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 you hearts be troubled c. I will come again and receive you to my self that where I am there ye may be also 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. Let not your hearts be troubled John 14. 1 3 19 20 27. 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 and 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 John 15. 5 9 11 12 13. Luk. 12. 4. These things have I spoken that ye should not be offended c. I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce and your joy no man taketh from you John 16. 1 22. 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 feed my sheep feed my lambs 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 Act. 9. 4 5. Ye are become dead unto the Law c. 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 Christs 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. 6. 15 17. When ye sin so against the brethren ye sin against Christ 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 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 love of Christ which passeth knowledg Ephes. 3. 19. Grow up into him in all things who is the head Christ from whom the whole body fitly joyned together and compacted c. Ephes. 4. 15 16. Christ hath loved us and given himself for us an offering c. Christ is the head of the Church and the saviour of the body c. Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it that he might sanctifie and cleanse it c. that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinckle c. No man ever hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord the Church for we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones Ephes. 5. 2 23 25 26 27 29 30. I am in a strait betwixt two having a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better Phil. 1. 23. What things were gain to me those I counted loss for Christ yea doubtless I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and do count them but dung that I may win Christ Phil. 3. 7 8. Not holding the head from which all the body by joynts and bands having nourishment ministred and knit together increaseth with the increase of God Col. 2. 18 19. Both he who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren Saying I will declare thy name c. Heb. 2. 11 12. Christ as a son over his own house whose house are we if we hold fast c. Heb. 3. 6. Unto you who believe he is precious c. 1 Pet. 2. 7. Jesus Christ c. who loved us and washed us c. Rev. 1. 5. CHAP. XVI Of the Duties of Believers such as profess to be Saints First Towards God In the general to live to God not to themselves to be holy fruitful walking in the light in an honest heavenly and spiritual conversation worthy of their high calling Glorifie God and mind things above ENoch walked with God Gen. 5. 22 24. Noah walked with God Gen. 6. 9. And the Lord said unto Noah come thou c. For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation c. And Noah did according unto all that the Lord had commanded him Gen. 7. 1 5. I am the Lord your God ye shall therefore sanctifie your selves ye shall be holy for I am holy Levit. 11. 44 45. ch 19. 2. Seek not after your own heart c. But be ye holy unto your God c. Num. 15. 39 40. Thou art an holy people to the Lord c. Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing Deut. 14. 2 3. Behold all souls are mine as the soul of the father so also the soul of the son is mine the soul which sinneth it shall dye Ezek. 18. 4. Israel is an empty vine he bringeth forth fruit unto himself Hosea 10. 1. Is it time for you O ye to dwell in your ceiled houses and this house lye waste c. Ye have sown much and brought in little c. Why saith the Lord of hosts because of mine house that is waste and ye run every man to his own house therefore c. Haggai 1. 4 6 9 10. Bring forth therefore fruit meet for repentance c. The Axe is laid unto the root of the trees therefore every tree which bring forth not fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire Matt. 3. 8 10. Luk. 3. 8. Let your lights so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your father which is in heaven Matt. 5. 16. Lay up for your selves treasure in heaven c. For where your treasure is there will your hearts be also Matt. 6. 20 21. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things Matt. 12. 35. They are to improve their Talents See the Parable Matt. 25.
