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The conduit of comfort Containing sundrie comfortable prayers, to the strengthening of the faith of a weak Christian. By Abr. Fleming.
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Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.
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the naming of the holy one for thou shalt not be vnpunished for such things For as a seruant which is oft punished cannot be without some scarre so he that sweareth and nameth God continually shall not be faultlesse c. Read the Chapter it is notable Eccles. 23.9.10.11 4 Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath day Sixe dayes shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe but the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt do no manner of worke thou and thy sonne and thy daughter the man-seruant thy mayd-seruant thy cattell and the stranger that is within thy gates For in sixe dayes the Lord made Heauen and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seuenth day wherefore the Lord blessed the seuenth day and hallowed it IT is lawfull to doe wel or doe a good deed on the Sbbath day Matth. 12 12. The Sabbath was made for Man and not Man for the Sabbath wherefore the Sonne of man is Lord euen of the Sabbath Mar. 2.27.28 If thou turne away thy foote from the Sabbath If thou refraine thy selfe from thy wicked works from doing thy will on my Holy day and call the Sabbath a delight to consecrat it as glorious to the Lord and shalt honour him not doing thine owne wayes nor séeking thine own wil nor speaking a vaine word then shalt thou delight in the Lord and I will cause thee to mount vpon the high places of the earth I will aduance thee make thee honourable and féed thée with the heritage of Iacob thy Father and blesse thee with plentie of all things to thy full contentation for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Esai 58.13.14 Keepe the Sabbath day to sanctifie it as the Lord thy God hath commaunded Since God permitteth sixe dayes to our labours we ought willingly to dedicate the seauenth to serue him wholly The keeping of the Sabbath consisteth not in our selues but it commeth from aboue euen from God the authour of the Sabbath Deut. 5.12 The second Table 5. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy dayes may be long in the lād which the Lord thy God giueth thee HOnour thy Father and Mother And He that cursoth Father or Mother let him die without any hope of pardon Mat. 15 4. Mark 7.10 Honour thy Father and Mother which is the first Commaundement with promise that it may be well with thée that thou mayst liue long on earth The Promise is conditionall for if we neglect the dutie to vs enioyned we make the Promise voyde and of none effect Ephes. 6.23 The Lord will haue the Father honoured of the Children for hee hath so commaunded and hath confirmed the authority of the Mother ouer the Children Who so honoureth his Father his sinnes shal be forgiuen him and he shall abstaine from them and shall haue his dayly desires God will be so gracious vnto him and so guide him that he shall not doe amisse And he that honoureth his Mother is like one that gathereth treasure Eccle. 3.2.34 6. Thou shalt doe no murder YEe haue heard that it was said to them of old time Thou shalt not kill for whosoeuer killeth shall be culpaple of Iudgment or subiect to punishmēt but I say vnto you Whosoeuer is angry with his brother vnaduisedly shall be culpable of Iudgement for God knowing his secreat malice will punish him And whosoeuer saith vnto his brother Raca Idle braine a biword spoken in contempt and despight shall be worthy to by punished by the Coūcell by Iudges thereto appoynted And whosoeuer shall say Foole shall be worthy to be punished with hell fire Matth. 