known the Father in him 756. Joh. 14. 12. He that believeth on me the works that I doe shall he doe also and greater chap. 3. 2. No man can doe those Miracles that thou doest Christ means not works of divine Creation Redemption or Sanctification but of his mission such Miracles as he wrought in the world such and greater then they were wrought by the Apostles whose shadows cured sick men as they passed by after Christs Ascension and the wonderful conversion of the Gentiles followed 757. Joh. 14. 13. chap. 16. 24. Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my Name that will I do Ask and you shall receive Jam. 4. 3. Ye ask and receive not We ought to ask in Christs Name in full confidence of his merits with true faith and without doubting spiritual or corporal blessings with exception of Gods will and our own salvation in all occasions and in all our prayers they that ask so receive and they that receive not ask amisse 758. Joh. 14. 23. If any man love me he will keep my words vers 23. The Word which ye hear is not mine The Word that Christ taught was his but not any invention of his but his Fathers Word which he was sent into the world to preach 759 Joh. 14. 23. And we will come unto him and make our abode with him Rom. 7. 20. Sin dwelleth in me vers 14. I am sold under sin The first place is concerning the inhabitation of the Sacred Trinity in the spiritual part of a regenerate man The latter is of the dwelling of sin in our carnal members 760. Joh. 15. 15. I call you not servants but friends Mat. 25. 21. Well done good servant The Disciples were Christs servants by right of creation redemption and vocation friends by right of adoption communication and patefaction Aug. tr 55. on John 761. Joh. 15. 15. All things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you chap. 16. 12. I have yet many things to say unto you In the Scriptures some things are said to be full which are to be fulfilled in the former place Christ speakes concerning the knowledge of God and the perfect worship of Christians in it self in the latter concerning the understanding of this Word which the Disciples by reason of their rudenesse could not bear before they had received the holy Ghost nor did they understand it 762. Joh. 16. 13. The Spirit of Truth shall guide you into all Truth Gal. 2. 11. Peter erred after he had received the holy Ghost The Apostles were led into all truth in parts and degrees of it After they had received the holy Ghost they erred not in doctrine in writing or teaching but in life and conversation such was the errour of Peter which was to be reproved whilest he conversed amongst the Gentiles 763. Joh. 16. 24. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my Name Mat. 6. 9. Luk. 11. 2. He had given them the form of Prayer before The Disciples did indeed pray before but not so plainly with a clear knowledge of Christs Office that their prayers should be heard for the Messias that was sent 764. Joh. 16. 26. I say not unto you that I will pray the Father for you Rom. 8. 26. He makes intercession for us Christ alone doth not pray for us but we also must come to the Father and in his Name at his command pray in full assurance which is necessary for our salvation 765. Joh. 17. 3. That they may know thee Father to be the only true God Act. 20. 28. The Son is God chap. 5. 4. The holy Ghost is God Onely here doth not exclude the Persons in the Divine Essence but creatures and Idols which are no gods 766. Joh. 18. 20. I speak openly to the world and in secret have I said nothing Mar. 9. 28. He taught his Disciples privately in the Desert In the first place he speaks of his doctrine which he brought from Heaven that he might reveal it to all men and teach it publickly and in the temple not in private corners In the latter place he taught privately explaining those things which he had taught publickly 767. Joh. 19. 9. Jesus answered not Pilate 1 Tim. 6. 13. Christ Jesus before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession To Pilates question first Christ did not answer because he stood before him to suffer and not to plead or excuse at length he gave testimony to the Truth in words and deeds for his passion and death were a sufficient testimony and sealing of his doctrine 768. Joh. 20. 1. Christ rose on the first day of the week Mat. 12. 40. The Son of Mâ—â— shall be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth untill the third day This is a Synecdochical computation of time for the least part of the day of the preparation is taken for a whole day and the beginning of the day after the Passeover or the Sabbath is taken also for a whole day Christ was three days in the grave but it was incompleatly three days so also he was two nights in the grave the night before being added to them 769. Joh. 20. 