enemies of the cross of Christ c. who mind earthly things for our conversation is in heaven Phil. 3. 17 18 19 20. Finally brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things honest whatsoever things just whatsoever things pure whatsoever things lovely whatsoever things of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think on these things Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me do c. Phil. 4. 8 9. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing being fruitful in every good work Col. 1. 10. If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above c. Set your affections on things above not on things on the earth c. Mortifie therefore your members which are upon earth fornication c. Col. 3. 1 2 5. Walk in wisdom towards them who are without redeeming the time c. That ye may stand perfect and compleat in all the will of God c. Col. 4. 5 12. That ye would walk worthy of God who hâ—…h called you unto his kingdom 1 Thes. 2. 12. We exhort you by the Lord Jesus that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound more and more c. For this is the will of God your sanctification c. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour c. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness 1 Thes. 4. 1 3 4 7. Now the very God of peace sanctifie you wholly and your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord 1 Thes. 5. 23. Exercise thy self to godliness c. Godliness is profitable to all things have promise of this c. 1 Tim. 4. 7 8. 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. teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly 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 Heb. 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 manner of 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 lusts 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 glorifie God in the day of visitation c. We being dead unto sin should live unto righteousness Matt. 5. 16. 1 Pet. 2. 9 11 12 15 24. 1 Tim. 5. 14. Titus 2. 5 10. 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 he 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 â—…uffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles c. 1 Pet. 4. 2 3. Giving all dilligence add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledg and to knowledg temperance c. godliness c. Give dilligence to make your calling and election sure 2 Pet. 1. 5 6 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 loo 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 lye 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. He who saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked 1 John 2. 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 Joh. 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 3 John v. 11. In Particular 1st 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 who 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. 1 13. 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 will 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. O love the Lord all ye his saints c. Psal. 31. 23. I love the
him in the famine Gen. 37. 28 34 35. chap. 29. 5 20. chap. 41. 39 40 41 42 43 44. chap. 45. 5 7 8. chap. 47. 11 12. But as for you ye thought evil against me but God meant it unto good to bring to pass as at this day to save much people alive Gen. 50. 20 21. The more they afflicted them the more they multiplied and growed Exod. 1. 11 12. Ezra 5. chap. 6. And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians and the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord and his servant Moses Exod. 14. 31. Who fed thee with Manna c. that he might humble thee c. to do thee good in the latter end Deut. 8. 16. When Manasseh was afflicted he sought the Lord the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers and prayed unto him c. then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God c. He took away the strange gods c. 2 Chron. 33. 11 12 13 15 16. Tatuai the governour opposing the Jews wrought for their advantage in the end Ezra 5. chap. 6. If they be bound in fetters c. then he sheweth them their work and their transgressions that they have exceeded He openeth also their ear to discipline Job 36 8 9 10. Before I was afflicted I went astray but now have I kept thy word c. It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes c. thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me Psal. 119. 67 71 75. They who sow in tears 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 the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Ziòn and on Jerusalem I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria c. such as are escaped of the house of Jacob shall no more again stáy upon him who smote them but shall stay upon the Lord c. Isa. 10. 12 20 21. So will I acknowledg them who are carried away captive of Judah whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Caldeans for their good for I will set mine eyes upon them for good Jer. 24. 5 6. 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. I will hedg up thy ways with thorns c. Then shall she say I will go and return to my first husband for then was it better with me c. I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak comfortably or friendly unto her Hosea 2. 5 6 7 8 14. 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 names sake shall receive a hundred-fold and shall inherit everlasting life Mat. 19. 27 29. Tribulation worketh patience and patience experience c. Rom. 5. 3 4 5. And we know that all things work together for good unto them who love God Rom. 8. 28. When we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11. 32. Our light afflictions which are but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding eternal weight of glory while we look not at things which are seen 2 Cor. 4. 17 18. In nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God Phil. 1. 28. Tribulations which ye endure c. that ye may be accounted worthy of the kingdom of God 2 Thess. 1. 5. It is a faithful saying c. If we suffer we shall also reign 2 Tim. 2. 11 12. 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 faith c. might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 6 7. Thirdly The considerations which should stay bear up and comfort the spirits of Saints in their afflictions and under persecutions Cons. First That it is their portion which God appointed them in this life as a priviledg and that too for such-ends See them last before 2dly That such who are so exercised are blessed and happy and so pronounced in Scripture a seal of their sonship and Gods 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 chasteneth 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 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 Phil. 1. 28 29. If ye be without chastisements c. then are ye bastards and not sons Heb. 12. 8. Blessed is the man who endureth tentations for when he is tryed 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 c. 1 Pet.