5 21.22 Loue your enemies blesse them that curse you doe good to them that hate you and pray for them which hurt you and persecute you and vnto him that smiteth thee on the one cheeke offer also the other Rather endure more iniurie then reuenge your selues Luk. 7.27.28.29 7. Thou shalt not commit Adulterie YEe haue heard that it was sayd to them of old time Thou shalt not commit Adulterie But I say vnto you that whosoeuer looketh on a Woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart Chastitie is required both in bodie and minde Math. 5.27.28 Flee Fornication Euery sinne that a man doth is without the body but he that committeth Fornication sinneth against his owne body He more polluteth defileth his owne body then he that committeth any other sinne 1. Cor. 6.18 Know ye not that your bodyes are the members of Christ shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an Harlot God forbid 1. Cor. 6.15 Mariage is honourable and a remedie ordeined of God against incontinencie among all and the bed vndefiled but Whoremongers and Adulterers God will iudge Heb. 13.4 8. Thou shalt not Steale THou knowest the Commaundements Thou shalt not steale Mat. 10.19 Why rather suffer yée not wrong Nay ye your selues doe wrong and that to your bretheren hatred grudges wrongfull dealings and desires of reuenge c. are forbidden Know ye not that the vnrighteous shal not inherite the kingdome of God Be not deceiued neither adulrerers nor théeues c. shall inherite the kingdome of God and such were some of you c. 1. Cor. 6 7 8.9.10 Let him that stoale steale no more but let him rather labour and worke with his handes the thing which is good that he may haue to giue vnto him that néedeth Ephes. 4 28. 9. Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour THese sixe things doth the Lord hate yea his soule abhorreth seauen 1. The hauty Eyes 2. a lying Tongue 3. Handes that shed innocent blood 4 an Heart that imagineth wicked enterprises 5. féete that be swift in running to mischiefe that is affections which carry a man away in such sort that hee can not tell what he doth 6. a False witnesse 7. him that rayseth vp Contentions among brethren or neighbours Prou. 6.16.17 Wherefore cast off lying and speake euery man truth vnto his neighbour for we are members one of another Ephes. 4.25 A wicked witnesse mocketh at iudgement and the mouth of the wicked swalloweth vp iniquitie Taketh a pleasure and delighteth therein as gluttons and drunkards in dilicate meates and drinkes Pro. 19.28 A false witnesse shall not be vnpunished and he that speaketh lyes shall perish Prou. 19.9 10. Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife nor his seruant nor his mayd nor his oxe nor his asse nor any thing that is his WHatsoeuer ye would that men should doe to you euen so doe to them for this is the lawe and the Prophets The whole Law and the Scriptures set foorth and commend charitie vnto vs. Matth. 6.12 Luke 6.31 Tob 4.15 To loue a mans neighbour as himselfe is more than all burnt offeringes and sacrifices Than all the ceremonies of the Lawe wherein Hipocrites put great
to come to passe then looke vp and lift vp your heades for your redemption draweth neere The effect of that redemption shall appeare which Iesus Christ hath purchased Luk. 21.27.28 8. I beleeue in the holy Ghost GOe therefore and teach all nations baptising them in the name of the Father and the Sonne the holy Ghost Matth. 28.19 But the Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom the Father wil send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all thinges to your remembrance which I haue told you Iohn 14.26 This holy Ghost is called somtime The spirit of truth proceeding from the Father because hee worketh the truth in vs. Iohn 14.17 15.26 some time the Spirit of the Father speaking in his Ministers Matth. 10.20 sometime the Spirit of the Sonne Rom. 8.9 sometime the good Spirit Psal. 143.10 sometime an holy Oyntment 1. Iohn 2.20 sometime a Comforter Iohn 14.16 15.26 16.7 sometime the earnest of our Inheritaunce The holy Ghost is the gage or pledge of our second redemption which shall be at the possession of our inheritance in heaued Ephes. 1.14 somtime the earnest of the Spirit in our heartes 2. Cor. 1.22 No man can say that Iesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost 1. Cor. 12.3 9. The holy Catholik Church the Communion of Saints CHrist loued his Church and gaue himselfe for it that he might sanctifie it and cleanse it by the washing of water through the word Baptisme is a token of the Churches consecration that he might make it vnto himselfe a glorious Church not hauing spot or wrinckle because it is couered and clad with his righteousnesse and holinesse that it should be holie and without blame Ephes. 5.27 I am the Rose of the field and the Lillie of the vallies like a Lillie among the thornes so is my Loue among the doughters c. Christ preferreth his Church aboue all other thinges Cant. 2.1.2 For other foundation can no man lay then that which is layd which is Iesus Christ. 