1. Mary Magdalen came early when it was yet dark unto the Sepulcher Mar. 16. 2. Very early they came to the Sepulcher at the rising of the Sun When it was yet dark very early in the morning she went out of her house and the City waiting for the rest of the women with which afterwards she came to the Sepulcher at the Sun-rising 770. Joh. 20. 17. Touch me not Ver. 26. Reach hither thy finger Christ after the Resurrection would not be touched of Mary Magdalen who only sought him after a carnal way and thought of enjoying him no otherwise then she did formerly by his earthly presence amongst them But he commanded Thomas to touch him that his faith being confirmed he might be a more certain witnesse of Christs Resurrection The ACTS of the APOSTLES LVKE the Evangelist describes either in generall all the Acts of the Apostles or in speciall Peters Preachings Acts Visions Miracles Imprisonments the Conversion of Paul his Travels Disputations Miracles Bonds Imprisonments and the History of the Primitive Church after Christs Ascension from 26 years unto the 60 year from Christs Nativity 771. Acts 1. 1. Of all things that Jesus began both to do and teach Luke wrote John 21. 25. There are also many other things which Jesus did the which if they should be written every one I suppose that even the world it self could not contain the books that should be written Luke in the first Book wrote of all things necessary for our salvation though not of all things but summarily concerning the conception of Jesus Christ his Nativity Life Passion Death Resurrection and Ascension into heaven August Christ did many things that are In John Tract 49. not written as John the Evangelist witnesseth but those things were chosen to be written which might suffice for the salvation
Anthropopathy he remembers when he sends help and hears our prayers as Gen. 30. 22. 1 Sam. 15. 19. Psal 13. 2. 42. 10. Also he is said to forget when he defers to help and seems not to hear us 35. Gen. 8. 13. In the year 601 the first month the first day of the month the waters were dryed up Chap. 8. 14. And in the second month the 27 day of that month was the earth dryed The diminishing of the waters and the superficies of the earth yet soft and plashy is intimated vers 13. 14. The earth is dryed and perfectly solid 36. Gen. 8. 21. Nor will I any more smite Psal 103. 13. every living creature Chap. 6. 13. 7. 21. And all flesh dyed Chap. 19. 24. Sodom overthrowne Before the flood God judged the world and he judged Sodom also as a just judge and revenger after the flood he promised he would do so no more as a father who taketh pity of his children 37. Gen. 8. 21. I will not again curse the ground for mans sake Deut. 28. 16. Thou shalt be cursed in thy house and cursed shalt thou be in the field c. A generall malediction doth not take away a speciall malediction neither did God oblige himself that he would not send his speciall punishments and calamities on those who refuse to hear his voice 38. Gen. 8. 22. Seed time and harvest as long as the earth endureth 1 King 17. 1. Jam. 5. 17. And it reigned not for three yeares and six months Barrennesse and drynesse was sent from God on the earth in the dayes of Elias by reason of the Idolatry of the Israelites He took not away seed-time and harvest in other places The ordinance of God though it was not observed in one place for mans transgression yet it found place in an other 39. Gen. 9. 2. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth Job 39. 9. Will the Vnicorne be willing to serve thee In the former place the dominion over the creatures is partly restored to man after the fall and God hath cast a fear on them that they should not dare to hurt man but should be afraid of mans countenance But if the Unicorn or any beast do violence to man they do but put him in mind of his fall 40. Gen. 9. 13. I do set my bow in the clouds and it shall be for a token of a Covenant between me and the earth Revel 4. 3. And there was a rainbow round about the throne in sight like to an emerald The first place is concerning the ordinary place of the rain-bow the second of the extraordinary rain-bow and the seat of God 41. Gen. 10. 8. Nimrod began to be mighty in the earth Vers 10. And the beginning of his Kingdome was Babel Rom. 13. 1. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers The tyrannicall power of Nimrod was with violence and violation of government in families yet not without Gods ordination nor doth every unlawfull attaining take away the lawfull power from ill beginnings and manners good lawes and profitable thins proceed also The beginning of the Kingdome of Judah was the wantonnesse and wickednesse of the people The beginning of the Kingdome of Israel the sedition of Jeroboam yet they were afterwards lawfull Kingdomes 42. Gen. 10. 22. The children of Sem were Elam Assur and Arphaxad Chap. 11. 