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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48873	A common-place book to the Holy Bible or, The scriptures sufficiency practically demonstrated wherein whatsoever is contain'd in scripture, respecting doctrine, worship, or manners, is reduced to its proper head, weighty cases resolved, truths confirmed, difficult texts illustrated, and explained by others more plain.	Locke, John, 1632-1704.	1697 (1697)	Wing L2737; ESTC R19113	610,875	458

Lord 1 Thes 5. 23. The end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart a good conscience and faith unfeigned 1 Tim. 1. 5. Exercise thy self to godliness c. Godliness is profitable to all things having promise of this c. 1 Tim. 4. 7 8. ch 2. 2. ch 6. 6. Thou O man of God c. Follow after righteousness godliness c. 1 Tim. 6. 6 11. Flee also youthful lusts but follow righteousness c. 2 Tim. 2. 22. For the Grace of God that bringeth salvation c. teacheth us that denying ungodliness and wordly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Titus 2. 11 12. Put them in mind c. to be ready to every good work c. A faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works Titus 3. 1 8. Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us c. Follow peace c. and holiness without which no man shall see the Lord Hebr. 12. 1 14. Who is a wise man c. Let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom James 3. 13. As obedient children not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance but as he who hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all of manner conversation because it is written Be ye holy for I am holy 1 Pet. 1 14 15. Ye are a chosen generation c. that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you c. Abstain from fleshly lust which war against the soul having your conversation honest amongst the Gentiles that whereas or wherein they speak against you as evil doers they may by your good works which they behold gloruie God in the day of visitation c. So is the will of God that with well doing ye may c. We being dead unto sin should live unto righteousness 1 Pet. 2. 9 11 12 15 24. 1 Tim. 5. 14. Titus 2. 5 1. Let him eschew evil and do good c. Who is he who will harm you if you be followers of that which is good c. Sanctifie the Lord in your hearts and be always ready to give an answer to every man who asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil doers they may be ashamed who falsly accuse your good conversation in Christ 1 Pet. 3. 11 13 15 16. The time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles c. If any man minister c. that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 4. 2 3 6 11. Giving all diligence add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance c. godliness c. If these things be in you and abound it shall effect that you shall not be unfruitful c. Give diligence to make your calling and election sure 1 Peter 1. 5 6 7 8 9 10. Seeing that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness c. Wherefore beloved seeing ye look for such things be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot or blemish 2 Pet. 3. 11 14. God is light c. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light c. 1 John 1. 5 6 7. These things write I unto you that ye sin not And if any man sin we have an advocate c. He who saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked 1 John 2. 1 6. Every man who hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure c. He who doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous 1 John 3. 7. Beloved follow not that which is evil but that which is good He who doth good is of God but he who doth evil hath not seen God John 3. 11. In Particular I. To love God and the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ I The Lord thy God c. shewing mercy unto thousands of them who love me Exod. 20. 6. The Lord our God one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart with all thy soul and with all thy might Deut. 6. 4 5. The Lord thy God he is God the faithful God who keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him Deut. 7. 9. And now Israel what doth God require of thee but c. to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul Deut. 10. 12. Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God c. If you shall hearken c. to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart c. that I will c. Deut. 11. 3 13 22. The Lord your God proveth you to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul Deut. 13. 3. And the Lord thy God shall circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul Deut. 30. 6. Take diligent heed to do the commandment c. to love the Lord your God Joshua 22. 5. Take good heed therefore unto your selves or souls that ye love the Lord your God Joshua 23. 11. Oh love the Lord all ye saints c. Psal 31. 23. I love the Lord because he hath heard my voice Psal 116. 1. Thy name is as ointment poured out therefore do the virgins love thee Cant. 1. 3 4. If ye find my Beloved c. tell him that I am sick of love Cant. 5. 8. Thus saith the Lord I remember thee or for thy sake the kindness of thy youth the love of thine espousals when thou wentest after me in the wilderness Jer. 2. 2. Judah hath prophaned the holiness of the Lord whom he loved or ought to love Mal. 2. 11. He who loveth father or mother c. is not worthy of me c. Matth. 10. 37. Luke 14. 26. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind This is the first and great commandment c. On these c. hang all the law and the prophets Matth. 22. 37 38 39 40. Iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold Matth. 24. 12. Her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much But to whom little is forgiven the same loveth little Luke 7. 47. He who loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I