ends of the earth and seeth under the whole heaven Job 28. 23 24. His eyes are upon the ways of man and he seeth all his goings Job 34. 21. Psal. 11. 4 5. The righteous God tryeth the hearts and reins Psal. 7. 9. Jer. 11. 20. The Lord looketh from heaven and beholdeth all the sons of men Psal. 33. 13. Understand ye brutish c. He that planteth the ear shall he not hear He that formed the eye shall he not see c The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanity Psal. 94. 8 9 11. Thou c. art acquainted with all my ways For not a word in my tongue but lo O Lord thou knowest it altogether c. Such knowledg is too wonderful for me c. Whither shall I go from thy spirit Or whither shall I fly from thy presence If I ascend up into Heaven thou art there c. Psal. 139. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 c. Prov. 5. 21. The eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the good and the bad c. Hell and destruction are before the Lord how much more then the hearts of the children of men Prov. 15. 3 11. Shall the thing framed say of him who framed it he had no understanding Isa. 29. 16. Mine eyes are upon all their ways They are not hid from my face Neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes Jer. 16. 17. ch 32. 19. I the Lord search the heart I try the reins Jer. 17 10. ch 20. 12. I know the things which come into thy mind every one of them Ezek. 11. 5. He revealeth the deep and â—…ecret things He knoweth what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth with him Dan. 2. 22 28. Thy father who seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly c. Your father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him Mat. 6. 4 6 8 18. But of that day and hour knoweth no man c. but the father Mark 13. 32. That should seek the Lord c. though he be not far from every one of us Act. 17. 27. O the depth of the riches c. Of the knowledg of God c. Rom. 11. 33 34. Pleasing c. God who tryeth our hearts c. 1 Thes. 2. 4. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight But all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do Heb. 4. 12 13. 8thly He is most Wise. He is wise in heart and mighty in strength c. Job 9. 4. The Lord of host wonderful in counsel Isa. 28. 29. The Lord is a God of judgment Isa. 30. 18. He hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion Jer. 10. 12. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledg of God Rom. 11. 33. To God only wise be glory c. Rom. 16. 27. 1 Tim. 1. 17. The foolishness of God is wiser than men 1 Cor. 1. 25. To the only wise God our saviour be glory c. Jude vers 25. 9thly He is most Holy Who like thee O Lord c. glorious in holiness c. Exod. 15. 11. I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity c. Exod. 20. 5. Nahum 1. 2. Ye shall be holy for I am holy c. Levit. 11. 44 45. chap. 19. 2. chap. 20. 26. I the Lord who sanctifieth you am holy Levit. 21. 8. For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you Deut. 6. 15. The Lord for he is an holy God he is a jealous God he will not forgive c. Josh. 24. 19. There is none holy as the Lord for there is none besides 1 Sam. 2. 2. Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God 1 Sam. 6. 20. The holy one of Israel is our king Psal. 89. 18. Psal. 99. 9. The knowledg of the holy is understanding Prov. 9. 10. Holy holy holy is the Lord of hosts Isa. 6. 3. Behold from the habitation of thy holiness c. The people of thy holiness hath possessed c. Isa. 63. 15 18. So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel c. And the heathen shall know that I am the Lord the holy one in Israel Ezek. 39. 7. Isa. 43. 14 15. The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness c. Amos 4. 2. Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look at iniquity Habak 1. 13. Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is c. Rev. 4. 8. Who shall not fear thee O Lord c. for thou only art holy c. Rev. 15. 4. 10thly He is most just A God of truth and without iniquity just and right is he Deut. 32. 4. Thou art just in all that is brought upon us for thou hast done right c. Nehem. 9. 33. Surely God will not do wickedly neither will the Almighty pervert judgment c. Wilt thou condemn him who is most just Job 34. 12. 17. He is excellent c. and in plenty of justice Job 37. 23. The righteous Lord loveth righteousness c. Psal. 11. 7. Psal. 33. 5. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne Psal. 89. 14. No God besides me a just God c. Isa. 45. 21. I am the Lord who exercise c. judgment and righteousness in the earth c. Jer. 9. 24. The Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doth Dan. 9. 14. The just Lord is in the middest thereof he will not do iniquity every morning he doth bring his judgment to light Zephan 3. 5. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed c. Heb. 6. 10. Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways c. Rev. 15. 3. 11thly He is Compassionate Pitiful and Merciful The men laid hold upon his hand c. the Lord being merciful unto him Gen. 19. 16. The Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious c. keeping mercy for thousands c. Exod. 34. 6 7. The Lord is c. Of great mercy Numb 14. 18. The Lord thy God is a merciful God he will not forsake thee neither destroy thee c. Deut. 4. 31. O give thanks unto the Lord c. For his mercy endures for ever 1 Chron. 16. 34. 2 Chron. 20. 21. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you if ye return c. 2 Chron. 30. 9. Psal. 116. 5. Thou a God c. merciful slow to anger c. For thy great mercies sake thou didst not consume them c. For thou art a gracious and merciful God Nehem. 9. 17 31. Psal. 145. 8. Thou a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercy c. Psal. 86. 15. Psal. 111. 4. Psal. 145. 8. Mercy c. shall go before thy face Psal.