10. Sem begat Arphaxad two years after the flood In History the order of nature and time are not alwayes observed therefore though Elam and Assur are named Chap. 10. before Arphaxad yet it followes not that they were elder then he and Sem is said to have begotten sons and daughters after Arphaxad was born and not before 43. Gen. 11. 7. Let us goe down and there confound their language 1 King 8. 27. Jer. 23. 24. Do not I fill the earth God is not moved from place to place because he is all every where saith Augustine but L. 16. c. 5. De civ dei he is said to descend when he doth any thing for the ordinary and usuall course of nature and so he sheweth his presence in respect of us not that there is any thing that he doth not see and know or doth change his place but this is attributed to God after the manner of men and in respect of our sense as Gen. 18. 21. Psal 14. 2. 44. Gen. 11. 12. Arphaxad begat Salem Luk. 3. 36. Which was the son of Sala which was the son of Cainan c. The name and the generation of Cainan in Beda in Luk. 3. Genesis and the words of the days according to the truth of the Hebrews is not found but Arphaxad is said to have begotten Sala there being none betwixt him Luke took this Genealogie from the edition of the 70 Interpreters 45. Gen. 11. 26. Terah lived 70 years and begat Abram Nahor and Haran Chap. 12. 4. And Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran Terah did not beget three sons in the same year but he began to generate at 70 years old and he lived in Haran to 205 years old it may be Abraham was the younger son but because he is so commended in the Scriptures he is set down first before his brethren as Jacob Mat. 1. 3. Judas 1 Pet. 4. 1. 46. Gen. 12. 5. Abraham took Sara his wife and Lot his brothers son Chap. 13. 8. 14. 14. Abraham said to Lot we are brethren c. Brothers are called by bloud Gen. 27. 13. of alliance Chap. 14. 4. of gentility Deut. 15. 3. of affection 2 Sam. 1. 26. of unity of confession of faith Jer. 31. 34. We are brethren saith Abraham to Lot perswading him not to contend with him but seeing that he is joyned with him in the band of religion and consanguinity he wisheth him to avoid occasion of quarrell and not to give scandall to the infidels 47. Gen. 12. 3. 18. 18. All the Nations of the earth shall be blessed in him Gal. 3. 14. The blessing of Abraham came on the Gentiles through Christ This promise was made to the seed and posterity but not to the person of Abraham so the promises made by God to the Fathers Gen. 22. 18. Heb. 11 8. are fulfilled in their children and in individuals 48. Gen. 12. 18. Abraham told a lie Psal 5. 7. Thou shalt destroy all those that speak leasing Seing that the Devill is the Father of lying Abraham denying his wife sinned against God by distrust against Sara and Pharaoh by injustice Mat. 26. Psal 32. for he sought to save his life by wrong means as Peter did by denying Christ God will destroy impenitent lyers but not whose lies and offences are pardoned in Christ and covered as Abrahams Isaacks and Peters were who repented 49. Gen. 12 7. 13. 15. 15. 38. This land which thou seest will I give to thee and thy seed c. Act. 7.
dead excepting Jacob his whole family make 75 souls in number 80. Exod. 1. 19. The Midwives lyed to Pharaoh and God blessed them Chap. 3. 18. 5. 3. Moses said We will goe three dayes journey into the wildernesse and sacrifice unto the Lord our God Zach. 8. 16. Speak every one truth to his neighbour It is not certain whether the Midwives did 1 Pet. 21. lie or not it might be the Hebrew women were delivered before they came at them and God blessed the Midwives not for lying but because they feared him Moses spake the words of God unto Pharaoh and God is the God of truth 81. Exod. 2. 3. Moses was laid by the river in an arke of bulrushes Heb. 11. 23. Moses parents feared not the Kings commandement It is certain that the Hebrew parents feared God more then Pharaoh nor did they doubt in exposing of Moses but that God would deliver him 82. Exod. 2. 15. Moses feared and fled from the face of Pharaoh Heb. 11. 27. He feared not the wrath of the King Moses feared for killing the Egyptian whilst Pharaoh sought to slay him therefore he fled into the Land of Madian But upon his return when God sent him to Pharaoh he despised his threatnings being secure from all danger 83. Exod. 4. 21. 7. 3. 10. 27. 11. 10. But I will harden Pharaohs heart Chap. 8. 15. 8. 32. Pharaoh hardned his heart and was hardned c. God hardens permissively not effectively Ezeck 18. 23. 33. 11. Cont. Faust by no antecedent will for he will not the death of a sinner but by a consequent will when he punisheth by just judgment and useth evill to a good end Satan saith Augustine hardens by perswading Man by consenting God by forsaking 84. Exod. 4. 24. Moses had his wife with him in his journey Chap. 8. 