1. Cor. 3.11 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God that the spirit of God dwelleth in you 1. Cor. 3.16 In this Church are many members but one body in Christ Rom. 12.4.5 1 Cor. 6.15 Let vs follow the truth in loue and in al things grow vp into him which is the head that is Christ. Christ being head oâ— his Church nourisheth his members and ioyneth them togeather by ioynts c. Ephe. 4.15 Christ is the head of the body of the Church Col. 1.18 Now reioyce I in my sufferings for you or your commoditie and fulfil the rest of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for Christ suffereth dayly in his members as partaker of their infirmities and therefore a reuenger of their iniuries for his body sake which is the Church Coloss. 1.24 the edification of the Church is heere ment There are many members but one body 1. Cor. 12 20. Now ye are the body of Christ and members for your part For all Churches dispersed throughout the world are diuers members of one bodie 1. Cor. 12.27 God is not the author of confusion but of peace as we see in all the Churches of the Saints 1. Cor. 14.33 10 The forgiuenes of sinnes WHose sinnes so euer ye remit they are remitted and whose sinnes soeuer ye retaine they are retained Iohn 20.23 He that shall beleeue and be baptised shall be saued but he that will not beléeue shal be damned Luk. 16.16 It behoued Christ to suffer and to rise againe from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sinnes should be preached in his name among all nations Luk. 24.46.47 And GOD saw their workes that they turned from their euil wayes the fruites of their repentance proceeding of fayth planted by the Prophets preaching to the people of Niniueth and God repented of the euill that he had said that hee would doe vnto them and hee did it not Ionah 3.10 Stand in the wayes and behold and aske for the old way wherein the Patriarches and prophets walked directed by the word of God signifying that there is no true way but that which God prescribeth which is the good way and walke therein and ye shall finde rest for your soules Ierem. 6.16 11. The resuâ—rection of the body FOr since by Man came death by Man came also the resurrectioÌ„ of the dead 1. Cor. 15.21 Behold I shew you a secret thing We shall not all sleepe but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinckling of an eye at the last trumpet for the trumpet shall blow and the dead shall be raysed vp incorruptible we shall be changed When the Lord commeth to iudgement some of the Saints shall be aliue whoÌ„ he will change euen as if they were dead so that this change shall be to them in stead of death 1. Cor. 15.51.52 The Lord himselfe shall descend from heauen with a shoute and with the voice of Th'archangel and with the trumpet of God the dead in Christ shal rise first Then shall we which liue remaine euen we which are aliue or shall be then found liuing be brought vp with them also in the cloudes to meete the Lord in the ayre and so shall wée be euer with the Lord. In this sodaine taking vp there shall be a kinde of change of the qualities of our body which shall be as a kind of death 1. Thes. 16.17 And he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shal gather togeather his elect from the foure windes and from the one end of the heauen vnto the other c. Matth 24.31 And though after my skin Wormes destroy my body yet shall I sée God in my flesh whom I my selfe shall sée and mine eies shall behold and none other for me though my reines are consumed within mee Iobs full hope that both soule and body should enioy the presence of God in the last resurrection Iob. 19.26.27 I know that he shall rise againe in the resurrection at the last day The words of Martha to Iesus concerning dead Lazarus The errour of the Sadduces men marueilous quidditiue concerning the resurrection is here confuted Iohn 11.14 12. And the life euerlasting Amen I Am the resurrection and the life Christ restoreth vs from death to giue vs euerlasting life hée that beléeueth in me though he were dead yet shal he liue And whosoeuer liueth and beleeueth in me shall neuer die Iohn 11.25.26 I am the liuing bread which giue life to the world which came downe from heaven if any man eate of this bread hée shall liue for euer and the bread that I giue you is my flesh which I will giue for the life of the world Iohn 9.51 Thou hast the wordes of eternall life Then without Christ there is but death for his word onely leadeth vs to life Joh. 6.68 This is the will of him that sent me that euery one which séeth