in or amongst you the hope of glory Col. 1. 27. Jesus who delivered us from the wrath to come 1 Thes. 1. 10. God hath not appointed us unto wrath but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ who dyed for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him 1 Thes. 5. 9 10. 2 Tim. 1. 9. Chap. 2. 10 11. Believe on him to life everlasting 1 Tim. 1. 16. Jesus Christ who hath abolished death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel 2 Tim. 1. 10. Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy he hath saved us c. Tit. 3. 5. He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them who obey him Heb. 5. 9. Ephes. 5. 23. By his own blood he entred in once into the holy place having obtained eternal redemption for us c. they who were called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance c. He shall appear c. unto salvation Heb. 9. 12. 15 28. Receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls 1 Pet. 1. 9. The God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glory by Jesus 1 Pet. 5. 10. And this is the promise which he hath promised us eternal life 1 Joh. 2. 25. 2 Tim. 1. 1. In this was manifest the love of God towards us because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him 1 Joh. 4. 9. This is the record that God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in his Son he who hath the Son hath life c. 1 John 5. 10 11 12. Keep your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus unto eternal life Jude v. 21. See more in the next Chapter CHAP. XI How Men have the benefit of this Salvation or by what means it becomes theirs in particular By Faith THE just shall live by his faith Habak 2. 4. Abram believed in the Lord and he counted it to him for righteousness Gen. 15. 6. Rom. 4. 3. He who believeth and is baptised shall be saved Mark 16. 16. Blessed is she who believeth that there or for there shall be a performance of those thing which were told her from the Lord Luk. 1. 45. Jesus said to the woman thy sins are forgiven c. Thy faith saved thee go c. Luk. 7. 48 50. But to as many as received him to them he gave power or the right or priviledg to become the sons of God to them who believe on his name John 1. 12. The son of man must be lifted up That whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life c. He who believeth on him is not condemned c. He who believeth on the son hath everlasting life John 3. 14 15 16 18 36. He who heareth my word and believeth on him who sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life c. Whom he hath sent him ye believe not c. And ye will not come to me that ye might have life John 5. 24 38 40. What shall we do that we may work the works of God Jesus answered and said unto them this is the work of God that ye believe on him whom he hath sent c. He who cometh to me shall never hunger and he who believeth on me shall never thirst c. This is the will of him who sent me that every one who seeth the son and believeth on him may have everlasting life c. He who believeth on me hath everlasting life c. I am the living bread which came down from heaven if any man eat of this bread he shall live for ever c. Whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life John 6. 28 29 35 40 47 51 54. He who believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never dye c. John 11. 25 26. Jesus said unto Thomas reach hither thy finger c. Be not faithless but believing c. Jesus said unto him because thou hast seen thou hast believed blessed are they who have not seen and yet have believed c. These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God and that believing ye might have life through his name c. John 20. 27 29 31. Through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins Act. 10. 43. By him all who believe are justified from all things c. Act. 13. 39. We believe that through the grace of our Lord Jesus we shall be saved Act. 15. 11. Sirs what must I do to be saved And they said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thine house Act. 16. 30 31. I kept back nothing which was profitable c. Testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ Acts 20. 20 21. That they may receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith that is in me Act. 26. 18. The Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation unto every one who believeth c. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by faith Rom. 1. 16 17. Now the righteousness of God without the law is manifest c. Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them who believe c. Jesus Christ whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood c. That he may be just and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus c. We conclude that a man is justified by faith without c. It is one God who shall justifie the Circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith Rom. 3. 21 22 25 26 28 30. To him who worketh not but believeth on him who justifieth the ungodly his faith is accounted for rightecusness c. We say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness c. Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace c. It was imputed to him for righteousness c. For us also to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him who raised up Jesus our Lord c. Rom. 4. 5 9 16 22 23 24. Being justified by faith we have peace with God c. We have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand c. Rom. 5. 1 2. We are saved by hope c. Rom. 8. 24. The Gentiles c. have attained unto the righteousness which is of faith c. But Israel hath not attained c. because they sought it not by faith Rom. 9. 30 32. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to