5. And Jethro Moses Father in law came with his wife and his sons unto Moses Moses sent his wife Zipporah back to her father and then afterwards received her with her children brought unto him by his father in law 85. Exod. 5. 2. Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice and let Israel go I know not the Lord c. Rom. 1. 21. The Nations knew God and his power so that they are inexcusable Pharaoh was ignorant who Jehovah the God of Israel was nor had he a true knowledge of the true God that he might serve him onely 86. Exod. 7. 20 21. All the waters in Egypt were turned into bloud Vers 22. And the Magicians of Egypt did so with their inchantments when they came to the water That which the Magicians did with water digged out of the earth seemed to be the like for they are no true miracles of God which are done by the help of the Devill 87. Exod. 9. 16. And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up for to shew in thee my power and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth Rom. 3. 8. We must not do evill that good may come of it The hardning of Pharaoh was a punishment of his former sins and of his tyranny shewed over the Israelites and this God directed for a good end that in Pharaoh his power glory and justice might appear 88. Exod. 9. 29. Moses prayed for Pharaoh that the plagues may cease 1 Joh. 3. 4. 5. 16. We must not pray for any that sinne unto death Moses prayed not for Pharaoh but for the taking away of the plagues farther to declare the power of God and to overcome the wickednesse and obstinacy of Pharaohs tyrannicall heart 89. Exod. 11. 5. And all the first born in the Land of Egypt shall die Chap. 12. 30. There was not a house where there was not one dead We must understand here not only the first-born by birth but such as were so by authority for it was so ordered by divine providence that there was a first born found in every house 90. Exod. 12. 36. The Israelires spoyled the Egyptians by borrowing of them Psal 37. 21. The wicked borroweth and payeth not again The Israelites had Gods speciall command for it to spoile the ingratefull Egyptians whom they had served for many years for no Gen. 15. 14. wages God foretold this to Abraham that his posterity should come out of slavery with great wealth 91. Exod. 14. 15. And the Egyptians which you have seen to day you shall see them again no more forever Vers 30. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shoar In the former place he means the Egyptians alive following the Israelites which afterwards the Israelites saw choked in the waters and cast dead upon the seashoar 92. Exod. 20. 5. I am the Lord thy God a jealous God visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation Deut. 24. 16. Ezek. 18. 20. The son shall not bear the Fathers iniquity God visits the fathers sins upon the children if they walk in the way of their fathers that is on them that hate him but it is otherwise if the children repent Also God punisheth the iniquities of the fathers upon the children with temporall punishments not with eternall unlesse they follow the footsteps of their wicked fathers 93. Exod. 20. 8. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath day Deut. 5. 12. Mat. 12. 5. On the Sabbath days the Priests in the Temple profane the Sabbath day and are blamelesse Legall ceremonies and their externall observations give place to charity and necessity morall duties are preferred before ceremonials God forbad those works which hinder his worship but Christ defends his Disciples plucking ears of corn on the Sabbath day against the Pharisee by the example of David and of the Priests killing sacrifices on the Sabbath day pulling off their hides and washing of them 94. Exod. 20. 12. Honour thy father and mother Luk. 14. 26. If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be may disciple Christ forbids not the honour due to parents Mat. 10. 37 but he saith He that loves them more then me is not worthy of me for all things must be forsaken and hated too so far as they hinder our love of God and Christ for all things must give place to the love of God and that takes not away our duty or due honour to our parents 95. Exod. 20. 12. Honour thy Father Matth. 23. 9. Call no man Father upon the earth Christ forbids not children to honour their 2 King 2. 1 Chron. 4. parents or the hearers to honour the Preachers for Paul cals himself the father of the Corinthians but he forbids us to depend on humane authority in divine matters but we must depend on one God and have a filial confidence in him 96. Exod. 20. 13. Thou shalt not kill Mat. 5. 21. 18. 9. If thy eye hand foot