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. En●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

called there on the name of the Lord the everlasting God Gen. 21. 33. Isaac said Here is the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering c Abram built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on the wood c. Then Abram took the ram and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son Gen. 22. 7 8 9 13. The Lord appeared unto Isaac at Beersheba and he builded an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there Gen. 26. 24 25. Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount when Laban came to him Gen. 31. 54. And Jacob came to Shalem and pitched his tent before the City and he erected there an altar and called it El-Eloe-Israel that is God the God of Israel Gen. 33. 18 19 20. And God said unto Jacob Arise go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto God who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother Then Jacob said unto his houshold and unto all who were with him c. Let us arise and go up unto Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress c. And he built there an altar and called the place El-Bethel c. the God of Bethel Gen. 35. 1 2 3 6 7. And Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Jacob Gen. 46. 1. Moses directed of God to say unto Pharaoh Let us go we beseech thee three days journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God Exod. 3. 18. And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi that is the Lord my Banner for he said Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek c. Exod. 17. 14 15 16. And Jethro Moses's father-in-law took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God Exod. 18. 12. God when he had given the law upon mount Sinai he then did command the building of an altar and the offering of sacrifices Exodus 20 24 25 26. CHAP. XLVI Christianity is a difficult thing or it is hard to be a Christian indeed IF thy right eye offend thee pluck it out c. if thy right hand offend cut it off c. Matth. 5. 29 30. Then said Jesus to his Disciples if any man will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross dayly and follow me for whosoever will save his life shall lose it and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it Matth. 16. 24 25. Luke 9. 23. ch 14. 26 27 33. Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be who find it Matth. 7. 13 14. Luke 13. 24. If thou wilt be perfect go and sell all thou hast and give it c. he went away sorrowful c. I say unto you a rich man shall hardly enter c. Matth. 19. 20 21 c. ch 13. 45 46. Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptations c. Matth. 26. 41. The last shall be first and the first last for many be called but few chosen Matth. 20. 16. ch 22. 14. Labour not for the meat which perisheth but for that meat which endureth to everlasting life c. John 6. 27. There is a war in my members warring against the law of my mind c. Rom. 7. 13. Gal. 5. 17. Not sloathful in business servent in spirit serving the Lord Rom. 12. 11. Be ye stedfast c. always abounding in the work of the Lord forasmuch as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord 1 Cor. 15. 58. Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent we may be accepted of him 2 Cor. 5. 9 10. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds casting down imaginations and every high thing which exalts it self against the knowledge of God and bringeth into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. The flesh lusteth against the spirit c. so that ye cannot do the things ye would Gal. 5. 17. Rom. 7. 21 23. That ye may know c. what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the w●●king of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand c. Ephes 1. 18 19 20. See that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise redeeming the time c. Ephes 5. 15 16. Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places or against wicked Spirits c. That ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done or overcome all to stand Ephes 6. 11 12 13. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2. 12. I reach forth c. I press towards the mark Phil. 3. 13 14. We pray always for you that our God would c. fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness and the work of faith with power 2 Thes 1. 11. Fight the good fight of faith lay hold of eternal li●e 1 Tim. 6. 12. 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. Then therefore endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ no man who warreth entangleth himself with affairs of life c. 2 Tim. 2. 3 4. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief Heb. 4. 11. That ye be not sloathful but followers of them who through faith and patience c. Heb. 6. 12. Let us run with patience the race which is set before us c. consider him who endureth such contiadiction of sinners against himself lest ye be weary and faint in your mind Ye have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin c. Heb. 12. 1 3 4. Resist the Devil and he will flee from you Janus 4. 7. An inheritance c. reserved for you or us who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation 1 Pet. 1. 4 5. If the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly c. 1 Pet. 4. 18. Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the Devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour whom resist stedfast in the faith c. 2 Pet. 5. 8 9. Having all diligence add to your faith virtue c. Giving all diligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 5 10. Wherefore beloved seeing ye look for such things be diligent