the faith as ye have been taught Col. 2. 5 6 7. For we live if ye stand fast in the Lord c. 1 Thess. 3. 8. We exhort you c. that as you have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God so ye would abound more and more 1 Thess. 4. 1. 〈◊〉 things hold fast that which is good 1 Thess. 5. 21. Therefore brethren stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught whether by word or our Epistle c. Now our Lord Jesus himself and God even our father c. stablish you in every good word and work 2 Thess. 2. 15 17. Brethren be not weary or faint not in well doing 2 Thess. 3. 13. Holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning faith hath made shipwrack of whom is Hymeneus c. 1 Tim. 1. 19 20. They shall be saved in Child bearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety 1 Tim. 2. 15. In the latter times some shall depart from the faith c. Some are already turned aside after Satan 1 Tim. 4. 1. ch 5. 15. If we deny him he also will deny us 2 Tim. 2. 12. But continue thou in the things thou hast learned and hast been assured of c. 2 Tim. 3. 14 15 16. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown c. 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. A Bishop must be blameless c. holding fast the faithful word c. Tit. 1. 9. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should let them slip c. Heb. 2. 1 2 3. Whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firmly unto the end c. We are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end Heb. 3. 6 14. Seeing that we have a great High-priest c. Let us hold fast our profession For we have not an High-priest who cannot be touched with c. Heb. 4. 14 15. For it is impossible for those who are once enlightened c if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance c. We desire that every one 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. 4 5 6 11 12. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful who promised c. For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledg of the truth there remains no more sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful looking for of judgment c. Cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward for ye have need of patience c. If any man draw back my soul shall have no pleasure in him we are not of them who draw back unto perdition Heb. 10. 23 26 27 35 36 37 38 39. Let us run with patience the race set before us looking unto Jesus c. lest ye be weary and faint in your minds c. Heb. 12. 1 2 3 15. Jesus Christ the same c. Be not carryed about c. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace Heb. 13. 8 9. Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty c. and continueth c. 〈◊〉 To him who knoweth to do good and doth it not to him it is sâ—… James 4. 17. Gird up the loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end 1 Pet. 1. 13. The devil c. whom resist stedfast in the faith 1 Pet. 5. 8 9. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world c. they are again entangled therein and overcome the latter end is worse with them than the beginning For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them 2. Pet. 2. 20 21. They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us no doubt they c. Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning if that c. remain in you ye also shall continue in the son c. And now little children abide in him that when he shall appear c. 1 Joh. 2. 19 24 28. Look to your selves that ye lose not these things which we have wrought but that we c. 2 Joh. ver 8 9. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth 3 Joh. ver 4. Earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints c. The Angels who kept not their first state c. he hath reserved in chains c. Build up your selves in your most holy faith c. keep your selves in the love of God c. Jude ver 3 6 20 21. I know thy works c. thou hast laboured and hast not fainted c. To him who overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life c. he shall not be hurt by the second death c. I will give to eat of the hidden Manna and will give him a white stone c. Hold fast till I come and he who overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end to him will I give power over the nations Rev. 2. 3 7 10 11 17 25 26. He who overcometh shall be clothed with white raiment c. I will confess his name c. Hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy crown c. I will make him a pillar c. I will grant him to sit in my Throne c. Rev. 3. 5 11 12 21. He shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son Rev. 21. 7. He who is righteous let him be righteous still and he who is holy let him be holy still Rev. 22. 11. See holding â—…st to God in time of affliction c. Chap. 22. That the saints believers shall be kept Have power given them to persevere and abide in the faith c. Christ will uphold them The steps of a good man are ordered or established by the Lord c. Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth with his hand c. Psal. 37. 23 24. I will bring the blind by a way they know not I will lead them in paths they have not known I will make darkness light before them and crooked things straight these things will I do unto them and not forsake them Isa. 42. 16. I have loved thee with an everlasting love therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee Jer. 31. 3. I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn
Dan. 12. 2 13. I will ransom them from the power of the grave I will redeem them from death O death I will be thy plagues O grave I will be thy destruction Hosea 13. 14. But as touching the resurrection from the dead c. I am the God of Abraham c. God is not the God of the dead but the God of the living Matth. 22. 31 32. Luke 20. 35 37 38. Thou shalt be recompenced at the resurrection of the just Luke 14. 14. The hour is coming in which all who are in the grave shall hear his voyce and shall come forth they who have done good unto the resurrection of life c. John 5. 28 29. I should lose nothing but raise it up again at the last day c. and I will raise him up at the last day John 6. 39 40 44 54. I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day Jesus said unto her I am the resurrection and the life he who believeth c. John 11. 24 25 26. Because I live ye shall live also John 14. 19. They taught the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead Acts 4. 2. And when they heard of the resurrection from the dead some mocked Acts 17. 32. Of the hope and resurrection of the dead am I called in question c. The Sadduces say There is no resurrection c. The Pharisees confess it Acts 23. 6 8. chap. 24. 21. They themselves also allow that there shall be a resurrection of the dead both of the just and unjust Acts 24. 15. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead Acts 26. 8. The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God c. We our selves groan within our selves waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body Rom. 8. 19 21 22 23. And God hath both raised up the Lord and will also raise up us by his own power 1 Cor. 6. 14. The resurrection of the dead proved at large and with what bodies and the manner of the resurrection 1 Cor. 15. 12 13 to the 56. That we should not trust in our selves but in God who raiseth the dead 2 Cor. 1. 9. He who raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus and shall c. 2 Cor. 4. 14. The holy spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption Ephes. 4. 30. We look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according unto the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself Phil. 3. 20 21. He is the head c. the beginning the first-born from the dead c. Col. 1. 18. I would not have you ignorant brethren concerning them who are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others who have no-hope for if we believe that Jesus dyed and rose again even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord That we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them who are asleep for the Lord himself shall descend c. and the dead in Christ shall arise first then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them c. 1 Thess. 4. 13 14 15 16 17. Hymeneus c. who concerning the truth have erred saying That the resurrection is past already and overthrow the faith of some 2 Tim. 2. 18. Not laying again the foundation c. of the resurrection of the dead Heb. 6. 1 2. Others were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection Heb. 11. 35. Thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged Rev. 11. 18. I saw the souls of them who were beheaded for the witness of Jesus c. and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years but the rest of the dead lived not again till the thousand years were finished This is the first resurrection blessed and holy is he who hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power c. And I saw the dead small and great stand before God c. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and Hell or the grave delivered up the dead which were in them Rev. 20. 4 5 6 12 13. CHAP. XXXVI Of Christs second coming to the Judgment and rendring unto every man according to his deeds done in the body whether good or bad SHall not the Judg of all the earth do right Gen. 18. 25. The wicked is reserved to the day of destruction they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath Job 21. 30. I know my Redeemer liveth and he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth Job 19. 25. The ungodly shall not stand in judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous Psal. 1. 5. The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations which forget God Psal. 9. 17. God is Judg himself Psal. 50. 6. He cometh to judg the earth and he shall judg the world with righteousness and the people with his truth Psal. 96. 13. Psal. 98. 9. Rejoyce O young man in thy youth c. and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment Eccles. 11. 9. For God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil Eccles. 12. 14. Thine eyes are upon all the ways of the sons of men to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings Jer. 32. 19. Agree with thine adversary c. lest at any time thine adversary deliver thee to the Judg c. Matth. 5. 25 26. Many will say to me in that day Lord Lord Have we not prophesied in thy name c then will I profess unto them I never knew you depart from me ye who work iniquity Matth. 7. 21 22 23. Luke 13. 25 26 27. Whosoever shall not receive you c. it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that City Matth. 10. 14 15. chap. 11. 21 22 23 24. But I say unto you That every idle word which men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment Matth. 12. 36. So shall it be at the end of the world the Son of man shall send sorth his Angels and they shall gather c. them which do iniquity and shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth then shall the righteous shine c. Matth. 13. 40 41 42 43 49 50. The Son of man shall