inflicts it hath the nature of good 450. Lam. 5. 7. Our fathers have sinned and are not and we have born their iniquities Ezek. 18. 20. The sons shall not bear the Fathers iniquities The children succeeding the Parents in their sins succeed them also in their punishments Godly and penitent children shall not beare the iniquities of their parents for ever though they be afflicted with temporall punishments 451. Lamen 5. 21. Turn thou us unto thee O Lord and we shall be turned Psal 119. ult Hosea 14. 2. Turn O Israel to the Lord thy God Conversion and Repentance is the worke Act. 11. 8. of God he gives it to the Gentiles and none but those that are enlightned in their hearts can truly turn unto God EZEKIELS Prophesie THe Priest the son of Buzi who was brought into Babylon under Jekonias and confirmed the Prophesie of Jeremiah and comforted the captives about the year 3350. by the river Chebar he had the visions from God He prophesied 20 years 452. Ezek. 8. 12. The Lord seeth us not Heb. 4. 13. All things are naked and open before the eyes of God The Prophet makes mention of what foolish men say who thought both by their words and deeds that God saw them not whose perverse judgement doth not hinder the truth which maintains that all things be they never so secret yea the thoughts of our hearts are open before God 453. Ezek. 18. 4. The soul that sins that shall die Rom. 5. 6. Christ died for us The first sentence is legall and teacheth what must be done by the law divine or humane legally The last is Evangelicall shewing that God for Christs sake freely gives us his grace and salvation 454. Ezek. 12. 13. I will bring Zedekiah into Babylon to the land of the Chaldees yet shall be not see it though he shall die there Jer. 34. 3. Thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the King of Babylon and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth Zedekias being taken saw the King of Babylon afterwards they put out his eyes that he could not see the Land of the Caldees nor Babylon in his captivity 455. Ezek. 18. 19. Walke in my precepts keep my judgements 1 Tim. 19 The law was not made for the righteous but for the wicked and disobedient The Prophet understands the law that teacheth and enlightens us The Apostle the law that condemns us For there is no condemnation Rom. 8. 33 to those that are justified in Christ Jesus 456. Ezek. 18. 21. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed he shall not die Heb. 6. 4. It is impossible for those that were once illuminated if they shall fall away to renew them again by repentance It is hard and impossible in respect of those who bar themselves out from Gods mercy and shut their hearts that they may not be enlightned by the Sun of righteousnesse but it is not so in respect of God who would have all men to repent and be saved yet he justly punisheth with finall impenitency all obstinate and malicious Apostates and such as sin against the holy Ghost 457. Ezek. 18. 23. 33. 11. God will not the death He hath no pleasure in the death of the wicked Rom. 9. 18. He hath mercy on whom he will and whom he will he hardneth God will not the death of a sinner by his antecedent will but by his consequent will or his justice because he justly punisheth him who rejects the grace of God offered unto him He hardens therefore permissively not effectively 458. Ezek. 18. 23. I will not the death of him that dyeth Chap. 3. 18. Thou shalt die the death God as our Father will not by the Gospell but as he is our judge and revenger he will by the law that a sinner shall die 459. Ezek 18. 23. 32. I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth 1 Joh. 5. 16. A sin unto death God will not the death of him that repents for his mercy is over all his works A sin unto death is a sin against the holy Ghost and so it is called because it is iustly punished with finall impenitency 460. Ezek. 18. 26. When a righteous man turns away from his righteousnesse and doth iniquity he shall die in it Rom. 8. 30. Whom he justified them he glorified Righteous in the first place is not truly so but only in opinion so Christ came not to call the just but the Apostle speaks of Mat. 9. 13. those that are truly just who are justified in Christ and shall be surely glorified Or if the place of the Prophet be to be interpreted of him that is truly just it is conditionall and so proves nothing and the contradiction is reconciled 461. Ezek. 20. 25. I gave them also Statutes that were not good and judgments whereby they should not live Psal 19. 9. The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether Precepts that are not good are either legall threatnings by which God menaces curses to the wicked or false doctrine when God by his just judgement suffers those that would not believe the truth but go forward in iniquity to believe lies 462. Ezek. 44. 9. No stranger uncircumcised in heart and flesh shall enter into my Sanctuary Gal. 5. 