. 35 37 53. And the Angel of the Lord spake unto Philip saying Arise and go towards c. Acts 8. 26 27. An Angel of God appeared to Cornelius Acts 10. 3 7 22. The Angel of the Lord came unto Peter in prison and led him out c. Then said they It is his Angel c. The Angel of God smote Herod Acts 12. 7 8 9 11 15 23. The Sadduces say there is no resurrection Angel nor Spirit Acts 23. 8 9. There stood by me this night the Angel of God c. whose I am and whom I serve saying fear not Saul c. Acts 27. 23. Know ye not that we shall judge Angels 1 Cor. 6. 3. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the Angels 1 Cor. 11. 10. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thess 1. 7. I charge thee before God c. and the elect Angels 1 Tim 5. 21. Of the Angels he faith Who maketh his Angels spirits c. Are they not all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who
spittle Mark 8. 22 23. The miraculous number of fish taken by Peter and his company when Christ had commanded them to take their net and cast it into the sea Luke 5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. He healed the Centurions servant raised the widows only son from the dead when they were carrying him to be buried Luke 7. 2 3 c. 11 12 13 c. He made the woman straight who had by reason of an infirmity been bowed and could not stand up Luke 13. 11 12 13. He cured a man of a dropsie Luke 14. 2 3 4. Christ healed the ear with a touch which the disciples had cut off Luke 22. 51. Christ healed ten lepers Luke 17. 12 13 14 15 16. He restored sight to another blind man Luke 18. 41 42 43. Christ cured the High Priests servants ear Luke 22. 51. He turned water into wine at the marriage faest in Cana John 2. 7 8 9. He healed the noble-mans son by his word which the noble man believed and found that his child mended the same hour Christ spake John 4. 47 49 50 51 52 53. He cured the man who had had an infirmity 36 years and had waited long at the pool and could not get in John 5. 5 6 7 8 9. He restored sight to the man who was born blind he anointed his eyes with clay and spittle and bid him wash c. John 9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. He raised Lazarus from the dead after he had been laid in his grave John 11. 43 44. He caused Peter and other disciples to cast their net into the sea and they took a miraculous number of fishes John 21. 6 7 8. Many wonders and signs were done by the Apostles Acts 2. 43. ch 14. 3. Peter raised up the lame man who had lain at the temple-gate Acts 3. 2 6 7. Ananias and Saphira both at the Apostles word fell down dead c. And by the hands of the Apostles were many signs and wonders wrought c. they brought sick folks and them who were vexed with unclean spirits and they were healed every one Acts. 5. 9 10 12 15 16. Philip did many miracles cast out unclean spirits healed palsies and lame Acts 8 6. 7. Peter healed Aeneas of the palsie and raised Dorcas from the dead Acts 9. 34 40 41. Paul cured the cripple at Lystra who had been lame from his mothers womb Acts 14. 8 9 10. Paul cast out the spirit of divination out of the maid Acts 16. 16 17 18. And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul so that from his body were brought to the sick handkerchiefs c. and the diseases departed from them and the evil spirits went out of them Acts 19. 11 12. Paul raised Eutichus from the dead when he had fallen down from the window Acts 20. 9 10. Paul healed the father of Publius of his fever and bloody-flux and others Acts 28. 8 9. So grâ—at salvation which first began to be spoken by the Lord c. God also bearing them witness both with signs and wonders and with divers miracles c. Hebr. 2. 3 4. Mighty signs and wonders by the power of the spirit of God Rom. 15. 19. CHAP. XLIV Of the Kings of Israel and Judah How they came to their Power and Office GIdeon hath judged Israel he had seventy sons Abimilech one of the sons of Gideon by his servant by subtilty with the men of Shechem that it was better one should reign than all the seventy sons procures money hires vain and light persons and kills all his brethren except Jotham the youngest who hid himself Abimelech by the men of Shechem and the house of Millo made King After a few years he was slain by a piece of mill-stone a woman threw down on him after whom Judges governed a lâ—ng time till Samuel Judges 9. Israel by the Elders came to Samuel and said Make us a king to judge us lâ—ke all the nations and though God was displeased at it and said They had rejected not Samuel but God himself that he should not reign over them yet he bids Samuel hearken unto them and make them a king 1 Sam. 8. Samuel before Saul came was told of God of his coming and that he should be the man whom he should anoint king Samuel anoints him king â—ccordingly 1 Sam. 9. ch 10. According to this afterwards all the people went to Gilgal and here they made Saul king before the Lord 1 Sam. 11. 14 15. Samuel said to Saul When thou wast little in thine own fight wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel c. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord he hath rejected thee from being king 1 Sam. 15. 17 23. Samuel by Gods special direction anointed David the son of Jesse to be king although Saul was yet living and the spirit left Saul and came upon David 1 Sam. 16. 1 12 13 14. And after Sauls death the men of Judah came to Hebron and there they anointed David king over Judah but Abner made Ishbosheth the son of Saul king over all Israel 2 Sam. 2. 1 2 3 4 8 9. After the death of Ishbosheth being slain came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron c. And all the Elders of Israel came c. and king David made a league with them and they anointed David 〈◊〉 over Israel 2 Sam. 5. 1 2 3. Adonijah David his son being about to set up himself David sets up Solomon 1 Kings 1. 5 6 c. God said to Solomon Thou hast not kept my covenant c. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee and will give it to thy servant c. Abijâ—h the Prophet told Jeroboam That God would give ten tribes unto him and take the kingdom out of the hands of Solomons son and give ten tribes unto him Solomon died Rehoboam rigned in his stead 1 Kings 11. 9 10 11 12 29 30 31 35 36 37 43. All Israel came to Shethem to make Rehoboam king the people proposing ease and Rehoboam refusing to grant it the cause was from the Lord that he might perform what he had said ten tribes fell off from him And when all Israel had heard that Jeroboam was come again they sent and called him to the Congregation and made him king over all Israel When Rehoboam intended by force to reduce them God forbid it and said This thing is from me only Judah subjected to Rehoboam 1 Kings 12. 1 7 3 4 13 14 15 16 17 20 21 22 23 24. Go tell Jeroboam thus faith the Lord God of Israel Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people and made thee Prince over my people Israel and rent the kingdom from the house of David and gave it unto thee c. Jeroboam died and Nadab his son reigned in his stead over Israel Rehoboam died and Abijam his son reigned in his stead over Judah 1
thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it and it would be sin in thee But if thou shalt forbear to vow it shall be no sin in thee That which is gone out of thy lips a free wilt offering according as thou hast vowed c. Deut. 23. 21 22 23. Eccles 5. 4 5. Israel vowed a vow to the Lord and said If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand then c. Numb 21. 2 3. Jepthah's Vow to dedicate to God whatever came out of his house to meet him after his Victory his Daughter met him he performed the Vow Judges 11. 30 31 32. Hannah vowed to give her Child unto the Lord and she performed it 1 Sam. 1. 11 27 28. Offer to God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the Most High Psal 50. 14. Thy vows are upon me O God I will render praises unto thee Psal 56. 12. Thou O God hast heard my vows thou hast given me the heritage c. So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever that I may daily perform my vows Psal 61. 5 8. I will go into thy house with burnt-offerings I will pay thee my vows which my lips have uttered c. when I was in trouble Psal 66. 13 14. Vow and pay unto the Lord your God Psal 76. 11. I will pay my Vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people Psal 116. 14. It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy and after vows to make enquiry Prov. 20. 25. When thou vowest unto God defer not to pay c. Better thou shouldst not vow than c. not perform Eccles 5. 4 5. God threatens Judah for saying they would performe their Vows which they had made to burn Incense to the Queen of Heaven c. Jer. 44. 25 26 27 c. I will pay that which I have vowed Jonah 2 9. Paul having shorn his head at Cenchrea for he had a Vow Acts 18. 18. We have four men who have a vow on them them take and purifie thy self with them c. And all may know c. that thou thy self also walkest orderly and keepest the law Touching the Gentiles we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing c. Acts 21. 20 21 22 23 24 c. The Law about the Vows of a Daughter in her Father's House And of a married Person Numb 30. CHAP LII Of Blasphemy AND the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the Lord and cursed and they brought him to Moses c. and they they put him in ward that the mind of the Lord might be shewed unto them And the Lord spake unto Moses saying Bring forth him who hath cursed without the camp and let all who heard him lay their hands upon him and let all the congregation stone him c. Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin and he who blasphemeth the name of the Lord shall be put to death Levit. 24. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 23. Jezebel King Ahab's Wife commanded the Nobles to set up False Witnesses against Naboth to testifie that he did blaspheme God and the King and so stone him to death Which accordingly they did 1 Kings 21. 8 9 10 11 12 13. Acts 6. 11 13. Senacherib King of Assyria by his Servants said Who among all the gods c. could deliver his people out of mine hand that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand c. No god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver c. how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hands And his servants spake yet more against the Lord God c. He wrote also a Letter to rail on the Lord God of Israel and to speak against him c. And they spake against the God of Jerusalem as against the gods of the people of the earth the work of the hands of men 2 Chron. 32. 9 to 20. The shame of my face hath covered me for the voice of him who reproacheth and blasphemeth Psal 44. 16. O God how long shall the adversaries reproach shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever c. Remember this the enemy hath reproached O Lord and the foolish people hath blasphemed thy name Psal 74. 10 18 22. Render unto our neighbours seven-fold c. their reproach wherewith they have reproached thee O Lord Psal 79. 12. What have I here saith the Lord that my people is taken away for nought c. and my name continually every day is blasphemed Isa 52. 5. In this your fathers have blasphemed me in that they have committed a trespass against me when I had brought them into the land c. Then they saw every high Hill and all the thick trees and then they offered sacrifices there c. Ezek. 20. 27 28. Thou shalt know that I am the Lord. I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountain of Israel saying They are laid desolate c. Thus with your mouth you have boasted against me and have multiplied your words against me c. Ezek. 35. 12 13. When Christ had said to a man Thy sins are forgiven thee c. certain Scribes said within themselves This man blasphemeth c. The Pharisees said He casteth out devils by the prince of devils Matth. 9. 2 3 34. Luke 5. 21. The Pharisees said This fellow doth not cast out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils c. Jesus said c. If I cast out devils by the spirit of God then the kingdom of God is come amongst you c. Wherefore I say unto you All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men but the blaspemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him but whosoever shall speak a word against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world neither in the world to come Matth. 12. 24 28 31 32. Luke 12. 10. Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of Power and coming in the clouds of heaven Then the high Priest rent his clothes saying he hath spoken blasphemy what need have we of farther witnesses behold now ye have heard his blasphemy Matth. 26. 64 65. He who shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness c. because they said He hath an unclean spirit Mark 3. 29 30. From within out of the heart of men proceedeth evil thoughts blasphemes Mark 7. 21 22. They c. asked hâ—m saying Prophesie who is iâ— who smote thee And many other things blasphemously spake they against him Luke 22. 64 65. For a good work we stone thee not but for blasphemy because that thou being a man makest thy self God c. Say ye of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world Thou