2. If you be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing The Prophet means spirituall circumcision by faith in Christ but the Apostle means nothing but corporall and legall circumcision which was that the Jews strove to be justified by Col. 2. 15. DANIELS Prophesie DAniel was carried young with Joakim to Babylon there he lived 70 years to the time of Cyrus in the year 3370. He interprets Nebuchodonozors dream of the image and writeth what was done under Nebuchodonozors reign Balshazars and Darius And describes the four Monarchies and the eternall kingdome of Christ he numbred also the weeks of years of the coming of Christ 463. Dan. 1. 5. The King appointed for Daniel and his fellowes a dayly provision that at the end of three years they might stand before the King Chap. 2. 1. In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar the King dreamed a dream wherewith his spirit was troubled Vers 16. Daniel went in and desired of the King that he would give him time That was done in the second year after these things were ended which were appointed for the education of Daniel and his companions under the government of Nabuchodonozor 464. Dan. 1. 21. 6. 28. And Daniel continued unto the first year of King Cyrus Chap. 10. 1. In the third year of Cyrus King of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel In the former place the two following years are not excluded but it is noted that God prolonged the life of Daniel untill the time of the return of the people of the Jews from Babylon Daniel was in his office at Court to the first year of Cyrus then being grown old he led a quiet private life 465. Dan. 2.
46. Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and worshipped Daniel Deut. 6. 13. 10. 30. Mat. 4. 10. Thou shalt worship the Lord 1 Sam. 7. 3. thy God Nebuchadnezzar would have worshipped Daniel after the heathen manner but being better instructed by him he changed his purpose being admonished by Daniel to worship and Rev. 19. 10 adore the true God of gods 466. Dan. 3. 12. Chap. 2. 49. Daniel Shadrach Meshach and Abednego despised the Kings commandement Rom. 13. 1. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers God being the highest power we must Act. 4. 19. c. 5 29. principally obey him and above all men we must obey the Magistrate in things which are not against Gods word and his true worship 467. Dan. 4. 27. O King break off thy sins by righteousnesse and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor Isai 53. 7. The Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all 1 Joh. 1. 7. The bloud of Jesus Christ doth cleanse us Our sins before men are redeemed by making satisfaction for injuries and by sorrow for them to this Daniel exhorts Nabuchadnezzar but before God only the merits of Christ Jesus can take away sins 468. Dan. 6. 10. Daniel his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed 2 King 4. 33. Elisha shutting his doors prayed Mat. 6. 6. Christ commands the same Daniels work of confession was necessary lest he should seem to denie God and his truth by reason of the wicked command of the King Christ forbids not publick prayers but boasting hypocrisie 469. Dan. 9. 3 to the 20. The prayer of Daniel is contained in many words Mat. 6. 7. And when ye pray use not many words Isai 23. 3. Daniels prayer was no vain repetitions but a testimony of his fervent desire powred out in prayer from before the most holy God So was the prayer of Moses David Solomon and our Lord Jesus Christ But in the latter place Christ reprehends the foolishnesse of them who think that by many words repeated they can perswade God 470. Dan. 9. 17. Cause thy face to shine upon the Sanctuary for the Lords sake Joh. 16. 24. Ye have hitherto asked nothing in my name We do aske in the name of Christ with confidence of his merit that did the godly under the old Testament comparatively secretly implicitely under a shadow and a propitaitory but under the new Testament simply nakedly and openly without any shadows or externall propitiatory which Christ hath abolished 471. Dan. 9. 25. Vnto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks Act. 2. 7. It is not for you to know the times and seasons By divine revelation 70 weeks that is 490 years were soreshewed to Daniel that within so many years Christ should come and performe the office of a Messias such a knowing of times is not forbid but that which is rashly attempted by us without divine revelation TEREASAR that is as they are commonly called in Hebrew The Prophesies of the twelve minor Prophets not for their authority but the quantity of the book HOSEAS Prophesie the son of Beeri HE chides the Jewes for their idolatry He shewes their casting off end the espousing of the Gentiles to God He declares salvation to those that should repent He Prophesied 50 years in the time of Osiah Jotham Achaz Ezekias Kings of Judah and in the dayes of Jeroboam son of Joas King of Israel about the year 3150. 472. Hos 1. 2. Go take thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredomes Lev. 21. 14. A widow or a divorced woman or prophane or an harlot these shall he not take but a virgin The command of God to the Prophet was not that he should marry a whore but a lawfull wife yet with such an infamy as though she were a Harlot and her children bastards By this embleme the Israelites are admonished of their spirituall fornication 473. Hos 1. 7. I will not save them by bow nor by sword nor by battell Rom. 13. 4. The Magistrate beareth not the sword in vain The first place is of the conservation of the Kingdome of Judah against the Assyrian not by corporall weapons but by miracles which takes not away the lawfull power of the Magistrate against the enemies of the Church externall or internall 474. Hos 1. 9. Ye are not my people Vers 10. Ye are the sons of the living God The Prophet divides the people of Israel into those which are and those which shall be Those which are he divides into righteous and wicked the righteous that remain shall be few but the wicked shall be more he saith that even the whole people of Israel should forsake God yet some few should be saved to the coming of the Messias whilst all Nations both Jewes and Gentiles should be gathered into one people and Jer. 3. 18. Ezek. 34. 27. one sheepfold under one King and one shepherd 475. Hos 2. 13. I will visit upon her the days of Baalim when she burnt incense to them 1 King 18 40. Elias the Prophet killed Baals Prophets at the brook Cison The Baalites were destroyed in the time of Elias and of Jâ—hu yet their superstition remained and stuck to the posterity of the people 476. Hos 4. 23. Swear not The Lord liveth Deut. 6. 13. And thou shalt swear by the name of the Lord. An oath is part of Gods worship and therefore the Prophet warneth Idolaters not to abuse it as they did in Bethel that they might seem to serve God and not the Calfs 477. Hos 8. 4. They have set up Kings but not by me Rom. 13. 1. There is no power but of God The Prophesie respects the breaking of the 10 Tribes from the house of Solomon that was not from God as the Israelites did it who would not be subject to the Judges of Judah contrary to Gods revealed will but yet it was from God because he would punish the sins of Solomon So Tyrants are from God not only as a scourge but by reason of their power because the power must be distinguished from the corruption of the person who useth it c. 478. Hos 11. 1. When Israel was a childe then I loved him and called my son out of Egypt Mat. 2. 15. This Prophesie was fulfilled in Christ being brought back from Egypt These words were spoken of Israel Gods adopted sonne and of his onely begotten Sonne according to the union of the body with the head and comparison of the type with the truth The deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt was a figure of our Redemption and freedome by Christ 479. Hos 13. 14. O death I will be thy plague O grave I will be thy destruction 1 Cor. 15. 55. O death where is thy victory The first place may be explained by the latter for in both is shewed that death hath lost its strength and is swallowed up in victory
labour shall not be lost 963. Gal. 5. 17. The flesh lusteth against the spirit Eph. 6. 12. We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against powers Flesh is taken in the first place for our corrupt nature in the later for men whose nature is frail and weak nor is our chief conflict with those but with spirituall powers which use many deceits and make many incursions upon the faithfull 964. Gal. 5. 24. They that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections Eph. 5. 29. No man ever yet hated his own flesh The first place is not concerning the nature of the flesh but the desire of the regenerate man who cares not for the affections of the flesh will not serve his belly his pleasures the world or worldly delights the later is concerning self-love naturall to us all and the Apostle speaking of the wife useth the name of flesh because they are both made one flesh 965. Gal. 6. 2. Bear ye one anothers burdens ver 5. Every man shall bear his own burden In the first place is spoken of the faults and infirmities of our brethren which are indeed a burden to us yet we must bear them by sympathy and the rule of charity will have it so that all of us help our brethren and tolerate their infirmities to lift up such as are down to hide their faults so much as may be and is fitting Thou hast this fault and not that another Theoderez man hath another fault do thou bear his fault let him bear thine and so fulfill the love of charity be not curious in other mens faults for every man shall give account of his own 966. Gal. 6. 4. Let every man prove his works 1 Cor. 3. 13. The fire shall try every mans work In the first place is intimated what is our duty to make our works approved to God in the later place the fire signifies either the holy Ghost or afflictions by which we are tried The Epistle of St PAUL to the EPHESIANS HE commemorates the benefits of God which are part and recites our Election Redemption Sanctification Vocation into the Church Justification by faith our future inheritance of eternall life and our duties in generall of us all in speciall of married people and unmarried of Parents of Children of Masters and of servants It was written from Rome in the Year of Christ 59. and sent by Tychicus 967. Eph. 1. 7. In whom we have redemption Rom. 8. 18. We wait for future glory and the redemption of our bodies We have redemption in Christ from the guilt of sinne by our justification we expect a full redemption from inherent sinnes in our glorification for Christ shall transform our mortall bodies that he may make them like to his glorious body that as we are one with him here in soul and body by grace so we may be also in glory 968. Eph. 3. 5. The mystery of Christs incarnation was in other ages unknown to men Col. 1. 5. You have heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel It was unknown to the Fathers under the Law in respect of fulnesse and clearnesse of knowledge revealed since Christ came and it was made manifest to the whole world by the Ministry of the Apostles 969. Eph. 3. 15. All paternity is named from God the Father Joh. 8. 44. The devil is the father of lies God is the Father of heavenly and earthly paternity the devil is excluded from these for he hath no such paternity but as he is the Authour he is called the Father of a lie 970. Eph. 4. 19. The Gentiles gave themselves over to lasciviousnesse to work all uncleannesse Rom. 1. 28. God gave them over to a reprobate minde The Gentiles gave themselves over in regard of their sinnes God gave them over in regard of punishment 971. Eph. 5. 25. Husbands love your wives Luk. 14 26. Wives are to be beloved as they are wives but if they hinder us from following Christ they are to be hated with such a hatred as proceeds not from anger but zeal to Gods glory 972. Eph. 5. 33. Let the wife see that she reverence Deut. 6. 13. her husband Matth. 10. 28. Rather fear God Fear in respect of God must be guided the same way that love must God must be beloved above all not excluding fear which is due to others 973. Eph. 5. 1. Be ye followers of God 1 Cor. 11. 1. Be ye followers of me The Apostle warns the Ephesians to be followers of God for by that they shall fructifie the more Ae exhorts the Corinthians to follow him that as he followed Christ so they would learn of him as if he would have said If you cannot follow Christ yet follow me at least that am his servant 974 Eph 5. 26. Christ hath cleansed his Church by the washing of water by the word 1 John 1. 7. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sins Christ purgeth away our spots with his blood as with water by the Word and Sacraments as by instruments he communicates to us the power of his death 975. Eph. 6. 12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood Gal. 5. 17. The spirit and the flesh are contrary In the former place mention is made of our principall and capitall enemy that is the devil in the later of the concupiscence of our corrupt flesh and the strife of it against the Spirit The Epistle of St PAUL to the PHILIPPIANS HE exhorts them to patience and not to be offended with his chains but that they should live patiently in mutuall love and take heed of false Teachers and study to lead a life unblameable Written from Rome by Epaphreditus 976. Phil. 2. 7. He was made in the likenesse of man and was found in fashion as a man 2 Cor. 5. 16. Henceforth know we Christ no more after the flesh The first place is concerning Christs true humanity who after his humiliation was exalted of God above all creatures and made to be Lord in the glory of the Father 977. Phil. 2. 9. God hath given him a Name which is above every name Matth. 1. 21. In his conception Luk. 2. 21. In his Circumcision they called his name Jesus By the Name above all names is understood Majesty and glory given from God the Father Mat. 1. 22. unto Jesus Christ our Lord. In his conception he was called Jesus because he shall save his people from their sinnes 978. Phil. 2. 12. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling 2 Tim. 1. 12. I am certain because the Lord is able to keep that which I committed unto him The Apostle means fear and trembling not that which is servile but filiall which is opposed to presumption and security least we should grow insolent upon the confidence of our gifts but that we should altogether depend on the mercy and goodnesse of God 979. Phil. 3. 12. Not as though I were already perfect ver 15. So many